Comments by "H B" (@capitalb5889) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. I feel sorry for his daughter if he is going to educate her one day.
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  2. Alex did theology at Oxford - he knows his stuff
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  3.  @crispinfornoff206  he's been debated by one in this video.
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  4.  @Consume_Crash  afraid I haven't seen it, but will have a look. However, am atheist is absolutely entitled to look at the concept of good and evil, and can do so from a humanist perspective, rather than arbitrary and inconsistent rules in a bronze aged book which says that slavery is fine.
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  5. ​ @Obi-J I've never really watched either, but I don't think it's anything like OAN from what I understand. Broadcast news in the UK is meant to be unbiased, something which GB News has largely ignored, but they can use different points of view as a defence. Andrew Pierce is a right-winger, but is an experienced British broadcast journalist (I remember him from a radio station) and can interview politicians from the left and right effectively.
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  6. The same can be said for healthcare. In Britain there is an effective public healthcare system, accessible to anyone who wants it, much as there is a public educational system. Many people who find a public school system totally normal can’t comprehend a public healthcare system.
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  7. ​ @alexwestconsulting - they are newspaper allegations at the moment, but the Sunday Times would not publish something like this unless it has very good evidence. It has satisfied its journalists and lawyers that the claims are sound. No, there are no criminal charges yet, but it would hardly be investigative journalism if they waited until the police pressed charges. As for the claims of rape, there is more than just allegations from the alleged victim, but detailed text messages from the day after where she clearly indicates that she said "no". You seem to be trying to dismiss these as unfounded tittle tatle, when it is clearly a more well-founded accusation.
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  8. And the Sunday Times wouldn't publish unless they were sure.
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  9. ​ @alexwestconsulting it is not a crime in Britain to have sex with a 16 year old. It is a crime to have sex with anyone without their consent, whatever their age. It is the latter here that is the subject of debate.
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  10. I think that the number you have of women dying in child birth are very wrong. While the US is worse than the UK, it's not third world.
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  11.  @fatherson5907  - I think she misunderstood a number she had read somewhere before. Yes, the US has pretty poor childbirth mortality rates compared to some other countries, but the figures above would be very poor even for a developing country.
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  12. Facts are so last century
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  13.  @fatherson5907  - and we also know that different countries record COVID deaths in different ways. In addition Britain was hit earlier on than the US when techniques for treatment were less well developed. Instead look at longer-term indicators of health treatment. The UK does better at half the cost.
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  14.  @Consume_Crash  I find that highly unlikely unless Trent Horn presented evidence for God's existence (obviously he didn't).
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  15. Genetically Modified Skeptic does a lot on YouTube on the essential oils cults and the MLM overlaps
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  16.  @organbuilder272  this one was open and he lost big time. Although the odds were against him because the figure he was defending he had to admit was a monster.
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  17. He's South African and lives in London. Probably Wimbledon.
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  18.  @fatherson5907  - really? In the US the average is $574 per month for an individual. Family coverage averaged $1634. Another says $456pm for an individual and $1152 for a family. This is more for a lower level plan. However, if you are aged over 65 and entitled to Medicare Part B then the cost is only $144.60. So given that even Medicare is nearly twice what you are paying, and all of the others are far more consistent with what we typically hear about the US, then yes, I am happy to call you out for being disingenuous. You may be paying $83, but you have done kind of unique deal or someone else is picking up the bulk of the cost. It may be that BCBS is that much cheaper - I understand that it is more "affordable", but why doesn't everyone choose it? Edit: having been on the BCBS web site, I see if you are low income and quite young, you can get a subsidy to lower the cost to the type of levels you suggest on BCBS.
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  19.  @Consume_Crash  I have just started watching the intro to the debate and flicking through the comments section - while it gave me very little sense of who was the winner or not, it gave a sense of what a nice wholesome debate and intellectual discussion it was between the two.
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  20. How many unborn children were killed during the flood? Presumably all of them.
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  21.  @ProfessorGroyper  - you didn't make an argument either.
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  22. My parents have a home medical dictionary from the mid-70s that clearly lists homosexuality as a mental disorder. It was pretty shocking when I first read this growing up in the late 80s - attitudes change very quickly.
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  23. No evidence because it was such a good conspiracy. But also so poor that there are hundreds of witnesses. Or something.
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  24. He was definitely a B list celebrity, but very well known by name, if not material. He was a guest on News Night once, which is the UK's most important news analysis programme. He talked bollocks.
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  25.  @parabob2359  - I think he's actually about 24 - he only graduated from Oxford in 2021.
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  26.  @crispinfornoff206  i would agree from the little I’ve seen that it appeared to be a discussion.
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  27. Agree. It's gross.
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  28. Andrew Pierce has always struck me as being quite a reasonable guy. Yes, right of centre but not a crazy.
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  29. Talking about making sweeping statements over great swathes of history, that was pretty much Karl Marx's analysis of class struggle.
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  30. It is also held up with as a quasi religious document, integral to the spirit and life of the USA. No other country has this - constitutions exist as technical documents. Ultimately they are long-dead men who were writing a document for a new country based on a 18th century value system.
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  31. Exactly - you need to have a non-rational brain to start with
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  32. It's a classic conspiracy theory, but also speaks volumes to how up their own arses they are. As if the right-wing Murdoch owned Sunday Times has been commandeered by "them" to make false accusations against a man because he has 6 million YouTube subscribers and says weird shit.
