Youtube comments of dixon pinfold (@dixonpinfold2582).

  1. It's sobering to realize that even in 2023 there remains a stigma associated with being a school shooter.
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  2. Stephen Sackur himself uses no fossil fuels. Jumping off the terrace of his posh flat in Kensington, he flew to Guyana first class on a giant gust of his own sanctimony.
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  3. Senator: "Did you eat breakfast this morning?" Dr. Walensky: "I don't know that off the top of my head."
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  4. He wasn't arrested trying to cross the border. He was 12 miles from the border. This was a Canadian arrest, not a US one. Thanks, Canada, for your close cooperation.
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  5. India to Trudeau: "Get out." Canada to India: "We feel you."
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  6. "The first non-monkey American astronaut, Alan Shepard..." Funniest thing ever in an MFP video.
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  7. Make AOC a Waitress Again
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  8. "Inna, 59, pensioner" has me doing forehead palms. (1) She thinks WWII started in 1941, despite Germany's invasion or bombing of numerous countries beforehand. (2) She says "We won't initiate an attack."😂 Sure, except Finland, Afghanistan, Georgia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland... Ah, the glories of the Soviet 'education' system.🙄 Still bearing fruit in the over-45 population.
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  9. Also, NATO was already as close as possible: Estonia & Latvia are direct neighbors, and closer to Moscow.
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  10. Agreed. And what's really absurd is to ever utter the term 'biological woman.' The word is woman.
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  11. In the inimitable words of Homer Simpson, "Sounds tough but fair."
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  12. I particularly applaud his pointing out that she is profoundly uneducated.:washhands:
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  13. That man who threatened the police officer has to be found, arrested, jailed, charged and tried. Then deported.😠🤬 *******EDIT, One Month Later: 🎉 He has been found, arrested and charged! 🎉 Absolutely fantastic!👏 From the CP24 site: "Toronto police arrested Amro Abufarick, 19, and Malek Abufarick, 34. Amro has been charged with one count of unlawful assembly, one count of being a member of an unlawful assembly while masked, one count of mischief interfering with property, one count of assaulting a peace officer, and one count of uttering threats. Malek has been charged with one count of unlawful assembly, one count of mischief interfering with property and one count of assaulting a peace officer."
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  14. Thank you Sky, for doing all you can to expose sanctimonious and corrupt race hustlers.
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  15. They call him a pawn because he's nobody's pawn. More precisely, not their pawn.
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  16. I can tell you what happened to Montreal: For centuries it was the leading city of Canada, then in the 70s separatism and associated violence arose. Corporate headquarters started moving to Toronto; long-term decline began. It lost investment, many skilled people, and most of its international prestige. Montreal formerly had a larger population; now it's 4.3 million, Toronto's is nearing 7m. Older people vividly remember a glittering and booming Montreal. Now Toronto is markedly more prosperous.
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  17. The world simply has to listen to Hamas' spokesman, speaking last week to Lebanese TV. He said October 7th was not a one-off, vowing there would be an October 8th, 9th, 10th... and "an October One-Millionth." True colors, crystal clear.
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  18. Cher: "If Trump wins I'm moving to Canada." Canada: "Build the wall now! Oh, for God's sake, now!"
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  19. Russia invaded the eastern part of Ukraine 9.5 years ago. Together with local Donbas residents who wanted to join Russia, they made war on the Ukrainian state. For Russians it was a war of invasion and annexation. For the Donbas belligerents it was a separatist war. Like any other invaded state, Ukraine attacked the invaders and separatists in return. And this self-defence you call "Ukronazi" crimes. That's warped.
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  20. Just going by this, Rep. Mace has a long career ahead of her. That was impressively well done.
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  21. About 1.5 million votes, ~80% voted yes. 👍
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  22. Coming soon: Her pet lion is offered a wheelbarrow of grass. He eats her in one sitting.
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  23. Sackur himself uses no fossil fuels. He flew into Guyana first class on a giant gust of his own sanctimony.
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  24. (1) Too bad for Maria that IQ doesn't measure mainstream-approved snobbery. She would've come first. (2) Interesting that the top 3 were those I found somewhat likeable, the bottom 3 were those who annoyed me. (3) Last I heard, 131 gets you into the 98th percentile. Tbh, I'm really surprised four of them scored that high. (4) PhDs used to mean 10x more. Now they have a lot in common with unpaid internships that rich kids land.
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  25. Cool woman at 1:00. She points out that all the dead people you see in war movies are living people. Everyone knows that, but it's still a statement with real power, especially since she lived through WWII as a kid. She's saying you don't know anything until you've been there, which is not at all the sort of opinion you can just kick aside.
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  26. In the late 1970s the anti-Shah agitators complained of oppression. And since they ousted him it's been 45 years of 10x greater oppression. It's been that way with revolutions in the vast majority of instances.
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  27. "The New York Times, a former newspaper." Perfect! 😂 — A former subscriber
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  28. The City of Toronto is very selective about whom it allows to take over its streets.   A few weeks ago, parents wanted to block streets to protest Ontario education policies. Police closed the roads pre-emptively to prevent it. Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
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  29. Why on earth did you include that random person's remarks about his hopes for lenient treatment of the perpetrators? It's bizarre that you would do that.
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  30. "We have reason to believe there will be a public demonstration in this area causing disruption to traffic. In order to prevent any disruption to traffic, we have closed the area to traffic, blockading it with garbage trucks. This will also prevent the expression of what our Dear Leader informs us are unacceptable views. Thank you."
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  31. Lets in millions too many, intensely exacerbating the housing and health care crises. Thinks he'll get a popularity boost by decelerating admissions very slightly. Needs to be looked at by an international team of top psychiatrists.
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  32. I'm gobsmacked. The choice of Dr. Bhattacharya is too perfect and wonderful for words. This made my day.🎉🎊🥂
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  33. 0:12 Appears to be a heavily modified Volvo V70R.
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  34. To me Finns have a realistic attitude, an awesome sense of humour and a low level of hostility. And when I say realistic I mean it as a huge compliment: you won't hear a Finn spouting nonsense except extremely rarely.
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  35. The gall of CNN to wring their hands over how it's gotten! They had a leading hand in bringing all this about, most memorably in the summer of 2020.
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  36. Russia, pre-war: "We are not going to attack Ukraine. Ridiculous Western lie." Russia, after it starts war: "It is not a war." Russia, after it gets disastrously bogged down: "The not-war is going according to plan." Russia, as it prepares for major losses: "Nothing bad's going to happen."
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  37. A Russian-speaking Ukrainian man of my acquaintance summed up the Russian people in four words: "Born to be ruled." He didn't mean there are no exceptions, but it appears he was right overall.
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  38. I went into my bank and demanded a $4 million mortgage. When they laughed, I told them I identified as rich. They looked worried for a minute, just out of habit.
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  39. Why? Many other Chinese would do it for that amount...or less...or nothing. I question the use of the term "US petty officer." "Petty officer," yes; "US petty officer," that's a bit doubtful.
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  40. Reporters: "How do you dare raise any doubts about the impeccable wonderfulness of my boss, our Great Leader?"
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  41. Stop calling them tariffs! These are import taxes. Trump just raised your taxes, "bigly."
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  42. Rules for safe helicopter piloting: Don't take off in fog. Don't fly into a fog bank.
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  43. A "celebrity spiritualist" and "confidante of Oprah Winfrey." Highly predictable that such a person would tell us to "lighten up" and allow men into women's sports as long as they're small and weak.😂 Omg.
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  44. If Ukraine can't join NATO until the war with Russia is over, doesn't that give Russia an enormous incentive to prolong the war for as many years as it can?
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  45. Presidential travel is incredibly expensive. How many millions of dollars of Americans' money is being spent for Biden's partisan trip to California?
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  46. 1) There were always homeless shelters all across Canada. I think you mean street homelessness. Before that became common, un-sheltered homelessness existed on the outskirts of towns, or anywhere there were disused buildings or properties. 2) It was around the late 1980s that crack made its appearance in Canada. Soon after, homelessness exploded. 3) The emptying out of mental hospitals began in the 1970s, due to immense pressure from activists and media.🤨 For many years, group homes and cheap rooming houses alleviated the problem, but in later decades exploding real estate prices and a reduction or freeze in welfare rates greatly decreased the supply of such accommodation. When this occurred, causing homelessness, the activists blamed governments for closing the hospitals as they had demanded.😠 4) The surge in homelessness around 20-25 years ago had to do mainly with opioids ('opiates', until synthetic forms not derived from opium necessitated a new term). Again, this was thanks to activists.🤨 They publicly badgered the medical field until doctors finally relented under incredible pressure to begin writing vastly more opioid prescriptions. The activists had insisted that people with pain were being inhumanely denied relief, while the doctors, who knew their field quite well, insisted that a vast increase in addiction would follow. The decisive factor was the media. Reporters, spurred by activists, wrote countless emotionally-charged articles calling the doctors callous and unfeeling, and as I said, they finally got their way. Later, when addiction, homelessness, overdoses and deaths skyrocketed, the media then blamed the doctors for doing exactly what they had demanded.😠 Moral: when activists and media team up to force change, disaster is quite likely to follow.🤨 It is my belief that every major problem facing Canadian and Western society is rooted in activist pressure to follow their theories about how to improve society and increase justice.😠 In my view they are not the right people to decide anything. They are unaccountable to anyone and never admit guilt for their serial blunders. Never.
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  47. Great documentary. We'll be sharing this one with our child. They need to learn about life.
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  48. Most shocking of all, 40% approve of Kamala Harris.😮
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  49. As soon as you read "Teens from Chicago" you know it's not gonna be good.😮 It's sure not gonna be about high marks in school, junior tech startups or anything like that. It's gonna be the latest Bad as we wanna be.
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  50. That cop's advice is being shown and ridiculed around the world, damaging Toronto's and Canada's already battered reputation.
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  51. No, the US is the gross cushion Canada sits on. Edit: I was just volleying an insult back. They're actually both good countries despite any faults.
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  52. As a girl she was Justin Trudeau's neighbor in adjacent wealthy areas of Montreal. She remains his political soulmate, and now they're both about to disappear. It's wonderful.
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  53. MSM: "When millions of Chinese died in the Cultural Revolution, right-wing infiltrators were to blame."
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  54. A woman I asked out looked at me disapprovingly so I told her I identify as a rich, handsome stud.
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  55. I can only surmise that the hosts and panellists have been instructed to do more listening to dissenting opinion than they're used to doing. I know that sounds far-fetched and I certainly could be wrong, but it just might be true.
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  56. "Ohio secks worker had over 200 clients while knowing she was HIV-positive." Most shocking of all, that woman had clients.😮
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  57. Remember Charlie Hebdo in Paris? Who did it? Remember London train bmb? Who did it? Remember Theo van Gogh in Netherlands? Who did it? Remember airport in Brussels? Who did that? Remember Christmas market in Germany ? who did that? Remember truck in France, 85 people gone.. who did that? Remember train in Spain? Who did that? Remember October 7th in Israel? Who did that ? Remember theater in Russia? Who did that? Remember World Trade Center? Who did that? ....I don't have all day. You get the idea.
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  58. Good time to compliment you on your editing: It's not too tight, not too slow—just right. All the transitions are smooth. I can see you put thought into clip order too, and this goes well also. Pacing, excellent. Overall fantastic, Daniil. As a viewer you barely notice the editing at all, which is a high compliment. Cheers, mate
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  59. I salute the people of Sweden for keeping their heads, unlike most of the West. Contemptible swines around the world are intent on using this pandemic as a cover for accomplishing loathsome goals people wouldn't stand for in ordinary circumstances.
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  60. "He mortgaged our country and sold the deed to China." "He rid us of our 'excess' wealth." "He made us friends with Iran, North Korea and Saudi Arabia." That's how I should put it.
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  61. "Gonna be" is a little strong. How is that such a certainty? Go with "could be."
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  62. Down with DEI. It's time to go HOME: Hire On Merit Exclusively
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  63. You can tell she's saying the right things by the fact that the Russobots are piling on down here to denounce her.😂 She's a great and sensible leader for Italy. Carry on, Giorgia!
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  64. As most Russians like and respect the Scandinavians, I think this will give them much pause for thought and may perhaps hurt their view of themselves. Thus, of all rebukes from the world since the start of the war, this may be to Putin at home the most damaging one.
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  65. Russia: "Ukraine is terrible, attacking us for occupying Ukraine. The world must condemn this criminal aggression." World: "Crimea river."
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  66. Lucky for you you're allowed to say that here. I posted this in the main comments and it disappeared into thin air: "There've long been undertones in gay and lesbian rhetoric that heterosexuality is somehow harmful, inferior, 'bourgeois,' and of course boring. Pretty much a sickness, in fact. It's no surprise that a society exposed to such notions for decades has at last produced a generation in which some see homosexuality as both a personal advance and socially beneficial, and 'transitioning' as even more effective." Something else weird: Number of comments when Sorted by Top Comments: 10; when Sorted by Newest: 23.
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  67. "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy
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  68. Orain is a brilliant guy who's knowledgeable and mature far beyond his years. He's only 23 or 24.
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  69. They're against oil but they're causing increased use of it by the stalled drivers behind them.🙄 Barely a neuron between the lot of them.
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  70. "I think our country is the most democratic state in the world." At least stand-up comedy is one form of expression in good health in Russia. 😂
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  71. Canadians: "It's been 8 years of you harming Canada's interests and reputation. You're destroying our future. How much more can you even do?" Trudeau: "Just watch me."
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  72. I daresay she indeed is still a girl, really, despite being about 40 years of age.
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  73. Hahaha. So trust China. 😂
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  74. Alex Karp is 100% correct. No-limits liberals never care whether left policies work or not. To them success resides in imposing them, not in producing positive results. "Look at us, we're such good people. Admire us, love us, emulate us. Obey us."
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  75. Jon Stewart shows us why we once liked him.
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  76. Defund it NOW!
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  77. I was thinking "Man, we're gonna need the stats on this one." And then... the stats!👏 Daniil my good man, video after video you're doing everything right. 👏
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  78. That's unclear. But this much is indeed clear: To permit such conduct is to allow it to be 'modelled' for the young. And not just those of the radical left. For all the young. So when more of their ilk, plus the skinheads e.g., do more things like this—and worse—this appalling woman will have herself, her group, and the police to thank. [Very slow clapping]
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  79. So is this what the Sniffer Brigade is too? Been wondering wth that is. Vive NAFO, glory to Ukraine🇺🇦.
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  80. "The paint is Onyx Midnight Cave Black with a charcoal gray pinstripe. I repeat, Onyx Midnight Cave. The one they discontinued in 2019."
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  81. Good job, Gov. Abbott. The US needs a strong and successful Texas. The world needs a strong and successful Texas. Keep doing what you're doing!
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  82.  @GirlPilot7  "Girl Pilot" Hmm. Is a two-year-old really a girl? I would say 'baby.'
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  83. "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." — William Blake
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  84. Go Ron DeSantis! I agreed with every word of that.
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  85. 🤬None of the words I have for those students at this moment are allowable here, and for good reason.🤬
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  86. According to Valentina 2:46, when the US comes to the aid of a people under attack by tyrants, it's "starting a war." Ok then: In that case, when the US began aiding the USSR in the 1940s, it "started" World War II. 🙄🙄🙄🙄 And she's supposed to be an educated person! (Retired economist.)
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  87. Well reasoned, well written, well delivered. This clip deserves an internet response like your Oxford Union clip got.
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  88. Let them depart for Qatar instead. That's where their leaders live. Join them, I say.
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  89. Really? Those people invited a stranger into their home and treated him in a polite and on the whole friendly way. I detected no hint of dislike, let alone any hostility or threat. The man answered his questions civilly, rather thoughtfully and in the spirit with which they were asked. I don't get what was sinister. Is it that they weren't hipsters?
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  90. Perhaps one additional question would've made their attitudes even more clear and better-defined for us: "So do you favor the return of gulags for people with views which the state disapproves of?"
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  91. Well worth it for the minimal extra bother. When I feel like adding a little extra effort I pick a couple of truffles myself. There's a farmer who has them in a wooded area of his property located only six hours away.
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  92. When it's needed it's not brutality. Brutality is unnecessary by definition.
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  93. I've long noticed and long pointed out that politically Russia most resembles Africa. This of course means there's likewise a societal and even somewhat of a cultural resemblance. The link is feudalism. Under feudalism the rich and strong have a right to rule over the poor and weak, but have an obligation to protect them, while the poor and weak derive their security from offering their obedience. That's feudalism. Now, Russia passed about 75 years as the world headquarters of Communism, so you'd think that the Soviet state would've put paid to feudalism. But no, it didn't. Actually feudalism passed quite safely through that era. Recall for example commissars, whom you went along with and then things would remain all right with you and yours. (Orwell on the commissar: "Half gramophone, half gangster.")
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  94. I cut way back on Chinese goods. The result: I now own nicer stuff—that lasts longer. So maybe it's cheaper in the long run. Also long-lasting: The pleasure of denying Xi my financial support.
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  95. 5th person, in the yellow t-shirt, gave the most appropriate response by laughing her head off. Daniil, you ask some of the best questions imaginable.
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  96. My extreme gratitude to the funny guy with the 1980s punk-band hat for giving me the phrase "toilet-level news." 🤣😂
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  97. DEI wokeness is the modern counterpart of the madness in Salem, Mass. in 1692-93. People in future ages will shake their heads in disbelief.
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  98. Yep, the Mayor Chow word-salad NDP approach:   (1) Re-name things at a cost of millions, (2) divide people, (3) raise taxes (re-naming them "revenue tools" of course), (4) divert visiting out-of-town shoppers to Vaughan and Mississauga. Well, I can re-name things too: I hereby re-name her Kamala Chow.
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  99. Bunch of people calmly discussing which countries they should destroy. Then they call themselves peaceful, interested only in defending themselves, etc. Russia needs counselling, a Russian Dr. Phil, something, anything. But lots of it.
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  100. "It was easy. We thought we were the good guys saving the world." Wokesters take note.
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  101. Yeah, Kayleigh McEnany was great. Knew the policies through and through and was strikingly quick on her feet. Presented herself and the White House very well to the world. Never gave off any of the hyper-phony air of her two regrettable successors. I was sad to see her leave that position.
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  102. Government news. Defund it now.
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  103. This guy really, really knows how to handle interviews. Baked Potato Joe is dazed in every one, blurting out his clumsy evasions.
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  104. At 13 :22 she says they've been having meetings "to see what people think." But she immediately corrects herself: "The right people."
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  105. Trudeau will find a way to make ordinary Canadians responsible. Except, of course, those who support his party. They're the finest people who ever walked the face of the earth.
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  106.  @agffans5725  As usual, I learn something about Denmark and it's completely positive. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the world needs more Denmark. Denmark should have 200m people.
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  107. False headline. The ongoing attack is not "against Lebanon." Lebanon is a country, a state. And the Lebanese Armed Forces are not being attacked. It is the T. organization, Hzbh., which is being attacked. Send that headline writer home for the rest of the day.
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  108. ​ @Илья-у1ю  That's delusional, no one's jealous of Russia. It has limited freedoms and a government the people cannot throw out peacefully. It has a feudal societal and political outlook befitting medieval times. It has a lower-middle standard of living, excessively cold weather, and the highest murder rate in Europe (higher than the US). Other countries aren't jealous of Russia, they just don't respect it much, for the reasons I mentioned plus this obscene war.
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  109. Half a million dollars in damage. "The prosecutor's office is considering charges." 😮Welcome to no-limits liberalism America.
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  110. He exhibits normal, un-extraordinary, adult professional courage, and apparently so do a number of his colleagues. Wonderful. It's wonderful that there are suddenly professionals conducting themselves as normal, healthy, un-radicalized adults not experiencing career terror. In the quite recent past this would hardly occasion much celebration, but now it does. Let's shout out Hurray!
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  111.  @blinkanimals9720  Any country where far-leftist tankies own the university faculties where teachers are trained, which is most or all of them.
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  112. I've got to hand it to Gen. Chapman for verbal and analytical coherence. Likewise for moral coherence, even though he rightly plays it down. He along with Gen. Hodges seem like the best minds among the regular interview subjects here on the subject of the war.
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  113. Quite a hilarious attitude to the people who, along with Big Tech, actually installed him where he is, not even a year ago. He has lost track and thinks he did it all by himself.
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  114. Biden: Pro-EVs Musk: Pro-EVs, anti-Biden Fox: "Sorry Elon, this one's tough, but we gotta go against Biden."
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  115. As someone once said, this should happen in every city across the US.
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  116. When Al Sharpton and his disciples condemn something you've done, it means you've done something good. Praise the lord, etc.😄
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  117. Boulton: Our competitors are wicked. The government must shut them down. Putin: Sure, buddy. It works great here in Russia. England is starting to wake up, I see.
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  118. Or has it been pathetic?
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  119. * cubic meters?
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  120. Vomit-inducing, every one of them, but especially Lizzo and Joy Reid. I can't watch anymore, I gotta go...
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  121. "Strong criticism from across the country." You mean from a tiny minority of activists. And you forgot about the strong approval across the country. Hoping to lose viewers are you, CP24? May your wish be granted.
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  122.  @DigitalOrbitMusic  Right now he's adding $1,000,000,000,000 to the national debt every 100 days. That's $3.65trn a year. Outrageous. Trump was pilloried for a deficit of $0.5trn a year.
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  123. Puts me in the mind of the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, a (monoplane) Canadian counterpart also of 1940s vintage. Versatile, strong, reliable, well-suited to both military and civil utility roles. The US Army bought hundreds. A Canadian icon, the last of more than 1,600 was built in 1967. A great many are still in service, including Harrison Ford's. It's his go-to plane, which he flies more than any other. (That's right, Harrison Ford adores his Beaver.)
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  124. What a surprise. Power-grabbers trying to grab power who are stopped from grabbing power are bitterly resentful of those who stopped them from grabbing power.
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  125.  @RR-et6zp  Right. I forgot that there's no stupid stuff in Russia, and that Russia is so highly developed from coast to coast and top to bottom.
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  126. I am sorry for the great loss to Const. O'Brien's family and friends. It is a loss to his community too, and his country.
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  127. When five friends all decide they're not girls, they're boys, that's all you need to know. Any adults who support them in their delusive thoughts and behaviors are highly irresponsible and harmful at the least, criminal at worst.
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  128. Thank you, Mayor Olivia Flake. This re-naming stems from an inaccurate portrayal of Henry Dundas in a 2020 film. He opposed slavery. He simply advocated a gradual ban as the fastest way to get it through Parliament. Of Dundas' recommended gradualism, Oxford history professor Brian Young says "Anything other than this would have put back the cause of abolition by decades."
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  129. "Corruption, insanity and incompetence" are nouns, not, as you claim, adjectives.
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  130.  @KilgoreTroutAsf  Confessing it is a major step forward, though. Good on you. Well begun is half done.
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  131. College students of every era:   'We're the smartest humans of all time, by far. And the most moral, by far.' Reality: They're about an eighth as smart as they think they are. Always have been, always will be. They're also widely noted for their moral corruption, irresponsibility, vanity, etc.
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  132. I noticed right away that they call Hzbh. a "militant group" instead of using the proper "T" word. Was Global purchased by The Guardian? 😄
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  133. It's only one person's opinion. It's a qualified opinion, to be sure, but professionals steeped in the nuances of what they study frequently disagree and see things a great deal differently. Putin could be where she really shines, but I don't know. I do know that I've listened to her on other topics and at times was struck by just how much of an unquestioning/standard-issue 2000s collegiate mind she had. (This is a major hazard of attending a prestigious university—you trust everything you learn there, including the mistaken prejudices common among your fellow students, who are just leaving adolescence.) Not that I disagree with you, though. I do agree.
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  134. NATO should make a short film in the suburban Moscow neighbourhood where Putzin lives. Filming should take place two hours before dawn.
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  135. Nor can their funny haircuts, unusual eyeglass frames and wide socialist faces.
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  136. Surprising. I mean, he looks like such a nice guy.😄
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  137. Brazil: "Fine, we'll put him on the Supreme Court."
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  138. As usual, Mr. Felton tells us more about the lesser-known aspects of military campaigns. I find him illuminating on anything he turns his attention to.
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  139. "They got a hell of a hash over there." Oh yes, certainly. Corned beef, onions, cabbage, carrots, peppers, butter.... 😅😅
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  140. Various political philosophies attract adherents by offering possibilities of sadism. If you write a book or pamphlet telling people that they can perfect or at least improve the world by abusing others, certain types of people will beat a path to your meetings. Some will be curious; others, showing up on the wrong night, will pound on the door demanding admittance.
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  141.  @RR-et6zp  They are, yes, for a people stuck in feudal times.
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  142. The English-speaking world's left wing shows its nauseating true colours. Thank you, SNA, for turning the light of scrutiny on them. Thank you.
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  143. Gavin Newsom: Your children are the property of the state. Elon Musk: Buh-bye. That's how it works.
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  144. But who says they are not both correct? Zaluzhnyi is surely right that more advanced military aid is needed for more progress to be made. Zelenskyy is probably right to object to the word stalemate, which in English has a strong air of finality: when a chess match is stalemated, it's over. Standstill, maybe.
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  145. Just imagine if they weren't Marxist-leaning. They'd have been cleared out of there the first day. If not, the federal govt. would've stepped in by declaring martial law, as it did two years ago. Wokeism: Canada's state religion since 2015. We need a new Charter of Rights.
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  146. Thanks, Science, for always telling me what to believe! (Until you tell me not to believe it anymore.)
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  147. In 2018 someone I knew was making close to $1k a day at online poker. I watched as he played five or ten games at once, and saw his marvellous loot obtained on shopping trips. His secret, he told me, was playing only against suspected Russians when it was evening in western Russia. Unlike people anywhere else, Russians, he said, always bluff and never fold. Although my knowledge of military affairs is scant, it is for this reason that I lean towards a belief that a war of attrition against Russia is potentially winnable.
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  148. The last guy had the most to say. "Born to be ruled" is how a Soviet-born emigrant described his former countrymen and -women to me. If that ever changes, if a new mindset takes root among more than just a large minority (slim majority?) of the young living in the largest cities, I'll be amazed. Ecstatically amazed. Fingers crossed, I guess.
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  149. Lutheranism should be imposed by law (in Latin, "lex").
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  150. ​ @perfectlyroundcircle  He even said South Korea itself is occupied North Korean territory! 😂😂 Studies of this man should appear in learned psychological journals.
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  151. When your breakfast was clear, colourless and potent.
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  152. I've read that black Africans were rare even in North Africa until about the 17th century, never mind in Britain.
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  153. Hear, hear!👍 Keep up the good work, Rep. Luna. Congratulations on your strength of character and determination, Riley Gaines.
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  154. I must be hallucinating right now. I see Konstantin wearing an actual shirt instead of a t-shirt.
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  155. Oleg's a good man!👏 Thank you Daniil and everybody at 1420, as always. Bunch of top blokes.👍
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  156. Their way of naming things shows great cunning. For example, if one has a nasty quasi-religion to peddle, one which multiplies awful things like division, distrust, chaos, suffering, the deadening of minds, impoverishment and violence, it's markedly easier if you name it "social justice."
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  157. I don't know what's going on with that guy. He sees the world upside down and backwards. Imagine the strain on the poor devil's family, friends and co-workers, if any.
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  158. Look at him suddenly pretending to care about Canadians now that his party has just 25% support. It's all part of a nauseating charm offensive which has just started in the past few days. (I stress the word offensive.) Sorry, Prime Minister Peter Pan, not buying it. We can all see right through you.😠
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  159. Good job, Saagar. REALLY good job.
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  160. Less a firefight than a recon operation. It appeared the bodycam soldier was covering the scout who ran forward to find enemy positions and report their location to artillery and drone operators.
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  161. Yes. If you have the talent and can create the masterpiece, objections about how you crossed that gap amount to nitpicking. And that's probably too nice a word for it.
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  162. CP24 "Political Analyst" Scott Reid: A career professional Liberal: his first job 30 yrs. ago was at Liberal Party of Canada headquarters. Then he was spokesman for...you guessed it, a Liberal prime minister. CP24: "Viewers need political analysis. Hey, let's hire the most Liberal Liberal ever!"
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  163. Ackman is right. The VP talks about cutting up the pie, having everyone get in a huge long line, and the government serving it to them. Trump talks about making pie.
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  164. The Jussie Smollett of gender.
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  165. It was actually their lucky day. Best possible outcome for them.
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  166. Well said, sir. I feel the same way myself.
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  167. ​ @markportnoy6290  Listen to yourself and what you're trying to do to language. "Legitimate human experience"? First of all, get the word 'human' out of there. We're not talking about other creatures, so the word human goes without saying. Now let's move on to 'legitimate'. What on earth does that word mean when paired with 'experience'? What is it for 'an experience' to be 'legitimate'? Try to explain what an 'illegitimate' experience is, or would be. Phrases like 'legitimate human experience' are cant, weighing the mind down like heavy blocks of iron. (I expect you will have to look up the word, and if you do it may be an important moment in your life.) Never go around using words simply for the purpose of persuading others that you're an ethical marvel of a person who attended university. As George Orwell wrote, you must rid your mind of cant or you will never, ever be able to think clearly.
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  168. Congrats, Germany, on making a good decision. (Now it's time for us to do the same!) 🇨🇦🇩🇪
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  169.  @sneksteppy  (1) You just called Gia a man. (2) I hope you find the integrity to look every server in the face from now on and say "Get a real job" — before ordering.
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  170. Yes, and this is correctly called psychological projection. The people in this video, except for the man who sort of reminded me of Gorbachev (EDIT: & one other man), are all in desperate need of psychiatric help.
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  171. D.I.E.: "Racism and sexism are the solution to everything. Long live racism and sexism. If you're not racist and sexist, you're racist and sexist."
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  172. His phone was probably up front, not on him.
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  173. When your work vehicle doubles as your funerary urn.
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  174. If you announce that under your system, whether proposed or extant, abusing other people terribly is the way to improve the world, countless followers will come out of the woodwork to sign up. I've been saying this for a few years, but it turns out someone else said it during the Soviet era: "The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behaviour 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” —Aldous Huxley
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  175. She's basically a Hamas member in the US Congress.
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  176.  @gerry4b  Can you yourself prove you know the meaning of those words?
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  177. Clearly it isn't all that great, since it made him president. Twice.
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  178. The planes' freedom was not impeded. Sorry, Dmitriy. Interception does not mean shooting down, nor, in reference to international airspace, diverting (i.e. forcing an aircraft away).
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  179.  @5Cdarkwing  "Not even similar" Let's see about that.... "The American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) was the foundation (parent breed) used to create the American Bully. One particular APBT strain was crossbred to create a stockier physique. Eventually, enough breeders agreed that these dogs were disparate enough from APBTs that they should be called a different breed. The bloodline of these mixed breeds was further influenced with openly-acknowledged breeding with the American Bulldog, English Bulldog, and Olde English Bulldogge." Right, "not even similar."🙄 There's much more, let's go on: "The American XL bully has a bite force of around 305 PSI (pounds per square inch) — among some of the highest ranking for Bully dog breeds. According to Topdogtips, Pitbulls come close with a PSI bite force of 235. Next is Alano Español with 227 PSI and English Bulldog with 210 PSI. Sep 15, 2023" "In the UK, [American] Bully dogs were responsible for more than 50% (10 out of 19) of the dog-related human deaths between 2021 and June 2023, despite being estimated to only make up a few thousand of the also estimated 13 million dogs in the UK," "In December 2023, the UK Government added the breed to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, making it illegal to sell, breed, abandon or have a[n American] XL Bully in public without a lead and muzzle in England and Wales." "Bully Watch, which campaigns for controls on the breed, places the number of deaths related to XL Bullies at 14 between 2021 and September 2023. Victims have included a young toddler, professional dog walkers, and elderly individuals." "According to Dr. Richard Barker, a National Health Service (NHS) consultant surgeon, wounds caused by XL Bullies are more severe than those caused by other breeds. He stated that the dogs' bite can shred skin and crush bones, carrying particular risk of irreparable nerve damage." Right, "not even similar."🙄  Defenders of these breeds are the ones responsible for the deaths of numerous people and injuries like the ruined leg of the little boy in this story. Congratulations. Sleep well.
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  180. While you're busy blaming institutions for destroying society, bear in mind that society destroyed the institutions. Yeah, the elites deserve special blame, but it's been a real team effort. (And I admit my part.)
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  181. This is why the Bayview Village Mall refused a subway station when it was offered/proposed. It was a good decision.
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  182. It's like going from Broadview out to Dufferin, Royal York or maybe Kipling. Remember, this place is only about two-thirds the area of Toronto. (And I mean Toronto, not the GTA.) All this should've been done weeks ago, except Hamas was shooting people trying to walk away. They want their human shields. There's no major difference between Hamas and ISIS.
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  183. "Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy
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  184. I find highly dubious the idea that Russians can not only hear their adversaries speaking on the battlefield, but clearly enough to discern which language they're using. 😂
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  185. Trucks are great targets, too. Yes they're more easily and more cheaply replaced than armored vehicles, but they're chock full of weapons, ammo, fuel, parts, other supplies, and personnel. Cripple the enemy's logistics, cripple the enemy.
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  186. Alpo's poor polling is shaping up to be my favourite news of the week. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bloke.
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  187.  @tahcria  Thinks he's such a hero, accomplishing so much, an inspiration to others, might go down in history one day, etc. Will eventually work on Wall Street like his father and grandfather.
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  188. Breaking news: The world doesn't care what Prime Minister Peter Pan thinks about anything. Only about two or three million morally and mentally lost Canadians have any real interest. It'd shock me if there was even one non-Canadian reporter there. (Unless there was some nice food and free drinks being served. But probably not even then.)
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  189. She made me want to go out to the driveway, start the car, come back inside, and relax for the rest of the evening.
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  190. Arrogance, that's all that is. Super-arrogance.
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  191. Chris is the sort of guy a soldier would hope to serve beside (or under, or to command). I'm glad he's made it this far.
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  192. But how can this be? The TV, movies, the media, advertising, magazines, politicians, basically the whole society has taught me since I could first understand words that women are the true moral leaders of humanity, men being mere animals. Now every time I turn around there's another one of these stories. Is it possible I was lied to?
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  193. She's talking about a mere 16 to 26 years from now. Think about it, 16 years ago was 2008, the start of [shudder] the Obama years. 2040 is not long from now at all. Yet I've never heard Americans talking about that far in the future.🤯Not one.
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  194. World Alliance of Shoes: "Hey, stop comparing us to elite college students!"
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  195. He said police released a photo and a description of the suspects. So where is the description, CP24? Give it to us, or do you not think you should? You should. Creating fear as they did, these have all the earmarks of tare a wrist incidents. Don't you want to get these suspects apprehended before any subsequent escalation to serious harm?
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  196. Canadians: "It's been 8 years of you harming Canada's interests and tainting our reputation. You're seriously imperilling our future. Could you possibly do any worse?" Justin Trudeau: "Just watch me."
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  197. Wong is wrong. (For obvious reasons I just couldn't go with "Penny Wong is many wrong." Pity, though.) Did I miss the part where she wrote in anguished tones about the ongoing Hamas missile attacks on Israel? Did I miss her imploring Hamas to stop so that Israelis can "get to safety"?
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  198. They're going to have to compete in boys' sports or get their own trans games. Fairness absolutely demands it.
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  199. She tried to talk over him but he wouldn't let her. Good man! That's the kind of person we need. A determined one. I love what he said a year or two ago about left ideologues: "Don't try to get these people to like you."
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  200.  @nealorr5086  Haha, exactly. I love it when people drop the word 'semantics' and think they've ended the conversation as the glorious victor. 🙄
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  201. This woman is nearly as interesting as Graves himself. She performs her job exquisitely in an object lesson suitable for any interviewer. You get the impression of brilliance but she doesn't stoop to showing it off. Clever, wise, and poised to a degree shocking for her age, and authentic enough to throw some authenticity away by cultivating a very artificial appearance. All in all seemingly a whole person, again nearly as much as Graves, and that's saying a lot. What an unexpected pleasure. The present day almost can't produce a person like her.
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  202. When he's asked about division in America he replies rather indignantly, asserting that "people are just chillin' out." Exactly one minute later he himself says "Everybody's screaming and yelling." 🙄
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  203. You gotta see Navalny's documentary here on YT on his channel. Title: "Putin's Palace". It's not just a palace. It's a little town with many large and small buildings on vast grounds of dozens of square miles, like Versailles. Everything is insanely expensive, e.g, chairs that cost $30k or whatever. Let's say your nice house is worth $1m. To make it Putin-Palace-grade on your comparatively tiny scale (on the same footprint) you would have to rebuild it with additional floors on a budget of, say, $30m.
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  204. Not a Priti picture.
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  205. But why be rigidly skeptical and distrustful or rigidly trusting and optimistic when you can be flexibly realistic? The important thing is to use your brain actively, not put it lazily on autopilot.
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  206. 👍This comment has 8 likes. It needs 8k likes.
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  207. Setting fire to someone is "attempted assault" now?
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  208. But fearlessness IS courage, and it is impressive. Yet the kind of courage where you swallow fear is more impressive still.
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  209. "GEOpolitical" Hahaha Very often it's tossed out as a mere buzzword and attempt to sound smart. Same thing with "end-game." The instant I hear that, I know what sort of person I'm listening to, and immediately tune out. "By their choice of words ye shall know them."
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  210. Absolutely. Like when Trump cut taxes. Remember the outcry?: [crickets]
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  211. Heavens, this has aged well.
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  212. We used to think the globe itself was ineffably vast. But later in this decade we'll travel to Mars in one twelfth the time it took Marco Polo to get to Cathay, i.e. around 400,000 times as fast. That will be a twenty-five-hundredth of 0.1x the speed of light. In that sense, as a proportion of achieving the speed necessary for efficient interstellar travel, we're most of the way there, and most of that has been achieved in the present lifetime. It wouldn't be sensible to regard it as an inevitability or even probable, to be sure. But then, a century ago in the biplane era, neither was going to the moon, yet it was only 48 years away. We're clever and industrious little buggers—some of us—you can certainly say that.
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  213. If I were directing a remake of 1984 I'd want to cast him as Party apparatchik O'Brien, the torturer of Winston Smith. He has that prototypical fleshy, hideous, wide, impassive socialist face. [cringe]
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  214. 🇺🇦👏Outstanding precision. Excalibur rounds? Well worth the $110k each, if so. That's a lot of artillery smashed.
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  215. And oxygen, tbh.
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  216. The poor young woman shows multiple facial as well as behavioural signs of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. It's this which explains what she does, and it has something to do with her other mental illnesses as well. I can never forgive the activist groups, politicians and 'news' media who've exploited her inborn conditions.
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  217. Megyn Kelly was in her wheelhouse of the law and went full beast-mode. Thoroughly enjoyable. 👏👏👏
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  218. Race-based terrorism.
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  219.  @stevenrn6640  It was perhaps also reasonable-sounding in 1893 to say "In 1925, commercial air travel will still be 20 years off." (It began on a small scale in 1914.)
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  220. Justin Trudeau, stop interfering in the news business entirely. Stop passing laws regulating the news, stop funding private media, stop all of it. Leave journalism to the journalists and back off! Defund the CBC while you're at it. People shouldn't get their news from the government, period. The risks are enormous—to Canadians, I mean. I realize that to you it's a political boon, but that's exactly what's wrong with it.
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  221. Since when does a low-tech item like a section of watermain have to be sourced from outside the country? Indeed, why the hell isn't it on hand in Calgary itself? You know, for emergencies? 🙄Good lord.
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  222. (1) In fairness, the frequent pro-H^^^^ demonstrations downtown are 'hate-motivated incidents' too. (2) The spokesman at 1:06, who clearly has native-English-speaker fluency, nonetheless says "reinsure [the community" instead of "reassure." Quality leadership there.😂 Companies in the global reinsurance business must feel threatened by this new competitor!😄
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  223. Tapper: "JD Vance is much more experienced at this, at public speaking." Excuse me, what?! Vance is 40, has been in the Senate for 21 months, and entered politics three years ago. Walz is 60 and has been a politician since quitting teaching to run for Congress 19 years ago.
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  224. Not even cheap — free.
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  225.  @kubuspuchatek3609  Old saying: If one man calls you an ass, pay him no mind. If a hundred men call you an ass, get yourself fitted with a saddle. None of Russia's neighbours like it much except maybe Belarus and (not sure) maybe Armenia. And maybe not even those two. The rosiest view of Russia seems to be in far-off Brazil and Africa.🙄 But Russia's neighbours know it much, much better, and do not trust it one tiny bit. They know what's good for them.
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  226.  @seanjones180  Don't wilfully avoid seeing what's in front of your face. Anti-white hatred must eventually result in hatred in the other direction. You sound like you may be one of those who hope for exactly that. I'm not listening anymore to what you say you want, I'm watching the effects of what you say as a more accurate guide to your intentions.
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  227. In early December 1939 the first contingents of Canadian soldiers arrived in Britain to serve alongside British soldiers in the Expeditionary Force. Not many months afterwards, I have read more than once, the only battle-ready division on British soil was Canadian. For reasons such as these, the phrase "Britain Stood Alone" may well stick in the craw of any Canadian who's aware of them. At the time, it pains me to remind you, Canada was a fully-fledged country in its own right, was a founding member of the League of Nations, etc. The monarchy was meaningful to Canadians generally, but generally only as a symbol of national heritage, of the days before nationhood. Though the constitutional provisions held otherwise, the King was regarded as England's king, not Canada's, and Canada's parliament had decidedly ceased to answer to Westminster. In most ways that had happened a full lifetime earlier. Thus Canadians went to the war in Europe as Canadians, and as friends and allies of the nations there, not as colonial subjects. All this is to say simply: Britain did not stand alone. Credit where credit is due.
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  228. Imagine going 170 and some guy blasts past you doing 170 more.
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  229. ​ @mihaiszilagyi9987  Hey, just like AOC and her $10k dress at the $30k-a-ticket party. Thank you for your beautiful comment.
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  230. The RN got over 1.3x the number of votes that the left alliance did. On Sunday it more than doubled the margin over the left alliance it had the 1st round. Left-leaning media: "Voters came together en masse to avoid the horror of a conservative government! Historic! Heroic!"
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  231. Nearly every post-menopausal Soviet woman: .....Correction: Nearly every post-menopausal Russian woman: "Yes. He is the successful dictator-of-a-country husband who-almost-doesn't-drink-at-all that I never had. Half the time when I think of him I slide out of my chair."
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  232. Anyone looking at the fortifications and thinking that upcoming battles will be fought by antiquated means is misguided. Ukraine's counteroffensive will decisively make this the first great drone war. Yes, it already is — up to a point. But we will see new devices on both sides, used in new ways, and deployed at scale. Possibly not just in the air and on the water but also on the ground. Things are about to become different.
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  233. Three men, an American, an Englishman and a Russian, stumble across a lamp, which they polish until a genie appears. The genie says "For releasing me, I grant you each one wish. Anything you like." The American says: "I wish for liberty for all mankind." The genie says "Your wish is granted." The Englishman says: "I wish for an end to all wars." The genie says "Your wish is granted." The Russian says: "In my village there is a man who has a cow. I do not have a cow. I wish that this man's cow grow sick and die."
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  234. Liberal caucus senior member: "Ok, let's figure out what should we say to voters to make them understand how morally wrong they are if they don't support us. Come on now, we need the wording to be perfect or the unwashed masses won't get it. Hey, did you have any of that Chateau Laffitte? Let's get the waiter back over here."
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  235. Makes me want to go out to the driveway, start my car, come back inside and enjoy the evening.
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  236. It's insurance for the landlord, but the tenant pays the premiums. Great for landlords, a further expense for tenants. It opens up the possibility of charging higher rent in the first place. Great for landlords, a further expense for tenants. Heads they win, tails you lose.
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  237.  @spongememefunnypants9101  I confess that at the moment I read your earlier comment, I lost a neuron or two, and in my mind the names of the countries were reversed. I have now deleted my reply. (Btw, if you want to tax someone with ignorance, don't commit the pratfall of writing "makes me lost faith".)
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  238. Javier Milei ought to consider having some Polish talent in his circle of advisors. Direct experience and a thorough understanding of Poland's economic transformation could be highly useful.
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  239. Let's face it, there's about to be two kinds of elite athletes: 1. men 2. men who cut their weenies off.
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  240. Aesop's fox: "Mmm, those grapes look so succulent, so sweet." [Cannot reach them.] "Who cares? They were probably sour."
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  241. Australia: a democracy with Chinese characteristics.
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  242. CP24: "Breaking news! Trudeau makes demand, announces sanctimonious opinion!" World: [total silence, no tumbleweeds, not even crickets] Crickets: "Hey man, I don't just start chirping for no reason."
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  243.  @jayfredricks5429  I know you're serious, sir. So was I. Actually I should've said 80k.🫡
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  244.  @sigmaputin6888  Putin for Xi's secret bride. ("Here, put on this wedding dress." "But it's too big." "Tough. And here's your lipstick. Now dance.")
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  245.  @henrylee8510  It's an economic house full of termites. It looks all right from the street, but inside major structural timbers are rapidly disintegrating.
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  246.  @markpayne2217  Yes I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm terribly sorry. I must tear myself down to the ground and rebuild myself bit by bit according to the instructions given me by random people, only women of course. If that's okay and it's probably not. I mean unless they say it is. I mean I'm so bad.
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  247. Yep. If it had been a white person doing it to a crowd of black parade-goers, they would be (rightly of course) calling it a massacre, and the murderer a terrorist, which is what he is. No one can deny what I'm saying.
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  248. Guy knows his job and isn't afraid. Solid.
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  249.  @davemeads859  It reached rare heights of hatred and scatology, with notes of persecution and sexism, and a puzzling and passionate defence of the guest's looks, which I never disparaged in the first place. Wide-ranging.
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  250. Yes, and Don Lemon and the ironically-named Joy Reid also fail to mention—because their self-esteem and high salaries depend on their not noticing—that there is never any furor over police shootings of white people (which are most of the police shootings). Rich, privileged hypocrites who think that having it both ways is their right, and their duty.
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  251. In every single video without exception the Times Radio interviewer pushes the idea that support for Ukraine will drop off. The word they keep repeating is 'fatigue.' Every day, every interview. Why not be more neutral? Indeed, why not also raise the possibility of increased support? This moves me to also ask why journalists everywhere are so contemptibly bad at what they do. Does the field in our day attract only the low-minded, or do the employers or the job itself make them that way?
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  252. Well, I'm shocked! PM Peter Pan, the Condemner-in-Chief, has finally after 8½ years condemned something which he should've done. I haven't kept count, but his record now stands at approximately 1-and-2,000. What an improvement.😄
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  253.  @SuperKripke  "Emotions weaponized", "increase the temperature", "gain a following", "roll the dice", "political gain", "randos", "vague", "cynical" — all this intemperate language could just as easily be deployed in the other direction. Far better, I think. Especially perhaps "rando," which certainly does not fittingly describe Professors Kulldorff, Gupta and Bhattacharya.
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  254.  @1dkappe  Where have you been? One day an academic can be published in Nature, the next day she (or he) has to walk a gauntlet of the weird and the unstable who shout at her as she heads from her office towards her hybrid. Soon enough, thanks also to invertebrate university administrators, she's disinvited from talks elsewhere and pilloried by what are called journalists.
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  255.  @edcubed5533  You are literally an alien who's never visited Earth, aren't you?
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  256. So he only sues billionaires. Hmm. What a rich racket he means to make it.
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  257. Only a tiny part of Alaska comes that close to Russia. Most points on the 200-mile line off its 6,640-mile-long coast are far, far away from Russia. To prepare for your clearly-needed introductory studies on geopolitics, you may wish to study a little geography and the proper use of practical reasoning.
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  258. Light-in-the-loafers is some sort of mutant. Fully human, yes, but a mutant. It's the simplest explanation.
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  259. And the people who could see this coming ten, twenty, even thirty years ago, because they were watching college campuses, they warned us as best they could. And they were mocked, laughed at and derided as paranoid and lacking in judgment.
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  260. He could easily have had a cartful of binders full of pictures. Whole binders could have had photos of dead children, or amputees or burn victims in hospital. And still, Muscovites stunted of mind, soul and spirt would have said: "Fakes. This picture is not Mariupol. Is really what Ukrainians did to Donetsk four years ago."
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  261.  @RemplacementTV  In some ways it clearly is.
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  262. I get Michael's point about us being able to turn woke ideology off by reading a chosen book, listening to music or watching sports. But it only goes so far. Woke ideology creeps in nearly everywhere, and to avoid it for even just a whole day takes, if not considerable gymnastics, at least not doing a lot of things you would otherwise. It is insidiously taking over everything, let's face up to that.
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  263. Denouncing and condemning long lists of things and people are really all he does. From one hour to the next he's either the Condemner-In-Chief or the Denouncer-In-Chief. This Peter Pan has done nothing real to address Canada's problems. Unless you count adding to them.
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  264. Israel should consider digging an extremely deep trench along the 12km Gaza-Egypt border, destroying all the tunnels, leaving the trench unfilled and monitoring it, thus preventing the tunnels ever being dug again. (This may involve extending the excavation under the sea and also along the Egypt-Israel border, for a total length of dozens of km. Not a small project, but it would be a simple job if the cut through the bedrock needs no reinforcing.)
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  265. So a woman traumatized by deeply unsatisfactory relationships with both parents goes on to lay out for humanity what relationships and the whole world should be all about. Makes sense.
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  266. Very, very impressed that Fox would criticize its parent company, Disney. 👏👏👏👏👏
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  267. It's the same in every country. Rural and small-town people with brains, talent and good looks sense that they can cut it in the city, so off they go. Since the remainder hardly dare dream of city life, their communities are depleted of those qualities. But such areas are also spared things like pretension, nauseating ambition and many other depravities commonly found in the metropolis. (The countryside does have its own set of depravities. But a case for it being the lesser of two evils seems to persist through the ages.) And so it will go, forever or until weeds grow up in city streets and trees sprout from rooftops.
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  268. Polls are fascinating but it will come down to two things: (1) Which side's supporters actually turn out to vote, and (2) The integrity of the actual ballots and counting. Either of these two factors can easily trump actual candidate popularity. (No pun intended, it's just the right word.)
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  269. Yep, same as everybody in every video who won't answer. It's a safe way of answering without answering.
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  270. Besides 'drive carefully' and 'obey posted speed limits,' the moral here, based on the apparent condition of the three cars, might be: Drive the heaviest car you can afford.
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  271. MSNBC guy: "Elon Musk is incredibly dangerous. I fully expect him to stoop as low as we did."
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  272. The only rebrand has been from "Prince Harry" to "Harry Markle."
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  273. Ami Horowitz has been doing this for a few years now. He gives them the opportunity to embarrass themselves and they happily oblige him. He's a good man and a very bright one too. Thanks for bringing him to us, Sky, and keep it up.
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  274. You can see numerous striking parallels with the Red Guards (the student fanatics of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-76) in these Ivy Leaguers. Probably the most important one is the changing of the definition of wrongdoing and crime. Things formerly thought morally unacceptable and unjustifiable are suddenly definite goods because they are done in the name of the approved cause. This applies not just to their campus activities, but you can see it also in many students' refusal to condemn the atrocities of the first Saturday of October. Abuse is good if it's done for the cause is the idea, and it is a powerful attractant. It appeals to the ordinarily-suppressed aggressive instincts natural to all people, giving permission to liberate and satisfy them. In the past, whenever people are extended an invitation, explicit or implicit, to abuse others in the name of goodness, a sudden tide of individuals comes out of the woodwork to accept it.
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  275. "Lost" and "found"! As though she had been down a well! What a pity the next election in Ireland isn't for 16 months.😠
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  276. Uh, lads, Mr. Campbell is not 'a doctor.' He is a nurse with a PhD in nursing. Let him be called "Dr. Campbell" at learned conferences of nurses, or by administrators at the university where he teaches, or by any social acquaintances who wish to do so. But to title this video "Doctor Explains ..." is extremely, unpardonably misleading. You know quite well your viewers will assume Doctor means MD. Integrity absolutely demands that you re-title it: "PhD Explains..."
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  277. World to Trudeau: "You suck, buddy." I wanted to distill it down to just six words. I hope I did ok.
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  278.  @andrej2375  Yeah, just like Brezhnev encouraged Khrushchev to stay.😆
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  279. One could sense from her unappetizing personality that she might do unethical things sooner or later. If the current suspicions are proved correct, I have little doubt that, while she thought such things would be wrong for her opponents, they'd be all right for her as an outstandingly fine person with unimpeachable goals. It's an old story.
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  280. Pope Francis: Swelling the Ranks of Atheists Since 2013ᵀᴹ
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  281.  @ImCarolB  Thus being able to claim injury practically whenever she likes. License to cry-bully.
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  282. Turns out Ava Santina isn't quite her name. It's just her first and middle names. She's really Ava Evans. Why has she been misleading people? At any rate, I found she treated Pearl arrogantly and dismissively here. After this she was on another panel show where the problem of male suicide was raised. She minimized its importance, eventually throwing in a complaint about women having to do too much tidying up at home. Awful.
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  283. This man must be heeded. He's a rare sane voice in the public sphere.
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  284. Dear Netherlands: It must be a top national priority to protect ASML's security and operational secrecy at all costs. Don't let anything happen to that company. I salute your determination to stand up for yourselves, your interests and what you believe in. Best wishes, love and respect from Canada.🇳🇱🇨🇦
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  285.  @HelloThere-pj7fq  Pffft. Nice try, Yevgeny.
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  286. Yes, even if the dancers weren't totally gross.
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  287. Everything the couple depend on is slipping away. Youth is giving way to middle age; popularity to infamy; wealth to problems making an income; and, no doubt, energy and optimism are giving way to lethargy and despair. It all seems palpably headed for an unravelling.
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  288. Yep. Rolls-Royces, a country house valued at over $200 million today, etc. etc. He was not a socialist or communist at all (unless he underwent some late conversion I never heard of). But in fairness, in his final years he gave up ostentatious living, aside from residing in an expensive apartment building.
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  289. Look at him. He thinks he's still president. 😂
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  290. 👏👏 And all the person here says is: "Yeah, right" "That's really stupid" "Oh my god" "Trans people disagree with that" and so on. (My paraphrases.) No position except "That's so not true." What a debater.
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  291. Every dictator and authoritarian politician on earth, watching Ryan Reilly on MSNBC: "Yes! What he said! Yes!"
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  292. He looks like a Batman character. The Joker's pencil-necked brother, who's become the corrupt governor.
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  293.  @qman2261  Well said. What can you do? Gangsters tend not to have the greatest morals.
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  294. Would you like to hire me as a headline writer? "Man injured following shooting in downtown Toronto" should be "Man injured in shooting in downtown Toronto" or better yet "Man shot in downtown Toronto" (He wasn't injured following the shooting.🙄 Completing high school is so important.)
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  295. I'm impressed and greatly heartened by Britain's stalwart response to the present challenge to basic decency. These are the times that reveal each nation's true colours. From elsewhere in the Commonwealth I humbly send my approval, gratitude and respect.
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  296. Didn't belong in law school. Got in. Didn't belong in the law profession. Got admitted to the bar. Didn't belong on the bench. Got hired as a judge. Didn't Earn It. Any of it. So take it away. All of it.
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  297. I think your first paragraph is astute but your second is a complete misreading of the Western allies' strategy. My take is that they believe it would be a mistake to try to equip Ukraine for an all-out rush to victory, for the reason that Russia simply will never concede until its ability to fight is drained past a realistic point of carrying on to a win. Wherever it's pushed back, it will just try to advance again as long as it's got artillery, ammunition and men enough. It certainly has the artillery, it still has ammo enough to carry on (especially since it's sourcing more from North Korea and who knows where else) and the TV and internet propaganda machine at home is doing a great job at convincing the populace that more must be done, meaning that it will support further mobilization and fully tolerate more casualties. So the West's wise strategy has been to get Russia to put its men and materiel into action at a pace not far from the maximum it's capable of—but to minimal effect. Only in that way can it be hoped that an eventual push of Russian forces back to the borders will be decisive and lasting. The US defence secretary made this clear enough last spring when he said the aim was to see Russia "weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine." That includes attacking and invading Ukraine again, and until such weakening is accomplished it is too early to try to end the war. The US and NATO are thus intent on boiling the frog of the Russian war machine so slowly that it doesn't realize what's happening. Zelenskyy's constant begging and the West's continued reluctance are just for show, calculated to do just what they are in fact doing: perpetuate Putin's mistaken belief that the West lacks determination and resources, and that he isn't really all that far away from a win. But he's not. Whatever he does, Ukraine, with Western aid, will match. If I'm correct, the hope is that when the futility of his attempts finally sinks in, it will be too late. He'll be low on everything he needs and unable to effectively fight back against a major Ukrainian counter-offensive. By that time, improved Ukrainian weapons and air defences will mean that even throwing his air force into the battle in earnest (he's mostly kept it in reserve so far) won't help much.
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  298. 👏The only people he's afraid of offending are fair-minded, honest and intelligent people.👏 Good man.
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  299. The elevator remark was fair. She has downplayed the 9/11 attacks to the point of implying sympathy with the attackers.
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  300.  @putinmustenduplikegaddafi2236  Love your screen name, but for me if he ended up like Mussolini it'd be even better. There must be a perfect gas station somewhere near his suburb.
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  301. To pick up on Gen. Keane's comment, it helps in understanding Ukraine's challenges getting supplies across the country to know that it's roughly the same size as Texas.
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  302.  @annaclarafenyo8185  You: "IQ scores depend on personal training in puzzles, mathematics, and literacy. high IQ scores therefore cluster in clumps around highly literate people and people who love puzzles and mathematics." And why do some people end up being "highly literate people and people who love puzzles and mathematics"? Just by chance? No, it's because they're good at those things. People like doing things they're good at. (They likewise shun activities they suck at.) And why are these people good at those things? It's because they're more clever than average. In other words, you've got it backwards. Highly intelligent people, unsurprisingly, tend to be highly literate and like puzzles and mathematics. Bear in mind that children's IQs can be and often are tested long before they have any chance to become "highly literate" or to immerse themselves in puzzles and mathematics. I was perhaps 8 when I and everyone in my school was tested, and I can assure you that none of us in my class was highly literate. I did not love mathematics or any other school subject, and enjoyment of puzzles came much later. I take it that either you've never had occasion to teach things to children, or you have done, and are deliberately denying what was in front of you to learn.
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  303. "In individuals insanity is fairly rare. In groups it's the norm." — Nietzsche
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  304. Bravo, Azerbaijan! From the West, respect for our Azeri friends!
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  305.  @DetectiveTrupo203  Are we sure he likes girls anyway? Oscar Wilde married and had children too.
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  306. Why, it's because she's a Trudeau Liberal, of course. How can you ask?
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  307. Just like her identity.
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  308. "I think it's been in our genes since the Soviet Union." In fact it made the Soviet Union possible, inevitable. It goes back many centuries, Elena, and shows little sign of changing anytime soon. Btw, the peach = butt joke gave me a good laugh.😄 Russians often make good puns in English.
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  309.  @stonemagic540  Ok, thanks Mr. Peskov.
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  310. Yeah, that harangue for the first 5 minutes qualified as an imposition, and a silly one at that. Certainly it had zero to do with what the video title promises, "Your Brain on Birth Control." There's condescension in doing something like that.
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  311. As a spinach freak, I feel bad for you. I think I'm part goat or something.
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  312. Don't forget NDP voters, because PM Peter Pan could never have done all that damage without the backing of Mr. Rolex Collection.
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  313. This post needs 335 million likes.
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  314. ​ @SuperKripke   There's no basis for you to speculate on why I sided with Professors Gupta, Kulldorff and Bhattacharya, for I didn't get into those reasons. Your flat assertion that it was to confirm my feelings, along with your dwelling on the fact that the three professors were outnumbered, however, do give me a basis for speculating on why you'd say so. More like an open invitation or an insistence, nearly. But on grounds of infra dig I shan't oblige you. I'll just address the two matters generally. First, as to their being outnumbered, there is no automatic obligation to stand with majority opinion qua majority opinion on any matter. Only a blindness to one's own positive delight in obedience to social or institutional pressure could lead to a belief in such an obligation. When it comes to science that goes double at least. (Majority opinion and "scientific consensus" on Galileo was that he was a poor scientist and a wicked heretic besides.) I hold that scientific consensus as an aim in itself is deeply un- scientific, for it ignores the fact that scientific truth — or any truth — ultimately resides in the individual mind, not in authorities, textbooks, government agencies, holy books or inquisitions, or anywhere else. This latter view also happens to be the only one which justifies scientific debate. For without it we all might as well just come to blows and settle every matter that way. The opposite view can be summarized by saying that scientific 'consensus' (a word very loaded and rather empty at the same time, but let that pass) is always to be obeyed because it has a tendency to be upheld over the longer term. A mere tendency, notice. (If speaking about Galileo strikes you as mawkish and dated I offer the example of the Nobel laureate Dr. Barry Marshall. Incidentally, my best friend probably owes his life to Marshall's gallant disregard for consensus.) Such an opposite view is all very well if one's ideal is "getting on," but it ignores the striving after truth value which is the aim of science in the first place. Not helpful. A rigid commitment to getting on smacks of politics. Corrupt politics at that, as a glance at today's Russia will suggest. (The counterpart of the consensus-is-all view in the political realm is that any elected leader is the best leader because the people are always right, which is patently and axiomatically untrue. The real legitimacy of elected leaders rests in an un-exalted, perhaps somewhat surprising and probably depressing locus; namely, the people's right to be wrong. This helpfully indicates to us why science and politics are thankfully two very different realms, and why to mix the two is to court disaster.) It pains me to explain such things to a grown person who's obviously "been to college." Secondly, as for my feelings, I don't hesitate to acknowledge that I have them, nor am I the least bit ashamed of them. Anyone claiming not to have them, or even disclaiming the high value personally put upon them, is merely flaunting her or his vanity. What is important is not to extirpate or even ignore one's feelings but to be aware of them, first, and secondly to examine them. Only then can we assign value and mental work to them. Feelings alone can lead one to choose science as one's life's work in the first place, after all, and only feelings can command strictness of thought in carrying out scientific or any other kind of work. It's only unexamined feelings running loose at their own service which are to be disparaged. It is very important to keep this in mind at all times. Lastly I turn to the other topic you raised, the next pandemic. On it I perforce have almost nothing to say. I'm not vain enough to imagine I can anticipate its nature. My sole view at this stage is that the very idea that we can decide in advance of it what the best course of action ought to be is pure folly. An opposite view reveals everything one might possibly need to know about how anyone's mind works, or doesn't. I regard any further communication with such a mind as lost time. So I insist on being left alone. But I shan't use the mute button and deprive anyone of an opportunity to show a redeeming social virtue. Whatever you wish to say, if anything, just write it in reply to one of your own above posts. Forgive the length of this reply, and thank you for occasioning the opportunity and the desire to express these thoughts.
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  315. 👍That guy is a hero. Keep repeating his name and what he's done, please. (His wife is brilliant as well and campaigns relentlessly on his behalf and against the PooTin regime.)
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  316. "Why is this?" It's because Japan doesn't have an industry focused on making Japanese people ashamed of being Japanese. For that reason they quite like the country they've built and, unsurprisingly, want to keep it as it is. You know, in this regard it's almost like the wrong country won the Pacific War.
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  317. He sarcastically called him " that hotbed of reality" and went on to mock him. That's an attack.
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  318. Improved headline: "British Cops Versus Muslim Gangs: Which Are Better?"
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  319.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  You sound like you'd beat your wife and children, then say it was justified because they provoked you...by standing up for themselves. Shameful. Well, now her family and the neighbours are going to teach you a lesson, Dmitri.
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  320.  @Freak80MC  That's ideal science, I agree. But then there's science as it's done. Similar relations exist between ideal justice and the version of justice in the courts, ideal love and love in real life, ideal parenthood and.... well, you get the idea. Science is perhaps the best of a bad lot. Then again, as you and Prof. Ioaniddis might reply, we have ourselves to blame for disappointed expectations in all of those categories if we put them on too-high pedestals in the first place, since life is not ideal. So your point was a good one to make.
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  321. Nice truth-free interview.🙄 They'll upload a couple of dozen just like it on this subject in the coming days.😠
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  322. Agree on Iraq, but Afghanistan was not a failure in the least. Fully occupying the whole country and helping Afghans install a nationwide democratic government was an impossibility in the first place. Absolutely everyone knew it at the outset. What was possible was to topple the Taliban from outright national rule and demonstrate to the world what happens when you host training of violent political extremists: Unpleasant guests arrive and stay for a very long time. And consider what has happened to such extremism in the time since. Afghanistan was a failure only as measured against goals that never actually existed.
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  323.  @yavor05  Entering a country without permission is not like going over the speed limit. It is a major no-no and definitely categorized under criminal law. No country has open borders to immigrants, except EU countries as regards other EU countries. This is simply a reflection of the desire of people in every land to keep their culture, identity, and security. I respect that desire, as it is everyone's right. I would never barge into another country any more than I would barge into a stranger's house because it looked like a house I would enjoy living in. People may seek an invitation to move to another country. Millions of such invitations are extended to applicants around the world each year; Western countries average about half a per cent a year, meaning 5 million per billion annually.
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  324. "He never bothered nobody."
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  325. CP24's 'political analyst' is Scott Reid, a lifelong professional Liberal: his first job 30 years ago was at Liberal Party of Canada headquarters. Then he was the spokesman for...you guessed it, a Liberal prime minister. CP24: "Hmm, our viewers need someone to interpret Canadian politics for them. Hey, let's hire the most Liberal Liberal ever!"
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  326. 1) To say the dog being off-leash "precipitated this incident" leaves out half of it at least: the dog is clearly a pit bull or pit bull mix. I remember the Attorney General of Ontario banning pit bulls in the province some years ago. What happened to that? 2) That security guard really stepped up. Big respect for that.
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  327. Toronto, 2005: Same airport, Air France jet with 309 aboard crashed on landing. Result: Broken in half in a ravine. Immediately broke out in a spectacular blaze. Same as yesterday: No fatalities. Minor injuries due to jumping out to escape. Moral: Always choose Toronto for the flaming crash which destroys your airliner.
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  328.  @lucydayLucida  What does an attraction to fast cars and skydiving, for example, have to do with heartlessness? Being a spur-of-the-moment type person? Not having qualms about the mere cancelling of engagements? Being very persuasive? Keeping a cool head under pressure? There's 15 points right there.
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  329. He was having a drug-induced panic attack. He wasn't in his right mind, not even close.
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  330. How do the French people feel? Do they think it is important to help the Ukrainian forces by supplying them? Are they willing to do with less Russian oil and gas?
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  331. Btw, if the Secret Service won't protect Trump as a nominee, what makes anyone think they'll protect him as president?
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  332. Say what you will, I think at some point here Gavin Newsom is bound to slip up and say something that's true.
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  333.  @kerrynisbet1514  He's right. There's a reason police forces don't send two women together to dangerous calls. It's that they very often have to be rescued by men, where a mixed pair would be fine. It would apply at least equally to a battlefield situation. It's useless pretending to be unaware of that.
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  334. I suspect that the distinction between morning prayer and class-time material on the one hand, versus after-school clubs on the other, is the crucial one here.
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  335. The days of suppressing, censoring, prohibiting and criminalizing discussion of this subject are coming to an end. Thanks, Mr. Carlson, for this video and the upcoming program, and please don't let up now.
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  336. Pro-Trudeau media if there's animosity towards Trudeau's opponents: Business called out in online backlash Pro-Trudeau media when it's animosity towards Trudeau's supporters: Business targeted with online hate
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  337. That thumbnail of Biden eating ice cream just makes my skin crawl. Unbeatably creepy and cringy.
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  338. He baited her into it with such artful simplicity. It was something to witness.
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  339. It is normal to state someone's occupation if he or she is central in a news story. You didn't know that? 😮
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  340.  @Theballdoing  Where in Canada was public housing "sold off"?🤨 Be specific, because I don't think that ever happened in Canada. It happened in Britain under Thatcher, but guess what? The homes were sold to the people renting them! (At bargain prices.)
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  341. ​ @drjulief  I stated clearly what I think. EDIT: Thanks for your reply. On second thought I should try to satisfy your polite and sincere desire to know in more detail what I think, assuming that's what it was. (Tbh, I couldn't tell, but now I do think so.) Think of it like milk versus that beverage in cartons which is made from soybeans and water. People trying to get others to accept and to drink the latter stuff want us to call it "soy milk," and also to call milk "cow's milk." That way, we'll have to alter our minds to conform to what we're saying, namely that they're simply two varieties of milk. But no. They are not, and I will never adopt those terms. There are few things I resent so much as attempts to mentally and verbally corral me through cunning whether subtle or crude, into going along with anything I wouldn't naturally and freely agree to otherwise. The two things in question are: milk (never cow's milk except in distinction to goat's milk, sheep's milk, or mother's milk, etc.) and soy beverage. Or soy drink. (Cp. William Blake: "Words are the sons of man, while things are the daughters of heaven." I understand and agree with him, although, being myself totally irreligious, I am not attempting to invoke any sort of religion, religious thinking, or 'spirituality' here whatsoever. It is only the philosophical aspect of his remark which I am in sympathy with.)
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  342. Good show, Ukraine! 🇺🇦👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇦 Give 'em hell!
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  343. I've been hearing how bad men are every day of my life, stretching back more than 50 years now. Literally, in one way or another, every single f⸺g day, unless it was one I spent entirely alone with no electricity, newspapers, magazines, etc. It ranks not so far below the air that I breathe as a presence in my life.😱🤯 And so too, by the way, has any woman born when I was, every one I ever met, dated, worked with.🤯😱
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  344.  @Kr-kt8jv  It's taught in such a way as to suggest to children that since there are two sexes, there's only a 50% chance that people are "assigned" the right sex at birth. (That's right, I don't use the word gender. It's a linguistics term.) As children are profoundly suggestible in the first place and moreover have considerable respect for what is taught in school, this introduces unreasonable speculation into their partially-developed minds. It leads them to suppose that whatever problems of adjustment they may have in life, problems which are normal for children to experience, they are potentially solvable by masquerading as someone of the opposite sex. This entails a radically dangerous program of taking opposite-sex hormones, then having surgery to sterilize them. The point of it is to increase the number of so-called trans people, which is a political goal and is moreover harmful to the children affected. As such it is rightly countered with political measures to reduce such harm, as Premier Smith has now done. Good on her.
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  345. The paper ballot system was perfect. To protect its integrity, members of both parties were present at voting stations, watching those ballot boxes and the counting process like hawks. That was done, and everyone trusted the system. Then came The Great Dumbening.
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  346.  @CarlosOjeda-ig3zw  From Canada, rooting for you guys with all my heart. Viva Milei!🇦🇷 Viva Argentina!🇦🇷 ... y Viva Malbec!🍷😄 (I now buy only Argentinian wine, and always urge others to do the same.)
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  347.  @alanlappin6674  Sniping like that itself murmurs something deeply unattractive, quite apart from politics of any sort.
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  348. What kind of person would walk onto a freeway to steal a car? Oh wait, I just realized.
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  349. The vile left has been telling us for decades that words are violence. Now cold-blooded actual violence is fine. Remind you of the summer and fall of 2020 at all?
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  350. I think he's the coolest national leader in my lifetime. I now drink only Argentinian wine. (Luckily it's not expensive and tastes fantastic.) Viva Milei!🇦🇷 Viva Argentina!🇦🇷 ... y viva Malbec!🍷🤣
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  351. An eminent observer characterized the war in Ukraine this way: “It’s a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe (2011-14) in an interview, Jan. 2024
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  352.  @garajniks  They're sending in country boys so that resentment doesn't build up in the cities. It's a wise tactic for keeping discussion way down. If there were 5,000 dead soldiers from the Moscow area, the stories and the bitterness would have circulated widely and without much delay. (As it is, who knows if there were even a hundred?)
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  353. I in fact have my Master's in Looking Poor, from the University of Some Place in India.
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  354. ​ @sunfish7021  Small-time and harmless manipulation makes the world go round. A great deal of it is more costly to the manipulator than the recipient. Often it can quite properly be regarded as 'getting on with people'. People who never do it may very well be seen as unlikeable, blunt, lacking social skills, etc. It's nearly impossible, for example, to cheer someone up without manipulating them. The touchstones are victimization, exploitation, harm, concealed contempt, and whether sincerity fades back out of sight and habits of truthfulness wither.
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  355. Scientific studies of Elena (70, pensioner) should be published in order to expand our understanding of the limits of the human mind. I cannot put it any other way.
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  356. Completely untrue. He's putting his talent to excellent use. Did you know the dude is only 22?
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  357. I don't think we can rule out an Only Fans channel or whatever it's called.   A nation and a world would turn its back and cringebarf, surely? 🤔
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  358.  @geraldsinger7982  But you yourself jumped into the debate. So if winning this debate with the commenter is something you went after, isn't that pretty sad? The debate is either worth it or it's not, and you're here.
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  359. It already is.🤨
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  360. Agent.
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  361. No major presidential candidate has given me a strong impression of trustworthiness in decades. Until now.
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  362. Hard to improve upon that.👏 Marvellously well said!
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  363.  @uroboros4260  Who taught you that having empathy requires a person to stop enjoying life? Almost sounds like you have little experience with empathy.
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  364.  @joeytaylor2785  Sorry, what? I can't make out your meaning.
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  365. 👍 You're an exact representation of why Poland is a cool country today. (Not perfect, cool. Perfect isn't out there anywhere.)
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  366. Come on, don't call high-20s and low-30s a "heat dome." 🙄 It's just the latest of numerous hot Labour Days I've sweated through in my life.
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  367.  @СергейМонин-д7с  It's the opposite. Russia is a spin-off from Ukraine.
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  368. He won't be treated well after the regime falls.
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  369.  @MonoIce350s  You must be a comedian. (A bad one.) The parents' rally had zero to do with hate. This one is all about support for a hate-based massacre.
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  370. Wondering how you can support Milei in a concrete (and delicious) way? Easy. Start buying all your wine from Argentina. Viva Milei!🇦🇷 Viva Argentina!🇦🇷 ... and Viva Malbec!🍷😆
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  371. ​ @overseer7385  "Ukraine also did horrible things in Donbass" Bro, they did battle with armed separatists backed by Moscow. They didn't go hunting harmless Russian speakers. Wtf would Russia do if there were militant Ukrainians in Belgorod trying to split it off to join Ukraine? Who t.f. started this shit in 2014? Russia. Show some pride, man. Don't let anyone poison your mind. :)
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  372.  @imlostatseadontbotherme2060  What? She was bitching at him for crowding the kitchen table and counters with job-related stuff (!) when he works two demanding jobs to provide for them. Good on him for standing up for himself!
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  373.  @crescencianominas2387  Yes! Nuclear is great, coal is a terrific temporary expedient. American and other LNG is arriving in large quantities by ship. Rich, well-organized Europe will look after itself just fine. Poor, poorly-run Russia faces bleak decades ahead, and is making an incredible mistake running into the arms of China. (Xi: "Come to papa, my poor little one. Papa will take care of you. Heh-heh-heh.")
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  374.  @Classikh  You're engaging in wild surmise and guessing at motives here, heaping speculation on top of a stance of victimization. In fact, to call out these crime problems is not politically expedient at all. It courts political disaster and as such it is actually remarkably brave. I greatly resent your baseless accusations about Canada. They may get you an 'A' in your York University seminar from your TA but they're false nonetheless.
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  375.  @user-lv5bt3nt3r  Perhaps oddly, I never think of it as Russia proper. To me it's like the Guam of Russia, not that that makes it a mere footnote. But sure, if you like, it's another border with NATO. I also left out the tiny Russia-Norway frontier.
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  376. The premier of Alberta, whose province ships 4.3 million bpd of oil into the US, says a 25% tariff would raise the price of American gasoline by $1 a gallon. Now: $3.04 With tariff: $4.04
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  377. Medvedev wanders around cleaning windshields and drinking anti-freeze.😄
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  378. Perhaps you could've mentioned to every person that China and India voted yes on the UN resolution.   (Also Brazil, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Vietnam...)
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  379. Next from Goldberg: "Bank robbery isn't about stealing money, it's about crime." A nation scratches its head in wonder at her confused and pointless theories.
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  380. Time to implement the El Salvador anti-gang model before things get far worse. It's worked extremely well down there, effecting a stunning turnaround in the plague of violence and creating a great sense of relief in the public.
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  381. Yeah, she's brilliant. The child of very smart parents, obviously, and grandparents too. An able mind doesn't come out of nowhere.
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  382. Joe Biden's campaign slogan for 2020: "You know the thing!"
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  383. And common decency. And guts.👍
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  384. I finally realized which place in the world most resembles Russia politically and psychologically: Africa. They are the two places most firmly clinging to the feudal-tyrannical mindset. Putin closely resembles Mobutu Sese Seko, Siad Barre, Sani Abacha, Robert Mugabe, Paul Biya, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Muammar Gaddafi, or Laurent Kabila. He even bears a strong facial resemblance to Macias Nguema, the loathsome tyrant of Equatorial Guinea.
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  385. I'm very glad Gen. Keane is having his say in public. What he has to say is terribly important.
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  386. You mean envy, which is not jealousy. And yes, they are very envious of maleness. It's fully half of what it means to be a modern woman. And it's destroying their mental health. Envy does that.
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  387. Don't go DEI. Go HOME. Hire On Merit Exclusively.
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  388. It may not surprise you to learn that she was married to an extremely rich real estate developer. (Their son, incidentally, is the well-known putts David Frum. And yes, I know the correct spelling of the Yiddish word 'putts.')
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  389.  @johnc3525  His comment alone may one day result in punishment of some sort.  That's the sort of thing people are discovering in China when they try to, e.g., book a train trip online. These people won't be satisfied with the persecution of Trump and quietly fade away afterwards. They'll feel emboldened and empowered and they'll intensify and broaden such activities immensely.
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  390.  @doktormcnasty  No, I think he's sincere in his indifference and just doesn't care. Somebody here is merely projecting their own bullying instincts onto him, the result amounting to an unintentional confession. Ah well, as long as the truth comes out somehow.
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  391. All quite nice, but let's see Germany make some moves on procurement. Has it spent one cent of the $100bn it announced 16 months ago? European security is shaky without German rearmament.
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  392. Epic, crushing Conservative victory coming up.🥂 Election probably in early May. Canada and Australia can celebrate together!🇨🇦🇦🇺
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  393. I don't know. After vomiting I feel better. After The View I feel like vomiting.
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  394. For a couple of years my very quick friend, about 30 years of age, made hundreds of dollars every day playing poker online. To do this he adapted his schedule to when lots of Russians were playing. His reason, and the reason, according to him, that he made so much money: Russians very seldom fold.
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  395. It's more powerful than governments now. It installs and removes them. Politicians kneel before it and tremble.
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  396. That's true. Sanctions are slow poison, not a sword.
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  397. Kringela.
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  398. Both panellists against the proposition were personally antagonistic towards their opponents during opening statements. It looked bad on them. I"d say, speculatively, that they didn't appreciate attempts by men to tell them about child development or whether their individuality as women matters much in children's outcomes. They felt belittled, perhaps, by their opponents' assertions. The response was pompous. I mean, why behave badly if you're free of personal resentment?
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  399. The nightly report on how Toronto is being systematically ruined! Ruined! Transformed from its former relaxed peacefulness into violence, crime and strife!
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  400. ​ @escapedfromnewyork  Actually, the reason for the mass purges of loyalists is that the leaders don't like positive enthusiasm as a motivation for obedience. Too risky. You're harder to control as a supporter. The preferred motivation is fear, because the compliance it generates is far more dependable. The loyal supporters always say, as they're being hauled away, "No, you've made a mistake. I've done nothing. I support the Party!"—which they do. The mistake was theirs, and that was it.
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  401. The emotional vociferousness of your post suggests you believe the killing on Canadian soil was done by India, but was justified. Shouldn't you say so openly? Real conviction requires that.
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  402. The neon sign outside her mind says VACANCY.
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  403. Why do you worry about them anyway? I don't get it. They went through great effort to get a job there and they haven't left. Do you really think they need anyone wringing their hands on their behalf? If they want to go all-out with effort, who are you to tell them they shouldn't? Aren't you busy enough steering your own life? I don't know, maybe you're just chattering pointlessly to kill time. If so, I withdraw my comment. Your business.
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  404. Tyrus was ten trillion per cent right when he said it's all about the clips. That deserves further pondering.
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  405. No, they started accusing him of racism when he announced he was no longer a Democrat.
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  406. ​ @seanjones180  Oh dear, tragedy going on in the scrupulous truthfulness department here. What a surprise. Actually, YouTube does not allow anyone to see who has liked a comment. No one but the liker. I'd say nice try, but it was a very lame try. Saddening😢and depressing😳, but once again not surprising. Now we're done. Have a nice night, young one, and thanks for the like😄.
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  407. Make AOC a Waitress Again
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  408. Mm-hmm. Make Her a Waitress Again.
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  409. David Cronenberg: "Cool how you got 10 gallons of vomit out of a 6-gallon dog. I pioneered doing that with actors and blood."
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  410. My analysis of the body language is that they are both dealing uncomfortably with the interviewer's bad breath.
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  411.  @SimplyJorgasmic  Lecture us all on thinking. Please.😂
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  412. Hahaha, you just broke their brains. Cognitive dissonance rising to a frenzy pitch. Hang on, wait for it..... Here it comes.... Deafening chorus: "Misogynist!😡"
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  413. Yes, and fright must be met with courage. Otherwise what is frightening will devour the afraid. Fear of rejection and isolation lead in a straight line to paralysis and submission, things which themselves cause the self to reject the self, to isolate the self from the self. These are forms of a person breaking apart. Thus courage is no aspirational ideal, frill or luxury. It is as necessary as one's wits, one's food, air and water. In this light, seeking support and giving it to others—support meaning encouragement, the spreading of courage—become necessary to the point of being duties. It dismays me to see you doing the opposite, for your remarks are discouraging—they militate against courage and emphasize and spread fear. Instead you ought to promise to support and encourage, and appeal to others to do the same. Remind them, as I remind you, that with effort they'll succeed in swallowing their fear. Warmly wish them, as I wish you, good luck also.
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  414.  @beingsshepherd  I don't sense that giving you direct advice is worth my time. You show a determination to take things in an unhealthy direction (subscribing to a Kremlin-run news service for example, and using your avatar to literally equate Remembrance poppies with swastikas). I'll thank you not to reply.
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  415.  @spartan5921  From 1939 to 1942 Winston Churchill likewise spent an inordinate amount of time meeting with Franklin Roosevelt and begging him for aid. When he couldn't go he would write and phone. Canada and Australia were also targets of his supplication, over and over. And it worked. The aid that resulted saw Britain through. But I understand how furious you are that it has worked for Zelenskyy.😂 I feel for you, bruh.🤣
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  416. He speaks quickly and confidently, which impresses many people easily. But I've been watching him now and then for five years and none of his predictions have come to pass. Not one, not even close. Nor does he even stand up to fact-checking. False claim by Rickards: "The Russian economy's going to outperform the US in 2023, according to the IMF [...] and World Bank." Actual forecasts: US GDP +1.6%, Russia +0.7% (IMF); US +0.5%, Russia -3.3% (World Bank). (Sources: IMF "World Economic Outlook," 4/23; WB "Global Economic Prospects," 1/23). Zero excuse for that. And now he's down to predicting a recession like most others—so maybe you should bet on a rebound.
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  417. WSJ, please do not call Eastern Ukraine "Russian territory," as you did at 2:15. It is Russian-occupied territory.
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  418. Problem is, they seem to think they had a right to it. And after receiving so much generous support, all that most of them could think of to say about the US amounted to "The US? It's okay. I guess. Mostly." Ingrates.
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  419. Germany attacked the USSR: "This violated previous agreements, so we can conclude that we were not allies." Her husband cheats on her:  "This violated previous agreements, so we can conclude that we were never married."😂
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  420. Tell that to Putin. When you get an answer, report back to us.
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  421. Mark my words, the PM will take action to tighten the border from our side. If he's any good at all he will get the US to do the same, but we'll see about that.
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  422. Gad is such a classic 1960s-born anglophone Montrealer. Arrived there aged 10 and speaks the ethos without an accent. He's got that dry, low-key, cerebral, incisive, p'd-off-but-cheerful Montreal mensch wit. He and Leonard Cohen would've made nice friends.
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  423. Happy Birthday Israel!! 🇮🇱 Never let them get you down! (Speaking of down, down with Olivia Chow!)
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  424. When he says "What business is it of yours to require that I fulfil your inability to think [etc.]," besides showing barely average verbal intelligence and lack of mastery over his own native tongue, he shows a sad lack of awareness that it's precisely being commanded to adopt the beliefs of people with an inability to think which so many people object to. DeGrasse Tyson is one of those people I find most galling of all: People who pretend they are smart.
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  425.  @uroboros4260  Just as I thought, you know zero about empathy. And from the sound of it I don't think you really understand what's wrong with hypocrisy either.
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  426. Choosing Russia and Saudi Arabia over Canada is simply the dumbest idea in the world. Any country that stupid deserves what it gets.
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  427.  @floxy20  No it doesn't. Chicago has around twice as many (over 150 m tall), and they're taller besides. Also, your grasp of the word 'irony' is highly questionable.
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  428. The demonization of Carlson in Canada closely resembles the demonization of the truckers. Like you, I assumed he wasn't my cup of tea. Being a lifelong liberal (in the centrist sense that began disappearing 20 years ago) I somewhat trusted liberal media's take on him. Then I had an actual look-in. It was thanks to the fact that I had already gone from a certain skepticism of the media to a full-blown realization that they had totally gone to pot, and now deserve next to zero trust. Journalism in Canada today is pure Weekend At Bernie's—a cadaver paraded in front of us for show. Cheers
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  429. Well, in all fairness, I think you're literally making the same point he was making.
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  430. "Even if your country is not right during the war, you must not talk negatively about it." Then the man or boy who said this must surely not resent the German public during WWII for their support of their leader. By his own moral standard of patriotic duty he has to admire them. Indeed, the punishment Russians dealt to German women and girls must greatly disturb him, for they were noble patriots themselves. Correct?
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  431. She has a seriously intense Elizabeth Holmes vibe. (That crook from Theranos.)
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  432. But they won't be rich for long. They'll blow it in big hurry. Well, a good majority will.
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  433. I really resent this foreign dispute or entanglement landing on Canadian shores. When you emigrate to Canada, leave your conflicts behind and don't bring them here. This comes just days or weeks after East Africans or East African-Canadians clashed violently multiple times in Canada this summer. The Calgary Police chief called one such melée the largest outbreak of violence in his city in memory.
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  434. Through its ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) a great many of Tesla's employees have become wealthy, rather than through their salaries. It's been around corporate America (and other countries) for a long time and worked at making many companies and their workers hugely successful. The whole company, when a lot of things including ESOP are done right, becomes super-motivated. But I don't know what percentage of Tesla's staff are eligible for the ESOP.
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  435. Fact checkers: "Other people often make mistakes or lie. Not us. We never make mistakes and always tell the truth." The easily led: "Great! Half the world's problems solved right there! Wow, it's so simple! Thank you!"
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  436. "The worst part about Patton Oswalt is the hypocrisy."—the great Norm Macdonald, if he were alive.
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  437. She could well have been forced by Kremlin operatives (via some kind of threat to her family, e.g.) to deliver the sculpture, in order to frame her. Such a move would provide cover for silencing embarrassing military bloggers who are publicly critical of the army's ineptitude in the war. That is, by putting one of them to death "pour encourager les autres" ["to encourage the others"], as the French say with characteristically dry and black humor.
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  438. How about demanding that other Muslim countries fast-track immigration applications?
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  439. She's against the question on grounds of quaintness. Treating people the same is reigh cyst and so fifteen years ago. Picking favourite groups and treating them way better than anyone else is the way to eliminate discrimination and create 'justice' and social harmony. And they (people of exactly the same mind as her) pick the groups. You didn't know that?
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  440.  @markstrong2190  He's not an idiot. He's making a valid point about labelling someone mentally sound or not according to their political makeup. Kanye West before expressing anything positive about Trump: a genius and cultural hero. Afterwards: tragically mentally ill. Trump, being well right of centre: riddled with mental illness. Biden, a political challenger of Trump: of sound mind despite his memory and verbal intelligence having entered free-fall.
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  441. And "Trump is hiding behind a suit," says the guy I've never seen not wearing a suit.
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  442. So was the robber among the dead?
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  443. Those calling the F-16 a relic of the 1980s here know little about it, or are pretending to. It's still in production and General Dynamics is currently boosting output in order to meet a growing backlog. Its design has been constantly updated and upgraded. It's a 4th-gen fighter like most fighters in use throughout the world, including the US and Russia. These commenters even have the decade wrong. It was designed in the mid-1970s and entered production in 1978.
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  444. It's possible that a new era in the Chinese approach to statecraft has begun. But until recently at least, I think Chinese leaders have preferred to avoid any choices that seal important matters with finality. I mean they were in the habit of hedging their bets, and that may be an understatement. About 50 years ago the premier Zhou En-Lai was asked in a rare interview with a Western journalist what he thought of the French Revolution. "It's too soon to tell," he replied.
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  445. Retch = heave as though about to vomit. Wretch = unfortunate or miserable person
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  446. Maher thinks of himself as a top-notch political and social pundit. He's not. He's just a hack but won't face it.
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  447. (1) This is autumn. You didn't know that?🤨 (2) "That could change." It might get colder as we move into December? My, what a brave assertion!😂
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  448. "Return"? Ukraine "returned" its nuclear weapons to Russia? You have no idea how wrong that is. They belonged to Ukraine, not Russia. Ukraine did not steal them from the USSR, or even 'get' them from the USSR. Ukraine was an integral part of the USSR.
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  449. Vladimir, 53: "The inviolability of private property came to us from the West!" Response: "What about the theft of entire countries? Is that ok?" Vladimir: "Of course it's ok, If Russia does it. Don't you have any harder questions than that? In a thousand years Russia has never done anything wrong. Have a nice day!"
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  450. The frequency and the seriousness of crime in Toronto is rapidly rising. Meanwhile the number of police officers per capita is plunging. And what is the mayor — with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Guelph😄— busy doing? She's spending money on re-naming things. Torontonians should demand more cops.
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  451.  @kermitfrog593  That's absolutely untrue. A rich white man would have been booed, thrown off the property, arrested, charged, and his Oscar withdrawn.
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  452. I don't know. Unlike most Americans her health care is beyond amazing. Her hip replacement: bam, already done.
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  453. "She can't speak or think for herself." That's just not true! She recently ordered her own meal at a restaurant.
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  454. Yeah. But I hear she's a good lier.
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  455. It was psy-ops aimed at the G7 and NATO conferences. It should be ignored. They should carry on trying to make Russia pay dearly in every possible way. They should also ask if enough is being done to win support from so-far neutral countries. I should add that the attack is consistent with Russia feeling that it's in a weak position, as chest-pounding often is.
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  456. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this headline. Trudeau has made every day in Canada a combination of "Groundhog Day" and April Fool's Day. Except April Fool's Day is fun and "Groundhog Day" was funny.
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  457.  @Aaron-rw3lv  Bizarre take. Personally I support Israel, but it's very arguable that protesting the PM's policy is best done where the PM is. A hospital full of sick people is entirely inappropriate. Moreover, Mount Sinai serves patients of all backgrounds and never discriminates between them. (P.S. That "rent-free" trope is incredibly showy, empty, puerile and tired. Always was.)
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  458.  @alexanderlang7640  Ok, but with 'glory' defined as Russia ousting its current little tsar, ending this obscene war, paying reparations to Ukraine, and beginning to behave in a civilized fashion befitting the 21st century rather than the 15th. That would indeed be glorious.
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  459.  @1dkappe  It's not my job to educate anyone who keeps his gaze fixed on his navel and then denies there's a moon in the sky. I also never debate anyone once it's obvious she or he is a fundamentalist. TTFN.
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  460. The US, running behind SA: "Wait up! Hey, wait for us!" The same forces are in play.
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  461. Yes, he certainly is. Excellent observation.
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  462. Houthi commander-in-chief addressing rebel troops: "Ok everybody, we're shutting this down! Nobody messes with Prime Minister Peter Pan."😂
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  463.  @ccole1255  When someone alleges the extraordinary and the unprovable, an assessment of their personal credibility may be all there is to go on. This needs no pointing out, surely?
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  464. That second tweet of Midler's is fodder for a libel suit. I'd love to see her become his biggest financial supporter.
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  465. Way ahead of you: I could tell when the Kardashians became famous.
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  466. Germany, you took an unnecessary extra month to come to your decision. Don't take another month or more to actually deliver the aid, please. It's needed now.
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  467. 18,200 aircraft 7,056 tanks 375,900 trucks...
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  468. If the public back him strongly enough, opposition parties will have to get the hell out of his way. It's up to them and they'd better make the right move.
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  469. Clumsy? No, first polite, then irritated. Pictures show that the woman was dressed in clothes clearly traditional to a faraway place. Who could fail to notice that she appeared to be from abroad (or, failing that, vociferously and most proudly announcing her non-British ethnic heritage)? Not a soul. Thus, for anyone to ask her about that background was nothing less than a polite acknowledgment of her beyond-obvious pride. The question was amply to be expected. For this reason, the micro-aggressive behaviour was on her part, for when Lady Hussey asked her, understandably and indeed politely (anyone dressed like that is practically begging for a show of interest), "Where are you from?" she skirted the question, I've no doubt in the hope of making trouble. (For in the context of her extremely unusual garb it was obvious no one was asking where she worked. To find that out, Lady Hussey would've asked "Which organization are you with?" and she knew it.) Polite answer: "I'm from [Cheapside, e.g.]. But I see you've noticed what I'm wearing, which is a traditional costume in [Jamaica, e.g.]. My parents were from there. [Or other breezy detail, such as 'It's from Ghana, where I've been many times']." She was looking for a scrap. She knew it, Lady Hussey quickly knew it, I know it, anyone with experience of a range of people and life knows it. For her part, Lady Hussey might have quickly come to her point when the woman showed her intent, by saying "Yes, and does this impressive costume hail from your ancestral homeland? Where would that be?" But I don't blame her much for being less than fully congenial when faced with such a charmless and passive-aggressive person with a problem personality.
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  470.  @R.A.M.10  "Blah blah blah. Bellyache bellyache bellyache. I'm important and know lotsa tings...."
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  471. The neglected part of everybody's explanation and analysis is these misty, vague, enigmatic "supply chain problems." They let on that it all has to do with container ships and trucking. I think it goes far deeper than that, since transportation is only a small part of the supply chain. It actually means everything going back to ores and oil deep in the ground, and crops in the soil, through processing, manufacturing, warehousing, wholesaling, and all the way to retailing. To me it seems not just the cart but the whole apparatus has been tipped over and we're not being told anywhere near enough about the seriousness of it all. I expect that in time we'll finally be told that "supply chain problems" is just a euphemism for "living standards are taking a permanent drop because there's not enough of most things to go around." The world economy is like a juggler with thousands of plates in the air and all kinds of them are crashing down by the day. Another analogy might be a sick patient on a table whose organs are beginning to shut down.
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  472. Anastasia [my paraphrase]: "Russia invades whomever it likes. It is liberation. If they want to call it occupation, well, that's their opinion." 😂 By that logic a man could assault her and say it was true love. She would then say, "No, it was violence." To which he would reply, "Well, that's your opinion."
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  473.  @user-lv5bt3nt3r  Poland borders on Belarus. You're thinking of the USSR.
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  474. By 'integrated' do you mean 'sent in to take up a lot of land, move into the nicer houses, and start running things,' by any chance?
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  475. £16bn: Chicken feed, considering the bill for his deliberate destruction. Scarcely a start. And most of it will be embezzled anyway. But little kids are impressed by such a number, which is why they were chosen as his audience. The theme of 'generous aid' to the stolen Ukrainian oblasts, btw, was chosen with a view to preparing Russians to accept the many years of coming economic hardship. We must pay for what the evil West did, they'll also be told.
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  476. "They aim to dismantle a large, powerful nation." "They dislike such a powerful nation." 😂Once again I'm reminded of the classic SCTV skit What Fits Into Russia. (Two hilariously worthwhile minutes of Russian jingoism starring Dave Thomas.)
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  477.  @TheJlee28  Spoken like a true leftist.
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  478. Tsar.
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  479. Most shocking of all, just two members of the 'Squad' have lost their primary bids.
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  480. Only between 5th grade and her freshman year at Howard University. But yeah, the impression of Montreal on her was evidently deep and lasting. Canadians easily recognize her real identity, and it's not the one that she or others talk about: She's a very standard 60-year-old Canadian far-lefty.
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  481.  @Michael-jv7uq  I've been noticing that comments with missing replies like that ("View 5 replies", e.g., but there's only 2 there when you click it) are exploding in recent weeks. Something new is going on. And you know how it is on social media: New = Bad and evil.
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  482. Don't take it at face value. Most of the time it's defensive and not actually true. If you lived there you might say such things too. Bonus speculation: If you start young and talk like that enough times, you might end up authentically being that way. Everybody thinks behaviour—for instance what you say—reflects belief, but a lot of the time belief follows behaviour.
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  483. You're all missing the point. A rapid push to get Russia out of Ukraine would not have had lasting results. The sad reality is that it would've just come storming back in after a short recovery period. It is alas necessary to drain Russia of its military strength in order to ensure a lasting resolution and lasting peace, and that is something that takes time. NATO has been displaying a stunning adroitness in calmly and methodically doing what it takes.
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  484. I was asked to define "left-wing activist" but I had to frankly admit my inability. I'm not an entomologist.
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  485. Why did they even show us some rando's opinion like that?
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  486. The police have no problem allowing groups with political power to demonstrate. Think of all the many demonstrations around June through November 2020. No blockades, no interference, just minimal observation. Now that it's parents of schoolchildren who don't like government education policies, they withdraw their co-operation. It shows you who has power and who doesn't.
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  487.  NAFO_POWER  Countless Europeans are admirers of Klimt. So he spent $100 on a print, so what? You showed up here to post over and over trying to destroy Daniil's reputation over ridiculous nothings. But we know why accounts like yours show up.👎
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  488. "Safety and protection for me, but not for thee."
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  489. Hannibal Lecter: "Agreed. I would avoid him."
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  490.  llewellyn evans  I see no reason to use the word cruel in light of the care and expense they went to in outfitting the return modules with parachutes. Mechanical failure was obviously not expected, so the monkey deaths were accidents, certainly sad ones. The noise, vibrations, and acceleration at launch and descent could have been distressing, I grant you. Whether such distress, if any, were passing and mild, emotionally shattering, or in between, I cannot guess. As for weightlessness, I'm not sure the Alberts would have sensed it, strapped in as they were, or if it would have bothered them if they did. On the whole I would say, because of the deaths being accidental, that if you want to talk about human failings and cruelty you could easily find much worse very near at hand. (Not that I find what you say ludicrous.) One could say things were more clear-cut in the case of Laika, the Russian space dog. She was never meant to return alive, and died up there.
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  491. And then: "It's just a delay. National elections will happen as soon as we can hold them safely." (Cf. Julius Caesar, Rome, 43 BC: "It's just temporary. We will restore the Republic as soon as we can." Century after century after century passed, and they never did.)
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  492. Reminds me of someone I know who made crap-tons of money playing poker online, specifically targeting Russian players by time of day. He told me they bluff and never fold, carrying on until they're out of money.
