Youtube comments of Baddonkey (@dannysullivan3951).

  1. Thank you NY Post, first time I've said that.
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  2. I disagree with the idea of billionaires
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  3. I’ll pass on that WASTE of taxpayer money
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  4. Tariffs, job cuts, Trump doesn’t give a fig about mom and pop.
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  5. Cost cutting doesn’t include Trump’s brand new 2 Air ForceOnes.
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  6. I thought we fought the NAZIS in WW2. Somebody didn’t get the memo.
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  7. Beyond the moral questions of saving millions of lives from starvation and disease, the US learned a lesson from WW2, namely if we don’t support world peace in whatever form, military or basic aid, we will eventually face another conflict. Ignoring German poverty after WW1 caused WW2. Our defense budget is astronomically higher, but it helped free Eastern Europe from the USSR.
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  8. The GOP doesn’t care about wages, never have.
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  9. Drinking is the least of my problems with this fool. How about National Security? Alliances? Etc.
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  10. Elon’s financial influence, and that of other billionaires, shows that we’re already in deep trouble.
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  11. Thanks for nothing, Merrick Garland.
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  12. That’s a term of endearment from our Dear Leader.
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  13. I wanna see Trump actually hand over the 80k for that car
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  14. Arab Americans worked themselves. Good luck with Trump on Gaza.
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  15. Tlaib’s use of ‘from the river to the sea’, a code for Jewish genocide was stupid. Palestinians need representation, but not murderous propaganda.
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  16. Trump goes where no American president ever has; into soft on Russia idiocy. What happens when you don’t read history.
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  17. Saving millions from starvation disease might be morally more important, not to mention monitoring worldwide diseases and the flu through WHO.
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  18. Carville 'I was wrong." Us "We know."
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  19. I can hear my grocery bill rising
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  20. The face of corporate welfare, Dimon belongs to no party but greed.
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  21. Growing in the 60’s and 70’s we were taught to be tough, hide emotion etc. That mindset drives loneliness, suicide and violence. Learning to share emotional life is the antidote
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  22. Trump's understanding of econ ends at his pockets
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  23. I despise Musk for a wide variety of reasons, but Lemon gets zero respect for drilling into his medical treatment.
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  24. Native Americans practiced torture and we’re not taking down a Native statues.
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  25. Every prez since Truman doing graveyard flips. Absurd, insane, dangerous, fill in the blank with negative adjective
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  26. If he really cared about average Americans he wouldn’t be attacking CFPB. That c stands for consumers and the p for protection. Credit card companies, payday loan sharks and banks will love it.
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  27. Stupidity and hypocrisy are his stock in trade.
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  28. Yo, remember the Cold War? It's still a thing. Nukes? Yeah, Russia's are still pointed our way.
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  29. Elon’s existence as a billionaire signals the depth of crap we’re in.
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  30. As an older American who remembers the fall of the USSR, the joy in a free Eastern Europe, I ah, am speechless
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  31. Way to stand up for democracy and kiss up to our own dictator.
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  32. As someone familiar with this history, I can say this is a fair piece of journalism. We supported Zionism because Jews have been persecuted for centuries across the world. But unlimited support at the expense of Palestine has been a colossal failure.
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  33. He needs to fight for gun laws if he wants to save kids from #1 killer.
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  34. I believe him when he says he doesn't believe in balance. Just the kind of person you don't want running things. Make me rich and I won't fire you.
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  35. We all descended from a warlike tribe somewhere.
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  36. Poor Trumpy, getting outshined by dead president.
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  37. Piers Morgan as the voice of reason. End times are here.
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  38. Funded by fracking billionaires
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  39. You don't know diddly about power politics
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  40.  @CTS55555  I’m on board with fighting sex trafficking and I want to hear that your on board with fighting child gun deaths.
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  41. Just letting people know what the GOP real cares about
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  42. Another ‘Christian’ hero accused of sexual assault. Sadly no surprise.
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  43. The rich generally back tax cuts and less regulation. So duh?
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  44. Thanks Elon for screwing the Ukrainians with your satellite monopoly. Now you play the voice of wisdom?
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  45. SCOTUS got there already
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  46.  @AlexT-sy6nm  The Persians flayed people alive as punishment.
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  47. If it walks like a duck etc
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  48. 2016 MJ-Trump lacks character. MJ-2023-I'm all in. GOP ethics at work.
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  49.  @OccamsRazor393  Pick a topic and I’ll show you the absurdity of Sowell’s ‘thinking’. Slavery, socialism, feminism..He’s been paid by Hoover since the 70s for this rubbish. No economist would ever read him, he writes popular conservative viewpoints.
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  50. I’m dumbfounded. Now he can recuse himself from everything that stinks of right wing billionaires..
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  51.  @beautifully_scarred_lea  Study economics. Wages have stagnated since ‘80, but billionaires have cashed in.
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  52. The GOP advertising is disregard for women. Again.
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  53. Nope. Aren’t enough people in the US who care, sadly.
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  54. What about eggs JD? Still Kamala’s fault?
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  55. just scammed people with crypto flimflam. Is that a libertarian policy?
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  56. Ron v Don, WWF narcissist championship
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  57. Putin bot
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  58. There are history books for a reason.
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  59. I believe the words ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ have become flexible, hard to pin down. I don’t think that’s bad, but we have to adjust. What we’re looking for is caring, responsible humans.
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  60. Stossel should be head of something in the administration. His rants fit perfectly.
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  61. Billionaires love to cut spending, instead raising their own taxes.
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  62. Trump waving an imaginary sword around playing King Arthur in his head.
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  63. No, proud boy types will fade away, just like they did after Jan 6th. Paper tigers.
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  64. Want to start your own conservative dogma channel? Just apply to any fossil fuel billionaire bros you can find.
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  65. Elon, firing people and lining his own pockets, just like at Tesla.
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  66. Jamie Dimon, much like Trump, is all about Jamie Dimon. This is the guy who floated the idea of running for Dem Prez candidate. Reality check.
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  67. For the few who doubted that Kennedy would sell his soul for relevance. I’m beginning to dislike him more than Trump, well that’s a stretch.
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  68. What a world class fool looks like. First president to cave to another superpower cuz he’s such a genius. Be lucky if he doesn’t back us into Armageddon
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  69. Both capitalism and socialism are demonized and used in a lazy, uninformed insults.
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  70. Elon and his XXL ego take another whupping.
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  71. I think they should televise White House meetings between Vivek, Elon, Patel etc. It’s gonna be one big cat fight.
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  72.  @hellothere9089  watch the economy and see if it helps average Americans? Also rhetorical.
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  73. Reading his quoted conspiracy theories is reason enough for me steer clear, not to mention his anti-Ukraine, but pro Israel stance on war. He's all over the map, chasing relevance.
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  74. Ridiculous comparison
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  75. Conspiracies are not truth
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  76. Perfect timing. Women’s World Cup Championship. A reminder that many men haven’t got the memo.
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  77. History for people who never read history. Sowell’s usual practice of ‘what about-ism’, never mind context.
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  78. India has a horrific track record on rape stats. Men’s rights? Cry me a river.
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  79. Vivek’s a lot like the last prez; a hype machine. 9/11 was a government plot? Clown taxi on its way.
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  80. You need to think about that generalization a little harder. What are America's neo-Nazi's? Not socialists. Fascism can include many of the conservative military dictatorships we've had across the globe, not to mention the conservatives banning books or trying to restrict voting rights. It comes in many colors.
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  81. He joined Trump’s cult of ‘masculinity’. They’re both jokes.
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  82. He’s a libertarian, so his ‘context’ will always hew to that belief system.
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  83. Brought to you by Fracking Inc.
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  84. Elon’s a cheapskate when it comes to philanthropy. Henry Ford is a good comparison for better or worse. Elon’s ‘truth’ applies to business, not to information. See his conspiracy theory rants.
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  85. Tell it to the Chinese and the Russians. And if isn’t democracy, you get no respect.
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  86. I’m shocked to find that right wing scammers are also financial scammers. Shocked.
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  87. Words fail to do justice to this ham handed ‘efficiency’ bungle.
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  88. Apparently they decided not to do this after it got widespread media attention. Draining the swamp? Like asking Dracula to watch your kids.
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  89. Not your Republicans
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  90. MakeJail Great Again
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  91. Trump dealing with Putin is like a child negotiating with the devil, and no surprise the devil takes him down.
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  92. The only way to explain Trump-ism. White people will vote for a racist no matter how crooked or incompetent he is.
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  93. RFK jr. and Trump have a lot in common. Need for attention, below average critical thinking skills, below average integrity.
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  94. Term limits aren’t going to dent the oligarchy
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  95.  @CTS55555  And I grew up in the country with guns, but can we both agree there's no defensive or hunting need for assault rifles?
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  96.  @woobilicious.  Agreed. I have a certain admiration for the man, certainly very bright. He did call himself a libertarian, which is basically a belief in an individualist fairyland. Anything to do with the common good, say keeping air or water clean, or would be taken care of, in his thinking, by the market. That’s an idea that has a long track record of failure. He’s anti-union, anti FDA, anti-almost every federal dept with the exception of defense. Park service-gone. There’s a reason libertarians don’t get elected to run the country.
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  97. Hilarious. Lived through 1/2 dozen presidents, first time a British trade deal was an ‘accomplishment’.
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  98.  @nguyenmai4806  He’s upset because he wants a shiny new toy. These billionaires won’t cut anything that hurts their bottom line. Any fat to trim at Space X?
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  99. Blah blah blah. Before unions we had 80hr work weeks, no worker safety and child labor. Stossel is selling conservative spam.
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  100.  @jomansson5742  Everything behind the iron curtain was called democratic this or that. Calling a goat a horse doesn’t make it one.
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  101. Bunch of whiny bs. Plenty of masculine characters out there. Most Hollywood movies have always sucked because its a business, they pick a flavor and push it. Easy to cherry pick old movies that were good, but ignores the bulk of old junk.
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  102.  @abuibu I’d limit my compensation and pay my workers higher salaries - say at Amazon for starters. You wonder why American wages have stagnated when CEOs are paying themselves 300x (2000x for abezos)the average salary. There is no money tree. We can all be prosperous, but not if the top is siphoning off too much.
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  103. How about we try to save kids from guns, the #1 killer?
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  104. Another reason to tax billionaires out of existence
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  105. While the British were early to outlaw slavery, they were also the world’s number one colonial power, subjugating and siphoning wealth from around the globe. Charles’ coronation did not include the worlds largest diamond because India has asked to have it returned.
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  106. You can tell the value of Sowell's 'wisdom' by the quality of comments.
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  107. ​ @azzor4134  Yes, the Tube is perfect for disseminating simplistic 'historical' fodder.
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  108. Fab logic
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  109. But you do have the right to free speech
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  110. Thank you. Both RR and JFK spinning in their graves at this extremist insanity.
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  111. Buyer beware. Huberman has been shown to play fast and loose with scientific claims.
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  112.  @Bjorn_R  If you're searching around for a 'motivating story', there's already a problem. You have to find personal meaning in life, not have someone/some religion tell you the 'story'.
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  113. Hip Hop Hooray. Keep pushing your religious beliefs GOP, we'll take it.
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  114. An egalitarian society doesn't need charity, philanthropists or effective altruism.
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  115. Daffy v Donald Duck
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  116. News flash. Russia lost this war after the first two weeks. Can you imagine the US attacking Mexico and only getting to Rosarito a year later? Not sure why a tin hat psychologist feels competent to pontificate on this subject, but he demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding re power politics. The world will becomes safer every time a dictatorship is either destroyed or loses power. Look at Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The irony is that Peterson likes to rant about the evils of totalitarianism. I guess he was hard up for more clicks.
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  117. Contrary to this nonsense, tyranny can be defeated without toxic masculinity, as can wealth accumulation. Rape, murder, domestic abuse, religious terrorism, dictatorship, shootings etc. are a ridiculous price to pay for this fairy tale version of masculinity.
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  118. Nice job promoting sex offender, excuse me, alleged sex offender. Clear where you stand Bet-David.
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  119. I thought he was getting rid of waste. Apparently just waste that he disapproves of. Out with brown, black and gay, in with the white Christians.
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  120. Love the way conservatives dig up a black man to peddle conservative talking points. The civil rights battle has been won? Why is the GOP frontrunner attacking Haley on the basis of race? Why is such an incompetent, indicted narcissist the GOP front runner? Because a chunk of white American isn’t happy becoming part of the minority, they like Trump’s racism.
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  121. That was the attitude of people who did want us to enter WW2. Isolationism is a proven and very dangerous failure.
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  122. Billionaires complaining about agency that oversees consumer protection-that’s not good for their businesses of ripping off consumers.
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  123. Taken down by ex-heavy metal drummer with 9 shares. There is a god.
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  124.  @mattgeiger9988  Middle and poor America is broke, billionaire America is doing fine.
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  125. We have a mixed economy, you can't have capitalism without safeguards and a safety net, er, socialist policies. This dude's argument is just sad.
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  126. Sadly, they take that to mean we should not attempt to improve...fill in the blank. An accurate summation of conservative 'policy'.
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  127.  @droe2570  There are no solutions. What a great excuse for sitting on your hands. Libertarianism in a nutshell. And vis a vis Kisin’s evasion on pandemic, lives were saved by intervention. Just check a map of blue v red state deaths.
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  128.  @einy2crikey  To paraphrase ‘Slavery was a worldwide historical phenomenon, and not race based, so we don’t need to do anything about American racism’. Or ‘women were better represented in powerful jobs at the turn of the 20th century than today’. The first is a ridiculous comparison between ancient Egypt and modern America; the second an outright fabrication. Sowell’s employer has been a conservative think tank since the 70s. No professional economist is reading him; he writes for his audience.
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  129. From religious fundamentalists to dictators, from Iran to Russia to China to Saudi Arabia, from conservatives the world over, violence is usually tied to misogyny and patriarchal culture. It's going, but not going fast enough.
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  130. A pseudo intellectual narcissist with a tendency to performative crying.
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  131. The only gaslighting going on is the Hill purporting to be a news service.
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  132. Tax cuts for the rich, budget cuts for everyone else. The GOP doing what it does best.
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  133. Elon’s not happy unless he’s got the spotlight. He’s a diva without a voice so conspiracy is his talent. Tax these idiots.
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  134. Count me unsurprised by this news.
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  135. I hope you’re also working to save kids from gun deaths because that is the #1 killer of American children.
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  136. Not smart enough for that. Picking Vance is proof
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  137. This alpha beta routine is a fairytale made up to make some Rambo wannabes feel like they’re fulfilling their fate. Jeez.
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  138. Give an example
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  139. That’s why he has no official job title. DOGE boy
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  140.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Franco wasn't a socialist nor was Pinochet, and neither is every Euro right wing nationalist party or our own MAGA. You're short on facts.
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  141.  @kunicrossgaming  Yes, if we had higher standards for US teachers, better pay etc we'd get a different outcome. Unsurprisingly one political party is not big on education.
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  142. Elon’s the unpopular kid who wasn’t smart or funny.
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  143.  @musicisfree91  Sowell would try to evade reality, his specialty
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  144.  @willnitschke  emojis, third grade insults. I recommend a college education.
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  145. Trump making peace in the region is as likely as him going vegan.
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  146. Capitulation is not negotiating. And I fully blame the President for doing what no former US president has EVER done and coddled a murderous superpower dictator. Reagan didn’t cave and the USSR collapsed freeing Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Georgia…the list goes on from under the Russian regimes police state. History counts.
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  147. A hero for misogyny
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  148.  @yt.damian  We'll stop talking about race when it stops being a problem. 6 Mississippi cops just got serious convictions for torturing 2 black men.
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  149. Literally a deal with the devil, if the devil was an idiot narcissist
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  150. It’ll be a one man circus.
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  151.  @APracticingGamer  Constitutional republics elect their leaders. Fairly.
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  152. VDH avoiding Trump’s sellout in Ukraine, nice integrity.
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  153. Elon ‘anything for a buck’ Musk
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  154. He needs a new planet to contain his ego
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  155. Jobs, inflation? Trump better at breaking than building
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  156. I thought Trump was the world’s biggest narcissistic baby, but Elon is right there with him. His kids? What a joke.
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  157. They'd have to reduce their bloated paychecks and golden parachutes (CEOS etc). That's not gonna happen on a voluntary basis.
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  158. Mearsheimer is longstanding advocate against American foreign policy. While there's truth here, there's also a ridiculous assumption that Russia under Putin doesn't pose an existential threat to world peace. Contrarianism for its own sake is a petty line of work.
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  159. They're fighting our enemy, unless you're volunteering
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  160.  @jts9120  You must’ve forgotten that Reagan won the Cold War, but not by backing down.
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  161. Selling conservative dogma seems to be lucrative for some people.
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  162. You must be joking, Modi’s game plan is same old nationalist bigotry seen throughout history.
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  163. Climate denial, dressed up as 'thought'.
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  164.  @DadSavesAmerica  Let’s put it this way, you could be focusing on solutions to a very real, apocalyptic disaster that we can mitigate, or you can choose to score political points off painting climate action as crazed lefties. You’ve chosen the low road.
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  165.  @droe2570  I’d be interested to hear the meaning of this clip. ‘No solutions’ is pertinent because Kisin is also opposed to action on climate change. That may not be a problem in the UK, but NYC’s air today is at its worst ever due to Canadian wildfires.
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  166. I thought Trump ordered Fox to write positive stories about his clown rally.
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  167. Oops. Turns out Comer also loaned his brother 200k. Gonna self subpoena fool?
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  168. Conservatives pretending not to be antisemitic is a hoot
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  169.  @adilhayder.  That part of Sowell’s teaching is clear. I’m interested in how that affects our response to American slavery. If it is to excuse racism in America, which fits with body of Sowell’s thinking, it’s a toothless, and frankly repugnant argument.
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  170.  @victorhopper6774  if you’re an American and I have to define racism for you, I know where you stand, I know who you vote for and why. You can always Google it if you’re really curious.
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  171. Wage stagnation has been around since the 80’s, only beginning to change recently. That is not part of a gender problem, but a problem of greed at the top.
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  172. Libertarianism is right where it belongs, on the sidelines. No more realistic than utopian socialism.
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  173. That's the magic of the clown car, there's always room for one more.
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  174. Go for it. YouTube just banned him from collecting fees
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  175. No one is stopping you from being a trad wife or a trad husband. If you think feminism is going to end any time soon, well, dream on.
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  176. Stop fronting and clean up X. Nobody’s buying this pr song and dance.
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  177. Trump walking it back again.
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  178. The Simpsons have come to life.
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  179. PBD is a know nothing run of the mill conservative mouthpiece. He could probably get a job on Fox, but not a real news organization.
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  180. Elon’s understanding of American civics is nil.
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  181. Isn’t Moloch in the Hobbit?
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  182. You can't stop equal rights. Not for women, not for lgbtq, not for democracy. You can fight it, but you can't stop evolution.
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  183.  @zx921  Thank you.
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  184. Guess what? Still very expensive to live in those places. Nobody flocking to Omaha.
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  185.  @starmaterial  child mortality stats
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  186.  @shawnobetkoff4628  Are you serious? Can a mass murderer go into an elementary school with a sharp stick and kill 15 people before someone stops him? Please show me when a rock was used for mass murder.
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  187. Trump/Putin ‘24
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  188. Israel’s terrorists. Religious fundamentalists cause conflict across the world.
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  189. Buckley opposed civil rights. Later regretted it. Conservatives in a nutshell.
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  190. If it can happen to a permanent resident, don’t think it can’t happen to you. Fascism 101.
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  191. Thiel maybe a tech genius, but his understanding of history and politics is all (wackjob libertarian) belief, no facts. Without his cash Vance would likely not be a senator.
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  192. Gullible U
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  193. How many passes does Elon get on this?
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  194.  @willnitschke  Your argument that the American economy has no socialist aspects? In economics and politics there are very few black and white issues, many more shades of grey. That’s especially true of economics. If you look around you’ll find that mixed economy has multiple definitions, just like capitalism. To claim yours as the truth is just simplistic. I am not anti-capitalist, I believe that’s a naive position, but neither am I anti-socialist for the same reason. And capitalism doesn’t need a moral case; we know from history it works, it just needs fine tuning. How much tuning is the real argument.
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  195. Is your handle ironic?
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  196. What myth? Russia's been fought to a standstill for two, long years. If Mexico held off America that long, we wouldn't be bragging about our military.
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  197. Asking Trump about foreign policy is like asking a parrot for directions.
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  198. Voting for gun rights over economy? You get what you pay for.
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  199. SCOTUS can now be abbreviated as SCAM
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  200.  @Rotuma1260  Libertarianism is a utopian philosophy that has little real world application so however you arrive there, you haven’t achieved anything of practical use. Furthermore, when you bend history to fit that philosophy you inevitably warp the meaning. Sowell never taught history; I don’t believe most historians would swallow his ‘interpretations’. His conservative claims that women and minorities were better off before civil rights are highly dubious.
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  201.  @AjaxDGonzo  I'd say that education, a wide education, gives you the ability to think critically, to judge ideas on their merit, to balance pros and cons. With dogma of any kind, that kind of questioning is neither required or desired. You and I are engaged in a discussion. You're not telling me what to believe and vice versa. I think the surest sign of real intelligence is the willingness to keep learning, to have curiosity. And curiosity about the place of humans in the world, the meaning of life etc, those are great questions. I guess my beef with dogma is that it stifles curiosity and tends to make non-believers the enemy. I believe in some kind of universal spirit, but what it looks like, well...I just keep on talking, thinking, traveling, reading. The older you get the less you 'know' is the cliche, the more you realize how mysterious reality is.
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  202. The Queen's Chaplain explaining feminism? Tune in tomorrow for Putin explaining the 1st amendment.
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  203.  @dictare  nice excuse for racism
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  204.  @john236613  Perhaps you’re too young to remember Jim Crow, cross burnings and lynchings, but the concept of hate crimes is to deter crimes based on race or religion. The question you need to ask is “Why is this still happening?”
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  205. The failure to maintain adequate wage increases for middle America is the problem, and has been since the ‘80s. Immigration is just a ruse to scare white America.
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  206.  @jackflash6377  I will spell it out. More heat, more demand. And my beef with climate denial, is that like most science denial, it’s politically based. Its the same people who whined about Covid science. You pick and choose what you’ll believe in, as if gravity was optional.
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  207. Must have forgotten there are US troops in Korea.
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  208. We have a mixed economy. The argument is on how much capitalism v how much socialism.
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  209. Communism is viewed pretty badly by those who know history. Nazism is a bit more dramatic because of the genocide angle.
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  210.  @AlexT-sy6nm  good point, although the Greeks were pretty much an outlier. The Persians were flaying people alive
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  211. Musk’s tweets are often absurd and this one fits that to a T.
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  212. He's proved how reliable he is.
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  213. Sponsored by fracking billionaires
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  214. Ramble on
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  215. Those two are not analogous
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  216. Irreparable? Don't be idiotic.
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  217. Oops, I guess should also fire my wife. People who live in glass houses….
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  218. Big baby's tantrum continues. Take another bite Haley.
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  219. Conservative claptrap. Read history for yourself.
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  220. Uh, no. Check stats for gun deaths by state. Tougher laws, less deaths.
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  221.  @jmsmorley  emojis are for kids. Ever heard of the Iron Curtain? Any idea why it came down?
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  222. This is an interesting discussion. Wolff is right, let’s vote on the pluses and minuses, instead of letting Elon or Bezos or Jamie Dimon make the decision.
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  223. Hilarious, convicted sex criminal tough on other sex criminals
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  224. The problem with conservative fear of sex.
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  225. Simpleminded conservative dogma, Sowell’s specialty.
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  226.  @rogeralsop3479  Take this video as an example of Sowell’s blunt rhetorical style. Are liberals guilty of making poor black Americans dependent on welfare? I believe there is some truth to that. And if Sowell was evenhanded he would admit that Civil Rights activism and Affirmative Action were likewise net positives for Black Americans. But Sowell sees nothing of value from the left side of the spectrum. What were conservatives offering in ‘61 as an alternative to Jim Crow, cross burnings and lynching? One of his videos states Obama was the worst president ever? Women were better represented in power before ‘60s feminism? Absurd, fact free claims. He may have taught economics, I seriously doubt he ever taught history.
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  227. Hilarious coming from fascist promoting right
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  228. Musk is suing
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  229. Pick up a book instead
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  230.  @MrMZaccone  Please show factual proof; that’s blarney. Caring about kids can’t be selective.
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  231. He should know
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  232. The mainstream requires facts, not nitwit interpretations of ancient history.
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  233.  @olsaffa7679  America paid reparations, almost 1/2 million acres, to ex-slaves in Sherman's field order 15. That was prime Eastern real estate; you can guess what that would be worth today. But we took it right back after Lincoln died.
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  234.  @willnitschke  Nice emoji
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  235. And ax their monarchy and recover their own wealth.
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  236. Both countries operate as mixed economies. This is Stossel selling conservative cake for simpletons.
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  237. Trump has the wit and heart of a worn tire.
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  238. Hi-larious
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  239.  @AvidiaNirvana  Cheney ran that administration.
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  240.  overlordfemto7523  and that’s why the right wing gets a rep as dummies, good with emoticons, lost in reality. The market does great things, but without govt, it just crashes
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  241.  overlordfemto7523  If 97% of cancer mds told you had cancer, would you still be listening to the 3%?
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  242.  @SpartakMs83  Friedman’s ideas are quite simple to understand and like many libertarian policies they make sense if a magically efficient market existed. It does not and is no more likely to than a perfect government. Barring that we’re left with what we have. There’s a reason libertarians don’t get elected president.
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  243.  @Vanderlayindustries  Devastating argument
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  244. Hilarious calling for accountability from a felonious president who only tells the occasional truth. Don't hold your breath.
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  245. It’s the same old story of the GOP serving the billionaire class and duping the working class with racism. Not new.
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  246. Love to Elon as a millionaire where he actually had to work at business instead buying a megaphone to spout his fascist tendencies.
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  247. More of the same. Pretend that the welfare state isn't socialism, that all the safeguards on capitalism aren't socialism. Can't have functioning capitalism without some socialism and vice versa.
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  248. Tee hee, watching Elon set fire to his own reputation as a ‘genius’ is fab entertainment.
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  249. Nonsense. Dial back your Time Machine to before 60s feminism and have a look. Women have gained far more than they’ve ‘lost’.
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  250.  @lullaby218  What’s your question? Sowell on feminism? Econ?
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  251. There’s regular Trump stupidity, then there’s mind altering idiocy. Yup, this was all his idea.
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  252. Day of infamy for Quislings (traitors) Trump and Vance. If you called 911, Trump would ask ‘what can you do for me?’
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  253. The 2nd is a cruel joke. The 'freedom' of gun others killing the freedom of innocents. And it's a myth that any modern democracy was ever saved from govt tyranny by armed civilians.
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  254. Oh, I’ve been waiting for this day. Keep up the good work Haley.
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  255. That pesky NYT with its inconvenient standards of accuracy. Good thing there’s JP making it up as he goes.
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  256. A diehard conservative posing as a 'scholar'. Buyer beware.
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  257. Shapiro’s Mickey Mouse voice perfectly describes his logic.
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  258.  @webdev217  Back at ya , amigo. Where do you think NASA contracts go?
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  259. Sorry, can’t afford it. Need tax breaks for suffering rich.
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  260. Technocrat is a reach, he's just a rich narcissist wayyyyy out of his depth.
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  261. You send troops to Israel you better have a plan, not just macho blabber. I don’t want my sons or daughters dying for Trump’s ego.
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  262. Shocked by what? Economic theory? I took Marx in college, it’s pretty stiff reading.
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  263.  @eytonshalomsandiego  Ever heard of Henry Ford, the Elders of Zion, Lindbergh, Elon Musk, the GOP? Antisemitism can be leftist, but it lives on the right.
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  264. BS. Check the states with highest per capital gun deaths, yeah, red states
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  265.  @joecalta3679  Thank you, someone who can see nuance. How did you wander out here into the barrens of YouTube commentary?
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  266. Amazing, SCOTUS gets 1 decision right.
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  267. You have old school ‘values’. Fine, but don’t think it’s a recipe for world peace, it’s a place that makes you comfortable.
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  268. And keep them poor, or else no one to do the dirty work
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  269. If it's empty
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  270. Louise Perry is the second coming of Phyllis Schafly, ie just another anti feminist, throwing out bogus nonsense and ignoring historical facts.
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  271. In the real world we have mixed economies. It's really a debate about the level of 'socialism' v the level of 'capitalism'. But each side demonizes the other as if we don't operate under both realities. And capitalism hardly needs defending. I don't see any danger of it going out of style any time soon.
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  272. Maybe not in the UK, but it’s always been a mainstay in conservative US politics.
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  273. Elon’s living pretty well, just like all the people who’ll benefit most from Trump’s tax cuts.
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  274.  @NotLazySelectivelyMotivated  It will be interesting, most interesting election in my 50 yrs.
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  275. What imagined bias against Christians? More like they want to control government. They don’t like separation of church and state, just like Iran’s mullahs.
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  276. You need to check your civil rights.
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  277.  @abuibu  Capitalism needs reform. As it stands we’re headed for almost direct rule by the aristocracy/rich.
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  278. Biden blamed for local rainstorm, bones in fish and soggy french fries. Transgender day nothing to do with Biden, just more Fox blather.
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  279. What a convenient excuse for this indicted leader to stay out of court.
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  280. The KKK called, your hood is in the mail.
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  281.  @Hakar17  Incorrect. A republic has elected officials. Many countries have used the term to cover tyranny.
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  282. Sowell makes interesting points, but never read just Sowell for history. He has a distinct political agenda.
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  283.  _zapatoz_  Which is why you read both sides
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  284. Come on over to America. We've got great health care, pricey though.
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  285. When you see ‘the truth’ in the byline, beware.
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  286.  @rico653caines3  I’m saying people who worry about kids and sex trafficking then turn around and deny that American guns are killing kids faster than cars is practicing selective outrage.
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  287. Not sure where you got that opinion about Ivy League schools, but I can promise you that wasn’t my experience. It may have changed since my day, but I’d be fact checking that.
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  288. Please explain who the 'establishment' is. Im assuming its those in power you disagree with.
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  289. National Parks set a record for visitors last year. Trump has ordered that information not be shared. Meanwhile subsidies for agribusiness go untouched.
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  290. Bannon v Musk cage match of bloated narcissists.
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  291. Let’s have some ‘infringement’.
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  292. It’s a tool just like computers, the net. As a former teacher and someone who’s heard the phrase ‘revolutionize’ before, I will wait to see the proof. Much of what we did in the inner city was teach human interaction skills.
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  293. Middle America depends on Chinese goods. Who supplies Walmart? Electronics? Won’t hurt the rich much, but everyone else will feel it.
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  294. There’s no good guy in this fight. Unless both sides compromise this 70 year conflict will continue.
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  295. Elect a rapist then act surprised at ensuing vulgar stupidity? Sad, but Feminism isn’t going back.
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  296. Unhinged
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  297. Only a fool would have nominated him
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  298. Please don’t call the fire department in an emergency.
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  299. Revolution is not a word to be thrown around loosely, and highly unlikely in the US.
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  300. Billionaire supporting anti tax, anti regulation semi-billionaire candidate. Wow, shocker.
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  301. I'd like to see the GOP keep up their abortion nonsense.
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  302. Petersen's climate denial, while Pakistan goes underwater, while Italy goes underwater, while the South Pacific islands go under, while Canada's west burns, while species go extinct contradicts 97% of climate scientists and is morally abhorrent. Just so he can make a buck grifting from those who don't know better.
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  303. You think the GOP will move that money to our poor? Pure fantasy.
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  304. Feminism isn't going backwards, the manosphere can whine, or actually rule for the time being, but you're not getting women back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. Elon.
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  305. Go job shilling for MAGA.
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  306. Elon creating a safe space for his fellow narcissist knuckleheads.
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  307. Trump’s getting slapped left and right.
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  308. Gonna be more shocking when reality hits. It’s a golden age for those with the gold.
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  309. Balance the budget? Where you gonna find 2 trillion? Maybe you’re good buddy Vlad will lend it to you.
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  310. Trump/Rfk
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  311. For him
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  312. Douthat is a minor conservative thinker with very little new to add to the conversation. He’s even worse on foreign policy.
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  313. I live in America. We have a backlash against feminism, we've had lots of them. Change always provokes backlash, but that doesn't mean change won't happen. Feminism will end when there's rough equality in power sharing across the board.
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  314. Hilarious. Then why does your candidate keep yelling immigrants are eating cats and dogs etc.?
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  315. Another right wing mouthpiece. Meh
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  316. JP is fine giving young men advice, but a complete contrarian fool on most other subjects, caving to Putin, climate science denial, women, race.
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  317. Why don’t you do an expose of red state failures? Pollution, lower life expectancy etc
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  318. Your grammar and logic are badly flawed.
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  319. As much as adults with minor ironic capabilities.
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  320. The Bell Curve famously avoided peer review, so much for its ‘scientific’ basis.
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  321. Tucker carrying water for a war criminal, murderer, despot, thug etc. Nicely done Carlson.
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  322. There is no good guy in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Arguing that pov is what keeps the war going. Only compromise will end this.
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  323.  @thadofalltrades  Don’t conflate God with religion, then a bible quote? It sounds as if you’ve created your own select concept of God, which we all do, but that you’re cherry picking from history and the Bible to square the ledger. What does your God say about homosexuality, women in power, sex etc? Who decides which parts of the Bible are legitimate?
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  324. Perfect ditzy pair
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  325.  @AjaxDGonzo  Education provides the ‘system’ of ideas. Any other ‘system’ is a belief system and while you may want that, or feel you need it, you run the danger of becoming a prisoner to it. I do believe in a spiritual life, but I tend to look to the wonder of human existence, my fellow humans and the beauty of nature.
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  326. Guess what license plate I see here most often? Texas.
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  327. The nonsense that is RFK’s thought process made clear in his refusal to back Ukraine but willingness to go full throttle in Israel.
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  328. Either you don’t believe in racism, the reason for that designation, or you support it.
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  329. Peterson's dubious opinions aside, we are seeing the downside of absolute freedom of speech when politicians blatantly lie about facts - for instance MTG and co. asserting that hurricanes are controlled by 'someone', that FEMA isn't doing it's job etc.
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  330.  @TuhljinTampergauge  Talking to climate deniers doesn’t require logic, sadly
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  331.  @Yourbody_MYCHOICE  I thought you people were against playing the victim card
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  332. Hypocrisy on the left? Of course. Liberals have a huge NIMBY problem. Have liberal presidents done the bidding of Wall Street? Both Clinton and Obama failed to stand up, or actually abetted Wall Street greed. But let’s be clear about which party platform revolves around the cult of unfettered capitalism. It isn’t the democrats. And for all the noise about Blue states and failed progressive policy, let’s remember where federal dollars come from and where they flow. That would be from blue to red. Who’s undercutting the environment, women’s rights, workers rights, freedom from gun violence? A right wing SCOTUS.
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  333. Murray and Trump deserve each other.
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  334. Why other Americans can’t have nice things, like houses.
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  335. This problem is worldwide, wherever you have religious zealots they are allied with conservatives.
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  336.  @str.77  The Aztecs were bad guys? Undeniable. I question Sowell’s motivation for this ‘production’. If it’s history for laypeople, fine. If it’s meant to minimize US slavery and racism, one of his recurring themes, then it’s ham fisted rubbish.
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  337. Even this ridiculous court is gonna slap this down.
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  338. Incorrect
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  339. Dumb and dumber
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  340. The poor man’s intellectual.
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  341. I’ll be astounded if these guys do 1 thing for working America. The GOP has in my lifetime been run for the rich - see multiple tax breaks, de-regulation, skyrocketing CEO pay, Citizens United which counts cash as free speech, guess who gets more ‘free speech’. The failure of Dems is to cozy up to Walls St themselves.
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  342. Blah, blah, blah. Can't wait till this election is done and these fools can yammer about something else.
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  343. The new boss looks a lot like the old boss. The return of Henry Ford, warts and all.
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  344. Peterson has a third graders understanding of world politics.
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  345. Biden didn't start any wars, but W sure did.
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  346. Elon cuts aid to the starving for his hobbyhorse.
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  347. Another in the sore loser brigade/traitors
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  348. Idiocy from idiots
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  349. Capitalism doesn’t function without socialist safeguards and vice versa for socialism. Anyone telling you different believes in the tooth fairy.
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  350. This is the attitude, from both sides, that perpetuates violence. Thanks for nothing.
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  351. Libertarianism, another word for conservative Utopianism. No more useful than utopian socialism.
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  352.  @steveburke7675  Passport bros are looking for desperate third world women who will do anything to put food on the table. Sad.
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  353. There are limits to the 1st, including against defamation, incitement (know who that applies to), fraud, porn,obscenity and threats. Mis or dis information certainly falls into some of those categories.
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  354. Sounds like the GOP
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  355. Elon’s the tech equivalent of the Donald.
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  356. Conservatives trying to rewrite and whitewash history. Guess what came before the sexual revolution? Religious pedophiles, domestic abuse, sexual harrasment, rape and no women in positions of power.
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  357. Libertarianism is the right wing version of utopian socialism. Neither function in the real world.
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  358. Taking care of men was never the point of feminism. Men control all the worlds religions, 3/4 of Fortune 500 Chairs, 60% of elected government positions, the White House and 5 seats on SCOTUS. Let me know when that changes.
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  359. They can't debunk, which explains the personal vendetta.
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  360. I've been reading feminism and reaction to it for decades. Perry's argument is nothing new, just the latest flavor. Certainly there are bits of truth. Anyone, including men, who lived through the sexual revolution, as it is simplistically called, knows it wasn't one great, smashing success. But if one looks closely at Perry's whole thesis, they will find great gaps, particularly in her scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. We still haven't passed an ERA in America, women still don't equal men in the salary department or representation in the various halls of power. So, the Perry's of the world notwithstanding, feminism will continue, hopefully smarter.
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  361. As Romney recently wrote, millions of Americans no longer support the constitution. If we need wisdom from Romney, …..
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  362. Youngsters with no idea what they’re on about.
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  363. Right wing intellectual is an oxymoron, conservatives only see black and white, no nuance. Murray a prime example.
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  364. Spin it, if you can.
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  365. In my 68 years, I've never heard a president soft pedal recession. "As long as I can brag and play the tough guy, I literally don't care what happens to the rest of the US." Make America Great?
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  366. You might want to check the stats on men in positions of power in religion, government and business before complaining about how hard men have it.
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  367.  @egg4489  That's equivalent to saying Jackie Robison got hired to be the first black in baseball so racism is dead.
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  368. Proof if we needed it that conservative intellectual is an oxymoron.
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  369. Trump’s strength, breaking stuff. Like 70 year old alliances that hold the world together n
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  370. Good luck with that China, as likely to succeed as banning laughter.
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  371. This bro is a perfect example of why we have so few conservative comics
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  372. Nicely done summary of the issue. It would be a tiny bit easier to put trust in Elon if he didn’t agree that ‘high status males’ running the government is preferable to democracy. I feel like I’ve seen that movie.
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  373. Middle class wages have stagnated until recently since the 80’s while productivity climbed, along with CEO pay packages. Sowell selling wooden nickels.
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  374. Not crying any tears over Joker’s lost titles even though I’m a fan of his and tennis.
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  375. Jihadism is a function of all religious extremists from Christian nationalists to Hindus, Jews etc.
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  376. How stupid can one person be? The world is infinitely abundant? Reminds me of when Fed Chair said the stock market would never crash because of great computer technology. Then 2008. Overwhelming idiocy.
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  377. Cancelled by his own arrogance and lack of reason.
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  378. Elon Musk is a political toddler who has no understanding of American history and no ability to judge what our destiny should be. I hope our destiny doesn’t include endless half- witted conspiracy mongering from X or anywhere else. Someone controlling hurricanes?!
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  379.  @Joseph-Mullins  Just stop whining about waste on people you don’t care about.
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  380. @ looks a lot like hypocrisy
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  381. "Diversity is not an unadulterated good." Can you say 'strawman'? Right wing apologia for racism. If Britain has failed at multiculturalism, with its white monarchy, it needs to look for better guidance.
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  382. Same old old man’s man claptrap that makes manly men avoid therapy and end up killing themselves at twice the rate of women. Join the future youngster.
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  383. I agree. He’s an empty suit and an example of the fact that ‘conservative intellectual’ is an oxymoron.
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  384. Prozac causes school shootings? I’ll pass.
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  385. Whine, whine whine
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  386. Elon selling climate denial on X and funding Trump. Mars or bust, some genius.
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  387. It’s called the opinion pages folks. Their job is to give opinions. Fox is all opinion, 24/7
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  388. LIbertarianism is a fool's paradise, just like utopian socialism. Neither exists in the free world. If someone is selling it, they're either scamming themselves, or in this case trying to scam others
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  389. Todays KKK not happy with the FBI.
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  390. Elon caved. America should filter him or fine him too.
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  391. Ahistorical nonsense. Antisemitism has a looong history before WW2. Ever heard of the tsars, or Henry Ford, or Lindbergh? Jeez.
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  392. Brought to you, literally funded, by fracking billionaires
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  393. Feminism gone too far? Roe V Wade is gone, every leader of a major religion is male, as are the heads of 3/4 of Fortune 500 companies. A safe space for incels, passport bros and other insecure fellas.
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  394.  @neoglacius  You’re logic is badly flawed. The Supreme Court used to be all men because they were ‘the best of the best’ when women (and blacks) weren’t considered, the same applies to all positions of power. I have no problem with men dominating chess, but that doesn’t logically apply to the presidency or running a corporation or a religion. And I don’t suggest absurdly outlawing passport bros, it’s just a sad sign of men who can’t handle independent American women and have to find a refugee looking for a green card. Great way to start a marriage.
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  395.  @jackroman8821  Let me guess, libertarian?
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  396.  @ministryoftruth1451  We could say the same thing about religion. It has its place and it is limited by its own beliefs.
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  397. Sowell is proof that conservatism and facts don’t mix.
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  398. How to ‘own’ people, instead of how to convince people.
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  399. White racism elected Trump once, I’m hoping it won’t work twice.
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  400. Yeah, and the plan is too keep DeeSantis in FL.
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  401. Religious extremism is at the root of much of the world’s violence and it often involves misogyny.
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  402. You always know what Sowell’s gonna say, cuz it’s just the GOP script. Some ‘scholar’, just a poor man libertarian economist.
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  403. Tech billionaires a bunch of old school robber barons. Musk lays off 12k, then asks for billion dollar raise.
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  404. Yeah, doing all the hard work.
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  405. Everyone wants to point fingers, no one wants to accept that reality is messy and complex, that’s not good clickbait. Plus it requires thinking.
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  406. A sign of Kisin’s youth or maybe his conservativism, but Sowell’s quote is ridiculously childish. I call polio vaccines a solution, just like numerous medical advances in my lifetime. ‘You’re not going to solve climate change?’ Funny how you can take simplistic aphorism and use it to deny taking action on a dire, world wide problem. If Sowell is such a genius, why is he relegated to conservative YouTube? He’s a lightweight, dogmatic conservative who never, never veers from the party line. Even in economics he’s considered a journeyman.
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  407. Who elected Elon?
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  408. Let's get some gun control and actually protect children from the #1 killer.
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  409. Because he trashed the middle class
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  410. Who’s gonna volunteer for that gig?
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  411.  @rogeralsop3479  No, that would be a silly claim. I object to Sowell’s purportedly peddling some ‘truth’. He’s educated, knows history, but spins it, quite ridiculously at times, to further his agenda. You’ll never see a piece titled ‘the dangers of white conservatives’, which would be more pertinent given the times.
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  412.  @mikeguilmette776  I don’t think we have much common ground here. By what measure was 1961’s Affirmative Action a positive? By all the same metrics that apply to civil rights advances. Go back and look at the number of black Americans in positions of authority then and now. Or women. Nor am I gulled by your confusion of the GOP and southern segregationist Dems in the 60s; we both know who the conservatives were. Cycles of poverty and the failure of welfare are well documented, but contrary to your assertion, conservatives have never offered anything other than platitudes and trickle down economics (a well documented failure) as policy alternatives. The blame for financial inequality we see today, the hollowing out of the middle class, falls disproportionately on the GOP for repeated giveaways to the wealthy.
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  413.  @Uncivilize  I see no refutation of Sowell’s ‘agenda’. He claims Obama was the worst president ever, that is far from an objective opinion on the historical record. I’m willing to see complexity and grey areas, I can argue against faulty liberal positions. I don’t see the equivalent from Sowell.
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  414. Elon is a believer in the libertarian cult of the ‘free market’. How about we cut Elon’s salary and trim some real fat.
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  415. Such a whiner. If old school masculinity had worked we wouldn’t need feminism. It didn’t and we do and no amount of old white guys complaining is going to bring back machismo.
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  416.  @vidarshan  "Women would always be unsatisfied of what they have". All women? Really? The kind of ignorant blanket statement that makes 'men's rights' people look ignorant.
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  417. BS the conservative support-Israel boilerplate. Guess what? Netanyahu funded Hamas so he wouldn’t have to deal with 2 state solution. There is no right side in this 70 year conflict. Radical Jews are still stealing land from Palestinians. Both sides must compromise or America will be funding another conflict down the line.
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  418. This pr stunt is wasting taxpayer money. Even if he fired everyone, Trump wouldn’t dent the deficit. That money is in defense, interest on the deficit and Medicare/SS. If Trump does something useful it will be accidental.
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  419. While I agree in theory with is gentleman’s 4 conditions, Russia will not buy any of it. There’s going to have to be compromise. But not appeasement. That’s a proven failure with dictatorships.
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  420. We always have, it was you pretending to be objective.
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  421. Idiots owning other idiots
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  422. What an absurd title? You might as well say was the American Revolution a mistake. Its history and despite conservative attempts to turn back the clock, the feminist genie is not going back in the bottle. Porn is a whole other issue and didn’t begin with the sexual revolution.
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  423. Insecurity
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  424. RFK Jr/Spongebob ‘24
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  425. Maybe older European monocultures have a harder time assimilating, but the US is a military , economic and cultural superpower built on diversity. Remigration is a weak euphemism for deportation.
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  426.  @Shirli-e4b  Reminding people that guns kill more kids than pedophiles, but some people love to get riled up about anything sexual.
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  427. You know billionaires have gotten out of hand when they start making ‘private’ foreign policy decisions. Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave at this conservative cave to Putin.
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  428. Couldn’t be happier to see Elon fooled by Trump, now whining about it.
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  429.  @aspensulphate  If 97% of doctors tell me I have cancer, I don't go hunting for 3% to tell me the 'good' news.
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  430.  @erikkovacs3097  That 97% is world scientists. Apply logic.
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  431.  @unc0mm0n2  It would be a huge mistake.
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  432. Hey fool, you livin in a mixed economy. Look it up.
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  433. Libertarian philosophy in a nutshell: we can't improve, so don't try. Serves the haves well.
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  434.  @pdalia100  That’s how WW2 got started. Pick up a history book.
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  435. DeSantis bites it again.
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  436.  @Kakiharae  America paid reparations, almost 1/2 million acres, to ex-slaves in Sherman's field order 15. That was prime Eastern real estate; you can guess what that would be worth today. But we took it right back after Lincoln died.
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  437. This idiotic conservative mindset, and backing Netanyahu, has brought the same old results. No Hamas can't be at the negotiating table and neither should Netanyahu or his coalition. Extremists on both sides have kept this war on a low boil for generations. And extremists like Murray do nothing to help. It's in America's national interests, diplomatic, security and trade-wise to end this war and we need to pressure both parties.
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  438. Peterson far out of his lane. Again.
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  439. hilarious
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  440. He’s got blood on his hands, and so do the folks who keep supporting him.
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  441. For a genius, Elon sounds pretty thick. Climate change not as big a problem as some say? Here comes hurricane Milton at 180 mph.
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  442. Malarkey. This coming from the party of ‘immigrants are eating our pets’. This election is all about race. Certain white Americans not happy with browning of America.
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  443. Sowell is a mouthpiece for the right. And his only ‘renown’ is on the right. He’s considered a mediocre economist. Buyer beware.
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  444.  @DadSavesAmerica  Right v Left is useless? Is that you pretending impartiality? And here's a sample of Sowell's scholarly objectivity "Obama was the worst president ever." That kind of 'scholarship' is why academia leans liberal. As for his economic credentials, explaining core principles of economics is hardly an intellectual reach, especially when those "principles' are often tainted by a libertarian philosophy that is as practical as utopian socialism.
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  445. The dummy conference
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  446. No surprise Musk going after departments that oversee his businesses.
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  447. Sowell's great at trashing liberals, just don't ask for any alternative solutions.
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  448. The world’s most powerful country both economically, and especially culturally, is America, a country built on and by diversity.
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  449. Conspiracy central
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  450. Men still run things, so this a big load of ….
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  451.  @willnitschke  Your insults are deeper than your understanding of economics
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  452.  @willnitschke  Pick and choose your definitions, then when Obamacare rolls around scream socialism. Been down this road with you cherry pickers.
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  453.  @willnitschke  Fennerrex has it right. The reality lies somewhere between utopian socialism and utopian libertarianism.
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  454. Hilarious. Imagine them fighting over mic at press conferences
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  455.  @AvidiaNirvana  W started Iraq, and that was American blood.
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  456. He gave up on inflation and went straight into performance art.
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  457. When a YouTube piece has ‘truth’ in the title beware. Thomas Sowell’s ‘truth’ lies strictly on the right side of the political spectrum.
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  458. Trump/Vance/Rfk jr a -perfect storm of greed, ignorance and egotism.
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  459. Biden just has to win in November. We’ll deal with what happens next. And who is our suggested candidate? Can’t be a liberal fro East or West Coast.
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  460. Climate denial is science denial, which explains the right’s infatuation with vax denial.
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  461.  @Vanderlayindustries  Trump/DeeeSantis 24
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  462. Great at bankruptcy
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  463. We have a mixed economy, never mind the rhetoric.
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  464. A good description of alpha males.
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  465. Role models have responsibilities and Musk’s rants and conspiracy mongering have disqualified him.
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  466. Musk doesn’t give away money. The world’s cheapest philanthropist.
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  467. "It's not our business to change the Russian government." JFK disagreed, as did RR and pretty much every president down the line. While we obviously don't want to incite WWIII, dictatorships like Putin's, Xi's, Iran's, N Korea's, the Saudis' are the enemies of democracy, and thereby peace. It's in the interest of all humans to end tyranny on the planet. I'll pass on electing this tin pot wannabe to dogcatcher, much less President.
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  468. In America those people are called conservatives
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  469.  @trees915  Don’t know where you live, but in America homophobia, misogyny, racism and disrespect for democracy are conservative positions and clearly represented by Republican candidate Trump.
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  470. ‘Obama worst president ever’ according this ‘genius’. W got American’s killed in a phony war, but Sowell, despite his education, chooses dogma over objectivity.
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  471. Now coming to you on twitter from a barn, somewhere, Russia maybe?
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  472. JP has rightly become the laughingstock of the incel world.
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  473. Idiotic. A law that passed in all 50 states, caused steep declines in domestic abuse and a 10 decline in domestic murder, but conservatives all about the ‘family’, where man is king. Divorce did spike but have since trended downward. More conservative reactionary nonsense.
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  474. Wealth of the 1% has sky rocketed since Reagan, while wages have remained stagnant in comparison. It’s not capitalism that’s failing it’s the wealthy who control the political process.
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  475. Trump doesn’t care about consumers? I’m shocked.
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  476.  @TheCommonS3Nse  Common sense wasted here, I fear, but effort appreciated.
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  477. Musk loves China; no unions to fight.
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  478. Break it up. Let Bezos sail around the world on his 500 million dollar toy boat, but Amazon has too many fingers in too many pies. The concept behind a free market is that you’re free to chose between competitors. When that ends so does the free market.
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  479.  @TheUncertainCat  No. History doesn’t go backwards.
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  480. Living in dream world
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  481. As a former mental health patient, I would agree with this assessment with the caveat that practitioners offering Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, COG, are offering what is practiced in most mental health hospitals. In my experience, COG therapy is effective because unlike talk therapy it requires the patient to change, in measured fashion, their dysfunctional habits. In psych hospitals it is usually recommended along with antidepressant meds. And in my, now 40 experience with depression, it works.
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  482. Those who forget them, or in this case, minimize them , are bound to repeat them.
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  483. Trump/DeeeeSanti/Ramaswami/TaylorGreeni ‘24
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  484. In the meantime inflation rising and Trump hand feeding Ukraine to Putin.
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  485. Hard to deny at this point. Not optabout Trump’s policy. But we’ll see
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  486. "relentless western narrative that the West is noble while Russia and China are evil". That's not a narrative, both those countries are dictatorships. There would be no counter-narrative from Mr. Sachs in either of those countries. Cross the leadership in Russia and you will be summarily tossed out an upper story window, China keeps a tighter lid on its actions, but people disappear there on a regular basis. I too believe that a negotiated settlement is probably the best end game here, but there's a reason this kooky nonsense doesn't play in the mainstream.
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  487. Sowell calling Obama nonsensical, oof. Tax cuts boost the economy. No. That's voodoo economics, long ago carted away by Waste Management
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  488. Just like Covid, wheat separated from the chaff
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  489. Says guy watching Fox propaganda 24/7
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  490. Just the beginning of unintended bungles from the clown administration.
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  491. Please give some examples of fact based plausible conservative ‘ideas’.
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  492. The worst evil is unbending irrational belief. That’s how witches get burned.
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  493. One way or another, Bibi's days are numbered.
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  494. Feminism strikes fear into the heart of MAGA land
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  495. Glenn has gone solid conspiracy. Remember polio. There was a reason for vaccines, which most of the GOP obtained during covid.
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  496. Elon's the techie Trump, hey look at me!
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  497. Peterson’s talking out of his rear, again. Also thinks Putin is just protecting himself from Wester hedonism by attacking Ukraine. Peterson’s out of his lane veering into oncoming traffic.
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  498. Trump and democracy in the same sentence. What you smoking?
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  499. Absolutely hysterical comparison
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  500. Trump and RFK JR play the same gaslighting game, neither is qualified for leadership.
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  501. It takes an ability to deal with nuance and complexity to be truly compelling. Murray lacks that, or chooses to ignore it, in favor of ranting.
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  502. RR brought down, didn’t bow down,to the USSR.
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  503. RFK the triumph of ego over reason.
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  504. They gotta talk about something.
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  505. I’m fine with JP motivating young men, but denial of the patriarchy is like denying the sunrise. Who holds huge majority of power in religion, government and business positions? Never mind that he supports Putin and denies climate change. Proof that ‘conservative thinker’ is an oxymoron.
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  506. Hilarious being lectured to by conservatives about saving democracy when they represent the chief threat.
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  507. A refuge for those who can’t cope with the real world.
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  508. Newsflash: Australian women rallying against male violence.
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  509. Sowell, making slavery great again.
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  510.  @StinkingBishop  He’s right about big pharma, he’s wrong on Ukraine, vaxing and other nonsense. He’s a pr machine, another social media ranter. I liked him as a comedian.
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  511.  @joeyharper4976  Yes. So it’s a kernel v a bushel.
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  512. I want to see Elon's financial interests.
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  513. Russia (a superpower?) has been fought to a standstill by Ukraine, Putin's international stature is in tatters along with the military's reputation, NATO has new members and is stronger than ever. I call that a slam dunk win for US interests.
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  514. Even the W Post sided with Elon on this one. But honestly it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving knucklehead
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  515. Stossel is dependably wrong on almost every issue.
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  516. The extension of life to multiple planets? This man will now be signing his own checks from NASA. That’s ’efficiency’ the Musk/Trump way.
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  517. Whenever there's a revolution, you can be sure there are repercussions. You can also be pretty sure there was a reason for that revolution, something Perry seems to ignore. Closeted LGBTQ, pedophile priests, domestic abuse etc is what the landscape looked like before that revolution.
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  518. Obama the worst president? Shows you the partisan idiocy of Sowell’s ‘genius’.
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  519. History is cyclical, we just traded ‘woke’ for fascist, the wheel will turn.
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  520. Conservative tripe. Domestic abuse steeply declined across the nation, domestic also declined 10%. More right wing misogyny
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  521. Hillsdale College, just like Communism, selling propaganda. But with a fascist spin; they love Putin, unlike Russians.
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  522. ​ @redbaron6805  Yeah I've heard this argument before, many, many times, cuz I'm old. It's the exact same argument people have been making since the '60s when women's rights were just crawling on all fours. And that '90% of women are chasing 5% of the men' line is just incel paranoia. Not every woman is a gold digger, just like not every guy is a playa. When we get to a rough equality in religious, government and corporate positions of power, feminism will become unnecessary. In the meantime, 90% of the violence in the world, rape, domestic abuse, murder, shootings, terrorism, dictatorships is attributable to religious fundamentalists or just plain old vanilla masculinity run amok. It's gotta go.
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  523.  @redbaron6805  Men and women obviously have different biological drives, especially early in life. Young men want to hook up and women may more often want a relationship. But I’m not sure what you’re suggesting the answer to that is. If you think it’s going back to the old model of women in the kitchen, that ship has sailed. As for women and emotional violence, financial and reputation smearing, those are clearly a problem wherever the law favors women unfairly. But as I outlined, the damage women pose to civilization is infinitesimal compared to the mayhem caused by male aggression. Both sexes are going to have to adjust to a changing reality, which I think will benefit men in the long run. Male suicide is a problem because men are conditioned to be stoic, then won’t seek help. Downgrading macho values will help that problem.
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  524.  @redbaron6805  I will give leeway on some of these issues, but you have got to be kidding if you think fundamentalist religious terrorists, rapists, mass shooters, dictatorships and domestic abusers are in the same league with women using kids in divorce or financially ruining men.
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  525. Please define ‘elites’ because I see it used haphazardly to define Democrats when the reality is that the ultra rich are favored by the GOP with tax cuts, cuts in IRS funding (more expensive to audit billionaires), elections (Citizens United) etc. VDH, whose three names definitely sound elitist, is a sloppy, consistently partisan would be ‘scholar’.
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  526. Hilarious
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  527. Trump giving Ukraine to Russia sure is ignorant of history. That’s not how Reagan brought down the USSR.
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  528. A safe space for closet racists.
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  529. Yes, and voodoo economics like yours helped us achieve this mess.
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  530. How the GOP killed the middle class with tax cuts for the rich and bailouts for banks. Where'd all those homeless people come from? Red states that didn't give 'em enough.
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  531. Trump is king of the swamp. Drain it? He’s going to turn it into a lake. Pay for play.
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  532. Another old white crank.
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  533.  @RaisingMyWildflowers  Once upon a time, directly after the Civil War, Lincoln gave the ex-slaves a swath of land from Charleston to Daytona Beach so they could feed themselves. President Johnson took it right back. That land today would be worth half a trillion. We paid then reneged.
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  534.  @RaisingMyWildflowers  I learned it only recently researching a short story. I understand the reaction against extreme ‘wokeism’, but that’s a pretty fundamental piece of US history and you can imagine how black families would have accrued some wealth for their descendants if they’d kept that land.
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  535. Trump is example #1 of no accountability.
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  536. King of conservative grifters gets his.
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  537. The irony is racists conservatives pretending to defend Jews and Israel when their presidential candidate regularly dines with neo-Nazis. Did I say irony, I meant blatant hypocrisy.
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  538. No one is likely to ever destroy European culture, it's embedded in American culture, our music, our art, our literature, our science. So let's not pretend that's a real threat.
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  539. All true, but not an excuse or evasion of American slavery and accompanying racism, which is Sowell’s point.
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  540. Another millionaire with a new hobby
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  541. Who says the human race isn’t evolving. Finally have rich men fighting to the death. What? No death? I’ll watch the highlights here.
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  542. Trickle down is a proven failure, even Reagan's own economic advisor called it Voodoo Economics. Keep shilling the cult of the magical 'free market'.
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  543. Unlike JFK, rfk is ready to suck up to Russian mobster. Both JFK and RR are spinning in their graves at this isolationist nonsense.
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  544. The only thing debunked is the idea that Sowell is a great thinker.
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  545. Defund Billionaires. Cops we need.
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  546. I would take the ‘news’ label off Fox and MSNBC.
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  547. Lost me when he wandered off into conspiracy land and supporting Putin.
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  548. Someone needs narcissism therapy.
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  549. Nice to know Trump has your back, if your Russia.
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  550. The question isn’t whether you should profit, but rather how much. Japan has an upper limit on CEO pay while American CEOs are engaging in legalized embezzlement.
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  551. Trump hawking cars, crypto, bibles. sneakers, it’s a Black Friday presidency
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  552. "Traditions are experiments that worked." Think about that idiotic statement. Lynching was a tradition, wife beating, holding slaves. Some traditions have value, others wither. Life is complicated, but some yearn for easy answers. Oh, and good luck turning the clock back on feminism.
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  553. Corruption is rampant in the system, but while both parties are guilty, the GOP supports it as a policy. Citizens United equates money with free speech. So if you're a billionaire, you get a billion times as much free speech (access to politicians) as the average citizen. And guess who overwhelmingly supports the right of billionaires to evade taxes, regulations, antitrust law etc.
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  554. Wow shocking that trumps peace plan is total cave to Israel
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  555. Petersen is a complete fool. Unbelievable he gets this airtime. Putin doesn’t like wokeism? No, nor does he care for democracy, which is the only thing we need to worry about. I don’t give a …. whether Putin thinks we’re decadent or not when he’s throwing doctors, politicians, reporters and his one time ‘friends’ out of upper story windows. The same goes for Hungary and Turkey, who are becoming less democratic. Petersen blames wokeism or postmodern Marxism or whatever important sounding phrase he can muster for his own dictatorial leaning world view. Papa Jordan knows best. Long live the delicate white male ego.
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  556. I've got some sea front property to sell you
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  557. Republicans gonna have to wriggle to avoid spending cuts in their own states.
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  558. An economist who places politics first, ie, a lousy economist.
