Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. Wish DN (and others) would talk a bit more about the Heritage Foundations Project 2025 plan to gut the civil service and replace qualified staff with Conservative ideologues.
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  2. We need a UBI system more and more every day. Then set the minimum wage to 15 per hour in small towns and rural communities and 25 per hour in the urban big cities. Then make healthcare universal and not a for-profit bankruptcy engine.
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  3. Absolutes are always wrong
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  4.  @georgemetesky5519  Here's the problem with that excuse. Imagine someone writing this -- We Russians don't like being in this position either, but defending a 5-mile-wide enclave opposed by vicious enemies who are motivated by misogynistic promises to fanatical "martyrs", requires extreme deterrent force. The conflict in Donbas and Crimea could end immediately if Ukrainians agreed to live alongside a Russian State, peacefully. You're on the side of the oppressors when you make a statement like yours.
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  5. The Morality Police sounds like something the Republican party would think sounds like a good idea.
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  6. The Electoral College doesn't care about polls. Biden could win the popular vote by sixteen percent of the total numbers of votes due to higher turnout in normally Blue districts and still not come up with the 270 electoral votes one of them needs to win. It breaks my heart, but I suspect old Bankrupt Donny will get his second term. Cursed to live in interesting times.
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  7. 1:23 - regardless of the subject, we can't compare 2021 to 2020 or 2020 to any year before that. I bet there are going to be a lot more school shootings this coming year than there were last year too - come on, DN. Don't go all MSM on me here.
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  8. One suggestion - when showing images of a young man who has been deported for being part of MS 13 but everyone is denying that he was part of the gang - don't include an image (6:53) of the kid throwing gang signs!
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  9. Gym Jordan should be in prison not Congress. But that's true for most of those shills and crooks.
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  10. Here come the Corporate Wars everyone. Holy shit, we really are fully the age of Cyberpunk. Early days, but we're there.
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  11.  @donHooligan  Always appreciate someone who sees the theater for what it is.The names change but the game remains the same.
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  12. And now he's doing the "you gotta vote for him or your stealing from the Democrats" bullshit. At least he wasn't trotting out that crap back in 2016. But that was because, like so many others, Trump winning was inconceivable to them.
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  13. The justification is that the cop (was so incompetent that he) had his stun gun taken away which could then be used against him allowing the person to take his real gun and use it against the cop or someone else (which proves he shouldn't have either or be in a position of authority over others in the first place). <sarcasm>Most importantly for the police though - they did a thorough investigation and found they did nothing wrong. Now don't you feel better? Us "stupid civilians" can rest easier knowing he's still on the job</sarcasm> (and likely even more charged up to shoot first the next time he gets in trouble now that he knows for a fact that he can get away with murder).
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  14.  @jeanandre6129  Larry the cat
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  15. The hypocrisy of the Catholic church is biblical. It's no wonder the US is a mess the way it's a Christian nation with all that puritanical nonsense around it's founding. God, guns, slavery and genocide - helluva combination for a new nation.
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  16.  @peskylogicchillinsky6007Futube  I remember that. Evil is exactly the word for that kind of thing - among a few other four-letter words.
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  17.  Biliary Clinton  Hurting the innocent and falsely accusing someone are my greatest fear when it comes to the criminal justice system. While we express the concept of one being innocent until proven guilty, the reality in many cases, especially in communities of color, is the opposite. And police and prosecutors lying people to get them to take a guilty plea to avoid a worse sentence is a way too common reality. The whole damn system is a mess and I don't have all the answers. They are out there, but they would go against much of the ideals we believe in. Thanks for the conversation, but I'm done with his thread. Especially after John Doe's comment.
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  18. The world was already waaay messed up, but old Bankrupt Donny has made it worse.
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  19.  Shaving Pvt. Ryan  You poor broken soul. I hope you can find your way out of your darkness. Good luck, bro.