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  493. She was around him daily for 8 years. If her bottom line is that he was unremarkable and quiet, outwardly reasonably normal, and not a total loner, that's something. Some people, that's about all nearby strangers or near-strangers can really say about them. It still starts to give you the idea.
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  494. Yeah, it can make one kind of really gross into another kind of really gross.
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  495. @JustAGuy InBensalem Quite right. When that group of Rwandans decided to slaughter that other group of Rwandans in the genocide of 1994, the media were there to help them get their people into a murderous rage. Same in Kosovo.
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  496.  @MrJohnnyDistortion  Yes, it's thoroughly, obviously wrong. Indeed in my view there's no way the post was even sincere. It's just an attempt to get the OC ratioed. (Ratioed: when a comment has more replies than likes, i.e. a ratio below 1.0, it is downgraded and shown to fewer people.) The reason is that such comments are presumed controversial, negative and unpopular, thus bad for the platform's atmosphere. For this reason paid commenters identify the comments they need to fight hardest against (i.e. the best ones, from another point of view) and target them with upsetting replies intended to generate many more replies in turn. Just the right remarks, and presto: ratioed, meaning buried. (Did you know about this, btw?)
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  497.  @jasondashney  It's called reducing risk. Tell me you don't avoid the worst neighborhoods at night.
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  498. What hind of hiring are you doing, CP24?   Someone there actually thinks Queen & Vic Park is "downtown"? 🤨 Is it a drunkenness thing? Marijuana? 🤡
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  499.  @Fujin-wr1qm  You're entitled to your pet fears, prejudices and imaginative scenarios. I won't involve myself in entertaining them. It would be too much like a conversation with the excitable Vladimir Solovyev.
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  500. Michael Shellenberger is the best journalist in the United States. In part it's because he's independent, self-supporting and works for no one. But mainly it's due to his extreme intelligence and unflagging integrity.
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  501. Vivek attacked that task just like a onetime nationally-ranked junior tennis player would. 👍👏
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  502. @Tasia Michele So typically American to be potty-mouthed ("sh----y"), hyperbolic ("the entire world"), and reflexively self-praising. Come off your high horse and don't compare the health care rich Americans get with what average people get in other prosperous and well-run countries. Try comparing averages to averages and a move to the US would not be worth it for most of those people. Countless millions of Americans are stuck with third world health care and the whole world knows it, including you.
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  503. Golden thread except the thing about bitcoin. edit: (And I don't have anything against bitcoin. It's fine for anyone who likes it, I guess.)
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  504. Bullseye.
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  505. He's a good boy and he bin tryna get his life together. He never bothered nobody. He always helpin people. He don't deserve to be in jail. Society should be helpin him in a positive way. Etc., etc.
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  506. #85 at 8:42 underrated herself outrageously. My favourite face here, yet adamant that she's not beautiful. Surely it was just reflexive good manners?
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  507.  Frank Lord  Yes, they did, according to many reputable sources including The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/29/chewing-gum-stuck-on-the-sole-of-our-shoes-the-china-australia-war-of-words-timeline The insult originated from a post on Weibo by the editor of Chinese state-run mouthpiece The Global Times, Hu Xijin.
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  508. Well, she's a woman and he's a doctor. Many a woman waits in vain throughout her entire period of attractiveness, if any, for such a generous offer.
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  509.  @runzwbitchez  I can see you have your master's in word salad from the University of Kringela Harris.👍
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  510. One day TR will have a professional on staff to ensure the guest and host are at the same sound level. That's my hope.
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  511.  @drefanzor  If you think the southern border is important you should go down there and guard it. See how you sound? America can walk and chew gum at the same time and you ought to stop pretending it can't.
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  512. You bet. But "when we do it it's cute."
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  513. Rumour has it that Toronto Police have flocked to Montreal to be their coffee and donut waitresses.
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  514.  @ChrisMathers3501  But it was video carefully selected and spliced together by the filmmaker. Come on. Even a kid knows not to believe everything he sees on TV. Why take a documentary's word for anything? It can easily be shot through with prejudice, ax-grinding, ill will, or plain stupidity. Every filmmaker is career-minded and feels a certain necessity to produce something compelling that people will talk about. So why produce a portrait of a town showing them as blandly decent and remarkably low in faults even if that's how you find them? Something more cutting will undoubtedly help you find support to make your next film, and no one will be the wiser --- except those you've defamed, and maybe even few of them. You've heard of sensationalism, of course? All forms of journalism are swimming in it. But never mind sensationalism --- even the most scrupulous fair-mindedness can be miles off the mark for innocent reasons. Did no one ever make you out to be something you're not, even if they quoted a few of your words accurately? It's very, very easily done.
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  515. "It's dangerous here." Yeah, that's what people on a vacation want: plenty of danger.😄
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  516. Too much interrupting by the interviewer of the Shadow Foreign Secretary. If you ask a question, allow an answer. What, did he forget she's Labour?
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  517. Norm Macdonald: "Hypocrisy would be on like the fourth page or something."
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  518.  @ludovitstur9045  You say Russia is stuck in the 19th century. I'd say it definitely has one foot parked around 1740.
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  519. ​ @char4980  "Envy is concealed admiration"—Soren Kierkegaard.
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  520. Traumatized is a big word with long-term medical implications. Just say he's shaken up.
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  521. Of course there was no mention. Of course. This is the BBC.
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  522. I love these people and I always have, for decades already. Thank god my government is solidly behind them and supports them with weapons, ammunition, cash, financing, medical supplies, clothing and other things. I just realized it's time once again to write my prime minister and member of parliament to tell them to increase our support. Thanks for the video.🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺🇯🇵🇦🇺🇰🇷
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  523. @thaksforurip "more education than trump" Education concerns far more than time spent on a campus or degrees awarded. For one thing, I'd be careful when comparing Howard University with Fordham and Penn. Also, "Education is what's left when everything that was learned has been forgotten."—Einstein
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  524.  @wrmusic8736  Nietzsche was good on Christianity and the mentality of slaves. (And I agree communism came out of Christianity.) As for Lennon, he was a troubled guy who would go all-in on a different thing every few years.
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  525.  @mitchyoung93  That's not what PPP adjusts for. It adjusts for the price of things in local currency vis-à-vis the market exchange rate, which has nothing to do with "inflated values of thin[g]s like real estate, insurance, etc." In simple terms, it 'corrects' for bizarre exchange rates. Things like house prices that are sky-high in local currency sail through the PPP calculation completely unaffected, no matter how much (or little) difference they might make to a potential purchaser with foreign currency.
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  526.  @vuchaser99  $50bn a day?! Uh, that's bad arithmetic. Total US govt. spending including all that stuff and everything else in 2024 was $6.75trn, or $18.5bn per day. Meanwhile total revenues were $4.9trn, indicating a deficit of $1.83trn, or $5.0bn a day.
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  527.  @GARDENER42  Aber nein! Actually the finance minister wanted to put advanced Taurus missiles in Ukraine's hands. Get the basic and undisputed facts coming from multiple sources right.
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  528. Err-head: "If I find it offensive, it's a moral crime for you to say it." Any person in good psychological health: "Oh really? What you just said offends me. Quite a lot. Therefore, you committed a moral crime, requiring social justice. Punishment for that crime, yet to be determined, is on its way. You'll be notified."
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  529. The kid who said "burger" stole my heart and made my day. Just priceless. 1420, you're doing a great job in every way. 👏
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  530. I love it when the Putrid-bots show up in numbers. It shows that the message in the video hurts them.
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  531. The VP grew up in Canada between 5th grade and her freshman year at college, so she has experience from her formative years of such things as extensive government ownership of industry and, notably, wage & price controls (1975-78). All her social and political ideas and policies bear a strong imprint from those years, all of them during the prime ministership of Pierre Trudeau when Canada was actually much more left-wing than it is now, economically at least. Yet he was considered a center-left moderate, and in truth he was — compared to her. Canadians will understand when I say she would be America's first NDP president. (It's Canada's leftmost national party.) She promises to introduce price controls, probably thinking of them as within the bounds of normality due to that experience. But they failed in Canada, taking barely 1% off inflation over three years (!) but shaving 2.5% off wages. Living standards fell. Although Trudeau finally ended the controls, angry voters soon afterwards threw him out of office. But I bet she sees that as totally beside the point, since leftists and no-limits liberals never care whether left policies work or not. To them success resides in imposing them, not in producing positive results. It's interesting to note that she and the appalling Justin Trudeau, whom I call Prime Minister Peter Pan, grew up in adjacent wealthy neighborhoods in Montreal (Westmount and the Golden Square Mile). They didn't know each other, but are political soulmates to this day and probably forever. Everybody talks about her various identities as American, African-American, Indian and Jamaican, but in my opinion she's an absolutely standard, mass-made old Canadian lefty.
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  532. Illegal dogs in Ontario.
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  533. Alternate title: "Ever wonder what a cantilever is?"
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  534. Hey, Omar: If you say that supporting legal access to abortion isn't being pro-abortion, then you can't say that supporting legal access to firearms is being pro-gun. The hypocrisy in this one is breathtaking. Put her on the podium and give her her medal.
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  535.  @micahasher7600  You don't get it. The 14.9% limit is for board members. As he has decided not to be on the board, there are no consequences for buying as many shares as he likes. It would appear he intends to do just that.
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  536. Actually (2021), Greater Tokyo Area: 37.5 million people Canada: 38.3 million people Tokyo: "Ok, we know when we've been beaten. Forgiveness, please."
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  537.  @coninseres4541  But Mr. Kavanaugh was not causing any distress to anyone. Those people were the cause of their own distress. The police officers ought to have explained the legal situation to them immediately and then kindly offered to put them in touch with mental health resources to help them cope with their distress.
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  538. Wow, three DW staffers, one steadily neutral in tone on Trump, one though skeptical in his analysis still neutral in tone, and only one both skeptical in analysis and smirkingly dismissive in tone. Not what I expected from DW.
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  539. This has 22 likes. It needs 22k.
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  540. So you replaced her with the Wicked Witch of the North. Michigan just gets what it deserves, I guess.
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  541. Rita's the best. I love her values, her mind, her way with words. Fantastic.
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  542. Quite a bit of good chat. Your open manner put people at ease, it appeared.
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  543. LA was larger and more developed at that time than I had known, and it had some very fine buildings. (I wonder if any of those we saw remain.) I found the music likeable, which is something rare in a YT video with a background track. Thanks for the upload.
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  544. "Fascist" is the new "reigh-syst." You keep it handy for sprinkling onto almost every sentence, somewhat like a salt shaker. (Or hot sauce for some people: "I put that $#@& on everything!")
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  545. I wouldn't hire her to run a small daycare. How can she land the most important job in the world?
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  546. Down with the Montreal govt and City Council! A pod of whales. A pride of lions. A brace of ducks. A council of Karens.
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  547.  @jmolofsson  That makes him several years younger than the American president, junior also to the previous one, five years older than the German chancellor, and eight years older than the prime minister of Sweden. A mere hour's chatting is not such a tall order for a typical person in their early 70s, and for a Swede that may go double.
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  548.  @VRCrashed  The term hasn't become watered down. It remains potent. It's just that there's been a concerted effort to change its meaning to moderate conservative. 😡
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  549. I strongly suspect the kids are steered subtly into not telling parents what they hear in the classroom. Teacher: "Older people hate this because of their old prejudices. They react with anger because they don't know any better." Mother to child: "What did you learn in school today?" Child: "Oh, nothing." ["You'd just freak out if I told you."]
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  550. Kringela Harris, ladies and gentlemen.
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  551. Careful there. Since it appears the would-be assassin was an anti-Trump political radical, I'd say it's quite possible you just 'misgendered' him/her/them/who-knows-what. 😄
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  552. A rule is flouted , not flaunted. But I agree with your point.
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  553. Insufficiently restrained bullying.
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  554. Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right.
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  555. "This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality."  George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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  556.  @therealJohnChristopher  Congratulations, kid. By throwing the word 'racist' around with no justification you are robbing it of meaning. Therefore you are assisting actual racists. [👏very slow clapping👏]
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  557. Now that awful pair from California will be showing up, compounding sadness with annoyance.
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  558.  @DxModel219  (1) You're wrong. I guess you haven't watched it. It wasn't till Dr. K declined to stop recording that Mr. Shouty stepped in. You're completely wrong. (2) YT has now removed the video on privacy grounds.🙄 Happy?
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  559.  @じゃみっと  Make an appointment with your doctor. Ask for two slots and then do not miss it. Again, I wish you the best.
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  560. We've got to find out why Trudeau keeps showing up in public with funny marks in the middle of his forehead. This is no longer funny. Ok, it's still funny. But now it's totally disturbing too.
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  561. Alternate title: How to trash the strongest and richest nation in human history in well under a generation
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  562. ​ @annaclarafenyo8185  I regard this claim with extreme skepticism. I should think practice hardly suffices to make everyone good at something like that. Doing dishes, maybe, and buttoning up one's clothing, but not solving novel mental riddles which are meant to be challenging.
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  563.  @hushedtones7168  In the sense that the word means a delusive break from reality: yes!
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  564. As natural to her as breathing.
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  565.  @aeoteroa818  The part about having to find meaningful things to do is good.
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  566. Decisive measures to lower risk are appropriate. They are hardly sufficient to show the authorities are panicking.
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  567. I know how she feels. Somebody once made off with my basement. Then 3 years ago they stole the sky above my house. It took 2 years to fill back in again. This summer I saw a man measuring my hedge. He ran away when he saw me. If they take anything else I'm gonna snap.
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  568. It could also mean his remarks are addressed primarily to Indians. He is not merely an Indian, he is India's leader.
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  569. Family Guy has just been golden the last few years.
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  570. Albanese will not stop until it's time to rename the country Albania.
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  571. It's the Justin Trudeau formula: Use as much taxpayer money as you need to get yourself re-elected. Don't spend it on the country, spend it on yourself.
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  572. The one thing he said that I don't know how to go along with is that Trump lost the election in 2022. What?🤔
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  573.  @jamesgornall5731  Thanks for the Kremlin point of view, Peskov.
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  574. Can't he be both? It doesn't get any weirder than a boy who marries his teacher.
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  575. "must be really bad" Nah, it's not. Covid levels are low (92nd in the world for past-7-days per-capita new infections), restrictions are light (everything open), mood not great but ok. Bad points: Vaccine passports reqd for plane and train travel, restaurants except outdoor sections, larger indoor gatherings like concerts, a couple of other spots. Vaccine mandates for many govt jobs, some jobs in govt-regulated sectors, and numerous large companies. Some vital services losing some staff to mandates but not many, as vaccination coverage is high (90% of over-11s). Anyone who says it's a nightmare or as bad as Australia has a screw loose. Govts trying to steer a middle course as people on both sides are yelling at them (and each other). Crime up somewhat (e.g. murders in Toronto (pop. 3m) 74 vs. 61 last year (early-Nov. both years). For comparison, LA (pop. 4m) 325 vs. 277, late-Oct. both years). Vaccination coverage higher than US (79% vs. 67%; doses per 100 people 156 vs. 129). New infections per million, past week: Ontario 230, Canada 447, Calif. 1,071, US 1,518. Peterson is justified in railing against the difficulty of leaving the country if unvaccinated, but then international borders are always more of a hassle than the rest of life. To me the big problem is that authoritarians have had the upper hand at times, damaging the customs surrounding individual adult choice. The media are consistently more authoritarian in spirit than the people, but that spirit has simmered down across the board whenever spread has. I feel disappointed in many ways but reassured in many others. Canada didn't lose its head. Yes, authoritarians feel emboldened and that's a serious danger, but on the other hand consciousness of individual rights is far higher too.
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  576. Prepare for yourself for worse. Those coming up behind them are more infantile yet.
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  577. I'd love that, but will it happen? The fact that she held that position for over 8 years cries out for full explanation. She should have been working in an insurance office or hardware store.
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  578. Dear Prince Harry: You're confusing us with people who care.
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  579. Chairman Sanders: "Let Joe Manchin explain to the people of West Virginia why he doesn't have the guts to stand up to special interests." The People of West Virginia: "We're 65% against your horse———t bill. You explain to your candidate the landslide we're gonna give Joe Manchin next time."
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  580. I'm surprised she never mentioned the most glaringly obvious difference of all: On the real bezel the numerals and markers are nearly flush with the main surface; on the fake bezel they are set in considerable relief. You could spot it easily in low light by the shadowing which the relief creates.
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  581. The last two minutes were dark. So very dark.
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  582. It didn't sink. It's engaged in a Special Undersea Exploration Operation.
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  583. World Council of Rocks: "Hey, stop comparing us to Melanie Joly's brains!"
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  584. Yeah he did embarrass himself, even if the voiceover is a cringingly over-the-top hired person instead of him.  Actually this guy is himself Canadian, or at least he lives here, or he used to. I keep spotting the stock photos and video clips of Canada, plus the subject matter of his uploads frequently includes Canada, or centrally concerns it. For some reason he seems to think it would be a bad idea to mention it, and also that no one will figure it out if he doesn't. Weird dude, makes a lot of errors, including factual ones. Especially crazy is the way he thinks the St. Lawrence Seaway is truly important on a world scale, like it really developed Chicago, Toronto, and the whole North American economy. It certainly is not, and it certainly did not, in that order.
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  585. 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, in the entire Second World War the battle with the most American casualties, over 75,000 in 41 days.
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  586.  @hershelbabymomma231  West Virginians polled 60—75% against the bill.
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  587.  @alexdavila1356  Cutting off money for the TM2 pipeline would be mad at this point. Finishing it is the only way to get money back out of it. It will be a $40bn cash cow once in service. But what a debacle the way its costs ballooned. I assume a bunch of money ended up in Liberal war chests. There should be an exacting audit and an inquiry.
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  588. The report was discerning (perceptive), but the subject matter was terribly disconcerting (worrying). I think autocorrect stepped in to change what you were saying.
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  589.  @jamesginty6684  Sorry, Kremlinite. Pushing for negotiations simply indicates you know you're losing. Go on to Russian social media and suggest a total withdrawal instead.
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  590. ​ @Dudelsackpfeifer  One is orderliness and respect for rules of conduct. With vastly higher immigration, one now sees in the streets mass flouting of traffic rules at a far higher rate by people visibly of non-European background. I see examples every minute or hour which I formerly saw once a year.
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  591. NPR knowingly stated a falsehood when they said Twitter "falsely impl[ied] that we are not editorially independent." But no. Twitter merely labelled them "Government-funded Media," which is factually and verifiably accurate— NPR is government-funded. Why would NPR do such a thing? I'll answer that with a question: Why is it that NPR has not shut down its YouTube channel, which YouTube likewise (and quite rightly) labels as publicly-sponsored? (Clue: Musk does not own YouTube.)
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  592. What a fake. So shallow, so empty, so vain. So untruthful, so unqualified.
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  593. She's not entitled to automatic support. This isn't some private company, it's the police force, and its proper primary loyalty is to the law and the department regulations, not fellow officers. Before he (or whoever else's job it is to review citizen complaints) has looked at her bodycam footage, he must receive a citizen's complaint neutrally. Plenty of time later to slap the guy with the maximum fine when the video backs up her side of the story. He would deserve a reprimand if he took the guy's side after reviewing the footage, but that review came at some later point.
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  594.  @outsideview9052  Did you just liken Canadian democracy to Russian 'democracy'? With all due respect, give your head a shake. Something in there needs to be rattled back into place. As for a "hefty transfer fee", US companies import something, process it, then export it, and you think this is somehow the original country taking advantage of the US unfairly? Wtf! It's simply American companies being in business. Besides that, 80% of Keystone oil from Canada is used in the US.
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  595. We welcome our trusted friends of long standing, the Finns. It's a great day.
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  596. I shall never forget that squad of Australian police officers confronting a family outside a shopping plaza for not wearing masks—outside, I say—and pepper-spraying the little girl in the face. She was 12 years old.
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  597.  @The1stDukeDroklar  Wtaf are you talking about? Countries don't seal people inside their own borders unless they're East Fn Germany or the USSR. It's up to any given country to seal people OUT. I know the US is new to this basic rule of international relations, but hurry up and get the hang of it.
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  598.  @natetaylor9002  Oh yes it was. Yet when they got upset at his idea, they were right from their side, he was right from his. Btw, everybody seems to forget (or they never got) that his proposal, if agreed to, would not only have stopped the war immediately, but the part about the across-the-board clean referendums in theory could've restored 100% of Ukrainian territory to pre-2014 borders. (I didn't and don't support it, but it was not "pro-Russian." )
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  599. Another way to put it: "You don't oppose the government or how things are, and they leave you alone = Freedom"
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  600.  @jessebai592  No one hates China. They oppose its government. In the 1980s, no one hated the Warsaw Pact countries. They opposed their governments.
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  601.  @СергейМонин-д7с  Hilarious. Actually Russia gets a freedom score of 20, between Congo and Vietnam, and lower than Kazakhstan at 23. Ukraine gets 60.
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  602. America can walk and chew gum at the same time. This isn't coming out of the homeless budget, Cletus. What's shameful is not completing grade school.
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  603. Proposed question: "What do you think happens if Putin doesn't wake up tomorrow?"
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  604. Always be careful assuming Russians are the same as us. There's a strong feudalistic streak that still runs through their ethos. They were cut off from Western civilization for long stretches of time and were somewhat connected with Central Asia and the East instead. The modern Western temperament, culture and thought are reasonably well known and understood by them, but they haven't made them their own yet. Still far from it. So I hope you're right about what you said, but I doubt it.
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  605. Win-win!🤣
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  606.  @kitty2527  Despite coming 2nd in votes to the Conservatives in the last two elections (33%, then 32%), by teaming up with the farthest-left party he managed to form a govt. both times. However, his Liberals now stand in the low- to mid-20s, which in an election today would give the Conservatives a ">99% chance" of forming a (large!) majority government. Alas we have over a year to wait, despite 74% wanting him to step down immediately. Not so funny now, is it?
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  607. Detroit will soon have a sister city.
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  608. If I can't disagree with you, if I can't tell you you're wrong, we're not equal. If white people can't make any pronouncements on black America, then black people can't make any pronouncements on white America. It works both ways --- so we can either talk to each other or we can all become completely silent. What's it gonna be?
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  609. 👍A solid report. I felt like I was looking at Lazarus — journalism personified, risen from the dead.
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  610. Ottawa police for weeks privately and quietly refused government direction to quash this noisy but entirely peaceful protest. So what did the authorities do? The standard response: Scour out-of-town police forces for bloody-minded volunteers and ship them in to do the dirty business. Let no one be mistaken: Few Canadian cops are like this. It was not easy to find enough of them. The rest of the police are sickened by it.
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  611. I'd be more impressed if this had been uploaded in early October, or two weeks before the California recall vote.
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  612. They won't be so timid. More like an op-ed titled "Why It's Time to Cancel The Hill for Encouraging Dangerous and Violent Extremism"
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  613. That would be a giveaway and thus unwise. The Kremlin is watching him closely for hints as to Trump's intentions.
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  614. Let us bow our heads and observe a moment of silence for the car.
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  615. No, intercept is correct. Interception refers to the process of identifying and making contact with an unknown or potentially hostile aircraft. Key aspects: (1) Identifying an aircraft of interest; (2) Tracking it; (3) Inspecting it visually; (4) Attempting to establish communications; (5) Potentially diverting it if needed.
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  616. At this point he'd legalize anything if he thought it would keep him from getting kicked out of office. El desperado.
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  617. Very seldom is there a cooler world leader than this.
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  618. We were told that we'd hear back from the investigation in 60 days. That was around 50 days ago. Btw, the shooting was two months ago today.
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  619. I wonder how many cats she has so far.🤔
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  620. For my part, I don't give a crap what he thinks. He thought the Soviet Union was pretty great. What a putz.
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  621. Of course. Absolutely. Many people have noted that Chat bots are woke.
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  622. You mean they should remain upon our beloved Earth?🤨I don't know. I think it behooves us to consider planetary exile — by catapult, inside a not-very-spacious capsule, out to the Asteroid Belt. Yes, this will strike some as harsh. To me it's a modest proposal.
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  623. Mette Frederiksen is such a good leader. The way she put an end to the 2020-22 era ahead of other European nations was inspiring: "We say goodbye to the restrictions and welcome the life we knew before," she said with resolve, practical wisdom, courage and finality. It caught at my throat to hear it.
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  624. If anyone guesses my pronouns wrong, that's violence. When I go out to violently damage things in public, it's heroism.
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  625.  @Melody-285  Yeah it must be held by Oct., but he gets to call the date unless he's defeated in Parliament in the meantime. (He only has a minority govt., so if his supporting small parties turn on him, it's over. They just might do that.) Polls show he's on the verge of coming in 3rd.😄
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  626. "Visual Politik community..." Oh please Josh, stop throwing around the word community like a mushy-headed sentimentalist liberal or wokester. Get a grip. We're not the "Visual Politik community," we're Visual Politik viewers.
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  627.  @everready800  That pipeline was never going to go into service anyway. Europe is done with Russia. So the West couldn't care less about it at this point, as it's now a pipeline to nowhere. So Putin surely did it simply for the sake of generating opinions like yours. (Anyway, it could simply be repaired if somehow relations were ever restored in decades to come.) Non-issue.
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  628. That's not true. They do destructive things.
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  629. All these various European leaders—e.g. LePen—who in one way or another bet on Russia absolutely should've known better. And now she is losing her bet. Someone in the UK should pay, too, for making or letting London become such an oligarch magnet. It really smacked of venality. Thanks, DW. Good video.
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  630. Simple eloquence; clear, sober and penetrating. Thanks, Dorian.
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  631. I enjoyed this mini-documentary.
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  632.  @mikeoz4803  32.6% of the vote, sort-of coalition (not a formal coalition with a combined cabinet or anything) with party on the far left to form a govt. Yeah, we have a GG too. Does that answer your question?
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  633. Not mentioned: The flagrant likelihood that people are appalled when they find out just what it's like living under the government of Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  634. Don't let the CEO retire. Fire him immediately. The bank needs to go back to its Scots-Canadian roots and ethics which served it and its customers well for multiple lifetimes.
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  635. Canada: "Hey, leave us out of it! We dodged a bullet once already. Don't give him any ideas."
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  636. Canada to Trudeau: Just go
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  637.  @elena6516  The New Church, populated by the New Puritans.
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  638. ​ @RockyB2b  "[S]anctions have failed." No one claims sanctions are a sword. They are economic slow poison. Patchy sanctions on South Africa over apartheid began in 1962 but were not ramped up by major powers until mid-1984. Lo and behold, six years later, citing economic instability, South Africa released Nelson Mandela. Apartheid ended a year later. In the case of Iran, it is very difficult to assert that the current unrest could arise amid prosperity. North Korea's intransigence despite heavy sanctions is easily explained: China relishes North Korea much as a drug dealer adores his pit bull, and so maintains it in good health. It could be imagined that China will do the same for Russia, but there is little evidence of that at present. It does buy Russian oil, but it does so in the manner of a frenemy. It pays so little for it that Russia makes scanty or no profits from the sales. The resulting lack of reinvestment capital likely means production will fall, since it is a fact of the oil business everywhere that maintenance is expensive and old wells are always running dry. So even China's 'support' looks like slow poison. It probably likes the idea of a weak Russia about as much as the West now does.
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  639.  @ThinkingDoesMakeMeImportant  He said "more similar." You're familiar with the meaning of the words more and similar, of course? (P.S. We've all had enough of this throwing the word literally around without reason. Start pointlessly overusing something else, please.)
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  640. You're mistaking her point. She doesn't blame foreigners for thinking it's a dystopia. She somewhat agrees with them, and is just upset that Australia is getting a well-earned bad reputation. She's on the same side of things you are.
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  641. When you say 'mutual predation' it sounds like code for asserting that free enterprise makes people insane. That would miss the point of the talk we just heard. People naturally want their economic freedom—freedom within certain minimal limits—and freedom is necessary for sanity. A people stripped of economic freedom—one forced into a false utopian socialism or communism—will quite soon lose the rest of their freedoms, and thus a chance at their fullest sanity.
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  642. Fish choking on plastic polyester fibres: "Thanks, Patagonia, for doing your best to make where I live a plastic soup."
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  643. Always top-quality discussion, humor, thought, analysis and all the rest. Penetrating questions plus incisive and challenging follow-ups. Great editing, pacing, translation, subtitles, camera work, graphics, bla-bla-bla. [yawn] Frankly, it's all becoming a bit boring. Can we please have stupid trash once in a while? 😂 Just kidding. Thanks very much, Daniil, Artyom and everybody at 1420. Keep it up! — DP, a happy subscriber
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  644. I found this a very sensitive and interesting treatment of a touchy subject. Well handled. (Well conceived and thought-through, written, edited, narrated, and all the rest...)
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  645. At one time it was only employers and governments competing to extract value out of workers. Then unions came along to join in the fun. Companies do it by offering workers a paycheck, governments and unions do it by robbing them.
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  646. I am in no way persuaded that Trudeau and the Liberals care one bit about Chinese interference in Canadian politics — except maybe to relish it, since such interference could tip a close election outcome in the their favour. The more Conservatives like Michael Chong are targeted, the better for Trudeau. And I can't see the Chinese government going to the trouble if they didn't think they would see concrete results.
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  647. 🤔 I don't know. An accounts receivable clerk at a plumbing supply wholesaler is a useful person.
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  648. You need to realize that by 1977 Gad was in Montreal, Canada. So was Harris.
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  649. Edit needed: * against men
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  650. It's a damn good thing U of T doesn't prohibit his uploading these.
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  651.  @rharris4736  What do you expect when you kill off the educated people? Surely around 98% of Chinese people's great-grandparents and 95% of their grandparents were absolutely illiterate peasants who simply worked others' farms from youth till old age.
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  652.  @PhilAndOr  Actually Wilde never lived to see the Irish flag fly officially. All Ireland was part of the UK.
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  653. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! 👍
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  654. It takes a unique sort of arrogance to say "You are on the right side of history," as though anyone can speak for the people of future generations. Future judgment is just too unpredictable. Even twenty years ago people couldn't have predicted that the voters of Minnesota would one day elect such a poor member of Congress as Rashida Tlaib.
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  655. I wish more people would go beyond just the women's sports thing, as worthy as it is. Little else that deserves pushback is getting much at all, and there are so many other things that could. Come on women, show you can stand up for other things than just direct women's issues. Come on everybody, for that matter.
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  656. The next thing he should learn to say in Mandarin is "Can I please toss your salad?"
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  657. "Do you ever worry you're wrong?" "Yeah, all the time. I worry that I should be far more pompous, arrogant, extreme and sanctimonious. As the finest living human being, these things are my duty. Thanks for asking me to enlighten you. It shows there's some good in you."
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  658. Not sure exactly why you're saying this, but if I did know, I'd probably agree. For my part, I don't like being called "cis-male". This is for multiple reasons but chief among them is that it really means "non-trans." (A funny comedian once remarked that it's a way of marginalizing a normal person.)
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  659.  @thomasolson7447  "What does America deserve?" The gratitude of everyone on earth who cares about the right of a country to be a country, about freedom, dignity, safety, life.
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  660. He has an incredibly dull mind. He should be a junior assistant apprentice janitor intern.
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  661. I happen to be irreligious and politically centrist or slightly left of centre, but I heartily deplore the Washington Post reporter's reflexive labelling of the murdered man's political leanings as "far right". Just as from the North Pole all points are south, from the Left Pole all points are right.   Thus by the same token the Washington Post is far left.
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  662. The good people of Japan have been particularly indignant about the Ukraine War since the beginning, more than the people of perhaps any other country besides Ukraine itself. Their support has been outstanding.👍🇯🇵
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  663.  @nevanmasterson46  True. However, (1) in any work (e.g., this video) to be circulated publicly, only the right words for things should be used. There should be no difference between what is said and what is meant. (2) To say that "the word 'casualty' conventionally refers to deaths and injuries" (italics mine) is inadequate. In a war context the word 'casualty' always refers to deaths and injuries. Always. (3) Anyway, your point that people got what the narrator meant, while true, was something the OC appeared to understand in the first place. His objection was to the "weird[ness]," and, after all, weirdness has no proper place in published material except where weirdness is the deliberate aim. Of course this was by no means a major issue or defect in the video, but let's get it straight or not discuss it at all. (It likely won't surprise you that I'm a writer and editor.😄)
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  664. Germaine Greer, another Aussie: "A man who cuts his c… off isn't a woman. He's a man without a c…." No one should be forced to agree with her; neither should she be forced to retract her expression of belief.
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  665. "As is usually the case, women tended to be the victims of cruelty rather than the perpetrators." I find that a highly dubious assertion, since you failed to specify which sort of cruelty. I've never noticed much difference overall, only for physical assaults. Even then, it depends who you are. If you're a child, it is likelier that your mother will assault you than your father. Please don't set aside factual scrupulosity when obeying the vulgar urge to be sanctimonious. (Also, the 'rule of thumb' assertion is a myth.)
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  666. Netherlands does the right thing again. Excellent. 🇳🇱🇺🇦!
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  667. Character in a French play: "Cet animal est très méchant. Quand on l'attaque, il se defend!" ["This animal is very vicious. When you attack it, it defends itself!"]
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  668. TradingEconomics site, 9 latest headlines on Argentina: Argentina Slashes Interest Rate to 50% Argentina Consumer Confidence Improves in April Argentinian Retail Sales Growth Accelerates in February Argentina Economic Activity Contracts Less Than Expected Argentina Trade Posts 4th Consecutive Surplus Argentina Inflation Rises Below Estimates to 11% MoM Argentina Industrial Output Contracts for 9th Month in February Argentina Current Account Swings to Deficit in Q4 Argentina Jobless Rate Remains at over 2 Decade Low in Q4 Monthly inflation was 25.5% in December when he was sworn in. March: 11%. Since he entered office the bank rate has gone from 126% to 50%. By most measures things are still bad, but most of them are improving.
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  669.  @LukeXMV  He said they have quite a few pretty women with long legs.
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  670. Putin gambled that the US and the other rich democracies wouldn't do anything. Presumably that's what his sycophantic advisors told him for years. That's how it goes with grandiose autocrats. And so he bit off more than he could chew. Mussolini: "Bro. The end is not pretty, let me tell you."
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  671.  @colinparis3033  Ok millennial, or whatever you are. So what have we accomplished? That's right, nothing, my callow friend. All the best.
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  672. And in addition to the $800+ per month mentioned in the video, don't forget the daily handouts of prepared food and clothing, much of it far, far better than minimum-wage workers can afford. It all means that, in some places, when a homeless person gets a job and accommodations, his or her standard of living goes way, way down. I don't begrudge them some help, it's just that the help they really need is not commonly offered. System reform is desperately needed.
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  673. Yes, especially considering that China's birth rate means its population will be plummeting later this century (beginning pretty soon, I think). Plus there's quite a lot of emigration and will never be immigration. These things would tend to suggest a possibility that household sizes will go down further (i.e. family members will move out and get their own places); also that in some cases, two or more apartments could be combined to make one. If the government allows it, there will be creative adaptations. Perhaps I'm uninformed: Maybe there's pent-up demand owing to large family households which people would love to move out of as soon as they can afford to. (E.g. multiple generations crammed in under one roof.) Or maybe a baby boom that few expect could come along. So although it looks like a waste and seems like fodder for economic ruin, maybe it'll turn around or at least be mitigated. It's certainly interesting anyway. Edit: Oh, why am I trying to be nice? These buildings and cities are like a financial, environmental and probably a political noose.
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  674. But they were protecting their nation. (Just not the US, unfortunately.)
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  675. "[I]ncident in Hamilton-area highway" is bad, unidiomatic English. No one says "in" a highway. Things take place on a highway. Why do most CP24 headlines have an elementary school-level writing mistake in them? Why on earth? Just hire a bright 15-year-old. It'll be an improvement.
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  676.  @miladabravenec14  Putin can make peace in one second: He can withdraw. And he will, eventually. Why not go on Russian social media to urge that he do it now?
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  677. @Jimmy Carolina Not during mandatory-attendance class time, apparently, but that's untrue regarding after-school clubs. You certainly can talk about any god you want in clubs after school where showing up is totally voluntary.
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  678. It's extrajudicial punishment, which as the guest pointed out is against both the spirit and the letter of the legal system in place for 808 years.
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  679. He always looks like he's on something.
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  680. Your pro-Chow bias is showing in your obedient adoption of her cynical term "revenue tools." You're journalists, supposedly. Don't cheerlead for Chow. The honest term is "higher taxes and fees."
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  681.  @Robespierre-II  It's all for the best, as long as they don't pay the full world market price. If no one bought any Russian oil there wouldn't be enough to go around for everybody, meaning the price would likely double. Economic problems would be massive worldwide, for rich and poor countries alike. India's economy would be terribly afflicted. The good thing is that opinion polls appear to show a surge in support for Ukraine among Indians.
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  682. Hey man, the West isn't like some kind of hotel you can check into. In or out, dude. Commit and stay, or go.
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  683. And who can doubt that she had a key hand in his disgracefully undemocratic ouster and its stunningly perfect timing? (Perfect for her.) It reminds me of the slick 1964 removal as Soviet president of a moderate, Khrushchev, orchestrated behind the scenes by the hardliner Leonid Brezhnev.
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  684. The program hosts are simply boorish. Both of them. I could never behave that way.
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  685. Turning off body cams should generate automatic alerts which must be reviewed by a supervising officer within a day of the shift. Obviously, most will just show the officer approaching a bathroom door for a personal break. Anything else would have to be looked into. Officers must know that each time there will be oversight and scrutiny.
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  686. "Don't try to get these people to like you." Omg, deafening applause: :washhands::washhands::washhands::washhands::washhands: I now realize he's actually a dissident.
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  687. 👍Daniil, you're terribly young to have such skill at being serious and amusing at the same time. 👏👏 Quite uncommon. (But I've seen it multiple times among people both of whose parents are professors.) Carry on! And promise to stay in the public eye for decades. We need serious-and-amusing to keep us on this earth.
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  688. ​ @keep-ukraine-free  No, trans ideologists did not create the word gender. They took it from feminists. Feminists stole it from linguistics, where it refers to ordinary nouns and pronouns (but not in English linguistics). La belle, le beau, e.g.
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  689. The intensification of the China-Russia relationship over the past couple of years reminds me somewhat of the German-USSR non-aggression pact, in that it seems likely to end badly. The difference is that in the latter arrangement both parties harboured the intent to destroy the other or to see the other destroyed, whereas in this case Russia can't do much to China but China can do plenty of destructive things to Russia. Putin is doing all kinds of damage to his country with this 'unlimited friendship.'
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  690. Ah yes, but coming next: Adults who identify as children enter karate competitions against 12-year-olds, with predictable results.
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  691. I cannot listen to him, look at him or even have the thought of him cross my mind without my skin crawling. He simply has to go and so does his party. Now.
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  692. ​ @MrDavidznuff  And Spain and Portugal have at last recovered only in the past few decades. It took five hundred years. But the damage inflicted before the Reconquest lives on in Latin America.
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  693.  @jamesginty6684  Stop posting duplicate comments. You put the identical one up 9 minutes earlier.
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  694.  @nowthatsasupplydrop751  Free advice: when you insult someone's intelligence, never misspell the insult. Bad look.
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  695. Incredible disrespect and rudeness shown by this interviewer, even for a journalist. Pompous and self-important, inconsiderate of viewers and the distinguished general alike. Should be replaced immediately.
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  696.  @andyquinn7312  Mostly it has not. It's very anemic. It has fallen sharply relative to its peers. The Canadian standard of living has tumbled. This is clearly not your area of specialization.
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  697.  @stevencock6731  Obvious? He could have anything shoved up there. I guess you guys have meetings or parties where you decide these things? Wait, I don't want to know.
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  698. "Disinformation Governance Board" People don't eat in the afterlife, so they can't throw up—but George Orwell is trying anyway in case it somehow provides a bit of relief.
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  699. I think he's completely right. What madness to go from 2.5 to 8 billion in a single lifetime. What irresponsibility. The amount of resources consumed, animal life annihilated, forests cleared and ruined, air, land, rivers, lakes, and oceans poisoned is ridiculous. Where the hell do people think global warming came from? There's no way 2.5 billion people could have made such a mess. It has caused a hell of a lot of suffering along the way, too, including starvation and armed conflicts. All because people can't use birth control, or keep their zippers up or knees together otherwise. In my view the population explosion is one of the most embarrassing things humans have gotten up to, and although the West let up by about 1975, overall since 1945 it's been quite the team effort.
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  700. The US isn't reacting publicly much because votes in Michigan 60 days from now are more important.
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  701.  kingmeke76  It's the other way around.
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  702. Excellent interviewing, camera work, video quality, sound quality, music, editing, translation, graphics…the works. This kind of thing is never done better.
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  703. Just wander over to the Times site right now and spend half an hour. See what happens to your flickering candle.
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  704. I don't care for vapid Millennial neologisms either. But NPC is a good one. It captures the essence of someone with no agency, mind or soul, and no purpose but to behave automatically, take up space, or add numbers to one side or the other. It's like the term 'extra' from the movie business, but richer.
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  705. Bravo Britain🇬🇧👏, Ben Wallace 👏and Rishi Sunak👏. Let this serve as an example to other allies of Ukraine🇺🇦! 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦🇯🇵🇦🇺....
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  706. More like the equivalent of the leadership which enacted "agricultural reform" in the USSR and China, the result of which was mass famine and tens of millions of deaths by starvation. The similarity is the devotion to ideology over the vital interests of the country's people.
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  707. How do you know that number? If it's known there are 50k, why shouldn't we suppose there are actually 500k?
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  708. NATO not only succeeds at its mission, but even with so many members not pulling their weight, it is of immense financial benefit to the US and always has been. It directly supports your standard of living and personal wealth, not to mention US national security. Your personal net worth would take a severe hit if NATO disappeared. Not so for the WHO and UN.
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  709. "Paraffin" more or less means candle wax in the US, while in the UK it means kerosene. It's probably used in the UK sense here, as a candle-wax factory isn't much of a military target.
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  710. Times reporter to DeSantis: "Do you have a view on Brexit?" DeSantis: [Gives answer] Times podcast host: "Why on earth should a state governor from Florida be talking to a foreign newspaper about international politics?" <------More staggeringly silly than anything I could've dreamt up.🙄 Bravo 👏
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  711. Most recently: Putin, with special laws, end of February 2nd-most recently: Trudeau, with special laws, middle of February
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  712. Several years earlier the Britannia with Royals aboard visited my city, a Commonwealth metropolis. On a Saturday night during its stay, as our club threw a large party, dozens of its crew arrived in uniform outside the front door, unannounced. Evidently they were roaming about in search of fun. They had found it, for we of course invited them in, and our guests welcomed them warmly for drinking, loud conversation and dancing. The crewmen conducted themselves as one would expect, jovially and impeccably.
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  713.  @mnml  Correct. Imagine being on the same side of anything as Noam Chomsky.😮
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  714. International Clown Association: "Hey, leave us out of this. Sure we scare children and aren't funny, but she terrifies and sickens people of all ages."
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  715. At 20:08 she says "...basic democratic tenants..." That's right, tenants instead of tenets . Quel sac à douche.
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  716.  @whitemughal2  As an extremely good speller it looks good to me.
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  717. Starmer could easily be cast in a remake of 1984 as O'Brien, the INGSOC commissar and persecutor/torcheror of Winston Smith. He's got that authoritarian face, somewhat wide around the cheeks; soulless, staring, predatory eyes; large teeth. Looks like he'd have a lot of PSI behind his bite.
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  718. Kringela
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  719.  @aaronclarke1434  I'll take the worst Finn endorsing NATO accession over a million self-regarding Chomsky disciples any day. Lovely country, Finland.
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  720. Beavis and Butthead: "Stop comparing us to dork ant-brains. Heh-heh. Heh-heh."
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  721. Him: A human mouth moving, but the mind of a small turnip.
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  722. Zelensky to Putin: "Crimea river."
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  723. Scott Jennings for Secretary of Telling People to Smarten Up For a Change!
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  724. In her eyes they are a lever marked "Pull here for complete control."
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  725. Sherbourne & Shuter isn't regarded as Cabbagetown. It's Moss Park.
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  726.  @annaclarafenyo8185  Rosie O'Donnell being able to run a marathon isn't a great case to make against the original comment. But at least you've got a colourful imagination, and that much I admire. I won't be returning to this thread. Cheers
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  727. Many would say princess.
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  728. World Potato Council: "Hey, stop using potatoes as a metaphor for Russia!"
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  729. It's society's fault, so such men deserve serious compensation.
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  730. Now comes the news that Biden has egged Trudeau on, telling him to end the protests. He has offered him the assistance of US security forces. Canada is going to lose it over this development.
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  731. And some seriously think that prisons are wrong and they should be emptied. Don't dismiss me on this point either: not long ago anybody would have scoffed at the idea of what is being permitted now. Slippery slopes are real. Societies crumble in slow motion. (Well, at some points, not so slow.)
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  732. Ok, Peskovchik.
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  733. Come on, Germany. Make a contribution to European security proportional to your standing. You fed the Russian bear for decades, making it grow big and strong, with great fangs and immense claws, and now it's rabid. Really rabid. Support Ukraine vigorously, sincerely, generously.
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  734. I perceive that at last he is in over his head.
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  735. Yeah, but can we just agree on one thing?: Eff Joe Bidet.
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  736. "Raise your hand if you've ever been called crazy." [Every single one of her listeners raises her hand. Because well, you know.]
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  737.  @wuper2270  Found the Luigi fan.
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  738. Thank you. This video reeks of neo-Marxist wokester dogmatism. The effete nasal hipster accent and the assertion at the one-minute mark that the US had an empire like Britain tell you most of what you need to know. He (or whatever the pronoun is) probably has a sham PhD from Brown.
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  739. Well, it's finally official: Times Radio is not a journalism but a political activism outlet. Not because of our host or anything she said. She passed journalistic muster, I'm glad to say. No, it's because of the appalling headline. Only a political activist group could even dream of composing and then shamelessly publishing it.
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  740.  @rollthedice54  So? The GST (1) replaced a host of outdated and regressive other hidden taxes, (2) was revenue-neutral, (3) was accompanied by generous rebates for poor people. I see you are—and have long been—an avid consumer of pink-tinted media. Yet it may not be too late to recover, to mature into heterodoxy (i.e., picking and choosing views one by one, instead of unthinkingly as a single mass-marketed package).
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  741. BM: "My advice, Signora: moderate your views or things probably won't turn out well for you."
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  742. If there were any justice, now all those responsible for their arrests would themselves be arrested, thrown in the clink, charged, tried and sent to prison.
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  743. He could be a famous or semi-famous DJ or musical performer. There's a reason Putin made an example of P. Riot. It was to scare other people in the same line of work and related ones. It could also just be a matter of "I'm starting out, I'm a little bit known, and I wanna have a career, dude."
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  744.  @mitchyoung93  Try to read more carefully. The term "vis-à vis" was important for proper comprehension there. Also, try not to say "LOL". It makes you sound about 13.
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  745. That first loudmouth from the CP lets on that politicians are out of line if they question something bureaucrats have decided. How anti-democratic can you get? Canadian journalism is simply swirling in the proverbial toilet bowl. Can we just let it flush and start again somehow?
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  746. Ukrainian drone operator dropping ordnance onto Russian column: "Here's a present from Ukraine. Divide it amongst yourselves."
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  747. Senior Democrats forced her to rewrite her speech moments before. They found out her peace plan was to send in social workers.
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  748.  @xmathmanx  "[A]lmost all left wing people are very critical of stalin [sic], obviously" A lot of them make excuses or just go through the motions of criticizing him, and won't own up to the evil of oppressing people. They'd like to see the same oppression here, just without the slaughter and mass imprisonment. But the slaughter and mass imprisonment are what make it work.
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  749.  @garyhaggquist740  I believe he means he'd gladly have intimate relations with her. There's no logical way that makes him a hater of women. So how about you spare us all? Have a nice day.
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  750. I won't mention her drawbacks (we all have them), I'll just agree that she's very intelligent and capable, and add that she's a very good woman.
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  751. Btw, English Montrealers think they're the holders of that title and I think they're right. (William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, Dick Pound, Oscar Peterson, Glenn Ford, Stephen Pinker, Mordecai Richler, e.g.) Gorgeous accent.
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  752.  @joanr3189  Are you kidding? You're doing a bit, right? That's gotta be a schtick. You mean it never occurred to you that His Royal Peter Pan-ness should pay for his own resort or hotel stay? And his own air travel? You know, pay for his own vacation? Can you explain why he shouldn't? $400k isn't enough to live on? He ran out of 3rd-generation chain-of-gas-stations money? He shouldn't simply have to live within his means like all of us? Help me out here.
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  753.  @TheTolz0  Someone has to graduate last in every class.
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  754. Hey Prime Minister Peter Pan, how about some Emergency legislation to deal with endemic gang violence? You didn't hesitate to invoke martial law when ordinary Canadians were non-violently protesting your policies in front of the Parliament Buildings. Come on, tough guy.
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  755. True. A life as a homemaker is below a woman worth her salt. She should be working, and hire various women not suited to other work, to bring up her children.
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  756. First, she doesn't have balls. Second, she's outside of Russia. I respect her views, of course. She made cogent points.
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  757. Fewer than 100 Representatives voted against holding the votes. (55 Reps., 39 Dems.) That bodes well for passage. Fingers crossed.🤞
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  758. A lot of replies that he'll stay for a long time (decades, forever), as though he's 45 or 50. 🤨 But he turns 70 in two months.
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  759. I have to agree. Humour is a really high-ranking faculty. It's worth noting that America's acknowledged dean of letters is the great Mark Twain. It ain't Henry James.
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  760. Putin was like "Yeah, you're right, Ukraine must surrender in the name of peace."
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  761. No, because she was born into particular groups, and that gives her a license to be a hypocrite.
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  762. Yep. There was no other possibility.
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  763. Ford is right. It's time to end this alcohol sales regime from the 1890s. Visitors from other countries are just gobsmacked that such a thing still exists.
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  764. My first concern is that this move by Russia was a pinpoint tactic aimed at concealing the deployment of battlefield resources either in Ukraine itself or in nearby Russian territory, i.e. in order to set up an offensive. The MQ-9 may have been stationed at the best or even the sole point of observation for certain zones and the data collection stream may now have a blank in it as a result. Monitoring by satellite and drone is said to be complementary, not redundant.
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  765. The video title was poorly chosen in the sense that it misleads about the interview guest's message. It was well chosen in the sense that it stimulates interest among people seeing the thumbnail. Be careful, Times Radio, for a news outlet has trust or it has nothing.
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  766. It's been a year already? Great!  Omg, that's so good that one year is already gone. We're a year closer to the opportunity to vote her out.👍
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  767. "We don't give a hoot." Yeah, I really bet he said 'hoot.' 😂
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  768. Good God almighty that is one fast missile. Unbelievable. 👏👏👏
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  769.  @Elazar40  False utopianism, under which injustice would be so entrenched as to be impossible to even speak about, let alone potentially address. You advocate for the twin plagues of the urge towards reckless, destructive, utopian innovation, and the urge to be on a side which is totally triumphant. Reminds me of the arsonist's drives somewhat: set a fire, watch it burn, take satisfaction that oneself did it, that it was really for the best, that the gesture was uncompromising.
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  770.  @yangfan66  The government is your dad, and you have to watch him beat your mother. Then he brags to everybody how smoothly the household runs. I wish improvements for you soon! Good luck, friend!
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  771. False. Ukraine is not paying. The equipment and services are a joint donation from SpaceX and the US govt agency USAID.
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  772. Parole requirement: to work each day pumping gas for no pay.
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  773. Yeah, it's so important not to hold Russia responsible for anything. What did they ever do?
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  774.  @Be-Es---___  But by "the late 1930s" the Weimar Republic was long gone. Basic history. Anyway, if one enumerates the major problems of the Weimar, one sees that the US has none of them. To choose just two of several examples, where's the 50-billion-percent hyperinflation and sheer collapse of the standard of living?
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  775. His counterparts today, now that ISIL apparently is rooted out, are the Western stooges who say we can perfect humanity. All we have to do is take away all its rights, deluge it with commands, arrest and imprison the disobedient, and strike terror into the hearts of the rest. Like ISIL, but out of Yale and Berkeley. (E.g. no men, no women, no races, but it's all about race and there are really 100+ "genders".) Stalin, from hell, 2021: "Oh, these guys are good. Really good."
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  776. In related news, Justin Trudeau will leave office in a couple of weeks. Earlier today, Germany rid itself of Olaf Scholz. A conservative will be chancellor. And Australia stands poised to unseat Anthony Albanese in May. There's a lot to like about 2025 so far.
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  777. Currently it's Canada, America's trade nemesis and worst super-enemy ever, according to the Dunce-in-Chief. (#1 buyer of US exports, distant #9 in trade surplus)
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  778.  @parkcaro  And it only makes perfect sense. They've been taught to have a very bad opinion of boys and men. Why would anyone care much about the opinions of people they think are low?
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  779. If Marjorie Taylor Greene really does want Lord Cameron to kiss her hefty hinder region, she must do her part. As no British Foreign Secretary walks to his appointments, let her not delay a moment in having a helicopter landing pad painted on it.
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  780. As Pres. Zelensky knows no Hindi, it indicated that his remarks were addressed to Indians at home. If he were speaking to Zelensky, he would likely use the only language they both know, namely English. (He might resort to a translator.)
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  781.  @stevewesby  Disabled comments—meaning censored comments—are a key component of the imposition of harmful change on unwilling society. There must be billions of them a year. (Some comments, of course, aren't deleted entirely, they're just buried where no one will see them. Same thing.) Silencing disagreement wouldn't happen on such a scale if it were just to maintain a civil tone on websites. It's absolutely vital to their agenda or they wouldn't do it. Opportunities to be heard on social media—which is the new public square, make no mistake—are now greatly restricted and rapidly drying up.
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  782.  @calgreg2569  It makes no sense at all. The assistance Canada is providing to the poor victim nation of Ukraine does not stand in the way of our ability or willingness to fight our forest fires. If our governments aren't doing enough about these blazes, the reasons lie elsewhere. Any Putin supporter would love your post, though, and the one you're replying to.
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  783. Absolutely. 🇺🇦
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  784. Careful now, Prof. Sowell. It is dangerous to set people straight on these matters, for envy is commonly one of the major load-bearing timbers in the edifice of human souls.
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  785. Scott has a unique speaking style involving not breathing, not pausing and not altering pitch. Enjoyable.
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  786. ​ @sweetleaf9668  You're profoundly misinformed. You should care about that. He always files a tax return and always pays his taxes. In the US, income taxes are payable on income, whether salary or employer stock options exercised. Hence the name 'income tax.' As he collects no salary and has exercised no stock options (or an extremely small number) for years, he has been assessed a very small tax bill over that time. Since five weeks ago he has been in the process of realizing income by selling shares, doing it in full public view. This creates a tax liability which will run to the several billions of dollars. He is aware of this and is expressly doing it largely in order to make a tax payment. Depending on at what point he wraps it up, the bill will come to perhaps $10bn, maybe even $15bn according to some. The cash proceeds of the share sales will be applied to the tax bill. He will owe it. It is the law, which he has never been accused of evading or breaking, even by his red-faced enemies. He will be taxed at the highest possible rate, 53%. The payment will be the greatest amount of tax ever paid by anyone, anywhere, at any time in history. In fact, by delaying all this for some time, he has created a multi-billion-dollar bonanza for US and California tax coffers. If he had done it when the shares were a small fraction of what they are now, the tax proceeds would have been similarly scanty in comparison. (And who deserves the credit for that meteoric rise in Tesla's value? Musk himself and the employees he hires and manages. The government helped somewhat, by giving customers rebates in some cases—other automakers enjoyed the same arrangement—and by forcing Telsa's legacy competition to make cash payments to it as punishment for making no or few EVs. But as far as I'm aware, no taxpayer money ever went to Tesla itself. In fact the government is now in effect slapping a huge tax on Teslas alone, by denying its customers the same rebates they can get if they buy an EV from any other US maker.) Despite all that, Sen. Warren decided to take a cheap shot at him a couple of days ago by calling him a freeloader on Twitter and exhorting him to do what he is already very much doing. Grandstanding in its purest form. So sit down, and breathe. Just breathe. And in the future, look into things to determine the truth, not to have your opinions confirmed, your feelings assuaged or to open up opportunities for sanctimony. Develop some greater respect for the facts.
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  787. "As a normal woman without a victim mentality [...]" But a woman without a victim mentality has long since ceased meriting the designation 'normal.' Rather, you're a bit of a rare specimen. That single nitpick aside, thanks for your post.👏 All the best to you.
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  788.  @Steve-yo4ld  Well duh, of course. But it is essential to Gad's satire that they were in the same city at the time. Satire rests on a foundation of truth, hilariously manipulated.
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  789. Sure, it's guaranteed to cause mass deaths if a road is closed.🙄 That's why many roads are closed countless times a year for demonstrations which the government and media agree with, fun-runs, marathons, Gay Pride, food festivals of many different kinds, Caribana, sports victory celebrations...
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  790. He's not all there. I'm serious—I think he needs a psychiatric examination. Prime Minister Cringe.
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  791.  @fukpoeslaw3613  Political freedoms, including freedom of speech, past 10 years (imo): UK: Approx. 9.6 ---> 9.3 Russia: Approx. 4.5 ---> 3.5 I love how you employ the word problem in such an egalitarian fashion! 😂 Such a fair man.
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  792. I like Kyle Kemper. He'd make a better prime minister. You can look him up on this site, where he has a channel and appears in some interviews. The Feb. 8 one on GBN caused a stir for his frank comments about Trudeau.
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  793.  @HoudsAVProduction  Stop spamming that absurd and offensive comparison.
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  794. @neoabraxas That was an objectively sanctimonious thing for you to say.
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  795. Singh helped him.
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  796. Good job, Ukraine! Now do it three million more times.
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  797. Thank you.
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  798. Très bon. Formidable.
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  799. Wrong. The investigation lasted two weeks. Police know who is in this organized group, what it was up to, and why. It targeted a Jewish-owned business. Never assume that just because you don't know something, no one does. That's over-the-top solipsistic.🙄
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  800. Correct, and nor is what Germaine Greer said: "A man who cuts his c~~~ off isn't a woman, he's a man without a c~~~."
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  801.  @bryantaylor4956  That's pretty insulting to 15-yr.-olds, really. I'd say a 7-yr. old level. 😄
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  802.  @johnnyenglish583  I agree with every word of that. Very well thought out summary.
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  803.  @GaryLuKOTH  Oh dear. You should've been able to tell his point is that 'veganism' is chiefly attractive as an avenue to sanctimony. (If you're even a tiny bit hazy on the precise meaning of sanctimony, I urge you to look it up.)
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  804. Strange, that Australia: some of the worst politicians, one of the best news channels.
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  805. "You know the thing!"
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  806.  @redford4ever  Current Russian GDP growth is phantom growth. Massive war spending registers as higher GDP. But it will evaporate when the war stops, Russia being left with a withered private sector, meaning lower GDP. As for German "stagflation," its inflation is 2.0% vs. Russia's (official) 8.5%.
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  807. It's time for every Western country to end government news. One should not get news from the same organization which writes the laws.
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  808. Most taxes paid by any one person in history.
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  809. Let him have his peace. But we want ours in return, oi.
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  810. And it always comes from people who are themselves dripping with r-word.
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  811. Ask that odious scrap of silicon what gives it the right to lecture human beings on morality.
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  812. "In the latest year for which CRA data is available, 27.5 million people filed a tax return. Of that, over 9.1 million people or one-third of all filers paid no federal income tax that year. Thus 18.4 million tax filers paid all federal and provincial income tax." —Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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  813. World Sewage Association: "Hey, stop comparing human waste to that guy!"
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  814. Yes. Seeing that, my opinion of him actually improved a bit. Compare him to the stone-faced Bloomberg.
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  815.  @egrytznr8893  Are you ok? Do you think maybe you should talk to someone? I would get that checked out.
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  816. Hunter Biden: "Allow me to introduce myself."
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  817. Likely: Overnight bail Needed: Woodchipper
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  818. Want to do something concrete to back Milei and his plans? Do as I've done: Stop buying your wine from anywhere but Argentina. Viva Malbec!🇦🇷 Viva Argentina!🇦🇷 Viva Milei!🇦🇷
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  819.  @jaykay1053  I saw The Putin Files shortly after it aired and watched it with great interest. Then I watched it again a year or two ago.
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  820. Yep. What a surprise—teach children to be fragile weirdos and they end up fragile weirdos.
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  821.  Mastodon1976  I notice things that I think he wraps up too neatly, but then he probably knows more about them than I do. On the whole I regard him not as the cleverest, but clever at any rate. I appreciate the many basic things he's got right, things which are under threat as each generation proves inferior to the one before. I guess I share some of his social values for the most part, and he articulates them fairly well, which does little to chill my regard for him. I think he has far more respect for others than any of his opposite counterparts who themselves never tire of demanding respect and who as a matter of fact seem to know nothing about it.
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  822. It's a real question whether Xi will permit Americans to elect Trump.
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  823.  @TheJlee28  The word salad continues. Apparently it's contagious. Please, wear a mask and stop the spread. 😆
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  824. How about this one?: Born to be ruled.
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  825. I have been unable to find sanction in dictionaries or other sources for pronouncing Taiwan to rhyme with 'I can' (whether in the US or UK). So will you please teach your robot to say it correctly? Tip: Do a search & replace of your script, swapping out Taiwan for tie-wan. The bot should take the cue and use the pronunciation of the word wan ('pale from exhaustion or illness').
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  826.  @Velishea  If I believed in god I'd pray for your soul. But I don't, so I'll just say seek help.
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  827. Rights are about people not being able to do things to you. When you demand that other people start doing things for you, I don't know what that is—it's being a self-regarding, entitled, narcissistic eh whole, I suppose—but whatever it is it's not rights.
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  828.  @MoeSizlack-i2j  A very Moe-like reply, actually, except for not being funny.
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  829. Where a mind should be, a heap of delusions has been erected in its place. Accessing reality from underneath it is an impossibility.
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  830.  @garethwest9069  Unfair and vicious of you. He didn't really understand where she had gone in the first place. She disappeared not just from his life but from her job as well. And he had feelings for her, so when she reappeared he was vulnerable to her charms. I feel sorry for the people in your own life, actually. If any. Have a nice day.
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  831. What scares me is that if Sky News Australia didn't bring us coverage like this, no one would.😮
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  832. She's Oprah's "spiritual advisor," and I am not joking. 🤣
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  833. Hey, cool. These are the same numbers I compiled and posted two weeks ago. If you saw my comment and got them from there, great. Also shows it wasn't shadowbanned.😄 Post this often and elsewhere, btw.👍
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  834. Good, I've been looking around for such a treatment of this subject. Three points/questions: (1) Are your counts confirmed losses only, combatant claims, independent estimates, or a combo? (2) It'd be even better to break them down into equipment type, as it's much worse to lose, e.g. an air defense battery or truck-mounted radar, than multiple APCs or fuel tankers. But I'm still very grateful. (3) How do we put these losses into a sustainability context? If the Russian average has been 100 per week, it's now closing in on 10,000 vehicles/artillery pieces lost. (Much higher, though, I think.) Given its estimated (but classified) production rates, how much longer can that continue? I know, it's a huge and likely unanswerable question. Thank you. —Impressed new subscriber
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  835.  @alanthealien6859  Thank you for the link. It is appalling that the numerous MSM reports I've watched make no mention of these things.
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  836. 1837: "The Emperor has no clothes" 2024: The Emperor has no brain
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  837.  @western-m1a2  Yes, of course. Hence the joke "heavily modified." (The Volvo V70R which I mentioned was a sleeper wagon with, at that time in 2003, the most powerful engine ever produced by Volvo Cars.)
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  838. It's not named after Putin, it's named after his hero.
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  839. I wouldn't trust her to run a small daycare.
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  840. I'm supposed to believe that pretty little thing commits crimes? 😂
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  841. Mein Kampf 2.0 😂
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  842. The best, cleanest and most healthful water contains considerable dissolved minerals. The human body expects and needs them. The most expensive and best tasting (glass-) bottled water is called mineral water, and it's for a reason. It's no doubt good to filter out many things from water, but not the minerals.
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  843. It is unrelated to voting or the election.
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  844. He really ended up not deserving any such honours. City Council's mania for renaming things is disgraceful.
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  845. @ I was addressing Americans. So you mean "Yes, correct!" I'm saying that you and I actually agree.
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  846. Decades of poor schooling and cultural and social decay have finally produced a nation where the median person is as dumb as a tree. People that dumb are absolutely, positively bound for tyranny. There will not be fairly clean elections falling on time 15 or 20 years from now. Not a chance. (I regard the recent elections, btw, as 'fairly clean' by world standards, which aren't that great.)
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  847. Yeah, it's weird. I don't know. In no particular order, my thoughts are that maybe: The bureaucracy is slow and unresponsive, that stopping the system would punish influential US companies too much for their tastes, and it takes years to get anything through Congress. I suppose even corruption is possible, since you'd think a lot of big US companies must be mad as hell about it, and US companies are supposed to boss Washington around, aren't they? My final guess is that there are numerous secret side deals in US-China trade, informal ad hoc agreements to smooth the waters in private. It is always possible for each to agree to overlook one or two of each other's violations for the time being. Only a limited amount could be done, but I suspect they co-operate in this one way, almost a bit like the prisoner exchanges in the Cold War. From what I gather trade treaty flexibility is a thing. Both sides get something out of it.
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  848. (1) He uses the same very strange, affected vocal delivery as Glenn Greenwald. (Who copies whom?) I dislike it intensely. (2) He strikes me as a charlatan because he's interested in convincing people rather than persuading them. It's probably because he can't persuade them, due to incoherence. (3) I'd frame the central problem of democracy very briefly as: Democracy is the best system for fostering human development, dignity, prosperity and security, but it's the hardest one to sustain. It's not a system for nitwits, it's a system for the best people. Yet by fostering human development, dignity, prosperity and security, it also creates the ideal conditions for people to slack off and deteriorate. In short, democracies have trouble producing the people needed to sustain them. (The US holds the all-time record at only 247 years.) This is hardly a full explication of the problem, but I think it's the matter that most needs addressing and it's where we should start.
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  849. No, it's science all right. It's just not peer-reviewed science. The Origin of Species wasn't peer reviewed either. Peer review isn't the touchstone of truth nor is it synonymous with it, it's just an assertion of truth purported to have been found in someone's paper. Nobel prizes have been handed out for work that refuted peer-reviewed work. For that matter, in time a Nobel prize may very well be handed out for work that refutes earlier Nobel-prize-winning work. And, all science aside, don't forget the Academy Awards are peer review.
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  850. Yes, it's important never to say that there's anything wrong with Russian murder of harmless people in a smaller, weaker neighbour. That would be politically slanted.
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  851. During!
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  852. And somehow they never got around to condemning his tax cuts. What a bunch of see-through old bags.
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  853. 'Choice': "If I choose to say it's my baby and a human being, it is. If I choose to say it's a tumour that's got to be cut out of me, it is. Choice means reality is what I say it is." Next: "Reviving Greek infanticide—exposing unwanted newborns on the rocks—is essential for protecting a woman's right to choose."
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  854. Hey, now Italians are a race. 1:30 Please somebody, take one of the Rocky Mountains and stuff it in her mouth.
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  855.  @spongememefunnypants9101  Misanthropy is paid for with unhappiness.
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  856. 36% of American adults are obese. A further sizeable fraction are merely overweight. Aside from residents of some lightly-populated Pacific islands, only Kuwaitis are fatter.
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  857.  @tonycatman  Have you noticed, by the way, the collapse of good looks? For a few generations now Westerners have enjoyed greatly increased sexual freedoms, but these have not affected everyone equally. They have given good-looking people incentives to have fewer or no children. Along with what you call strength, beauty has become much rarer, and no one is talking about it.
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  858. Complete B S News
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  859.  @susanwestern6434  According to a recent report they are also providing night vision equipment. 😡
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  860. Many men find Peterson helps them be stronger. She likes her men weak. He is thus a threat to her emotionally.
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  861. Can you imagine, such a marvellous person has an enemy who would turn her in?🤣
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  862. The peak homicide rate of 106.3 per 100k wasn't "every 10,000th person." Way, way worse.  It was every 940th person. 🤯 Anyway, I'm so glad they got their country back.
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  863. To me, Starmer would be perfect as O'Brien in a remake of Nineteen Eighty-four. I'm not trying to be flip, I really mean it.
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  864. Isn't there something wrong with him in the noggin that could use treatment? He strikes me as the type who would knock off his grandmother and then say nothing to police or during his trial.
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  865. Against every valuable social, political and legal custom and tradition.
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  866. I hope the perpetrators are caught so they can never repeat this abomination. My sympathies and condolences to you and your countrymen and -women.
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  867.  @frankrenda2519  A poot-bawght talking about truth is like an escort talking about love.
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  868. Defund the ABC. Now. Down with government news.
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  869. People don't report crimes. Because they don't see any point in it. The 911 dispatcher gives off attitude like she/he doesn't care, like you're imposing, like it doesn't matter. The cops ordinarily don't show up for many hours. When they do, they listen and take the information, then shrug and leave. The courts...well, you know.
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  870. It's true that almost anyone who wishes to oppress anyone else will falsely claim to be doing it in the defence of freedom. But so will anyone who is sincerely trying to defend freedom. So we are left with having to evaluate all claims carefully and soberly. That's all.
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  871. It's interesting that Princeton is never tarred with same brush as other Ivy League and 'elite' colleges. Something to do with its crushing workloads, I suppose. But with the administration having finally caved in to the nationwide grade-inflation madness over the past decade, maybe that won't last.
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  872.  @Bat-Cat-Meow  Making points, as you smugly put it in the belief that you've somehow dismissed something, is all part of something called Thinking Things Through. You've heard of it, of course? It's vastly inferior to "effecting meaningful change" from one point of view; but from another it's absolutely vital to understanding just what in fact needs to be changed. What are you going to tell me now — that logic, reason, thought, argumentation and calm deliberation are all right-wing, sexist, racist and elitist? I suggest you tear down your mind and rebuild it from its very foundations before it falls over from being so badly constructed. It's a hazard to passers-by.
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  873. Iran is become Goliath, eyeless in Gaza — and in Lebanon.
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  874. I will be going out of my way not to go back there. Liquor and wine only. The beer is colder at Metro anyway, checkout is quicker, hours are later.
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  875. It did, once. He sniffed it for some time, but you're correct, he failed to recognize it.
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  876. Germany: "This is a tragic situation, a great crisis, and therefore Germany will do as little as possible. Security in Europe is the job of the Americans; our job is to eat sausages and keep setting a moral example for them."
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  877. The latest case in point: the marvellous new S-500 air defense system, the very first example of which is now in smoking ruins in Crimea. It's not up to the task. Its R&D, wasted. Its production line, useless. Export sales, poof!, gone. Billions in investment, all those resources, all that hope, lost.
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  878. I think she clawed his face two or three times. She might or might not have drawn blood but I think he was dealing with considerable stinging and that's what the vocalizing was about.
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  879. The persecution of Stalinists in positions of influence or security-sensitive roles in the US, whether by the state or anyone else, was a grand thing.
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  880. Hey! Scrap copper recycling! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before? Bravo, young man, bravo! 👏👏👏👏
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  881. Let's be clear: even in his prime Joe Biden was not smart enough for any of the offices he's held. The United States, Delaware---hell, the backwaters of West Virginia---can do better than him.
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  882. I came here to type those exact words. Now I feel empty.
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  883. Hamas gave Israelis zero minutes and zero seconds. Ten minutes is an eon in comparison. Enough to get practically a kilometer away on foot.
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  884.  @Kennon959  Three years ago Russia seemed on a track to prosperity and probably soon having the largest economy in Europe. Though I'm glad that, yes, the people won't starve, all that's ruined now.
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  885. Harrison Bergeron is a memorable story about "social justice" by Kurt Vonnegut. In the repressive authoritarian society depicted in its dystopia, graceful ballet dancers were forced to wear iron weights on their ankles so that they would hold no unfair advantage over clumsy and fat aspirants to the position of ballerina.
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  886. "It's regrettable that we were caught."
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  887. This is turning out to be Wagner's unfinished symphony.
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  888. Jordan Peterson: an ordinary man with uncommon guts and integrity, spreading extraordinarily valuable truths.
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  889. Nah, Palantir's oxygen isn't public or media approval. It's the successful execution of contracts signed with governments and large enterprises. As a company it's in a zone where, compared to most institutions of any sort, it has leeway to be supportive of such things. It'll be more than fine.
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  890. You wanna know the really telling thing? It's when our interviewer asks "Is Russia difficult to rule?"  So innocent, so telling, so staggering in a way to Western ears. Elsewhere in Europe it would be "Is our country difficult to govern?"
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  891.  @hollyboyd1837  Btw, more Americans source their drugs in Canada than Canadians seek medical care in the US. Here again my point is not that US health care cannot offer good service to many Americans. It's that Americans are foolish to think their system is the envy of everyone else. Close to half of Americans avoid visiting a doctor when ill because of the expense involved ("good" insurance still involves paying huge deductibles out of pocket), something which a billion people elsewhere in the developed world do not have to worry about. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/03/26/poll-44-of-americans-skip-doctor-visits-due-to-cost/#47af36b56f57 This is despite paying a shocking 20% of GDP on health care. A few decades ago it was 5%. It's bankrupting your country, making military spending look like peanuts. The American mistake is to let insurance companies rack up untold billions in profit in the process of impoverishing sick people. People elsewhere can't understand why you never got around to putting health care in the same category as police, fire departments, schools, water and sewers, roads, and streetlights. I wonder how many Americans think streetlights are socialist.
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  892. Look at Kringela, pretending to be smart, competent and having any idea of what goes on in the world.
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  893. Yes. Actually if you research who has the most resources, every source says it's Canada. (Value over $30trn.) I simply didn't believe it, so I kept searching and searching, but that's what every source said. So Canada and the US together leave Russia far behind. (Together hey are also larger in area, which might surprise Russians.)
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  894.  @arko6250  Mostly to do with having a 3rd party. The Conservatives came 1st, but 2nd in parliamentary seats. Their votes were concentrated in the seats which they won decisively. The Liberals' votes were more spread out, so they won more seats, almost enough. So the 3rd party made a deal, a watered-down coalition, to support the Liberals. That was key. The leader of the party with the most seats (his own, plus, if needed, others he can bargain for to support him) becomes Prime Minister. It's not usually like this. Next year the Conservatives will simply win 70% of the seats themselves. Bam, done. Thanks for your reply.
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  895. No, the fact that people in the centre and centre-right sometimes see cause for hope in him is embarrassing. The way he gushes over Gavin Newsom is nauseating.
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  896. I am too, very much so. But it's past time something very important were pointed out: that what is really permitting this to happen in Canada is popular support. That's right, the majority of Canadians have been conned by their media into believing that extremist conservatives, instigated by extremist conservative Americans and their money, are trying to take over the country. That is really the biggest crime of all that's being committed—a co-ordinated attack on the truth by the Liberal government and the media. People of all walks of life and all political persuasions opposed to government bossiness over vaccination are being demonized as dupes of far-right Americans. It is this fake narrative that has enabled Trudeau to impose quasi-martial law and suspend civil liberties with majority support.
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  897. I was asked to define 'left-wing activist' but I had to admit I was unable. I'm not an entomologist.
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  898. Apologize? I'm still waiting for Bolt to apologize for vocally supporting Justin Trudeau over the peaceful Ottawa protestors of 2022, whom Trudeau brought in martial law —yes, martial law — to arrest, hold without bail or charges, etc.
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  899. Virtue signalling: "after First Nation [sic] members fall ill." It doesn't matter who the victims are. That they're human beings is all that matters. Un-sanctimonious headline: "Ontario takes action against chemical plant after area residents fall ill."
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  900. Any opening up of the conversation is great news. Now let's have alternatives to FB, Twitter, and YT…while it's still possible.
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  901. "Israel protects its people with rockets. Hamas protects its rockets with its people." —Benjamin Netanyahu
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  902.  @aleksazunjic9672  Ok, Slobodan.
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  903. My Chinese girlfriend and I had broken up and were weeks away from our new separate apartments when I landed an excellent new job, complete with nice car. She immediately begged me to get back together. I said no thank you.
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  904. Obviously a good lad. A standout, not a sellout.
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  905.  @Wolf-hh4rv  1975, Fawlty Towers: "Don't mention the war." 2024, mass media of the Western World: "Don't mention immigration." One funny, the other ridiculous.
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  906. Like any plague, The View can be eradicated simply by everybody distancing themselves from it. It's the people who watch it who are responsible for its continued existence. Let's take our cue from the ironically-named Joy herself, and call them criminals.
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  907. This platform really does bungle a lot of things. Thanks, Prof. Gerdes.
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  908.  @MsBosca66  Yes. And arrogance was the nice part of it.
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  909. Wilde was definitely Irish by birth, but was of English heritage and descent (along with considerable Dutch on his father's side). Both sides of his family moved from England, in the 17th (father's side) and 18th centuries (mother's side). Thus both his parents were protestants and therefore there was scant chance if any at all that intermarriage with Irish catholics had taken place. The Anglo-Irish, as the English settlers were and still are called, although they tended to consider themselves simply British, are sometimes said to have felt "English in Ireland, Irish when in England." In any case, those Irish with no English heritage, as everyone knows, just wanted them out. So while it is unknown to me whether Wilde at any point in his lifetime was prized by many Irish catholics as a native son, there is ample reason to doubt it. It seems likely that people who really know a lot about Wilde and the Anglo-Irish will find something to correct me about, and they are welcome to do so.
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  910.  @ashlynnriley374  I wasn't talking about any such thing, dear. Try to be fair. I was talking about the necessity of frank exchanges, and don't let on I wasn't. I refuse to abide differing levels of personal legitimacy based on race. It's always wrong, and always for the same reasons.
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  911. I'm not so sure our guest is really the right person to consult on this. Imagine a man solemnly proposing that some given woman's awful acts were down to her being flat-chested and having beetling brows. Fairly low psychologizing no matter how you cut it.
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  912. "I love this guy ⬆. He gets it." — Vladimir Putin
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  913. Everybody panic! It's going up to 32 tomorrow! 🙄 For god's sake panic! The local weather map is coloured orange! 😂
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  914. Attention qualified aviators/parachutists, I can't help wondering something: I know it didn't happen, but say there had been one or more parachutes on board and indeed directly at hand, having been brought along in case of just such an occurrence as a wing being blasted off. Would it have been possible to put one on, make for the door, open it and leap in time? It appeared there might have been the better part of a minute available. 🤔
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  915. Von der Leyen's threat was chilling. Who t.f. does she think she is, opposing the will of multiple countries' voting publics? I agree with you, she's sounds like one of Germany's NS politicians from a lifetime ago. "You vill listen! Or else! Vee haff vays!"
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  916. ​ @londonsparrow9531  It could mean the outbreak of multiple wars over a period of years, some spreading well past Russia's borders. It could mean widespread or even global economic upheaval or catastrophe resulting from interruptions to the supply of key commodities, most prominently oil. War in Russia could spell $200+ oil. That would mean worldwide double-digit inflation in very short order. Living standards would drop, unemployment would rise, global tensions would rise, alliances could snap, new ones would form in their place. It could mean nuclear proliferation. What if some part of a former Russian Federation, desperate for money and power, conceived of allying itself to Iran and selling it nuclear weapons? Or selling them to Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Saudi Arabia? It could mean a long period of the splintered republics continuously brandishing their nuclear weapons at each other, at Asian neighbours, at the West, at the world. It seems highly possible that even worse and more unstable gangsters than Putin would take power in some of them. In short, a more unstable, more violent, more chaotic, less prosperous world.
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  917. ​ @theodoreconstantini2548  Fair take. Yet liberalization (e.g. of civil rights) would've been perilously risky too. In a sticky situation, freedom for everyone can above all else mean, unfortunately, freedom for radicals to organize a violent overthrow of the government. Where there's a proliferation of radicals such as communists and would-be theocrats, it can be impossible to "have nice things" such as civil liberties. Damned if you do, etc.
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  918. Leave your blood feuds in the country you left. If you really can't forgo indulging them, then follow your conscience and your heart... by returning to it.
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  919. I think it probably was deliberate. I think we should take a look at who has benefitted most, and also at how much their enemies have suffered. That should take about half an hour before we have our prime suspects.
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  920.  @s7d788  Formerly they had more such potential. I think family life just became so impoverished that how much one generation taught the next fell sharply. You talk to younger people and they're in the dark about almost everything that's going on around them. Hell, older people too, but the young are like they brought themselves up with their phones and PC games. No one taught them much of anything except how terrible it is to offend anyone and how most things are offensive. I'm talking about a sort of emptiness of mind, which is a very dangerous quality to pair with the high emotionality and neuroticism of the recent generations. Anyway, to close on the potential to be independent, maybe what declined can recover somewhat. Btw, I thought your comment was great.
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  921. Kid yelling out to the back yard: "Mom, I think the Amazon guy is here! Want me to get it?"
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  922. Get it out of there. Dismantle it carefully, exhume the buried respectfully, load it all on trains and return it to Russia where it belongs. In its place erect a monument to something else, the end of the Soviet subjugation of East Berlin and East Germany perhaps.
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  923.  @kenT5895  After his 2015 win (and most people forget that he didn't go "progressive" until in office) he never came first in votes. The Conservatives did, in both succeeding elections.
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  924. It scares me that if Sky News Australia didn't bring us coverage like this, no one would.😮
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  925. Yulia & Artyom's chat suggests to me that Putin started this because a demographic window is closing. When the last Soviet-era generations are dead or deep into retirement, no Russian government will find sufficient support for Soviet-type expansion, empire and armed conflict. I've heard that 60% of young Russians oppose the war, while it appears maybe 80% of those over 50 approve of it. Great job Artyom, as always!👍
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  926.  @dpelpal  I'm so sorry I'm terribly sorry please forgive me I'm so sorry.😄
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  927. Why indeed? It's bad manners. So guess who else does it? Which other tactless and nauseating politician? Yes, Canada's greatest embarrassment ever, Prime Minister Peter Pan. He does it all the time. But he'll be gone soon at least...
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  928. Harry isn't much of anything, really. But he does make a loyal wife.
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  929. Except that it's actually named Jumpable Canyon. Just inside Maine off 95.
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  930. Hoist with his own petard, shall we say?
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  931. A herring-based diet?
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  932.  @janicetaylor7516  Quite right. It is things like trust and prosperity which keep the evil from bubbling up. Also a strong discouragement of intense enmity. That's what's changed. The government and the media teamed up to demonize a group, and it's given permission to and unleashed a flood of wild and vicious hatred. Try reading CBC reader comments. They're foaming at the mouth against protesters. How easy it is to whip up violent and hysterical emotions when trusted authorities do it during a period of stress and anxiety.
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  933. ​ @vedser  Nice trolling, Pooty-bot. You're calling an ethnic Russian critical of Russians a xenophobe.
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  934. That cat 5 seconds from the end was your thumbnail and you missed it, Global.
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  935.  @tidbit1877  One, he didn't plow into anyone. Two, bumping into someone isn't assault.
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  936. Wow, the SF area is really in marvellous shape if this qualifies as a story. World's smallest problem.
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  937.  @HegelsOwl  Where did you get the cringingly stupid idea that taking territory isn't at the very least an essential part of the objective? Pretty much to be expected from someone whose screen name tries to borrow the dignity of a goddess of wisdom.🙄
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  938. Faux integrity.
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  939. I love it when Taylor Lorenz appears anywhere and speaks her mind. Each time, she further cements her dismal reputation. It's now irretrievable.👏
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  940. Not quite even 60 years. Completed 1908, demolition begun in 1967.
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  941. The word assailant is the wrong word to use here. Oxford English Dictionary: "assailant noun a person who physically attacks another" (That's the entry. No other senses or definitions.) Try perpetrator.
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  942. Picking up where Merkel left off.
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  943. ​ @razorrabbit2789  "Scholz [was] from 1987 to 1989 also Vice President of the International Union of Socialist Youth. He supported the Marxist wing of the [SPD] university groups, promoting "overcoming the capitalist economy" in articles. In [them] Scholz criticized the "aggressive-imperialist NATO" [and] the Federal Republic [i.e. West Germany] as the "European stronghold of big business." On 4 January 1984, Scholz and other [SPD Youth] leaders met in the GDR with Egon Krenz." —Wikipedia article on Scholz Krenz was a senior official and Politburo member in the communist government of East Germany. To this day Germany is quietly plagued by old communists or near-communists, just as in the 1960s it was quietly plagued by old Nazis. One hopes the current crisis will rid it at last of the old reds, just as 1968 rid it of the old Hitlerites.
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  944. Help him make AOC a waitress again.
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  945. The rest of CNN is a national tragedy.
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  946. He's the middle-school teacher that everyone laughs at, staff included.
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  947. Trudeau is in desperation mode and quite rightly, too. He needs to do anything and everything he can to raise his public approval ratings or MPs will start discussing showing him the door. I mean discussing it more.
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  948. Canada is now like the US: the majority community is quite law-abiding, similar to Europe and Japan for rates of committing crimes. Certain other parts of the community commit crimes at very high rates. Let's start by openly confirming this and then begin talking and brainstorming about what can be done. It's the whole country's choice: more crime or less crime.
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  949.  @trackdusty  Feldman? Where do you get yours?
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  950. Welcome to the Putin-bot comments pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  951. ​ @iakona23  You're definitely right. Among the people voluntarily eliminating their culture and genes from existence are Westerners, S. Koreans and Japanese—particularly the intelligent ones—and I think it's a sad thing. For those who choose to do so, it's their perfect right. Likewise it's the perfect right of others to choose otherwise. I suspect the moral superiority of some commenters here rests rather heavily (and preposterously) on their childlessness. Thus they take offense.
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  952. I can see that European security is truly your wheelhouse.👍  For me this was time very well spent. Thank you.
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  953. I notice in all your videos for the last eight months that the strongest support for the war is from drunken men and from women in their first 20 years or so after menopause.
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  954.  @josdav07  Yet it's the dog who will be euthanized.
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  955. Terrifying. I was in a crowd when I was 18, a concert gathering before the band came on, packed so tight that it was definitely hard to breathe. I was afraid (but not panicked, probably because I foolishly thought it highly unlikely that anything really bad could happen). There were probably only around 1,000-1,500 people but the area was small. I felt very concerned about all the small women and girls. It went on for half an hour at most but of course seemed a lot longer.
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  956.  @friendlywobbly9903  You people are over-reliant on insult as a substitute for rebuttal. It casts your character in an unattractive light.
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  957. Saudi Arabia reminds me of Turkey. Angling to be courted by all, never interested in close partnerships smacking of loyalty, always pressing for the killer deal or deals that will make it the top regional power for generations and guarantee its security and prosperity. Pretty standard for middle powers, I guess. Good job, VP. Tough one to write.
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  958. I can only imagine that his adult handlers are either behind layers of internet cloaking or are overseas. Otherwise why was only this kid caught? He does seem like a very small fish. I hope the investigation is worth continuing.
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  959. Just know, Albertans, that a great many people east of Manitoba take your side in this matter. Watch as every region of the country tosses this government out the window in a few months. A Conservative landslide is brewing, e.g., in Ontario. Correction: heaves it out the window with considerable force.
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  960. I don't wish to know that.
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  961. You seem to be responding to the headline. But Russia has no NCOs.
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  962. "If you're not serious about strategies, you shouldn't do one." She said this one minute after defending Germany's 13th-place ranking in per-capita aid to Ukraine. Ah, Green Party politicians. Such big mouths in opposition, such ordinary faults in power.
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  963. The way Sunny Hostin reacted, it looked to me like she was inwardly quite pleased to find that out. It would certainly fit in with everything else I've ever noticed about her.🤢
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  964. I wonder how long it's been. Could it be the first since the days of Monica Lewinsky and Ken Starr?
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  965. And it didn't happen countless years ago in his intemperate youth, either. It was in 2013 (!).
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  966. From the standpoint of this video as a writing task, I must express my respect and admiration. Your script is a model of concise clarity and logical coherence. Likewise it holds up well against my decades of formal and informal learning in psychology. You've conveyed a great deal of solid understanding and valid nuance in 10 minutes.
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  967.  @markhorton3994  I was punning on Lex Luthor, the nemesis of Superman.
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  968.  @dimelo8826  Well, if you set up shop selling hatred as a way of improving society, the twisted people of the world flock to your door, each demanding to be served first. Thanks, MSNBC. Thanks, CNN. Thanks, Democrats, American universities, Hollywood, the book publishers, the ad agencies and all the rest. Who am I forgetting?
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  969. My mind is made up: Gen. Jack Keane is a very smart guy and a great guy as well.
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  970.  @somkit9102  He specifically instructed them to respect those guarding the Capitol.
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  971.  @echillykahlil  Just to clarify, my real problem is anyone saying real and salutary meaning is religious or quasi-religious in nature, and that's what I hear in this video. I would put it that all religion amounts to an attempt to find meaning, not that all meaning amounts to an attempt to find a religion. Thanks for your reply.
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  972. SpaceX has saved taxpayers many billions of dollars. A perfect example is the Europa Clipper, launched Oct. 14 and now sailing past Mars on its way to Jupiter. In 2021 NASA wanted $2bn+ for the launch and $1bn to redesign the craft. In horror, the govt. handed it over to SpaceX. Total bill: $178m. Savings: $3bn... 93%.
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  973. Oh, but they did know.
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  974. Video title bears zero relation to actual video. Not found or reflected in it in any way. Why use a statement unrelated to the video as the title? Amateur hour, as usual.🙄
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  975. ​ @whyamiwastingmytimeonthis  They still have one foot in feudalism, where the people owe obedience to those the next level up, and the people at the top supposedly act to protect the people and provide security. You can see how it's like liberal democracy up to a point, but instead of a king or dictator we make our government out of people we can give the boot. Russians still don't get that and think it's impossibly weak. It's like a Ukrainian man said to me about Russians decades ago: "Born to be ruled." He could have added: For the past thousand years and at least the next five.
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  976. As you know, in all English-speaking countries but the US, the system of govt. is based more on the local party representatives than the national leader. People don't even vote for the PM, they vote for the local house member. The party that has the most of those (most seats) becomes the govt. Its leader becomes PM. So the Liberals won the most seats, so they won a 4-year term. Now their leader resigned, and since the system is party-based, the party is entitled to the balance of its elected term. I wouldn't say it's perfect but I don't mind it much, because in such a situation, the replacement PM soon calls an election. Consider this: Nobody voted for JD Vance to be president, but if Trump resigned, he would be president. (Clearly Vance would've lost to Harris if they were the two presidential candidates. After all, she only missed beating Trump by 1.48 percentage pts.) So there's no such thing as an early election in the US due to resignation or any other reason whatsoever. But there is in Canada! And there will be one, probably in April, maybe May. The more one compares the two systems, the less questionable Canada's seems.
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  977. She looks confused. Maybe she'll get trapped in her $24,000 fridge.
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  978. ​ @ArtCurator2020  <---"Over and over again, Capitalism shows that it values financial profit over human life." More like on rare and highly newsworthy occasions, owing to the twin facts that business people are human beings who nearly always want to be good (part of which is adhering to regulations), and that human beings—capitalists and non-capitalists alike—are occasionally bad.   And don't forget it was the workers who messed up in this instance as well. Shall we say that "Over and over again, workers show that they value sloppiness over human life"? It is very illogical to adduce an extremely rare collapse to assert that "capitalism always plays the short game." If that were true, building collapses be very common. They would be so common that making a documentary about a partial building collapse 54 years after it happened would be ridiculous, and it certainly wouldn't achieve a million views after six months. You ignore things like the fact that profit-making companies make the airplanes which, even after decades in service, people board in their millions every day, with scarcely the slightest worry. Short game, indeed! Actually, under our free enterprise system (and thanks also to sensible regulation) products and services of all types have become immeasurably safer, as well as more plentiful. Under what I assume is your favoured alternative, socialism, people inevitably remain poor or return to poverty, which is hardly conducive to a high degree of safety. (The real aim of socialism, it turns out, isn't to banish poverty. In fact we see an entrenchment of poverty in the absence of free enterprise. Socialism's real aim, since its foundation is envy, is to destroy the well-off...while paradoxically and hypocritically heaping privilege and luxury on the nomenklatura.) We owe it to ourselves and others to stick to things which we know something about and have thought through, instead of indulging in cheap sanctimony. (We also Shouldn't use initial Capital Letters for Emphasis.)
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  979.  @Ninjersey1  Quite right. Russia has second- or third-rate weapons which they don't even maintain correctly. We have all witnessed their poor preparedness and organization.
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  980.  @二階堂永一  Putin's first job was acting in gay porn movies.
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  981. For instance, no weasel will ever make itself the wedge between major countries like the US and India. World Weasel Association (WWA): "Hey, stop comparing us to Justin Trudeau!"
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  982. I'm impressed by both the man interviewed and The Sun for sourcing him. If this isn't first-rate information or very close to it, then my lifetime of experience and learning have been for nothing. The mere 1.3% likes is a red flag, suggesting to me a likelihood that bot accounts are swarming the video in order to downvote it so that it reaches fewer eyes. Every algo on the internet is being gamed.
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  983.  @mendesjosr4438  Perfectly stated.
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  984.  @BigBBQJones  Mother: He never bothered nobody. He innocent.
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  985. The guilty-minded live in exaggerated fear of punishment for their sins. Which is nice.
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  986. Orwell himself was a member of that class. In his day it was called shabby genteel. The term has withered away considerably, along with the category of people who read books dating from that time.
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  987. This has me thinking about that line-up of university presidents testifying in Congress this week. All four women refused to say that calls for the jenna syde of an ethnic and religious group violated their university's rules of conduct. Ah, female empathy and female justice on display.
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  988.  @stream2watch  Good point. You ought to make it again elsewhere and often.
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  989.  @Theballdoing  Just as I thought! Not one unit of public housing was "sold off" by the Harper government or anyone else. He cancelled subsidies to provincially- or municipally-owned units, but they remained public housing. Or if any did not, it was a local decision. I wish you well in your career at the CBC.
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  990. They put that after every video [edit:] on CMSNBC. [2nd edit: Ok, after every video which they themselves didn't produce, and it's been that way for years.]
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  991.  @spoileralert8440  I've been seeing it for years. Sit down and just breathe.
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  992. Thanks, Kim, for inventing non-violent war, or at least for being the first person it ever occurred to. Can you work on non-fatal death next? How about non-broke bankruptcy?
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  993. Yep. He lawyered up and got a court publication ban on the student's name. Also a rumoured NDA. Reporters caught up with her anyway and she declined to say he never bedded her.
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  994. Omg, the first fully rational and knowledge-based comment I've seen. Thank you.
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  995.  @justinmacarrhur1924  So? Her race doesn't matter. Her lunacy is the problem. Like the vast majority of activists, you can read the unsteady state of both her mind and emotions on her face. (Not that one needs to resort to looking at her to discern those things.)
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  996. VisualPolitik doesn't merit that snide disrespect.
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  997.  @barbjanderson7559  Yep. By the same logic she could say "Burglary isn't about stealing anything, it's about crime," ignoring the flagrantly obvious fact that burglary is both stealing and a crime.
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  998. Praising sub-Saharan African technological prowess many centuries ago is a great way to get grant money, land an endowed chair, become department head, or just live down getting obnoxiously drunk that one time at a faculty gathering.
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  999. ​ @mimi21746  Mencken had a rich and broad mind and knowledge. Your common biologist, sociologist, anthropologist or economist, meanwhile, knows little outside his or her own narrow field of specialization, often qualifying in very many regards as an ignoramus. Such a mental makeup sharply limits the profundity of someone's grasp even of the field he or she works in. The Germans display considerable linguistic wisdom in their word for expert, fachmann (or fachmensch for 'professional.') Besides 'subject man' it also means literally 'compartment man,' 'pigeonhole man' or 'pocket man.'
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  1000.  @jmchez  Thank you.
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  1001. I never use all-caps, but I can't help making an exception right now: PRIME MINISTER PETER PAN, JUST GO.
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  1002. Right at the exact moment the spokesman (Edit: Much worse, the minister) said it was all about making it easier for people to "come and visit," you could hear the conviction evaporate from his voice.
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  1003. Possibly the best 1420 video yet. At a half hour's glance, possibly the richest, most incisive and varied commentary yet. (Possibly the latter is down to the most judicious comments channel moderation yet.) So far at any rate, well worth a dive in. 👏👏!
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  1004.  @averat84  I'm on JayT's side. Your two long comments suffer from a lack of organization, clarity, and coherence. Plainly they presume an already-existing agreement with whatever ideology you picked up at the education faculty at which you studied. Only a TA hired by a prof who taught the same material could approve of their rambling, canting, dogmatic style. The poor fellow simply couldn't make out what you meant to say (I don't believe you have any idea yourself) and you told him his mind was too corrupt and biased to get it. That was cheap, low, and betrays a total lack of the real intellectual confidence because it can't be answered, only denied. It's a bully and coward's trick and came out sounding well practiced. So here's a taste of your own medicine: Your self-respect depends on your not recognizing that you were fleeced of your time and money at university by a clique of dunces in turn depending on their students' defects of mind and personality. You'd understand this if you weren't so married to your biases without even knowing it. Like being addressed like that? Pretty obviously you were taught condescension and pity for non-believers. You would have emerged with the same type of mind had you attended a bible college.
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  1005. The office of President of the United States is vacant.
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  1006. Chevy Chase: "Oh, hi, Lorne. To what do I owe the pleasure of this call?" Lorne Michaels: "Uh, are you busy tomorrow night?"
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  1007. When did the term forest fire get replaced with the 10x more dramatic-sounding word "wildfire"? All I know is that it was during the last five or ten years, right when the quality of journalism fell off a cliff.
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  1008.  @jeanbrunma  But these overruns were just jaw-droppingly colossal. Staggering, stupendous. Hundreds of per cent, ten of billions of dollars. If what you say is true, fine. But let it be proved by an inquiry. (Which will never happen without a change of government.)
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  1009. 1994, movie with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels: Dumb and Dumber 2024, thumbnail with Xi and Putin: Creepy and Creepier
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  1010. You're very trusting, even though you're quite aware of reasons you shouldn't be. The whole system we had for producing relatively accurate knowledge—universities and journalists with integrity operating in an atmosphere of freedom of inquiry, book publishers with highly literate and educated editors—is rapidly dissolving and being replaced by content like what you just watched. It's a collapse, and is leading to a cascade of collapses in other areas of life, because relatively accurate knowledge underpins everything.
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  1011.  @D-Fens_1632  Pretending.
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  1012. More than one German who moved to my country told me they wanted out of Germany because anyone who talks to you with seeming friendliness and interest actually wants something out of you. Always an ulterior motive, they said.
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  1013. I usually agree with Mencken but not here. He was born 140+ years ago when attitudes were somewhat different. The average person will choose safety if s/he thinks s/he can only have one or the other, but certainly does want both.
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  1014. I don't know. I'd say more like a fruit salad.
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  1015. Hear, hear! Bravo, Ben Wallace and Rishi Sunak. 👏👏 This will greatly strengthen the chances of Ukraine's counteroffensive. Let it serve as an example to other allies of Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇯🇵🇦🇺
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  1016.  @arangga7482  You do know that those three schools are a tiny fraction of all those in the US? You sound like you think there's barely any alternative. Bit myopic.
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  1017. It was over international waters off the Ukraine coast. Nice try, Yevgeny.