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  559.  @ExPwner  Entirely wrong? Data on middle class incomes/share of the wealth is by no means as simple as you claim. And while there is no unregulated capitalism, it's a simple matter to argue that capitalism is under-regulated. That's the never ending debate between left and right.
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  560.  @beautifully_scarred_lea  ok. We just disagree
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  561.  @websitemartian  You may have forgotten Trump's last Middle East deal, which led to this war. I haven't.
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  562.  @saffronskies333  Thers no such thing as a conservative intellectual. Always proven wrong with time. Too dependent on belief systems, libertarianism in his case, to achieve real scholarship. Economists don’t read Sowell.
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  563. Neither does incompetent drunkeness and abuse of women.
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  564. Tom Cotton parading his stupidity
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  565. ARC should be renamed Alliance for Medieval Citizenship, touting all the benefits racism, sexism and reactionary politics.
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  566. Let em go
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  567. Peterson, whatever else he may be, is a foaming misogynist. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. I suspect a troubled dating life as an adolescent.
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  568. So Elon doesn’t need fact checking? Guess your not a scientist
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  569. Have a look at how Reagan won the Cold War, how we freed half of Europe, how we enlarged NATO and spread democracy. The weaker Russia is the less we have to defend against. Pay now or pay more later.
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  570. I suggest a cage match in a Titanic submersible
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  571. Simplistic view of Econ.
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  572. There is no capitalism without socialism and vice versa.
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  573.  @arch810  Good luck with that fantasy
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  574. Anything for a buck.
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  575. Prager U? Is this like Trumps college system? Where’s the campus? Who’s teaching?
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  576. Schellenberger aka Shillenberger aka Shell oilberger
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  577. The subtext here, a specious spin on history , is that since Africans did it, American slavery ain’t that bad. Sowell’s logic is wafer thin.
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  578. The stupid person's guru. Diversity itself, no quotas, are what makes America great. You wanna live in an all white or all black or all Asian or any homogenous country go right ahead. You want great culture, food, humor, art, music, science, inventions etc., welcome to America.
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  579. Famous for his cheerleading of Operation Iraqi ClusterF
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  580. More of Sowell creating safe space for bigots.
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  581. She’s not so much disliked at this point as irrelevant.
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  582. A safe space for ignorance
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  583. Trump’s first term plan for Israel helped start Oct. 7th, so forgive me for thinking he’s clueless. That goes double for Ukraine, where a sellout to Putin goes against American foreign policy since WW2, one that brought down the USSR and freed Eastern Europe. Good luck to Rubio trying to spin that as smart power politics.
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  584.  @teekay_1  Well it ain't capitalism either. It's socialist principles applied to capitalist economy to keep it from exploding.
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  585. Peterson explaining toxic masculinity is like getting medical advice from a drug dealer. JP "Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination."
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  586. He's like Trump, he self destructs
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  587.  @smokeout1218  Could end up in Trump’s cabinet, Secretary of Magic Potions.
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  588. Spin Tucker spin. You are hereby banned from using the word lied unless first issuing a disclaimer that you own the parent on lying.
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  589. We have a mixed economy just like 9/10ths of the globe.
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  590. You mean like Trump or Elon Musk. Get a grip.
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  591. Many of those elites are GOP billionaires paying climate deniers because they own the oil industry.
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  592. Like all GOP talking heads, Paul carries water for corporate America and it's billionaire owners.
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  593. Elon all about Elon
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  594. As Kisin admits, he has no education on the conflict. Furthermore he has little understanding of the root cause of this particular terrorism. Israel cannot ‘win’ a war against its own population, unless they use genocide which some ultra rightists have suggested, but makes them a pariah nation. I’ve been observing this conflict since the 70s. Almost nothing has changed. The result? More bloodshed. The key is American brokered peace, but only if we stand up to Israeli and American conservatives. We’ve come close to making peace in the past. Muslims assassinated President Sadat of Egypt and Jews assassinated PM Rabin of Israel. The enemy is religious zealots. ‘Supporting Israel, without limits, is exactly what got us here.
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  595. "The radical types, environmentalists, say there's a dragon." The radical types are 97% of the world's climate scientists. If you had cancer and 97 out of a hundred MD's told you to do chemo would you listen to the other 3. Petersen's great with motivating young men, and loony everywhere else.
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  596. They already own everything
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  597. Stuff and nonsense. Conservatives trying to ignore America’s pre-eminence as a multicultural, economic and military superpower. These ‘definitions’ of multiculturalism as alienating, are hand tailored for conservative anti-immigrant positions and ignore the amazing success of assimilation that also respects various cultures. America’s ‘civil war’ of the moment, and what conservatives would like to ignore, is that the white majority in the US is becoming a minority, which is so frightening to this crowd that they’re willing to sacrifice democracy ie the pillar of Western civilization, to elect a populist cretin in the vain hope of turning back the clock.
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  598. The sexual revolution happened organically and served to pull America out of Christian imposed sexist and anti-sex dogma. Was it all good? no cultural upheaval is ever all good. But it's ludicrous to think women would choose to go back in time. Perry and Harrington are accurate on the point that the 'revolution' didn't benefit women as much as men, but that's simply because feminism had further to go and still does. These 'family values' reactionaries are the selling the same old nonsense the patriarchy has always sold.
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  599. Trump/DeeeeeSantis
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  600. ​@@urmomhasanonlyfans Sowell's trying to normalize American slavery by comparing to the Aztecs (or Egyptians, etc). Apples and oranges.
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  601.  @davidhouseman4328 Either you don’t know Sowell’s work, or you do and approve.
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  602.  @loicrodriguez2532  If you’ve explored Sowell you’ll know he’s stridently conservative and his various lectures on slavery have the aim of minimizing American slavery. Reading the comments will tell you the audience he’s pandering to.
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  603.  @PopeOfTheBullpuptistChurch  You're right. 2A needs to be repealed. Written for another historical era.
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  604. More like ‘why everyone hates SCOTUS period,.
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  605. Reagan didn’t win the Cold War and free half of Europe by cozying up to Russian thugs. Until Trump, no US president has ever suggested this kind of asinine kindergarten foreign policy.
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  606. An invitation to Russian aggression. Trump fails the most basic test of leadership.
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  607. The problem is allowing billionaires to accumulate so much wealth that they are insulated from loss. With less money, Musk would be much more careful about driving his businesses into the red.
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  608. Men are in power in every institution, so how does feminism get the blame?
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  609.  @pmcollectorboy2929  Explain that evasion
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  610. Brought to you by a little narcissist talking head and a bigger narcissist billionaire. What’s next? PR for North Korea?
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  611.  @williambenner701  Is this Jan 6th denial?
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  612. Check the map of who died by state and match it against vaccinations.
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  613. Risking revolution? Catchy clickbait, but highly unlikely in the US of A. We muddle along.
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  614. Ridiculous ‘socialism’ scare mongering. What is our federal government but a big socialist bureaucracy? Can’t have capitalism without socialism and vice versa.
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  615.  @davemichael6994  I don't see any argument, just school boy insults. Whatcha got factswise? Any concept of how the economy functions?
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  616. ​ @RebeccaMurphy-zw7sj  It goes a little deeper than that. When Bezos is making 2k times the average Amazon salary, we’re all getting screwed.
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  617. Yeah it works. Check stats on murder in states with weak laws vs strong.
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  618.  @branlex1315  Also a myth that guns will save us from govt tyranny. Never happened in a modern democracy.
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  619. She’s a loose cannon, couldn’t be more unsuited, incompetent choice to lead NSA.
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  620. If it were a black comedy, it would be hilarious.
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  621.  @theredstar6493  India’s rape stats are vastly underreported, domestic rape is legal and women often bare the blame for rape. Never mind the medieval caste system. I’m not saying other countries have no problems, but India has a long way to go towards equality.
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  622.  @theredstar6493  You are in denial, like many men’s rights activists the world over. Indian culture, which is a very rich one, is also an extremely patriarchal one. Comparing male rape to female rape in terms of raw numbers is a pitiful line of excuse. Feminism will continue; you can either get on the bus or get run over by it.
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  623.  @theredstar6493  You've got quite the nerve crying 'poor men' in a country where women are essentially second class citizens. But you're not alone; I see the same self-pity among American men who can't handle the concept of equality.
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  624.  @anthonycosta128  Your point is entirely correct, up to a point. Until women achieve rough parity in positions of power in religion, government and business - and we are not close - feminism will have to focus on that goal.
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  625.  @tusharkumar2907  MDs on strike in India after trainee raped and murdered.
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  626. America was built on it
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  627. Weinstein’s side hustle as intelligent sounding idiot.
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  628. Apparently his own appointments weren’t corrupt enough.
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  629. Elon’s afraid to wear his tinfoil hat in public.
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  630.  @MalachiWhite-tw7hl  The question isn’t whether the world is dependent on fossil fuels, that is ridiculously obvious, the question is should we, and how can we wean ourselves. I can guess your answers, but I’m not in the science denial camp.
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  631. Kind of a useless semantics game here. The question should have been ‘Is a system that creates billionaires inherently immoral?’
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  632. The Saudi commitment to ‘modernization’ is very shallow where civil rights are concerned.
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  633. I don’t mind Elon having mental health issues; I mind him holding crazy amounts of power (along with all of the billionaire club).
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  634. 16 years in the house as an attack dog with hardly any legislation to his name. Poster child for the Spoiled Brat Party; if I can’t have my way I’ll break all the toys ie US government.
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  635. Thanks for giving a murderous tyrant some pr Tucker. Par for the course, anything for relevance and a buck.
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  636. Peterson's understanding of economics is sadly simplistic. Billionaires owning all the wealth isn't due to some 'natural law'. It's just a teensy, weensy bit more involved.
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  637. You live in a dream world.
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  638. Guess what? Capitalism takes money from you too. I didn’t hear any mention of Walmart, Amazon and B of A stealing from their employees and being fined millions for it. Or the pharmaceutical industry setting up shell corporations abroad to avoid taxes on US profits. Neither capitalism or socialism functions without the other. These knuckleheads belong to the cult of the ‘free market’.
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  639.  @carsondyle1793  Mao wins the death toll stakes in a runaway.
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  640. Israel is dependent on US military tech and the Ukraine is equally dependent on everything we can send.
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  641.  @richardshortall5987  but not happy or he wouldn’t be so petty
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  642. Can we herd these people on some sea level island where they can test there hypothesis
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  643. The king of youtube narcissists and wannabe intellectuals. Nice outfit, JP.
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  644. Because, surprise, it makes him look guilty
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  645. This the Israeli right’s wet dream. Dream on anyone who thought Dumpy would bring peace to the region.
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  646. Energy expert who denies climate change?
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  647. Great idea. The rest of the developed world dies just fine without guns. Plus we’d eliminate the number one killer of kids in the US.
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  648.  @PJRayment not sure about unity, they were adept at playing India’s factions against one another, but point taken. It’s never, or rarely one sided.
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  649. Yeah, because Trump was so respectful of the military.
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  650. There's an apartment waiting for Trump in Moscow as soon as he gets out of jail.
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  651. They fit like a glove
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  652. There is no 'free market' without government regulation. That's what led to the Great Depression.
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  653.  @alexgordonepic  If you support Putin, you can head on over to Russia.
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  654. The Earth is flat.
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  655. Which mission got accomplished?
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  656.  @teonactalpizza  Gays got the right to marry in 2015, the ERA, women’s rights amendment has never passed, two black men in Mississippi were tortured by white cops in 2024. So, no, the mission has not been accomplished.
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  657.  @eigentlichtoll02  Frankly, I refer to myself as a militant feminist. So a movie being ‘a bit against men’ is a very small comeuppance compared to the history of film that has degraded women, just as society has. I loved the whole premise of Barbie traveling into reality, I LOVED Gosling as Ken, the dance numbers, the guys playing guitar while girls were supposed to just watch. And while there may be feminists who believe women should be in a superior position, I think that’s mainly a conservative myth. The reality is that patriarchal culture, especially in the form of fundamentalist religion, is driving violence and conflict (especially against women) around the world.
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  658. Bingo! Elon didn’t get the memo.
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  659. Same old conservative hogwash, work hard, never mind racism, sexism, climate change, you can't do anything about it. Meanwhile Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch etc are eating everyone's lunch.
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  660. Elites is a loaded phrase because conservatives will blame liberals and vice versa. The GOP is the party of billionaires, Dems have gone along at times, but the GOP cuts taxes for the rich, gives them unlimited financial input into elections (Citizens United), hampers the IRS from auditing the rich etc.
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  661. Is this a defense of colonialism? If so it’s hardly convincing.
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  662.  @adamnesico  there is no defense
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  663. The problem is there’s no one bright enough on the right. D’Souza?! Sowell?!
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  664.  @soulcapitalist6204  The center always prevails in the short run. Progressive policies almost always prevail in the long one. Civil rights, women’s rights, pot legalization, minimum wage, social security, subsidized healthcare, environmental action…
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  665. Victor’s got three names and zero logic.
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  666.  @Bu11yMagu1re  That’s a dodge, state laws still apply
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  667. Tough when you have to say ‘I’m not Putin’s’ Puppet.’
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  668. Helps consumers? That’s gotta go because the Donald represents himself and rich cronies.
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  669. Peterson's ability to think is numbed by his politics. Everything he promotes is conservative ideology, not fact based. No to gun laws, no to climate action, yes to racism, yes to misogyny, yes to the cult of 'the free market is magical', no to funding the Ukraine. "Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination"-JP's wisdom.
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  670. Truth hurts Teddy.
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  671. Hilarious. Oscar worthy.
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  672. Quiet, genius at work
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  673. Poster boy for corporate welfare. What’s not to love if your CEO? More productivity, less wages for pesky humans.
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  674. Ooops, blew the French election.
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  675. Make everyone rich? Being rich requires poverty, or who’s going to take out the trash? His denial notwithstanding, wealth is accumulating at the top in an increasingly destructive manner. Did computers make everyone rich? Stupid premise and stupid answer. Free market mythology.
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  676. Funny to see a conservative arguing for Putin. Seems to have forgotten that it was Reagan who brought down the Iron Curtain - and not by kowtowing to dictators.
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  677. Big mouth sucking up to Netanyahu, never mind how morally and politically challenged
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  678. Yup, all dingbats in the same boat.
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  679. Since men are still in majority positions in religion, business and government, it’s their failure.
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  680. Thiel supported Trumps first campaign and was then disappointed that libertarianism didn't magically happen. He's as naive and simple minded as Elon when it comes to politics.
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  681. Dismantle the FBI? Vivek reminds me of Dave Chapelle skit where he played a blind black man in the KKK.
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  682. Maher and Seinfeld have aged out of reason.
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  683. Well check back with you next time a red state gets multiple hurricanes. And keep up the climate denial, it’s only science.
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  684. Drivel. Check the stats state by state. The unvaccinated died in significantly higher numbers.
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  685. Hardly suprising since Musk already supports the far right at home.
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  686. No nuance allowed here. Great handle and I like the frankentele.
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  687. Conservative boilerplate. The real danger to democracy comes from the right, willing to elect a wannabe dictator who denied legitimate election results. Hypocrites
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  688. Idiocy plain and simple
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  689. You can be sure that someone talking about ‘peak wokeness’ is a closet conservative. Toxic masculinity is raping, abusing and killing people across the world. Fundamentalist religious groups (all of them) and societies where women are not in an equal power sharing situations are continuing the historical denigration of women. Trumps doing it, Xi Jinping is doing it, Ayatollahs are doing it, Modi is doing it, Orthodox Jews are doing it. These little critiques of ‘peak woke’ may be true to ann extent and entertaining, but they cover the real problem of deadly conflict born from machismo/religious belief.
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  690. Repeal the 2nd. It’s an unnecessary anachronism. We already have a standing army.
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  691. Get ready for cuts that favor Tesla
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  692. Boo hoo. Elon wanted absolute free speech, now he can reap the whirlwind.
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  693. Logic and Peterson, oil and water.
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  694. Most do, including the Chinese.
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  695. Both Kennedy and Reagan would spin in their graves to see the US cave to Russia.
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  696. Roberts Court is going to break records for having its ruling overturned down the road. How do we rule? Any way we want to, never mind precedent.
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  697.  @DetectiveLobotomy  correct. Just promoting bigotry so that someone else will.
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  698. Guns as #1 killer of American kids worries me a lot more than kids role playing.
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  699. "There is no living in peace with Jihadists". True. And the same applies to orthodox religion the world over, so let's be careful how we cherry pick.
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  700. We never had to wonder whether they would attack their neighbors; they did so repeatedly
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  701. And we never had to wonder if Russia would take advantage of smaller states. They did it repeatedly.
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  702. Obama was the worst president in American history- Sowell. All you need to know about his ‘objectivity’.
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  703. Libertarian gobbledygook from a mediocre economist
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  704. India needs term limits.
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  705. Vivek hated Trump, now likes Trump. Vivek’s honesty in a nutshell.
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  706. I can easily argue that USAID has a more important role than NASA.
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  707. Perhaps the dumbest foreign policy ‘idea’ ever, certainly in my 68 years.
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  708. Errr, no. Russia's lost 350,000 troops in this war, been exposed as a third world superpower and lost all international credibility. Russia's 'allies' are Iran, China, N Korea. And parts of the GOP. I don't count that as victory.
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  709. Sowell wrong on so much it’s hard to keep up.
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  710. Correcting Trump is a full time occupation.
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  711. A safe space for flat earthers. If 97% of doctors told Kisin he had cancer, he wouldn’t be looking for better advice from the other 3%.
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  712. Vivek for Secretary of "I'll say anything for power". Can't make him head of the FBI because he wants to abolish it?!
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  713. It’s amusing that conservatives cry about liberal victimhood then boo hoo about how the they’re own supposed victimhood. Very sad. Oh, the destruction of Western Civilization is most clearly represented by the conservative denial of legit elections. The West gave us democracy.
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  714. Milei was right to tame inflation, wrong to turn back the clock on protecting female murder victims and blame paedophilia on ‘woke’ policies. Guess he never heard of the Catholic Church - oh wait, he is Catholic.
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  715. Who pay taxes? The rich. Who gets tax cuts under the GOP? You guessed it. Don’t worry, the benefits will ‘trickle down’ to the rest of us.
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  716. If something can be said simply, trust Peterson to use needless $20 words to confuse the ignorant.
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  717.  @LPAFilm  Using the word 'elitist' to describe liberals is nonsense. Have a look at all the Ivy League GOP members, never mind the yard long list of billionaires fronting for Trump. Accountability? that's rich.
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  718. Right wing obsession with all things sexual is hilarious
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  719. Hey Dummy, how' Melania get her green card?
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  720. I suspect that he'd be pardoned, but I want him to pay the bill for every prosecution he loses.
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  721. No science backing up this claim by Shillenberger.
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  722. Next time Tucker can help defend the Capitol. Making a buck off the uneducated.
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  723. Find something useful to talk about
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  724. Keep writing that book. We don't need another crank at the helm. Although I can imagine a spot for him in the cabinet if Donald wins again.
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  725. Safe space for incels
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  726. As Colbert says "Facts lean liberal'.
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  727. From my quick survey of modern American history, it looks a lot more like the GOP is destroying America, trying to overturn legal elections, denying or trying to curb voting rights, pushing so-called gun rights in the face of epidemic (the #1 killer of American children) gun violence.
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  728. The only nonsense is thinking that American government is already half socialist. The free market didn’t volunteer to pay taxes, make roads, pay social security, make federal parks etc. You can’t have capitalism without socialism and vice versa.
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  729. If you're in a Red State, all good.
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  730. Vivek just another media opportunist
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  731. You're free to join them.
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  732. ​ @willnitschke  You've got a Republican running in NC who wants to put Dems in front of a firing squad. There have been multiple 'Christian' fascist dictators, Pinochet, Franco.
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  733.  @willnitschke  You tried to argue that Christian conservative can’t be fascists. You were sadly misinformed. Pinochet murdered thousands as did Franco, with Catholic backing. The world is shades of grey, not black and white. Arguing for some magical capitalist society, or history is just simplistic.This why conservatives don’t lead universities.
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  734. If prices are up in ‘26, the midterms will be interesting
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  735.  @kdshak4904  Many of Sowell’s ‘lessons’ include references to the barbarity and slavery practiced by non-European cultures. Fine, not novel as some viewers seem to think, but it is factual. But taken with Sowell’s very conservative views on American slavery, affirmative action, Civil Rights etc, all easy to access on this site, it’s clear that his take on history is meant to minimize the impact of American slavery.
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  736.  @kdshak4904  🙏
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  737. Libertarianism like its polar opposite utopian socialism is not reality based. It’s a fairy land for conservatives.
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  738. I would say it's more an example of the arrogance and immaturity of citizens showing hostility.
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  739. Who benefits from tariffs? People who don't care about inflation, ie the wealthy.
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  740. Guess where that’s gonna hurt most? Much of New Green Deal jobs are in red states.
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  741. Poster boy for misinformation just to make a buck.
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  742.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  I'm not a fan of conspiracy wingnuts.
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  743. Blunder of historic and potentially lethal proportions.
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  744. Long overdue for his jumpsuit.
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  745.  @kimobrien.  Why would I bother?
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  746. Sowell's reasoning here is typical free market cultist. Let people 'earn' whatever they can, however they can, we don't need regulations, let's have trillionaires. Like the laws of physics don't apply. Not exactly a master of logic.
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  747. A Quick Look at your video content reveals the Guardians assertions to be at least somewhat correct. You’re definitely right of center.
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  748. Even a broken clock is right once in a while
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  749. Separate the wheat from the chaff by tuning this fool out. I see lips moving but hear no substance, just regurgitated right wing talking points.
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  750. There are lots of mediocre conservative thinkers out there. Not many of them are qualified to teach, mercifully.
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  751. The argument offered by the cult of the free market is that we need billionaires to innovate. If you can't innovate with 500 mil, you're useless. There is no bottomless pit of wealth, the more that flows up, the less that flows everywhere else.
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  752. A stone cold opportunist. Someone who insulted Trump, but now praises him. A presidential candidate who wants to abolish the FBI and cave to Putin. Climate change is a hoax; I’d like to sell him some flood zone property.
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  753. Sach's peddling his nonsense, a favorite of contrarians.
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  754.  @theDemocraticway  Indeed they do.
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  755. Doesn’t fit the narrative
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  756. Peterson on women. They represent chaos and "Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination". Pro-Putin and anti climate change action. There are a boatload of reasons to avoid this knucklehead.
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  757. JFK would flip to hear RFK jr’s ridiculous weakness on the containment of Putin. No president since WW2 has taken that extremely dangerous position with the exception of Trump, who knows even less about history. Remember the USSR, its enslavement of Easter Europe? That didn’t dissolve because America was sitting on its thumbs.
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  758. Elon is no one’s idea of a good agent any more than Trump would be.
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  759. Can't wait to see him in the klink
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  760. Shilling for the tin hat crowd.
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  761. Fake president
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  762. Hey, Vlad, how come you couldn't take down Ukraine in 3 years? You must be taking military advice from Trump
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  763. It’s a cop out for those who don’t want to admit to being conservatives.
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  764. Let’s see the right wing answer
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  765. He's a libertarian/conservative, so you know ahead of time what he's going to 'teach'.
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  766. I’ve got third graders with more common sense.
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  767. Stossel creating a safe refuge for white supremacists.
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  768. Philanthropy is a dirty word. It means you've stolen so much from everyone else, you now have the cash to put your name on a Medical Center, Harvard building, Charity organization.
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  769. Sheer hypocrisy. Unelected bureaucrats? Like Elon? And no, Trump's margin of victory was not a mandate, just one of his fantasies.
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  770. When you don’t like the news just make up your own.
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  771. Dems are laughing at Republican president turning the White House for a used car commercial
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  772. Neither Sowell nor Musk can think their way out of a paper bag
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  773. Conservatives are the ultimate hypocrites, pretending to care for the little man, then selling out to billionaires. Show me a Republican President who didn’t cut taxes for the wealthy.
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  774. Yeah, make him Economic adviser and he can cut his own taxes.
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  775. Libertarians not right wing? Please give example of pundit or politician whose libertarian and votes with democrats? Elon maybe libertarian, but he's working for MAGA as a perfect example.
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  776. Don’t hold your breath.
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  777.  @immanuelcan3310  It looks an awful lot like you're trying to give a pass to Christianity. 9/11 was an attack by foreign Jihadists, Jan 6 was an attack by domestic citizens, some of whom were certainly Christian. I could easily argue that Jan 6 was more dangerous to our democracy.
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  778. Simplistic take on a fraught subject
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  779. Your still making videos, so the hoaxes are alive and well.
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  780. Most modern economies are mixed, but rant on.
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  781. A world class narcissist, a techie Trump.
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  782. Whiny conservatives trying to turn back the clock on the eventual demise of Caucasian supremacy. Snore.
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  783. What a shocker, a Trump enterprise losing money?
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  784. Elites is a sloppy, lazy dog whistle used by pseudo intellectuals.
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  785. The slide toward tyranny is being led by conservatives supporting a racist, election cheating narcissist. Peterson is a well known misogynist “Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.” But he loves guns, Putin and climate denial.
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  786. Why is this titled most corrupt? Clickbait.
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  787. Open borders are a bad idea, diversity is what makes America great.
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  788. American prez caves to Russia, historical first and not in a good way.
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  789. Unlike Trump, Putin is a dictator with a brain. How better to help Dumbo than to back his rival. We’re lucky Trump doesn’t have Putin’s common sense.
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  790. Forbes’ wishful thinking.
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  791. Carlson will forever be the low point of American journalism
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  792. Tennessee
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  793. He made the joke, now he gets the blowback. Welcome to the big time, son.
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  794. Guess where Mr. Stossel lives? A red state with little government regulation and lots of pollution? Nope. NYC. Idiots like him love to complain about liberal failure, but they don’t choose to live in the heartland.
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  795. Climate change is an 'eternal problem'? Conservative propaganda. It wasn't eternal back in 1600. As for the idea that there are no solutions, a ham handed philosophy at best, how did we conquer polio? Why are less people dying from war than a century ago? What's the tradeoff in having a washing machine vs hand washing? Absurd reductionism and the reason why Thomas Sowell and Kisin are primarily relegated to the fringes.
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  796. A comic book
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  797. People who pick and choose which science they’ll believe have abandoned logic.
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  798.  @Zzyzzyx  ‘Women have had diabolical lies told to them.’ Such as?
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  799.  @Zzyzzyx  Butker was smart enough not to specify, but the ‘lies’ were undoubtedly the idea of equality for women. What do you think he was referring to?
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  800. Trump’s been pro Russian since the it’s, when he had Russian oligarchs living in Trump tower, then took out full page add denouncing NATO. He’s a Putin wannabe.
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  801. One is a democracy, one is a dictatorship. While we did once try to clandestinely overthrow Cuba’s regime under Kennedy, we have not invaded it. That cannot be said for Ukraine or Georgia, not to mention that Russia once controlled all of Easter Europe.
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  802. The GOP has forgotten that Reagan won the Cold War and freed half of Europe by outspending the USSR on defense. Dems have forgotten that Kennedy backed Khrushchev out of Cuba. Fighting China and Russia is no joke.
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  803. Paid for by the fracking industry. Look it up.
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  804. Carville standing on shaky ground after his failed prognostications.
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  805. Needs to watch his talk on narcissism
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  806. Elon’s a narcissist conspiracy monger and less than ideal family man wonder why he’s disliked.
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  807.  @SamSpade903  Does it disprove the need for hate crimes? I sincerely doubt it.
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  808. Following in the glorious footsteps of Tate, Trump, Epstein, Weinstein, Justice K etc etc
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  809. Like utopian socialism, libertarianism does not function under real world conditions. There are no libertarian economies.
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  810. With W's phony war right behind him
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  811.  @jamesthurber4730  Bush jr
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  812. Right wing pablum. America is built on multiculturalism. It’s made us an economic, military and cultural superpower.
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  813. Trump/DeeeeSantis ‘24
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  814. Hitler wannabe.
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  815. This is the replacement for DEI? Mr Crazy time? Rand Paul, half libertarian/all GOP.
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  816. Nixon was pardoned by Ford, but wouldn’t have needed under this piece of trash ruling.
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  817. Cry me some crocodile tears over the poors oppressed men running the Supreme Court, most of government, most of the Fortune 500 and all the worlds religions. Life is so unfair.
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  818. Maher's definitely getting that old cranky vibe going. Watch Bill Burr roast him on it.
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  819. Take a trip down to Texas tomorrow
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  820.  @ronstephen-wy4ib  thank you
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  821. Pro Israel, Anti Ukraine. Logic zero.
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  822. Maybe the only time I'll ever agree with Graham
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  823. Put Elon on the deport list.
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  824. Anti-woke is the latest hiding hole for racists.
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  825. Who does that agency protect? Here’s a hint; not billionaires. It’s right in the name. A clear sign of who Trump and co care about.
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  826. Ridiculous-ness. Feminism is a little more complicated than just 'peak sexual attraction' and salaries. It's a historical trend towards human equality. Everyone to the right keeps saying 'it's gone to far', 'women want superiority', or in this case 'feminism is hurting women'. BS. Look around, men dominate governance, business, the judiciary, Hollywood, religion. Don't expect feminism to go back in the box any more than racial equality will.
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  827. Some whites don’t like civil rights and some men don’t like women’s equality
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  828. Elon’s negatives have long since outweighed his positives. Narcissist virus.
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  829. Fox only approves of certain racisms.
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  830.  @blackflycanada4943  You are have a limited understanding of economics and politics. What do you consider public libraries, post offices, police and fire services, SS, Medicare, the EPA, the FBI etc. Socialism and capitalism exist on a spectrum. Uber capitalism is a disaster as is uber socialism.
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  831. Maher has made a career of contrarianism, which I suppose has a place, but only agree with him the half of the time that he's right. Yes, Wokeness can go to far, but it's far outweighed by outright racism, sexism, anti-trans ism and the rest of old, white America's knee jerk hate (I'm an old white guy).
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  832. Couldn’t have been too smart to start out a Marxist. Sowell just shills libertarian/conservative dogma, zero objectivity. Trump a huge success?! Obama the worst president ever?! Good clickbait for the ignorant.
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  833.  @heidib9275  That’s called cherry picking your freedom.
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  834. Clickbait for racists. There are some serious problems in the world, Trump’s corruption and incompetence are far more worrisome than SA’s problems. How about the other African countries who just lost medical and food aid? Peterson doing what he does, shilling for the right.
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  835. The only thing bigger than his wallet is his ego
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  836. Biden didn't cave in to Putin, one of the most important issues facing a president.
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  837. Thanks for helping screw the average American Rogan.
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  838. Christian Right headquarters. If you like Putin, jump on board.
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  839. Comparing America to Rome makes a melodramatic tag line, but come on. And to the extent that we are a democracy, the danger comes from voters willing to overlook a candidate willing to throw an election.
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  840. Yes please. I'd tune in to that clown show.
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  841.  @markthomas7279  America's middle class has been hollowed out by, among other things, astronomical increases in CEO pay in the last 50 yrs. Tesla's tanking, workers laid off, but Musk wants bigger payday. Capitalism is great, but it needs guardrails.
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  842. Trump/Musk going after CFPB, tells you they don’t care about consumers. It’s right up front.
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  843. Loves $, but not democracy
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  844. All this hoo ha about the return of trad wives is amusing, as if women will voluntarily go backwards. Ain’t happening folks.
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  845.  @str.77  You're right on the Native American peaceful myth, to a degree. But there are plenty of conservative Blacks in this country, see Clarence Thomas, Tim Scott. Nobody's color gives them genius.
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  846.  @Vaguer_Weevil  Sort of like the EU
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  847. He’s all talk. Time for a cheeseburger.
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  848. If only he had as much brains as brawn
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  849. Say no to ignorant armchair generals
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  850. He's the reverse of Elon. He supports democracy.
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  851. Sowell is a dogmatic conservative who claims that Obama was America's worst president, and absolutely ridiculous opinion to go along with the rest of his arch conservative views. In his view, Civil Rights legislation and Affirmative Action were to blame for the poverty of black, never mind lynching, red lining and racism that continues up to this day. Some genius. He's only a mediocre economist.
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  852. Hamas is evil and tyrannical to its own people, but the word terrorism is dependent on its use. Were Americans fighting for independence terrorists? The British certainly thought so. Was the IRA terrorist, again the British thought so, but many Irish Americans helped fund them. It’s not like the Palestinians could raise a proper army when they have no state. In sectarian violence there are no ‘good’ guys and ‘bad’ guys.
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  853. Trump will probably be pardoned, but he should pay the federal bill for every prosecution he loses.
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  854. Elon's from S. Africa, his grandfather moved there to SUPPORT apartheid.
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  855.  @joecalta3679  Don’t ask impertinent questions, just ready your doomsday paraphernalia
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  856. I don’t vote for misinformation peddlers of either party.
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  857. Sowell’s a joke, but you can count on him to be a reactionary conservative on everything from race to gender to economics. He’s not particularly convincing so I guess his cachet is his race.
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  858. Yeah Kenya not the most enlightened place for that question, one of the few places where old school religion is growing. Walsh shooting fish in a barrel.
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  859. What-about-ism from YouTube’s pre-eminent conservative quack.
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  860. They can do a lot better.
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  861. Perfect, the heavyweight champs of lying to make a buck.
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  862. I'd like to see his taxes cranked WAY up.
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  863. Some people seem not to understand how superpower politics affect the world. A win for Russia is a loss for America, the same would be true against China. Reagan didn't cave to the USSR (and the Iron Curtain name down) and neither did Kennedy, one thing the Dems and GOP used to have in common.
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  864. You are correct
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  865. This is the idiot that raised that idiot. Musk “A republic of high status males is preferable to democracy.” Go buy an island and -lay emperor.
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  866. Safe space for ignorance
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  867. Trump’s buddy strikes again
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  868. Hilarious that he’s promoting bipartisanship on this channel.
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  869. I could say the same about the conservatives I've known, minus the fact that they don't even pretend to be selfless.
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  870. Sowells right at home on YouTube, where the ignorant get together for pseudo learning.
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  871. Billionaires taking care of billionaires
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  872. Can you say conflict of interest? Trump disliked crypto until pea brain figured out how to cash in on it.
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  873. Ask Hong Kong citizens about Chinese charity?
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  874. The Marxists are coming, the Marxists are coming !
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  875.  @BigKandRtv  guess he’s lying
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  876. The late great Hannibal Lecter.
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  877. ‘Couldn’t find negative reviews’. Didn’t look very hard.
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  878. Maher's lost his wits
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  879. Narcissism is immortal
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  880. Well since Lincoln gave half a million acres to 40 slaves, only to have President Johnson take it back, you could argue that we owe at least the value of that land - roughly half a trillion.
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  881.  @ikalen  You chose to come and we is the government. You need to study American history. I work in an inner city school, all my kids are refugees and they're parents work hard; that doesn't erase the past.
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  882.  @ikalen  There are very few countries with America's history of slavery, maybe South Africa, Brazil, so your conservative 'slavery happened everywhere' evasion, is just that an evasion. When you land in America, you land in a country with a historical debt, which has already been reneged on once, per this thread. A culture with a deep debt to black America. You can choose to ignore it; I choose not too.
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  883. Hilarious. Hope it’s empty.
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  884. Unlikely that any commenters on this site have actual critical thinking skills. Facts tend to lean against conservative belief system.
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  885. If Trump decimates all our alliances, what’s Greenwald going to have left to shill?
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  886.  @DQBlizzard_  You’re right. I should have known that Musk would be blabbing away on twitter; narcissists need 24 hr attention.
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  887. Yeah, pick up a history book and you’ll learn that the tide shifts, in both directions, but progresses in the end.
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  888. I’m selling. Sounds like an idea dreamed up by some drunk feminist undergrads. I’m a feminist, but this is silly, let’s get some more women leaders elected. This plays into the patriarchal propaganda that women;s worth is tied to their sexuality.
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  889. Never has it been so clear that cash is king in politics
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  890. We’ll see how well MAGA does at governing. The early indications are poor.
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  891. I keep hearing the phrase ‘enemy within’ from Trumpers, which is textbook Stalin or Mao or choose your dictator. It leaves the door open to name anyone who disagrees as an enemy. That is not democracy at work.
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  892. That was back when it was cool
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  893. Not with American backing
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  894. Bibi’s gotta go. A fair warning of what Trump 2 could look like.
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  895.  @mds_main  Your racism is worse than ours.
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  896. Pointless. Plenty of blame to go around for Israeli Palestinian conflict. Very few western countries, perhaps none, that don’t have a history of persecuting Jews. And Islamophobia is now rampant on the right.
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  897. Yeah, we've all got a grandfather like that. Usually they're white.
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  898. Definitely didn't help. Certain percentage of voters aren't happy about browning of America, or female equality.
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  899. Don't agree with Rogan on a variety of subjects, but he zeroes in on Peterson's ridonkulous enforced monogamy (bad PR Jordan) insanity. This from a man who purports to be in favor of free markets, free speech etc. Same old, same old bs every religion has been selling for millennia: we need to control women.
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  900. Dimon is a self serving billionaire, a Republican shabbily disguised as a liberal. Says he considered running for president as a Dem which would have been a hilarious fiasco.
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  901. Thomas Sowell, genius at turning history into conservative propaganda.
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  902.  @jtjones4081  Conservatives are happy because they still believe in the tooth fairy.
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  903. BS
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  904. Russia is not our friend which is why Reagan helped bring down the Iron Curtain. Repyseem to have forgotten that piece of colossal history.
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  905. Netanyahu is a smarter Trump, and also headed for conviction
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  906. He’s been exposed. He just keeps whining about it.
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  907.  @TheZygoat  They’re both conspiracy peddling narcissists who love media attention.
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  908.  @MisterB123  Real data? Like Prozac causes shootings? Vax causes autism? And he’s soft on Russia, something no other president has ever been. For a reason.
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  909. The late great Hannibal Lecter
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  910. JP ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’ Nice wisdom. Also a Putin apologist and climate denier.
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  911. GOP policy: No immigrants but we do want ‘guest workers’ because they have no rights and can’t vote. Florida goes after illegal immigrants; Floridas farmers have no one willing to do the dirty work.
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  912. Petersen doing what he does best, equivocating. You can just see him sweating and getting angry for being caught in his own disgusting theories.
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  913. Ouch.
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  914. No surprise here, RFK jr has the integrity of a septic tank.
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  915.  @Art-is-craft  That's a rosy look at the past. I'm 68. If you were a woman, or a black man 50 years ago, careers were not easier to build. And your claim about violence is simply not backed up by any facts.
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  916.  @Art-is-craft  You’re confusing economic problems with gender issues. What’s your fix for this problem?
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  917. Dershowitz lost the script a looooong time ago.
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  918. Utter nonsense
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  919. Genius, no easy solutions. Let the planet burn. Sheer genius.
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  920. See ya Vivek, your 15 minutes is up.
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  921. Nobody knows including the head the felon in chief, much less these wannabes.
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  922. What no mention of FL book bans, don’t say gay, don’t say climate change. Stossel cherry picking. Again.
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  923.  @noshow22  I don’t see any refutation of my what about ism. And if you check media bias you’ll find that while Fox and CNN are rated as biased, Fox bottoms out on accuracy. I’m old and have an elite education; I don’t worry about looking foolish with this crowd. Climate change denial Trumps all this nonsense.
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  924.  @noshow22  Climate change denial is utter, cataclysmic stupidity at this point. Covid lab leak, which I admit was a huge failure, is small potatoes in comparison. So what aboutism doesn't apply. Stossel always leans right, no matter the reality, that's his selling point. I'd be glad to hear where your 'independent' research comes from. I have an elite education; I have no worries about looking foolish with this crowd.
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  925. Elon, I need a raise so fire 10k workers.
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  926. Nope, whatever corruption there was is simply replaced by a new, and clearly less competent group.
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  927. Like most of Scruton’s positions, Brexit a total failure.
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  928. If Elon had 500 mil instead 10 zillion he’d damn sure not be trying to lose money. Tax billionaires out of existence. You wanna know how the rich run the country? You’re looking at it.
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  929. Democrats don’t do conspiracy, sorry.
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  930. Whoever thinks the idea of profitability is a simple supply and demand has thought it out.
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  931. Europe to JD Vance. Go home, Putin lover.
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  932. @ You mean selling lies as free speech, Yeah, I do. In EU or US.
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  933. He can run for the GOP nomination.
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  934. When pigs fly
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  935. Corrupt, unqualified jurist on who we should listen to?
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  936. Right on Fox ‘news’, where he belongs with all the other Tucker Carlson wannabes
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  937. The right loves misinformation because they think they hate the feds, until they need the feds.
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  938. When someone says mainstream they've outed themselves as right wing.
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  939.  @frankhinstine9161  Fear mongering fantasy and hypocrisy. See the Duggar family or the Church if you’re looking for real life pedophiles.
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  940.  @axelonetwoman8058  Fox is mainstream only to someone off the map right. If the shoe fits.
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  941.  @empoweryou1  Beware,, Trans zombies are coming for your kids.
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  942. Nothing decent after Exile..Stones are their own tribute band.
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  943. Absolutely. Peterson is the stupid person’s ‘genius’. Needs to cure his own narcissism.
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  944. There is no 'right' side in this 70 years conflict. It will only end with compromise, which means stifling the fundamentalists on both sides.
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  945. The UK has a shortage of shelters for women who have been domestically abused. That's not a mantra, mate.
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  946. Sowell should include himself on the list since he always taking gratuitous shots at civil rights and affirmative action. As if conservatives had a better plan than lynching.
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  947.  @vinceschenden7349  Promotion of conservative dogma, he never strays from the path.
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  948.  @vinceschenden7349  He’s done a lot of slavery ‘explaining’ if you watch his videos. He’s married to conservatism for better or worse.
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  949. Thank you. Don't need 'em. No democracy in modern history has been saved by armed citizens. Doesn't happen, just a right wing fairy tale.
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  950. Tax billionaires out of 9/10’s of their wealth and get them back to work. If Musk had 500 mil, he wouldn’t be burning X down to feed his ego.
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  951. In other news, 6 Mississippi policemen given long sentences for torturing 2 black men.
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  952. Put woke to bed and just start calling it what it is, racism, sexism and general intolerance. As for ‘identity politics’, unlike racism, it has a long shelf life.
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  953. 2nd Amendment myth: private guns prevent tyranny. Show me a modern democracy to demonstrate that baloney.
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  954. Someone’s got to be the cranky old uncle.
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  955. Jeez I wonder if Rand would have supported us in WW2. Isolationism is a long term, historically proven disaster.
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  956. Musk has become a poster child for union recruitment
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  957. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving egomaniac
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  958. Hanson knows better, but he’s sold out to Trump make believe.
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  959. Forbes is a slightly saner version of Trump. Slightly
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  960. Exactly what we think in reverse from the left. It's all opinion.
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  961. Woman just arrested and sentenced to 11 years.
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  962. There is no ‘new’ feminism, just paranoid guys afraid of equality, which we aren’t even close to.
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  963. Dumb, dumber and Trump
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  964. More of Kisin’s half baked conservatism.
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  965. When you get to college it’s a lot more complicated.
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  966.  @HoagieHut  Thank you
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  967.  @jefferytokarsky1930  Nowhere near equal representation in government, religion, Fortune 500 and no ERA. Perry and her ilk are on the wrong side of history.
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  968.  @jefferytokarsky1930  As I pointed out, men still dominate in nearly every aspect of society from government to religion to corporate boards rooms, so no, women didn't get what they want yet. And that genie's not going back in the box no matter how many insecure men (and Louise Perrys) it threatens.
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  969. Russian immigrants are often right wing, like this dude. No, you can’t evade US slavery by comparing to world slavery, but keep on selling it.
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  970.  @LevisH21  Yeah racism ended after the civil war. General Sherman gave 40k slaves half a million acres on the East coast, promptly taken back when Lincoln died. Worth today: half a trillion. Hope you’re just listening to country music and watching golf, otherwise you’re getting a free ride on black American culture based on 400 years of slavery and apartheid.
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  971. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’ Ex-psychologist JP.
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  972. I’ve heard this ‘America and Britain fought against slavery’ dog and pony show before. Don’t know much about racism in UK, but well acquainted the US version. She’s peddling rubbish.
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  973. Coming to terms with multiculturalism. Even in America, a huge swath of white America not happy with inevitable browning of the nation.
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  974. Billionaires are now writing the news. If I had a subscription I’d cancel. He’s turning the LA Times into his own twitter, so much for freedom of the press.
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  975. What message? Abolish the IRS? Get out of Ukraine? Cut off contact with China? Lord save us from tech narcissists.
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  976. Forgot his tinfoil hat
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  977. If they're concerned with transparency, let's see what DOGE is doing exactly. And what Elon's financials are.
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  978. If they really cared about fraud they wouldn’t destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They’re ok with Wells Fargo fraud, hypocrites. You can be sure Trump will be angling for cash every which way he can.
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  979. Doge made claim of 8 billion spending cut at Customs and Immigration. It was 8 million. Think they’ll go after any fat deemed conservative? Nah. Think they’ll balance the budget, like Clinton did. Nah.
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  980. Trump's shotgun diplomacy at work.
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  981. @ What exactly?
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  982. There’s no way to spin Trump’s appeasement of Russia’s murderous regime. No US prez has ever done it. It’s treason.
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  983.  @antonysloan6110  You live in a history free zone
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  984. She belongs to the wing of the GOP that disdains democracy.
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  985. Uh oh, Elon’s lost Rogan. The end is near.
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  986. Vivek selling whatever the Trump crowd wants. Dismantle the FBI? Really? Bail out of Ukraine? Reagan is spinning in his grave.
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  987. What do these idiots think the federal government is? It ain’t capitalism at work. Capitalism can’t function without a socialist safety net and socialist safeguards.
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  988. Read a book instead.
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  989. Another contrarian pundit, chucking reality out the window to cash in on conservative dollars.
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  990. Idiot preaching to his fellows
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  991.  @ophs1980  Correct, all about ego.
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  992. Russia is a has been superpower. They lost by not winning quickly
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  993. Calling it a clown show denigrates the skills of actual clowns
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  994. Kennedy needs to get to work along with Mike Johnson to fix Louisiana instead of bantering away taxpayer money.
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  995. Every adult with an understanding of superpower history fears Trump caving to Putin. Greenwald makes a living as a ‘contrarian’ shilling ahistorical gibberish.
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  996. Not even Trump knows. How’s he gonna ‘lash out’ after trashing Biden for not fixing it?
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  997. Tempest in a tea cup. The GOP considering pulling out if NATO,; that’s scary.
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  998. There’s a special circle in hell for this conspiracy ‘genius’.
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  999. Cry me a river. Trump’s been skating around the law for decades and it finally caught up with him.
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  1000. Yeah, no excuse for meaningless 2nd amendment at this point. No leg to stand on in this 'debate'.
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  1001. Peterson's a fool and his opinions are usually dead wrong, for example, climate change activism isn't important, Putin is just 'protecting himself from Western hedonism'.
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  1002. There are no opposite stats.
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  1003. You can count on Stossel to call out Dems, not so much GOP
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  1004. More conservatism for the education free.
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  1005.  @egg4489  kinda cherry picking. Check the rest of the world.
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  1006. Look at American Christian nationalists, look at Hindu nationalists, Jewish orthodox extremism. Islam is definitely behind the times, but religious extremism everywhere is the problem.
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  1007. No labels, no policies. A scam looking for suckers.
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  1008. Couldn’t make it as dem so he went full conspiracy and now has crazies from both parties. We don’t need another science denial president, nor one who cozies up to Putin. Reagan and JFK are spinning in their graves on his Russia naïveté.
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  1009. There is no ‘good guy’ in this conflict. We need to use American political power to build and enforce a compromise.
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  1010. Sorry, can’t unwrite history.
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  1011. The GOP runs bigger deficits than Dems. Oh, Mike Johnson, cutting the IRS budget isn't going to help. Scam alert.
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  1012. Conservatives whistling in the dark as they vote to cancel democracy.
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  1013. On Israeli war Prager is a one trick pony. We all know what Hamas is, how about throwing alittle shade Netanyahu’s way.
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  1014. Matt who?
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  1015. Nothing will come of blindly following Israel. We’ve tried that.
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  1016. Tough to be conservative and intelligent, you've only got belief to fall back on.
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  1017. 2nd amendment is now overriding the right to liberty and happiness.
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  1018.  @ulthanesmorkums  Yes the NRA should be indicted. Little men with large guns.
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  1019.  @ulthanesmorkums  Support needless weapons, people are murdered with same and your support makes you an accessory to murder. Pretend all you want.
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  1020.  @buckmurdock2500  your interpretation is killing Americans.
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  1021. This kind of what-aboutism is popular with racists, but as scholarship it’s trash.
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  1022. Racial purity is a ridiculous concept. And yes the whole world will eventually be brown to one degree or another.
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  1023. Billionaires don’t like oversight, it endangers their greed.
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  1024. Like Trump, Elon just wants his backside kissed, never mind the facts.
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  1025. They’re eating cats and dogs etc
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  1026. Not as bad as Trump befriending murderous leader of our superpower nemesis.
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  1027. Boo hoo, poor men having such a hard time after thousands of years of running the show, and still running the show.
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  1028. She knows how to tune out the 'noise'
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  1029. It’s bigots who are killing and torturing people
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  1030. Loved Seinfeld the show and his interviews with comedians. But he’s gotta that old white guy shtick when it comes politics, complaining about protesters, cancel culture ruining comedy (impossible) and women.
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  1031. There is no one answer, but certainly this is part of it. On the flip side, AIPAC helped boot 2 progressive Dems from office.
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  1032. So much for ’razor thin’ polling.
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  1033. Trump is going to find that out.
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  1034. I’m shocked that billionaires would lower themselves for more cash, just shocked.
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  1035. Sanders was extremely naive to give Soviets any PR, and Kissin just as naive in the other direction.
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  1036. Another not ready for prime time ‘deep state’ salesman
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  1037. Trump’s deal; you give Russia what they want, give us all your minerals and hey we’ve got peace. Sort of like how he offered the Palestinians to go live somewhere else. Negotiating skills of a three year old.
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  1038. Listen to Stossel and go stupid.
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  1039. RR spinning in his grave as GOP caves to Russia.
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  1040. Knucklehead circle jerk. Same old racist nonsense.
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  1041. When Dimon says he is barely a Democrat, take him at his word.
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  1042. Trump caves, the opposite of what every US president has done. Reagan ended the Cold War by outspending the USSR until it collapsed. Trump’s genius at work.
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  1043. Trump voters in for a rude awakening when they realize the GOP belongs to the rich.
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  1044. Let Elon and RFK debate their narcissistic conspiracy theories. Might be entertaining.
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  1045. Narcissist billionaire supports narcissist ex-billionaire who wil gut regulations and cut his taxes, all served up yet another narcissist talking head. I’m shocked.
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  1046. I don’t think we need to worry about monogamy. That’s a conservative bully stick. Monogamy is not in any danger of going extinct. Ridonkulous.
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  1047. A border wall with Canada? Vivek is truly Trump junior trying to out crazy himself at every outing. Me, me, me, ……
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  1048. Louise Perry is a 'family values' conservative, trying desperately to turn back the clock on feminism. Good luck with that.
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  1049. That makes as much sense as rfkjr
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  1050. Yeah you are an alt right cheerleader. Repeal the 2nd, all it's doing is killing kids (#1 on the chart). Modern democracies have never been saved from tyranny by an armed uprising of citizens, it's pure myth.
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  1051. Meeting of righty idiots. Where’s Tate? This show has a no-morals limit to getting likes.
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  1052. Ron Paul right where he belongs on the fringes of political influence. Libertarianism is as much a fantasy as utopian socialism, just the other end of the spectrum.
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  1053. Intellectual firepower of a Happy Meal.
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  1054. Intellectual conservative is an oxymoron. Thinking cannot be based on a belief system.
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  1055.  @Joseph-Mullins  Science isn’t downstream from faith, nor are certain facts, ie that Trump tried to rig the 2020 election. Culture, faith and politics are intermingled for non-believers.
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  1056. Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave at these chucklehead Republicans who seem to have forgotten that we’re in a nuclear standoff with Russia. Every loss incurred by Russia is a net win against dictatorship and nuclear threat. Polysci 101.
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  1057. Trump would be sunk but racists love him.
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  1058. It's a long standing tradition for voters to vote for 'change', both parties sell it but the GOP is not so secretly the party of wealth.
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  1059. Jamie Dimon is a mouthpiece for corporate welfare. Called Elon ‘our Einstein’, which is scientific illiteracy. Talked about running for prez as a Democrat (what;s he smokin) and his prognostications are anlways obvious.
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  1060. Dark indeed, climate denial, insurrection, gun violence, racism. Conservatives need a long look in the mirror.
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  1061. Fair elections and peaceful transfer of power are hallmarks of a functioning democracy. Challenges to those characteristics are essentially treason.
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  1062. Our toy president kowtowing to Russia. Haven’t seen this kind of immoral, ignorant and dangerous behavior in my 68 years.
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  1063. Same gene pool or something, big dumb babies breaking toys, well breaking our toys.
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  1064. Dumb and dumber all wrapped in one.
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  1065. Trump/Musk/Spongebob '24
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  1066. Says billionaire conspiracy monger. Soros funds democracy across the world, Musk funds Trump.
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  1067. Guess who created the third world, whose products are made there and whose trash is recycled there?
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  1068. Trump needs no help embarrassing himself. Everyone seems presidential portrait wants to be turned to the wall.
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  1069. Women are never going to relinquish the gains they’ve made. That is pure fantasy. The GOP is learning that on abortion.
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  1070. The techie Trump. Elon loves the sound of his own mythology. Me, me, and me.
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  1071. Kennedy has some policies I like, but he's got some other issues that explain why he's independent, not a real candidate. He's soft on dictatorship in Russia and China, which flies in the face of everything US presidents of both parties have done for decades and ignores how we freed Eastern Europe, multiplying democracy on the ground. We've helped build and protect strong democracies in Japan, S Korea and Taiwan. Kennedy's go soft approach endangers those gains for democracy and world peace in the process. And then there's the question of Israel. Kennedy has been against funding Ukraine war, but then turns around and says Israel should level Gaza. That's inconsistent, but worse, it jeopardizes our international reputation for fairness, threatens to start a bigger Middle East war and is morally reprehensible. And that doesn't even cover Kennedy's anti science claims about dirty water causing gender problems, or Prozac causing shootings, or vaccines causing autism, none of which is backed by science. These are the good reasons not a single relative of his will support his candidacy.
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  1072. Big mouth with no handle on foreign policy whatsoever. We’ll be lucky if he doesn’t back us into a war.
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  1073. Right wing fear mongering, wokeness is coming for your kids, it’s the end of civilization. Funny how the violence we see around us, from guns, to police killings (cops have a tough job and need more support ie mental services, which the GOP will not support), to violence at the capitol, violence against women (see SCOTUS righties making fun of women who are stalked) comes or is supported mainly by the right. So by war I guess they mean war of ideas, but somehow universities are full of liberals. It’s a conspiracy, or to quote Jordan Peterson, maybe it’s a question of competency. Are 99% of the worlds climate scientists promoting woke policies or are they simply competent?
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  1074. It's simple, he's not really thinking just spieling.
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  1075. You wanna know where world violence is coming from? The right. Religious fundamentalists of all the major religions, authoritarian governments in China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, mass shooters provoked by racist right wing news and politicians. Hate is fueling violence and the right, especially in the form of baby Hitlers like Trump, are tossing hate grenades. Hanson's got his head...out of the light.
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  1076. While understand America has had multiple fiascos in its quest to spread global democracy, I don’t count Ukraine in that light. Speaking as an American who saw the demise of the USSR and consequent flourishing of democracy in Eastern Europe and beyond, containment and degradation of superpower dictatorships has always been our policy. And while Russia may have gained territory in this war, the price exacted, Russia’s political and financial isolation, and its military incompetence and weakness, is a victory for the West. Anyone going soft on Putin is either naive or bought off.
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  1077. I hope your joking because Russia has a loooonng history of bloody control of Eastern Europe
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  1078. Think being a billionaire doesn’t give you political power? This is America’s aristocracy at work.
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  1079. Snore
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  1080. Another cranky white guy
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  1081. Thank you. Calling Trumps directives foreign policy is like calling a potato gun nuclear deterrence.
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  1082. Our citizens don’t want to lose programs or pay more taxes. You get the leaders you deserve.
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  1083. Hey Elon, gonna turn Trump into a climate activist?
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  1084. As a non practicing Christian I applaud your cancellation.
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  1085. The Earth is flat. Let's debate.
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  1086. Free markets are as realistic as socialist utopia, just another fairy tale cult.
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  1087. Greedy idiocy
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  1088. Sowell is best described as a libertarian, which means he believes in a whole other level of magical thinking, a cosmic free market that cures all ills.
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  1089. Kennedy’s state might as well be in Mexico for how corrupt and poorly run it is.
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  1090. Wanna be clown for the clown car
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  1091. Greenwald might once have been a serious reporter or something, but his take on US siding with Putin is astoundingly, dangerously wrong. Contrarian for contrarian's sake. Pitiful.
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  1092. If there's a conspiracy theory, Schellenberger is peddling it. Him and J Peterson should start a frat.
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  1093. If world order is coming apart, I know where to point the blame; right at conservative isolationism. Ahistorical idiocy.
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  1094. And limit CEO compensation, which dwarfs comparison to the past or most other industrial countries.
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  1095. Safe space for idiots. Which country is the world's reigning economic, military and cultural superpower? Nope, not China. Nope, not Russia. Yeah, the country built by multiculturalism.
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  1096.  @Anonymous-py1sf  What is relevant? A crappy economy, a country that can’t defend itself or has boring culture? What country do you live in?
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  1097.  @Anonymous-py1sf  You just repeated your belief system. The world will become more multicultural, it’s already happening and inevitable. What you’re arguing for, like most conservatives, is a return to the past. That attitude is one that engenders hate crime. I notice you didn’t mention the country you’re from.
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  1098.  @Anonymous-py1sf  "Many people in way poorer countries". You must be joking. Immigration to the US from everywhere is sky high, including China. You can 'explain' as many times as you want, multiculture is the inevitable future. I'm imagining you live in some insular European or Asian culture that does not do assimilation well, a culture where racism is rife if unacknowledged. But I don't know since you haven't revealed it.
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  1099. Throw the baby out with the bathwater? I know who benefits from ignorance in the US? The GOP, party of billionaires that scams middle class conservatives into voting for tax breaks for the Uber rich.
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  1100. I'm a militant feminist and trans supporter, but if a transgender athlete has physical attributes that give them an advantage over non-trans then they need their own classification.
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  1101. If he's the opposite of DEI, I'll take DEI anyday.
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  1102. Gun cult killing American’s at a steady clip for some imaginary Rambo fantasy.
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  1103. Pretty funny coming from a Trump voter, a president who most certainly tried to fix an election.
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  1104. @ My uncle died in Korea, Trump would consider him a loser for that.
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  1105. Piers you poor baby, why don’t you make yourself a nice, cranky ol’ straight guy flag. Feel better bro.
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  1106. Woman sentenced to 11 years for women’s rights. Today.
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  1107. He’s on the record saying Trump lost, but now he’s a disciple and has to toe the line.
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  1108. @kannkarate687 politic s in MAGA.
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  1109. @kannkarate687 yeah, it’s only democracy
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  1110. I'd like to see you say that to 97 out of a hundred doctors giving you a cancer diagnosis. "just alarmism."
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  1111. Another example of conservative Christian hypocrisy.
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  1112. Absolute nonsense. There is no racism? Oh poor conservatives, getting cancelled for talking a lot of malarkey. At least you're not getting shot at a protest by a white supremacist. The left cancels, the right kills. Hmmm.
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  1113. Biggest myth going. No modern democracy has ever prevented a dictatorship with an armed uprising. Doesn’t happen. The real threat to democracy is violent right wing, per jan 6.
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  1114.  @1stsampan  like I said no modern democracy
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  1115.  @1stsampan  none I can think of, which is why guns as deterrent for dictatorship is myth.
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  1116.  @1stsampan  that can all be accomplished with strict gun laws. I grew up with guns, but the negatives of easy access are a cancer at this point. They’re vying with car accidents for leading cause of child mortality.
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  1117.  @1stsampan  check states w tough gun laws v those without, we’re not Jamaica or Mexico, we’re an industrialized superpower. We’re not going to agree on this, but something needs to change. Gun deaths have climbed right next to auto deaths for top killer of children. That’s not civilization to me.
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  1118.  @1stsampan 9 of top 10 murder states are Red. We're not gonna agree.
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  1119. I agree. No platform for space cadets.
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  1120. JP:”Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.” Is there empirical evidence for that, JP? Or for anything you ramble on about?
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  1121. Wow, so shocked that scamster prez’s son would join an election betting scam. Joins the list of things Americans really don’t need along with sports betting and crypto.
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  1122. Libertarians are conservatives fooling themselves, they talk 3rd party then vote right. I can name conservative governments around the world, but no libertarian ones because it’s fantasy just like utopian socialism.
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  1123. Not a chance to win, but could help the soon to be convict. Narcissism is killing us.
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  1124. There’s no free market without socialist support and no socialist state without free enterprise.
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  1125. Cryptocurrency is a good idea? So far seems great for scammers and criminals. He’s also in conflict with every president since WW2 about being soft on Russia, a foreign policy disaster.
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  1126. ​ @Oldfarmlady  Unfortunately we can't throw all wars into the bin of 'forever wars'. Iraq and Afghanistan were both disasters that never, ever should have been started. Supporting Ukraine against our nuclear armed superpower enemy, a Russian dictatorship, is a policy that both Republicans and Democrats have followed since WW2. The result has been the fall of the USSR and freeing of Eastern Europe and many former Soviet states like Ukraine, Lithuania, Georgia etc. from communist tyranny. The same is true in the far East. We have troops in Japan and S Korea, two of the worlds strongest, most prosperous democracies, precisely to ward off Russian or Chinese aggression. If Kennedy (or Trump) were president and pulled our troops out of Europe, out of Japan, or gave up on Ukraine, we can almost be certain that the Russians would bully/attack Europe and the Chinese would take Taiwan and bully its neighbors. At that point we'd be faced with the real possibility of a WW3 nuclear disaster. The route to world peace lies in the spread of democracy and like it or not we guarantee much of the world's freedom. It's expensive, but it's a price we've been paying ever since WW2 to avoid WW3. Up until Trump, both parties had agreed on this issue. America is a rich country. I believe the problems we have at home can be solved if average American salaries go up, and CEO pay comes down.
