Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "NBC News" channel.

  1. @saylorgreen1142Go to GAZA and wave a rainbow flag and see how long Hamas lets you live.
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  2.  @Youtuber-xs9cp  It was Kennedy who was threatening to push the button who wanted to over thrown the Cuban government at almost any cost.
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  3. This is why you don't support such regimes with American made weapons. End the killings in Yemen and end all sales of spare parts for those F-16's and any other military hardware to Saudi Arabia. We don't need their oil. Let them drink it with their favorite morning paper.
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  4. The bosses can't make a profit on mass transit because they can't reduce the labor time needed to run the bus and train routes. Nevertheless the bosses get themselves a big pay from taxes and fares to manage the mass transit system just like the other profitable bosses in private industry.
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  5. Obviously the workers were able to use the union to make themselves heard. Something that can't be done without a union.
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  6.  @TruckTaxiMoveIt  National Security Scare tactics here we go.
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  7.  @castlev1986  How effective a union is depends on a number of factors all related to the class struggle. The leaders are paid by the membership so at the end of the day the have to respond to what we the members want. if they refuse they can either be voted out of office or the workers can vote in a different union or no union at all. The union leaders all know that so that is why even the most craven pro company union leaders have to defend union militants. It's very difficult to fire us from a union job once our probation period has been completed.
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  8.  @castlev1986  Of course you have no evidence of union money going to a so called mob. It's just a charge made up and advanced by by greedy company CEO's, the secret police FBI and capitalist politicians as a way to attack our unions.
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  9.  @castlev1986  What I know is that the bosses hate us and do everything they can to keep us divided and fighting among each other and from what you say with all your unproven conspiracy theories you are either working for them or playing right into their greedy hands. I know the boss line when I hear it and it's always, "Give up the union you can't win and just because you live in a shack and I live in a multistory mansion doesn't mean we are any different." Take that line fishing and see who is stupid enough swallow it hook line and sinker. .
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  10. Its the only way to fight back against company greed.
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  11.  @russelljordan7688  A much simpler argument is right to abortion is necessary medical care preformed by physicians in the course of human pregnancy and that any ethical questions belong in the decisions and actions of the state medical boards like any other medical procedure. That science and not man made law guides physicians. Their is no need for special aborion laws anymore than there is a need for a special law regarding cancer treatment.
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  12.  @juliotamayo413  The US had already launched a failed invasion for regime change. With no sing of the aggression letting up.
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  13.  @cocobrez  Unions need to remain voluntary organizations. The capitalist government needs to stay out of union business.
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  14. We need to cut the workday and work week with no cyt in pay to have workers control of the job so injuries can be reduced not smart alack comments.
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  15.  @lestergutierrez2816  How about we look at the US colony of Puerto Rico? Compare it to Cuba. .
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  16.  @ezragonzalez8936  Cubas population is just the size of New York City. It can't possible be self reliant as an industrial nation given both its population and the size of its land mass. The US blockade makes trade difficult for raw materials, semi finished goods and aquiring spare parts.
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  17.  @russelljordan7688  How have I done that? Rather than deal in the actual topic of abortion you'd rather go off on tangents like straw men and adoption. Adoption is only a viable solution after the baby is born because life is not guaranteed before birth and separation of the fetus from the mother is basically an abortion if the fetus dies unless of course you have discovered a new talent of mind reading the physician before or after the act. .
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  18. Right people like theses grandstanding Politicians and Priests and religious nuts should be the ones making the decisions.
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  19. This is really crazy.
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  20.  @AwkballOddward  You got that right. Intangible meaning non existent. Just how many dollars did Putin contribute to the Trump campaign? An intangable amount like ZERO.
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  21.  @musicaddict4214  So you advocate a more pure capitalist society. I guess that would mean an end to pollution controls on vehicles and the sale of gas masks to those wishing to "Breath Free".
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  22. If UAW wins big it will inspire others and we will have a union movement once again.
