Comments by "oolong2" (@oolong2) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. Tim: "Using AI to show someone hugging a person is atrocious, but lying about someone being a pedophile is perfectly fair and reasonable"
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  2. No interrupting = "let me drone on forever about my theories so you never have a chance to respond with facts"
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  3. Libertarians are like spoiled kids that don't have any clue what it took to put a roof over their head. They want to pretend that 1st world countries just appeared through free market magic.
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  4. I've been a TYT member for probably a decade now. The problem with Ana, and TYT for the past few years, is constantly adopting right wing nomenclature and framing when fighting against right wing nomenclature and framing. They've also gotten into this habit recently of getting into these twitter fights with people to the left of them and it's starting to become reminiscent of the Democratic party establishment punching down to progressives when getting criticized from the left. I don't know the details of these fights, but these weird beefs come through in their reporting where they claim that people on far left are okay with crime, etc. and I have no idea who they're even talking about. There are much more productive ways of having these discussions and twitter robs people of that, but to pretend that inclusive phrasing somehow minimizes you as a woman is pretty absurd. It's like when the right wing says that gay marriage somehow minimizes their marriage.
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  5. I can't watch this without saying "such a loss" over and over in my head. Such a loss for the world.
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  6. It's interesting how he's using the same technique that Jordan Peele did in his "Us" trailer of playing an upbeat song and then slowing it down to make it sound creepy. Ben Shapiro is probably secretly a huge fan of Jordan Peele while bashing his movies in public 😂
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  7. Making valid arguments for why people should vote one way vs. another is not "vote shaming" it's called "democracy". Which ultimately works through voting.... However you can make non-productive political arguments on just about anything.
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  8. 30 years ago at my high school, there were guys who wore dresses, makeup, and long hair to school because it was somewhat fashionable at the time (The Cure, Boy George, etc.). Literally no one cared. I really don't get why people would be so obsessed over how other people look and dress when it has nothing to do with them.
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  9. People know Disney as the company who has been entertaining children for a 100 years. Yet suddenly a rando governor knows more about what is appropriate or not.
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  10. Sam considering it an honor that someone took the time to critique one of his takes is a stark contrast to Ana on TYT literally losing her mind on her show because she saw one Tweet that said she gave Ben Shapiro "a pass" when it came to the genocide in Gaza.
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  11. Somehow AJW knows the magic formula for all policing across the country. He's also professor Xavier and can read the hearts and minds of police officers all over the country and how they all behaved when their fee-fees were hurt by protests.
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  12. That IMer must be some kind of plant if he thinks TMR spends hardly any time criticizing TYT. I was a TYT member for about a decade and was watching them since 2005. I know exactly what their takes were back then compared to now. Not only are they doing a right wing shift and right wing appeasement, but even their journalistic standards have slipped quite a bit. They used to criticize politicians for putting their finger in the wind and using polls to determine their stances on issues and now that's all they do. They refuse to acknowledge that "new media" is just as bad if not far worse than "mainstream media", because they're part of the problem that new media is facing. Constant "audience capture" rather than honesty.
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  13. Ending slavery was far more "destabilizing to a cultural norm" than the 2% of people becoming trans... It's pretty obvious what side of the abolitionist debate Jordan Peterson would have been on.
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  14.  @ryanwebster6786  I don't know what a "vid shot" is, but when has she ever said that?
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  15.  @DarkResonance  It's comments like that which really piss people off... I've been watching them for nearly 20 years dude. I was there when Ana first got her start and when Cenk first supported Medicare for All. The right shift and right appeasement that's been going on at TYT not based on a single minor disagreement and characterizing it as such is at best disingenuous. Mondale Robinson just quit as a TYT contributor over this bs.
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  16. Most people die in motorcycle accidents when they don't wear a helmet, but since it's "possible" to survive a crash on a motorcycle without a helmet then everyone should just not worry about it.
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  17. Asking for a list of demands in the middle of a war is like asking each football team how many points they're willing to take while the game is still going on. It's much easier to ask how many points each team will accept at the end of the game when a victory is clear compared to the beginning when victory is uncertain.