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  20.  @thenoseknows9391  Fair enough. Then you explain how he's won twice. Just too many Texans who'd rather own the libs?
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  21. Please keep on the story of Bobbie Sapp in Winter Park, Fla too. Tased and shot in the shoulder in her own home AND BED during a police "wellness-check" because she was armed and not complying with their orders (after having been woken out of a medication-enhanced sleep) and now being charged with multiple counts including attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, assault on a firefighter or EMT, resisting an officer with violence and felony with a weapon. If convicted she could face life in prison.
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  22. None of us survives whole. Life takes a toll and leaves us torn and and bruised, sometimes broken beyond repair. Love can help heal the damage, but not everyone knows how to love or how to accept love. It's made worse when we let ourselves think we've been loved by those people who don't know how to. That's a hole that's damned hard to fill.
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  23. As are the ones in Antarctica. Seems that if a class of technology can operate in Antarctica it should be able to function in Texas during even when the not-all-that-infrequent extreme weather event happens. Unless some cheap-ass decides not to take care of making sure their turbines are ready when it happens. Loved living in Austin in the 90's, but I was never happier to move away from a state more than when I left Texas for Colorado. Twenty four years later and I still miss Austin every now and then - but not Texas.
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  24. Ah, Haiti. It's a magical place. Wait - no, that's Tahiti. Those poor people in Haiti are hosed.
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  25. Now say the same thing about Palestinians needing to force Hamas to do the same. Until ALL the hostages, not just two elderly women, are free Israel will not step back.
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  26. Pro-life only applies to the fetus. But once they are out here those babies have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps just like the rest of us sinners. Lord, save us from your followers.
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  27.  @lurker993  Everybody was terrified of the Comanche and for good reason. Amazing warriors but they were brutal as hell. Seems like they were a big part of the reason Mexico opened up Texas to US settlers when they still claimed the territory.
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  28. There are a lot of awful people in the world that we'd all be better without. Mark Zuckerberg is definitely one of them (mind you, I count myself among those we'd better without for feeling this way)
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  29. 4:54 - They may have taken part in 11 coups since 2008 but Wikipedia has over 50 listed in Africa since 2010.
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  30. Congress voted Monday night to screw the American people - again. Yet the vast majority of them all will be re-elected in 2022, 2024, 2026 and on and on.
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  31. People with any sense are outraged by both these things along with a number of other outrageous problems in the world today. Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph!
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  32. And the cops get paid to look away as the one percent rules America. Looks like the Purge came early to Mesa AZ
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  33.  @lynns4426  frank is also engaging in classic whataboutism.
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  34. ​ @blackeastertheguy  According the majority of the definitions of whataboutism and whataboutery, frank is absolutely engaging in whataboutism. I also agree with your second statement, but that doesn't not make his post an example of whataboutism.
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  35. She will be missed - at least by me. Mahalo, Tulsi. Good luck at your new posting.
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  36. 🤣🤣🤣
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  37. Troll Bot with no content.
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  38. The State of Israel and it's enforcers are making sure there will never be peace and that antisemitism will flourish for generations to come. Good job!
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  39. But smoking makes you look cool - dangerous; like someone who knows how to get their hands dirty and lives for the moment not worrying about what might happen tomorrow let alone in twenty or thirty years. And as a former smoker you probably remember how good it feels to have a smoke. Also, for me there was ritual around it and rituals can be comforting too. Whether it's the simple act of using fire to ignite the cigarette (a ritualistic act in itself), the after-dinner smoke or first cigarette-of-the-day, or the way I'd pack a cigarette down to make them burn more evenly - these are all rituals that help us feel more connected with the act of smoking and other smokers. There's also a camaraderie that comes from doing something that not everyone else does. That being said, smoking stinks and it would be fine with me if it became something that someone will have to grow for themself if they want to keep doing it. The only problem I have with this is that by making something as widely used globally as tobacco illegal in New Zealand you're only creating a new product for their local black markets. It makes me nervous when governments outlaw addictive substances instead of treating addiction as a problem addressed by healthcare providers and not police.