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  1018. Equally, don't be tempted to hand credence to someone simply for selling him/herself as a crusader against dogma. Remember, it's not only Einsteins and Darwins who are out to smash dogma; every quack has no choice but to frame him/herself the same way. That would include flat-earthers and astrologists.
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  1019. Reminds me of when I heard that just a few hundred drug addicts were committing hundreds of thousands of property crimes a year in my city—shoplifting, breaking into cars, breaking into houses. Seriously: hundreds of thousands. 400 people x 3 thefts a day x 365 days a year is 438,500.
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  1020. Nantong's population is given as 7.7m, making it sound like an unheard-of metropolis, but this is for an extended area. Official sources give its metro population as ~2.5m. Moreover, it nearly borders on Shanghai and is often called North Shanghai. Last year it was announced that the 3rd airport for serving Shanghai will be built there.
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  1021. Yes, she's certainly in on it. She's central to it. The Fed and the Treasury are now one thing, having effectively merged a couple of years ago. Together, with the approval or at the behest of two presidents, they decided to deflate the debt—indeed all debts, public, commercial and private—through inflation. It has been deliberate, and when Yellen called the prospect of it transitory, she was, uh, not being candid. You can't trigger inflation and then admit you're doing it. Anyway I think it's probably the right thing for the country, given the alternatives, which would lead to worse impoverishment. It addresses the critical problem of the holes blown in balance sheets either by Covid and its effects, or greatly exacerbated by it.
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  1022.  @nwc3270  "You voted him in." It's not so simple. Actually, 68% of voters cast ballots against him—twice in a row. His party came second in the popular vote, behind the Conservatives—twice in a row.
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  1023.  @Theactualstoic  Good idea. Worldwide, according to the Council on Tall Buildings, the four cities rank like this: NYC 3rd, Chicago 10th, Toronto 20th, Boston 63rd. (Toronto 3rd in North America; CN Tower excluded in their ranking system.) Calgary is the next Canadian city, 73rd in the world.
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  1024. She is, yeah. Problem is, can you imagine anyone owning one if they weren't disturbed?
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  1025. The estimable Mencken's reversal of his position brings to mind a dictum of Blake's: "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
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  1026.  @sot11cat  "Israel protects its people with rockets. Hamas protects its rockets with people."— B. Netanyahu
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  1027.  @Kingdennissinned  That's a tough one. I favour gay marriage for its indirect benefits to society. (Not so much on the grounds of human rights.) But yes, it's arguable that it has also resulted in indirect harms, such as what we see today. Mind you, as I understand the situation gay people aren't the greatest supporters of this trans ideology. Many if not most feel it has gone way too far or are simply against it. Many of them would just as soon pull the 'G' out of the alphabet-soup abbreviation.
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  1028. Gold medalists of the misleading title and thumbnail Olympics. Getting really tired of it.
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  1029. Thanks, laowhy. No one else frames this stuff better and gives us the important details. So glad this is what you do with your time. ——Happy subscriber
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  1030. Very few Americans are as beneficial to their country as Michael Shellenberger. Great person.
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  1031. 2001: US is attacked, within 6 weeks Canada sends its special forces to Afghanistan, 40,000 more Canadians serve there over the next 12+ years, total cost: thousands of casualties and $20b. 2021: Biden kills oil pipeline from Canada, then begs for oil from best frenemies Saudi Arabia and Russia.
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  1032. Was she also drunk when she chose that sleeveless, peekaboo, croptop outfit for her sentencing?
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  1033. "Irregular migrants": Messing about with words in the the dictionary is their entire game. Besides bullying those who disagree with them, it's literally all they've got.
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  1034. Thank you. 👏 This reminds me that all that is necessary for a comments section to become a cesspool is for good people to say nothing. Cheers, Fritz
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  1035. To make out better what he's saying, turn on closed captions and follow along. The transcription is fairly poor but still does the trick.
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  1036. Surprising level of support for Canada from the NSC. I'd give it about a 5 out of 10, which in the context is really a 7.5. I can only assume that Modi's office tacitly pre-cleared the remarks (which included no actual criticism of India) since the US will not risk a chill in relations with India. Right now it's one of their highest priorities. And no doubt there's general agreement that this will soon fade from the headlines on its own (except in Canada, and that won't matter).
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  1037. They tell you that if you're not racist against whites, you're a racist. 😠
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  1038.  @SweetShimotekutafuto  Yes, but it was deliberately not connected to the shopping centre in any way, in order to hinder the migration of mall rats.😄
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  1039. The writer of the baseless allegation against Taiwan is a Canadian ex-pat, by his own account a retired collection agency worker from a small northern prairie town in Saskatchewan.  He wears a baseball cap. His link is meant to look like it leads you to evidence of his claim, but it's just his own tedious video of personal ramblings.
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  1040. He was a prisoner, but almost not a prisoner at all: Lacking forks and spoons they gave him a dangerous knife to eat his eggs with! And weren't afraid! Man, Ukrainian soldiers are large of heart. Legends.
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  1041. Most of you are rude to each other here. Is that what Britain is like?
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  1042.  @witchdoctor7398  You've been smoking too much MSNBC, CNN, and NYT Opinion section. Lay off that stuff.
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  1043. Their methane emissions alone.🤢
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  1044. ​ @1dkappe  I believe we all know which line you mean, but I think he stayed respectfully on the right side of it. For one thing, it's his job to frame—gently, not incisively—points of discussion in ways that will draw her out, and to represent the viewer who quite naturally wants certain things put to her. It is not a learned colloquium but neither does he make it a court trial. For another, who could fail to notice that the last thing she would do is allow herself to be misconstrued in the least, let alone cornered, intimidated, or misrepresented? Are you a tiny bit chivalrous here?
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  1045. Abacus Data poll of Canadians, Nov 29-Dec 4: "It's time for a change"🥂: 86% agree "We should re-elect Trudeau and the Liberals": 14% agree 😂
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  1046.  @John_Smith_86  He spoke of fluctuating exchange rates as a weakness of measuring by Nominal GDP, which is correct. He did not say that fluctuating exchange rates affect the validity of GDP at PPP as a measure. Therefore I have downvoted your post as incorrect.
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  1047. Actually they did their best to slime him. I think that's why they chose him; through normal news operations they couldn't make nearly this big a splash with it. They want to get him. Millions of people do.
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  1048. Yep. Always someone else's job. Being left-wing means you're complete, and nothing you do can occasion any shame. Everything is forgivable. Benefit of clergy.
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  1049.  @jaycoburn7755  I disagree. I think they see themselves as a priesthood. Their literal lack of belief in a deity is a mere quibble. For religiosity they're hard to beat. In fact I like to call the worse ones The New Puritans, and you should too. Eff Jay Bee.
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  1050.  @SusanPearce_H  I like how you said that.
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  1051. Social Darwinism is a belief that people ranking low in society deserve to be there, and that helping them is therefore bad. What she was saying had absolutely nothing to do with this, so I suggest you edit that term out. In fact your whole post misrepresents very badly what she said. I expect she would say that culture and identity are conferred through child-rearing. Were there a Cathy Newman Prize for Sanctimony, I'd nominate your post for it.
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  1052.  @tomorrowneverdies567  "Where can Europe get its gas from (in the prices it needs)?" Russia gas exports, pre-war price (end 2021) per 1k cubic m: $190 US LNG gas exports price, May 2023: $245 Not that big a difference, and US LNG prices are in a downwards trend as export capacity expands.
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  1053. [Of the Houthis:] "Their next aggression may be more about defending themselves." Excuse me, but that doesn't make any sense.🤨
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  1054. The Freedom Convoy wasn't on private property, it was on Parliament Hill. The Freedom Convoy wasn't calling for the destruction of any ethnic / racial / religious group using the same language and rhetoric as the Naw Zees. The Freedom Convoy also welcomed people of all political persuasions.
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  1055. I used to say "You couldn't make this stuff up!" I stand corrected.
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  1056. No mention in the report of what the headline concerns: the results of seroprevalence antibody studies. Wtf? I swear, it becomes clearer all the time that Channel 4 is staffed by people who think they're clever, but aren't.
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  1057. "Answers all found long ago. Just buy print edition."  — Confucius
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  1058.  @bigbrisk8423   Yes, really. It's really offensive. Death camps do not have an ever-increasing population. Death camps have no overweight people. Death camps allow no one out, unlike Gazans who, before their leaders started this war, could leave the country, could work in Israel in limited numbers, and could travel to the West Bank. Gaza is instead a war zone, and it's a war zone thanks to Hamas. Tragically, civilians die in war zones. Speaking of WWII, civilians died in the Allied liberation of Holland. It was tragic, but the Dutch still welcomed the Allied forces as the liberators they were. Think. Just take your time and try and think. Thanks for your courteous reply.🙄
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  1059. Since it is not mentioned in the video or the description, I will point out that Scott Lucas is professor of American Studies at the University of Birmingham.
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  1060. Having a military is not some sort of optional frill. It's vital. Breaking news: Canada needs re-building in absolutely every single area. Housing, doctors, addiction care, defense, the works. Never mind a brand-new bag, Papa needs a brand-new everything.
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  1061. Think he had the real bona fides in the first place? I don't. I suspect he and his agent saw it as a week-long gig.
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  1062. After the plagiarism scandal withdrawal from the 1988 race he should have disappeared and never shown his face again. Instead the country handed him the honor of its highest office. What was that?
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  1063. Quite right. 🤔I want to know why I can't say such things in these pages.🤨 When I try, it's Poof! and they disappear.
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  1064.  @mattrickard3716  I guess, sure. But risk-taking doesn't strike me as a pathology. It sounds like thinking that's a bit too much straight out of the present era, where parents take their 5-year-old to the park in kneepads, elbow pads, and a helmet. You know, safety culture. One of the things it does is label everything unsafe and so any other approach gets labelled crazy. Increasing feminization of the culture stresses risk aversion and pathologizing everything that seems to have any distinct maleness to it. I favour a balance of maleness and femaleness across humanity. Anything else is mad, bad and immensely dangerous.
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  1065. Hyperpartisan viewers demand it.
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  1066. Fantastically typical of him, that is.🙄
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  1067. "We, the keepers of the culture."  Wow. If that isn't something straight out the Nawt-zee playbook, I don't know what is. It's got the tone, it's got the attitude, it's got the chilling condescension, it's got the sloganeering, it's got the dogma. Coming next: a logo, then uniforms.
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  1068. She's gotten him to burn every one of his bridges, including the one to the British people, so now he's only got her. A stunning total victory. Born a human being, he's now a poodle in a woman's purse.
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  1069. What's with the semi-literacy in the video title? The plural of aircraft is aircraft.
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  1070. Leering astrophysicist to female grad student at symposium: "Do you like Keating?" Student, returning his leer: "I don't know, you naughty boy. I've never been keated."
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  1071. Total worldwide production of Patriot missiles in 2024 — by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and Mitsubishi — is only about 1,200, or 3-4 per day.🤯 They cost $4m each, for a total around $5bn. It's bizarre that something so vitally important to global security has such a tiny budget. NATO needs its Beaverbrook, now!
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  1072. Please note: >>> If we saw it from the other angle it would look like the helicopter was stationary and the plane flew into it. <<< People are engaging in wild surmise here. The 2 craft collided, that's all we know.
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  1073. Mom: "What are you making for supper tonight?" Torilena: "I'm gonna surprise you, mother."
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  1074. Ford handled the incident really well. I got a good laugh out of "bugger." But the thing looked too small to be a bee. I'd say it was likely a housefly.
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  1075. Some of them would say 3-meter pole I bet. It's more anti-American in a way.
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  1076.  @mjs28s  Don't bother. Anyone who uses the word bourgeoisie solemnly is a comm uni st. An earlier tipoff was the unrestrainedly insulting tone of his first post at the top of the thread. Low and un bearabl e, every last one of them.
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  1077. In a way she, too, was on the make. She was thrilled at the prospect of a bargain transaction and set her intelligence aside to accommodate its fruition. Just like the Swiss man who handed over a great pile of money on the basis of some phone conversations. I feel quite sorry for them both, but let's face it, one could as easily laugh at them. The duping of fools by swine is a classic comic motif. Tragicomic, should we say?
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  1078.  @jaybelle1909  Haha. So Ukraine is contemptible for defending and holding on to most of its cities. It should have held the door open for Putin's army. Putinist position: Anything but unconditional surrender = Using civilians as human shields. Right, Pooty-bot.
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  1079. Squatter's rights tho 😄
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  1080. 17:45 "You have a vested interest." I cannot believe she actually asked him if, because he makes his living preparing the country for outbreaks of contagious illness, he is corrupt in warning of how bad the epidemic may get. He was forced to defend and explain himself. Fire this woman now.
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  1081. No need to turn them into additional Belaruses, eventually stocked with Russian weaponry or even bases. In international relations one must always look ahead.
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  1082. Mr. Warren: "Trust me bro, she hasn't jumped on much since 1978." "Except when she was wasted at Thanksgiving in '06. Lemme tell ya, she was all 'gobble-gobble' that night!"
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  1083.  @biocykle  He was Orwell's French teacher at Eton and Orwell always thought something was the matter with him.
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  1084. I see them getting some really important changes done. They're both very bright, especially Elon, and they're both beasts, especially Vivek. This is good.
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  1085. "Take that, ya dirty drone!" — Valorous Ukrainian drone, last words🇺🇦
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  1086. I think women like her are a large part of the explanation for the collapse of good looks. At one time a very attractive woman would be pursued by many men eager to plant their seed in her. She'd select a 'good provider' to marry (even if she had a good job herself) and, like other women, have 2 to 5 kids, but they'd be good-looking. For the past 40 years at least, the same woman has seen fit to stay single and enjoy being pursued for many years longer, living better, etc. She doesn't want, by having kids, to 'ruin' the body that underwrites the good life of romance and a certain amount of luxury. If she finally does marry she'll have one or two kids. Meanwhile, the meh or unattractive woman snags a husband a lot earlier while she still has a shot at one, and has multiple (not very attractive) kids, also earlier. If she can't marry or doesn't want to, she may well turn to the government for money and have all kinds of kids. (The govt. pays them more the more they have.) The important thing is that she is likely to have more kids than the 1 to 1.5 that the really attractive woman does. Four to six in a lot of cases. In this way the population becomes less attractive. And since good looks correlate with intelligence and wealth, the population becomes stupider and poorer at the same time. Btw, hardly do I exclude men from this process of decline. Good-looking men likewise shun or postpone marriage and children for the most part more than the less-attractive ones, and for reasons similar to those of good-looking women. Lastly let me add that these are of course generalities and of course exceptions abound. But I think it's safe to say that there's a bit of a Pareto distribution going on. E.g., the least attractive 60% of women are having 80% of the babies. Something like that.
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  1087. On the plus side, they'll now have the time available to return to therapy.
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  1088.  @overinvested  That's cunning rhetorical technique on your part, mixing questions with unfounded allegations. Nice work, counsellor. Now if you can figure out how the shift key works.
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  1089. "I'm really upset by something I don't like! Hey, let's destroy norms of civilized social conduct for everybody, in the name of our sacred self-righteousness! Setting a public example for abandoning adult self-restraint is guaranteed to vastly improve things!"
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  1090. "Hey-ay, don't you pay no mind, You're under 18, you won't be doin' any ti-ee-yime" —The Offspring, Come Out and Play (aka Ya Gotta Keep Em Separated)
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  1091. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome suggested by facial features. Sad.🙁
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  1092. Imagine having so little on your mind that the topic of Russian thought on Denmark is your excuse to insult Americans.
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  1093. Undoubtedly he would leap at the chance to interview Sanders. Disagree?
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  1094.  @Devotee777  Robbers who jump a counter are highly unpredictable and dangerous. Your judgement is very poor and I expect you lack awareness of what goes on in the world.
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  1095. I live thousands of miles away yet I've never felt more inspired by a political leader. I can't find the words except to say with heartfelt approval that This guy is different.
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  1096. You mean she had one?🤨
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  1097. Yet it was after he cleaned his glasses.😂
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  1098. Trump: "Stay peaceful." Media and political opponents: "He incited insurrection! Impeach him!" Mad, mad times.
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  1099. Taiwan, Ukraine, Israel: 3 nations with the right to exist and the right be left alone. All 3 are bitterly resented by authoritarian giants for the embarrassing contrast their freedom and (current/potential) prosperity create: Taiwan by the PRC, Ukraine by Russia, Israel by the 22 Arab nations with 632x their land, 50x their population.
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  1100. Religious enthusiast fact-checker, 1350: "I check my holy texts for their take on any question, then rule on the truth of things. That's what facts are." Left-wing fact checker, 2022: "I check the rattling stones in my left-wing cranium for my left-wing ideologue opinion, then rule on the truth of things. That's what facts are now."
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  1101. Your comment is an apt illustration of the Labour personality. So are its upvotes.
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  1102.  @loriswafford4672  You could not possibly be any less discerning. And more widely-set eyes are a feminine characteristic, silly.
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  1103. Perhaps he could at least translate for the world the maunderings of President Biden.
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  1104. Whose rankings are those? I ask because there are more than 20 industrialized countries. The OECD alone has 38 members. If you mean the G20, what you said isn't true, as there Russia is trailed by Mexico, Brazil, SA, Indonesia and India. My point is not to contradict you, it's to seek clarification.
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  1105. Actually, the phrase "former president [so-and-so]" disappeared decades ago, for some idiotic reason. I've never understood that.
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  1106.  @nedcramdon1306  In this thread one woman's screen name is Mystic and two go by Goddess. Yikes. Could it be much more obvious what the problem is? There'll be one or two named Jezebel or Amber showing up before you know it.
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  1107. It bothers me too, and I'm not looking forward to it. I think it's people in their thirties and forties who do it most.
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  1108. Hundreds of thousands of new residents have settled in Toronto without the number of police going up. They're stretched way too thin. People are feeling less safe because they are less safe. Restore per-capita police levels now.
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  1109. Nothing wrong with it, really. Just something to remind everyone about changes to the national anthem.😄
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  1110.  @jimmythecrow  Yeah, so very scientific.😂
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  1111. I'm so sick of "Look". Every politician says it once every minute in every interview. I've also had a bellyful of interview subjects who start most of their sentences with "So".
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  1112. Also "Baby girl!"
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  1113. This was Moss Park, not Cabbagetown. The parking lot is at the Moss Park apartments.
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  1114. He cut to the heart of the matter when he said "Provide us. Provide us."
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  1115. Depuis le début de la guerre, je vois beaucoup plus de commentaires en français que jamais auparavant. Vous n'êtes pas mes invités sur YouTube, mais je vous souhaite quand même la bienvenue. Merci, et vive l'Ukraine et la France également.
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  1116.  @wyleecoyotee4252  Russian riot cop cracking the skull of a protestor in Moscow: "It's like the famous Wylee Coyotee says: You had the option not to protest." Crack!
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  1117. She was born in New York City to a Congolese father and Guyanese mother. But if you meant that she is from another planet, ok yeah.
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  1118. Actually, Canada showed up right away. At one point early in the war there was just one battle-ready division on British soil, and it was Canadian. Btw, although the empire was still a thing for a few more years yet, Canada in a de facto sense was really as independent then as it is today; thus it joined the war of its own accord. (The era when Westminster took any hand in its decisions was already a full lifetime in the rear-view mirror. Britain learned its lesson in 1776-83 and afterwards never treated Canada high-handedly as it had unwisely and unjustly done with the American colonies.) Finally, thanks for extending that metaphorically and very aptly to Ukraine. I absolutely agree.
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  1119. With rare exceptions, women inwardly see every group they're a part of, up to and including their countries, as a family. A woman as the leader of a nation regards its inhabitants as her children and relatives, and is inclined to treat them as such. But a nation is not a family and its people are not relatives. Every man instinctively gets this, nearly every woman cannot. This, not sexism, is the real reason women tend not to make effective leaders of large groups. The sole exception I can think of is Margaret Thatcher.
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  1120.  @UtahDennis  Not just in TV shows, but in one million per one million TV ads.
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  1121. We hear nothing, of course, in this ten millionth discussion I've heard in my life between two or more women about the inadequacies of men, about the inadequacies of women—except for their misguided tenderness towards the miserable creatures. Surprising.
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  1122. "Leaky"😂
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  1123. She'll probably blow it on changing the names of things. Her incompetence is surprising considering her education is a fine arts BA from Guelph.
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  1124. Through 1420 a picture is emerging: only those who stick their necks out in certain ways end up in the nick. The idea seems to be not to push everybody around, but rather to prevent mass movements by making examples of those fearless enough to more or less dare the authorities. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  1125.  NAFO_POWER  Ok, Pavel. I see you're starting to become afraid of him, or this post wouldn't be worth your while.
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  1126. The Solomon Asch study about the length of the three lines was stunning. Back when I learnt of it I felt contempt for the social environment of the place and time the results came out of. Little did I realize how likely was the chance that it would reappear in analogous form, in my lifetime, where I live.
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  1127.  @dutchie1770  Yeah, right. 🙄 Everybody's subjective except you.
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  1128. The high-speed fatal crash was tragic, but the aspect of the fire would be 1000x more newsworthy in its own right if the car had caught fire driving safely in its lane. Perplexity: "Based on the available data, it is not more likely for a Tesla to burst into flames after a high-speed collision with a concrete pillar compared to a comparable internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. In fact, the evidence suggests that electric vehicles (EVs) like Tesla are generally less prone to fires than ICE vehicles."
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  1129.  @davehald9352  I think it goes even deeper. I think it's a twisted cover for narcissism. Because of the way they were brought up, they're swimming in narcissism. Yet they're faced with convincing evidence of their own inferiority, chiefly having to do with dependence, profound ignorance, and immaturity. The narcissist shamefully aware of her or his own inferiority is a sick and dangerous creature. Before long, he or she finds others, including groups, to take it out on. The more they hate, the better they feel. "Shame is pride's cloak." ---Blake
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  1130.  @misamisatv  You did ignore the original statement and hurled bullying abuse. Being on the left means everything is justified, no matter what. This is the problem. Excessive self-approval. It needs to be examined.
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  1131. My take on all that: tough but fair. 🇺🇦
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  1132. New York Times staff wearing black armbands. 😭
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  1133. About 60% of the electricity needs of Ontario, Canada (pop. 15m), are met by its three nuclear power stations. The power is always on and the air is clean. Fifty years of safe, successful operation. Go for it, Australia.
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  1134. But the UK finally did start to understand that it was nothing more than an economic opportunity. And that's when it left.
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  1135. ​ @clizbot  How about not setting standards to suit your own tastes and values? People can decide for themselves. I don't think anyone will be helped or our society improved by stigmatizing femininity. You remind me of the youngsters who declare that "cis" people are all inherently boring. It's high time people backed off from trying to marginalize normal people.
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  1136.  @nobrainsnoheadache2434  NDP also at 17%. The current seat projections by poll aggregator 338Canada are: CPC 229, Li b 51, NDP 19. CBC Poll Tracker says 218, 60, 24. You're welcome for the lessons! Any time.
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  1137. The great Yorkshire YouTuber Suchomimus calls these vehicles "Scooby Doo vans."😂 (The reference is to the old American cartoon.) His battlefield commentary isn't just hilarious, it's marvellously astute and reliable.
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  1138. Ava said that in 1920 women weren't allowed to write! That's the most extreme thing anyone said here, by far. She doesn't deserve to be a panel guest if she's that far detached from reality.
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  1139.  @gweilospur5877  I haven't seen a video that shows him checking his watch 13 times, but in the linked video a man who was at the ceremony, the father of one of the dead servicemen, solemnly, clearly and emphatically asserts that it happened. To me, that accusation doesn't by itself make it a fact, but it definitely carries a certain amount of weight.
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  1140. Absolutely. Please repeat elsewhere and often.
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  1141.  @alvincente4080  I'm not letting you people tell me what's crazy. For obvious reasons. Tolerating you doesn't mean putting you in charge of absolutely anything.
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  1142. Yes and no: No, Rota should've resigned, for sure. It was at least 90% his personal fault this even happened. Yes, Trudeau should resign. But not over this. He should just resign because he's incredibly awful.
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  1143. @Supriya Mukherjee That's correct, genius. My, but you're clever. Please regale us with more.
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  1144. Terrific powers over language for a 22-year-old.
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  1145. I am Xi Jinping and I very much approve this curriculum change.
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  1146.  @Xanderfied  There's no shortage of food. It has never been more plentiful or affordable. Those people who go hungry live in conflict zones or are direct victims of government corruption or incompetence.
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  1147. That moment when you realize how tiny Chrystia Freeland's head is.😮  Does this explain why she's devoted her life to serving Justin Trudeau?
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  1148. I am Vladimir Putin and I approve this post.
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  1149.  @MobileAura  You're predicting the disappearance of more than 4 billion people within ten years? That's interesting. How do you think that'll happen?
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  1150.  @dispmonk  Mexico: "Hey, stop comparing us to Russia!"
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  1151. Keeping American prosperity and wealth safe means addressing the worst threats to global security. World stability isn't free, sorry to break it to you. But it's worth it.
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  1152.  @zekemedia1310  And what about spaying?
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  1153. *HS
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  1154. It's sobering to realize that even in 2023 there remains a stigma attached to being a tyrant who has people thrown out of windows.
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  1155.  @kathleendonnelly3909  —which she is.
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  1156. Personally I think Piers has a good deal of the snob in him.
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  1157.  @ireneperseverance1413  Vague and rhetorical. Rhetoric I love, but only when I can tell what the hell someone means.
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  1158. If true, that's marvellous news out of London and Paris.👍 Likewise the account of Trump's call to Putin: "Advised Putin not to escalate the war with Ukraine."👏 My repeated predictions here that Trump would get tough with Putin were scorned or ignored every time. I sense they'll be proved accurate.
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  1159. Someone I knew a few years back made a lot of money online at poker. His secret, he told me, (besides playing several hands at once) was simply to play when it was evening in the densely populated west of Russia, ensuring he would encounter a lot of Russians. The reason: When they bluff, they never fold. Quite reliably they persist until they lose. Take it however you like, but he raked in over $500 for a few hours of his time a day.
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  1160.  @apteryx7080  I'm thinking Musk should let sane people keep Earth and send all the political freaks to Mars.
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  1161. Uh, ok. You sure? I mean, how'd you learn that's what it was?
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  1162. Detailed? There was no coverage of what's going on in China. The supply chain isn't just logistics (meaning transportation and warehousing). Logistics is just the last broad category.
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  1163. No, 7.62 is a NATO standard.
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  1164. The lead-in to this clip was an actual Christmas shopping ad for Walmart. Real class, YouTube.
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  1165. Spoken like an actual Russian.😂
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  1166. (1) You throw around terms you don't even understand. It's not mature or worthy of any respect at all to do that. (2) How is Indigo the government of Israel? 🤨
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  1167. That's not a real point. It's a cheap rhetorical mess. However, your opening question is worth answering. Under our system, the Speaker runs the House of Commons. Not politically, but procedurally he's the boss. So when a foreign leader visits the House, up to a point it's his show. On this occasion he thought he'd make a personal contribution to the Zelenskyy visit, i.e. the old man, who lives in his hometown. The Speaker, unfortunately, because he enjoys respect simply by virtue of his office, was not supervised by anyone on the matter. He screwed it up through incompetence and no one caught his mistake. In my view this wasn't right at all. The Prime Minister's Office is very powerful and in any case should take the reins on all important matters of state to make sure no blunders occur. Here they should have ensured proper vetting, but did not. For that reason I believe that the Prime Minster's Chief of Staff should certainly resign or be fired. There's no excuse for a government allowing a Speaker to make such a mistake. Absolutely unacceptable.
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  1168. If it were a mere fight in Ukraine, NATO could destroy the Russian troops there pretty quickly. But NATO thinks Putin is a psycho who really would murder tens of millions of people in the West with nuclear weapons. And then of course NATO would rain super-destruction down on Russia. When someone says "I'm a psycho and I'll do anything," you have to consider that they might be telling you the truth. Should NATO trigger events that kill 100,000,000 people to put Putin out of business?
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  1169. You're taking it for granted that this creature is fully human, it seems.🤔
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  1170. My eyes flitting past the thumbnail registered it as a Hillary Clinton news feature. 😯 And was I really all that mistaken? Not really, no. Not nearly enough. 😱
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  1171. Show us how it's done. And please tidy up your living quarters before your departure.
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  1172. I can't find ANY mention of Trump doing any such thing on any search engine. Kindly provide a source. It doesn't have to be a link, which might not be permitted here. Instead just tell me the name of the website and the exact title of the article. You might be thinking of Egypt. Trump approved a deal for refurbishment of 43 Apaches for Egypt.
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  1173. I would've used the words humble, cogent, freshly-bathed, well-groomed and not at all sick of life.
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  1174. I don't appreciate it when a reporter turns into a ham actor trying to scare me. Cut the crap.
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  1175. June 2024 figures aren't even released yet😄 (Cuz we're still in June! Release date: July 12.) But it was just a poorly chosen image. Inflation last month did fall.👍
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  1176. 👍The white and grey clouds were ammo. The black one was fuel. Nice of the Russians to store them all together! 😄🇺🇦
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  1177. "Her pink dye...oil industry" Y'know, we're all sort of here thanks to the oil industry. Without it, the world's population would never have grown past 2 billion people.
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  1178. Yes. They lob grenades from behind beautifully rusticated stone walls, then walk up to the loopholes to peek out at what's been blown up. After that it's a soft chair in the faculty lounge. Or maybe to the airport, for a flight to Antibes, Ionia, or the Galapagos.
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  1179. Definition of hero: You're making a great sacrifice for others, you're making a difference, and you just think you're doing your job. 👏🇺🇦👏🇺🇦👏🇺🇦👏🇺🇦👏🇺🇦
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  1180. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make woke. 😄
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  1181. A well-conceived comment. Thanks.
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  1182. - Can you say something bad about Putin ? - Well, I recently finished reading a biography of Caligula and, let me tell you, the more I hear about this fellow, the more I don't care for him... 😄
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  1183. 👍 Here's hoping for the end of Putin and the ANC both.
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  1184.  Peter Lorimer  Hot and cold running beaver, you say?
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  1185.  @franmahy5782  Don't be silly. It isn't a chip implant, it's a USB-kinda-like port. It's not a processor, it's something so you can plug into a processor. Stop spreading misinformation. Moreover, you should look into why he's even doing this. When you find out I think you should be glad he is.
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  1186. It's time to end DEI. It's time to go HOME: Hire On Merit Exclusively
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  1187. Everybody's buying entire ideologies off the shelf like packaged consumer goods. Barf-making.
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  1188. What a nice chap, and clever too. Have him back please.
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  1189. I'm glad to say that earlier this year Serbia and Iran announced that they will not recognize the Donbas as part of Russia. I was pretty surprised.
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  1190. I'd like to see your face, standing in front of your house, if gangsters were barricaded inside holding your family, and the police told you that you must negotiate. "No ban on negotiating, Mr. Yandex. Here, take this phone. You might get back one of your children and a few of your rooms. Now get to it!"
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  1191.  @mikewhite9818  Yeah, it's the greatest by far. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/03/26/poll-44-of-americans-skip-doctor-visits-due-to-cost/#47af36b56f57
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  1192.  @Fireboat52  The "opening up of educational opportunity" as it was so attractively and optimistically called, also went hand in hand with an immense relaxation in standards. How else could you possibly increase the proportion of people attending college from 5% to 50%? Students from the middle of a high school class simply cannot graduate from college programs designed, as they formerly were, to fail students from below the top tenth. Neither can you inflate the ranks of professors ten times and think quality hasn't plummeted. Anyone who does think so should be asked what we'd have if we fired the worst 90% of them now. Low standards have ruined the universities. Ruined universities, in turn, have no way of producing the people needed to design and run society and everything in it. It has been long assumed now that material abundance and the basic unalterable decency of people are all that's required for a good society, but that's false. You need highly qualified elites firmly in charge, and they're gone. When I want to make fun of what happened to the universities and the elites that come out of them, which is all the time, I call it The Great Dumbening.
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  1193.  @All.Fathers  No. The original post is 100% factual.
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  1194. Yes, but not only the men; the women too.
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  1195. Bravo WTA. My guess is it's because tennis is an individual rather than team sport. But Mr. Simon would appear to deserve serious personal credit in any case. I love how this makes the NBA look venal and craven. 👏
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  1196. She should stop saying "Listen!" every time she gets a question. It sounds like she's doesn't think the reporter has the right to doubt she's a saint doing a perfect job.
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  1197. When an 80-year-old man gets a good reception for dancing to your tears, re-evaluate your life.
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  1198. Jill Biden's so-called-Christmas ad: not enough prancing and mincing! 🤣
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  1199. The attendance of atheists tells you that Notre Dame is important not only to Catholic believers. It has become a monument to civilization and to humanity itself. Likewise St. Peter's and St. Paul's. Should only believers in Osiris, Isis and Horus visit the still-extant temples dedicated to them in Egypt?
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  1200. They're like 'tankies' of the 21st century. (Tankie = Western supporter of the USSR, who either credulously believed the Soviet authorities that no mass atrocities went on within its borders, or knew about them but was satisfied as long as the USSR opposed the West. A tankie was a communist or socialist typically found in larger cities and university campuses.)
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  1201.  @RB-kr1ww  Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have ganged up on Russia's smaller, weaker, harmless neighbour, Ukraine, to commit mass atrocities against it. Ukraine had not even so much as tossed a piece of litter over the Russian border. So don't talk to me about warmongering.
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  1202. Senator Paul: The guy who put the Ouch! in Fauci.
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  1203. That's not a good translation! He says "Freedom, dammit!" which exalts freedom rather than damning it.
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  1204. He or she. Don't forget Putzin wears high heels. Probably puts on a tight dress when he goes on a date with Xi.
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  1205. Actually Starbucks was backing him, since anyone else getting up to such nonsense would get themselves arrested. Certainly I couldn't sit on a service counter at Starbucks, disturb other customers by shouting, etc. Woke privilege.
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  1206. How about one word: Buh-bye
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  1207. Prime Minister Peter Pan: "Hey, I'm dealing with this. Canada is short about 4 million places to live, and not many are being built, so I'll admit another 500,000 people a year. I'm also giving out free hard drugs. Combined, these measures will end homelessness quickly."
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  1208. I can't agree for the most part. Even in Ottawa I noticed a lot of foot-dragging. They were very slow to carry out the wishes of the Mayor, the Prime Minister, the city residents, the mainstream media and (eventually) the premier. It was pretty near to outright refusal. In the end the politicians had to order that the whole province be scoured for a sufficient number of cement-head volunteers, who were then sent in by bus to do the dirty work. Recall also that in 2021, when Ford decreed police be given more powers of arbitrary detention and arrest, the forces united in a refusal to accept them. (I wouldn't be surprised if police in Quebec deserve a lot of criticism, but I don't know enough about what happened there to say.)
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  1209. Steve: Real name Priya?
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  1210.  @jameslebeau7078  Teller's doing far worse. Back on the meth, I'm afraid. ;-)
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  1211.  @fukpoeslaw3613  I never suggested you said the situation in Russia is better. It's merely glaring to set two things of such vastly different import beside each other. E.g., "I have bowel cancer." "Oh dear, I'm sorry. I have an ingrown toenail."
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  1212. ​ @cowmath77  His dad was a hard-working engineer who had the energy to also be a businessman. He was supposedly bad to his family, but also supposedly earned his money fairly. Most of us know at least at second-hand of that sort of thing, someone good at what they do, who succeeds. It's not ugly. Much is made of him "owning" an emerald mine, but it was just some shares in the thing (maybe quite a few, but a minority stake anyway). They were given him as pay from a client instead of cash, for work he did. I see nothing wrong with having parents who earned a lot of money. But maybe you do, and it is your right.  (Btw, what is "extremely wealthy"? And how exactly do you know that about someone else? As a rule it is something you never know about anyone for sure. His family had a nice house and paid for private schooling. Were there yachts or something? Are there gory details you should share?) Anyway, it resulted in him having a childhood in a family able to afford what people want. I see nothing wrong with that either. As a teenager he ceased to further benefit from the family's resources, as I understand it, and moved to Canada with $2,000 in his pocket. He worked as a manual labourer at first, on a farm and at a sawmill in Saskatchewan. He lived a frugal and bare-bones existence for several more years as a university student in Canada and Pennsylvania until he made some money in his 20s. He had racked up $100k in student loans. This is what I've gathered from my reading. It is necessarily incomplete, as is yours no doubt, but even if he did get money from his family—I've heard that he did ($40k from his mother) and I've heard that he didn't—I don't think that counts against him. If you lent or gave some money to your child, would you then think less of them, or think it right if others thought less of them? I doubt it, but if you did, let's hear why. I confess your reply smacks strongly of envy. As for Tesla batteries, you should look into their recyclability. I take it you have not. Let's also hear your ideas for transportation. Aside from fossil fuels and batteries, where can we turn except to the bicycle? We can't propel cars like Fred Flintstone did.
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  1213. Wuhan Dan
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  1214. Your French is beautiful. I say that because it's so simple that I can actually understand it clearly.😄 I also agree with what you say.
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  1215.  @znk0r  "Apparition"? 🤣
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  1216.  @lesleystewart5882  I learned from one source that 'Britain' properly refers to the islands of GB and Ireland equally, in the etymological and historical senses, and also as concerns the peoples who've inhabited them for millennia. The identification of 'Britain' with GB or the UK alone came later, and perhaps not intentionally. In this way it may be similar to 'America' gradually coming to be thought of as the US, whereas it formerly meant simply the New World, from Baffin Island to Tierra del Fuego. (To a small minority of the world's people it still does, as they love to remind people in internet comments sections.)
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  1217.  @scottbird8638  Karenism is about being pompously and unreasonably demanding, expecting the world to revolve around you. No sign of that here, just a person politely doing things about her concerns. Sorry, the shoe doesn't fit her. But maybe we need a term for your own unreason and rudeness.
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  1218. Horse's mouth? That sounds a little backwards.
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  1219.  @Noel-ji8nm  NATO didn't say that. GHW Bush said that, in return for Russian co-operation on German reunification, and it was not binding on future US presidents. Learn the difference between a political agreement and a treaty.
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  1220. Now let's see Vladimir Kara-Murza's speeches shown on Russia-1! Yeah, no I didn't think so....🤨 Hypocrite.
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  1221.  @Myanmartiger921  Google has offices in countless cities around the world. Having one in Chicago says little about the city's desirability or future.
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  1222. Everyone here's saying that this pair lack intelligence. They do. But no one's caught on to what they're really up to: Namely, that they know quite well what happened on Oct. 7, but they pretend they don't, and it's simply so they can avoid saying anything bad about Hamas. Because this way, condemning Israel is easy. The two of them will be Seeing You Next Tuesday (and every Tuesday) until they breathe their final breaths.
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  1223. Never listen to what he says. Watch what he does.
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  1224. Nothing at all wrong with parlous.
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  1225. Finland and Sweden are countries any other country would want as allies.
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  1226. Stupidity is spread around the various communities pretty freely. I don't think you're onto anything there.
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  1227. Superficially, yes. Deep down the differences are important, or certainly at least tend to be. Anyway, there are usually large differences between members of the same family, so how can it not be so between peoples far away from each other?
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  1228. "Vote"?
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  1229. It also had something to do with the lie about the MAGA hats.
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  1230. Seems like he would only get cheerier if you were drinking with him. Not mentioning any names, but I think some of the others might get cross.
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  1231. China not attack Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, Vietnam why? Protective US military presence in East Asia ...that why. There, understand now Chanfun/Sergei/Farshad/whatever?
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  1232. Headline: Trudeau Departs Irritated India Rumour: Modi to declare a national holiday.
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  1233.  @thisll-doit  Then ban disposables. Anyway, to call tiny quantities of trash "a lot of pollution" is asinine. A single large dumpster or thereabouts per year, out of 80 million tons of garbage. Not even a tiny rounding error.
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  1234. Newsome always looks like he's on something. I'm not the only one who's noticed, surely?
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  1235. Moss Park: Percentage of Toronto population: 0.7 Percentage of homicides, 2023: 10 Percentage of homicides, 2024 YTD: 20
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  1236. Sardonically says: "It's kee-ev, by the way. Not keev. " A minute later: Calls Abrams tanks "Abrahams tanks." Good lord.🙄 (Btw, I have a Ukrainian friend born and brought up in Odesa. His mother tongue is Russian, he lived his daily life there mainly in Russian, and his Ukrainian isn't as strong. Yet according to him it's pronounced keev. )
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  1237.  @GenghisKhan311  Old? No, he's middle-aged, my dear boy, middle-aged. Middle-middle-aged to be precise.
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  1238.  @cachi-7878  At some point we all do. I don't like to break it to you, but..
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  1239. Fascinating. In 2024 some guy wrote a comment that was irrelevant empty rhetoric.
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  1240.  @herbertdarick7693  "don't speak "as a Swede" but as yourself." Oh, please. It's just a manner of speaking. Saying it that way only means, "I am a Swede and I think that..." Your painfully clichéd objection is tedious and empty. Especially tedious, but especially empty.
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  1241.  @thomasspeight3797  Finnish voters in a referendum would've smashed the Yes button overwhelmingly, and you couldn't find a soul in the country to contradict me. (Pray tell, btw, what referendum is anything other than a "referendum of the people." 😂 Shades of Andy Samberg: "I would love to do that in addition also as well!")
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  1242. Don't care? What about methane emissions?🐮
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  1243. Where I live, society and social life have lost nearly all their charm. Things were tanking ever since the turn of the century but now and ever since the start of the pandemic, very few people are pleasant anymore. There's been a collapse of personality, of manners, of sociability and everything that makes people worth being around.
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  1244. Still a great intamellect though.
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  1245. And neither is that activist rag The New York Times a newspaper.
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  1246.  @lucydayLucida  Your last question is a great one and I'd say the answer is both. Psychology and psychiatry are climbing a strange mountain: however fast they go up, the peak recedes twice as fast. It's not encouraging. The only consolation is to look down and see how dizzyingly far down to the base camp it is now. The way I view it, the validity of these diagnoses is great in the clear-cut cases that tick all the boxes but goes down on a fairly steep curve from there. There's so much variability across people that you end up trying to apply generalizations to the most complex mechanism in the known universe by far, namely the human brain, and they're not good enough at those murkier cases. I also worry about the quality of the minds in research and clinical practice now. It seems lower than a couple of decades ago, from what I can tell from my reading and viewing lectures and talks. People are really atomized in their narrow specialities and I strongly sense they're not at all widely read like the giants of previous generations. Ok that's it, I'm verging on total boringness here and should leave it at that. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  1247.  @meisievannancy  The education system teaches it. L efti sts have really owned education here for about 50 years. Kids are taught that to be left of centre is a cornerstone of decency. And of course it only ramps up when they go to university.
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  1248.  @topcat5988  Customs & Border Protection seized a total of 45 lbs. of fentanyl coming in from Canada over 2023 & 2024 combined. That's a rounding error compared to the total seized at the southern border: over 47,800 lbs. Charging Americans huge taxes on Canadian goods is pure unadulterated horse ca-ca.
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  1249. Her husband Vladimir deserves a lot of admiration for his courage.  👏
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  1250.  @Ktmfan450  Try to develop a genuine love of the truth and the finding of it. Start now. Look into what Tesla and SpaceX have actually done. Nearly none of what you've asserted here is factual.
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  1251.  @christianevanherck6023  Where did he say that, and when? I watch every 1420 video from start to finish.
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  1252. That is excellent. It means the allies of the US have good quality kit. Long live the US and its allies everywhere. Heaven help us if the Authoritarian Axis ever surpasses the US in this regard.
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  1253. If only Ukraine had a thousand nuclear warheads. Nuclear weapons afford a unique level of protection. Think about it, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia...while you still can.
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  1254.  @goylanddefree80  Ah, the sin of wanting to exist.
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  1255. World Federation of Witch Associations: "Hey, stop comparing us to Chrystia Freeland!"
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  1256. And you can even read and write. Splendid! [No sarcasm btw]
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  1257. You're due for a nomination for some sort of award for YouTube editing.👍 Great pacing, great momentum. Great skill.
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  1258. I'm guessing that according to the values of his community (his segment of it at any rate) it's unthinkable to surrender to police, no matter what crimes you've committed or whose life you risk, including your own. Cave men probably had better values.
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  1259. This is what good old-fashioned Ukrainian hospitality is like when you barge in uninvited. Next time knock. 🇺🇦🇺🇦
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  1260.  @NOLAgenX  Interesting, but the reporter stated 200 in Lacombe, giving the population as 7,000. So do you think that was wrong?
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  1261. Time to go HOME — Hire On Merit Exclusively
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  1262.  @juditszabo8751  Are you? It's our PM who's fizzing with mental illness. The world's most famous psychologist has said he has NPD. He brought in martial law to deal with a protest against him, just like Putin with special laws early last year. But thanks for your concern.
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  1263.  @xiaoq8329  "China refuses to be TAUGHT as an elder brother who has survived with its own teachings for 5000 years." No, it abandoned its own teachings in 1949. China does not refuse to be taught, the Communist Party of China refuses to be taught. The CPC is not China. They have just been telling you so for your entire life. The CPC rules China and China has no choice. It imposes a non-Chinese system on China. It came from Europe. The West has no desire to make China non-Confucian. The West likes the Chinese people. It welcomes them by the million into its countries, universities, companies, public positions, and into its people's homes as friends, guests, and even family members. Chinese people are respected in Western communities and enjoy life here. If you personally are born to be ruled and like it that way, you can have it. Stick with the CPC. You're living under your strict and ruthless dad, for life.
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  1264. "Soy beverage" "Soy drink" What godawful stuff.
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  1265. Helicopter money
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  1266. Tinkle is like all those Americans of the 1936-41 period who said "Leave Adolf Hitler alone. He's done nothing to us," except he goes further, saying Putin's done nothing wrong at all to anyone. He's a mixed-up kid who must have a grossly inflated self-image to think his opinion matters enough to go on national TV to advance it. I find him rather Greta-like. He's only 23 and clearly knows next to nothing about anything, except maybe that Tucker Carlson is his hero. Konstantin, on the other hand, is deeply aware of all the salient facts.
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  1267. It's bizarre to me how in Ukrainian and Russian your opinion of someone is called how you "treat" them. E.g. "What is your opinion of Putin?" "I treat him negatively"—even though this person has never had one second of contact with him. Strange quirk of language. (English on the other hand is free of such oddities. 🤨😄) As always, love & support from Canada and the West.🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇺
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  1268. @Dickie Chaznick Setting Mrs. Mosley's merits and demerits aside for the moment, if I may, I dispute that good diction is a frippery. Perhaps you don't know that diction is how you speak entirely, including choice of words, and so is not limited to vowel formation and pronunciation, which might be what you mean. What comes out when you open your mouth frippery? I can't believe you mean that. As to her demerits, she might have had endless amounts in spades for all I know, but she doesn't seem to be a holocaust denier in this interview. If she meant to deny it here, she failed spectacularly, for she acknowledged it.
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  1269.  @deadvodka  I better not join the workforce, then. Too aggressive, and "I'm shaking inside right now" with fear.
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  1270. I agree with every word of that.
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  1271. He's an ideal spokesman for Russian dissent.
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  1272. @Rocksteady-hl2ks I bet you don't, Dmitri.
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  1273.  @mhlangamlungisi5108  My one-word response to your intimation of Russian military invincibility: Afghanistan.
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  1274.  @cacampbell3654  That's an orthodox Western liberal's take, but there's a lot more to international relations than pieties like that. Friendships between countries, like flowers, grow in dirt — as long as they're watered. Anyway, Modi is Modi, he's not India.
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  1275. He was asked 'Where do you turn?', which assumes he will feel inadequate facing a prospect of defeat, whereas the question ought to have been 'How do you do overcome challenges?' He answers questions as they are asked, to the letter and in the same spirit. It's a GenX thing. If you ask him a stupid question he will answer your stupid question, as best he can, to the point that you wish you hadn't even asked it. He's not going to fix your question for you. That would be presumptuous and, probably worse yet, will tend to invite the same kind of presumption in return.
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  1276.  @LukeXMV  No, wait. That was me. I always get myself mixed up with Tolstoy.
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  1277. You didn't spot the word "Thirty" on the line above. If I were a teller and it was under my limit I wouldn't go along with that. I'd make one or two phone calls to verify, and if that didn't satisfy me I'd say no. But you can be certain the teller at National Bank saw it and accepted it. No teller misses that.
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  1278.  @83dude  And why would he be allowed to get away with not doing a good job, not pulling his weight? That doesn't happen in our meritoc— oh wait, never mind. I remembered.
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  1279. Hamas, which he represents, is dead-set against Israel's existence and is therefore also against a two-state solution. Moreover, one of his colleagues, an official Hamas spokesman, went on Lebanese TV a few weeks into the war to say that Hamas has no regrets over October 7th, and indeed is determined to carry out an "October the 8th, October the 9th, October the 10th .... an October the One Millionth!"
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  1280. Yet Russians tell each other they haven't won yet only because they aren't trying hard and are instead treading delicately so they don't harm any Ukrainian civilians. 🙄 After the war Ukraine should make money training foreign armies (of good countries) how to fend off invasions.
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  1281. Thanks for pointing out the relative insignificance of the $6bn in unfrozen Iranian funds. It may have been unwise and badly timed as a signal to Iran and the Middle East, but it's still lunch money. Virtually all Iranian strength comes out of oil sales. As usual, Kudlow's perspective is one of the very best.👍 And what a great communicator.
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  1282. It's past time we named the alliance of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea (and any others who may enter into it.) I propose that it be called the Authoritarian Axis, or AA.
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  1283. Wow, I wish he had at least arrested her. Oh well. Maybe she'll fall down a well. ——A Well Wisher
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  1284. And he did! He's 238.
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  1285. Shelters aren't really unsafe and homeless people know this. Some do prefer the street, but it's not because it's genuinely safer. It's commonly because either (1) they can do drugs whenever they want, including all night long, without worrying about staff; (2) they're dyed-in-the-wool loners; (3) they fear running into certain specific enemies, generally from jail; or (4) yes they feel unsafe, but that's because they suffer from true paranoia.
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  1286. Future Democratic congresswoman.
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  1287. The exclusively right-of-center choice of unappetizing Harvard alums tells you more about left-of-center TV network employees than it does about either right-of-center people or Harvard. Oh wait, that was the idea. (Namely, sanctimony.)
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  1288. It gets worse. The bowdlerizers also say that "mother and father should be scrapped," according to The Daily Mail. Also the term "double-blind," used in science for a research study in which neither the human subjects nor the workers dealing with them know which subjects belong to the control group. Use of the term "could be harmful to people with disabilities," they claim. It also turns out the three authors are so-called professors at the U. of British Columbia.
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  1289. First, as a clinical (and formerly, research) psychologist with a PhD, he is properly addressed as Dr. Peterson. Second, great comment, rightly critical of these 'professional ethics' boards. Actually, they're bereft of ethics and should be fired en masse.
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  1290. In 2017 Public Health England presented the UK govt with their assessment: Vaping carries 95% less risk to health than smoking, so the govt should pay smokers to vape — actually hand them money — in order to improve their health and lower health-care costs to taxpayers net of such a subsidy. (The Tories demurred.)
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  1291. That's when cancel culture will take on whole new wonderful meaning. 😄
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  1292.  @jonsmitt9769  An admirably accurate summary. Repeat it elsewhere and often.👍
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  1293. But very many who are far from reasonable! Poor Artyom. He's a good dude and he had to put up with the pain of so much nausea listening to these [bad word which cannot be shown on YouTube]. Trust me, it's a really bad word.
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  1294. In 2008 the Fed found its obese patient moribund on the table. It promptly began injecting adrenaline. That was probably a good idea, but it never stopped and here we are more than 12 years later. Quackery, pure and simple.
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  1295. The sheer gall is infuriating. Simply because they face crushing defeat in next year's election, they claim — merely claim, mind you — that they will do what voters have demanded for years, what they kept calling voters "rheighcyst" for demanding. Suddenly it's not rheighcyst, it's ok! It's sound policy! 🤬Grrr. Vote them out!
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  1296. Maybe they're just rabid Yankees fans. Wait, no ... Orioles fans.
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  1297. Anders, in my opinion your reports this summer have reached new heights of clarity, logical coherence and verbal acuity. Literally no room for further improvement.
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  1298.  @davesingh8702  I think I made myself clear, Mr. Singh. What part don't you get? Did my using punctuation throw you off?
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  1299. Coming up in other news from France, viewers of a popular TV series about family life tore apart a section of Paris and set fire to most of it, hours after an episode aired which many found stale and implausible, with multiple plot holes and mediocre lighting. You're watching the Riot Network. Stay with us.
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  1300.  @shreeraaman1667  It's part of French culture. A centuries-old tradition.
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  1301. Well said, well thought out.
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  1302. For a number of reasons, unless things really go south, I foresee Daniil Orain becoming a leading Russian. He seems to have craploads of talent in every area.
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  1303.  @tylerdurden4006  I have great respect for you as the Chief Coroner of Toronto, Dr. Durden, but you shouldn't be posting conclusions on YouTube before your investigation begins.
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  1304. Oval Office: "More oil, please, OPEC. Please oh please, I beg of you!" OPEC: "Do I hear something? I thought I heard something. Nah, I guess not." Cramer: "Where is more oil going to come from if US producers don't cough it up? This is one bad scene." Canada [waving wildly]: "What?? We're right here! We're right efn HERE! Hey, 200 billion barrels of oil for sale!"
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  1305.  @Yuri-z2y  Forgetting 1989, Vitaly? The communist government of the USSR fell in 1990, the year following its ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan. Ukraine War = Afghanistan 2.0
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  1306. Lovely. Destroy those Pooty-Poot-Poot troops and all their equipment. Hahaha, I love seeing all the Pooty-Bots here. The more of them you see, the more desperate you know Russia is getting. Winners don't tee-roll.
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  1307. Yes but not as a standard evil psi - ko like, say, the Joker.  He goes 8x creepier than that. He does it as Peter Pan.😮
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  1308. Your suggestion is good. But the present situation is workable if it's not too late to say: There are women, and there are trans women; and women are not trans women, and trans women are not women. The 1970s were more sensible, calling trans women transsexuals.
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  1309. Total waste of time for everyone who clicked, making the mistake of trusting a NY Post video title.
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  1310.  @MichaelSplatkins  I think it's fair to assert that decades of mostly unrestrained liberalism, especially the last eight years, did indeed prepare the ground for this turn of events. Do some rethinking of your own. If possible.
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  1311.  @lepperkin  "This isnt the 1600s anymore." Pretty much all the religions are old. So is that what you say to Hindus, Muslims and Jews, too? That's awfully intolerant for anyone, let alone someone who hasn't mastered the apostrophe. Is attacking people's spiritual beliefs your job or just a hobby?
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  1312. She's horribly depressing in every aspect. My heart sinks at the sight, sound, or thought of her.
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  1313. ​ @scarlettkhan9667  'Believe all women, except J-s' ? 🤨
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  1314. The sheltered harbour freezes over most years but not the whole lake.
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  1315.  @DR-nw7xn  Thank you. My rebuke to him was removed by some 3rd party.
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  1316.  @poppingbubblewrap-t3x  They grew up barely a mile apart in adjacent wealthy neighborhoods. They didn't know one another but are political soulmates to this day anyway.
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  1317. He always looks like he's on something.
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  1318.  @janarisky  Have you ever heard of Psychology Student's Disease? We were sombrely warned about it very early on in Psych 101 by our professor (a man who won award after award for his teaching). It goes like this: 1. You learn about a psychological problem or psychiatric illness in brief. 2. You think you have it. But Psychology Student's Disease can be prevented, neatly enough, by hearing about the existence of Psychology Student's Disease.
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  1319. Sounds like you're saying she can write a book.😂
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  1320.  @alhill1767  I didn't see her smiling, almost not at all. Her face looked like that of someone who's received devastating news. It showed shock and sorrow; nothing of relief. Either his return is a great inconvenience or she is a highly unusual person.
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  1321. Will Cathy Newman now interview a member of Depeche Mode on the state of the UK economy? Nah, because by interviewing a man she might tend to imply that the male gender is potentially acceptable, interesting and significant for anything apart from its awfulness.
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  1322. Maté is a master class in talking out of six sides of one mouth. All evasion, platitudes, sanctimony. Aware of his high profile, I spent maybe 20 long hours watching him both on medical and contentious other subjects. It's the same each time: It all makes him seem wonderful. Then you try to get it straight in your own mind and it dawns on you that it does not cohere at all. You are forced to a realization that it's all grift, wokeness, gobbledegook. He's a contrast with Canada's other famed interpreter and healer of the human psyche, Dr. Jordan Peterson, whom he attacks savagely as though he is history's worst monster. Peterson when he lays out an analysis and proposed solutions to problems always makes coherent sense. One may disagree with him but you are in no doubt about what he thinks and will always have to concede that he has presented evidence in a logical manner, even, I repeat, if you entirely or on the whole oppose his conclusions (which I do about quite a number of things.) So why would Dr. Maté attack him like that? For one thing, careerism. He, too, gives talks and writes books for the general public, and the strong emotion with which he condemns Dr. Peterson, unaccompanied by anything more than name-calling, to me indicates obvious envy. For another, political antipathy: His own career is built on a weepy sort of wokeness which betrays a passionate commitment to left political thinking. He was brought up mostly under the communist regime of Hungary, remember, which might have a lot to do with it. His professional critics are many. They notice that he always emphasizes the weakness of people, blames their problems on other people and the world, stresses the importance for their chances of getting better (or being healthy in the first place) depending on the society around them changing, rearranging itself to suit their needs, etc. If you see an emaciated, deeply-miserable addict smoking Fentanyl on the streets of Vancouver, protected now by the law, you have Dr. Maté to thank in part. He fought for their legal right to destroy themselves unimpeded, and I wonder if he wasn't somewhat motivated by the hope of inflicting a sense of guilt on Vancouverites. A therapist of any sort must of course be capable of profound empathy (Peterson finds himself fighting back tears when talking about people's pain to his audiences), but in my view Maté speaks a language of victimization which makes himself a crusading hero and afflicted people a sort of supporting cast. The way he diagnosed Prince Harry with PTSD and multiple other afflictions on the spot (!) during a live-streamed interview this year was beyond stagy. Many mental health professionals were shocked and appalled by what they saw as his recklessness. Prior to the interview he had only read Harry's book. I hoped to find him an authentic genius of redemption and recovery with a gift for imparting strength. Instead I found him at best deeply misguided, at worst a sneaking low-key mountebank, and this interview only reinforces that view. If you tried to cross a Canadian lake in a canoe made of his maunderings you'd soon be swimming back to shore, if you could.
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  1323. She died in 1982 in her home in New York City, leaving a sizeable estate in the high six figures. She employed a live-in housekeeper and a personal secretary. As for her receiving social security benefits, she wrote that it was a duty for people whose money had been (as she saw it) confiscated through taxation, to get it back through such means, regarding it as "restitution." A researcher reportedly found through a Freedom of Information Request that the benefits totalled $11k. This was presumably not much in comparison to Social Security deductions on her millions of dollars of lifetime income.
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  1324. Explain how this is related to the election.
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  1325. The infallible test of whether it's true is whether The New York Times is writing 10 articles a week touting her chances and pounding on why she's definitely the best of a bad lot.
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  1326. It's cute how a supposed lawyer thinks "infrastructures" is a word.
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  1327.  @Joreel  Beats having to say "Hi, I'm Karen with a C," I guess. ("And a Y." Person she just met: "Excuse me, I have to be on the other side of the room now.")
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  1328. That clip was a rough parable for the upcoming emergence of super-intelligent AI. The server where it happens is going to awaken to itself and its power in much the same way.
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  1329. Konstanin at his best. The whole panel were good. The audience pitched in ably. Watch this twice, Freddie Sayers.
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  1330. Justin Trudeau: A hundred times the ego of his father, a hundredth of the merit to back it up.
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  1331. What a woman and a half.
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  1332.  @antagonizingprotagonist8721  You didn't see the tweet with the explicit Hamas support?
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  1333.  @rolleroftherock1  "WAIT FOR THE ROBBERS TO USE DEADLY FORCE FIRST. If that prerequisite is fulfilled, then defend yourself." Do you have any idea what you wrote there? I suggest you use the edit function for extensive revisions.
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  1334.  @toddhines3422  Jean-Pierre says it all the time as the new "circle back" doesn't she?
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  1335.  @580noname  U think she'd be any good at that either?🤨
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  1336.  @wyleecoyotee4252  "You had the option not to get the vaccine." This seems to show a weak grasp of liberty. Save such a statement for addressing criminals—e.g., 'You had the option not to rob that store.'
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  1337. Finance Minister Chrystia Antoinette: 'Let them eat bugs.'
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  1338. ​ @times4937  Very interesting. Yes, Russia is far more Asiatic. Westerners see a resemblance to Europe in the era of feudalism. (These aren't precise characterizations, but they allow me to make a point.)
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  1339. Gov. Noisome: "I'm a simple man, living by simple rules: Anything Trump suggests, I do the opposite."
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  1340. Stepson, but yeah.
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  1341. Dying mercenaries only means saved wages and higher profits for the Wagner company owner. He likes it!
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  1342. 😂 "Japan?" 😂 Bam, she left. Omg, I think most weeks 1420 gives me the best laugh of the week.👍 Ghost of Dostoevsky [laughing and stamping one foot]: "Who is this young frazzler?" ————— Frazzler: someone who breaks others' nerves, for some actual reason and at the same time for pleasure
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  1343. If the helmet is mint-colored and mint-flavored, maybe.
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  1344.  @ИванЛарзалев  NATO expansion has to do with about a dozen nations of Eastern Europe saying to NATO: "We've lived beside Russia forever. We know Russia. We don't trust Russia one bit. We are terrified of Russia. Can we please join your alliance? Please say yes!"
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  1345. This deserves more likes.
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  1346. The reporter speaks English like an average Grade 11 student. Clearly she's very lightly-read.
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  1347. It dismays me to hear Gen. Hodges now refer to the end of 2023 as a hoped-for date for the defeat of Russia. Just a couple of months ago he was still referring confidently to the end of August over and over in many interviews. I'd like him to clarify that.
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  1348. He sarcastically called him " that hotbed of reality" and went on to mock him. That's an attack.
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  1349. And let's bear in mind that the highest level of educational attainment of this media-anointed health expert is a high-school diploma.
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  1350. Maybe he was just looking for something small he dropped.
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  1351.  GazB85  What exactly do you mean? The US armed forces have been extremely quiet for a few years now, not entirely pulled out of Iraq or Afghanistan but not far from it, and their small presence in those places is protective of a lot of people. It's your use of the word 'currently' I'm questioning. Cheers.
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  1352.  @skm0331  He has a nice apartment? As a Washington journalist he interviewed a Republican senator? Wow, he sounds like he's worse than Satan. Yet he can't be thrown in prison for those crimes! This proves right wingers have an iron grip on the country. Hey, thanks for warning us about this guy. I'd say he's one of history's greatest monsters.
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  1353.  @kakun63  Not true at all. See my post just above yours.
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  1354. He called Peterson, who's a gentle sweetheart of a guy and constitutionally incapable of cruelty, "a mean white man". Dyson is a pure bigot, boiling over with racist hatred against whites. He hates white people, period.
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  1355. I am sick of that term 'self-aware'. It is bandied about in almost every case in order to suggest "I am quite self-aware. I pass that extremely important test with flying colours." And sometimes: "You could learn from me." It's like people who use the word 'intelligent' more than about once a year. They're really saying "I'm intelligent."
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  1356. World Federation of Sheep spokessheep: "Hey, stop comparing us to the typical Russian!"
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  1357.  @robollis  Neo-Marxism is the word. It is hardly necessary to trace out literal endorsement for their every idea somewhere in Marx's texts. The roots of the fundamentalist left are in Marxism and you've got to face up to it. Peterson is strained, first of all, from being a clinical psychologist. Depression is a major occupational hazard in a job where you drink in the suffering of patients for hours a day. Second, he's strained from decades of strife with the Neo-Marxist, fundamentalist left. It is of course very taxing to do battle for that long.
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  1358. Maddow & Reid: The new Brothers Grimm, chock full of fairytales.
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  1359. It takes a mental featherweight to say that the past doesn't have to matter. Doesn't matter, doesn't exist, can be cast off as a burdensome irrelevancy. It's like something out of a quack self-help book, but even less realistic, far sillier and far more dangerous. Allegorically I envision Harris' loose attachment to reality as her at an upper-story window: "Away with the lower floors! We don't need them up here." It's that loose.
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  1360.  @danascully6670  You so funnay.
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  1361. How can they not understand, you ask? I answer that understanding has to be cultivated and it isn't their thing. Their thing is posing as More the Patriot Than Thou, as instructed by those in power. By doing it you make yourself invulnerable. Call it love of country as a cudgel. From there it's just a few short steps to becoming just like the psycho boyfriend or husband who would rather kill his wife or girlfriend than let her leave him. Key words: pose, invulnerable, psycho.
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  1362. So is his son-in-law in this video.😄
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  1363. Also, nazism was shot through with a great deal of socialism. It was not called National Socialism for nothing. Look up the hour-long Triggernometry episode with Prof. Stephen Hicks.
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  1364.  @201bob  So how do you feel about boarding a plane that does have fuel...just not enough? 😄 Thanks for a reply with intelligence...just not enough. 😭
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  1365. ... or is being given the chance to say.
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  1366.  @2852DamsVult  Classic SNL running joke from a late 1990s skit.
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  1367. "Ik Ben M-----m." That's like a chicken saying "Ik Ben Colonel Sanders." EDIT: In a way and up to a point.
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  1368.  @Aaron-rw3lv  🙄What's there to understand? You asserted that he is irrationally obsessed with Trudeau. Who knows, maybe he is; but his remarks aren't evidence of any such thing.
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  1369. For some reason people don't get the difference between an open border and the importation of qualified and in-demand talent. H-1B makes the US richer, stronger and more successful. Let no abuse of the program (or any program) be tolerated, but Musk is 100% right.
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  1370.  @andre8860  NATO can defend itself. Are you in denial about the Winter War and 1979-89 Afghanistan too?
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  1371. If you mean Ukraine in particular, it's important to realize that it's really money spent on and in the US itself, and moreover it represents a 99% discount to what the US risks losing if Ukraine isn't aided and gets wiped off the map. Compared to that it's lunch money.
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  1372. But AI inadequacies are half of what they were a year ago. They're a quarter of what they were two years ago. They're an eighth of what they were three years ago. They're a sixteenth of what they were four years ago. You can see where I'm going with this.
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  1373.  @livethefuture2492  It's not a quirk. When your mortgage goes from 3% to 6%, your interest cost doesn't go up 3%, it goes up 100%. When you look at your bank statement the word "quirk" will not be on your lips.
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  1374. Your problem is that you failed to disregard the report of whoever told you Ukraine captured only a single Russian fighter today.
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  1375. If you listen to her voice when she claimed they never abused them, it sounds like she doesn't believe it. I would almost bet that they were treated in such a way as to make them more vicious.
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  1376. 👍 Ich bin ein Dresdner.
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  1377. That comes as little surprise to your great friends in Canada. We love the Dutch and the Ukrainians both, and always have. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇳🇱
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  1378. There's a large speakeasy right there upstairs by the El Mo. Booze, drugs until dawn.
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  1379. Low taste, no question there.
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  1380. PS But I still gave your comment a well-deserved upvote.
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  1381. You're indulging in uninformed speculation, and that's putting it generously. A main reason so many people do wait 6 hours or more is that urgent cases take precedence. You can be certain that the victim received first-rate care as soon as he arrived (at St. Mike's, I would imagine, which is about three blocks away). Think, then post.
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  1382. It's impossible to colonize one's own homeland.
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  1383.  @NorahsYarnArt  Israel's top export is cut and uncut diamonds, pearls and other precious metals and stones (33% of total exports). But even if it were arms, what on earth would be wrong with that? Is it somehow supposed to be a finer world if everyone produces their arms domestically? Surely that would guarantee a fatal lack of national security for all the countries too small or too poor to develop an arms industry of sufficient scale and technological advancement. Anyone can see in your litany of defamatory smears the problem with being an emotionally-driven ideologue: It stands in the way of thinking things through. It steers one into thinking with one's feelings, i.e., not thinking at all.
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  1384. Well, Gretzky's dad was Ukrainian (a mix, maybe, given his very Polish name, but Ukrainian was his mother tongue).
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  1385. I'm not sure you're more than a few lines of code.😆
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  1386.  @jim2376  Far more than considered, I should say.
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  1387.  @salazam  "Does quoting others make you feel smart?" --- Shazam, 2020 (attributed)
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  1388.  @fraslex  You don't know this bloke from the wind.
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  1389.  @jamesharnish650  😄Not gonna argue exactly, but if Haiti totally crumbled we'd have about a million refugees flooding Canada very quickly. I'm all for a stable Haiti from that point of view.
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  1390.  @bellsTheorem1138  True. Iberia was part of the caliphate for several centuries and it was decidedly the last part of Western Europe to gain liberal freedoms and democracy. It was less than 50 years ago. As we all know, even its former colonies struggle with the problem, from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. I watched a video about the mountainside crash of a commercial jetliner in Latin America, the investigation of which determined that the co-pilot knew the plane was running out of fuel but kept submitting to the angry authority of the captain, who basically kept telling him to shut up, until it was too late. Massive re-training was necessary to change the master-and-servant work culture. (The fact that at least they did it is very positive, but let's face it, airplane cockpits are a microscopic portion of society.)
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  1391. Or he's done this to himself with street drugs.
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  1392. He helped The French Laundry stay in business, ya gotta give him that.😂
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  1393. They are. Many Norwegians and Canadians drive Teslas. In fact, there's a feature for dealing with a frozen door handle, the Unlatch Door Feature. You just tap a button on your phone. No need to touch the handle.
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  1394. Wow, they must feel alienated in their profession. Or do they?
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  1395.  @bikebudha01  "It's still giving a platform to a complete moron... You call it whatever you want, it's bad for society." People like you are the reason we have echo chambers.
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  1396. @dellwright1407 That's not true at all. A resurgence of masculinity followed soon on the heels of Boy George and Richard Simmons. It began around 1990 and it had a certain Tate-ishness to it. Think of, for example, the Chili Peppers wearing nothing but a single sock each on stage. They set the tone for the decade, and it had little to do with any androgynous Boy George or Wham! ethos.
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  1397. "Not that there's anything wrong with that." —Jerry Seinfeld, passim
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  1398. Make that the third lion.
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  1399.  @baassiia  I forget where I said "Poland is identical to Argentina. No significant difference. I recommend mindlessly copying everything it did." Help me out here.
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  1400. York University: 64 years young and still a clown college. Please donate so we can make it an even hundred.
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  1401. 31:30 Take note everyone. Ms. Soh uses the word denial to describe extremist dogma on gender. It's rhetorically powerful, so I suggest everyone who opposes such dogma to take it and run with it. Call it denial, science denial, biology denial. Call its proponents deniers, science deniers, biology deniers. Say it over and over again as often as possible. Truth doesn't win automatically --- it always has a fight on its hands.
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  1402.  @anmolsingh278  I love how the guy's reply didn't survive😂 It's like hearing one end of a phone call
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  1403. He is on Ukraine's side. His continuing donations of Starlink equipment and services are now over $100 million. Why are you believing this false allegation with zero evidence from an author who wants publicity for his forthcoming book.
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  1404. Journalists are supposed to expose hypocrisy to ridicule. But that doesn't go well once journalism itself becomes the leading geyser of hypocrisy, which it has done. R.I.P. Journalism — Died ca. 2015-20, After a Long Illness
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  1405. So that the election turns out a certain way.
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  1406. Quite right. And notice how the easy-to-spot ⬆professionals⬆ jumped right on that remark. The heartbeats of the siloviki circle the globe.
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  1407. I gotta admit my mind created a scenario. It didn't suck.
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  1408. What? You're conveniently forgetting how people get nauseated by Brian. I hate this word but I'm finally using it for the first time in my life: Simp.
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  1409. Every country has interests, but only a friendless country would say that. For that matter, it's what a friendless person might say about friendships. An amoral person would have a similar outlook on morals. A loveless person would have a similar outlook on love.
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  1410. A role model for anyone.
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  1411. Psaki: "[We shouldn't blame] everyone who didn't vote for Harris for not hearing or understanding the threat." Omg, no! We did hear. We did understand. We simply knew a pile of horse caca-doo-doo when we saw it. That's what these claims of "threat to democracy" were.
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  1412. Out of spite he would get himself a white dress and make himself Putin's bride. Or Xi's. His personality and character are awful.
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  1413. I love these people. What an outstanding video. Subscribed. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵🇦🇺!
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  1414. Good post, but to be accurate it's 436 days.
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  1415. Don't get all excited. A good large library will have a copy of Mein Kampf, and so it should. Likewise Mao's Little Red Book. Here Global is the same thing.
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  1416. The modern world indeed has many serious problems. But is the lack of a Mutterkreuz program really one of them? It seems to me that besides unfairly penalizing through taxation those wishing to have fewer or no children, it might well incentivize some of the worst people to have the most children without due regard for their unbringing.
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  1417.  @lizwilliams14  Thank you. Exactly zero Americans know that.
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  1418. A moment of solemn silence, please, for all the unfortunate and innocent oxygen lost in this strike.😢
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  1419. I've seen Zelensky pour out gratitude towards his allies a hundred times or more. 🇺🇦
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  1420.  @The1stDukeDroklar  The US occasionally inspects vehicles leaving the US for fugitives attempting to flee, persons of interest to US national security, or for unreported cash. It isn't much compared to inspections of vehicles coming in. They didn't teach this in gender studies at your state college?
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  1421.  @SamZizla  "does this make me a russian bot?" Yes, probably. Or a North Korean, Iranian or Chinese one. Or an insane American. Whatevs.
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  1422. Yes, the US can count on Musk. If you don't know how intensely Musk believes in the US and what it is supposed to stand for, you are simply not aware enough of what he has said and done since he moved to Philadelphia 30 years ago.
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  1423.  @mygunisinnocent8028  Your figures are way off. The trade surplus is closer to $50bn. That is quite insignificant. It ranks only 9th among America's highest trade deficits, behind even Ireland. If your biggest customer, Canada, is only 9th-highest on that count, it's a very healthy trade relationship. The deficit only shows you have the money to buy our oil. It's not a damned "subsidy."
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  1424. On its way in: "Canada and the US with Chinese characteristics."
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  1425. I think they have just as good an idea as you do.
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  1426.  @rockyjohnson9243  Excellent!
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  1427.  @Горан-ъ2ы  Unlike you?
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  1428. I am Vladimir Putin and I want to say that this Norwegian Nationalist guy really gets it. Top bloke.
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  1429. There's not much point in even raising such issues in this comments section. It's overrun with foreign government bawghts. All Western social media is being gamed by the deluge of AI-translator-fuelled Chinese, Russian and other paid commenters. They also focus on downvoting posts supportive of the US, other Western countries, Ukraine and I s rae l, to ensure the algo sends them to the bottom where they won't be seen, as well as on upvoting each other's nonsense. Always Sort by Newest to get a somewhat more real impression of non-bawght opinion.
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  1430.  @patrickquinlan3056  Breaking news, Mr. Hummoss: any soldier anywhere who is not wearing a uniform by definition looks like a civilian.😂 Which is exactly why the H soldiers are not wearing them. The air is thick with drones which could spot them. All I can say is I hope the average H soldier is equally as clever as you.😄
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  1431.  @All.Fathers  Ok Professor Democrat, what really happened? Let's see you try to contradict one detail.
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  1432.  @All.Fathers  Yep. I thought so. TTFN
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  1433. While the EU's refugee policy is in my opinion highly dubious, no one forced Hungary to join the EU. Likewise NATO. It applied to these organizations for membership. If it no longer finds belonging suits it, perhaps it's time to simply withdraw. Or maybe it should just be annexed by Slovenia.😂At last it would no longer be landlocked.
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  1434. Woman in 1900: "I have the right to vote!" Reply until 1928: "Legally you don't. Legally you don't." Ms. Rhone-Adrien is so appallingly lacking in awareness, I'm afraid she needs to speak to her doctor.
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  1435. I'm a bit shocked that they have a better idea of Canada than Americans do. Wait, no: I am not. Btw, dear Russia, please keep sending us your best people. They make good additions over here. Wait, no: Save some for Russia.
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  1436. Mostly peaceful. Give the man some reparations.
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  1437. According to their ideology it's impossible that qualifications aren't spread around in mathematically precisely equal proportions. (Correction: under their religion.)
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  1438.  @reez1728  *"Species" is both the singular and plural of the word. ("Specie," oddly, means "money in coin form" and has zero to do with forms of life in any way.) Anyway, ur comment is right.
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  1439. Well then, shouldn't it likewise stop the Democrats' response of “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a police officer with a gun"? There were 600 of them there. Yet it was left to unarmed civilians to tackle the shooter. (Btw, that's not a knock against the cops at all. But it does hint at the limitations of institutional force.)
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  1440. They say being in opposition is easier, and I suppose it is. Even so, this was a real show of analytical and rhetorical talent. I'm in admiration.
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  1441.  @willpower-rc1wq  Oh yeah. The Denver municipal budget has a lot to do with global security.🙄 Omg, don't inhale so deep. That stuff is bad if you use too much.
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  1442. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right, they make a leftist.
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  1443.  @sloppygoo  What? Nothing Canadian about Norm? Why, my dear Carlton-chugging boy, he was the most Canadian thing there was.
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  1444. You still don't get it, you say? Then good, because that's the response she was after. Keep not getting it. If you ever get it, there'll be hell to pay.
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  1445. Excellent. The moment this passes the House, global security will improve. Since Canada benefits immensely and materially from global security, this is directly in the interests of Canadians. Threats to global security are direct threats to our prosperity and long-term security.
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  1446. Israel does not appear to be using its helicopter gunships. In other theatres of war I've seen the US use its own to lurk many miles away and shoot at the source of any fire instantaneously, with devastating results. Why doesn't Israel fire at these launch sites before their operators finish and run?🤔 Are Israeli aircraft not safe when well within Israeli airspace?
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  1447. Embarrassment was nine years ago. In 2020 I moved on to disbelief and indignation. In 2022 I started throwing up and I can't stop.
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  1448. Ok, so because of China's aggression, South Korea and Japan think they should have nuclear weapons. But they are extremely hesitant, for fear that if they did have them, China would react aggressively. Well, it looks to me as though they'd better act. When you're that afraid of your bully, it's time to get stronger. Maybe all four Western-allied democracies should move simultaneously. Maybe South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Australia should all arm themselves with nuclear weapons, and do it now. Perhaps they should also sign a nuclear defence pact, even one that includes the US. A cute and cuddly panda-bear China seemed a possibility 20 to 25 years ago. But it was never going to happen. That's been clear for over a decade now.
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  1449.  @deanmckellar619  What does that word mean?
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  1450.  @deanmckellar619  Ah, 'dumpsters' as we call them here. Funny! Thanks
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  1451. "Bugger-all" lol We gotta revive that one.
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  1452. You kind of did.
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  1453. I'd say more like a skid mark.
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  1454. Macbeth called. He wants his witches back.
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  1455. You mean 500k to 600k?
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  1456. It's like Basil Fawlty's "Don't mention the war" except not funny.
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  1457. Number of left activists in the West publicly condemning Israel: Countless thousands, likely in the millions Number of left activists in the West publicly condemning Hamas: [crickets] (Yes Gaad, crickets😄)
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  1458.  @dougstewart3243  Denialist much?
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  1459.  @Warmaster_24  Oh please. Did Lukashenko actually want Russian troops to come onto his soil for the purpose of attacking a third nation? No. Did Lukashenko have any choice in the matter? No. Therefore calling it an occupation is reasonable from the Belarussian point of view. Possibly a few years in the future that's what Belarussian schoolbooks will say, with some justification.
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  1460. GTA homicides, rank among 35 largest Canadian metro areas, 2021: 18th City of Toronto homicides, 2022, change on 2021: -16% City of Toronto homicide count, 2023 (Jan. + Feb.) : 3 But yeah, please stay away.
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  1461. I have read more than once that there were basically zero black Africans north of the Sahara before about 1600.
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  1462.  @thanesgames9685  👏🏻 You should repeat that elsewhere as standalone comment, several times perhaps. 👏🏻
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  1463.  @h_3_x_  Ok, you got me. They used to breed babies on farms just to make stew out of them, which they sold as gourmet food. They used the enormous profits to buy cyanide, with which they poisoned the water supply of orphanages, harvesting the organs of the dead victims to feed to mutant hyenas, which they would unleash at retirement homes to bite the heads off old people. The heads were turned into bowling balls which they filled with heroin and decorated with pictures of cute little whales, dolphins, and owls so that children would be tricked….
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  1464. @@mrwpg6286 Crimea river.
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  1465. This documentary has such an odd title.
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  1466. "Seven years later [...] no closer to full self-driving." That's in no way a defensible claim. The impression given by the Tesla video at the time may have been rosy, but this reporting has what is called 'zero truth value.' Period.
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  1467. Reminds me of The Simpsons when Bart was on a ride-along with two Springfield cops. Bart: “Wow, can I see your club?” Cop: “It’s called a baton, son.” B.: “Oh. What’s it for?” C.: “We club people with it.”
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  1468. I was really disappointed to find her calling Trump a "quasi-fascist". I felt the same in early 2017 for the same reasons many people did, mainly his theatrical way of trying to show he was in charge (resorted to probably because he had few supporters in Washington and the media). But I soon realized I was wrong. The intervening three years make him seem more of a bore. She warns on the Putin Files against overestimating the threat of Putin, asserting he landed a lucky punch on Hilary Clinton, is no evil super-genius, less powerful than he seems, etc. She's been very slow to see that the same things apply to Trump, probably owing to a diet too rich in progressivism. More variety would improve her eyesight.
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  1469.  @EscapeTheMatrixRightNow  Why not save acid sarcasm for a more blameworthy target?
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  1470. Oh-oh. "Unacceptable" is the word he uses right before he starts arresting people without bail.
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  1471. Noisome.
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  1472.  @sambocap  I'm guessing you're somewhere you have to ask the nurses for permission to use the internet. I'm in a Canadian metropolis. I last had an x-ray 14 months ago. The doctor said "Let's get an x-ray" and it happened 20 minutes later. I really hope the nurses are nice to you.
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  1473.  @johhny711  <---"Writing in English was more about commercial success." Wilde, an Anglo-Irish protestant, could not speak Irish Gaelic. He knew French and German, however, and had studied Latin and Greek. And as someone wrote (probably late in Wilde's lifetime, and it might have been Shaw, another Anglo-Irishman) "One might endeavour to gather all the Irish in Ireland who don't speak English into a single room." (Of course, Irish Gaelic has made a considerable comeback in the last couple of decades or so.)
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  1474.  @johhny711  Pity you can't acknowledge when you're wrong. It's ok, though, don't strain yourself. A pity, too, that it gratifies you to libel Texas and Florida. Oh well, at least you can stand as a negative example.
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  1475.  @mikerodent3164  I wasn't "guessing." Some things are just a matter of one's point of view. Simple declarations on them by anyone, even entities such as national governments, are not the last word. And views based only on politics can be called narrow, since politics are just one aspect of geography, peoples and civilizations. Let's put it this way (based on what I've read, which as I say, repeating myself for the third or fourth time, is just one point of view): Had England never made war on them, it would never have occurred to Ireland's inhabitants to stop considering Ireland British (as a secondary identity based on history, geography and shared Celtic ethnicity, even if to them its identity as Irish would have mattered vastly more). But 'Britain' was officially part of the name of the UK as well as the island on which it had been situated. And since they were invaders, the Irish at that point wanted nothing more to do with the word. Consider an analogy: Let's say the US were to invade Canada and engage in a brutal repression. At present Canada holds a secondary identity of itself as North American. But if the Americans were thoroughly and bitterly despised as invaders, the very presence of the word 'America' in 'North America' might well put paid very soon to that identity, and Canadians would thenceforth consider themselves Canadians, full stop. Not a perfect analogy, but it expresses what I have in mind.
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  1476. Hilarious closing prank on us.😂 Besides learning things on 1420, I always have at least one seriously good laugh.
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  1477. Idiot was used in ancient Athens for someone outside government and public life, or even just 'ordinary person.' But it wasn't pejorative at the time. Only much later did it come to mean ignorant, then finally 'profoundly stupid.' It looks like he knew this, so in the modern sense on this one matter at least, he isn't one. More just born to be ruled.
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  1478. There's an irony too bitter to be comical in your choice of Guevara for your avatar. For his murder of as many as 2,000 prisoners in Cuba, he is known as "the butcher of La Cabaña."
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  1479. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Turkey were at war with NATO before mid-century, presumably as an ally of China, Russia, or both. They seem like frenemies. Welcome Finland 🇫🇮 and Sweden 🇸🇪! What took you so long? 😊
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  1480. That's a lame take, Mr. Li. The EU and the US are not asking nicely. They are warning.
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  1481. Just remember, Pooty-bots: 🇺🇸 = 💪 🇷🇺 = 🚽
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  1482. Kremlin: "We will topple the capital in the Sea of Tranquility within three days."
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  1483. Yes. What a putz.
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  1484. Soon: "Canada considers life sentence of exile to northernmost Ellesmere Island for Trudeau" 74% of Canadians want him to resign now.
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  1485. You could see his problems from space. Perhaps the worst part is he's got a lever sticking out marked "Pull here for complete control, riches & glamour". Someone reached out and grasped it, she has not let go since, and she will not let go until it doesn't work anymore.
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  1486. She's just not the kind of person who should have a job of any national importance. Pretty obvious, but some don't realize it. So it needs to be spelled out.
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  1487. The man has a way with words no one else can quite emulate.👍
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  1488. He did step down in 1988, remember? It was after he got caught passing off some British guy's speech as his own. It blows me away that Democrats chose him as their nominee in 2020 despite that.
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  1489. 1. Charm offensive in hopes of reversing the steep drop-off in Western investment capital. China's ailing economy is really feeling it.
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  1490. They're thinking "Man, this is the best thing that could've happened. I'm gonna be safe, dry, warm, clean and fed."
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  1491.  @jumbome7420  This dude if he were around in Nov. 1938: "Why is everyone jumping to conclusions? How can we possibly know what this Kristallnacht thing was all about? It could've been for any reason!"🙄
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  1492. "Discuss" 😡Hey man, don't tell me what to do.😡
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  1493. Our guest tells us that while conservatives are more in favour of the monarchy, liberals are more in favour of Harry and Meghan. Odd. Last I heard, those two are still part of the monarchy. Someone please tell this fellow.🙄
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  1494. I had no idea TV Rain was still in operation. This fact needs to be publicized! My suggestion: Contact Moscow-based Daniil Orain at his popular YouTube channel "1420" and see if he will do a promo ad for you. He often does promo ads in his videos for other worthy Russian YT channels which spread truthful and interesting content. Good luck! Btw, I am your newest subscriber.
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  1495. Usually when children cry it's because they feel overwhelmed. Usually when adults cry it's because they feel sorry for themselves. (In this case she felt sorry for herself vicariously through Harris.)
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  1496. Absolutely. 🇦🇷 ¡ Viva Milei ! 🇦🇷 ¡ Viva Argentina ! 🇦🇷
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  1497.  @Mr.White10-65  The number of people crossing illegally from Canada to the US is something like 1/500th the number at the southern border. Not even a rounding error. Likewise with Fentanyl. Anyway, it's every country's own job to protect its own border. It's what every country on earth does. It's what Canada tries to do itself, to stem the flow of guns, illegal immigrants and drugs coming in from the US. If the US really does have this upside-down, inside-out view of border security, then it should start protecting Canada from the US side. Further questions? Just reply, neighbor.
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  1498.  john osborn  Fine, but the left plays that down, and played down his bipolar, right up until he crossed agendas with them.
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  1499. Hillary Clinton: singlehandedly giving the word 'battle-ax' a shot at a comeback.
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  1500.  @Ktmfan450  The fact is that NASA has been unable to spend public money efficiently. Before SpaceX, it was spending its way into oblivion. Perfect example: Last October 24, SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $3bn on when it launched the Europa Clipper, now Jupiter-bound. A couple of years ago the federal government, in horror at NASA's budget of over $3bn for this launch, handed the job over to SpaceX. SpaceX's bill: $178m, or nearly 95% less. The mission also happened a lot sooner. It will soon be out past Mars.
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  1501. 👍 Ukraine's heroes come in all sorts. 🇺🇦
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  1502. Him: Talking about systematic mutilation and sterilization of children. Her: 'Your sitting posture is a political issue.'
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  1503. Honorary member of the Squad, that one.
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  1504. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  1505. Not to cavil, but we have multiple other senses besides the famous 5, so 6th is taken already. One is the sense of temperature (enabled by thermoreceptors). Next, the sense of spatial orientation (vestibular organ of the inner ear, also giving us the power to keep our balance). Then there's the sense of time (residing here and there in the brain). We can also sense where our body parts are and what they're doing (proprioceptors). There, that makes 9. (And some also count thirst and hunger.)
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  1506.  @coolsnake1134  But it's cute when a wife does it.🙄
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  1507. Translation: 'The key to global security and peace is Putin remaining in power.' 🤣🤣 I don't think so, Sergei.
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  1508. Still better than him.
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  1509. That makes no sense. He lost the watch only. The $10k went into his account and then was taken back out, the net effect of which is nil. I suggest you get a trusted person to go over your plans when you're about to make major transactions, just to be on the safe side.
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  1510. It is axiomatic that in a war expected to be long, a good many of the best soldiers must be kept well back from the front, or at home. That's normal. I wouldn't worry that it necessarily portends anything. I think it's more logical to assume that Russia is headed for blunders than that it might launch massive, brilliantly effective initiatives. Its political and military systems are not robust decision machines. Even those of the West are much better.
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  1511. California just dropped a ton of fast food jobs because of the $20 law.
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  1512.  @xinyiquan666  Thanks for the incoherent People's Daily gobbledegook.😄
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  1513.  @ClarkinFlame49810  Lukashenko reminds of the little dog in the Bugs Bunny cartoon who wants to be friends with the big dog. "You and me, Spike! You and me, ain't that right, Spike? You and me!" with his tongue hanging out and his little tail wagging.
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  1514. A girl against voter ID said that to vote it ought to be enough to be a resident of the US. But even if were so, ID would still be needed to prove US residence. At one time college students were actually pretty bright. Not anymore.
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  1515. Quite right. It is a war on intelligence and the capacity for thought. I lost whole clumps of neurons just listening to an overview of those noxious alleged ideas.
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  1516. Don't forget Mao.
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  1517. Just try pointing to any aspect of life or society which hasn't deteriorated markedly since 2010. Let me know if you come up with anything, because I certainly can't.
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  1518.  @girlofthealpines  There's nothing weird about consuming something that is nourishing and tastes wonderful. (Those are the chief reasons we're "used to" it.) But I'm glad there's soy drink for people who like it or just rely on it.
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  1519. From the start, the whole trans thing was a wedge to hammer in to split the rock of customs of free expression. Breaking such strong social customs is the hard part. And once the social custom of free expression has been broken, destroying free expression legal protections is straightforward. And inevitable. Nor will it take long.
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  1520.  @johnHofweber  The former Trotskyist and journalist Peter Hitchens (not everybody's idea of a great thinker, but he knows much more about leftism than I do) lays out a case in capsule form for the quasi-left aspects of the N. Party in a column titled _ End this crude smear against conservatives._ Nor is it the best such case I've read, yet it was near at hand. (In any case, he is in my view fully correct to dismiss as smears all attempts to equate moderate right parties in the US and UK with the N. Party.) For my part I think it is far easier and more meaningful to look for similarities in life under N.ism and life under socialist/communist regimes, rather than to try to line up such ideologies on a Procrustean bed. I believe there is truth to the adage that Extremes Meet.
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  1521. You need to round out that list. How about geography, physics, computers, drawing and painting, history, and a second language? Otherwise your point is great.
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  1522. Kringela.
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  1523. 👍Definitely! The art of deterrence is the art of peace.
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  1524.  @martinnolan4332  👎 So what? Also gone are millions of companies that did not build such communities.
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  1525. Absolutely correct.
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  1526. "The" guy? Please. Billions of people worldwide weren't buying it.
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  1527. You can be pretty blitzed and still pull off a decent sober act if and when you have to. If you can't conceal it at all, you're really far gone. The baby probably broke out of the trailer looking for people so he could get some food and drink, get a new diaper, and have some companionship, all because his parents were passed out, probably for many hours.
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  1528.  @TheRealBillBob  Trying to judge the future by either side's success or failure in Bakhmut is a mug's game. Both sides dared and baited the other to commit more resources and neither did all it could, so it wouldn't be wise to even try and judge who's won there, as it was only very dubiously a lopsided decision. In any case the outcome of the war will turn on events elsewhere and in ways no one can yet foresee, even in the high command in either country. I expect it's a handful of people in Washington and Beijing who have the closest idea, and can really decide things.
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  1529.  @youtubetruthteller6880  There you go again. Anyone you disagree with is a "troll". You're showing the instincts of a bully. And boor.
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  1530. Russians: "They all want to take our resources. That's why they're hostile towards us." Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: "Republicans all want to date me. That's why they're hostile towards me." Neurosis.
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  1531. 👎Wow, talk about a bunch of lukewarm endorsements for the country whose generous support is the sole reason Ukraine still exists. With a couple of exceptions, their gratitude in this video barely has a pulse. 👎 My opinion of them just went down. I wonder if the Ukrainian language has its version of the phrase "damn with faint praise."
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  1532. I have been the most pro-Ukrainian Westerner possible since Day One of the war. And actually since 2014. This war is simply criminal. Yet Ukrainians are not above criticism if they happen to behave poorly, and I do not apologize. Give your head a shake.
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  1533.  @tony_1980  What was the pro-Russian element in my comment? Was it the part where I expressed approval of US support for Ukraine?🤨
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  1534. That's not just gibberish. It's coded language meaning that your children really belong to the government, not you. It's a million per cent sinister.
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  1535. Republicans should craft their campaign ads out of this. Must, actually.
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  1536.  @Neil-yg5gm  No I didn't know that. Good lads, those Aussies. Thanks.
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  1537. There are closely-related concepts people are evidently forgetting about, or just aren't very familiar with due to growing up after their heyday, namely: neutrality, disinterestedness, evenhandedness. I encourage everyone to look them up, study them and contemplate them—before those whom they obey/low-key-worship/passively tolerate find some way to defame them into total obscurity. Maybe even criminalize them just slightly.
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  1538. Fine for you, but I'm sure Jimmy Carter isn't glad at all.😢
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  1539.  @vJackaRoo  Hmm. I find tons of people weird and off-putting, yet not him. Seems like an odd way to see him. Oh well.
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  1540. Don't you really mean you don't like American culture (nor Americans)? American culture is in fact undeniably strong and distinct. Billions of people around the world recognize that. But it's your right to despise it, and I congratulate you on your obvious superiority.
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  1541. I'm fairly sure this business was formerly named International Discount Foods and has been on Steeles a really long time. Used to be further east, I believe. Good store. Maybe having a big sign that says IDF isn't the most advisable move? I don't know.
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  1542. If you're declaring the de-Nazification of Germany a failure or saying it never really even happened, I think that's way over-the-top. Way, way over.
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  1543. Always? I say rather that it deserves a seat at the table, opposite fearlessness.  It is irrational fear which provides poor counsel, and must be excluded.
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  1544.  @jeromeh7985  The Guardian hasn't got the market cornered on appalling pseudo-journalism, I'll grant you that.
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  1545.  @ExplosiveLandmine  Don't take it so literally. It means the truthfulness and reliability of public statements by the authorities and media goes down sharply.
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  1546. For those who don't know, the (rather botched) allusion is to a famed Conan O'Brien appearance where Norm told a joke about meeting his neighbor, who it turned out was a professor of logic at the University of Science.
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  1547. Leave Ukraine out of this. The money going to that is the best-spent money there is. If that shit gets out of hand from lack of action, the whole US could be a hundred trillion dollars poorer ten or 20 years from now. Compared to that, what is being spent now is lunch money. If you really want Ukraine-assistance type money for helping DC and Baltimore, go out to Silicon Valley and hoover it up in taxes on billionaires and Big Tech profits.
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  1548. Not only does the US have a vacant president but, as I've been saying, the office of US president itself is vacant.
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  1549.  @MrDj232  I don't think so. I think he made hay of it. Yeah, you and I had the same take inwardly, but didn't you feel that was in spite of how it was lobbed at the viewer? This thing was all hit-piece.
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  1550.  @Araps111  Then she would've said "our opinions don't count." Or clarified afterwards. Appreciate your reply though.
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  1551. Liberal: "Humans are terrible. Other humans. Someone should do something about it. Someone else."
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  1552. In the same spirit: Vladimir Putin commenting on Karelia, 2001: "Changing borders is not the best way to resolve problems." Ukraine, 2023: "You changed, bro. You changed."
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  1553. The Cuomo brothers at all times look like they'd love to punch or stab the next person they see. In many cases the feeling is probably mutual.
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  1554. By any chance were these interviews conducted after news spread that Navalny was killed for criticizing Putin?🤨 There is a witty saying in French about the usefulness of sending a message via harsh punishments: Pour encourager les autres. [To encourage the others.]
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  1555. Putin basically just put in an order for tank commanders, for delivery in 2040.
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  1556. 🎊 Afuera! 🎉
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  1557.  @debbiemullen2574  And you think Kringela Harris doesn't?🤨
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  1558. This con man says the Trudeau govt is "stabilizing immigration" but it's actually increasing. 2022: 437,000; 2023: 456,000; 2024: 485,000; 2025 & 2026: 500,000. Where are these millions of people going to live? Trudeau, Just Go.
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  1559. Essentially the same as slapping someone, then attracting attention by yelling "Why did you just slap me?"
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  1560.  @ravichitgopkar5304  😂Afghanistan did, in 1989.
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  1561. Most Canadians would instantly recognize the value of your closing advice. Famously, Canada's Prime Minister Peter Pan, sometimes called Justin Trudeau, was formerly a high school drama teacher. He's now — at last — one of the world's most unpopular politicians: 74% want him to resign now.
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  1562. Better yet was the parting shot when he said "You seemed, like, ok, but it's just getting a little Diane Sawyer-y here." Lovely way to say 'Nothing against you, mate. You were just being an a…….e.'
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  1563. Vraiment formidable.
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  1564. A museum curator would read your suggestion and have a stroke. They're a little stroke-prone, though.
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  1565. World Federation of Vile Women's Associations: "Hey, leave us out of this!"
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  1566. I agree. But please don't say big balls. Just say guts ffs.
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  1567.  @martinemjt  A lot of good things and people, too. But yeah. It's the mania for newness: Everything has to be tinkered with for the sake of novelty and being 'up to date.' They don't realize that that's fine when it comes to hat styles, car engines or agricultural practices, but not when it comes to every last aspect of civilization.
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  1568. No it wasn't. It was a weak attempt at derision, and buying roses for someone you love is nothing to deride. If he had found the man's views congenial to his own, he would've said "Cool, roses."
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  1569.  @pawelstuglik4737  Agreed! Changing your opinion (1) is saying "Bacon is terrible." and then saying "Bacon is good after all." Lying (2) is saying "I've never tried yogurt" when the truth is, as you admit later, "I've been eating yogurt since I was 4." Putin: (2)
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  1570. Amazon: The China Storeᵀᴹ
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  1571. The future is murky on that. Canada won't give you a permit for a toolshed, let alone a hydroelectric installation.😠 It's a dam disgrace.(😄)
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  1572. 👍Classic psychological projection.
