Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Sam Harris" channel.

  1.  @surfacereflection8298  So you do need to be a dick - okay. Good luck with that.
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  2. The Free Palestine sect is going to freak out over this one. But but but - GENOCIDE! "The least effective genocide in history".
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  3. The only trust in people I have is for them to do the wrong thing. If it turns out okay that's what I call a happy accident.
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  4. Long but very well written.
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  5. Lex maybe but Rogan would be a more difficult conversation.
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  6. It doesn't have to be but it often can be, or is at least Antisemitism adjacent.
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  7. There is a lot of open office space these days all of a sudden, no? Maybe we should use some of those empty offices to store all the medical PPE and equipment and other Emergency supplies that don't expire like gloves, gowns, whatever those shoe coverings are called, face shields, respirators, dialysis machines, needles, tubing, mylar blankets, water purification systems, bandages, gauze, cotton, and surgical and emergency medicine instruments and supplies we don't have right now. It would be in the public interest to have large numbers of these and other non-perishables stored in a dispersed fashion across a city, wouldn't it? Let robots make the stuff and make it too cheap - and too shaming - to steal.
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  8. Such a silly thing to write.
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  9. lf you couldn't vote for Biden you could have voted for a third party candidate, written someone in, not voted for the president and only voted for down-ballot candidates and local ballot measures, or not voted at all. If you chose to vote for Trump you chose to support a con man, a grifter, a liar, a shit human being and that speaks very poorly of your character. Just own it and stop pretending that your one of the good guys.
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  10.  @joshh5353  If we had communal land use practices we could vastly expand the amount of animals being pasture raised and naturally revitalize depleted farm land. I don't know if it would be enough to fully meet the demand, but we could at least replace a lot of the factory farming going on. It would also allow ranchers to return raising grass fed and finished livestock instead of the grain-fed feed lot method and help to revitalize land we grow our crops on without having to use petrochemical fertilizers or spraying the slurry from waste treatment plants. Finally, I didn't say people can't get all the nutrients they need from a plant based diet just that it's "much easier to get all the nutrition I need for a healthy diet by including animals produce in my meals". For many people, and for a variety of reasons, it is easier to get all our nutritional needs by including at least a few types of healthy animal produce in our diet. I am NOT talking about a highly processed cheeseburger and milkshake from some fast food chain, but eggs and dairy produce or other meats that have a higher level of bioavailability of nutrients than many plants. Most people can thrive on a Vegan only diet, but they will still need dietary supplements and careful planning to make sure they are getting all the vitamins and minerals their bodies need that they wouldn't have to worry about if they include a bit of healthy meat, eggs and dairy in their diet. Even the academy of nutrition and dietetics would agree with that.
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  11. Very few people think about it happening but many think it can't happen.
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  12. I'd buy that for a dollar!
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  13. It's the crazy authoritareian part that's the problem - left or right. When the penulum swings too far to one side it tends not to return to the center on the back-swing.
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  14. Aren't these supposed to be the Law and Order guys? DUN-DUN!
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  15. As opposed to the useless population who are currently being controlled with video games and psychoactive medication while they're still working their jobs?
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  16. "The White Plague" - Frank Herbert - 1982. Nobody saw this coming - riiiiight. And then there was "The Last Man On Earth" with Vincent Price and it's 70's remake "The Omega Man" with Mr Apocalypse himself - Moses! (even a third with Will Smith, but that was a relatively recent release)
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  17. Apes - damn dirty apes!!
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  18. Probably not. If anyone is reading these it's an intern.
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  19. I appreciate that you compared religion to a candy bar as they both might taste great but they're bad for us if we eat too much and it's not part of a healthy diet. There are people who have consumed too much of whatever their religion is and it seems to rot their brains making them capable of saying and doing terrible things along with any good they got out of it. I'm not saying people shouldn't have religion, but like you seem to say, you have to have the rationality to help balance things out. I'll finish by suggesting it's also a good idea to read the wrapper instead of eating it to try find out what all is in that candy bar someone is eating - it might change their mind about what they are putting in their body.
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  20.  @andybaldman  Not disagreeing with your original point either, although I'd suggest going beyond JP and include study of non-Judeo-Christian religious traditions to get a more balanced set of non-secular narratives from which to draw inspiration and life-guidance. Like I said, I appreciated your choice of metaphor and then like a bushwackin', hornswagglin', cracker croaker I hijacked your metaphor and expanded on it. I wanted to make my own arguement that it is best when consuming the sweet candy bar narrative of a religion, which like you I am applying to both spiritual and secular narratives, to do the additional work of personal study, reflection and reason that relies on reading and understanding the wrapper of that religious candy bar and realizing if that sweet tasting thing is a low-sugar, dark chocolate or Candy Corn and Smarties.
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  21. You can always request a free temporary subscription or send them an email and see about an alternate method of payment like using a card associated to a bank account. But since the full subscription is for a recurring indefinite period of time they want people to use a method payment that can automatically renewed and that generally means a credit card.
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  22. When it comes to Tucker Carlson I'm with George Carlin -- "Fuck Tucker, Tucker sucks!"
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  23. That's YouTube for you.
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  24.  @TheMithridates  I'd also be curious to see a list of the things you think Sam was mostly wrong about and Brett turned out right concerning COVID. Also, Sam has owned that there are things he thought were right and he got wrong with the pandemic. But since I don't listen to Brett about COVID I don't know how much (if any) he does the same.
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  25. On this I'm with you 100%
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  26. Welcome to 2024 - buckle up and keep your towel handy!
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  27. Picking nits here but I think it's odd that these get put up before I get the email notification about the full length episode. I expect it will show up in my in basket later today. As one-term former president Trump so eloquently said, <accordianhands>It is what it is.</accordianhands>
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  28. All of them, but then you wouldn't have lived much of a life.
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  29. Mamma mia!
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  30. You're a schode
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  31. Much of this conflict plays into the hands of Hamas and the Israeli hardliners as well as Iran and others who want to keep the region destabilized.
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  32.  @RafaleKez4  Thanks for a good example of an ad hominem fallacious argument. Gotcha.
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  33. Brooks is good, especially for a reporter who favors the conservative side of politics, but he definitely says things that discourage trust.
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  34. Israel will never be accepted by it's neighbors. That's part of the problem.
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  35. I'm your tribe - just not a paying subscriber.
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