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  40. "It's not normal to be afraid of the police" - that person with a cigarette must not watch the news. Anyone not afraid of the enforcers of the state isn't paying attention.
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  41. Actually, the primary driver of climate change is overpopulation combined with fossil fuel extraction, energy generation and industrial and transportation emissions. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reports that "[all forms of] agriculture accounted for 11 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2020". The pollution comes mainly from chemical fertilizers and factory farming practices. I recognize that this statistic is specific to the US, but as the US is the second largest emitter of Greenhouse gasses the numbers for the rest of the world, except China, are probably even less. China is the largest contributor to the agricultural side of this problem, but I'm not sure how the US is going to do anything about China's agricultural policies and practices without being accused of imperialism and cultural insensitivity to the needs of their people. The NRDC goes on to note that "by adopting the philosophies and methods associated with regenerative agriculture ["practiced by farmers and ranchers—especially Indigenous farmers, who have been tending the land according to sustainable principles"], we can slash emissions from this sector while boosting our soil’s capacity for sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, and producing healthier foods." This article can be found on the NRDC website under the title "What Are the Causes of Climate Change?". I'd include a direct link to the article but YouTube hasn't allow me post comments with URL addresses in the past so I don't try anymore.
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  42. @babskaz74 That's just the start. As I was recently reminded, that will only remove the protections from financial penalties. And while that would be a good start, we need to see police who do these things made an example of in the criminal justice system. But as long as prosecutors have to work with cops we won't see that happen very often and they will continue to defer to the whole "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" BS from law enforcement.
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  43. Oklahoma is so not OK.
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  44. Exactly. Democracy Now could have walked the walk had live coverage via satelite with local reporters already there. Nice to know I'm not the only one out here who felt like that. Thanks.
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  45. 10:20 - why are they questioning it? Sounds like the media doing exactly what the media does. The Sir Swag hews team has it right whenever they say "nobody cares about Syria". Expand that out to non-Ukrainian migrants and poor people in general and I'll give it a 💯🔥💯🔥💯‼
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  46. Poor Bob. He knows Chris is right but keeps trying to play ball with the kids that tolerate him but really don't want him there. If anything, the Left is stronger because of Trump. Unfortunately and most importantly, Bob was also right about what Trump and McConnell have done to the SCOTUS as well as a huge number of Federal level judges Obama never got appointed, but everyone should have seen that coming.
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  47. Epstein Lives!!!
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  48. Zuckerberg, like Elon, Bezos, Gates, and the rest of the modern day billionaires Tech Cowboys are part of the nouveau riche - they are a lot of things, but they aren't oligarchs. The West has long-established Oligarchies and you need at least a few generations of marriage for your family to be integrated into them.
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  49. 7:16 - Donald Trump also said he'd release his tax returns after he became president - the creep talks out of his ... hat.
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  50. Okay, but how do you suggest we do this? Trying to summarize a tutorial on the political spectrum a pretty big subject for the YT comment section. It's the kind of thing that probably deserves a full video to do the subject justice. Also, we are going to be faced with how individual people have personal definitions for left/right and libertarian/authoritarian that run their own spectrum from accurate to incorrect. Even with the wider variation afforded a two-axis graph most of the time it comes down to a my-side/your-side binary choice about the topic of discussion. I generally understand what you are asking for and don't disagree that trying to spread knowledge and information is a positive aim. But do you have some kind of Cliff Notes version of what you would like to see people writing? It could be that like with what Step Back & Anark posted we won't agree with your definitions or perspective or you with ours. I've already edited this reply down a bit and have four or five paragraphs of spin-off commentary about all of this in my thoughts that I'm not going to get into because honestly it's mostly just you and me that are ever going to read this - mostly. Gotta say though; the YT left? Yowsa! Talk about herding cats! 🤣✌ - Have a good one, E.
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