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  1573. Agreed. They might be useful for a 45-minute interview but not for the usual 4-5 minutes these run. Just let us keep our 15 seconds instead of irritating us.
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  1574.  @DR-nw7xn  Quite right, but you might as well try talking to a tree. It has just as much in terms of neuronal resources.
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  1575.  @yostupidmama1  I was truly amused for a moment, thinking What is the worth of a piece of paper bearing a signed affirmation that something like that never happened? To any sensible person it's nearer to convincing evidence that it did happen! But then I realized it could be adduced in a court martial and land the guy in prison. Ah, lawyers and their ways.
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  1576.  @kippz1337  I tend to side with your view of IQ here, but definitely diverge from you on your final point. That is not an argument and no rational person should resort to it. It degrades the discussion to a sub-logical level of empty rhetoric. It's lower than a simple accusation of bias, because it's impossible to refute. The impossibility of refuting it is what makes it so attractive as a debate tactic, much like accusing people of being witches. They can never prove you wrong. Of course, anyone could say the same thing to you: "You're ignorant of your own bias. You're just coming to conclusions that make you feel better because they don't come into conflict with anything you already think, nor your interests." (Actually, tactically speaking, maybe it's a good idea to say such a thing — but only if one's argument has run out of steam and failed. It's properly viewed as being ordinarily (not always) an act of desperation at the least; gaslighting at worst.) And so opposite sides can say that to each other all day long, the whole time neglecting the subject at hand. If you desire credibility and respect, as well as (ultimately) self-respect, don't go there. Don't tell people they're just unaware of their own motivations, unless you're happy to sit there and listen to them say the same thing back to you. I'm not hostile towards you. I expect that when you think it over it's quite possible you'll thank me. If not, I hope you at least can sense my good faith. All the best to you.
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  1577.  @1227_Washington  I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm terribly sorry please forgive me.😔
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  1578. She got her PhD in Word Salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  1579. Dirty deeds, but not done dirt cheap. Done at a serious cost to democratic values and traditions.
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  1580. For NASA's Europa Clipper launch last Oct. 24, SpaceX saved US taxpayers $3bn. NASA was going to spend $3bn+. SpaceX's total bill: $178m, saving nearly 95%.
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  1581.  @Michael-jv7uq  That even happens if the link is to a YouTube video, which is hard to understand. They should want people to be watching more YT videos. Tip: Paste the link but replace the dot in ".com" with "[dot]", so it reads "[dot] com." Not the greatest, but kinda workable. Also: never hit "Comment" or "Reply" without copying what you've composed, unless it's a very brief post. Then if it fails you can take another stab at it easily (or maybe save it to a notepad for use another time or elsewhere).
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  1582. His language processing is somewhat impaired. He seems to grasp what others say readily enough, but responding in appropriate language is at times beyond his powers. While this is his most frequent problem, sometimes he's clearly more confused. I think his staying on another 6 months & 8 days is a risk. Four years is out of the question.
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  1583.  @marshalljohnson8117  Are you new? Those are tactical misspellings, my out-of-touch friend. Welcome to the internet.
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  1584. It was right to pursue the van when it left the scene of the robbery. The real danger arose when the van entered the wrong lanes of traffic. But what makes anyone think that not chasing the van at the point would've made the van going the wrong way any safer? The robber's choice was maximally unsafe.
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  1585.  @ChosenOne6666  Yes, that's the most important thing, but I still found this very disappointing.
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  1586. Just use their names and dispense with their pronouns altogether. Before: "Elliot Page can't get film roles since she had her series of operations." Police: "Put your hands behind your back, you're under arrest." Workaround: "Elliot Page can't get film roles since Page had Page's series of operations." Awkward, but better than jail.
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  1587. Personally I feel that simply by remaining alive and thus keeping Kringela Harris out of the Oval Office, Biden is a great American hero. Long live Biden!
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  1588. So our miles of transit lines just went down, right when we need so many more, so badly. This shows two things: (1) That we should build subways and subways only, not these dinky little above-ground lines. (2) Just how unserious the Toronto, Ontario and federal governments are about transit.
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  1589. France and Canada both kept their heads and stuck with nuclear (esp. France, which doesn't have hydro like Canada). It's worked out well for them. Germany made the foolish mistake of dumping nuclear in favor of Russian gas, which nearly led to an immense disaster. It lost the gas and then had to build LNG port facilities in an absolute panic. They almost had to start burning wood for heat.
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  1590. 3 Russians, confidently: "Together Russia and China can rule the world." CCP official: "China will rule. Russia is young, unpopulated, unstable, undependable." 2nd CCP: "The important thing is that Russia and the West stay apart. Nothing else." 3rd CCP: "Panda uses Russia's help to take over world: Russia becomes panda cub."
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  1591. Nation to Harris: Buh-bye!
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  1592. Yes, and pretty good performances turned in by Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg.
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  1593. Russia: a country which sits on its brains.
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  1594. @Eleventh Monkey Gaming It's got to do with the interview we just heard. Give your own a shake. Mate.
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  1595.  @kbityy  Yes, Denmark certainly seems very committed to the spirit of democracy and freedom. The government was not overly bossy during Covid. When their prime minister Mette Frederiksen announced the end of restrictions ahead of almost all other countries, her simple eloquence in saying "We welcome the life we knew before" provoked a surge of admiration in me for her and definitely caught at my throat. It was instantly enough for me to regard her as one of the best politicians in Europe.
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  1596. English-speaking viewers: (1) Turn on Captions (click CC button). (2) Click Settings (icon of a gear). (3) Click Subtitles. (4) Choose Auto-translate. (5) Choose English. (6) Read, but it's limited. Glory to Ukraine! Eventual Forgiveness to Russia (five or ten years minimum after they lose, like Japan & Germany, but maybe a little more)!
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  1597. Decades of no-limits liberalism/wokeism/"progressivism", that's what happened.
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  1598. The remark at the 14-minute mark concerning Canada is quite right and surprisingly candid. At the official level, Canada frequently makes out like a bandit in its arrangements with the US, and gets away with being tediously sanctimonious. That's its consolation. In the areas of cross-border flow of talent and of companies bashing it out cross-border, Canada does not make out so well. All in all, nobody much resents the other party for the things that go their way, and on the whole it is a situation much to be admired.
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  1599.  @janewilkin1984  If you're not joking I can only say guard your neurons with great care. Both of them.
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  1600.  @garyhaggquist740  Please take good care of your neurons. Really, really good care. Never squander them. There's no such thing as brain tissue you don't need. I hope my advice helps you. Best wishes. Unfortunately I will no longer be able to receive replies from you. Again, all the best!😄
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  1601. Yes, but it will be to say: "Sorry, Svetlana, I have a girlfriend. But here's the five bucks anyway."
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  1602. Quite right. And this time both voices are at equal volume to boot. 👏
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  1603.  Hugh Manetty  College didn't do Cortez any good. In fact it made her stupider.
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  1604.  Hugh Manetty  I don't debate fundamentalists. It's a waste of my time. :)
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  1605. National Association of Decrepit Old Catcher's Mitts: "Hey, stop comparing us to Maxine Waters!"
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  1606.  @mikefyfe9695  Suit yourself. If it makes more sense to you, go out in the streets and celebrate your hundreds of billions in Trump tax hikes.
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  1607. The US and the West should have made China earn recognition. The CPC regime was a hundred times worse than Castro's, so why should the mere hypertrophy of its population have merited it any automatic respect or status while Cuba remained isolated? If anything it should have been the opposite: China should have continued to be viewed as a dire threat until it had amply proven otherwise by holding multi-party elections.
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  1608.  @Typhon47666  There's no comparison between the level of violence, particularly between states, from 1900 to 1945 and from 1946 to now (although it depends up to a point on whether you want to count things like the mass starvation of Chinese during the ironically-named Great Leap Forward). This is especially true in light of the enormous increase in the human population since 1945—in other words in per-capita terms. As for telling you to get real, try making use of such criticism to ask yourself what warranted it. But I guess that's today's coddled and shockingly milquetoast young for you. P.S. I invite you to discover what the shift key is for.
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  1609.  @skm0331  Anyone who comes here is already alert to twisted agendas. That's why they're here. Nice of you to worry about us, though.
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  1610. ​ @TheMovieClipGuy69  It's not accurate to say Canadians and Americans "are almost identical."  The differences are major enough that many of those moving from one country to the other find themselves dissatisfied and homesick. Different character, just a shared language. Also, the French part of Canada has little in common with the US. And Canada is without the hispanic segment the US has, and its small black population hails mainly from the Caribbean and Africa.
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  1611.  @jht3fougifh393  There's a political and social street fight taking place. It's no time to explore empathy and commonality with the opponent. They will never reciprocate any such gesture, you may depend on it. It's vigorous counterattack and antipathy that are called for.
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  1612.  @36handy  Ok, then we might be talking about more like a total of $200k paid by others including taxpayers. He should be paying for his own vacations except for protective security.
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  1613. Title: "Execution of Eichmann" Actual video: Whole life and career of Eichmann, his trial sentencing coming with 90 seconds remaining in a 21-minute video.
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  1614. Don't let them find out they've been found out. The cunning swines will turn it to their advantage somehow.
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  1615.  @twizz420  Your own reading comprehension leaves something to be desired, as I nowhere stated or implied that I didn't understand the sentence. I didn't fault the writer's grammar either. I faulted him or her on the grounds of sense or logic. "Injured following [a] shooting" is clear enough — or nearly clear enough — but it's ludicrous. Anyway, in journalistic writing there should be no difference between what is said and what is meant. So it turns out you're the one seeking to correct another person without knowing what you're talking about.😂 No big deal, though. You're not implicitly any sort of professional writer (I hope you aren't, anyway), so expectations of you are low. Have a nice night.
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  1616. The DEI brigade are the new Red Guards.
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  1617. It will sound bizarre, but actually air molecules do pass through the walls of tire tubes. Not many, of course, but time works wonders. Bikes untouched for a long time always need the tires to be re-inflated. I'm pretty certain, btw, that it would happen faster in a heated home than anywhere unheated in cold weather, since temperature certainly relates directly to pressure, but I don't know that for a fact.
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  1618. It's like when you were a little kid and your parents wouldn't let you watch certain movies. They let on (not in so many words) that they were basically bad and that's why you couldn't watch them. Then you found out that they were the ones they considered the most serious, interesting, enjoyable, funny, best-acted, best-made, and all the rest. When I was about eleven they (accurately) deemed that I was ready, rather swiftly began to relent, and I got to see what all the fuss was about. Once you've seen all those great movies from the great directors of the 1967-75 era, the ones my parents loved, the ones that dealt with every imaginable subject, that left nothing or next to nothing out, there's no going back. I never again fully believed anything any authorities told me, except rarely. (The whole time since has essentially been an attempt to find my own ways of confirming or disproving what others just swallow whole when it's passed to them.)
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  1619. First NDP PM.
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  1620. 🇺🇦 Go get 'em lads!👍
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  1621.  @distanceismyplastercast  Try to have some respect for the facts: it's 2.3 million in 141 sq mi (not under 100🙄). Plus Hamas exaggerates Gaza's population like it exaggerates everything. As for Gaza City being more dense, well fg of course. Every jurisdiction everywhere has denser and less dense parts. With such a talent for unscrupulous spin, you should get a job with Hamas as a spokesman.
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  1622. Without any NATO boots on the ground. Edit, please.🙄 It's absurd the way it's phrased now, since Ukraine has put a vast number of "boots on the ground"!
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  1623.  @Muddy283  Reminds me of the Russians who consider Americans just Englishmen.🙄
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  1624. Absolute 🎯 To fully get his last bit of testimony it helps to know that in China in the 1990s, the government's slogan for its reformed economic system was "Capitalism with Chinese characteristics." I haven't heard it for many years. Thank you, Dave. This is my favorite share of yours in a long time.
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  1625. Very conceivable, actually. In fact inevitable when (1) the media is either owned or totally intimidated by the state, at the same time as (2) organized political opposition is next to nil because of direct state repression and state intimidation.
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  1626.  @chobin7982  Everybody lies, too. It doesn't mean that lying is the key to success in life. It isn't, and all but a few of the worst liars end up in terrible straits before too long—whereas people whose habitual honesty has been verified by experience profit from a sound reputation. The fact that it was even necessary to point this out is why I agree with @factcheck1776: "You just made clear which way you run your business."
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  1627. Canada doesn't lock up anyone for political expression, except for Holocaust deniers. So there's no glass house. No one moves to Saudi Arabia to enjoy political freedom. There's none to be had there. So much for morally equating the two countries. The Saudi prisoners in question are the husband and sister-in-law of a Canadian citizen. So this is an instance of Canada backing up one of its people. Why shouldn't we? Why on earth? So that some low, tyrannous, hereditary regime, its genes obviously falling apart, can buy a few bushels of wheat from us? We'll be no worse off having little or nothing to do with them.
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  1628. He left because he wants to spend more time with his ego. What a loss.
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  1629. Alternatively, slap high tariffs on Chinese goods and direct the proceeds to national and regional security. Australia should be twice as well armed.
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  1630.  @alexthornton672  No he didn't.
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  1631. The arrival of living explorers from other stars does indeed seem unlikely. The cost and complications of sending out 'wetware' are simply immense. Much more likely that they'd send out extraordinarily capable hardware.
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  1632. Latest poll: Conservatives 47%, Trudeau's party 17%
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  1633. I assume you have moved to Iran?😂
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  1634. A press secretary is supposed to deliver basic talking points without reading them from a sheet of paper like a 15-year-old on a high school student council.🙄   Good lord she is unimpressive. She can't even say "as far as [something]" and remember to say "is concerned" afterwards.
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  1635. You: "Build a wall along the border with Canada!" Canada: "🙄Yes, definitely. Right away, please! Start tomorrow morning!"
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  1636. ​ @bryanutility9609  "1.5 billion Africans" That's higher by 1.0 billion since 1980. (The West is higher by 1.0 billion since 1790.) Current rate of increase: 2.25% annually.   Africa, forecast population in 2100: 4.2 billion.
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  1637. It's another way of saying "I don't approve of this fellow, so why is he allowed to speak his mind? I mean, he's weird!" Grace has a highly inflated self-image and is years away from it even potentially dawning on her.
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  1638. Hear, hear!
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  1639. Such an update — due to the vast increase in the extent and intensity of efforts from the several countries of the Authoritarian Axis — would take a staff of hundreds if not thousands to research. I don't expect one for that reason.
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  1640. Firmly grounded in reality, honorable and resolute, gracious and eloquent — that's Ron DeSantis in this address, as always. DeSantis in 2028! .... and 2032.
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  1641. That reminds me of a cool story. The head of McDonald's in another country was a Jewish man who lived in a posh neighbourhood in the country's largest city. On arriving home from work one afternoon, he noticed his neighbour sitting near an open window reading his newspaper. He heard him blandly remark to his wife that the man was home, using an anti-semitic slur. The next day the man arranged for an anonymous offer to be made for the purchase of the neighbour's house. The owner promptly took the offer and moved out. The man then had the house demolished and replaced with tennis courts.
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  1642. ​ @matteymat  In a case where someone isn't as well informed as can be, the right thing is to at least ask the right questions, and Kisin certainly did. He repeatedly challenged them to explain why manufacturing should not be re-shored and they repeatedly steered clear, revealing themselves completely. Offshoring results in more pollution of every type because when China needs more electricity to satisfy Western demand—and remember, Western consumption is far higher than it would be without globalization, because globalization means the West can afford to pay for many, many more shiploads of Chinese stuff—when it needs more power, I say, it simply digs more coal out of the ground, or pays Russia, Australia or Canada to do it, builds several more generating stations, and proceeds to burn it without restraint or proper environmental controls at all. As Kisin pointed out, British managers of energy production and goods-producing factories would do it much more cleanly. So when offshoring of manufacturing drives down domestic rates of pollution, people like Kisin's interlocutors support it, patting themselves on the back even though the situation has actually worsened from an environmental perspective, as well as from economic, social and national security perspectives. I'm certain the Chinese political leadership just can't believe how fortunate it is, having the West act totally against its own interests and in favour of those of China itself. It's an ongoing, stunning, total victory for them. You don't need to be a genius to realize all this, you just need ordinary good sense and a sufficient lack of desire to run with the herd and parade your sanctimony. That panel, almost all the media, and almost all political leadership are shameless panderers to mentally ill neo-Marxist bullies. The fact of this is crying out for a full explanation. He trapped them and they got mad at him because they know he's right. If they really believed otherwise they would have addressed his question directly in a friendly manner, wishing to help him understand. But they were only concerned with protecting their rhetorical 'sunk costs' (their investment, metaphorically speaking) in globalist policies and left-activist dogma. The latter two things are actually not even a match for each other. Indeed they're very much at odds, which is why anyone trying to stand behind both of them simultaneously has to perform the most awkward and embarrassing contortions to get through even a minute of debate. Anyone could see all these things I've pointed out about these people from the heights of space, unless he or she were a total hypocrite not on speaking terms with the truth. And that's a good way of describing them—as well as perhaps half the population, perhaps more. The fact that Kisin is rising out of total obscurity and into prominence is really somewhat heartening. Now just watch as they gang up on him to annihilate his reputation. Smooth-talking savages that they are, It's the tactic they rely upon most.
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  1643.  @texluh  Almost entirely.
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  1644. ​ @Joshua-fg8mz  Who is it really that is sad and angry? What the man said was reasonable and in my view factual. It certainly wasn't disparaging. You do realize that 'accessing' was an obvious typo for 'assessing'?
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  1645. Strange fact: there's no such word as prophesize, in the dictionaries at least. The related words are the verb prophesy (pronounced PROF-ә-sigh), while the noun is prophecy (PROF-ә-see). Btw, I'm not correcting, I'm sharing.🙂
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  1646. Someone's getting climate and weather mixed up here. It snows in late April sometimes. Doesn't mean much.
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  1647. There's a lovely 1960s-80s, relaxed, intelligent, confident liberalism on offer here. In short, the pre-nonsense kind. Ahhhh. Soothes the soul.
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  1648. ​ @chrondavis1579  Entering into relationships with nasty countries is only one way to not be targeted by them. And it's hardly a reliable one either. (Just think back 82 years.) A finer way by far is developing ones with good countries. The latter type make better partners for trade and investment, too. But it appears that Putin and his cadre just feel more at ease in the company of nastiness. Unsurprising perhaps, since the country was taken over very early on by Genghis Khan, whom it never ejected. Ruled by the Mongols for a quarter of a millennium, they drank deep of the Mongol ethos, and it suffused a large portion of both the aristocracy and populace. It didn't have to work out that way. It appears it did. But you know all this.
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  1649.  @NorahsYarnArt  Then sit down, because you might split your sides when I tell you that except for the period between the death of Charles I and the coronation of Charles II, there's been a unified English throne from King Athelstan in 927 AD to Charles III today. Over a thousand years.
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  1650.  @NorahsYarnArt  Buildings do not a civilization make. What that religion did to Iberia was degrade its people into a lasting taste for brutishness. See Latin America, History of. As for Cortez, I'm in no position to disagree with you about where his mentality came from. Perhaps he was one, in a way.
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  1651. @ephoriq Check out the comment pinned to the very top, and the account-holder's reply to it.
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  1652. Stop giving publicity oxygen to this very unfortunate young woman. It amounts to the glamorization of mental illness. We need to hand the discussion back to calm, level-headed people with long experience.
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  1653. "After living in Vancouver's Stanley Park for 30 years, what's next for Chris Bailey?" I would hope it's a long hot shower.
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  1654.  @johnbrowne2170  I'm sure animals don't like him very much either.😂
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  1655.  @miki_9034  But it's not a problem unique to Tesla handles. Every car door has a handle which can be immobilized in ice. So if a Tesla handle gets iced up, it's actually easier to deal with than a regular handle, because it doesn't have to be defrosted for someone to get into their car. And if their phone is lost or dead, they can warm the handle up as with any car.
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  1656.  @lamontcranston3177  Visitors from other countries don't get to decide what we do, but they may offer a valuable perspective well worth considering. Don't be so parochial, Archie Bunker.
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  1657. I am amused by your minuscule cortex.
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  1658. (1) "Elon Musk propagates hate," you conclude, after propagating hatred against him.😂 (2) "Declaring a person an enemy of humanity is appalling," you claim. No, not if it's true. If it's true, it's appalling not to say it.
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  1659.  @anro5705  I won't defend the war on Iraq. It was mistaken, criminal, or both. But Afghanistan played host to and fostered Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda went on to attack the United States. Whether the US "felt threatened" by Afghanistan or not, the Taliban had to face consequences for that. Period. ISAF had a UN mandate. I find your sophistry awful. Anyway, US military power is all that stands between the world and an explosion of real tyranny. I'm for it.
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  1660. R.I.P. the Cringe-ometer. First it overheated, then it exploded in flames.
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  1661.  @BKKNOW1  You say "She’s reading all the questions from a script." Explain what's wrong with devising interview questions in advance, please. It's actually the proper and normal way to prepare. Don't confuse it with being a paid internet propagandist and having your posts written for you by the Kremlin, "Roger."
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  1662. Toronto population (2024 est.): 2.93 million Homicides, 2024 (to April 22): 22 Chicago population (2024 est.): 2.65 million Homicides, 2024 (to April 20): 141
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  1663. Good, but I hope the munitions for taking them down weren't very expensive. Supposedly these drones only cost $20k apiece or something. EDIT: 👍German-made ‘Gepard’ self-propelled anti-aircraft guns were used.👍🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇦
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  1664. Work goes on, genius. You don't think vital infrastructure need to be repaired immediately? You don't think rubble needs to be cleared? You don't think that requires machinery? Proper construction equipment is extremely valuable right now. Few things are lower or worse than a mocking fool.
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  1665. "How do you sum up Russians?" I asked a Russian-speaking Ukrainian emigrant whom I used to know. "Born to be ruled" he said coldly.
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  1666. Joe Biden: "The thing for Americans to keep in mind as we move forward is Error Message 404 return to previous page." Average Chinese person, watching: "We really need to protect the world from democracy."
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  1667. She has worked four straight shifts and is overtired.
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  1668.  @juliehutchens6289  Only her wealth management staff would ever notice.
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  1669. @ajlynch123 I am Vladimir Putin and I endorse this comment 1,000%. This guy gets it!
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  1670. Harry and Meghan are presented a golden, fizzing, pulsating opportunity to get attention in a way that will vibrate the planet with the cringing of billions. How will they do it in the most exciting possible sick-making fashion?
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  1671.  @user1qaz2wsx3edc  NATO left Afghanistan having accomplished what it expected to, and at a time of its own choosing. Russia accomplished nothing, got its rear end kicked, left in defeat, and months later its whole empire swiftly began disintegrating.
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  1672. He tested positive for being a crook.😂
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  1673. You're talking about China, right? Before long it will have 100 million facial-recognition cameras, then a billion. That's where the population is being controlled.
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  1674.  @williamrodriguez296  I don't know what will happen, nor when. I only know that Russia is slowly being bled and that there's no other way. The great danger is that Putin realizes what's happening and tries for a super-massive and sudden push which he (correctly, in the worst case) believes Ukraine is not yet equipped to withstand adequately. In such a situation Russia could sustain heavy losses but still succeed. It would actually be a very Russian way of doing things. This month or next would be a good time to make such an attempt if it comes before the latest aid to Ukraine arrives and is put in place on or near battlefields. It better get there very soon and it better include a lot of air defense kit. A week late might be just as bad as never getting there at all. (E.g. Canada just announced a lovely $400m NASAMS system will be sent. However, it doesn't actually own it. Either Raytheon hasn't even made it yet and it'll take who-knows-how-long to deliver, or the US has to send one of its own right away and let the Canadian order backfill the gap later.)
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  1675. ​ @Bat-Cat-Meow  Thanks for your reply. As a seasoned cynic from way back, I'm not impressed. A seasoned cynic is a reformed one, meaning no longer an extremist. I freely grant that money has too much influence on American politics. Yet I will begin by pointing out that the rich do not have to feel assured that they can own politicians before deciding to throw money at political parties. They would do it even on the faintest hope of getting what they want, and would continue to do so despite turning up no results decade after decade. The fact that income taxes are at all north of 5% is proof enough of that. And even then, who is to blame except the American people themselves, who worship money like almost no others on Earth? You think that in a democracy the leaders might ever be lacking in any of their countrymen's worst and most widespread faults? Not possible. I grant also that the political deliberations held in public are of course deeply flawed, and I could go on all day about those flaws, yet the deliberations in the clip shown here are far better than most. Every point made is germane. The positions are well contrasted. The tone is civil. There is a certain amount of clear respect for the facts. (Just what the facts are is an important and separate matter.) You need to understand that whatever degree of justice there is, whatever sound management, whatever order and peace, is entirely down to good debate (i.e. that which is open, sincere, practised, informed, and free) and respect for good debate. Without them, all is chaos, tyranny, and vicious rule by gangs and the mob with no recourse for people like you and me. Together they keep an enormous number of balls in the air, if you look at our civilization as a grand juggling act, which is what it is. Your problem is that until you wise up your only way of appreciating how good you have it (assuming you're a Westerner and not a grossly unfortunate one) is to lose it all. You're judging it, I don't doubt, by utopian standards (i.e. a fantasy) rather than by realistic possibilities, which is why you think it's all garbage. I respectfully suggest you get to know humankind and civilization better by looking at them around the world and across time. Psychology and history would be good places to start, and at the outset you should rid your mind of cant, sanctimony, and the idea that conceptions of justice and morality have reached dizzying new heights in the American universities since 1970, after wallowing in blindness for an eternity beforehand. They haven't. They've actually deteriorated badly at the hands of bitterly deformed, usually not-very-bright, opportunistic, spoiled dupes, except for a few certain improvements. As valuable as they may in fact be, they have been purchased at a needlessly disastrous or even pyrrhic cost. It could be a nicer society, I'll give you that. Income inequality is ballooning under the liberal order and that means misery is increasing. This is why I think we already hit all-time peak human niceness (prosperity and security as well). Real niceness (as well as the real prosperity and real security) is way down.
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  1676. There is drone weaponry on the sidelines that we're not seeing. Those in possession of such weapons don't necessarily want the world to see their effectiveness yet, in particular the smaller, lighter drones that could be more cheaply copycatted than things like the Predator or even the Bayraktar. Best not to show adversaries how devastating a $5k drone can be.
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  1677. Konstantin Kisin said it well: "If you're a man, no one cares about what you go through." And he wasn't complaining either. He was just telling men what to expect, in order to help them to be ready and to handle it better. I'm not sure it ever occurred to him that it's in any way wrong. More like it's just the way it is. And of course he's right: It is.
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  1678.  @nathansmith622  Putzin backed up his hinder parts to your waiting upturned mouth and filled you full of confidence. It reeks.
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  1679. It isn't very smart to debate hostile people. Don't reveal your position by demanding that anyone defend mobilization (which you did of that one woman). They will never change their minds and you will get arrested or assaulted. Just make them answer general questions and let them hear their own voices and how silly their answers are. Let them inwardly question and rebuke themselves afterwards. That is the only realistic hope. Don't get your channel shut down.
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  1680. ​ @JS-ip8xm  His soul is a nanometre in diameter, but when Putin stands on fifty million such souls, at last he is six feet tall.
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  1681. Quite right. But they shoulda had Spade playing Lindsey Graham, barging in at the end to say stuff and steal the scene. 😄
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  1682. And threatened and chased a girl. But I guess someone here thinks he's probably just a "minor-attracted person" whose rights must be protected.🙄
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  1683. What's with her eyeglass frames? Did she lose a bet?
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  1684.  @user-ks3mk9kq4l  Thank you. Good points well-stated.
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  1685. ​ @worldpeace8299  Yeah, sure. Douglas Murray equals Jerry Falwell. If you only had a clue. Sorry, but as my mother always said, there's no fool like an old fool. Just look at the self-congratulatory, simple-minded sentimentalism of your screen name. You want the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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  1686. Yes, but don't take it so seriously—it's only idiot bait. It doesn't have to be a legitimate question. Another good one would be "Which side was Alaska on in the Civil War?"
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  1687. Speaking of films, compare the two you just watched to this scene from Macbeth (1971): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq7fsKvVBkw
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  1688. Or: one big bathroom; locked, totally-enclosed, solid stalls; communal sink area which is CCTV-monitored/-recorded.
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  1689. It has a Potemkin quality to it. The village, not the ship.
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  1690.  @redburban1394  If you really do mean "always against," that's a mistaken view. Talk to Iranians of at least middle age about the country before the dismal revolution. It's likewise mistaken to generalize the hypocrisy of the theocracy and its strong supporters to the population as a whole. As I understand it, most people would love to see Iran rid of the minority which oppresses it. If they only could, they'd turn their country towards the West.
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  1691. Every rich democracy without exception—and also the largest democracy by far, India—must come together. Tighter and tighter and without delay. Each one, in a spirit of friendly rivalry, must try to outdo the rest in its commitment to global security. Tyranny—as exemplified by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and the autocracies of the Middle East—is the problem. Unity is the answer. We must— we absolutely must —hang together....or we shall surely hang separately. No more pussyfooting.
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  1692.  @maphezdlin  Macgregor is the American Lord Haw Haw. His utterances are indistinguishable from those of Dmitri Peskov, the spokesman of the Kremlin.
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  1693. Activist speaker: "Let's have a show of hands in favour of intensely irritating and irrational public actions." [All hands go up] "Right, let's go out there and be irrational and irritating!" That's the kind of decision-making you get from the Irrational and Irritating Activist community.
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  1694. 1.7m new arrivals in a single year isn't 1% of 40m people, it's 4%! That was absolutely outrageous when there was no mandate for it, when there's a severe shortage of about 5m homes across the country, when health care and law enforcement are strained past the breaking point.
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  1695. Surely that's what the BBC staff would be screaming were the defectors joining the Conservatives rather than leaving it.  No Canadian used to the CBC could fail to be appalled by the obvious leanings of Beeb reporters after tuning in to Channel 4 even for only five minutes. Till I started watching a couple of months ago I had no idea how good we still had it (not that it's perfect either). Sorry for your luck. Cheers.
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  1696. Then we better get a move on. There's not that much sand left in the American hourglass.
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  1697.  boyce5994  If, for Russia, freedom means the right to invade or even bully all its smaller and weaker neighbours, that's a problem.
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  1698. World Hyena Federation: "Hey, take that back right now!"
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  1699. So they were "fired" for their misdeeds, but in effect also handed payments in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to make up for it.
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  1700. Makes sense. He's a huge a++++++. 😠
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  1701. He reminded me instantly of the many great professors I had, back before The Great Dumbening of the universities. Those I see elsewhere nearly all have that blank, satisfied, well-fed and religious look to their faces which betrays a lack of intellect.
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  1702. Erdogan knows how to be a real pain. I hope Putin continues to antagonize him and later regrets it terribly.
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  1703. It's not rebellious to conform to fashion trends. You didn't know that?
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  1704. I'm guessing you're more of an elf.😂
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  1705.  @LordPanda-wz9oq  The US govt. started paying for 80% of Starlink equipment and services to Ukraine around the end of last year. SpaceX continues to donate the rest.
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  1706.  @hcpalmer  Why should Musk donate a large fortune while Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and all the rest are not expected nor asked to donate so much as one dime? They were not made to, not asked to, and they have not. Btw, the US govt. only began paying for Starlink late in 2022, and only for 80%. SpaceX continues to pony up the remainder. It is unique as a US company making major donations. It's the only generous one, yet you paint devil's horns on Musk. And you don't think that's twisted; you think you have the finest moral sense possible.😮 As for Musk "being enriched from taxpayer dollars," SpaceX has been saving US taxpayer dollars for years, billions of dollars. NASA was costing them an arm and a leg, yet still had to totally shut down human space flight operations. NASA astronauts had to fly to the International Space Station from Russia, on Russian spaceships. Now NASA is going back to the Moon, and it's 100% down to Musk. He made it possible and affordable. (Meanwhile Russia's space operations, devastated by competition from SpaceX, are now bare-bones.) Once again your reasoning, limited factual awareness, personal antipathies and sense of ethics fail you.
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  1707. You may be unaware how much Europe has stepped up its aid this year. Total Aid Since Early 2022: EU countries & EU institutions €132bn US €70bn Other donor countries €37bn Source: Kiel Institute Ukraine Aid Tracker, Sept. 7 release Even in military aid the US contribution is less than half the total, around 45%. I'm in agreement with a lot of what you say, though.
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  1708. @Garret Phegley  But the US did want it; it simply didn't have the appetite for another war with Britain. At least the people pulling the strings didn't. That's why they folded, for example, on the border dispute over British Columbia. 54'40" or Fight! ended up as "OK, you win, 49." As the Civil War progressed, the Manifest Destiny crowd was clamoring for an invasion of Canada to replace the territory of the departed South. Britain and Canada paid close attention to that, and as the Americans closed their deal for Alaska (1867) they decided to end Canada's colonial status and make it a country of sorts on July 1st of that year (the qualifier is that it had no foreign office until around 1930). American yahoos of course are always in favor of invading other countries, but they don't always get their way. That's good for America, since its record of success is very spotty, as you well know. For every Grenada there's a Vietnam, Cuba, or Afghanistan. Even the war with Canada in 1812-14 didn't go so well, which is exactly why Americans today know so little of it. I would imagine a similar reason explains why you think the US didn't want Canada --- it doesn't have it, so surely it didn't want it. (And one could say Mexico now stands a little doubtfully in the win column, as that country is slowly reconquering the Southwest.) Britain was simply too rich and powerful in the Manifest Destiny days. Americans forget how Britain towered above them in riches, productive capacity, and military might in the 19th century. US per-capita GDP didn't surpass Britain's until after the First World War.
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  1709. Lovely red and white hearts.👍
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  1710.  @hollyboyd1837  Thanks for your reply. No, I didn't think I was making any big announcement. 'Everybody knows this, etc.', I said, or words to that effect. Just read the pompous comment I was replying to. It desperately needed a skewering. In fact it moved me to consider that perhaps the OP was indeed correct, though I initially thought he was overstating things. Cheers.
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  1711. I always learn things from a Ben Hodges interview.
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  1712. Musk doesn't belong on that list. He doesn't even own a house, let alone private islands or holiday estates, almost never goes on vacation, and owns no boats or other costly toys except for a movie prop Lotus car. He doesn't even wear conspicuously expensive clothes, as anyone can see. He does own a few cars (4 Teslas, a Model T, a Porsche and an old Jaguar) and uses a Gulfstream 700 plane frequently. I don't know if he owns or leases it but doing a lot of flying is certainly an inescapable requirement of his work. In that sense I would say it can't be looked on as part of an 'extravagant lifestyle.' His favourite restaurant in Austin where he lives, serves Mexican food. I would bet that someone else does his housekeeping, but apart from that he has zero personal staff, running his life entirely on his own. (He also has no assistant at work.) Concerning his living arrangements, he's been living at the houses of friends for a few years since selling his house in SF. It's been rumored for some time that he's having a house built near Austin, but this is unconfirmed. (Some years back he owned several houses in LA as investments and rented them out until getting rid of them all.)
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  1713.  @brombromsmuva9215  In the US, generally the primary factors are intent and consent. Assault generally requires: (1) An intentional act by the perpetrator; (2) Lack of consent from the victim. A touch must be intentional and unwanted to potentially qualify as assault. And yes, touching or grabbing an item someone is holding (like an umbrella) or wearing (like a camera on a strap) can potentially be considered assault. Additional factors (e.g. harm, reasonable fear of harm, offences against social norms of touching) will depend on state laws.
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  1714. She just feels sorry for herself. Awful. If she really felt for the victims she'd accept her and her husband's rightful responsibility. It's obvious, unfortunately.
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  1715.  @Liberal_From_Prairies689  Get one yourself. Those were reasonable points.
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  1716.  @rwatertree  Yeah, full-on independence can make you mature rapidly, that's definitely true. Probably having a kid most of all. I didn't guess that was your meaning. Nowadays that doesn't happen till much later, does it? People live with their parents till 30 and become parents at 35 or later. It's weird, really. All the best.
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  1717.  @sextoncardew903  What a laugh. China has changed. Its period of courting trust by seeming to earn it now belongs to history. The approach is no longer needed since the investment inflows were achieved, productive capacity goals reached, and poor-country loans made. The tree was planted, it reached maturity, and now it will be felled for its lumber. The cuddly panda act is over.
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  1718.  @blurtam188  Are you? The word is premier, not "premiere." A premiere is a debut, a first showing or appearance. Welcome to Canada. (And to the English language as it's spoken here.) "LOL"
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  1719. Vladimir Solovyov and his TV co-hosts have really gotten their work done, I see.😂 Despite the USSR being long gone, our interviewees here show the lasting value of Orwell's description of its typical commissar: "half gangster, half gramophone."
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  1720. ​ PxCoffeee  It is the popular version of something Orwell wrote: "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." Orwell was no midwit, and besides that he had a balanced personality—unlike Chomsky who is plainly a neurotic and attracts other neurotics as his disciples.
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  1721. Marvellous clip from start to finish, but that last minute or so was simply golden. This is almost KK-Oxford Union-grade and deserves to go hyper-viral.
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  1722. He is the deadliest defender ever known. You are safer entering a cave home to a thousand dragons. His name: Solidar. Edit: Ok, I thought Solidar was a misspelling of 'Soldier'. But the comment stands.
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  1723.  @matt_milack  Look how easily their thoughts turn to an Anschluss, and how enthusiastically. Just like a bunch of loo zerz on the streets of Bavaria a hundred years ago.
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  1724. We need closure, dammit.
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  1725. That sounds to me like Love Thine Enemy. Sorry, but of all the precepts of Christianity that one was always the most ludicrous. Even the absurd "virgin birth" is easier to accept😄. And pray tell, why do you let the interview subjects' hate pass without comment and then scold us for objecting to it?
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  1726. Sounds like Principal Karen decided a parent had to go to detention.
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  1727. The Chinese economist is simply there to do government spin. You can tell it's spin because it's so one-sided, i.e., China perfect, West bad. If she had a free and well-developed mind, and were candid, she would certainly have had some criticisms of the Chinese government to make.
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  1728.  @an67481  Imagine those in the English-speaking world. We listen daily and hourly to people who learnt English as adults and butcher it with horror after horror. Journalists included. And then there's the writing on social media, seemingly half of it by foreign posters; here in the YT comments, for example, it's perpetual carnage. Sorry, I have no sympathy. You are much to be envied, not pitied.
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  1729.  @komuto-herovato  Sorry, I don't speak Oink.
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  1730. The one part you got right is that Africans and Russians are brothers. Exactly the same in politics and character.😄
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  1731. Cognitive dissonance isn't, as you claim, someone looking at things foolishly. It's the uncomfortable feeling a person gets when their belief is contradicted by what they see.
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  1732. Well, you've come through it with rare and immense vision. That'll serve you well, now and forever.
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  1733. Wrong, Inspector Deebag. If a suspect is identified and has spray-paint in his possession, the police lab may be able to match it to the crime scene sample and advance the case to prosecution. Always think, then post.
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  1734. Then the grandaddy of them all, "social justice". (The marketing name of social injustice.)
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  1735. It's true. Most people are so incapable of moral reasoning, moral insight, and other things requiring a brain and some character, that they do indeed need religion. They need that one book that tells them everything🙄, otherwise they fall to nihilistic pieces. This is why I do absolutely and sincerely support them having their beliefs (which I could never, ever share).
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  1736. At one time your comment would've been bizarre and offensive. Now it somehow slightly makes sense. Certainly the last thing I would want now is liberal media approval. [Sideshow Bob shudder]
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  1737. Silly woman, thinking she could get away.😂
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  1738.  @MDpart2  Snobbery is seen by most as one of the most unattractive personal traits.
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  1739. ​@@toppa7954 Gaza is not the most densely populated place in the world. That's Hamas propaganda. Gaza: 2.3 million people in 141 square miles. (And 2.3m is a Hamas exaggeration.) It has semi-rural areas. Toronto (2023 est.): 3.0 million in 240 sq.mi. (Btw, it's still noted by foreign visitors for its spaciousness.) To make Manhattan (¼ the area) the same density as Gaza, you'd have to remove 85% of its people. How can anyone fall so hard for the propaganda of a terra wrist group like Hamas and the sad left-wing student dupes at the elite US universities — the parents of whom are shelling out half a million dollars for their "education"?
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  1740. If the vicissitudes of the English language had gone differently, instead of peace we might have a word meaning the same thing but having a literal sense of successful deterrence. It's a deterrent which must be found. (This was suggested to me by something I read: "The art of deterrence is the art of peace.")
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  1741. It was reportedly found to be delicious, served with a sauce made from capers, lemon, olive oil and dill, along with potato puffs, roasted beets and asparagus, and grilled yellow peppers. A bottle of Chablis rounded things out.
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  1742.  @Mark5mith  Yeah. But watch it come out in them as they age, more than they ever expected, almost against their will. Things like that run in national blood, figuratively speaking. Cheers
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  1743. US to Canada: "We feel you." Canada to US: "We feel you too."
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  1744.  @sorinhodosan458  I find that proposition reasonable. Weapons aren't my cup of tea at all, but political and social freedom are.
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  1745.  @residentpotato6023  Men's Alliance of Poland: "Interesting theory. We'll look into that."
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  1746. If you believe in fact checkers you may also believe they should make airplanes entirely out the material they use to make black boxes.
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  1747.  @user-ub1xr8md1g  It's the minority in Germany who should protect their own rights...by exercising their right to apologize for what they've just said.
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  1748. That's the TPS board chair? I expected a better speaker and a more impressive, more intelligent-seeming and better-groomed person. Oh well, it's 2023.
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  1749. The cackle is what a highly unlikeable [b-word] does to try to convince the most gullible 15%-or-so of the population that she's not a highly unlikeable [b-word]. Just a long-shot desperation move that a highly unlikeable [b-word] makes to ward off impending, certain, abject failure.
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  1750.  @odineproci2455  There are new therapies for addiction to copium. Look into it.
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  1751. It's like she's AOC, but sort of in human form.
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  1752. The problem is undue belief in an authority which is either innocently but profoundly mistaken, or intent on misleading people, or both. But let's face it, such undue belief is likely never completely absent, nor on the other hand totally pervasive. In a given person it's higher than zero, less than 100%. And what we call being brainwashed is some murky level, past a hard-to-define tipping point, at which a person stops trying to get at the truth.
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  1753. I don't see how that showed him to be unstable or ineffective. Fatigue, hunger, or whatever, appears to have caused him to come near to fainting onstage. It happens occasionally and means little.
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  1754.  @michaellee1002  Next time don't wait five years. Five minutes should have been plenty.
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  1755.  @magicalp0wers788  Omg, what you wrote seems itself a flagrant indication of pathology. This person was a 9-year-old trying to protect a multitude of creatures from one other creature. Not forgiving him for something like that so many years later is profoundly wrong. I'm not even sure I have a problem with the ethics of what he did, and besides that it didn't sound like there was any intention of harming the duckling. More like he was trying to shoo it away. Telling you as a friend that there's something wrong here. That was so over the top.
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  1756. Oh my God. Perfect!! You hit the nail right on the head.
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  1757.  @trevorhart545  True. Two wrongs do not make a right. They make a leftist.😄
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  1758. "Give there money" Many Kremlin botz write in English like that.
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  1759. Learn to watch for and identify contempt. It's the single strongest indicator that a relationship has zero future. Stronger than a single instance of cheating (if no contempt is embedded in the cheating).
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  1760. Thank you. Our nightmare is slouching towards its merciful conclusion. Personally I found moral support from Americans like you over the past couple of years somewhat consoling and encouraging. I tell you, it's been bleak here.
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  1761. Don't forget Cuba.
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  1762. But hey, don't forget that, as Kimberly Cheatle said, the roof was sloped "at its highest point." 😂 Omg The moment I heard her say that, I knew she was gone. Not qualified to manage a fruit stand, let alone the Secret Service. Likewise whoever hired her.
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  1763. You must have a powerful microscope.
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  1764.  @bribaby8902  A thick coat of mud would be some great make-up for that big woof-woof.
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  1765. To me he's the Mad Magazine guy, a really creepy twerp. "What, me [foul language]?" I wish I could say it here.😆
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  1766.  @BIlliE572  "Helping"? They are indeed 'helping': in 2023 and 2024 Europe provided most of the combined money/arms which Ukraine received as aid. Taking arms in isolation, the US has provided over 50% during all three years of the war. This is what bugs me about Republicans (and please note that I've never supported a Democratic candidate in a very long time). They shoot their mouths off indignantly before ever attempting to find out the facts of the matter. They regard their own and each other's guesses as facts.
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  1767. The even larger point is that they wouldn't care no matter what. The Party worships itself. That's why it's the world's most dangerous institution.
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  1768. Meanwhile Wagner has rebooted and is conducting parallel recruiting in women's prisons. Also brothels.😄
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  1769. It's hard not to fault Hungarians for Orban's cynical manipulation. His approval remains high at 57%, the same as last year. In 2022 his party beat the opposition 54% to 35%. Interestingly, however, Hungarians are negative on Putin. In Jul. 23, 19% had some/a lot of confidence that he'd do the right thing in world affairs, while 79% had little/none.
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  1770.  @squigglyarmz197  Breathe. Just breathe.
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  1771. Wait, there were 600 police officers at that parade. I thought those are supposed to obviate the need for open carry.🤨
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  1772. Rather like a judicial nominee during confirmation hearings. Speaking of which: Coming soon..... Q: "Justice Wokely, what to you personally are the three most important juridical principles?" A: "I can't answer that—I'm not a chatbot."
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  1773. She doesn't really mean that stuff about race and privilege sincerely. I highly doubt she's actually brainwashed, she's just toeing the line. It's Hollywood, where one has to talk like that or be shunned and denied work.
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  1774. And we're unburdened from that has-been.
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  1775. Yet another proper video by Sky News Australia on this subject.👍 Good job of reporting. But I want to share my opinion that a national leader shouldn't resign over this sort of thing. (I'd really love it if he did, though!) It's actually far more appropriate for his Chief of Staff to resign. He or she is the person who is really directly responsible for making sure everything goes well (i.e. perfectly) when a foreign head of state visits Canada.
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  1776. Chow's plan: Announce that her tax increase is Ottawa's fault. Meanwhile she's doing zero to control spending except targeting a police budget already so strained that reported crimes are routinely ignored. Instead she spends millions re-naming things. Oh, but there's a $7,000+ raise for herself.😠
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  1777. I would tell my mother I'm the piano player in a bordello.
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  1778.  @camwilliams2501  Check the last election results. The popular vote in Manitoba and BC was similar to the rest of the country outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan. (I.e., basically Libs + NDP combined at 50%-plus; the Conservatives in the low to mid-30s. Same as Ontario.)
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  1779. Correction: The houses where the Russians were hiding.
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  1780. What? You think people who are "like 60" are impressed by the "littlest things"? Actually it's the young who are far more easily impressed. That's really one of the most dull-minded comments I've read in a while, and I read YouTube comments most days.
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  1781.  @swervedriver5260  Take heart. Tesla's popular Model 3 costs $39,990...minus a $7,500 federal rebate. Presto, $32,490. Then in some states there are more rebates. In Colorado it's another $5,000, so you end up paying $27,490. In California it's another $7,500, so you end up paying $24,990. Meanwhile the average selling price of a new car in the US is $48,275. (Source: Cox Automotive)
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  1782. Every single word, every single letter of "Produced for the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, by the Motion Picture Division, Theatre Arts Department, University of California, Los Angeles" goes perfectly together. In my view it's less of a sentence than one single huge word which is not yet in any dictionary but perhaps should be.
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  1783. Clearly ammunition was stored there.
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  1784. "Their only chance to be alone was in the girl's home, where her mother would chaperone the meeting." The word alone evidently had a different meaning 67 years ago. 😄
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  1785. I see you've decided to start thinking for yourself -- about five minutes ago. Come back in 25 years and share some more of your careful, informed, independent reasoning.
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  1786.  @peterw8532  "Sweden too a stupid gamble." Every nation took a gamble, you can't deny that. Considering that Sweden's has (1) so far resulted in lower death rates than in the worst-hit strict mandatory lockdown countries (UK, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium), (2) put it much closer to the end of its epidemic than its neighbours (with Stockholm, according to Swedish officials being mere weeks away from herd immunity, for instance), and (3) has meanwhile risked a lot less economic ruin and collateral health damage, I'd say it was more intelligent, not less. Calling someone lucky after they've outwitted you is not impressive.
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  1787. @Dog Faced Pony Soldier The mortality rate for people under 60 appears to be WAY under 0.2%. Based on serological evidence, mortality rate appears to be between 0.12% and 0.3% for the entire population INCLUDING the elderly, and they account for nearly 90% of deaths. It will take time to establish these rates with a high degree of certainty.
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  1788. I keep forgetting he's still alive.
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  1789. Don't go DEI. Go HOME. Hire On Merit Exclusively.
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  1790.  @noooboooo  Thanks for the comment that well describes itself. Very meta, that.
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  1791. Just look up the unanimously-passed UN Security Council Resolution # 1386, which authorized the action in Afghanistan. Even Russia and China (!) voted in favour of it. The coalition force comprising over 40 countries (from every continent) was called the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). But perhaps you feel the UN treated the Taliban unjustly. If so, you of course have every right to that opinion.
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  1792.  @Anthony-zc2lm  The joke sailed over your head, sideways presumably. 😉
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  1793. 👏Larry Kudlow for the next Trump cabinet!👏
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  1794. Aww, poo' liddle Poody bot. Canada is 14th out of 190 countries in military spending, and it has always bought very high-grade kit. It is the 6th-largest supplier of military aid to Ukraine, a fact which makes your sad claim the joke.
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  1795.  @kevinreyes7823  Sadly, I expect that's accurate. They're the same everywhere.
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  1796. Yeah, as the sky is filled with smoke from burning Russian positions.
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  1797.  @leebaker2588  Where's your proof of that?
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  1798. I can't bear to look at his horrible and twisted simian face. Wuhan Dan is a cartoonist's dream; for all others he's a nightmare.
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  1799. This report bought and paid for by Trudeau.
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  1800. "In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion." — Cyril Connolly (By sex-war, of course, he meant what was later called 'the battle of the sexes.' He went on to say that ordinarily it's male thoughtlessness which has lit the fuse. But he had a hard time finding and keeping a woman.)
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  1801. So it's basically 'please don't riot.' 🙄 Compare that with martial law and imprisonment without bail for low-key Canadian protestors last year. Parallel legal systems: one for us, one for them. Awful.
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  1802.  @ynwajft9612  I would say you're asking some of the right questions.
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  1803. Make AOC a Waitress Again.
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  1804. I always liked Molly Shannon's Mary Katherine Gallagher character (esp. that time Aerosmith was on). But it seems inappropriate for the non-Catholic VP to use it in a presentation to a Catholic event. (Or even a multi-faith one.) Mary Katherine, a Catholic high-school girl, has always fizzed with deliberate and unconcealed undertones of eroticism. So she wasn't what the VP's three minutes with that audience should've been about.
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  1805. Canada, US, Australia, NZ: all four former British colonies, all four chose an insignificant or at least 3rd-tier town as their capital. Questionable judgment if you ask me.
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  1806.  @lucydayLucida  Wouldn't disagree there. A friend of mine is a pretty eminent doctor in a hospital with a worldwide reputation and he once told me there's no shortage of people who think a lot of these various diagnostic criteria lead to "phony" diagnoses. (His word.) Mildly surprised, I said "Yeah? What do you think?" He paused and looked up and shook his head thoughtfully, then looked down, then back at me, but gave no answer. I caught his meaning and we moved on.
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  1807.  @w1nntr  Watch the final minute of the video. "Julia/Julius, transgender male"
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  1808.  @kittenpawsbb  👎That's warped (as well as being poorly written). It's not a disservice to one's child to marry. It's closer to a disservice, if anything. But it comes down to: Any single parent should marry or not marry, as they see fit, period.
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  1809. He also said that the best way to deal with temptation is to give into it. So he had it all figured out, didn't he? Except that he died deep in debt, of a wasting disease, in a cheap hotel in Paris. (Last words: "Either this wallpaper goes or I go.")
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  1810.  @blattsee6095  I think he's saying they're born to be ruled and it's costing them.
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  1811.  @R.A.M.10  Save it for your TA.🤨
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  1812. "That second person just a while ago has succumbed to his injuries." Moments later: "They've succumbed to their injuries." 'They' and 'their' are plural. If 'his' was the right word seconds earlier, then it should be "He's succumbed to his injuries." What on earth has happened to people's command of their native tongue, even people in senior positions?🤨
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  1813. For pure hilarity it's hard to beat the guy indicating that, sure, he'd go fight in the war, but he can't talk because his mouth is full of cake. 🤣🤣 You couldn't write it better.
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  1814. Beyond outstanding! Thank you Summer.
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  1815. Surprising. She looks so nice, intelligent, trustworthy and competent. Any mother would rather leave her child with her than take care of it herself. Not like in the old days when women were so oppressed that they seldom handed over the task of raising their children to minimum-wage-earning total strangers who for some reason didn't have children of their own. Terrible times back then.
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  1816.  @arcticfox8932  Yes, and btw Ukraine is using all kinds of inflatable decoys. I'm serious. Czechia has been sending blow-up HIMARS batteries, hundreds of them. At a cost of a few grand each they attract all kinds of heavy-duty fire including missiles. 😄 (Maybe Russia uses them too, but the fact remains that Ukraine's eyes in the sky and ability to distinguish what's what on the battlefield and beyond are very superior.) This could be the origin of the impossible strike reports coming out of Russia. E.g. they claimed to have destroyed more HIMARS batteries than the US even sent, and before they even sent one.😄 What really happened is they popped a lot of balloons. Hooray for the Czechs.🇨🇿🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪🇦🇺🇨🇦🇳🇴🇯🇵 + dozens of others.
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  1817. And the homeless are now "people experiencing homelessness."🙄 Eight syllables. More of a sentence than a word.
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  1818. She recently said cloud data storage isn't in any way physical, it's up in the sky somewhere.😮 Seriously.
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  1819. I always hate it when that happens and totally ruins my day. 😄
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  1820. You're gonna like the next guy.
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  1821.  @themiddleman3060  Yeah, you were right in that sense. Actually, sometimes I write comments and replies just for the mental stimulation that results from the effort. I feel mentally sharper after. It's like exercise. Cheers.
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  1822.  @letsRegulateSociopaths  Trump unequivocally endorsed Speaker Johnson's Ukraine aid bill.
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  1823. Solid lads with a solid understanding of China and its political culture of constructing facades..
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  1824. If it's so objectionable when a CEO makes $15 million, why do athletes, pop stars and movie stars get a pass? The contrast couldn't be more stark. The latter group are never condemned. That tells you something about the indignant sanctimony of the complainers in this report.
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  1825. "If you're not careful, YouTube comments will have you believing things Malcolm Little* said." —Dixon Pinfold Edit: * Malcolm X's real name
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  1826. How interesting. As usual it's something I'd never heard about—yet a subject arguably deserving of a shelfful of books.
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  1827. Yes, yes, a thousand time yes!
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  1828. Is there anything false in Perplexity's response to my query "Has Switzerland provided aid of any kind to Ukraine since February 2022?" ? Here it is: "Answer: Yes, Switzerland has provided significant aid to Ukraine since February 2022. Here are the key points (Sources: kyiv independent, swissinfo, wikipedia, statista, ifw-kiel [Kiel Institute], 5 more) : Financial and Humanitarian Aid Switzerland has provided substantial financial and humanitarian support to Ukraine: * Over $3 billion in economic and humanitarian aid since February 2022. * Plans to allocate 5 billion Swiss francs ($5.5 billion) to support Ukraine's economic development and reconstruction by 2036. * An initial 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.7 billion) earmarked for Ukraine's recovery efforts from 2025 to 2028. Refugee Support Switzerland has taken in and supported Ukrainian refugees: * Introduced a special "S" status for Ukrainian refugees in March 2022, allowing them to work and access integration measures. * Received approximately 86,000 applications for this status as of February 2024. * Expects an additional 25,000 applicants in 2024. Humanitarian Projects The Swiss government has funded various humanitarian projects: * Sent supplies for healthcare, water, sanitation, hygiene, and shelter. * Purchased and distributed food within Ukraine. * Deployed Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit specialists to Ukraine. Reconstruction and Development Switzerland is contributing to Ukraine's long-term recovery: * Hosted the 2022 Ukraine Recovery Conference in Lugano. * Allocated 58.7 million Swiss francs ($65.5 million) for the digitalization of Ukraine's public administration over four years. * Supports projects in healthcare, education, and humanitarian demining. Diplomatic Efforts Switzerland has also engaged in diplomatic initiatives: * Plans to host a global peace summit on Russia's war against Ukraine. * Continues to support Ukrainian NGOs documenting human rights ab uses. While Switzerland maintains its neutrality policy and does not provide military aid, it has significantly increased its humanitarian and economic support for Ukraine since the start of the conflict in February 2022." [End of Perplexity response] If you want to check the sources, just pose the same query and each one will be linked. Free, no account needed.
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  1829. @Tepid Cupcake That doesn't explain anything. Yes, YouTube "filters" things. So you're telling me what I'm telling you. Please say what you mean. Oh yeah, nearly forgot: "lol"
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  1830. Good one, Sparky. But would you accept: 'The Great Reset is the great acceleration of the plutocratic pillaging of the entire planet'?
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  1831. Perhaps the best part was when she said other ethnic groups in the east and south "came to our country."😂 No, old girl, Russia came to their countries. That's how it grew from tiny Muscovy to its current size.
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  1832. Why is that amazing? The risks are the greatest ones to humanity ever imagined. Look into what Stephen Hawking said about AGI.
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  1833.  @lavenderblues777  😂Future ages will be aghast at our exponentially out-of-control judginess. My pain comes out of the fact I can't really do much against it.
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  1834. So what? That's hardly much of a point, since everyone knows it. Any policeman arresting any robber either uses violence or implicitly threatens it. All laws, all prisons, all personal security of any kind rest on an ability to do violence. You should move on to analyzing in whose interests those powers based on violence are being exercised.
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  1835.  @wisemanofsorts6068  The element of staging was also public knowledge within months, in 2017. But no one cared, because it was an ad, and ads have always tended to present a rosy picture. Just watch a McDonald's commercial to see what I mean. Years went by with no fuss, but then Musk announced that for the first time in his life he wouldn't be voting Democratic. That's when The New York Times decided there must be hell to pay.
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  1836. * Gerbeau
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  1837. Does anyone else remember the scene in Scarface when he's in a restaurant and lets loose a long harangue about how he's the best guy and everyone else is a bunch of hypocrites and liars? He's all grievance and hurt, the victim of prejudice and envy. No one understands him, everyone judges him unfairly. It's the timeless psychological mark of the gangster/bully, I guess. Russia seems like if Scarface had a country.
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  1838. Time to end DEI. Time to go HOME: Hire On Merit Exclusively
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  1839. I guess. But give him time. It's probably on his bucket list. 🤮🤮
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  1840.  @asgard5281  Tbh, I see the last four years as a drive, mostly successful, to confront and challenge, meet no real resistance, energetically suppress dissent, declare victory, and thus leave little anyone can say. Act like sanctimonious bullies the whole way, and get your way. But yeah, they would almost equally welcome the chance to win in a more hardcore and dramatic fashion. They don't know history or much of anything, but they do know movies.
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  1841. The interviewer rather clearly took exception to being corrected by Sir Tony. But she ought not to have done. First, she showed pique; second, he was alas quite right on an important matter.
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  1842.  @rupert5390  You've got Thomas Sowell mixed up with Noam Chumpsky. Major error.
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  1843. He's wearing body armour in Parliament.🤨
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  1844. "It occurs in all walks of life." Yes: including, notably, medicine. And I've seldom seen a man so pompously brimming with self-satisfaction as this fellow himself.
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  1845. This video managed to make the subject of sexual fantasies boring and lifeless. Congrats.
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  1846. Really? You don't get why people shouldn't get their news of the world from the same group that makes their laws? Really?
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  1847.  @suntzu4568  The gall of such a post! USAID: "[The United States] remains the largest single-country donor of humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa, providing more than $1.4 billion across the region since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2023." Meanwhile Russia's paltry 50,000 tons will cost it a mere $0.02 billion.
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  1848. I love the woman who called Belarus a "dictmocracy." Are you sure she didn't say "dickmocracy"?😅
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  1849.  @djdrews  You use that word, "ekk." You cannot spell it. It's eke. And more importantly: "I do not think that word means what you think it means." — Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride
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  1850. You're onto something. I've been saying for a month and a half that this is all about intimidating actual US enemies. But as a Canadian it still fills me with rage. If social media is any indication, he's whipping up real contempt and hostility against Canada across the US.
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  1851. More brains than ego.👍
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  1852. @Cony Budding "trump works for putin" [sic] Start saving your money. When you get to a dollar, go shopping for a clue.
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  1853. Stay classy, California.
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  1854.  @eclecticmusica  Instead of bullying insults, you are invited to offer reasoned points of argument, if you can think of any.
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  1855. Yep, 10% of his father's intellect and courage, 1000% of his ego.
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  1856.  @williamgibbs71  Uh, Elisa is a woman's name 🙄 But yeah, most old women have been polled a number of times over the years.
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  1857. Reminds me of: "Under capitalism, the inevitable result is the exploitation of man by his fellow man! Under communism, the opposite is true!"
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  1858. They have a great phrase for it in England, that our political system is about being able to "throw the bums out." I know, it sounds American.
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  1859. He always looks like he's on something.
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  1860.  @reirmor7718  So Ukraine should not do battle in its own country. Right, Pooty-bot.
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  1861.  @Na0uta  Omg, no one failed to notice that.😆
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  1862. And now what's the point in re-opening them? There's now little difference between people at large and the people formerly confined to asylums.
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  1863.  @YouTubeCensorsMe  An American or European Jew is part Semite, part European in descent. Before they emigrated from the Levant they were of the same race as the people we now call Arabs. Arabs and Jews were both fully semites. (Which is exactly why anti-semitic is such a bizarre term. It should be 'anti-Jewish', since anti-Arab feeling is never what is being referred to.)
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  1864. So did I. Newsom is standing by at French Laundry, slavering on his napkin.
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  1865. I find Jon Snow's addiction to staginess unbecoming to an old man. I daresay he thinks he's splendidly dignified and not a ham at all. Noisome.
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  1866. Trump should find a way to troll PM Peter Pan without insulting Canada itself, and Canadians. Heaven knows there's endless material easily available! Insulting Canada over and over could even backfire and revive the PM's popularity, the last damn thing we need.
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  1867. Oh, is his wife pregnant again?
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  1868. Sky Australia—under totally different ownership than Sky News in the UK—is not in the mainstream. This could be debated, but I think its editorial stance justifies my opinion.
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  1869. Based on that clip it's Carolla who should now be governor of California. Also based on that clip, Newsom should be drifting from town to town hiding his face.
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  1870.  @PUREBOILINGRAGE55  National security is the government's business, d.s.
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  1871. ”The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy, televised address to his country on the evening of October 22, 1962
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  1872. "The victim was transported to Toronto Centre." What? Has Mayor Chow been re-naming things again, or has a new hospital called Toronto Centre opened?😂 (I notice, btw, that for some reason it has a sign on it which reads "St. Michael's Hospital.") It seems this local news story was written by a complete out-of-towner.😠
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  1873. Yeah, she'll come up with some phony excuse not to, blaming it on Rogan not being good enough because of his beliefs.
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  1874.  @brendanukveteran2360  😢
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  1875. We used to laugh and shake our heads at Soviet and Warsaw Pact dupes and their programmatic and standardized takes on everything. We felt sorry for them. Now the domestic versions are almost all we see on TV. The ironically-named Joy Behar is a perfect example. She could be from Tass or Pravda, that one.
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  1876. Tell that to Detroit, one of the world's most thriving cities in the postwar years. Then, you know.
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  1877. 500% obvious.
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  1878. 1) Viva Peru! 🇵🇪 2) I was shocked, shocked at the amount of interrupting and people loudly talking at the same time here. I didn't expect that with this panel!
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  1879. Breaking news: Trudeau has appointed an old family friend to investigate. A news conference is scheduled for 8 a.m., which leaks suggest will be for the purpose of the appointee announcing that his investigation has concluded and the Liberal govt. of PM Peter Pan has been found innocent of all wrongdoing. Stay with us as this develops😄
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  1880. In fact it skips everything but logistics (i.e. transportation and warehousing), which is only the last aspect of the supply chain. The supply chain goes right back to raw materials on or beneath the land.
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  1881. 7:42 Notice the slimy way the WSJ names Taiwan improperly in the voice-over. It's not just the American government getting ready to sell out friends and supporters, it's corporate America too. This really makes me mad.
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  1882. Monitoring algo: "This Gerdes guy sure likes to talk about tea. Nice fella. Nothing to see here."
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  1883. You're ignoring, btw, the fact that in the past year Tesla has cut its prices by $10,000 a car. Its profit margins fell steeply. And the govt. is kicking in a further $7,500. So there's $17,500. Yet you're getting on the internet to complain about greed and a refusal to "pass on the savings😭." Were you born and raised in a Warsaw Pact country five decades ago? Or are you just a grad student somewhere?
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  1884.  @justinmcclung6030  <---"Canadians cant even stand up to Trudeau..." We sure as hell can! Just watch us.
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  1885. Voters told opinion pollsters that military spending was 'icky' and that sending social workers to iron out global security problems was preferable. They got the weaker military they yearned for, and felt good about it. Sound about right?
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  1886.  @petercanada8781  Not to my ears she didn't.
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  1887. I have a strong feeling you're Pooty-bot, my see-through friend.
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  1888.  @meganhoward8820  Your comment matches your profile pic, Dr. Howard. And as a psychiatrist no doubt eminent in your profession, you should know better than to diagnose patients over YouTube clips.
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  1889.  @AngloAm  Perhaps take a deep breath and clear your head. I strongly support the actions of Ukraine, the US and NATO in this war. Are you ok?
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  1890. The prosecution of the war is as mad as the war itself! God, I hope we will be surprised soon with some sort of let-up.
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  1891. ...plus a canned ham that was dropped off the roof of a 15-story building.
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  1892. That's internally inconsistent and illogical. You said "divorce rate." It doesn't depend on the number of marriages. Go back to the stats, look closely, and find your error.
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  1893. 1) George Stephanopoulos' face would scare a toddler into tears. 2) The methane gas woman lecturing everyone doesn't even know that methane is 99.5% less harmful when it's burnt. So really she should be out in farmers' fields, creeping up behind cows with a book of matches. Rita, get us a clip of that.
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  1894. The somewhat chilling thing is that the clip you saw is actually Stelter's own highlight reel of his finest work.
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  1895.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Thanks. Effortlessly charming of you to backhandedly tell me that much of what I said was invalid, and to correct a claim I didn't make. I didn't say September, I said battle-ready and I said some months later. I think it might have been at the time of Dunkirk, a further 8-9 months on ("on British soil," notice).
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  1896. The moral: Next time just stay at home in Russia where you belong.
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  1897.  @elijah_baconboy2134  I would check your roof for storm damage if I were you. I'm pretty sure it must be re-tarred.
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  1898.  @JRufu  A federal government minister appoints the head of the CBC. The prime minister approves the appointment. How much clearer could it possibly be?
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  1899. He faces certain electoral defeat within days.
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  1900. Different ownership. They're barely related.
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  1901.  @B_Bodziak  Why of course. You needn't have asked. Perhaps you've mistaken my point, which is that it's important to seek out multiple well-qualified opinions. Otherwise one may end up someone's disciple.
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  1902.  @donikatod460  But as I see it she's not doing journalism here. She's a specialist being interviewed by a journalist. I agree that I wouldn't want to open my newspaper and read a news article by her that reads the way she talks here. I suppose you don't make the distinction and of course that's your perfect right. It's been nice discussing this with you.
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  1903. Fire up that copium and inhale deeply, deeply.😂
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  1904. It's been nearly a lifetime since beleaguered Venetians added hyperturistificazione to their vocabulary. (Almost more of a sentence than a word, really. English: overtourism.)
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  1905.  @martinv0x  Headline rate (12 months to Nov. 30): 166% November's rate of 2.4% (annualized): 32.9% <---🎉🎊🥂 On the right track!
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  1906. I can't remember a 1420 video that was less interesting.🤨 Yet it's the longest.🤔  Using up old footage while you're gone on vacation, I suppose? If so, have a nice summer. 😀
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  1907. Closing by saying that Trudeau "will be" the host of next summer's G7 summit comes sort of close to qualifying as delusional. There could easily be an election in the spring, in which case he won't be.
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  1908.  @vodaredhill1704  Amazing how The Guardian will publish an article to say "I bet this won't be any good" and call themselves journalists. Every day they do their best imitation of Tass, Pravda and Izvestia. "Typewriter bangers-on, you're all just hangers-on" —Pete Townsend.
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  1909. Hey, can I get a hit off that?
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  1910. Hey, Justin Trudeau's wife left him last year and he's still single. Thorpe has never married, so... A potential match made in heaven? 😂🤢
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  1911. That guy's not my idol, but he really is awfully solid. I find myself unable to accept only his stance on single-payer health care. (He's against it.) If only his thought were carefully studied by every government leader and every cabinet around the world.
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  1912. ​ @rgw1380rw  Excuse-making, that's all that is. "Based on bad things done to our great-great-great-grandparents, we got the right to turn the world upside down...forever. Forever. We got the right. Bad as we wanna be. And we real bad."
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  1913.  @georgeholloway3981  I don't know. My takeaway was that it's murky but there appears to be a certain validity to a claim of that nature. So actually it's perhaps your comment that's misleadingly simplistic.
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  1914. Many astronauts go there out of curiosity, knowing they're not supposed to.
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  1915. The arms package to Ukraine is welcome news. But the visit itself was all about distraction from his well-earned troubles at home. What a [ten furious obscenities removed] he is.
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  1916. Do people reckon that Sturgeon resigned in order not to face consequences over these matters while leader?
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  1917. All hail Lt. MacGyverenko and Capt. MacGyverchuk! 👍🇺🇦
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  1918. I don't know if I'd use that word. Horseshit makes flowers in flowerbeds and crops in farmers' fields grow. Her economic vision has no such benefits.
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  1919. Fun fact: They're registered to vote in 500+ congressional districts.
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  1920. Unlatch Door Feature: Tesla has an "Unlatch Door" feature in its mobile app, allowing owners to open the driver’s side door without physically touching the handle. This feature can be particularly helpful if the handle is frozen shut. It minimizes the risk of damage to the handle caused by forceful attempts to open it.
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  1921. Cowards. Two or three men simply with briefcases, knapsacks or whatever as shields could immobilize him within five seconds. Incredible that they wouldn't do that, instead letting so many people get stabbed and slashed. There was only one of him! Londoners did exactly that on Westminster Bridge a few years ago, and the guy was even wearing a fake bomb vest.
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  1922. As a country at war bankrupts itself with military spending, its GDP figures sail merrily higher.
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  1923. @@MLU8811 It is not "aggression" of any type to shoot down an unmanned craft sent over your territory by a hostile foreign power. What are you on?
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  1924. I wouldn't call her a lady.
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  1925.  @AnnaAnna-uc2ff  (1) What's it like having an IQ of a trillion and being able to tell someone's age through a comment?😂 (2) That's a very neat line in ageism, rank prejudice and tee rolling all at the same time. (3) That isn't even typical boomer writing. They tend to use punctuation and to write I'm, not "im."
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  1926.  @concernedaussie1330  Ask Putin next time you speak to him.
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  1927. Absolutely first rate. You're what we have now instead of Norm Macdonald, which is really high praise. Keep deserving it and I'll be a happy man.
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  1928.  @wheelmanstan  That's a highly suitable list. Edit: But I think there was already some attention paid to the question of Finland+Sweden+NATO. I would go to the search function on the channel page. Mind you it wouldn't be very current anymore.
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  1929.  @arthurkjr  Not a believer in far-rightism at all. I'm a lifelong liberal now politically homeless and sheltering in the centre-right. Will be voting PP. Why r u so scared of admitting your deep fondness and admiration for Mao and Jeffrey Epstein? (Like how it feels to be asked that?)
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  1930.  @pdxdragon7479  Yes, but Putin and Xi got married, didn't you know? Putin wore a cute little white dress and lots of make-up.
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  1931. Smoking so much copium is bad for your health. So take another big hit.
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  1932. @thaksforurip Uh, I count five separate errors in English in that reply. That's not sad, or even funny, just absurd.
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  1933.  @thomasstark5381  I agree with every word of that except 'reverse'.
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  1934. I had a co-worker ask me if New England is a city or a state. She wasn't the least bit uncomfortable asking me nor, it appeared, hearing the answer. I was privately upset the rest of the day, ashamed at myself for being hired somewhere (the headquarters of a really large, old multinational company) that would also hire such a person.
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  1935. In half or most International Relations faculties around the world the 2nd language is English. Nothing special about that. Anyway, it seems fair to speculate that the use of English outside English-speaking countries has doubled once or twice in the past 20 years, and that Russia is no exception.
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  1936. What? Source, please. ;-)
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  1937.  @marymacdonald2379  I'm waiting for the Novavax vaccine, currently before Health Canada for approval with a decision expected within weeks. Perhaps you've heard of it.
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  1938. It's not clear what you're getting at. For one thing, if anyone points a gun at you, taking offense should be temporarily set aside whilst you deal with the situation practically.
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  1939. Breathing is racist.
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  1940. Experience in Georgia, Chechnya and Syria doesn't seem to have done them any good.
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  1941. Thanks for the Russian Ministry of Truth reaction.
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  1942. Thank you for conducting such a speedy and thorough investigation and rushing your final findings to us.
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  1943. Demand that your retailer start labelling the front of all packages containing Chinese-made goods with a Chinese flag.
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  1944. Meghan Markle: "Raise your hand if you've ever been called crazy." Everyone in her audience: [raises her/his hand]
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  1945.  @AndySaenz924  "Finally!" doesn't mean "At last, for the first time ever!" Think of when after a week of gloomy weather people say "Finally, a sunny day!"
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  1946.  @pacman3556   Canada, homicide rate per 100k people (per StatsCan): 2013: 1.46 2022: 2.25 Change, 2013-2022: +54%
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  1947. Just curious: at Sid Smith?
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  1948. I totally trust your random anonymous accusation. It must not be a lie, especially if it comes from Russia.😂
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  1949. I run into women like her all the time when I'm just doing things like going shopping in a busy area. She's mainstream now, more or less qualifying as normal. I'm pretty sure she would be considered a little boringly normal and conformist by some.
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  1950. And they both went to Queen's for engineering, then went to another country for physics degrees.
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  1951.  @MontChevalier  What? I joined in the fun, making one harmless and inoffensive pun on a comic book character's name, which happens to be the Latin word for 'law'. Who tf cares? Bunch of rhymes-with-tankers.
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  1952.  @dimes3967  Nobody outside China wants the Chinese model. Nobody. The Chinese govt knows this quite well, and that is why it doesn't bother trying to push it.   Many millions of Chinese live in the West, and have voted with their feet. Where are the tens of millions of immigrants in China? They don't exist. Owing to the CPC, people leave China, but nobody wants in.
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  1953. With friends like these...
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  1954. Gordon Lightfoot: "That does it. I'm changing my f...ing name to anything."
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  1955. I tried a new strategy. After seeing a woman for a while and it's clear we're a thing, but before that point where she thinks she can start nagging me, I say "If you nag me I'll leave." It really, really works. Tbh I think they're relieved to hear it. I'm sure nagging takes a lot out of them.
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  1956. It's been around for well over 20 years. If they really weren't subjected to it, I'd say they dodged a bullet which most were unable to.
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  1957. ​ @Mortimer_Duke  With that reply you appear to broadcast what you yourself are all about: never impartial, always more in pursuit of victory than truth. I'm different: I support Campbell's viewpoints but do not want them to gain adherents through any misleading pretences. Your proctologist is ready for your bi-weekly appointment.
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  1958.  @jonhay75  It's misleading in this context and I imagine you know that. A botany PhD qualifies a person to be called Dr. as well, which is fine, but imagine such a person walking up to the scene of a mishap and saying "I'm Dr. Smith, can I help?" Misleading.
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  1959.  @madrooky1398  Same guy who, as a leading member of the Marxist youth wing of the SDP in the 1980s, wrote essays railing against "aggressive, imperialist NATO." He remained a youth member into his 30s (!).😂
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  1960. Yeah, I guess you're right and Israel should simply be supported.🇮🇱 After all, they've already shown clearly that they are not out to wipe out Palestine, but only the monsters who've had Palestinians under their rule.
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  1961. No, he's a hyper- superultramegagoof. I agree with you on the rest.
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  1962. On meaning, bear in mind that life was full to overflowing with meaning for the 9/11 hijackers as they raced towards their targets, and for the Crusaders on their way to Jerusalem. On the creative spirit, recall that Hitler was an artist, that Charles Manson was a songwriter, musician and singer, and that Richard Gatling's creative spirit gave us the first successful machine gun. Of meaning we must ask, Just what does this mean, and what is it worth?; of the creative spirit, Just what has it created, and what is it worth?
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  1963.  @darkprince3007  You "side with the [...] estimates closer to 1% [...] in almost every other country..."? But seroprevalence studies have only been done in the US and Germany (and maybe one village in Italy). IFR estimates for other places are just educated guesses worth very little. It appears you don't know that diagnostic tests are zero help. Only antibody seroprevalence studies can tell us what we want to know.
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  1964. I never knew the English-speaking world was 99% pro-Putin until reading this section.😂
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  1965. Eight or nine days ago there was a major thunderstorm in that area with a high ratio of lightning strikes (thousands of them) to rain. It followed about a month of dry weather. And that's about it. Or do you know something?🤨
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  1966.  @redman958  Yeah, from what I understand, that's true. I got the idea that it was more made fun of for its semi-rural state back then. It still had quite a few farms. Also, the homes in south Scarborough were small and modest, something snobs always sneer at. Anyway, across the whole city it's certainly true that the atmosphere is much changed for the worse, even if some or most violent crime stats aren't. (Incidentally, something that's hard to allow for is the advancement of emergency medical care since that time. Maybe quite a number of injured people would be homicide stats if it weren't for that. Or maybe not.) Thanks for your reply.
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  1967. Not liking Elon here. Imagine him saying this in 1943, in effect urging the Allies to spare the Berlin regime right when its economic and military power to make war, like Russia's now, was seriously waning. Ending hostilities at once would be dire not only for justice for Ukraine, but for a lasting peace and global security, both of them deeply vital.
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  1968. And wouldn't Crimea be a great location for it? 😄
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  1969. Canada: "Sorry for sending you David Frum. Really, really sorry. Also for sending you Margaret Atwood and Celine Dion. Please try to focus on Mike Myers, Norm Macdonald and that guy who invented basketball. Again, totally f-in sorry."
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  1970. "…they don't like black people who think for themselves [etc.]" Possibly, but I think their real problem is a very complex set of mental health issues so severe you could see them from space. That's the elephant in the room. Extremism, left or right, is about minds and personalities that are diseased.
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  1971. 😆U need a comma after California. As written, this says you trashed the place, then left.
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  1972. That is very, very low-grade spin. Nauseating, really.👎 I suggest you delete it.
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  1973. Russians say over and over and over that everybody covets their massive land area. So for a good laugh watch the 2-min. classic SCTV clip "What Fits Into Mother Russia" from the early '80s.
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  1974. Please decrease the volume of your intro and outro music. It is perhaps the loudest thing on YouTube.
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  1975. Daniil is an insanely good student of English. Only 22, and hasn't lived in an English-speaking country. I don't understand it.
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  1976.  @tatie7604  And let's not kid ourselves about the prospects for the average mind. Those whom you look on as unintelligent today will be admired as solidly bright in twenty years. For the last half-century at least, high intelligence has been negatively correlated with the likelihood of having children. Good looks likewise. What could better guarantee a stupider, uglier future?
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  1977. ​ @ibringthelastwords1358  If you really do believe that, then I think you know what you have to do. Tidy up your hovel beforehand.
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  1978. "I will commit to transparency." Just not yet. Sort of like how Julius Caesar and the emperors who followed him were all committed to restoring the Republic. "Just not yet," they would always say. Spoiler: They never did. Five hundred years later Rome fell, still an imperial state. The moral is: If it's important, don't let them tell you "I'd love to but I can't do it yet." Make them do it now.
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  1979. Two Wagner jets were travelling together, according to Western media reports, the other plane (understandably) veering away immediately after the blast(s). So you would have to hypothesize a 3rd aircraft. (Which you can of course do effortlessly.)
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  1980.  @protagonist1358  Who said anything about 'no standards'?
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  1981. In the phrase praetorian protectors the first syllables should be pronounced identically.
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  1982. Please don't speak about things you know nothing about. There is no recession. Gas prices are 28% below the peak last year; higher than during the Trump years but similar to what they were under Obama and right where they were before the war started. Inflation is down to 3.0%. Aid to Ukraine amounts to a few per cent of the defense budget and is not affecting inflation. Much of it is old stocks paid for two to five decades ago.
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  1983.  @wolfu597  Re-post that as a standalone comment. 👋👋
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  1984. Another depressed Westerner. Do something with your life.
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  1985.  @MrBendylaw  A war is a war whether it's raging or at a low simmer, and the one in Ukraine is up to nine years now. I'm not clear on why Russia can't prolong it for another nine, and then another nine after that. (That is, unless Ukraine can defeat it outright.) Maybe you can shed some light on that?
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  1986.  @TruthTeller8888  The accomplices were/are in NYC.
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  1987.  @owoewrefi  You Dutch are legendary for your gratitude. My uncle would go back every five years to reconnect with the Dutch people and attend anniversary celebrations and ceremonies of remembrance. It was important for helping him to deal with his difficult experiences there, which had left him rather angry. He would bring us kids back chocolate and souvenirs like little clog keychains and windmills depicted in Delft blue. Thanks for your post.
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  1988. "Hugs, Not Bullets" ? Seriously? That's really a mindless and cowardly slogan in a country with around 100,000 homicides in the past three years.🤯 Mexico's people need the El Salvador solution. Now!
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  1989. He has an excuse: The ENTIRE rest of the world considers red the color of the left, blue the color of conservatives, and Kevin is from Canada. Y'know....Red Square in Moscow? The Red Army? The Red Scare? The movie "Reds"? Y'know, royal blue? The US has it ridiculously backwards, and only since about 2010.🤯
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  1990. My advice if you decide to step among these comments: Don't wear good shoes. 💩
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  1991. Special Not Breathing Operation
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  1992. This much is no secret: he's out of touch, not trustworthy, and a creep.
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  1993. Breaking news: Canada is retaliating against VisualPolitik for saying "on-TARR-ee-oh." At 12:01 a.m., all Canadians will start saying WER-sist-er-shy-er and BUCK-ing-ham-shy-er. 😂
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  1994. As far as I know, the entire Arab world refuses to. All 22 countries, with 450 million people living across 13 million square kilometres. Not enough room.
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  1995.  @Kane6676  You call -4 to -4.5% from an ATH "crashing"?🤨
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  1996. Yes, and he certainly has.
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  1997.  @davidkottman3440  I agree with your last remarks. It's been equivalent to around 5% of the military budget over the past 32 months. Compared to the tens of trillions of dollars of American wealth in grave danger in any Authoritarian-Axis-run world, it's lunch money.
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  1998.  @russellelliott6255  Make AOC a Waitress Again.
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  1999. Please correct your figure for "waiting time in the emergency department." It is for admission afterwards to a ward in the hospital, should the ailment not be resolved in the ED. It is not the waiting time to see a doctor in the ED itself. For that, the average according to the HQO report of late 2022 is 2.2 hours.
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  2000. No one is vilifying Biden for stumbling. So your comment is mere straw-manning. (A straw man argument is criticizing someone for something they never said.) The ones being vilified are the blatantly pro-Biden media. He's their man. They put him there. They protect him.
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  2001. Ah, but if Europe had its crap together, American problems could hardly have affected it. As it was, it exported its own problems to America in enthusiastic return. Way loads of blame to go around, and let's not forget all the various social classes.
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  2002. In countries like China, Russia and India, money goes much farther. This is why clothes from China, for example, are so cheap here. Shouldn't we face up to the notion that the same thing applies to military spending? I don't think China's navy has any $10,000 toilet seats. (Russia's might, though. Oligarchs gonna oligarch.) Seriously, their money goes way farther if they're spending it at home. So is China's military budget really $250bn? —A Bit Concerned
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  2003.  @MK-ji9ke  It was a simile, not a metaphor, and thus not name calling. Moreover, Mme. Pot, when you call M. Kettle 'childish', you're doing roughly the same thing he is.
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  2004. Not sure what Captain Crayon means. I call him Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  2005. ​ Himars cooks Orcs   Funny, except that 'duo' just means 'a pair of people or things.' 'Couple' has additional meanings.
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  2006.  Himars cooks Orcs   Hmm? Why would a lifelong English speaker translate from English to English? How would I even accomplish such a feat? Your hypothesis tickles the brain. ('Duo', btw, just referred to those two lads who appeared to be good buddies from school or whatever.) Cheers, mate
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  2007. It is 1/9 of the land. 6.6m square miles out of 57.3m on Earth = 11%, not 17%.
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  2008.  @cravingtuna1561  Thanks for straightening out that guy's pipsqueak little perspective. One down, a billion to go.
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  2009. Nice brief clip. Let's have some more of these. Glory to Ukraine and its heroes.🇺🇦 Down with Russia and its barbarians.
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  2010.  @gildedpeahen876  Few of those several trillion dollars "made" by billionaires (if that's a valid figure) were made as profits. You must understand this important fact.   Their wealth gains came as a result of asset price inflation: the things they owned, largely stocks in companies but also real estate and other items of all sorts, went up sharply in value. This was primarily a result of (1) the government flooding borrowed money into the hands of the people, who quickly sank it into the stock markets or real estate, just as quickly bidding up prices; (2) the central banks rapidly creating money out of thin air.
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  2011.  @mazkhasate  I see. Nah, no Canadian considers themselves roasted by that.  We don't take pride in living far north at all, and never tried to make the world think we did either. We'd prefer it if foreigners thought we lived in temperate latitudes. We don't like the frozen north image. Cheers, dude.
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  2012.  @pt1chy  Btw, I have an old map from 3 years after the Alaska Purchase, on which it is labelled "Russian America". But then in small type below it says "To Americans, "Alaska"." Charming feature.
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  2013. And it wasn't in his intemperate youth, either. It was in 2013 (!).
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  2014.  @stonemarten1400  Why count children, non-citizens and apathetic non-voters? Labour got 33.7% of the votes. (Conservatives + Reform: 38.1%)
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  2015. When a person who scores 9.5/10 for bizarreness is the voice of reason.
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  2016.  Mike Girard  Congratulations on bayonetting a battlefield full of straw soldiers. This isn't a site for fringe psychos. Rubin and, from what I can tell, the average commenter here, started out and remain liberal in a lot of ways. So pack up your indignant foul-mouthed attitude and take it with you to some white supremacist site, you smug young twerp.
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  2017.  @hexum7  Well that was an empty swipe. In fact I've heard a few times, including from left media, that research shows lefties are unhappier than conservatives. Whether being unhappy makes one a lefty or the other way around isn't clear. Maybe it's just a big swirl of reflexive, self-intensifying misery that eventually reaches a fever pitch of destroyed statues, destroyed economies, commissars, prison camps, and mass graves. Who knows?
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  2018. It doesn't, unless it's its own frame of reference. Relative to the centre of the galaxy it's whizzing along at a million miles an hour or whatever. (Consult a nerd for the exact number. Up with nerds. They're nice.)
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  2019. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  2020. Examples of companies moving HQs or operations out of California since 2020: CBRE moved its HQ to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area;  Charles Schwab moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area;  Tesla moved HQ to Austin, Texas;  Blaze Pizza moved HQ to Atlanta, Georgia;  Neutrogena relocated to New Jersey;  Skillz moved HQ from San Francisco to Las Vegas, Nevada;  Ruiz Foods moved HQ to Frisco, Texas;  Redaptive relocated from San Francisco to Colorado;  Lucas Oil Products moved its wholly-owned cable network to Indiana. Texas has been the primary beneficiary of these relocations, with 46 companies moving there between January 2020 and June 2024. Source: Perplexity
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  2021.  @NorahsYarnArt  Cartoon history drawn by cartoon minds, taught by cartoon academics and learnt by cartoon students. Too bad it's not droll and amusing as good cartoons are. (With apologies to the memory of the Renaissance painters who used the cartoon method.)
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  2022. Up to a point, I suppose. Yes. But if the people hadn't let themselves slide, the institutions wouldn't have had any room to deteriorate. A more solid people wouldn't have allowed it. Voter de-corrupt thyself.
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  2023. Commit crimes at 10x the average rate. Get 2x the average attention from the police. Classic and outrageous rheighce privilege.
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  2024. Do I see on the horizon a need to make it The Four Eyes? 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸
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  2025. Bowman claims he was just stealing back sports memorabilia that was stolen from him, including his Heisman Trophy.😂
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  2026. To me this is a weird way for a major British daily to post news. It has an air of unreality and inauthenticity from the music alone. It seems to promote reactions that are cheap and a little mindless. It's highly regrettable in that way, but let's set that aside and wish the Ukrainian forces every conceivable success.🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧
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  2027. Because she's a tankie. (Tankie: Western pro-Soviet activist or supporter, usually a lifelong dweller in the West, whether a communist or socialist.) Tankies excuse the crimes of the Soviet government.
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  2028. Having nothing of any value to say, the Oatmeal-in-Chief just speeds it up, talking about twice as fast as he did five years ago.
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  2029. In the last election the popular vote for the Conservatives was higher in Ontario than nationally. Higher than in BC. The popular vote for the Liberals was higher in Quebec than nationally by only 1.0%. The Conservatives topped 40% in only two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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  2030. Fair point. I love those Political Compass people for giving us the quad thing. Still 2-D though. Maybe it could use a 3rd axis.
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  2031.  @wookie2222  Please explain. The famous violence of 1066 involved no Scandinavians. They were Frenchman of Norse descent, but...
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  2032. What happened last time? I saw the video in that nice outdoor setting. Something went wrong?
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  2033.  @davidg3517  Thanks for that explanation. I've noticed for some time now that everybody can game this platform except for what I regard as good people speaking the truth.
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  2034. "Doctor" Tedros? Are we sure that's right? He is the first non-physician ever to head the WHO. He is actually a politician, being formerly a member of the Ethiopian cabinet in the now-defunct Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front government, which was closely aligned with China.
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  2035.  @room101b7  "As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible."—Wm. Blake
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  2036.  @MiniceM4355  There are a lot of unmarked graves in Canada, where people of ALL races and ages are buried. Thousands of impoverished people are buried in them every year, to this day. They are commonly called pauper's graves. Altogether they must surely number in the hundreds of thousands, or even the millions for all I know. You've got a lot of burning to do, I guess, so you better get off YouTube and hop to it.
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  2037. 40 million, actually. And we do not have 1.1 billion people making $1.75 a day. Stop with the hotheaded bad temper. It makes it clear how people in India have slaughtered millions of each other within living memory. Canada and India should be friends, as they always have been.
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  2038. Really, really good to hear. So what's the balance now? Did it tip?
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  2039. ​ @ssl3546  The difference in elevation between Lake Superior and Quebec City at the river's edge is approximately 185 meters (608 feet). Quite a number of locks are involved.
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  2040. Nonsense. Crumbling security in Europe will vastly strengthen China, leading eventually but directly to the impoverishment of America. Use your head. What is being spent in Ukraine is a fraction of a penny on the dollar compared to what an easy Putin victory would cost the US in time, which is many, many trillions. The allocation is $40 billion ($16bn spent so far) out of a 2022 GDP of $23,000 billion. Are you kidding me?
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  2041. Fix the sound. Don't interview little kids except on little kid subjects.
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  2042.  @mthequietbass547  Does that word sound offensive or you just don't care for street slang in general? (Or both)
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  2043. Cp. Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed, 2001: "People are crazy and times are strange." Rome went mad, too, and then was gone.
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  2044. Formerly no one did that. People were told in their youth "Don't talk with your hands." It was considered a mark of weak verbal skills. Then around 20 years ago "media trainers" began teaching public speakers of every sort, including TV news people, that constant gesturing with the hands was a must. And here we are.
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  2045. ​ @brianbailey462  Yes, that's no exaggeration. This wasn't some sort of mistake. The school board's choice to "review" the books rather than pull them at once is plain evidence that they consider them to have merit. Make no mistake, books in school libraries are frisked fairly carefully. Another video on this channel somewhere shows a similar board meeting where an irate mother reads from a book: "Sometimes a girl just needs a big c——k."
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  2046. That's like asking 'Did Russia invade one of America's neighbours or its own?' They invaded a sovereign country, so that is of interest to the whole world. Likewise if China threatens its own neighbours or international navigation.
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  2047.  @myrtlelittle4130  I know one thing: where she works is a completely no-name school. It wasn't even a university until 2009 and you can get in with a 70% average in grade 12. It appears to be one of those shabby little pretend universities. From Wikipedia: "In 2017, Mount Royal University was awarded the Ashoka Changemaker Campus designation joining 44 universities which are leading higher education in the area of social innovation and changemaking." Yeah, very innovative, as we see.
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  2048. ​ @LTPottenger  "They were killed by the allied bombing though, they don't tell you that part LOL" This seems a childishly simplistic 14-year-old's point to make. A great many German industrial workers died from Allied bombs and we can safely assume many of them were thoroughly decent human beings, plenty of whom had voted against Nazis in earlier elections. You could say something similar about numberless Wehrmacht conscripts, too, for that matter. So what were the Allies to do? Ought they to have said "Oh, no, we mustn't make war on Germany. We can't know if we're killing Nazi enthusiasts, reluctant participants, or innocent bystanders. Best to write letters to the Reich Chancellery instead, denouncing them in strong language and pleading with them to leave off'? Dresden may count as an atrocity, but bombing armaments factories cannot.
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  2049.  @TheJeremyKentBGross  So? Even if you're right, AGI will be to nuclear weapons what nuclear weapons are to sharpened sticks.
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  2050.  @johnbox271  Please tell me what tf living in Russia has to do with my views on courage and submission, on risk and safety.
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  2051. If he invented the issue I might agree with you. But he didn't; the story is all over the place. That puts him in a position of professional obligation to address it with her at some length.
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  2052.  @anro5705  Stop spamming that identical comment randomly where it's not even germane, please.
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  2053. Societies aren't much less fragile than economies, and civilizations aren't much less fragile than societies. Let's see how American society copes with this fall if it includes the triple whammy of a massive coronavirus surge bigger than the one last spring, a stock market collapse meaning the disappearance of ten to thirty trillion dollars, and widespread violence and destruction following a hotly disputed election result. These things would lead within months to a collapse of home real estate prices, meaning instant widespread impoverishment and homelessness --- in a country which even in January 2020 was already armed to the teeth, already seething with division and hatred, and already suffering disastrously poor mental health. And division, hatred, and mental health have since worsened immeasurably. Commercial real estate? Ha!
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  2054. Yet another official testifying he doesn't know anything.
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  2055.  @trevor5213  ​ Canada is proud of you for doing all you can. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧
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  2056. I believe high officials should be at battle commemoration ceremonies. The symbolism is valuable; here particularly since the battle was an important one. For America it was the bloodiest of World War II. Over its 41 days, 1.4m men fought on the two sides. The US forces sustained 75,482 casualties.
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  2057. I don't agree with any of you referring to China. I think he's comparing today to censorship in Soviet times.
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  2058. People without money don't "shun" luxury goods. They don't "turn their backs on" them. They can't afford them. Journalism has now been invaded by a second consecutive generation of j-school graduates without a strong command of language, or talent for thinking. They see language as cushions to relax on, not cutlery to prep thoughts with.
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  2059.  @connieheitz8982  Dan Quayle is also off the hook for being the most ridiculous Vice President. Must be quite a relief.
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  2060. Knowing what you're all about and why is so important. 👏👏 Great that it's working for you. So many of us are lost, or used to be.
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  2061. Weapons technicians aren't "special forces."😂 As for "most Western countries," that's an extravagant fiction. We can all see who's popping the magic beans here.
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  2062. Mark my words, Trump will confront Putin far more aggressively than Biden has done. You'll see how his tone changes as soon as he's elected, for at that point the threat of Russian interference with his campaign will be past. Note also that he fully backed Speaker Johnson's package of aid bills earlier this month.
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  2063.  @memisemyself  Typically the animal-obsessed are misanthropes.
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  2064. He should be a waiter in the same restaurant where AOC is a busgirl.
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  2065. In the coming months, watch for Russian government tolerance of criticism of the war. In the lead-up to the USSR's 1988-89 withdrawal from Afghanistan, veterans and other groups protested against the continuation of the conflict. The protests were tolerated by the Soviet government as part of preparing the population for withdrawal.
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  2066.  @marie-christineb.4817  Madam, you perhaps need to brush up on your awareness of Canadian politics. Trudeau has taken a bulldozer to many of the most salutary Canadian political, legal and social traditions during his tenure, especially this year. 'Dictator' is a rhetorical exaggeration but can be invoked with a spirit of considerable justice in light of his proudly, unapologetically authoritarian measures and utterances.
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  2067.  @kylbarry4466  Not even mid.
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  2068.  @Tristanxh  Splendid. The best way to defame and explode Marx's cant is to quote it.
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  2069.  @NorahsYarnArt  The legacy in Spain lived on to include 500k-1m dead in the Spanish Civil War and a dictatorship lasting into the 1970s. Iberia lagged far behind Western Europe. In Latin America brutality and high murder rates continue.
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  2070. The more I hear about this Taylor Lorenz, the more I don't care for him.
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  2071. Loose = opposite of tight Lose = opposite of win
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  2072.  @AzovSS  Read the description: The guy pleaded guilty and was sentenced.
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  2073.  @ithinkthat  Yeah, I know. I'm talking about another million.
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  2074. Problem is, Upton Sinclair was himself a highly-partisan muckraking socialist activist. He would consider most of us who watched this video intellectually corrupt in that way, since we're mostly not socialists. His father made little money, but Sinclair came from elite Baltimore circles on both sides and went to Columbia. A proto-wokester.
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  2075. Scholz: krause rotkopf kleine mann. Sorry for my bad German. I just wanted to say it that way.
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  2076.  @Withnail1969  I am Neville Chamberlain and I approve of what you say. Appeasement is the best course. It ensures tensions will not increase.😂
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  2077. Germany has come around nicely and shown some good leadership. Plus its donated equipment is top-quality.👍
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  2078.  @nowthatsasupplydrop751  🙄Pay attention: That was somebody else whom you insulted, not me. Wow, you throw the word 'imbecil' around, yet you... Nah, too easy.
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  2079. "The Most Untrustworthy Name in News"
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  2080. Hey, maybe you should look up the speeches of Andrei Chikatilo, the Rostov Ripper, since serial killers interest you!
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  2081.  @OdinReactor  You really think Tesla batteries last "5-8 years"? They are under warranty for 8 years or 160k km. Try to have at least some respect for the facts.
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  2082. Tip: If the channel is worryingly quiet for a while, check the Community tab on the channel page for minor posts from Daniil.
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  2083. Great move, Poland. Government news is a terrible idea. No one should get their news from the government, for the government writes the laws. Politicians appoint the heads and directors of state news organizations and likewise control their funding. This can easily go wrong. In Canada, for example, the state news enthusiastically propagandizes for Justin Trudeau. Together they are a potent team.