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  33. If their God made women with underarm hair, does that mean He made a mistake by not making them feminine?
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  34. The age of consent actually varies from prefecture to prefecture. I think that the national law doesn't apply in practice anywhere - the lowest age is 16.
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  35.  @oldfogey4679  - abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, unless you're done religious nut job
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  36. Had they been friends since they were young, you could buy the claim, but the friendship didn't start until after Thomas became a Supreme Court justice. He's a corrupt piece of shit and should be kicked off the Supreme Court.
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  37.  @philipmerewood2298  - probably a regular at the Leather Bottle
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  38. Andrew Neil is very much on the right, but as a top interviewer for the BBC he would take a completely neutral line and would hold anyone to account, whatever their politics.
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  39. Logic and reasoning should definitely be taught in schools, although it would be resisted by those who profit from their inability to reason.
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  40. She just made herself look stupid.
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  41.  @marcosdeto9409  - she may be a cosplay girl drinking a frappucino but she still made the reporter look stupid. She wants a state funded health service - great. There is an effective one in British that runs at half the cost of the US healthcare system and has better outcomes overall. And in the US there is elementary and high school education provided by the tax payer. Is this socialist education system bad?
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  42. @CAMARO SS - the British healthcare system is ramping up its vaccination program to vaccinate 300,000 people a day, with the aim of vaccinating all high and higher risk people by the end of February. One of the benefits of having national health infrastructure.
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  43. @CAMARO SS - I think you're wandering a bit off topic.
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  44. @CAMARO SS "Fact ; We are born, we live, sometimes get sick and then we die." But not of Smallpox (eradicated by vaccine) and we don't get crippled by polio or die young because of meningitis, if we have been vaccinated. For those things we can't vaccinate for, we have medicine and operations.
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  45. Actually hardly any countries have totally free healthcare - but most have universal healthcare access. In most countries healthcare is run for the people. In the US it is run for the healthcare providers. And a propaganda campaign has convinced people that it is best for them
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  46.  @fatherson5907  - it's done excellently against COVID. It has managed to treat all those who have presented themselves for treatment.
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  47.  @fatherson5907  - healthcare in the US consumes 20% of GDP. I don't know what you get for $83 but it certainly doesn't align to the data.
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  48.  @fatherson5907  - yes, I can read quite clearly. I don't know exactly what kind of deal you have, but the US system sucks up 20% of GDP, so you are getting subsidised by someone. You probably know why it is so cheap (ex military or something), so it would be great if you could share
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  49.  @fatherson5907  - so that is the actual cost, even if it is "combined". It the employers ledger it still goes down as a staff cost. And if your employer doesn't cover the cost (as far as I understand it, it is not compulsory for all employers to do so)? Who makes up the difference then? Either way, 20% of GDP in the USA goes on healthcare, as opposed to 10% in the UK. And the US has worse health outcomes, but far richer doctors. I also have private healthcare through my employer in the UK, which is in addition to that provided by the state. Very common.
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  50. If she had wanted to speak to AOC, she could have booked and made an appointment.
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  51. Same in the UK.
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  52.  @alexwestconsulting  the text is real. Much as parts of the Murdoch press may bend the truth, the Sunday Times won't have published without checking this out in every way. She explicitly referred to saying "no" in relation to sex.
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  53.  @xuxuang8574  I was perfectly capable of consenting to sex at the age of 16. It's not an uncommon age for consent around the world.
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  54.  @xuxuang8574  no. That's just weird
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  55.  @xuxuang8574  that's the point I made. It would be weird. Just not illegal.
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  56. I've never seen it, but I really doubt it can be as right-wing as those stations. In the UK there needs to be some level of balance in news.
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  57.  @populuxe1  - newspapers can be as biased as they want in the UK, but not so news programming. GB News is available on "Freeview" in the UK, so available on every television for free. GB news is bound by the impartiality rules. A finding from the regulator last week: "Ofcom finds GB News in breach of due impartiality rules" "An Ofcom investigation has today concluded that an episode of Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil, which aired on GB News on 11 March 2023, breached due impartiality rules. Our investigation found, however, that in discussing these matters, the programme was overwhelmingly reflective of the viewpoints of different strands of opinion within the Conservative Party. There were only very limited references to wider perspectives on UK economic and fiscal policy in the context of the forthcoming budget. For example, no real attention was given anywhere in the programme to the viewpoints of politicians, political parties, organisations or individuals that either, for example, criticised, opposed or put forward policy alternatives to the viewpoints given by the three Conservative politicians." So "LOL" back at ya
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  58. So sorry to hear your story. I actually did see blood in the toilet once. Went to the doctor the next week so asked me to leave a sample. It was checked and came back negative for blood - false alarm. But I would have been sent straight too see a specialist. The NHS actually had a radio commercial campaign trekking people to see their doctor straight away if they thought they saw blood in their urine, even just once.
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  59. Yaweh is all powerful and causes global floods and can issue his commandments and smite at will, but he couldn't make a rule against slavery?
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  60. Surely if you are aborted, the "baby" dies without sin and therefore gets a one-way ticket to heaven for eternity. It seems a worthy sacrifice of a mere 80-odd years to guarantee your way into heaven for eternity. After all, who wants there to be a chance of their child going to hell? Unless the freak believes that the aborted never got the chance to accept God so go to hell.
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