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  1127. When you see 'Truth' in the title, run away.
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  1128. There's no capitalism without socialist safeguards, and no socialism without capitalist incentives. History is pushing us towards a more and more equitable balance.
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  1129. Yeah, in America diversity is our strength and a critical component to making us a superpower
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  1130. Elon v Trump for WWW Narcissist Heavyweight Title
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  1131.  @Zerradable  That is a very naive take on socialism since virtually everything that the federal government provides is socialism.
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  1132. Rapist in Chief
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  1133.  @chrisporter9397  You may not see it, but Reagan and JFK saw it clearly. Any advances by a tyrannical superpower is a net loss for democracy/peace, and the reverse. See the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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  1134. No dog eaters at the FDA thank you.
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  1135. You'll notice Elon doesn't do a whole lot of interviews anymore because he'd have to defend all the tin hat conspiracy theories he keeps spouting.
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  1136. The KKK called, they want their hood back.
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  1137.  @Libertariun  I simply disagree that the "Left" has turned on the Jews. In my view, antisemitism, like racism itself is more of a conservative disease.
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  1138.  @Libertariun  Left wing antisemitism is a drop in the bucket compared to same on the right. That’s Trump you see dining with neo-Nazis, not a Dem. Jewish conspiracy theories spread by Henry Ford types.
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  1139. Oval Room never so dirtied by its owner.
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  1140. They may not favor it, but there going to do it with American pressure.
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  1141.  @MountainMetal  See Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Yeesh.
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  1142.  @MountainMetal  You need billions of dollars to start a company? Yeesh.
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  1143. Thomas Sowell is a middling economist at best. He doesn’t publish for pros.
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  1144. American Stalin.
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  1145. Russian bot or just uninformed?
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  1146.  @neoglacius  Chefs don’t set gender policy, Ayatollahs, popes, senators and Supreme Court justices do. As for guys who have to go to Thailand to find young, compliant women…that’s pathetic.
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  1147.  @neoglacius Trump/Hitler ‘24
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  1148. Musk: A republic of high status males is preferable to democracy. Soros: I've seen Nazis at work, take your Apartheid bs and go home.
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  1149. A crazed mix of libertarianism, conspiracy thinking and useful ideas. He’s in the wrong party.
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  1150. The verbiage hides his lack of intellect.
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  1151. It’s a clown show, drunk incompetent for Sec D and inveterate election denier for AG. there’s no argument necessary
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  1152. The excuse of all promoters of sexism "We are wired that way". Really, please show a diagram of that.
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  1153. Boo hoo. Country music is doing just fine. 'American' values makes me think of Trump holding the Bible upside down.
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  1154. That's why universities are full of leftists, they keep using facts, those pesky liberals.
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  1155. Hilarious to see pseudo intellectuals throwing around ‘Marxism’. Peterson likely failed that class
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  1156. If the DOW hit 40k under Trump he’d be crowing.
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  1157. One knucklehead in the debate is more than enough.
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  1158. I’m more worried about ex-presidents trying to throw elections than I am about ‘hostiles’ entering the country, but it is sexier than insurrection.
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  1159. 2nd Amendment preventing govt tyranny is a myth. Show me a modern democracy where that happened.
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  1160.  @rnlrn1072  Trump/Satan ‘24
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  1161. Netanyahu funneled support their way.
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  1162. The state where woke goes to die and sex traffickers go for refuge. DeSantis not loving this blot, but he kissed the ring so he can ….
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  1163. A home for fans Putin and his pals in N Korea, China and Iran.
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  1164. You won’t see Musk sticking his neck for anyone other than himself. Narcissist tech bros hoping for libertarian dystopia
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  1165. You mean where states with high vax rates had less deaths than those without. That issue?
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  1166. The face of a lackey.
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  1167. Peterson's wisdom is conservative boilerplate. Guess what made America into the military, economic, cultural superpower it is?
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  1168. Cuz that’s a joke
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  1169. Exactly where RFK jr belongs riding in the back seat of the GOP clown car. Anyone who's followed his scattershot candidacy could have seen this coming. Friends of Putin united.
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  1170.  @ministryoftruth1451  I don't think we're going to convince on another. I could argue that you can prove scientific theories, whereas religious beliefs exist only in the human mind. I'm not a believer in atheism, which I find just as limiting as some religious beliefs. Nor do I subscribe to 'science can answer' everything, there's simply too much mystery. I just am not an adherent of 'God as a superhuman being' or of any one set of metaphysical rules (religion).
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  1171.  @ministryoftruth1451  Prove a religious belief? I studied Comparative Religion at Columbia taught by a Jesuit. He was quite clear that it wasn't a matter of proof; you simply choose to believe or not. I don't deny your belief, but I'll continue to see creation as a mystery until it's proven otherwise. It never will be, just more mystery.
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  1172.  @PFTome  I think we're hairsplitting. I know atheists who are not 'technically' agnostic, they're militaristic about their atheism (often people raised devoutly). And I guess I'm one of those 'spiritual, but not religious' folks that conservatives loathe.
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  1173. Like FOx or MSNBC, partisan news should just be labeled ‘opinion’, and stripped of the ‘news’ label.
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  1174. Trump losing with independents and Haley voters. Too much baggage. Make Jail Great Again.
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  1175. Walsh bringing up the caboose of intelligence
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  1176. That ain’t happenin
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  1177. Guns the #1 killer of US kids. A national disgrace.
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  1178.  @hatersgotohell627  Kids have the right to safety in school. The 2nd has no modern relevance. No modern democracy has ever been saved from tyranny by armed citizens. That’s a myth.
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  1179. How much damage to the planet will occur before you apologize for ignoring (facts or truths)?
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  1180. Ooops, Comer also lent his brother 200k. I’m sure that was legit cuz Republicans never cheat.
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  1181. I would expect anything more intelligent from a conservative ‘intellectual’.
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  1182. Oh Fox has Biden ahead, welcome to Poll World.
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  1183.  @MetanoiaCatholicism  Do you think the Ukraine poses a bigger threat to us than Putin and his nuclear arsenal? The sooner Russia and China lose their dictatorships, the sooner we can de-nuclearize.
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  1184.  @nitromartini1422 Provide evidence of that POV and try to be civil.
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  1185. Russia has nukes pointed our way; Ukraine is trying to become a democracy. Not a tough decision for most.
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  1186. Sure the left can be antisemitic. In the meantime righties (Carlson) are hosting Neo Nazis. The right is where bigotry thrives.
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  1187. Pitiful
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  1188. If you’re getting wound up about trans issue, you’re missing America’s real issues with child gun deaths and runaway billionaire greed. And that’s exactly what the GOP counts on because without your votes they can’t keep rigging the rules to increase the 70% of America’s wealth the top 10% already own.
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  1189. You don’t want advice on women from this idiot. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. Women are represented by chaos, men by competence. Never mind his stupidity on climate change, gun laws and his Putin admiration.
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  1190.  @Steven-f3d4n  SCOTUS has crossed the Rubicon. Look it up, youngster.
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  1191. Shillenberger selling his wares. History is cyclical as is politics.
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  1192. Religious extremism is the source of much of the worlds violence and it applies to nearly every religion.
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  1193. Wonder if they’ll cut Elon’s funds.
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  1194. When you’re sourcing Carlson you’ve hit rock bottom.
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  1195. Somebody voted for Trump thinking he’s was gonna help middle class white people, and it wasn’t liberals. Wave the woke flag and watch the suckers vote for the billionaire party.
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  1196. I’ve got an answer, tax billionaires and cut ceo pay and raise wages. Same old GOP nonsense.
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  1197. Adios
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  1198. Trump lite.
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  1199. Sowell just a conservative retread.
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  1200. Peterson would be fine if he stuck to motivating young people. Unfortunately he seems to have convinced himself that he’s some kind of polymath with wisdom extending across multiple areas. This outs him as a misogynist, Putin supporter, climate change denier, gun rights advocate and general purveyor of conservative nonsense.
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  1201. Misinformation is a polite euphemism for lying.
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  1202. Degrading Putin’s Russia is a net win for us. Degrading Russian, Chinese, N Korean power has always been US policy. How we won the Cold War and freed Eastern Europe, under both parties. Trump is the only president thick enough to go soft on Putin.
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  1203. Hope you’ve got coastal property
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  1204.  @MatthewBerginGarage  Pick and choose your science
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  1205.  @MatthewBerginGarage  Tell that to FL home owners as their flood insurance ramps up.
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  1206. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. JP’s ‘wisdom’.
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  1207. I pray we can survive four years of this, especially Trump's blatant ignorance of geopolitics. I will consider us lucky if he doesn't back us into a stupid hot war.
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  1208. He won’t be trying to make the SEC more efficient, cuz they’re suing him for Twitter deal failures.
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  1209. How to end up in the Romanian big house.
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  1210. Check his pov on the Ukraine before you anoint him world leader. More like another Putin flunky.
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  1211. I sure remember how many Americans died from Covid under your felon.
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  1212. Fire some people, I need more cash.
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  1213. Boo hoo. Safe space for incels
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  1214. Why isn't he getting more media attention? Maybe it's the crackpot "Prozac causes mass shootings" thinking.
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  1215. Boo hoo. Poor investor class. Capitalism is broke, 10% of Americans hold 70% of the wealth.
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  1216. We need to tax Elon back into millionaire land. He's find doing what he does, we don't need him as a 'philosopher'.
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  1217. Texas is a much better home for tin hat conspiracy mongers.
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  1218. Rubio did a 180 on this like all Trump’s cronies. He knows better than to suck up to dictatorships.
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  1219. Maher has become one of those crotchety old comics.
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  1220. I understand this may be a problem, but I question whether or not this has changed much over time.
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  1221. Kennedy is a bad stop history or he would remember that our policy of containment against Russia, China helped bring down the USSR, free half of Europe and still protects Taiwan, Korea and Japan from Chinese aggression.
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  1222. May is the operative word here.
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  1223. The rich get richer. Citizens United, etc.
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  1224. Yeah, we’re tired you talking about woke culture too.
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  1225.  @LD_92  What’s his position? They named a nobody to ‘run’ DOGE do Elon would be unaccountable. You just traded one unelected bureaucrat for another. Not to mention his businesses that do business with the federal government. Tesla oversight, contracts with Space X?
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  1226. Immigration can happen to fast, but the US disproves the idea. We’re a military, economic and cultural superpower because of our multiculturalism. But the Trump candidacy explains white fears of becoming a minority.
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  1227.  @ps603  Elon’s the one with abandoned kids from multiple marriages.
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  1228.  @digitalnomad9985  He's suboptimal in every sense except making money.
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  1229.  @NeroontheGoon  Ages 1-19. And if it's #2 or 3, still ridiculous compared to the rest of the industrialized nations.
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  1230.  @brownhermit1399  pure sophistry. Look at all of western Europe. Gun ownership is a cult, one which reinforces the need for more guns because of all the guns we already have. I don’t see criminals in mass shootings, I see unhappy young men with easy access to lethal firepower.
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  1231. Rant on. America has a mixed economy, like most of the industrialized world.
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  1232. Billionaires love tax cuts cuz they need more money.
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  1233. Hilarious, just watch pro religious SCOTUS bypass every precedent.
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  1234. Conspiracy theorist, anti science candidate complains when cancelled.
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  1235.  @BigHomieSteveTheMetalHead  Not the left banning books, denying climate change, storming the capital, propping up the billionaire class.
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  1236. See if there’s any fat in NASA’S budget, oops that’s Elon’s pay check.
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  1237. Musk the superhero of conspiracy world
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  1238. Starting with Trump for attempting to overthrow an election.
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  1239. It’ll be great for billionaires and millionaires, not the rest of the flat tax suckers. What happened to whining about the deficit? Tariffs gonna pay that bill? Hilarious.
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  1240. Britain has OFCOM, a policeman of media misinformation. We need it.
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  1241. If there's a topic other than 'boys learning responsibility' you can be sure JP will have the wrong end of it.
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  1242. I’d like to see your proof that most billionaires support Dems. You may be correct, but since GOP is always cutting taxes for the wealthy, it seems unlikely.
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  1243. Women haven’t reached anything close to equality, but everyone’s whining about men’s rights. Last time I looked the worlds religions, most governments and a vast percentage of corporations were run by men. Load of rubbish.
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  1244.  @loganblackwood2922  I see a lot of anecdotal claims. Men get no safety net?! Slither, you mean sliver, of men in power; 66% of elected governmental jobs, 75% of Fortune 500 CEOs, leaders of most religions. If women have so much power, how did Roe get overturned, why are conservatives trying to get rid of no fault divorce? Why aren’t there better childcare policies? As for justice system, why do thousands of rape cases never get prosecuted? Sexual harassment cases are a recent improvement. Before that it was just don’t talk about it.  What ideologues on your side fail to realize is that macho culture is what drives successful high male suicide rates, men simply don’t seek out therapy because it’s seen as a sign of weakness. The less macho posturing, see Trump/Vance/Mike Johnson, the better society for all.
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  1245.  @loganblackwood2922  75% of Fortune 500 CEOs, 66% of elected officials and heads of most religions are male, this is not a sliver of the population. And your contention that they fair better in court may be true in child custody cases, although I'm not sure it is. In criminal cases, rapes are vastly under investigated/prosecuted, sexual harassment is relatively new. So no. The safety net is available to all, that's nonsense. The problems men face are because of our longstanding societal pressure for men to be tough. They don't seek out mental health for that reason and end up committing suicide successfully at higher rates. So the problem is macho culture, not feminism, which is trying to diminish that.
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  1246.  @loganblackwood2922  Men get no social services. Do you have any idea how many rapes go unsolved, unprosecuted, the level of domestic abuse. And men in power are not a sliver, they're 3/4 of Fortune 500 CEOs, 66% of elected officials and the heads of most religions. You're rambling, fact free rant is the epitome of 'ideological."
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  1247. Boo hoo. Can’t do the time? Don’t do the crime.
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  1248. Ramaswamy’s would sell his soul for votes. Climate change a hoax? Defund the FBI? A brown man running in the KKK party.
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  1249. This may be true in the UK, but a younger country built on multicultural foundations, the US has prospered because of multiculturalism.
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  1250. Go ahead and watch it. Just remember guns are #1 killer of kids, not pedophiles.
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  1251. Gold, no gold, if it really mattered someone smarter than the current leader would have checked. It’s a pr stunt.
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  1252. Kennedy’s conspiracies are a joke and so are his foreign policy chops. No president since WW2 has gone soft on China or Russia, which is how we helped bring down the USSR. Only Kennedy and MAGA believe appeasing Russia is a sane policy.
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  1253. The Bible? No thanks.
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  1254. The same people who gave us the KKK and lynchings.
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  1255. Yeah what could go wrong if Drumpf makes the government his personal fiefdom.
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  1256. Conservative dogma that has failed miserably. We backed Netanyahu and that policy brought more war, predictably. Hanson is always wrong and demonstrates why academia leans liberal.
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  1257. Tell it to the citizens of Hong Kong or Taiwan, or Google China intimidating American Chinese.
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  1258. Don't need to merge the GOP with anyone, they'e already fascists
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  1259. The US, the world’s military, economic and cultural superpower is built on multiculturalism. Kisin is a political simpleton.
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  1260.  @schurlbirkenbach1995 That’s hilarious
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  1261. Blah blah blah
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  1262. Mediocre economist carrying water for libertarians. Other wisdom from Sowell, “Obama worst prez ever’. He must’ve forgot about W’s phony war.
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  1263. Never mind election fraud, climate change, the hollowing out of the middle class, let's worry about the Muslim takeover of 2500.
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  1264. Putin shaking in his boots over Trump’s blabber.
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  1265. Musk supports authoritarian nationalism wherever it is, this case India. Needs to live in Russia for a while.
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  1266. Quit bellyaching, if you’d been a real contender you’d have run against Biden as a Dem.
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  1267. Climate denial not helping Mr VDH
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  1268. Garland was soft on Trump.
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  1269. Ever wonder why America is primary economic, military and cultural superpower? Yeah, multiculturalism.
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  1270. Bernie yes, defund the police makes no sense until the world is at peace. We're not there yet.
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  1271. Prevalent in the financial industry too.
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  1272.  @brucetucker4847  Also practiced on Wall Street.
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  1273.  @lukerichardson2404  I don’t think my telling you he’s a dealer in conspiracy nonsense is going to convince you. He also claimed to be anti war ie against supporting Ukraine v Russia (an extreme foreign policy blunder that JFK and RR would never condone), then said he did support Israel’s war. That smacks of opportunism to me, the opposite of integrity.
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  1274. Someone doesn't know Musk very well if they think he's gonna part with much cash. He's just like the Don, he's in it for himself.
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  1275. Sky News? Conservative babble. Women have gone to far? What about men? Bring back the good old days? Good luck turning back the clock on feminism.
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  1276. Brazil did what we should have.
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  1277. Unless you were a victim of COVID following Trump’s advice not to vax despite his own vax (just like DeSantis).The party of hypocrisy.
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  1278.  @ahG7na4 In English, what's a shlib?
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  1279.  @ahG7na4  So you’re an anti-imperialist libertarian?
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  1280. Not feminisms job. Men are in charge in government, business and religion. What have they done?
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  1281. The only drift towards totalitarianism right now is from conservatives willing to ignore legitimate elections. But keep spinning the red scare.
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  1282. JP the idiots genius.
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  1283. What about-ism brought to you by Shell and Chevron.
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  1284. Trump 2024. Whupped once, let's go for 2.
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  1285. America paid reparations in the form of 1/2 million acres of prime East coast real estate to former slaves immediately after the war. Then Lincoln died and the land was taken back.
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  1286. Elon is a sign of what billionaire means. I don't care if I lose money, it doesn't matter to me.
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  1287. Keep selling the hate Kisin, the only ones fooled are the ignorant
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  1288. Stossel’s simplistic take on every issue from the right wing pov does no one any favors. Economic growth is the magic bullet if you belong to the cult of the ‘free market’. For those with a little more intelligence, it’s obvious that the Earth’s resources aren’t unlimited, and that the concept of unlimited growth is in opposition to the laws of physics.
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  1289. Defund the FBI, raise the voting age, bail on the Ukraine, climate change a hoax. Vivek trying to out stupid Trump.
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  1290. Never trust a man with 3 names. VDH is a scholar of ancient history; all his punditry on modern politics is sheer right wing dogma. I'll give Trump credit if he can secure peace in Ukraine without selling out and peace in the middle east, which he screwed up the first time.
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  1291. Cryptocurrency, the shiny new scam on the block.
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  1292. Trump thrives on ignorance- they’re eating cats and dogs.
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  1293. "a set of attitudes and ways of behaving stereotypically associated with or expected of men, regarded as having a negative impact on men and on society as a whole." Oxford English Dictionary. Not complicated.
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  1294. Mearsheimer is a philosophical contrarian, one who doesn’t believe in the advancement of global democracy. Surprised he doesn’t already have a job in the nincompoop administration.
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  1295. Fox News couldn't make money in UK because you're required to fact check there. If we don't remove "News" from Fox, people inclined to the right and those who tumble there accidentally are forever trapped in the 'conspiracy' hole. Without a shared reality there's nothing to compromise on.
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  1296. Rogan et al are influential only to the extent that their listeners are poorly educated.
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  1297. Hey we have a mixed economy, probably will for a long time. Revolution? That ain’t happening. We will have more socialism because…homelessness, billionaires buying elections etc, but capitalism will always have its place.
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  1298. Then I guess we can’t afford tax cuts for billionaires
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  1299. While this may be a problem in older, more monoculture nations, America is a military, economic and cultural superpower because we’re a successful multicultural nation. An ex-Nazi built our space program, the Chinese built much of our first railroads, we have remnants of indigenous culture across the country, American music, a global phenomenon, is derived mainly from slavery, scientists have fled persecution worldwide and made us stronger for it.
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  1300.  gamingassassin6669  That all depends on your definition of masculinity. I like to do dangerous stuff-motorcycle, sky dive and I like most sports, but I don't whistle at women, don't push myself on them and treat them with respect. Men are still in charge of most of the powerful positions in the world; if their getting demonized, they must have earned it (Roe v Wade).
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  1301. Putin loves Trump and Elmo. All you need to know.
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  1302. Just another excuse for business as usual. thanks for nothing.
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  1303.  @GreyWolfLeaderTW  Since we help fund the Israeli Defense Force and also give aid to Arab countries we need an end to this civil war. That’s not gonna get fixed by racism from any quarter.
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  1304. Trump first, as always. Look at me issuing proclamations! Rename America Trumpland!
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  1305.  @JackieClayton-zz2rb  True with Dems, but the GOP has always been the party of the rich. Tax cuts at every administration, trickle down nonsense.
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  1306.  @JackieClayton-zz2rb  Yes both parties, but it's enshrined in GOP politics. Cut taxes for the rich, create loopholes, Trump/Musk currently want to disband the CFPB, a watchdog for predatory banking practices against average Americans.
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  1307. Here's the Deep State at work? Trump asks if we can get to Mars during his first term. No. What if I give you more money? No. Trump asks if he can cancel the late night tv show hosts mocking him. No. My interpretation of the Swamp is the cesspool of donor/lobbyist cash that flows into campaigns and decides legislation. While both parties partake, the GOP has written it into law in Citizens United.
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  1308. If Trump’s cabinet is what’s on offer instead of DEI, I know which too choose.
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  1309. What attack on faith? You mean the Christian nationalists preaching hate? Attacks on truth and science? You mean right wing conspiracy idiocy?
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  1310. Conservatives rooting for Putin. RR spinning in his grave.
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  1311. The cost of climate change denial is high.
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  1312. RFKjr might have stood for something once; now he's just another conspiracy monger trolling for votes from wherever he can them. Consistency? Don't look for that. No to Ukraine war support, yes to Israel war support.
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  1313. A safe space for ignorance and denial. Thanks again Stossel.
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  1314. Kennedy running as Everyman is definitely a con. Kicked out of prep school but still got into Harvard. Running against pretty much everything the Kennedys stood for, but pretending to carry the torch.
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  1315. She's right. But to be balanced, the Arab world has got some serious civil rights issues of its own and has long used Israel as a bogeyman to silence their own opposition.
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  1316. He can start by exposing his own fraud, the books are getting cooked at doge, if you can find the books.
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  1317. Victor wearing the classic fedora, but still spouting nonsense. He himself has argued against isolationism, now he’s just like every other right wing media bootlicking mouthpiece. Trump caving to Russia, something no other US president has ever done, makes the world a more dangerous place. Reagan did the opposite and helped collapse the USSR, freeing millions of Eastern Europeans and former Soviet republic citizens like the Ukrainians. Idiotic and extremely dangerous.
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  1318. Hilarious. Giving Israel everything it wants is ‘masterful negotiating’? Someone never picked up a history book.
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  1319.  @sunshine6522  History
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  1320. @ Palestinians have been fighting for their share of land for longer than you’ve been alive. So no, not good for them. Not good for America because we’re just seen as enemies of Islam? That’s how 9/11 happened, why we all have to go through TSA now. Show me how it’s good for either us or them.
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  1321.  @sunshine6522  Remember 9/11, why we all have to go through TSA now? Because the Muslim world hates us. Well stripping Palestinians of their land guarantees more of that. And giving Ukraine up to Putin is even worse. Trump has forgotten that American military might brought down the USSR and freed Eastern Europe. You think the Russian's and Chinese aren't licking their lips over this nitwit.
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  1322. ​ @sunshine6522  Google why did 9/11 happen. There was no TSA before that.
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  1323. @ Find out what caused 9/11
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  1324. Schellenberger angling for a spot on Fox
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  1325.  @qwerty6574  Whales have become a danger. They're sinking yachts in off Gibraltar. Climate denial is a sad way to make a living.
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  1326.  @qwerty6574  Hate ‘em.
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  1327. Yay, a comeback for racism sexism and general stupidity. Kissing Putin’s ring, tariffs, renaming the globe. Trump’s new mantra is we’re going broke, not woke.
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  1328. Kisin is ill prepared for intellectual discourse.
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  1329.  @xr4572  I"m talking bigotry against Muslims. You pretending that doesn't happen. Is Hinduism in danger of losing traditions? To who?
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  1330. Please tell me on what planet this 'honest media source" exists.
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  1331. Rfk is loony enough to debate himself.
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  1332. He’s on Fox, must be trustworthy.
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  1333. Randy’s an isolationist, the same policy that led to WW 2. Russia under Putin is one of our biggest threats, one we spend zillions to defend against. Any chance to weaken Putin is a step closer to making Russia a democracy and saving us those zillions. It’s pay now or pay more later.
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  1334. Hope all the subscribers bail. I would. It should be his twitter/x/whatever. Guess who really benefits from 'personal liberties and free markets'? People with gargantuan monopolies.
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  1335. The right built the FBI. Didn’t them whining when it was movie stars and MLK getting the sharp end. Hilarious.
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  1336. Thiel much like Musk has a disdain for women, democracy and grew under apartheid, which seems to have shaped his medieval worldview.
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  1337. He’s right at home on the GOP lies-r-us station.
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  1338. @VOTEBLUE24 Precedent, and any sense of moderation, is out of style.
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  1339. RFK brings very little to the table, a mish mash of left and right positions, anti science, soft on Ukraine. The negatives far outweigh the positives.
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  1340.  @TURK_182  Yeah, I've played this game before. If you've drunk the kool aid, just remember you're signing a bullet for every kid that dies from one, just so you can pretend a gun's gonna keep you safe from Uncle Sam. Citizens in modern democracies have never risen up to defend themselves from tyranny. Gun mythology.
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  1341.  @stephenwolf5302  You want to split hairs about fully auto, but when you support unlimited gun rights, you're supporting the #1 killer of American kids. All supposedly to fight a nonexistent 'tyrannical' threat.
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  1342.  @stephenwolf5302  again?
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  1343.  @stephenwolf5302  What is an untethered gun worshipper
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  1344. Deploying troops domestically? Pretty much the definition of fascism.
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  1345. Forbes ‘Breaking News’ looks like conservative fever dream.
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  1346. Insane in the membrane
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  1347. Who’s gonna pick vegetables and do the dirty work?
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  1348. Let’s see, we don’t want to be dependent on foreign companies, especially China for microchips. Both parties agreed on it, but once again bloated ego knows better because it didn’t happen on his watch. Stupid and selfish don’t begin to describe Trump’s faults.
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  1349.  @aspensulphate  Would you be so cavalier if 97% of mds told you you had cancer?
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  1350. Libertarianism is a fantasy, just the political opposite of socialist utopia. Trump’s amphibian, you think think he’s gonna drain the swamp? Hilarious.
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  1351. The GOP seem to have forgotten they’re the ‘law and order’ party. Not so happy when there boy got multiple indictments. And hey Jim, Wray was appointed by the Donald. The clown show continues.
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  1352. Bill's his own brand of libertarian, ie grumpy guy.
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  1353. Schellenberger cashing in with conservatives. What, no problems in red states?
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  1354. Oh Snap!
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  1355. Netanyahu is using the Israeli people
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  1356. I hope Kisin's got seaside real estate.
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  1357. Endorsements come from the opinion page, it’s literally their job to have opinions. Clueless billionaires run amok.
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  1358. Laugher
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  1359. US is built on immigration, Europe has deeper history of monoculture
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  1360. JP ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. King of the incels, guessing he had some rough dating experiences
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  1361. Called Obama the worst president ever. Really? W gets a pass despite shedding America blood for Iraqi 'freedom'. Sowell's a mediocre economist an apologist for racism and sexism whose every opinion is based on conservative/libertarian dogma. Proof positive that 'conservative intellectual' is an oxymoron.
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  1362. Take away the name and you’ve got an inexperienced conspiracy dingbat; the latest idiocy: Covid was targeted against whites and blacks, and not Jews and Chinese. Really?
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  1363. Schellenberger doing what he does best, shilling for conservatives.. He’s a pundit, not a journalist
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  1364. We already paid, but then reneged. General Sherman gave land from Charleston to Daytona Beach to ex-slaves so they could feed themselves after the Civil War. president Johnson took it right back. That land today would be worth 500 billion.
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  1365. Pretty hilarious when black American ‘scholar’ disses multiculturalism
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  1366. Private schools fight equality
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  1367. The best thing you can say about Gaetz: He wasn't convicted of child trafficking.
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  1368. Let’s call a spade a spade, Elon doesn’t like democracy, he’s reposted someone else’s daft tweet that we’d be better off in a republic run by ‘high status males’. How do you get this stupid about Western Civilization’s crowning achievement?
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  1369. Interesting that this talking head picked Soros to attack instead of Harlan Crow, an actual puppet master.
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  1370. Take a look at the history of race relations, women’s rights etc. You can slow down civil rights, but defeat it? No.
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  1371. Trump is Fox’s cash cow.
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  1372.  @olsaffa7679  Lincoln gave half a million acres of Georgia, S Carolina and Florida to 40k slaves. Taken back when Johnson was president. That land is worth roughly 1/2 a trillion today.
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  1373.  @mattgeiger9988  Wages v productivity flatlined from the ‘80s til very recently. It isn’t just inflation, it’s wages and lack of wealth. There is an imbalance in wealth that was not as pronounced when I was growing up way back. I know some very rich people; they don’t like inflation, but they don’t worry about it. They still jet off on 50k vacations whenever they choose.
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  1374.  @mattgeiger9988  I can see that inflation means more to you than the losses of the middle class, the fact that CEO pay is now 300x the average salary. And what would the economy look like without stimulus. As I remember everyone was screaming recession.  Let’s be clear about which party cares about average Americans and balancing the budget; it’s not the GOP. Repeated tax cuts favoring the rich add to the debt and do very little for middle America. Shrinking the IRS, a GOP favorite, also makes it harder to audit the rich. I think Obama and Clinton were too cozy with W Street, which hurt middle class, but Clinton balanced the budget.
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  1375.  @mattgeiger9988  First, there is no 'just about everything is up'. Inflation is still up, but not in every sector and not at the level your claiming. Second, it seems that you're worried about inflation, but not about the rest of the major problems with our economy, and I take that to mean that you're conservative and just want to stick to conservative talking points without facing the big picture. Elon Musk laid of 12k workers and now wants a 50 bil raise. That's an example of a system out of whack.
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  1376.  @AmericanThunder  You think they’re teaching this fool in college? YouTube for MAGA heads.
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  1377. I’m more worried about homegrown Christian nationalists than ISIS.
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  1378. Hard to imagine America could have a more ignorant, more selfish leader than the present one.
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  1379. Historic?
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  1380. Vivek’s on a mission to suck up to whoever’s holding a mic. MAGA is a barrel full of narcissists.
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  1381. Bold measures? You mean Hesgeth? You mean firing Inspector Generals that he himself appointed? Pardoning cop assaulters? Promoting neo-Nazi Elon into government so he can sign his own checks in the name of 'efficiency'. VDH may be a fabulous scholar of ancient military history, but he's got a poor grasp of modern politics other than to babble GOP dogma. Let me see Trump bring down consumer prices. Oh, he already walked that back. But I'll bet he gets a tax cut for him and the billionaire mafia.
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  1382. Ego and cash
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  1383. Kennedy is not much more than a mini Trump, with a mish mash of policies, conspiracy theories and worst of all an isolationist view of foreign policy. He’s right where he belongs on the outside looking in.
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  1384. You mean like denying climate change? That kind of ‘truth’.
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  1385. Elon seems to have inherited grandfathers racist views.
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  1386. Code without enforcement is just a PR move by crooks. .
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  1387. Like to see DeNiro throw down with Donald.
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  1388. We want efficiency, but we're gonna keep it secret. That sounds mighty familiar.
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  1389. When someone says ‘bubba’ they’re talking about you.
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  1390. Republicans calling 'hypocrisy' need to remember they're living in a glass house.
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  1391. The great triangulator
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  1392. Tucker has already sold his soul for ratings. Who’s next, Kim Jong Il? Maybe he can seance with Jeff Epstein.
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  1393. He should know, just parrots a steady stream of conservative dribble. Tough for conservatives when facts lean liberal.
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  1394. Stossel bs - ing again. Check growth of GDP vs stagnation of wages over last 50 years.
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  1395. Boo hoo. If he’d been a real democrat he might have had a chance, but he sold out to conspiracy junkies.
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  1396. Old crabby white guys having meltdowns.
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  1397. Absurdity. Need an AR? To prevent govt tyranny, hordes of zombies? Helping make guns the #1 killer of American kids. Well done.
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  1398.  @MasterVideoStudios  Is #2 a win for you?
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  1399.  @MasterVideoStudios  prove it son
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  1400. Pretty weak Mr. Kisin. Feminists are scared of strong men? It's a classic, worn out trope. And the inverse is also very easy to posit. Why are men afraid of strong women?
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  1401. America has a mixed economy, there is no socialist utopia nor a capitalist one.
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  1402. Peterson: “Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.” Thanks for your ‘insights’ JP.
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  1403. Limit election spending, overturn Citizens United (GOP/SCOTUS) publicly funded. Shorter campaigns. Who will hate that? The GOP, big business and billionaires.
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  1404. This firing aside, academia needs to tighten the standards on plagiarism in general. Fiascos like this one simply give ammunition to the right in its quest to dumb down the population, call science into question and push disinformation.
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  1405. The only drift towards totalitarianism in the US is on the right. The GOP has substantially abandoned democracy in favor of anarchy. And guess where the patriarchy lives? On the right. And it’s sheer nonsense to pretend that socialism is communism when everything our government does for us is fundamentally socialist. There are no conservative intellectuals because relying on ‘traditional’ beliefs is not a valid basis for debate.
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  1406. What MTG knows about history and foreign policy would fit in a thimble. Yeah let's cave to Russia. R Reagan is spinning in his grave.
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  1407. Maybe Will is right, but it's a bit early to be calling it a 'win'. What if Putin and Trump decide to install a puppet? Never mind the fact that Ukraine loses billions in this transaction, money they could have used to rebuild.
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  1408. Big Gretch would pull the feathers off Trump. She wouldn’t bother with Carlson.
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  1409.  @DadSavesAmerica  Let’s put it this way. Other economists don’t read him, his readers are us average non-economists. As for his political credentials, he never, never veers from conservative talking points. Example: “Obama was the worst president ever.” Good soundbyte, ludicrous logic. Bush jr started a phony war and got Americans killed to build democracy in Iraq. Sowell’s scholarship is almost always tainted. As for his ‘core principles’, he’s a libertarian, an economic philosophy on a par with utopian socialism.
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  1410.  @lairdey  Are you defending libertarianism as a viable economic philosophy? Or are you simply spouting ideology? Show me an ‘empirical’ proof that libertarian policies work?
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  1411.  @lairdey  America like most developed nations runs a mixed economy. It’s not socialism and it’s not small government free market. There are no functioning libertarian economies in the world, nor socialist ones. It’s a mix.
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  1412.  @lairdey  Oh I’ve heard that conservative ruse before. They’re just ‘social programs’ until an election comes along. Then Obamacare is called socialism, welfare, food stamps etc. Then politicians like Trump and ideologues like Sowell start hollering Harris is a communist, everything is Marxist .   There’s no confusion, there’s just a conservative fantasy that a ‘free market’ can operate without government oversight, without ‘social programs’. Just as much a fantasy as socialist utopia.
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  1413.  @lairdey  As the saying goes, this ain't my first rodeo. I've heard that little maneuver before, many times. Social programs aren't socialism...until election rolls around or Dems try to pass more social programs, then its Trump calling Harris communist, the GOP, pundits like Sowell calling Obamacare socialist, Marxist ad infinitum. That's just semantics and politics. As I said before, there are no purely 'free market' economies, nor purely socialist ones. Libertarians don't even like the Fed, which is hardly a social program or socialism.
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  1414. It’s been done. The science is in. Go back to your space vids.
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  1415. Don’t bet the house on it.
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  1416. Don't hold your breath JP, you'll be a footnote long before elite universities collapse.
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  1417. Gun bros don’t give a …. about American kids. Obviously.
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  1418.  @JesseBrown-qf6zp  That is an empty phrase, a conservative evasion for action, ie climate change is inevitable so let’s ignore it, or dealing with racism just creates more problems so let’s ignore it, etc etc. It’s particularly handy if you’re already privileged.
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  1419.  @orangeporridge1553  That set of reasoning could be applied to right wing violence, book banning, voting restrictions, racism etc.
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  1420. Conservative gobbledygook packaged as wisdom. Anyone with a thimble of sense can see that the highest achievement of Western Civ. , democracy. Is under attack from the right.
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  1421.  @lloydbraun6026  you’re right about Weinstein who seems a run of the mill Covid alarmist, but a quick look at Rubin’s feed shows exactly where he stands, guests like Murray, Carlson, Peterson and Ted Cruz aren’t centrists.
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  1422. Guns are a far bigger danger to American children, #1 killer.
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  1423. @peppepizza7839 Government, religion and Fortune 500 CEOs still dominated by men in high percentages. Sorry, guess you're not one.
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  1424. @peppepizza7839 De nada
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  1425. @peppepizza7839 You're English is as sharp as your wit.
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  1426. I'm glad we have this YouTube channel. Democracy requires it. But what a load of false equivalency nonsense. China would indeed like to be a bigger player on the international stage. There's just one problem: tyranny. Democracies are not keen on taking 'advice' or 'leadership' from a government that has zero respect for civil rights. China's current alliance with Putin and N Korea tells you all you need to know about what China approves of. There is room for criticism of American foreign policy, but pretending that China cares about humanitarian causes is a cruel joke.
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  1427. Can’t win, but can get some more pr. Another narcissist in the field.
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  1428. Another conspiracy touting narcissist. I’ll pass.
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  1429.  @jsnip6720  it doesn’t exist. Prozac causes shootings? Pure fairy tale.
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  1430. Last time many didn’t get their payoffs. Should be an immediate penalty for even thinking about paying for votes.
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  1431. I don’t notice great success in UK or Israel with parliamentary system.
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  1432. Brought to you by fracking billionaires. Guessing they ain't liberals
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  1433. True, but then you have to buy in to the conservative mantra of do nothing.
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  1434. Tell us how you feel
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  1435. Yeah, but Trump has power, he's just failing to use it. Failing catastrophically.
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  1436. As usual, Sowell making a safe space for bigotry. Right where he belongs, drifting around on Youtube.
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  1437. How you gonna pay for those cuts? Lemme guess, on the backs of poor Americans.
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  1438. Tulsi grifting the right
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  1439. Thomas Sowell is a third rate academic making bank on pushing conservative dogma. A smart man for bigots.
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  1440. What Dems knew a long time ago. Crazy and crazier.
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  1441. Too scared? Kisin starts, briefly, on the right foot, then proceeds to put that proverbial foot in his mouth. Monoculturalism? A euphemism for racism. What's the worlds most powerful country economically, culturally and militarily? The US. Why? Hint, it's not a monoculture. This is one of the reasons academia leans left; conservatives start with belief and try to build an argument. They almost always lose. For intstance, one could argue that China has monoculture, a strong economy and military, but... no one is importing Chinese culture, certainly not on the scale they import American culture.
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  1442. You’re living in a dream world. Small government guarantees corruption.
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  1443. It is not in Netanyahu’s personal interest to make peace, much like Donald Trump he needs to remain in power to avoid justice.
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  1444. Avoid Prager and pick up some books.
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  1445. Welcome to billionaire dystopia. Cuts taxes, cut services and let Musk and Trump share the spotlight. What could go wrong?
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  1446. Where did DeSantis, Vance, Hawley etc go to school? Ivy League. Ya’ll got your own elites, stop frontin.
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  1447. I’m Irish American, my grandfather had to move out of MA because of prejudice. He did just fine making a living in Dallas. Might’ve been tougher if he’d been black.
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  1448. Nice apology for Trump's appeasement. As a scholar of military history, you know better, just towing the party line for your maga fans.
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  1449. Lost respect when he blamed mass shootings on Prozac, autism on vaccines, went stupid on Ukraine.
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  1450. Asinine. America is the reigning economic, military and cultural superpower precisely because of its multicultural society.
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  1451. Elon never saw a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. Put him in government, then he can decide how much to pay himself for Space X.
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  1452. Libertarianism is a fantasy of the right like utopian socialism is a fantasy of the left.
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  1453. That makes sense. He just fired 12k employees then asked for a massive raise. He'll make a great advisor, long as your a billionaire.
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  1454. He found a new gig shilling conservative gobbledygook. He’s rich, cuz there’s a sucker born every minute - PT Barnum.
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  1455. Peterson is ok motivating young men, the rest is garbage. Climate denial, Putin support, misogyny etc.
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  1456. There’s on fact you cannot ignore, wealth is flowing to the top. Something may trickle down, but it’s just a trickle.
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  1457. Cheney supports Harris, but this ‘scholar’ supports Trump. So much for real patriotism.
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  1458.  @AvidiaNirvana  Appointed? Not sure what you’re arguing? Bush and Cheney and Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld had the genius idea to bring democracy to the Middle East, unsurprisingly it was a failure, and unlike Ukraine or Israel they used American GIs. Trump started no wars , but looking weak to Putin was massively stupid. Vlad would love to see Don back on the throne.
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  1459.  @AvidiaNirvana  The GOP
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  1460. I’ve got beach front property for Lomborg to buy and then try to insure
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  1461. Sowell giving his sad version of scholarship as an excuse for American racism. Conservative dogma. America once paid reparations after the Civil War, roughly 400,000 acres of prime south eastern US real estate to ex-slaves. Then we took it back. Sowell also called Obama the 'worst' president ever, a sure sign of partisan overkill. W started an optional war and got Americans killed for nothing in Operation Iraqi Freedom, just to name one worse president.
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  1462. Alien lizards men are knocking at the door
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  1463. Chinese repression will be a losing proposition. See history of repression.
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  1464. The GOP has made ignorance, greed and destruction of government a virtue. It won’t end well. VDH carrying water for the corporate takeover. Help the average American? Good luck with that.
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  1465. Jim Jordan is the perfect example of GOP hypocrisy. Hunter convicted, but DOJ is weaponized? “Law and order ‘ party happy until a Republican has to pay the cost.
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  1466. History is cyclical.
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  1467. Paul has either forgotten how isolationists like him were against fighting WW2 or he never knew. RR is spinning in his grave over this naive idiocy, along with JFK.
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  1468. A scam to benefit the few, like all scams, and the reason crypto bros poured money into GOP campaigns.
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  1469. One conspiracy, fake news president was more than enough. RFK can go back to the talk show circuit.
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  1470. DeSantis will not look good in history after all his climate denial.
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  1471. Incels r us
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  1472. He is definitely a miracle of stupidity
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  1473. Y’all and your gun rights are some sad stuff
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  1474. Thanks for adding all that 'free speech' to twitter Elon, like when you slandered Nancy Pelosi's husband. Free speech absolutists get to absolutism when they get called out for misinformation (also called lying, dishonesty). Elon loves his own myth.
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  1475. Peterson's brand depends on contrarianism
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  1476.  @whousa642  If something is common sense, JP will go the other way. Climate science, gun control, women’s rights, Putin, history etc.
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  1477. Hamas has got to go. And so does his former abettor Netanyahu.
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  1478. You can’t dismantle feminism anymore than you can Civil Rights. Sowell’s a predictable conservative hack.
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  1479. Trump's Valentine Card to Putin. The US built NATO to prevent WWIII. PIck up a history book. Reagan and JFK are spinning in their graves after going toe to toe with Russia.
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  1480. vDH is a military historian and is well aware of America's containment of Russia and China as policy for the last 75 years. He's just bootlicking and playing to the ignorant to pretend that Trump isn't destroying the fabric of geopolitical norms. Reagan beat the USSR, he didn't cave to it and millions of Eastern Europeans were freed, as were Ukrainians, Georgians etc.
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  1481. They’ve forgotten Reagan won the Cold War.
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  1482. same as it does when you're down in the bunker
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  1483. Serves Rubio right for sucking up to orange bobble head. How are we going to own Gaza? Pretty much Trumps dumbest idea yet and that’s a high bar.
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  1484. Musk is the same chicken hearted narcissist that Trump is. Stoke violence as long as your not sticking your own neck out.
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  1485.  @monkeysezbegood  we’ll see. The public is fickle and only MAGA has faith in drumph. RFK wasn’t supported by his family or the DNC because he’s a narcissist conspiracy monger who flip flops on a dime. Yes to Israeli military, no to Ukraine? No to gun reform? Half his campaign cash is GOP money. We’ve already had a nut job in the White House.
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  1486. Wow. Plenty of antisemitism right here. Seems to me that Trump dined with a neo_Nazi.
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  1487. Pinochet in Chile and Franco in Spain were both right wing fascists. There is no one size fits all definition of fascism.
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  1488. Go ahead and leave you tin hat narcissist.
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  1489. Right v left blabber
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  1490. Elon fires 12k workers, then demands astronomical raise. Elon loves free speech unless someone disses him or shorts his companies.
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  1491. It’s not feminism’s job to fix the world that men have fouled up. Man up guys.
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  1492. Narcissist clown show
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  1493. All these knee jerk attacks on socialism fail to note that our system is a blend of capitalism and socialism. Neither can exist with out the other. Get real.
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  1494.  @ExPwner  Here’s how it works. When conservatives don’t like something, say SS or the FDA, the SEC, they call it socialist. But when it suits them, it’s all part of capitalism. Conservatives are magical thinkers, see libertarianism for a perfect example.
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  1495. Dubious
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  1496. The miracle is that anyone would take advice or believe the nonsense this charlatan spews. No on climate action, no on gun law reform, yes to Putin, no to feminism, yes to racism, thinks socialism and communism are identical. Just a conservative mouthpiece with a pronounced ego.
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  1497.  @conelord1984  No libertarian has ever been elected president, although Ramaswamy is touting closing down the FBI (typically asinine). You have a very shallow understanding of how federal government works if you think it’s doing 1% of the work. The Fed, the SEC, the FDA, the FTC; you think a stock market or economy runs without oversight? That’s why libertarians don’t rule, nothing but fairy tales.
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  1498. I'd like to see what the subscriber list looks like. Dems will bail. It'll be his twitter.
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  1499. Reforms needed; Milei is a nut job.
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  1500. He should know, he’s one of the conspiracy knuckleheads dumbing down the nation.
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  1501. No more protesting anything, I guess. I was just about to protest Trump supporting Russia’s terrorist regime. Oh well, civil rights. No biggie.
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  1502. Men still control majority positions in business, government and religion. Have no clue what you base that claim on.
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  1503. Mearsheimer and Greenwald are famed for a revisionist view of world politics. American aggression is the cause of world conflict, according to these pundits. While there is some truth to that assertion, it avoids the big picture that the world will never be at peace as long as dictators rule superpowers. Russia has in fact lost this war already by failing to beat a much smaller adversary, proved its military ridiculously inept and its diplomacy in tatters. Some peace should be reached; there is no ‘winning’ possible by either side unless Trump completely caves. In the meantime, Ukraine has a nascent democracy, the real reason Putin is in Ukraine. Dictatorships are allergic to democracy, especially on their doorstep. See Georgia, Moldova and the courting of Eastern European right wingers.
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  1504. I’m sick of hearing about woke, especially while MAGA fools run roughshod over the constitution, democracy and civil rights. Thanks for nothing Greenwald.
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  1505. Presidents get far too much credit for the ups and downs of the economy. The current inequality has its roots at least as far back as Reagan when wages started flatlining against increasing productivity. Couple that with multiple, useless tax cuts from GOP presidents and you have a hollowed out middle class.
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  1506. A child driving a Ferrari.
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  1507. Multiculturalism is the future. Get used to it.
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  1508. Petersen way out of his lane, again.
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  1509. If the west is declining, the worst sign is conservative acceptance of violence, voter intimidation and outright insurrection to undermine democracy. Democracy is one if the not the chief accomplishment of western civilization.
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  1510. Stating the obvious. Genius.
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  1511. Let Trump and RFK compete for the conspiracy vote; don’t waste Biden’s time.
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  1512. Gee, never saw that coming. Mini egomaniac endorses major egomaniac
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  1513. There’s already a visa for investors innUS businesses, this is McTrumpy playing Let’s Make A Deal
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  1514. I’m not a fan of ideologies, says anti-feminist, white supremacist, climate denying, free market booster. Hey, that’s pretty much what the GOP thinks. Jordan’s gonna be shocked when he finds out.
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  1515.  @IskanderYacub  well then I'd rather be bullied by a woman, than shot or raped by a man
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  1516.  @julessantana643  explain to me the difference between feminism and ‘post modern’ feminism. ‘I think the idea of white privilege is reprehensible’. Petersen says white America can’t be blamed for racism, that whites just happen to be in the majority so it’s really just majority privilege. I’m a white American and that statement is a ‘reprehensible’ denial of US history. Climate alarmism is bs. 2 ft of rain in 24 hr storm in Ft Lauderdale, 1/3 of Pakistan went under water last year. If 95% of doctors said you had cancer, would you call that cancer alarmism. Your not a Republican/libertarian/‘independent’?
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  1517.  @Stanislav-i5s  You're grasp of American culture is skin deep
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  1518.  @Stanislav-i5s  America is a multicultural economic, military and above all cultural superpower. The danger to our democracy comes from nationalist, monoculture fantasists. Nationalism, patriarchy and monoculture are historic failures.
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  1519.  @Stanislav-i5s  America is a superpower economically, militarily and culturally because we're a country built on multiculturalism. Don't know where you're from but I bet 100 to 1 you're listening to American influenced music.
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  1520.  @julessantana643  Here’s JP quote: ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. There is no ‘post modern feminism’. The ERA hasn’t passed since its original inception in 1923. Men still hold strong majority positions of power in religion, government and business. You just parroted JP’s climate change evasion, despite overwhelming scientific proof and growing disaster debts. And the oil industry predicted it back in the ‘70s, but the GOP is on their payroll. I agree that life is not partisan, but todays MAGA/GOP is unrecognizable to my 68 year old experience.
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  1521.  @julessantana643  "Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination." JP. There is no such thing as 'post modern feminism', that comes from the same place that 'blacks have come far enough'. The ERA, first conceived in the 1920's still hasn't become part of the constitution, men still hold strong majority positions of power in religion, government (66%) and business (75% of Fortune 500 CEOS). Peterson has said that since Europeans conquered N America it is only right that they have privileges, which is just historical nonsense. He's also stated that Russia is merely protecting itself from Western degeneracy by invading Ukraine. No American president until Trump has ever gone soft on Russia, a policy resulting in the fall of the USSR and the freedom of half of Europe and the former soviet states. Backing down to tyrants is a fool's foreign policy. You simply parrot Peterson's climate change evasions, as if the science wasn't in, as if the debt and deaths for historic fires, floods and heatwaves weren't piling up. I"m 68. Reagan was president when the USSR fell, but I don't recognize this version of the GOP.
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  1522.  @IskanderYacub  Men still have substantial majority power in elected government positions, religion and CEOS of major corporations. The ERA hasnt become law since its conception in the 1920s. Cry me a river.
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  1523.  @julessantana643  "Post modern feminism' is a fantasy. Men still have dominant majority positions in elected government, religion and Fortune 500 corps. Abortion is going backwards, that's not post modern, that's antique Christian misogyny. And you parrot Peterson's climate denial, as he does by calling it alarmism, never mind all the science, devastating costs of historic floods, fires and hurricanes, the near impossibility of getting flood or fire insurance in much of the country. I"m 68, I don't recognize today's GOP, MAGA whatever it is. Going soft on Putin, which both Trump and Peterson have done is something no American president of either party has ever done.
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  1524.  @Stanislav-i5s  I will when you show me a monoculture nation as culturally rich as ours.
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  1525.  @Stanislav-i5s  look who’s evading
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  1526. Apparently Dad afraid of women in power
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  1527. Russia may ‘win’ thanks to Trump’s cowardice and vast ignorance, but if you imagine Mexico holding off the US army for 3 years you get an idea what a catastrophic loss Russia has already suffered in reputation, hardware and lives.
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  1528. Prozac causes shootings, flirty water causes gender dysphoria? Soft on Russia and China? Ego run amok.
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  1529. More deaths in unvaccinated states, read ‘conservative’ states. Keep peddling this bs.
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  1530. Like a techie version of Trump. Egos R Us.
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  1531. Elon is a tin hat conspiracy theorist whose ego has taken him off to cuckoo land.
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  1532. Native Americans, you sad excuse for a ‘scholar’.
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  1533.  @juzeus9  We agree they're not indians. I think I'm a lot more honest than Sowell, who's always shilling for conservatives, giving intellectual cover to racists and generally pretending he's selling history. This piece is a perfect example.
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  1534.  @juzeus9  Men commit (successful) suicide at higher rates than women (attempt more often) because they don’t seek out help. Alcohol and drug addiction. Why? Learned ‘toughness.’ Who pushes that ideal? MAGA. And since men dominate in positions of power across religion, business and government, I guess we also need more feminism to solve 'misandry'.
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  1535. That couldn’t happen at a real U.
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  1536. Elon looks just like every industrial titan who came before him. If he could call out the national guard against strikers, like they used to do, he’d be making the call. Some genius.
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  1537. The military is conservative by nature, so when multiple generals and advisors are using the f word, well…
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  1538. It’s on Fox all the time.
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  1539. He’s libertarian, maybe not far right, just kooky.
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  1540. The dire state of the union is down to conservatives throwing democracy out the window, all else is a smokescreen.
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  1541. Brooks has the unenviable job of trying to sell conservatism to the educated. What that amounts to is shilling for a bankrupt belief system.
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  1542. Keep shilling that free market cultism, it's never fattened the wallets of the working class in the past. Never. Trickle down is a fail.
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  1543. Sowell’s a die hard conservative. Fine if that’s what you’re buying, but don’t think he’s selling unvarnished history.
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  1544. JP ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. Such a caring human being.
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  1545. Cheapskate
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  1546. Sheer ‘I’m a tough guy” make believe. The last US troops in the area - 200 marines killed in one bomb attack in83.
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  1547. Calling corporations state entities is playing fast and loose with reality.
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  1548. Sowell is right where he belongs selling conservative dogma on tube.
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  1549. Show me a Russian immigrant, I'll show you a knee jerk conservative.
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  1550. Elon’s proof that capitalism is off the rails. When you can run businesses into the ground cuz your cash rich, the market is broken.
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  1551. File that under ‘who cares’.
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  1552. Good luck with the power grid.
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  1553. If it was as simple as this gent pretends, there would be no need for all the palaver. Like almost every economic issue, it ain’t. If Trump takes a hammer to China trade, everyone who’s not a millionaire (like this guy) is gonna feel it.
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  1554. Didn’t like Hunter cashing in on connections and I feel the same about Jared.
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  1555. Safe space for anti semites. Soros funds democracy around the world, a fact that cones seem to hate. That or his ethnicity or both.
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  1556. Keep voting for the billionaire party, they really care about the little guy.
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  1557.  @samcorolla4728  Citizens United is all yours
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  1558. Netanyahu and co want to annex West Bank settlements ie steal more Palestinian land. Trump's Netanyahu's lapdog, same as he is for Putin.
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  1559. The middle class is getting screwed by the GOP, the party of the rich and super rich. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling you, or themselves. It cost money to audit the rich and the GOP is always underfunding the IRS. Plus they passed Citizens United so the richer you are the more money can give anonymously to your candidate. Did I mention tax cuts for the rich or attacks on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is tasked with protecting consumers from predatory bank lending etc.? Hilarious nonsense you’ve got going here.
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  1560. Running one of the poorest, most polluted states in the US. Wonder if Kennedy gets corporate funding?!
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  1561. MAGA dug up a celebrity
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  1562. Trying to rig an election is not moral clarity
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  1563. What happened to eliminating waste?
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  1564.  @MichaelElias-q2z  If you lived in Finland or Estonia you might be able to answer that?
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  1565. @ History has shown that OUR music, if you mean democracy, is the best. The only places democracy doesn't exist is where it is forbidden. Check the history of 20th C to now, nothing but growth for democracy, shrinkage for dictatorships.
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  1566.  @Lovin_It  Sowell is an ideologue cloaked in cherry picked ‘scholarship’. A shill for right wing talking points. ‘Obama was the worst president ever.’ Really?
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  1567.  @chuckysmaria6466  Never mind most of the court cases, trying to overturn an election is treason and without SCOTUS writing him a free pass he might be where he belongs. Go ahead and spin it, it’s treason.  You think Trump cares about anything other than his own pockets and cheering crowds? Unless you’re quite rich, the Trump presidency will do more harm than good . Mass deportations = rising vegetable and fruit prices, possibly meat. Higher Tariffs on China, gonna cost everyone but the rich. He’s more likely to explode the budget than make it ‘efficient’. I will admit Clinton and Obama weren’t tough enough on Wall Street, but that’s nothing compared to the giveaway to the rich your about to witnesss. Oh, I also blame Dems for soft pedaling Clinton’s sexual predations.
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  1568.  @thisisme5487  I’m older than you; it started with Fox ‘News’ ie an alternate reality.
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  1569.  @thisisme5487  Where did it come from and what keeps it going? Phony, biased news. As a kid we had 3 news channels all reporting basically the same news. Now you’ve got people getting their news from clearly, biased and inaccurate sources, and that is where division is coming from. We need fact checking, otherwise we can’t agree on anything.
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  1570.  @thisisme5487  But you need to care about the origin, because if ‘news’ outlets keep lying, we’ll keep having extreme partisanship.
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  1571.  @emerald_echo  True, and that is a serious flaw in our society when money makes you a role model.
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  1572. Sowell just regurgitates right wing blather. An example ‘Obama was worst president ever.’ Guess he overlooked W starting a phony war and shedding American blood uselessly.
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  1573. The only thing debunked here is the idea that Sowell is some kind of genius, instead of just a regurgitator of conservative dogma.
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  1574. Sowell likes to pose as a scholar, but he’s just another right wing mouthpiece. Obama the worst president? W started a phony war, Nixon was impeached, Hoover was president during the depression.
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  1575. Make Jail Great Again
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  1576. Grow up people. Carlson admitted to lying about election results to boost ratings. In what universe is that ‘news’. MAGA/Fox etc have moved the goalposts so far right, center looks left. Only one thing will cure that. Losing.
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  1577. Moscow Marjorie
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  1578. Cry me a river
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  1579. No problem with crypto, just subject it to same rules as other investments. Oh, and add a tax for power usage.
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  1580. The right losing its collective mind as history marches on. Woke, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, climate action it’s all mainstream now.
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  1581. The right needs to be a little more careful using the word ‘hypocrisy’.
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  1582. When you have a 70 year conflict like Israel/Palestine, there is no 'good' guy.
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  1583. Reality check. Even the sane parts of GOP signed off.
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  1584. I have serious doubts that anything is different from a hundred years ago. Data?
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  1585. The irony is that Musk is underwritten by US taxpayers then making his own naïve foreign policy decisions. Billionaires gotta go.
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  1586. I don’t see anyone trying to immigrate to Russia, maybe Tulsi plans to retire there.
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  1587. The me, me, me crew
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  1588. Funny thing about people getting cancelled; they usually deserve it.
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  1589. Another right wing argument for bigotry and disinformation disguised as free speech.
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  1590. VDH welcome to move to red state
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  1591.  @digitalnomad9985  The GOP is an argument. From Trump to DeSantis to Haley to Gaetz to the conservatives on SCOTUS etc.
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  1592.  @digitalnomad9985  Todays GOP.
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  1593. Tempest in a teapot. There are always going to be women who stay home. This is no failure of anything, there are no real political points to be scored here. It's a choice.
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  1594. Sowell and Trump will both end up in the same place, the trash bin of history.
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  1595. The only time I’ll ever agree with McConnell. Russia is one of two superpowers that we spend astronomical dollars to defend against. Russia has already been disgraced and weakened by this war, which is a net win for the free world. The sooner Russia and China become democracies the sooner we can shrink our defense budget. It’s pay now or pay more the next time Russia or China tries to squeeze a neighbor.
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  1596. The single highest achievement of Western Civ is Democracy. That is under attack from the right. Kisin’s scare mongering about socialism taking us down is just righty claptrap. Every world economy has a mixture of socialism and capitalism, for good reason. Neither functions without the other. From the left, people like Trump and Italy’s Meloni, who disparage free press etc are more of a threat.
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  1597. Shillenberger at work
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  1598. Cry me a river
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  1599.  @happyhusker1163  libertarians are people who don’t want to admit they’re conservatives. It’s fairy tale land of little government and the cult of a ‘free market’.
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  1600. Comedians have a right to tell jokes and if they get cancelled, that’s our right
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  1601. Hilarious idiocy from 'podcaster' and 'commentator' ie joe blow.
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  1602. No. Not sure where this fellow hails from, but trickle down economics is exactly what conservatives practice in the US. Cut taxes on the rich and this will stimulate growth. Proven to fail, multiple times. This bro is a conservative economist trying to massage the reality of conservative political choices. The other name for trickle down was Voodoo Economics.
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  1603. There is no hidden truth about Marx, he’s one of the most thoroughly studied intellectuals on the planet. So deceptive advertising
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  1604. Conservatives have to suck it on this one after all the palaver about ‘ weaponized’ DOJ. Dem Senator Menendez up next for taking bribes. Get real.
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  1605. Couldn't be happier to see twitter and Wire bungling their way along. Perfect companion piece to Elon's DeSantis 'scoop'.
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  1606. What passes for a smart person on the right.
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  1607. The end of woke will be equal rights for all, dragging the right into the future
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  1608. Cranky old JP trying to understand the world, it's just to complicated for you pal.
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  1609. Elon's no genius if he thought the GOP were really going to cut the deficit. Not in their DNA.
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  1610. That crying you here is coming from the Trump campaign managers
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  1611. You're in office, that's a sure sign
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  1612. I'd say the title is flat out misleading. Trump has no use for democracy; he's the wannabe dictator "Dad" is lecturing about.