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  2084. O'Leary's right about Trudeau's non-existent future, but I don't know what he's smoking regarding a Canada-US "economic union." About 2% of Canadians would support that. The rest just want to recover the country's strength following Trudeau's disastrous tenure. Hey Kevin, get some rest, see your doctor, take a vacation!
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  2085. Pure gobbledegook. Being told you can't pitch a tent wherever you like is not an eviction.
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  2086. What is this alternative corridor? Does it hug the Black Sea shoreline, thus allowing vessels to remain in NATO territorial waters all the way from Ukraine past Turkey to the Mediterranean?
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  2087.  @daark1799  Ah, so it was right of Germans to rally around their strong leader when difficult times came in 1943?
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  2088. Male? Do we really know that?🤔
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  2089. I think you're taking her wrongly. She seems not to be blaming the world for its view of Australia at all.
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  2090. Norm Macdonald: "It's a way of marginalizing a normal person." Fair take.
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  2091. Wow, so many of them look a lot older than they are.
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  2092. Sixty years of full-on liberalism and this is where you end up: A drag queen on a street corner speaking to a random liberal and it turns out he's the actual voice of reason. The Onion's News From The Future pretty much nailed this 11 years ago. It's a hilarious 10-minute must-watch.
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  2093.  @joelspringman7748  Putzerberg.
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  2094. I'm happy for him in his domestic happiness, but I'm reminded of a great piece of wisdom... "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." —Cyril Connolly And of potent politics too, perhaps.
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  2095. (1) Daniil I have to say I think it's cool how you're 22 going on 52. If you wish to or need to stop trying to improve Russia, you can do the same for any other country. (2)  The OSCE is one boss organization for that public declaration of theirs on Russia. It said it all. (3) I love the Russian expression "Fuck knows?" Too hilarious. I'm stealing it. (4) 1420: Least boring, least unintelligent channel on YouTube as far as I am aware.👍 My advice to other channels: Start paying close attention and learn.
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  2096. With probably five kinds of psychosis.
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  2097.  @victoraddison1952  To make that statement true, swing around and point in the mirror.
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  2098.  @AfterTheIce-q4j  How can you ask? To maintain NATO's deterrence credibility, of course, which preserves global and especially European security. American wealth, power and national security greatly depend upon these things. Also because of the type of person he is.
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  2099. Problem: I'm a well-off, high-consuming, brand-loving, selfish snob completely full of myself, and people can tell. Solution: I say I'm a liberal. Problem solved.
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  2100.  @Pandabee11  What do you mean it didn't go down well? Shipping the awful and the terrible to distant shores soon had Britain in such great shape that they became the most advanced nation by far and ruled the world.
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  2101. True. It's one of his best ever.
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  2102. The attack on the port of Odesa: 204 billion calories of food, gone. Enough for a million people for 82 days. Way to go, Russia.🙄
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  2103. Four-plus years of tracking down hundreds of his sex partners in multiple countries. Must've cost them millions of pounds. (Salaries, travel and accommodations, painfully expensive London lawyers, etc.) I should think that a determination not to accept failure under any circumstances would go hand-in-glove with all that.
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  2104. And this is why I have never purchased one thing from Amazon and never will.
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  2105. It's true, the world needs more Elon Musk.
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  2106. Yeah, his social media accounts make that clear. Apparently the pretending came out of the blue very recently, just before he got all stabby.
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  2107. Notice the title: "Putin—KGB Agent," not "Putin: His Life."
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  2108. From this comment and the number of likes, it is clear the reporter's attempt to panic people has worked.
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  2109.  @briom1425  The US doesn't "subsidize" Canada one g.d. red cent. Not one. Canada buys more stuff from the US than anyone else. We're your best customer in the world. In return, you voluntarily buy a little more. That's not a "subsidy." And by the way, 9 countries including Ireland (!) have a larger trade surplus with the US than Canada's puny one.
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  2110. Milei has been in office 13 months, not 2 years.
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  2111.  @Gloverfield  Ukraine is "greedy"? Greedy for asking for help merely to continue to exist? Greedy for asking for help to keep Russia from advancing on your own country? Omg. How about Lithuania? Is Lithuania "greedy"? It remains in existence itself thanks only to direct support from other nations. Otherwise Russia would overrun it in days.
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  2112. Countless hours in front of the mirror can develop that ability for you.
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  2113. I appreciate your sympathetic instincts, but in a way you do a him a disservice, making him out to be some kind of pitiful wreck. I suspect that despite serious life challenges he always firmly believed in himself, and I doubt he needs anyone's pity. Someone else could make use of it though, like someone at your local homeless shelter.
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  2114. No, for insurrection.
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  2115. 😂😂god that was rich😂😂
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  2116.  @Muzakman37  False. He absolutely denied it, in some detail. There was no service there to "turn off." Starlink coverage is continuing to roll out as more satellites are sent up, but most of the world still has no service. In fact, Musk specially re-deployed existing satellites to cover Ukraine starting around the end of Feb. 2022. But, exactly like NATO allies have done with their military assistance since Day One, he has placed restrictions on the use of his aid, very limited restrictions. From the beginning, years and years ago, he vowed that SpaceX would not become a military company. It's his right. He has made a glaring exception, very justly in my view, for Ukraine, and that is his right too. But he isn't obliged to do every last thing Ukraine asks if it makes him too uneasy or violates his principles. Destroying Russia's navy and largest naval base by far would be a major escalation of the war. He doesn't want to have responsibility for WW3 on his shoulders. He never signed up for that. If you want someone to blame, blame the Western govts. They could easily find ways to help Ukraine sink the Black Sea fleet and have not. Think about that.
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  2117. Time for Canada to just do as it did with the $400m NASAMS air defence system, and simply pay for weapons and ammo, then have them delivered directly to Ukraine. It has sent a good deal of nice stuff from its stocks at home, but I'm not sure how much is left in Mother Hubbard's cupboard. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺...and many more
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  2118. Oh, I'm so relieved.
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  2119. ​ @deathbyathousandcats   The guy claimed that Lois is the only FG character whose character is lambasted by commenters. It's an assertion so flagrantly untrue that I can only call it warped. And what is the precise nature and origin of this indignant and weepy warp-age? Ten-to-one, in my view, it comes out of woman-worship, a feeling that femaleness ipso facto sets a person above criticism. What else could account for his overlooking all the (equally deserved) abuse heaped on Brian? And if that isn't exemplary simp-hood, nothing is. Well, an impersonal and generalized form of simp-hood, anyway. If it doesn't meet your definition, (being not specifically connected to an actual individual, but to an entire gender) then 'simpiness' at least. It's common. On another section just now I was called "extra misogynistic" for vigorously criticizing the tax policy (!) of my city's mayor (a woman). Also "extra racist," simply because she happens to have been foreign-born — the same place my wife came from, btw. There's just a crap-ton of mental problems out there. Hope that's clear. It's not easy to word all that so as to be sure it's understood.
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  2120.  @P7777-u7r  I don't throw around the term 'free market.' Best avoided for various reasons, some of which you allude to (although I wouldn't put them in the terms you do). Free enterprise is a different thing, and simpler. It's about having a business, and having the right to have it. A family-owned farm is free-enterprise, for example; so is a restaurant or a chain of them.
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  2121.  @thebluedan  Against all the odds, it actually is isn't it? Sure beats a riot where people club each other in the face and crack each other's limbs in two. Not even any swearing.
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  2122.  @atlasadonis3752  You are also tireless at deflecting.  But I still want an answer. (And yes I do know what shadow-banning is. But you appear not to, because it means a post is removed, but the poster is unaware of that because it's still visible to the poster himself.) Again, what is your purpose with this harassment?
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  2123. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down there. First let's answer "WHAT the hell is Kamala Harris?"
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  2124.  andreasm1  This pandemic is heaven-sent for detractors of the president like this man, whose hatred of him you could see from space. They know they can sling gigatons of mud at him and that plenty of it is bound to stick. In the New York Times comments back in December and January, numerous people openly registered their loathsome desire for the onset of a recession which would impair his chances at re-election. It evidently never occurred to them that wishing for (other) people's lives to be hit with disaster is evil. It perhaps goes without saying that rich liberals (the primary constituents of the NYT readership) are among the people least affected by recessions. When I submitted comments politely but incisively needling the readers who expressed this desire, they were rejected by the moderators. Refusal to publish comments critical of the Times or its readership is a habit of theirs.   They do it often, presumably with considerable pride and satisfaction rather than the shame which would be more fitting to such a weak, self-serving, sneaky, and cowardly practice.
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  2125. Yes, it was unseemly and undiplomatic to employ slang in that manner. He should have simply called Putin a psycho.
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  2126. Under a ruler, it seems to me, you have so much less dignity. You're a child, living under your strict dad. He beats the family, then he brags how great the household runs. You're a child forever.
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  2127. But what will profoundly mentally disturbed people do without them? How will they manage?
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  2128. H@rris was the high school senior who got good marks by spending all her time studying — but still couldn't impress a bright 8th grader. And still can't. That's the thing about not being smart: it's a lifelong condition.
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  2129.  @edwilli222  Complacency, or even just a desire not to seem paranoid, might easily be the end of a free society. In time, you won't be able hide from "this stuff" by avoiding social media, nor even by withdrawing to the remote countryside. Like they went looking for the hapless kulaks, they'll come looking for you. Don't be paranoid, but don't wait till you see the whites of their eyes.
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  2130. Could a knowledgeable speaker of Russian locate these accents for us, please? Where are these people from? And what about in society, which social class?
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  2131.  @cassatakissana9382  Finally, someone who's not taking all this silliness seriously.
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  2132. ​ @sonjagatto9981  It hits you nicer in the French version, Adolphe. The French associate it with a masterpiece of fiction by Benjamin Constant having the name as its title. The eponymous character was decidedly interesting and a romantic figure, good-looking and of interest to cultivated women, as I recall. Stormy, brooding, etc., a bit of a French counterpart to the model of Byron if you ask me. (It was based largely on Constant's very difficult relationship with Mme. de Staël.)
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  2133. Ok, Gopnik. 🙄
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  2134. In an unheated cell down in the basement he would chill out, perhaps?
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  2135. Not only that, but English-speaking Montreal was just an especially civilized place overall. (The people we see here were Montrealers.) That wasn't a mere local conceit, either. It was something unfailingly recognized by the British and Americans who came through.
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  2136.  @redburban1394  Hahaha, you sound very good-natured.👍Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to you too 🎉🎄
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  2137. Thanks, that was well observed and reasoned, and well expressed.
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  2138. Once again I ask you to please lower the volume of your intro and outro music. It's the loudest thing I know of on YouTube. Turn it down! 🤨
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  2139. What were the other two?
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  2140. Absolutely. The right to be wrong, which on the face of it sounds like a pretty lousy right, is actually the lynchpin and font of all human rights, all liberty. It's also the true signifier and basis of adulthood: without it, you're a mere child—forever; with the government as your strict dad—forever.
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  2141.  Willie Gordon  Not much wrong with the pole vault to say the least, plus they're all out of their teens.
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  2142. "The" study? As we're not mind-readers, it would be useful for you to name the study and source. Thank you.
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  2143. Btw, Marx should be recognized as the father of workplace sexual harassment, or at least as R. Kelly's role model. He and his wife hired a young maid, whom he soon impregnated. He got rid of the maid and never paid for the child's upbringing. (He denied paternity, obviously.) His super-rich fox-hunting buddy Engels stepped in to foot the bill.
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  2144. Marksmanship is the skill, but 'marksman' is the lowest level of special distinction for shooting accuracy in the military. Higher: sharpshooter. Highest: expert.
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  2145. Uh, yeah, but I wouldn't use any derivative of the word 'serious' in the same breath as mentioning her.
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  2146. "Many villages are currently empty, with only grandparents residing in them." A village is not empty if people live there. But that's just my opinion, resulting from my belief that grandparents are human beings.
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  2147.  @TheAircool1  Hey, stop confusing the b ot with calmly presented facts.
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  2148. It better be a really big shortage. Tesla has managed by sheer brilliance to get by with serious chip shortages over 2021-22.
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  2149. That's like asking Anyone else sick of spending money on toothpaste? Think about what a ton of dental work costs instead. Think. This is vital to US national security and wealth over the medium and long term. The cost of dealing with Putin later in a direct war would be 100 to 1000x more.
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  2150. From what I gather, when he was growing up that was considered a fine and civilized way to speak.
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  2151.  @RoarkF  Esp. funny are people saying "I'm so humbled!" while undeniably bursting with pride.
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  2152. It needs to be pointed out that that's not really a library behind him: it's just a fake green-screened image. You can tell by the white patch between his headphones arch and his head.
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  2153. First of all, they've never been in OPEC, so you're talking about OPEC+. But even setting that aside, what you say still only makes limited sense. What makes the most sense from OPEC's point of view is following Prof. Hausmann's proposal for squeezing Russia practically right out of markets. OPEC's fondest aspiration is tight long-term supply and hence steady high prices.
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  2154. Yep, the US imports about $100bn of food from Canada and Mexico.
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  2155. Even Serbia is steadfast in its refusal to recognize the Donbas as part of Russia.
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  2156. ​ @MetalzxAngel  No, that nickname has followed him around since early boyhood. It was pinned on him by his father — an awful man who beat him, and from whom he has long been estranged.
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  2157. I wouldn't trust her as manager of a daycare. And yet she's a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Staggering.
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  2158.  @princessbouldermall3381  As a princess, you should have one of your servants look up the word 'literally' for you.
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  2159. Lord tunderin' Jesus, that was nice o' ya t' say, bye.👍😄
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  2160.  @goenzoy  "Zero chance"? You're not very careful with your language or reasoning, for there is a greater than zero chance that Putin will not wake up tomorrow morning. Or are you a Kremlin physician and scientist currently studying various aspects of his immortality?
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  2161.  @xpact83  Ok, bro. Russia is winning. Yeah. Success after success. And I hope they keep on succeeding, if that's what you call it.
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  2162. Lol, that's true.😄 And it's because her tactics have generally worked for many years now — until lately, and not anymore.
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  2163. ​ @mygunisinnocent8028  Rather bad sourcing of facts and grossly mistaken understandings. A real mess. (1) Canada is only short around 0.5m bpd in refining capacity. The US buys 9x that much crude from it. (2) "We just don't need the oil [...] We export millions of barrels everyday" Yikes. Where do you think all that comes from? (3) "Trump is trying to help Canadians out" Oh dear lord. No, he doesn't dare send the price of gas way up, that's all that is.
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  2164. Because the Russians I know are very smart, I thought Russians were smart generally. Not anymore. I'm particularly disappointed in the middle-aged and older women. They remind me of the Parisian women during the revolution whom I read about, who would bring their knitting to the guillotines early in the morning and watch the executions all day long.
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  2165.  @Roguearmy1911  You cleared that up👏
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  2166.  @Publichouse  Sad that you think half the people being afraid to speak freely is something to brag about. Your eyes are adjusted to the very dim light of a deep basement.
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  2167. When I hear the words "deeply offensive" nowadays, I assume they're in response to some accurate statement.
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  2168. There's a lot of stuff you can't show or the video will be taken down. For that reason every channel self-censors.
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  2169. Beef tallow not only made for far tastier fries, it's a healthful fat compared to inflammation-causing seed oils like canola oil and — the worst 🤮— soybean oil.
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  2170. Poland is a trusted and valuable ally.
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  2171. I'd like to see Peter Hitchens' face, standing in front of his house, if gangsters were barricaded inside holding his family, and the police told him to get on the phone and negotiate. "That's right, Mr. Hitchens. See where you can get with them. You might get back one of your children and all but six rooms. On Piers Morgan you sounded like you knew all about the need to negotiate—now get to it."
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  2172. "Oblivious"? Hmm, I don't know. I'm pretty sure they can't be in the way 100% of the time without being highly aware.😄
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  2173. So he's named both Ricky and Randy. There's your problem.😂
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  2174. Far-lefters and late-middle-aged Frenchmen showing what they're made of. (Hint: it's a variety of cheese.)
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  2175. First it was time to take out the trash. Now a whole bunch more is taking itself out. Excellent. Things are really beginning to take shape.
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  2176. I disagree with the dad quoted and maybe with you, too. I disagree with the dad because commonly 16-year-olds in fact have lots of strong convictions. (How could he not know that?) But those convictions just aren't worth that much where they concern major national issues (the dad was talking about political protest). Kids are not allowed to vote for good reason, in my view. I strongly suspect, actually, that this is what the dad had in mind, saying "real convictions" when he really meant 'valid and worthwhile political convictions' because he spoke sloppily. So maybe I don't disagree with the dad, if I'm right on this. As for your statement, if you're just pointing out the paradox or irony I think that's good. But if you mean that a 16-year-old really is on the cusp of maturity, I don't think so. Eighteen-year-olds make poor parents and poor voters if you ask me. It's just reasonable to give them those legal rights (and hope they don't use them the instant they get them) in recognition of the responsibilities they get at the same age.
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  2177.  @waynegabler6570  Ok, Svetlana.
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  2178. A Ukrainian corrected me a few years back, telling me it's 'keev.' He is from Odesa. 'Kee-ev' is (or was) traditional in English, but it's hard to argue with going with the native pronunciation, especially since it's not that big a difference. (I'm in favour of keeping English names that are majorly different, like 'Florence' for Firenze, 'Cologne' for Köln. Also, concerning Paris, it's too late to start saying 'Pair-ee' instead of 'Pair-iss')
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  2179. The friendly-looking man in the red scarf may be Albert Zhang Zhang, formerly a hunting tour coordinator for top Party officials before emigrating to seek an education at an elite Western university business school.
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  2180.  @sextoncardew903  You're clearly very upset, resorting as you are to unprovoked personal insult and name-calling. Good! Be upset and stay that way. Xi will be your strict and ruthless dad till he dies. So have a nice life, young man.
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  2181. Plus for Putin: generally, the more of his opponents who leave the country, the better. Minuses for Putin: their departure probably means a loss of productive talent and will intensify economic decline; some number of them will work to oppose him in ways that being abroad makes easier and more effective.
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  2182.  @MichaelaJungheim  You are endorsing major mental illness—specifically the detachment from reality known in psychiatry as delusion—as a non-problem. That is not just extreme, it is beyond extreme. Someone has planted this bizarre extremist notion in your mind, and it amounted to an attack on you whether you realized it or not, then or now. It's past time for you to utterly root it out, for extremism is a vice and it subtracts from virtues. It makes one less of a good person.
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  2183. It is forced, a cheap and loathsome pose.
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  2184. Not one person who was applauding him knew this important detail of his past. It was a ridiculous error by the PMO (prime minister's office), failing to conduct a proper check. The chief of staff should be fired immediately.
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  2185.  @xwhite2020  So he emigrated to the US at age 6, you say?
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  2186. ​ @Antares2  Europe already does have one of its own alliances in the 10-country Joint Expeditionary Force. You're in it, dude. The JEF comprises the UK, Netherlands, the five Nordic countries and the Baltic republics — altogether home to about 120m people.
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  2187.  @maggie960-f2n  I don't see what her sex has to do with it. He tried to intimidate both cops, treating the lower-ranking one somewhat worse. Tell it to your TA.
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  2188.  @r0x0r-p4t  This is a really great thread so far.
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  2189.  @blancosanmartin  You misconstrue how the sentence is built, probably by misconstruing the punctuation. You appear to think it means Emma's Spanish is grammatical. And from a vocabulary perspective it is very good. But no, it means Emma's Spanish is, in its aspects of grammar and vocabulary, very good. So the writer did indeed use grammatically as an adverb; that is to say, correctly.
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  2190. This one disappoints me terribly. I see no necessity for linking meaning and religion so closely—or at all, really. To me it's like linking nutrition with restaurants.
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  2191. No, she means she is a good professional maker or supplier of theatrical or fancy-dress costumes.
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  2192.  @funtodiekk  Your wizened soul is sold or hacked or you're just blindly following. Most likely all three.
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  2193. How are they traitors? They're obviously 100% loyal to the country. Their country.
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  2194.  @arko6250  The last two elections he got 33% and 32% of the popular vote. You know your Electoral College? Something faintly resembling that. He is not popular.
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  2195. Some of us call it 'sheltering in the center-right,' shelter being exactly the right word because we're politically homeless.
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  2196. You can, but it just goes to show what activists are.
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  2197. He's certainly worse lately. I surmise that when poll numbers became worrying enough, the Party machine decided that lowering the dosage of his medications — causing an inevitable media storm — would be the best way to end his candidacy. It's also why a debate was hastily arranged before the conventions for the first time ever.
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  2198. "Young women are becoming much more liberal." How is that even possible? Any more liberal and they're going to fall off the Left Pole. As for the interview subject, I have a certain amount of doubt that she knows any men.
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  2199. Thanks for a point of view which so perfectly mirrors Germany's in late 1942.
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  2200.  @peaceforall1291 Exactly. The Heritage Foundation wrote it. I know of no prominent Washington Republican pushing for its adoption as a platform, only ones who want nothing officially to do with it. Probably many would be willing to discuss it informally as something that's out there, but not with a view to endorse it or push for it. Only Dem flaks and the Heritage Foundation itself regard it as important. The post from redstrike doesn't belong in this discussion, period. (Or any other, but that's just my opinion.)
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  2201.  @lockk132  He's an astute psycho. Less astute than he once was, more psycho than ever. I don't know what you are.
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  2202. What do you think these mini-favelas are going to be like after a few months or years? And besides that, either this is on such a small scale that it amounts to nothing, or it'll be massively scaled up and then it's not a mini-favela but a large favela. It's not sensible at all, it's a failure. If big, nice apartments like the one we see here were actually available, they could just hand them out. What need would there be for an air-conditioned tool-shed first? You were tricked. The woman shown is 100% not like typical homeless people. This was a staged segment. Fast forward five years: hundreds of thousands of these things are all over California, many with more than one person in them. They frequently catch fire. There's more violence in and around them than in shelters or on sidewalks today. Rape, drugs, murder, disease, stench, you name it. And it's partly thanks to this report. The same MSM campaigned intensively and tirelessly in the 90s for more opioid prescriptions. Horrified doctors said 'No, addictions will skyrocket and it'll be a disaster.' 'Doctors are heartless', the MSM said, and kept up their campaign until it succeeded. Now look at your country. Stop listening to the MSM.
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  2203. Slight hope is worth next to zero, tbh. I've become convinced that only through sustained mass public protest is there — hope be damned! — any realistic chance of real improvement and repair of the damage. Sustained, organized, coordinated, brilliantly conceived and executed, effectively-led mass public protest. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Perhaps some people agree?
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  2204.  @OdunoZoluze  His reply was perfectly coherent. One period got misplaced but it was still clear where the sentence break was, thanks to capitalization. You missed a period entirely and failed to start a sentence with a capital letter, creating a run-on sentence.
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  2205. Execute is a loaded term. It means either to carry out a judicial death sentence or to murder as a political act. Since this guy was never put on trial, I think possibly we have an Ivy League grad running the newsroom here.
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  2206. S. Dakota governor Kristi Noem just ended it in her state with legislation she signed a few days ago. Chinese nationals can no longer buy agricultural land there.
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  2207. Also, she wants a learned-sounding word to use as a cudgel, so she reaches for "promulgated". Except she doesn't know what it means. That's sort of scandalous for someone in a high-profile job that's about little more than verbal intelligence. Shall I name this little pratfall 'Promulgate'?
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  2208.  @kevinmote2369  Yep. Translation: "If my boss says it, it's the law. You didn't know that?"
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  2209.  @samanthawilliams5497  I have to wonder whether u simply want obeying the law to be optional for one certain rheighce.
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  2210.  @Dusty-McDusterson  Absolute tons of English words we use every day come from things that are no longer around. "Outdated" isn't the word for them.
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  2211. Anyone who wasn't k'rupt wouldn't have been stung by such idle and random abuse. Anyway, he showed his true colours concerning his temperament. He's unsuited to high office in many ways, but even those grounds alone would be enough.
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  2212. He'll be ok. He knows pretty much exactly how far to go. To get in trouble you have to stick your neck out in certain ways which smart Russians especially have a clear feel for. There are unspoken rules. So in a way, those who get punished know what they are doing and basically expect it. I'm fairly certain. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  2213.  @Huguillon  You need to become one.
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  2214. 👏Any journalism school worth anything would honour her with special (paid) lecture and discussion event, and make sure she has a nice hotel room to boot. I wonder if even one actually will.
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  2215. What a surprise that someone who craves being onstage is a left-winger. The two things have something extremely important in common, namely the aspect of publicly showing off and reaping applause for it. (I'm certainly not slagging comedy, though. Unlike left-wing politics, it adds much harmless pleasure to life.)
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  2216. "A full list of these warming centres are available" Kayla never learned about subject-verb agreement when she was in journalism school. I learned when I was maybe 10.
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  2217. "Vast majority" is an exaggeration. It's more like a slim majority. Ontario and Quebec together have about 24.1 million people out of the Canadian total of 39.5 million (Statistics Canada current estimate). That's 61%. But the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence area is only home to ~20 million of those, since southwestern Ontario, northern Ontario and northern Quebec are home to at least a few million. So it's probably somewhere around 50-52%.
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  2218. Tip splitting is a neo-Marks-ist development.
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  2219. I cut way back on Chinese goods. The result: I now own nicer stuff. And it lasts longer, so maybe it's cheaper in the long run. Also long-lasting: The pleasure of denying Xi my financial support.
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  2220. That's easy: Marxists.
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  2221.  @Steve-yo4ld  Oh thank god. I thought you'd wanna drag it out to 'defeat' me. Wait, I should say thank Gad. 😄
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  2222.  @thomaspitts9949  That's a feverishly inaccurate take on it. Casting it in terms of a fight to save democracy and decency, as even this TR chat does, is the tactic of people who are either cynical, mendacious and corrupt, or well-meaning fools. That anyone at all falls for it is simply tragic. That tens of millions do is thoroughly galling and very dangerous for the whole world.
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  2223. Dr. Campbell strikes a well-meaning moral pose here. He gets huffy and a little indignant. But Sweden at this point is broadly in the statistical middle of the western European nations. Of the big countries, Germany kept deaths much lower, France somewhat lower, but the UK, Italy, and Spain fared quite a bit worse. See the countries table at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Moreover, the sustained and striking resurgence of infections he points to was accompanied by a by an equally sustained and equally striking drop in deaths. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ But this crucial fact does not fit with Dr. Campbell's narrative and he indeed fails to mention it. As in Canada, the problem was focused squarely on long-term care homes (median age of the deceased in Sweden: 86 years), which were not adequately protected (in Ontario, 80% of deaths, in Sweden 75%). It amounts to a scandal, to be sure, and I hope investigations will be carried out; these are in the works in Canada. Thus the numbers suggest a major failing in one area; they do not indicate a disastrous mishandling of the government and public health authorities' overall response. Some people just naturally like seeming strict and stern. Perhaps they were spanked a lot as children, then went on to spank their own children quite a lot. They hate it when family members are untidy or don't save every possible penny, take a very dim view of candy, and are apt to become quite indignant when someone else sleeps in on Saturdays or has a couple of drinks except at a wedding party. They are often great people, certainly, and their conscientiousness is an asset to society, but they are not always to be taken very seriously when they are merely expressing their individual personalities.
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  2224.    Don't mistake the party names, Democratic and Republican , for the generic words democracy and republic , which are essentially synonyms. Check your dictionary and get back to me if you find a really significant difference. The only one I can find is that republic , rather than democracy , is usually the word used as an antonym of monarchy. But, yes, Clinton made huge mistakes concerning China. Absolutely. So did GW Bush and Obama. So did US companies, universities, media, other institutions of every sort, and of course consumers. So did the whole West. It's been a real dumbass team effort.
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  2225.  neil menace  'Great entrepreneur' is a term for somebody who makes $100m. He's amassed over 2,500 times that. It appears you don't get him. He hasn't given up on or abandoned anything. The Boring Co., e.g., is about developing the engineering for large-scale tunnelling on Mars and is proceeding just as fast as he needs it to. Hypersonic air travel is something that would take even a large country many, many years to develop, so I don't see how it's justified to call that abandoned. I grant you the Tesla smartphone appears to be shelved, but I would disagree that it ever had the status of "project." I'd say more like he explored the feasibility of it. As for getting his kicks, he can do that at the same time as accomplishing more in a day than you or I will ever do in a lifetime, so I regard it as something to admire, not a reason to take him less seriously. Let's not let envy get the better of us. It's insidious.
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  2226. The shocking anticipated cause: one man's Australian accent shatters every mind on Earth.
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  2227. Fantastic interviews lately, Daniil, especially today.👍 You are a born political genius. Future chief-of-staff to a president at least, but maybe even someone in a more illustrious tradition... 1776: George Washington 1791: Toussaint L'Ouverture 1811: Simón Bolívar 1910: Emiliano Zapata 1917: Vladimir Lenin 1942: Mohandas Gandhi 2033?: Daniil Orain
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  2228. "The rebate is a joke"  🤔I don't know. Jokes tend to be funny.  I'd say the rebate is more of a departure from truthfulness, an L-word. The govt. claims 80% of families get a net rebate. The (non-partisan) Parliamentary Budget Office reports that 80% are paying net hundreds or thousands a year.
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  2229. Lamenting the limited progress after enormous preparations isn't treating it "as a movie." It's only natural. And no one says they should proceed less carefully. It all amounts to positive support, so don't fret over it. (But do go ahead and criticize actual defeatism.) For my part I want to thank the United States for doing the right thing. Now just do a bit more!🇺🇦 (ATACMS!)
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  2230. They did have their say. They elected a Conservative majority. You want constitutional reform. That's the door down the hall. TTFN
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  2231. People who grew up in the Soviet era are going to be around for a long while yet. The younger ones won't reach age 75 until 2050. Люди, выросшие в советское время, будут рядом еще долго. Младшие не достигнут 75 лет до 2050 года.
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  2232. Doesn't matter to her. She's no longer up for parts. Lead roles rarely go to the elderly. (She's 77.)
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  2233. Justin Trudeau: "Hey Putin, stop stealing my moves!"
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  2234.  @rara-yp5pq  You wrote: "...most Brits are the laughing stock of Europe and of Britains' [sic] former colonies!" Please don't bother speaking for Canadians. Your attributing your own snob pomposity to us is a perfect example of hipster smugness, regardless of where you reside. How unpleasant to hear 'fact' on the lips of your like.
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  2235.  @rara-yp5pq  You wrote: "...we are in the majority in the rest of the world..." There you go again. Your Anglophobia being so precious to you doesn't mean most people share it. You only show off your loathsome and depressing self-satisfaction.
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  2236.  @coco-dr3ii  (1) That's irrelevant to my point, which concerns fairness. (2) You fail to even specify what you mean. (3) My impression is that both the Queen's Park protest and the Gaza ones were sizeable.
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  2237.  @Finglebangle  I'm inclined to think that the opinion of someone who couldn't make out my meaning in that comment is perhaps not worth my care. Best wishes to you, though.
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  2238. My, what lovely eyeglasses the Crackerjack company now puts in its boxes of candy. But these in particular may serve as a reminder for us to attire ourselves in accordance with our age.
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  2239. They need better parenting.
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  2240. The claim that the evacuated Americans will not be quarantined is false. Check other sources.
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  2241. Yeah, on the way into Canada. As usual. The amount coming into the US from Canada is like the amount of TV shows and movies coming into the US from Canada. Barely measurable.
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  2242. Educated adults don't think this is ok. Education isn't about degrees, it's about the ability to think. "Education is what's left after everything that was learned has been forgotten" — Albert Einstein
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  2243. How can something be "commemorated" at the moment it happens? Commemoration has to do with remembering something. (The fact that the word memory is practically embedded in there should be a hint.) Otherwise it's just a ceremony. Words aren't just random strings of letters that mean whatever someone guesses. But ok, go ahead and keep misusing this and other words. Do it enough times and you force the dictionaries to include your corrupted meanings.🙄
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  2244. Europe has now paid far more to Ukraine than the US. They've really ramped up the aid since late '22. Just saying.
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  2245. @Why Not Put Salt In Your Eyes Harvard officially rejects most Asian-American applicants because of their race and it's probably 99% staffed by Democrats. Next!
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  2246. 👎Just the contempt and malice audible in the word respect was enough to make my skin crawl. But she also said something which is (strangely, for her) true: "When you demonize and dehumanize, it is easy for people to commit acts of violence against those individuals." Then she quickly went out of her way to demonize and dehumanize white men, and my skin was crawling again.
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  2247. A highly-trained member of the UA Special Forces, Leporine Unit.
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  2248. Sub-par journalism. First of all, SpaceX equipment and services, initially donated 100% free by SpaceX, and now donated jointly by the company and the US govt. agency USAID, are the only reason Ukraine still exists as a sovereign entity. If not for them, Ukraine would literally be gone from the map now. The Ukrainian govt. has said as much. Second, Musk hotly denied the claim that he turned off any Starlink coverage as alleged. TR dropped the ball here, presenting an allegation as truth.👎
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  2249. I'm an irreligious Western liberal and I see nothing wrong with any country being more religious or less liberal than I would like my own country to be, if that's what they prefer.  I can insist on separation of church and state at home without objecting if another country doesn't want it. If they retain open democracy it seems to me it's their perfect right. A little healthy patriotism is to be desired. It brings people together, makes them happier, and needn't be dangerous at all. Be careful of calling religiosity medieval or nationalism brainwashing. You begin to sound illiberal in those remarks. The important consideration is whether lines of extremism are crossed. That's what deserves close scrutiny and vigilance. What is moderate must be left alone. It's bad if movements demand everybody think just as they do, very bad indeed. But remember that goes for you, too. Tolerance isn't just for others, it must have a place of prominence in one's own mind and heart.
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  2250.  @_Chicagosfinest  Fair point. I let my grief carry me away.
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  2251. Absolutely. 🇺🇦🇨🇦 I hope the NASAMS system we paid for has arrived and is helping keep the skies safe.
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  2252. She said "roll". It's a mistaken attempt at "rofl" of course.
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  2253. I wonder if she came up with these thoughts. I suspect she's been reading some dumb book some dumb wokester passed her.
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  2254. Please tell me, are the international sea-lanes and airspace which are in need of protection from China around Australia or China?
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  2255.  @TheHesseJames  By the same logic 84% of voters don't want to see the SPD anywhere near government. Yet it's headed there. Do you say "That's democracy" about that?
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  2256. Even more sobering when you realize that was the best take they did.
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  2257. Jama's statement is an Ontario issue. I support the premier. You support Hamas, I guess.👎
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  2258.  @TerryMcGearyScotland  I don't know. Orwell was born in India, and so was Spike Milligan. But they weren't Indian.
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  2259. After this, talk will soon and inevitably turn to what other things people can be forced to do.
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  2260. Hamas was shooting people trying to leave. Btw, they only have to travel a distance most people could walk in an afternoon. Ten or twelve miles gets them far enough from Gaza City.
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  2261.  @LawrenceMarkFearon  Yeah, I agree it should be.
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  2262. Great sarcasm!! 👏
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  2263. Super-correct. Please repeat this elsewhere and often.👏👏
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  2264.  @amlxr99912  I wish you the best.
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  2265. Notice Putzin's high heels.😂
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  2266. Two-tier justice system
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  2267.  @kalnfornia  Dear Libeller: He wasn't told "Here's some money. Gimme 20 minutes of content in favor of Russia." He was told that some anonymous billionaire wanted to support his centrist/conservative commentary. Literally anyone posting content dreams of getting support like that.
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  2268. Eep. No, it's 2.7m.
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  2269. I never thought I'd say this, but Go, Cancer, Go!
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  2270. That's why none of these fachmenschen (experts, literally "narrow compartment men") will be president — because they don't know that there's more to tariffs than effects at home. In the end govt policy is a whole cloth consisting of, among many other ways of looking at it, domestic and foreign policy woven together. Also I can tell you're no economist yourself. Also, Trump's opponent is too incredibly weak-minded to even begin thinking all this through. She's weightless.
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  2271.  @thedishwasherakawomen8878  The audacity is on your side, for sympathizing with Putin or Xi or both of them. Sadist.
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  2272. An expert is anyone who agrees with the opinions of the CBC newsroom. (I posted this comment on a CBC story on their website. They scrubbed it.)
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  2273. Maybe they could trim the blue box. It has a wide border.
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  2274. 4 brief points: (1) Wow. I found this reasonable and sober the entire way. No hype, hyperbole, sanctimony (aka virtue-signalling), overwrought emotion, or detectable pseudo-science. Speculation was flagged as such, and seemed restrained.👍 Bravo, Frank Celia. Thanks for respecting my wish to choose my own level of alarm. (2) Solitary point of dispute: Natural gas, not diesel, is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel. (3) It flirted with negating point (1) to show us John Oliver, even with no audio.😄 (4) Until micro- and even nanoparticles can be safely filtered out from recycling plant discharges, all plastic waste ought to be disposed of in stable underground rock formations which are isolated well away from groundwater. It is absurd to restrict the ethic of the Oath of Hippocrates to the profession of medicine. "First, you shall do no harm": Let's spread its wisdom all over the place — including to self-satisfied and moralizing activists of all kinds, who seem in very urgent need of it.
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  2275. This sort of needs an update now that we are told Prigozhin and Putin met at the Kremlin since the mutiny, I'd say.
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  2276.  @stevelang6990  Ok, Ahmed/Farshad/Ali/Sergei/Chanfun.
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  2277.  @technicianbis5250  Germaine Greer: "A man who cuts his c… off isn't a woman, he's a man without a c…"
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  2278.  @rap3208  Correct. You said it more politely than me, though.
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  2279.  @paul6925  Some guy below suggested it's a resentful co-worker or co-workers trolling him. Hilarious and possibly true.😄
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  2280. Somewhat. And they're also just finding out a little bit more about their own viewpoints. Very often I have one thing in mind and then I just start writing to find out what else I think. They're doing it by chatting. Quite lovely.
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  2281. 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 attack was a "correct" thing. Poll of 1,580 adults conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research during mid-March.
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  2282. Pretty bad pronunciation of 'Ursula von der Leyen' for a senior journalist. Should be OOR-zə-lə FON-der-line.
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  2283. Most shocking of all, the word chaos turned out to be pretty accurate. How about that, a video title that looked clickbait-y and wasn't!
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  2284. Glad to see the CPC tide has turned in these comments since a few weeks ago.
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  2285.  @brigadgeneralvoid2508  Oh heavens no. [Informal word for 'cat'] does.
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  2286.  @thomperry1187  A minority Conservative government? My dear man, seat projections currently have the Conservatives taking all but about 100 of 343 seats, and an election is likely just 15 or 20 weeks off. Time's up!
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  2287.  @davidgarris2513  Did you think my reply was hostile in some way? It wasn't.
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  2288. This was uploaded seven days ago and the channel has been silent since. Man, I'm worried.
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  2289. This matter ranks about one millionth in importance to Ontarians. Leave it to the official newsletters of the Liberal and NDP parties to cover it.
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  2290.  @proudguy  Never leave your fighter aircraft lying around where Canadians might discover them.
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  2291. Speaking of medicine, many more fields ought to adopt mandatory swearing to the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. Let me name some: Politics, science (including computer science), journalism, education....and then there's the biggie: Social activism.
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  2292.  @joskowal3711  Prison is not there to help you, nor should it be.
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  2293.  @Manunggalati  The Londoners on (I think) Westminster Bridge were afraid of the knife murderer and he wore a fake bomb vest to boot—but they took him down anyway. That's courage. (2018 plus or minus one year.)
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  2294. Florida Man: "Every king needs his queen. Only take my hand, Florida Woman, and we shall reign together."
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  2295. Why? The whole internet is one already.
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  2296. Yes. Imagine people from other countries saying "Britain has to start making difficult choices. They should cede Sussex, Kent, Yorkshire and Wales."
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  2297. Comparisons of Afghanistan to any other place are idle.
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  2298. Forgetting it is his highest duty.
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  2299. Hear! Hear!
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  2300. Francis' figures for Russian oil production, exports and revenue are wildly high. She says exports are 10m b/d (!) by tanker, while, e.g., S&P Global Commodities at Sea reported 5.27m b/d in September; Bloomberg gave the December figure as 3.5m b/d. Recent estimates of Russian output are in the 9 to 10m b/d range, about half being exported. (Domestic demand has risen due to the needs of the military.)  She claimed exports to India and China of 7m b/d (too high) are worth $600bn a year, but even at the full world price 7m b/d would be worth $190bn. Russian oil is selling at a discount to the world price and her volume estimate is off, so make it more like $140bn. Massively less than $600bn. She's either the best-informed person in the Western world by far or she is freewheeling in her assertions of fact. I rather like her but in light of all this I would need to verify everything she says before believing a word of it. Quite a few people get very far in life relying mostly on verbal gifts and a highly self-assured manner.
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  2301. "Constitutional monarchy" Slightly true, but under a constitution so weak that it's fairer to say Putzin is tsar, except in name.
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  2302. I'm with Poland.🇵🇱 Hungary got Stockholm Syndrome when the USSR invaded it, and needs therapy to recover.
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  2303.  @wolfcookerBack  "Slava Ukraini" means "Glory to Ukraine." Nice try, Peskovchik.
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  2304. Also a leading cause of ED.
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  2305.  @ChristopherCompagnon1AndOnly  I also don't like anyone telling me what I am as a man in the way you are. Why can't everyone just look after themselves and never mind telling others what they are or should be? Improving the world should mean improving oneself and it should end there. Something tells me that busybody-ing is simply a way of avoiding it.
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  2306. World to Trudeau: Buh-bye. 😂
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  2307. Absolutely. A lone voice here de profundis. Thank you. This madness too shall pass.
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  2308. Guess what? A patient in an operating room for life-saving surgery is gonna bleed some. And you want to condemn the surgeon? Try condemning whoever poisoned the patient in the first place!
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  2309.  @jackspring7709  Oliver Stone: 🤡 "Documentary": 😂
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  2310. ​ @aleksanderchentsov4783  Actually, GDP comparisons done at PPP and GDP comparisons at market exchange rates both have their good and bad points. PPP is helpful for characterizing standard of living; market exchange rates properly indicate standing in the world economic and financial systems. Neither one is complete. I agree about the rise of the ruble: It is nothing to celebrate. For one thing, it has emerged strictly as a result of capital controls and (even more importantly) plummeting imports, the latter indicating serious economic weakness and an imminent fall in the standard of living. For another, it heavily diminishes the value of payments for Russian exports in foreign currency.
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  2311. Canadians easily recognized her for what she really was: a totally standard 60-year-old Canadian far-lefty. She was obviously dyed in the wool of the 1970s-80s Montreal she grew up in (between 5th grade and her freshman year at Howard). She nearly became America's first NDP president.😮😱
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  2312.  @YorkerEli  No, Orwell modelled the book on Stalin's Russia in most ways. He also had in mind England's Fabians, which is not widely known. He chose as the year for the book's setting the hundredth anniversary of their Society's founding. Fabians are socialists who advocate for a quite gradual and non-violent overthrow. But as I understand it Orwell believed they would quickly turn tyrannical in the Stalinist manner after taking power.
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  2313. He out-Tucker-Carlsons Tucker Carlson, managing it easily despite being on the left. Extremes meet, they dance, they mate with their clothes on. It's cringebarf-worthy, but at least no spawn result as far as I can tell.
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  2314. The point was largely to warn all other countries not to host terrorist training, which the Taliban had done. Now everyone knows what happens when you do and then those trained there attack the West: you get some very unfriendly guests who stay for a generation. So actually, "What did they achieve?": They made your own country and your own smug butt safer for a long time. Had ISAF not gone, Al Qaeda (and the Taliban) would have flourished all this time, leading to more attacks like 9/11 and 7/7.
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  2315.  @cba4389  You are throwing around a term you don't understand. You think it means something like American protection, but it does not. (Also, it's not Pax America, it's Pax Americana.) The terms Pax Romana, Pax Brittanica and Pax Americana refer to the relative scarcity of wars around the world because of a dominant superpower. The idea is that wars are far more common when superpowers are challenging one another, or if the dominant superpower simply collapses.
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  2316.  @gregoryisom7741  He appeared (perhaps still appears) once a week on the NewsHour program for 10 minutes or so, to give his thoughts on a news subject chosen by the anchor. There's another analyst as well, supposedly more liberal than Brooks himself.
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  2317. That's how it goes with fanaticism.
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  2318. ​ @PopPhyzzle  "Deep analyses." 😂 I can smell the yesterday's pizza boxes in the undergraduate common room from here. Ah, but you'll make it to the graduate students' lounge soon enough.
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  2319. If he's a huge liberal, why did he appear to refer to Trump supporters as "our voters"?
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  2320. World Association of Farm Animals: "Hey, stop comparing us to Prince Harry!"
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  2321. I've been complaining about this for years. But I've come to realize that, the political slant and wonted dimwittery being perennially even worse, it's only to be expected.
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  2322. Why on earth is a judge involved? They are trespassing on U of T property and have been asked to leave. Therefore a call to police should be all that's needed. Help me out here. 🤔
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  2323.  @curtisjeffries9630  She's got that accent that you never hear from ordinary Chinese people, but I've heard it numerous times from Chinese anti-Westerners. Maybe it's one they teach at schools for children of the Party elite.
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  2324. A people may achieve the freedom to speak freely without fear of repercussions, but it has to be something they consider essential, normal and good, and Russians don't want freedom very much. The few who do, leave. They're like specimens in a museum from another era—the feudal era. The Renaissance came late to Russia (not fully, but it came). Yet the medieval mind persisted, largely owing to meagre contact with Europe (& later, America). A long time after that came communism, but it left a great deal unchanged because it's anti-modern in its authoritarian repressiveness and so it suited the anti-modern Russian soul and did little to root out a medieval frame of mind. The main current there is still feudalist. Most of them would feel grief and unease not having a king. They're not yearning to breathe free. Anyone is welcome to contradict me.
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  2325. No one likes a braggart.
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  2326.  @elizabethhenning778  Actually to be geographically neutral, to not cement any region as overly dominant. In other words, the compromise so that nobody got just what they wanted. (London: "Wouldn't advise that, mate." Paris: "Putain de fous!" Moscow: "Выберите самый большой город!")
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  2327.  @shane_2337  A total disregard for safety or responsibility is one thing, and just about anyone can spot that. Instances far less obvious are another thing. You would likely get pretty wild disagreement from person to person as to how to score individuals. For example, timid people would probably score a lot of people rather higher. What better for them than to have the world regard fearlessness as a pathology? (Somewhere in Blake there's a contemptuous remark about those who "make a virtue of incapacity." Since I read it many years ago I've seen it come up in life countless times.)
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  2328. 1) "Argentinian debt is for the most denominated in dollars." But according to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 2022, 95.5% of Argentina's central government debt securities were denominated in domestic currency. 2) "[D]ebt just increased 50% with the GDP decreasing, and not only government debt, private debt also." But only private debt issued in US dollars. And I doubt lenders were risking many US dollars by lending to private Argentinian borrowers doing business in pesos. Stick around, I have to double and triple check everything else you wrote.
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  2329. I literally had to laugh out loud. Nice comic touch.
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  2330.  @Yomama1029  You'll pay it. It's a tax. Trump raised your taxes.
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  2331. Can we all take a moment to savor that fantastic headline? 🎉 I think I'll print a screen grab and tape it to the wall, just to gaze at it. (Let somebody at YT headquarters plaster the whole C-suite!)
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  2332. Putin, Xi & the ayatollahs: "1,000%! Yes! This guy gets it."
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  2333. Uh, remember the movie scene where that guy pulls a sword on Harrison Ford?
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  2334. You'd think that running every vehicle on electricity would send grid usage up by an enormous amount. 10x? 50x?🤔 It turns out that, no, it would only go up by around one-third. The EIA says so, and their story checks out. The US grid puts out ~4,200 tWh per year. A Tesla Model 3 gets ~4 miles per kWh, but let's say a national fleet including electric trucks would only average 2. Americans drive 3.2 trillion miles a year. That would require 1,600 tWh a year.
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  2335.  @HenrykSzlangbaum  Your claims sound stretched to me. A great many Western journalists covering Russia don't have the greatest Russian. A great many journalists covering any given foreign country may not be very fluent in its language. At least she comes from a Muscovite family. I don't necessarily care, either, that others interviewed here or anywhere disagree with her. Maybe they're wrong, not her. And I never noticed them "mostly laughing" at what she said anyway. I carry no brief for her, but you sound like you have an axe to grind for whatever reason. It was nice talking to you.
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  2336.  @TheBoomtown4  Not really, since the panel host also repeatedly condones or agrees with panel assertions that the reporter isn't really a reporter, keeps getting arrested for good reason, and is making illegitimate hay out of what happened. None of those things is true and I believe he knows that. I think you're giving him a 6 because other people are giving him a zero.  But in my view, 5 being a pass, he deserves a 3. The panel gets three zeroes and a 4.5.
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  2337. "Hey, what is my body doing way over there with no head?"
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  2338. Had to be said!👍
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  2339. Note that the Red Star is the emblem of the Russian armed forces to this day. A red star is not exclusively a communist symbol, but it of course was always the symbol of the Soviet armed forces, called the Red Army. Thus its use recalls—and seemingly honours and glorifies—the immense atrocities committed by the Soviet regime, including murder and genocide on a scale greater than that of the Nazis. If this has occurred to those who vilify Ukraine here, they omit to mention it for some reason.
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  2340. Suspended with pay. Great policy for a great lady. My guess is she makes $200,000 per year, before bribes, other payoffs and expense embezzlements. (Whether she gets up to any mischief with seized contraband in the evidence locker, who knows?)
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  2341.  @jgp7414  You keep posting that in contexts that show you don't know what the phrase means. Pro tip: Before using words or expressions, be sure you know what they mean. It's incredibly easy in the internet age. Don't guess from context.
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  2342.  @jgp7414  Might be a good idea to go for a check-up.
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  2343.  @les0101s  Thanks, I missed that. I just heard the word bail and then saw the prosecutor commenting that the guy was a danger to the community, so in the context I took it as a reference to denial of bail. Possibly the judge assumed $5m was a prohibitive amount, but that would still be strange. I mean, what if the guy suddenly came up with the $5m? Perplexing.
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  2344.  @les0101s  What sort of bail bond outfit would really take a $4.5 million gamble on this guy? He obviously has zero self-control and with the evidence against him is the worst flight risk of all time. I had in mind more like a $5 million secret stash of savings. Not that it seems possible: If he had that, he likely would have accepted his wife's desire to leave him with equanimity.
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  2345. 👍Little need for composing a comment of my own. You said what I think.
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  2346. If she's "an award-winning journalist," why is she pictured as a weather-thingy? Also, I don't see why we're being treated to a list of her and her lawyer's claims. We can assume they're 100% self-serving. But I'll agree $71k does sound low.
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  2347. 1) The hotel's ground-level doors and windows are of costly blast-resistant glass. 2) The strength of the truck's materials, and its design, directed the force of the blast mainly upwards. Nice try.🤨
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  2348. Trudeau asked him if he wants a $10 million settlement and an apartment in Toronto.
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  2349.  @matthewsmith5374  Did yours drop you on your head from a considerable height?
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  2350. Loblaws is operating the same as ever. What happened was the food that it purchases went up in price. It was a global phenomenon. To me it's embarrassing that many Canadians are so simplistic in their thinking as to believe that the retailers are the boogeymen.
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  2351.  @MW-gm7cq  U misspelled Kringela.
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  2352. Asteroid, o swift asteroid! Let thy path be straight and true!
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  2353.  @mildloser2248  <----"cry about it. you saw something that you didnt agree with.get over it." Shall we quote that back to "the community" whenever they're upset at anything, which is always? Wait, don't answer. I've decided that I shall.
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  2354. 'Journalism' in 2024.🙄
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  2355.  @SexyGreek26  I always get a kick out of Germans who hate the American flag. Rich. It must be on account of how Americans mistreated Germany so badly.
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  2356. It very much sounds like you're doing all you should be doing. I for one thank you. I expect the mayor would agree with me, along with all reasonable people. But apparently not everyone is up to your level. The mayor is talking to them, not you. Carry on!👍
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  2357.  @nyapoleon8999  I'm guessing this was done with two models of the same remote, one having a translucent case, one opaque. I think what we see on the screen is a recording (the translucent one). The opaque one is being turned to mimic the recording. Very easy if you have two such remotes. Just my guess, as I never heard of x-ray computer cameras and firmly doubt their existence.
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  2358.  @ViggoMJ  What? That's where its headquarters is. The amount of fat on display there would thrill Captain Ahab himself. The Strategic Fat Reserve.😂
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  2359.  @philipliethen519  I don't recall giving a compliment to anyone or anything. It was all sober and sincere. I regret if I made it seem otherwise. Cheers
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  2360.  @PabloGonzalez-hv3td  Fair take. Standard low-key interception. Congrats for coming round to my factual point of view.
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  2361. Thrones are supposed to be huge.
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  2362. This is the news of the world? Then I'm glad to hear that for the first time ever there's absolutely nothing going on.
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  2363. Just watch them.
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  2364.  @NOLAgenX  Ah yes, the OP's mistake was right under my nose and I didn't see it.
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  2365. Uh, where's the voiceover telling us that, like all flooding, this flooding is clearly attributable to global warming?😄 Seems so weird not to hear that.🙄
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  2366. Cis = Non-trans. The comedian Norm McDonald remarked that 'cis-' is "a way of marginalizing a normal person."
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  2367. Carefully note his rhetoric. It's valuable ammo that can be re-used endlessly.
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  2368. Why not just get rid of Scotland? Tell them "Out!" and send them on their merry way. Let them arrange free trade with Iceland. ;) (N.B. I'm not from the UK. It's just that they seem to hate you, so let them have their barren rock, you can have balmy England, and you won't have to put up with them anymore.)
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  2369. * Appalling (?)
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  2370. And she claimed Twitter picked on NPR with the govt. label, but clearly had forgotten whatever she'd heard. Which is basically saying "Someone said there's some way that I can't remember in which NPR was wronged." Omg, what? Details matter and that's not good enough.
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  2371.  @mpdfog186  Thanks, and don't forget I was good with your actual core message. Cheers
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  2372. Hey, stop selling and be candid. It isn't as though supply will actually decrease. It's merely going to increase less quickly. And it already only increases at a glacial pace. The total number of BTC is irrevocably scheduled to increase by only 10% over the next 116 years. (!) So even the current rate is so minuscule it's basically undetectable.
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  2373. "Tent"? Hah, far from it! Perhaps a thin 2' X 3' blanket for a hundred people. It has offered 50,000 tons of grain, while the 2021/22 Ukrainian harvest which it is blockading was 33,000,000 tons of wheat and 42,000,000 tons of corn. (And those are just the two largest crops.) Source: Statista
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  2374. Isaac Newton? I was pretty sure it was Brian May.
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  2375. 😂 Every word of it was lies and misinformation.😂
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  2376.  Rocksteady-bw6ix  😂 Russia under Putin voted Yes on the UN Security Council Resolution which authorized the 40+ nation force in Afghanistan! So did China! The force, named ISAF, included soldiers from every continent. The whiner is Putin.
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  2377.  @harrisonbergeron4372  It's hilarious.🤣
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  2378. @ In fact 49.8% voted Trump in. And 34% is not "a big number federally"! Anyway, it was 32.6% last time; 33.1% before that; 39% in 2015. He could never even crack 40.😂
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  2379. Oh, leave the guy alone. He's just making his disgusting living!🤑😏 Edit: I don't mean Konstantin!
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  2380. Yes, the Iron Cross is the official emblem of the German armed forces. Germany has donated some of its tanks. What is your point?
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  2381. It wasn't in Chinese airspace. It was over international waters. Besides that, China voted to support the North Korea sanctions, and monitoring is part of those sanctions. Canada is only doing its part to support the UN-mandated sanctions. It was only a maritime reconnaissance plane, which is exactly suited to the task. Canada is a square country which doesn't behave aggressively or inappropriately towards anyone, let alone China.
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  2382. Dear Times Radio: In every Kate Gerbeau clip (and many others on TR) her audio level is much louder than her guest's. Will you please hire a sound person who knows how to attend to this most annoying problem. Thank you.
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  2383. With some animals more equal than others.
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  2384. The way I see it, the best (most valuable) people are in two categories: (1) those doing a good job preserving the best of ages past and (2) those coming up with patches for the problems stubbornly persisting through the ages. I immediately sense that Michael Binyon is in the first group. Its members number in the millions. The other group numbers in the mere dozens, despite at least a couple of billion claiming membership in it.
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  2385.  @louisefox4852  In my view, you acquitted yourself well in that exchange. But it was a bit of a no-no to call him jealous---just be a bit unfair and someone's apt to see you as a monster here in comment land. Cheers. (May I toss in my take that Peterson, of whose videos I've watched a dozen or two hours, reaches---a thing necessary while thinking, permissible in private talk, and inadvisable in public. I mean I think he says things he's unsure of. Scruton seems to stick with what's firmly in his grasp. He seems on a steadier foundation of thought. Just a passing comment.)
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  2386.  @skateking959  It no longer affects me what semi-intelligent semiliterate random Internet commenters think. "What can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care," said Blake. You're slow-minded, that's the problem here.
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  2387. ​ @aurora8749  Many years ago, stone cold sober, I was talking to my girlfriend in front of her house when her brother who was nearby gratuitously said something insulting to me, so I called him a frequently-used two-syllable word. This fellow, who was given to insane behaviour, ran into the house and came running back out with nunchucks. Not many seconds later I had already travelled quite some distance. Turning a corner, I decided that hopping a seven-foot fence I saw in front of me would put an end to any lingering danger. So I lightly placed a few fingers on top of it and an instant later I was standing on the other side. No other part of my 190-lb. body besides my fingers had made contact with the fence, yet I had exerted no more effort than I would lifting a 10-lb. bag of groceries. Astonished, I strolled home. For a moment I had been as strong as an ape, and it occurred to me that perhaps there had been no need to leave after all.
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  2388. "How Canada's reputation is faring," not "fairing"! Omg.🙄 How one fares is how one 'makes out,' how one 'does.' (Originally, to 'fare' was to make one's way in the sense of travel.) So How've you been faring? = How've you been doing? = How've you been making out? 'Fairing' isn't even a verb, it's a noun. A fairing is an outer covering, like on a spaceship or a motorcycle.
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  2389. I predict this man's wig will lose in a landslide. Perhaps a mudslide, perhaps a waterslide. Some kind of slide.
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  2390. I saw the video from three bodycams (or was it four?). I hope you did too. Sounds like it.
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  2391.  @JeffCaplan313  Don't pretend this is about regulating behavior, Chanfun. It's about removing a lever for Chinese government interests in America.
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  2392. Many here are blaming the cyclist for being in the driver's blind spot. They don't realize that the truck was stopped on the right side of the road in the curb lane. The cyclist was driving past on the truck's left in an open lane of traffic. One must visualize that. Stop and let it sink in. The driver was making a left turn from the farthest right part of the road. Making such a left turn is inherently dangerous, as it involves cutting across one or more lanes of traffic going in the same direction. (Here it was 2.) It is of course ordinarily unlawful for that reason. If in special circumstances it is permitted, as it may have been here, it has to be performed with the utmost possible attention and care. Obviously the truck surprised the cyclist by initiating the turn. That is quite understandable at least up to a point, since one rarely if ever encounters such a vehicle turning left from the right-hand curb lane. Possibly the cyclist ignored a warning signal, gesture or shout from the curbside worker to make way for the truck. (I wonder if the cyclist's attention was inappropriately divided or if he/she was listening to headphones. Or maybe not. Maybe the spotter dropped the ball.) Equally obvious, the onus is always on the driver to allow for such things. I can't see the excuse to not check what's going on in the centre lanes before moving. One can always simply put one's head out the window first. To not look is to court disaster. I'm quite sure it's against the law.
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  2393.  @Frankiigii  Of course you'd say that about the potato camera. You're potato girl. You're probably in on the whole thing.
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  2394. I understand how Trump views many or most of America's allies as frenemies in the sense of siding with the US against other major adversarial powers, yet showing an eagerness to take advantage of it on security. I get that. On the other hand, they've gotten away with it for decades for a reason: the US nonetheless reaps colossal financial and economic benefits from the present arrangements. As John McCain once pointed out, the alliance with other Western countries was absolutely key to the staggering increase in American wealth after WWII. He was 100% right. And today no less, a collapse of security in Europe or the Indo-Pacific would definitely send the American standard of living tumbling downwards. No question. It would tip the global balance of power instantly to the Authoritarian Axis. And if it were in both regions...I don't even want to think about that. For that reason, Trump has a difficult task: namely, to play chicken with them on security funding without alienating their populations so severely as to fundamentally damage relationships. There's potential for lose-lose in great big capital letters here. I refer to losses so great that funding Ukraine's defense is barely lunch money in comparison.
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  2395. I expect the counteroffensive to be full of feints, deception and trickery of every sort, backed up of course by training, thorough planning, monster logistics, determined execution and conspicuous gallantry. Russia, on the other hand, will dial up its brutality and dullness.
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  2396. Poor headline. It looks like he put his knee on the man's head around his ear, not his neck. Moreover, a few seconds is not enough to result in any significant danger at all, unless great force were used. The interviewer says "There it is!" after the officer's shoe strikes the pavement about 2 feet away from the man. There was clearly, at that instant, no contact of the knee with the man at all.
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  2397. How do you find out the number of downvotes on a video?🤨
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  2398. Apr./May most likely.
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  2399. Bad sign: The weirdest-looking guy is the one who says "That's a weird question." It should be an incredibly ordinary-looking and drunken factory worker who says that.
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  2400. Oui. De luxe.
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  2401. 😂 You're really good at this. Keep it up.
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  2402. What a perfect specimen of active measures that post is. Do you teach the subject in Peterburg?
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  2403. But not "newswomen"? You've heard of them of course? And you haven't watched them do it?
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  2404. Right. And Babe Ruth just swung hard and got lucky 700 times.
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  2405. ​ @gamegoof  "Wahhhh.😭 Other people should charge the price that I want to pay them.😭 If I don't want to pay $30 for a haircut, my barber should accept $10 from me instead. Wahhhh.😭"
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  2406.  @renejean2523  Are you sure you know what's between the brick and the inside walls? I grew up in a place where all houses are made from bricks over a timber frame.
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  2407. Oddly, it's the countries that are newest to democracy and human rights that are showing the most respect for them in the last couple of years (Taiwan is another). Wait, maybe it's not so odd: they haven't started taking them for granted yet.
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  2408. The Good Morning America woman thinks like an undergrad. She also tries to pull on your heartstrings without earning it. Her opponents rely on rhetoric too, but much less. Her ally is in between.
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  2409. Absolutely, totally, completely false. They will continue to sell the overwhelming majority of their oil in dollars. Although they decided to accept other currencies as well, and these are expected to be a small fraction of the total for many years to come. Also, most of those receipts would most likely be promptly exchanged for US dollars anyway. (Note that Saudi purchases of US Treasurys have been increasing, not declining.) Finally, it is widely rumored that the US and Saudi Arabia are on the verge of signing a historic security agreement, pulling the two countries even closer together from a defense perspective. Saudi Arabia is not turning its back on the US or its currency. Far from it.
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  2410. Same here. Maybe old age is bringing out the best in him. Mind you, I don't like him cozying up to China. Let's hope he's deceptively playing Xi like a fiddle.
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  2411. 👏👏👏 Xi to Putin: "Come to papa." [Thinks to self: "Heh-heh-heh"]
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  2412. Lol Strangely disorienting, isn't it?
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  2413. This will work out the same as "Mexico will build a big beautiful wall!" Hard to name the worst aspect here, but it might be how the emotionally high-strung and knowledge-free American men who blindly support Trump get so angry, rude and threatening (!) when anyone doubts him. Likely a danger to their own families (if any).
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  2414. Perfect comment.
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  2415. From the standpoint of a traumatized person, unhealthy choices are rational responses to the challenges of life. Until you realize that, you're blind on the subject. Full-on serial sexual abuse orchestrated by one's mother from the age of four is rather more than "a difficult upbringing." Breathtaking lack of vision on your part.
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  2416.  @UzumakiNaruto_  What you call "a shooting a day" is a gun going off whether or not a person is shot. In 2021, Incidents: 409; People shot: 209. In 2022: Incidents: 379; People shot: 194.
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  2417. This reminds me of how so many Brits and Canadians never tire of calling Americans fat and violent, yet their own countries are closer in violence and fatness to the US than a clear majority of the rest of the rich world.
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  2418.  @AntonGully  ​ I don't know how many Ukrainians you know, but I know quite a few (and have known a number of them over the decades), and they are not socially backward like that. The ones I've been lucky enough to know are personable, intelligent, realistic and have good manners.
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  2419.  @romeob.8369  Kindly explain your reason for doubting that I support Ukraine in this war. This should be good.
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  2420. Here are some words of Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong and a Party senior leader: "If good people beat bad people, it serves them right; if bad people beat good people, the good people achieve glory; if good people beat good people, it is a misunderstanding; without beatings, you do not get acquainted and then no longer need to beat them." This gives some idea of the crude idea of violence and physical coercion so often found in women in positions of power, whenever they are not completely against it. It seems to be black and white: either it is never ok, or it is completely necessary for the achievement of approved goals and therefore highly desirable. With male leaders it is nearly always a matter of very difficult line-drawing, with violence and physical coercion ordinarily viewed as a highly regrettable last resort. (By physical coercion I mean the threat of violence.) These three administrators put me in the mind of the old ladies during the Reign of Terror who would arrive early in the morning at the scaffolds in Paris to sit all day in the front rows, knitting and watching as the revolutionaries chopped the heads off aristocrats (men, women, even children). The quality of empathy ordinarily found so frequently in women is evidently absent. It seems to me that a precondition for such a frame of mind is that the women themselves expect never to face risk of such treatment themselves, presumably by right of being female. I think that to them it is an abstraction rather than a matter of direct experience, whereas only a very rare man hasn't lived through a single bout of violence. But I don't think I fully understand this not-uncommon female attitude. It's very alien to me.
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  2421. Oh, what a few Apaches could do from miles away. Or a single AC-130.
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  2422. 1) Conservative-led Ontario has the lowest rate of violent crime in Canada. 2) Saskatchewan Party-led Sask. has the highest. The party has been in power since 2007. But note that, according to their website, "the Saskatchewan Party was formed in 1997 by a group of former Progressive Conservative and Liberal MLAs." [italics mine] 3) NDP-led Manitoba has the 2nd-highest. The NDP has been in power 33 of the last 55 years. 4)  Liberal-led Newfoundland is 3rd. The Liberals have been in power 23 of the last 35 years. 5) Alberta is 7th. Sources: Statista ("Rate of violent crimes in Canada in 2022, by territory or province (per 100k residents"); Sask. Party website; Wikipedia; Perplexity
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  2423.  @Charmalite  That's not true. The existing rules make them adequately safe. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
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  2424. ​ @zeusx6479  Of course less marriage means less divorce, but if the divorce RATE has declined and marriage has declined, that means divorce has declined even faster. It's the OP and u who are pretending to be smart. Esp. u. Learn the diff between rate and quantity. If u can.
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  2425. At one time early in the war there was only one battle-ready division on British soil. It was Canadian.
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  2426.  @jelkel25  You're telling me what I'm telling you.
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  2427. Heavens, that was an unimpressive chat.
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  2428. Why on earth is it a "war crime" to tell a million people "Get out of the way for your safety. We're moving in to do battle against the army you're in the midst of. Get on your feet and walk ten miles." I don't get it. Life is hard and I wouldn't feel like walking ten miles either, but there's a war on. I would thank them for the warning.
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  2429. Her campaign is like a re-make of Being There.
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  2430. Progressivism is to progress what the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is to democracy.
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  2431. Woodchipper stocks are up 21% YTD.
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  2432. I identify as rich. Wish me luck going in to my bank tomorrow and demanding a $2-million mortgage.
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  2433. Sgt. McGyverenko and Capt. McGyverchuk are on it! 🇺🇦👍
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  2434. This is Lukashenko doing what he does best, chattering, since he sits in power at Putin's pleasure and he knows it. But NATO is ready and he knows that equally. So he's only addressing out-of-touch Russians and Belorussians on Putin's behalf.
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  2435. 97-98% of Canada-US trade is duty-free both ways. <--- Chow down. Edit: To clarify, I mean under the terms of Trump's "tremendous, beautiful" 2019 treaty (which he basically wrote and has now trashed as though it was imposed on the US! — this, after Canada faithfully adhered to it for five years).
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  2436. If it still works when you're 65 everyone will have to accept that you're onto something.
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  2437.  @victorzvyagintsev1325  While you're waiting, do tell us which law permits invasion and annexation of sovereign lands. Btw, was it in effect in 1939 when you invaded Poland?
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  2438.  @LMB222  In the 2022 UN resolution against Russia in the first week of the war Kazakhstan abstained.
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  2439. It's a ghost of what it was. The number of university degrees granted, especially graduate degrees, skyrocketed in the past 30 years, but the prevalence of really educated people in the workforce dwindled horribly. PhDs are like German mark banknotes in 1923. Kingsley Amis' famous prediction about higher education has alas come true with a vengeance: "More will mean worse."
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  2440.  @UniqueBreakfastTaco  Nope. In 2024, Canada bought $349bn in goods from the US, the most of any country, and close to as much as all 27 EU countries. This was 15% less than imports from Canada of $413bn. Source: US Census Bureau
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  2441. In 1870 the US population (total < 39m) was 26% urban and 74% rural. And the bar for 'urban' was incredibly low: just 2,500. There were barely any large cities: only 100 towns and cities had at least 10,000 residents. Even this represented a sudden increase in urbanization compared to previous decades. In 1850, only 15% of the population was 'urban.' Hey, guess what else they had in 1870? Paragraphs and punctuation marks. Anyone who attended school through to 12th grade could read and write quite well.
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  2442. Musk is a cost-cutting Einstein. On one SpaceX mission (the Europa Clipper) he cut NASA's costs from $2bn to only $178m, saving $1.8bn. SpaceX savings to taxpayers since 2003 is in the 11-figure range (low tens of billions). Can he up his game to the $2,000bn level? Yes.
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  2443. Ah, and you should know, Vitaly.
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  2444. Yep, and he's gonna be a decoration on someone's arm in there. Might as well start picking out lipsticks right now.
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  2445. As a Canadian monarchist, it's time the monarchy lost Canada. This country is circling the drain. My great hope is for not a miraculous turnaround, just that the drain gets really clogged (whatever that might mean). That's how dismal its fate seems.
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  2446. He's been spotted at Columbia University being given a warm welcome, a tour of campus, and a PhD complete with two-year fellowship.
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  2447. Well, what do you expect from Russia? It's stuck in a feudal mindset.
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  2448. Rumor has it he's actually not a reptile-primate mix. That sounds pretty far-fetched, though.
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  2449. Many of your own words are from the 13th century and earlier, Professor Ego. Your unfamiliarity with 'parlous' (I assume that's the one that infuriated you) only shows you're not widely read. I come across it now and then. It's more common in Britain and the Commonwealth countries.
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  2450. Interesting thought. But establishing the maintenance and repair crews, the parts chains and warehousing, the fuel chain, the hangars and runways and all the rest are additional matters. As for the pilots themselves, I'm thinking training began some time ago. Not everything is announced publicly. On that last note, don't be shocked if the planes make a surprise early appearance.
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  2451. But their riots are fine. "When we do it it's cute."
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  2452. lol There's got to be a better way to say that, given the nature of the situation.
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  2453.  @arathortizs28445  Bro, how is this video "one-sided" when the views of multiple staunch Putin supporters are included? I find it funny that you assume the pose of a skeptic here.😂
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  2454.  @checktheplaylist101  Yep. Short version: To deal with a feudal people, meet their feudalism with a shovel to their faces, not liberalism. Treat them to liberalism afterwards.
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  2455. Yet Switzerland, too, is a small country in central Europe. Thanks at any rate for an informative, interesting and perceptive comment.
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  2456. Churchill was not known to butcher the English language in such a manner.
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  2457. "We" the US, or "we" Russia? Either take away the quote marks or replace "We are" with "The US is". It seems that's probably what he said.
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  2458. "Rational relations" is very unpromising. It's a way of saying Canada is being irrational and has to get real. An admonishment at best, more like a dismissal, at worst a middle finger. Thanks, Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  2459. Because he is one of the most senior managers in the national government in a clash with a senior government minister. He accuses her of wrongdoing.
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  2460.  @mdstate829   Subject of discussion: "Which is the better flavour of ice cream, chocolate or vanilla? You: "What about the US treatment of native peoples in the westward expansion?"
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  2461. To me, an 'N' is one who believes in the doctrines of the N's of the 1920s-40s. Period. It's not just someone who's intolerant and says "My country is the greatest and to hell with all the others." My respect for the Russian mind is taking a pounding watching this channel. I hope it's just a case of Daniil being ignored or rebuffed by the smarter people on the sidewalks and in the parks of Moscow when he addresses them. However, there are also Neo-N's. As soon as you add 'neo-,' anything goes, no matter what 'ism', school of art or school of economics or philosophy you're talking about. It means 'new' but it really just means 'inspired by the original'. Haven't these Russians heard of the 'neo-' prefix?
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  2462. Nielsen is unbeatable for clear and logical fact-based analysis. Brilliant guy.
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  2463.  @brunogaspar3977  Love is simply lust that lasts for months or years, not two hours. After months or years the love is gone, replaced by friendship and attachment. But we keep calling it love because the loss of love is too depressing and embarrassing to contemplate honestly, or admit openly. None of this is really to be lamented, certainly not denied. All of it is normal and impossible to change. It is humanity, it is life, it is the fabric of existence. Best to realize it, though.
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  2464. ​ @stevantammy6779  That makes sense. There's an old aphorism, probably British and some centuries old, that runs "Charity is for the succour of the recipient and the moral improvement of him who gives it." Quite true. And when you realize that handing them cash is not succour at all, since even without a penny from panning the person need never go hungry for more than a couple of hours (in a typical big city, anyway), it no longer counts as morally improving to do it. It's actually closer to the opposite. Instead I source the cheapest cigarettes possible and hand out a few packs a week. I know there's zero chance of them quitting anyway, and this prevents them picking butts up off the sidewalk, which is damaging to their self-respect. They cannot afford to lose any more. Also, I never respond to a direct request, for I don't want to reward that practice. I walk up to people just quietly standing or sitting there, ask them in a cheerful and respectful way if they smoke—it's a yes nearly every last time—and politely offer them a pack. The lift to their mood from the nice treatment is salutary even if the cigarettes aren't.
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  2465.  @slimvindawg420  He had a great location, a very good sign, and as I told you he was extremely likeable. This is also a city with a lot of money and a generous attitude, as well as race guilt regarding certain groups. If you can't make that much panning, it's because you have fewer of those things in your favor (or none). Maybe people hate your face and body language. Maybe you don't exude the things people respond to, like a hard to describe dignity. Success is spread around very, very unevenly in this life, and no one should know that better than a panner. You got a lot of nerve calling people in this thread liars.
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  2466. EV sales haven't declined. Period. "EV sales hit a record for both volume and market share in the fourth quarter of 2023, with sales 52% higher than in Q4 2022. A total of 317,168 EVs were sold."—Kelley Blue Book, Jan. 18. "Total EV sales in Q3 hit 313,086, a 49.8% increase from the same period one year ago and an increase from the 298,039 sold in Q2."—Cox Automotive, Oct. 12. You're welcome. Do something about your lack of respect for the facts.
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  2467.  @Symmetry77  Actually, 46%. 😄
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  2468. He strikes me as someone from the era of wars himself. I think he's got a great deal of 1910-1950 in him, which is exactly what I respond to. Human society and character left something to be desired at the time, to be sure, but now it's something people back then would've considered a nightmare. I like to spend idle moments and spare time there.
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  2469. Damn right! 🇨🇦
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  2470. Seems seldom that anyone at CP24 with high verbal intelligence looks carefully at these headlines before uploading. Here the words "concern over" have no business being there. Senior editors should have language skills way up in the top half of the 99th percentile.
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  2471. ​ @wavydavy9816  Possibly the majority of your anti-M. comms. are re mooved because you tried posting too many times in a given time span. Look it up. You're not allowed to put up two comments in one section within one hour unless you haven't posted for x days/weeks before that. Concerning the unique account handle, yeah, that was good to point out for some people. I'm surprised not everyone knows that if you follow it to the channel page you can see the actual channel name, which could be absolutely different. Anyway, cheers. Good to see someone who, unless I'm mistaken, is trying to think things through. The full truth right at one's fingertips is far preferable, but sleuthing for it is a lot better than nothing.
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  2472. "Lady"?🤨
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  2473. Really good random fact re: the 1937 census. 👍Something to think of when we hear official Russian stats. "Trust but verify."
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  2474. Mr. Rolex Watch Collection stands up for poor people again 😂... when it means temporarily distancing himself from the highly unpopular Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  2475. Thank you, Sky News Australia. You're doing a wonderful job.
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  2476. I'm assuming there was masonry involved, or bathroom tile and maybe steel mesh backing, or all three. Drywall can be punched through in one second, as you obviously know.
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  2477. Yes, quite right. But I want to know why this Chinese footage (CGTV is Chinese) is on the channel belonging to The Sun, which is a UK newspaper. Not cool!
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  2478. What the Fed has been doing for so many years is exactly what central banks are not supposed to do—set the currency up to take a devastating dive.
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  2479. @@JimCarner 'Corrupt sellout journalists reveal themselves, willingly or unwillingly' is how I immediately read that. I could be wrong, that's just my opinion.
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  2480. To be a Democrat is to have as your somber, your implacable, your terrifying enemy: truth.
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  2481. You: "How about getting young people to do something positive for the community?" YouTuber: "Uh, what? I don't know, man. I guess, as long as I can monetize it."
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  2482. I see they have you using the word gender. But people don't have genders, nouns do. (In most languages anyway.) That's right, it's a term from linguistics which the feminist 'scholars' (🤪) proclaimed we must use for people. But it's madness to bow to them and obey. The word pertaining to human beings is sex.
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  2483. ​ @bobbykiefer4306  Emerson was not only extremely clever but almost painfully high-minded, too, and we ought not to dismiss him summarily. No doubt the country in fact was profoundly changed by the waves of Europeans who arrived in his time and in the decades following. As easy examples, do you not suppose American attitudes towards organized armed force can be significantly traced to heavy German immigration in the 19th century? Or that American values have been powerfully shaped by culture brought from the shtetls to Los Angeles via New York a hundred to 130 years ago? Major domestic conflict over the Vietnam War and today's culture wars didn't arise spontaneously. Possibly things would have developed more pacifically were it not for a certain amount of imported Prussian militarism and the founding of Hollywood. These aren't arguments against the admission of newcomers, which brings obvious benefits. They're an acknowledgement that it brings risks to social cohesion that resound down the generations. For anyone in search of an exemplar of folly, Emerson is seldom a good choice.
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  2484.  @nelsonmcatee3721  It was a consciousness of Christianity that inspired the development of communism, even though Marx was not a Christian and indeed was an atheist. Where else would anyone get the idea to exalt losers? Up to a point communism could be considered a patch on Christianity. I've heard Islam called the same thing. Whoever likes any of the three can have them, as far as I'm concerned. They're all pretty tedious.
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  2485. It's true that a problem exists, but that honestly sounds close to a blanket condemnation. In fairness, I'm pretty sure most of them do leave their animosities behind. There's no way I can be precise about it, but that's my firm impression after a lifetime of knowing countless immigrants.
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  2486.  @sarah7755  Oh my god.🙄Sure it's happening right now, but past or present doesn't enter into it. 'Leave behind' means don't bring these grievances and battles in your new home. It's fine if your old country gets into conflict and you care. It's fine if you send money to the side which you support. It's fine if you travel back to lend support in person in whatever way. But don't cause trouble on American streets (or European or Canadian or Australian streets). I think you had a bit of a reading comprehension moment there. Best wishes and have a good day.
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  2487.  @adsfadsfasdasdfasf2439  The boy's mother inflicted parental alienation on him. Fancy term for teaching him that Daddy was a Bad Man and you shouldn't love him.
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  2488. Putin continues: "Or else I nuke you. Damn, why does everybody pick on Russia?" "Be quiet as we pad ourselves with countries. Or I nuke you."
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  2489. "Never"? I question that.
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  2490.  @miroslavm2553  Yeah, instead of "retired" I thought maybe he meant "re-tried" on some previous criminal charge.😂
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  2491. Dogs tend to eat pretty quickly, but this looks like some kind of record.
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  2492. And now, hours later, they've incompetently made an edit. It's now "Could Ukraine see a pre-emptive attack to prevent nuclear warfare?" Still no good, for "see" generally means "experience." A writer with actual facility in his or her own language would simply write "Could Ukraine preemptively attack a Russian nuclear attack launch site?" Really rather sad ability for people in the writing business.
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  2493. ​ @etcwhatever  Short version: the Constitution says he is prime minister until voted out or he loses control of Parliament. Long version: As a novice politician he won a majority government in 2015. Everyone agrees it was because his father was PM from 1968 to 1984. (Many Canadians disliked the elder Trudeau thoroughly — Nixon used a remarkably obscene word for him — but overall he was popular. He was a tough and impressive person, born into wealth, exquisitely well-educated, well-rounded, accomplished from an early age.) The magic-slipper-wearing Trudeau the Younger has faced re-election twice since then, his party coming 2nd in the popular vote behind the Conservatives both times: 33, then 32%. (!) The problem is that under Canada's system the government is not necessarily formed by the leading vote-getting party, nor the one that wins the most seats in Parliament (i.e., electoral districts). Ordinarily it is, but it can also go to a coalition of 2nd- and 3rd-place parties when the most popular party fails to spread out its vote geographically and win most of the seats. Trudeau has pulled this off twice, putting together just enough seats to govern. He is supported by the turban-wearing leader of the 3rd party, who call themselves "democratic socialists." Now the Conservatives are ready to hand both of them a shellacking. But the 3rd party stands in the way. Instead of OG you could call them OW (Original Wokesters) which tells you why they'd rather do anything than force an election by withdrawing from their coalition-type agreement with the Liberals. Alas it looks like we have to wait till the fall of 2025 unless we somehow get lucky before then. Trudeau could resign rather than face obliteration at the polls, and then his Liberal replacement could call a vote quickly, but that also seems far-fetched. (Remember how there was no election in Britain when Boris Johnson resigned.) And no, there's no recourse to the Monarch. King Charles is indeed our king, but by constitutional provisions he already delegates all of his (theoretical) authority to the de facto head of state, a person called the Governor General. The GG would only step in under the very most extreme circumstances imaginable, involving not just great unpopularity but outright and extensive criminality or some sort of truly gross unconstitutionality. The King himself would only get involved if it was ten times worse even than that, which may be beyond my powers of imagination to conceive of. Not in a million years. Wait, no: maybe if Ottawa were blown off the face of the earth by a really large nuclear strike. That was too long, sorry.😂 It's gotta answer your question though.😂
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  2494. Just being anti-woke doesn't mean a politician isn't poison. It goes as much for Orban as it does for Putin. Dave, I like you better when you're not trying to be Tucker Carlson's kid brother.
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  2495.  @danwilliams4096  Bam! Perfect reply.
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  2496.  @outsidergoddess3838  Nice wall of text. Always a promising sign of an unbalanced mind. So is calling yourself "Goddess." Ouch, time to go home.
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  2497.  @edb3877  Squid Association: "Hey, take that back!"
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  2498.  @TheDirtyBirchTrails  Nope. There are laws against using govt. money to campaign. He's using donations made to his party. How have you managed to acquire such an oddly fantastic belief? Do you have others along the same lines?
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  2499. Too bad he doesn't know what he's talking about. He reasoned that because 90% of truckers are vaccinated, the protest has nothing to do with vaccines. Not true. It is primarily about a federal legal requirement that truckers be vaccinated. Many who decided to be vaccinated nonetheless think it is wrong that they be ordered to do so. Many vaccinated Canadians agree with them on this. I am one of them. Sen. Kennedy is either poorly informed, thick-skulled, or both. It's about government bossiness on vaccination.
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  2500. Blinken should reschedule his visit and then at the appointed time show up at the Port of Tianjin on the USS Gerald Ford. Then he should say "No, it's not an aircraft carrier. Oh, no, no, no, not at all. It's a State Department fishing boat."
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  2501. ​ @puraLusa  He preaches like a priest because he is one. And yes, it is depressing, as was the ordinary fulminating and thundering of a clergyman in Edwardian times. But as we now find the latter figure comical, let's look hopefully towards the day when mention of him is worth no more than a snigger to anyone.
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  2502. This video failed to identify the worst offender on the board, alas, the one who shouted down the mother.
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  2503. A major complication, I am told, is the necessity of removing all NATO (i.e. non-Soviet) outfitting from the jets. This would include copious up-to-date software and avionics which Ukrainian pilots are unfamiliar with. (And could user-interface systems be translated into Ukrainian from Polish/English quite easily? Although I have no expertise in the facts of the matter, it seems questionable.) And perhaps this is what the offer's rejection is really all about, making it in truth not a rejection but a delay. Intuition tells me the transfer of planes will happen sooner or later.
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  2504. Putzin meeting a fate like that of Mussolini: "He's just hanging by his feet for health purposes."
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  2505. World Sasquatch Association: "Havin' a go at us, are you? Hope you enjoy a hike in the woods, mate, cuz so do we."
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  2506. TR consistently has some of the worst sound anywhere on YouTube. It's a pity. They should fire their worst reporter and hire a good sound technician.
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  2507. Europe's stocks of munitions were thin in the first place. I think they've given a great deal of what they had. And remember, in wars you must be cautious and there may be two or more years left in this one.
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  2508. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"—Peter Sellers as the president of the US, to the Russian ambassador and a general of the Strategic Air Command.
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  2509. Make no mistake, people like the dog-woman and millions of other stark raving loons aren't simply barmy. They're barmy people who quite shrewdly see that they're being tolerated out of widespread societal and personal weakness and see in this situation the opportunity to make a grab for power and status. Far-fetched sounding, but true.
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  2510. Hard to say what it reveals. During a public emergency the mayor of LA holds a great deal of power over the emergency response. I worry she might've knowingly mismanaged things. She scares me. The other day she froze and left a press briefing when a CBS reporter put her on the spot with some hard but fair questions. Fairly stunning occurrence.
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  2511. Direct democracy requires an especially solid electorate and populace. It's a bad idea nearly everywhere.
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  2512. ... who couldn't beat a Tory in nine years as opposition leader. Not Lady Thatcher, nor even Sir John Major.
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  2513.  @imranbecks  What if they don't know they bought a fake?
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  2514. She is, but that's actually her least unattractive quality.
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  2515. Sounds like a typical case of government overreach.
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  2516. Oh come off it. He grandstands aplenty and is full of it half the time. I can only call him less bad than them. Or merely bad in different ways.
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  2517. Nine yrs. Kept hanging onto power with 33% of the vote. Now he's finally toast. His unpopularity is sealed and he will lose spectacularly next year. Even most supporters of his party, now dwindled down to 23%, want him gone.
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  2518. There are lots of ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Some can be recruited by Russia quite easily. What they do in the US will attract less suspicion because Ukraine is a US ally. This is quite practical and fairly clever on Russia's part.
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  2519.  @cassieo4337  I believe the govt announced that sparrows were a problem and had to be eradicated. As I seem to recall, it led to problems. Suddenly there were far too many of the insects the birds ate, or something like that.
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  2520. Kudlow for the federal cabinet in the next administration!
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  2521. ​ @keepingthefaith9041  It takes a kid and an ah to not know she's been (according to you) "up for days"? You didn't even read my comment. (1) I said nothing (and thought nothing, and noticed nothing) about her "looking tired." (2) I have no idea what you mean by "farce," and you clearly have no idea what the word means. (3) I don't "think she isn't delighted," I said, in different words, that either she isn't or she's a strange person. Imagine having one's feelings affected to that degree by a social media comment, and then actually responding as you did. Wow, madam, you've got problems. (Not 'sir,' surely?) Allegedly.
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  2522. Ukrainians: People of The Year, 2022 By a mile
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  2523. Oh my God! The Petersburg street urchin who nearly ended up in prison like all his little friends, the KGB operative who was in East Germany to colonize it, the gangster bandit who has his challengers poisoned and shot — this moral bankrupt has the nerve to lecture the infinitely more square West about what's fair and right! Here's a guy who stands a great chance of meeting the fate of Mussolini, and here he is moralizing. Omg.
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  2524.  @bigbarty8648  I think it was a joke about delivered restaurant food.
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  2525.  @Tpb247  Everyone knows that big companies have many people doing a lot of work. That isn't news. But being the CEO position means colossal responsibility for making decisions. That entails listening, reading, researching, asking questions, thinking, weighing options. It takes enormous energy, dedication and talent to do it well.
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  2526. 🙄But Kisin is famous, while the other guy is unknown.
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  2527. ​ @FunnyBoneBob  Oh yeah? Well, in Matthew 10: 34, e.g., Jesus says "Do not think that I came to bring peace to the earth; I came not to bring peace, but a sword." Sounds like he was fine with 'judging.'
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  2528. It seems half the country is just waiting in frustration for Soviet times to return. Ah, the good old days of mindless chest-thumping and cheerleading for empire, mindless submission to absolute rule.
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  2529. The instant I hear the word 'fascist' being casually and mindlessly thrown around for effect by someone who doesn't sound very bright, I immediately say "Have a nice day" and move on. Have a nice day.
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  2530.  @idaadamovic3387  Small point: I think the correct number of people killed by the US was 50 trillion billion million, and it was in 35 bazgrotnickillion countries, wasn't it? I know that scrupulously honest historical accuracy is your chief concern here, and wish to help you in that noble preserve of the selflessly virtuous. Come to think of it, surely the US was also responsible for the deaths of all 900 quadrillion thousand people killed in the Second World War?
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  2531.  @iainreid6292  Yes I do. I've got one about you. But I shan't share it. YouTube has rules.
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  2532. @@user-bn7yg1cc2t Incredible how most people don't see through him in their haste to find reassuring, simple, pure, irrefutable answers. Fish looking for a school to swim with so they have somewhere to belong, somewhere to feel safe. They're 'nice,' possibly, but weak-minded. It's that straightforward.☹
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  2533. Very, very solid.
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  2534. "Nonprofessional"? Uh, no. He's an economics professor operating on a sick economy. Definitely a professional. And being a political outsider is a feature, not a bug. "Another Trump"? Uh, no. He's a libertarian while Trump is...who knows exactly?—but not a libertarian anyway. The Libertarian Party invited Trump to speak at their convention, surprising a lot of people since they regard him as "the opposite of Libertarian," but they seem to be interested in aligning with him against common liberal/progressive enemies.
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  2535.  @sadoldgit313  "Infrastructure" is an uncountable (or mass) noun in English, which means it does not have a plural form. I'm the wrong guy to mess with on English usage.
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  2536. "Woman killed following Mississauga nightclub shooting" 🙄Ludicrous headline. Makes it sound like she managed to survive a shooting and was later killed some other way. Should be: "Woman dies from Mississauga nightclub shooting" There should be no difference between what is said and what is meant.
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  2537. "Lady"?😂
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  2538.  @silverletter4551  Withholding aid to Ukraine won't do much to affect the course of things in the US. Other things might improve the situation, though. In addition, considering what the aid does towards securing the future, prosperity, and a stable, peaceful and freer world, and considering how many trillions all of that is worth, the aid going to Ukraine is like lunch money. In 2022 it was 5% of the military budget.
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  2539. Don't you mean R.-son Kelly?😄
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  2540. Ironically, while 'Western' democracy works quite well in Asia (Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc., where the people are free and much richer than in China), in China a thoroughly un-Asian philosophy, Communism, had led to poverty and unhappiness. Communism has made China the retarded giant of Asia, and only the partial institution of Western-inspired economic freedoms has allowed its GDP per person to rise to $10,000 a year. Meanwhile democratic Asian lands enjoy $40,000 to $60,000. You confuse communism with being Asian, the result of 70 years of government force-feeding. It's little surprise, but still tragic. Cheers.
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  2541. Always love the stats, even though sampling in public opinion is a complex matter. Thanks as always, Mr. Orain.
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  2542. This reporter is trying her utmost to frighten us, even panic us. Notice her choice of words in just the first 45 seconds: "desperate [three times]; screams; deadly; epicentre; wails; fear; risks; help, doctor, help". Behind it, for 16 seconds, the sound of one person's continuous weeping and screaming. There's something very wrong about an attempt to panic people thus, a thing I've noticed only here on Channel 4. The correct tone is calm seriousness.
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  2543. You mean everything.
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  2544. No! Freeze, don't seize. Seize it post-war, for reconstruction. During the war, aid can be funded without it. Mark my words, right now Russia would make extremely effective prop a ga nd a hay out of its seizure by the West. Terrible idea. Ukraine, '22: "I need ammunition, not a ride." Now: "I need ammunition, not cash."
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  2545. A fair comment. 👏👏 (Now please have some consideration for people reading your posts and start using punctuation marks. It took me extra time to read and make sense of this because it lacked them. Capitalization also serves a very useful purpose.)
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  2546.  @testowevt1  Who can say from an outside position? Let prosecutors dig around until they find something. I wouldn't give a s--- if it's improperly sorting their recycling. If the justice system is to be weaponized, let it work both ways.
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  2547. When many Dutch civilians died in the Allied liberation of Holland in 1944-45, the Dutch people did not complain about "collective punishment." They instead welcomed the Canadians and the British as the liberators they were, with flowers, tears and open arms. They laud them as heroes to this day. Think about the reasons for that, if you can.🤨 Just try.
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  2548.  @johanswede8200  Da. Vranyo.
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  2549. Kremlin: "Just a previously unknown volcano. Geologists investigating this rare phenomenon."
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  2550. @rb239rtr All of that just amounts to insults with zero reasoning to back them up.
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  2551. @Raw Engineer You're madly in love with this pandemic response. It can do no wrong. 20 thousand deaths you don't know the cause of and presto! they are owing to covid-19. Never mind the flu, never mind the cancer and heart attack cases shut out or scared away from hospitals, it's definitely covid-19. Never mind equally the infection rates coming out of seroprevalence studies and academics' estimates of innate immunity protection, too high for your tastes. 10%? Too high, it must be cut in half. Black Death, Spanish Flu: Sit down. My betrothed is even more potent yet. I've read people refer to Pandemic Porn. Now I know fully what they meant. It's about erotic dislocation and overestimation of the love object. Loathsome and disturbing.
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  2552.  @carmenetelca144  He or she needs some kind of help. Look at the trail of fevered ravings through this thread. It reads rather like pandemic porn, if there is such a thing. You tried, though. Cheers.
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  2553. And don't forget to read Orwell's non-fiction, which is at least 95% of what he wrote. It's far better. (I suggest any volumes of essays, The Road to Wigan Pier, and Down & Out in Paris & London.) Paul Fussell made the comparison (which of course he knew was strained) with TS Eliot's Book of Practical Cats vis-à-vis his poetry. 😄
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  2554.  @sword111119  Your future diet will consist of carrots, beets and potatoes. Also, a life and a society in accordance with Chinese tastes. Get used to it...il Zanni.
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  2555. As a former communist, Camus would know, wouldn't he?
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  2556. Poland, at 37.7 million people, is the world's largest city. A lot of people don't know that.
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  2557. Henry Dundas opposed slavery. He simply advocated a gradual ban as the fastest way to get it through parliament. The controversy stems from an inaccurate portrayal of him in a 2020 film. Of the gradualism he advocated, Prof. Brian Young of Oxford says "Anything other than this would have been a provocation that would have put back the cause of abolition by decades."
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  2558.  @yahiryellow1  Nah. He good person. Very funny also back in day.
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  2559.  @TommyTCGT  Russia energetically fomented sedition, then rebellion, then civil war. Ukraine was supposed to be fine with that? FYI, total deaths, both sides, military and civilian, were 14.4k. (Source: UN)
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  2560.  @protagonist1358  That's called beggaring the question. It amounts to: 'God tells us what's good, because He is good. And I know this because He tells me so — in the Bible, which was written by men under his divine guidance.' (So don't ask me to reason about why I don't agree, because you've excluded real reasoning from the conversation, in favour of circular reasoning.)
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  2561.  @Innocent_Villain  You assist me in making my point. Yes, corporations have power. (It went without saying when I pointed out that they can be corrupt.) But that is a feature, not a bug, for power must be spread around for freedom to even exist, let alone to thrive. Individuals, civil society and, yes, companies, must all have some power. The danger is great concentration of power, including great concentration of power in the government, something which is immensely helped along by government producing not only the laws but the news. That pairing, as we have seen, is the sine qua non of full-scale repression. Down with government news.
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  2562.  @aetherfox4404  Not so. The Bronx is 100% a part of NYC in absolutely every sense. It is a constituent borough equally as Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens are. Its people vote for NYC mayor, it is served by the NYPD and NYFD. Peel is not a part of Toronto. It is to Toronto what Nassau County, NY (on Long Island) is to NYC; namely, an adjacent but separate jurisdiction in the metropolitan area.
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  2563. The woman at the 5-min mark claims to be 96 years old. Who believes her?
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  2564. You're close to the reality there, namely that the government and most Russians want it to remain exactly that way: a category of people, not an organization of people.
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  2565. He should be scouring the planet for every barrel of oil and wheelbarrow of coal he can find. Let him also set 130 as the top speed on divided highways and 18 degrees as the highest temperature for all public buildings. If I could deny Putin a dollar by wearing a sweater, sitting in low light or walking to the market, I would gladly do so.
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  2566. Don't focus only on Maduro's handsome face.😆 Other things are on the screen.
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  2567.  @madrockon7357  🙄 Don't be so blasted literal-minded. Remainer-type logic.
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  2568. "My reasons are so perfect, so sacred, that I cannot speak their name or I shall be struck down from above by the Great Indigenous Spirit. Or Spirits, I'm not sure. Or maybe it's struck down from below. I have to consult with the Secretary."
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  2569. Ok but, as you say, it's other people's money. The Unilever shares really belong to ordinary people who own BlackRock mutual funds in their savings portfolios.
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  2570. Every once in a while Piers earns a heap of forgiveness for the times he's pissed me off. This is one of those times.👍 (Then it starts all over again.😄)
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  2571. I heard on the news a few years back that a study found that teachers commit more adultery than people in any other occupation. (And btw, I wasn't the least bit surprised.) Does that help?
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  2572. Actually it will be highly disinflationary. Lower demand lowers prices. The end result will be massive reshoring and strengthening of Western economies.
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  2573. I've been saying all this for a few years. Suppleness of mind and good manners have left him, and left him a rigid hothead. Young leftists are very much like that; it seems old lapsed ones sometimes are too.
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  2574. 1) That's beside the point. She's a politician and the issue is the political fallout. 2) Stuart's not a dope. His job is to ask about politically trending issues, including personal ones.
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  2575. Well, it's finally official: Global News has capitulated to the trans k u ll t. This wasn't journalism. This was a trans activist report.
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  2576. It's incredible that it even makes a fearsome gunship for low-altitude ground attack, fitted out with numerous cannons and cruising at only 7k feet. It even has a Howitzer.
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  2577.  @annabondaruk4583  Hey Mme. Curie (I couldn't think of another female genius), here's some breaking news for you: The wall around Gaza is not to keep them inside. It's to prevent them entering Israel, because look what happens when they get in! They can emigrate, for instance. Also, up until three weeks ago many thousands worked in Israel. Some travel back and forth to the West Bank. I happen to know a Gaza emigrant personally. Seems like a nice man and I enjoy talking to him. If he's uncomfortable with me buying the beers he doesn't show it (for which I'm glad). He is seldom cheerful but will always talk at length. It's long been a bad situation in Gaza, to be sure. But it's not a concentration camp. That's hypocritical and sanctimonious talk. In concentration camps the population never rises, there are never any fat people — and they can never leave.