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  18. 4:04 I like the look on Kilmeade's face before he started talking. Like he was thinking "what am I doing with my life?"
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  19. You can't rule out misogyny and racism when a large part of Trump's campaign is misogyny and racism. The only difference is that Roe is on the ballet which is the only strength for Kamala compared to 2020. Otherwise Kamala would be a horrible candidate. Maybe she could do okay with a much better debate prep team than what she had in 2020, but she's kind of a deer in headlights.
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  20. It's honestly no different for these people when it comes to religion. They will pick and choose whatever they want to be "true" from the Bible and ignore everything else. The Bible, Constitution, Free Speech, etc. are all just things they use to have moral justification/superiority for the things they want. It's all about power.
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  21. The fact that Trump cares more about 18 people shot in Chicago than he does about the hundred or more who died from Covid 19 in Chicago tells you everything you need to know.
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  22. Yeah, I think a lot of people growing up in the wake of the Iraq war has really slanted people's views towards foreign policy. The fact is sometimes being friends with the biggest kid in class, who is a little crazy, prevents you from being picked on by the bully sitting next to you. Like it or not, the US plays that role for some countries and if we don't "saber rattle" every so often, then countries lose their sovereignty. We can't exactly say "We're still not going to start a war if you march into Kiev", because that just gives Putin a green light to invade. Simply saying "tut-tut" to someone who wants to consolidate power and secure his legacy doesn't do anything. Also, if you don't have sanctions that effect the Russian people, then you're not going to have sanctions that effect Putin's popularity.
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  23. Tulsi uses a lot of Republican talking points because she has always leaned conservative, she even used to date a republican congressman. I would not be surprised if she switched parties after 2020, because I do think she would run as a Republican if it helped her politically. The reason she went after Kamala and Warren after defending Biden is because she's angling to be his VP. People jumping on the Tulsi-train really need to look at her past comments on gay rights, torture, Syria bombing, government shut down, Israel, Kashmir, etc. As well as her waffling on Medicare for All.
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  24. The appropriate Response: Officer: "Hey. Yeah the store owner back there says that one of your kids took a doll out of the store. Does she still have it?" Mother: "Oh Really? Dammit... Sorry about that. Here it is." Officer: "No problem I'll just bring it back. Have a nice day." Generations of the animosity that black people have towards police could be avoided by police just treating people like human beings.
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  25.  @BrianWelsh-fx4st  Actually it was not clear at all and I'm still looking for a timestamp for the claim.
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  26. Most of Ana's commentary for years has been "me me me me me....". She spent years just being able to talk in front of a camera properly, and when she finally became okay at it all she did was talk about her husband, her dog, herself, and inflate her ego. And Cenk followed right along. First he his ego trips were a joke and now his ego is his entire business model.
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  27. They are both projections Sam... Probably using a laser system. So you can be pretty far away and still get a clear picture. The second one probably just looked dimmer because it was getting washed out by all the light.
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  28. Never mind the corporation raising prices. This will literally destroy millions of small businesses across the country because a lot of these businesses have products they manufacture in China or parts and ingredients that are sourced from other countries. The US doesn't have the ability or capacity to make more of these things.
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  29. The gall he has to bring up "little kids blown to bits" over a decade ago while ignoring the tens of thousands of kids blown up and missing limbs today.
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  30. "The Left calls us Nazis and Racists, but your analogy calling the left Nazis was great Glen Beck" 🤦‍♂️
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  31. It's interesting how when people voice opinions that are different from your own, or give air times to opinions you don't like, they're suddenly "panderers and grifters". I believe that's the case when it comes to Jimmy Dore or Dave Rubin, but I really don't think that of Joe Rogan or Russel Brand. They're already wealthy and established with no real reason to "grift". These are the same people you celebrated when they had opinions you liked. I really like you guys, but a lot of times there's a kind of elitism to your commentary that occasionally makes me cringe. Often times you act as if people who voice differences of opinion are not just wrong or have a disagreement, but they must be nefarious and morally corrupt in some way. I think this attitude turns a lot of people off. One of the things the things that I miss about Michael Brookes is that he often brought humility to the show and understanding where people are coming from. Instead, you tend to just jump down the throats of anyone moving a centimeter outside of your narrative and label them as monsters or idiots. A large part of the appeal of people like Rogan is not pretending he knows everything at every moment. Which makes him approachable. Like MB used to say "meeting people where they are" instead of just talking down to them all the time,
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  32. Same. I was watching since 2005. I was a subscriber for many years, not for the extra content, but just to support TYT. That trans video made me livid... I'd love to see the data on canceled subscriptions during that time.