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  1613. Pritzker too rich, Pete too gay (love him..but), Shapiro too pro-Israel, Whitmer wants the top job, Waltz, Cooper, Kelly, Beshear, guessing it will be white male.
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  1614. Useless Putin apologist
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  1615. There is abundant irony in conservatives touting Western Civ, but glossing over GOP frontal attacks on legitimate elections. Democracy is the, or certainly one of the highest achievements of Western Civ.
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  1616. Kisin’s a hilariously poor thinker and student of history.
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  1617. Define woke
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  1618. Poor RFK jr, kicked out of prep schools still got into Harvard (?). Now he's found a home as a stooge for the GOP.
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  1619. Libertarianism is the right wing version of socialist utopia, fantasy.
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  1620.  @fringestream990  nice evasion. Liberals could say the same about bigger govt. The reality is what we have; shrinking government just gives businesses more power. If it worked , we’d have it.
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  1621.  @ExPwner  Show example of functioning libertarian state.
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  1622. Robot Christian
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  1623. Trump is soft on Russia, unlike any other US prez and clueless on Israel.
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  1624. Boo hoo
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  1625. Breaking news or foregone conclusion
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  1626. It couldn’t be much clearer. A former Chair of Joint Chiefs calls it what it is.
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  1627. Go back to the 1800s and you’ll be in the world of women as 2nd class citizens and gays deep in the closet. Sorry Mike, this is the future.
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  1628. I’m sure they’ll be issuing apologies for climate change stupidity
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  1629. Sowell making it up as he goes. Beliefs before facts.
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  1630. Americans are tired of being grifted by conservatives pretending to care about the little man, then cutting taxes and regulations for the uber wealthy. USAID helped eradicate smallpox and working on polio. Diseases don’t stop at the border..
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  1631. VDH shilling for know nothing Trump. How do you like him on Ukraine VDH?
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  1632. Caught by the Matrix, payback’s a bitch
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  1633. Nothing to do with the 2nd, which was about maintaining an army back, way back in the day.
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  1634.  @jb7483  Explain the purpose of the 2nd and how it applies today
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  1635.  @F.U.B.A.H.O.R  keep drinking the koolaid, while homicide becomes #1 cause of child deaths
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  1636. Elon’s challenging the Donald for narcissist of the decade, a cheapskate billionaire peddling conspiracy theories.
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  1637. Fired nuclear workers then realized they needed them back. Very efficient
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  1638. Looks like the GOP that's imploding.
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  1639. A joke. Typical of Trump’s insane idea streamlining/destroyingfederal government. You think it won’t affect you? Think harder.
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  1640. He's only read by conservatives. No one else would waste their time with his steadfastly conservative views supported by inane 'historical' evidence.
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  1641.  @Haymarket47  Nice emojis. Use your grown up words.
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  1642. Sowell, always predictable. ‘Obama was the worst president ever’. What passes for ‘smart’ on the conservative side.
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  1643. Republicans have a short memory when it serves them. The FBI has long been in the business of riding herd on hippies, civil rights activists (MLK) and progressives in general. To see a Republican, Trump appointed Director being harangued by his own party for ‘bias’ straight out of Monty Python. The party of law and order suddenly not happy with either.
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  1644. I’ll be shocked if GOP actually passes legislation against junk food. Those companies are owned by billionaires-the same guys who helped elect Trump.
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  1645. Elon, like Trump is all about himself and what a stable genius he is.
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  1646. Newsflash, trying to undermine elections is treason. See ya.
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  1647. More whine from wannabes
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  1648. This is not the forum for serious thinkers; these are right wing ideologues pitching their simplistic view of how society runs.
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  1649. Historical footnote is more like it, unless you’re trying for weirdest politician to ever run for prez.
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  1650. Peterson’s views rarely ‘employ logic from conspiracy mongering to disavowal of climate action to justifying Putin’s attack on the Ukraine. I seriously doubt he understands pomo.
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  1651. VDH is a historian, so he’s probably aware that hiding the infirmities of presidents has a long history. Reagan’s dementia, Kennedy’s back (and affairs), FDR’s polo. But VDH glad to shill for Trump whose personality and intelligence are a danger to us all.
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  1652. That’s virtually the story of every white American
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  1653. War on white people? Does that sound like a title for a nuanced view of American politics? Seriously ridonkulous.
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  1654. Transgender?
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  1655. When your job is ‘commentator’ and that’s your sole qualification you’ve done a good job scamming someone. Only idiots need to watch this confused intel nonsense.
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  1656. Trump keeps on making firsts: the WSJ trashing his admin?
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  1657. Look around
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  1658. Not crying any tears for RFK jr. He threw away his chances with conspiracy theories, wow, and by turning against Ukraine, something no US prez has ever done, except the last idiot who was president.
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  1659. Russian asset, unlikely. Naively pro Putin, undoubtedly
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  1660. Elon the hero of hate, the champion of narcissism. Proof positive that accumulating capital is a different skill than accumulating wisdom.
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  1661. I guess you missed the news that he tried to build a golf course and development on parkland and got shot down from both sides. Dreamworld
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  1662. @ Well watch inflation and compare
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  1663. The intelligent question would be with what would Trump replace the deep state? Answer, a bunch of boot lickers catering to his unhinged whims. I’ll take the deep state.
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  1664. Safe space for incels.
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  1665. Putin’s best friend in America-the GOP.
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  1666. When conservatives say we need to save the west, they mean white supremacy
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  1667. Trump may not be a Russian asset in literal terms, but he's sure acting the part.
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  1668. Tin hat ‘science’
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  1669. Sowell is a conservative mouthpiece paid by the Hoover Institute. Free market magic, racism isn’t real blah blah blah
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  1670. Same old song and dance
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  1671. Elon: I need to fire 12k workers and then I need a big raise.
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  1672. And since its not possible, according to you, to separate the two, then let's pitch the whole thing. I'm not going to accept good and bad 'wisdom' and hope for the best.
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  1673. A win for Putin, a loss for democracy and our international rep.
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  1674. another case of cherry picking your bogeymen. Cancel culture and Wokeism are narcissistic problems? What about the Trump and co? Hilarious, one sided posturing.
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  1675. Elon’s pretty much proven that he’s a techie version of Trump
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  1676. He’s gone off a number of times. Got treated for Xanax addiction by going to Russia to be put in a coma. You can’t make this stuff up.
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  1677. Are there any smart conservatives? No evidence here
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  1678. Yes America is ruled by the elite, but no they aren’t just Democrats as this bozo would like you to believe. SCOTUS is majority conservative, very conservative. The House is majority conservative. Corruption? Yes, SCOTUS decision Citizens United allows unlimited dark money to pour into elections. And some in the GOP are willing to re-elect a sociopathic conman who tried to scuttle an election and keep himself in power. The GOP mostly supported this attack on the most basic function of a democracy. Hillsdale is selling snake oil to the ignorant.
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  1679. Not many good comedians come from the right, tough to make points with zero facts. This guy proves it.
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  1680. The left has problems with antisemitism, but it lives on the right. See Henry Ford, Lindbergh, the KKK, MTJ and her jewish space lasers, Trump dining with neo nazis.
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  1681. Not smart, but great at evasion.
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  1682. Crazy dog1, crazy dog 2 and old dog.
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  1683. Hilarious to see antisemitic conservatives defending Israel because they hate Muslims even worse.
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  1684.  @tomday5830  spooky
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  1685. RFK jr headed for the dumpster of history
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  1686. Got 1 right, a first for these hacks.
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  1687. Trump/Hitler 24
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  1688. A conspiracy theory billionaire making military decisions in a U.S. war? What could go wrong?
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  1689. Useless partisan pov. This kind of attitude is why we’re still here after decades. Neither Israel or the Palestinians are the good or bad guys. That’s just lazy thinking.
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  1690. How is this an immigration or customs issue? Trump using ice as his gestapo. If he does like terrorists he shouldn’t have caved to Putin.
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  1691. Chinese authoritarianism will eventually collapse as all non-democratic governments always do.
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  1692. Conservatives eating their own in Congress, now on the Tube. Good times.
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  1693. Valuetainment. No value, no tainment. False advertising
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  1694. Bunk. Elon Musk deserves every bit of flack he gets. Couldn’t be happier watching this great futurist run Twitter in to the ground.
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  1695. Billionaire endorses millionaire who will cut his taxes. I'm shocked
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  1696. It’s a political fantasy
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  1697. You know who died in record numbers? People in Red States. Hmmm
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  1698. Yeah we were such a better country before affirmative action, civil rights etc. Sowell grifting on the ignorant.
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  1699. No one listened because he was wrong then. With his philosophy we’d have no Civil Rights, it’s a mere excuse for racism.
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  1700. Not feminism’s job. Men still hold majority positions of power in govt and business. Let’s complain about that.
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  1701. You might want to check some other states before posting this junk
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  1702. There isn’t even one reason, much less five.
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  1703.  @biggie2568  Now that is an honest answer
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  1704. Due process is due process, non-negotiable
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  1705. As a voting 68 year old, I’ve never seen a bigger threat to democracy and the peace it maintains than the whole Fox et al conspiracy matrix. It’s trashing any shared sense of reality between liberals and conservatives.
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  1706. The sun is setting on Bill Maher. He posed as a liberal, but he was always just an old fussy white guy.
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  1707. Hilariously ahistorical
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  1708. The monarchy is a long outdated, inherently racist, money embezzling institution that has only survived because it brings in tourist revenue. I grew up south of London (Kent)and learned to call her the bad queen. As an American I can easily separate the greatness of British culture from an anti-democratic relic like the House of Windsor.
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  1709. Sowell called Obama the worst president ever, then this. Sowell will be a footnote, Trump will be the wrong kind of historical figure.
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  1710. Trump/DeeeSantis 24
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  1711.  @jeffhaddix9508  I’m afraid there is no context for ‘vaccines cause autism’ or ‘Prozac causes gun violence’. Furthermore, I’m older than RFK JR and his stance on Ukraine is fundamentally opposed to the foreign policy American presidents of both parties have followed since WW2. In effect he’s saying that Reagan and JFK were wrong to actively oppose Russia (and China’s) tyranny. That policy helped bring down the Iron Curtain and freed eastern Europe. WW2 was partially caused by this kind of American isolationism. Trump is idiotic, but I believe RFK jrs stance is almost equally dangerous in its ahistorical naïveté. RFK jr says he wants to avoid WW3, well we have consistently avoided that not by backing down to tyrants, but by degrading their economies and military. It is not an issue that America should be gambling on.
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  1712.  @jeffhaddix9508  I ve seen this evasion before. Please explain the science behind -Prozac is tied to gun violence, or vaccines are tied to autism, or dirty water is tied to gender dysphoria. Anti-science thinking doesn’t belong in any position of power, let alone the White House.
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  1713.  @jeffhaddix9508  There is no 'context' for anti-science claims that Prozac causes gun violence, or dirty water causes gender dysphoria. Kennedy was anti-war on Ukraine, but flip flopped when it came to Israel. We don't need more anti science nonsense in the White House.
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  1714.  @jeffhaddix9508  There is no 'context' for things like Prozac causes gun violence, or vaccines cause autism, or dirty water causes gender dysphoria. On top of which he's anti-Ukraine war, but pro-Israel war. That's just an old school flip flop. I have zero faith in his mental acuity.
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  1715. Johnson was right, these old codgers are headed for the dustbin of history, still whining about civil rights.
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  1716. Walsh creating safe space for bigots afraid of Great Replacement.
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  1717. Billionaire cuts phones and SSA offices cuz he don’t care.
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  1718. I think we can safely say that this level of inequality is hardly inevitable. The production and maintenance of billionaires is not inevitable.
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  1719. That didn’t take long
    1
  1720. Tax billionaires out of existence. His wallet is only exceeded by his ego.
    1
  1721. An anarchist, really? Makes less sense than libertarianism.
    1
  1722. Vance seems to have forgotten which side we fought on in WW2. Or maybe he just thinks we fought on the wrong side.
    1
  1723. @ Trump looks ready to give Putin exactly what he wants. Spin that. We didn’t bring down the USSR by capitulating.
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  1724. Part of the ongoing backlash against women's rights. It will be as successful as all the former backlashes, there will be setbacks, but conservatives always lose the battle for civil rights.
    1
  1725. The ones being played for fools are those who believe Sowell is some kind of intellectual. That job involves a little objectivity, a scarce commodity in Sowell’s rants. ‘Obama was the worst president ever’. Really? I seem to remember W starting a phony war on phony intelligence and Trump telling people not to get vaccinated while he did as he botched Covid response.
    1
  1726.  @DawnWigeriVanEdema  I went to Columbia. I don't see any argument of the facts. Do you believe Obama was worse than Trump or W? If so, we have no common ground.
    1
  1727. General Sherman gave 40k slaves 1/2 million acres of land between Daytona Beach and Charleston after the civil war so they could feed themselves. President Johnson reneged when Lincoln died. That land would be worth half a trillion today. Reparations were paid once, but we cancelled the check.
    1
  1728. We know all the trash talking, Putin praising that led up to this. Rubio sold his soul for a cabinet spot, now wants a treat for being a good fog.
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  1729. Prager u is conservative propaganda funded by fracking billionaires. Look elsewhere for balanced history.
    1
  1730. Righties carrying water for the oil industry, business as usual.
    1
  1731. A right wing mouthpiece, mediocre economist and libertarian posing as a ‘scholar’. Only for true believers.
    1
  1732. Scumbags United. Architects of Iraqi Operation Wasted Lives and one of the inventors of Reagan’s Voodoo Economics.
    1
  1733. Do something useful, like fighting America’s #1 killer of kids, guns.
    1
  1734. Religious scammer explained by psychologist scammer
    1
  1735. Corn too
    1
  1736. Mearsheimer is certainly correct that America was involved in starting the war, but I would argue that it's been American policy since WW2 to degrade the Russian dictatorship (and Chinese) and the Ukrainian war has been a diplomatic and military disaster for Russia. Our strategic goals have been advanced. NATO is stronger, Russia, particularly Putin, weaker. Biden has been very careful not to start a nuclear war, and those worried about it should note that weakness on our part invites further Russian aggression which could also lead to nuclear war. These are hard choices without simplistic answers, despite Mearsheimers claims.
    1
  1737. The scam continues
    1
  1738. So much for the ‘weaponized’ DOJ film flam. Dem Senator Menendez also on trial. How you gonna spin that?
    1
  1739. Big Gretch
    1
  1740. Dictatorships thrive on international chaos because it distracts from domestic unrest. True for democracies also, but at least they have some input.
    1
  1741. To quote my grandfather "malarkey'. I can promise you we're not using military force to take Greenland. Trump dreams he's a Roman Emperor.
    1
  1742. It’s a peace prize, not a coward prize.
    1
  1743. Peterson and co always building safe spaces for racism.
    1
  1744.  @marth3116  Pity the poor conservative white people. Always blaming liberals for playing the victim card, then playing it themselves.
    1
  1745. Wannabe Stalin
    1
  1746. Guess where this genius lives?
    1
  1747. Trump attacked NATO in an add in the 80’s either paid off or just a sucker for dictatorship.
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  1748. A safe space for little men afraid of women.
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  1749. Gotta be pretty desperate to vote for this conspiracy wing nut.
    1
  1750. Biden projected weakness?! That’s pretty big spin trying to cover Trump and MAGAs boot licking of Putin.
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  1751. Abolish the FBI? Raise the voting age? Cave to a murderous tyrant? Another mini Trump opportunist with little regard for reality.
    1
  1752. The GOP pretending to care about middle America, there’s a sucker born every minute.
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  1753. Government didn’t shrink under Reagan, but wages did.
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  1754. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSWyfkkgCN0
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  1755. If they’re so proud why are they always hiding their identities wearing masks ?
    1
  1756. Trump had to import his wife
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  1757.  @MichaelMiller-xj1ti  The KKK called, they want their hood back.
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  1758. ​ @LeonRidgebear-fp4tm  I'm not denigrating Native North American tribes, but the difference is in a matter of degrees. Every single one of us is descended from some barbarian practices. I'm not a fan of Sowell's cheap brand of historical 'study'.
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  1759. The GOP churning out hustlers. Let’s defund the FBI? Climate change a hoax? Vivek candidacy is one giant hoax.
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  1760.  @michaelpearce6284  Wish everyone had your discernment. I’m 68, and I’ve never seen a media landscape like this and I blame the existence of Fox as a ‘News’ outlet for much of the political chaos. I’d gladly forfeit MSNBC or its liberal equivalent to lose Fox. If you think endorsements are bad then you should agree that the media needs policing.
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  1761. Praised for blackmailing young democracy at war with our nuclear enemy. Trump’s trashing 7 decades of American foreign policy, a policy that brought down the USSR.
    1
  1762. For now. History is cyclical
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  1763. Reason enough alone to run from a Trump presidency
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  1764. We like voting, the other guys don't.
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  1765. Here’s something to contemplate: “Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. JP.
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  1766. All you need to know about Trumps Middle East’s plan is that his first ‘plan’ run by Kushner, ignored the Palestinians and instigated the current war. On the Ukraine Trump has broken with every other president, something VDH is aware of I’m sure, by going soft on Putin. That isolationist nonsense didn’t win the first Cold War and free all of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet vassal states like Ukraine. I’m setting the bar low for Trump’s history free notions about power politics.
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  1767. It's one thing to wonder, it's another thing for an influencer to tweet about it. Like Trump, he can never get enough attention.
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  1768. Conservative propaganda from racism denier.
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  1769. Trump’s been groomed by Russia since the 80’s. Once took out an ad attacking US/NATO in 88. Should never, never have gotten anywhere near the Oval Office.
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  1770. Scrutinized by a billionaire making billions from government?
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  1771. Abolish the FBI, raise the voting age to 25, burn more coal, bail on the Ukraine. Sorry we need an adult in the White House.
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  1772.  @BangMaster96  Er, that was W who created fubar Iraq.
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  1773. See ya. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy, well, except your leader.
    1
  1774. The threat we have in the US comes from domestic conservative terrorists, not so much from American Muslims
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  1775. Sowell ‘teaching’ the obvious again.
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  1776. Why all the hate for JP? Oh, maybe it was:’Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. Or maybe it’s just his outright tin hat denial that climate change is an impending disaster. Ship him to Houston for the summer.
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  1777. I'm amazed at the disregard for democracy among some.
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  1778.  @shawnglass108  Dovetails nicely with the GOP’s attempts to subvert elections, suppress voting and ignore overwhelming support for gun control, climate action and taxing the wealthy. You pick and choose the rights you support ie never mind the rights of lgbtq, women or people of color. Also never mind any sense of morality, cuz that left with your current nominee.
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  1779.  @shawnglass108  Yes, it’s all about rights until non-whites, women or lgbtq wants rights. And your current candidate is a an ethical, traitorous enemy of democracy. And you don’t seem to worry much about separation of church and state. Your adherence to the constitution is tenuous.
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  1780.  @shawnglass108  Yes, just don't cherry pick your rights. We have a right to vote with out tampering, people of color, women and lgbtq crowd also have rights.
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  1781. Not a penny to the Ukraine? Who do think our nukes are aimed at? Yeah Russia (and China). You think it’s cheap maintaining the world’s most powerful military? Why do we do it? To prevent WW3. Ronald Reagan understood and brought down the USSR JFK understood, in fact every president since Truman had backed a strong stance against Russian aggression and dictatorship. Think about that. You want to roll the dice that all those presidents were wrong?
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  1782. Dang, you must be a patriot
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  1783.  @sundial-el3nt  Democracy first patriot
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  1784.  @sundial-el3nt  Making Jail Great Again
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  1785. Ronald Reagan would not call it a win, he’d be stocking Ukraines army and negotiating with bare knuckles.
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  1786. Elon meddling in America’s foreign policy vis a vis Ukraine is a clear sign that billionaires have too much power. Building electric cars is not equivalent to understanding superpower politics. Elon is a menace to our democracy and those abroad. Tax him.
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  1787. Just like GOP Biden impeachment?
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  1788. Make Jail Great Again
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  1789. He was cool until he put it on the conspiracy tin hat.
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  1790. People immigrate to the US, China?
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  1791. That's your comeuppance for having a monarchy
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  1792.  @terryclinton4263  Not afraid of woke virus
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  1793. Pretty funny having friend of Nazis pretending to care about Jews. He just hates Muslims more.
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  1794. Starting a new rap posse; Wu Klan Clan.
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  1795. Blah, blah, blah.
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  1796. Nice suit. I don’t see any danger of lefty fascism, but I did register Trump’s attempt to throw an election. Screw your head on straight.
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  1797. RFK JR wandered into the weeds long ago just to satisfy his own messiah complex. The weeds is where he belongs.
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  1798. Soft on Russia, contrary to every president since WW2 (Trump excepted) and anti science. Those are dangerous caveats.
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  1799.  @Think-dont-believe  Take a wild guess?
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  1800. An obvious question intended to bait. Civil disobedience is a crime, but a crime with a long, powerful history in our country and others. See MLK.
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  1801. The Swamp is mostly a GOP policy. Who created Citizens United allowing unlimited dark money to flow into campaigns, making money equal to free speech, who do billionaires turn to for tax breaks? Josh Hawley, a Republican, suggested overturning Citizens and the GOP said we can't get elected without that cash. Vivek has sold his soul for air time.
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  1802. False equivalency Mr. Harris. Hamas is a collection of gangsters who have been supported in part by Netanyahu’s government to weaken more moderate Palestinians. And America has turned a blind eye as Israel confiscated more and more Palestinian real estate. Hamas is evil, obviously, but the blame game you’re playing is both one sided and practically meaningless in the search for a solution.
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  1803. There’s no free market without socialist safeguards and no socialist state without free enterprise.
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  1804. Or why do conservatives reject legitimate elections, which mark the greatest achievement of Western Civ.
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  1805. Kisin undercuts his argument about the evils of atheism vis a vis Stalin, Hitler etc, by ignoring the atrocities perpetrated in the name of various gods.
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  1806. News alert. There are lots of rich, Ivy League educated Republicans living on both coasts and in between. ‘Elites’ is a scam to make middle class America think the GOP is out to help them. Think again.
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  1807. I bet you didn’t predict Ukraine would fight a superpower to a standstill for 3 years.
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  1808. @ I think the US would’ve taken Mexico in two weeks. It’s been 3 years. Putin’s not laughing, or he wasn’t till Dumpy got elected.
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  1809. Mutual mental masturbation between losers.
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  1810. inside the conspiracy dome
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  1811. There are real universities where you can actually learn stuff.
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  1812. Make Jail Great Again
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  1813. Great news. Britain colonizes world, then reaps the whirlwind. UK will be a more interesting place without dull Tories.
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  1814. We paid reparations after the Civil War, 1/2 million acres of Eastern US prime real estate (40 acres and a mule), then we took it back.
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  1815. America paid reparations, almost 1/2 million acres, to ex-slaves in Sherman's field order 15. That was prime Eastern real estate; you can guess what that would be worth today. But we took it right back after Lincoln died.
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  1816. What in lord’s name has happened to the GOP? Russia has nukes aimed at us. Reagan brought down the Iron Curtain and freed half of Europe by being tough on Russia, just like every President since WW2. Insanity.
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  1817. GOP doesn’t care about the poor, ever.
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  1818. Oh, the GOP elites are not interested in power? What rank, amateur rhetoric.
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  1819. Chinese immigrating to US in record numbers. Answered.
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  1820. Please provide factual proof of your gender nonsense.
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  1821. I’m shocked that a right wing politician favors whites only society. About as news worthy as a rainy day.
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  1822. Ever heard of the Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain. Half of Europe freed.
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  1823. Gee, this is areal tough question glad they had a resident clown in a jacket to figure it out.
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  1824. Hilarious. Crypto bros, hawking trash, got out maneuvered by a bigger scamster.
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  1825. Elon the new boss, same as the old boss. The techie Trump.
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  1826. Dems to Dimon: Come out of the GOP closet.
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  1827. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy
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  1828. Trump thinks geopolitics is a deal for a used car.
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  1829. Guess he meant rock rhythm cuz I don't see many brothers on this list
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  1830. Kennedy never had a shred of integrity and here’s the proof, endorsing wannabe, clueless gangster.
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  1831. Yes, Petersen is a great example of cognitive dissonance. I’m for freedom, except for women or trans people or non-whites.
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  1832. Sad excuse for critical thinking
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  1833. Musk loves free speech, until someon disses him or shorts his companies. He and Trump are vying for bloated ego of the decade.
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  1834.  @quirkypurple  Having an ego and narcissism are not co-equal. You've got blinders on if you think Trump and Elon are not in the latter category. They're both self-serving rich guys blabbering about issues that they are clueless on. I can quote Elon as saying that a government run by high status males is preferable to democracy. Guess who didn't pay attention in history class. Supporting these clowns is hardly insightful.
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  1835. Ron kissed the sex predator ring, now "I don't know anything about it."
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  1836. The 1st has limitations, incitement for instance. There is a grey area, but some can’t deal with complexity.
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  1837. Idiocy masquerading as wisdom
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  1838. Couldn't happen to a more deserving cretin.
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  1839. Conservative intellectual is an oxymoron. Intellectual’s are able to gather facts, draw conclusions and self correct. Working from a belief system negates that possibility.
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  1840. He’s a master of misrepresentation on every issue.
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  1841. I'm a liberal and I completely disavow any connection to this former 'enviromentalist' now climate change denier, and peddler of conspiracy theories. Those are conservative hobbies, not liberal ones.
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  1842. Chalk one up for South Korean democracy
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  1843. Dimon is the face of corporate welfare. Pretends he’s a Democrat.
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  1844. Cracking down on protestors, backing others dictators, telling reporters what to report. Is this still a question?
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  1845. What’s gonna be the take when DOJ convicts Hunter? Hypocrisy is a skill the GOP has mastered.
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  1846.  @Ken-ck4zn  Beware the deep state lizard people.
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  1847.  @Ken-ck4zn  Pathetic is closer
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  1848.  @Ken-ck4zn  Didn’t answer the question? Still gonna cry DOJ partisan when they convict Dems?
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  1849. Not feminism’s job. Men are in charge and they bear the responsibility.
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  1850. Reality is you want government balanced by business. It’s called a mixed economy and almost every country has one.
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  1851. A asafe space for science denial. Ask some of these fools if they’d take Rogan’s advice or doctor’s when diagnosed with disease.
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  1852. These two deserve each other. Selling failure.
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  1853. Libertarian economist says it all. Libertarian theory is as realistic as utopian socialism, ipso facto a bad economist.
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  1854. VDH is right to be worried, but wrong as usual about where the threat comes from. It’s not the left or liberals or the government trying to overthrow democracy. It’s MAGA.
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  1855. The GOP is the party of the Uber rich, Dems have done enough for middle class but Republicans are the lapdog of the rich. All about cutting the deficit and now cut income tax. That’s magical conservative thinking.
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  1856. Infomercial at the White House.
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  1857. Is someone paying McGregor or is he just a natural dingbat?
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  1858. Climate denial in another package. Ie a scam.
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  1859. If Elon truly understood history he wouldn’t be trying to sell out Taiwan or Ukraine.
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  1860. The road to world peace lies through building democracies. This fool is leading us in the other direction, unlike every president since WW2.
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  1861. Most of the contrarian ie (right wing knuckleheads) blabbering about issues beyond their grasp.
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  1862. Need to check the Trump record on racism against Muslims.
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  1863. Yeah, I don't remember any world wars or anything like that in the last thousand years.
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  1864. If they’d been a black mob, woulda just been corpses
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  1865. Stossel showing his true, conspiracy leaning colors. What, no video on unending mis/disinformation?
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  1866.  @noshow22  He always goes anti govt., never anything about FL book bans, don’t say ‘climate change’ laws, don’t say gay. He’s always leaning against liberals.
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  1867.  @noshow22  He's cherry picking his censorship. What about DeSantis et al book bans, 'Don't Say Climate Change', etc
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  1868.  @panzerofthelake506  I did not use the word nutcase, but Stossel’s videos almost always lean hard right, while he purports to be impartial. You may be unaware of the history of right wing attacks on the Federal government while favoring ‘states rights’, a strategy used in the past to fight civil rights for blacks.
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  1869.  @panzerofthelake506  Hemingway, Vonnegut, Maya Angelou. Who decides what’s inappropriate? A minority of Floridians in this case.
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  1870. Netanyahu and Trump, the indicted and the convicted
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  1871. Musk needs pr 24/7. Tough being a narcissist
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  1872. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. That’s how.
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  1873. I think there’s middle ground here. Changing people’s gender before they’re fully grown has to be a very carefully made decision with lots of professional input. Even the Scandinavian countries who are in the forefront on this issue are taking a more measured approach. On the flip side, the same people who didn’t like gay marriage don’t like transgender. And the noise about kids being groomed sounds an awful lot like ‘Democrats are grooming kids for pedophilia’ conspiracy nonsense.
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  1874. McCintock carrying water for big oil.
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  1875. Race. Some whites fear becoming a minority. Plus the GOP has systematically hollowed out the middle class starting with Reagan.
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  1876. Most of the worlds modern democracies operate a mixed economy, so this is patent nonsense.
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  1877. Dershowitz long ago made himself a joke
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  1878. The 1st has limitations.
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  1879. The 'allure' of Donald Trump is white power and tax cuts for billionaires.
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  1880. Soft on Russia just like Trump. Reagan and JFK spinning in their graves.
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  1881. Says the cheapest, conspiracy theory-peddling plutocrat. I want to see him Mano a Mano against the Donald for reigning heavyweight narcissist.
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  1882. One subject the right and left agree on.
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  1883. America is a the world’s military, economic and cultural superpower because we’re multicultural.
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  1884. GOP wants to re fight the Civil War. Non-white woman leads the charge.
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  1885. LSD in high doses can lead to severe delusions.
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  1886. Ridiculous. Guns are now #1 killer of American kids.
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  1887. Boo hoo. Mini Trump ousted by big Trump.
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  1888. Yo the GOP loves antisemitism. What you smokin?
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  1889. Elon’s only gonna rescue himself. The world’s biggest cheapskate when it comes to charity. He needs his mega billions.
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  1890. Don't think my grandparents were eating and drinking plastic (a credit card's worth every year), worrying about the planet burning down or having some traitor like Trump in the White House. Don't remember school shootings back in the day. So, not so simple.
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  1891. Billionaires and their abettors are the 1 threat to most Americans. 70% of America's wealth in the hands of top 10%.
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  1892. Murray's like Trump with an education. The immigrants are coming for your pets!
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  1893. Kennedy’s cash coming from the GOP.
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  1894. Rubbish
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  1895. How about a video on all the disaster caused by the private sector, Stossel.
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  1896. Friend to Snowden And Assad who poison gassed his own people. Oh, loves Russia too. Hand her the keys to national security?! She makes Hesgeth look like a treasure.
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  1897.  @joeyharper4976  Factual points like vaccines do have side effects but they are insanely rare?
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  1898.  @joeyharper4976  not backed up by stats
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  1899. Free funny coming from Musk who obviously didn't veer far from his father's support of apartheid.
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  1900. Elon is barred from using the word ‘morally’ until he puts some of his personal treasury back into circulation, ie gives to charity or someone other than himself. He’s got an aluminum foil hat and a tin ear.
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  1901. Russia already lost this war by not winning. I do believe it’s a stalemate, but the Hill cheerleading for Putin is asinine.
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  1902. Reagan supported NATO and brought down the Iron Curtain freeing half of Europe. We built NATO for a reason.
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  1903. Or Fox news
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  1904. Don't waste your money, this youngster's conservative views are half-baked at best, just drivel at worst. At least he supports our efforts to combat Russia, which I agree with. But he rants about woke virus, without referencing fascists violence of the right.
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  1905. Conservative boilerplate, preaching to Fix viewers. He may be an expert on ancient history, but he’s a knucklehead on the present.
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  1906. Conspiracy theories, soft on the Russians. Yeah, the threat ain't from the Dems.
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  1907. Elon and Bezos need to put in some time on the factory floor.
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  1908. Not sure who dresses him, but must be the same bro who writes his material. Peterson is almost always wrong. He’s consistent.
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  1909. The absurdity is a know nothing way out of his depth. We have a mixed economy; capitalism doesn’t work without socialism and vice versa. He’s a misogynist, he’s soft on Putin, climate change denier, he’s successful at being wrong.
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  1910. Trump's idea that the US is run like some kind of bank shows his complete lack of understanding of foreign policy. Can you argue that NATO members should pay more? Sure. But let's remember, we built NATO after WWII to prevent WWIII. Reagan knew this, JFK knew it, every president since has understood it. Trump is dangerously unqualified and simpleminded.
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  1911.  yeshi4663  ?
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  1912. Conservative boilerplate
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  1913. Did he know less or just spin more, I can’t quite tell.
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  1914. Sadly, becoming mega rich doesn’t make you wise or principled. Ackman’s shown himself to be a hypocrite. And whatever way he’s voting, along with the billionaire crowd, I’ll be voting the other way.
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  1915. Republicans: R Reagan won the Cold War and freed half of Europe by outspending the USSR on defense. Dems: Kennedy went toe to toe with Khrushchev's missiles in Cuba. Backing down Russian and Chinese dictatorships is critical to world peace.
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  1916. There's no free market without socialist safeguards and there's not socialist utopia without some free market.
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  1917. There is no excuse, except gargantuan ignorance for siding with Putin, a murderous nuclear armed enemy against an aspiring democracy. No prez in US history has ever been so dangerously deluded. None.
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  1918. Ouch.
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  1919. Musk’s grandfather supported apartheid; looks like Musk didn’t fall far from the tree
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  1920. Never trust a man with three names. Here's a clue to Hanson's scholarly and foreign policy savvy. He was a cheerleader for Operation Iraqi Freedom, a war fought on phony intelligence for the hoped-for political gain of mostly GOP hawks. American blood spilled for essentially nothing. As for people leaving Blue states, in relatively minor numbers, my response is - so what? Blue states are expensive and desirable places to live - I assume VDH lives in CA somewhere, like many conservative pundits who choose to live in liberal, urban areas instead of the 'heartland' they claim to admire. Will CA go bust? NY, NJ, MA? No, so, like most of his palaver, it's just thin gruel of conservative chatter.
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  1921.  @vikasprakashjoshi2090  It’s just straight old propaganda ‘look at those horrible blue states’, and since they’re conservatives they don’t go in to the idea of say, rent control, or some other ‘socialist’ fix for big city housing issues. Politics are complex, but complexity doesn’t sell, especially to the MAGA folk.
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  1922. Not really. People are paying to watch the WNBA and women's tennis.
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  1923. There’s a place for you in Afghanistan where there is no feminism. Or Saudi Arabia. Or India where gang rape is still popular.
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  1924. Politics are cyclical, what goes around, comes around. Don’t get too excited.
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  1925. In the US there are two primary problems: The rise of economic inequality, wages have not kept up with productivity over the last 50 years, and racism. A large swath of white America is not happy with the prospect of becoming a minority in the near future.
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  1926. Tax billionaires back into centimillionaires.
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  1927. His grip is pretty rocky
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  1928. Louisiana is an ecological disaster because Kennedy and co have sold out to corporate America.
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  1929. In other news, Mississippi police ‘goon squad’ gets decades in jail for torturing two black men.
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  1930. Safe space for racism
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  1931. Those will be most of his votes
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  1932. Another GOP sellout
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  1933. Horse pucky like most of this dude’s‘reasonable’ sounding righty dogma. How about the climate denial. Wildfire danger has doubled since 1980. Drill baby drill
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  1934. When your main output is YouTube you’re not much of a scholar.
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  1935. Sowell’s a paid mouthpiece for Hoover. His history lessons all have the aim of downplaying slavery and racism that followed. Intellectual is stretching it.
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  1936. Tech is getting hammered by fines in the EU and threatened with legislation here. It's no secret why they would sellout to Trump. I'll laugh if he turns on them.
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  1937. Vivek: Disband the FBI, raise voting age to 25, climate change a hoax, I hated Trump but I love him now because I’ll do anything for $ and let’s cave to Putin.
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  1938. Yes please. Repeal the 2nd. A bunch of macho nonsense killing our citizens.
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  1939. Libertarianism is the opposite of utopian socialism, and just as much a fantasy.
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  1940. Yeah, exactly the same level of crime
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  1941. Dumb title
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  1942. Palestine doesn’t have a state.
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  1943. It was Voodoo Economics back in the 80's. Maybe Zombie, or Undead would also work. It's not a theory, it's a belief system.
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  1944. Those were Dixie Dems ie vonservatives. Check your history
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  1945. Not much of a secret that race, the fear of some whites that America is browning, put these knuckleheads in charge.
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  1946.  @Ahahahhaaah  Into Mc'Ds
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  1947.  @DarkPassenger  white racism
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  1948. The only ones getting trolled are Trump voters who believed they would get inflation tamed.
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  1949. Fundamentalist believers are intolerant the world over.
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  1950. If they’re valuable, they’ll stand on their own.
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  1951. If you think elites are all liberals, you're kidding yourself. Musk, Andreessen, Thiel, Leonard, Rubio, Hawley, Cruz, DeSantis, Cotton, Vance etc. The GOP's got plenty of billionaires and plenty of Ivy League grads.
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  1952. Thomas Sowell is not required reading anywhere that I'm aware of, he's perfectly at home on the Tube creating safe space for conservatives in denial.
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  1953. Hoping for a cabinet spot in a Trump presidency, maybe Secretary of Swole Seniors
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  1954.  @rightinsideleftistmiasma2975  You’ve outwitted the pinkos again
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  1955. Here's the test: If 97% of cancer doctors told you your cancer needed treatment, would you search out the other 3%? Climate denial, like vaccine denial has simply become a political football. We don't argue that radiation will kill you.
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  1956. Tough to spin insurrection. GOP not interested in democracy anymore.
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  1957. He’s an egotistical joke no experience and no sense when it comes to dealing with Russia. JFK and Reagan would both flip in their graves to hear him talk about appeasing Putin. RR freed half of Europe by outspending the USSR militarily until they folded and the Iron Curtain collapsed. Every president since Truman has kept a policy of aggressive containment towards Russia and China. RFK is soft on both, which is how wars start.
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  1958. No nuance here. We have a whole bunch of socialism already in the form of the EPA, SEC, IRS, SS, USPS, FBI, FTC, FDA etc, it’s really a question of how much more we need to prevent the poverty we’ve come to accept. Has the country improved since 1776, per Buffet’s daft comparison, obviously. I’d ask how much have we improved since 1980? Average wages? Wealth inequity? People living in the street? As it is currently formulated, our capitalism is failing a huge swath of America. The very idea of a billionaire is an insult to average Americans.
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  1959.  @neoglacius  They're winning. Financing them? Are we going into the conspiracy vortex?
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  1960. Finest thinkers of the far right, a low bar.
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  1961. Stossel as a ‘truth teller’ is the only real myth here.
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  1962. Dump Bibi
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  1963. Smart people live where they can make money, where culture is most concentrated.
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  1964. Do some real work Kennedy and get LA some jobs, clean up the environment and fix your abominable education ranking.
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  1965. Another GOP baby Trump
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  1966. Not a good look.
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  1967. It's called democracy
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  1968.  @EdwardOtero-p8c  Capitalizing facts doesn't make them so, merely makes you sound loud. Please explain Trump's plan for Middle East Peace; I guarantee it is a fail.
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  1969. Watching Bannon go after Musk is great theater
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  1970. I understand the impulse for Americans to say NATO is not paying their fair share. But, hey, we are talking about nothing short of maintaining world peace. We built NATO to prevent Russian aggression and a possible world war. We funded NATO and our military and helped free Eastern Europe from the USSR. This is not a Monopoly game and putting Trump in the White House on a revenge tour where he can suck up to Russia’s murderer-in-chief.
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  1971. Shillenberger is hardly an unbiased voice here since he makes a living carrying on about the ‘woke matrix’.
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  1972. JP all pimped out to share the 'wisdom'.
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  1973. It’s the little boys section.
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  1974. The GOP always wants to reduce government for one simple reason, they are the party of billionaires. They underfund the IRS because auditing the rich cost more than auditing the rest of us. They want to cut the FDA, SEC etc. because these are all the watchdogs that keep Exxon and B of A and drug companies etc from scamming or endangering civilians. Remember the Ohio train derailment, which happened after Trump cut safety regulations for rail companies?
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  1975. dingbat complaining that his wackiness is keeping him out of debates.
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  1976. I like Herzog and respect him on many issues, but this criticism of Western ‘demonization’ of dictatorships in China, Russia, N Korea etc. does not fly. He says there should be a court of law to deal with these problems, as if we can just call Putin into court for throwing journalists and doctors out of 3rd story windows, or attacking Ukraine. That is simple naïveté that leads to destruction in the real world.
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  1977. The sky's the limit?
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  1978. ARC is proof positive that conservative intellectual is an oxymoron.
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  1979. Hamas are terrorists. There I said it. Netanyahu and the Israeli right are also terrorists, albeit under the radar. Taking one side or the other in this 75 year plus conflict is a sure recipe that it will continue. Solutions please, not invective.
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  1980. Narcissists, conspiracy theories and the White House. What could go wrong?
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  1981. Kennedy needs to pull his state out of last place in everything except zydeco and stop grandstanding
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  1982. He’s happily constructing his own history along the lines of his belief system.
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  1983.  @jgalt308  That would be history according to conservatism, or as he prefers, libertarianism. Slavery wasn’t that bad, feminism made women’s rights worse, socialism is communism, cultural relativism is useless. He’s a shill for right wing talking points, which explains why he never taught history and why his books won’t appear on college syllabi.
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  1984. Trump didn’t invent fascism, he just tapped in to white fear of a coming multiracial nation.
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  1985. He’s given me everything I wanted. Maybe. Trump’s liable to walk things back on a dime.
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  1986. Fox-washing
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  1987. Allowing Fox to air as a ‘news’ channel broke the media, Trump just used it.
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  1988. Trump’s strategy, if you can use that word, is to blabber his way into the headlines.
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  1989. Even Cheney frightened by Trump's obvious incompetence and raw ignorance.
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  1990. ​ @shel_311  I'm old, been voting since '72 and studied poly sci, so yeah, I know. There's a revolving door between Congress and K Street (very well paid lobbyists), which is an invite to corruption (the swamp) and both parties play. But the party of big money, the one that gives tax cuts to the wealthy EVERY time they're in power is the GOP. Citizens United, which allows unlimited money to flow into elections is a GOP decisioin. You think Trump or his billionaire friends care about average Americans? Tariffs don't hurt millionaires, nor does inflation. Just keep an eye on who Trump helps.
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  1991. Explains why there are so few conservative comedians
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  1992. They didn't cut it - Tulsi stupid, RFK nuts, Elon's a Trumpian narcissist. Trump is for Trump, as were all about to learn again.
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  1993. Slashing aid to starving, disease ridden countries? That what you call ‘caring’?
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  1994. Where’s that immediate peace plan the prez was blabbering out. Clueless
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  1995. Psychologist run amok. No to climate science, no to fighting Putin, no to feminism, no to racism, no to gun reform, but yes to conspiracy mongering. Just what we (don't) need.
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  1996. Billionaire auditing others is hilariously funny, in a very dark way.
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  1997. What Trump understands about foreign policy would fit in a thimble. He really should be getting a paycheck from Putin.
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  1998. Middle class income stagnation brought to you by successive tax giveaways to the Uber wealthy from GOP presidents.
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  1999. Meh
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  2000. Newsflash, nobody’s watching
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  2001. Trump needs no help 'blackening' (how quaint a phrase) his name. As for ex-psychologist Peterson, he's done a fine job doing the same to himself.
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  2002. Racist claptrap
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  2003.  @adilevnatimasheva4370  You don’t know anything about American history, just using Russian history as an excuse for racism.
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  2004.  @NostalgicGamerRickOShay  boo hoo
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  2005. Utter nonsense. No modern democracy has been saved by armed citizens. It’s a myth helping perpetuate the needless deaths of American children.
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  2006. @ Did you figure out how government contracts work?
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  2007. Unless that majority is conservative, then your fine with it. See rogue SCOTUS disemboweling the Constitution and precedent.
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  2008. Musk is a foreign policy toddler, along with his Prez.
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  2009.  @henrylicious  Hilarious
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  2010. This is an ongoing mantra with conservatives. And of course there’s truth in balancing our checkbook…up to a point. But our economy remains robust enough that paying the interest is not really a problem. Cutting the deficit is a political football that neither party wants to address because citizens don’t like hearing bad news. Taxes have to go up and programs have to be cut. Try selling that to the electorate, instead you see both parties promising to raise the deficit.
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  2011. Seems to me that DeSantis got vaccinated, so…opportunism
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  2012. Yes, he will bring together lefty tin hats and righty tin hats.
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  2013. There's plenty of blame to go around on this 70 conflict. Hamas are fascists murderers, Netanyahu's government supported Hamas so they wouldn't have to cope with the possibility of 2 states. RFK has let his ego run away with him.
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  2014. Honestly how many Americans are willing to work in the fields picking produce? Meat processing plants? Get ready for fresh food prices to spike.
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  2015. Paid reparations once but we reneged. See Sherman’s Special Field Order #15
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  2016.  @paulrodgers252  Your reference to the 14th has no bearing on reparations to slaves, only slave owners.
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  2017.  @paulrodgers252  You’d probably win under this SCOTUS, but also likely I’d win under the next.
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  2018. Monocultures are limited. There’s a reason America exports so much music.
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  2019. Dumb land
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  2020. We already are the global police, that’s what destroyed the USSR and freed half of Europe. A policy we’ve had since WW2, but Kennedy imagines he knows better than all those former presidents.
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  2021. Yeah, and put a colony on Mars next year. I’ve got a deeper belief in the tooth fairy than his egotistical ravings.
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  2022. Putin apologist, climate change pseudo denier, misogynist. People who oppose DEI seem to think that white men are natural inheritors of merit. The Trump admin has sure blown a hole in that idiocy.
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  2023. Trump’s foreign policy looks like kindergarten diplomacy. No US president has ever backed down or looked weak to Russia or China. That’s how Reagan helped collapse the USSR and free Eastern Europe. JFK stoop up to Soviet missiles in Cuba and protected West Berlin. Trump is an egomaniac without a history education.
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  2024. So now we have the choice between a very old man, an unhinged man, and a sociopathic narcissist. I’ll take the old man.
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  2025. Stossel’s a ‘free market’ cultist.
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  2026. The best conservative mind out there. And he’s just where he belongs, withering on YouTube.
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  2027. Till a judge said, whoa.
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  2028. Find someone you DISAGREE with, because these conservatives are just selling yesterday's BS.Yeah, the idea of gender fluidity isn't new, do a little dig in the archives. I do understand how it makes some people fearful, as does pretty much anything to do with human sexuality, but I'm afraid humanity will march on. Really think you're going to put sexuality back in the bottle?
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  2029. Hurricane Milton winds approaching 180 mph. But hey, we gotta go to Mars cuz Elon.
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  2030. Sowell veers right on everything, do not expect wisdom, expect conservative dogma.
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  2031. Becoming articulate requires work, but becoming wise and compassionate requires much more. Sadly, Petersen hasn’t mastered the latter.
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  2032. An astonishing boondoggle from an untethered billionaire
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  2033. What is so hard to understand about Russia’s regime being our nuclear armed enemy? Every president since WW2 has kept the pressure on Russia and we brought down the Iron Curtain in the process.
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  2034. He belongs in your party with Vivek and the rest of the conspiracy posse.
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  2035. Democracy or Constitutional Republic, both involve fair elections. denial of those results is treason.
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  2036. The irony is right wing racists pretending to care about Jews.
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  2037. See ya loser
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  2038. Dumb and dumber
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  2039. A legend in his own mind. Sowell proves once again that 'conservative intellectual' is an oxymoron. Yeah, the facts lean liberal.
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  2040. It’s one gaunt or stunt for deep state haters. Not gonna dent the deficit, unless they cut defense, interest payments or Medicare and they won’t.
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  2041. The great re-pavement is happening, new roads everywhere.
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  2042. DeeSantis/Trump 24
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  2043. Tulsi gone MAGA
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  2044. America has a mixed economy ie both socialism and capitalism. Right wing scaremongering detached from reality b
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  2045. Another safe space for bigotry. Know little about Canada, but multiculturalism is what's made America a technological, cultural and economic powerhouse.
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  2046. Hey Victor, how you gonna spin Trump’s capitulation to Putin?
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  2047. Want to know why the country is polarized - Fox News. Didn’t have it back in the old days, we all watched ABC, NBC or CBS. There were no Tucker Carlson, or his liberal equivalent. Strip the title of news away and call it what it is, Fox Opinion.
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  2048. Every country ends up with a mixed economy
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  2049. Ooh, being compared to Elon is a low blow.
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  2050. Er, Kisin makes the case for supporting Ukraine, then dings Biden for same - cuz Biden's a liberal. Logic not strong.
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  2051. Who do I want dealing with the toughest world leaders? Trump’s already proven how ‘tough’ he is by befriending Putin, talking nonsense about N Korea and complimenting Xi Jinping. Elon wants a fellow money grubber in the White House, someone who’ll scratch his back for a kickback.
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  2052. Nothing more hysterically ironic than conservatives pretending they care about antisemitism. Guess they forgot Henry Ford, Lindbergh, the KKK, MTG - Jewish space lasers and Trump dining with neo Nazis.
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  2053. Trump is a chicken-hearted wanna-be mobster. Mind boggling that he’s eligible for presidency.
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  2054. Certainly the US as a multicultural military, economic and cultural superpower proves the strength of diversity.
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  2055. Aaron Rodgers is a perfect, numbskull pick for this lost-in-the-weeds conspiracy narcissist.
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  2056. Side hustle-hawking ‘vitamins’
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  2057. America is the superpower and we’re multicultural. The most dangerous attack on Western Civ is coming from the right’s denunciation of democracy, which is Western Civ highest achievement.
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  2058. Look up mixed economy, it’s what governs most of the world. Socialism alone does not work, proven, don’t need this nonsense to understand that historic fact. The same is true of the free market. No country in the world runs a ‘free market’. You gotta have a mix.
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  2059.  @Gr-Ra5  Maybe an Oscar
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  2060. Boo hoo
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  2061. Young women are majority liberal, men conservative. So no surprise chicks will be turned off by die hard fans of mr knucklehead.
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  2062. Yo, Fox and MSNBC aren't equal opportunity propaganda. One leans on facts, and Fox just lies outright.
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  2063. Thomas Sowell is a right wing mouthpiece paid by Hoover.
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  2064. Safe space for idiots
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  2065. Soft on Russia, unlike Reagan, JFK or any prez since WW2.
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  2066. UBI is obviously no miracle cure, very few things are. But in our era of increasing automation, contract workers and ongoing poverty, UBI may be a partial solution. Conservative pundits are going to hate it because it doesn’t fit the ideal of the free market, but those pundits aren’t offering alternatives.
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  2067. Says a man living in Florida, where MD's and professors are fleeing, not to mention DeSAntis denial of climate change.
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  2068. Ooh meeting of wing nut psychologist and rabid, cowardly lion of the senate. You’ll find conservative politics here, nothing profound.
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  2069. The UK has a law against lying on broadcast news. If we had that, and could develop at least a modicum of shared reality between left and right, there would be room for compromise. But without shared facts, how can you compromise?
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  2070.  @JamesJake_RealEstate-vw9dz  Per Citizens United, the more money you have the more 'free speech' you've have.
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  2071. Elon trying to tidy up his image; good luck with that xman.
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  2072. The KKK wants there hood back.
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  2073. He’s produced a whole lot of conspiracy
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  2074. Arguing against feminism is exactly like arguing against civil rights. Just conservative belief system v reality. Feminism, like civil rights, will not end until there's rough equality.
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  2075. There’s no explaining whatever libertarian gobbledygook fantasies are driving Our Stable Leader.
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  2076. Good demonstration of your own selective whitewash of European history
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  2077. People distrust government because it favors the rich, the GOP will fail tackle inflation but certainly pass tax cuts for the wealthy and Rand will be voting with them.
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  2078. Iran and Saudis. Hilarious concept, sort of like Hitler/Stalin pact.
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  2079.  @justaminute3111  You mean the part where we were horrified that he refused to concede? That insane reaction?
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  2080.  @oldtighthead2459  We call it peaceful transfer of power. It's what separates us from the Sudan, or Myanmar or any other 3rd world dumpster fire. No law, but there is one against fomenting insurrection. We'll see how that plays out.
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  2081.  @oldtighthead2459  oh, you're British. Never mind
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  2082. If Harris is doing it, DeSantis did it first when he passed a bill trying to write it out of existence. The GOP should be forced to pay for climate change cleanup, then they can chant ‘drill baby drill’ all they want.
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  2083. Libertarian fantasy of ‘free market’ as if the market would work without the FCC, FTC, FDA etc. Politics for children.
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  2084. Stossel. Proof that conservative and intelligent can’t be used in the same sentence.
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  2085.  @lnfinite_Mind Peruse Stossel's youtube lineup, nothing but rightwing dogma. You've proved my point.
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  2086.  @lnfinite_Mind  I understand the appeal of libertarianism, in an ideal world we would have little or no government. As it is, an unfettered free market is no more realistic than utopian socialism. And ‘freedom’ is an idea dependent on your exact definition. I see MAGA using that word to justify racism.
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  2087.  @lnfinite_Mind  I agree that money has corrupted our system. Citizens United has got to go. We need shorter, limited spending election period where this or that corporation or interest group can't buy a senator.
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  2088. He’s headed for the hoosegow.
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  2089. I'm all for EU paying its share, but what Trump is offering to Puting so far is a birthday cake. We took down the USSR under Reagan by playing hardball; dictators don't change their spots. Check your history.
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  2090. Poor Usher is getting no respect
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  2091. It’s pretty obvious to me as an older, 68, American, that opinions have replaced facts in far too much reporting. There is always going to be bias in what’s covered, but I’m going to point a finger at Fox News, who’s fact rating on media bias is far below that of it’s leftist counterparts.
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  2092. Know why Hollywood is liberal? Conservatives are boring.
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  2093. Idiot defending predator, conservatives at work.
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  2094.  @mikethomp1440  Trump dining with neo Nazis. The Great Replacement ‘theory’ on X. Musk getting publicly outed for allowing antisemitism on his platform. Surging white nationalism-it’s a right thing, and it isn’t just anti black. History repeats. Conservative politicians are always looking for a whipping boy to stir up votes, illegal immigrants, blacks, Muslims, feminists etc. The only reason they support Israel is it is Christian Holy land. ‘Jews killed Christ is a famous right wing insult and myth.
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  2095.  @mikethomp1440  Trump, Musk, qanon
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  2096.  @gg_rider  Well aware. Once got spanked on Marx midterm. I still find this piece ludicrous.
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  2097. Useless narcissist. Right on Citizens United, but wrong on Ukraine and pretty much anything to do with science. No experience, no grasp of foreign policy and very poor critical thinking skills.
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  2098.  @thevaccinator666  He’s a pretend intellectual spouting off about everything from sexism, to socialism, to climate denial, racism, Putin etc. Watch some more of his videos. He loves nothing better than to hear his own voice concocting arguments with too many words and too little reality.
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  2099. It won't wash. Fundamentalism is a dead end.
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  2100. Yes, love to see Musk get banned in Europe. Absolute free speech is an anarchist wet dream.
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  2101. Sounds quite a bit like Petersen, biological this and that, like they’re talking real science.
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  2102. Conservative dogma, the kind that has led America into this grim never-ending conflict.
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  2103. No. Ain’t gonna happen. A conservative fairy tale, just like communism taking over the world. We’ll always have left and right, check your history
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  2104. Britt bald faced lied about sexual abuse story. Did not take place under Biden Admin or even in America. About as trustworthy as T Carlson.
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  2105. Useless
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  2106. The GOP kiddie show is driving the country off a cliff. Prosecute Hunter then shut up and pass a budget.
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  2107. Conservatives trying to rewrite history and give cover to white supremacists. Trump candidacy and MAGA are living proof.
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  2108. Stossel’s conservative dogma again. #1 killer of American kids, go ahead and spin it while you live in MA which has some of the strictest gun laws. Hypocrisy in action.
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  2109. The YouTube bros. I hear no mention of DOGE's numerous accounting errors or the fact that Elon has no official position so he can not be held accountable. Ya'll are hilarious.
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  2110.  @TheMoodyLoners  Google DOGE accounting errors. And what your describing may be true, although in my 68 years I don't remember a non-official with a blank check, but there's also no accountability which is why Elon is not 'official'.
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  2111. History is cyclical. Don’t get too happy. Racism doesn’t last, but civil rights do.
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  2112. Time for Biden to send Seal Team to Trump Headquarters as an ‘official’ act.
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  2113. Yes long established norms like church sponsored pedophilia, domestic abuse, racism, homophobia, gun violence. Oh the good old days.
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  2114. Unions feel the same about Muskie.
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  2115. Elon gets attention any 3ay he can, techie narcissist
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  2116. Sowell preaching to the choir, again. If your conservative, you'll love it. PS Both Republicans and Democrats take advantage of crises, not some genius observation, but politics at work. Think Iraq/Afghanistan War could have been launched without 9/11?
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  2117. Be a good way to recycle his books.
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  2118. Fact check American history. Every president since WW2 has backed a tough on dictatorship policy (Especially China and Russia). That helped free Eastern Europe and destroy the USSR. You folks against helping Ukraine are aiding one of our greatest enemies. It’s pay now or pay more later when Russia tries to bully Poland, or Finland or Germany etc.
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  2119. Name two competent hires Trump has made. I’ll take DEI if Hesgeth, Kennedy and Tulsi are the best he can do.
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  2120. Funny that it’s the right that thrives on conspiracy, lies etc. Their own make believe world.
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  2121. Rogan and his followers are in for rude surprise when Elon starts dismantling protections for average Americans- see CFFB.
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  2122. Perfect, let the nutjobs all get in the same clown car.
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  2123.  @Crymeareva  Wtf indeed. Your point?
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  2124.  @Ux1.73c  Some of the problems with Muslim countries, take patriarchy, we still have. Eventually all cultures will be the same , see internet.
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  2125.  @Ux1.73c  Not sure you’re keeping up with US politics, but just we elected a rapist to President, abortion is a hot topic and there’s a misogynist meme going around labeled ‘your body my choice’. In my view the Muslim world, for historical reasons, is simply behind the curve on democracy (and civil rights) and is certainly already faced with severe patriarchal problems but will eventually catch up. There valuable traditions and then there are traditions just masking inequality.
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  2126.  @Sherman62  Hint: I think it’s a reference to his ‘ethnicity’. It’s a GOP thing.
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  2127. While Trump may have some point about our trade imbalances, his wrecking ball approach is smacking our economy.
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  2128. VDH - He’s not going to abandon Ukraine. Trump to Ukraine, give up territory and don’t join NATO. Putin, thanks very much. MAGA blockheads at work destroying international order.
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  2129. Woke mind virus? How about idiot narcissist virus? I consider the intersection of great wealth and great ego a danger to democracy.
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  2130. The insurrectionists were conservatives. I don't call that patriotism. Take responsibility.
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  2131. Thank you. Let this be Bezos' twitter. "Personal liberties and free markets?" We've got the WSJ for that.
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  2132. Dummies on parade
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  2133. Scientology hates psychiatry all because L Ron Hubbard’s wife tried to have him institutionalized. I’m not taking advice from a movie star who belongs to a tax-exempt fascist cult.
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  2134. VDH has argued elsewhere AGAINST isolationism, now turned 180 degrees. Nice integrity.
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  2135. Young conservatives pretending perspective they don't have.
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  2136. If Peterson’s not right wing he’s doing a fabulous job of faking it. Putin apologist, climate action denying, sexist, racist, gun loving. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’
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  2137. Kennedy runs one of the poorest, most corrupt, most environmentally poisoned states in the union. Well done.
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  2138. Elon and Kisin, dingbats United.
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  2139.  @unclefatbloke687  Not these chumps, but go right ahead and defend Musk's tin hat conspiracies, his support for 'free speech' ie conspiracy theories. I don't care that he's a stingy, union-busting run-of-the-mill billionaire. But the myth of Elon as a futurist genius is ridonkulous.
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  2140. The stupid person’s ‘wiseman’.
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  2141. I'm afraid there's a reason that didn't happen. Libertarian policies are fantasy, just like utopian socialist policies.
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  2142. Brilliant reasoning
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  2143. You’re ‘controversial’ so you can make a buck from the ignorant. I guess your comedy was meh.
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  2144. No US president has ever caved to either China or the Russia. The result was the collapse of the USSR and freedom for all of Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics. By caving to Putin, Trump invites more aggression, possibly backing us into a hot war. Catastrophic stupidity.
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  2145. Hilarious. Stossel is all conservative.
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  2146.  @jumpinjakeflash1 Libertarians are small government, free market believers. That is a conservative political position, just the opposite of socialist big government. Look at Stossel’s videos carefully and you’ll see him taking aim at liberals 9/10 times. Even this piece mentions Covid censorship but not right wing book bans, or Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay, or ‘don’t say climate change’. Stossel would love to pretend that he’s unbiased but that is usually not the case.
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  2147.  @jumpinjakeflash1  Libertarians are conservatives, anti big government, pro 'free market' and you'll notice most of his darts are aimed at liberals. If he was unbiased he would have called out the censorship in GOP states, Don't say gay, don't say climate change, book bans etc.
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  2148. You must be joking. Please link some progressive Stossel 'journalism' because I've never encountered it.
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  2149. Woke to wack
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  2150. David Brooks selling kindness while writing against it for the NYT.
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  2151. I'm a Dem. but I'll gladly call bs on this till I see evidence. Just what we need more conspiracy douchiness.
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  2152. GOP finally woke up and voted like grownups against appeasing Putin. Reagan was spinning in his grave at Moscow Marjorie
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  2153. Nut job #2 loosing all sense of reality. Kennedy in Harris Administration? After trashing Biden?