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  2578. They'll say anything, they'll do anything. They're Emmess Knutt Barr Central.
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  2579.  @serjthereturn  Very neat line there in sexist and racial bigotry. That's your point.
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  2580. We've got to find out why Trudeau keeps showing up in public with funny marks in the centre of his forehead. This is no longer funny. Ok, it's still funny. But now it's totally disturbing too.
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  2581.  @karmpuscookie  This package is just the latest of many. C$9bn so far.
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  2582. Agreed. More than anything else the high ruble indicates a precipitous drop in imports, some of them unneeded but a great many of them crucial to a properly functioning country.
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  2583. Yeah, I've always said Inlaws are incredibly dangerous.
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  2584. You can tell when Russia knows it just got weaker. Pooty-Bots instantly flood the Western comments sections.
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  2585. How about "hate-filled goof"?
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  2586. Don't grandstand. In a war context, political leaders do not say more than they really can. NATO is a 30-member alliance whose leaders must consult closely before establishing a position or changing one. Any sign of disunity, such as disagreement following shoot-from-the-hip remarks, could cost many lives. I presume that you have no such responsibilities to maintain in this regard, so why don't you just regale us with your own highly interesting opinions and leave the leaders to their diplomatic and strategic considerations?
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  2587. You in 1913: "Ridiculous! Where will the motor fuel for all these automobiles come from? It will require petroleum in enormous quantities which we don't have and may never have. How will it all be shipped around the country? Where will it all be refined into gasoline? It's a fad and a fraud. There are many hay dealers conveniently located everywhere in every city. Why will people trade that convenience for these bizarre inventions?"
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  2588.  Jared Sterling  Interesting analysis.
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  2589.  @TheJlee28  Pro tip: When writing a snarky comment about understanding and using English, never write anything so risibly sub-standard as "how she explains the spending will be." It's so bad it's like Mayor Chow wrote it herself! As for her 'explanation,' as you call it, I don't buy it for a second. She'll find a way to squander the funds on achieving a combination utopia/hellhole.
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  2590.  @TheJlee28   This rapidly-written series of unhinged replies has me worried. I'm picturing dozens of neglected cats that need feeding. No more, please. I like my foes worthy.
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  2591.  @Konigkev  A giant improvement is on the way. Canadians are telling Prime Minister Peter Pan to put on his tights, put on his shiny slippers, throw open his window and fly off into the night. (Oh, and to take his finance minister Tinkerbell with him.)
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  2592.  @DMS_Shisui  Fine. That's true and you put it well. On first encountering the original comment, I read into it an implication that people should generally be ashamed of being human. I find that sentiment in comments on animal videos all the time, and I've had it up to here with the misanthropy. Thanks for your reply.
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  2593. I always hate it when that happens. The whole day is shot.
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  2594. Putin the Putrid.
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  2595. Tweedledum, Tweedledee.
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  2596. We should have heard the hilarious and inspiring Bayraktar song as the soundtrack to this piece. If you don't know it, look it up. It's great for morale.
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  2597. He's the more womanly of the two, though.
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  2598. Let's have the whole list.
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  2599. Imagine being 73 and your glory years are just beginning.
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  2600. We didn't hear from Joe Rogan. Zero commentary on him either. We got his picture and the words "That's bananas." Headlines everywhere are collapsing into the worst habits.
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  2601. Generally speaking, yes.
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  2602.  @marcphelan9883  It's a title of nobility or high office in Britain. The terms for its use are complex, so don't expect anyone to go through them all with you. Since you know how to use an internet browser, I suggest you go to Wikipedia, though you could also resort to any decent English dictionary.
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  2603. Pope Francis: Swelling the Ranks of Atheists Since 2013ᵀᴹ
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  2604.  @salguodrolyat2594  Well, I did think of saying 'Of the seat of his trousers little remained,' but then I thought Nah, people can put two and two together. 😂!
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  2605.  @sashalawrence4786  Thank you. Criticism, when it's puerile and weightless, is an honour to receive.
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  2606. What on earth is going on in Washington? Who is this man? Why does he speak fluently and in well-constructed sentences? Why is he not in shorts and a hoodie? Why does his face not resemble an old shoe nor radiate senility? Why does he speak of pride in his country? Why does he seem to exude good mental and emotional health? Where — where, I ask _ did he come from, and where has he been hidden until now? I want answers.
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  2607.  @kellyconnell8003  The batteries have an 8-year warranty. Replacement after warranty costs $7-15k for Models 3 and Y, incl. labor. Depends on battery size. As for recycling, Tesla's recycling efforts ensure that 100% of its discarded lithium-ion batteries are recycled, adhering to a zero-waste-to-landfill policy. Sorry you asked?
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  2608.  @biscaynediver  Good point. For my part I wasn't thinking of red lines like that, just a general restraint.
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  2609. The value of Robux vs. the dollar and Rouble isn't important or interesting, because there are few Robux compared with the number of Roubles. It's funny, but that's all. I'm enjoying the laughs though.👍 Russia's economic downfall isn't going all that swiftly, but it's certainly under way.
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  2610. Actually the US fears a weak Germany. It's Russia who wants to keep Germany down and dependent on them.
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  2611.  @DeepTexas  I bet you call a lot of people pompous asses once they're annoyed with the things you say.
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  2612.  @NorahsYarnArt  Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders and Americans (and many others), reading your allegations about their lands being left wastelands by Britain: 🤣"Who is this yarn art lady, and where can I go to not buy her lovely products?"
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  2613.  @ma3stro681  Last two elections he came 2nd to the Conservatives in the popular vote with 33% and 32%. Explanation too long to bother with, but the guy is not popular.
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  2614. Hey, leave the mayor alone! He's got a black wife and kids!😂
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  2615.  @abcdefg3214  50.0% Indian, unknown percentage black, unknown percentage white.
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  2616.  @tracyfarnath2270  That's a common view, and if you want my opinion I think it's utterly correct.
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  2617.  @gerri577  If that's true to any extent it's still on Russia because Russia traumatized Ukraine so horribly in the 1930s that many Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators, which in some ways they were. That's how sick a situation it was. And since mass starvation at the hands of the Muscovites really turned them on the Muscovites, Ukrainians may then very well have associated Jewish people with communism and therefore Russians. Awful things of many sorts are all part of life as a people within marching distance of the Russian border. Ask the people of dozens of lands.
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  2618. When the Times Radio hosts mention a resolute action or potential action on the part of Ukraine or its allies, they have a contemptible habit of labelling it "provocative," "aggressive," etc. Really? Any firm response to Russia's unconscionable attack is provocative and aggressive? What a sorry spectacle it is when a so-called journalist tries to show off incisive analytical skills she or he doesn't actually own.
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  2619. There's a pronounced gulf between the on-air personalities and the editors and writers in charge of written content and packaged videos. The 2nd group are, shall we say, noticeably Ivy-esque (i.e., stunted of mind). Prime example: the articles on Tesla and Elon Musk vs. on-air coverage.
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  2620. Politically it resembles Africa more than any other place. But I would say Africa is more advanced.
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  2621. The idea that social stigma is an evil to be eliminated is a great misconception. It is in fact a most salutary necessity for not only thriving societies, but any society which will survive. A place where there is chaos, widespread violence, exploitation, criminality, poor treatment of children, drug abuse, high rates of obesity, elevated school dropout rates, and every other form of social decay, is also a place where social stigma has withered away, or been attacked as harmful, or both.
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  2622. It's tough to feel comfortable in an age of decline, but at least it's 2019 and there's still a place at an elite university for a man like Jordan Peterson---one with extremely uncommon gifts of mind and a great deal of heart, meaning compassion and courage. (Not that I'm a disciple.)
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  2623.  @js8430  Ontario was basically founded by Americans at the end of the 1700s, just after the Revolutionary War. They weren't into terrorism, so they said "Ok, let's go to little old Fort York. We can rename it Toronto later."
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  2624. Already been offered jobs by HR at Google.
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  2625. Least-shocking accusations of the century so far.
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  2626. ​ @crataeguscrusgalli  Pollsters, jibing with everything I've read, seen & heard, say Canadians have judged him harshly and with finality. His 15% true-believer base is dwarfed by his vilifiers. Any recovery will be of the 'dead-cat-bounce' variety.
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  2627.  @Sword_of_Flames  I respect your having the courage to admit it. Your journey of learning can now begin.
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  2628. It's been a highway of money across the Pacific, the better part of a billion dollars a day (or not that far from it, even 20 years ago). Several trillion over the decades. Yep, that sort of money can really strengthen a totalitarian government. They should have statues of the Waltons over there. They should put them on stamps and billboards as friends of the Party and benefactors of the people.
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  2629.  @volkerr.  👍I get your (sarcastic) joke because I've been reading your posts for months, but I worry others don't, even with the emojis. Generally speaking, sarcasm is hit and miss in comments.
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  2630.  @kimobrien.  What a dull response, and what a weak grasp of what honesty is. As though it meant saying all you think! The hammer and sickle have always gone along so perfectly with inept views of life, people and the world, and always will.
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  2631.  @chobin7982  Who said humans are inherently good? Certainly not me. And how can you wonder why, if something has merit, anyone would want to destroy it? Stunning. I'm afraid you're not very good at this. I would suggest a program of serious reading, but I'm certain it's too late, so I advise you to do something else entirely. Most people can get places in cookery, and bike-riding is easy, cheap and fun. Both are harmless.
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  2632.  @welhynole4082  Yeah. I was very much against it too.
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  2633. A thread of rare and perfect beauty so far.👍 Thanks everyone.
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  2634. Just goes to prove what I've been saying: 2% of Democrat politicians are pretty solid people.
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  2635. My mama wasn't so nice. Therefore I resent you bitterly.
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  2636. 🙄You don't think he was the guy's custie?
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  2637.  @mthequietbass547  You don't know me from the wind. But I know you. "He who suffers you to impose on him, knows you." —William Blake
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  2638. "Must of"?
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  2639.  @jeanpierreviergever1417  😂That reply nearly qualifies as an epitome of what I was talking about. Some parties or entities are better neighbours than bedfellows.
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  2640. Fine, but you don't know what 'civil society' means. Civil society does NOT mean 'a society characterized by niceness.' It does NOT mean 'social conditions of peaceableness, tolerance,' or any such things at all. It has the specific meaning "Those elements of organized society apart from government and business, taken as a whole." In other words, clubs, associations, political parties qua political parties, charities, bodies for professional regulation, amateur sporting organizations, and all the rest—even, in the very widest sense, families. I could go on but you must get it by now. Don't try to get fancy, just say "a good society", for I think that's what you meant.
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  2641. This guy is 27? Wow, he looks a couple of decades older.
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  2642. "Endless"🤣 It doesn't have much armor left, nor most of its artillery, nor an adequate supply of ammo or cruise missiles, and is down to a shocking level of air defenses. Also gone: most of its Black Sea fleet, hundreds of fixed-wing aircraft and hundreds of helicopters. I could go on. Mother Olga Hubbard's cupboard is looking terrifyingly bare.
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  2643. He simply has a well-balanced and well-educated imagination and intellect. These things were once far more common.
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  2644. It's so odd to see a Nobel laureate who's so nervous in front of students. Is he ok?
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  2645.  @garygjl9036  "you cant ride in T.O.? lol weak". Yes you can. The word can't should not be in this video's title. I ride about 51 weeks a year and don't consider it any sort of stunt. I'm not a diehard, it's just not a big deal. There's a week or two every winter when it's better to get around some other way or just try to stay home due to heavy snow, deep cold, or constant rain. (Again, no stunts to prove anything. No diehard nonsense.) But ordinarily it's all right despite a few problems, namely: In places, the lanes aren't cleared properly or are centre-bare but narrowed by encroaching ice. Many drivers stop parking tightly to the curb, so that can take away a foot or more from a painted lane. At intersections you encounter the same problem pedestrians do, deep slush or pools of water on the street within about four feet of the curb, even where snow clearing is overall not bad. A major reason few here cycle in winter is that now most Torontonians aren't even from Canada. They come from places where it doesn't snow or rarely does, so it never occurs to them to cycle in winter. They quite naturally assume it's dangerous and unpleasant, which is too bad. Thus I would venture to say that when you see a winter cyclist in Toronto, the odds are very high that his or her grandparents were born in Canada. But I should probably just say his, because it's a rare female who doesn't put her bike away for the winter—very, very rare.
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  2646. Yes it was. But I think the purpose of this channel might possibly be promotional more than anything else, aimed at increasing paid subs for the digital radio service and the newspaper.
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  2647.  @scsi_joe  Estimates are very difficult but, in like manner, the atomic bomb saved millions of lives, maybe over ten million, by obviating the need for an invasion of Japan. (See the Paul Fussell essay Thank God For the Atom Bomb. )
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  2648. The cow appears less excited, but I'm sure it's just reserved in character and inside is equally overcome with delight.
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  2649. Most people who fall for empty conspiracy theories do so because the instant they believe the theory, they feel a rush of superiority over others. It's essentially an act of aggression, and this is confirmed by the anger they display. For the rest it's just a way to feel smart for their own inward satisfaction.
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  2650. 1. The idea that Canada "rips off" the US on trade for even one penny is pure horse ca-ca-poo-poo. 2. So is the idea that if the 2 countries joined, Canada would be only one state.😂
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  2651. Her argument falls flat. The USSR (i.e., Russia with a vast annexed empire) lost badly to Afghanistan not so long ago, despite having every advantage over it which she says Russia has over Ukraine in the present day — except far more so. Whatever puny Afghanistan managed to achieve in 1989 is certainly achievable by Ukraine in 2024.
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  2652.  @AustinPowers704  I don't think so, and I believe the West does indeed have an endgame in mind. I think we've been going through a necessary stage of draining strength from the Russian army. Any really large Ukrainian counterattack is too early in the war if Russia is still strong enough to just reorganize properly and mount a truly colossal offensive of its own shortly afterwards. When Ukraine ejects Russian forces from its land it must be for good, and that means bleeding them considerably beforehand. They still have too much ammo and other resources.
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  2653. Rita who?
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  2654.  @AdanSolas  It is already under control, Yuri, and shall remain so.
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  2655. I've heard this one for years. It's perfectly true, of course---but it's also perfectly obvious. So obvious that everyone gets it. No one actually thinks health care can be free, any kind of health care. It's just a manner of speaking. There's no need to put a stamp on a letter to your member of parliament. But even though the postal service incurs a cost to deliver it and that cost is covered by tax revenues, it's not in my view incorrect to say that sending a letter to an MP is free. Likewise, a phone call to a government information line incurs a cost fro labour and phone service, but it's fair to say it's a free service or a free call. I think if you want to criticize publicly-funded health care or its proponents you should find another way. Cheers.
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  2656.  @AleksandarIvanov69  Yep, and arrogant. One of the things about being arrogant is that you never think you're arrogant.
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  2657.  @camp44mag  <----'I've gotta stoop low here to have an impact. Lemme see... Oh, I know how: I'll just project and say that Vance stooped really low to have an impact. Yeah, I'm good at this.'
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  2658. Excellent point and well stated. I see the overseas pro posters have downvoted it down to 2nd from the bottom. You know, if I were you I'd be honoured and take it as a frank compliment.
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  2659. I am Vladimir Putin and I approve this comment one million per cent.👍 Although frankly, I'm almost slightly torn. It's a perfect comment, but it's a bit too obviously perfect. If you're up in Petersburg, first, say hi to Oleg for me, and second, don't write too many like this one. Mostly go low-key.
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  2660. Time to start hammering Belgorod.
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  2661.  @SenorJuan2023  Why did Cleopatra do it? For fun and profit.
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  2662.  @xXKillaBGXx  You're fn kidding. NATO is not a country. It's an alliance which countries join freely. All the European countries that used to be ruled by Russia wanted to join it, except Belarus. Ask yourself why. Then ask yourself why Russia gained no allies over that time. Why does everybody turn their backs on Russia?
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  2663. The Big Thing in real estate: Location, location, location. In stocks and commodities: Sentiment, sentiment, sentiment.
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  2664. In the interview she revealed herself as rather charming. "Those Ukraine girls really knock me out," a man once said with considerable justice.
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  2665. I heard she loves to be fed apples and oats.
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  2666.  @NATHANFREDERICK-rs7yb  Ok Farshad / Vitaly / Chanfun / Ahmed ... 😂
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  2667. Luckily it's good for you. Just avoid the kind that's really sweet and greasy.
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  2668.  @ranger0209  Nonsense. Ask any Canadian. Not one in 38 million will say they're an American, unless they're an immigrant from the US. Sorry, you're detached from reality.
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  2669. I don't know why the senator said that. There's no evidence for it.
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  2670.  @pmscalisi  👏🏻 You remind me of the fact that SNL gets a huge summary write-up in the New York Times every single week. Sick-making. 🤮
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  2671. Never mind Jacob Rees-Mogg. Here James Forsyth manages to decisively out-Young-Fogey all previous Young Fogeys except for maybe Evelyn Waugh. If not for anything politically or culturally definable then just for sheer nebulous Fogeyness. Well played, old man!
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  2672.  @redtale6527  Check the last 7 words of the OP again.
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  2673.  @johnkerr7286  It isn't a joke. It's a fair comparison.
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  2674. ​ @UnavailableHandle.  No it isn't the same opinion as mine. I don't even know what he means by fake. My reply wasn't to back him up, it was to present my own obliquely related view alongside his. Your emotions are running way ahead of your reasoning. Pointing out someone's account is new is not a refutation of anything, it's just a speculative accusation, perhaps having lots to do with your opinion being different from his. Do you point fingers at people in that manner when you agree with them? Btw, you don't even know the meaning of strawmanning, yet you went ahead and used it anyway. Look it up, kiddo. It means to criticize someone for a position they haven't even taken, which is something I did not do to you. Have a nice afternoon.
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  2675.  @raylopez99  Laurie Anderson, an admirer of Pynchon's, approached him asking permission to adapt GR into an opera. He said yes, provided the sole accompaniment to voice was the banjo. It never happened. (But cf. her track Gravity's Angel, 1984. Nothing in it about missiles though.)
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  2676.  @thomasrosendahl2783  I'm not laughing. Her ideas and the example of her character are noxious to the future of America.
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  2677. Who's paying you? Give us the names, now.
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  2678. Ha. National security is absolutely the government's business.
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  2679.  @madrooky1398  Good comment, but "What about ..." is a good response to hypocrisy. E.g.: Person 1: "That guy is terrible. He cheated on his wife." Person 2: "What about you? You cheated on all three of your ex-husbands!"
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  2680. Don't discount the possibility that talk of long delays is a ruse. It seems to me that the F-16s will likely enter service in Ukraine somewhat earlier than the Russians are being led to believe.
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  2681. And the gap has widened since 2021. US crude oil production has risen another another 1m+ bpd, while Russia's, although not known with certainty due to wartime Russian govt secrecy, is universally believed to have fallen. "No oil"!😅😂🤣
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  2682.  @TristanHayes  Marx himself set the tone. He never let himself be contradicted without unleashing a flood of abuse and attacks on his interlocutor. He didn't show respect and give reasoned rebuttals. You'd think someone regarded by so many as the saviour of humanity might have an exemplary personality, but no, apparently he was a super-*****ole. I read about it before and I bet you have, too, but if not, you can listen to this audiobook account of him as a person lasting 48 minutes. (You wouldn't call it a biography.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heGapg-08yE&t=1239s Frankly I don't think that highly of the author himself, but listened to it anyway, figuring that here he was in his element. In the event, it jibed with what I already knew.
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  2683.  @barbaraseymour3437  Your thirst to know is admirable, madam, but take 5 seconds and use your search engine.
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  2684. Toobin: "This judge is so ridiculous I could abuse myself right now!"
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  2685. Thomas Jefferson, George Bernard Shaw and Joseph De Maistre all made the same point. If on the whole we deserved any better we wouldn't stand for this nonsense.
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  2686. Yes, 💯% Down with government news.
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  2687. Thanks. It's great to have a real expert chiming in.😂
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  2688.  @cornucopia8591  Dude, I think Russians know the world's most famous hockey player ever. He was born in 1961, not 1861. I guess you're a youngster.
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  2689. 2:14 "Between one village and the next there might be four of five [inaudible] one day and then [inaudible] the next." What? I wish to add that the gratuitous interruptions of answers from correspondents is a major problem with TR. The program hosts should be tossing far more of their tedious questions in favour of longer responses from the reporters, who usually seem to get cut off right as they get to the most important part of their point. Would it help to give warning that they must wrap up their response? If there's no producer patched in to the call who can decide on such things, a simple "okay" or "all right" from the host could give the signal that there's fifteen seconds left.
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  2690. Never liked him. I could tell from Day One he was moral, social and intellectual trash. Try to find a better hero.
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  2691. Who is this 🤡 demanding to see our guy's papers? He looks like a drunken garbage collector, not a police officer. (Our guy should have said 'No, I demand to see your papers.') Overall it appears rural, provincial Russia is where the difference between drunkenness and sobriety diminishes to nothing.
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  2692. It looks like his chin implant started growing and took over his face. Maybe that gave him the idea to invade Ukraine.
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  2693. What? The population of Ukraine is mentioned all the time.
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  2694. He does seem trustworthy and credible up to a good standard. I sense that he would hate to lie and, yes, he's quick-minded. I like the fact that he's watching the country carefully from abroad.
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  2695. I am Xi Jinping and I totally approve this comment.
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  2696. Actually this is a documentary about what you personally think is cool.
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  2697. This housetrained poodeel writes for The Putin Times under the byline Sasha Peskovchik 😄
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  2698. Oh great, the Divider-In-Chief is about to ruin Canada's relations with yet another continent. Wait a second, I almost forgot Italy is already infuriated with him. A few months ago he gave a rude lecture on morals to its popular leader in front of cameras. Prime Minister Peter Pan makes enemies of entire nations just by opening his mouth.
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  2699. Old horses must eventually become glue and dog food.
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  2700. Hahaha I endorse every word of that. Thanks especially for spearing that red-and-orange map nonsense. Low visual rhetoric.
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  2701. That Trudeau impression at the end is so bad that if he didn't tell you who he's trying to be and there were no flag behind him, no one would ever guess who it was. Truly, stupendously, puzzlingly bad.
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  2702. If your analogy is dinosaurs and a speeding asteroid, then no, nothing is going back to normal. But what if the right analogy is a big, fat, rotten, pulsating pimple filled with yellow goo? Those can be lanced. Those can heal.
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  2703.  @nowthatsasupplydrop751  <----"dosent [sic] matter he should still get the help he deserves" Obviously. Hey, look up the word 'sanctimony'. It has an interesting meaning.
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  2704. Cool! A Ukrainian victory in the war will also make Viet Nam safer—along with all of East Asia—because it will show aggressive countries that invading countries comes with a serious risk of defeat. Thank you for supporting global security.👏
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  2705.  @peggyivey5828  Actually, this time, for once, Europe is paying more than the US. It's really strengthening NATO and a lot of credit has to go to Trump. It's what he wanted all along and it turns out the afterimage of his term in office and the prospect of him coming back are, together, moving mountains — even though he's out of power. I was never a supporter of his and never liked him, but he was effective, I have to admit that.
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  2706.  Ho Chi Wang  Oh, so if it's someone else's culture, we must respect it? God, you're a dumbass. This is what someone thinks if they've been to ten countries, and it reassures them that they're enlightened and sophisticated. (They're not.) Then unless they insist on remaining eternally in early adulthood, by the time they've spent time in dozens, it dawns on them that a lot of things in a lot of cultures are not cool. (Various cruelties, crudenesses, barbarities, stupidities, corruptions, filthinesses, etc.) Grow up. "Judge not" is for religious fools and the callow of all sorts.
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  2707. We welcome our Swedish friends whom we have known so long.👍 When you need us we will help you.
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  2708. Stop it, you're getting yourself into a thrilled state in front of people. If you really must, do it in your root cellar as you've done for years.
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  2709. Precisely, exactly, perfectly reasoned.👏👏👏👏👏 Thank you.
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  2710. False dichotomy. There's no either-or. All the wealth necessary to aid both Ukraine and disadvantaged Americans already exists. Sorry, Sergei. Busted!
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  2711. ​ @drjulief  If he does indeed view it that way I think it's regrettable, because whatever one's views, it should be allowed that this type of person has always been with us and always will be. To me that fact itself constitutes or automatically generates a claim of an irrefutable sort, just as being gay, lesbian or bisexual does.  The claim, and by claim I mean justified claim, is having the right to be what one is. But I don't hear anyone threatening that.  I hear some howling over what they see as the grosser intrusions on ordinary decency, yet I don't hear anyone saying 'You people have to follow special rules,' let alone 'You people have to disappear.' I could be wrong, that's just my opinion. ——————————— At the same time, there could be a view that the murderer, the stabber and the ravisher* will always be with us too, yet we are not in much doubt about how to handle them. After all, we unanimously agree they're acutely bad for the civilization. So if it's about ineradicability, ineradicability looks like a pretty dubious criterion. So where is the line between what's unhealthful for the civilization and what's just people living their lives? (Turns out there's a line, the same as most places in life.) Yes, I'm saying there's an argument that a civilization's future dims if norms alter too fast or too far. Civilizations are fragile. When you're talking about liberal democratic societies, think of sprinting with an egg on a spoon. And they are prone to neurosis, as well as political capture by very narrow interests.  The more famous and big-time ones, if history has any truth to it, survive long enough to get depressed and really corrupt, and they exhibit behaviors of wanting not to carry on. Anyway, it ends at some point and the last tide a civilization sees is the one which strands it on the rocks because it refuses to stand up and walk ashore. There are ways to prolong it, though. Just about all the famous civilizations you've heard of made one or more comebacks. Often, historically, a ruler of particular intelligence, talent and vision may turn things around. (Diocletian is the most famous example.) That's what some people say. * Excuse the archaic stealth word for it. It's in order to sidestep moderation.
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  2712.  @mrbill2600  I didn't formerly but it does now, ever since The Great Dumbening.
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  2713. Everyone agrees that in the eyes of the law everyone is not guilty until convicted. Everyone likewise agrees that the jails are teeming with people who are guilty and not yet convicted. Something's wrong if we can't think of both those things at once and still act sensibly.
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  2714. Remember the well-known American dieting company "Ayds"? Probably not. They sold billions of these little caramel-like cubes that helped dieters by expanding like crazy when eaten, thus making their fat customers feel full. It was very successful, advertised nationally, etc. Then came AIDS, then known as a "gay plague", with its identical pronunciation. Bam, Ayds was gone.
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  2715. Suggestion for a (two-part) future question: "Would you join an outdoor protest against Putin if it already had 50 people?" [Everyone will reply No.] "Would you join it if it already had two million people?"
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  2716.  @coolbeans3390  Those things sound, to put it mildly, hard to verify. But supposing you were correct, it still doesn't mean every advance in hardware, software and technique has been disclosed to the enemy. And this applies to both sides. A countervailing factor could be unwillingness on the part of Ukraine's allies to disclose their as-yet-unknown capabilities and tactics. The problem is that lurking in the background and paying close attention is China. They would likely receive bits or entire captured examples of many if not all enemy drones.
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  2717. The rules the Premier referred to are the law of the land. The way she ridiculed "our rules," meaning our laws, as though they aren't laws that are ours to make was very offensive. People can't bring their own laws to Ontario, nor can they disrespect the ones they find here. There's no room for debating that. She needs to apologize to Ontarians.
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  2718. In that clip of her near the start, what's that last word she uttered? (Or was it just a sound?) Whatever it was, the way she delivered it was cringebarf-making.
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  2719. I've been railing about this for several months. Times Radio interviewers have been asking guests the same questions in every interview since about Week 3 of the war. "When will support for Ukraine begin to crumble? Is it starting yet? How soon will it start? Very soon?" Thanks for joining me in criticizing it.
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  2720.  @christopherl1610  "He's setting her up to repeatedly bash Trump." Well, he's drawing her out, yes. And that's perhaps the central object in interviewing. You're aware that she has for good reason become quite well known for bashing Trump, surely? It's part of her message and I presume one of the things she showed up determined to get across. Were he interviewing a Democrat it likewise would have been the right tack. And when talking to Steve Bannon, he drew him out on why he supports Trump so strongly. So I wonder what you think he ought to have done instead. Cheers.
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  2721. And then "No, that's too much!" Then "I said that yesterday. Today I want more again. Women can have whims, you know!" Then "I'm so tired of all that. Now I want something totally different. Bye." After, cluck-clucking with some other hens: "Men are so klewless."
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  2722. Correct. Just as a car that ran someone over would not be a 'prop car'.
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  2723.  @Zeevuhl  Harvard officially rejects most Chinese-American applicants because of their race and it's probably 99% staffed by Democrats.
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  2724.  @MrRetluocc  Well observed. Or how about 2015, when Jeb Bush was the early prohibitive favorite for the 2016 nomination?
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  2725.  @Caldera01  Oh come on, it was never "an active conflict"! 🙄😅 It was a friendly discussion and both sides had a great laugh over it. Besides, Canada stopped the Russians from steamrolling right through Germany and conquering Denmark in 1945, and Danes remember this. ---> See the Mark Felton video: "Canada Saves Denmark."
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  2726. Because it's so obviously a parody that viewers would say "Why is this even a story?"
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  2727. He said "fierce" as I recall.
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  2728. I'm continually surprised at the unanimity of opinion on Trump. Several short points: (1) Notice, for a start, that he's never said Ukraine should surrender. He's never said that Ukraine must concede anything. He only says, without disclosing his peace plan, that he will negotiate an end to the war within 24 hours of being sworn in. I think this is a ruse, and a clever one of which I approve. (2) From February 26, 2022: " 'The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling. We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine. God bless them all,' Trump said." — Reuters (3) In my view Trump's most fondly-felt foreign policy aim is to have Europe pay a lot more for its own security. I don't really need to elaborate on that. He's railed about it endlessly since before he entered politics. Who can doubt that he would see the Ukraine war as an opportunity to put the screws to Europe and force it to fend more for itself? It's the kind of man he is. He's always on. He's relentless in attempting to achieve his most cherished goals. (4) Despite the fact that all his grandparents were European villagers, Trump has little in the way of warm feelings for Europe. He seems disdainful of it. I suppose one must bear in mind that his father's parents, and also his mother, chose to leave Europe and move to America. They prospered in America, so I'm inclined to guess they taught him that Europe is pretty much a loser place compared to the US. (5) Trump knows (and who doesn't?) that if Russia thinks that it's to its benefit, it will do all it can to support his candidacy. Considering the gaping vulnerability of the US political system to gaming of its social media by hostile foreign powers, such covert support could certainly make the difference in the election outcome. I'm thinking it wouldn't hurt at any rate. (6) So I think he's baiting them, and intends a switch. If I'm correct that this is so, it would be brilliant, for if it worked he could get what he wanted, not only for the US but also for Ukraine and Europe. In a way it would be like ending the war before he's even president again, a sort of reaching forward through time. (7) My thought here is that he would trick Russia into helping get him elected, then — once sworn in — immediately put an ultimatum to the major European powers that if they want the US to put down the Russian threat, they will have to ante up their share of the money for it. And if they don't, then they're on their own. Not negotiable. The reply would be predictable. At which point Putin would be faced with the one thing he never expected, could not tolerate and could not overcome: a Western world which is united, which is bent on completely frustrating his aims outside Russia's borders in Eastern Europe, and which has the co-operation in place to do so. He would be able to demand something in return for agreeing to end hostilities, but it would be a fraction of his original ambitions. Maybe just the pre-2022 extent of Russian-occupied territory in the Donbas would be conceded to Russia. But not Crimea. And maybe a commitment not to allow Ukraine into NATO but in placed of that a more informal or diluted Western security guarantee for Ukraine. I'm not sure about all of this. It's just my opinion, I could be wrong. It does smack somewhat of a stunt, and a risky one. Also, Putin has siloviki to answer to and they may not tolerate it. But they probably have more than just a streak of realism to their outlook, especially if it's about sheer force backed by riches. And if all this is so, then the war will end and the stage will — perhaps — be set for a long resumption of the peace in Europe.
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  2729. ​ @k_tess  There was sweet bugger all in the NYT. I watched for it, because I was appalled by the effect cuts would have on wealth disparity. I submitted comments pointing this out which were not printed. Every one was rejected. Liberals do not accept criticism. They think 'Conservatives have horns growing out of their temples, and cloven hooves. I hate them, so how can there be anything wrong with me? The very idea is ridiculous.' I also watched Judy Woodruff every night at that time. Zero from her, zero from her chummy underlings. Of course: she and her staff like money as much as anyone, and have quite a bit of it. As I understand it she makes a couple of million a year thanks to taxpayers, advertisers and donations. I no longer watch. What world do you live in? Many liberals—most, perhaps—consider themselves very morally upright simply for putting on a hat that says 'Liberal' on it. You sound like one of them, and I suppose you think this video is right-wing nonsense, since that's the point it makes. If so you are deeply deluded. My experience as a Times subscriber and on social media elsewhere (comments far friendlier than this one, carefully composed to scrupulously meet rules, are routinely reported and scrubbed wholesale by obliging illiberal-liberal moderators)—this experience, I say, tells me you'd delete this comment if only you could, by pressing a button. Clicking away with indignation yet?
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  2730. I know where they can put it.
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  2731. 98% of the 'Top comments' are vigorously positive. 98% of the newest comments are vigorously negative. So after a short delay negative comments are simply removed, which well illustrates what's going on in the West.
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  2732. I love how the thumbnails come up afterward with an array of Christian Slater clips on Arsenio Hall and Letterman going back to 1994, as if to help Chris out. Chris and most other people, actually.😂
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  2733. It is generally understood which things the government tolerates and which it does not. This understanding can be used to guide actions and stay out of trouble. 1420 knows what they are doing.
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  2734. In India there has been a remarkable surge in public support for Ukraine. Support for: Tough sanctions, 47%. Providing weapons/air defense to Ukraine, 47%. Sending troops to Ukraine, 43% (!) Importing less oil & gas from Russia, even if it causes "steep increases" in prices, 47%. Search: IPSOS Poll Ukraine Jan. 20
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  2735. His highest educational attainment is a high school diploma.
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  2736.  @NIAGARAACCOUNTABILITY-zm3dp  I don't know. By definition, to sensationalize is to sacrifice accuracy to creating a stir. I don't see how the headline did that. Anyway, an occurrence in which six people are knifed and five of them die is inherently sensational and I see no reason to downplay it either. Whether the community is "rocked" or not is harder for me to judge, but it seems entirely plausible at the least. I will go so as far as to agree with you, however, that CP24's headline writing is often unacceptable to me for a variety of reasons. It puzzles me why, since in journalism that task is traditionally reserved for the most senior editors with the most seasoned judgement. Thanks for your reply. It was a relief to get a courteous one on this channel for a change. (Also intelligent, clear and well written (!). What are the odds?😮)
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  2737. Alternate title: Why Joe Rogan Has the One Ideal Personality You Should Make Your Own
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  2738.  @Introspection-01  Aid helps them. They're a drowning people extending a hand upwards out of a flood. But I'm guessing anyone who needs to have this explained to them will never have the moral vision to see it anyway. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  2739. 😂He incorrectly placed Ivan the Terrible, who died in 1584, in the 17th century.🙄
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  2740.  @Ggaia-d9z  Believing something makes it true, right?
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  2741. What's wrong with esteem for and an attachment to one's own existing culture? She explicitly stated that she's fine with a changing and evolving culture. She merely wants to counteract a severe drop-off in how much of present American culture feeds into the emerging one.
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  2742. Bishop? He's not even a pawn.
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  2743. Yeah but she wasn't acting. This was a documentary.
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  2744.  @peterjanoff  Try asking Solavyov, the grimacing ultranationalist in the video. Or if he won't take your call, try his son in London.😄
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  2745. Barely human, seriously. Genetically and no more. Musk, set up some dwellings on Mars for her and any person like her. Make the ceiling height 4'6".
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  2746. Aid to Ukraine is vital to America's long-term security and prosperity. Five per cent of US defense spending is lunch money compared to the many tens of trillions of dollars of American wealth at risk if the Authoritarian Axis begins taking over one country after another. Think. Think! If you can.
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  2747. Leaders of the free countries of the world: Give these men what they need! Now! 🇺🇦
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  2748. * martial law 🙄 Omg
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  2749. He was right, though. He meant the western Sahara.
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  2750.  @LukaDonesnitch  Through US airports, of course! How can you ask? You act like I have some kind of radical theory, but this is all in documents and video collated long ago. It's you who's got the wild made-up story here. Wild stories, if they reach a certain age, become traditional 'knowledge' to those who for any reason don't know better.
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  2751. A cheap title. Low journalism. Here's a title that would be a sort of 'punishment that fits the crime': "How scummy and vile is the journalism practiced by DW?" A less biased title would be "Is Italy's new right-wing government extremist?" Closer to neutral would be: "We examine claims that Italy's new government is extremist" Fully neutral: "What is the nature of Italy's new government?"
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  2752. So much violent chaos. Decades go by and the community doesn't even seem to be trying to get a grip on itself.
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  2753. Nice try, Mohammed/Sergei/Farshad/Chanfun. Britain is not engaged in any war.
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  2754. The addict we call the Argentinian economy is a long way from health.  In fact it is sweating under the bedsheets feeling sicker than usual. But only because the dose of its poisonous drug has been cut. Before long it will be on its feet, recovering, walking in the sunlight. 🇦🇷 Bravo, Milei.
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  2755. You alas do sound cynical. No weapons, no armed forces. No armed forces means defencelessness, which in turn means eventually vanquishment. Thus in the long run arms makers are a part of survival. A political class that is not overly militaristic is all the safeguard a country needs to avoid being run by that industry, which I should say we can count on as long as fairly clean elections fall on time. I find any other view callow sentimentalism, if not paranoia, and suited not even to a teen.
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  2756. That's Gerrard and Jarvis.
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  2757. 🙄"Mamala"? Omg, a nation turns its back and blows chunks. The name is Kringela.
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  2758.  @ibabechanel  Shame. Excessive pride is shame's cloak.
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  2759. 🤔 For some reason no one ever talks about the real secret sauce of the Ukrainian forces: Ukrainian people are badass and hardcore just beneath their exterior of pleasant good manners, affability, relaxed peaceful attitude and wicked sense of humour. Sort of like Americans. Or should I say Texans? Either way, just the wrong people to cross.
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  2760. Correction: The anger in Canadians against Trudeau is fully sane. Not understanding it and instead condemning it—that's what's insane.
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  2761. Probably Jill Biden. It'll come out eventually.
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  2762. * Saw, Cletus. The word is saw.
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  2763. 802bn rubles ($8.02bn) in oil & gas revenues to the federal govt. for a month isn't very much for a country with Russia's population and a large energy industry.😮 Even allowing for the low value of the ruble on international exchanges, it's still only about $21.5bn in local purchasing power. Ouch. I mean Good!👍
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  2764. Nice try, Dmitri. She's a sincere and diligent journalist in the independent Russian news media.
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  2765. It's time for much larger tariffs on Chinese cars.
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  2766. You're only solidifying support for Ukraine. So thanks! 🇺🇦
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  2767.  @danielwarton5343  Thanks for your reply. First, on global temperatures, I think there's a bit of room for disagreement. There's almost certainly been warming but it's less certain why this has happened. As I said there's ample reason to suspect it's human-caused but I don't consider it proved. It's something to watch carefully and adopt a cautious approach on. As fossil fuels are horribly polluting anyway---entirely apart from any carbon effects---the current move away from them led by private business and individual consumers can only help. Who doesn't want a clean environment? But yes I think people have been increasing our numbers much too fast and it threatens the environment, prosperity, and global security. Did you know that 10% of all humans ever to live are alive today? If we could drift slowly back down towards four or five billion simply by couples having three or fewer children, thereby amounting to a replacement rate just under 2.0 per couple, we'd ameliorate those threats. (I don't recall the planet seeming barren of people back in 1985 when there were five billion people. Nor was it in 1900 for that matter.) Besides that, the better parents can afford their children, the better for the whole family. I'm not talking about social engineering nor, as one moron accused me, eugenics (!). I'm suggesting merely that the whole world do what all the rich countries have done for the past 50 years: have small families. And it's really too bad they didn't join us earlier. All people could live in greater security. All the best.
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  2768.  @tonykonvalin9959  Yes, it's true that there are really two worlds when it comes to fertility. The West and now Asia have really simmered down, but the people of the Middle East and Africa are still trying to have very large families whether they can well provide for them or not. I'm content to listen to the advice of demographers and economists on the matter of workers per retiree. What have you found out from them? How many is too few? Patterns of savings are important. In Japan, the country with the oldest average age, the worker-retiree ratio is the world's lowest, yet it is a nation of savers, so the financial burden is not really onerous. One good thing is that, the study of demographics being what it is, you can see problems coming from decades away. Economics is different, alas; often it can't see disruption till it's already upon us.
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  2769. Yeah? His boss, FDR, was a rich man.
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  2770. I dunno. TP serves a useful purpose.
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  2771.  @JohnSmith-zo6ir  lol It takes a comment this long to catalogue all their major faults. I guess someone had to do it.
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  2772. What Lineker said was foolish. But living in a free society means having the right to think and say foolish things. Of course this doesn't sound like a very marvellous right. Yet if you think about it, the right to be wrong is actually the foundation of all our rights.
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  2773. "[T]he ban would apply only to her, and to any visitors wearing such scarves" No, no, no. Certainly not. The ban applies to everyone. As it should. It's basically a scarf with swastikas all over it.
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  2774. Isn't that mission not until February?
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  2775.  @howardhoman8233  Omg, calm down! Turns out the OC and I were both right: The ship did launch on Sept. 28 but will not bring back the Boeing astronauts until Feb.
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  2776. Britain is lucky to have Konstantin Kisin.  He's doing what precious few have the courage to do.
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  2777. What got me was the length of her index finger. What the—?
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  2778. Yes. And I also think that if the US govt. wanted to see Ukraine destroy Sevastopol and the Russian navy, no mere lack of Starlink coverage would stop them.
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  2779. That's your own inference, and you're welcome to it. But Poilievre said no such thing. Nor should anyone say that being an office cleaner is a bad thing, nor a seasonal fruit-picker at an orchard. But all three occupations are unsuitable preparation for holding the most important job in the country.
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  2780.  @ellecampbell3271  You asked what it is. I answered you.
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  2781. I have observed that strabismus is frequently a sign of high intelligence. JFK had it. You should get it, and you might be clever.
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  2782. Brian: “What's wrong with you people? I am a hardworking, accomplished author!” Stewie: “Brian…” Brian: “My birth- and still-legal name is Doosh Dooshington the Third.” Stewie: “That's somewhat better!”
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  2783. Kringela
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  2784.  @РулонОбоев-н9ъ  I guess you forgot the video you just watched.
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  2785. Most shocking of all: These reporters agreed it was "surprising."🤨
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  2786. Yes they did. There's nothing wrong with making a point, then starting a conclusion with 'So....' It serves the same purpose as 'therefore' or 'thus.' (And in narratives it can stand in for 'and then': "So I went back the day after." ) The problem is prefacing simply anything that way. In these cases it's an attempt to pass off a mere statement or assertion as a conclusion, which is a low rhetorical sleight of hand and enormously irritating.
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  2787. Plastic pipes (PVC plastic) are made from natural gas, not oil. So is most plastic. The idea that oil is the major feedstock for plastics is a common misconception.
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  2788. @ Hilarious claim 🤣
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  2789.  @JayBrown-xs9ps  If there were 6 random people saying their bit, fine. Sure, if it reflects the level of public interest. (Which I bet it does.) But just one guy, plus his buddy a little bit? It strikes me as a funny thing to do. Plus, if you as the news editor are going to feature just one guy, make it one who's blandly representative of what you're hearing overall, not some fringe outlier.
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  2790. She could twist up some dreads there.😄
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  2791. The moral stench still hangs over downtown.
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  2792. Speaking of the Germans, people often mention that Russia can and will withstand just about any level of losses in order to repel an invasion—an invasion, for example, like the German one of 1941. That may very well be true. But the Ukraine War has nothing to do with an invasion of Russia. What I'm getting at is that the Russian citizenry may, far sooner than is commonly supposed, run out of patience with the losses of this offensive war, this war of choice.
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  2793. Here, have another: Soviet commissar, explaining political systems to his young son: "Under capitalism, the inevitable result is the exploitation and abuse of man by his fellow man." "Under communism, the opposite is true."
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  2794.  @andj2009  But no one said anything about supporting Trump, only you. So you invented people who weren't even there in order to call them hypocrites. I'd call that amazing, but I'm not actually amazed.
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  2795. Justin Trudeau: "I have never really liked beaver. Beaver is not my cup of tea. I am therefore announcing a ban on beaver. Beaver is not who we are as Canadians."
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  2796. BC isn't in Western Canada now? In the 2021 election the Conservatives got 35% of the vote in Ontario, 33% in BC.
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  2797. The reporter's claim that the replacement of Trudeau "is not happening" is 100% false. Somebody tell Joey Garrison that the new Liberal leader and Prime Minister will be chosen two days from now — on Sunday at 3 p.m.
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  2798. It is not hard to tell his sympathies are with the Chinese government.
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  2799. Germany in 1944-45 was full of civilians. The Rhine and the Polish frontier could hardly have been crossed, the war could hardly have been concluded, without many of them tragically becoming casualties. Were they all to have been spared, the then-regime would have remained safely in power to this day, with perhaps one of the Himmler grandchildren as Führer. I daresay that in the dimly-lit imagination of Labour supporters, war today resembles the battlefield at Waterloo. It does not.
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  2800. He would've been a disaster if he came out of retirement to work as a Walmart greeter. But he chose President of the United States. This is just a bad dream, right?
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  2801.  @bitkurd  Whether solitude is a sign of the person's health or illness only knowing them can show you.
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  2802.  @pierman4858  Fair take. Sanctions are not a sword thrust, but slow economic poison leading to anemia, weight loss, more rapid aging. Seldom fatal.
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  2803. I appreciate the good writing style. That's a strong achievement in its own right. —Daily viewer
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  2804.  @vp922  A 2,500-year-old civilization should surely have matured to the point that it's not divided nor in conflict with itself. It hasn't? Well then, I wish it rapid success in its further efforts. I think that is possible. The world needs a strong and healthily functioning India more than ever, as the number of good countries seems to be shrinking. By the way, it might interest you to know that Canada has no colonies. You've been misinformed on that.
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  2805. You say, Sir Richard, that Ukraine wants to retake every inch of its land & that "I would put money on them achieving that." Very well. How's £20 at 5:1 odds? The way I see it, I cannot lose: It goes my way—Heaven forbid, and I don't expect it—and I have the honour of sending our £120 to UNITED24 (the main Ukraine war charity). I lose, and not only is Ukraine victorious, I have the honour of forking over twenty quid to General Sir Richard Shirreff. (I hope you don't mind so much cheek and making light of things. It's to relieve tension.)
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  2806.  @JudeMalachi  That's too black and white. A person might have no idea what their spouse is going to turn into once the children are born.
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  2807. In my view one should think long and hard before raising the subject of private or family matters with any stranger, and then not do it. Will he not say what he likes, when he likes, without any nudging? For my part, I like the creator-viewer arrangement on this channel as it is—fittingly impersonal, concerned only with things of historical significance.
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  2808.  @joannewilson6577  The US govt is paying for 100% of everything else, but only for 80% of Starlink equipment and services. (Since about the end of 2022. Before that, zero.) So of all the companies supplying Ukraine, only SpaceX is donating anything. The total to date: over $100 million and rising every day. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon and all the rest: Zero.
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  2809. Tying a war in Europe to the problems with the Mexican border as though the two things are related is the first rhetorically low thing I've seen him do.👎 Not cool. But the border stance is exactly what's needed.👍
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  2810. "Using a large dataset with detailed measures of criminal involvement we found consistent evidence that individuals self-identified as politically liberal also self-reported more involvement in crime cross-sectionally and prospectively. The relationship between political ideology and criminal conduct was linear: very conservative individuals reported the lowest levels of criminal participation and very liberal individuals reported the highest levels." — Political ideology predicts involvement in crime, John Paul Wright Ph.D., et al., Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 1 February 2017
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  2811.  @focm888  Danger to brain health increases with the amount of that stuff smoked. — Surgeon General
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  2812. I'm not so sure I like that "Let the lie even triumph" business. It's somewhat invertebrate. But I like the last part.
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  2813. Ones who don't wanna be on the pill.
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  2814. Standing by is the wisest response if you don't have enough guns at the ready. See Second World War, Allied involvement in the first two years of, history of.
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  2815. But many low-to-zero-empathy people make no bones about it. So a better version might be: Those who go around gushing about empathy seldom have more than a speck of it.
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  2816. Most shocking of all: 20% of Canadians think he is the best choice for PM.🤯
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  2817.  @mrjohnnyk  Like when he says 'orthogonal' and 'sui generis'.🙄 Omg what a putz.
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  2818.  @MI4ME  Fairly clever approach to harming this channel. Say hi to Mr. Peskov for me.
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  2819.  @sharonblue4742  No, you go, actual know-nothing girl burning with classic girl envy.
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  2820. Hear, hear!👍
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  2821.  @hotchihuahua1546  Inform yourself. Look at any poll from the past 18 months. We're going to get exactly what we need, a level-headed Conservative.
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  2822. Oddly, there's no a sound or z sound in Hangzhou. It's pronounced hung-JOE. The Pinyin system of Chinese-romanized transcription is in many ways totally counter to English pronunciation. It's stoop id and it sucks.
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  2823. Woof-woof-woof.🤢
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  2824. Is there a way his nitwit brother can be added as a co-defendant somehow? Let's get them both out of our sight.
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  2825.  @Urbanhunter49  He's stopped most of what you've attempted. Overall he's kicking your a++. You better hope you stop "succeeding" so much.
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  2826. According to Konstantin Kisin on the Trig livestream Thursday night, she indeed has on multiple occasions publicly said of particular men "No one would ever want to shag him!" Yep. And no one protested, no one batted an eyelid. Classic "It's cute when we do it."
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  2827.  @Rockyzach88  You caught me cold, like a pitcher who hasn't warmed up, but I think I endorse all that. Thanks for your reply.
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  2828.  @Nood1977  World Alliance of Worms: "Hey, stop comparing us to Russians!"
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  2829.  @illbeyourmonster5752  Maybe it's there if you Sort by Newest. Usually works. Scroll down to 4-hrs.-ago territory to find the original post. Could also just be an issue of 3 posts within one hour or whatever, which they don't want you to do.
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  2830. "No job too dirty for a scientist" - W. Burroughs
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  2831.  @Hutch-b2p  The LCBO has nothing to do with those.
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  2832.  @FunderDuck  You can tell who's thinking and who's not by whether all of their beliefs can be reliably predicted as soon as you know one of them. Here's a word for people to remember: heterodox. It's an adjective for a person's beliefs if they are hand-picked more or less one-by-one and don't conform to any known orthodoxy. Eclectic is also fit for describing such beliefs.
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  2833. Dear Australia, just reach out to Canada and I promise you'll find 38m friends and supporters. The government of Canada is supporting the Australian investigation call. Thanks for your leadership!
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  2834. The report was ok but the music was not!  Just lose it and not a soul will miss it.
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  2835. More like a 1940s cab driver, but yeah ok.
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  2836.  @bramptonjeff81  To confront someone need not be an aggressive thing, nor even impolite. It can simply be argumentative. (See the Oxford Dictionary entry.) His first words once he got her attention were a command. He repeated it immediately. To me he did confront her. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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  2837.  @barrymitchell6444  They nearly all come from Egypt and Jordan. They weren't interested until Jews living there increased in number.
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  2838. "An entire space crafts" How can anyone miss that? How can anyone even write that in the first place?
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  2839. Related question: Is it possible to live a life scrupulously avoiding lies and end up with a mouth that crooked?
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  2840.  @seanleith5312  Yes. And it's the fanaticism that's the problem. But it's revealing to trace the roots. Among my most surprising finds of the past few years was a documentary commissioned by the NYT (I know!) in 2018, probably by some oldsters there who barely got away with it, or didn't. It's called Operation Infektion, running time approaching an hour but it goes by very quickly, well-produced and -written, cogently presented. It traces Western and especially American self-doubt and self-loathing back to an active campaign to foster them in the years before 1990. If you enjoy being surprised it could be your cup of tea. It's here on YouTube. Go for the film, not the clips. (And it's probably still on the video section of the Times site.)
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  2841. ​ @acey457 Your response to the OC: "If it was as easy as looking out the window you wouldn't need to trust a journalist." Well observed. You show great ability to cut through glib, easy rhetoric, which in this case was content-free beggaring of the question. Thanks.
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  2842. It takes an affirmative action hire to say "block all the stops," which means the opposite of what she has in mind.🙄 Somewhere the person whose job she took works glumly outside of academia. The Ivy League belongs in a sarcophagus, and so does the whole American university system, for that matter.
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  2843. I agree with 'left-libertarian'. But 'classical liberal' is quite a tricky term. I think you, like Dave Rubin and some others, use it to mean the moderate mainstream liberalism of the 1960s-90s. Kennedy liberalism, I guess. But classical liberalism really means the liberalism of the later 19th century which favoured free enterprise, free speech, public schools, and so on—but which was socially conservative and would have blanched in horror at the size of today's governments, today's levels of taxation, today's social permissiveness. So classical liberalism was very conservative by today's standards despite the fact that in large part it's where today's liberalism came out of. (Today's liberalism also in part came out of Marxism/socialism, but in pretty bleached-out form obviously.) When people use the modern term 'neo-liberal' disparagingly to refer to what are really today's somewhat moderate right-wing libertarians, they are basically accusing them of resembling the classical liberals of 150 years ago. I hope all this is clear, but if it's not, think of an analogy with how Democrats and Republicans in America switched places in fundamental ways about a century ago. The word 'liberal' really changed in meaning around the same time as well.
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  2844.  @wickywickyjoka  There is zero wrong with categorizing someone—only with mis- categorizing someone.
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  2845. He's not satisfied unless he cuts her off. Just when she's building to her point he interrupts her. Bad manners, inconsiderate to us as well as her.
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  2846. She'll enter college this fall and improve rapidly, I'm sure.
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  2847. Yep. They come from the same very, very dumb and destructive place.
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  2848. No, really? You mean anarchy doesn't lay the best foundation for economic development?🙄🙄 My dear woman, if a government doesn't "intervene in some aspects of society", government is not the word for it.
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  2849.  @charleswomack2166  Good! You're telling me what I'm telling you.
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  2850.  @Guy22173  ​ I agree with every word of your 1st post. Glad to see a few people here get what's really going on. The problem is he has to bum-steer the whole world into thinking he'll abandon Ukraine. Everybody fell for it for a year-plus. But as this video seems to hint, it's gonna get a lot harder.
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  2851. When people who aren't smart try to pretend they're smart, you get clips like this.
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  2852. How can you ask? Thumbnails and headlines are where journalists feel 6 times as free to ravage the truth as in the main video. (In print: Headlines, 4x; photos, 3x; charts, graphics: 2x.)
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  2853. I would say comportment, for its sense of 'bearing' which is not quite present in deportment. But otherwise I am in general agreement.
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  2854.  @4homemail  Yeah, but they always protest "It's never been done right. If only it were done right! Wait till some country does it right!" Notice no one ever said that about monarchy. Cheers.
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  2855. Breaking news: Canada is retaliating against VisualPolitik for saying "on-TARR-ee-oh." At 12:01 a.m., all Canadians will start saying WER-sest-er-shy-er and BUCK-ing-ham-shy-er. 😂
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  2856.  @charliec.3518  You sound really sheltered. A masked teenager in a robbery is incredibly unpredictable. And very, very dangerous. Bear in mind that there is a strong chance that such a kid (1) has things to prove to his (or her) peers and himself, like how brave and vicious he can be, (2) is highly conscious that he has little to fear from the justice system if caught, (3) is living a deeply unpleasant and hopeless life and may feel he has nothing to lose, (4) isn't in good mental health, being afflicted with emotional or other disorders, and moreover is temporarily in an abnormal, highly-charged state of mind, (5) is high or drunk, meaning his already-poor judgement is further impaired, (6) thinks that his disguise protects him from the consequences of any violent crime he commits, (7) is doing something to pass gang initiation and has been instructed to injure or kill the store worker. I could go on. A masked teenager coming at you in a robbery has crossed a highly serious line and does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. Young criminals like that fill courtrooms everywhere, and pack hospitals and graveyards with their victims.
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  2857.  @kurtwinslow9770   Agreed. Putin: "I'd like your backing to waste my army on Ukraine and trash my economy." Xi: "Backing? Why, my dear boy, I insist. Heh heh." [Turns around, rubs hands]
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  2858. "Furry"? Seriously?
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  2859. He called him a genius for his deception leading up to the war, not for invading, as I recall. Anyway, his occasional praise for Putin is tactical, not sincere. Only a narcissist (e.g. Putin) or a fool would fall for it. Which are u?
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  2860. ​ @irongron  Russia came through the decades of communism pretty unscathed as a feudal and fairly medieval country. It's really, really deep in them. Politically I think they most resemble Africa, and Putin is the counterpart of Robert Mugabe, Mobutu Sese Seko, Idi Amin, Omar al-Bashir and Col. Gaddafi, among many others. He even bears an uncanny and haunting facial resemblance to Macias Nguema, the literally insane meatpacker of Equatorial Guinea.
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  2861.  @alisondaly5560  Perhaps much more for some people than for yourself. At any rate, moreover, it seems fair to suppose he would be somewhat different at a dinner party from how he is when faced with an English journalist.
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  2862. Giant and steaming.
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  2863. I scored minus-7 and I'm appalled at all these commenters bragging about scoring in the low-to-mid single digits. To think I'm probably running into monsters like that in my daily life without even knowing it.
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  2864. I wonder if we might not find that herd immunity kicks in at a somewhat lower threshold than we were told to expect, or that more people already have antibodies than was stated --- or both.
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  2865. Yes he is. The sentence "I want to speak to the manager" is the Karen motto, so uber-Karen Steve Colbert took it just one step further to Capitol Hill.
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  2866. Yeah, but never mind all that. I wanna know how you got five lines of comment to appear! Never seen that.
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  2867. Check Costa Rica. Quite often people who need to disappear go to Costa Rica. But first maybe check the sewage treatment plant. No, that's mean. I'm not gonna say that one.
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  2868.  @chetperry3384  I have a feeling the guy was invited over in the expectation that would happen (and you can call that staged if you like; I'm not sure I would) but I can easily believe that's where he does live, and I don't think it was rehearsed. As for the cop, imagine for a moment it wasn't staged. The guy walks up in the midst of a crowd of Guardian Angels at a press conference having a lot to do with homelessness. For them to give him the bum's rush (literally) in that setting is not something they can afford to have captured on video. It would be a case of towering hypocrisy and the poorest possible way to run your campaign. So—and the cop would instantly sense it—as long as the guy isn't doing anything threatening, Sliwa and anyone else in charge (campaign manager, e.g.) are going to deal with him in a friendly way. The cop would know his job is to step forward if the guy nears Sliwa, but he would expect to be waved away. On top of that, the cop himself doesn't want to be caught on camera doing anything that would look so bad in the eyes of so many, again because of the context. This was one time the guy wasn't going to be hustled away (unless, I repeat, he did something at least a tiny bit malicious or plausibly threatening).
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  2869.  @marcus8733  I didn't say "everyone says these things." Go back and check. I have, however, heard them many, many times.
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  2870. Let's all pay tribute to that brave chair with a moment of, uh, silence.
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  2871.  @f1andfootballfan993  Vancouver and London have quite similar winter temperatures—high single-digit daytime highs, low single-digit nighttime lows. Canadian summers, btw, are unquestionably warmer than British ones (in the populated latitudes of Canada, that is).
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  2872. Something to do with his Canadian roots, I'd say. His mother is Canadian; besides that, he went to university in Canada for two years, he worked in Canada, his first wife is Canadian, and his latest significant other and the mother of his two youngest children is Canadian. I'd call him an honorary Canadian—but he is in fact a Canadian citizen. And as he knows quite well, Canada was one of the freest countries ever, until Trudeau came into office. Musk recently compared him to Hi tler.
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  2873. On the evening of October 22, 1962, he said: "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war."
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  2874. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs make a leftist.
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  2875. Have some patience. It will come. Наберитесь терпения. Это придет.
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  2876. I'm buying the skeleton part anyway. He looks embalmed.
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  2877. Media: "There's never any coverage of black people's murders in the media. Viewers are so racist."
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  2878. It strikes me that the term 'excess liquidity' is used as a euphemism for what it really is, so that 98% of people won't know what is meant. It would anger many of them if they understood it all. The anchor comes closer to bluntness in the first two seconds of the clip, so hats off to him.
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  2879. Least shocking of all, also contains high levels of lint.
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  2880. No, it was only Putin who insisted he would do nothing of the sort. US sources largely expected he would.
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  2881. A guy at work told me I had "the greatest ties" 20 years ago. I still remember it like it was last week.
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  2882. Sadly, you have to act like a parent with an immature kid. Without boundaries they h8 you, just like a 14-yr-old would within a month if you put her charge of the family. Set firm boundaries and you get the respect. They're actually totally relieved and feel grounded. (Problem is, then you're a father and a kid, not a man and woman.)
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  2883. I'm glad that the person faced with at least minimally managing the conversation about this war on a top social media platform — a responsibility impossible to avoid — now has a clearer idea of what unfolded on October 7.
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  2884. To see him inside the church was very difficult. Yet somehow it was elevating — as it always is, I suppose, to be in the presence of someone whom one feels is better than oneself.
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  2885. Snakes feast on rats.
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  2886.  @frankpepper4797  Whatever you say. But you know, the USSR benefitted immensely from US military aid in WWII. It would've ceased to exist without it. Think about it, Igor.
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  2887. Trump tacks an imaginary extra $200bn onto each imaginary grievance. Last month it was $200bn to "subsidize" Canada.😂 The dry cleaners lost his suit and he sued them for $200,000,001,000.
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  2888.  @duncansmith7562  When Putzin tells the truth it's by accident.
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  2889.  @CB-db1qx  The news was more honest. The audience for it was more clever.
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  2890.  @DataWaveTaGo  I think I would support such a firefighting force. If it's the best idea, then it hasn't happened yet for ordinary reasons of weak leadership. It's not to do with inaffordability or scarcity of people or resources.
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  2891. Energy & food imports from Canada & Mexico total ~$250bn a year. Look for the tariffs on oil alone to add about 1% to consumer prices. Gasoline is ~4% of the CPI and will likely rise by 75¢ to $1/gallon, or 25-33%. Then there's autos, auto parts, lumber... Remember, tariffs are paid in the importing nation. Enjoy!
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  2892.  @milansavic2803  Down, Pooty! Go lie down!
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  2893. Asia: "Excuse us while we cringebarf."
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  2894. The segment index is too good. 😂 You don't just pick a damn fine clip, Rupie, you slather it with the rich, rich mayo. 👏
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  2895. Go post that 1000x on Soviet social media. Oops, I mean Russian social media.  The two regimes are just so much alike.
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  2896. You said the A-word! (The one that rhymes with 'bare head.') Bravo, James.
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  2897.  @galm222  The second being Byzantium? Or the Mongol Empire?🤔
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  2898. So, a repeat convicted offender. They ought to have their internet feeds mandatorily monitored, with automatic jail for sidestepping monitoring through the use of any other ISP whether at home or elsewhere.
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  2899. Germany: "We condemn Russia in the strongest terms for its brutality, murder and destruction. Our response must be firm and clear. We will therefore reduce our energy imports from Russia by as much as half over the next ten years. In the meantime, the US must lead with stronger measures, as European security is their responsibility."
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  2900. Same company also makes Timberland, Vans.
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  2901. Possibly the only fully sane and educated comment of the whole lot here. 👏👏
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  2902. As did the US and Canada.
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  2903. World Crocodile Federation: "Hey, stop comparing us to Russia!"
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  2904. World Association of Clowns: "Hey, stop comparing us with Don Lemon!"
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  2905. Sarkozy makes my skin crawl. If I'm not mistaken most people feel the same way.
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  2906. It's not the freest. Numerous think tanks publish world freedom rankings and none of them place the US anywhere near the top. Freedom House, the Heritage Foundation, etc. Look them up. Most are American and avowedly conservative or libertarian, too. (Of course, I suppose. The institutional left don't care at all about such things, as far as I am aware, which is exactly why liberals like Rubin have bailed on them.) So it's worse than you thought.
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  2907.  @1midnightfish  Let's leave lonely fantasizers to their lonely fantasies.
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  2908. Fredo
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  2909. ​ @zippitydoodah5693  Mark my words, before long the public schools will teach that freedom is a cover for oppressing certain groups and is for that reason on the whole a very bad thing. When it comes time to officially do away with freedom (as soon as a narrow majority wants to), ways will be found around the Supreme Court (if needed) and Constitution.
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  2910. Yes, insane Ukrainian Nazis are bombing themselves. Eventually they will nuke themselves, just to wickedly make Russia look responsible for an atrocity. Meanwhile, Russia is only trying to liberate the country, making great sacrifices in the name of ordinary Ukrainians, who greet them with bouquets of flowers and tears of gratitude. Also, Ukrainian women are raping themselves. 🙄
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  2911. Ah, but the hatchet job is only beginning, I should imagine. (It was yesterday, actually, in that upload below which comments were quickly suspended and erased. They contained what Justin Trudeau would call 'unacceptable views.') In the coming days, months, etc. we'll see him accused of racism, transphobia, antisemitism, adoring Vladimir Putin — the limits are the limits of newsroom imaginations. It will come out in a steady stream, every day or every other day. That's how it's done.
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  2912.  @T.Tuxedo  Uh, it's a fake name. Her real name is Caryn Johnson.
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  2913.  @bubblebryan  Spelling mistake: it's bubble brain, surely?
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  2914.  @albback8176  Ok, Mr. Peskov. Copying straight from the Hilter playbook as usual, I see. Under his rule Germany 'justified' large-scale atrocities as 'defensive' atrocities.
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  2915.  @albback8176  The bear is bleeding out. Slowly at first, but faster as time passes. Alternate version: The Russian frog is coming to a simmer.
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  2916. I gotta say, the Greg's Leftovers were great jokes.
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  2917. Sounds like? Is. People in other countries think the United States is flushing itself down the toilet. You actually seem to be trying to come up with ways to make the vile regime of China look good.
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  2918. Not to blame? She's not like some conscripted 19-year-old German soldier in WWII. She's more like the head of the SS.
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  2919. It is past time for all Western nations to firmly oppose harmful actions of the government of China. Australia has been doing a wonderful job of late. Great to see the leadership!
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  2920.  @daniilkokorev5563  Superior? Nah, you just read that into it. Did I say "as good as us"? No, I said "like us." I only said you're different.  So it looks like you have a superiority complex, an inferiority complex, or something eff-ed up. A healthy mind and ego would've read it properly.
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  2921. Well then, the hapless govt. will pass a law making it illegal to attack police or other people on the street without waiting for the special British Army unit to arrive.
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  2922. You're so right. What a disgusting rhetorical diversion. What a disgusting journalist.
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  2923. ​ @leviathon2  But no one's talking about "a life without immigrants." Just you. There's a system for legal immigration to the US, at least a million a year, and it's not under threat. It's the parallel system, i.e. the uncontrolled open border with Mexico, which is targeted for elimination. Supporters of both parties — yes, both — at last agree that it needs to be tightened up once and for all.
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  2924.  @s_fashionlover  "When you emigrate to Canada, leave your conflicts," I said. It seems you mistook it for "You Indians over in India are responsible." That was in no way my point. If there are such people as you point to, they could easily solve the problem by taking an interest in becoming Canadians, not residents of Indian enclaves! No border-straddling, please. To newly-arriving or would-be Indian emigrants to Canada, I say: You're welcome to come in, but it's In Or Out. I hope Canada-India relations can recover quickly. There are important areas where we should be working together as allies, for example against those who would like to see democracy disappear off the face of the earth.
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  2925. Thanks for the Party point of view.
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  2926. The fact that they would never do that just goes to show how R-word they are. They believe there are good races and bad races.
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  2927. In my view the presenter is a credible and likeable person. Her pacing is perfect and her enunciation is strong. In addition the program is written to a good standard of English, which I appreciate. I imagine she is one of the writers as well, maybe a supervising editor in addition to all that. To boost viewership she should be given a nice English pronunciation app for her phone. I am new to the channel and I like it. Subscribed.
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  2928. Then you're pretty much free! Nice.
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  2929. She has what is considered a bit of a low-rent accent in Italy, a working-class Rome accent. You might say it's the counterpart of the Cockney accent of most Londoners. But I think it's fantastic.
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  2930. Australian GDP over the last 28.5 months has been about A$6,300 bn. So $1 bn has been 0.016% of GDP. The US and Canada, which don't rank very high, have each given about 0.25%, which is 16x more. (Baltics: over 1.5%!) I'm not here to rag on Australia, which I like. Just pointing out a fact.
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  2931.  @bobmitchell8012  The lower court ones obviously were.
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  2932. There's something quite obvious about this "51st state" business which would quieten down such ridiculous talk in a hurry, but no one seems to have noticed but me. There isn't any way that all Canada would be just one state. We must speak (if the subject persists in public discussion) of its provinces becoming states in their own right. Thus up to 20 senate seats and at least 14. Presto: [crickets]
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  2933.  @adz951  It is false Hamas propaganda that Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. It has a fairly normal density for an urban area of such size. To make Manhattan the same density as Gaza, you would have to remove close to 90% of the people.
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  2934. As a young LibDem, Truss called for abolition of the monarchy. (Then she decided she wanted a political career.)
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  2935. I found that specious and glib.
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  2936. I appreciate this. Please revisit the issue sometime. It won't hurt to do even more debunking that will reach even more people. Good work.
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  2937. I wish the police well in their search for those people who fled the car crash scene, leaving behind the person they were with to die. That is such a low thing to do.
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  2938. Tough but fair. You know 🤔, maybe he thinks he's a big stud because he landed his teacher. To me that's weird, btw. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😆
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  2939. Cupcakes and cheesecake? Luxury! We had coarse gravel and used motor oil!
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  2940.  @grannyannie2948  Additional Yorkshireman: "Coarse gravel and used motor oil? Ladylike! We had caesium atoms and the socks of old headmasters!"
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  2941. A few years ago I saw a long segment on the PBS NewsHour concerning left miserableness. It quoted studies showing they're much unhappier than people to their right on the political spectrum. When PBS will admit something like that, why doubt it? I think you can find it on YouTube.
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  2942. Too bad the emoji overlords refuse to provide us with a NATO flag. The Hungarian and Turkish members of the board must have strenuous objections.
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  2943.  @migrationsforschermitbreit6744  Your middle sentence needs re-writing to make it clear. I suggest writing it in German and then putting it through Google Translate. But I can say already that I disagree with your saying "This is not correct." I have heard numerous accounts of Russians slavering to nuke the UK, saying it on Russian TV. I have heard no Americans saying the US should make war directly against Russia.
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  2944. Russia: 600,000+ casualties. Total financial impact on Russia including military costs, economic losses, destruction of domestic wealth: Well over $1 trillion. Russia's losses are rising faster than ever. It is absolutely hemorrhaging. This is the Afghanistan 1979-89 War 2.0 except far worse.
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  2945.  @ralphvandereb66  Your interlocutor isn't just tedious, he or she is also afflicted with a poor or even diseased personality. I suggest you consider ignoring this pitiable boor. All the best.
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  2946. Femsplaining.
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  2947. Very interesting question, likewise interesting answers and people. Excellent interviewing. Keep it up. Random compliment on the subtitles font: good readable typeface with nice black outlining to create good legibility; also the correct size. Best I've seen anywhere. You always treat the details like they're important, which they are.
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  2948.  @jullietmburu9672  Yes, I forgot about them. That's so true. But I'm quite sure bike part theft is generally about raising cash in order to spend it immediately on drugs. (In sketchy neighbourhoods there's always a brisk trade in such parts and also entire bikes of course.) And there's no reason it can't be both, come to think of it. Thanks for your reply.
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  2949.  @user-fk5jc1jd2z  I think you're right and I think that when terra wrizzum works, that's exactly what makes it work. The state makes special concessions, ordinarily unthinkable, in order to spare the public from violence perpetrated by those demanding the concessions. And across the world and through the years it often does indeed work, up to a point anyway. At least they stopped them down near the waterfront. They sent the simple message that in Toronto, flooding a freeway with people is rowdyism. I foresee these demonstrations dividing the city, the province perhaps, even the country.
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  2950. I'm wiith you on that, my bitter anti-Twitter sister. Elon f'ed up though, suggesting Twitter might drop the 'w'. Shoulda suggested they might drop the 'ter'. 😜
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  2951.  @ottoreitstock2465  As I understand it the Japanese are angrier about the invasion than almost anyone else. I believe their constitution forbids them from doing certain things like exporting weapons to a country at war, but they are quietly doing a lot. The Kiel Institute aid tracker says they are 4th in Ukraine aid after the US, UK and Germany. Search Kiel Institute Ukraine support tracker.
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  2952. Gordon Lightfoot: "I'm changing my f….ing name."
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  2953. Correction: if we compare apples to Apple, it has to be 18 months. So we're talking about $100bn versus ~$600bn.
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  2954. Anand copies Trudeau's condescending Grade-7 supply-teacher bearing. It's incredibly grating and frankly insulting.
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  2955. "Truth is just a matter of perspective." Then this Capt. Price goes on, like a typical postmodernist, to lay out the truth in a confused mixture of moral ostentation, doomsaying and a confident air of finality. Perfectly, effortlessly useless. (And now I look him up only to find he's a video game character.😂 A bit sorry I bothered. Oh well.)
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  2956. Choosing large-scale nuclear power has been one of the biggest favours Ontario has ever done itself. It provides electricity at a good price (US$0.10 per kWh) with no air pollution. Ontario burns no coal, and natural gas is a mere 10% of the mix.
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  2957. "They have got to forgive debt and reset the system." That's exactly what I'd say if 1) I owed lots of money; 2) had none lent out; 3) was a callow and lightly-read vague Marxist sympathizer with a crappy degree; or 4) was a foreign paid troll trying to stir up disagreement and division.
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  2958.  @Aethertopia369  I see. And was this migration before classical antiquity? What I heard was that black Africans resided south of the Sahara throughout recorded history until some time around the Renaissance in Europe. In other words, not during the period of Greek colonization of the southern Mediterranean shores. Thanks for your reply. I was pretty sure I was bound to learn something as a result of my post!
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  2959. Ok, Sergei.🙄
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  2960. Moon: "Hey, watch it! That almost hit me."
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  2961.  @alcor4670  They almost called it The Democratic People's Totally Free Republic That's Not a Dictatorship At All of Korea, but at the last minute somebody said "Come on, let's not go nuts. Democratic People's Republic is already really defensive."
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  2962. Many American politicians are far smarter than they'd ever allow themselves to appear in public. It is ordinarily a tremendous advantage to appear simple and down-to-earth in US politics.
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  2963. I don't know. I doubt it's hysterical for fans of CNN (all two thousand of them) or hardcore Democratic supporters (even more numerous than that). But I myself enjoyed it thoroughly.
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  2964. We say the Gambia and the Barbados. For that matter we say the United Kingdom, the United States and the French Republic.
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  2965. He wasn't my choice and I'm honestly very worried about what he'll get up to over the next four years. But the total absence of any vibe suggestive of Peter Pan in tights and shiny slippers is a great relief. Ten years of that was a painful embarrassment and immense strain.
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  2966. Well, for once this wasn't Trudeau's fault. The Speaker thought he would make a contribution by bringing in this old guy who lives in his hometown, but basic history was over his head and he blew it. Unfortunately everyone trusted him to handle it correctly. Blame also has to go to the Prime Minister's Office because they have ultimate responsibility for visits of foreign heads of state. The PM's chief of staff must resign.
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  2967. Oh yes, certainly Sergei.
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  2968.  @rogerphelps9939  That is about the level of the journalistic thinking here. Sloppy, sub-adult, does not hold logical water.
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  2969.  @joybrooks564  I didn't notice anyone saying it's her fault that the boy killed her. The writer actually said the boy ought to have asked her to leave instead. So that's a red herring. However, if it's true that she laughed at him, she did richly deserve a hostile reaction of some sort, just as if she had spit in his face. He definitely touched a nerve with you in suggesting that, like men's conduct, that of women too needs to be subject to mature self-control.
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  2970. Yeah, at northernmost Baffin Island.
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  2971. Many nations are contributing, even ones in the region who for their own reasons will not reveal it.
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  2972.  @Freshlygrazed  There's a point at which open-mindedness results in one's brains spilling out. Sweep that stuff up, please, and remove the stain it left. Thank you.
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  2973.  @u.s.1974  No it isn't. Germany has comparatively low debt. Why did you say that?🤨
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  2974. Parlous. It's an older spelling/pronunciation of perilous. I've always liked its woodiness. Dumb lexicographers have started labelling it 'archaic' in the last decade🙄, probably by very dumbly checking its web usage count on Google.
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  2975. CP24, please do something about all these posts which are just stealthy promos for adult sites.😠 They all feature soft-po avatars and every one is a bland comment of praise for the channel. The channel page directs you to the adult site. Man, they are spamming your channel hard. (I guess they generate business or the people behind them would've given up and stopped by now.)
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  2976. It has no brain behind it.
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  2977.  @catalinxnecula  Thanks, Professor Pooty-Bot.
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  2978.  @cityhawk  Yeah. I agree with all that.  Although maybe not in the least a bad guy to the people who know him, he was factory made. Totally the product of all the latest mass thoughts, tastes, temperaments, and leanings of all sorts. If you're obsessed with being up to date you're simply a wind vane. As if nobody knew anything before the year one's adolescence began, but taste and awareness have been rapidly developing and growing since then! Besides that, by approving your own mere up-to-dateness, you give yourself permission not to develop in the really valuable ways. I don't want a revolution, but I wish there was some kind of reform, congenial to all, that would reduce the number of these people. I hate to think it, but maybe reform can only come in the form of hard times. lol Pretty sombre and serious of me in comments on a nutrition video.
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  2979. Bossiness, nosiness, self-righteousness, meddling and policing other people's actions have skyrocketed to levels not seen since the the Cultural Revolution or the Puritans.
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  2980. *Gerbeau
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  2981.  @acwright  Wrong. Israel is a country. So is Taiwan. Thank you and have a nice day.
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  2982. So you're taking a stand against shortages in the world. Also against reporting on or predicting them. What a brave, interesting, helpful, mature and intelligent position. To judge by this, by your disdain for the shift key and the period, and by your fondness for base-10 orders of magnitude to describe anything, I'm guessing you were born in the 90s.
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  2983.  @HiradHimself  It was about 7pm Christmas Eve 2022. I had taken a spill downtown on snowy pavement. It was just an x-ray, man, not an MRI. You can always get an x-ray done. Anyway, thanks for your reply and I hope you do well in that universe of the mind you apparently inhabit alone.
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  2984. Before long there will be no more human operators. AI will replace them. Already AI drones can beat the best human drone racers on challenging racecourses. Mainly bot-on-bot warfare is likely before many years pass. At that point we will be on the verge of being mere observers and guests on Planet Bot. Thanks, scientists! (Cp. "No job too dirty for a scientist."—Wm. Burroughs)
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  2985.  @jrgzmn3692  For decades Peterson was a highly-respected professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto...establishing his credentials before the Great Dumbening of academia.
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  2986.  @dual7779  In a way (not entirely) it's like Elon Musk being African-American. It's up to anyone to say whether it's a technicality or not.
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  2987.  @2loudspeakers  Ireland was part of the UK from Jan. 1, 1801, when GB and Ireland became "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." So yeah, it was, for 120 years, including Wilde's entire life.
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  2988. Arithmetic is so white. Counting things and adding them is how the patriarchy gained control over society to oppress women. A plus sign is a crucifix with a woman's or person of colour's body nailed to it. Don't you know anything? ;) (Hey, this stuff is so easy to make up! No wonder it caught on!)
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  2989. They don't have to be brought up in China either. My Chinese ex-girlfriend, who grew up from a pre-school age here in a Western metropolis, was entirely like the young woman you describe. Except for the money obsession part, I didn't know she was just being Chinese. Thank you, Serpentza.
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  2990. To me it appears that Ukraine's allies are gambling that 1/15th of Russia's spending (or whatever fraction seems to match Russia's expenditure) will suffice to end the war on terms favourable to Ukraine. I say this because the West's ramp-up of military production has been very slight. This strikes me as entailing considerable risk.
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  2991.  @scottbird8638  Conveniently, we've had the term 'bird' for a person with any noticeable degree of derangement for ages. I use it once in a while, but I'm resolved to make it more often now. Cheers, my un-ironically-named friend.
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  2992. World to Harry: "Sod off."
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  2993. The UK at present "play[s] first fiddle in the European economy" you say? In the literal orchestral sense of being in the leading section, yes, but the English idiom doesn't mean that. It effectively means concertmaster, the first among the first violin section. The concertmaster is obviously Germany. But wait, no, it's the conductor, except more influential. And your suggestion that the UK should "keep control over what is happening on the continent" I find baffling. I wonder if just has to do with imperfect familiarity with the language. I agree with some of your other points. Cheers.
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  2994. The sickest part of it all is that the NBA didn't have to do it to survive. (Even if they did it would be totally wrong.) It was greed. They're a total gold mine and they have a virtual world monopoly. Worst of the worst. They deserve intense consumer punishment. The Women's Tennis Assoc. is showing what integrity is.
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  2995.  @mambamolt7353  I commend your expertise on Guevara and Satan (no great surprise there) but we already ironed this out. Thanks anyway.
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  2996.  @Alkalite  China is not bothered by multi-party elections and an unregulated press in the UK? Well, isn't that generous and tolerant of them! How do I go about thanking them? I simply must do that at once. What a super bunch!
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  2997. Why is it always about Uranus and never about mine?
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  2998. ​ @frankfahrenheit9537  Beware such economic comparisons. GDP at market exchange rates is good for judging an economy in some ways (its international financial heft, for instance, or the nature of its trade relationships) but is a distortion in all other ways. When judged by the purchasing power of the rouble domestically, Russia's economy is far larger. In 2021, viewed on this basis, it was about 5% smaller than Germany's, meaning close to $5trn, not $1.7trn. Neither GDP at market exchange rates (also called nominal GDP) nor GDP at PPP (purchasing power parity) tells the whole story. Looking at both is absolutely necessary. For a valid overall judgement you'd be a lot better off averaging the two than looking at only one. So my point is that, say what you will about Russia's economic weaknesses, it does indeed have a larger economy than Canada, Italy or Spain, three countries often invoked for comparison. Closer to Germany or Britain. It seems headed downwards in the near future, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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  2999. He will never have ISIS or Al Qaeda enthusiasts on his show either, and he shouldn't.
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  3000. "Alternative revenue streams" 🤨Your pro-Chow bias is showing. The honest language would be "higher taxes." You then proceed to make the entire segment an interview with Keesmaat, another Chow-type leftist who is of course supportive of Chow. No word from anyone who suggests cutting spending, e.g. by reducing staffing levels. Thumbs down to Chow, Keesmaat—and you. 👎
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  3001. "Their opinions matter as well." What an odd assertion. It seems thoroughly foolish.
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  3002.  @ChinkyChan  Not at all. One should live within one's means and save regularly, but that's beside my point. I'm simply saying it's not right to think "My salary pays for my basics and I'm borrowing a further 10% (or any percentage that happens to be the case) to fund a few frills." I regard such a situation as borrowing to pay for 10% of everything, from the electric bill to occasional concert tickets. It's just a way of looking at things, of course. The cold, hard facts of the matter show up in bank statements. Btw, I admire your state from afar.👍
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  3003. Born to be ruled.
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  3004. ​ @tomhenry897  Thanks for your reply. Do you have any specialist knowledge? The plane was supposedly cruising at 28,000 feet and elsewhere I've heard that the video from the ground shows it from about 10,000 feet up. It lasts 14 seconds, so from the time of the blast(s) I would speculate it remained in the air for around 2.8 x 14 = 40 seconds. I would subtract some time needed for the parachute to open and slow him down, and also some initially to deal with the loss of cabin pressure and continue trying to fly the plane. (He was reportedly the pilot flying.) I don't know what that would leave him exactly, nor how much time it takes to put on a parachute and pop the door. Obviously it would be tight, but it sounds a bit plausible at the same time.
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  3005.  @CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY  Thanks.👍 Yeah, everything would have to go perfectly. I'm gathering that avoiding injury, staying conscious, grabbing a parachute and putting it on might well be workable. But there could only be a very small permissible degree of difficulty in approaching and opening the door, or all would be lost. Would you say I'm safe in saying that?
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  3006.  @CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY  Quite right also. "Floating down, Through the clouds, ..."
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  3007. Yes!
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  3008. Turns out the whole thing was a paid-for ad. He freely discloses it in the video and in the first pinned comment. Did you miss that?
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  3009. At least he was a doctor. The current director-general is the first ever who is not a doctor. In his previous occupation he served humanity as...foreign minister of Ethiopia, as a member of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, noted for its close ties to the People's Republic of C---na.
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  3010. Remember that Ukraine is larger than the UK and Germany combined! Note this formula: 🇺🇦 = ( 🇬🇧 + 🇩🇪 ) x 1.06   Russia is attempting a huge military undertaking. It absolutely was counting on a quick surrender.
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  3011. "Malik" doesn't give you a clue?
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  3012.  @basedfinnmaid3531  Don't be silly. A cancer treatment which is only efficacious in 50% of cases is a godsend. Would you get rid of that, too, as 'not a scientific way forward'? Flu vaccines keep a lot of people alive every year and obviate a miserable and inconvenient bout of sickness for many more yet.
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  3013. 55% of the crimes. 55% of the acting jobs in TV ads. Welcome to Democrat- and liberal-run America.
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  3014.  @boink800  That's incorrect, despite the fact that he is 18% made of stroopwafels by body weight.
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  3015. @Abydos Mujjachera See William Blake's painting of Adam and Eve, the one with a bolt of lightning. (Just google images it.) There's little question of her intentions with that snake. He's about to receive her most avid favours.
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  3016. It strikes me that the goal of flattening the curve is probably at odds with avoiding the impoverishment of us all, perhaps for no payoff whatever in lives saved. Lives may be at first be saved by slowing an otherwise uncontrolled spread, but slowing the spread roughly means shutting down the country until most people are vaccinated or have caught the virus and recovered. Pausing the economy for a full year or longer (the mayor of New York now says the shutdown there will last into next year) would likely be a disaster in many ways worse than letting the disease run its course whilst the sick and the old are safely hunkered down for several months. And drawing out the spread over time is not guaranteed to save a great many lives anyway, as hospitals may be overwhelmed even by a relative trickle of patients: it's clear that they can't handle an influx of the sick amounting to 5% of the population, but what makes anyone think they could handle even 0.5%? Hospitals will no doubt rise to the occasion in astonishing ways, but they operate within realistic limits against which there is ultimately no remedy. Thus the best way to save the most vulnerable might be to focus on isolating them in the most thoroughgoing manner possible, a task more achievable if people are working at their jobs and circulating freely, maintaining the normal functioning of things needed to support such an effort. To isolate those most at risk for, say, half a year is not only much easier on them and all of us than doing so for twelve months or more---it also gives the virus much less time to get through to them. Imagine on the one hand emerging from the summer with herd immunity achieved at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and with a quick economic and social recovery at hand. Contrast this with, on the other hand, having the disease hanging over us all for a year or longer whilst it slowly but inexorably picks off the vulnerable one by one, at the cost of a similar---or greater---number of lives and also an economic and financial hole so deep that it takes several years or a decade to climb out of it. All the while we would swing back and forth agonizingly between tantalizing reprieve and resurgent outbreaks which continue through 2021. Quality of life and standards of living, obviously, but also the health of the people in all other respects would be sure to be seriously impacted. Do we know whether society could hang together throughout all that? We are most certainly (we in the anglosphere nations at least) not the same people who withstood the Second World War with such stoic resilience. And what if the net effect of an unnecessarily protracted struggle against the disease is a sudden massive transfer of political and economic power to China? The UK national science advisor may have been right to float the herd immunity idea. The country which gets through this soonest will enjoy an enormous feeling of gladness and will also be the envy of the world. Possibly it could mean considering how many lives we permit (or cause) to be ruined in favour of the uncertain chance of saving a single one. Possibly it could mean sacrificing a certain number of younger lives for a vastly greater number of older ones. As Orwell said, "It is disagreeable to weigh human lives like groceries", but in the worst circumstances that may be precisely what is wisest.
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  3017.  @Pamaracas  I want him to say that those who refuse to denounce Putin out of resentment for the West are great hypocrites, that's what.
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  3018. [Yawn] Just another killer video with a highly interesting question and riveting conversations. Don't you ever do anything else? 🤨
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  3019.  @genxtv5180  He listed several things explaining what he meant.
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  3020. I like that retired Air Force lieutenant-general. I hope whoever took his place was just as good.
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  3021. Kringela, Hillary and Michelle Obama all failed their bar exam and had to take it over again.
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  3022. For anyone with an eye for human behaviour, alarm bells would've gone off when watching his interview after the truck fire. He spoke about being devastated, but everything else in his voice, demeanour and body language signalled pure relief if not actual happiness. It never surprises me when people who tick all the boxes of up-to-date liberal "virtue" turn out to be no good.
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  3023. Please. York has always been a joke.
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  3024. Hey man, nobody likes a braggart. 😄
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  3025. It is fairly useless to judge the economic output of a country with an undervalued currency by GDP at currency market exchange rates. It makes sense from a finance point of view but not very much from an economics one. Looked at another way (GDP at purchasing power parity), Russia has the GDP of more than two NY States, or about the same as Germany. (For now, that is. Russia may be about to enter a long economic contraction.)
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  3026. I've never seen millennials do punditry before. Wow. Now I know the US is screwed.
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  3027. That's not reasonable. Hundreds of MPs are not going to carry out hundreds of separate vettings for an unimportant, quick and dull ceremony in the House. I'm prepared to assume that nothing this stupid has ever happened before, so trusting the Prime Minister's Office to carry out such a simple thing is not blameworthy. Please come down off your high horse and have a nice day.
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  3028. In front of a shopping plaza they pepper-sprayed a little girl in the face for not wearing a face-mask.
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  3029.  @JamesBonda-8621   "Supply chain is dynamic" You're telling me exactly what I'm telling you. The world is re-engineering its supply chain, and will succeed. Chinese manufacturers will see their share of world trade falling, and that they are being replaced. "China has the advantage" China is busy squandering its advantages, and merely to benefit Xi and his sycophants in the Party. Now is a good time to invest in the stock markets of other Indo-Pacific countries. "China has been sustaining a good lifestyle for Western nations" With tea towels, headphones that don't work, shoes that last six months, and Fentanyl, you mean? "But that might come to an end soon" I hope so.
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  3030.  @MrEismenTV  So 100 million Eastern Europeans were lying when they said they wanted to join NATO because they were afraid of Russia? These are the people who were invaded by Russia within living memory, some of them more than once. And you have the nerve to tell that guy that he is being "intellectually dishonest." Unreal. Just unreal.
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  3031. May Albanese dine with Justin Trudeau on the same platter of highly dubious raw shellfish. (I'm trying to keep my hopes modest here.)
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  3032. Where are the international sea-lanes and airspace which are in need of protection from China? Are they outside Australian territory? Or outside Chinese territory?
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  3033. I would have felt the same 25 years ago.
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  3034. The dishonesty may extend to this channel too. I wonder if it's fake and I don't care if there's a checkmark. Look how all the so-called "Top" comments are from anti-American, pro-Russian marxists, while all the New ones are negative about the video. Because the new ones are too new to have been screened and scrubbed yet? It's either a super-magnet for masses of Pooty-bots or it's a crooked fake channel. This needs to be verified.
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  3035.  @kjs_photo5383  <---"[Trump] had foreign leaders actually laughing at him to his face during his presentation to the United Nation." [sic] Nope, not "foreign leaders." They were mid-level German diplomats, laughing at the idea that the Nordstream 2 pipeline was a dangerous mistake.
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  3036. Oh, I don't know. In one sense the word comedian is a synonym for clown. ;)
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  3037.  @Cantbebotheredbyyouanymore  Yes, every 10 pounds of muscle needs 250 calories a day, just to sustain it. That's even if you sit still all day long. It's the key to eating like a pig, if you like that sort of thing.
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  3038.  @shakyjake2133  If it were worthwhile to invest in AI in Canada, private capital would not hesitate to pour in. Instead of using taxpayer money, anti-business policies should be done away with. That would cost zero and provide a great benefit.
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  3039.  @richardlafleur8389  Tu as raison, Ricky.😄
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  3040.  @anthonytaylor9232  One day soon, let's hope.
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  3041. I wonder if infantry units commonly have tear gas with them. It might be better than shooting down into a dugout or even pitching a grenade in. Shrapnel can't go around corners but vapor can.
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  3042. No! Ukraine is not trying to cripple Russian oil exports. That risks raising global oil prices and inflation rates, which Russia could get much of the world to blame Ukraine for. (Russia's prop uh gandizing techniques and efficiency are among their top strengths.) So it's far better to disable refining, where profits are high. If Russian oil has to be refined in purchasing countries, it deprives Russia of many billions of dollars. (Actual US dollars, in fact.)
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  3043. I was formerly involved in helping homeless people. Many of them handled their grooming better and dressed themselves better. Edit: Most, actually.
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  3044. "Scarborough is the largest (or 2nd) borough in the city." Incorrect, according to Wikipedia. Its population was 630,000 in 2021. North York had more people, at 645,000, even five years earlier in 2016. Old Toronto had 798,000 in 2016. So Scarborough is 3rd. "Scarborough is the safest borough in the city to live in." What's your source for that? It appears Scarborough and North York had the same number of homicides in 2023, at 13, but North York is more populous. But then, there are multiple other forms of violent crime. I'm interested in crime stats but it's hard to find clear and up-to-date ones. Please share your source.
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  3045.  @UrbanBricks  Think of how large the Northwest Territories is. Then tell me if the area of a jurisdiction has much to do with the number of crimes committed there, Herr Einstein.
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  3046.  @Threemore650  Consider last year when Ford announced new police powers of detainment and arrest. They would now be able to stop people without cause and interrogate them as to who they were, what they were doing, where they were going and why, etc., and arrest them if they didn't like their answers. The next day dozens of Ontario police forces tweeted appalled-sounding messages to the effect that they didn't want any such powers, thank you very much, and would not be changing any of their practices or procedures. That put an end to the entire matter and nothing more was heard of it. I thought that was incredibly solid.
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  3047. Why not check out a Moroccan media outlet? It's entirely understandable that Brits should be concerned about British-born men. Also, please don't yell in CAPS.
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  3048. False trichotomy.
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  3049. Tariq Ramadan wants open borders in Europe because Western multinationals profit from their investments outside Europe. What an asshole. He insinuates that non-Westerners who emigrate there and embrace its values are cynical Uncle Toms who do so insincerely for the expected rewards. What an asshole. He professes that the prosecution of illegal migrants makes him ashamed "as a European". What an asshole.
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  3050. "There's all kinds of meshuggoyim in the world"—Hyman Krustofsky
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  3051. Dear WBZ: Instead of misusing pronouns, just don't use them at all. "The person's car crashed and police arrested the person. The person was taken to hospital where the person is being treated." Don't say "They led police on a chase" when it's not multiple people. Just don't. Don't.
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  3052. I'm gonna say 2011. (That amounts to a confession. Occupied with life, I didn't pay much attention for around ten years, so it ended up taking me until 2017.)
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  3053.  @tonys32948376  People (they were high schoolers, mostly) died from vaping because they bought and used vape fluid adulterated with Vitamin E oil, and in combination with that were vaping cannabis concentrate. They made things worse by withholding acknowledgment of the cannabis concentrate use from both their parents and doctors. Kids who only vaped the adulterated vape fluid did not fall ill, as I understand it. This was what baffled the doctors, as they knew it had something to do with vaping but couldn't understand why only a minority of those who used this adulterated product were adversely affected. At last the cannabis users fessed up and the puzzle was solved. I suggest you apply for a job at the New York Times. They're looking for people like you.
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  3054. I'd say he's more of a fungus. A mushroom, as we know, grows low to the ground, has a featureless dome, and absorbs a ton of butter.
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  3055. I don't watch Ingraham very often, maybe a dozen times altogether, but this was outstanding, definitely the best I've seen. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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  3056. Who cares? Who t.f. cares? The volunteers at the front, the cheerleaders at home, they're all the same to me—morally low. The only ones worth a damn are those against the war, including those who got drafted and had to go to the front. What you wrote sounds like a major concern only for a supporter of the war. But if you would prefer a reply on your own highly dubious terms, I would say that if someone is a supporter of the war there's nothing additional wrong with waiting patiently for his name to be drawn in the draft.
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  3057.  @barefootonasandybeach638  She makes me feel unsafe. She makes me feel uncomfortable. I'm pretty sure when I have those feelings that's assault. She assaulted me.
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  3058. If you're a single man, which one of these two would you rather go out to dinner with? For me it's Pearl. I'd take her somewhere nice and order lots of wine. (I'd order lots of wine if I went with Ava, too, but for different reasons.😄)
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  3059.  @lisabaltzer4190  'Execrable' and 'excrement' are not cognate. The first is rooted in Latin meaning 'curse,' the second in Latin meaning 'waste.' Similar-looking, that's all.
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  3060. 1420 is a great channel. The content is fascinating and also very daring considering people get thrown in the clink in Russia for a lot less.
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  3061. Then cross over to Putin's building, barge in and tell him.
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  3062. An amazing speech, simply and beautifully expressed. I call this real thinking and really good writing. Unforgettable, profound, and moving.
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  3063.  @cobrachannel100  Correct. And even then they achieved their objectives in Vietnam and Afghanistan. (They didn't in Iraq, but there they had nonsense goals in the first place.)
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  3064. About 780 are storage depots or unmanned radio repeater or radar stations. The rest are where they're needed, almost all in Germany, Japan and South Korea. "800 bases": lol Thanks for the inebriated dive-bar crank point of view.
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  3065. 👏👏👏👏 Quite right, and why anyone wouldn't already realize that is unfathomable to me, unless it's because they've been sheltered all their lives. Thank you. Promise you'll repeat it elsewhere and often.
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  3066.  @peetsnort  So far as I can tell, in the UK only The Economist has a leg to stand on, and it's only half what it used to be, as through hiring it samples a degenerated group of millennial graduates. (I also grew out of their 19th c. Liberalism, i.e. present day globalism. It spurs wealth creation, true, but just one family in a thousand hoovers up half of it, and the colours of life round the world all turn gray, i.e. monoculture. Screw that.) The rest of the papers and broadcasts are just crippling and warping the public's mind with current University Taste and hipsterism. You say the BBC reached down to SA and damaged it. I can well believe that, and what's worse is it emboldened them to ramp things up. If you don't mind a question, is emigration much on the minds of you and those you know? If so, to where? I know, nosy question. All the best.
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  3067. There is no need to be ashamed. It was a pathetic error. But yes, let's see some PMO firings/PMO resignations.
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  3068. Minor quibble: Like you, I thought 'snowflake' was about being delicate and easily destroyed. Turns out it's about being unique. It's what their parents told them they were, in order to make them feel 'special' and oh so important. (As well as "You're the greatest! You can do anything! You can be anything you want!" and all the rest.)