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  23.  @castlev1986  That's why you do know WTF you talking about.
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  24.  @castlev1986  Everyone know that cars get flat tires also doesn't make all tires flat. Mob :a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence. We call that mass protests and class struggle. The bosses, finks, scabs and the cops call us "The Mob."Its how the industrial unions were built. Like the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strikes and the Minneapolis Citywide General strike. The first amendment gives us the right to assemble and protest boss policy.
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  25.  @castlev1986  Robots can't take over because you can't build a perpetual motion machine. What does happen is the capital value of the company rises and the ability to produce more with less labor goes up. Now initially your total profit rises but you sale price will once again slump towards the cost of production and your profit per item must also decline since labor time in production is the source of profit. So unless you have a bigger market for your production your total profit must go down and you only sell in markets where you can make a profit to begin with. So what this means is the RATE of profit in all industries must also decline and since the world market is finite capitalism, itself, if it had no other problems like the proper allocation of capital to production not speculation, must come to an end as profit rates go to zero. Unions are organizations of workers. Since we are the only class that becomes larger in the modern world our unions become all that more important.
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  26.  @castlev1986  We don't need the capitalists. History shows that in every country the workers will fight back against capitalist austerity programs. On a world scale the number of wage workers has kept rising both numerically and by percentage despite increases in productivity. All the other classes like the small farmers, middle class and capitalists decline. Capital keeps combing and accumulating which can only result in a decline in profits rates. The capitalist produce for markets not to keep people clothed and feed. The capitalist can't run a factory by themselves either. They become totally parasitic collecting value based upon ownership only.. They are also divided into nation states competing in a world market. They become unable to arbitrate trade and market disputes between different capitalist classes this drives them towards Imperialist war. Their is only one solution to the crisis of capitalism that's world socialism and national self determination for the poor nations. Revolutionary Cuba points the way forward both setting an example in solidarity and the fist major defeat for US Imperialism in the Western Hemisphere just 90 miles from the most powerful Empire in world history.
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  27. @ALex T Send the US and Chinese Presidents to Japan for a Sumo wrestling match. No war between the Chinese and US working classes.
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  28.  @michelangelobuonarroti916  If you vote for me on Wednesday I will pay you $1000 on Thursday.
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  29.  @mariaherradi8732  In Cuba the counter revolutionaries are starving for attention since they lack a just cause.
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  30.  @v2919  When you role the dice in a preganacy do you want a crooked politician sticking his hand in your uterus?
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  31.  @noahblanco6105  Call out Hillary Clinton and the hurt feelings police. Get to a safe space while they doors are still open.
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  32.  @cypheir  Throwing a meatless bone to the unemployed should 25% lose their jobs is the Yang Plan.
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  33.  @fasteddie9055  Actually support to the US Blockade is dwindling such that Cuban Americans themselves are protestant it The Blockade is an act of war against the Cuban government and people. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2 LDM Source: Department of State, Central Files, 737.00/4–660. Secret. Drafted by Mallory.↩ Rubottom initialed the “yes” space provided on the source text.↩
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  34.  @ezragonzalez8936  Qatar is a dictatorship selling oil and gas wealth the majority of the population are exploited immigrant workers living in dorms who have no vote and protested not being paid. Switzerland is one of the first countries to adopt capitalism. Lenin lived their in exile and thought it would be one of the last countries to have a revolution. Its a center for bankers and I'm sure all the bankers in Singapore are doing well as they also require exploited immigrant workers who live in dorms to build the paradice. .I'm not really sure why you pick Ireland as its people were starved to death by British landlords and capitalist such that peasants died on the side of the road. My ancestors left on the ghost ship as many were allows to set sail so the owners could collect on an insurance scam and 1 in 5 sank on the way to America. They arrived here and were both married at age 16. The census of Ireland did not exceed 1840 until the 21st century. Your an economist than you can explain how money grows in a bank and where the profit comes from and how the capitalist will get around the decline in the profit rates as machines replace higher paid skilled labor with lower paid unskilled labor. You realize healthcare and education are overhead expense for the capitalist to be minimized in order to boost profit rates. A dead worker can be replaces by another unemployed one. So for the capitalist he seeks to pay only a single worker just what it takes to get him back for the next pay period which is why the seek to work us the longest hours at the lowest wages at the fastest pace. Their are no morals behind capitalism except that of seeking the maximum profit and winning the battle of the marketplace along with use of the government to defend the profit system.