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  2154. A match made in heaven
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  2155. Thomas Sowell is a legend….in his own mind. Merely a parrot of conservative dogma v
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  2156. Count me unconvinced. I support both sides, and anything that doesn’t give Jews and Palestinians a homeland has/will fail.
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  2157. Still complaining about your salary dimwit?
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  2158. Cry me a river
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  2159. Trump has forgotten, or doesn't care that we fought WW2, then rebuilt Germany, Japan and S Korea. Then brought down the USSR, not by pussyfooting, but by overpowering them with military spending. Unbelievable idiocy.
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  2160. People supporting Putin seem to have forgotten how WW2 started.
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  2161. Er, nobody, I mean nobody cares about Manchin
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  2162. Oops Rand actually standing up for something.
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  2163. Bill Maher going his own way? I'm shocked.
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  2164. More dangerous to all of us.
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  2165. No value here. Guys who can make money don’t always understand the rest of reality.
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  2166. Going soft on Russia has never, ever been US foreign policy. That's partly how we brought down the USSR and freed half of Europe and the former Soviet States. Reagan, JFK, Bush, Carter, Nixon, Eisenhower, Ford, Obama, no one, except Trump/Kennedy has offered that extremely dangerous offering to the Russians.
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  2167. Just the beginning of specious positions this dude needs to reverse on b
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  2168. VDH knows better, but now he’s got his maga YouTube rolling.
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  2169. Safe home for science denial
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  2170. Not a fan of Graham, but on this subject he’s 100% right. Vance has forgotten or never learned world history, how Reagan and American military spending helped bring down the USSR and free half of Europe. Every president of both parties (Trump* excepted) since WW2 has worked to contain both China and Russia. World peace is built on expanding democracy and protecting it. Anything else is a dangerous miscalculation.
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  2171. Now we’re getting morality lessons from the cheapest billionaire on the planet. Just stick to your strong suit, Elon: conspiracy theories.
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  2172. USAID helped eradicate smallpox and working on same for polio. Hope numbskulls at DOGE replace it with improved version.
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  2173. Bibi’s a roadblock to peace and like Trump, under indictment for being a crook.
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  2174. Elon might have had a net positive contribution before, but since he took a turn into spouting conspiracy theories it's looking more like a lose/lose for the rest of us.
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  2175. Losers all aboard
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  2176. It’s a myth. They want to ban books, control women’s lives, fatten up the rich and ignore legal elections. Don’t look for logic, it’s a cult.
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  2177. Dingbats united
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  2178.  @tomday5830  You mean white supremacists invading the capitol?
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  2179.  @HANKHILLFORTXGOVERNOR  I agree, though I think most of them lean right.
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  2180.  @ribeye2139  Use your grown up words, emojis are for kids
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  2181. Trump/Rfk ‘24
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  2182. He needs govt funds and approval for ai.
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  2183. GOP is AIPAC’s lapdog
    1
  2184. Hot air from President buffoon. Couldn’t find Israel on a map.
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  2185. JP looks like he's attending the Pimp of the Year gala.
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  2186. Thank you. Case closed. Citizens *nited
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  2187. Just say no, to Bible thumpers.
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  2188. Peterson’s political ideas often mimic the far right, from cozying up to Putin to evasive climate change denial. In other words, he’s out of his depth
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  2189. Don't wanna get shot? Live somewhere like New England, well, NY,NJ, CT,RI, MA. Fewest gun deaths per capita and strictest gun laws. Or there's LA, AR, MS and MO for the reverse.
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  2190. Dave was great; now he’s like RFK jr, he’s lost the thread.
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  2191. Your British mate, nobody cares.
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  2192. Boo hoo.
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  2193. Fetterman deserves his opinion. It’s the same opinion that’s driven the conflict for 70 years. Peace will not be achieved through picking a side in this conflict. It’s been tried ad infinitum.
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  2194. Douglas Murray dismantles the idea that he's an 'intellectual'.
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  2195. Shapiro is a middle schooler. His understanding of world politics is tissue thin.
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  2196. Limit CEO pay per Japan. Or outsource CEO jobs to Japan.
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  2197. Candace and the right wing of the GOP have lost their marbles on Russia, a fact that would have Reagan spinning in his grave.
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  2198. A bit on the pimpy side? He’s going to jail for sex trafficking. And what’s up with at suit? Is Peterson advertising his split personality?
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  2199. It’s an abomination says former bootlicker
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  2200. A victory of ego over reason. Putin appeasing, conspiracy mongering narcissist. I do like his distaste for Citizens United, but way too much crazeeee. Let him debate his fellow headcase Trump.
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  2201.  @changingworld7467 If the shoe fits. No President other than Trump has been weak on Russia since WW2. That’s how we freed Eastern Europe and brought down the USSR, that’s how we protect democracy in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. RFK is on the sidelines because he’s too factual for the right and to conspiracy for the left.
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  2202. Elon in government, what could go wrong? He'd be regulating himself and signing his own checks from NASA.
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  2203. Trump’s ready to hand Israel whatever it wants. That’s the extent of his ‘policy’.
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  2204. Guess who else benefits? All the corporations and farms that depend on immigrants. The GOP’s dirty secret.
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  2205. Yes, very ‘creative’
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  2206. Really? The man who helped engineer the needless deaths of our soldiers the phony Iraq war is giving leadership lessons? Unadulterated scumbag.
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  2207. And this is how Conservatives maintain their power. Support the rich against the poor, but tell poor whites that people of color (and liberals) are out to screw them. And rich liberals, who don’t want housing for poor people in their neighborhoods (NIMBY) and who kowtow to Wall st (Clinton, Obama) are also responsible.
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  2208. Wait till for the toxic train derailment in your neighborhood. See if Chevron comes to clean that up.
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  2209. Missouri right near the top in gun deaths per capita.
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  2210. Chappelle got old and crabby. Still funny though, sometimes.
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  2211. Those who live in glass houses…
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  2212.  @halfpakichick  Good luck with that
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  2213. Trump/Spongebob ‘24
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  2214. Good luck with selling the past.
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  2215. There’s a job in Florida for u
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  2216. Check the mortality rates for non-vax states v vax states.
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  2217. Loves Putin, thinks Prozac causes mass shootings, loves the NRA, Covid targeted blacks and Caucasians (?), Big Pharma funds the Dems (?), another loony tune narcissist promising everyone what they want.
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  2218. Conservative soap opera
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  2219. Enjoy the big house.
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  2220. Hysterical
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  2221. I’m the same and agree
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  2222. Funny how the ‘freedom’ crowd swings against it when it’s sex. Conservatives fear sexuality.
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  2223. No president, other than Trump, has ever gone soft on Russia or China. That's how we brought down the USSR and freed millions of Eastern Europeans and Soviet states from communism. That's how we protect Asian democracies. It's foreign policy insanity, the kind of kookiness that could tumble us into WW3.
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  2224. The usual right wing gibberish from a guy who lives in NYC. Why don’t you move to red country John? Hypocrite.
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  2225. Utopia dreams happen on both sides. Libertarianism is the equivalent of utopian socialism. VDH doing spin, again.
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  2226. Right wing terrorism is already the 1 threat, so apparently you're already 'retaliating'.
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  2227. That’s an amazing false equivalency. My grandfather emigrated to the US and died a millionaire and friend of a U.S. president. Don’t know of any slaves that happened too.
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  2228. History for conservatives only.
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  2229. If Russia could slaughter the Ukrainian army, it would have done so. Carlson is a know nothing isolationist willing to cave to Putin, throw NATO in the dumpster, all for ratings. Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave at these idiot tyrant appeasers.
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  2230. America, like most countries, has a mixed economy.. There is no socialist utopia, nor a libertarian one.
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  2231. Apparently referred to a case of sexual abuse that A: did not take place under Biden watch, B: was not in America or even near the border. IE blatant lying.
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  2232. This ranks right up there with ‘they’re controlling the weather’.
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  2233.  @rafezetter8003  All caps doesn’t make a stronger argument. As for Christianity having a corner on decency, that’s an obscene slander against other religions and secular values. Google church related crimes through history. As for the British Empire, it’s dwarfed by US military, economic and cultural influence based on a multicultural, multi religious society. I do believe the UK is having trouble assimilating Muslims, but we have no such problems here.
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  2234. Sounds like our GOP
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  2235.  @silencemeviolateme6076  You haven’t taken in all of Sowell’s output. ‘Obama was the worst president in history’ etc. He’s a paid conservative and his ‘scholarly’ work reflects that. Like most Conservatives, he likes to minimize the impact of American slavery. You apparently agree and I don’t.
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  2236. Red States took the brunt of Covid deaths and had lower vaccinations rates.
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  2237. And since women generally have higher levels of education, well you can draw your own conclusions.
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  2238. Deep state lizard aliens
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  2239. Read some history nitwit
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  2240. He is a hack. His comparison of world slavery to American slavery is highly specious.
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  2241. Military service should be mandatory, especially for Congressional kids. That would keep us out of optional wars like Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
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  2242.  @toddpacker1015  Agreed. That’s what Israel, Sweden and Norway do.
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  2243. America is a superpower built on multiculturalism
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  2244. Elon fires 12k workers, then demands astronomical raise.
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  2245.  @michaeljordan5972  Bolton helped start a phony war. What did Biden do that compares to that atrocity?
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  2246.  @michaeljordan5972  Biden did nothing on the scale of W phony Iraqi Freedom cluster.
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  2247.  @michaeljordan5972  What did Biden do comparable to phony Iraq War?
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  2248. Pretty ironic coming from the first prez since WW2 to befriend terrorist regime in Russia. Oh, and pardoning of rioters at capital. Guess it’s just pick your favorite rioters, constitution be damned.
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  2249. Somebody else unfamiliar with Cold War history.
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  2250. Sowell’s a mediocre economist. His opinion on Israel is just GOP boilerplate. Israeli settlers are still steadily stealing Palestinian land. There is no good guy in this fight.
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  2251. Run of the mill conservative. Trump should give him a job.
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  2252. @You’ll get some benefits, but most go to the top. And then there’s increased deficit, which Republicans pretend to care about until they’re in office. That adds to inflation. Trump’s already admitted’prices may go up’. That sounds like a promise.
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  2253. I would point out that the crowning achievement of Western civilization is democracy and its dependence on tolerance and the rule of law. So, yes, we can say that to the extent that ‘wokeness’ is intolerant, it is at fault. Conversely, to the extent that conservative politics are intolerant, they likewise fail. So any attacks on free speech, on tolerance and democracy, in either direction, are equally unacceptable.
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  2254.  @gaius_enceladus  Trump/Spongebob '24
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  2255. Hanson has proved he’s a partisan hack. The idea that Trump has a foreign policy is hilarious.
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  2256. A nationalist bigot is the same the world over.
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  2257. The poster child for corporate welfare. Amusing that he contemplated running for Prez as a dem.
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  2258. Elon, like his fellow narcissist Honest Don, is his own pr disaster.
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  2259. Trump is always denying one fiasco after another, which tells us he is the fiasco.
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  2260. Trump’s ready to give away the store to the Russians. Ronald Reagan is hyper spinning in his grave.
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  2261. Well that might be part of the swamp, but so is Citizens United and K Street, but that’s GOP turf so it’s off limits here. Can you say hypocrisy?
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  2262. Sounds sexy, comparing Rome to America, but it is utterly ridiculous. And I would remind conservatives that democracy is our greatest gift from Western Civ and one which so-called conservatives seem willing to jettison.
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  2263. The best GOP money can buy.
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  2264. What pressure?
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  2265. Gaetz is another ethically challenged Republican
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  2266. Say whatever you want then don’t whine when you’re stupidity blows back.
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  2267. There is a legit question about whether or not the US could have prevented war with Ukraine, but it is a question, not a fact.
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  2268. Trump’s gonna be the first US president to go soft on Russia, from either party. ‘Genius’.
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  2269. Okay, until she took Israel's side and quoted Douglas Murray, famous for his Islamaphobia.
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  2270. The ignorant man’s genius.Putin apologist, climate science denier and misogynist. Genius.
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  2271.  @jeffery_Automotive  Scam alert
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  2272. Sowell’s specialty, creating safe space for bigotry. Living proof that conservative intellectual is an oxymoron.
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  2273. Leo is exhibit one in the pantheon of how our political system is bought and paid for. Secretive uber conservative Catholic sect member sitting on a mountain of cash, which gets funneled (no restrictions) to political campaigns.
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  2274. Shillenberger has sold out to the conspiracy camp. Where do all the homeless in America's cities come from? Answer, the rural areas that have no jobs and no safety net. But it's a lot sexier to just bash the 'radical' left.
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  2275.  @lokai7914  What do you think the federal government is? A gift from big business? Capitalism doesn’t exist without socialism, anywhere.
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  2276.  @robertfranklin8704  Thank you
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  2277.  @lokai7914  Open a history book. Every part of the safety net was fought for with blood in America's streets, not a gift from Henry Ford (or Elon Musk). No surprise that the GOP hates the safety net because they worship at the church of the 'Free Market'. There's no free market and there's no socialist utopia, just a constantly shifting balance.
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  2278.  @jomansson5742  Sadly the same applies in our country sometimes, see Iraq War where Americans died for Bush/Cheney fantasy.
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  2279.  @teekay_1  Two sides of the same coin. Everything that keeps capitalism in check, the SEC, Social Security, FDA, FTC is not a gift from capitalism, it's socialism. The reverse is true too, socialism doesn't exist without capitalism. The 'Free Market' is a utopian concept, just like perfect socialism. It's just a spectrum.
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  2280. @@burnzitto2734 Regulatory or not they’re government entities provided for the common good, imposed on the free market. Conservatives have long tried to privatize SS; never gonna happen, retirees need guaranteed checks. Can’t have a free market without some socialism, some IRS, some Federal highways, some national parks, you name it, there’s a lot the free market doesn’t do.
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  2281. @@burnzitto2734 Yes, that makes sense on one level, but it gets very hard to manage. People would opt out, not save for retirement, then be on welfare. I certainly would ve opted out at a young age. I agree it’s not perfect. As a liberal, I also think millionaires should pay more in ss taxes (they get a pass above 140k earnings)
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  2282. There's a little concept called world peace, and the road to that concept runs through democracy and the rule of law. China and Russia, under their present regimes stand in the way. It has always been American policy to contain those dictatorships and aid democracies like Ukraine. Reagan and American military might helped bring down the USSR, free Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states and make the world safer. It was expensive, it is expensive, but world war is much more expensive.
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  2283. Feels even worse that a man who fires 12k workers then demands 50 mill raise is gonna be making decisions. But it’ll be fun watching all these egomaniacs tussle for press coverage.
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  2284. Elon and Peterson are narcissists. Peterson is clearly conservative, but Elon seems confused. Why Harris bothering to comment on or to these knuckleheads well I guess it’s all bout the clicks.
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  2285.  @Oblivionsurveyor  Genius
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  2286.  @NotLazySelectivelyMotivated  Biden didn't suggest giving Europe to Russia, or praise Putin, Jinping and Kim Jong Un.
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  2287.  @NotLazySelectivelyMotivated  Well if they believed JFK was less than a narcissistic wingnut they'd be flocking to him. They're not, he's loathed by most Dems.
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  2288.  @NotLazySelectivelyMotivated  As I pointed out, Trump is a disaster in foreign policy and 75% of America thinks he's untrustworthy. Add to that his traitorous attempt to overturn an election and it's clear to me he should be behind bars, not running for president. But many white Americans are afraid of becoming a minority, which gives him a good shot.
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  2289.  @Photologistic Kennedy’s soft on Putin, a foreign policy blunder that flies in the face of decades of American containment policy. It’s a disaster.
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  2290.  @yomamasofat77  We've had world peace, in terms of superpower conflict, since WW2. Every president since then, either party, has kept pressure on both China and Russia (both dictatorships). In that time, Russia, formerly the USSR, collapsed and Eastern Europe was freed from dictatorship. The reason Russia attacked the Ukraine is because dictatorships fear democracy. So while technically, you're probably right that Russia doesn't want to occupy Europe, but they've already shown a willingness to bully and blackmail Europe using their oil and gas supplies. As for relationships, imagine you're dealing with a bully in your neighborhood. You want to maintain a relationship, but it better be backed up by strength or he's going to bully you. That's how power politics work with dictatorships. RFK jr or Trump backing down on Ukraine goes against 75 years of American foreign policy without a hot war between superpowers. That is a serious blunder.
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  2291.  @Photologistic  He's soft on Russia and that's something we haven't done since WW2, for a good reason.
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  2292. The single biggest achievement of Western Civ is democracy. The danger to democracy, fair elections, respect for outcomes you don't like, has come from conservative America (see Jan 6 and election denial).
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  2293.  @DavidPhilopott-bq9uv  Not sure what you are driving at here? Although I understand virtue signaling as conservative code for ‘we don’t like activism’. Defilement of the environment can be pinned on the GOP who are always eager to hamper the EPA and lower public safety standards. Lack of virtue is going to be in the eye of the beholder. I see little virtue emanating from the GOP presidential candidate.
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  2294. The enemy is religious extremism from every religion.
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  2295. Crotchety old conservative tilting at windmills
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  2296. medical problem
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  2297. Another apologist for Trump and his treasonous caving to Russia. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Reagan helped collapse the USSR and free Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. Geopolitics for kids.
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  2298. America is a superpower because of its multiculturalism, but it's been relatively easier for us since the country was built on immigration.
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  2299. ​ @TheFragilityOfIdeas  Do a quick historical and geographical comparison of Brazil and America. What are America's reasons for being a superpower in spite of its demographics? The Chinese built our railroads, Jews built Hollywood, slaves built the South. Ex-Nazis built our space program. When I see film from around the world or listen to music, I see mostly American cultural influence, not Japanese or French or Dutch. The attack on multiculturalism comes from older countries that do not have a history of integration. I will be the first to admit to America's shortcomings, but multiculturalism is an inevitable force as the world grows smaller, more integrated. Calls for monoculture in this country, are often simply racism disguised.
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  2300. Vs voting for who? The GOP who wasted American blood in Iraq and are certain to make a worse mess of Palestinian rights? Or Jill Stein as a ‘protest ‘ vote. Everyone wants that perfect politician without realizing how many compromises are built into the job.
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  2301.  @jt9096  What lesson? Arab Americans weren’t going to win this election. Racism won it.
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  2302. It's just a 'fluke' that Petersen's admirer's are all men, mostly young. Nothing to do with his virulently anti-feminist, pro patriarchal, let's turn back the clock on history ideology.
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  2303. Stossel loves to call out the Feds, never right wing hypocrisy
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  2304. Show us the right wing version, cuz ya'll sure do whine a lot.
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  2305. Child slavery? How about doing something meaningful about a real issue like stagnant wages? Oh, no, the free market will solve that. The right likes to complain about lefty culture warriors, well Harley’s the righty version.
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  2306. Trump/Hitler 24
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  2307. You don’t debate petulant children; that gives them the impression they’re doing something right. Look at Covid deaths by state and vaccinations. Deep South was killing ground.
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  2308. You’re cherry picking hypocrisy and patriotism. Your presidential candidate is a walking, talking disgrace.
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  2309. The KKK called they want their hoods back.
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  2310. ?
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  2311. Conspiracy dingbat preaching to his fellow tin hat enthusiasts.
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  2312. Tax 'em. They want to move to Texas, Elon, go right ahead.
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  2313. Oh he’s just like Thiel and other tech bros with aristocratic, tyrannical attitudes towards us peons. $ goes to their heads.
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  2314. It's the right picking up guns and explosives. Just caught somebody outside Obama's house.
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  2315. The late great Hannibal Lecter etc.
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  2316.  @MA-yc7pz  Google media bias chart. CNN to the left, Fox to the right, but Fox near the bottom on accuracy.
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  2317.  @apopkawz  Great white re-placement unstoppable.
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  2318. Of course. Dimon’s not gonna let a little thing like global climate disaster get in the way of making more cash. Thought he might run for prez as a Dem? Whatcha smokin playa?
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  2319. Let’s see, the two biggest narcissists I can think of are a former president and Elon. Both from the right side of the spectrum.
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  2320. He's an SNL parody of himself
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  2321. The KKK wants their hood back.
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  2322. Elon is all about attention, just like his hero Trump.
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  2323. Valuetainment deciding what’s respected?
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  2324. SCOTUS just ruled in support of bribed mayor, 6-3, you can guess who thinks it’s a good idea
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  2325. Protests don’t pose any threat. Continuing down the same road with Netanyahu will cost us in reputation, oil prices and the possibility of a wider Middle East war. Hanson is a teacher of ancient history, but he’s useless in the modern world.
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  2326. Why have an editorial board if the billionaire owner's calling the shots? What other headlines does he get to shoot down? Why bother with free press?
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  2327.  @everything.4011  That's why you hire pros to run your newspaper, left or right. Why bother with the press at all, just have the owner mail in the headlines. I don't think you quite grasp the idea of a free press. If everything is based on the biggest piggy bank, then guess who's handing you your news? Not poor people, not middleclass people, just billionaires. Calling Harris 'controversial' is pretty funny considering her opponent.
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  2328.  @everything.4011  Endorsements come from the opinion page. You have a shaky understanding of what free press means.
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  2329. Wrong, Putin doesn't want any more democracy on his doorstep - because - jeez, then Russians are gonna see what's available next door, in a former Soviet republic, and they may want the same.
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  2330. Is Kisin a good comedian because he’s not much of an intellectual.
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  2331. Sadder than Trump because I believe RFK jr stood for something once upon a time. Now it's just cuckoo buffet of policies that don't hold together.
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  2332. Thanks for nothing, as usual. Empty libertarian dreaming.
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  2333. Yeah, cuz 3rd party candidates have a great history at the polls. Narcissists r us.
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  2334. Can't think his way out of a paper bag, just selling righty bs
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  2335. Let’s remember that both types of government involve fair elections and peaceful transfer of power.
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  2336. Insulted Trump, then kissed the ring. The integrity of a paper boat.
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  2337. Fox can’t fled the UK because they monitor broadcast news for falsehoods. Could we have that, preferably before democracy goes under?
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  2338. What Russia has is capitalism without guardrails or kleptocracy. Our version is also short of protections for common people, but it is undoubtedly better.
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  2339.  @SH-lb1nu  Don’t know about the UK, but the US is a superpower in every sense because of immigration and assimilation. We have an advantage in the country being based on it, however.
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  2340. We’ll see how the mandate works out at next election
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  2341. They’re afraid of more regulation see EUROPE fines levied against tech titans.
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  2342.  @philsigman9088  I’m smart enough to understand context. Is this video meant to enlighten people about the Aztecs, or to give cover to conservatives who don’t believe slavery was that bad? Look at the body of Sowell’s ‘work’. He was an economist, but he’s only read by lay people not professionals. He’s a right wing pundit paid by Hoover since the 70s. This Aztec history is common knowledge, something taught in basic history.
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  2343.  @xchen3079  Your grammar is reprehensible
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  2344.  @davidhouseman4328  you seem to be denying
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  2345.  @loicrodriguez2532  Anyone with a basic knowledge of history is well aware that white men have no monopoly on brutality, so that debate isn’t much of a debate. I have combed through Sowell’s work and it hews to conservative dogma, albeit with a veneer of erudition. These videos are meant to support resentful conservatives, and the comments will show you just that. American slavery and its present aftermath are not analogous to pre-Christian Aztec or Viking or Comanche atrocities.
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  2346.  @davidhouseman4328  obfuscated
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  2347. While I agree with the sentiment, Mullahs lecturing America on free speech is exponential irony.
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  2348.  @PopeOfTheBullpuptistChurch  no modern democracy was ever saved from tyranny by armed civilians
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  2349.  @PopeOfTheBullpuptistChurch  no modern democracy has been saved from tyranny by armed civilians. Mythology
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  2350.  @PopeOfTheBullpuptistChurch  Modern democracies. We aren't Vietnam or Afghanistan or Ireland.
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  2351.  @PopeOfTheBullpuptistChurch I didn't know about Athens. Interesting, but not exactly a civil war. I've been watching world politics for a lifetime, South Africa, Asia, South America, Eastern Europe. Armed resistance has 'worked' lots of places, but it's never even happened in a democracy. You want us to copy Afghanistan? Are you rooting for a civil war? Semi-automatic weapons are killing an awful lot of citizens, including children just so we can be 'protected' against the FBI taking over America. Democracy is in place to protect against violence. That's history and it's worked amazing well. See Russia, China, Iran, Syria, most of the Islamic world for countries that don't have democracy.
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  2352. Sachs seems to have skipped history class where he would have learned that US military spending helped demolish the USSR and free half of Europe. He would also have learned that containment of dictatorships has been America policy since Truman, under both parties.
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  2353.  @ShardofManus  conservatives don’t believe in peer-review
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  2354. The GOP and SCOTUS have been playing hardball all along, ignoring the rule of law. Time for the Dems to take off the gloves. I don’t want to see Fauci in front of some kangaroo court while Trump and his jesters eat Big Macs in the Oval Office.
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  2355.  @SENSEF  Most qualified to cook the books, hide his conflict of interest as has been shown by DOGE’s numerous accounting flaws.
    1
  2356. We understand you people easily.
    1
  2357. Hilarious
    1
  2358. We don’t. And what the hell is Peternut wearing?
    1
  2359. Useless
    1
  2360. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Thanks for trying to set fire to democracy.
    1
  2361. Old Biden, Fascist Trump, Dingbat RFK jr.
    1
  2362. X would be in better shape if Elon had less cash and actually had to make it work. As it is he can afford to use it as his clown megaphone
    1
  2363. Peterson incapable of succinct thought outside of his motivational speaking. Politics, Ukraine, Climate change, sexism; it’s all just conservative boilerplate.
    1
  2364. Want to know what a loony billionaire car crash looks like?
    1
  2365. Elon’s has said ‘a government run by high status males is preferable to democracy. Never mind it took us 2k years to reach democracy.
    1
  2366. Dumb and dumber. Being born in Russia doesn’t make you an expert in anything other than maybe emigration. I have a hard time believing Kisin was ever amusing.
    1
  2367. Noem bringing conspiracy to our national security on day one. Turning us into a clown country.
    1
  2368.  @dalesingle5534  The FBI, like most law enforcement agencies, has historically been right leaning, with dossiers on communists, MLK, the Kennedys, gays, Vietnam protesters etc. Its laughable to think it's a liberal conspiracy. Trump got investigated for trying to throw an election, which in my mind is treason straight and simple. So everyone who tried to uphold the law is now a liberal conspirator. Clown country is where we are. Great time to be a Russian or Chinese spy.
    1
  2369. Ain’t nothing stopping the Great Replacement
    1
  2370. I’d say Trump voters, supporting a con man who tried to rig an election, well that looks anti-American to me. Sowell’s made a few interesting points about black culture, but mostly he’s just a conservative preacher.
    1
  2371. Putin so glad to have Trump and RFK jr in his corner, but JFK and RR are spinning in their graves at this stupidity.
    1
  2372. 'In a sense there will always be slaves and masters, it's just religion has found a way to make the chains invisible.' No exactly sure what this means, but it has a very creepy, 'don't question the spiritual leader' vibe.
    1
  2373. The I’m running for PR candidate. Conspiracy theories, brain worms, dead bears and, most severely, soft on Russia, something no US prez has ever done (Trump excepted). Crying no tears as his campaign deflates.
    1
  2374. Trump cares about one person only
    1
  2375. Trying to sugarcoat Elon, good luck with that.
    1
  2376. What? Thought SpongeBob was a lock.
    1
  2377. You mean white citizens?
    1
  2378. Always leading the charge to appease Putin.
    1
  2379. You know there are corrupt Dems, but the GOP just teaches a masterclass in bribery
    1
  2380. It’s the Musk ego v the Musk business sense. Guess which is winning? The techie Trump.
    1
  2381. Dems have not done enough. Also a black female candidate was too much for many. But if you're anyone other than a wealthy American, prepare to get royally trashed. The modern GOP has alway been the party of the rich, always played the race card. add ignorance and you've got Trump.
    1
  2382. Please show me written proof that Trump actually paid attention and completed assignments at Wharton for his MBA. The man can barely read.
    1
  2383. Brought to you by fracking billionaires. As if cash will save them from the weather. The stupidity/greed is breathtaking.
    1
  2384.  @BOTNPC  You’re 1% hypothesis is hilarious. Look at who runs religions, in government it’s close to male 66%, in the Fortune 500 CEOS are 75% male. It isn’t a matter of who has issues, clearly both men and women are suffering. But take male suicide for example. In a world where machismo/patriarchal attitudes are the dominant model, men will not seek out mental health. That is why some kind of equality, and the erasure of machismo, is desirable for both sexes. Your argument about the justice system needs clarification because a huge percentage of rapes go unsolved and until recently sexual harassment wasn’t a norm. So I don’t say boys are not being failed, but the cause is partly that the old tough guy attitudes are not easily changed, as evidenced dramatically by the statements and actions of the GOP presidential ticket.
    1
  2385.  @BOTNPC  Is there a point to your 1% of whatever? Men are in control, in power and have been for centuries. So whining about feminism is just looking for a scapegoat for problems that men have created. "literally the way things should be" not sure what that refers to, but it's an opinion, not a fact.
    1
  2386. Narcissists on parade
    1
  2387. Nationalists always deal in bigotry, that’s how they acquire power. Modi a perfect example.
    1
  2388. No. Not gonna happen. Just a wet dream for wannabe Rambos.
    1
  2389. Capitalism and socialism are two sides of the same coin. Neither functions without the other.
    1
  2390. Yeah, why bother to help eradicate smallpox or polio. Fits perfectly with the greedy, narcissists these two are. Check Elon’s gifts to charity.
    1
  2391.  @spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069  kisin’s as independent as Reagan was
    1
  2392. Trump/Kennedy ‘24
    1
  2393. Law and order party all about the laws they like. What if Perry had shot a s white nationalist? He’d do all of his time. A disgrace.
    1
  2394. Nader, schmader. BRacism won this race.
    1
  2395. JP can cry all he wants, but he earned his woman hating reputation. "Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination."
    1
  2396. Anti-feminist conservative blather.
    1
  2397. It is, but not for the reasons you think.
    1
  2398. Gun violence is a bigger problem in the US
    1
  2399. "Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination". I read you loud and clear, Petersen.
    1
  2400.  @Stanislav-i5s  Maybe to a young man
    1
  2401.  @Stanislav-i5s  Another couple decades. Old enough to see that the fight for gender equality has been advancing slowly and will end in some rough parity of power.
    1
  2402.  @Rick55749  What did y’all scream when Obamacare came down the road? Yeah, socialism. Same with SS and Medicare. We’ve got a mixed economy.
    1
  2403. Yes the border is a problem, but Russia has nuclear weapons trained on us, so paying Ukraine to degrade Putin’s tinpot regime is a cheap, effective policy. Reagan would have understood and so would JFK.
    1
  2404. Conservative boilerplate. Guess what happens when you hire Elon? He pays himself.
    1
  2405. Don't think Trump ever cracked a history book or he'd know that our bipartisan, anti-Russia policy freed Eastern Europe and Soviet satellites from dictatorship.
    1
  2406. Men still in charge in government, religion and big business. Boo hoo.
    1
  2407. Trump-cession on the horizon, so much for lowering inflation and helping average Americans.
    1
  2408. Real free market never been tried either, for a good reason. Can't have capitalism without socialism and vice versa
    1
  2409.  @shauncameron8390  Take away unions, the safety net, the FTC, just to name a few, and you’ve got a dysfunctional capitalist state.
    1
  2410.  @shauncameron8390  No SS, No Food Stamps, No Medicare, No FTC, No SEC. Good luck with that 'free market'.
    1
  2411. Elon great at firing people. Gifts to charity? Zilch.
    1
  2412. Cry me a river Elon. You’re destroying X merely to feed your bloated ego.
    1
  2413. America is turning brown, Trump or no.
    1
  2414. Fox owes a hundred times that amount for lying about the election. Tit for tat.
    1
  2415.  @ferdinanddaratenas3447  yeah wonder why ‘family values’ and ‘religion’ and ‘patriotism’ are declining? Maybe it’s the hypocrisy of people touting those values then voting for a narcissistic rapist for president.
    1
  2416. I’d pay to see Trump Musk debate. Narcissist Throw Down
    1
  2417. Not in America
    1
  2418. Economists disagree just like sociologists.
    1
  2419. Sorry to burst your bubble, but there are plenty of ‘elites’ on your side of the fence. Senators Hawley, Cotton, Vance, Rubio, and Gov DeSantis are just some of the Ivy League grads in the GOP. Then you’ve got Peter Thiel, Musk, Andreessen etc from the billionaire column. ‘Elites’ is a con perpetrated by influencers, usually from the right.
    1
  2420.  @MatheusLB2009  I’m fine with the cash I got. Thanks for the offer.
    1
  2421.  @CarmenM-nc3cq  Don’t need 200 billion to innovate. Once you have that money, you stop innovating and start politicking.
    1
  2422. Glad Trump wasn’t around for WW2, he would have sold Europe out for German bratwurst. Unbelievable idiocy.
    1
  2423. JP is an example of toxic masculinity: “Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.”
    1
  2424. Musk is just a techie Trump, unloved and unhinged.
    1
  2425. Libertarian ideals are going to hit a wall of reality.
    1
  2426.  @toxiccan175  Google it.
    1
  2427.  @ZaMonolith1986  stats.
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  2428.  @ZaMonolith1986  stats
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  2429. There's utopia at both ends of the spectrum, both as unrealistic.
    1
  2430. Kisin obviously avoiding the Trump attack on democracy cuz it doesn’t fit his narrative.
    1
  2431. Caught by the Matrix, sucker.
    1
  2432.  @theredstar6493  America has problems with rape, but not gang rape.
    1
  2433. More claptrap from British MAGA
    1
  2434. I would point out that the single greatest achievement of Western Civ is democracy, a concept that not all American conservatives seem to appreciate.
    1
  2435. Blame the millennials. I’ve heard blame the boomers, blame the old folks, blame this and that. Ignorance personified.
    1
  2436.  @shlomogrundy  History much
    1
  2437. Clickbait.
    1
  2438. There’s a place at Hogwarts for the Wizard of Gibberish
    1
  2439. Stossel has the critical thinking skills of a fourth grader, at best.
    1
  2440. Fine if you like boilerplate GOP propaganda. Otherwise don’t waste your time.
    1
  2441. They have a lot in common, their main worry is their own cash.
    1
  2442. Elon in government is a great idea, then he can sign his own paychecks. What could go wrong?
    1
  2443. Pure Fox BS
    1
  2444. Trump should be in the big house. He’ll be remembered as a traitor to democracy.
    1
  2445. Maher's starting to be a good fit on Fox
    1
  2446. SCOTUS is the laughing stock and even they are unlikely to overturn.
    1
  2447. I guess he’s an intellectual, but his arguments on climate ‘alarmism’, the Ukraine, women, race, guns etc. make him more of a contrarian right wing mouthpiece than original thinker.
    1
  2448. Both red and blue voters agree on this
    1
  2449. Elon's a poster child for 'being rich isn't the same as being smart'. The hero of hate, champion of narcissists.
    1
  2450. Got some Florida real estate I want to sell you Stossel.
    1
  2451.  @help8help  Interesting. I read Lewis as a child. Great author, but I do not share his beliefs.
    1
  2452. Deep state? Is that like when you get too high?
    1
  2453. Well it ain’t a double barreled shotgun.
    1
  2454. I'll be supporting the law. Rants are not facts.
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  2455. Elon’s got financial ties to China., so his ‘views’ will reflect that. Cash first, patriotism/common sense second.
    1
  2456. Your idea of god is a threat to freedom.
    1
  2457.  @superoldgamesaturday3277  Democrats were the KKK back in those days, the party of the south, ie conservatives
    1
  2458. Religious fundamentalism is the enemy of democracy. Islam is behind the curve, but it’s not the only religion with intolerance issues b
    1
  2459. That’s the fox in the chicken coop; Musk has NASA contracts. Think he’ll audit himself, think again.
    1
  2460. Somebody broke their toy.
    1
  2461. Perry’s this generation’s iteration of ‘family values’. I would hardly label her non-partisan; her appearances tend to be with other righties.
    1
  2462. I can tell you who Reagan would've backed, and it aint Putin.
    1
  2463. Never in my 68 year life would this off the rails bozo have been nominated. Sign of the insane times.
    1
  2464. Good question. Hope your voting for better gun laws because firearms have passed cars as #1 killer of kids.
    1
  2465. If Elon and co were taxed back into centi millionaires, they’d be working at their businesses instead of fouling democracy with their imaginary wisdom.
    1
  2466. Extreme nationalism is a hallmark of the right.
    1
  2467. Extreme nationalism shows up across the political spectrum. See the GOP and every Euro right wing party.
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  2468.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  That doesn’t match reality, India, MAGA, every Euro right wing party is nationalist.
    1
  2469.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  Please show evidence that Franco was socialist, he was clearly a Catholic Nationalist dictator. And that's pure evasion on Pinochet. He was a conservative nationalist. Your 'one shoe fits all' blinkered version of history is ideological blindness.
    1
  2470. We paid reparations in the form of land, 1/2 million acres from SC to FL, after Civil War, then we took it back. That land today is worth roughly 1/2 trillion dollars.
    1
  2471. RFK for Tin Hat Party Nomination. Or GOP.
    1
  2472.  @gibster9624  thank you, so tired of that halfwit line.
    1
  2473. Both have elected officials.
    1
  2474. I’ll let Peterson define himself for you: ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’.
    1
  2475. I think Petersen is going to be represented in a lot of fiction. He’s a great character, kinda smart, kinda evil.
    1
  2476. Paid for by Prager founders and fracking billionaire Wilkes bros.
    1
  2477.  @MalachiWhite-tw7hl  Oil industry has been studying climate change since the ‘70s and burying the conclusions. If you’re a consumer of oil pr, I can’t help you.
    1
  2478.  @MalachiWhite-tw7hl  Drill baby drill
    1
  2479. Cranky old white guys whining about their irrelevance.
    1
  2480.  @rugter2855  He’s a know nothing racist, sexist, Putin loving, climate change denier. He’ll end up in the trash bin of history; he’s already half way there. No teaching job, no license to practice.
    1
  2481. Ayatollah wannabe
    1
  2482. See ya.
    1
  2483. Love to be a fly on the wall when Elon's ego butts up against The Prez. Comedic gold.
    1
  2484. Vance forgot we fought and died fighting AGAINST the Nazis. And the phrase ‘enemies within’ is straight out of Mao or Stalin.
    1
  2485. Libertarianism equals pie in the sky socialism, neither function in the 3 dimensional world.
    1
  2486. Life down in the bunker
    1
  2487. Affirmative action began under JFK at a time when conservatives were offering lynching as an alternative policy. History counts.
    1
  2488. Exactly. Brought to you by the funders of Prager, fracking family Wilkes.
    1
  2489. Dingbat narcissist who doesn’t believe in climate science or gun law reform. Elon Musk’s older conspiracy cousin.
    1
  2490. In a sign of how out of touch he is, rfk jr would be denigrating the foreign policy goals of both Reagan and JFK with his cave to Putin opinions. Unbelievable naïveté about global power politics.
    1
  2491. Pelosi carries a chunk of the blame for not reining in congressional insider trading. Good for millionaire congress -people, bad for average Americans.
    1
  2492. Trump’s negotiating with Putin is a scary joke. Kindergartner negotiating with a hitman.
    1
  2493. Your understanding of economics is atrocious.
    1
  2494. Is he a Representative of the people or of Exxon/Shell?
    1
  2495. Nonsense. Missouri right at the top of gun deaths per capita.
    1
  2496. Bozo brain ‘explaining’ economics, another field he’s woefully inadequate to discuss.
    1
  2497. Billionaires serve no purpose and wield far too much political power. I hear no mention of Elon burning down X just to have his own megaphone. With less money, Musk would be forced to deal with market forces. This dudes ‘solution’ is namby pamby emptiness, ‘shop local?’ Raise taxes.
    1
  2498. Trump pretends he’s got a magic wand.
    1
  2499. Republicans for the working class is like sharks becoming vegans.
    1
  2500. All the excuses for denying gay/lgbtq rights to Africans have been heard forever in America. They’ve also been used against black Americans and other minorities. ‘Family values’, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’; all these come under the name of fundamental religious conservatism which is also usually misogynist. There is no excuse for abrogating civil rights on the basis of gender or sexuality.
    1
  2501. Loves Putin, guns are good, climate change doesn't matter, doesn't like feminism, or civil rights. He's a conservative mouthpiece, enjoy if he's your thing.
    1
  2502. Then how about showing us the books and becoming an actual lawful employee of the government. DOGE is error filled so far.
    1
  2503. No. Especially not if it's just a surrender to Russia. Trump and MAGA's isolationist policies, failures across history, are a disaster.
    1
  2504. Don't think he'd jump on Trump or JR's loony tunes bandwagon
    1
  2505. No president from either party has ever gone soft on Russia. That ended the Cold War, brought down the Iron Curtain and freed Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. Insanity.
    1
  2506. And since he's a holocaust survivor, that should tell you something about how much perspective he has.
    1
  2507. The only thing Sowell is destroying is logic.
    1
  2508. No prez has ever backed down to Russian mobsters, resulting in the fall of the USSR and the freedom of Eastern Europe and former states. You want to prevent war? You support democracy. Modern democracies rarely fight other democracies.
    1
  2509. Racism, the GOP lives on it.
    1
  2510. Height of hypocrisy for Trump, friend of Putin, pointing fingers at ‘terrorist helpers’. Oh what about Jan 6 rioters; I don’t think Khalil actually killed anyone.
    1
  2511. Hey Elon, how about giving your workers a few crumbs from your golden table. Let ‘‘em unionize, you’re looking like a reincarnation of H Ford.
    1
  2512. Trump’s ’negotiating’ skills on full view.
    1
  2513. Please join the GOP, the home of conspiracy
    1
  2514. Why is RFK running? He can’t win, but he can make himself feel important. Trumps mini-me.
    1
  2515. My question is why is Islam society in general ‘behind’ other religions in democracy, women’s rights etc. Christianity was not much different in the Middle Ages. Why was there no enlightenment in Islam?
    1
  2516. I wanna see Musk’s financial information if he’s running anything.
    1
  2517. Sowell’s not much of an intellectual by his own standards. The ‘ideas’ he’s come up with are simple, conservative evasions of history.
    1
  2518. Trump/Stalin ‘24
    1
  2519. We had that in the old days; it was called racism.
    1
  2520. Do not pass go, go directly to jail. If you sell you secrets to a foreign government, you do serious jail time. If you try to throw an election, same should apply.
    1
  2521. A dangerous idiot. Every president since WW2 has kept Russia on the defensive and that’s how Eastern Europe was freed. Both JFK and Reagan would flay this fool for his appeasement
    1
  2522. Fox doesn’t have journalists
    1
  2523. Rightly so since it seems to omit the negatives of fossil fuels
    1
  2524. I didn't like Hunter's dealing abroad on his name and I like Kushner's 'business' exactly the same.
    1
  2525. Weinstein is either very confused or very detached from reality. A democrat? No, some kind of fantasy libertarian sniping at all sides as if there were some perfect objective solution. Can't make up his mind on who to vote for? That says it all.
    1
  2526.  @oldsalt8011  His failure to get anything done is thievery of tax dollars.
    1
  2527. Netanyahu days are numbered. Like Trump, his only salvation is staying in power, otherwise he’s in court. No interest in peace.
    1
  2528. It'll take time. If America had real democracy instead of the empty Dakotas having four senators, it would happen faster. But it will happen because a majority of Americans already support change. The idea that the 2nd ammendment protects us from tyranny is a myth; no modern democracy was ever saved by armed citizens.
    1
  2529. Ron, climate denier watching his own state drown.
    1
  2530. The 1st amendment has limitations. For a reason.
    1
  2531. Counter elites ie right leaning billionaires
    1
  2532. Ex-clinical psychologist and present poor man’s intellectual.
    1
  2533. The backlash is well underway, just look at mass shootings by young men.
    1
  2534. Despite Trump/Elon, America is more fully integrated than most countries in the world. Asia, no. India, no. Most of Europe, no. We’ve had 200 years of practicing integration. Trump is the backlash against that integration by a chunk of white America that can’t accept the growing of America and the world.
    1
  2535. Dimon says what’s good for Dimon and he can turn on a dime, which he just did on the head spinning Trump tariff follies. Hilarious to think he imagined running for prez as a democrat.
    1
  2536. I’m shocked, shocked I say at Fox’s position on this chart.
    1
  2537. No labels, no ideas and seemingly no morals
    1
  2538. There is a crisis of educated leaders, Peterson followers prove that.
    1
  2539. Blah blah blah. Trump has the reins of the deep state now and it doesn’t look good for the rule of law.
    1
  2540. He’s a fool, period.
    1
  2541. This won’t be news to anyone with a passing knowledge of communism.
    1
  2542. Hanson on the right side of an argument for once. MAGA lost their minds on this issue when they tried to defund Ukraine.
    1
  2543.  @chrishaughey648  Not sure he's reconciled that in his own mind.
    1
  2544. Communism has been thoroughly debunked, what Peterson loves to imply is that socialism is communism. A ridiculously unhinged claim.
    1
  2545. Conservatives avoiding racism..
    1
  2546. Cross check states that didn’t vaccinate with Covid deaths
    1
  2547. Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination-JP.
    1
  2548. RFK, Trump, Musk, imagine the press conference with those egos.
    1
  2549. Spin Hannity spin, Trump’s Putin’s lapdog and Ronald Reagan would vomit.
    1
  2550.  @marcdanieltheriault3955  it's ideology
    1
  2551. Fake news is a fake concept for someone who wants to make it up as he goes.
    1
  2552. Musk would tweet a lot less if he had to actually run businesses. Tax him a hundred bil and see if X starts making money.
    1
  2553. The whole idea of body count leans against women. Never was a topic until #metoo. Bias is built in, just like there’s no male equivalent to the word slut, or whore.
    1
  2554. The KKK has a job opening
    1
  2555. ‘I want everybody to stop dying’. Then stop spewing hate and inciting violence cuz you’ve got plenty of blood on your hands.
    1
  2556. Let me know when Trump fixes something.
    1
  2557. That's fine. Plenty of people agree with you and no one is forcing you to hookup. But that doesn't mean you're somehow superior to someone who does want that. Then you're just curtailing someone else's freedom.
    1
  2558. What Weinstein is arguing against is intolerance and the chief purveyor of that ideology is the right with no better example than the GOP presidential candidate. Democracy folks.
    1
  2559. Let SCOTUS try their ‘originalist’ beliefs on the 14th.
    1
  2560. Yes, funny how everyone seeks out mainstream views, instead of crank junk.
    1
  2561. Once you’ve heard Douglas rant, you’ll be able to predict everything going forward. Complete ideologue.
    1
  2562. Murray doesn't do nuance; it's good vs evil. Typical black and white, childish conservatism.
    1
  2563. I think that must be what RFK is looking for, because he’s sure deficient in historical awareness
    1
  2564. Says the dude making it up as he goes. Hilarious
    1
  2565. These fools wouldn't question 97% of doctors if they got a cancer diagnosis, but they will question 97% of climate scientists because it doesn't tally with their 'thinking'. 1/3 of Pakistand went underwater last year, Italy is having a 'once in a hundred year flood', Ft. Lauderdale had 2 ft of rain in 24 hrs, Western Canada is on fire with more acreage burned than in the last five years combined. But go ahead and put your head in the sand.
    1
  2566. Elon is the techie Trump, the ego is in charge.
    1
  2567. If you’re getting all your history from this bro, you’re a long way from educated.
    1
  2568. Are u kidding?
    1
  2569. Let me clue you in, Vivek is far right, doesn’t have a clue on any real world issues other than to cry “conspiracy” ie 9/11 a government plot. ‘Our goal is not for Putin to lose.’ Yes it is.
    1
  2570. Not much of an idea, sort of a shopworn trueism.
    1
  2571. Fundamentalists the world over are violent and misogynistic.
    1
  2572. Peterson most famous for serving up ‘word salads’.
    1
  2573. Well guns are the #1 killer of children, so that ought to rank up there.
    1
  2574.  @rudysmith1552  The KKK has a job opening for you.
    1
  2575. Ooops, far right loses in France.
    1
  2576. Poor guy got depressed in elementary school learning about slavery. Cry me a river.
    1
  2577. Hilarious
    1
  2578. Hilarious
    1
  2579. The problem with billionaires
    1
  2580. I would advise you to look at the world's #1 economic, military and cultural superpower. Hint it's not China or Russia or South Korea.
    1
  2581. All you need to know is that right wing SCOTUS passed Citizens United legalizing dark money.
    1
  2582. Simpleminded conservative gobbledygook. Multiculturalism is the future. America, for all its many faults, is a military, economic and cultural juggernaut because we assimilate and we innovate.
    1
  2583. Libertarians are conservatives afraid to come out of the closet. They vote GOP. Mystery solved.
    1
  2584. Builders can’t build by themselves cuz greed. It’s a balance, but that’s too nuanced for Stossel.
    1
  2585. I was wildly excited then Trump admitted lowering food costs would be ‘hard’.
    1
  2586. Elon the truth teller, hysterical
    1
  2587. Never seen America in this hole before. SCOTUS just making it up as they go.
    1
  2588. America needs ofcom. Conservatives are just hiding dogma as fact behind free speech.
    1
  2589. Sorry. Free blacks owning 12k slaves is a drop in the bucket to the 3.5 million owned by whites. Yes, you can find conservative black people, but it doesn't let us off the hook.
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  2590. Why is it that all these failed pundits are former liberals? Why didn’t Marxism go away, asks mr interviewer? Why does it keep coming back? Because it’s the inverse of capitalism and it’s never going to go away. Capitalism can’t function without the state to regulate it. Not complicated. I would substitute socialism for Marxism, but righties love to throw out the scarier ‘Marxism’. N
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  2591. Most of the crybabies are snowflake dudes like the former president insisting he’s more popular than Taylor.
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  2592. Conservative ideology for the ignorant.
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  2593.  @isaac6077  Both true
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  2594. There’s a reason for book banning. Those who favor it would rather hide certain information from the public, be it the ideal of democracy in dictatorships, or in the case of run of the mill conservatives anything to do with sexuality (oh my), civil rights or the dread socialism.
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  2595. We built NATO to prevent WWIII. This may be Trump's most dangerous, ignorant comment yet and the bar was low. Make Jail Great Again.
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  2596. Remember ''22. Trump's candidates failed.
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  2597. You can’t be a scholar and a mouthpiece for conservative dogma. Sowell’s chosen the 2nd.
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  2598. Sowell creating safe spaces for bigots. Again.
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  2599. Elon rules (in his own mind), just like his buddy Don
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  2600. Musk has said that a republic of high status males would be better than democracy. Guess who never read any history.
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  2601. For those treating Putin like some great leader lets make clear that under his regime enemies find themselves 'falling' out of upper story windows. Reporters, politicians, sometimes former 'friends' of Putin meet untimely accidental deaths. To cave in to this man, is to betray American values, it's a betrayal of democracy and an acceptance of continued aggression from Putin's regime.
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  2602.  @alinaramsey5101  check your stats
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  2603. Trump had one plus on foreign policy, his aversion to US military adventures. Unfortunately that doesn’t excuse backing down to Putin, cozying up to Kim Jong or helping set the stage for the current Israeli/Arab war.
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  2604. When you live in a glass house, stone throwing is ill advised.
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  2605.  @DonaldTChump  nah, just an armchair insurrectionist.
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  2606. We paid reparations then reneged. That payment would be worth roughly half a trillion today.
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  2607. We’re living a Monty Python sketch.
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  2608. Woke will end when we have some equality, never mind conservative fear about gender roles.
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  2609. What a laugh. Obama the worst president? I don't have to go far to find two worse presidents among Trump and W. The Iraq War, shedding American blood for nothing? This explains why Sowell is considered a partisan hack, not the scholar he wishes to appear.
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  2610. Hey folks. Racism and sexism and homophobia didn’t start in the 60’s. Cluelessness
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  2611. I'll take DEI over the sheer incompetence of Trump's nominees.
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  2612.  @longgone9738  I suspect very few Americans are going to enjoy the next. Reality check is coming fast, and the midterms are in 26.
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  2613. Climate denial is political posturing gone evil. Stossel’s a knee jerk conservative toeing the party line. But he is supported by 3% of the world’s scientists. Do the math.
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  2614. Boo hoo
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  2615.  @vengeance2825  History, not conspiracy
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  2616. He doesn’t care, unless it affects stock market. Bull in a china shop.
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  2617. How about can we afford Elon Musk’s pay package? I’d rather send that to Ukraine.
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  2618. Rehire those 12k employees you just laid off and take a few bil off your raise, Elon.
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  2619. He’s closer than Trump and W by a country mile.
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  2620. Bot
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  2621. RFK’s position on Ukraine is plenty to disqualify him, though it’s pretty close Trump. Being weak on Russia is something no president from either party has ever done since WW2. The USSR collapsed under Teagan freeing millions of Eastern Europeans and former Soviet states. Isolationism is a failure, see America’s late entry into WW2.
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  2622.  @BazookaTooth707  That's a pretty low bar that he can out argue Trump. Anyone with some historical knowledge knows that it is in America's interest, the world's interest, the interests of freedom and democracy, to undermine dictatorships. I agree with RFK on some issues, but there are too many, like Ukraine, vaccinations and his other conspiracy theories where he's just out to lunch. I don't trust him and think he's simply fishing for attention and power. He's talked to both campaigns about joining them. That's not a sign of integrity.
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  2623. Squawk, squawk, the free market is magical. Look around folks.
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  2624. America is the world superpower militarily, economically and culturally because of our multicultural society.
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  2625. OMG, the Dems are in China’s pocket! As if no GOP businesses are cashing in at that trough. And hey, your phone comes from China as does half the stuff you own. Oh, and why is that conservatives hate China but love Russia’s Putin? Both are murderous dictatorships with ICBMs aimed at the US. Both are friends with N Korea and Iran. You can’t like Putin and hate China and call it logic.
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  2626. boo hoo
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  2627. Libertarianism is as successful as utopian socialism. Doesn’t work in the real world.
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  2628. Sowell’s hidden wisdom. Well hidden.
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  2629. Elon's playing with house money, win or lose he's still RICH. Not intelligent, but rich.
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  2630. Another ‘believer’ in unfettered markets, a hero for Clarence Thomas and supporter of Ted Cruz and the presently indicted president.
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  2631. This just in, antisemitism is a problem, but it’s mainly a conservative problem. Neo Nazis aren’t part of the left.
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  2632. Bummer for RFK, now it’s just him and Trumpster as the old, clueless wonders.
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  2633. Billionaire goes after Consumer Financial Protection bureau, surprising no one. Instead of cleaning the swamp, they’re gonna enlarge it.
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  2634. I'll give you the number one American value, the product of centuries of Western civilization and the greatest force for peace in the world: Democracy. And I'll point out that it is conservatives, and their favored presidential candidate, who are making a mockery of it.
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  2635. How I escaped the matrix etc
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  2636. For all you conservatives out there who think this is great imagine a Dem president the equivalent of Trump, a Dem SCOTUS who rules by their political preference. That’s not law.
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  2637. Stating the obvious
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  2638. Fiddling while Rome (Earth) burns. Lucky for climate deniers there’s no hell. If there were, there’d be a toasty corner for these fools.
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  2639. Trump's stable genius knows geopolitics better than every president since WW2?
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  2640. Both Reagan and JFK would be spinning in their graves at RFK’s blatant naïveté on foreign policy. No prez since WW2 has gone soft on China or Russia which led to collapse of USSR and the freeing of Eastern Europe. But RFK jr thinks he knows better. Disgusting
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  2641. Unlike Trump, Reagan had a sense of humor and didn’t play footsie with Russia.
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  2642. Trump threatening Milley with execution? Doesn’t want injured vets at campaign rally? No bar too low.
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  2643. Academias leftist bias easily explained by requiring empirical evidence. Beliefs don’t make you a scholar.
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  2644. World peace isn't on the line in Mexico.
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  2645. Conservative dogma from a talking head. Other wisdom from Sowell: Obama was the worst president ever. Really? That’s partisan idiocy.
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  2646.  @ScandinavianHeretic  Was Obama the worst Us president? Reagan brought dow the Iron Curtain, good, started homelessness and ignored AIDS bad. Sowell never delivers nuance. See how easy.
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  2647. Conservative boilerplate. Let’s remember which party throws tax cuts at the rich, then complains we can’t pay the debt.
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  2648.  @JimDavidson-FingerpickinGood  I agree that spending has to be cut, but it's nonsense to say taxes don't matter. We've had a long steady decline in corporate and marginal tax rates going way back. And then it boils down to what to cut and which interest group/political leader - farmers, Wall St., Health industry, social programs - is going to accept those cuts. Everyone has a sacred cow. The military, wisely from their pov, spreads production around the country so that cutting waste becomes harmful to someone. Stossel says cut the FCC; that ain't gonna save much.
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  2649. In other news Musk fires 10k workers and demands pay raise.
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  2650. No hope of winning, but will get more pr. Another narcissist like 45.
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  2651. Newsflash, every other out of state plate in CA is from Texas.
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  2652. Be funny when Trump decides Stossel’s not pro Trump enough.
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  2653. BRICS, schmics.
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  2654. Communism, socialism, free loaders!! Watch conservatives lose their minds without thinking. When AI takes jobs and Walmart is paying subsistence wages, we’re gonna need answers. UBI is no miracle cure, but might be part of the answer. Stossel is a free market cultist so I don’t expect wisdom here.
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  2655. Trump campaign “calling all dingbats, we’ll give you a job”. Kennedy, like all the rats before him kisses the rump.
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  2656. The time of America's blank check for Israeli occupation is coming to an end. There are young people, and old, who are naive about the scourge of antisemitism, but Israel's creeping appropriation of Palestinian land has become common knowledge. Compromise must be reached.
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  2657. This kind of ridiculous ness is why Sowell is considered a partisan hack, not a scholar. W concocted a war and shed American blood for nothing and there are lots of other middling presidents, but Sowell wanted to fling dirt. What a genius.
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  2658. I would point out that this retread of Sowell’s omits the GOP foot dragging and isolationism on Ukraine. Just like most of his work, he only sees evil where he chooses.
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  2659. Ukraine needs to cede territory but not NATO protection.
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  2660. Pretty funny coming from Trump bootlicker.
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  2661. I know facts are a bitch
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  2662. Oops, Elon told the truth. America for the rich only b
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  2663. Peterson cashing in on ignorance, his specialty.
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  2664. Bunk
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  2665. Trump proving his dangerous incompetence again.
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  2666. Watching this conflict for 50 years, it's clear there will be no end without compromise on both sides.
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  2667. What is that better way? Americans have died trying to unionize since the early 20th c. I think we’d know if there was an alternative.
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  2668. What wins? Kissing Putin’s uh ring? Trying to erase Palestinians from Israel? Shoot off the hip tariffs? Elon firing, then re-hiring nuclear workers? He’s a sad child, unfortunately he has the keys to the car.
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  2669. Rubbish. Show me some research, not your trad wife belief.
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  2670. Stossel rants against the weather again.
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  2671. Elon and Tucker will do anything for pr, including shillingfor a murderous dictator.
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  2672. Econ for idiots living in libertarian fantasy land. And or scam for billionaires.
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  2673. Cry me a river. Men still hold dominant majority positions in religion, business and elected government. But blame it all on feminists.
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  2674. Irrelevant to our history
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  2675. Agreed that antisemitism is a problem with the left, but let’s face it ; it’s a cult within the right. Netanyahu and the American Israeli lobby stoked the fire that started this iteration of the never ending Israeli/Palestinian feud. But Murray sees nothing but leftist bogeymen for his tired rants.
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  2676. Red state cash comes from blue states. Start paying your own bills.
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  2677.  @Korum211 These Stoessel conservative hit pieces are silly. He lives in NYC. CA is the #1 producer of food along with TX Iowa Nebraska and Illinois. Cities are crowded because they provide better services than rural areas and job opportunities. It’s complicated, but Stoessel’s just interested in scoring points against libs.
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  2678. Putin’s a disgraced dictator with a shoddy military. Imagine Mexico holding America to a two year stand still in a war and you get what an international and domestic fiasco Putin created. Troops from N Korea. Biden is right to call his bluff. The war needs to end for everyone’s sake, but not on Russia’s terms.
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  2679. The GOP is crony capitalism
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  2680. I knew there was a reason for billionaires.
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  2681. Conservative claptrap from a party that has no other comic policies than to help the wealthy.
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  2682. Peterson is ignorant and irrelevant, that answers that question. Climate denial, Putin apologist. His own voice is his favorite.
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  2683. As if Sowell would have his job at Stanford and his education without social justice. He’s a joke of an intellectual.
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  2684. Why is it the GOP can’t appeal to new immigrants?
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  2685. Britain, unlike America, has rules against shoddy journalism. GB is just a watered down version of Fox. Yank their license.
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  2686. Sowell is proof that ‘intellectual conservative’ is an oxymoron. Belief makes a poor argument.
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  2687.  @PJRayment  And in your estimation does the monarchy and its supporters ( ie this speaker) owe a debt to the formerly colonialized or enslaved?
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  2688.  @PJRayment  Ahhh.
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  2689.  @PJRayment  I seriously doubt I'm going to change your mind on this issue. I'm a white American, nominally of Irish heritage, but culturally of substantial black American heritage. Britain's history obviously a different case.
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  2690. There is no either/or. We run a mixed economy. You can't have pure capitalism or pure communism in the real world.
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  2691. What is he a doctor of? Misogyny?
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  2692. Is today’s conservatism fascist?
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  2693. Billionaires need to be taxed back into centi millionaires or they will lay waste to democracy. They are insulated from market forces and so rich they can throw cash at any pet peeve/cause.
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  2694.  @eliasmunoz5284  Thank god Gen Milley didn’t use that excuse to attack civilians.
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  2695. No mention of racism, the real fear of immigration, or sexism? I don’t see many pundits admitting that a big chunk of white Americans want a white majority America.
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  2696. Wonder where all the homeless come from? Places in red states that provide zero social services.