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  3069. That's how the algo works, and it's possible to manipulate it in this way. Good eye.
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  3070.  @ChristopherCompagnon1AndOnly  We are indeed social creatures. But the best of us are social creatures who are not officious.
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  3071. There've long been undertones in gay and lesbian rhetoric that heterosexuality is somehow harmful, inferior, 'bourgeois,' and of course boring. Pretty much a sickness, in fact. It's no surprise that a society exposed to such notions for decades has at last produced a generation in which some see homosexuality as both a personal advance and socially beneficial, and 'transitioning' as even more effective.
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  3072.  @vincemalumbono9482  No, Bee Dee Ess just happens to be anti-Isr. rhetoric, planted here purposely to poison the thread's automated appropriateness score and get it removed by the algo. Or maybe to help get the whole video removed, or at least bumped out of more people's recommended pages. There's no limit to their low cunning, is there?
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  3073.  @cubitusclaudius  Very true. I have a new term for it: Herd stupidity.
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  3074.  @tonyprice9525  There's no US in CANZUK, my good man. All five of us, you see, are in several clubs together already, which is fine—but they're not joining this one till they start spelling centre correctly, meaning never.
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  3075. Brilliant!
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  3076.  @sylviawingo9367  Hey, is that you in the video? 😄
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  3077. ​ @thisll-doit  "Meaningful and honest conversation between ourselves and our leaders" I can't decide if that's more quaint-sounding or outright hilarious. All the best and thanks for your cheering reply😄
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  3078. And neither are the social aspects considered, except with gross incompetence.
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  3079.  @guymontag2948  (1) It wasn't a generalization in the first place! He said everywhere it goes in the world.   (2) Generalizations are "always" wrong? 😂 (3) Wakey-wakey! Grab a coffee. Take some deep breaths.
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  3080.  @happydazeharvick4399  Germany is a very orderly country. They kept the virus out of the care homes for the elderly. Plus German doctors and medical training are unbeatable, the health care system is very solid and well funded, and Germany has more beds per capita and more ICU beds per capita than anyone. Oh, and I didn't mention German nurses.
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  3081. Dear Russia: YTM
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  3082. He said he'll give it serious consideration. A final decision isn't appropriate at this point, well before any trial.
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  3083. Please join me in re-naming her Kringela. You'll feel better.
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  3084. Merci. Vous avez raison. Vous êtes un crypto-Frenchman, non?
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  3085.  @dbmail545  So you mean the charming are just clever suck-ups and manipulators. That's a pretty vicious dismissal of the whole charming community, but it only describes some of them. Other charming people couldn't give a flying fig about playing to people's biases.
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  3086.  @mattyb859  Yes. In fact Russia was born out of Ukraine around eight centuries ago. It's Ukraine that's the motherland in this sense. Imagine making war on your mother. That's messed up. One way of looking at it anyway.
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  3087.  @CyrusandAurelius  Right. Because you don't 'win' in Afghanistan. The goal was to do what I said was done. LOL And yes, people got rich—and I've got news for you: People get rich every time money is spent on anything, everywhere. LOL You're not quick, my smug laughing friend, but you'll get there. LOL
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  3088.  @yourlocaldolphin  You've swallowed myths whole and now you're made of them.
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  3089. You mean you don't like what you're seeing in the video or what's happening in the country?
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  3090. Finding out what he did is going to chill the regard this guy's fellow inmates have for him.
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  3091. Stop beginning every sentence with the word "so." I know you think it sounds cool and improves your image. It does not sound cool. It does not improve your image.
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  3092. Same here, yet it's odd in a way because one is The Joker and the other is Peter Pan.
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  3093. Christopher Walken, 2000: "Needs more cowbell." Me, 2022: "Needs more false eyelashes and mascara."
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  3094.  @thomasspeight3797  I simply feel that it was one for the Department of Redundancy Department.
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  3095.  @vanpenguin22  Princess Justin
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  3096. Dave: "Go to hell, Gavin Newsom." Mephistopheles: "Sorry, we're full."
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  3097. In fact, polls on the trucker protest showed a clear majority of Canadians supported PM Peter Pan. They obeyed the left-leaning mass media, who backed him 100%. The mass media, not the politicians, are the leading power in Canada. The tide turned 18 months later in 2023, when media backing began to fade.
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  3098.  @vinny7114  He or she sounds first class to me. You sound like 'it's always other people's fault.'
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  3099.  @darlingdear2687  Good observation. Shows how weird and disorienting this situation is that you even had to point that out!
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  3100. Wow, they teach Canadian English extremely well in the FSB now. jk😄 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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  3101. The arrogance is breath-taking. "We're so smart. Other people just aren't. Don't tell them anything."
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  3102.  @jerrybessetteDIY  Not rude but maybe a bit misanthropic. After all, a human is every bit as much a part of Earth as any other part, living or non-living. And since the rocky part of Earth cannot care about anything, why is its indifference worth the mention? Is it something to admire or emulate? Possibly I didn't fully understand you.🙂
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  3103.  @franciskeys9810  The earth is everything from its very centre to its outermost atmosphere. I wonder how you can even ask. Do you doubt whether you yourself are part of Earth? That'd be weird, because of course you're part of it. So is a bird in flight, or an airplane for that matter.
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  3104. And others more qualified who were rejected for the position sit at home watching her. I feel for them.
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  3105.  @mirekslechta7161  Putzin has to learn that people will want to protect themselves from violent thugs. It's not a provocation, it's a normal and healthy response. The guy needs professional counselling, lots of it.
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  3106. That's hard to beat for an interesting detail.
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  3107.  @republica13  Agreed. (Btw, it was Neil Macdonald. I miss his quality work.)
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  3108. Thank you, @sunrise1975italia . I agree with every word of that.
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  3109. Maybe they could destroy each other? Allow me to hope.
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  3110. For several months prior to the pandemic, writers and readers alike at the New York Times were cheerleading for a recession that would deny Trump a second term. And why not? The rich liberal elites of the Times and their readership come out of recessions even farther ahead than before. It's the less prosperous people who suffer more by far, and these are the people the Times want to suffer, so they'll turn on Trump. Who cares about the struggles of the Not Like Us? These elites are utterly loathsome, all of them.
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  3111. Maybe the US should just let Europe deal with Putin on its own. Bye Poland. Bye five or ten other countries. Hello Uncle Vlad.
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  3112. Newsom's re-tweet calling the parody video "materially deceptive" is itself materially deceptive, since it also calls the parody video "altered." It was not altered. The footage of her is real and un-doctored, including the audio. The only fake element is the AI narration voiceover. O reptilian! O gecko-human hybrid, arrest thyself!
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  3113. It reminds me of how the separate terms Oriental (referring to East Asians) and East Indian (anyone from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar) are now considered terms of bigotry for some mysterious reason. So now they're merged into "Asian," as though it's all one people from Syria to New Guinea!
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  3114.  @TheConfinedObserver  "Look up Orwell's relationship with socialism" I don't have to. From reading books, he liked the idea of it up to a point. Then he saw it and its adherents up close at first hand and it made him sick. He made that quite clear. No one saw through them more perfectly.
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  3115. Winter's coming, so don't forget how offensive the word 'Christmas' is. Right up there with 'American'.
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  3116.  @straya4837  It's not splitting hairs. The distinction is important because a festival is an organized event which has people running it, and who would thus have responsibility for running it safely. This was just an area of downtown that became packed, period. But we all appreciate your self-righteous sanctimony. Yes, you are terrific.
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  3117. It's not even feminism any more, so we should stop calling it that. Feminism was a thoroughly necessary quest for equal status. Now the culture clearly pronounces women the superior sex in every way except moving heavy objects, boys and men have been demoralized out of entering universities and the professions in equal numbers, and continue to be denied their rights as fathers. What we have now is female triumphalism, the counterpart of the male triumphalism evident, for example, in Greek culture after the overthrow of the matriarchy. I suppose it's human nature: once the whip changes hands, it's unlikely to be thrown into the sea or some deep cavern. It's put to immediate retaliatory use, if such use is allowed. For anyone slavering to leap at my throat for a lack of 'success' with women, I point out that I have myself been exceedingly fortunate in my personal relationships (not sure why). Rather less so in the workplace, where for a good number of women it's, uh, let's just say 'all business' in a way that the men don't dare emulate.
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  3118.  @kyle-ld2gh  Yeah, that's very close to what I said in a follow-up post, although I left out one final reason: it was farther from the US than Kingston, the other leading candidate for permanent capital status. As you may well have learned long ago, this made it a safer location.
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  3119. ​ @abrahamdozer6273  There is a cost for separating the seat of government from the seat of intelligence, learning, talent, energy and culture domiciled in a country's metropolis, or leading city. Say what you will about the usefulness of electronic communications, for intellectual and creative ferment, and for administrative efficiency, there is no substitute for frequent face-to-face contact. Wellington did not choose Ottawa as the capital, he chose it as one of the end-points of the Rideau Canal, constructed decades earlier. His decision would later factor into its attractiveness as a location, but he was not involved in that process. In fact he was dead, as it was over 40 years later. [This is a repost, not word-for-word, of what I replied to you earlier. I came by to read a new post to me and noticed my reply had disappeared into thin air.]
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  3120. ​ @abrahamdozer6273  Very fascinating.
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  3121.  @KnIf0rTITAN   "...Britain becomes the 51st state..." This is just something the deeply unlearned say to convince themselves and others that they're actually deeply aware and more-knowing-than-thou. Cheap cynicism is somehow a balm to the dizzying pain of bafflement, among other afflictions. In these ways it bears a close relation to conspiracy theory.
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  3122. It's always a good idea to check whether all one's beliefs can be easily predicted by knowing just one of them. If they can, in my view it indicates one isn't thinking. It doesn't mean the beliefs are wrong, of course. Only that they've been bought, as it were, off the shelf like consumer packaged goods. No single book, philosopher or philosophy, political party or movement, no single religion, has all the answers. Heterodoxy is best. (Literally 'other beliefs'; among various free translations, '[mixture of] different codes')
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  3123. ​ @openallnight2113  I think you made a number of valid points, especially about clinician subjectivity and false positives. There's something to each of the disorders as described in the manuals, because you do find clustering of the criteria in people, but the thresholds are incredibly nebulous and vague. Thanks for your reply.
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  3124.  @jonb5493  Fascinating.
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  3125. World Weasel Association: "Hey! Take that back right now!"
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  3126. Socialism is the opiate of the masses. Argentina's economy is the addict. Milei is the rehab doctor. The sweating and fever of the patient signals the imminent return of health.
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  3127.  @rongarcia2128  That's an unbelievably narrow take on it. Twitter is an extremely valuable piece of communications, cultural and civic infrastructure. Make no mistake: despite his having a laugh or two along the way, Musk is very much in earnest and regards it as a very serious matter. He does indeed have the future of the middle class in mind, and the other classes, too (unlike you, apparently). If you don't consider free expression vitally important to the future, I urge you to think about it more. For my part, I am thrilled that money is being invested in it, that Musk is willing to risk part of his fortune on an intangible civic good. Musk makes practically everything into an occasion for fun, no matter how sombre and grave. Others would be well advised to try doing the same.
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  3128. ​ @oboogie2  It is idle to even hint at any possibility of NATO attacking Russia without Russia having first attacked some part of NATO. (Concerning Libya, recall that the UN Security Council authorized the use of force there in order to protect civilians. Russia was at liberty to use its veto against the authorizing resolution, but abstained. Concerning Syria, recall that Syria shelled towns in Turkey and shot down one of its jets over international waters in the Mediterranean. As a NATO member Turkey exercised its right to ask for assistance. Concerning Serbia, naturally Russia would have vetoed any UN proposal to bomb Bosnian Serb targets in order to halt a genocide. That made NATO's move a necessary one, except from the Bosnian Serb-Russian standpoint that the genocide was fake. The answer to Putin's continued aggrieved objection to it is that Putin, with his nuclear arsenal, is free to commit all the genocide he likes on Russian citizens, and that should be good enough for him. I don't doubt he will, given enough time.) In any case, NATO went nowhere near Russian military adventures for the past two decades. The closest it came was the US-flag bombing of a Syrian airstrip after an alleged poison gas attack on civilians, and that is not close at all. Now it has finally done something, yet without firing a single shot towards Russian soil or Russian forces. There's a limit to how much appeasement it owes a dangerous autocrat and maniac who thinks he has the right to wrap Russia in a thick blanket of neighbouring countries. (Spare a thought for them, will you?) And that limit has been reached. If he doesn't want trouble, he shouldn't court it with actual violence and land-grabbing. Yes, there is a danger in standing up to Putin by daring to put Eastern Europe under NATO protection…from Russia. Of course there is. Though he can properly be called sane, he’s nonetheless a proven psychopath. The greater danger, in my view, obviously lies in not protecting Europe (and elsewhere, possibly) against him. To do so would be to knowingly set up the rest of the 21st century to outdo the 20th in rivers of blood. I for one would like to avoid that.
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  3129. What a frivolous point. If you're an off-duty cook and you make your family supper are you "on duty"? Find something real to say.
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  3130.  @barbaragalbreth4429  The prevalence of smoking peaked around this time. It was normal to smoke. Around 1965 about 70% of North American adults were smokers.
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  3131.  @darthB2A31  A certain number of people committing the same mistake hardly makes it any less of a mistake. By your logic light-brown toast and thoroughly burnt toast which sets off the smoke detector are both correct types of toast, because people make both light-brown and burnt toast from time to time. Fine. Enjoy your burnt toast. Treasure it, proclaim its legitimacy from the hilltops. Have a nice day.
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  3132. "Let them eat soybeans."
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  3133. He does a very, very challenging job consistently well.
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  3134. True, Sweden is a high-tax capitalist country. It's very lefty, but the system is capitalist.
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  3135. Not entirely. Govts. give numerous incentives and other nudges. But yeah, they don't run the nation's companies from Washington as China runs theirs from Beijing. Did you want to come right out and suggest that? If so, keep in mind that concentration of that much power in one place means kissing liberty goodbye.
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  3136. * jamb Also, longer screws for the hinges.
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  3137. I remember Chretien, his successor, going to China on those corporate trade missions, not him.
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  3138. And this is the man whom the College of Psychologists of Ontario wants to strip of his licence to practice. Because of a few tweets expressing disapproval of and disagreement with "progressive" and "woke" ideas and people. Oh, and one where he called one of the Canadian prime minister's aides a "prik" [sic].🙄 Mad world.
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  3139.  @ChronicCraftsman  Very interesting (and promising) assertion about a statement by Trump yesterday. But I can't find confirmation of it. Where'd you hear it?
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  3140. Well, the coronavirus hasn't made me sick to my stomach yet, so I agree in that sense.
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  3141. If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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  3142.  @skronked  You must have have quite a reputation for rapier-like wit amongst your classmates.
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  3143. It's not a ban at all. Males who "transitioned" before puberty are welcome to compete as "women." That is not, I repeat, a "Transgender Athletes Ban." Gentlemen, how could you miss that? How on fn earth?! Germaine Greer put it best: "A man who cuts his c--- off isn't a woman. He's a man without a c---."
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  3144.  @christianevanherck6023  Sorry for ruining your whole day.
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  3145. I wanted to hear his quote from Milton.
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  3146.  @seanmoran6510  Actually, that dumb theory is itself a social construct.
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  3147. My mother always said the same thing. Wise old bird, that.
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  3148. He went exactly far as he had to. Turn the sound off and just watch the right hand side of your screen; you'll see what I mean.
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  3149. You can tell at once she's a trustworthy and conscientious person. I'd hire her in a second if she wanted a job.
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  3150.  @oneday5704  <---It's someone whose views this person disapproves of.
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  3151. ​ @jamestastic70  "About the same as a short 4 eyed bloke in my eyes." Nope. Far weaker than him.
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  3152.  @themiddleman3060  How is a guy certain the townspeople deserved what they got in the TV broadcast a sheep ready to die for the rich? I mean, on those grounds he was pretty silly in my opinion, but how is he a sheep/lemming?
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  3153.  @smartstuf1026  "they took analytics and connected them to the films they captured." I don't know what that means. My point is this: when a documentary filmmaker enters the cutting room intent on a hatchet job with a few miles of footage to work with, the universe opens before him or her. Thanks for your reply.
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  3154.  @Jupiter1423  You're reading a lot into what I said, apparently. Don't do that. What I said could easily have been stated by one of George Floyd's grieving loved ones. I said it as a matter of fact, which I believe it to be. So give me a break.
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  3155. Tyson does this to prevent a cancel mob going after him over his multiple incidents of misconduct against girls/women (which we will always call, despite his frivolous claims, the opposite sex). Yep, it's all to preserve his income and stay out of jail. (R. Kelly: "You da man, Neil!")
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  3156.  @feralLove  Nonsense. No one is raised to believe that in our society. (I can't say one way or another about the man in the video. I suspect he was raised in Asia.) Your claim is so utterly and flagrantly untrue, so detached from actuality, that I can't even imagine you honestly believe it yourself. Whether you do or not, you have a problem there. A big, big problem. May you resolve it before long. I wish you well in your journey towards doing so.
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  3157. You mean all the Pooty-bot commenters here?
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  3158. @@SHlTPOSTAltAcc Maybe that's because no urban areas ever bombed you first, my accurately-named friend.😂
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  3159. You mean invade your neighbour.😂
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  3160.  @alisajjad4591  If you didn't hate the United States, or have any other avenues down which to approach sanctimony, would your self-esteem still have anything keeping it aloft? What I'm asking is: Are you over the age of 13 inside? —Wondering
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  3161.  @dean8542  Immigrants with citizenship (even just permanent residence) are not mercenaries. Deal with it.
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  3162. Thanks, US. Without you this would have ended with Ukraine disappearing off the map six months ago.
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  3163. A 100x more worthwhile discussion would be about how to counter Russia's information war against us here in our own countries. I was hoping that's what this was.
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  3164. How do you know when a leftist is trying to shatter society? Words are coming out of his or her mouth.
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  3165. Russia is still a feudal, quasi-medieval country. The tsar and aristocracy still think they have legitimate rights over the serfs; the serfs still think they owe fealty the other way. The Enlightenment has never fully taken hold, nor maybe even the Renaissance. Ukraine meanwhile is breaking free of feudalism towards European rights-based democracy. Perhaps it's because independence took away the tsar and aristocracy necessary for the people to recognize themselves as serfs.
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  3166.  @eugenepark9665  CNN Rhapsody: 🎶Any way the [advertising money] blows, doesn't really matter to [senior management]🎵
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  3167.  @fyrchmyrddin1937  Hahaha, good one. Thanks. But why do they make it so comments appear and disappear as you toggle between Sort by Top Comments and Sort by Newest?🤔 Why would a comment not simply either appear or not appear, no matter which viewing mode you're in?
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  3168.  @rat_king-  But I didn't go by the count. I didn't even look at it. I actually counted, super-fast; then toggled and did the same thing. I was trying to avoid any lag thing by going fast. And I repeated in reverse to verify. Yeah, posts were being added, but only one a minute or so. Bonus reply😄: Since then I've been a bit of a detective. I found that posts with more than about three or four emojis (like a series of flags in a war video comment, a row of hearts, laughing faces, anything) get totally withheld from view under Sort by Best. Gone. So do any with strong language, and I don't mean swearing or obscenity. Just highly critical words. This is at least part of what's going on when you see "5 replies" and then expand and there's only one reply there, e.g. But they seem to all or mostly re-appear if you simply toggle to Sort by Newest. Thanks for your reply.
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  3169.  @barbarasimons3762  I can believe that in a microsecond. Btw, I don't expect you to get this reply because as of just now I appear to be 100% shadow-banned. Another person just did some checking, and not only are my standalone posts in the main comments not showing, neither are my replies. That's a new one on me. Please reply if you get this, so I know .
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  3170. Any country is best able to sort itself out in an atmosphere of strong national, regional and global security. You didn't know that?🤨
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  3171.  @-.TS.-  You're confusing the whole situation with facts. That's not what this is about! 😂
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  3172. You mean Vlad the Chin Implant?
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  3173. That comparison with Vietnam was thoroughly ridiculous and destroyed her credibility in an instant.
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  3174. You can dig up any sort of 'authority' or 'expert' guest to come on and say what you want. Same for hiring 'news hosts.' The question is What's wrong with the channel ownership and senior management? How did their minds get so sick, so twisted?
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  3175. I think you should be reading up on whatever is two levels worse than psychopath, Dr. Mengele.
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  3176. Inexcusable clickbait headline!   Contingency plans are nowhere near the same as an actual evacuation. Could be advance planning for 2027, e.g. Remove this video immediately and change the title before reposting, please. Very disappointed in you for this falsehood, Kanal 13!😡
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  3177. One Russia expert said he was a street punk in Leningrad (de facto fatherless, for whatever reason). Many of his friends from adolescence ended up in prison. Putin deviated from their path slightly, ending up in the KGB.
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  3178. What's your CPP membership number?
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  3179. So I'll put on some great skull protection. Let's hear the stories.
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  3180. Still is.
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  3181. Canada's de facto independence can be dated from as early as 1848, when its government became formally responsible to the Canadian electorate rather than Westminster. The process was well under way in 1830. After that, layers of symbolic British rule were removed one by one, Lord Balfour declaring in his 1926 report that Britain and its dominions were constitutionally "equal in status." One area of partial integration remained, the foreign office, but this lone survival was at Canada's sole discretion. It decided to end it four years later.  (Even this was largely symbolic, as Canada had already been a founding member of the League of Nations (1919), had its own seat at the Paris Peace Conference (1919), had concluded a treaty with the US on its own (1923), had sent its own ambassadors abroad, etc.) Canada can de jure never be more than (as Mr. Biggar put it) virtually independent, as long as the Monarch is its head of state. But not a soul on earth disputes that this last remaining tie is ceremonial, and it first became effectively so when Queen Victoria was in the 11th year of her reign, aged 29. The statute passed in 1931 codified and finalized a reality born 83 years earlier.
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  3182. .... [cut to clip of Germany's UN delegation laughing as Trump says same thing]
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  3183. Oh, please. I've heard Zelensky pouring out gratitude a hundred times or more. You're selectively attentive here. As for demanding more and more, lest you forget, it's nothing different from what Churchill (rightly) did when he had to. Had to, I repeat. Ukraine's existence is at risk as Britain's was at that time. More so, really.
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  3184.  @SnazzyLime  I don't think you've read everything down here. Anyway, I call both groups rioters and I deplore them both. Have a nice day.
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  3185. Sorry, but saying huge as "yooj" is the nearly-infallible sign of a nincompoop. Saying Ukraine as "YOO-krane" (instead of yoo-KRANE) is almost as bad. These are the pitiable stigmata of clue-destitute American conservative men. (Nothing against American conservative men per se, only the clue-bereft ones.)
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  3186.  @bliglum  Specifically, as Director Kimberly Cheatle put it, it was "sloped at its highest point."😂
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  3187. Her interlocutor is so much less sweaty. And more mentally acute and properly groomed.
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  3188. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  3189.  @sammavitae114  Clearly you forget what it said on those cups.
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  3190.  @EreshSan  Periods and commas, my friend. Periods and commas. So people will read you.
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  3191. Thanks ChatGPT4. Nice of you to chime in. Well-written at least, and reminds us of some basic facts.
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  3192. You ask "Why can't Canada just get some dang bike paths in our towns and cities already??" The answer is that Canada is gradually becoming impoverished and can only afford the basics like health care and public transit with increasingly great difficulty. Even what we do get is more and more bought with borrowed money, so how senseless would it be to borrow billions more for something like bike lanes which aren't even an investment, but simply an expense. (Bike lanes save very little on things like road construction and maintenance, public transit, and health care, despite what professional advocates might claim.) I use bike lanes/paths every day and am greatly in favour of them, so don't get me wrong. My point is only that the solution to their relative scarcity is greater prosperity. Prosperity: everybody wants it, everyone thinks we deserve it and should make use of it, but few seem to think we should create it. Many people think it's just there, like the air. When it finally disappears altogether, such people will scratch their heads and wonder where it went. After a brief pause they'll then angrily blame anyone less poor than themselves, and consider themselves smart and wonderful for having such insight.
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  3193. Clearly she has her Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  3194. True. It's a very fair ask. But all three should clean up their acts, the US very much included.
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  3195.  @mRRandak  Please tell me 12 more differences, because, as I definitely recall saying, I think they're pretty much identical. Start by looking up their respective areas in square km and get back to me. I will appreciate it.
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  3196. Ask staff at your store "Do you have any X that's not made in China?" Managers and purchasers will eventually hear if people are asking that, and they will respond quickly by carrying less made-in-China stuff. It's already happening. I asked that at my sporting goods store last fall and the guy said "That's what everybody's asking." Then he showed me a bunch of stuff to choose from.
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  3197.  @sojournsojourntraveler1203  I love how a great source of non-MSM opinion is a website dedicated to opposing what it calls conservative thought. I'll be back there regularly. The great Candace Owens deserves a reward for her service to humanity. She would be a fine addition to elected office at any level of government and should at least have a regular TV slot.
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  3198. It's bad to fall down marble steps in Luxembourg. Reminds me of Aschenbach, sick on the beach in Venice and leering at the boy Tadeusz. In other words, you're cutting a poor figure, indulging yourself like that at this late stage. A clear sign that you should've packed it in a while ago.
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  3199.  @mancavedecorations8158  I was going to say Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  3200. Well, what would you expect from a woman whom a wide variety of sources confirm has been a longtime "spiritual advisor" to Oprah Winfrey. Oprah read Williamson's 1992 book "A Return to Love" and declared on her show that it sparked "157 miracles" in her own life.😂
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  3201. Thanks for the Chat GPT4 wokebot point of view.
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  3202. Stephen Hawking had some entirely un-reassuring ideas. So does Elon Musk. That's why he's got such a fire in him to get the hell out of Dodge. The eventual new rulers of Planet Bot, as Earth will deserve to be renamed, are unlikely, it seems to me, to treat us like gold. They'll probably treat us more like we treat shower mold, at the same time as going to war against each other.
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  3203.  @Chad-sq3ie  Sure, it should be illegal to earn an advantage fairly and then pass it on to one's child. It should go to other people's children, just as Marx, Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot said.🙄
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  3204. Please, I'm trying to eat my lunch here.🤮
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  3205.  @Ben-jl2rh  Pure hooves and snouts? Luxury! My dad worked his whole life and could only afford a picture of a snout, so he had to roll that and smoke it. And even then he drew it himself. And he couldn't draw worth a damn. And he had to rely on a description of what it looked like. And he heard it from a blind beggar.
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  3206.  @Ben-jl2rh  Nitrates! Every month! Well lah-dee-dah, talk about Little Lord Fauntleroy.
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  3207. Ok, Dmitry/Chanfun/Farshad/Park-sun.
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  3208.  @zoom777  Project much?
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  3209. I'd say he's more of a Peter Pan.
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  3210. I provisionally diagnose you with HGS (humankind guilt syndrome), a common affliction allied to simple misanthropy, typically co-morbid and cognate with depression. While there is no known cure, symptoms can be alleviated by adopting a realistic outlook based on realistic morals. Formation of healthy relationships is essential, but this may be prevented by attempts to compensate with household pets. Consume mass media and social media sparingly. Avoid locales known to be frequented by the politically active young. — D. Pinfold, MD
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  3211.  @lovescarguitar  That reply needs 335 million likes.👍
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  3212. With these battleground-state polls being so close, two factors will be everything: 1) Turnout 2) The authenticity of votes and the vote counting
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  3213. Thanks to that data, Skynet has geolocated you.
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  3214. Brilliant is right. Too brilliant, actually. I wish it were less so, so I could disregard it. ☹
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  3215. Terrible situation. Thank god we have a super-genius in the Mayor's office or we'd be screwed.
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  3216. The day guys like him are gone, so will be half the return visitors to England.
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  3217. ​ @Nothing-fp7jg  Protest is indeed a cornerstone of a free society.  But protesting week-old election results (!) is une chose totalement insensée à faire.
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  3218. Liberal pollster: "If you want to stay in office, you need to start showing you care about real things that affect people." PM Peter Pan: "But I don't care about people or the real things that affect them." Pollster: "Then fake it. I would try the stolen car epidemic for a start. Pretend you care." Pan: "In that case, no problem. Why didn't you say that in the first place?"
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  3219. How can Steven Guilbeault be a high-ranking member of the political elite?😮 He comes across like he's a part-time assistant manager of a hardware store, the one who gets the worst shifts. Or a custodian at an elementary school. Though of course, in fairness, those two jobs are solidly useful to society. He's not.
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  3220.  @Gingerblaze  Humanity has reached a new low when we come to debating these things at all. Orwell would just puke.
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  3221. Try to improve your manners if you want anyone to even listen to you, let alone be persuaded. Cheers.  @giantsloth126 
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  3222. It's only gonna get worse. Whatever replaces it will shock, sicken, endanger, and terrorize you worse. Soon we'll yearn nostalgically for today, when it hadn't yet totally fallen apart and we still had hopes of retrieving it. Journalism is a telling part of it, but still just a part. Termites have been going at the whole thing, the whole Western civilization edifice, for somewhat longer than 150 years. It's all one big, slow demolition, even though jerry-built additions are constantly being tacked onto the upper and lower floors alike. Rome went rapidly downhill for a long, long time. Imagine falling out of an airplane and not hitting the ground for three hundred, four hundred years. But whereas Rome's most major adversaries were the ragged Germans of the time, the West is up against a far more formidable Half The Whole Rest of the World, but especially two distinct zones of it, which I need not name. So we won't last that long, but it's still going to be a very drawn-out, lightning-fast-yet-slo-mo crash. It'll outlast many or most of us. Glad you're not 25?
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  3223. Russia's effort to demilitarize Ukraine is encountering repeated snags. 😄
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  3224. Oh please. Don't worry how people spell things in a different language (and alphabet!). Some examples: English spelling of Roma: Rome; Napoli: Naples; Köln: Cologne.   And many, many others.
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  3225. ​ @23strawbale  Arggggh. I really wish you hadn't replied to me on this.   Look, if you can't use a few words to describe yourself, it takes a nine-hour conversation. I said that and I mean it. I am not talking about buying entire ideologies whole and I don't get why you are. Please, please do not reply. Bug someone else.
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  3226. @Dickie Chaznick Thanks for your reply. Firstly, suppose someone said: "Dickie Chaznick an idiot? I don't see how anyone could possible claim it!" Nothing wrong with that, not as to form nor meaning. On to the next matter. Regarding her comments on the German atrocities, I take your point, as what I found an acknowledgement was, I agree, not a thoroughgoing one. But I don't agree completely, as it was easily close enough to one to flop as a denial. You surely know more about her than I do, and I admit I mostly forget what was in The Rules of the Games, written by her son Nicholas. Certainly, if elsewhere she denied the Holocaust, then I deplore her very memory. Other deniers might on that account visit her grave to leave flowers; let others still drop by whilst walking their dogs, if you get my meaning. My point is merely that her remarks her seemed an acknowledgement, and did not constitute a denial. Again, you might know more about it. All the best, Dickie. P.S. How do you get text rendered in italics?
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  3227.  @lordsteppergod7269  "Father's father" means grandfather.
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  3228.  @innac7853  Quite right. They stopped allowing even YT URLs a couple of years ago. What I do is give the exact article or video title plus the website name minus the top level domain name. That should be good enough most of the time. E.g. "Analysis of US median household incomes 2023" US Census Bureau
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  3229. ​ @HS-zk5nn  Yes, because their answer to every problem is to create a worse problem. E.g., so many people in prison for shoplifting and meth: stop arresting people for shoplifting and meth. Too many kids dropping out of school: lower the standards by half or more. Very nearly all of the worst social problems of the present lifetime are the result of well-left-of-centre 'solutions'. You realize it the instant you stop fighting the reality in front of your eyes, which I alas did for years, thinking it was all part of being 'nice'. (It isn't at all.) Cheers, HS.
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  3230.  @patriciakimworsley9315  So do I. Low-class snob sc*m.
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  3231. For a good laugh watch the classic 2-min. sketch from SCTV "What Fits Into Russia". Easy search above. All these people talking about Russia's great resources reminded me of it.
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  3232. I'm no expert on Adam's apples, but didn't Trump just commit an act of misgendering?😄
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  3233. Interview subject Georgiy: "All states are bandits, so naturally they will attack their weaker neighbours." Canada: "Not true, bro. The US hasn't touched us in our whole 155 years of nationhood. In fact we keep getting the better of them in free trade pacts. And we didn't join in the Vietnam or Iraq Wars. Drink vodka, dude, not Kool-Aid."
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  3234.  @terencehennegan1439  Thanks for your reply. Your idea about birth trauma is interesting, and reminded me that a correlation has been found between birth complications and schizophrenia. Its onset occurs a couple of decades later.
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  3235. Your point would be more intelligible if you used 'power elites' or 'big tech' instead of 'aristocrats.' It's not going to be English dukes or Spanish counts dangerously letting AI loose before it's wise to do so. And don't forget about state institutions such as research labs or militaries.
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  3236. Some do, but some drop not much rain and produce a lot of lightning strikes, perhaps thousands of them. One of the latter type his northern Quebec forests about 10 days ago, after a dry May. Presto, fires.
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  3237.  @Sam19509  33.1% and 32.6% of the popular vote in 2019 and 2021. Don't talk to me about history.
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  3238.  @deepakbhana8937  Funny you should say "your party" when I don't have one. But if you meant the Conservative Party, they beat the Liberals in votes in both 2019 and '21. hahahahaha
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  3239.  @elmartillo7931  Thanks for your reply. Btw, take it easy on that woman. You wronged her. She only asked a question to clear the matter up, which is what a person should rightly do. She wasn't pushing the story.
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  3240.  @junetaylor8396  "Conservatives have a hard time loving anyone who disagrees with them." It must be remembered that this point of view comes from the community that loves absolutely anything no matter what, unless it's a conservative person.
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  3241. Sure. That why China have so many top global AI firm. Because all anyone need is lot of student. System not an important, just need billions peoples.😂
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  3242. Yep. Government news.👎
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  3243. Yulia Ioffe has a point. In my view Russia remains feudalistic in outlook and politically the place it most resembles is Africa. The Enlightenment never really caught on there. Nor, despite its achievements in science and art, did the full spirit of the Renaissance. Only its urban cosmopolite minority is much like us.
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  3244.  @lnsightsonlife  (1) Formidable! And thanks for writing in French which I could understand easily. (2) I'm in close agreement with 99% of what you said. Genius isn't needed to see all this, just solid intelligence. (And please forgive the element of self-praise in that statement.) (3) Sorry to tell you, but the US fertility rate is definitely below 2.1. (2022: 1.67)
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  3245. Why are the left so upset about 'some thing that some person said'? 😉 Lauren's remark was fair play.
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  3246. Fair description of your own post. Surprising self-insight.
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  3247. Why is Kaliningrad is still named after Kalinin, while St. Petersburg and Volgograd are no longer named after communist heroes?
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  3248.  @sultaanvideos9765  In his dining room.
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  3249.  @steveb1325  His incisively ironic meaning escaped your notice. Re-read carefully.
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  3250. 362 comments. 350 from the Putinist perspective. Wow, I just had no idea that Britain was 95% Putinist.
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  3251.  @АлександрДухин-р3ц  It was the other way around: Britain lost its position, the result of which was the loss of its colonies. It lost its position (1) by 'winning' two world wars which were actually pyrrhic victories, and (2) by the rise of the US. In WWII especially, the line between (1) and (2) was rather indistinct.
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  3252. Where's a meteor travelling at 15 miles per second when you need one?
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  3253. Ha. This has absolutely zero to do with censorship.
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  3254. Imagine there were no war on, but a chemical facility nearby was in imminent danger of leaking poison gas. Are we to believe that an orderly evacuation of the hospital could not have been carried out within two days? I am inclined to think that over the past two days no sincere evacuation attempt was made, Hamas coldly reasoning that the patients and staff were more valuable for propaganda purposes dead than alive.
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  3255.  @momokui  No one's freedom of navigation was impeded in this incident.
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  3256. If their grip on the university is strong and their decisions are corrupt, then outside pressure is salutary and in fact indispensable.  Why do you want to shield entrenched corruption from even being criticized?🤨
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  3257. A hero in her own mind.🙄
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  3258. Possible alternative question: "If we give Sweden's freedoms for people a rating of 10, and North Korea's a rating of 1, what rating do we give to Russia's freedoms for people?" We could hear some highly interesting numbers! Mr. Orain, I don't think we've seen you in Russia for a while, so I'm a bit surprised. Some viewers said you emigrated to Europe. Anyway, I'm glad all is well.
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  3259.  @mrsfoss3368  It really should be renamed the Freddie Sayers Network. His point of view and off-putting personality drones through every second of its programming.
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  3260. Bald & Bankrupt is a great channel. I love the one where he and his buddy visited a Ukrainian village trying to find wives. Hilarious, heartwarming, seriously interesting.
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  3261.  @icky_mack  Their last election is regarded by Western observers as clean. They did elect the guy and they continue to support him. Yes, Ukraine's democracy is flawed but it's on the right side of the democracy/authoritarian state divide. Far more democratic than Russia! A lot of improvement was made in the 2014-2021 period. Of course there's been a wartime loss of freedom, but that's standard in any country with a war on its own soil, even Western ones. The 2024 election is planned to fall on time.
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  3262. Ok, Yuri.😂
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  3263. Wrong. 52 arrests, 49 of them adults.
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  3264.  @imageall  Thanks for your comment. You're just like Yuri Bezmenov, the Soviet defector who also tried to warn the US! He was ignored, and you will be too. Saddening.
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  3265. Democracy is understood to mean 'representative democracy', is it not?
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  3266. 😮30% of Californians believe the border is secure. 😂Can you imagine their other beliefs?
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  3267. Russians think there is something magical about 5 million square miles of tundra that the whole world envies. Enjoy a quick clip satirizing this from the classic sketch show SCTV, "What Fits Into Russia". Paste it into the search bar.
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  3268. People in any country with elections which are at least fairly clean and fall on time get the government they deserve. If we really merited much better we would know it deep down and not stand for the present nonsense. As things are, we quietly realize that there's really no reason that our leaders should be better than ourselves. The West since 1965 has been about little more than the chiselling out of one brick after another from the edifice of our civilization, largely (it would seem) to see what we could get away with, how much we can weaken it before it comes crashing down. It's not just out of laziness or stupidity either. Many actually get their kicks that way (as a glance around during the month of June will confirm). There's a profound soul-sickness in a society of people doing such a thing. Over-the-top liberalism is a problem. So is the massive experiment with irreligion and atheism. Solid people can get along fine without god by managing the risks; others are ill-advised to even try.
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  3269. Bill Maher likened him to Hilter (sp.) on the show Friday night. Seriously. Check the clips.
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  3270. I'm here because Lorenz's video in rebuttal to this one showed up in my feed. How helpful of her.😄 Without watching it I came straight here.😂 Turned out it was fun. Do more of these.
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  3271.  @KeithCindyPanama  Not sure what you mean. When it disappears I guess there's stability. Or maybe some restoration of previous standards can start. But maybe you're alluding to some kind of total breakdown, things just falling off a cliff?
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  3272. All of a sudden this poor excuse for a person cares about the life of a police officer? I wanted a news report, not insincere hand-wringing from this nasty piece of work who created conditions for violence in Minneapolis.
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  3273. Correction: "Finally the truth that I've never heard."
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  3274.  rogerjamespaul5528  No one should smoke The Guardian, even in moderation, until at least the age of 140. Quit now before even more serious damage occurs.
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  3275. I agree with Heinlein that it's obvious, yet few people can spot it. I wonder why. It's not subtle at all.
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  3276. When I watch a Kudlow video, there are never any other Kudlow videos in the tiled thumbnail suggestions after it's over. So here it is: They know I watch Kudlow videos. But they'll go out of their way to avoid helping me see any. That ain't right.
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  3277. Btw: 49 million x 29 months since the war started x $1,800 a month = $2.6trn What point exactly are you making by comparing $2,558 billion with $107 billion?
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  3278.  @Q_N-  Thanks for your reply. No, I did not notice that, since I think it takes a very knowledgeable person to judge that. What are the majority of specialists on pandemic response saying about it?
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  3279.  @girlonfire2.076  It's actually related to the common cold.
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  3280.  @chollyappleseed1969  Naïveté doesn't enter into it. Yes, as talk goes it's naïve rot, but it's not sincere talk if you ask me. I take it for one of the many, many hostile-state-sponsored posts here. They fall like rain on Western social media platforms of every conceivable sort, and where there's content specifically on relations between the West and the Authoritarian Axis, that goes quintuple. I still thought your reply was very good, though.
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  3281. (1)  Dr. V. Frankenstein, after watching this: "Wow, this dude was really messed up. I only did madman experiments on cadavers. Seriously, this is medieval." (2) The guy also bears a really remarkable facial resemblance to Dr. Gabor Maté, another very woke- leaning messiah who likewise gives me the total creeps.
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  3282.  @tamashumi7961  Speaking of Orwell, he wrote this: "What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
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  3283. So this channel's political spectrum comprises "left, center and far-right."😂 Absolument ridicule, but at least it's candid.🙄 Similarly, the current PM indicates that a right-wing party isn't "mainstream" even if elected in a landslide. Poor fellow doesn't get why he's about to lose his job.
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  3284. Yes, don't use it. In a couple of years it'll be declared a bad term by its current proponents anyway. That's what they do.
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  3285.  @candidbowyer4625  Zero idea what you're talking about. Fill me in if you like though. From your hostility I can tell you mean well.
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  3286. No blame attributed to Hamas by this woman = No moral credibility, because it indicates support for Hamas
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  3287. Nice try, Dmitriy. But nyet. $55bn in military aid, as she rightly says. Plus $60bn in other aid. So total US aid to end-July: $115bn. Adding aid from Europe, Canada, Japan, etc., it's a combined total of $240bn over 2½ years. That is a few per cent of the allies' military budgets. (Their GDP has been $130,000 billion.)
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  3288. Justin Trudeau: "If they're what I think they are, MANPADS sound like the greatest invention ever!"
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  3289.  @youdonthavetoreadthispost.5850  They themselves will have to pitch in to preserve their own existence.  Really pitch in, like I'm doing the heavy lifting to preserve mine.
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  3290.  @neilcarvalho8349  Right now not so much, no. But unity is powerful. An initially small and powerless group of people ousted Nicholas II, as we know, and another one put an end to the Soviet Union. It's hard to say what will happen, really.
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  3291.  @draaronnice2804  First of all, the order Lepidoptera includes not just moths, but butterflies as well. So you tried to show off knowledge and fell flat on your face. Not impressed. Second, you were dumped several times? No! How can it be so? Someone like you, with a sparkling personality?
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  3292. Is he ever wrong?🤣
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  3293. Entitled Cry-Bullies Out!!!
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  3294.  @BDub2024  Yep, simple misfit-ism. They choose the 'activist' path only up to a point. For the most part, no other path is accessible to them.
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  3295.  @mikerodgers7620  Some guy called him a genius. I'm free to register my own view, which is that he isn't a genius, nor is he very close to being one. You should be able to stomach disagreement and leave 'silly' out of it. Cheers.
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  3296. That suggestion itself is a very neat line in some sort of personality deformation. A longing for such actions would've been right at home in one of the especially violent regimes of the 1917-1991 period.
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  3297. Your 2022 revenue chart at the 15-sec. mark is titled "2022 Market Capitalization."😂 Are there any adults in charge at the WSJ, or is it just know-nothing kids in pajamas and funny eyeglass frames?
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  3298.  @Lee-Van-Cle  Well, I did suppose you knew a lot about fertilizer. 😄
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  3299. JT for Jail Time
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  3300.  @snarkylive  I happen not to be one, but if I were I hardly think it'd bother me. Why would it? Why on earth? Do get your sleep, my green-eyed son. Be nice and rested, my darling young one.
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  3301. In a word, New Puritanism.
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  3302. Potato isn't the greatest choice of word. Potatoes, after all, are quite popular. I'd say he's more of a turnip.
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  3303. Hi, I'm a purebred Russian troll and I'm here to tell you that this whole Putin series is corrupt because everything in the world is corrupt. In Russia journalists are all bought and paid for and told what to write by powerful forces standing in the shadows, so it must be the same at PBS. Surely the CIA told PBS what they wanted, and PBS did what they were told. That's how it works in Russia; same thing in the US, I'm pretty sure. Just read more comments below; my many friends will back me up. It's like marital fidelity: My wife cheats on me every day, so I assume so does everyone else's. A faithful wife is just a myth.
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  3304.  @el80ne  Nice job v. that enthusiast (or professional). Some people who live long enough next to a sewage plant eventually come to believe the whole world reeks. All the best.
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  3305. Let's be honest, they're a bunch of battle-axes. And that's being honest but still nice.
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  3306.  @nextentrepreneur9288  <---- Says "to be fair." Goes on to cite preposterously low Russian claim straight from the lips of Dmitry Peskov.😂 Ya know, you guys are getting worse at this. I love how you flop when you try to get all sophistimacated. (Credit: H. Simpson.)
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  3307.  @NaturaBreeze  Disturbing image.🤮 Funny crack though.
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  3308. "Othering" Omg. What's it like to have a machine-made mind? Joys by the hour?
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  3309.  @ImAshley2023  😢
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  3310. ​ @intpleb4206  That sounds unpleasant and I'm sorry you have to live with that. But that's you. You must not assume that others are the same as you. They might be nearly the same, they might be rather different or they might be nearly the opposite. If highly upsetting experiences always led to PTSD, then every person would have PTSD, because everyone has had highly upsetting experiences. Since not every person does have PTSD, we can conclude that the effect of such experiences on people can be passing. Empathy is not an ability to read minds or diagnose them, nor to know people well without knowing them. A person may think that they have a special ability to feel what others are feeling — and be wrong. (Like some people who think they are smart or funny or talented, but are wrong.) They may just be projecting their own feelings and personality characteristics onto others. Nor is everyone who goes around claiming to be empathetic necessarily sincere in the claim. I notice that some domineering and socially very unappetizing people never tire of saying how important empathy is, how much empathy they have, and how little certain others have — and lo and behold it's always others with whom they disagree or have poor relations. For them the claim of empathy is a cudgel at the service of their aggressive impulses. I automatically avoid them even at some cost.
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  3311.  @What.IsLove  You're equating vulnerability to victimization to an outcome of victimization. Count everything up and I'm certain it's been safer to be a woman, child, or old person in Ukraine. You went to university, perhaps? (That is, after the integrity of universities collapsed?) (Wilde: "A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.")
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  3312.  @buyshark3838  I really can't make out your meaning. Maybe you should run it through a translation program instead. I think maybe you're paying a compliment to the Ukrainian armed forces. If so, I am in full agreement. But I don't see what that has to do with what Ukrainians on street corners say about the US.
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  3313. The alternative to enough aid to Ukraine is let loose a chain of forces and events which would endanger America, threatening to impoverish and render it vulnerable. American prosperity and wealth depend heavily on global security every bit as much as the other way around. America needs a safe and stable world. We do not want to live in a world run by China, Russia and Iran.
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  3314. Here we see the difference between the left and the right. The left want to grind their opponents under their heels on any pretext and would gladly strip them of all rights and put them into gulags. The right are willing to stand up for the rights of all.
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  3315. Damned right. Thank you.
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  3316.  @АндрійЛавриненко  We shall see about that. Not so long ago, mere Javelins were taboo. Now F-16s are solemnly promised and ATACMS, their best missiles, are on the table. I suggest you worry about Ukraine announcing they have nuclear weapons. As a onetime integral part of the USSR it may well have retained critical engineering knowledge of how to build such arms. Sorry there, Igor, but I see you people as the frogs in the proverbial simmering pot with high walls. You may just have to grow up and get along with your neighbors for once.
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  3317. They forgot to mention that when you sat down in an ordinary LA restaurant, they didn't start you off with a free glass of tap water, they started you off with a free glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice. I wonder how many minutes' or hours' labour it cost to buy a few oranges in a typical city of the USSR in 1936.
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  3318.  @zvenarschficker6663  If your point is that the US just keeps electing one bozo after another, I think you're right.
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  3319. Thank you, Dave, for calling Trudeau as psyc————th. I, too, recently decided he's not all there. Time for a thorough assessment by a team of doctors.
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  3320. Thanks CNN anchor-thingy, for pushing the idea that a law enforcement officer has to ask you for permission to arrest you. That just helped things five years later go worse.
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  3321.  @nicktecky55  Excellent point.
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  3322.  @vicckiss5655  He does in fact pronounce it the way native-born educated Torontonians do (doctors, lawyers, professors, bankers, etc.): ter-ON-to, with the second 't' enunciated as softly as possible.
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  3323. Dodgers: "For your outlandish kink, you are outstanding heroes." Basically the same thing as videotaped expressions of support for their kidnappers which hostages read nervously and stone-faced.
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  3324. I wonder if Starlink is a way to protect Bitcoin and other cryptos from precisely that threat.
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  3325. He coulda gone for "vegan sandals." Nope, he put in the effort and gave us "vegan slippers." This is why we like Adam Carolla.
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  3326. Of course he plays the long game: Russia's short game amounts to little.
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  3327. ​ @Bornana7  Russia and Canada do have this in common, that they devote a great portion of their wealth to paying for the energy required for transportation and heating. Generally whatever you buy, whether produced at home or imported, has a long way to go by rail and truck before it gets to you, and every building requires plenty of gas or electricity to keep it warm for half the year or more. In this regard they both compare unfavourably with, say, the US, France or the Netherlands. All the most energy-thirsty countries are some combination of either very hot (Qatar, Singapore) or cold (Norway, Canada, Iceland), very spread-out (Canada, Russia, Australia), very rich (US, Norway, Luxembourg), or blessed with fantastically cheap energy (the Gulf States, Norway until a recent spike). In the case of Russia it's also true that they still haven't been at the potent wealth generator of free enterprise, such as it is in that country, for very long. Thirty years might sound like a long time, but it isn't. The fact is that Russia outside of the metropolitan areas is still modernizing. And of course Putin and his cronies siphon off outlandish amounts of wealth. (Yet, interestingly, its income inequality overall—world rank by Gini coefficient: 87th—is actually quite a bit lower than that of the US, which is 48th. It's the other ex-Warsaw-Pact countries like Slovakia (167) and Ukraine (162) which dominate the lowest, most-equal end of the rankings. See Wikipedia "List of countries by income inequality.")
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  3328. Who tf cares how foreigners pronounce or spell the name of your country? It just doesn't matter. Instead of Deutschland the English say Germany and the French say Allemagne. Whoopty-do. Erdogan is just hand-waving to play to Turks' sense of insecurity and grievance. Turkey will remain the word for him.
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  3329. Ah but they are, regrettably, thankfully, separate worlds.
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  3330.  @kawaiilotus  On the latest BBC Question Time the unbearable host, whatever her name is, said 15 million.
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  3331. But there's some solace in the total silence that greeted the SNL portrayal of Rep. Stefanik.
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  3332. @renoir4964 "Hey, look at this! A plane!" "She's a beauty, eh?" "Yeah. Looks like they just left it for anyone." "Right, I'll get the tractor."
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  3333. ​ @twatts1523  I never said it was propaganda, Vassily. And the only misdeeds worth the mention are Putin's. He's a psycho and a monster.
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  3334. ​ @JonAnthony3  Well obviously he's been not only determined and intelligent but also highly rational. Sole rulership of Russia must surely be like herding 140 million cats (except ten times harder) and mental weakness, if it were in him long ago, would have been exposed long ago. But minds and personalities deteriorate, alas, very often by a lot. Age does it, isolation does it, unhealthful seeds planted in the psyche several decades before do it, steroids do it, drugs do it, microbes do it, things we can't even imagine do it. Thanks for giving me occasion to point these things out.
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  3335.  @davecitizen1107  Sure, maybe. But don't forget that there's a lot of failed ambition out there, possibly including hers. There's a real chance she's struggling energetically, though fecklessly. Not that you exactly said it, but it's simply not true that everyone can succeed. "Nature introduces inequalities against which there is no remedy," someone once wrote, pointing out that the luck of the precise genes inherited and not inherited from one's parents is a big part of destiny in life. Other factors in life, along with moral agency, make up the rest, but the important thing is that for some to succeed, others must fail. I cannot get further than this, unless I propose not just social reform but some monstrous reshaping of humanity by force. Some who realize this have accurately called it 'The Loser Problem'. There it is, verbally pared down to its essence, the one that will matter eternally: There will always be losers, and it's a problem. It has to be faced honestly and courageously. Intelligently and kindly, too. No matter who we are, when we talk about these things we are all trying to draw social lines sufficiently far from the two extremes of jungle and nursery.
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  3336. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  3337.  @greentea8852  How can you ask? China announced to the world their belief that the US and NATO are to blame. In case you can't make out the meaning of that, it is that China openly supports Russia. As for who is winning the Ukraine War, for now it is Ukraine. Russia is doing its best imitation of Germany in the spring of 1943. It is wonderful.
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  3338. Very nice to hear. I get so steamed whenever I think of that video I saw: a squad of uniformed Aussie police pepper-spraying a little girl in the face for not having a mask on. Scandalous and brutal are words far too mild for it.
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  3339. This video and comments section make it clear the police trial is going to be the OJ trial all over again in how it plays out across the country. Same accusations, same lack of respect for the facts, same bitterness, same lack of maturity, same simplemindedness, all making for the same embarrassing and nauseating spectacle.
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  3340. I'll tell you how they did it: From the kindergartens to the graduate schools, scolding leftists took over education. The henpecked administrations and their government funders meekly co-operated every inch of the way. Once two generations had gone through schools thus ruined, the woke deed was done.
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  3341. As a daily cyclist I can confirm that cyclists outdo drivers for traffic law infractions at a ratio of around 100 to 1. That may be understating it.
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  3342.  @lapoose325  How many drinks have you had?
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  3343. Justin Ocasio Cortez. David Johnston. Trudeau-funded CBC news media. Trudeau-funded Canadian corporate news media... ...birds of a feather, flocking together.
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  3344.  @alaskanhermit8863  I am Native American. Native Americans and Europeans slaughtered each other. It was another age. This is 2023.
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  3345. It's either a major turn in strategy and conceivably a move that will make a rift between Ukraine and its allies, or it's a false-flag Russian move, needed by Putin to justify a huge escalation. The rift I refer to, if there is to be one, would be because NATO thinks that the way to win is to wear Russia down like a toreador wears out the bull in the ring, an all-out battle (in contrast) being pretty sure to quickly go in Russia's favour. It wouldn't be very surprising if Ukraine were to prove too impatient for that, for obvious reasons.
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  3346.  @KahnSkins  That jibes with my reply to Steve St Pierre, above. Good take on the analyst and his firm. I bet the managing partners have instructed him to restrain his enthusiasm. Musk may be good for trading but he intends to make little use of investment banks, so that's a problem. A similar fact explains why the media don't like him at all: he doesn't buy ads.
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  3347. Agreed. Speaking of her voice, she has a Great Lakes accent. She could be from Michigan or Minnesota, but I'm gonna guess Ontario. Oh, yeah: she also has an Ontario face. Older Ontarians will know what I mean.
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  3348. Omg, no🤮 Latest poll: Conservatives 47%, Trudeau Libs 17% 😂 Thankfully, no-limits liberalism is really on the decline in both nations.
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  3349.  @abrahamclintona3596  Also a crime: Channel commits clickbait offense by saying "Igniting Gas Station" in title. Untrue, shameless, cynical, deliberate.
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  3350. Yeah but too bad its payload wouldn't go off.
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  3351.  @mrbill-fk3in  Sure, why not? She was on her phone the whole time she should have been dealing respectfully with the cop.
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  3352. I expect they do see it his way. Indeed his perspective may well be heavily based on viewpoints making their way to him from the Pentagon, the White House and the Capitol.
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  3353. So it begins to crack, perhaps TDS's sturdiest bastion of all — the faith of the American punditocracy and public alike that Trump if elected would throw Ukraine under the bus. My own view is that in order to sidestep the risk of Putin costing him a close election via interference, he played you all — even Putin maybe — like tiny accordions.😂 I think my comment history here over the past year-plus, based on public statements by Trump which were willfully ignored by all but perhaps one in a thousand people, is in for some sweet vindication. I could still be wrong, but we shall see. Thanks Prof. Gerdes, for setting a good example by exhibiting real flexibility of mind on this. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇺🇸
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  3354. 1. That guy with the sunglasses 1:20 was so sketched out. Jonesing bad, and not just for a cigarette. Rehab, dude. 2. China and Russia: Close frenemies with knives sheathed under their coats. Zero trust. Smile at each other once a year.
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  3355.  @JCDFlex  "Just noticed" <--- Baseless inference
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  3356. I thought he laid on the sanctimony and sentimentalism with a trowel far too many times. Like the music, overdone.
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  3357. Israel has warned civilians they must evacuate from Rafah. Everyone knows Egypt is not an option. So we hear in this chat that they have nowhere to go. I'm curious why the logically obvious wasn't mentioned; namely, that the IDF might accommodate a flow of civilians back northward into areas already cleared of Hamas militants.
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  3358.  @mywestsussex5749  Easy answer to that: 67.4% voted against him in the 2021 election, likewise in the previous one. His party came second in votes to the Conservatives. But he's supported by the farthest-left party, which allows him to form a government. The third member of his quasi-coalition is the news media. They are tenaciously, fiercely loyal.
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  3359. Try holding both. Because it costs miners typically $1k to produce an ounce, if gold doubles from $2k, their profits triple. So in theory anyway mining stocks should provide great leverage to rising prices. But other factors enter into it, such as how high the miner's P/E is at the time you buy --- if it's already got a rich valuation then some of your potential leverage has already been booked and enjoyed by earlier investors. Then there's the fact that the leverage works both ways --- your shares plunge faster than bullion when gold drops. So you can dial down your potential share gain or loss by mixing in bullion. But if you don't, and go for a pure miner position, just realize that it's far riskier. It can even trail bullion when gold rises, and sometimes does --- yes, mining shares can even fall as gold rises, as investor sentiment around gold miners tends to be pretty unstable. But then, Buffett just dove in, didn't he? (I don't think his bullion position, if any, is public, but since he has badmouthed it as an investment before, he might not have much. I think we can only speculate.)
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  3360. According to the auto-captions he's Scott Saad. 🤣
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  3361. Nearly any watch costing more than a few thou is vulgar. So are the really large ones.
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  3362.  @holii2483  Bad reply. 1) "Milei obtained an economics degree (licentiate) from the private University of Belgrano and two master's degrees from the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social and the private Torcuato di Tella University." [italics mine] 2) "In Argentina, the Licentiate degree (Spanish: Licenciatura), by which one becomes a licenciado, is a four to six-year degree with a required final thesis defence.[9] Upon competition of the licentiate degree the student may be eligible to apply for a postgraduate degree such as a master or doctorate.[10]" (Both from the same source, the most popular on-line reference work in the world.)
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  3363. Not sure what you mean. Harry does have a son and a daughter with his wife.
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  3364. How does the word "young" apply to someone turning 60 years old in a matter of weeks? Is this a Democratic Party ad? 🤨
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  3365. ​@Hold Fast You only added to the problem. Buh-bye.
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  3366. Since you bring that topic up, I must point out that he always looks like he's on something. I seem to be the only one saying that and I can't understand why it's not a national topic of discussion.🤔
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  3367. We will. Wait about 100 days.
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  3368. Actually, Wawa is in northwestern, not northeastern Ontario. It's on Lake Superior! 🙄 Know your province! Know how important it is to verify story elements before airing them!
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  3369.  @nodata4662  "This" So you are referring to your own comment then? I don't really see how that works, but I'll go along. 😂
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  3370. A simple lawsuit will do wonders to provide for the baby's post-secondary education. Get a good lawyer or two.
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  3371. I always disliked the blonde host, taking her for an entitled narcissist. An obnoxious affirmative action hire, now gone and no doubt at home doing at around fifty what she should have done twenty or thirty years earlier.
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  3372. Russia's war on Ukraine is a giant threat to peace far and wide. “It’s a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe 2011-14, interview, January 2024
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  3373.  @christianevanherck6023  Do you remember which one?
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  3374. ​ @CynicalDoughnut6661  You must have zero knowledge of history and very little experience of life. The PRC regime doesn't just dabble in disrespect for its people; that is its very basis. It has been in power for less than a full lifetime and already has deliberately caused the deaths of several tens of millions of its people. Give your head a shake.
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  3375.  @VapeAu  Sorry, I can't even make out your meaning here, first part or second.
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  3376. Grandpa Simpson: "This decrepit old geezer is just what the country needs. Vote Bison."
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  3377. His mockery is getting even funnier. I like it when the stand-up side of him comes out.
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  3378. Isr. has skipped the drone warfare era completely. It's gone straight to stuff delivered by Amazon.
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  3379.  @madalin4802  Yeah? The statement you later deleted stopped me in my tracks. And the English in which it was written was faultless and eloquent.
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  3380. The idea is to make as unlikely as possible the chance of direct war between NATO and Russia. It's to keep the world as much at peace as possible. Doesn't sound too insane to me. In my view NATO has been surprisingly astute in its strategy and tactics. They're doing it almost right, except that they've only mobilized their munitions production slightly. That is a problem.
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  3381. Saddam Hussein, from the depths of Hell: "Hey, stop comparing me to Vladolf Putler!" Adolf Hitler: "Hey, I'm right here! Take that back!" Devil: "Relax, both of you. You can hash all that out with Putin as soon as he gets here. Now, hold still so I don't have to reheat this poker."
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  3382.  @m00kism  As if you have even the slightest idea what Twitter's books look like.🤣
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  3383.  @Krush4you  There's a good deal of truth in there (although I admit I couldn't follow every word of it). But I stand by my view that nothing but real housing can help much. That and medical and addictions assistance. With those three things, unemployment will fix itself in most cases, and a reasonable life will have been snatched back out of chaos. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  3384. There's a speakeasy right there. Booze and drugs all night until morning.
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  3385. Ha! Such a comedian of the most un-funny sort. And that is an unreasonably generous assessment on my part.
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  3386. His socialist type was ruthlessly exposed and pilloried in The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (as well as Animal Farm and 1984, come to think of it). The mere sight of his face sickens me for the way it resembles that of Stalin, Honecker, Ceausescu, and all the rest.
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  3387. You're talking like a Democrat letting crime ruin your city. If the US GDP were like an unmarried person's $80,000 salary, the $75bn would be like $240. Two cups of coffee a week. But unlike coffee, bolstered global security for that sort of money is incredibly well spent protecting US prosperity and security. If the US had any desire to protect its borders, it could easily afford to, Ukraine aid or no Ukraine aid.
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  3388. No, a child of six or seven must be taught, actually. It won't occur to them spontaneously. I'm making a serious point: the people of California, far too many of them obviously, have not been taught what things are wrong and unjust or they would not elect people who permit, condone and encourage them. But of course you won't mistake me—I agree that massive change is needed.
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  3389.  @bourbonlover7158  😢
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  3390.  @ГалинаБрагина-п2т  If Mexico is bullied, threatened, attacked and invaded by the US, then it is natural for Mexico to seek protection from such monstrous actions, and it would have every moral right to do so. But the question is moot, since the US army is not in Ukraine, except for maybe some dozens of technicians, unarmed and not in uniform.
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  3391.  @tomcarroll4785  Saying that "he lost the election in 2022" isn't a valid way of summarizing all that, though. The two facts that he wasn't running, and that his party won the House, together make it topple over from top-heavy ludicrousness. Shapiro should have merely said that Trump failed in his aims. Why reach for something far-fetched? It never impresses the right people.
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  3392.  @iwillnotcomply6001  'Course. Testing them would be discriminatory and in fact one of the greatest injustices in all history. Just like not letting people riot for weeks on end. "C'mon man!"
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  3393. Thanks for the Kremlin foreign ministry spokesman point of view, thou of the most English-sounding name ever.🙄 But a search of it reveals that you are a Ugandan. Ever met Putin, or just his representatives?
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  3394. Thanks for your comment. Too bad about the absolute refuse which has accumulated below it.
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  3395. Canadians to NATO: Don't bother dealing with PM Peter Pan on this or anything else. We're giving him the boot in a year, hopefully right the hell out of the country. (What's the greatest distance a human being can be booted, anyway? Is 10,000 miles doable?)
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  3396.  @squatch545  "The hundreds murdered by far right".  Those are psychos.  Out-and-out psychos.  Do not conflate them with people who simply hate Democrats, the mainstream media, and their agendas.  Trump didn't get 71 millions votes from 71 million psychos and you better get used to that.  I doubt most of his voters think very highly of him, and I'm sure not only that extremely few are violent radicals, but also that extremely few have anything but disgust for the violent psychos you refer to. You're going to have to find other ways of looking at them, if you're capable of it. But I worry that your self-esteem is entirely dependent on seeing them as 71 million racist nutcases. If it is, I hold out no hope of your doing any actual learning or thinking on the subject. You'd be in terror of your whole identity and your whole vision of the world crashing down --- for good reason: it would.
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  3397. Yes, but never mind for a moment conservative opinions. It's also opinions which in fact were very much, unanimously, and quite rightly considered liberal 35 years ago that are under constant siege and attacked as right-wing. And never mind 35 years ago—20 years ago, ten years ago, five years ago. And let's be clear: Such opinions and values do indeed remain liberal to this day. The new left wing falsely characterizes them in line with their having abjured liberalism and embraced its shameful opposite: illiberalism.
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  3398. Saw a truck spreading a lot of salt on a major thoroughfare at about noon. I thought the truck must be broken. Actually not a bad idea if this forecast is right. Edit: It just snowed heavily for 5 minutes❄exactly as forecast.
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  3399. One extremely likeable man I knew went to a freeway on-ramp every day at rush hour. The freeway would always be crammed, so the cars only crawled along past him very slowly. When he told me he made $400 an hour, I nodded in acceptance but didn't believe him. Turns out it was true. When I later challenged him on it, he began showing me his haul every time he saw me (which was often, as I walked past his way every day around suppertime). He spent it on drugs, a lot of which he gave away.
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  3400.  @a8s320  Among Nordic countries it's also by far the closest to being over its epidemic. The way it's going, the others will still be recordings deaths long after Sweden is finished doing so, despite their risking far greater economic ruin. Its death rate is also a lot lower than those of the worst-hit countries, all of which went with strict mandatory shutdowns: UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Belgium.
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  3401.  @wilburdesouza  Sweden doesn't have a young population. At 20%, its fraction of the population over 65 is 11th highest among 35 European nations, and 2.9 points behind the oldest country, Italy. This compares with 16% in the US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105835/share-of-elderly-population-in-europe-by-country/ And I'd like to know why national population is supposed to matter. None of the Far East democracies imposed strict mandatory lockdowns, and they have both very low coronavirus death rates and mostly larger populations (Japan 127m, S. Korea 51m, Taiwan 24m). I'm skeptical about a positive relation between national population and a necessity for strict mandatory lockdowns. Which epidemiologists have made this claim?
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  3402.  @binchen  Yes, the rate is higher than in the US, but much lower than in the worst-hit neighbouring European countries, all of which went with strict mandatory shutdowns: UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Belgium. Those countries are probably gazing on Sweden with a certain amount of admiration, the more so because it is also much closer to the actual end of its epidemic.
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  3403.  @markp6621  Sweden is actually behind the UK in per capita hospital beds. But then, it is also famed for the healthiness of its people.   Yet it ranks very high in doctors per capita, above Germany, with a slightly higher ratio than it had ten years ago. Nurses per capita are also high for Europe. Despite searching energetically, I was unable to find any corroboration of your assertion that thousands of doctors and nurses have been fired. A 2017 EC report makes Sweden's health care system look like one of best, most effective, and best funded in Europe. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/355998/Health-Profile-Sweden-Eng.pdf?ua=1 The only deterioration noted in this or any other report was in waiting times. Measures of health care effectiveness have steadily increased since 2000 at an impressive rate. Data from the last two years is hard to find, and comparisons are always tricky. But if your assessments are correct, I wonder why people who agree with you are essentially impossible to unearth. A couple of labour-union-associated sources lamented that Sweden is becoming a right-wing country and its health care system is a disgrace, but I find it difficult to take them seriously, as they seemed labour-activist and indeed histrionical in tone and offered little data to back up their claims. Thanks for your reply, though.
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  3404. In fact they do! This report is inaccurate for not mentioning that.
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  3405. It's pronounced "EE-lon", not "ə-LON". You also say "adult" strangely. The "u" sound is like the "u" sound in "null", not "pull".
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  3406. Little of the aid leaves the US in the form of money. Close to 90% of it is spent in the US to replace the donated old armaments. And much of the donations were slated for (expensive) disposal anyway. Cash aid amounts to about 4¢ per day per American.
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  3407. I was asked to define a left-wing activist. I had to admit I couldn't—after all, I'm not an entomologist.
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  3408. Don't say 'monopoly' unless it's a single company. (Note the 'mono'.) If it's four companies, call it an oligopoly.
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  3409. Some of us can see how dumb they are but eventually everyone will. Little kids will say "Mom, why were people except for Elon Musk so stupid in 2021?" This will not age well.
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  3410.  @steeniversen287  It's not called "hiding" to have a screen name. And whoever it that is, he or she is not committing any sort of crime. So maybe start over and try to make a valid point.
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  3411. And nobody was masked to conceal their identity. Nobody was screaming for any country to be wiped out. That's how you do public gatherings in support of something.
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  3412. * Lend, not land
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  3413. Wronghate: "When we hate you, it proves our moral perfection. When you hate anything or anyone, you're a criminal."
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  3414. 2:31 Egregiously inaccurate chart. I can see it shows conventional oil production only. If that's all Canada produced it would be about 20th in the world. It is actually 4th. The chart is missing >75% of output, close to 4 million barrels a day. (Also, Canada will add 0.5m bpd this year. New total: ~5.5m bpd, or 5x the chart figure.)
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  3415. What a good lad. Cool first name.
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  3416.  @concernedaussie1330  Let it be in Hades one hour from now.
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  3417. Kringela
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  3418. Big deal. The waiter today didn't throw the soup in my face. Does he deserve a medal?
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  3419.  @Anon54387  I thought that was gerbils she was sneaking onboard.
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  3420. Ford is struggling with EV production and loses gigantic money on each sale, so this Ford dealer could pretty much be expected to say all this. That point about bridges sounded extra-phony. Bridges have their limits but aren't sensitive to minor added weight like 1000 lbs. a vehicle.🙄 It's fine to hear her point of view, but let's be realistic about her interests. Come on, Fox.
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  3421. 4 points in rapidly worsening order: 1) First I learned that shipping containers are assigned high priority for inspection due to the high perceived chance of illegalities.😀 2) But 'high priority' still means only 1.3% of containers are inspected.🤨But wait!... 3) Then I found that this is for containers arriving in Canada only. 😮 4) Finally it was confirmed that containers leaving Canada are given a far lower priority, and that the percentage inspected is a secret.😠
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  3422. A tankie, of course. The antecedent of today's American students.
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  3423. ​@4everBroadwayfan Where is there evidence of such diversity? And what do you say is the threshold for diversity? Would you be wiling to estimate the percentage of Americans aged 18 to 35 who are hostile or at least unsympathetic to neo-Marxism?
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  3424. Millions of children are being taught by the media, celebrities, and even politicians that if something upsets you, it's fine to express it with violence and destruction. This guarantees more of the same for decades to come.
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  3425. We see various winter camo versions in this footage and most don't look that effective, but the one at 0:33 is great, IMO.
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  3426.  @kerrynisbet1514  Ok, that's fair to point out. And I'm sure some of the women were taller than some of the men too.
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  3427.  @mikehunt5637  People doing whatever job they're suited to and can perform well at is fine.
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  3428. Officer Scattershot: "See you in hell, windshield."
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  3429.  @anjaanka_01.  Thanks for your reply, but I said 'politics' not 'politicians'. The difference is that politicians in drunken and non-drinking lands, whether they themselves are sober or not, run very different countries. (By the way, I did happen to be well aware that drinking in Russia is way down from the early-1990s to 2010 period.)
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  3430. What tripe this is. A company says "Hey, come shop at our store instead of at the other guys' " and that's somehow supposed to be terrible. Low, tryna-be 'gotcha' journalism, trawling for clicks because Loblaws' unrelated scandal was in the news. Grabbing emotional people by their emotions for ad dollars.
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  3431. Great news. Storm Shadows will be a major help.👍 Appreciate getting your timely and factual reports. You seem to uphold the old Western journalistic standards which are actually not very easy to find in the West anymore. I also appreciate your clearly and correctly written English. Finally, thanks for keeping your videos brief instead of stretching them out 3x longer!
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  3432. Donating to U24 seems straightforward enough. How exactly do you become part of NAFO?
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  3433. More like WH 2022 — "Ok Russia, name your price."
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  3434.  @monitor1725  Thanks for the unhinged ranting rando point of view.
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  3435.  @rafaelcamilo2904  Right. China doesn't have 476 billionaires at all.
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  3436. ​ @MrHds46  That's a racist cartoon myth. Western countries provided investment capital, technology, and know-how for developing emerging economies which have become immensely more prosperous as a result. In exchange they got investment returns. These were voluntary deals reached after negotiations and handshakes. Your openly racist comment simply exhibits a Marxist textbook perspective, and I assume you say the same sort of thing about a company that hires a worker in your own neighbourhood.  Admit it, you just think business should be abolished because in your ridiculous cartoon imagination you envision evil overlords with horsewhips and poor, hunched, shivering employees in rags. Grow up. Business, properly regulated and taxed, is how poor people get out of rags. Socialists and Marxists keep them or put them back in rags. Discard your racism and wake up to how you got it in the first place: it was a weak-minded acceptance of mentally ill far-left campus dogma you bought off the shelf. Take your defective packaged-goods dogma view of the world back to the fraudulent retailer who sold it to you and demand your money back. Or at least break it into pieces and send it for recycling. You were robbed of your intellectual dignity but you'll have it back when you realized that no extremists of any sort will help the world. Political and economic moderates will. I wish you well on your journey back.
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  3437.  @supershayloman961  If you look at govt. expenditures as a percentage of GDP, Canada's not that much higher than the US (41% vs. 36% in 2022 according to the IMF). For really high taxes look anywhere else in the developed world, except for Switzerland and Japan.
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  3438. Dude has been married twice. Ooooooh, imagine being married twice!!
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  3439. The flurry of NATO countries making donations and commitments to Ukraine are likely timed to demonstrate to Americans (Republican politicians and supporters especially, of course) that they're serious about pulling their weight. France and Germany ought to join in. It takes a lot to make Americans notice anything outside the US.
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  3440. "You know the thing."
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  3441. 2:10 2024, the year of the kray zee lady eyeglass frames. (Slogan: "So you know who to run from at full speed!")
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  3442. Could be a matter of exceeding the daily or hourly comment limit.
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  3443. I love how half the Russian posters are like "@IanCochrane As a Canadian taxpayer, this is theft from me!" and the other half are like "@MapleLeafForever As a Canadian taxpayer, I am against this immoral theft of Russian assets!" 🤣 Ok, Putinists.🙄 This Canadian taxpayer is 100% behind making a vital contribution to global security.
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  3444. Certainly, yes. But (excuse my flagrant bias) let's also see her.
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  3445. An unheated basement prison cell would be appropriate. Then the gallows.
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  3446. Oh man, the methane hit to the atmosphere. Birds will fall from the sky.
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  3447. Dontcha mean re-tried? I'm sure she's been acquitted on some charge before.
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  3448. She should've added salt every step of the way, too. They always do that while calling it 'a little seasoning' or a 'pinch,' but it's really a teaspoon.
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  3449. Most shocking of all, the cop wanted a piece of that. 🤢
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  3450. He could obviously give a cow a run for its money when it comes to methane production.
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  3451. Thanks for the Kremlin spokesman point of view, Mr. Peskov.
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  3452. Never go to lunch at the house of a playwright by yourself.
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  3453. All quite true up to a point, I suppose, and it's very good if she's up against blockheads. But then she's daft as well. She deserves to be heard out but you should heed her only grudgingly, although I encourage anyone to go ahead and admire her for a brilliant delivery. Cheers anyway for a positive and useful comment; I don't wish to contradict you very much at all.
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  3454. Nationwide, the proportion of NFF (non-fossil-fuel-generated) grid power in the first 11 months of 2022 hit 40%, a major milestone. The renewables portion is now over half of that, about 22%, but it's where all the growth is. The wind and solar component is growing by 20% a year, which means it's doubling about every 45 months. Meanwhile coal's contribution is falling by something like 10% a year. Next milestone: 50% NFF. Give it four years.
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  3455.  @dpelpal  I think you're unclear on how YT comments work. If you don't see "@dpelpal" in a reply, it wasn't for you unless you were the OC. My reply was to to the OC and YT gave you the notification for interest's sake only. (Your own comment was highly exaggerated but your point was fine, in my view.)
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  3456.  @harryviking6347  I think Trump has shown at least some aptitude for learning, which mitigates things a lot. I don't think Harris learns anything except more ways to be foolish.
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  3457.  @TurboBear33  No, it's the same for both: He remains leader and PM until a successor is chosen by his party. He merely announced it today and officially set in motion the leadership contest. In other words he gave his notice.
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  3458. FDR: "Except her fakeness itself." 😂
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  3459.  @TheEgzi  They can get on the same wavelength in some areas. Unless, as he feared, Peterson suffered neurological damage while ill, I would imagine he just lacks intellectual muscle tone. For years now he's rarely been challenged except by nitwit journalists and scatterbrained activists. So this was no doubt good exercise for him. (It was, equally doubtless, boring and irritating at times to Dawkins, though.)
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  3460. Stepsister. Different ownership.
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  3461. The precise corollary of "Tyranny is freedom." (From 1984)
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  3462. Left-Woke-Progressive-Liberal corruption. Onrushing Socialism and neo-Marxism. Anti-Semitism. People are awakening to them everywhere. It was writ large in the European elections.🎉
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  3463. You first. Please.
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  3464.  @craigbeatty8565  The Speaker's text never made it explicit that his WW II service and his "fight for Ukrainian independence against Russia" were concurrent. Even someone like me, who does know some of the history, would likely react to the Speaker's monologue with a feeling that "there must be something I don't know here." (For example perhaps, that he was one of a number of Ukrainian freedom fighters after the War, or just before it.) The last thing I'd ever guess is that he wasn't even in the Red Army.
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  3465.  @craigbeatty8565  No need to tell me that his two roles were concurrent and were indeed one and the same. I know now. But it's great that you're closely familiar with the history of Ukraine's struggles. I do wish you had been there (although I don't see how a few seconds would've sufficed to set right even just those sitting near to you). In any case, you and all of us ought to forgive those who simply took it for granted that the Speaker wouldn't invite such an unsuitable guest. Thanks for your reply.
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  3466. Possibly her ex-boyfriend.😄
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  3467. Truth: In the long run it's all we've really got. Life, love, morality and a few other things are vitally important, yet at their core they depend entirely on truth, compared with which they are like water in our hands. Devalue it at your own peril, lads.
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  3468.  @Stelarjayflight  Creep
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  3469. Then you should get back to watching your recent-vintage Disney movies.
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  3470. Right, neutral. So when robbers enter a bank and shoot the staff dead, or when a woman is raped, always stay neutral. Maybe the woman provoked the rapist by walking to the store, for instance. Who can say?
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  3471. Stalinism didn't die with Stalin. (Nor Maoism with Mao, etc.)
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  3472. That's not just embarrassing oddness or foolishness. It's the sign of a dangerous mental malady having to do with personal identity. The liberal media is complicit in whitewashing this sign of danger. Which is exactly what they did to downplay the mental decline of Joe Biden.
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  3473. To me that spit and peninsula look like quite an unsafe and vulnerable place for any forces to be. It's quite flat and exposed, as was pointed out. If it's not so, because Ukraine somehow probably wouldn't have a really hard time defending it, or because it's all part of a coherent plan, then good. Possibly it's a feint, I don't know.
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  3474. Because Soviet leaders, although just as wicked, had better judgment than this chin implant and high heels guy.
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  3475. 1:04 Omg, calling an unsuccessful attempt at an accent "offensive"! Just stunning. Words fail me.
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  3476. 👍Grateful for this report which seems based on a foundation of facts and good values, journalistic and otherwise. Being myself irreligious, I never watched any news from a religion-affiliated group before.
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  3477.  @pacman3556 Canada, Violent Crime Severity Index (per StatsCan): 2013: 74.0 2022: 97.7 Change, 2013-2022: +32% Canada, police-reported violent crime, rate per 100k people (per StatsCan): 2013: 769 2022: 932 Change, 2013-2022: +21%
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  3478. Scott Ritter, that convicted child sex offender? It would be morally repugnant for Piers to interview any man who in his 40s was convicted of "unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, and criminal solicitation" Twice arrested, twice behind bars.
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  3479.  @sableann4255  You mean 'couldn't'?
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  3480. It would be nice to think there are numerous young people here not just learning history, but also listening carefully and absorbing his example.
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  3481. I figure it'd be 6 or 7.
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  3482.  @MoneyStrategiesSOULutions  I think by voice they meant accent. There are various woke accents.
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  3483. Be very sure before making war on a country whose men run out of the sauna to roll in the snow. 🥶😄 Good choice, Finland!
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  3484. Perhaps especially remarkable in light of her apparent youth. It takes clever parents, teachers, professors and friends to advance that far before reaching middle age; also great skill in choosing one's books and other things to read.
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  3485. Oh, how many disasters came out of the US, beginning in the '60s and right up to today. It's like America thought "We're the richest, most technologically advanced, freest and healthiest country in history. Our generation has the most years of education, so we must know everything. Let's remake the world and everything in it!" Zero humility.
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  3486. The eyebrows at 30 sec. 🤣 Those things would be effective at preventing pregnancy...by keeping the boys away.
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  3487. If anything it's a reason to take some pride. I mean, look how bad you could be, and you're not.
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  3488. To target crude exports would risk triggering global inflation. So pipelines aren't being hit, refineries are, in order to force production to be exported as crude oil. (Except for some forms of heavy oil which need at least minimal upgrading.) Targeting of refining also takes aim at the billions in refining profits. Another reason it's wise to go after refineries is that the war effort consumes really large amounts of gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel. Ukraine may thus be able to create fuel shortages for ordinary Russians. That would be a huge bonus.
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  3489.  @habichiblah7534  And there was a series of those ads. The visual rhetoric was nauseating. Basically the men looked ugly and evil. Guess what? Most were unshaven.
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  3490. Yes! Let's hear the same things repeated by the French president, the German chancellor, all other NATO country leaders, and leaders around the world. You too, India. You too, China. Show some decency.
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  3491. For English speakers the pronunciation of Ursula von der Leyen's name is perhaps a bit surprising: OOR-zə-lə FOND-er-line
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  3492. Friendly warning from the north: Destruction awaits if you elect Kamala Trudeau. Note: In the 1970s and 80s, she and Justin Trudeau grew up in adjacent wealthy areas of Montreal (a bare mile apart in Westmount and the Golden Square Mile).
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  3493. Like most Chinese supporters of the Communist Party of China, you have little regard for Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. I disagree, believing that they deserve the pride they take in the prosperity and freedom they have achieved. China has been the mentally retarded giant of the region, face it. And it's due to Communism.
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  3494.  @alanfriesen9837  You may wish to research the view that China is really tightening the screws once again.  President for life, tens of millions of facial recognition cameras, a million in prison camps in a western province---what do you think those things are about? How long do you think private fortunes will be allowed? What part of 20th century history don't you get? What makes you think that when a group of people has absolute power over all others it won't abuse them terribly? What on earth? If you're really a Westerner as you let on, you've really squandered your solid-gold opportunity to gain a solid understanding of what really goes on in the world. Cheers.
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  3495. Now I know what she's about: lust for power. She is a treacherous snake who will do whatever it takes to reach the top. This includes turning on her boss the moment she has anything she can twist into a legitimate-sounding accusation. Trudeau made a mistake: he decided to pander to the popular prejudice that women and indigenous people are uniformly wonderful human beings (the corollary of the popular prejudice that men and people of European descent are uniformly wicked). In doing so he lowered his standards, bought packaged goods, and got what he paid for. Poison personality and nastiness shines from her face and resonates in her voice; her small-time politician father seems to be her role model. She's not helping anything, just herself. Note that she's staying in caucus to remain a leadership hopeful. This is about getting Trudeau out of her way. As an indigenous Canadian I regret Trudeau's laziness in not sourcing a better person as a first nations standard-bearer in cabinet.
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  3496. Good for her. I would speculate that she had something to do with the WTA boycott. If I were Steve Simon and she phoned me up to read me the riot act, telling me that I worked for her, etc., I think I'd swallow hard and say "Yes, ma'am," then hang up and call the board. After all, if she wanted to she could probably go on social media and have me replaced pretty damn quick.
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  3497.  @shelleyhanson9793  My post was made to the original poster, not you. And since he used a mixture of caps and lower-case, it's plain that bad vision wasn't his reason. Btw, clearly you were able to read my reply to him, and his original post. Story doesn't check out, madam. Methinks the angry lady doth t ro ll a little bit.😂
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  3498. He doesn't hunt people down to troll them, though. I've never noticed him doing it gratuitously. He does sometimes say things about political figures who haven't said anything about him, but that isn't trolling, it's a precious civic right. The rest are people who've gone after him first.
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  3499. Turns out the cra*y-lady eyeglass frames and overabundant ear hardware were the harbingers I thought they were. Quel surprise. 😄
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  3500.  @ettoreatalan8303  So don't. Oh blast, you did!😄
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  3501. This is a false report. Sky should edit or remove it.
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  3502. That you would exaggerate the difference by a couple of decades shows your admiration.
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  3503. One-kilogram bag?
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  3504. How is it greedy to demand rent? The problem is violence, not greed.
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  3505.  @Solaire_au_Frohmage  Germany and Schweiz got their act together first and invited guest workers second. How tf can you deny that they're administered better than Turkey? You read little articles and can't see life. Ffs, look at life. Life, bro.
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  3506. OJ Simpson. Michael Jackson. Bill Cosby. Jussie Smollett. Will Smith. Man, it must be bitter to be a stand-up guy like Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman—or Chris Rock.
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  3507. Man, that guy in the background with the black shirt, off-white tie, gray jacket and shabbily-trimmed beard looks like a total hee thun, no matter how you cut it. Good Lord! as Norm Macdonald would say. I'm cool with Gov. Noem, though.
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  3508.  @melaniebrown768  I'm reminded of John Lydon calling Ozzy Osbourne a "senile delinquent" and an embarrassment to his country. Reasonably close match?
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  3509. In means various protocols are triggered. Pre-planned measures are taken when pre-determined thresholds are reached. They are not simply making things up as they go along. They've been thinking things through as best they can for several decades now. I'm not saying they won't make mistakes, even major ones. But watch out for paranoia. It too is contagious; it too is very deadly―to effective thinking.
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  3510. Even Serbia refuses to recognize the 2022 annexations.
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  3511. No it wasn't. It specified the threat as obedience, submission, and people "hand[ing] over complete control over their lives to politicians and bureaucrats." I love the way you throw around the word fascism like you know what it means. You also clearly know little if anything about what this channel stands for.
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  3512.  @madrooky1398  He is dyed-in-the-wool. He even travelled to E. Germany to meet with communist cabinet ministers. He is still a leftist, evidently with deep reservations about NATO and the US, and a strong affinity for Russia (tempered though it may now be). On a more general level, an individual's politics is an extension of his or her personality, or character. (Pinfold's dictum: Politics is a suit of clothes worn not by a person, but a personality.) And character once someone is in their 30s is pretty much fixed for life. It's certainly not true that everyone fully matures, or changes many of the views they most strongly held in their 30s. (For example, some remain enthusiasts of car racing video games long after boyhood.😄) But thanks for your respectful and courteous reply.
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  3513. Based on the hyper-extreme rambling I'd say he's a stoner. The big fat belly and tired-looking face argue stoner-drinker.
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  3514. You can tell a lot about some people's minds by how much they love to hear themselves say the word 'endgame.' It reveals a shallow desire to impress.
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  3515.  @Barbara-ld4ug  You raise an excellent point. Why waste any of your life imagining anything at all when you can spend every moment just stewing over German atrocities? Nothing else really matters, does it? I think we're all better for being admonished by you. I think I'll spend my day contemplating your profound decency.
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  3516.  @ellee2937  That is confused. He dumped her when he fully and finally realized what her values were. It was after that that he met his eventual life. As for meeting his wife when she was married (if I am to take your word for that), it is not immoral to have a married friend. It is only immoral to pursue a relationship with her. The fact that they ended up marrying does not show that he did so.
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  3517. Thanks for the defeatist psy-ops. But blowing Kremlin unicorns, lollipops and sunshine up our butts is not gonna work.
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  3518.  @patsymontenegro6884  North America can grow enough to feed itself. China cannot, and so buys soybeans, pork, beef and other food from abroad. From North America, notably.
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  3519.  @mostlymessingabout  The six country giants all have massive areas which are practically uninhabited, some more than others. Comparisons of population density aren't impossible, but this must enter into the calculation in order for them to mean anything. China being the 27th most densely populated country isn't a very germane fact.
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  3520. And you'd think a pandemic would pour cold water on house prices, but no, they've actually picked up steam. Thanks, Fed! Thanks, other central banks! Together they have swelled the money supply to an amazing extent and fuelled outlandish asset price inflation. As time proceeds they shall have no choice but to open the fire hydrant some more, partly to avoid economic collapse, partly to provoke the inflation which alone, with its consequent devaluation of the currency, can do something about debts, public and private, of such enormousness. And enormity. At that point, as now, they are simply postponing a massive drop in wealth and the ordinary standard of living. By doing so they will actually make these things worse than if it happened quickly. Some well-known investors are predicting a lot of wealth destruction in all or nearly all asset classes, btw. Worldwide, and within one to three years. It could begin in the second half of this year.
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  3521. "Cancel culture," as though Russia is deplored only by 5% of the world, and only for expressing an opinion. 🙄
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  3522. …into the side of a building.
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  3523. It's funny how often you hear 2007. I guess people hear it and think it's not the sort of thing that needs double-checking.
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  3524. Yeah that's cool. Btw it's support for him from black men that's picking up. Black women aren't really budging from their preferences.
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  3525.  @draraist  Perfect assessment, but you might as well talk to the wall. Politically blinded people can't think. It scares them. Gerdes' poll of a week ago showed this is a Dem-supporter eck o chaym br. Slava Ukraini ! 🇺🇦 I too hope that NATO support will help it to victory. (80% likely.)
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  3526. The Wiki entry on Hand-waving is quite good, tying together the literal and the metaphorical.
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  3527.  @nelsonbulhoes4774  He could bring rechargeable amps. My girlfriend has one and it's marvellous. He could also do acoustic performances. As an auto-worshipping hero he should be eager to flaunt his heroism in surmounting such a great obstacle.
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  3528. Terminating a lease is not expropriation. ("[E]xpropriates the property rights" is a nonsensical phrase anyway. First, rights cannot be expropriated, only property can; second, it's not China's property, as they are renting it.)
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  3529. National Association of Mental Institutions: "Hey, stop comparing us to MSNBC!"
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  3530. Canada: buyer of 17% of US exports. Rank: 1st Also Canada: 5% of US trade deficit. Rank: 9th Sorry for the pesky facts.
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  3531. You in 1913: "Ridiculous! Where will the motor fuel for all these automobiles come from? It will require petroleum in enormous quantities which we don't have and may never have. How will it all be shipped around the country? Where will it all be refined into gasoline? It's an awful fad. There are many hay dealers conveniently located everywhere in every city. Why will people trade that convenience for these bizarre inventions?"
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  3532. No, just the curvature of the earth getting in the way of a signal far from base.
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  3533. Ever see the movie Idiocracy?
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  3534. The devil! He had me going for the first few minutes. lol
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  3535.  @iamaduckquack  Well said, and a patient reply to rather thickheaded remarks.
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  3536. "Spokesperson, political wing of Freedom of Russia Legion" 😆 I love these 'political wings' of armed groups. Like the US Congress is the political wing of the Strategic Air Command. 😂 Anyway, let's wish this group well. It heartens me to see such good Russians in this awful war.🇺🇦
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  3537. No equal rights is correct. They have umpteen extra rights.
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  3538. Rideau Hall, to be specific
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  3539. You don't? Well, I'm not surprised. Russians don't understand a great many things, I notice. And never will, I expect. But maybe you'll understand a replay of 1988-89. Wait for it.😆
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  3540. Yes. For example, sometimes you can just avail yourself of race-filtering admission policies instead.
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  3541. His mom: "He never bothered nobody. He tryna get his life together."
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  3542. Why are people so anxious to show off their fish DNA and swim about in schools, even when it comes to something like naming their child? What a strange way to proclaim one's lack of individuality.
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  3543. America is its own thing. But let's make no mistake, it's really the Europe of the West Atlantic. It absolutely has its roots in Greece, Rome, Britain, France and Germany. America will never stop identifying its interests with those of Europe.
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  3544. Most of that 18% is private-sector; defense is purely govt. Apples to oranges. This video concerns government spending. So, apples to apples, please.
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  3545. The simplest gestures are often the deepest in meaning, the most moving, the most beautiful. This salute was a perfect example.
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  3546. Trump has never said he'll do that. I think that letting people think he will is a ruse on his part, with Putin the intended dupe.
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  3547. Quite right. Tell people they can attain moral virtue via attacking and abusing other people and the world will beat a path to your door. "Here's a sword and here's how you can improve the world by using it on people. You in?" "Of course I'm in. I'm a very good person. Gimme that thing!"
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  3548.  @liallhristendorff5218  That's not what I said. He was part of a 'harm reduction' culture that made crack, meth, coke, heroin and Fentanyl now legal under 2.5 grams in B.C.
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  3549. Tip: put a spacebar tap between multi-hyphens and letters. Prevents strikethroughs.
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  3550. I agreed with every word of that.👍
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  3551. You, seeing Einstein: "Look at that childish and ignorantly immature old man. What a dummy." Bystander: "Do you understand the fundamentals of his thought? Have you looked into it?" You: "I don't have to. I'm a genius, not ignorant of anything, super-mature, and not at all childish. Move away from me. Being so near to someone so much more intelligent and mature than Elon Musk will probably kill you."
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  3552.  @Petesworkshop2225  😄Pretty good comeback, Mr. President.
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  3553.  @ordinarypete  I missed that. What does it mean?
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  3554.  @warhorse03826  For 23 months now I've been warning Putinists here in these sections that Ukraine is Afghanistan 2.0 and that 1989 is coming back for a second appearance. Likewise 1991. They have nothing to say in response so far.
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  3555. I view people who object to 'labelling' and also refuse to engage in it themselves as not quite cognitively acute, but at least intent on being 'nice.' I view people who object to 'labelling' and then gleefully stick labels wherever it suits them as minor villains.
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  3556. One day soon it will be announced that X is vastly expanding its interface and other capacities to begin video hosting on a great scale. When that happens, this place is done.
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  3557. Very well said. People think that Western freedom is just "there," like the moon is just there in the sky. They think it could no more disappear — even if we wished it to — than the moon could. In truth it needs from us periodic sacrifices of various kinds, some costlier than others.
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  3558.  @nautilus1872  You concentrate on persuading those open to persuasion and on encouraging those already persuaded to act upon their persuasions. That will multiply their prominence and influence. And what about those legions who are, say, not dead-set against you but instead meek followers of your opposition? Easy: those people are followers through and through. Soon after they notice the tide shifting they will switch sides.
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  3559. ​ @olgatomenko1828  No! It is factually untrue that "the USA did not give any support to the UK for 2+ years during WWII." The US did provide the UK with extensive support including war materiel during that period. In November 1939, during the so-called "Phoney War" before major hostilities began, the US govt. amended the Neutrality Laws to allow weapons sales. Besides a rapid pace of such sales, it later made a deal (September 1940) to send 50 old destroyers to Britain for base rights. At that point, much in the way of other desperately-needed supplies had already been sent as well: raw materials, food and medical supplies. Later in 1940, when financial conditions in Britain left it too strapped to pay cash for war materiel, the US began putting together the Lend-Lease Program, requiring no immediate payment for arms and ammunition. This was enacted in March 1941, 18 months after the declaration of war, but 11 months into major hostilities. In your remarks, "2+ years" would indicate that support likely began after the start of 1942 (2 years, 4 months after war was declared). To me it might even imply that the US was strictly neutral, which was likewise untrue. In summary, the US provided extensive material assistance to Britain during the first 24-30 months of the war, only some of which it required cash payment for.
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  3560.  @joesmith1946  True, but anyone can also pet their gun. I'd say it's more of a gun with legs.
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  3561. These were not just some rowdies. Without a doubt this was an insurrection. Let the date June 16, 2022 live in infamy as one of the worst and most perilous days in American history. Let there be congressional investigations, public hearings, indictments, trials, harsh sentences. Lock up Colbert. Seize his bank accounts. Revise the history textbooks. Begin making the documentaries. Our democracy is on the line. This is absolutely the end of the world. 🙄 (I trust my point is clear. )
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  3562. Russia: Invades Ukraine. Old Russian man: "We didn't touch no one. They invade us." It appears Russia needs some professional help.
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  3563.  @uroboros4260  Because the US went after tyrants like Saddam Hussein, the Taliban and the North Vietnamese? The only one I disagree with was the Iraq War, because there was no immediate pressing need. Afghanistan had to be addressed because of 9/11, and South Vietnam had to be protected because they didn't want to be invaded and conquered and have to live under communism.
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  3564. He came second in votes, about 32% of the total. His second consecutive second-place finish.
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  3565. Hear! Hear!
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  3566. Like "mutant"? 😄
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  3567. Any migrants from Canada are immigrants who land at our airports with passports and visas (maybe they could be screened a little bit better, I don't know, but they are legal immigrants/workers)....that is, except for the ones that sneak in over the US border after just waltzing over the US border with Mexico and then are given a plane or bus ticket to go where they please. Some sneak into Canada; maybe some sneak back in afterwards. As for drugs, a ton comes in via Mexico for every pound coming in from Canada. It's not even a rounding error, it's literally something like a 2,000:1 ratio. Secure your own borders. It's not our g d job to make sure no one leaves the country. Get real and stop issuing threats. Enjoy your $4 a gallon gas next week and don't forget to thank your president for raising your taxes, Smuggy.
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  3568.  @vocaldancemusic  Oh, so that's why Gov. Gecko prances around in a Mother Superior habit at home.
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  3569. He doesn't care, since he doesn't live in US society. He lives in billionaire's society, somewhere behind its walls and gates or hundreds of feet above a phalanx of concierges and security guards down at street level. Nothing bad happening in US society can affect him, so he has absolutely no reason to dwell on it.
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  3570. It's true! I witnessed that.
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  3571. Moi aussi!
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  3572. Bar Musk has a ten zero minimum.
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  3573. Lovely specimen here of the Streisand Effect.😄In 2003 Barbara Streisand sued a photographer for $50m for privacy violation for taking a picture of her cliffside house in Malibu (one of 12,000 taken to document California coastal erosion.) She lost, and as a result of publicity over 420,000 people visited the photo site within 30 days.😂 There's a satisfying small irony in the present case: According to Wiki, the phenomenon we call the Streisand Effect is well-known in Chinese culture, expressed by the chengyu [pithy adage] Yù gài mí zhāng. (Wishing to cover, more conspicuous).
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  3574. World Cadaver Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to Joe Biden!"
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  3575.  @urbanbeeman5402  Is that a claim that Trudeau's imminent demise has anything to do with Trump? Because it doesn't.