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  35.  @ezragonzalez8936  I'm NOT going to surrender.
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  36.  @Recipe_For_Disaster_TV  What was the cause of the War on Terror?
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  37.  @Recipe_For_Disaster_TV  The 9/11 Terror Attacks. See just like the Civil war being caused by Slavery. it wasn't all that hard. Usual people want the simple answer of what was it that set it off.
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  38.  @TruckTaxiMoveIt  National Security Scare. Judge issue warrant on Friday afternoon. FBI spends the weekend on a fishing at he beach.
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  39.  @nunya7705  Your a witch hunter. I was born here. I can be president. You can't kick me out. You don't even know what was classified. For all you know it was secret decoder rings in cheerios boxes. We don't just acept what we are told by the government and FBI who have told many lies and been a witch hunting police agency. Why don't you leave instead? Go some where like Saudi Arabia. Enjoy the hospitality of the religious police. I hear they give close shaves.
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  40.  @west_park7993  Speculation since the "secret" tunnel has been their since 2008. before Trump was even President so the secret service should have know about it when Trump became President.
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  41. He supported Pol Pot with arms and at the UN. A real "humanitarian" supporting a genocidal maniac.
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  42.  @alexnowicki286  Sure Trump is going to make everything here and create capitalism in one country. He's going to close all borders, halt all foreign trade and stop all tourism. Then he's going to build a big casino and hotel complex so he can run a fixed game.
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  43.  @jacobblack6707  So all we need to do is March on Washington and declare an interim President to replace Trump.
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  44.    US Investors want their gold mine back.
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  45. https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article210820589.html I guess I as wrong Canadians want the gold mine and US investors want Oil.
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  46.    US Investors in the gold mine went to US federal court for a ruling against
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  47.  @russelljordan7688  Sure your going to do social engineering just like the liberals and make everyone happy. Does it ever occur to you that someone may not want your "Christaion Charity"? Maybe they don't want tio spend 9 months carrying a pregancy to term?
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  48.  @russelljordan7688  Your the type of genius who can think his way into a circular argument he can't escape.
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  49.  @russelljordan7688  Communism is a movement not a new doctrine invented by universal reformers. It is the history of one class of victory and defeats with the other most important class in the world the capitalist class. History has worked for capitalism when the capitalist were in struggle and not allied with the landowners. History is working against the capitalist classes as they become more divided and break up into competing blocks of Imperialist nations. The world's capitalist classes are no further along today in solving the historical problems of Imperialism than when war broke out in 1914. Despite the popular overthrow of the Stalinist bureaucracy by popular revolution American Imperialism was unable to put together a consolidated world capitalist alliance. Instead new competition means only further decline and a New World Disorder. The working class has only become larger and more technically proficient and culturally aware. The capitalist and those phoney Chinese communists can't escape the declining rate of return on investment and the continual financial crises that undermine every recovery. How long can you fool the world's people into thinking that any paper currency is worth anything when left in the control of the capitalist exploiters.
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  50.  @russelljordan7688  We had abortion regulated by hospital abortion boards or state laws in the past and that proved unworkable then I don't see why that becomes an option now or how or why the a new morality has become possible. You argument is based upon making an embryo or fetus a person which it isn't true in the first place. Using your argument I could argue against military conscription or any kind of social obligation I don't like such as taxes or zoning laws. These ideas of absolute freedoms and rights originated with capitalism and were never intended for the masses of people but only the ruling capitalist class they have become somewhat extended but courts have found creative ways to limit them.
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