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  2697. Here's Trump's 'scheme'. Show off for his fan base by acting like a Roman Emperor, while actually just doing the bidding of his real base, the wealthy.
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  2698. Win for Trump, loss for democracy and the rule of law
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  2699. Conservative fear of sexuality, particularly religious fear.
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  2700. Explain the need for billionaires? All it does is insulate them from market forces. If Elon had less cash, he’d think twice about driving away advertisers.
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  2701.  @willnitschke  Fed conspiracy mongering is dumber than mustache twirling capitalists. Trump/Spongebob ‘24, defund the Fed and the SEC and the FTC. Genius.
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  2702. It's called freedom of the press, or the Fourth Estate more formally. Helps insure democracy. You don't like the press, you don't have to read it.
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  2703. Maybe because you don't know 20th C history.
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  2704. @ War with a nuclear power is to be avoided, that doesn’t require explanation. And peace in Ukraine has to happen. My beef is with making concessions BEFORE the fact to our nuclear armed enemy. If Reagan or any preceding president had buddied up to previous USSR despots, Eastern Europe might still be a group of Soviet satellites. Putin and China despise and fear democracy, we promote it because it leads to peace. Trump is either maniacally egotistical or being blackmailed, I see no other explanation for his insane ‘negotiating’ tactics.
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  2705. ​ @jasonprice800  I only have my experience of history. Cozying up to superpower dictatorships is something no, repeat no US president has ever done. By keeping pressure on Russia Reagan brought down the USSR and freed Eastern Europe and former Soviet states. That spreading of democracy, is good for world peace. Enabling totalitarianism is the opposite.
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  2706. Thanks Mr president elect, just what we needed
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  2707. Wow never 🤪 saw that coming? There’s always more room in the clown car.
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  2708. Haters gonna hate.
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  2709. Religious extremism is the same the world over
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  2710. Peterson is a fool who loves the sound of his own voice, much like Musk. Both on the wrong side of most issues. Ukraine, climate change, feminism, racism etc
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  2711.  @g1u2y345  I give Elon some credit for ramping up evs, but I don’t see more than lip service to climate action, especially since he’s helping fund Trump and owns X, both climate denying entities. As for Russia, Musk is in the isolationist camp with MAGA. Ukraine has fought Russia to a practical standstill, which for those of us who know American foreign policy history, bipartisan history, is a win for us, a loss for Putin. No president other than Trump has ever gone soft on Russia-see Reagan helping bring down the USSR. Isolationism helped Hitler gain power; it’s a dangerous, failed philosophy. Elon knows business, but his knowledge ends there.
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  2712. Wait til it comes to social services and you’ll see a quick parting of this bromance.
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  2713. Rand is selling old school isolationism. If he'd paid attention in history class, he'd remember that America held back from getting into WW2 because 'it wasn't our fight'. That's how tyranny blooms. You wanna fast track WW3? Abandon NATO and pay homage to Putin.
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  2714. It wasn’t Dems who came up with ‘they’re controlling the weather’. Tired of having your beliefs labeled misinformation? Start fact checking.
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  2715. Peterson’s opinion and not one shared by many literature experts.
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  2716. Climate denial while the world burns is an act of deep cynicism, narcissism and greed.
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  2717. I’m sickened by Larry Summers, faux liberal sellout to Wall Street.
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  2718. Unbelievable. grown men fussing like a kid without their favorite teddy bear.
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  2719. Mearsheimer’s geopolitical views are laughable
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  2720. What about the #1 killer of children, guns
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  2721. Trump/DeeeeSantis 24
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  2722. You can't have misinformation labeled news and a stable democracy. There is no common ground for compromise. And this isn't a both sides problem, this is Fox 'News' where Carlson and co were caught in flagrante lying about election results.
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  2723. I have an idea, let's start taxing climate deniers to pay for planetary maintenance.
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  2724. Elon's the poster boy for outlawing billionaires. He and Trump are fighting for WWW Heavyweight Narcissist Belt
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  2725. I don't often agree with McConnell, but on the issue of standing up to Russia or China or Iran or N Korea, he is absolutely correct. These naive pundits and politicians trying to bail on the Ukraine seem to have forgotten a few critical historical lessons. Many Americans thought Hitler was a European problem and none of our business resulting in WW2. Our support for NATO and ongoing military spending helped bring the USSR to its knees and freed half of Europe. When did it become a good idea to support tyranny? Russians and Chinese citizens are fleeing their own countries to arrive in the US. The road to world peace lies through giving every human being the right to vote. Kowtowing to Putin or any other of these dictators is dangerously naive.
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  2726. It's the opinion pages folks, that's the job, give an opinion. You think you're news source doesn't give opinions?!
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  2727. And about as smart as Andrew Tate.
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  2728. Billionaires helping themselves, and themselves only.
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  2729. JP is his own worst enemy: ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. Somebody had a rough adolescence.
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  2730. Bret Stephen’s: Right on Ukraine, wrong on Iraq.
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  2731.  @JackSchitt-p9t  Bail out of Ukraine?
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  2732.  @JackSchitt-p9t  Not sure which unipolar moment you’re referring to. There have been 3 superpowers my entire 66 years. And during that time Russia has lost quite a lot, partly from the inevitable failure of dictatorship, and partly from trying to keep up with us militarily. As a failing superpower, they’ve already lost this war. There is a fine balance between fighting the wrong wars and the right ones, but capitulation to tyranny simply breeds more tyranny.
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  2733. 2nd Amendment myth: no modern democracy ever saved by armed citizens. But guns are the #1 killer of American kids.
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  2734. Free Market Utopia: Bezos takes all.
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  2735.  @teonactalpizza  Civil rights are a real goal. Denying them is just lazy fear.
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  2736. There is no fall of the West with the exception of right wing denial of election results. What they really mean is the end of white supremacy.
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  2737. The right pretending to care about Jews is hilarious
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  2738. I'm a liberal man and I loved Barbie. So there's that.
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  2739. Facts are not subjective. Global warming is not subjective. Rising gun deaths are not subjective. Vaccines are not subjective. Vote counts are not subjective, especially once ratified by the opposition as occurred in ‘20. Absolute free speech is a license for anarchy, which seems to be the aim of partisan Republicans.
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  2740. Trump wants what Putin has, total control of a failed kleptocracy
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  2741. Good luck bringing family values ie conservative values to Hollywood. Conservative art is an oxymoron..
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  2742. The mythologically heroic life. Peterson's living it. He's a myth, most of what he says is a myth. Climate change denial-myth. Women are 'agreeable' men 'competent'- sexist myth. North America settled by white Europeans so their culture should be dominant-racist myth, we need guns for freedom-murderous myth. Socialism is totalitarian-myth.
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  2743. Another mutual admiration orgy for the christian conspiracy crowd.
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  2744. That usually means that’s exactly what he is.
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  2745. All caps are for children
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  2746.  @tw106  I’d prefer a more nuanced, realistic take on history. The hyperbole of this piece is just meaningless.
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  2747. Last I looked Obamacare was still standing. A signal achievement and major bugaboo for GOP.
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  2748. Pluheeeez
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  2749. It’s money first for these ‘financial geniuses’. He y Jamie, going to Saudi Arabia to kiss the psychopath’s ring?
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  2750. I’ve got some South Pacific island real estate I’d love to sell to this ethically challenged denial peddler.
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  2751. Then he should be running in your party.
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  2752. Don’t worry Bibi, Trump’s got your back. Just ask Mike Pence or anyone else who worked for him.
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  2753. Shocking to find that kooky candidate has zero integrity
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  2754. Re-daculous
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  2755. Pitiful, ignorant, cowardly and Plain pitiful. Idiot manospere sex offender and righty rich guy are now foreign policy experts. Can you guys bake too?
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  2756. Perfect illustration of the stupidity of arc. Let’s have a guy who thinks the 1800s were a better time give a speech. Oh, and we hate gays and women and pretty much everything but what we tell you from the Bible. Ding dong.
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  2757. N Korea. That’s hilarious. Homicides higher in red states.
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  2758. ARC bought Trump, when he breaks things they can look in the mirror.
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  2759. Take away the name and you've got a dude with a tin hat.
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  2760. Kennedy working hard for corporations to trash his own state.
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  2761. Off his meds
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  2762. You will find that it’s conservatives who answer polls by placing strong authority as a top value, not liberals. Dems don’t try to steal elections and install themselves as president.
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  2763.  @calvincoolidge1207  Did he attempt to steal the election? That’s what we have in the US and it’s not libs doing the stealing.
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  2764. Feminism will continue until there’s rough equality in positions of power in religion, government and business.
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  2765.  @soulcapitalist6204  History is just a slow slog to the left, with hiccups backwards. Women aren't going back to the kitchen, civil rights aren't going back, and social programs aren't going back. You're right in the sense that we just nudge the status quo along.
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  2766.  @soulcapitalist6204  You’re referring to some dream world libertarianism; in the real world limited government does nothing but let Uber capitalism steal from everyone else, pretty much what’s happening right now, with sky high concentration of wealth at the top. And while Dems have been complicit, it’s the right, the real fascists, who’ve made a religion out of ‘free market’ capitalism.
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  2767.  @Entropy106  Sowell and Peterson have both made a living out of being contrarians. Neither is particularly convincing.
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  2768.  @Drivin_Sideways  You're right, I'll switch to straw men. Peterson claims leftists are trying to destroy Western Civilization. That's a mouthful, even for JP. He goes on to say leftists want to get rid of the free market. I don't know if he's just trying to sell his belief system or if really doesn't understand that our economy is built on capitalism and socialism; there is no socialist utopia and nor is there a 'free' market. As for undermining Western Civ., I could easily lay the same childish claim on conservatives banning books or constantly trying to inhibit voting. Neither of these men is a respected historian or social scientist.
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  2769. You mean fire nuclear workers, then realize they had a critical job? Just the beginning in a line of disasters from these child men.
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  2770. ‘Feminists have an unconscious desire for brutal male domination’-JP. Does that baffle you?
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  2771. Such a simpleton. I don't know who Petersen has conversations with where the threat of violence is 'always there'. But it fits his dog-eat-dog 'biological evolution' nonsense to a tee. You can't control crazy women and you can't control crazy men. Heavyosity.
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  2772. What a joke. Now the deep state is anyone this fool perceives an enemy, his own private police state.
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  2773. Well let’s see who else is on board with this concept. China, Iran, N Korea and Trump’s MAGA. Nice grouping.
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  2774. So much for ‘absolute’ freedom of speech.
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  2775. Men’s happiness has made a similar decline according to Chris Herbst. Never mind the lack of logic comparing women’s rights between the two periods. Might as well follow DeSantis and say slavery wasn’t all bad.
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  2776. Baloney with a side of deez nuts. Check stats on hom9cide rates in red states.
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  2777. Traditional values nonsense. Values that are worth saving will be saved, if they aren’t its because they failed.
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  2778. JP doesn’t know squat about anything other than motivating young men. Yes to helping Putin, no to climate action, no to gun law reform, no to feminism, yes to racism etc.
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  2779. Especially cozying up to Putin.
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  2780. Make the GOP start paying FEMAs bills as long as they deny science. And house insurance. I bet if 97%of MDs told DeSantis he had cancer, he wouldn’t be looking for the other 3%.
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  2781. The Kennedys of the past like those of the present would be horrified by his anti science and soft on Russia positions.
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  2782.  MostMarvellousInformation  little thing called history. We didn’t win the Cold War sitting on our thumbs.
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  2783.  @chrisfry7198  Kennedy does not support US support for Ukraine. He attacked Biden today for speaking About it a D Day ceremonies. Sorry, but I don’t need ‘legacy media’ to tell me that no President other than Trump has reversed our policy of containment that’s stood from both parties since WW2. RFK jr knows better? Extremely dangerous egotism.
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  2784. ​ @chrisfry7198  I don't need the 'legacy media' to tell me that no American president, Trump excepted, has ever gone soft on Russia resulting in the collapse of the USSR and freeing Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics from dictatorship. Putin fears democracy in Ukraine, we support it, as we always have. As for his idiotic anti science views, you can try to provide me with proof that autism is caused by vaccines or that antidepressants cause shootings or that tainted water causes gender dysphoria.
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  2785.  MostMarvellousInformation  No prez, Trump excepted, has ever, ever gone soft on Russia resulting in the freeing of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states. That's been a bipartisan policy since WW2. You explain to me how Kennedy blaming us for Ukraine's fight for democracy is a good idea.
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  2786. Musk turned twitter into white supremacy central
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  2787. Check out Bros who listen to too much JP for a good laugh.
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  2788. Rant on
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  2789. Let’s call a spade a spade. Rubio, Vance, Cotton, DeSantis, Hawley attended Ivies. You’ve got billionaires in trumps cabinet. These guys aren’t elite? Just average Americans? The GOP represents the rich. Always has. Tax cuts for millionaires is what they want. But keep selling that “just Dems are elities” horsepucky.
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  2790. Thank you
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  2791.  anguschandler4482 semantics
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  2792.  @therespectedlex9794  bollocks
    1
  2793. Perry is no one's idea of a feminist. Lucky for your kids your not making laws anywhere.
    1
  2794. Can’t wait for the RFK/Spongebob ticket
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  2795. He looks like Einstein compared to DeeSantis/Trump/Vivek/Haley/Pence
    1
  2796. Stossel knows about propaganda because that’s what he peddles.
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  2797. ‘I never said that. Or that, or that.”
    1
  2798.  @Jason-TheChad-Muska_circa1995  Cuz a traitor, that’s real common sense
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  2799.  @StelleenBlack  I have no beef with RFK’s lefty stance on corporate power or the environment. I do disagree vehemently with kowtowing to Putin - anything that weakens tyranny short of nuclear war is a net win for world peace.Reagan and JFK acted accordingly. I disagree that gun reform is not possible and that conspiracy theories are viable arguments. Prozac is not to blame for mass shootings.
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  2800.  @tracyforpeace  I’m old enough to remember Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Airlift and the beginning of Vietnam. And while I agree that there is some truth to JFK’s claim that we had a part in starting this war, his opinion that America has some kind of nefarious, imperialist goal is a cliche leftover from the 60s. World peace, which any sane person sees as the ultimate foreign policy goal, is dependent on democracy. Putin and his fellow tyrants in N Korea, China, and Iran are highly allergic to civil rights; Putin has seen the failure of the USSR and surely knows that democracy will eventually end his kind. I believe Biden has done a very good job of calibrating our threat to Putin. I also believe that the Ukraine war is now a stalemate that needs to end in compromise. I’m a diehard liberal, I support more socialism in America, but some of RFK’s conspiracies (Prozac,Fauci) and his fuzzy beliefs about American war mongering make him unsuitable for the White House.
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  2801.  @JessJoanne  Like Kennedy you’re in denial. Look up his Bill Maher interview.
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  2802. Hysterical
    1
  2803. All these clowns are in it for attention. Carlson and Elon are their own #1 fans.
    1
  2804. This election cycle is a race to the bottom. Kennedy’s already there.
    1
  2805. The narcissist administration
    1
  2806. Perfect place for a tin hat conspiracy ‘genius’. How’d that DeSantis announcement go Elon? I want to see him go Mano a Mano against Trump for World Heavyweight Ego Championship.
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  2807. No value, no tainment less you count idiocy.
    1
  2808. Yes, but recycling brought to you by the plastics industry ie oil.
    1
  2809. How's things down in the bunker?
    1
  2810. Tempest in a teapot. The right loves nothing better than a sex scandal, other than their own, never mind how old it is.
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  2811. Neither fish nor fowl, just confused people voting for RFK jr. Part Bernie Sanders (good), part Trump (...). He's soft on Russia, which automatically disqualifies him because every US president with the exception of Trump has followed a policy of containment and degradation of both Russia and China since WW2. That freed all of Eastern Europe and many former Soviet states, including the Ukraine. To go soft on Russia is fantastically naive and potentially extremely dangerous for the balance of power. Add to that Kennedy's shoot from the hip 'ideas' about health issues and you have somebody unqualified for leadership. Period.
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  2812. Dimon is a pretend liberal, his paycheck is his moral compass.
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  2813. Trump and Vance are clueless traitors to US foreign policy from Eisenhower to Biden.
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  2814. Capitalism can become plenty corrupt with little government- see the depression or any number of pre war Euro economies. Capitalism alone is no magic bullet.
    1
  2815. The tooth fairy is real
    1
  2816. OMG, democracy at work.
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  2817. Fear
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  2818. Sowell right where he belongs shilling conservative dogma on YouTube.
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  2819. JP is a giant in his own mind.
    1
  2820. More stupidity from the party that brought you Brexit.
    1
  2821. The Holocaust was genocide, this is genocide-adjacent.
    1
  2822. A sad joke
    1
  2823. Absurd. Just like most of his rambling outside psychology, just a personal opinion and one not shared by many literature academics. Do your own searches, see what speaks to you.
    1
  2824.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  The world is flat
    1
  2825. He’s more of a Republican at this point.
    1
  2826. ‘I intended to move back’. Sorry sucker.
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  2827. I can’t believe the dangerous ignorance of extreme conservatives. We built NATO, Reagan brought down the Iron Curtain and freed half of Europe, Russia has nukes aimed our way, every president since Truman has supported a tough stance on Russian dictatorships. What happens when Russia threatens Poland or Finland and then we have to reboot? Potential disaster.
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  2828. No US president, outside of Trump, has ever, ever gone soft on Russia. The result: Eastern Europe freed, USSR collapsed. Going soft on a superpower dictatorship that has nukes aimed our way is sure way to tumble into world war 3. When it came time to pony up for Ukraine, even some of the GOP came onboard this longstanding bipartisan foreign policy.
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  2829. Naive? His grandfather was a certified antisemite. There’s very little virtue to Musk.
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  2830. Yeah, he's turned in to an old codger, sorry Bill. Protesting against Israel's bombing of refugee camps is not 'support for terrorists'. There is room for nuance, but you'd rather pitch it as 'young crazy kids'.
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  2831. ‘Threat from within, enemies within’, straight out of Mao’s or Stalin’s playbook. The whole point of democracy is to disagree without demonizing, and inciting violence against your fellow citizens. Vance wants to run a Christian Theocracy.
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  2832. Love that coming from recently converted Christian. Peterson, the idiots genius.
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  2833. SCOTUS, the lackey of corporate America
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  2834. In no other former admin would this guy be standing for this job.
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  2835. SCOTUS now stands for SCAM, with a lower approval rating than even congress. Ouch.
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  2836. boo hoo. Good luck turning back the clock on feminism.
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  2837. Oh yeah, let’s take advice from the man who helped send Americans to needless deaths in Iraq.
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  2838. There’s no need for billionaires. If you can’t start a company with half a billion, drive a truck.
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  2839. We paid reparations after the Civil War, then reneged. Value of those reparations today, maybe 500 billion.
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  2840. Wielding power merely for the sake of his ego. Narcissists can be dangerous, but this is the first one in the White House in my 68 years.
    1
  2841. Ferguson does stun anyone but idiots.
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  2842. Woke was originally just black vernacular for ‘awake to prejudice’. I don’t think most liberals are conversant with Hegelian anything. The right reacting to anti racism isn’t a rising trend, just a reawakening of old school bigotry.
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  2843. I see ‘victimhood’ on both sides, conservatives won’t own up to playing that card when it serves them. ‘Oh so and so was ‘cancelled’ just for being conservative. Give it a rest.
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  2844. Guess Trump looking to build resort in Moscow, because he’s setting fire to 70 years of bilateral American policy. Must be for cash.
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  2845. Slide toward tyranny? He got that right, just pointed in the wrong direction.
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  2846.  @smugdug  His MAGA heroes. Wannabe tyrants.
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  2847. Trump/Putin ‘24
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  2848. Elon as efficiency expert; fire 12,000 workers then demand raise. I’ve seen that kind of efficiency my whole life. Great for the winners.
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  2849. Vote narcissist, Trump or Kennedy. Honestly couldn’t say who’s a worse choice.
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  2850.  @crazyratlady3438  I’ve heard that defense before. It’s not just the loony ideas about gender and dirty water, or guns and Prozac. Kennedy’s foreign policy on Russia is out of sync with every post-WW2 president. Appeasing the Putins of the world is not a serious position, and one that could lead to disastrous consequences.
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  2851. Proof positive that money doesn’t buy intelligence
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  2852. Elon ‘a republic of high status males would be better than democracy.’
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  2853. Pseudo-intellectual conservative mouthpiece getting paid by Hoover since ‘77.
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  2854. Absolute free speech is a fantasy. IN the US the 1st amendment has limitations for a good reason.
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  2855. Wasn’t long ago that VDH was criticizing the GOP’s isolationism. Guess that didn’t get traction with MAGA.
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  2856. Stossel needs to move to Phoenix for a few summers.
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  2857. Pure fantasy
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  2858. Ridonkulous, like everything Dumpy touches.
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  2859. What goes around comes around. When these ‘talking heads’ have lived a little longer they’ll understand.
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  2860. It’s billionaires for the little people. There’s a sucker born every minute.
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  2861. Bull
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  2862. Rodgers, a great qb, iq drops off everywhere else
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  2863.  @jonasg.bisgaard1086  nice evasion of the facts
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  2864.  @BOTNPC  blaming them for what? The ERA hasn’t even passed. Fighting for equality?
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  2865.  @BloodBornShadowWalker  Nor does blaming feminism? That’s like blaming blacks for wanting civil rights because it would take away white jobs, which was another conservative argument back in the day.
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  2866.  @BloodBornShadowWalker  The whole idea of this video is ridiculous. I care about men’s loneliness, but that is a problem because old school male stereotypes aren’t keeping up with women’s rights. That’s not a problem with feminism, that’s a problem with the way we’ve raised men. Do you expect women to settle for less for because men haven’t kept up? Logic? It’s also the reason men commit successful suicides at a higher rate - they don’t seek help because it isn’t macho. Feminism is the cure, not the problem.
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  2867.  @BloodBornShadowWalker  Men commit successful suicide at higher rates than women. Men are lonely. Feminism is not the problem, it's the solution. If we replace the old model of manliness, meaning you walk off the pain and don't talk about your feelings, with a new, more humanist model, then men can learn to seek psych help, men can learn to make friends with both sexes etc. The dominant model, the patriarchy is still in effect as evidenced by unequal power sharing, among other things. So blaming feminism is absurd and an obvious failure of logic. Women aren't going backwards anymore than LGBTQ or non-whites are.
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  2868.  @BOTNPC  I’m all for addressing men issues from loneliness to suicide rates. Blaming women or feminism is illogical. We still haven’t passed the ERA, women aren’t making the SCOTUS decisions etc. Macho culture is the problem- men don’t reach out for mental healthcare because it appears a weakness. Feminism stands against that culture, not against men. How about you provide some ‘context’ instead of falling back on childish insults.
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  2869.  @BOTNPC  You told me to learn to read and you’re commenting on American women’s rights with no context. Where are you from? Very few countries have a good track record on that. Your logic is non-existent. The title is Feminism Failing Boys, so feminism is women’s rights. This conservative talking head, like most conservatives dislikes women’s rights, gay rights and non-white rights. And here’s the important point. In most of the world men have been running things for most of history, teaching men to be tough. Maybe that was useful when we needed to hunt or fight constantly. Now the problem is that model, machismo, is a weakness, not a strength in the modern world. In our country, men commit suicide at higher rates than women. They are lonely. If anything, feminism is a cure for that problem, as women hold more power, emotional stability, not toughness becomes more valued. Men can learn to seek mental health, learn to talk to women etc. If you have a better solution for men’s problems, please share it.
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  2870.  @BOTNPC  Look it up. The definition is fighting for equality. And unless you’re from a Scandinavian country, it’s unlikely you have equality.
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  2871.  @BloodBornShadowWalker  Logic. If men are in charge and men are doing poorly, who should catch the blame? Come on.
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  2872.  @BOTNPC  As you said, you don't know about US gender history. If you did, you'd know that women are again fighting for the right to safe abortions, that a bill stating equality between the genders has been stalled in government for 50 years, that women are still struggling for equal opportunity in many fields.
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  2873. GOP takes on corporate America. Unbeatable hilarity/stupidity. Guess they forgot who was paying their campaign bills.
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  2874. America paid reparations in the form of a 1/2 million acre land grant to slaves after the Civil War. Then we took it right back.
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  2875. The oligarchy marches us towards oblivion. Thanks Bezos and your fellow billionaire Soon-Shiong over at LAT.
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  2876. I understand that this explanation is sort of by-the-history-book, but I don't think people are incorrect when using fascist as interchangeable with autocratic or dictatorial. Most military dictatorships are relatively fascist even by the historic use of the term. Franco in Spain certainly qualified. It's generally applied to right wing ideas, but I think Marxist Leninism and Maoism can certainly be called fascist.
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  2877. Loonies. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. JP. What about some gun laws Peterson, if you care about kids? It’s the #1 killer.
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  2878. Erdogan should be in jail, just like Trump.
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  2879. Time for Trump’s patented walk back that thing I said.
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  2880. In the US deaths were substantially higher in unvaccinated states. And no, conspiracy theories usually remain conspiracy theories
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  2881. Israeli ‘decisions’ are theft. Americans don’t have support theft.
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  2882. Spin this however you want, Harris is smarter asleep than Trump at his sharpest. Tariffs, walked back. Threat to take Gaza,walked back. Mindless destruction of the federal government, Dems will eventually have to clean up the mess, again.
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  2883. Vivek will say anything for a buck, much like his role model.
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  2884. Where is that happening? Down in the bunker?
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  2885. Trump/Vance/Musk/BugsBunny '24
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  2886. Beware when the title touts ‘the true history of…’. You’re about to be sold a wooden nickel.
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  2887.  @Rowlph8888  agreed
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  2888. Johnson would know, Louisiana is the land of ‘don’t let blacks vote’.
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  2889. Yeah, I think the people have spoken. You just disagree.
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  2890. People who back Trump’s friendship with Putin are people with zero knowledge of history, and zero understanding of geopolitics. I’m not laughing at the possibility of Trump backing us into nuclear confrontation with China or Russia.
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  2891. Not a prayer of pseudo-scholar being taught in schools. He’s strictly YouTube quality.
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  2892.  @sherril.562  According to Sowell women had better representation in public life before 60s feminism. Utter nonsense. He says similar things about black Americans and civil rights. Conservatives love this rewriting of history, see DeSantis saying that black Americans learned skills under slavery, but this racist, sexist claptrap will never make into a respectable university.
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  2893.  @flux4359  That would depend on the idea. I’m all for teaching about libertarianism or socialism as long as it isn’t sold as ‘truth’.
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  2894. Reality check. Not a whole lot of ‘black supremacist’ killers.
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  2895.  @silverhawkscape2677  Darn those pesky Blacks
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  2896. Startlingly ridiculous palaver from a right wing mouthpiece. We've had slaves throughout history, ipso facto, American slavery doesn't matter. Need to work on that logic, professor.
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  2897. While I support many of Kennedy’s liberal positions, I do not support his right to spew misinformation. Deplatformed? Yeah, he earned it by blaming school shootings on antidepressants, tying vaccines to autism an d saying Covid was engineered to kill blacks and whites, not Chinese and Jews. Sorry bro, no tears for your 1st amendment rights.
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  2898. Trump’s a traitor twice, once for trying to throw an election, twice for cuddling murderer/president.
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  2899. Bill Gates has done 100 x what Musk or Koch have for public health and education. Get a grip.
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  2900. Libertarianism is a joke, just like utopian socialism. Remember the Ohio train derailment? Caused by lax regulation.
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  2901. Someone is running scared c
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  2902. Trump recognizes Israel’s ‘right’ to the West Bank. KISS goodbye any peace ‘plan under President Dumpy
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  2903. Hey Elon make sure to fire all the people checking Teslas safety records.
    1
  2904. Great day, for the rich.
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  2905. With his 'prozac causes shootings' theory, RFK should have a show on Fox, but not 1600 Pennsylvania.
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  2906. Big deal. You want to get rid of Isis, start by making peace in Israel…oh wait, that’s hard, like bringing down inflation. Joke presidency.
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  2907. Anyone who took a college course in world politics or basic economics is well aware of these facts. Sowell’s just a conservative talking head selling conservative mantras.
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  2908. It’s right out in the open, everything is for sale. SCOTUS, like Trump, always finding ways to lower the bar.
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  2909. Fine, Britain abolished slavery. It did not abolish racism, just like the Civil War traded slavery for Jim Crow. Let's not get too pleased with ourselves. And Down With The Monarchy.
    1
  2910. Keep sucking up to history free version of foreign policy and excusing Trump’s traitorous appeasement of Putin. What a joke.
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  2911. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’ Unimpeachable morality?
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  2912. Nope, look it up.
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  2913. Eliminate unnecessary departments?!
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  2914. There’s only one side here, unless you’re making up your own science.
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  2915. MTG ‘They’re controlling the hurricanes’. Give it a rest, the bulk of ignorance is on the right.
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  2916. JP is a certified idiot, climate denier, misogynist and Putin appeaser. He’s a conservative scammer.
    1
  2917. Right where he belongs on Conspiracy Central
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  2918.  @Maybenotwilliam Armed civilians fighting tyranny, never happened in a modern democracy, just gun lovers propaganda.
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  2919. Didn’t take too long for RFK to turn conspiracy dial up to 11 and go anti-Semitic . Could seen that coming.
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  2920.  @wvusmc  Does the study mention targeted bioweapons?
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  2921. If it walks like a duck…Cooper has no credibility on history, but plenty of right wing substack groupies.
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  2922. Maybe Elon will cough up a few bucks for disaster relief. Don’t count on it from Mr. Cheapskate.
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  2923. Sorry Thomas Marxism is here as long as capitalism is.
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  2924. This is a minor infraction compared to trying to throw an election. MAGA is a bunch of spoiled kids, willing to break democracy if they can't run it. Sad for our country.
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  2925. Oops fired nuclear workers and had to rehire them. Governing with his mouth not his brain.
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  2926. A safe space for homemade scientists.
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  2927. The GOP and neo-liberals
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  2928. Thanks for the tip, looks interesting.
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  2929. Too many narcissists is inefficient
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  2930. Idiots like Kisin thrive on media induced fear. Guess he wasn’t much of a comedian.
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  2931.  @willnitschke  most have socialism too…who would have thought
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  2932. Agreed @sirellyn 
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  2933. America becomes 2nd class superpower and the free world shudders.
    1
  2934. Neither is business
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  2935. Adios Rubiales
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  2936. While partially true, Mearsheimer has suggested we ally ourselves with Putin against China. Really? Would we give arms to Putin? Would he help protect Taiwan? Stupefying.
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  2937. Trump’s foreign policy chops on display
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  2938. Common knowledge to anyone who’s read history.
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  2939. Wake up numbnuts, America has a mixed economy. Capitalism doesn’t function without socialism.
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  2940.  @shauncameron8390  agreed
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  2941. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. JP. So much for wisdom from this wannabe intellectual.
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  2942. Whatcha gonna do about guns ranking as #1 killer of US kids Vivek?
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  2943. That’s hilarious. Someone missed a civics course. Freedom of the press ring a bell.
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  2944. Elon ‘a republic led by high status males is preferable to democracy’. Guess he never cracked a history book.
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  2945. Meanwhile DeSantis is pulling dictionaries of library shelves cuz there’s ’dirty’ words in there.
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  2946. Like Trump and young children, Elon doesn’t like taking responsibility for his own uh mistakes.
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  2947. Kennedy needs to fix LA instead of rabble rousing.
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  2948. Peterson, a right wing mouthpiece, sucking up to a much smarter right wing mouthpiece.
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  2949.  @kid--presentable  You mean what do Trump and the GOP stand for? Unregulated free market, white nationalism, Putin, unregulated guns, sexism, democracy-when-we-win or we break it, climate change is a hoax, etc.
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  2950. I like that.
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  2951. Forbes is a knucklehead, with no more foreign policy insight than most of the GOP.
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  2952. Just what we need another anti science conspiracy ding bat in the White House. Pass.
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  2953. What could go wrong? Musk’s money pouring in from federal contracts and now he’ll decide what’s efficient? Genius.
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  2954. Huberman a paid shill for supplement industry
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  2955. Sowell's theories amount to the typical conservative evasions of responsibility for slavery. He's a dilettante conservative mouthpiece employed by a conservative think tank since the 70s.
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  2956. Wonder where Stossel resides? Oh, NY and Massachusetts. But keep ranting about woke places while you live comfortably in one.
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  2957. Conservatives always on about sex scandals, as if they had more than they're share.
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  2958. Plan is high praise for that brain fart.
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  2959. ​ @felixpeterman9303  This is not his first ride on the anti-semitic merry-go-round. He's turned Twitter into a safe space for baby nazis. He's the tech twin of Trump.
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  2960. 18% approval rating for the Trump Supreme Court. How low can they go?
    1
  2961. In the land of deeply crazed
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  2962. Ooops, bro who doesn’t support Ukraine war does support Israeli war. RFK always triangulating for more curb appeal ie a typical, narcissistic candidate.
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  2963. Check the states where people died against vaccinations….surprise, Red States
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  2964. Trump will make a hash of it, thinks he invented the wheel. And you can be sure he’ll be lining his pockets at every turn.
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  2965. Yes to Israel war, no to Ukraine. That's typical for this logic free candidate.
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  2966. The world would be a lot more peaceful without patriarchal culture, rape, domestic abuse, religious sex abuse, mass shootins, religious fundamentalist violence.
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  2967. Legalize the sale of human organs? What’s not to love about a tv personality running your country? Sure worked out great here.
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  2968. Trump wants what Putin has, and is acting out his fantasy. Never mind 75 years of American policy that collapsed the USSR and freed Poland, Hungary,Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, East Germany etc. He’s making the world more dangerous for everyone by ‘we’ll go it alone’ ignorance.
    1
  2969. Yeah we have.
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  2970. Murray is a right wing propaganda bot. There’s never any gray area in his ‘arguments’, which makes him a very poor thinker.
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  2971. I'm a Dem from NJ. Menendez should be thrown in the stocks before being carted off to the big house. What a disgrace.
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  2972. Billionaire cries tax is unfair, news at 11.
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  2973. You can choose life with a CIA or life without it. I’d rather have my own intelligence agency when China and Russia etc come calling.
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  2974. There is no debunking systemic racism, that’s conservative denial. Suburban white couple burns cross next to black neighbors 12/21/23.
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  2975. Agreed, billionaires pay far, far too little. Poor Forbes.
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  2976. Hypocrisy of republicans knows no boundaries. Perfectly willing to sacrifice kids to the #1 killer, the gun cult, and willing to put kids back in factory work, while getting all excited about phony pedophile panic.
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  2977.  @wesleyfx383  apparently they rescue kids for publicity then fail to follow up. No one is against protecting children, but some people are hypocritical about picking and choosing threats and ignoring others ie firearms.
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  2978. The laugh on these idiots cuz Dummy had to walk that back right away. The pattern is big talk, I’ll stop inflation, then, walk it back ‘inflation is hard to beat’. Can’t wait for the midterms.
    1
  2979. Youtube 'experts' in nothing.
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  2980. ‘Jesus having his fateful tea party’. Brilliant. Love the un-posh accent. Where is it from?
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  2981. Government curbed smoking and saved lives. Think obesity is good for you? Think we don’t all end up paying higher health insurance when there’s an obesity epidemic? Stossel’s libertarianism makes as much sense as socialist utopia.
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  2982. Sort of like J Peterson, grifting on pretend intelligence
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  2983. There is a reason toddlers don’t have driver’s licenses. Privatize the weather service?
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  2984. RFK jr has the integrity of a leaky septic tank. Yet another gutless, opportunistic narcissist.
    1
  2985. See ya Tate.
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  2986. Elite club? The billionaires are in the GOP.
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  2987. Elon cutting government waste? Please cut the NASA budget that signs your checks.
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  2988. Econ for idiots
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  2989. What human trafficking? How about we stop guns from being #1 killer of kids.
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  2990.  @mikebasketball11  It appears to me that Harris is singling out Muslim fundamentalists and giving Israeli fundamentalists a pass. It’s now common knowledge that Netanyahu was secretly supporting Hamas against other Palestinians to keep them from uniting. I’ve been watching this conflict since the 70’s. There are no ‘good’ guys’.
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  2991.  @mikebasketball11  I don't hear him calling out Netanyahu and the Israeli right, who secretly supported Hamas to splinter the Palestinians. I will say that I'm perplexed as to why Islam is behind the historical curve when it comes to democracy, women's rights etc.
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  2992.  @mikebasketball11  the Koran or the Bible or the Torah or Hindu scripture, wherever you have 'true believers', you have severe intolerance/violence. There are right wing Israeli leaders who have clearly stated they want to wipe out Palestinians. Netanyahu was officially interrogated for corruption and the info leaked and includes the above mentioned backdoor support for Hamas. It makes perferct sense from the Israeli right, who have no interest in peace, never have. I'm 68, been watching this conflict since the '70s. The US has come close to brokering peace in the past; I think that's got to happen again. You may be absolutely correct about the Koran as the reason for Islamic backwardness, although Turkey has built a democracy.
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  2993.  @mikebasketball11  Have not read the Koran, Bible, Torah or Hindu scriptures. I certainly see plenty of intolerance/violence from fundamentalists of every major religion. As for Netanyahu, yes. He was interrogated about corruption and the interrogation was leaked and contained an admission of aiding Hamas, which makes sense coming from the Israeli right who want a splintered Palestinian opposition. Muslims in America are assimilating, so blaming the Koran is a bit simplistic, in my view. We have more home grown Christian terrorists than Muslim ones.
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  2994.  @mikebasketball11  Netanyahu was interrogated for corruption and the info leaked including the fact that he'd been supporting Hamas, which is line with the right wing, which has no interest in giving the Palestinians a homeland. I haven't read the Koran, the Bible, the Torah or Hindu scriptures, but fundamentalists from all those religions cause violence/strife across the globe, including America, where white christian nationalists are the chief worry for the FBI.
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  2995. Not just a South Korean problem, this is one of the most important issues humanity faces. More equality, more peace.
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  2996. I’ll. Tell you why you propaganda spouting bootlicker. The FBI is not meant to be a personal secret service of the president - see every fascist government in history. Oh, I forgot, you’re a historian, never mind.
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  2997. Peterson is toxic. JP: ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’.
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  2998. A favorite punching bag of conservatives, the same people who brought you segregation, JimCrow and lynching.
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  2999. Deport Trump's wife who came in on a 'genius' visa for her modelling 'skills'.
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  3000. Crypto is a techno scam, so this channel is a scam.
    1
  3001. I’m betting he’s guilty
    1
  3002. Actually Germany did pay reparations. And we paid reparations to slaves, we just took it right back after Lincoln died. Check your facts.
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  3003. To paraphrase JP’ Feminists wish for brutal male domination. He’s an old school misogynist. Plus he’s against climate action, pro Russia, pro guns etc.
    1
  3004. Yeah, more of the same lame solutions from the right. ‘Taxes are too high, regulation too much’. No mention of astronomical growth in CEO pay v worker pay, no mention of horrific ongoing pollution of air and water because of LAX regulation. Historical tax rates are far below what they have been in the past for high earners. Get real.
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  3005. Check how WW2 started. Isolationist said ‘it’s not our fight, who cares about Poland? Etc. A world war is very, very expensive
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  3006. So happy Vance is Trump’s lap dog. Fabulous choice
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  3007. I have to laugh when conservatives (ie Peterson, though he would attempt to evade that label) pretend to care about the working, or middle class. Which policies have they enacted on behalf of those classes? Er, tax cuts for the rich and cut everything else is pretty much their game. Two dingbats trading pokemon cards.
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  3008.  @newtonia-uo4889  I agree with a certain amount of trade protection, but Trumps tax cuts just helped the rich get richer. US CEOs make 300x more than the average worker, compared to Japan’s 40x. Average wages meanwhile have been stagnant for decades. So the middle class and down is losing, while the top is getting astronomically wealthier.
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  3009.  @newtonia-uo4889  We agree on tax avoidance, but it’s the GOP cutting the IRS budget.
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  3010.  @newtonia-uo4889  Yeah, the GOP is the party of the rich. If poor whites couldn't be suckered with racism, or trans-ism, they'd be out of business. Proved by their antipathy to voting.
    1
  3011. Capitalizing the word truth is a sure sign someone’s selling you a bridge.
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  3012. RFK jr and Trump, too much ego for one campaign
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  3013. Anybody who studied history already knows this. Sowell is for the historically illiterate.
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  3014.  @xr4572  Study up on democracy
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  3015.  @xr4572  It’s an invitation to corruption and possibly tyranny. See Israel.
    1
  3016. Bad news for red state workers, where much of the New Green Deal is happening.
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  3017. All those conspiracy people sure are quiet now that House refuses to release Gaetz ethics inquiry.
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  3018. A bogeyman for conservatives. America has assimilated Muslims with very little difficulty, but that doesn't fit the narrative.
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  3019. Just the latest in a long, long line of scams
    1
  3020. These billionaires have the integrity of a used condom.
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  3021. Putin helping Donny, cuz Donny can’t help himself.
    1
  3022. Why don't you try to pull LA out poverty instead of worrying about a right that doesn't exist
    1
  3023. @ lazy
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  3024. How to be a knucklehead conspiracy monger
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  3025. I don’t see any mention of the threat of violence and attacks on democracy by the right, I’m American. Since democracy is arguably the highest achievement of western Civ, that’s a big oversight.
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  3026. Hey Kennedy, stop grandstanding and pull LA out last place.
    1
  3027. Has the ability to pull from both parties ? Not much. Maybe enough to throw the election, but no one’s going to appreciate that. Honestly seems to be running to prove something to himself. His soft-on-Russia policy is a dangerous gimmick that no prez has ever done. That’s how we collapsed the USSR and freed Eastern Europe and all the Soviet states. Never mind his anti science bs.
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  3028.  @ursashaw4806  Agreed, but obviously in small numbers, which may just cancel out his effect on the election.
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  3029. Another indicted leader, this one prolonging war so he doesn’t have to face a jury.
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  3030. Elon is a mouth with a big wallet. Anti-semitic? Yeah, he’s proven that now.
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  3031. Don't known about other countries, but US is an economic and cultural superpower because of its diversity. I hope Kisin is a better comedian than pundit.
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  3032. Keep your head in the sand, pick and choose which science you’ll believe, as if science worked that way.
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  3033. I’m with deGrasse until sports.
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  3034. Ukraine has already won simply by going toe to toe w Russia. Putin’s invincibility is gone.
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  3035. Hilarious having Fox take the high ground
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  3036. ​ @fifthpint4571  Fear of women is hysterical.
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  3037. CA is the world’s 4th largest economy. Suck it.
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  3038. Saudis can reform Hamas?! That’s some funny stuff
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  3039. I don’t understand this as an either/or proposition. If you look at any advanced democracy, it’s employing aspects of both -isms. They are the yin and yang of socioeconomic systems; neither functions well without the other.
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  3040. Hilarious that anyone would listen to this high school debate club genius.
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  3041. I couldn't be happier than to see Shapiro and Musk in an idiot waltz over 'free speech'.
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  3042. Err, it’s righty conspiracy that hates science, nice spin stossel.
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  3043. Shillenberger selling his grift.. meanwhile Elon wants to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, cuz it protects little people from ‘high status males’ like him.
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  3044. Trump’s ties to Russia go way back. He had Russian mobsters living in Trump tower, visited the Russia in ‘87, attacked NATO in an add soon after. He may not work for the Russians, but he’s certainly giving them whatever he can, for cash, I’m guessing.
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  3045. Grifters like Schellenberger aren’t adding cred to anything..
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  3046. Taking stupidity to new heights
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  3047. Agreed, liberal dogma is bad. But Florida shows why the right is even worse, trying to rewrite history. Trump conspiracy thinking is not reality based.
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  3048. What’s the difference between right wing YouTube University and a real university. You learn to think, see both sides, understand nuance. America has a mixed economy, just like most of the world. Fascists appear on the left Mao, Stalin and on the right Pinochet, Franco.
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  3049. Sounds like Trump is caving to Putin, a 180 turn from US bipartisan policy since WW2. What do bullies do when they’re successful? Bully again. Isolationism is a proven failure.
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  3050. Euro countries are built on monoculture, so they have a harder time adapting, especially adapting quickly to change. The US is built on multiculturalism.
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  3051. Didn’t check the Napoleon story
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  3052. Elon’s days as futurist genius were swallowed by his unending need for attention combined with his love of conspiracy theory and cozying up to online hate.
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  3053. Tom Cotton, supporter of vigilante justice. He picks the freedoms he likes.
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  3054.  @Sidneyyoungblood75  Thanks for the recession.
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  3055. Absolute rubbish. Opposing Russia has been US policy, bipartisan policy, since at least WW2. These clowns are living in a dream world. Ask Eastern Europe if they’d rather be back under Russian control, Ukraine, Georgia. And both these ‘anti war’ talking heads are pro Israeli war. Hypocrites and idiots trying to score international political points, which neither seem qualified to do.
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  3056. Says nobody
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  3057. Ooooh, who's afraid of big, bad commies?
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  3058.  @Br.soldier99  We’ve got our own problems and socialism isn’t one. Not too many communist countries left, but keep,cherry picking.
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  3059.  @shauncameron8390  Even the commies have adopted capitalism. And despite Sowell’s bloviating, anyone with a handful Russian history knows the absolute failure of command economy. He’s just beating the drum for an imaginary libertarian ’free market’
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  3060. Yes, when you step outside your specialty it's like stepping off a cliff. Watch that next step Sowell.
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  3061. None recently
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  3062. Something will have to work because America is finally waking to the injustice waged by the Israeli right. Compromise must happen.
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  3063. Boo hoo
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  3064. Simplistic take on a longstanding grudge between Israel and the Palestinians. What I would expect here.
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  3065. Elon is the Techie Trump
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  3066. He could payoff a bit with his last self pay raise b
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  3067. Here we go with socialism is bad malarkey. Socialism exists to temper capitalism. Everything the government does is socialist. Very few modern socialists are arguing for state control of means of production. These dudes are pissing in the wind. Every modern democracy has social welfare/socialist policies to one degree or another. You know where these guys are on the political spectrum by their take on government debt (bad) and academia (it’s leftist). Funny how academia is leftist. Is it a great conspiracy or does come under the heading of ‘facts lean left’.
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  3068. I’d watch that for laughs.
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  3069. Proof that you don't have to think to talk. Conservative claptrap from slavery apologist and right wing mouthpiece.
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  3070. Let's see 97% of scientists agree. If this were a cancer diagnosis, would you skip treatment because 3% of mds told you the opposite?
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  3071. We’ve had Nazi speeches and marches my whole 60 plus yrs in the US. It’s protected. But so is the right to boycott/cancel attention to it. Musk promotes conspiracy, antisemitism etc then whines ‘cancellation’. If you can’t stand the heat…
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  3072. Making America great-er for billionaires.
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  3073. Bibi’s gotta go, but like Trump he knows the only way to stay out of court/jail is power. His days are numbered.
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  3074. Bargaining chip? What is this The Sopranos?
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  3075. RFK clueless on power politics. RR and JFK would be arming Ukraine to the teeth.
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  3076. Pretty funny when woke was originally a term for black Americans aware of racism.
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  3077. This was one lame 'interview'. I can only guess that Maher had to throw softballs or Musk wouldn't have showed. Yeah, he's a free speech 'absolutist' ie you throw all the misinformation, or flat lies, into the media and let people decide. So Trump lying about losing the election or Fox, is covered under this asinine concept. By the way, the UK, who they're ragging on here, has a regulator that prevents lies on broadcast/cable tv. It's usually conservatives that indulge (see Fox) and Fox had to bail out of the UK. OFCOM for US please.
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  3078. Argentina needed course correction, but Milei is a Trumpian clown.
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  3079. The polio vaccine was not a trade off. WW2 was not a trade off. Civil Rights are not a trade off. This is simple conservative argument for doing nothing or less. Maybe Sowell should move down to Phoenix or Houston and then chime in about climate alarmism.
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  3080. The 'mistreatment' started with Reagan when real wages v productivity started flatlining. Meanwhile, the GOP continued to push tax cuts for its millionaire/now billionaire benefactors claiming that 'trickle down economics' was a reality, not the scam it has been proven to be.
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  3081. The wealth is concentrated at the top and wages have stagnated for decades. That aint' all Dems bro. Who cut taxes for billionaires? Who crushed unions? Be nice if it was as simple as you thought.
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  3082. Sold.
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  3083. Dingbat on the loose. There’s an apartment without ac in Phoenix available for climate deniers.
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  3084. Those numbers are already cooked. Let’s see the transparency we’ve heard so much about.
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  3085. Ridiculous pseudo intellectual shilling right wing dogma.
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  3086. Kennedy mad for having to sit at the kids table because that's where conspiracy belongs.
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  3087. I finally agree with Bolton, wow, only Trump could have achieved that.
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  3088. I've seen lots of politicians dodge questions, but I've never seen an American politician dodge a question about Russian dictatorship. Breathtaking stupidity, naivete, and potentially setting a very dangerous precedent.
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  3089. There are no other routes to world peace. Racism has a long proven track record at inciting violence.
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  3090. Cherry flavor, could be a deal
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  3091. I'm glad to stand up against the racist, sexist, anti-environmental, gun rights, 'free market' nonsense Petersen preaches.
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  3092. Trump needed backup, he’s not a brave individual. You won’t see him anywhere near a war zone.
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  3093. Forbes and his billionaire pals are loving this. Less taxes, less regulation, less of that pesky EPA trying to protect citizens from fouled water and air.
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  3094. Not a good look when your entire family bails on you.
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  3095. I’ll make my judgement when Dumby actually accomplishes something. His blabbering about peace has been empty, or worse in the case of cleansing Gaza.
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  3096. Big talk. Last time we put troops in the area we lost 200 marines in one bomb attack. Sheer egotistical stupidity. Operation Gaza Freedom? No.
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  3097. Call 911 and Trump answers "What can you do for me?"
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  3098. What's the workaround for dismantling the FBI?
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  3099. I'll pass on a conspiracy theorist who's soft on Russia and China. Not ready for prime time.
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  3100. Guys had Adolph and Seagal, so nothing to see here except tiresome guy whining about his irrelevance.
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  3101. Crummy historian if he can't figure out what systemic racism is.
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  3102.  @retro_raid  Genius move
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  3103. Battle of the manbabies
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  3104. Can be.
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  3105. Thanks for nothing. You abetted Hamas and religious settlers.
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  3106. Thank you JP, along with the other conspiracy wing nuts you provide a constant flow of absurdity
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  3107. Racism and sexism. Trump got whupped in the debate, but parts of US worried about browning of US.
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  3108. So what? We've had civil unrest before, it's part of democracy. Just like the rule of law.
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  3109. I’d like to see Trump pass a lie detector test. Inflation reduction, peace in Israel and Ukraine, is Putin holding footage of you with Moscow, um, ladies?
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  3110. Does China care? Will they be bullied by Dumpy? Errr, no.
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  3111. Very few religions can claim to be religions of peace, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam. Fundamentalist belief that one religion holds 'the truth' is almost always an incitement to hate and violence.
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  3112.  @SMCwasTaken  Be glad you're not trans in Oklahoma or pregnant in Texas.
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  3113. The KKK called, they need help with a cross burning.
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  3114. As an American I have no respect for monarchy, but Charles is right on this. The oil industry and its conservative supporters are willing to burn down the planet for cash and political points. Talk about short sighted.
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  3115. Conservatives against elections are spitting on Western civ in the form of our constitution.
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  3116. Conservatives don't have many comedians going for them, so their loss.
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  3117. Let's see Soros funds worldwide democracy, while Elon and Trump fund themselves. Citizens United, a GOP SCOTUS invention, allows unlimited spending by corporations, the wealthy and special interest groups on elections. You think that helps average Americans. Don't make me gag. Trump already walked back his promise to curb inflation, saying it would be hard (aww), but you can bet he'll get another tax cut for fat cats passed ASAP. The GOP stands for the rich and just scams average Americans by crowing about DEI or wokeness; it's tax cuts for billionaires they care about.
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  3118. Someone's peddling ideology, but not very convincingly.
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  3119. What part of ‘they’re controlling the hurricanes’ is reality based? Either MTG is extremely ignorant or believes that MAGA voters are.
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  3120. Trump serious about selling out to murderous thug.
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  3121. Touche!
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  3122. The modern Phyllis Schafly, ie an anti-feminist.
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  3123. Weinstein has a steady job as knucklehead conspiracy monger.
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  3124. Stossel is actually right for once. Sadly it’s his political party that supports the oil/plastic industry.
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  3125. We got Obamacare which is more than the GOP has given us in decades. The downside is that racists are now voting for a white traitor just for revenge. Conservative genius at work.
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  3126. Russia is a superpower enemy we have our nukes trained on, Mexico poses no such threat
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  3127. Nailed it.
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  3128. Don’t turn to this climate change denier for scientific advice.
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  3129. Major publications and internet platforms should be fact checked, otherwise there is no shared reality and therefore no ability to negotiate differences. There is also the insidious SCOTUS ruling Citizens United, which basically gives more free speech to those with bigger wallets.
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  3130. Live dingbat talking about historical dingbat.
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  3131. The GOP represents money, not citizens, so it hates the CFPB.
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  3132.  @MichaelMiller-xj1ti  There's no tweener category; your family were immigrants just like mine.
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  3133.  @MichaelMiller-xj1ti  native little n
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  3134.  @MichaelMiller-xj1ti  before the arrival of colonists, earliest known inhabitants-per the dictionary
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  3135. Hilarious. The idea of Elon running an efficient government, the same government that doles out cash to Space X. He and Trump would be lining their own pockets.
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  3136. Wow, you're sort of like a climatologist.
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  3137.  @adamserafini6945  Federal pardons only come from the prez
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  3138. His economic policies may have merit, but overturning recently legalized abortion is same old misogyny of the right.
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  3139. Mind boggling, a reversal of US policy since WW2, one that helped collapse the USSR and free Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states. We have to pray that Trump doesn’t back us into a war with his ignorance and arrogance.
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  3140. Where to begin?
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  3141. The Hill ‘editorial’ section is straight up trash.
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  3142. Sowell’s a third rate intellectual and Kisin is just a young parrot. His delusions may have been shattered but anyone with some historical knowledge of Israel was surprised but not shocked. Repeating righty dogma is not the same as making it plausible.
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  3143. Part of the GOP finally remembered it was Reagan who helped bring down the iron Curtain which freed Eastern Europe. Every president since WW2 has pressured Russia and China. Japan, S Korea, Taiwan all powerful democracies partly thanks to American support.
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  3144. Capitalism and socialism are symbiotic, both a true free market or a true socialist state are fantasies.
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  3145. Duh. GOP is the party of billionaires.
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  3146.  @dwl3006  What about S Korea?
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  3147. ​ @dwl3006  While we both agree Vietnam was a failure, if America backed down everytime Russia (or China) stepped forward the Iron Curtain would still be up and Taiwan, Japan and S Korea might be under China's thumb. When do you think American intervention is warranted?
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  3148.  @dwl3006  We agree on quite a lot. I’m no cheerleader for American military adventurism, but let’s get real about the reality of democracy, even our flawed version, vs Putin’s reign of quiet terror or China’s. They are not equivalent.   Democracies with a few exceptions rarely war on each other. The threats to world peace are autocratic. Our longstanding policy of containing and degrading Russian and Chinese power since WW2 has been mostly a resounding success-collapse of USSR and freedom for Easter Europe, guaranteed protection for Asian democracies. you seem a little complacent about China’s intentions, see Hong Kong. I believe we failed Russia during Glasnost but that ship has sailed. Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine are all on Putin’s watch. And I will claim that Dems do less ‘adventuring’ than the GOP, until they become isolationist which is even worse.
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  3149. ​ @dwl3006  It's clear, and Mearsheimer and others are correct, that we helped ignite the Ukrainian war. But it's also hard to argue that Putin was ever going to stand by and let Ukraine become a functioning democracy leaning West on his doorstep. Mearsheimer's contention that we should buddy up with Putin to challenge China is strategically, not to mention morally questionable. And I disagree with his assessment that we've 'allowed' or abetted China's growth into a superpower. That was inevitable. I would say that a democratic Russia would be a far better strategic partner for us than Putin would ever be. I don't see how you can argue comparing us to Russia is 'irrelevant' when you agree that democracies are less likely to wage war. As for birthing democracies, the blood being shed right now is Ukrainian just like US blood was shed for our independence. France helped us (to screw over the English) and we're helping Ukraine to undermine a dictator. I do think it's time for negotiations; Ukraine can't win or produce enough soldiers (although they've demolished Russia's military rep) and Russia is never going to occupy Ukraine successfully. Strategically, however, I'd say American objectives and Europes have been served.
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  3150.  @dwl3006  We’ll have to agree to disagree.
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  3151.  @dwl3006  It’s absolute naivete to think that dictatorships are not afraid of democracy. Tell that to Hong Kong, or Navalny, or the doctors, reporters, politicians and ‘friends’ that Putin has tossed out of third story windows. And if you want to argue in favor of Machiavelli, which has become a grey area in the contemporary world, it’s easy to make the case that the US by proxy has devastated both the Russian military (imagine the US held to a standstill by Canada or Mexico for 2 yrs) and Putin’s world standing while enlarging and bolstering support for NATO. And believe me China is not glad at this outcome. That is a win for the US, in Machiavellian terms. And if Korea was a legitimate war, then so was Vietnam. It just happened at a time when media coverage became a factor. Complexity. What would an ‘alliance’ with Putin look like? Are we going to sell him arms? Is he going to help us protect Taiwan? Russia cannot afford to antagonize 1.5 billion Chinese. Our use of ‘bad actors’ has usually been limited in scope (WW2) or ended in failure (the Shah of Iran , the Saudis). I get that you dislike American imperialism, there is plenty to dislike, but there is no one side-fits-all approach to world politics.
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  3152. Putin can lecture us the second he lets Russians vote for their own leaders. Until then he’s just another psychopathic tyrant who has reporters, doctors, politicians and anyone doesn’t like thrown out of 3rd story windows.
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  3153.  @Maria_Nizhny_Novgorod  I don’t recommend running against Putin, if you want to see 2025
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  3154. You can’t make up this kind of tomfoolery posing as thinking.
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  3155. Fascist fail
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  3156. VDH was pro Ukraine, so not sure what changed his mind, or if he even bothered to think about it.
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  3157. Click bait. If you’re ultra rich, vote Trump
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  3158. It's the way he whines and cries all the time. Oh, and his complete disregard for facts. Climate denial, race, feminism, the Ukraine, guns. He is right about personal responsibility, but that a pretty fundamental lesson.
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  3159.  @mannie7028  thank you. You’re right, people need to listen and then be specific about points of difference instead of being snarky for an ego boost (I’ve been guilty).
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  3160.  @hereforthecomments258  What's a vaccine?
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  3161.  @pitchforkparty  And the GOP does corporate dirty work.
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  3162.  @hereforthecomments258  What's a vaccine? Do you support feminism? etc.
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  3163.  @pitchforkparty  Citizens United, unlimited cash into elections, is a conservative job. So are tax cuts for the rich and underfunding the IRS.
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  3164.  @rsr789  Ever wonder why universities tend liberal? You can’t teach objectivity from religious belief.
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  3165. Pretty rich coming from GOP running scam artist for prez.
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  3166. Rich, coming from the party of Rapist President.
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  3167. Polio vaccine
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  3168. When Fox became “News” the battle was lost.
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  3169. Reminds of when Trump asked the head of NASA to get to Mars during his term, pie in the sky
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  3170.  @tefky7964  It all depends on the context. From the right wing it refers to pretty much everything they don’t like. From the left, it often refers to vague utopian ideals. The truth lies in the middle.
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  3171. ​ I already answered that question. Socialism in America is pretty much everything we don't get from capitalism.
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  3172. I still think he shoulda picked Spongebob
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  3173. Stossels safe space for racists and misogynists
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  3174. Another entrant in the GOP conspiracy sweepstakes.
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  3175. Conservatives have a lock on sexual hypocrisy.
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  3176. VDH hates isolationism but bends over backwards to make Trump look knew what he was doing.
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  3177. Democracy saved by armed citizens? 2nd Amendment myth, not a single modern democracy where that occurred.
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  3178. Smith is a neophyte to politics and libertarian, which means his political ideas are fantasy. A philosophy proven to fail in the real world. There are no functioning libertarian govt in the world, including Argentina.
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  3179. Scary
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  3180. Stossel’s a right wing ranter. Conservative’s are teaching themselves victimhood. Ridiculous.
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  3181. Number #1 killer of kids in the US.
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  3182. Racism and sexism. Trump lost the debate on policy and refused a second debate.
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  3183. Netanyahu’s days are numbered and like Trump he may end up in the big house.
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  3184.  @julianvega2677  same breadheads
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  3185.  @tyronejohnson4746  RFK was never gonna beat Biden with his crackpot theories and soft on Russia policy.
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  3186.  @tyronejohnson4746  ego
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  3187. Abolish the 2nd amendment, pure myth that any modern democracy has been rescued from tyranny by armed civilians.
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  3188. Thea’s waste in every government department and every corporation, but it’s simpleminded to destroy something instead of fixing it. USAID has helped stamp out smallpox and polio. It’s called throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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  3189. America as a superpower is easy to bash, especially after Iraq. The world without American superpower would be a disaster. Check your history.
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  3190. Trump threatens, then has a cheeseburger.
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  3191. Brought to you by billionaires
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  3192. The only elites trying to divide are conservatives
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  3193. Ronald Reagan understood why are nukes are targeting Russia and China, and so did JFK. Some people missed that history class.
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  3194. Don't think my grandparents were eating and drinking plastic (a credit card's worth every year), worrying about the planet burning down or having some traitor like Trump in the White House. So, not so simple.
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  3195. Trump/Putin ‘24
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  3196. A diehard conservative and mediocre scholar.
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  3197. Pretty much sums up the ‘values’ of MAGA.
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  3198. Conservatives love rich guys, and rich guys love their taxes cut.
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  3199. Vision for Gaza? You mean sucking up to Bibi? Israel, Ukraine, we’ve never had a dumber, more egotistical president in my 68 years. Caving to Russia? Cleansing Gaza? How to diminish the chances of world peace.