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  33.  @Ashakat42  And your comment is not even an argument.
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  34. I remember Meghan saying she was pro choice years ago. It's so obvious that money and influence is the only reason she is taking on these views. She is more than happy to support Trump's arguments so that she can shamelessly appeal to his base while Trump insults her dead father's memory.
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  35. Have they not heard Tucker Carson's weird nervous maniacal Joker laugh?... I'm guessing that strange laugh will suddenly become "manly" and "powerful" if he ever runs for president.
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  36.  @ytechnology  Honestly it does not matter if it was 1 tweet or a thousands tweets. That kind of reaction to criticism is entirely unhinged. Rational people explain their position, they don't just start screaming into the void because someone thought they weren't being critical enough. My response to anyone saying I'm not critical enough to someone who supports what's going on in Gaza would be "you're right", because it would be really hard to be too critical. But clearly Ana is more inclined to be hateful and mean spirited towards viewers and randos than someone like Shapiro.
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  37. The thing is you don't even need to google "collective punishment" to know what it means... So it's pretty wild how Gutfeld can be so confused about it.
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  38. The problem is that the caller is under the false impression that "the left" is united on this issue. There are many on "the left", like Ana from TYT, who downplay the right wing talking points and rhetoric which lead to violent attacks like this. You will not find solidarity from a "moderate left" who doesn't understand the issue and will only undermine your efforts in order to make themselves sound reasonable. The only way is to force people to listen regardless of their political ideology. This is what MLK understood. Bigotry and racism is not left/right issue regardless of how it leans heavily to the right.
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  39. If that's what you got out of it this video you're a sad piece of shit.
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  40.  @BrianWelsh-fx4st  You're perfectly capable of looking at the thread you're responding to. I've never heard anyone calling Covid "vid" . Congratulations on understanding something nonsensical. However basic English would have been better than making up slang terms no one uses.
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  41.  @JesseJames-vc2bm  No it's a book that was in some high schools, not elementary schools. But if you listen to Tim Pool he'll lie about it in order to make his dumb conservative points seem reasonable.
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  42. Nice shoutout to Haywire, definitely one of my favorite female led action movies. Pretty sad to see her downfall. WTH is a MMA fighter doing in this role? 😂 Like a lot of action stars Gina's talent was in her physicality. When these people go too far into drama it becomes cringe territory. Bruce Willis was never worth anything without lots of explosions, but at least he knew what his lane was.
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  43. Bragging about putting a man in space when the government did that 60 years ago.... 😂 And then it only took 4 years for the government to put a man on the moon.
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  44. I just realized that DeSantis would make for a pretty good live action Homer Simpson if he was bald.
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  45. I just say "Why would anyone want to pay more for less service?..." We pay more money than other countries simply so that insurance companies can profit by limiting the money they give to hospitals and doctors.
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  46. Theoretically Tulsi's parents should support Bernie when she drops out, but sadly her parents are rather right wing so they probably wouldn't support any progressive if they weren't related to them.
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  47. 1. Destroying up your own photo before it is developed, is no one's business but your own. 2. If someone came up to you and took your photo and ripped it up. That would be a crime. 3. If the government forced you to shoot and develop every picture in your camera because "all pictures are precious". That wouldn't be cool.
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  48. I'm used to the the right wing making up a wedge issue. However when people on the left capitulate and legitimize that issue is when I get truly demoralized.
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  49. I don't think you can call yourself a "socialist" without fist defining exactly what that means, because it means different things to different people. Also I think Emma has a valid point about the order of things. Do you want to give unlimited control to a corrupt institution?
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  50. Also apparently these people don't realize that most people in BLM protests were white people.... So they somehow think that white people were trying to put themselves in gas chambers.
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