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  3200. Such a privilege.
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  3201. How do you debate a conspiracy theorist? He just makes it up.
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  3202. Time for Elon to pick up a few history books. The problem with billionaires is they’re not bound by market forces; he can waste his time/$ spouting illiterate views instead of trying to keep X in the black. Wealth tax please.
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  3203. When I see ‘elites’ used in an op ed I know I’m about to here some horsepucky.
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  3204. Nuclear should be on the table, but Peterson is a climate denier, or rather he’s against ‘alarmism’. I bet if 97 out of a hundred doctors told him he had cancer he wouldn’t be looking for the other three for advice.
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  3205. Wasn't your point that Christian capitalists couldn't be fascists? There's no black and white, not pure good and evil in life or history.
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  3206. No modern democracy ever saved from tyranny by armed citizens. 2nd Amendment myth for men/boys
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  3207.  @buoazej  That applies to modern republics, so try harder.
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  3208. Peterson, a ‘smart’ man for the under-educated. No on gun control, yes on sexism, no on climate action, yes on racism, doesn’t understand economics whatsoever. He can motivate young men, but the rest is gobbledygook.
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  3209. That ain’t happenin. Fox isn’t ’news’, not even close.
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  3210. Spell s-e-l-l-o-u-t
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  3211. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. JP
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  3212. A reversal of US policy since WW2, a policy of containment that helped collapse thevUSSR and free Eastern Europe. Caving to dictators, essentially bullies, ensures more ‘bullying’.
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  3213. Poster child for corporate welfare. Apparently considered running for Prez as a Dem. Hilarious.
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  3214. I’d take this more seriously if it was coming from a less biased talking head than Stossel
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  3215.  @IchabodvanTassel98  Jon Stewart’s not afraid to roast Dems. Stoessel is a one trick, conservative pony.
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  3216. @ Check the ratio. As for corruption in GOP lol.
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  3217. A senator from Louisiana grousing about ‘transparency’. That’s rich coming from the home of corporate corruption.
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  3218. Dimon’s a Republican in sheep’s clothing.
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  3219. Trump should be in jail for treason. One thing to question validity of vote, it’s another to start hunting for votes when GOP state secretary tells you outcome is valid.
    1
  3220. Yes, awful to have to actually fact check anything
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  3221. The GOP in a nutshell, narcissistic racists and con persons.
    1
  3222. Strawman witlessness
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  3223. And it applies to Sowell as well. He’s a proud constructor of conservative history.
    1
  3224. Time flies, and now it’s Trump caught in the headlights. The troller becomes the trolee
    1
  3225. Maybe a failure in the UK, but its turned the US into a military, economic and cultural superpower. Of course the US is young and has been built by immigration.
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  3226. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. Jeez, don’t know why they’d want to pull your license.
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  3227. While understand and agree with much of the complaints that Democrats aren’t leftist, by European standards, I do believe that many Democrats share common views with Euro Social Democrats. There is also psychological component to ideology whereby some people are either attracted or repelled by maintaining a status quo.
    1
  3228. Pretty funny that Fox viewers applaud ‘neutrality’. Hey folks, it’s the opinion section. Guess what happens there?
    1
  3229. Shockingly stupid.
    1
  3230. Proof that conservative intellectual is an oxymoron
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  3231. Trump Middle East envoy, Kushner, helped start the war. I’ll give Trump credit if he can make peace, but er, I won’t be banking on it. Not a cent.
    1
  3232. One big PR scam.
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  3233. Musk not happy, like Trump, unless he’s got a megaphone. Me, me, me, Dad never listened to me or whatever.
    1
  3234. America has a mixed economy. What we're really debating is how much capitalism/socialism.
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  3235. Fine, but ancient Egyptian slavery has no bearing on US slavery and the racism that followed, which is the basic drift of this argument. Kisin doesn’t know America.
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  3236. Elon ‘a republic of high status males would be preferable to democracy’. Great at making money, stupid about pretty much everything else, Ukraine China, and democracy.
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  3237. What's MAGA gonna whine about when Hunter gets convicted? When Menedez gets convicted? Are they gonna rally round Garland then? The hypocrite party.
    1
  3238. WaPo has always been liberal, just like Fox and WSJ have been conservative. Making them unbiased is a joke and detrimental to democracy.
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  3239. Like any generalization about another country, it's going to depend on who you ask. Conservatives going to bitch about metoo, liberals going to bitch about racism. I see conservatives complaining about wokeism coming to Europe, Le Wokeism in France, and I have to laugh, as if American's invented British or French racism, or sexism. It's Red v Blue everywhere, which is better than Russia, China, Iran or Saudi Arabia where there's just one color.
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  3240. The ship of state is in rough weather
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  3241. I see no mention of the power of corporations or billionaires in these little ‘history’ lessons, reasons being that the conservatives favor business but are unwilling to take responsibility for its flaws or reining it in. Shallow scholarship.
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  3242.  @dawnemile7499  Am I incorrect in assuming that you mean multiculturalism is a bad idea? I would argue that it is one of America's greatest attributes, one that will eventually dominate the planet.
    1
  3243.  @patriciasanderson2171  where exactly are you standing
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  3244.  @Smokey348  The world is more and more interdependent, which makes war less likely. The arc of history is toward multiculturalism, it’s naive not to see that.
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  3245. JP’s shiny 3 piece suits, his addiction to hearing his own voice, his delusion that he’s an intellectual, it all smacks of….narcissism. Therapy bruh.
    1
  3246. Talking out of ass his specialty.
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  3247. Last I looked, conspiracy theories leaned heavily right, but go ahead and spin it.
    1
  3248. This is much more amusing re JP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSWyfkkgCN0&t=304s
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  3249. Almost every right wing pundit, inluding Stossel lives in a blue state. Hmmmm.
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  3250. Read a little about how the USSR imploded when Reagan held their feet to the fire, or how Kennedy backed the Russian's down. Taking care of superpower dictators is part of taking care of ourselves.
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  3251. Valuetainment? A euphemism for you get what you for.
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  3252. "The inadequacy of climate models?" I hope Petersen owns low lying coastal property.
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  3253. The word gadfly was built for him. The kind of person you want to shoo away, go play with the kids or the goats. Pretends he’s in the center. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’ Doesn’t sound like the center.
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  3254. There are limits to the 1st Amendment, which included incitement and fraud.
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  3255. Guess why they don’t assimilate into Euro countries. Most European countries have far worse racism than we do.
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  3256. Me, me, me. Go do some real work and stop babbling then walking it back.
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  3257. The fool who recommended abolishing the FBI.
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  3258. America is not an empire. That’s a sound bite for talking heads.
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  3259.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  It’s a bit more complicated. Is American power always used for good? Er, no, I can think of at least half a dozen screwups, Iraq being the most recent. Did some other power bring down the Iron Curtain and free half of Europe? Is someone else keeping Taiwan from being gobbled up? Until Russia and China eventually become democracies we are the default policeperson of the world, warts and all.
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  3260.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  Britain ruled India, we don’t rule S Korea, or W Germany or the Philippines. We don’t extract wealth from those countries. Britain did.
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  3261. ​ @ElonMuskrat-my8jy You need a better argument than, 'wrong'. Are you saying we do extract wealth from South Korea? Or that we hand pick German leaders? Cuz that's how the Soviet Empire worked and the British. Everyone wants easy answers, obvious answers to complicated problems, which leads to folks like Engdahl, who appears to be a climate change denier and anti-semite ie just-another-conspiracy wingnut, to self-publish simplistic theories for the non-history literate public. I already admitted that American power is not always used for the good. How would you run the world as it is?
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  3262.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  "Wrong' isn't an argument. Do we extract wealth or pick leaders in Germany or S Korea? And Engdahl isn't the first person to point out the Military-Industrial mafia (Eisenhower was). How would you rearrange world power politics? Just abandon NATO? Taiwan? There are no easy solutions in world politics. Engdahl also appears to be a bit unhinged on climate change and anti-semitism, the left wing version of a MAGA conspiracy peddler.
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  3263.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  "Wrong" is not much of an argument. Are you contending that we take wealth from Germany or S Korea? Frankly, I wish we did have FS Dominance, (a simplistic worldview which is why it's self published) I guarantee most of the world would rather have us as overlord than China or Russia. Engdahl is simply a left wing version of MAGA conspiracy types, promoting climate science denial and anti-semitism. That's not someone you want to quote.
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  3264.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  Wrong isn't much of an argument. And Engdahl's self published work is simplistic. Are you saying we run Germany or S Korea? Do we extract wealth from these countries? Engdahl also denies climate change and promotes anti-semitism. NOt a good look.
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  3265.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy  Especially racists ones.
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  3266. Free speech absolutism, what a crock
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  3267. RFK JR is a threat to our geopolitical foreign policy. Going soft on Russia has never been done by an American president (Trump excepted) since WW2 with the resulting collapse of the USSR and freeing of Eastern Europe and numerous former Soviet republics. That’s been a bipartisan policy for a long time for a good reason. RFK thinks he knows better than 70 years of American policy. That’s hubris, that’s ego.
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  3268. Anyone who voted for clownie thinking he’d bring peace to Israel, well, you get what you pay for.
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  3269.  @TyehimbaJahsi  All you’ve done is trade one narrative for another. Do you really believe Sowell is considered a great historian? He’s an economist with an axe to grind. If you’re going to argue against Civil Rights you better bring more than that argument because the flip side is lynchings, cross burnings and vicious segregation.
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  3270.  @panthercreek60  Agreed. It was failed snark.
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  3271.  @brokenrecord3523  Yeah, when you see ‘truth teller’ or ‘truth’, especially in all caps, buyer beware.
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  3272.  @nancyjanzen5676  He went from one utopian end of the economic spectrum to the other utopian end. The rest of us live in the real world where the ‘truth’ is more complex.
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  3273. Stossel is so predictable, never any nuance, just yesteryear's libertarian leftovers.
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  3274. Reminds me of Save Chapelle playing a blind black KKK member.
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  3275. A walking explanation of the need to tax billionaires down to size. He should be worried about his businesses, but he’s insulated from the market because of his putrid wealth.
    1
  3276. Is Christianity? Judaism? Hinduism? The problem is fundamentalism, no matter the religion.
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  3277. Religious extremism the same the world over
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  3278. Victor has one name too many and the typical intellectual abilities of a conservative.
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  3279. Check the history of the USSR and the fall of the Iron Curtain. When we're tough with dictators people earn their freedom. Putin's enemies have a habit of falling out of upper story windows.
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  3280. @ you have a very poor grasp of US Russia/USSR relations.
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  3281. Absolutely bonkers. Nuclear armed dictator poses no threat to leader of the free world?
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  3282. The right is losing because it’s beholden to backwards racism and billionaires
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  3283. Contrarian/conservative peddler of rubbish.
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  3284. Why she’s one YouTube, not in government
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  3285. Trevor is wayyyyy to smart for gun boy.
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  3286. RFK jr has wandered way into the weeds just to serve his own narcissism.
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  3287.  @jsnip6720  All you say is true, up to a point. But you are clearly overlooking reality when you say that his connection between autism and vaccines, or Prozac and shootings is peer reviewed . That screams of magical thinking. And his pandering to gun nuts is dead wrong, and just old school vote fishing expedition. He feigns to be anti-war on Ukraine, a highly dubious position. But voices full support for Israel’s war. He’s lost his moral bearing in search of becoming a mythological savior, all the while making a fascist GOP victory more likely. I don’t doubt he was once a sincere crusader for working Americans, but he’s sold out to his own importance.
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  3288.  @georgedavidson7878 We just disagree. I’d be glad to see a legitimate study that connects shootings to Prozac or vaccines to autism. Guns and the constitution is interpreted however you want to, but fighting gun regulation at this point, against majority opinion, as guns become the #1 killer of US kids is just making you an accomplice to needless murder. For what? Some mythological protection against US government tyranny. Armed civilians have never fought tyranny in a modern democracy. ‘He doesn’t plan on losing’, so we’ll just roll the dice on his instinct? Merry Christmas
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  3289.  @georgedavidson7878  A; there are no peer reviewed studies. B; the 2nd amendment is an outdated anachronism that is the #1 killer of American kids. C; no one ever plans on losing, what kind of ‘logic’ is that? D; You may like the idea of neutrality, but the Iron Curtain fell because we went toe to toe with the USSR until it imploded, S Korea is the #12 economy in the world because we beat back the Chineses. There is a very good reason to spread democracy-it prevents future wars. Very few modern democracies attack other democracies. Isolationism is a failed foreign policy that simply lets dictators run amok-see WW2.
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  3290. Rubbish
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  3291. Yeah, somebody did lose his mind. I used to read Taibbii before he lost the thread.
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  3292. Only smart people are afraid.
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  3293. A narcissist romcom
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  3294. Living proof that ‘conservative intellectual’ is an oxymoron.
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  3295. Sowell's got his agenda, just like everybody else.
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  3296. All government services are socialism
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  3297.  @john-peterhundt5662  That 'confusion' serves the believers of the 'free market' cult.
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  3298.  @chissstardestroyer  Last I looked Amazon and B of A and Walmart had all been fined for wage theft. And unbridled capitalism is as much a fantasy as unbridled socialism.
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  3299.  @michaelfoye1135  Socialism is paving your roads and backing your bank account.
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  3300. Not on this planet
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  3301.  @jacktribble5253  Capitalism without guard rails, without a safety net would soon implode. Just as socialism without a profit motive would surely stagnate.
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  3302. Wrong. There is no ‘free market’.
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  3303.  @kimobrien. Not sure I understand the point
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  3304.  @kimobrien.  I took Marxism in college. Sowell and the other pseudo literate conservatives love to rediscover the wheel, as if no one knew that command economies were abysmal failures. They neglect to mention the socialist policies implemented in most of today’s industrialized countries.
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  3305.  @kimobrien.  Took it in college. Historically obvious that command economies don't work, nor is there any such thing as a "free market".
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  3306.  @kimobrien.  Bourgeois is not capitalized. Are you arguing for Maoism? Utopian socialism. I’m a social dem. W was a disaster, but I do support the US as global policeman until China and Russia put their dictatorships to bed. Don’t know what your professors taught you, but I learned that there is no simple shortcut to world peace and prosperity. Command economies don’t function and free markets must be tightly regulated, everything else is a cult of the left or the right.
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  3307. Baloney
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  3308.  @kimobrien.  Nice
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  3309. Communism was an actual danger, although overstated by McCarthy et al. And would you say that people who back Trump's attempt to hijack an election should face similar grilling?
    1
  3310. Replace slavery with racism and you’ve got a deal
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  3311. Irrelevant to this discussion
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  3312. Protests on US campuses is nothing new, but go ahead and rant about Marxism.
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  3313. Either purposefully destructive or simply bone headed. I’m leaning towards to the first.
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  3314. If the right were good at facts, they’d be running universities.
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  3315. Kennedy the great culture warrior, meanwhile Louisiana is a swamp of corruption and environmental disasters.
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  3316. Kennedy running Louisiana in to the groud, but would rather grandstand against the FBI for MAGA
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  3317.  @Soriyies  Do a search with him and gov regulations.
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  3318. The deficit is 2 trillion. Firing every federal worker wouldn’t dent that, but would wreck the nation. A stupid pr stunt.
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  3319. Shillenberger has made a career out of posing as a ‘journalist’, an objective observer, who always ends up spouting half baked right wing talking points. He needs to move down to Phoenix and experience climate ‘alarmism’ in person.
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  3320. If traditional ‘values’ had worked we wouldn’t have abandoned them.
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  3321. Perry's the go-to-talking-head of this generations anti feminist reactionaries. One in a long line.
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  3322. The GOP is pathetic. The South will rise again. Got any real policies besides fixing the border, which is legit.
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  3323. Peterson is renowned at this point for all kinds of nonsense from climate denial to misogyny to Putin supporter.
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  3324. Kisin trying to sell the far right as reasonable conservatives. Nice whitewash.
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  3325. Immigrants just got here, so their views, while interesting, are not likely to be more informed than Americans who've been here for generations. Yes, we're a 'relatively' great country compared to third world or the other superpowers, but a quick look around will show you a country with a huge homeless population, growing levels of inequality, children who are more likely to die from gunfire than anything else...
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  3326.  @ScandinavianHeretic  You’re saying someone who comes from Russia or Guatemala can tell us what we’re doing wrong in the US? Do they understand our gun laws, know our history of slavery? Do they come from a country with less domestic abuse than ours? A country with better pay for the middle class? No, they appreciate our freedom, which is great, but doesn’t give them magical powers.
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  3327.  @ScandinavianHeretic  Do you live in a country built on domestic slavery? A country were that racism is still prevalent? If not, you’re standing on one metaphorical leg.
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  3328.  @ScandinavianHeretic  If you were American, you could vote for Trump next election.
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  3329.  @216Numbskull Before you ‘go on and on’, I picked Russia because that’s where Kisin grew up and it's apparently scrambled his intellect. I don’t care where you I’m
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  3330.  @The_king567  You got books down in the bunker?
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  3331. Israel is not going to win a war against Palestinian rights. If it was possible, they would’ve done it ages ago
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  3332. Yes, now the attacks are homegrown.
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  3333. Vivek wanted to defund the FBI.
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  3334. Elon in charge of government contracts. What could go wrong?
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  3335. Misogyny. Putin loving. Climate denier. Gun nut. JP checks all the boxes for alt right influencer.
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  3336. Lott has only bogus ‘stats’, but the NRA loves him.
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  3337. Beyond his conspiracy nonsense, and more existentially frightening is RFK’s soft on Russia policy, which goes against US policy under every president since WW2 (Trump not included). Wake up RFK fans, we freed half of Europe when the USSR collapsed. Too expensive to support Ukraine? Imagine if Putin bullies Finland or Poland and we have to pay that bill, which might be Armageddon.
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  3338. Dictator tea party
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  3339.  @tntstorms7969  Nah, he was a mixed bag.
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  3340. The exact same applies to the right. They'll say we didn't have a real free market. Just two ends of the same spectrum.
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  3341.  @jdee8407  Yeah, the Third Reich was a mixed bag. He made Mercedes rich.
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  3342.  @jdee8407  He made Mercedes/Daimler rich, among others
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  3343. Can’t speak for Canada but what has made America great is multiculturalism from culture to science to sport to economic power. Peterson just selling his usual brand of conservative claptrap.
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  3344. Harvard will survive. We’ll keep fighting the racism battle for quite a while as evidenced by voters willing to re-elect a traitor to the constitution.
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  3345. Elon’s ineptitude in foreign policy continues. For someone who claims to love democracy, he’s mighty soft on China and Russia. Dollars come first.
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  3346. The costs in lives and property damage are adding. Neutral stance? Science has decided and it’s not worrying about your need for clicks.
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  3347. The GOP clown car. Vivek suggested defunding FBI. Who does he thinks tracks interstate crime? Who’s he gonna call?
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  3348. A minor economist grinding the conservative ax against social justice. Yeah, wouldn’t it be great to go back to Jim Crow.
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  3349. The right wing pretending to care about antisemitism is hilarious hypocrisy as Trump dines with neo-Nazis. And limited government is great-for billionaires.
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  3350. He’s a neo-fascist and knows exactly what he’s doing
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  3351. Moscow Marjorie and traveling companions just got shown what adult foreign policy looks like. No prez since WW2 has caved to Russian or Chinese aggression. That is a recipe for disaster.
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  3352. 21st C and conservatives still fear sex.
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  3353. In other news, Elon fires 12k then asks for 50 bil pay raise.
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  3354. Let Trump and RFK debate conspiracy. I’d watch that.
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  3355. Bugs Bunny shocks Daffy Duck, news at 11
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  3356. Yeah, like white people complaining on youtube boards
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  3357.  whitmanmaleman  Like you're crying persecution now?
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  3358. Helping push Louisiana to the bottom of state rankings in everything, but loving the culture warrior limelight.
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  3359. Hate speech is not a legal term.
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  3360.  @synthamvs7624  Spoken like a true fascist. Never mind the law eh?
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  3361. We're going to be very upset?! Is this the most pressing issue facing America? No, just a PR stunt like his whole presidency.
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  3362. One of these two won a Nobel for Econ, the other parrots right wing talking points.
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  3363. Boo hoo and bunch of malarkey. Left suppresses free speech on campus and right suppresses it by threatening violence, or actually attacking people, banning books and taking away a woman’s right to make her own medical decisions. And contrary to these idiots, Zuckerberg claims to belong to neither party and Musk looks more G.O.P. everyday. But spin on fellas.
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  3364. Poor worm, found no nutrition
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  3365. Commenters ready to bail on Ukraine are either ignorant of or have forgotten why every American president since Truman has pressured Russia. Reagan freed half of Europe when the Iron Curtain came down and the USSR folded. We just outspent the Russians on defense. World peace is threatened by dictatorships, especially the big ones, China and Russia. Left to bully their neighbors, I can guarantee both those countries will take advantage and we’ll have to intervene at a much higher cost than supporting Ukraine now.
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  3366. Same leadership experience as Trump. Zero. They both love Putin, what’s the difference.
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  3367. The 1st has limitations for a good reason.
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  3368. Poor Marjorie wants more salary
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  3369. Like a continuing episode of the Simpsons
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  3370. JP ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. Conservatives represent fear of change, very little else.
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  3371. Peterson is a lightweight, semi-coherent mouthpiece for all kinds of nonsense. Take everything he says with a bucket of salt.
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  3372. 75 years of American keeping Russia on a short leash out the window. Reagan’s spinning in his grave along with every other dead prez.
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  3373. Middle class wages stagnated from the '80's forward, while productivity and the market boomed. PS, all caps don't make a stronger argument.
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  3374. A video for the faithful, not the educated.
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  3375. I’m shocked that Trump misled us. Get ready for a dumpster fire. Again.
    1
  3376. He might want to check on our troops in Syria before blabbering
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  3377. DOGE errors, Elon I’m not running it. Ship of Fools.
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  3378.  @thembashibase3770  Sachs is a longstanding opponent of what he deems American or Western “imperialism’, in this case via NATO. Certainly there is some truth to the idea that NATO expansion may have helped trigger Ukrainian war. But Sachs just brushes off 75 years of Russian totalitarian control of Eastern Europe, which American military pressure helped end when the USSR collapsed and freed that half of Europe and the former Soviet states (Ukraine and Georgia) among them. Whereas NATO has generally been a force for promoting democracy, Russia aggression is aimed at snuffing out democracy. Both China and Russia fear freedom. China quickly crushed Hong Kong’s democracy, and Putin has long managed to install puppet regimes in former Soviet states. It’s Putin’s nightmare that his own citizens will look at a successful democracy in Ukraine and wonder why they don’t have the same freedoms. Sachs pretends that our political aims and those of dictatorships are somehow equal. History has proven him wrong, again and again.
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  3379.  @gonova8412  Hope you’re rich, cuz that’s all he gives a crap about.
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  3380.  @damienchall8297  Like white immigrants who come racist and keep practicing it?
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  3381.  @theresaherman  Trump lost the debate and won the fear mongering
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  3382. Trump’s a traitor. Make Jail Great Again
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  3383.  @secretagent4610  WWI, WWII. And Japan’s also on the list.
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  3384.  @secretagent4610  European atrocities were committed in the 20th c, after civilization arrived. Poison gas, the Holocaust, Stalin murdered 20 mil Russians. China is also on the list, in bold letters. Japanese Rape of Nanking. Context counts.
    1
  3385. Now RFKjr can get back to doing what he does best: crazy animal stories.
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  3386. Yeah, and VDH's party gave birth to MAGA, thanks for that. Biggest issue in this race? Race. Some white people not happy about browning of America.
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  3387. Racism
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  3388. Felon waving the Bible
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  3389. Meet Bezos, Musk, Thielen etc the new overlords. Free press? Nah.
    1
  3390. Cage match
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  3391. Switzerland has a long, long history of secretive banking.
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  3392. I see plenty of funny comedy, Seinfeld is welcome to his opinion.
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  3393. Mediocre economist. The rest is pure conservative dogma.
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  3394. Ensuring an enduring peace? By caving to Russia. Ever cave to a bully before? History seen that lesson taught over and over. Trump is an egotistical fool whose been pampered by the Russians since the 80's (look it up).
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  3395. The chance of America becoming communist is nil
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  3396. GOP: We only want money for corporate America.
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  3397. Historical note: The US paid reparations after the Civil War with a massive land grant to freed slaves. It promptly reneged. Said land stretching along much of the southeast coast would be worth half a trillion today.
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  3398. Yeah, 9/11 was a conspiracy? We’ll pass.
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  3399. Boo hoo
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  3400. Tush Limbaugh wannabe selling propaganda just like the commies he pretends to hate.
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  3401. Equality and equity will ‘cure’ Marxism. Not free market cultists
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  3402. An embarrassment for America. Good thing Trump was running things in WW2.
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  3403. Peterson can’t think his way out of a paper bag. Conservative intellectual is an oxymoron.
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  3404. Good luck with that nonsense. Dershowitz was respected once upon a time
    1
  3405. Incel love fest.
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  3406.  @donutsama285  misandry a word only used by incels
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  3407. Trump’s number crunching is hilarious, just like this clip. Never neverland.
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  3408. Guessing you're white, and not Jewish.
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  3409.  @Sheriden.  Trump/DeeSantis ‘24
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  3410.  @Sheriden.  Your cheap evasion is repudiated by a casual glance at recent history. Two Jews shot at in LA, a black jogger chased and murdered in Georgia, just two examples since 2020. I’m Irish American; none of us have been similarly attacked in a long time. You’re attitude and that of your political party are giving cover to murderous bigots.
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  3411. Dimon is the poster child for corporate welfare. His idea of running for prez as a democrat is hilarious.
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  3412. Hey Kennedy, why don't you pull LA out of last place in the Union in practically everything except maybe corruption and hazardous waste.
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  3413. Trump/Spongebob ‘24
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  3414. We all know what Musk is now, merely another rich narcissist glomming on to conspiracy theories to keep himself in the spotlight. Take it all to Mars, bro, your usefulness has expired, you’re merely an anti-democratic parasite.
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  3415. Prozac causes shootings, dirty water causes gender problems, vaccines cause autism? No to Ukraine help fighting one of our deadliest enemies? RFK has no experience, no qualifications and is wandering around in conspiracy land.
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  3416. Trump's about to face a test, can he walk the walk, or is his 'peace' plan just a giveaway. Who takes advice from Kremlin advisors?
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  3417. Elon threatens to sue. Groundhog Day.
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  3418. Wow, how surprising that a billionaire wants you to work overtime for him
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  3419. Elon and Kennedy, or Elon and Trump, or Elon and DeSantis. Possible presidential tickets for the tin hat party.
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  3420. A poll from the Hill? Yeah, that legit.
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  3421. Is the quote ‘politics makes strange bedfellows’? I couldn’t be happier watching to narcissistic blockheads jumping into Trump’s cesspool cage match.
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  3422. Fund Ukraine. American isolationists have forgotten WW2.
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  3423. Not crying any tears over Schellenberger getting ‘cancelled’ for peddling bs.
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  3424.  @micolislongis5558  I'm not a Schellenberger expert, but he seems to me to be another contrarian pundit (see Jordan Peterson) who uses phrases like 'deep state' and 'woke matrix'. Those are right wing dog whistles. If you want to discuss the military industrial complex, fine, it's certainly a real issue. The 'deep state' however, is simply a punching bag for what the anti-government right doesn't like. The 'woke matrix' likewise is more a signifier of the speaker's tendency to see conspiracy where there is none. I'm not saying there aren't things about 'wokeism' that can't be criticized, but calling it a matrix is not reasoned argument. He also seems to be a proponent of 'absolute freedom', which I characterize as a license to lie. The 1st amendment has limitations.
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  3425.  @briantoplessbar4685  Contrary to Schellenberger, I'm not a believer in 'absolute free speech', not is it enshrined in the 1st amendment. I will agree that there is there are grey areas where discussion is warranted. But this guy is claims that climate change is not apocalyptic. That's simple bs. The cost of the damage caused by rising global temperatures, which will fall most heavily on the poor, is already gargantuan. Devastating fires, floods, hurricanes, soaring summer temps, insurance companies bailing out of home insurance: what's it going to take to satisfy his idea of apocalyptic? Cancellation is often just a matter of 'Your opinions do not reach basic standards'.
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  3426.  @missano3856  I'm more worried by Trump than the 'deep state', completely convinced that climate change is a devastating problem and more worried about ongoing racism, sexism etc than about the 'woke matrix', as if there's a conspiracy to get people civil rights.
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  3427.  @M0rmagil  I’m left but no idea what postmodern means. Be glad to hear an explanation.
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  3428. ​ @M0rmagil  So it's the postmodern utopian cult v yesteryear's free market utopian cult, both equally impractical. On climate change he's very certainly factually wrong. And on 'woke matrix' or 'deep state', he's simply peddling a smorgasbord of half baked junk with a smattering of truth to make it plausible. He's self cancelled.
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  3429.  @micolislongis5558  S is pretty much a climate change denier, claiming that it's not an apocalyptic problem, while we have record fires, floods, storms, insurance co bailing out of home insurance. His youtube rants are all about "woke matrix" and the 'Deep State". While you can find stupidity in wokeness, it's basically a struggle for civil rights, which doesn't require a 'matrix'/conspiracy to define it. And the so called Deep State is a favorite whipping boy for the right, until they find themselves in power then they're happy to weaponize it-see abortion rights. S makes a living in this kind of questionable contrarian ecosphere.
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  3430.  @ManicMindTrick  pelosi
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  3431.  @ManicMindTrick  pelosi’s husband attacked by gay lover? Elons like Trump, loves nothing better than his own ‘stable genius’.
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  3432.  @willitbreak5825  He’s attacked fellow billionaire Soros, a holocaust survivor, comparing him to a Marvel supervillain, he’s slandered Nancy Pelosi’s husband for being mugged and he’s on Forbes’ list of the cheapest billionaires. He’s willing to put an indicted liar and traitor in D Trump back on Twitter. He’s a good businessman, but the myth of Elon as visionary futurist is just that.
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  3433. Vivek was one of the clowniest of the gop clown car parade. Wanted to abolish the FBI.
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  3434.  @davidhill4141  Overhaul brought to you by MAGA? Trump jailing Late Night comedians for parody? Pass
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  3435.  @davidhill4141  Trump said it, and Vivek kissed Trumps feet. And Trump’s already promised to after his ‘enemies’. You haven’t been listening enough. Who exactly would re-organize the FBI or the CIA? That’s a naive fantasy and shows what a child Vivek is politically. Conservatives are all about law and order until one of them gets caught. Trump deserves prison time for Jan 6th, just plain old treason.
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  3436. Socialism is the inverse of capitalism, neither functions without the other. This kind of video is for free market cultists and the uneducated.
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  3437. Trump/Putin ‘24
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  3438. It’s sad that China represses it’s citizens
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  3439. Ya caint have capitalism without some socialism and vice versa. These fellas are libertarian magical thinkers.
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  3440. Cozying up to Russia under Putin is idiotic, something no, repeat no US president has ever done. By keeping pressure on Russia Reagan brought down the USSR and freed Eastern Europe an d former Soviet states. There’s no way to spin this as ‘smart’, reasonable or promoting world peace.
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  3441. ​ @pedropaulovillasboas7229 I live in a world where I studied Poly Sci in college and have been voting since '72. Selling out Ukraine isn't "an open line of communication'. I urge you to check our history with Russia/USSR. No US president of either party has ever done what Trump is doing. It invites more aggression. Trump thinks he's smart; Putin is smart, and a murderer.
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  3442.  @pedropaulovillasboas7229  I'm 68, I've seen 'being tough on Russia" dismantle the communist monstrosity that was the USSR, you may not remember back that far. I've seen millions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet states freed from police states. We've long had a hotline to the Kremlin to avoid accidental nuclear war. What no America president has ever done is side with a Russian dictator against a young democracy. Do you understand, NO President EVER, neither party, has sided with Russia. Democracy and the spread of it is the way to world peace. Chinese and Russian dictators are in the way. Putin attacked Ukraine, just like he attacked Georgia before that because he doesn't want democracy on his doorstep, he doesn't want Russians dreaming of actual elections.
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  3443.  @pedropaulovillasboas7229  There's a reason no President has ever caved to a superpower dictator. I recommend you skim history of fall of the Iron Curtain. Policy of Containment. We've always had a hotline to the Kremlin, that doesn't mean we do their dirty work.
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  3444. Whichever side you're on, the rhetoric has to get toned down. Too many guns, to little mental health support.
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  3445. Newsflash, the 'elites' belong to both parties. Pretending they're all Dems is great pr, but short on fact.
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  3446. Doing Putin's dry cleaning.
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  3447. Tin hat land.
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  3448. Last year national parks broke visitor records, which I assume means more people were spending money. Will this make eggs cheaper?
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  3449. Hysterical, in this crowd of C student knuckleheads there’s definitely room for Murray.
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  3450. Please explain the necessity for billionaires.
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  3451. Musk always ready for camera time.
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  3452. Never trust a man with 3 names. Trump’s ‘vision’, that’s hysterical and taking him seriously makes these fellas fools b
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  3453. SCOTUS is a disgrace, tossing precedents out left and right, pretending originalism when they want and discarding when it doesn’t serve. Doing great things for billionaires.
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  3454.  @bobann3566  Absurd indeed. That would be a logistical nightmare
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  3455. Old white conservative telling us what old white conservatives believe.
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  3456. May be a problem in the UK, but in the US we built a superpower with immigrants.
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  3457. Shapiro is a 'journalist'? Nah, he's middle school conservative 'pundit'.
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  3458. Vivek’s a ‘genius’, especially his idea to abolish the FBI. You can’t whine about immigrant terrorists and then sink the FBI. Com-let’s moron with zero integrity like the rest of the candidates who insulted Trump until they lost.
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  3459. Look at the states with highest death rates and cross check it with highest death rates. New England fared better, Deep South worse.
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  3460. Making Trump and Vance look like cartoon characters
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  3461. This is nonsense, what Peterson does best. Nobody with a half functioning brain thinks equal outcomes are a possibility in our world. What these half baked, poorly educated conservatives are really selling is cover for racism.
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  3462. A perfect example of a conservative denial of Trump’s crimes against democracy. You can have Hunter Biden, take him to court, that doesn’t wash the blood of your hands. Iraq, Afghanistan, phony deficit hand-wringing until you can institute tax cuts. The revolutionaries are on SCOTUS. And it’s the right threatening secession and violence for Trump’s prosecution, not the left. The Woke American military? And you wonder why the mainstream media laughs at you.
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  3463. Put Hunter and Donald on a bus to prison and be done with it.
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  3464. Every president since WW2 has supported a tough line on Russia and China. JFK chased them out of Cuba, Reagan brought down the Iron Curtain and the USSR, which freed Eastern Europe. We built powerful democracies in Japan and S Korea. And we avoided WW3 with that policy. RFK jr thinks he knows better? Cave to Putin? Really? Even Mike Johnson seems to know better. Never mind all the dingbat anti-science theories RFK peddles. But he'll run for the attention since he's got know chance of winning. GOP donors are glad to help him though.
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  3465. Peterson’s paid by The Daily Wire, an outlet funded by fracking billionaires. Anything for a buck, just like Carlson.
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  3466. He’s a lot less impressive to native speakers
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  3467. Who’s Gaetz dating now? A fourth grader?
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  3468. The failures are multiple and on both sides of the aisle. There is no 'right' side in this 100 year long conflict.
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  3469. Not good when you have to preface you’re argument with ‘I am not Putin;s puppet’.
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  3470. Define woke
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  3471.  @cynthiajohnson9412  Your choice of metaphor is revealing.
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  3472.  @cynthiajohnson9412  I understand why people find ‘woke’ offensive; they fear change. They fear black equality, gay equality and in your case, female equality. The ‘woke’ religion, where people are accepted on their own merits, their own intrinsic goodness is preferable to patriarchal church religion which has shown itself to be a haven for misogyny and actual pdeophiles.
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  3473. I would certainly argue that democracy is not being served by the US senate.
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  3474. We have a Russian asset as our president, making America less safe every day. A sad day for the country.
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  3475. Jared said the ocean view looked lucrative.
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  3476. Now who’s looking old?
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  3477. If I don’t like question, it’s fake? Evidence of fake candidate.
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  3478. As a white man I'm not shedding any tears for other white men. Stop being crybabies and own your ....
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  3479. Peterson has become an opportunistic scumbag shilling for the oil industry to scam some coin from the ignorant. There’s a special circle in hell for this petty narcissist.
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  3480. You mean Russia is trust worthy? Ask Navalny or any of the reporters Putin had thrown out of upper story windows.
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  3481. Europe has a lot of catching up to do on integration. We’ve got plenty of racism in the US, but multiculturalism is what has made us a cultural and economic superpower. The world will be integrated; it’s inevitable.
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  3482. Netanyahu is a reflection of a culture he helped create by ignoring Palestinian rights and helping Hamas. There have been wiser Prime Ministers who tried to make peace-Rabin for example-who was assassinated by Israeli extremist. There maybe a misconception by the Israelis that they can survive without allies.
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  3483. Trump’s hot air. What’s he gonna do, send troops.
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  3484. Spin baby spin
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  3485. An argument for doing nothing, the conservative agenda. Simplistic philosophy by simplistic minds.
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  3486. Recycling one of BigOil’s best scams on Americans.
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  3487. We paid reparations after the Civil War and reneged.
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  3488. Libertarians are right wing. The cult of the ‘free market’ is a right wing hustle.
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  3489.  @jasonsstratton  Yeah, I've known plenty of libertarians. The whole concept is disorganized and as much a fantasy as utopian socialism. Doesn't work in the real world.
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  3490. Hilarious. Imagine the battle of egos for the spotlight.
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  3491. Hilarious
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  3492. Sachs lives in a fantasy land, although hard to know what an aging, narcissist idiot will do exactly.
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  3493. Prayer U. Why don’t you just celebrate ‘good’ people and stop your whining about gay pride?
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  3494. The best the GOP has to offer? A brown man in the White Nationalist party? It's not a campaign, it's a soap opera.
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  3495. Can’t have functioning capitalism without socialist safeguards, and socialism diednt function without capitalism. Simple.
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  3496. Climate deniers have no hearts or brains, they’re zombie food.
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  3497. What makes America the world's most powerful military, economic and cultural force? Multiculturalism. But we're a young country built on immigration; it's tougher for older, less flexible countries.
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  3498. Trump is Russia’s amabassador to America
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  3499. Audacity VDH’s synonym for idiotic destruction. Fire the whole CIA? Genius, oops who’s watching the terrorists, some Trump bootlicker from the traffic department? Hey, what happened to fixing inflation? Middle East Peace? Ukraine peace? Trump’s good at breaking things, not building.
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  3500. Describe woke
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  3501. Most countries have mixed economies, never mind this pr.
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  3502.  @anthonymorris5084  Yes, I've heard this evasion before. Then why is it that when a "social program" is suggested (say Obamacare), the GOP starts screaming 'socialism', or even more egregious is Trump calling Harris a communist. You want it both ways. I agree that the only difference in world economies is how much they tax and regulate, but the SEC, the FDIC, the FDA et cetera aren't part of the 'free market'.
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  3503. @ I don’t need a lecture on econ basics. If we stick to a strict definition of capitalism it does not include social programs. You’re trying to have it both ways. And you didn’t refute my argument that conservatives label everything ‘socialist’ they don’t like. I’m a realist; we need both to make a prosperous society run. If conservatives hated inefficiency (& incompetence) they shouldn’t have hired this administration-these conservatives are going to cost tax payers, but not rich ones.
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  3504. @ We’ll what it reflects at the next election.
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  3505.  @novinceinhosic3531  Take Jesus, replace him with ‘free market’ and you have the GOP belief system, immune to reason.
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  3506.  @immanuelcan3310  America is the leading economic, military and cultural superpower. Because of multiculturalism.
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  3507.  @immanuelcan3310  I agree that there is a limit to our ability to absorb immigrants. Immigration is now twice what it was in the '70s. But your contention that America was made by white Europeans is historically inaccurate and a common, bigoted refrain from the right. The Chinese built our railroads, black Americans created our entire musical culture. They did this despite racism and violence perpetrated by these Europeans with 'similar values." The danger to American culture and citizens at the moment does indeed come from people with different values; polls show that millions of conservative Americans support violence to further their political aims. That's anti-democracy, and patently un-American.
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  3508.  @immanuelcan3310  I notice you mention 9/11, but not Jan 6th. I count an attack on the capitol, and the denial of honest election outcomes as, in your words ‘radicallly oppositional things’. 9/11 was perpetrated by foreign Jihadists, while Jan 6 was homegrown Christian/conservatives. I agree that there should be limits on immigration, but I completely disagree that immigrants from Mexico, the Middle East or Asia represent a dire danger to our democracy. The danger is coming from the fear of a coming white minority. Nothing else explains why millions of people would vote for an incompetent, morally deficient, treasonous candidate like Trump.
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  3509.  @immanuelcan3310  9/11 was perpetrated by foreign jihadists whereas Jan 6th, election denial, planned kidnapping of Governor Whitmer were perpetrated by white Americans. So those 'radically oppositional things' you refer to, meaning core American values like democracy are really being undermined not by multiculturalism, but by white fear of becoming a minority. That alone explains how millions of Americans could choose an incompetent, indicted, morally bankrupt candidate as the GOP's standard bearer. I believe we have diametrically opposed views on this subject.
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  3510.  @immanuelcan3310  9/11 was perpetrated by foreign Jihadists, Jan 6, the threat to kidnap Gov Whitmer and election denial was perpetrated by conservative white Christians. These 'radical opposiontal things' are not the dangers of Islamic terrorism in the US, but the dangers brought about by white America becoming a minority and therefore allowing democracy to be trampled.
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  3511.  @immanuelcan3310  9.11 perpetrated by foreign jihadists, Jan 6 perpetrated by home grown Christians. I’d argue that an enemy within is far more dangerous.
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  3512.  @immanuelcan3310  9/11 was foreign terrorists, Jan 6 was domestic Christians who now pose a greater threat to democracy than American Muslims.
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  3513.  @immanuelcan3310 9/11 was a poor choice of examples. Those were foreign terrorists, while Jan 6 was perpetrated by domestic Christians and a bigger threat to our democracy. Your logic is flawed.
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  3514. Politics over common sense. Midterms aren’t far away, higher prices gonna hurt.
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  3515. Elon’s turned into America’s top troll, and he’s challenging Donald for narcissist of the decade. He’s a menace with his me, me, me conspiracy rants.
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  3516.  @Stethacanthus  True, and probably almost every pres since WW2
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  3517. Russia may ‘win’ the peace, thanks to Trump’s myopic egotism and ignorance, but their military reputation is in tatters. It’s as if Mexico fought us to a draw for three years. Reagan is spinning in his grave at Trump’s cowardice.
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  3518. Sounds like the GOP.
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  3519. Errr? Pretend journalism
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  3520. If it’s a conspiracy, I have to give a shout out to the Democrats cuz it’s sheer genius, not one of their usual slipshod fiascos
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  3521. Conservatives railing against academia, not against Trump, conservative nazis or Elon Musk’s X. Grandstanding
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  3522. He prefers Xanax.
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  3523. Hilarious that the GOP is ‘fighting’ antisemitism when neo-nazis and white supremacists are part of their congregation.
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  3524. RFK wouldn't pass the fact check
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  3525.  @madisonbadger9454  Yeah he belongs with the superpac that’s supporting him ie on the GOP debate stage.
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  3526. RFKjr and Trump have conspiracy in common
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  3527. Academy of libertarian gobbledygook. Look at the most successful countries around the world. Democracies. Government is here to stay get used to it.
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  3528. Interesting. I enjoyed this back and forth and came away agreeing with Harris. How is helpful to anyone to have someone spout hate in the public sphere? No one gets away with that kind of talk about black Americans (rightly), and Jews are not some group we're just allowed to slander. If Kanye seemed like he might be questioning his beliefs, that might be worthwhile, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It reminds a little of Stephen Colbert's refusal to use Trumps name anymore. Don't feed the narcissists.
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  3529. Conservative gadfly doing his usual routine.
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  3530. Even some Republicans were shocked by this. I can guarantee that Reagan and JFK both are spinning in their graves at this willfully stupid and extremely dangerous piece of absurdity.
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  3531. Stossel’s baby logic falls into the ‘cult of the free market’. Got to have unlimited growth, trillionaires etc, as if Earth’s resources were unlimited. Not a serious thinker, but good at building straw men then tooting his own horn.
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  3532. The GOP continues to mock itself. A presidential candidate who calls vets losers. 3 other teams were also prepping and missed the anthem. Fake patriotism from fake patriots.
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  3533. We were attacked by foreign terrorists on 9/11, homegrown ones on Jan 6
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  3534. Damn, we could have had that with NAZI Germany too. Imagine an ignorant narcissist in the White House.
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  3535. Biden’s got nothing to gain by jousting with Mr. Tin hat.
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  3536. Respected public intellectual? More like climate denier, Putin apologist and arch misogynist. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. I’ve got a sixth grader with more sense.
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  3537. This is perhaps a little more likely than a trip to Mars, but the cost would be astronomical, if feasible. Israel deploys this in a country the size of New Jersey. It also calls into question the idea that if we did have a 'golden' dome, and China or Russia lacked it, would we then be more likely to strike first with nukes. Trump's foreign policy 'ideas' almost always make the world more dangerous, not less. Ukraine? Israel? Abandoning NATO?
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  3538. Cry me a river. RFK cancelled himself with anti science theories and Putin appeasement.
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  3539. The election is all about race. Some whites not happy about getting over taken by non -white demography.
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  3540. RFK JR and Trumpty dump are cut from the same narcissistic cloth. One thinks he’s a mafia don, the other a messiah. These are not serious people
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  3541. Conservative dogma.
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  3542. Says Putin apologist and climate denier. If you’re looking for conservative dogma, he’s your guy. For solid info look elsewhere.
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  3543. Insert Harlan Crow or any other righty billionaire and you have the flip side of this picture. Difference being Dems support voting, GOP doesn’t.
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  3544. Musk laughing at violence is a sign of deep narcissism, not a great sense of humor.
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  3545.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Really makes no difference to me, the man is an attention seeker and finds that trolling for the right is the best way to accomplish that.
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  3546.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Yeah, why did he buy Twitter, then destroy it with his conspiracy nonsense. Just like Trump, he's a child craving attention.
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  3547. Peterson's hated for some very good reasons, climate denial and Putin support among them. Never mind his misogyny.
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  3548.  @Evil0tto  Putin but not climate denial? He said "Putin is protecting himself from Western degeneracy". I'll give you some cookie cutter historical knowledge. No American president has ever gone soft on Russian tyranny. Hence the fall of the USSR and freeing of Eastern Europe under RR. JP is cashing in on being contrarian, never mind history, science or reason.
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  3549. Trump lite, another narcissist pandering to the disenchanted
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  3550.  @betelihemyemane7232  emojis are for kids
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  3551.  @deannaartzbennett244  Your Use of Caps Is Amusing
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  3552. This fool is from Louisiana, if not the poorest, the next poorest state in the Union. Taxes from blue states keep Louisiana's lights on. The GOP, as he demonstrates here, is the party of the rich. They might pretend to care about the working class, but if they really did they'd support more childcare support, veterans benefits, helping with college debt, making corporations pay for environmental disasters, etc. You don't like corrupt government, vote to overturn Citizens United (thanks SCOTUS), where anybody with cash can pour it in to elections.
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  3553. America has a mixed economy. Capitalism doesn’t function without socialist guard rails. See the Great Depression.
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  3554.  @shauncameron8390  You just proved my point by using the word ‘properly’. Black markets function, but compare any country’s black market with a functioning democratic market. Russia has twice our landmass, but hasn’t beaten Ukraine. East Germany had a black market, but it was dwarfed by West Germany. N Korea is impoverished, S Korea rich. Those economies have guardrails.
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  3555. Why would Biden give this crackpot the time of day. Good PR for Kennedy's koolaid drinkers, but no carrot for Biden.
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  3556. Musk is not in the running for father, or husband of the year. Cheapskate, maybe.
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  3557. Funny to hear Sowell attacking judicial activism; sure he’d have an excuse for current SCOTUS legislating from the court.
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  3558. A safe space for white supremacy
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  3559. The right built the FBI, now they want to take it down. Live long enough and pigs will fly.
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  3560. Problem for American kids, guns, not trans bogeyman. #1 cause of child mortality
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  3561. Thomas Sowell is a mediocre economist making money spouting right wing gibberish. Libertarianism is a fantasy land for right wingers, just like socialist utopia is for leftists.
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  3562.  @jasonnikiforuk8592  I don’t see any argument, just your opinion. Nobody reads Sowell, certainly not economists. As for libertarianism, show me a country that runs under that fantasy.
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  3563. Sowell and Stossel are right wing mouthpieces selling half baked conservative nonsense to the under educated.
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  3564. Raise the voting age to 25? Yeah, some genius.
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  3565. Or four years. Might make some temp deal with Russia, nothing will happen in Israel-he loves him so right wing Israelis.
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  3566. Never happen. More boasting from Boater in Chief.
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  3567. boo hoo
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  3568. There are a few Republican patriots left, but not many.
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  3569. ‘I’m sure Zuck cares deeply about ‘so called’ free speech. Cash baby.
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  3570. Elon, great business, idiot politician
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  3571. I want to see Elon’s books.
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  3572. Your videos appeal to the ignorant; I’m inoculated by fact based college education.
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  3573. Fired 12k workers then asked for raise. Capitalism run amok.
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  3574.  @hankhooper1637  His audience was women. We’ll see.
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  3575. The ‘law and order’ party not so happy when the bill comes due for Trump.
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  3576. Conservative intellectual is an oxymoron as these simpletons make clear. ‘How could we have Title IX if we’re living in a patriarchy?’ That’s the logical equivalent of saying how could we still have racism since Obama was president? We’ve had a male dominated culture for thousands of years, how would it possibly disappear with a few legal victories? I would call it a naive argument, but it’s too comprehensive for that. This is anti-feminism disguised half-ass as logic. Louis Perry makes a living rebranding misogyny.
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  3577.  @weatherlylinn-adams2353  semantics. He certainly wasn't into capitalist exploitation
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  3578. Conservatives selling the same old ‘family values’, ie antifeminism.
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  3579. Elon loves free speech; his own especially.
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  3580. Anti war doesn’t make you right wing, it’s meaningless without context. If you support Trump’s caving to Putin, you’re not right wing, you’re just flat ignorant of history. And being pro free speech is also meaningless until you get into the details. Do you support Trump’s attempt to deport a green card holder for his politics?
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  3581. See ya.
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  3582. Libertarianism is as realistic as utopian socialism. So, no.
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  3583.  @wayneandrews1022  I mean there is no such thing as small government just like there is no such thing as socialist utopia in the real world. I would gladly bet you a large sum that Milei doesn’t turn Argentina into a libertarian dream state. Show me where libertarianism has worked in the real world. A recent Kansas Governor, Brownback, tried and failed miserably. I understand your philosophy but it simply unrealistic on a large scale.
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  3584.  @wayneandrews1022  👍
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  3585.  @tgb1278  I think you mean capitalism with the SEC, the FED etc keeping it honest. There are no examples of libertarian economies, pie-in-the-sky.
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  3586.  @tgb1278  Libertarianism is small govt., we've got big government, just like most of the world. You're confusing capitalism with libertarianism.
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  3587.  @tgb1278 . Show me a real life example of capitalism working without big government. Austrian school is theory.
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  3588. ​ @tgb1278  I'm curious where you got the 25-30% number. As for 2008, that's pretty amusing. So you've got Andorra and Switzerland. Not much. And neutrality for a democracy only works when your under NATO's nuclear umbrella. And Switzerland has a checkered past in that regard during WW2.
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  3589.  @tgb1278  20-30% says who? Is that in the Libertarian handbook? Switzerland is in the middle of Europe protected by surrounding NATO countries. You have a fantasy view of how world order works. Think if Switzerland was next to Russia it would be a thriving democracy without protection? Sheer naïveté. US govt was big long before 2008 as was the rest of the world, and blaming crash on big government is just your libertarian belief system, not backed by facts.
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  3590.  @tgb1278  As far as I know there is no libertarian handbook about the correct size of govt. The US govt is currently in that 25% range. If that were a libertarian number, we wouldn't have libertarians screaming to abolish the FED, the FDA, the SEC, the FBI etc. Cuba and Switzerland are outliers; the US is not about to take on communism nor is it likely to slash military spending, which would quickly lead to Chinese and Russian aggression. And 2008 changed nothing; if you can show me proof that it did, please do.
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  3591. BS
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  3592. Top gun myth: gonna prevent government dictatorship. Show me a modern democracy saved by cowboys with guns.
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  3593. No traction with Dems, let’s see how many kooks I can get, never mind if I help Trump because I’m a narcissist too
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  3594. Capitalism's great until ten people have other peoples money
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  3595. A long term kleptocracy is gonna look like Russia, get real.
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  3596.  @clemfan1980  Accepted along with misogyny, pedophilia, horrific wars, witch burnings, homophobia etc.
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  3597.  @thadofalltrades  it’s an interesting comparison, but the French Revolution was fought partly to throw the Catholic Church out of government and partly to overthrow the aristocracy. America had no Catholic Church and no aristocracy, we were fighting colonialism and the founders made a very clear distinction between church and state precisely because of European history. And while I am not an atheist, and do believe in universal human rights, I would not describe them as God given. The race has struggled, and continues to struggle, very often against religions, to secure those rights.
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  3598. Who always gives tax cuts to the rich? Yeah, GOP. And they’ll be cutting from programs that help poor Americans to make those cuts. Every GOP administration has done the same.
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  3599. Loves taking pot shots at CA, shocking news, Stossel lives in NY and MA. What’s wrong with Texas or Tennessee John?
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  3600. Here come the lizard people.
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  3601. @ I agree with you that the US has a long track history of CIA led coups etc. and that are prisons are ridiculously full, particularly of high percentage minorities. Sadly there are no good guys and bad guys in international politics, bad and much worse. Our military might/spending helped bankrupt and collapse the USSR, freeing millions including Ukraine. I would argue that it is in the interests of world peace to promote democracy and fight tyranny. Ukraine is a nascent democracy while Cuba, I’m against the blockade, is not.
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  3602. @ We do not live in a black and white world. And as a superpower, struggling against other superpowers, I choose democracy, however flawed over communism or Russian kleptocracy. If you check Ukraine history you’ll find that, like most other former Soviet satellites, the Russians had installed a puppet regime, so again I’ll choose our choice over theirs. Maybe you’re not familiar with Putin’s method of dealing with doctors, journalists or politicians who don’t toe the line-they soon find themselves accidentally falling from a fourth floor window. There’s will be no world peace while China and Russia suppress their people. I’m a diehard liberal, social democrat, but I don’t have illusions about how power works on a global scale.
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  3603. @Hardcore_Remixer Yeah, like I said above, geopolitics are not for people who want good guys and bad guys. The CIA certainly intervened, but Russia's been installing puppet regimes around the former USSR since they lost the Cold War and also attacked Georgia. I don't know how any sane person can argue that we are equivalent to Russia. Putin throws his enemies, doctors, lawyers, former associates, politicians, out upper story windows. Even Trump doesn't have that power - yet. I think if you gave people the option of a CIA, or EU installed government or a Russian one, there'd be a clear winner. Ukrainians are not dying by the tens of thousands for the CIA, or the USA, but for Ukraine. Contrarian thinking like Sachs has it's place, but in the end it lacks seriousness. Your reference to 'someone's governance system' is a sad analogy, placing democracy on equal footing with autocracy and police states. I see people around the world fighting for freedom, not for dictatorship.
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  3604. @ I agree with your assessment of fighting wars. I also think the draft should be mandatory with no loopholes for the rich/connected. Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan, which were what I would consider optional wars would not have been tolerated had sons and daughters of senators and millionaires been dying. WWII, I would've signed up. As for Gorbachev and Reagan and diplomacy to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons, that's obviously always a good thing. We disagree on geopolitical tactics. You're 'stable and peaceful world', a noble ideal that we all desire, will never be achieved by retreating in the face of dictatorship. You'll notice around the world that democracies rarely go to war with other democracies. The problem is non-democracies. Chamberlain appeased Hitler and his name is now synonymous with abject failure. Every Eastern European country is grateful for our "aggressive posturing" and the democracy/peace that followed the fall of the USSR. There has to be a mix of diplomacy backed by the threat of force when dealing with police states. Trump has neither the mental capacity nor any sense of humility to carry out this delicate task. He may make 'peace' with Putin, but if Putin leans on a NATO country, which he's already tried, Trump or his replacement may have to ratchet up aggression. That is dangerous.
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  3605. We’ll let the courts decide, and guess what VDHHHD? Shuttering the NIH or NOAA, or re-lacing every CIA employee is gonna hurt conservatives just as much liberals.
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  3606. @gp33music41 His policies will work, in the short term, but libertarianism does not function in the real world. No government in the world operates under its philosophy.
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  3607. @gp33music41 Libertarianism isn't new, so, no it doesn't get more credence for not having succeeded. It's a pie-in-the-sky little government fantasy, just like utopian socialism on the other end of the spectrum with big government. Check out Governor Brownback's Kansas experiment for recent example of libertarian failure.
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  3608.  @jochenehmen6108  Scientists have long since reached a consensus, so what argument exactly? No one with any wits thinks we’re going fossil free immediately. Do you know how long the oil industry has known about climate change? Started studying it in the 70s. Buried the research. Why? They’d rather cash in and watch the planet burn. These are not smart people, just extremely greedy.
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  3609.  @jochenehmen6108  How is 'science done'? By a few oil industry paid hacks? If 97% of mds tell you you've got cancer, do you listen to the other 3%?
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  3610.  @MalachiWhite-tw7hl Science is pointing one direction and oil companies are paying people to point the other.
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  3611. When the GOP is funding you, it’s probably time to change parties.
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  3612. What happens when you’ve got too much money? You think you’ve developed into genius. How about cutting Trump’s new department to aid Christians?🤓
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  3613. A hateful bigot pretending both wisdom and humanity.
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  3614. There is no capitalism without socialist guard rails, SS, SEC, FBI, FDA, FTC, National Parks, highway system ad infinitum.
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  3615.  @theophrastus3.056  Well let me spell it out for you. CA.
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  3616.  @barbaraallen7164  If you’re in a red state, there’s plenty to fix.
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  3617. This is a 70 year long conflict with no easy solutions. Both sides will have to compromise. Peterson touting Abraham Accords is pie in the sky nonsense, the kind of naive foreign policy ideas he specializes in (like caving to Putin).
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  3618. Trickle down or voodoo economics long ago proved a failure, but it serves the GOP and their main constituents the rich.
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  3619. These guys are deranged
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  3620. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
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  3621. Like everything Trump does, laying off federal workers, even all of them wouldn’t dent the deficit. One big pr stunt, hurting ordinary Americans, not the Mudks or Bezos’.
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  3622. The great right wing minimizer of American slavery shilling his wares.
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  3623. Context. Stupidity.
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  3624.  @AttitudeforQA  Please explain that claim.
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  3625. How's life down in the bunker?
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  3626. Markle should not have given him the PR.
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  3627. Civil Rights have always been left wing
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  3628. Libertarians are definitely funny, so hope Cleese enjoyed hanging out.
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  3629. It's the misogynist, racist, Putin loving, climate change denier making a buck however he can.
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  3630. The sexual revolution was an inevitable response to the hypocrisy of our religious culture. Was it a rousing success? Very few revolutions can say that, but some of the problems it brougt to light we are still dealing with: sexual abuse by clergy, domestic abuse, sexual harassment etc. It is extremely naive to think it was an error we could have avoided.
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  3631. The knuckleheads like Trump and Elon, SCOTUS clowns that are lionized by conservatives are a sad demonstration of how low the ethics bar has been set.
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  3632. Trump's subservience to Russia is a mistake of historical proportions, one that applauds Russian aggression. Something no American president, of either party, has ever done. If Trump had been running the Cold War, the USSR would have swallowed all of Europe, instead of collapsing under American military pressure.
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  3633.  @rucker69  Did you read about the goon squad in Mississippi? The only detractors from 'hate crime' supporters are hate crime backers.
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  3634.  @Panicscroll69  Your KKK hood is in the mail.
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  3635.  @Panicscroll69  Trump/Spongebob '24
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  3636.  @john236613  Yeah, blame it on Obama and the dems, not Trump dining with neo-Nazis. You're in denial if you think MAGA is anything other than white nationalists afraid of becoming a minority.
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  3637.  @Seldomheardabout boo hoo
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  3638.  @Seldomheardabout  Sorry If woke you up down in the bunker
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  3639.  @chucklindenberg1093  yeah, we just disagree. I’ve got black children in my family, I’ve seen racism from many sides and I am not worried about prosecutors having too much power. I haven’t seen any stories of white people being tortured by black cops, but I have seen the opposite. And your logic that we’re going to see more racism or hate crimes because of this designation is frankly ridiculous. The fact that an incompetent sexual predator like Trump is proof that much of white America fears becoming a minority.
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  3640.  @rosesmith6208  racism
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  3641. Trump’s role model
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  3642. It may surprise some conservatives to know that many of their leaders are ‘elite’, from Tucker Carlson, to Josh Hawley, to Matt Gaetz, these are rich kids. When some one uses the term, you can be sure you’re being conned. Replace elites with the ‘rich’ and you can zero in on a conspiracy of greed, but it’s endemic to both parties.
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  3643. Stossel a perfect example of bias.
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  3644.  @antonio-l5h6t  Every one of his videos either attacks government failure or Blue state failure or some other liberal 'problem'. Fine, CA has many problems, as does government, but so do Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma and conservatives have plenty of issues. And he lives in MA, the bluest state.
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  3645. Not a chance in hell for this gadfly.
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  3646. Chaos, misinformation serves the rich. I wonder if Kisin was better at comedy than he is at politics.
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  3647. Time for Vivek to go back to whatever scam he was perpetrating before the scam of his candidacy.
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  3648. Stupidity can’t defeat reason.
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  3649.  @levinichs  Yeah, if there’s even a remote chance of trans woman having advantage, banned. But feminism ain’t going nowhere.
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  3650. Bibi has got to go. He laid the foundation for this war, he’s a crook and his policies will never bring peace.
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  3651. If you’re equating Fox and CNN, your math is off.
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  3652. Trickle down, popularized under Reagan, whose own budget manager called voodoo economics, has a well established losing track record.
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  3653. Aside from the racist vote, which was substantial, I don’t think many people understand what a Trump presidency means. That speaks to poor education in our country. The GOP have never, never been the party of the average American.
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  3654. Yes Elon pushed EV. Well done. The rest, the accumulation of wealth and the use of that wealth to degrade democracy (via conspiracy thinking/lying) will be looked upon like a radioactive version of yesteryears oil and rail barons.
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  3655. Doge claimed Customs and Immigration cuts were 8 billion, turns out they were 8 million. Think I trust Elon and co?
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  3656. Another specious argument trying to downplay the threat of climate change. Petersen is happy to challenge the scientific consensus (97% of climate scientists) and pretend that it's a political issue. Here's my question: If 97% of cancer doctors told Petersen he needed chemo, would he then insist it was a 'political' issue? He started out giving young men reasonable advice on responsibility, but he's become another tin hat contrarian making coin by conning the undereducated.
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  3657. Lost me when he wandered into the conspiracy vortex.
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  3658. America more materialistic? Don’t remember the 80’s? This is a right wing church guy selling yesterday’s philosophical leftovers, even if he is dressed up as an NYT columnist. Science doesn’t prove God, or disprove him. And the Christians who voted GOP this year have shown how shallow their morality is.
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  3659. very amusing
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  3660. Boo hoo, RFK can debate himself and which conspiracy he believes today
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  3661.  @BazookaTooth707  Kennedy is soft on Russia and China, a policy which is the exact opposite of American foreign policy since WW2, one which freed Eastern Europe and guarantees the safety of democracy in Japan, S Korea and Taiwan. And there is no proof of Kennedy’s ridiculous theories that dirty water causes gender dysphoria or Prozac causes shootings or vaccines cause autism. My patriotism is tied to an understanding of history and science. I support his environmental positions and his desire to overturn Citizens United, but the rest is just his ego outrunning his common sense.
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  3662.  @BazookaTooth707  back at ya
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  3663. What a joke. Better presidents than Trump have failed at peace in Israel. He’ll give Israel and his fellow indicted leader what they want and the conflict will continue.
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  3664. Hey Kennedy, what are you doing about Cancer Alley and all the other environmental disasters in your bottom of the barrel state?
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  3665. Let’s clear up some bs here. It was Trump’s ‘peace plan’ which sidelined Palestinians that led to Oct. 7. His new Gaza ‘plan’ has already blown away with the hot air it was built from. There is no point taking Trump’s foreign policy claims seriously. He’s either being blackmailed by Putin or hoping to build a casino in Moscow. No US prez has ever caved to Russian dictators. Ever.
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  3666.  @CognitaFlow  Both unrealistic in the real world on different ends of the political spectrum.
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  3667. Neither one has much inside the cranium but a pathological need for attention.
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  3668. The grownups did it. Never thought I'd say thank you Mike Johnson.
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  3669.  @shadowreaver1851  That’s exactly what grownups do when the balance of power between a super power dictatorship and America is at stake? Every president since WW2 has kept the pressure up on both China and Russia. The result: Eastern Europe freed in ‘90 when the Iron Curtain came down and the USSR dissolved, Japan, Taiwan, S Korea are flourishing democracies because we guarantee it. Know the secret to world peace? Democracy. Isolationism, what you’re arguing, is why it took us so long to start fighting in WW2.
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  3670.  @shadowreaver1851  Grownups remember that every president since WW2 has backed a policy of containment against China and Russia, resulting in the fall of the USSR/freeing of Eastern Europe, and building and protecting democracies in Taiwan, Japan, S Korea. World peace is built on the expansion of democracy and the diminishment of tyranny. Isolationism, 'saving our money', helped lead to Hitler.
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  3671.  @shadowreaver1851  There's a reason both Dems and Republicans signed off on this. Every administration since WW2 has kept the pressure on China and Russia and free half of Europe in the process, while building democracies (that we protect) in Japan, S Korea and Taiwan. You want to cut the debt; there are saner ways to do that.
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  3672. Brought to you by fracking billionaires. I can guess which way they vote.
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  3673. Big talking fool in the pocket of Netanyahu. Where’s the peace deal Chump?
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  3674. The black community, just like its white counterpart, is not happy with female empowerment. Simple. Listen to a few rap songs.
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  3675. Peterson cashing in on the train wreck he helped happen. Extraordinary leaders? Amazing clowns.
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  3676. Elon, much like Trump, needs attention and takes it out on others.
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  3677. Trad wives reactionary propaganda. Look up Phyllis Schafly from the Reagan years, same tripe v
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  3678. I’m calling Rubio a gutless bootlicker. Like to ship the whole administration to Moscow and let them enjoy a taste of living under a ‘powerful’ leader.
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  3679. Greenland, Gulf of America. What happened to taming inflation? Oh, that's hard.
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  3680. The Hill, a trusted news source🤓
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  3681. People fleeing Florida for lack of insurance, but DeSantis only cares about ‘owning the libs. Sad excuse for a human.
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  3682. Whatever Trump does, it’s very unlikely to make school more affordable. It’s the woke virus he’s after, not affordable education.
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  3683. Mearsheimer suggested we should ally with Putin against China. Asinine.
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  3684. In other news, the Earth is flat.
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  3685. And what are all those Wall Street bankers doing?
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  3686. Great comeback when you have zero facts or don't want to answer a question
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  3687. There’s no doubt the US helped push Russia into a corner, or Putin Rather, but it is in the best interests of the world for Putin to lose legitimacy, especially at home. The enemies of world peace are dictatorships-Iran, Saudis, Russia, China, North Korea-modern democracies rarely attack each other. And the reason for Putin’s panic is the threat of democracy on his doorstep, as he demonstrated over and over with the former satellites of the USSR.
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  3688. Chapelle was great, can still be funny. Gervais always had a mean streak that soured the humor. But hey, humor is personal.
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  3689. Love these titles 'Last chance for West'. In the US, the danger to democracy, the signal achievement of Western Civ, comes from the right.
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  3690. Hilarious to watch "I've got three names so I'm important Hanson" try to make Trump sound like a hero. The GOP has some serious soul searching to do.
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  3691. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’ - JP’s ‘wisdom’.
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  3692. I think if truth were really a right wing concept there'd be at least a few good universities teaching it. In fact, the facts lean left, which is why you hear these knuckleheads railing against the 'mainstream media'. Hey, it's called mainstream for a reason. Whatcha got over there on Fox? Carlson knowingly lying to viewers.
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  3693. The culture war is based on MAGA voters fearful of losing white majority status. How is RFK gonna fix that?
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  3694. Lost me when he blamed shootings on Prozac? Reality check circuit inoperable.
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  3695. @8rr725 I don't see any factual defense of RFKjr as a competent leader for HHS. You a climate change denier too?
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  3696. Guess what? The US without immigrants won’t maintain our population, or fill jobs. Get a clue.
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  3697.  @CandiceMMartinez  50 million less with declining birthrates and an aging population. See Japan. Put a little thought into it.
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  3698. In WW2 we fought for democracy, under Trump against it.
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  3699. He may once have stood for something. Now it’s a mish mash of liberal, conservative and fantasy.
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  3700. A neoNazi is far right
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  3701. Come on JP, those jackets look a little suspect.
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  3702. You are welcome to share all your views in China, see how that works out. China didn’t build democracies out of Hitler’s Germany or Hirohito’s Japan. China didn’t bring down the USSR and free Eastern Europe. And China would gladly enslave Taiwan without the threat of US military intervention. Sachs is a contrarian, and not in a good way.
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  3703. Boebert was sober!
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  3704.  @neilmanhard1341  Long as you don't mind power outages
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  3705.  @DD-st5rh  Cross reference maps of vaxxed states and covid mortality. Red states took the brunt.
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  3706.  @BazookaTooth707 Explain the supposed ‘nuance’ and I’ll gladly show you the shallow thinking. He’s half liberal half conservative and all narcissist.
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  3707. Agreed @jacqdanieles 
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  3708. Whiners united
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  3709. It lost the world balance of power. Trump is fooling with forces far, far above his pay grade.
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  3710. No one will be bragging about a degree from Prager U.
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  3711.  @D0x1511af  Russians invaded Afghanistan too.
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  3712. Sachs is a Putin apologist. Yes US foreign policy, like everyone else has its flaws, but Sachs paints Russia as an equal partner in a rational world instead of a dictatorship run solely for its preservation. Russians are fleeing, no one wants to fight Ukraine. Putin has already lost simply by not winning against a far inferior adversary. Appeasing dictators is a losing geopolitical strategy, which both RR and JFK knew.
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  3713. Ford famous for antisemitism and union busting.
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  3714. Former Trump attorney is not something you want one a resume.
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  3715. Ronald Reagan would be funding as would JFK. The doubters are clueless.
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  3716. Elon’s ego took control of the ship awhile ago. Now he’s Chief Executive of Conspiracy Inc.
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  3717. Nice Russian propaganda
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  3718. Absolute nonsense. Compare the US to almost any country in the world, a country based on assimilation and we have assimilated ourselves into an economic, military and cultural superpower. This is straight clickbait for MAGA - heads.
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  3719. Absolute free speech is a bad, bad joke. And the 1st amendment does have limitations.
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  3720. So well is a conservative mouthpiece whose main job has been churning out pseudo educated gibberish for his employer, the Hoover Institution since ‘77.
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  3721. Good for billionaires to dismantle government, not so much for us wee folk.
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  3722. We know. How about you address the harder issue of how to fix capitalism.
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  3723. Just don't rise like JP did, spouting rubbish about feminism, racism, Putin, climate change, guns. I do like his take on responsibility.
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  3724. Dingbat on foreign policy and Covid. Classic contrarian.
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  3725. Yeah, he loved Putin and Kim Jong. Cuz ‘genius’.
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  3726. Elon and Carlson, perfect tinfoil hat brotherhood
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  3727. Those of you not supporting the Ukraine have lost or never had a grasp of American history. No President, of either party, has ever let Russian aggression slide. Reagan ended the Cold War, broke up the USSR and freed half of Europe and, in theory, Ukraine and other former Soviet puppet regimes. World peace comes from promoting democracy, not backing down to 2 bit thugs. Putin gets a good deal from Trump? You think that advances American interests?
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  3728. Lose the monarchy for starters
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  3729. Ouch.
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  3730. Pick up a history book
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  3731.  @BobbyORiley  Spoken like someone who’s never read history
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  3732.  @BobbyORiley  Guess what doesn’t change over time - tyranny. Yesteryear’s thug is pretty much identical this years. No one wanted to fight Hitler either. Isolationism has a poor track record my little peacenik Republican.
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  3733.  @BobbyORiley  Then I can’t help you. Watch for the cost of Trump’s ‘peace.
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  3734.  @СергейКоролев-ь4х  Ha
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  3735.  @BobbyORiley  I voted against W and the disasters he wasted American lives on. How'd you vote?
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  3736.  @BobbyORiley  👍
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  3737. The Brits don’t give a damn about the right’s obsession with a decades old case.
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  3738. Guns the #1 killer of American kids. A national disgrace
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  3739. I agree, of course Trump has even worse credentials in the sanity and morality department.
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  3740. Dingbat patrol
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  3741. More cover for racism from the right
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  3742. Facts show you wrong. Trump lost and tried to cheat.
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  3743. Elon’s never gonna part with that much cash. He’s a well known tightwad
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  3744. Letting Trump on Twitter is a 'specific example' of promoting hate speech. Tax Billionaires out of existence please.
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  3745. We teach it, but you didn’t pass.
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  3746. I don’t believe Trump could pass the most basic high school civics test. Unfit and pathologically ego driven. Friends with Putin?
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  3747. Goodbye
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  3748. Supposed to have intelligence for that job.
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  3749. An argument over nothing. Can men be caring? Yes. Can they breastfeed? Not usually. Takeaway? Dunno.
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  3750. It doesn’t get anymore boneheaded than changing America’s historical bipartisan policy towards murderous superpower dictators. If Reagan had done this all of Eastern Europe would still be communist. Dangerously idiotic.
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  3751. Crypto the scam of the hour, what could go wrong?
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  3752. You must have forgotten how WW2 started. Many Americans didn't want to get involved; till Pearl Harbor. Then we built NATO to keep it from happening again. Pay now, or pay more later.
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  3753. I theght Trump was going to make wars end, not start ticky tacky pr stunt wars. He’s jealous of W’s ‘shock and awe’.
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  3754. Oh I can't wait to hear what this fool thinks of that fool. Vivek "Let's abolish the FBI". Peterson "Climate change activism is not important".
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  3755. Or you can have the hard bigotry of white nationalists
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  3756. Average Israeli opinion? Why doesn’t Likud get half the votes? BS.
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  3757.  @josephpepper3087  Guess who still does a majority off housework in homes with two incomes? CEOS of Fortune 500 companies are 75% male.
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  3758.  @josephpepper3087  Women still do more housework, even in two income families. And 75% of Fortune 500 CEOs are male.
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  3759.  @josephpepper3087  Women are doing better in higher ed. But 75% of Fortune 500 CEO's are male. And they don't do as much housework in two income homes.
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  3760. Can’t speak to U.K. issues, but America is a superpower in every sense, built on multiculturalism.
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  3761. Hilarious slander of Einstein by from the king of corporate welfare
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  3762. Assad will have a price on his head. Not sure who’s going to give him asylum. Putin, I don’t think so.
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  3763. Fabulous idea, instead letting billionaires pick our leaders just let ‘em run the whole show.. Newsflash; collecting capital is not synonymous with collecting wisdom, see Elon. Ackman, Thiel, the Waltons, Kocks et cetera
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  3764.  @OsellaSquadraCorse  That is hikarious, I mean hikarious. DeeSantis for public library sheriff ‘24.
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  3765. Peterson doing his counter logic shtick, clickbait.
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  3766. Wow, never thought I’d say I miss Nixon.
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  3767. It takes a real schmuck to be selling climate denial at this point. Guessing Peterson doesn't live anywhere that is already suffering, like say Houston.
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  3768. Steer clear of this Neanderthal regarding women. They don’t like him because: ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’.
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  3769. Please show proof. It’s always the GOP, like kids who can’t have their way, they’d rather just break things.
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  3770. Here’s a Peterson quote: “Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination”. He’s also a climate change denier and Putin appeaser.
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  3771. Peterson is good on motivating young men, but he’s a misogynist a climate denier and Putin appeaser, ie something of a conspiracy theorist.
    1
  3772.  @AsteroSSB  We collapsed the USSR and freed Eastern Europe while Putin was in the KGB. No idea how he’s on the right side unless you’re a fan of fascism.
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  3773. Here’s a quote ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. He’s a climate denier and Putin apologist. His advice for young men may be useful, but he’s made a name for himself as a right wing ‘intellectual’.
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  3774.  @joneslive586  Everything other than responsibility. Climate change, guns, the free market, history, sexism, racism
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  3775.  @adrianmacgrath5814  Thank you
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  3776. He’s almost as much of a joke as Trump with his conspiracy theories and weaknesses on Russia and China.
    1
  3777.  @crazyratlady3438  I could ask you the same. I’m 67, seen a lot of politicians in my time and blaming autism on vaccines is dishonest. Going soft on Russia or China goes against every US president since WW2, a period when we freed half of Europe from the USSR. This isn’t a beauty contest, this about how seriously you understand the world. There are areas like Citizens United and the environment where I agree with him, but too many times he’s making it up as he goes without thinking or checking the history books.
    1
  3778. One of the cars mechanics claim is least trustworthy and most expensive to fix. Woke? Their for rich people
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  3779. SCOTUS approval rating lower than congress. Pretty sad for a judicial body.
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  3780. The attitude ensures the conflict continues. It’s all the other sides fault.
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  3781. Greenwald, Mr. Contrarian, on the wrong side of history.
    1
  3782. Anything labeled the ‘truth’ is sure to be unadulterated opinion. #1 killer of American kids.
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  3783. Yeah, we feel the same way about Elon.
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  3784. JFK and Reagan would vomit to see RFK jr taking Putin's side. Reagan and all the presidents leading up to him supported a policy of containment on both Russian and Chinese dictatorships. That freed all of Eastern Europe when the Iron Curtain fell. That policy is also responsible for the prospering democracies in Taiwan and S Korea. RFK jr is clueless on foreign policy.
    1
  3785. An indicted president who abetted the funding of Hamas, Israel couldn’t be in much worse hands.
    1
  3786. We certainly are, and it’s the right leading the charge towards extinction. Trashing our government and making an ally out of Putin.
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  3787. History is cyclical. Some Dem will have to along and clean up after Trump, again.
    1
  3788. Serves billionaires to to disembowel government, not citizens
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  3789. Sowell’s junk is never gonna make into schools, certainly not universities unless their teaching how to minimize American slavery.
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  3790. Keep running the poorest, most polluted state in the union Kennedy. Great job.
    1
  3791. Don’t like being called racists don’t vote for racist candidate
    1
  3792.  @charwest9449  Check a media bias chart and see where Fox rates on accuracy
    1
  3793.  @charwest9449  They apparently convinced you
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  3794. Last time US troops went to that area, in ‘83, 200 marines died in single truck bomb attack. It ain’t happening. Stupidest foreign policy idea since …his last one.
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  3795. Vance not the right person to be throwing around the words ‘androgynous idiots’.
    1
  3796. Rather lose my small business than my life to vax denialist president.
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  3797. The accumulation of capital is not necessarily the accumulation of wisdom.
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  3798.  @samjack5465  That’s called isolationism, and it’s a failed historical policy. We still have nuclear armed enemies who will gladly fill the void we leave. 70 years hasn’t changed Russian dictatorship, which Reagan helped defeat once. As for taxes, We could reduce taxes for average Americans but the GOP policies are aimed at lowering corporate and wealthy tax payers. I’m highly skeptical that this president will lower prices for middle America.
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  3799. Toxic masculinity is an attitude or set of social guidelines stereotypically associated with manliness that often have a negative impact on men, women, and society in general.
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  3800. Hanson’s a specialist in ancient history, everything else is idiocy.
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  3801. Doesn’t wsupportbUkraine but does support Israel. Another hypocrite
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  3802. Silly then, silly now. Who argues against responsibility? Classic strawman drivel.
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  3803. Louise Perry is the latest model of a ‘family values’ pundit. And the title of these pieces are ridiculous. The sexual revolution encompasses so many sexual, political, racial, religious and economic issues that it can’t be chewed up in these little conservative broadsides against porn or modern feminism.
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  3804. He can’t read, but someone told him about and he said ’you got it’.
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  3805. Narcissist heaven.
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  3806. Soros has seen Nazis up close, Elon just plays on in memes.
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  3807. Wack jobs united.
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  3808. Keep selling that trash you call 'wisdom'. This is libertarian wishful thinking, while jobs are lost, people go hungry, health care goes out the window.
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  3809. We’re just as sick of wannabe cowboys pretending they’re gonna save us from imaginary tyranny.
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  3810. Elon and Carlson, honesty disabled.
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  3811.  @philhensley5986  He self cancelled
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  3812. Some liberal Dem billionaire needs to buyout Post employees and start new paper. Let Bezos print his Amazon Post, fair and balanced.
    1
  3813. Conservative dogma, from a third rate academic.
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  3814. Wages have flatlined since the 80’s until recently compared to productivity. The question is who do you trust to fix that.
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  3815. 9/11 was a government conspiracy? We should raise the voting age to 25? Abolish the FBI? Burn more coal? Todays GOP is a scary phenom.
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  3816. Funny to hear a conservative complaining about narcissism and disregard for science in the era of Trump, Elon Musk, conspiracy mongering and most of the GOP. Here’s some Peterson ‘wisdom’: ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’.
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  3817. Anything that degrades Russian tyranny is a plus for world democracy and peace. Remember the Iron Curtain, the USSR? Yeah those came down because we spent money arming NATO and our own armed forces. Jeez.
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  3818. ICE has the job of policing immigration and customs, not acting as Trump’s personal secret police arresting people with views he dislikes.
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  3819. Kim Jong, Orban, Putin. I’m beginning to connect the dots. Wonder who Trumps favorite supervillain is.
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  3820. Trump/Hitler '24
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  3821. For any one silly enough to buy this drivel, how is it that the worlds #1 economic, military and cultural superpower has the power specifically from multiculturalism?
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  3822. Sachs is an economist, but seems to have skipped history or he'd know that American presidents since Truman have used a policy of containment on dictatorships, a policy that helped bring down the Iron Curtain and free half of Europe. Just the kind of foreign policy dingbat you want far away from the levers of power. Soft on Russia, soft on China. How ahistorical can you get?
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  3823. "It's fundamentally a theological war." Last I checked the Church is not big on 'free speech'. Kind of the opposite of doctrine.
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  3824. What's the diff? GOP never wanna tax billionaires.
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  3825. I'll set part of the record straight by saying that the America right supports the Israel right and Netanyahu has supported Hamas with aim of weakening Palestinian moderates. At the same time, Israel has continued its annexation of Palestinian land. There is blame on both sides. Hamas are psychopaths along with many of their Islamic neighbors, but the Israeli govt/people have to do better to pull out of this hideous, never ending cycle of violence.
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  3826. Another senator who loves billionaires
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  3827. After multiple accusations, for multiple comments, yeah, Elon is anti-semitic. A big wallet to match his big ego.
    1
  3828. The 1st amendment has limits built in. They need enforcement
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  3829. 2nd Amendment myth: Guns will prevent tyranny. Yea, what modern democracy did that happen in. Rambo fairy tale.
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  3830. Dershowitz is a pundit for hire. Not even he knows what he believes
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  3831. There are so many reasons to dislike Peterson, besides his whiny personality. He’s against climate action, stronger gun laws, feminism, civil rights and claims Putin is just protecting his people from Western degeneracy. He has just enough command of the language to con the ignorant. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination’. JP.
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  3832. History lessons from Whole Checkbook? Newsflash, capitalism doesn’t need defending, but CEOs and their ilk are unbalancing the scales. Where they once made 40x the average worker their takeaway is now at the 300x mark, 1000x for Bezos.
    1
  3833. And Trump is on a revenge tour. He keeps asking if he can prosecute late night hosts for mocking him. Pick your poison.
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  3834. Which class was JR born in?
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  3835. Uh, Russia has no democracy. If they did, there would be no war with Ukraine. PBD is out of his depth, again.
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  3836. I doubt you understand the 2nd.
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  3837.  @rrdutch4111  The idea that the 2nd is preventing tyranny is pure myth. No modern democracy has been saved from tyranny by armed civilians. More likely that right wing armed civilians will try something like Jan 6, because the right doesn’t like democracy.
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  3838.  @markthomas7279  You’re economically illiterate
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  3839. Try surviving Houston when idiot gov won't face climate reality.
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  3840. Mearsheimer is always incredibly naive about the fear that democracy evokes in dictators. Putin doesn’t want former Soviet states becoming democracies, particularly flourishing democracies, which could put pressure on him to provide the same.
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  3841.  @SoMuchFacepalm  Live in your fairy land. Exxon doesn’t build roads or pay the fire department or veterans benefits, SS, SEC, FDA, NIH etc.
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  3842. The pot calling the kettle black
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  3843. Billionaires and democracy are antithetical
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  3844. It’s all a conspiracy against JP and his lobster theory.
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  3845. Not the go to guy on women. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’
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  3846. Conservative dribble from Heritage.
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  3847. New conservatism looks a lot like the old. Don't know about European multiculturalism, but America is a military, economic and cultural superpower due to multiculturalism. European countries have longer history and perhaps less ability to assimilate immigrants.
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  3848. Are there any intelligent, even handed conservatives, because Stossel certainly doesn't qualify.
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  3849. Peterson is rarely correct, from climate change denial, to Putin apologist, to gun reform, racism, sexism, economics he simply parrots right wing conspiracy drivel in search of another 5 minutes of fame.
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  3850.  @kimobrien.  China?
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  3851. Since men hold most of the power in this country, I guess boys are lost because of them.
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  3852. Dubious reporting
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  3853. Imagine America taking 3 years to control Baja in a war with Mexico. Trump handing Putin a lifeline is treason.
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  3854. Forbes wants a tax cut because he can't afford any of his zillions.
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  3855. Sowell's been paid for decades by Hoover Inst. to peddle conservative talking points. He's smart enough, but it's all in the service of his belief system. "Obama the worst president ever" is an example of throwing reality out the window to serve your agenda.
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  3856. No one needs to defend capitalism, that’s ridiculous. Most of the world’s economies are mixed, including ours. Clickbait for free market cultists.
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  3857. Does no one in his audiences read any history? Totalitarianism is bad, duh. Petersen's beating a dead horse, stone dead.
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  3858. Vivek wants more softball questions cuz how you gonna make sense of ‘climate change is a hoax’ or ‘abolish the FBI’? He needs a reality tv show to feed his narcissism.
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  3859. Trump caving to Putin is an enormous, dangerous veering off course of American foreign policy for the last 70 years. Reagan didn't bring down the Berlin wall and collapse the USSR by siding with totalitarian thugs.
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  3860. The biggest danger to Western culture is the GOP’s attack on legitimate elections. The West gave us democracy, but fair elections don’t seem to matter to conservatives.
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  3861. Battle of the Narcissist Titans. Where's Honest Don?
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  3862. The right fighting the FBI is freakin hilarious
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  3863.  @starfoxnes  The 2nd is a joke. No modern democracy has been saved by an armed population. Nice post though.
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  3864.  @starfoxnes  None of your examples, which you have laid out very well, proves that a 'modern' democracy has been saved by armed citizens from its own government. The Black Panthers, Nation of Islam were never a real threat to either our democracy or our police force. South Korea is not armed against the S Korean government, but against the North's insane dictatorship. Neither Vietnam or Afghanistan were modern, functioning democracies. You didn't mention Israel, where armed citizens are a real thing, but they're surrounded by fanatic Muslims, not trying to fight their own government. Your WW2 analogies about the Swiss, the Resistance doesn't apply to America. We're not trying to fend off a Hitler from Canada or Mexico. I believe that this part of the reasoning for the 2nd is fantasy and the price we are paying for it-American gun deaths-is far too high. FYI, I grew up on a farm hunting, shooting up shit and loving it, but I believe the price is too high and the danger of tyranny in America too low. But hey, we can agree to disagree.
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  3865. As if any gives a rat blank about Bill Barr.
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  3866. CA a shit show? Have you had a gander at Louisiana? Florida losing mds and teachers. Cherry picking.
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  3867. Liberals need to wake up on this issue. Immigration is twice what it was in the 70s. I’m a capital L lib, but this is the only substantial policy the GOP has and we can take it.
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  3868. It’s amusing to me that all this conservative pundits live in NYC. Guess they don’t really want to live in the heartland.
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  3869. Trump/Spongebob ‘24
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  3870. Mearsheimer bending the facts to fit his fundamentally anti-democratic philosophy. Russia didn’t just attack Ukraine, it also attacked Georgia and Ossetia. Putin fears being surrounded by functioning, prospering democracies, which will eventually have Russians questioning Putin’s corrupt dictatorship.
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  3871. @mariaadelecagna3540 I’d rather live there than under Putin. Google Putin and windows to see how he disposes of his own citizens.
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  3872. Last I checked it was conservatives trying to restrict voting running an indicted traitor to democracy for president. Wonder if Sowell knows how to spell hypocrisy?
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  3873. Watching Maher is like playing roulette; it’s a fifty fifty chance he’ll get something right. That’s how contrarianism works, or not.
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  3874. Shilling for anti-Semite- VDH desperate for MAGA clicks.
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  3875. Trump and Musk, self serving billionaires let loose in chicken coop. What could go wrong?
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  3876. Trump cleaning up anything at all is hysterical fantasy.
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  3877.  @johannesswillery7855  Trump’s invitation to Putin to have a free hand in Europe is an invitation to WW3. Like RFK jr he seems not to understand that every president since WW2 has used a policy of containment to degrade our superpower enemies. That’s how the USSR imploded and freed Eastern Europe, that’s how we guarantee democracy and economic freedom in Japan, Taiwan and S Korea. Trump is right to push for more European NATO funding, but caving to Putin is inviting a bigger war.
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  3878. What could go wrong? Instead of the government having your info, a tech billionaire has it.
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  3879. Bolton needs to suit up and visit a war zone since he's so keen on conflict.
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  3880. A lot of chatter against ev, but not much hard fact. EVs not perfect, what is, but gas vehicles are a continuing failure. Conservatives just peddling belief, not science.
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  3881. Conservatives are afraid of change, particularly any change in gender roles - see Roe v Wade, Title IX, domestic abuse laws, sexual harassment laws, stalking laws, divorce laws etc.
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  3882. Ukraine, climate, guns, women, race..trust JP to have it backwards.
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  3883. RFK and Trump? I never would have suspected two conspiracy mongers with oversized egos would join forces. Fabulous, can't wait to see the tomfoolery.
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  3884. We'll see if Trump gets any closer than Carter to Middle East peace. Carter got close; Trump unlikely to match that, but maybe, somehow.
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  3885.  @davebrookbank4831  You’re barking up the wrong tree with no factual bite. Carter and BillClinton both worked at the peace process, Carter came close. Tell me exactly what Trump did, or I’ll tell you. He tried to push a deal making peace between Saudis and Israel, cutting out the Palestinians. Guess what happened? Oct 7.
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  3886.  @murphymalinois  I was talking about Israel/Palestine. The overthrow of the Shah of Iran and hostages was due to a long history of US support of the Shah and his secret service, by both parties. And Reagan didn’t want the hostages released until he won the election.
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  3887.  @davebrookbank4831  You're right to give up. Trump's middle east peace plan was to forge an alliance between the Saudis and the Israelis while cutting out the Palestinians. Hamas wasn't happy and so, Oct. 7th. I'd like to believe he can do better, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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  3888. There’s no or here, everything Trump touches turns to ash. It took a pandemic to drive us into recession last Trump outing, this time he’s doing it all by himself. Stable Genius GDP dive.
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  3889. America certainly has an ongoing problem with race, why else would anyone vote for Trump. But most of the world is far more racist than the US.
    1
  3890. Check the states with lowest gun deaths, coincidentally those with tightest gun laws.
    1
  3891.  @ulthanee What is?
    1
  3892.  @ulthanee  lower educational achievement
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  3893.  @ulthanee  demographics just a word, who you blaming?
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  3894. Straight ahistorical idiocy. Is democracy flawed? Of course, like everything we do. Are there many monarchies still functioning? Pluheez.
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  3895. Conservatives hate government overreach, until it’s them doing the over reach. Integrity zero.
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  3896.  @MistaWallSt  must be related to the proud boys
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  3897. I'll listen to conservatives when they stop trying to undermine legitimate elections. That's unAmerican.
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  3898. 23 seconds in "There's no evidence the 'left' has ameliorated inequality". Let's see who pushed civil rights in the 60's? The left. Who fought it? The right. Who won? Well we did pass a civil rights act. And while we certainly haven't finished ameliorating inequality, we have had a black president, Oprah, black news anchors, interracial marriage is legal now. Is he thinking while he's talking?
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  3899. Modi’s a nationalist, that never ends well.
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  3900.  @SmartRPh24  Hindu nationalism, like all nationalism and religious fundamentalism will fail
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  3901. Hilarious. Surprised Trump wasn’t hit by lightning when calling bs on anyone.
    1
  3902. Wage theft by Walmart, Amazon, B of A and others steals more wealth than actual criminal theft year by year. The “free market” is a religion for the GOP, never mind CEO pay at 300X average salary.
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  3903. Not afraid, they're laughing at his ridiculous interpretation of US slavery. Racists love it, everyone else ain't buying.
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  3904. Rats R Us
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  3905. Worlds major religions run by men, as are 3/4 of Fortune 500, 3/4 of the Senate, 4/5 of the House. Men need to quit whining and start growing.
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  3906. Safe space for conservative ranting.
    1
  3907. JP ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.” Buyer beware.
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  3908. 9/11 was an attack by foreign terrorists (from our 'ally' Saudi Arabia). Jan 6th was a homegrown attempt to throw an election. Easy pickins.
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  3909. Religious fundamentalists are a plague from every religion.
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  3910. I support Israel, but I don't support a blank check for terrorizing and stealing Palestinian land in the West Bank. Bibi's gotta go.
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  3911.  @TwistyTrav  Google it. Hitler ran a mixed economy. Mercedes made a mint.
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  3912.  @WhatsupDoc-01  Daimler Benz (Mercedes today) and many others made bank under Hitler. Mixed economy.
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  3913. Great financial vehicle. For criminals.
    1
  3914. Amazingly naive for presidential candidate. Reagan and JFK are spinning in their graves at the prospect of an American president going soft on Russia. Reagan saw the USSR crumble under American military pressure, freeing Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states from police states.
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  3915. Thomas Sowell said Obama was America’s worst president ever. That’s cheap, partisan ‘scholarship’ for you.
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  3916. Guess what? Capitalism doesn’t function without socialist guard rails. No Wall Street without SEC, no food safety without the FDA etc
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  3917. Kennedy is a joke. Soft on Russia and China, never mind US policy since WW2. Prozac causes shootings? Ego tripping, and just plain trippin.
    1
  3918. The world is laughing at Sky ‘News’
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  3919. The sheer idiocy of the GOP’s support for Putin is mind boggling. Reagan would slap Trump silly.
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  3920. A safe space for racists. Research? America is a superpower partly because of diversity.
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  3921. Er, it's a PR move because the term "Boy Scouts" became synonymous with pedophiles.
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  3922. Wildfire danger in CA has doubled since ‘80,
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  3923. There are no good guys and bad guys in this fight.
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  3924. Conservatives love conspiracy. You can’t ‘prove’ alien lizards aren’t running the country.
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  3925. Mealy mouthed apologia for tyranny. Conservatives secretly love dictators.
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  3926. NATO attack ended war, this is simple cheap revisionism.
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  3927. Ron ‘Don’t Say Climate Change’ DeSantis
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  3928. Some people seem not to understand how superpower politics affect the world. A win for Russia is a loss for world democracy ie peace, the same would be true against China. Reagan didn't cave to the USSR (and the Iron Curtain name down) and neither did Kennedy, one thing the Dems and GOP used to have in common.
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  3929. General Sherman gave 40 slaves land to feed themselves from right after the civil war so the Feds wouldn’t have to. President Johnson took it right back when Lincoln died. That land would be worth 500 bil today. So we tried to pay reparations but reneged.
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  3930. Waste of time, self explanatory
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  3931. Dream on.
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  3932. Karma’s a bitch
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  3933. Until we have a rough parity of power in our institutions- religious, business and government-feminism will continue.
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  3934.  @ChronoStrife  Hilarious
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  3935. I'm certainly not hopeful on the media front for what AI may offer. Elon's already shown us his own proclivity for conspiracy mongering.
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  3936. JP. In over his head, as usual
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  3937. The sexual revolution as it’s called was a historical necessity arising from hypocritical, misogynistic sexual mores foisted on us by religion. Was it an unqualified success? Nothing is. Feminism will recover without having to follow Perry back into the patriarchy.
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  3938. It’s an opinion section, the job literally involves having opinions. You want right opinions you go to WSJ or OAN or Fox, you want left you go to msnbc, NYT, wapo. All this hypocrisy about fair and balanced is a joke, especially coming from Fox viewers.
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  3939. How about guns knucklehead? #1 killer of kids
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  3940. Peterson is a master of gobbledygook
    1
  3941. The truth hurts
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  3942. DeeSantis gets yet another beatdown.
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  3943. Louisiana home to the worst pollution in the nation thanks to fools like Kennedy cozying up to big corporations.
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  3944. EVery president since Truman ie WW2 has supported a containment policy against both Russia and China, that's how we spread and protect democracy. It helped bring down the Iron Curtain and free half of Europe. It protects S Korea, the Philippines and especially Taiwan. You don't go soft on bullies, you offer a carrot, but you guarantee a stick for bad behavior. Right wing of GOP is playing with fire.
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  3945. Boo hoo. Way to get clicks by interviewing rapists.
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  3946. So much for DeSantis’ support for the first amendment. Freedom of speech only when he approves. DeFascist.
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  3947. Wasn’t Biden sucking up to Putin.
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  3948.  @jimcutright  Russia has gotten spanked, embarrassed and internationally humiliated on the battlefield. Imagine America fighting Mexico to a standstill for 2 years. NATO is stronger has more members. It’s a net win for the US. Isolationism has been a historical failure starting with our reluctance to get into WW2.
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  3949. Great in for for bunker dwellers.
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  3950. Plus, the GOP are masters of adding to the deficit. Cut the IRS budget? Really?
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  3951.  @NRClips3414  Whatever the mechanism, I see billionaires as both a threat to democracy and hogs eating too much of the financial pie. I’ve heard defenders say that we need billionaires to create innovation. Absurd, if you can’t create on $500 million, you can’t create. The middle class has been hollowed out by wage stagnation and cash/options/inheritance pouring upwards. Scaring business away to where? America once had a top tax rate of %90-70 from the 40s to ‘81.
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  3952. My hat is off to Fauci for all the nonsense he’s had to put up with in the process of a historical pandemic.
    1
  3953. What about Hunter whine the righties?
    1
  3954. GOP playbook
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  3955. Blue states are net givers to feds, while red states are net takers.
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  3956. Trump and MAGA clueless about power politics and history. Just dumb enough to back us into WW3. Reagan wouldn’t be pussyfooting with Putin.
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  3957. Maybe Peterson isn’t aware that America is a military, economic and cultural superpower because of its multicultural society. Needs to do a little critical thinking.
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  3958. Utter bs. Please show example of modern democracy saved by armed citizens from tyranny. 2nd amendment myth serving to get school kids killed.
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  3959. 11,000 slaves owned by blacks (the offspring of slaves and their masters), 4 mil owned by whites. Get a grip.
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  3960. ​ @hiwelcometochillis2579  You need to study both thinking and writing
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  3961.  @tonycatman  Don't see what relevance that has to American slavery. Simple evasion.
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  3962.  @tonycatman  Your ‘few things’ are myths. My sister in law is black as is a best friend. Not one liberal I know is saying white people are inherently evil, that is illogical propaganda. Nor do they claim that the average white person is rich, which also makes no sense. The average white person is 6 times richer than the average black person, which is an improvement from 11 to 1 in 1900, but indicates that black Americans have been systematically excluded. Looking at slavery in other countries is simply an evasion, unless other countries have very similar histories, which of course they don’t. As an American who loves watching basketball and football, who loves black comedians, authors and most of all the incredible music of our country, I have to recognize that those gifts came at a high price to one segment of our population. I understand that not everyone shares that view.
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  3963. Sowell’s ’idea’ is thin as tissue. The polio vaccine was a solution, so was the clean air act. Sowell touting do nothing-ism, the refrain of the right.
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  3964. Hilarious
    1
  3965. You can’t be soft on a Russia and be a serious candidate, you’re just a mini Trump. No president of either party, the former prez excepted, has ever, ever veered from our containment policy on Russia and China. That is how we destroyed the USSR and freed half of Europe and many of the Soviet states. Mind boggling naïveté, or just a cynical ploy for votes. Either is unconscionable.
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  3966. Sad incel whining
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  3967. PBD spinning Trump’s knuckleheaded treason.
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  3968. Conservatives never admit that functioning government is fundamentally socialist. They’re dependent on McCarthyist tropes.
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  3969. Kinda like a female Jordan Peterson with a little less hysterics.
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  3970.  @kirklaird8345  Darwinian social theory is a failure of imagination, an excuse to wallow in the status quo.
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  3971. Peterson is against climate action, a Putin supporter and a misogynist. ‘Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination.’ A genius for idiots, much like Musk.
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  3972. What are all these whiners going to call American justice when Hunter gets convicted?
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  3973. Thomas Sowell is a mediocre economist and a 3rd rate intellectual.
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  3974. People have been whining about the dollar for decades, more bluster from a murderous failure.
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  3975. Lonely narcissist who refuses therapy? Connect the dots.
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  3976. What are these numbnuts gonna say when Hunter gets convicted? Fabulous hypocrisy and ‘victimhood’.
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  3977. Shocking news: billionaires support convict as long as he lowers their taxes. I’m shorting billionaire integrity.
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  3978. Your tax dollars at work…..zzzzzzzzz z
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  3979. The only Sowell debunks is his pretense at being a ‘scholar’.
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  3980. Hanson, who knows better, trying to give Trumpists cover when Trump volunteered to abandon Europe to Russia. The US has a long history beginning in WW2 of trying to degrade Russian power. This helped lead to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the freeing of Eastern Europe. That happened under Reagan and has been our policy ever since it became clear that a dictatorship in Russia was a threat to world peace. There is no excuse for bailing on Ukraine, who have demonstrated what a failed superpower Russia is. We want to degrade Putin’s regime, and contrary to simple minds, abandoning our 70 year policy of pressuring Russia is more likely to cause WW3, than prevent it. Trump and his enablers are witless about geopolitics and menacing the fragile system we have in place.
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  3981. Conspiracy central
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  3982. Treason, that’s why.
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  3983. President throws hissy fit, with backup. Like to see Trump in a cage match with Zelenskyy, throw in Vance and I still take Z.
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  3984. Peterson way out of his depth on almost every subject he speaks to, climate denial, Putin appeasement, sexism etc etc.
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  3985. Trump tells Fox he wants good reviews. Now I understand the love for Putin.
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  3986. A safe space for bigots. Multiculturalism is the future, thank god; get used to it.
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  3987. Stossel is simply boilerplate conservative. No nuance. Newsflash, America has a mixed economy.
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  3988. In one sense, Ukraine has already won. The Russian military has been shown to be a paper tiger in terms of superpower standing. Even if Russia occupies Ukraine (and they will need to leave troops), it will be a victory for the West. These idiot isolationists seem to have forgotten what historically bankrupt concept they're pushing.
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  3989. Comfort food for those in fear of sexuality.
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  3990. A harsh joke of a presidential candidate who could easily fit into the GOP clown car
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  3991. Libertarianism is much like utopian socialism, it doesn’t function in the real world. Not in foreign policy, not in domestic economics.
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  3992. No you’re just a contrarian shilling nonsense. Under Sachs’ philosophy the Berlin Wall would still be up because America wouldn’t be ‘meddling’ in world affairs. Hope you’re a better economist than political analyst.
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  3993. My third graders are going to use that as an excuse.
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  3994. Most of Trump’s nominations are unprecedented. RFK, with his mix of environmentalism, combined with anti-science conspiracy bull is in a class of his own.
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  3995. Immigration needs fixing, but not at the expense of national security. RR is spinning in his grave.
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  3996.  @UrbanBard1  The science is in, but keep your head in the sand.
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  3997. Cool
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  3998. Vivek right where he belongs on the trash heap of history
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  3999. Nice to see this desperation from the weasels.
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  4000. Outlaw X until they get their s… together.
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  4001. Too bad Elon went around the bend and started spouting conspiracy theories.
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  4002. Racism, sexism. Trump lost the debate and refused a second cuz no brain in there. Blah blah blah conservative dogma.
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  4003. Elon’s a conspiracy theorist, so no surprise here. Said Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked because of gay love affair. He supports Twitter’s Saudi ties, ties to Turkey’s wannabe dictator, and he supports bringing Trump back. It’s clear where he stands. He’s a car maker with Napoleon complex.
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  4004. boo hoo. Conservatives have been singing this tune since the discovery of fire.
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  4005. Trump’s has no clue, as if that wasn’t predictable.
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  4006. Safe space for closeted bigots.
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  4007.  @moralityisnotsubjective5  Wow, lucky American slaves.
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  4008. Elites is a lazy term generally used as a dog whistle for the ignorant
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  4009. Dimon's a gutless, welfare capitalist. Hardly shocking.
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  4010. It’s blockheaded to wonder why Marx is being taught in universities. We have capitalism, it’s worked fabulously to a degree and it’s imperfect. While Marxism itself is not the answer, learning the nuances of Marxism is a fundamental building block to understanding economics and politics. You can’t argue against what you don’t understand.
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  4011. Check the map, vaccinations and Covid mortality. Higher mortality in states with lower vaccinations.
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  4012. Sachs is well known for his anti-American slant on power politics. Only a fool would think that making peace with Putin on his terms is statesmanship.
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  4013. I guess you forgot W, who spilled America GI blood for nothing in Operation Iraqi Freedom
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  4014. America without multiculturalism would be Australia. It’s made us a superpower.
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  4015. Cozying up to superpower dictatorships is something no, repeat no US president has ever done. By keeping pressure on Russia Reagan brought down the USSR and freed Eastern Europe and former Soviet states. That spreading of democracy, is good for world peace. Enabling totalitarianism is the opposite.
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  4016. Have you seen today’s GOP?! Ouch.
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  4017. What Elon understands about functioning democracy would fit in a thimble.
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  4018. Now do one on crony capitalism vs functioning capitalism.
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  4019. US troops in Gaza? The last time that happened we lost 200 marines in Lebanon. No US troops in Israel without a real comprehensive peace plan. Selling out the Palestinians will make us targets for more terrorism. Sheer madness.
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  4020. More obvious 'advice' from some comedian/pundit.
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  4021. US has its share of socialism, get over it.
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  4022.  @kovy689  You got wrecked in the comments.
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  4023.  @kovy689  It was a tribute to yours.
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  4024.  @kovy689  Comebacks are for kids; try putting together an argument that denies we have a mixed economy.
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  4025.  @kovy689  Your intellectual tank is on empty
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  4026.  @kovy689  agreed
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  4027.  @willnitschke  Trump/Spongebob '24
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  4028. Right wing doesn’t mind crime, as long as it’s theirs.
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  4029. Germany has stricter laws regarding antisemitism than the US. History
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  4030. I don’t trust someone who threw his integrity out the window for conspiracy votes
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  4031. Conservatives always play the debt card then give themselves and their wealthy funders a fat tax cut. Last president to balance the books: Clinton.
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  4032. Junk scholarship from a paid conservative shill
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  4033. The old bait and switch - communism ain't socialism. But guess what is, SS, FTC, FDA, EPA, pretty much everything the government does. Funny thing is, conservatives only use socialism when they want to insult something. "Welfare is socialism etc." But if it's a service they like, well, you won't hear it then. No bankers were crying socialism when they got bailed by...your government.
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  4034. Right wing clown car pileup
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  4035. We used to lead the free world, now we blackmail it. Reagan, JFK etc spinning in their graves at this grifting fool.
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  4036. ?
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  4037. Seems like you forgot about W’s terms and wars that killed American GIs.
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  4038. A verbose idiot who no longer has a license to practice and promotes climate action denial, Covid conspiracies, Putin propaganda etc.
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  4039. What will it be called XXX University? Elon can be the mascot.
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  4040. Shillenberger
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  4041. No, the system is broke.
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  4042. Loury keeps repeating 'differences in cultures, practices and norms' to say that people won't necessarily achieve equal representation in every field of endeavor. That sounds an awful lot like an excuse not to fight racism and sexism. Just repeating that phrase doesn't make it a stronger argument, but that seems to be all he has.
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  4043. Poor lying billionaire traitor. Make Jail Great Again.
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  4044. Last I looked men were still significant majority in Fortune 500, government and religion. If things are screwed up, it’s on them.
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  4045. genius
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  4046. Put Elon on the deport list.
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  4047. Who cares?
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  4048. I'm guessing they didn't ban any Fox 'News' personalities because........
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  4049. You don't have to belong to crazy on either side. Try to figure it out for yourself. Sadly, Petersen is wrong 90% of the time, from climate denial, to racism, to sexism, to guns, to socialism. He may sound convincing, but if you've had a decent education, he's flat ridiculous.
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  4050. "Feminists have an unconscious wish for brutal male domination." JP. The stupid person's 'smart' guy.
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  4051. It would be a simple case for me to make that conservatives are 'anti-American'. This flimsy conservative dogma is the reason Sowell is on YouTube and not taught in college.
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  4052.  @kimleone5496  Trump
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  4053. I’m shocked that a billionaire would want to destroy the agency that protects average Americans from financial scams. Now Trump voters will get a taste of who the GOP serves.
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  4054. RFK sold his soul to conspiracy mongering; Prozac causes mass shootings? In what alternate dimension?
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  4055. Don't need 'em. You could argue that we need millionaires to start companies etc, but it don't take a billion or ten to do that.
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  4056. Hilarious
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  4057. Peterson is a naive, unscrupulous pundit wannabe with absolutely no understanding of economic or geo political reality. Anti climate change, pro Putin, idiocy.
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  4058. Dated. Plenty of right wingers down there now.
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  4059. I don’t this fool doing any household chores
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  4060. Avoid Peterson on anything other than motivating young men. He's a climate change denier, a Putin apologist, a misogynist and a racist.
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  4061. You can have him in your party, his conspiracy rants are a better fit.
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  4062. Didn’t take long with the idiot GOP for this to backfire. Comer also lent his brother 200k? Geniuses.
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  4063. Trans men are no threat to male athletes, which is not true with women.
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  4064. He’s got more GOP ideas than Dem, so the libertarian party is a great fit. He’s devolved into another opportunist conspiracy peddler whining because the media holds up a mirror to his claptrap. He should settle into a job on Fox.
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  4065. You’re in dreamland. It’s now his, if it breaks, he bought it.
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  4066. They’ve already held Russia at bay for 2 years. That’s like Mexico doing it to US for 2 years. Embarrassing for a superpower. And since Russia has nukes aimed our way, American presidents of both parties have always been tough on Russia, unlike some idiots in congress.
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  4067. Libertarianism is as useless as utopian socialism
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  4068. Said the man who considered running for President until he realized nobody wanted him. Poster boy for corporate welfare.
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  4069. Here come the billionaires. I’m sure they’ll be looking out for the little guys
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  4070. Check a map of where Americans died against a map of vaccinations. Red states.
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  4071. Let the narcissist games begin.
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  4072. Political commentator and author, ie no special skills or education. Right wing pot stirrer.
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  4073. Democracy. Those opposing him are usually semi-fascists, often antisemites. Trump Putin lovers
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  4074.  @bhatkat  I find the notion of effective altruism obvious. Who wants to practice ineffective altruism? I also question the means by which donations are achieved (see FTX). I’m hardly utopian having been raised in the hippie era and seen its failures up close, but I’m definitely capital l liberal.
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  4075. Beware of apocalyptic warnings. The end is near. Ish.
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  4076. Funny that Trump pals around with antisemites. Guess he just hates Muslims more. Foreign policy dictated by racism.
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  4077. education + equality
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  4078. He’s great if you like harebrained conspiracy theories.
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  4079.  @jsnip6720  I've checked. There are no peer reviewed studies that vaccines cause autism, that Prozac causes shootings, or that dirty water causes gender problems, although if you supply one I'll check it out. But I'm also against RFK because he's soft on Russia (and China), which no, that's no President of either party has been since WW2. We freed half of Europe from the USSR with that policy. We protect democracy in Taiwan and S Korea and the Philippines with that policy. That's a seriously dangerous fantasy. In world politics, just like backyard politics, you don't go soft on bullies.
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  4080.  @jsnip6720  Peer reviewed studies? Vaccines cause autism? Dirty water causes gender dysphoria? Prozac causes shootings? Be willing to see those. What's more dangerous about RFK jr is being soft on Russia (and China), which is the opposite of American foreign policy since WW2 and how we helped free Eastern Europe from the USSR, and how we continue to support democracy in Europe and Japan, S Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. Being soft on superpower dictatorships is not a recipe for peace.
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  4081.  @jsnip6720  Peer reviewed? Vaccines cause autism? Prozac causes shootings? Dirty water cause gender problems? I'd be glad to see those. But that's not my only problem with RFK jr. Unlike every president since WW2 (except Trump), he's soft on Russia (and China). Ignoring the fact that we freed half of Europe when we helped bring down the Iron Curtain, ignoring why we have NATO, ignoring that we guarantee the safety of democracies in Japan, S Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. You don't show weakness to superpower dictatorships.
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  4082.  @jsnip6720  Peer reviewed? Vaccines cause autism? Dirty water causes gender problems? Prozac cause shootings? Be glad to see them. But RFK jr is also soft on China and, particularly Russia which is a foreign policy no president (except Trump*) has followed since WW2. It helped bring down the Iron Curtain and free half of Europe. World order at its most basic is not kept by appeasing superpower dictatorships.
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  4083.  @jsnip6720  Peer reviewed? Vaccines cause autism? Dirty water causes gender dysphoria? Prozac causes shootings? Plus, he's soft on Russia (and China), unlike every Prez since WW2 (Trump excepted). There's a reason for that policy.
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  4084. Peer reviewed studies that show vaccines cause autism? Prozac causes shootings? Dirty water causes gender dysphoria? It's anything but common sense to go soft on Russia or China after every president since WW2 has done the opposite and created democracies from Europe to Asia.
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  4085. Love the way conservatives pretend that liberals are ‘elite’ as if Trump, Musk and numerous Ivy League GOP politicians are somehow ‘average Joe’s’. Hilarious
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  4086. In what dimension is Putin an ally of the US? No one remembers the Iron Curtain? People trying to escape East Germany in tunnels, climbing the Wall, handmade balloons?
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  4087. Peterson can’t think his way out of a paper bag.
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  4088. Vivek did a great job kissing up to Trump. One of his genius ideas - abolish the FBI. Also idiot climate denier. Can’t wait to see what he screws up.
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  4089. World peace cannot be achieved by the US alone. And until democracy is worldwide, America needs to maintain our military posture. If you don’t believe that, you don’t know the history of the Cokd War and the disintegration of the USSR.
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  4090. In the US reparations were paid then reneged on. Conservatives love nothing better than minimizing racism/slavery/history.
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  4091. More conservative nonsense minimizing American slavery
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  4092. True. White Americans are going extinct. Deal with it.
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  4093. Replace “Supreme” with “CONSERVATIVE KANGAROO”
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  4094. @Jin-Kasai97 Yup antisemitism is everywhere, but it lives on the right-From Henry Ford and Lindbergh, the KKK, to Trump dining with neo-Nazi.
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  4095. Just a matter of time before he went full frontal conspiracy and blamed the Jews for something.
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  4096. A win for Putin, a loss for everyone else. First prez in US history to cozy up to superpower, nuclear armed enemy.
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  4097.  @baltasarnoreno5973  I would favor liquidating their assets, particularly at higher income levels.
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  4098. I don't see why it should be a zero sum game. America is gradually becoming multicultural.
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  4099. Get real, the right is anti climate change, while Florida goes underwater. Universities are dominated by the left because facts lean left.
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  4100. Hillsdale College, headquarters for Christian nationalist rewriting of American history. Oh, also big fans of Putin.
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  4101. 9/11 was a government conspiracy? Cave to Putin? Increase voting age to 25? Dismantle the FBI? Is this a presidential campaign or an episode of South Park?
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  4102. Pro Putin is pro fascist. No US president has ever, ever caved to Russian aggression. Putin would still control Eastern Europe without American military pressure helping collapse the USSR.
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  4103. Last I looked capitalism didn’t need defending
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  4104. All of Musk’s ventures are underwrby US taxpayers. Please cancel all his NASA contracts.
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  4105. Used car salesman as president.
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  4106. Anyone with a decent education already knows this.
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  4107. Trump’s cozying up to Putin, and the your-on-your-own message sent to our allies could easily back us into a nuclear confrontation. China takes Taiwan? Russia threatens Poland? Trump and his enablers are endangering us all.
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  4108. I've lived 2/3 of my life with Kissinger. I hope to never hear another piece of mealy mouthed 'statesman-like' advice from this master triangulator. "The rise of China and AI are the two threats to America and the world". Still playing the pretentious power politic guru at 100. What about the danger of climate change and runaway financial inequity? The threat of misinformation and demagoguery. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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  4109. Pretty funny, a non-believer quoting the Bible in some kind of kindergarten-style simplicity to deny climate science. Peterson says if Hitler hadn’t come along, someone else would have created the Holocaust. I agree. And if Peterson hadn’t come along, someone else would have taken his place as a semi-educated mouthpiece for unmoored conservative twaddle.
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  4110.  @faberofwillandmight  Check out ‘The Great Climate Con’. His psychology license has been suspended and he went to Russia because no civilized country would induce a coma for drug dependency. He’s vicious to trans people he doesn’t know, degrades women and non-whites. You are welcome to have him as a hero.
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  4111. Trump and Musk putting dollars/tyrants over democracy, great look for ‘leader of the free world’. Maybe Musk would like to move to China or Russia.
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  4112. Scam currency, scam candidate
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  4113. He said he’d be a fascist and he’s giving it his best shot. Trump’s great st breaking things, let’s see if he can build something, like peace, or a better economy.
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  4114.  @DonaldCrenshaw Fascist/dictator? Splitting some hairs there. His chainsaw approach to trimming fat has already gone sideways at nuclear safety. He’s also trimming ‘fat’ at the CFPB, set up to protect consumers from corporations, credit card companies, loan shark payday operations etc. That tells you where he and Elon’s priorities lay. He’s good at breaking things, let’s see if he can build anything, peace, good economy. Time will tell, but caving to Russia and Israel is dangerously naive.
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  4115.  @DonaldCrenshaw  Dictator? Have you looked up the definition? And if he's really trying to help average Americans he wouldn't be destroying the Consumer Financial Protection Service or the office that oversees whistleblower protection. And since when did becoming president allow you dictatorship, for even one day? I have to laugh at paranoid conspiracy theorists who are letting Trump/Elon have access to their SS and IRS files. If we have a police state, it's coming from you guys.
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  4116. Like to see these fools buy some beachfront property In FL and try to get it insured
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  4117. Cash, lower regulations, no care for rule of law or democracy. Can you spell shortsighted?
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  4118. Shoulda picked Roseanne
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  4119. Peterson is a pretend intellectual with a very shallow understanding of world history.
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  4120.  @werner.x  Peterson is internet famous for his varied, cockeyed positions. Pro-Putin, anti-gun reform, anti climate action, pro racist, anti feminist. Right wing American. Likes to hear his own voice sounding scholarly. The idea that he’s informed on German history to any depth is laughable. As a a layman, I’ve always been partial to the Versailles argument. I think of Hitler as a lesson in evil the world needed to learn and believe it could have happened somewhere else.
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  4121. Musk's grandfather moved to South Africa to support apartheid. Seems the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
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  4122. Trump and co are Quislings.
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  4123. Funny how the liberals own the media, apparently, and academia. Is it like the mafia where they just took over or is it simply a case of what Petersen would call competence? Are all climate scientists liberal or just good scientists?
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  4124. Billionaires are eating our democracy
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  4125. Moscow Marjorie
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  4126. Functioning states. Red states, by and large, are net beneficiaries of federal dollars.
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  4127. Elon fires 12k workers then demands billions in raise. Who’s the taker? This is the cult of the ‘free’ market. Free for the wealthy
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  4128. Elon had to bend a knee in Brazil and likely Europe. Selling ‘ info’ is a different animal than selling widgets.
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  4129.  @troyjones4271  check it
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  4130.  @troyjones4271  Dyslexic?
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  4131. Good on the environment and Citizens United, bad on science and soft on Russia, an epic foreign policy blunder that no previous president has ever made (Trump excepted).
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  4132.  @chuckintexas  Please refrain from all caps. Use your grownup words.
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  4133. Wow, tough job criticizing despicable terrorist organization. Just about the limits of Murray’s intellectual powers.
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  4134. Capitalism doesn’t function without government entities (SEC, FDA, FBI, FTC ETC) which are essentially socialist. There’s no free market utopia and no socialist utopia. If you think it’s simple, you’re not thinking hard enough.
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  4135. Russian bear just got fought to a standstill by little Ukraine.
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  4136.  @alanserjeant4947  Even if they take and occupy Ukraine, Putin will have lost far more than he gains. 2 more members of NATO, military and leadership reputation in tatters. And Ukraine will have to be completely occupied. Not a net win for Putin.
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  4137. We’ve gone through the looking glass into Trump’s brain.
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  4138. Sowell is a mediocre economist and hard core conservative whose political positions are always predictable.. He proves the adage that ‘conservative intellectual’ is an oxymoron.
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  4139. He is the swamp
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  4140. Hilarious
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  4141. It really doesn’t matter considering his antisemitism conspiracy mongering.
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  4142. The stupid person’s ‘genius’ fluffing his feathers again.
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  4143.  @Tampahop  anything bad is ‘postmodern Marxism’. Like climate change.
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  4144.  @MrEkzotic  Weak denial of the facts
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  4145.  @MrEkzotic  You skipped 75 years of US history. American presidents do not give aid to our nuclear armed enemies. That’s how we freed half of Europe from Russia, which is the freedom Ukraine is now fighting for. Reagan didn’t back down, JFK didn’t back down. It’s been a bipartisan policy since WW2. Many Republicans still know this and helped pass aid package to Ukraine. We need to end the war, but not by Trump buddying up with a murderous tyrant.
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  4146.  @Ryanlexz  If someone sent 100 bil to Mexico, you think they could beat us in a war? Russia has been seriously degraded both militarily, and diplomatically which is a win for us. They have North Korean soldiers fighting this war now. We do need to make peace; Ukraine cannot, I believe, beat them on the battle field, but Trump blaming Zelensky goes against every US presidential policy since WW2. It invites further aggression from Putin, which we will then have to fight again.
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  4147.  @MrEkzotic  You skipped 75 years of US/Russian history where we freed Eastern Europe, the same freedom Ukraine wants now. How hard is it to understand that anything that degrades Russian aggression, and this war has dinged them militarily and diplomatically, is a net win for us. Putin is a murderous tyrant with nukes aimed our way. The war needs to come to an end, but imagine if Mexico had fought us to a standstill for 2 years. Bullies understand power and only power and all this MAGA isolationist chatter neglects US bipartisan foreign policy since WW2.
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  4148.  @MrEkzotic  I'll I have to point to is 75 years of US foreign policy in which we freed half of Europe from Russian communism.
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