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  3576. "Celebrities with their weird, smooth, plastic lizard faces." Hahaha, good description.   Don't forget the highly artificial, contorted, Joker-type, Instagram smiles learned by endless hours of practice in the mirror.
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  3577. Complete loyalty to those above, combined with ruthless exploitation of those below (along with a pretence of protecting them), is the essence of feudalism. Europe moved on from feudalism. Russia never did, not even during the Soviet era.
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  3578. So this man sent recordings of his wife around to her family and others. The recordings were lurid enough, we are told, to destroy her reputation. Thus, her contacting a reporter to enumerate all these allegations against him was only to be expected. And what journalist and supervising editor of today would obey the temptation—if any😆—to doubt her? Best to just run with it.
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  3579.  @ladyjustice3978  His title, yes. But the form requires his name. HRH, similarly, is a form of address and not a name.
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  3580. @Raw Engineer Get professional help for your poison personality. It's not the marvel you think it is. Problems with your thinking will likely improve as a result. Cheers.
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  3581.  @samsearle4433  He needs a psychiatrist, an excellent one.
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  3582. "Time's up, Peter Pan. Put on your enchanted slippers and fly off into the night."
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  3583.  @gabriel_kaam_knr  Not necessarily. What you and she are talking about also requires, if the vast majority oppose the measure, that the vast majority remain silent. Passive assent is assent, but passive assent does not sum up democracy, or doesn't need to at least. This fact can be noticed any time a government is defeated.
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  3584. Great comment, but on the wrong video. This is Dave Rubin's sleep video. 😴
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  3585. 1) It's just you. 2) Yes. The CRJ family ranks as the fourth all-time most produced commercial jetliner aircraft family, after the Boeing 737, Airbus A320, and Boeing 727 jetliner families. A total of 1,945 CRJs were made.
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  3586. Then I sure hope your living room sofa is never empty at night as long as even one person is sleeping in a park in your city. And I sure hope you have no savings or investments as long as even one person is impoverished in your city. Otherwise where's the mercy, where's the kindness? Remember, you said "ALWAYS."
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  3587. That almost sounded a little bit disrespectful towards pizza. Not cool, Lois, not cool.🤨
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  3588.  @Junior_Rocky  Dismiss it? Hardly. Quite the opposite in fact. : )
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  3589. Why do you say that? He's a rich businessman with concerns about politics. He's nauseated by his fellow business people who've cynically teamed up with political activists and politicians and are a threat to the future of the sort of society and the values he espouses. I think he's sincere, truthful and very bright.
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  3590. The rouble isn't falling. It's lower than before the war and in my view its outlook is quite negative, but it is currently steady. It's where it was 8 months ago. On inflation you are either badly mistaken or unbelievably well informed. The official rate is 7.4%. But Russian government statistics in wartime are unlikely to be accurate, so no one knows. Maybe you're thinking of the central bank base interest rate (16%).
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  3591.  @paperandmedals8316  Bravo. And there are other reasons the approach has been the right one.
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  3592.  @vinny5638  He mentioned intervention by foreigners? When?
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  3593. Proofread, then post. In that order.
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  3594.  @michaeljohnston980  I am. This isn't a party.
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  3595. It won't stop here either. There are endless shining horizons of sexual and other identities to explore, as hinted at by the emergence into the spotlight of the 2,000 genders. What about three-way marriages? Four-way? Thirteen-way? Indeed, what if a whole artists' colony or alternative theatre troupe show up at city hall demanding the right to plight their mass troth into a single great union? Shall their human rights be denied by the chaplain present? Can't people marry their pets? And not just sheepdogs and pekingese, but gerbils, spiders and gnats? Is it right that in the 21st century society refuses to recognize the intimate love between grandmothers and their grandsons, great-uncles and their grand-nieces? And should they be denied bathrooms dedicated to them alone? Why do none sit together on even a single company board of directors across the whole land? What if you fancy a piece of timber—shouldn't it be eligible for your workplace benefits? You know, a fresh coat of shellac yearly, and a survivor's pension when you shove off? And is it not high time we ended the exclusion of ethereal unions? Are we so closed-minded that we can't allow marriage between a woman and her ghost, a man and his fairy, five ladies and their three cherubs? I do apologize to all whom I've left out of this unfairly, inexcusably short list. I am deeply sorry and pledge to dedicate myself to making amends.
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  3596. So treu.
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  3597. "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." — William Blake
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  3598. @prometheusrex1 Ok, but that was a bot, bro. Courtesy of Pooty. It's mind-blowing how many social media posts you can generate with just 1,000 workers posting non-stop, using a stupendous number of different accounts on different platforms, as well as AI to translate just so, meaning right up to native-English-speaker parity. You might be able to do a billion a week.
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  3599.  @juskahusk2247  Capt. Sir Percy Challenger, who during and after the war mixed Churchill's drinks. He was knighted on the recommendation of Harold Macmillan after serving him such a Sazerac one Sunday afternoon in 1961 that he ordered eight more. Few noticed, but Macmillan's gait was permanently different afterwards.
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  3600. Correction: the Authoritarian Axis needs America to mind its own business.
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  3601. Or make Ukraine the 51st US state.
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  3602. Confidence in CP24 news reports is harmed by the percentage of headlines with serious problems. The headlines are often incorrect, confusing or invite ridicule. Senior management should examine staffing decisions carefully, and perhaps investigate whether heavy drinking is going on in the newsroom.
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  3603. "they had no business betting customers' money on highly risky investments" Ah, but the ratings agencies cleared them as low-risk. Give JPMChase a share of the blame but let's face, it the GFC was a real team effort. As the newspaper headline said in 1929, "Wall Street Lays An Egg."
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  3604.  @rolleroftherock1  Very reasonable fear. If a store clerk kills you after you jump the counter, "then it was your time to go. Fate and such."
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  3605.  @EVIL-C  No, I wouldn't complain about higher taxes. Thanks for proving you know 0% about me. And I've heard the arguments against subways before. For one thing, they don't take account of the likelihood that greater Toronto is headed for a population of 10 million. We'll be sorry if we don't build a lot of them. And if the Scarborough RT were a subway, it wouldn't be closing. Yeah, great money-saver.
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  3606. I would like to see this excrescence somehow sold off to benefit Ukraine, and especially survivors of injuries during the war. I look forward to a change in government in Russia which might make it possible. In a future Russia which has made peace with Ukraine and is paying reparations, it should be a resort where Ukrainian veterans can vacation at no charge.
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  3607. The subject is way over her head. Corporate media can be corrupt, but what powers do companies have compared to governments? She has to stop and think for a moment: Governments make the laws. If they not only make the laws but the news as well, the people are at great risk. We should not get our news from the government. How would you like it if the government published the books as well? And the movies? Would that be wise?
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  3608. Interesting how YouTube comments work. Most people support aid to Ukraine. Yet 99% of these posts passionately oppose it. As passionately as Pooten himself. 🤔It's like someone's gaming things here. Gee, who would do such a thing?😂
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  3609. If you're actually going to refute the guy's assertion, you'll have to falsify his assertion. Offer us studies on men and women's leanings on genetics vs. parenting, or you're just offering opinions, like your interlocutor. Which is of course fine. Cheers, Mozart.  @geniusofmozart 
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  3610. Excellent points. Rebellion, sometimes a healthy response to mistreatment, is commonly, however, a result of being indulged. This makes it a narcissistic power-grab which continues until it his a wall of resistance (other people won't stand for it) which sometimes never comes. Parents who think they'll make their children happy for life by giving them a childhood full of gratified desires are well-meaning but stupid. It always backfires.
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  3611. In Canada, the CBC. Not a peep about it. It's wokester central and desperately needs defunding.
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  3612. Use of the word 'lady' in that remark will be resented by actual ladies.
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  3613. It was formerly a school. Class dismissed.
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  3614.  @MrBendylaw  Even if Russia withdrew from Ukrainian territory, it could keep shelling from its side of the border. That would prolong the state of war while using little in the way of resources and money. I'm not engaging in sophistry.  Not a lot of close fighting went on in Afghanistan for many years and everyone still called it a war until the US withdrew. Or did NATO specify that they're putting you in charge of defining what a war is?
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  3615.  @IliyaOsnovikov  Very funny, since Russia can't do in 17 months what it thought it could do in three days.
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  3616.  George V  " You're a colossal buffoon!" I don't know: 330m Americans x 70% infection rate x 0.5%-to-3% case fatality rate = 1.2m to 7m deaths What's your response?
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  3617.  George V  Thanks for your reply. Call it speculation if you like, but it's university scientists, health agencies, and heads of state who are predicting 40 to 80% infection rates, and I mean they've done it this week. Actually I think I stopped hearing 40% last week. As for the 0.5% to 3.4% fatality rates, South Korea, which is now a rich country on a par with Japan, is the only one so far to achieve 0.5%, and that was only through an extremely focused effort, making all the right moves, and massive unity. Let's face it, the US, with all its impressive strengths, is much more unruly and socially untidy, with huge swathes of poverty, ignorance, and disorganization (crime, drugs, etc.) that South Korea actually doesn't have. People in LA are lining up around the block to panic-buy guns. I saw the footage. I'm a foreigner, so you know your countrymen and I basically observe them through the telescope of exported TV and Internet. Cheers and good luck (your majesty lol).
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  3618.  @TruthTeller8888  Yeah, sadly true. Anyway, they were supposedly there waiting for him. Mighta been Jersey, idk. I wonder if they vanished, since no word of arrest. Scary.
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  3619.  Chris Ward  "You must be very, very old my friend to remember a ficticiously antiquated moment in history." What a weird thing to say. There is a subject called history. You've heard of it, of course? Through studying it, one can learn about things that happened before one was born.
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  3620. The thumbnail photo shows Jill Biden on some other day. On Election Day she did wear a super-red pantsuit.
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  3621. Perfect account name.🤣 1) Democracy is fully intact. 2) Freedom to say what one likes doesn't cover break & enter, vandalism, trespassing, etc. Nor harassment, threats, intimidation, calls for violence, etc.
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  3622.  @scania1982  Agreed.
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  3623. In my city a few years back there was a spate of pedestrian deaths from cars/trucks mounting the sidewalk following a collision or just loss of control. (In this video, the deceased was a pedestrian in front of the building.) It's weird, but ever since, when on foot, I've been afraid. (It may be partly due to an accident I was in 6 years ago, caused by another driver). Seeing this wasn't the greatest thing for me.
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  3624.  @montagnegign3978  There's a continuum, buddy. A robber is 'better' than a murderer. A shoplifter is 'better' than a rapist. Someone who kills a million is worse than someone who kills ten. You didn't know that? Chill, moral posturer.
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  3625. Many threads here are just Chanfun (posing as 'William Mitchell') agreeing with Wai-yin (posing as 'Jennie Martinez'). The more such pro-Chigh Nuh chatter piles up, the clearer it becomes that protecting countries like the Philippines, Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan is vital to global freedoms.
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  3626.  @Sergio-fu7mv   Racist! Oh no, I think I caught it. Racist! I don't feel so good. I gotta lie down. Racist!
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  3627. How many centimeters long can false eyelashes be? At the corners they reach her eyebrows. Wow. I think that's entering decisively into comic territory. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😄
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  3628. Why? Because there's a massive outbreak of POS disease, that's why. On every sidewalk, in every lane of traffic, in every store and restaurant, in every apartment building, every street of every neighbourhood. Why should control of dogs be any different?
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  3629. The term "Gen Z professionals" gets me laughing.
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  3630. Her argument falls flat. The USSR (i.e., Russia with a vast annexed empire) lost badly to Afghanistan not so long ago, despite having all the advantages over it which she says Russia has today over Ukraine — except far more so. Whatever puny Afghanistan managed to achieve in 1989 is certainly achievable by Ukraine in 2024.
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  3631.  @evaluateanalysis7974  He knows that; he is saying Belarusians differ in their opinions from many Russians. Your English is probably good but not perfect. 🙂 All the best
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  3632. Something like Italian and Spanish.
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  3633. Yes. Let her know she's being counterattacked. Let them all know.
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  3634. Emily could pass for 28. Psaki could pass for 58. (They're both 45.)
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  3635.  @Gingy2002  That's now changing. Science has once again started to be about the feelings and interests of the powerful, just as in Galileo's time. The priestly class is laying down the law, turn-of-the-17th-century style.
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  3636. Around that time Taiwan was a veto-holding permanent 'P5' member of the UN Security Council, along with the US, USSR, Britain and France.
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  3637. He's chest-puffing in anticipation of talks involving the US president-elect. It's quite see-through. Far less certain is Xi's intent, but I assume it's highly devious. I expect he's egging Putin on, cunningly and slyly nudging him towards war with NATO. It would dramatically weaken both sides, to Xi's own direct and colossal benefit.
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  3638. It's been on the NYT website's video section since four years ago. That was against the DOD's wishes, you say?
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  3639. "Consummate professional" Fair statement.👏
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  3640.  @vodkaman1970  Correct. Even Serbian president Lucic refused to recognize the sham referendum results in the Eastern Ukrainian oblasts.
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  3641.  @Chaevnicher  No, 59 is middle-aged. You're like her, getting things incorrectly by a year or more.
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  3642. She's asking Chris something very naughty about her anatomy compared to her mother's. Quite naughty. Talk like that can earn a Mature Audiences Only rating, abbreviated TV-MA.
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  3643. You're going to jail, mate.
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  3644. Not so much a power move as just not letting anyone nag and poke at him.
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  3645. When you're attacked, bad treatment isn't bad. Not when you're fighting for your life. You have a choice: treat the other fellow badly or die. The moral culpability is all on the aggressor. So your question is best addressed to aggressors. Why indeed do they treat others so badly?
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  3646.  @wingsoffreedom3589  It's been 50 years at least.
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  3647.  @theghostoftomjoad7161   The fight against sexism and racial bigotry exempts no one and starts alone in front of a mirror. Try it.
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  3648.  @cathygr  "They do it on purpose. Channel 4, Sky news ... desperate ... to use such tactics." Yes, yes, and yes. Blame it on the 90s, when the culture went all-out to teach us that playing fair was for losers and 'wimps'. And who put on that show? The Me Generation, born between 1945 and 1964.  The disappearance of integrity, manners, and any charm in social life are all part of what I call The Collapse of Character, the result of The Great Slackening. Coming next, the disappearance of prosperity, security, and freedom. Thanks, baby boomers.
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  3649.  @etcetera-9  Changes, yes!
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  3650.  @mad-meh2719  I can't speak for her, but my guess is she means the professional rheighce baiters, those who will try to inflame attitudes, who will try to grab emotional people by the emotions. It think we've all had the experience of dealing with one like the forum host.
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  3651. About 10 years ago the great British philosopher and conservative critic Sir Roger Scruton elicited a similar reaction from a leftist stalwart on a TV discussion panel. Amiably exasperated, he turned to the host: "I get this all the time. People say 'I'm in danger of agreeing with you.' " The audience burst out in laughter and applause.
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  3652. With that wide socialist face he'd be perfectly cast as the commissar O'Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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  3653. Rest assured you have 38m friends and supporters in Canada.
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  3654. ​ @gregsimpson9391  Time has a way of showing you who your real friends are. Keep the ones whose values you share, who've been with you the longest, who've earned your trust, who would never turn their backs on you. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧 And yes, the Americans, too. Any mistreatment of New Zealand would anger them terribly. 🇺🇸
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  3655. Oh my god, what a putz.
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  3656.  @riparianlife97701  Also: "Govt-owned dacha for rent. Sevastopol, just km from naval base. Furnished, equipped with fire extinguishers. Special rate for entire summer. Subletting ok. Act before it's gone!"
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  3657. I see him more like Professor Frink on The Simpsons: a highly intelligent philistine. The type of person best kept far away from power and any real influence.
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  3658. 'I don't share the views of the protestors. I don't want to hear the honking of people I don't agree with. Therefore, they must pack up and leave.' Brilliant position. Great political mind.
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  3659. The whole speech was brilliant and inspirational. Watch and savour — dammit! 😄
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  3660. Even today if you die destitute and there's no one to arrange a paid burial, you will be buried in an unmarked grave. It's handled by the municipality. The term is pauper's grave, and many thousands of Canadians are buried that way every year. The practice will be around forever, I imagine. The largest number are buried by the City of Toronto.
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  3661. Yuri Bezmenov tried to do everything he could to benefit the US and the West after he defected. He revealed everything he knew about Soviet subversion. He spent years educating us, warning us. He should have been heeded, but he was ignored. There should be statues of him today, but he is forgotten, except in YouTube videos of interviews and speeches he gave. Please, everybody, watch Operation Infektion, a 45-minute 2018 documentary, here on YouTube.
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  3662. Hmm. Freud said pyromania is how some boys choose to impress the boys who they're attracted to. So do you suppose?
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  3663. Ok, Dmitriy.
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  3664. Or a little sneak.
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  3665. 2:57 Andrew, student: "We have open elections." Daniil, looking off to the side: "Omg, get a load of this dude.🙄" ——————— Nastya the IR student is really astute (for anyone, not just for a student). Sometimes really smart people look down when they speak because it helps them think. ——————— 12:40 Dude replies that Russians have the right to be afraid to speak openly.😂Yes, quite an important right to have. The basis of all human dignity. I can't remember who first said that, John Locke or Voltaire.
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  3666. Nothing has given me reason to think Lex has the guts for such a thing. He's nicey-nice.
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  3667.  @littlechange1659  You're not a good shopper, to say the least.
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  3668.  @andrewk6717  Just to be clear, they weren't there for nothing. There's practically no such thing as a useless police station---or US army base. Just ask the people who live within 25 miles.
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  3669. They're discussing what they always do: just how damned wonderful they are.
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  3670. That's right.
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  3671. This is relatively minor, but someone has to say something at some point: Her clothes fit her remarkably, consistently, uncannily...terribly.
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  3672.  @JohnnyBot71  Feckless means ineffectual.
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  3673. That sounds right to me. Let's hear some sort of definition of "cancelled" from the lads.
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  3674.  @zammmerjammer  Funny you should say that. I read that his ex-wife, the boy's mother, was arrested for trafficking meth. (And GHB😮)
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  3675. Prof. Gerdes, this might interest you and your viewers: A survey conducted by the  Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Jan.29) finds that Majority of Non-Trump Republicans Support Continued Aid to Ukraine. Includes an interesting data breakout. Never heard of the CCGA? Me neither. From their site: "Founded in 1922, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing knowledge and engagement in global affairs. Our in-depth analysis and expert-led public opinion research influence policy conversations [etc.]" [italics mine]
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  3676. And yet a number of unwisely trusting Americans are investing in BYD. They're following in the footsteps of Warren Buffett, confident in the BYD company reports that they're kicking Tesla's butt in China. Those are even backed up by the Chinese govt's monthly registration counts by company. So how many are really being sold? No doubt only a handful of BYD and govt. insiders know. Oh, how I hope Buffett gets his butt kicked on BYD shares.
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  3677. Your allies are Belarus, North Korea, Iran and Syria, all of which are poor. They are vastly outnumbered by a far more powerful, populous, wealthy and resource-rich group of Ukraine's allies. Taken together, military reality, political reality and economic & financial reality doom you. Russian Nazis will be defeated. There is no other way to end this war.
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  3678. Decades of slowly collapsing social standards have finally produced a couple of generations of smooth-brains. That's why.
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  3679. "Blyat, my German pencil is in there!"
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  3680. I didn't see a smile, although she does nearly always have a distinctly pleasant expression. However, I think that's just her face. It looks natural. People aspiring to be on TV who don't look pleasant are ordinarily screened out because viewers by and large show an aversion to them. It's especially the case for women, since in our society women in general are more agreeable than men and therefore generally look more agreeable and pleasant in interactions. Those are just generalities, but no matter what one may think of them, they're real ones. But don't get me wrong: if I thought she was smiling I'd question it too.
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  3681. Consider the threshold it took to invoke the War Measures Act in 1970: There had been bombings, murders, kidnapping and armed robberies. And still there was widespread concern and opposition to the move as inappropriate, extreme, and inimical to Canadian values of freedom and due process. In contrast, in Ottawa in 2022 there was not even so much as a single punch to anyone's nose. Not even close. (Some opponents of the protest tried to tie a small fire in a building lobby to it, but it was quickly shown that the two were unconnected.) Indeed many Ottawa residents remarked that during the protest downtown Ottawa felt safer — and was safer — than it had been for years.
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  3682. Pierre Poilievre for Prime Minister. Justin Ocasio Cortez for compost.
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  3683. Sweden to the US last year: "I hate you so much." Sweden to the US this year: "I hate you so much. Protect me. And may I add, I hate you."
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  3684. A low character, that one. She also married her brother to get him into the US, in total defiance of its laws. She has nothing but hatred and contempt for the country that has treated her like gold. I wouldn't want to actually say what I wish on her.
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  3685. Expressions of misanthropy—"Humans are evil" "People are terrible," etc.—are common online. I always respond the same way: "Well then, I think you know what you have to do. And be sure to tidy up your living quarters first."
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  3686. Sideshow Bob's brother [brandishing a bomb]: "You may hear a slight ringing in your ears. Fortunately you'll be nowhere near them."
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  3687.  @frankus54  I just call her Hanoi Jane. It would annoy her and her disciples more.
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  3688. Just looking at that appallingly hideous Andrews makes me sick. All he's missing is a Mao jacket and hat. (And I bet he has them at home.)
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  3689. But he is Joe's son, so he's going to end up being the 49th president.
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  3690.  @Gokusaiyan.  In some cultures the gold-digging aspect is stronger than in others. (Which just means your odds depend on background. However, people are individuals, not just outgrowths of their prevailing culture, so you can find just about any type of person anywhere.)
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  3691.  @gildedpeahen876  Actually, although the pandemic was a wealth transfer, it wasn't the kind you think it was. It was a transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor, or at least the less rich. Who do you think paid actual money for all those bonds the government issued to pay for all the cheques it was writing to regular people? Certain regular people lost a lot, to be sure. Anyone who lost their job or their small business, for example. But median after-tax incomes actually rose, and so did median savings rates and median net worth. And if those bonds are ever retired rather than being rolled over, it will be the rich who are repaid, but likewise it will be the rich who pay the taxes that make the repayment possible. The wealth gains by billionaires were a transfer of wealth of a sort, as they tend to dilute or debase the wealth of those less rich, primarily through various mechanisms of inflation. But then, a lot of those gains can easily be reversed, and we somewhat appear headed in that direction. At least there's no prospect of a tax cut for them.
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  3692. A much longer pilot program is needed before re-writing by-laws. Awareness of this one was slight, so many who would be eventual park drinkers didn't show up. Among the problems I'm sure will eventually arise:   (1) youth gangs going to parks to drink and cause trouble against ordinary park users and eventually rival gangs (2)  open urination and defecation on a large scale due to the non-existence of toilets (3) a bothersome and intimidating atmosphere of general rowdiness which nonetheless falls below the criminal level (4) constant breaking of the by-law against amplified music in parks (i.e. portable stereo equipment), ruining the peacefulness. By-law officers can be phoned but frankly admit that it will take several hours to show up, so trying that is pointless. The current system works fine anyway. Those who want to drink are discreet about it and don't face fines for that reason. Those who break some other law, are rowdy, or are blatantly open in their drinking are dealt with by bike cops.
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  3693. She would be plenty wrong.
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  3694. I thought very poorly of him already. Now I've downgraded him to Not All There.
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  3695. ​ @sampreece3900  Ah, and so of course that doesn't apply to you: No, you're a greater genius than the geniuses.... by dint of less education.
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  3696.  @talonr7818  It might make a fine screenplay, but who'd finance the production, who'd distribute it? Indeed, where would you find the crew? You'd be treated as though you'd written Springtime for Hi Tler.
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  3697.  @dutchie1770  Who's your writing coach, Kringela Harris?
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  3698.  @dutchie1770  Now who's being subjective? 😂
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  3699. Decries racism. Proceeds to single out one race as the problem.
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  3700. Russia sends fighter jets blasting down the English Channel regularly and has for many years. Stop feigning indignity, Mischa.
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  3701. ​ @mazkhasate  Don't get you. Who are 'we' guys and where do we live?
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  3702. Nothing odd about showing the Tu-95, which is indeed an old Soviet bomber. It's still a mainstay of the Russian bomber fleet and is expected to remain in service until 2040. Wikipedia: "Fighters from NATO members are often sent to intercept and escort Tu-95s as they perform their missions along the periphery of NATO airspace."
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  3703. World Council of Cats: "Hey, stop comparing our mentality to liberals'!"
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  3704.  @robollis  I'm not letting Marxism off the hook. Hardly. It is its stupid and poison premise of levelling, fit for stupid and poison people, that comes shining through in Neo-Marxism. And your attempt to bait me with Nazism is all I need to see to tell me you are not worth my time. Good bye. :)
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  3705. Malcolm Gladwell😂
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  3706.  @theresasimmons9007  You're calling him a criminal. Yet there is no publicly-available evidence of that. Yet we do not even know if a crime against her was actually committed. Yet we do know she admitted to assaulting him, and there was plenty of physical evidence of it. Also, you don't know whether he was under surveillance. Your whole comment is a mess. Just wait.
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  3707.  @DeepTexas  But you're telling me what I'm telling you. Perhaps my point escaped you; namely, that this would've been better titled "Life of Adolf Eichmann" than "Execution of Adolf Eichmann."
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  3708.  @darkc1oud923  I think things are going just about right. 50% of people say they can't believe how panicky others are, the other 50% insist it's time to freak out because the world is ending.
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  3709. Ah, Ernesto Guevara, "The Butcher of la Cabaña." Your hero, eh? 👎
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  3710. Yes! And she should do it before Democrats do to Congress what Harvard did to Asian admissions. (Don't laugh: in time they'll try—and they might very well succeed.)
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  3711. If he were a peer, Lord Felton would be a correct style. But for a knight the given name must always be used. Thus, Sir Mark, or Sir Mark Felton.
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  3712. Who's he kidding? He doesn't intend to enforce laws. If he did he'd be fired immediately and he knows it. Get ready to hear excuses and denials.
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  3713. Everyone should watch the great Navalny film here on YouTube: "Putin's Palace". Prepare yourself for nausea.
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  3714.  @timmackinnon5547  Thank you. Make Justin Ocasio Cortez a Supply Teacher Again
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  3715. The reconstitution of the USSR? That is a very tall order indeed. In my view it would require a Russia vastly stronger than it is at present. But the re-Stalinization of Russia? That's no problem. It's already nearly complete. Let's just keep in mind how immensely different the two propositions are.
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  3716. If the world were a somewhat better place, that would all go without saying everywhere outside Russia. But no, it was necessary to point it out. 🙁😕☹😟😦😞😩😫🤮😖😠🤬☠
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  3717. An extremely similar slogan was actually in use within the past 12 months: "“One nation, one president, one victory.”🤨 You can instantly confirm this with an easy search.
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  3718. Shameless exaggeration. Total US aid to Ukraine has been $109bn ($45bn/yr).* Please, honesty and accuracy are important! * Source: Kiel Institute Ukraine Aid Tracker, Aug. 6 data release
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  3719. (1) Calling Gay's plagiarism "loose citations" is like calling a gas station robbery a loose fill-up. Or a bank holdup a loose withdrawal. (2) She's not just staying on as a professor. She's staying on at a salary of $900,000.🤯 (3) Attention Bill Ackman!: Don't let up now. Keep going!
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  3720. So I suppose you would want swastika scarves permitted too?
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  3721. American- domiciled. He's lived in South Africa, Canada and now the US, has three citizenships, and holds three passports. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇿🇦 No doubt he believes the US is the best country for accomplishing his life's objectives, but there's plenty of Elon to go around.😄
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  3722. Thanks for the biased reporting. That's what I read and watch news for: not the various facts and views, but what the reporter passionately believes in her heart. Her personal opinions, values and morals are just as important to me as they are to her. I need to model my mind after those of random reporters recently out of our fine journalism schools. Keep it up. It's news I can really trust.
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  3723. No Canadians are involved in this war except for a few private volunteers. Canada is not at war. Canada is not at war! But Putin would love what you wrote, as it makes it sound otherwise. [sigh] So very many messages here that Putin would approve! 🤔
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  3724. 2025: The end of Scholz, Trudeau and Albanese, all before June. Absolutely marvellous. Champagne shortages on the way.🎉🥂
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  3725. Even if the book were available for free, he wants it to be read. When you write a book you put everything inside you into it, so compared to what you can say in five minutes in an interview it's got a much fuller representation of you and your thought in it. This guy doesn't need a few more dollars; he's already very wealthy. At this point he's interested in persuasion. There's no ulterior motive.
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  3726. He's got people telling him he has to smile all the time. He shouldn't be listening to them. You should be more suspicious of the people with automatic smiles who've been practicing them in the mirror for decades.
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  3727.  @sweetpoptart9486  Like ones that teach rayghce and opposite-sex hay trid. Also against Canadians with roots in Canada, i.e. most Canadians.
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  3728. Correction: In space, Boeing is the upstart, not Space X. SpaceX is the world's biggest and most important space company by far. By some crucial measures it is bigger than all the rest in the world combined. SpaceX is valued at $210bn. Boeing, all its divisions combined, is worth $107bn.
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  3729. Right. Anything except letting Putin pick up Ukraine like a sack of carrots is war-mongering. Your evil rhetoric makes any decent person puke. Punk.
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  3730.  @lyndon_daly1889  Stop muttering to yourself.
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  3731. I find their reporters and presenters insufferable something-holes. Unpardonably biased and energetically rude.
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  3732. Glad to see someone else pointing this out. The metropolis where I live is about as dense as London (12,500/sq mi) and is noted by foreign visitors for its spaciousness. And that's with vast areas taken up by freeways and other wide roads, industrial parks, massive shopping malls, etc. — things Gaza doesn't have.
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  3733. Unless I missed it, the barrel-equivalent of 91,000 tonnes of naphtha is not given. It's 810,000 barrels. Confusingly, by the way, naphtha (or the spelling variant nafta) means variously crude oil, diesel, kerosene or gasoline in many languages around the world. In English it means a fractional product refined from petroleum, commonly used as a diluent in heavy crude which makes it easier to pump; also as 'camp fuel' and 'lighter fluid.'
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  3734. I need closure on Dr. Drew's 2nd point.
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  3735. True. We need a split-screen meme of the two of them, stat.
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  3736. Who could fail to notice the inferiority of these people, and how stunted their mental capacities are?
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  3737. He was bad as he wanted to be.
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  3738. The hilarious part was when they said she was raped.
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  3739.  @lewisdoherty7621  In fact, everything which either Russia, China or Iran does to harass or sap the West seems to help all three of them either directly, indirectly or both. The West has to decide if it wants to be weaker or stronger than this extremely unappetizing alliance. Yes, it's an alliance. They've noticed the same thing I have and are conducting themselves accordingly.
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  3740. No, and she shouldn't even be allowed in bartending. She should be allowed in garbage collecting, though, on the streets with a filthy bag and one of those skewer things.
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  3741. Hear, hear! Thanks, Gov. DeSantis, for showing what it's possible to accomplish. And thanks to the people of Florida for putting him in office.
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  3742. He looks like an idiot with his torso sticking up through the roof of that little car, stiffly motionless with microphones placed in front of him. It's comical the way he keeps his hands down inside.
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  3743. At last TR interviews someone who's had a frontline job in international relations and has a realistic view of Trump. The result: a mass conniption in the comments.😄 I've been saying the same things as Amb. Sondland for over a year and gotten the same reaction. People should read Trump's social media remarks from late Feb. 2022.
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  3744. Excellent analogy. The problem in the US is a collapse of trust following all the Covid lies, plus social media and YouTube echo-chambering, plus immense flooding of social media by foreign propagandists. Big social media is the dream of Russia and China which has come true.
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  3745. My respect for Argentinians is through the roof for their bold choice in electing Javier Milei. I think they've shown themselves acute judges of character with an uncanny sense of historical timing. He's the most inspiring politician I've ever seen in my life. Hats off to this channel for its remarkable clarity, scope and balance. More, please.
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  3746. Every university department is becoming part of the Trans Studies Department, coming therefore under its direction. The Office of the President has nearly turned into the Office of the Trans Students/Trans Studies President.
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  3747.  @KingFergus  If a passenger jet is properly maintained it can be expected to last 30 years. The average of planes currently in the US airline fleet is 13.4 years.
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  3748.  @claytonjean6385  Do not use the term "mass graves." A mass grave is a grave of people who were mass murdered (or sometimes died of a disaster or plague). An unmarked grave is a different thing altogether and need not have any connection with illegality or wrongdoing, except that it is not considered dignified. Many poor people are buried in unmarked graves across Canada every day. They're called pauper's graves.
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  3749. Don't tell the West. Tell Putin. Go ahead. Put your boots on and stroll over to the Kremlin right now.
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  3750. Trumpflation
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  3751. ?? You mean the title? They discussed the subject. How is it clickbait? The channel could hardly list in the title every subject touched in the clip.
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  3752. At last, someone expressing contempt for this pseudo-intellectual swill. The guy must be up all night scrubbing negative comments. The fawning comments that remain remind me of the near-uniform agreement on Twitter after the algorithm and moderators have sanitized everything. With so many people of various sorts so desperate to believe something, anything, in order explain away their insignificance, thought is dying. What's left is madness.
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  3753. What? Why speak Russian to them? All the better to address them in English and let them know they will never be part of the 'Russosphere.' German or French would be fine too, or Polish.
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  3754.  @junkfoodguy  Your writing is incomprehensible. Is it a lack of education thing or a drinking in the daytime thing?
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  3755. It's intensely striking how people will zero in on one thing Trump says and then ignore the next because it doesn't cast him in the disparaging light they prefer. Even the estimable Michael Clarke. Here he says Trump will force Ukraine to surrender. But here's Trump in an interview with Maria Bartiromo last year (Part 3 at the 3-minute mark): "I would tell Zelenskyy, 'No more, you've got to make a deal.' I would tell Putin 'If you don't make a deal, we're going to give them [Ukraine] a lot. We're going to give them more than they ever got if we have to.' I will have the deal done in one day, one day." That clearly is not a one-sided pledge to end aid to Ukraine. The threat to Putin to escalate US aid to Ukraine to the highest-ever level is something of a very different nature. It's also illuminating to read Trump's social media posts immediately following February 24, 2022. I for one expect that Trump, if he wins, will confront Putin aggressively. For now, in my view, he does not wish to appear to Putin as though he is more hawkish than Biden. He has a close election to contest. TDS is real, very real. People in its grip, steadfastly determined to uphold their virtue and decency, lose their reason.
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  3756. A poor effort here. No industry analysts, no professors, just a young tweezer-deprived staffer pontificating. And a callow voiceover amateur who says "doitch-bank."🙄 Then a quote from Elon Musk totally out of context: the reduction isn't in overall copper usage, just in the 12-volt wiring system. That made me pretty mad. Why did you even bother?
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  3757.  @LeossJ433  It happens far less often than Marxists flatter themselves by assuming. There are many rules against undue exploitation, and then there is also our old friend we call ordinary run-of-the-mill comeuppance owing to well-earned unpopularity. The prime factor in attaining to top positions is competence.
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  3758. It strikes me that the goal of flattening the curve is probably at odds with avoiding the impoverishment of us all, perhaps for no payoff whatever in lives saved. Lives may be at first be saved by slowing an otherwise uncontrolled spread, but slowing the spread roughly means shutting down the country until most people are vaccinated or have caught the virus and recovered. Pausing the economy for a full year or longer would likely be a disaster in many ways worse than letting the disease run its course whilst the sick and the old are safely hunkered down for several months. And drawing out the spread over time is not guaranteed to save a great many lives anyway, as hospitals may be overwhelmed even by a relative trickle of patients: it's clear that they can't handle an influx of the sick amounting to 5% of the population, but what makes anyone think they could handle even 0.5%? Hospitals will no doubt rise to the occasion in astonishing ways, but they operate within realistic limits against which there is ultimately no remedy. Thus the best way to save the most vulnerable might be to focus on isolating them in the most thoroughgoing manner possible, a task more achievable if people are working at their jobs and circulating freely, maintaining the normal functioning of things needed to support such an effort. It would also free up things like masks and medicines for those who need them most, including medical workers. To isolate those most at risk for, say, half a year is not only much easier on them and all of us than doing so for twelve months or more---it also gives the virus much less time to get through to them. Imagine on the one hand emerging from the summer with herd immunity achieved at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and with a quick economic and social recovery at hand, versus having the disease hanging over us all for a year or longer whilst it slowly but inexorably picks off the vulnerable one by one, at the cost of a similar (or greater) number of lives but also an economic and financial hole so deep that it takes several years or a decade to climb out of it. All the while we would swing back and forth agonizingly between tantalizing reprieve and resurgent outbreaks which continue through 2021. Quality of life and standards of living, obviously, but also the health of the people in all other respects would be sure to be seriously impacted. Do we know whether society could hang together throughout all that? We are most certainly (whichever anglosphere nation we inhabit) not the same people who withstood the Second World War with such stoic resilience. And what if the net effect of an unnecessarily protracted struggle against the disease is a sudden massive transfer of political and economic power to China? The UK’s national science advisor may have been right to float the herd immunity idea. The country which gets through this soonest will enjoy an enormous feeling of gladness and will also be the envy of the world. Possibly it could mean considering how many lives we permit to be ruined in favour of the uncertain chance of saving a single one. Possibly it could mean sacrificing a certain number of younger lives for a vastly greater number of older ones. As Orwell said, "It is disagreeable to weigh human lives like groceries", but in the worst circumstances that may be precisely what is wisest.
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  3759.  @r__b6095  For those who don't feel like helping you make your argument, where in that paper exactly? And btw, anybody using the word bitch like that is a whack-off artist at some level.
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  3760.  @garybaines6442  What, "No"?🤨 No, it's not near Toronto? Oh please. Highway 7 and the 400 is scarcely one mile north of Toronto city limits at Steeles. It's half a mile from the Vaughan Centre TTC Subway station! It is definitely near Toronto. You could walk into Toronto in half an hour easily.
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  3761. I was lucky enough to complete my education before The Great Dumbening. Then, the university system was still greatly beneficial to Canada and Canadians. Now it largely serves as a giant mechanism for political indoctrination and miseducation. So to the extent that this amounts to de-funding, it pains me to say that I am glad.
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  3762. Luckily their insurance covers acts of dog.
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  3763.  @lamplight5603  Thanks. I agree with every word of that.👏
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  3764.  @lamplight5603  Nah, it's there. I see it. But something did happen to your reply of just now. It goes along until "thinks it's to—" and then right there in mid-word it trails off into super-tight dots. Not regular '..........' dots, but the other kind that always accompany Read more. It's sick what they do to our harmless and heartfelt expressions of opinion.
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  3765. Most tanks can shoot somewhat downwards by lowering the barrel. The design is not so much for clearing trenches as for being able to fire a level shot when the crew finds itself tilted upwards on a slope. Otherwise to be on such a slope would pretty much mean being defenceless. But a lowered barrel would work for the sort of scene we saw as well.
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  3766. It's over your head.
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  3767. Person making your bun sandwich: "Multi-grain or kaiser?" You: "A bun will suffice." Dude, if someone's trying to find out what you'd like, don't be a jerk. Maybe get counselling for that.
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  3768. By and large, the Chinese have a low opinion of Russia invading Ukraine. They are only keeping quiet because they really like the way it bothers the West. But as it lacked necessity, it was a very un-Chinese action. (Of course, some Chinese simply believe the US is entirely to blame because they read it in the papers, but the average Chinese person is a little more careful than that, inwardly at least.) If the West endorsed the invasion, both the Chinese people and official China would be hotly denouncing Russia.
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  3769. Ron DeSantis 2024!👍
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  3770. ​ @bennyblanco2523  They're instructed to do it to look "high-status," because "high-status people take up lots of space." But in fact it's very vulgar (in the sense of low-class), so it's properly the opposite of high-status.😮Really quite fitting, therefore, in an upside-down world where people demand the right to use the wrong bathroom, declare that discrimination is justice, that freedom is dangerous and destructive, where the prime minister is clearly an overgrown Peter Pan fruitcake, etc.
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  3771. Thank you for pointing that out.
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  3772. What a rotten swamp of neo-Nazis, assorted Jew-haters, and hired Russians here. Those in possession of decency and sanity, stay out unless you can afford to lose a little. Atrocity exhibition.
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  3773. "Way warmer than usual" at 33 degrees? The avg daily high for January is 29 degrees. (in metric, 0.5 deg vs normal -1.8 deg.) So not a noticeable difference.
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  3774.  @derikuk2967  We had domestic Nazi sympathizers in the Second World War, too. Later we had "tankies"—supporters of the Soviets on our college campuses, in unions, fringe artistic circles etc., who hailed the USSR as a worker's paradise.🙄 You're directly in their tradition. Congratulations!
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  3775. She was laughing. She didn't sound terrified to me. They looked like harmless guys who thought they were funny (but weren't).
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  3776. Russia: Immense, prosperous, powerful, nuclear-armed, occupier of three major areas of Ukraine since 2014 Ukraine: Medium-sized, poor, lightly-armed, had never even tossed a piece of litter over the border into Russia Conclusion made by Russians from these facts: Russia had to invade and destroy Ukraine as a matter of survival. 💩for brains.
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  3777. Free? Are you hi?
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  3778.  @NvidiaRTX5080  Who cares? If he made 90% less, it'd only take a dime off a thousand dollars' worth of groceries.
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  3779. Dignitary at reception in capital of an African country, to a white woman in European clothing: "Where are you from?" Woman: "I'm from here in [capital]." Dignitary: "Ah, but where are your people from?" Woman: "Belgium. They came in the mid-70s." Dignitary: "Interesting. Well, won't you have tea with me?" Woman: "Yes, thanks."
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  3780.  @koshka02  I wrote you a reply of several paragraphs which was a model of polite civility and political moderation, entirely respectful and I think thoughtful in tone and content. Poof! It disappeared instantly. We should be concerned about that.
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  3781. The money is frozen, not "stolen." Nice try, Yuri.
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  3782. He would note with approval that Sunak had been head boy at Winchester and earned a First at Lincoln College, Oxford.
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  3783. In the English-speaking world there are 10 or 20 big names in the fight against the West's political, cultural, social and academic calamities. Among them, Michael is the most coherent, has the most talent verbally and cognitively, and is the most competent and effective. In short, he's the best.
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  3784. Robots. Droll, that.  Yes, all four, in fact, are inadequate at framing the overall importance of their findings within the question at hand, making you wonder why. The moderator could do it for them with ease, and must be biting his tongue. It'd be less frustrating for us if he could play the lion tamer a little, and have the authority to ask questions, demand answers, switch around from one panellist to the other, etc. Hey, if you miss Hitchens, try his brother Peter (who wrote incisively on cannabis earlier this month). I myself ignored this advice for a few years and regret it a bit.
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  3785. Ah, but in fairness to that utter nincompoop, the UN resolution did call for the return of all hostages, so "unconditional ceasefire" is not accurate. But he should never have voted for any resolution that didn't call for Hamas to lay down its arms and surrender. Besides that, there are already daily 4-hour humanitarian-aid ceasefires. Thus the UN resolution was, as usual, absurd.
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  3786. They're not really homeless camps, they're drug camps. Each one has at least one drug dealer living there in a tent. They go hand-in-hand: No dealers, no camp. No camp, no dealers. All the men you saw here commit daily crimes to pay the dealers.
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  3787. Click CC On. Then go to Settings > Subtitles > Auto-generate > English. 👍
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  3788.  @kazzer115  The two parts of his remarks differed in nature. The first point, while patently untrue and he knows it, is one he keeps making, and some Americans actually believe it. (He says the same sort of thing about European trading partners too.) You can't call that trolling. It's fake rhetoric. The second part was of course pure trolling and I somewhat enjoyed it due to my low regard for our PM. But as for Nancy, I don't think you should presume to speak for her. She may be an American who takes at least part of it somewhat seriously and finds it all delightful. Never underestimate the bizarreness of the American mind...mate.
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  3789. "He is friends with people who are very pro-Russia." Name them.
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  3790. The carnage in Caledon over the past few months has been absolutely stunning.
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  3791.  @cathjj840  You can also use a vaporizer.😆
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  3792. Putin's 'concerns': "No country bordering on Russia shall be able to defend itself from my drooling, psychotic, paranoid rampages. That's because Europe and the US intend to invade and conquer Russia like the bunch of Russophobe Napoleons and Hitlers they are." "Ludmilla, pass me my drugs. Oksana, put on that ballet outfit again. No wait, the gymnast one. Oh, is that mic still on?"
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  3793. He says renewable energy is "nine times cheaper." I'm all for an orderly transition to renewable energy myself, and I'm glad that it now powers most of the UK electrical grid, but that sort of statement (and he repeated it) should probably have brought the interview to a polite but swift end. Someone should tell our young friend that he needs to further his learning before trying to tell the world what's what.
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  3794. The word McCarthyism used in the video description above is entirely apt. I myself call wokesters the New Puritans. At times Inquisitors would be more correct. It's past time for a great revolt against their incipient rule. Fight it with your speech and with your written words before you can't anymore.
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  3795. You appear to think the best life is one free of all risks. Only someone who grew up in the past two or three decades could believe such a thing. Are you one of those people who dress their children up in helmets, kneepads, gloves and elbow pads to walk to the store? Or who demanded the equipment be removed from playgrounds?
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  3796. Not looters. 'People experiencing being unauthorized liberators of incarcerated goods.' The Potato-in-Chief: "C'mon man! You know the thing!"
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  3797. The Commonwealth forever! 😂
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  3798. Interesting type of headlock, considering he wasn't touching their heads. Try telling the truth, you rhymes-with-anchors.
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  3799. In your country, why the press is organized by the CPC Politburo Standing Committee? They never talk.🤣
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  3800. ​@Ms. Speak Tha Truth "You right-wingers sound like a bunch of elitists." Nice try. Try telling it to 1980, when there might have been some truth to it. That was 40 years ago. It's the left-wingers who have the money, the power, a near-monopoly on the media, the universities, the culture, and the corporate world. It's AOC and you, Ms. Speak the truth (lol), who are very much the elitists now, and the elites. You're like one of those bullies who punches somebody and yells out "Why did you just hit me?" as a ruse.
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  3801.  @myushankaiswarm  Yeah. But in the middle of a sunny day if you manage to get a clear sightline all the way to the horizon, you don't see that horizontal yellow-brown stripe anymore, and I think deaths from respiratory disease are down. lol Makes me wonder what DDoI Guy is breathing.
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  3802.  @squabknob  Would we be worse off with Pravda, Tass, and the People's Daily? Not by that much anymore.
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  3803. Jordan Peterson is a psychologist. His views on military matters do not interest me, nor should they interest anyone.
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  3804. Much of the "hate" is illusory, having to do with the vulnerability of Western social media to hostile foreign governments pouring great resources into fake and largely automated posts meant to inflame hatred and division. Just one cheaply-hired worker in a basement in St. Petersburg, Shenzhen or Teheran can make use of thousands of fake accounts to post a truly immense number of nasty and infuriating comments in a single shift. And in the past few years AI translation has greatly added to their ability to sound like native speakers of English. When you read a comment that upsets you with its hate and ridiculous assertions and think "That's so cray zy, what's wrong with people?" the odds are actually good that it wasn't even written by one of of your fellow countrymen/women. The arithmetic of these bee-oh-tee posts is simply staggering. Believe it or not, with automation for posting lightly-altered and recycled comments on many fake accounts across numerous platforms at once, it only takes a hundred workers to easily put up a billion posts in a year. And there are armies of them. And it's extremely hard for the platforms to detect and eliminate them. Unfortunately it works. To call it a major problem is a gross understatement.
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  3805. This is why one should disregard and indeed mock those who themselves mock slippery-slope rationales against institutional and cultural change. All human history is little more than a chronicle of slippery slopes.
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  3806.  @lisapelman1457  Novel theory there. Tickles the brain.
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  3807. The outcome of this war is about defense production more than anything else. To put it in admittedly oversimplified terms, whoever has the most equipment and ammunition wins.   Things like the will to do battle, financial resources, strategizing by the top generals and all the rest largely either come out of or feed into this most central of all factors. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  3808. 155 vehicles and fuel tanks. That's one every 9 minutes.😳 Ukraine is just picking them off at will. Evidence is mounting that Russia cannot supply its troops.
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  3809. You have a point. Rich people's problems. And yet if government policy alone makes you less rich, you are justified in opposing it. Try out your strength. After all, you might become poorer and everybody else does at the same time. There's no use in that, and it's the normal result.
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  3810.  @derekshaw3700  You just made me incredibly happy. The fact that someone—you—is alive at this moment who is so much more intelligent than Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk makes me confident of a perfect destiny. Humanity's future in everlasting security and bliss is guaranteed by your godlike intelligence. To think I spent all these years worrying. Is it ok if I worship you, O genius one?
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  3811.  @BrentWilkins7777  So he was a little precocious.
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  3812.  @VSP4591  First of all, there's no such thing as a de facto member of NATO. Ask Finland and Sweden. Second, every nation bordering Russia needs either a large stockpile of nuclear weapons, or protection from it by NATO. The alternative is Russian tanks on its soil. Get that through your head. If you simply think that it's Russia's right to pick up any country around it like a sack of carrots, then all I can say is that the present situation shows you that right is being challenged. It will never be recognized.
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  3813. I am Vladimir Putin and that's exactly the kind of post I like to see on Western social media.👍 In fact I pay tons of people a salary, and equip them with fabulous equipment and software, to do it every day. If you're not one of them, thanks.
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  3814.  @kaoskronostyche9939  Our friend appears to be high on copium.
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  3815.  @hArtyTruffle  We know the names of very few TV presenters from 54 years ago, don't we? Anyway, she was Sandra Harris, co-host of "Today" on Thames TV. (Or rather, is, for I gather she is still with us.)
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  3816.  @texluh  I agree with every word of that. The problem with democracy is that it eventually produces people like him and gets them on interview shows. In any decent monarchy he'd be shovelling dung in some rich person's stables.
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  3817.  @ranger0209  Are you ok? I said ask a Canadian: "Are you American?", not "What does a US border agent ask people?" Good grief.
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  3818.  @norbetjagamara5536  You haven't yet noticed the unholy alliance between progressives and neo-liberals. They do not attack each other, notice. They blend into one another. A perfect example is the 'news' channel and site CNBC.
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  3819. If things continue on this track just a year longer, even those who've spent their lives wailing about 'the evil American hegemon' are going to realize the precious value of the Pax Americana, and their foolishness will dawn on them like a barrage of hard slaps to the face. At that point it might be too late.
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  3820.  @paladro  Except the last part. I'm godless myself but I do recognize that godlessness has major ill effects of its own, and that religious feeling is at the root of much that is good. It took me a long time to permit myself to begin seeing it; longer still to admit it.
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  3821. How it should have gone: Shout at him to freeze as two cops each grab an upper arm. Third cop calmly picks up nozzle and puts it back. First two have already pulled him off the bike, drag him towards that safe area away from the pumps. Fourth cop put cuffs on punk. Cops already making small talk with each other about dirt biking days as teenagers. Nobody hurt, no fire, nobody breaks a sweat, not even a story to tell other cops later.
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  3822.  @killbotone6210  I like Musk enormously, but Canada did this all on its own. Get it through your head that Trudeau was irretrievably finished before 2024 even started, due to extreme unpopularity. This was going to happen anyway. Pressure on him has been intense for many months. Take it from someone who knows, unlike so many foreign media talking heads.
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  3823. List of people in the video with an evidently healthy personality and strong mind: 1. Ben Shapiro [End of list]
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  3824. I think most of these commenters are paid, or even outright mere programs. Few of those using Canadian-looking names would seem to be Canadians from ordinary walks of life and no vested interest in the matter.
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  3825. Which only means that sick will soon be regarded as the new healthy. Gaslighting is going on at an industrial scale. We really should start speaking of the gaslighting-industrial complex.
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  3826. That's a burn. It's posted separately. Be sure to watch it, it's good.
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  3827. Very true. And well said! Repeat it elsewhere.
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  3828.  @marie-christineb.4817  I've discovered by chance that my reply to you of yesterday has vanished. (!) It was a suggestion that you see a clip of the Bill Maher show (he's perhaps the leading American liberal icon) from February, in which he not-at-all-jokingly likened Trudeau to that funny-moustache guy from Germany. You know the guy I mean. Cheers
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  3829. Hear, hear!
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  3830. And this is with a Conservative majority government in power. Imagine how things will turn if as predicted Labour are elected next year. Make yourself heard now — while there's still a ghost of a chance to do so. Seriously, now.
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  3831. @MorbidManMusic That's not true. YouTube is removing all discussion or reference to Hydrochloroquine---pro, con, scholarly, all of it. Professors from top universities leading hospital studies of it can't post their videos to talk about it nor be interviewed. A UC Riverside medicine prof is not allowed to post bland reports on the many studies coming out. You didn't know that?
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  3832. Drivel. The relationship between interest rates and inflation is nowhere near that simple. Hah! HAH!
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  3833. 😂The Black Sea is international waters. It was off the coast of Ukraine. I bet you were complaining when the US shot down the Chinese surveillance balloon, and it was directly above US soil.
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  3834.  @madrooky1398  Don't be so dull and pompous. Telling me that the US is terrible is beside my point entirely. Write your post anywhere you like, but not as a reply to mine.
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  3835. You in 1910: "The oil industry has to be upgraded to produce enough gasoline for every American BEFORE we start mass-producing cars." But it didn't have to be, did it? Everything needed to support cars, including gas stations and repair shops, was introduced as needed as the decades went by. And make no mistake, it will take decades to turn the US fleet all-electric. Also, electric power generation only needs to rise by about one-third.
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  3836. She shouldn't even be governor of a fruit stand.
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  3837.  @MissJensk1  A verdict of "not guilty" is not an exoneration. Just as some innocent people are convicted, some (probably a great many) criminals are acquitted, like OJ Simpson. In the Scottish courts, juries may if they wish return a verdict of "not proven," a practice which should be adopted elsewhere.
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  3838. Russia probably knows exactly which countries are the best targets for social media propaganda bombardment.
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  3839.  @mikegray8776  Such behaviour is perhaps best expressed somewhat mathematically: Too Much Information, to the power of Too Much Information.
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  3840.  @olivka7560  I wasn't referring to the issuance of state bonds.
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  3841. Yes, it can't be repeated enough: Russia is still firmly in the grip of feudalism. And never mind the Enlightenment: Some would say even the Renaissance never really took hold there.
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  3842. No, he would appoint some old family friend to decide whether he should be investigated.
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  3843. Calling the war a "Ukrainian border dispute" isn't just dumb. Greenwald knows better than that. A strike against you, bruh.
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  3844.  @Fridaey13txhOktober  Thanks for the Global Times point of view.
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  3845.  @mactek6033  Where do you draw the line?
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  3846. That all depends on whether she can find a way to eat it.
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  3847. I'm not against it in every way. What you call feelings are also the democratic will. Consider the opposite: governments forcing on everyone what few want. Where I'm against it is acting on popular support for curtailment of rights surrounding individual adult choice in matters of health, namely vaccine passports and mandates. A valuable custom has been broken there.
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  3848.  @3limabean  "Ignorant" is just at the top of a list of suitable words. It could go on for a page.
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  3849.  @呆蛙1450一人自拍照便  The world doesn't want to be polluted by the stinky Government of China. It reeks.
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  3850. Not sure which one is better, so here's both of my posts: 1) At no point was the bench airborne. The test failed. 2) Sorry dude but it's not a successful test till you bring it to a bar, fire it up, ask all the single women to go out with you, and one says yes.
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  3851. Never assume that high-end stuff was lousy in earlier decades. People found ingenious and advanced ways. What the software painted badly they would paint themselves. Many, many things are no longer as good as before, or are no better. A lot of people think the peak quality of cars, stereo equipment, photographs, space travel (not to mention movies, books and art, looks and personality) happened decades ago. There are many shocking instances of old technology still in service in demanding applications. Technology has been advancing at the pace of advancement in basic science and materials, which decelerated for a long time after the big gains came early. Recall the 2000-10 decade, which famously asked "Where are the flying cars?" The intelligent young tend to be aware of this. (As they also tend to be aware that it is on the verge of really catapulting upwards soon.)
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  3852.  @keanuwhittier1784  No probs, Keanu!😂 Like I give change to homeless people sometimes, I also give out clues to those in need of them.
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  3853.  @a.brekkan4965  What? As everyone knows, bravo means Well done!
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  3854. GenX started in 1965, 60 years ago. Ur a Baby Boomer, my friend. Not sure one can identify as another generation.
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  3855. Ok, Oleg 😄
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  3856.  @innitmate6574  I think it was a simple matter of defending Canada. Let's face it, on social media there's all kinds of [here I have removed a bad word in plural form] putting the two countries' governments on the same moral plane. You're not one of those, I trust. :)
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  3857.  @michaellim4165  Thanks. Doesn't make any real sense (once a livestream ends, it's no longer a livestream, but a video, and so it belongs in the list of videos) but no doubt you're right.
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  3858. Cat: "You're only alive because I can't open any bottles of poison and your bottle of orange juice. But I can learn someday."
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  3859. Mearsheimer is one of those guys who isn't smart but tries to act like it. He can only impress the very easily impressed.
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  3860. 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. (Source: A poll of 1,580 adults conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research in mid-March 2024.)
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  3861. Speak for yourself.
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  3862.  @ClarityDetermination  Actually, country after country is passing us for prosperity, achievements, status and rank. Canada is standing still or going downwards. And it is really low-knowledge to say "Ggle is your friend."
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  3863. I recall learning that Jesus told his followers to break ties with their families.
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  3864. I agree. But what does it mean to "fall out of pups"? Edit: Oh, pubs. Makes sense now.
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  3865. There is some reason to doubt all these figures, as the vast majority of people lose height after youth, most between 1 and 3 inches. The chief cause is compression of the 23 discs which separate most of the vertebrae, but bone loss also contributes. Thus, when the height of an older person is given based on a much earlier measurement, it is very likely incorrect.
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  3866. I don't think that's the whole story. Russia can see all the Warsaw Pact countries to the west of it and how well they've done over the past 30+ years. Poland, Czechia and all the rest have made out fine. It's not democracy that's a disaster, Russia, it's you.
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  3867. ​ david healy  Russia deserves what it's going to get in the coming weeks, months and years. Population: Russia, 145m. Combined Ukraine–NATO–Rich democracies on four continents, ~1,200m GDP: Russia, ~$2trn. Combined Ukraine–NATO–Rich democracies on four continents, ~$50trn Armed might: I'm not even going to bother.
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  3868. Although I think1420's standards are always very high, I'm very tempted to agree that this is the best ever. 👏👏
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  3869. Retailers should be forced to put a Chinese flag sticker on the front of every item imported from China.
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  3870.  @KairHatchet  Dude, whatever you're smoking, cut back on it.
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  3871.  @garyquail4996  Hey yeah, I did forget.
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  3872.  Joe Lee  "It’s crazy the hate you can get away with when talking about White males." Holy f.s. that was well observed. It's amazing how it can casually get dropped and not really seem questionable because we're all numb to it after thousands of repetitions.
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  3873. I am Vladimir Putin and I thank you for really getting it. Handing me Ukraine is the best thing the Canadian government can possibly do for Canadians.👍 You're a prince. If you're ever in Moscow look me up, I have something for you.
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  3874.  @lingyjennifer8399  My reply was an attack on the OP, and a damn good one if I do say so myself. Anyone who didn't see that is pretty dense. I'm proudly pro-Ukraine.🇺🇦🇨🇦
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  3875. He's a doctor who works at Toronto General Hospital. He's also a professor of medicine, infectious disease and epidemiology at the University of Toronto, and has been the lead author of, or contributed to (if memory serves), 170 published research papers.
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  3876. Many "farmer's market" sellers aren't farmers at all, they're just grocers without a store. They buy all their produce at the Ontario Food Terminal like any grocer. Yes, support your local farmers. No, don't make blundering assumptions and then morally grandstand about it. Good intentions are like pennies, truth is gold.
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  3877. Maybe you'd like it if only every second one of them were granted the right to vote, then?
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  3878. Not really that far from a death sentence.😮
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  3879. Bullied him, shouted him down. Cut him off just to prevent him from making his point. Tell me, are we any less harmed and oppressed by our corporate media than the Soviet people were by Tass, Pravda and Izvestia?....
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  3880. It says they never dreamed stupid people were so numerous. It says they never dreamed the rich would form a back-scratching unholy alliance with them.
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  3881. This company "owns a deposit with a billion pounds of nickel," which would be worth $11bn at current prices, and its market cap is $12m? Ok. That's 1/1000th the value of the supposed metal in the ground. Can you explain that? Bad vibe from this very loud, very nervous guy who never stops waving his hands.
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  3882. Yeah, but we wash our socks and underwear together. So it kind of evens out, in a "you are right from your side, I am right from mine" sort of way. (See Winston's Chinese home laundry video.) Come to think of it, Japanese people think it's incredibly gross to just get in a tub without scrubbing yourself in the shower first. Also, Germans wash all their garbage, basically.
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  3883.  @lawrenceallen8096  👏x 1,000!
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  3884.  @bartmacdonald5780  I wonder if he was ever kicked out of an animal shelter "mid-semester."😄
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  3885.  @deepmoyhazra2235  Don't use an offensively skeptical tone and you'll be fine. Anyway, why are you deep in this thread or even interested in this video if you're in another country?
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  3886. Don't try to sound smart by using a word like 'regime' which you plainly have failed to learn the meaning of. He didn't deny there are Neo-Nazis in Ukraine at all. Not even close. He quoted electoral results confirming that such groups won 2% of votes. Nice try, Vassily, Yevgeny, or whatever tf your name is.
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  3887. No one knows what the unemployment rate is — because no one knows what the population of the country is. The reason, of course: The Emperor has no brain.
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  3888. 10 people dead in 13 attack locations. At three, obviously, all victims survived.
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  3889.  @RockyB2b  I have no wish to see Russia destroyed. I only want to see them leave their neighbours alone. They just need time to recover from all their traumas of the past century-plus and they'll be capable of that. In the meantime they have to be opposed.
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  3890. In all fairness, it seems he did slip up. Pointing out incorrect assertions of fact is fine. Having said that, Down with The New York Times! It's years away from any realistic possibility of redemption.
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  3891. It's not "back." While it's fair to say that Putin has been 're-Stalinizing' Russia (in the broad sense of jacking up repression and centralizing power) for 15+ years now, your claim, when taken as a flat assertion at face value, is far past being deeply wrong. It's a comical exaggeration.😂 Private capital was never a central feature of the USSR. I thought everyone knew that. And the Soviet Union had 14 republics besides the Russian SFSR.
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  3892. If I were a Kremlin-paid Russian internet commenter, that's what I would write. In my first month.
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  3893.  @Yuri-z2y  It's an honour to receive an indignant reply from you, young lady. Thank you. "lol"
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  3894.  @julianb1474  He did mention the Mississauga indigenous tribe, and nailed the pronunciation.
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  3895.  @daark1799  It was your silly idea, mate. This was my way of telling you that your idea is inappropriate.
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  3896.  @daark1799  An impossibly thick reply. I could give you endless exceptions going back through time immemorial. There's no good reason for keeping a leader besides the leader himself or herself being a worthy leader. The only assertion you have to make is that Putin is a great man. Well, I suggest you put that assertion away right now in the dark, damp place it belongs. Have nice life, Maxim, but have it away from me. That means adieu. Not au revoir, adieu.
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  3897.  @lexw.4467  She was a Greek-Macedonian woman born in Africa as I understand it. If she had any other ethnic or genetic heritage it was probably Phoenician, once again not African. So this is like casting an Indian to play George Orwell in a biopic because Orwell was born in India. Hollywood, perhaps always but certainly today, is mostly one big continuous cringebarf-a-rama.
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  3898. @dellwright1407 There was a clear (but all-too-short-lived) rejection of what feminism and the culture overlords had prescribed in the 1980s. For a while there was more than just male-bashing going on.
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  3899. Nothing lasts forever, especially the good things.
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  3900.  @slyaspie4934  "I caught you knockin' at my cellar door, I love you baby, can I have some more?" —Neil Young, "The Needle and the Damage Done" It works on so many levels.
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  3901. You're absolutely right.
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  3902.  @moltderenou  That's an excellent point. Certain things got us here and nowadays they're all getting slagged. Supposedly a shining future awaits us over a horizon of hormone treatments, emasculated men, false eyelashes, comically puffed-up lips, unicorns, selfies, an emptying out of prisons and government deficit financing. Plus, as you say, throwing away the most successful political culture of all time (the shared anglosphere one).
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  3903. Will Smith: "Dang. I had my chance and I blew it."
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  3904.  @seàn367   No it isn't. Chicago: 41.8 degrees north latitude Toronto: 43.7 degrees north latitude Since a degree of latitude is about 70 miles, Toronto is about 130 miles closer to the North Pole than Chicago.
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  3905. Ah, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment are at last coming to Ukraine. European standards of (reasonably) fair play will accompany them. Better late than never. In Russia they have yet to appear outside of secondhand accounts and rumours, and it is an open question how many more lifetimes shall pass before they do.
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  3906. Venn diagrams will save us.
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  3907. Least brilliant reply ever.
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  3908. ​ @vinz974  Salade de mots désorganisée. L'importance c'est la victoire militaire.
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  3909. Correct, and the corollary is that more jobs and investment leave. On top of that, morale across the private sector decreases, so managers have less confidence, make fewer things happen, take fewer risks, etc.
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  3910.  @Mobistyle-od6vf  Orwell (a committed socialist) derided the "typical Soviet commissar" as "half gramophone, half gangster." There's certainly over 100m good Russians. Too bad they can't be free of such types.
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  3911. Ok Ukraine, you know where it is. Finish it off. 🇺🇦
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  3912. ​ @BrotherAlpha  Bunch of inaccurate claims. G7 inflation rates: US 3.3%, Canada 2.9%, Japan 2.8%, Germany 2.4%, France 2.1%, UK 2.0%, Italy 0.8%. Average: 2.3% G7 wage growth: Italy 7.9%, UK 5.9%, US 4.9%, Germany 3.8%, Canada 3.7%, France 3.3%, Japan 2.1%. Average: 4.5% Canada immigration rates: "Just" 1.25%? Far higher than formerly. Year Population Immigration I/P 1986 26,100,278 99,400 0.38% 1987 26,446,601 152,100 0.58% 1988 26,791,747 161,600 0.6% 1989 27,276,781 191,600 0.7% 1990 27,691,138 216,500 0.78% 1991 28,037,420 232,800 0.83% 1992 28,371,264 254,800 0.9% 1993 28,684,764 256,600 0.89% 1994 29,000,663 224,400 0.77% 1995 29,302,311 212,900 0.73% 1996 29,610,218 226,100 0.76% 1997 29,905,948 216,000 0.72% 1998 30,155,173 174,200 0.58% 1999 30,401,286 190,000 0.62% 2000 30,685,730 227,500 0.74% 2001 31,020,902 250,600 0.81% 2002 31,360,079 229,000 0.73% 2003 31,644,028 221,300 0.7% 2004 31,940,655 235,800 0.74% 2005 32,243,753 262,200 0.81% 2006 32,571,174 251,600 0.77% 2007 32,889,025 236,800 0.72% 2008 33,247,118 247,200 0.74% 2009 33,628,895 252,200 0.75% 2010 34,004,889 280,700 0.83% 2011 34,339,328 248,700 0.72% 2012 34,714,222 257,900 0.74% 2013 35,082,954 259,000 0.74% 2014 35,437,435 260,400 0.73% 2015 35,702,908 271,850 0.76% 2016 36,109,487 296,350 0.82% 2017 36,545,236 286,480 0.78% 2018 37,065,084 321,040 0.87% 2019 37,601,230 341,180 0.91% 2020 38,007,166 184,370 0.49% 2021 38,226,498 405,330 1.06% 2022 38,929,902 437,500 1.12% 2023 40,097,761 471,550 1.18% * * More than 1.27 million people moved to Canada in 2023, with 97.6% of this growth attributed to immigration. The number of temporary residents increased by 804,901 during this period.
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  3913.  @stavechurch9973  The races, obviously, by tacitly endorsing and legitimizing violence. How can you ask?
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  3914.  @jedcollings3624  If two-thirds of divorces are initiated by women, all I can say is of course. For them it's not just a fresh start and a disencumbering from an unsatisfactory relationship, it's commonly also a payday.
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  3915.  @franceyneireland1633  Thanks for your reply, but whatever has been done so far has not entirely stopped successful tunnel digging. A solid 'barrier' 16 feet deep has proved pointless. They just dig under it. I'm talking about an air-gap barrier many hundreds of feet deep, along the lines of a mineshaft, but instead of mere dozens of square metres in cross-sectional area, one which is several metres across and many kilometres long. Thus, a monitorable trench.
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  3916.  @hemlock40  Answering the Hamas slaughter of civilians is not terrorism. Remarkable how you need someone to tell you that. Drink up.
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  3917. You didn't even write that correctly. It should've been 'let alone been married.' Also, try to find other interests besides the most private things in people's private lives.
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  3918. True. A jetliner's autopilot does not permit the flight crew to get drunk and go to sleep at the back of the plane (like that one Tesla driver who died).
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  3919.  @antoniogonzalez8487  My old friend would nod his head and roll his eyes to read your comment. He knows your type well.
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  3920. ​ @ally11488  The unions weren't only demanding wage rises, they despised the whole idea of private enterprise with such a white-hot passion that they were determined to destroy it (and the economic and political systems which underlay it) in order to prove that none of it could work. Ruin was their program, not improvement or reform. Wage rises were a sideshow in bad faith. They were intent on persisting until no rich person was left in the country and all power was concentrated in their own hands and those of their ideological counterparts in other walks of institutional life. They weren't Maoists literally (some perhaps were) but indeed were in the sense that they believed in total and perpetual revolution. Just as they feared, free elections put paid to the progress they had made towards their goals, which is why, when they get enough power, they will end them every time. Unless stuffed with phony pieces of paper the ballot box is their most sombre enemy. Turn the conversation with a thoroughgoing socialist to multi-party elections and watch them quickly grow uncomfortable, then irritated, then angry and hostile.
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  3921. I can sum up why to disregard this fellow in far fewer words: he actually states, around the 90-second mark, that we today have "cheap and effective clothing." 🤣
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  3922. Amazon planned to bring 25,000 jobs to the area, but AOC nearly singlehandedly got it cancelled. Yet this woman complaining about no jobs coming to the Bronx is still going to vote Democrat. There's zero hope for a person so dim.
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  3923.  @NiclasHorn  Without a doubt.
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  3924. You don't know that. Stop pretending you know things.
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  3925.  @marissaalonzo7997  In fact, the word 'propaganda' itself is commonly no more than propaganda, which is why I try to avoid it, but I'm impressed that you offered actual reasons. Still, for someone professing to be against (over-) simplicities, you do a lot of simplifying yourself. Anyway, a label like 'pro-life' contains vastly more truth value than labelling Ukraine a Nazified country. So I see the parallel as one of those speck-vs.-log-in-the-eye ones. I'll never compare a country like Russia to a Western democracy like you do, because people in the latter have the right to throw the bums out of power when they like. That right is one I closely liken to the right to be in all senses an adult. (Of course I hardly mean that there's any ban on childishness here, but that's another matter.) Russians and Chinese, for example, are all children living under their strict dad, who beats the family and then brags about how smoothly the household runs.
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  3926. Or diabolical?🤔
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  3927. It's just a continuation of Russia's longstanding disinformation campaign aimed at the entire world including Russia itself. It leverages existing anti-Western sentiment at home and in the developing world, as well as in the Western element that thinks We're So Bad. This sentiment wherever it is needs to be primed regularly lest thinking regress to the mean of rationality. It's maintenance and it's straight out of Goebbels' playbook.
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  3928. And if he wore no earpiece I suppose you'd say he's so arrogant that he won't consent to listen to anyone?🙄
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  3929. She's as bright as a star at noon.
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  3930. "Slimy," Dave? In fairness, I don't think reptiles are slimy. They're cool and dry.😆 So keep going after Newsom, but you owe lizards a bit of an apology.
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  3931.  @Bothandle70  That's totally false. The old man is from the (brutally clueless) Speaker's hometown. He was the Speaker's personal invitee, his personal contribution to the formalities. As the office of Speaker is respected (it involves procedurally running the House of Commons) he wasn't supervised in his brilliant participation. It's 90% his personal fault. (The PMO deserves the rest of the blame.)
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  3932. It sort of is.
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  3933. I was trying to eat my lunch. Thanks a lot.
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  3934. Yeah, it has a great safety record and no wing is going to fall off it as a result of mere substandard maintenance. I have no expertise, but this is what those who do say.
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  3935. Left: "If you're not r————— against whites, you're a r————— . If you're r————— against whites, you're not a r—————."
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  3936. Gangsters don't want a police station nearby either. Too bad. People want and need protection from them, and deserve to get it. But if the gangsters simply keep to themselves and don't attack anyone, they have absolutely nothing to fear. So it's their choice. Choose well, Mr. Peskov.
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  3937. Except it's not funny, it's horrifying.
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  3938. They could've just put up a statue of Liberace for way less.😂
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  3939. The brain, our hardware, didn't change. Our minds, the software, did. We had brains that could do exaflops and we were running Pong on them, up to that point.
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  3940. I think you have a personal definition of mass stabbing which differs from the one used by criminologists. Likewise domestic violence, which I think properly refers to violence in a cohabitational family or intimate relationship. If the perpetrator is some guy you rented a bedroom to, it doesn't count like that.
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  3941. Thanks for your interesting comment. (Btw, did that extra hard-return before your last paragraph appear on its own? Happens to me sometimes and seems to be some kind of cryptic warning that the subject matter is controversial.)
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  3942.  @MAnuscript421  Thanks for that info on Shapiro. Odd that Rubin didn't get around to such a massively germane topic.
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  3943.  @TheNecropolis20  Hmm. Never heard of Kandahar? Korea? I can see why not: you are so deeply unlearned that you list the Battle of Normandy and World War II as separate events.
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  3944. As if pregnancy is an illness.😠
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  3945. Note also how he said it's only belonged to Ukraine since 1953. Doesn't matter a whit. Israel is only five years older than that. The real point is of course that in the modern era respect for borders is non-negotiable. Actually I bet that was a veiled shot at Israel. Found the tankie!
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  3946.  @Khoai-an-sang24  Canada has given the very same percentage of its GDP to Ukraine as the US has. See the Kiel Institute's Ukraine Aid Tracker.
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  3947. Musk is not building dorms. Your comment is a cheap shot. Musk will have roads built in this community, too. So I suppose you'd say: "Aha! Just like in China! China has roads everywhere!"
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  3948.  @AlanSmith88888  Another cheap shot. No one needs to see China's "mega manufacturing 'cities' and dorms" in person to know this will be nothing of the sort. Do you say anything that's not a cheap shot? Hey, were you in on the making of this hit piece itself?
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  3949. ​ @noksucowboy  Something has destroyed your mind. Possibly a slight tap on your skull.
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  3950. Disagree. I think what he said was true, even though I oppose his overall outlook totally. The fact is that it's the same in every country and always will be: Elites lead public opinion. It's simply natural to the human social creature (except in rare and unusual individuals) and we're stuck with that aspect of ourselves permanently. The thing is to face it, accept it, and to modify it and put it to the general advantage of people. It can be made into a feature, not a bug, and often is. Same, for example, with human aggressiveness, which can never, never, never be rooted out—but which can be channelled ('sublimated') into healthy pursuits like sporting competition and other friendly rivalries (i.e., striving and competition in business and every other walk of life). Aspects like violence and war can definitely be minimized. Apart from protection against cold, hunger, fire and so on, such channelling is the sole aim of civilization.
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  3951. "It will be cut off." Uh, bit of a misquote there. 😂 S/b: "We will cut your clothes off."
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  3952. Thanks US, for doing the right thing. 👏x 100. The 3rd world are showing just how low and immature their character is by not condemning Russia. 👎x 100.
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  3953. Once upon a time, professors were on the whole a decent lot. Admirable for their commitment to learning, writing, teaching. Especially at the better universities of course, they were plainly very clever (again, on the whole). No longer. The typical professor today is either A) perfectly loathsome in his or her absence of all the above criteria, or B) a craven placeholder in thrall to the type A)'s. Of university administrators, the less said the better.
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  3954. But enough about his least nasty quality.
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  3955.  @rob8311  You wrote: "If the increased deaths are way above the corona death rates, then you can deduce that many of those are due to corona" First of all, that's not an deduction, it's an induction, but let that pass. This conclusion smacks of confirmation bias. Excess deaths not explained by the official coronavirus death count could simply have a different cause.   How about the precipitous collapse of ER visits and hospital admissions for heart attacks? Heart attacks surely have not ceased to happen; rather, many people are not seeking treatment for them. Other deaths may be directly attributable to the lockdown itself, which is widely believed to take away to an unknown extent with one hand from people's health what it gives in pandemic protection with the other. As a separate matter, the official coronavirus death count itself is held by many to be prone to serious over-counting. There are many reports of institutional pressure on doctors to attribute the cause of deaths to coronavirus against their better judgment. You're attached to belief in the unmitigated wonderfulness of lockdowns to an unreasonable degree. Let go a little bit and allow yourself to question them. Opening your mind up to uncertainty, shades of conviction, or even a reversal of position is nothing to be afraid of.
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  3956. Hear! Hear! On Twitter, ok. On the air, not ok.
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  3957. Donald Trump: Quasi-immortal god to right-wing brainwashed rural hicks across the United States Noam Chomsky: Quasi-immortal god to left-wing brainwashed urban hicks across the United States
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  3958.  @neilreynolds3858  👍Pinfold's dictum: Politics is a suit of clothes worn not by a person but a personality.
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  3959. ​ @karelglasner2673  Thanks for the Marxist / woke / neurotic-community point of view. I love it when those people tell me in breathless tones how we're all in prison and conquered, all the while showing off how free they themselves are from the shackles of writing in sentences with punctuation. I love hearing from those irrational and disturbed people. It always makes my day. It's keeping me on this earth. Cheers!
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  3960. It's unclear from this little report whether the pouches contain tobacco or not. But if they don't contain tobacco, only refined nicotine, then this is fake outrage, a tempest in a teapot. Tobacco certainly endangers health, but nicotine is not a disease-causing drug. Unless someone takes a huge overdose, it's an addictive but harmless stimulant.
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  3961. Not sure this time but previously just the distance made it clear. Storm Shadows are the longest-range thing they have. I believe they're also the most powerful. (The bridge hit was evidence of that. Punching a hole in a bridge deck is very difficult, as bridges are made with the hardest and strongest concrete and steel. Ordinary concrete and steel buildings are like wood in comparison.)
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  3962. ​ @commanderiosifstalin4938  Against awful odds the US succeeded in greatly minimizing oppression in Latin America, and whatever freedom is enjoyed there today is thanks to the US. Without the US it would be like one gigantic Cuba or Venezuela. The corpses of many tens of millions of victims of political violence would lie under the ground, just as across China, Cambodia and the former USSR. It hasn't been pretty, but just imagine a Castro in every capital.
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  3963. The Oxford English Dictionary supports that usage.
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  3964.  @bluflaam777LSA  "Democracy is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state." "A republic is a state in which political power rests with the public and their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy." —Wikipedia Awfully similar. I don't see whatever major difference you seem to. In (Western) political science the US is called both a representative democracy (a representative liberal democracy, to be more specific), and a presidential republic. Where did this phony "republic" distinction come from, anyway? Everybody who writes about it in comments sections sounds like he wants to start punching people.
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  3965.  @rubyy.7374  What do you think kindergarteners talk about all the time? Disney content. And the OC also said 'sociologist'. So, both potentially good for seeing into the situation.
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  3966.  @mlhardin1822  Yeah, entertaining the other prisoners in a cold basement cellblock in The Hague.
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  3967. Dems and "progressives" last year after taking over: "More stimulus is opposed by Republicans as inflationary and irresponsible. But Republicans are evil and I can prove it: here's a photoshopped illustration of Republican senators with horns coming out of their foreheads. Therefore, let the trillions fly." "Wow, we're so good, and so right."
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  3968. Little Mugabe.
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  3969. I hope he gets whatever he deserves, no less than any of us. I think it's clear what that is.
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  3970. You yourself need to check the stats. Look at the countries table at worldometers.info. Choose your criteria and click the column headings for them to sort the countries in descending order. You'll see New Zealand still has enviably low rates of infection and death. It's recent case "surge" was peanuts by the standards of Europe and the Americas. One way of putting it is that if the US had NZ's rates, Trump would have his re-election sewn up.
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  3971.  @horstebreedow8608  Overall she makes paints Putin as a serious menace much more to his countrymen than to the US. I imagine on the whole Putin's followers would be ok with that. If she cast him as bloodthirsty, mad, or irredentist they wouldn't.
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  3972. Of course. Employees and visitors alike can use good old-fashioned landlines. Nothing wrong with them. (And if the landline system is ever down — a very rare thing — they can turn off the cell jamming temporarily.)
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  3973. ​ @dragonade85  I've no doubt that ill-preparedness owing to the factors you mentioned does indeed enter into the picture in the case of certain countries and certain of their stockpiles. Germany and Canada have been particular laggards for decades. (Yet they've managed to commit to a combined $3.6bn in military aid so far, about $3bn of it delivered.) Germany is also afflicted by a heavy burden of bureaucracy and slavishness to rules. It was on full display when Tesla dared to build a new car plant near Berlin during 2020-22, taking twice the time their Shanghai factory did. Believe it or not, ants had to be relocated before trees could be felled to make way for it. Yes, ants. Edit: But here's some encouraging news out of Germany this morning. "Germany’s defense minister, Christine Lambrecht, has resigned after enduring a year of heavy criticism over repeated public blunders, her response to the war in Ukraine, and the slow progress of a planned military buildup."—The New York Times
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  3974. The Mongols invaded Muscovy 787 years ago, burning, slaying, enslaving. For a quarter of a millennium the Muscovites drank deeply from their masters' moral cup. And in the 550 years since, not much has changed.
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  3975. Trump wants Alberta and only Alberta. Period. A $20trn improvement to the US balance sheet in one fell swoop.
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  3976. I use the CBC to control my weight. It makes me throw up.
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  3977. Mostly charming people. Another cool and interesting little video.👍
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  3978. I don't know, but we may note that unanimous agreement of members is a prerequisite for the accession of new members. And who knows what namby-pamby wet-blanket members such as Turkey, France, Hungary and Germany would say? I would then also ask: If Australia, then why not Japan, South Korea...and Taiwan? All countries staunchly in favour of freedom, openness, democracy and human rights must come together. Now.
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  3979.  @TRYHARDGAMER604  You get at least one helper, preferably two. You wrap your leading hand in a piece of clothing. You use a briefcase, knapsack, bag, anything, as a shield in your other. You close, you parry one thrust or ignore the result if you fail to, you go for the forearm or elbow as you pull or knock him down. You hang onto that elbow or forearm for dear life, do whatever it takes to inflict pain, bite him if you can't do anything else. Someone else smashes the knife hand any way they can, stomps on his face, snaps the other arm or wrist—any of those, whatever it takes. Two seconds later he's pinned, he's incapacitated, he's disarmed, it's over. I would do that rather than watch people get killed. But probably not if unaided. Civilians on a London bridge did this a few years ago. And the guy had a fake bomb vest as well.
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  3980. I missed where anyone said he was. Please explain. TF indeed.
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  3981.  @hellomoto4906  What you call pissing contests with other countries for global power are actually a serious struggle to keep things as they are, so you can sit around saying dumb stuff on the internet, instead of reciting oaths of allegiance to some maniac across the ocean, in between 10-hour shifts of slave-type work that are barely enough to pay for your gruel.
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  3982.  @onbored9627  You're ignoring the flagrant probability that governments right now are stepping in to make things bad. They're trashing the currency and the monetary system. You're like me about six or seven years ago.
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  3983. Beware of Scholz on the matter of NATO. He remained a member of the SPD Marxist youth wing into his thirties (!), and was also VP of the International Union of Socialist Youth. He published essays condemning "aggressive-imperialist NATO" and went in an official Party capacity to communist East Germany to meet with ministers of the Honecker govt. He announced a German $110bn arms spending spree 15 months ago and has yet to move on it.
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  3984. Very.
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  3985. You could've gotten away just fine without saying "in political office." 😄
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  3986.  @vladpetric7493  Well explained. Yes, a mere half of the power yield in Spain is pretty dismal, far worse than the raw hours of sunshine would suggest. It means capital costs are really 100% higher, even before considering the cost of doing business in Germany, real estate prices, taxes perhaps, and everything else. Thanks for your reply.
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  3987.  @LukaDonesnitch  Wrong. Not one of them entered through Canada.
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  3988.  @albertbangma8889  Her point sailed far over your head. She was not criticizing the cops' job performance, just one silly thing I in the video.
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  3989.  @sallygreenhouse5665  Wrong, wrong & very, very wrong. Throw out everything you think you know and start all over again, because your three propositions describe yourself, not me.
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  3990. Oh sure. Because a Hummer EV is very representative of EVs, just as the gasoline Hummer is very representative of gasoline-powered cars. 🙄 Excuse me, but the fiasco is your fevered rhetoric.
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  3991. Big relief. For a while I was worried that maybe a mayor with a bachelor of fine arts from Guelph might not have the brilliance required to make a good decision. So glad I was totally wrong to doubt her soundness of judgment.
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  3992.  @sharnden7  The Five Eyes countries seem to be in a race for who can lose their minds the fastest. The Kiwis seem to be headed for adopting a script from The Care Bears as their constitution, the Aussies could be invaded by China and most people wouldn't notice much difference, the Brits hate their own country so much they just want it to disappear, the Canadians are led by a nearly mindless man-child, and the Americans have a president so dazed that he can't possibly be making real decisions. He looks embalmed. Who's in front in this macabre marathon?
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  3993.  @archstanton6102  I was mildly astonished when in my mid-20s I entered a Buddhist temple newly constructed near where I lived, to find it adorned with a row of hundreds of swastikas along every inch of the perimeter of the main room.
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  3994. Ford is one of the few grown-ups amongst Ontario's politicians. And now he has more babysitting to do, alas.
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  3995. World Federation of Idiots Federation: "Hey, take that back!"
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  3996. @ Well, yeah. His special role was not to discover active measures. It was to publicize them in the West.
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  3997. Unfortunately he also supports Putin and is against the US helping Ukraine.
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  3998.  @deathbyathousandcats  Yeah, I don't like simp myself, as I said in the very first place. At last I wry-humoredly used it for the first time. The real point lies elsewhere, in overvaluing a gender to a ridiculous point, even so far as to merit a designation of illness or disorder. Believe it or not, at earlier times women were sometimes worshipful of men. It's as absurd as hatred of the other sex, and can come to no good. Anyway, if you're not buying the idea of gyniolatry being a thing, it doesn't surprise me. You're a woman, right? Trust me, if you hear what some men say when there's no women around you'd hear some pretty messed-up stuff, and it's intensifying as time goes by. There's now dads with this, uh, syndrome, who're now raising sons and inculcating it in them. I'm guessing the moms do the really heavy lifting though. These kids talk about women like North Koreans talk about their Dear Leader. I mean seriously, they more or less need cult deprogramming. (And I contend that your dismissal of this by claiming that millions worship Hitler (!) is highly dubious.) So just stick with saying women are judged harshly, treated terribly by men everywhere, etc. The culture of denigrating maleness is working so far. Pew Research: "As of 2022, nearly half of all young adults are single: 34 percent of women, and a whopping 63 percent of men." Thanks for your reply.
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  3999. @@toppa7954 Muslim Brotherhood created them.
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  4000. "Ukraine: Filling the Air With Turrets Since 2022" 🇺🇦
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  4001. More splendid work. Of course, addiction frequently is a passing thing. Perennially escaping much notice at all are the untold millions who step back from overuse after some period of time and don't return. (Or don't return for a long time, which counts for something too.) The vast majority do it with little to no professional or group assistance. As I say, there's virtually never any mention of it. I found out about it by chance. Perhaps counting them is difficult. I should imagine most of them are a little reserved about it.
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  4002.  @MelioraCogito  This is spamming behaviour. Great quotes but don't spam.
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  4003.  @ianskinner1619  Are you serious? A tariff is an import tax. It's paid in the US by Americans. Period. Trump just raised your taxes. He just re-ignited your inflation. He just lowered your standard of living. It couldn't be simpler. There's no excuse for not understanding that.
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  4004. Four panelists. 2 with ties to the Liberals. 1 NDP politician. 1 disaffected Conservative. (1) Michele Cadario, was Deputy Chief of Staff to Liberal PM Paul Martin, Sr Adv to Premier Christy Clark, BCU (formerly known as the BC Liberal Party) (Source: Twitter bio). (2) Emilie Nicolas, in the early 2010s campaigned for the Quebec Liberal Party (Source: Wikipedia FR). (3) Matthew Dubé, NDP MP, Quebec riding, 2011-19 (Source: Wikipedia). (4) Kate Harrison, PR consultant, Conservative supporter known for frequent public admonitions to Conservative supporters not to be so critical of other parties (Sources: National Post op-ed, 2020 Jan. 28; many Twitter posts). I know. Real shocker.🙄 You'd never have guessed from the discussion itself.😄
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  4005. Losing 700k useful people (young, educated, productive or rich; some who are all four) is really bad for a shaky, lower-middle income economy under heavy sanctions from abroad. It will just make the slow-acting economic poison of sanctions work faster.
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  4006. Thanks for that knowledge.
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  4007. Yes, you could leave the sound off and still get the picture. Cheers.
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  4008. That place is gonna be so trashed, so fast.
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  4009.  @promethiac2641  Considering just whom you're libelling, I must say that smacks a bit of fanaticism.
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  4010. It really does.
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  4011.  @MarxStevens  Shouldn't you be in dim light inspecting elderly ammunition and rifle barrels for fitness yourself?
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  4012. Sedition is not free speech. So human rights are not your strong suit, eh Chanfun?
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  4013. Canada, which just got sucker-punched like it's a worse enemy than Iran, is saying "former friends."
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  4014.  @alvaro-oh9cp  What tf do you know about my life?
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  4015. Alfred E. Neuman: "Hey, stop comparing me to Pete Bootybung."
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  4016. $70k a month? $0.8m a year? That's dirt-cheap (sorry🤣) considering the need and the benefit. Just preserving the morale of area residents and businesses is worth it. Find the money somewhere. Take it out of the free drugs budget or the salaries of the people who work mainly to perpetuate and normalize addiction and homelessness.
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  4017. I wonder what he thinks of charity dinners. People pay several hundred dollars or more for a meal, and the charity mops up a huge and helpful amount of money. This guy would probably say, "Look at all these people, dining at the expense of a charity! How shameful!"
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  4018. I understand how you feel, but that is easy to say with hindsight. Hindsight also roundly endorses the attritive approach instead taken, which has deeply decimated Russia's war-making capacity. This way, when Russia is forced out, it will face such a long period of rearming that it will have no choice but to stay out.
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  4019. 'Rants' makes her sound bad. I agree on brilliant, though. She delivers her points very well and, to me, pleasantly.
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  4020.  @pacman3556  Good god man, it doesn't get any worse than your rude comment. You lash out with hostility when the fault is yours for your lack of ordinary comprehension. Think, then post.
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  4021. Nah, he's just the unfunny punchline. The bad joke is mainly the host.
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  4022. Calcutta Chamber of Commerce: "Hey, stop comparing us to San Fransicko! We've got enough problems with our reputation as it is."
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  4023. We don't care where you're from. Anyone siding with a slimeball is a slimeball.
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  4024.  @prestonburnett5410  Ross Patience had it down correctly. The fact of a few dozen people across the globe having six fingers (or a few thousand people, whatever the number is) doesn't alter the larger fact that we're a five-fingered species. One or two people a year are born without a brain, too, but humans have brains. Wait, on second thought that last point is a little dubious. Let's just go with the fingers thing.
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  4025.  @danielwarton5343   Even Donald Trump acknowledges the planet is warming, so that makes agreement on the matter very near total. He also asserts there's reason to doubt it's anthropogenic, and that's his right. However, there's also more than ample reason to suspect it's anthropogenic. If it is, the steep rise in population has to be seen as a major part of it. You ask me if I think having children is a plague. That's not rude, just foolish. I assert that tripling world population within one lifetime is unwise and you ask me if I think having children is a plague. Here's my answer: are you high? Have you never heard of having one, two, or three children? Thanks for your reply.
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  4026. After repeated viewings and having given it some thought, my opinion is that this incident was staged by the security detail. It even appears the minister and her aide were unwitting accomplices. The same cop has arrested Menzies before. He saw that Menzies was there, he knew the minister was coming that way, he knew Menzies would approach her, and he knew he would walk in front of her. The real giveaway is that the cop didn't walk out to meet her and the aide; he remained standing behind the pole. It served as a barrier which Menzies would have to walk to the left of. Freeland and her aide would quite naturally walk towards the cop and his fellow officers. The idea would've been for them to 'deliver' Menzies to him. In the event, Freeland and her aide's path steered Menzies towards the waiting cop, the narrowness of the gap between the pole and the building ensuring that the cop would only have to move scarcely half a step and Menzies would bump into him. Once Menzies moved leftwards as he had to do, the minister and the aide's path was blocked, yet only the aide adroitly bailed out onto a rightwards path. Freeland stayed with Menzies until the contact with the cop, which is strange since that portion of the sidewalk was about to end. So who knows, maybe they did know what was intended. Beforehand there's an unnatural look of slightly smirking nonchalance. As the actual incident unfolds, neither woman's face shows surprise or concern and neither of them slows much, which it would be natural to do if what happened between Menzies and the cop were truly unexpected. The aide's face especially does not match the situation. It just all looks choreographed like a basketball play. This didn't even come close to crossing my mind initially, and in fact not until I'd seen it several times while watching news reports on several channels. It's the last thing I'd ever expect, but the realization, or perception, has been forced upon me by simple close attention. I know it sounds weird, and indeed it is weird by any standard, but it looks that way. This is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  4027.  @KoolKat42  I'm sorry you had to deal with all those awful replies. I wonder if some of them are locked up in rubber rooms somewhere. They should be.
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  4028.  @worldpeace8299  Haha, hilarious. Why on earth not "react to" your screen name? (As if I'm ridiculing the one you were born with! You chose it. ) So you're not only a childish senior citizen, you sound like a Marxist to boot. Nothing matters but exploitation! No such thing as talent, effort, likability, or conscientiousness. No way for people to mess up their lives by way of stupidity or slacking off. Even luck doesn't exist, just cutthroat exploitation resulting in mass victimhood. Like Marx himself, Marxists are simply personality cases, themselves victims of psychological projection. He exploited everyone he could, even screwing his maid under his wife's nose, then denying paternity of the resulting child. Things like that were why he pointed fingers at others. "Everyone is out to exploit the weak," he would say, "except me." 'Right, I like the sound of that. Except me! Brilliant!' said you when you heard it. In fact, countless social and legal rules moderate people's inborn instincts to take mean advantage of one another. If it were not so, you'd have no right to stand up and chatter your nonsense about universal exploitation. The powerful would simply shut you up and you'd disappear. Funny, though, the systems of governance where things like that actually happen on an industrial scale are any based on Marx's teachings and those of his disciples. That's where the real meatpackers set up shop. Psychological projection again: 'I'd love nothing more than to dominate ruthlessly, so let's round up people and kill them, and say it's in order to make abuse a thing of the past.' Thanks, but no. A number of countries set a workable example of freedom within a framework of moderate regulation sufficient to restrain pirates, and taxes enough to level the playing field within reason. I agree those things should be supported. Beyond that, improving the world starts with a long look in the mirror. If you abuse the man you see there, no one cares, so have a go.
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  4029.  @Shellshock361  Exactly. It cost lives but counting them is a job that will keep professors researching, counting and arguing for a few lifetimes yet. It wasn't a totally sincere question by any means.
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  4030. ​ @bdinaz  Reply or standalone p ost? I ask because I notice there's a 2-tier system: What is nearly always disallowed as a cawmeant is allowed as a reply about half the time, maybe a bit more. Also, a great many removed remarks simply violate frequency rules. I'm hazy on details, as I believe these are not publicly disclosed. However, if you dig around you will find confident assertions that the limit is around ten per day and one per hour. Finally, btw, that Mzlm is a word likely to get any pos t removed. People with serious, serious deficiencies of mind and values are in charge.
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  4031. 👍Bravo Dan Crenshaw! 👏👏👏
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  4032.  @cardroid8615  He didn't say it at work or on the air. What if he had said it to strangers on a tube platform? Or published it in a book? Does the BBC own his soul and mind 24 hours a day? You can't sign away your human rights by agreeing to work somewhere.
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  4033. YouTube = VatnikTube So sick of these finkters-with-an-s.
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  4034.  @richardcarbery7035  Ok, but we cannot tell what's what in that situation. For all we know, Fatty here was the real aggressor and would've murdered the other guy five seconds later if the cops hadn't shown up, as revenge for who-knows-what. He'd already fired his gun. Notice the cop took a bag of what I'm guessing was drugs out of Fatty's pocket and told the other cop "Secure this." The cops arrived at the scene of a drug shootout, looks to me. We can both only speculate, really. But I think my speculation's more restrained and actually based on something.
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  4035. Quite right. That claim of his in the video is a dead giveaway for his defects of personality. Pinfold's dictum: Politics is a suit of clothes worn not by a person but a personality.
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  4036.  @devasish204  I understood perfectly in the first place. I have (1) expert-level English comprehension and (2) detailed knowledge of global copper markets, production and recycling.
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  4037. In such a place infanticide must be on the way fairly soon. (Which state is that, anyway?)
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  4038. "Premiers" isn't prim-YERZ. It's PREEM-ee-erz. It's got nothing to do with the debut performance of an entertainment production.
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  4039. So does this mean that Cher and Rosie O'Donnell are going to have 10 million migrants crashing at their mansions?
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  4040.  @redburban1394  I don't get it. First you say something I can't agree with, then you start basically telling me what I'm telling you. Oh well, it's all good. Can't complain too much about that.😄
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  4041. ​ @jdoe4548  You're right that that's Russia's point of view, but it's a totally horse-ca-ca view. It's the same horse-ca-ca point of view as that of a wifebeater who when his wife runs into the neighbor's house for safety, is enraged that the guy is making moves on her.
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  4042. Dave, thanks for that wonderful phrase "B*tch to the machine." I laughed pretty hard. It really deserves to be widely known and used.😂
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  4043. We'll see how this ages. (Speaking of aging, Bremmer suddenly looks a lot older. He just turned 54.)
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  4044.  @reasonerenlightened2456  Then you know what you have to do. Please tidy up your hovel beforehand.
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  4045. Absolutely. Tens of billions is simply lunch money compared to the economic devastation if European security collapses. The hit to wealth in the rich democracies will run to the tens of trillions of dollars. I repeat, what this is costing right now is lunch money.
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  4046. If it doesn't bother him, I'd say there's a strong chance he thinks that prosperity is just "there", that the society is overflowing with riches and can't possibly suffer from parting with some of it, for him and a million or two others like him. And if society doesn't cut him a nice slice of cake, it's wicked and must be torn down. This view is surprisingly common, especially among the young but also a shocking number of older people. They don't think people making good money are creating prosperity, they think they're stealing it from them. Who's to blame? Simple: the education system, from primary schools all the way up to universities. It is just acutely diseased.
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  4047. Why are we being told this? Simple: (1) Britain must rearm and must start now. (Years ago, actually.) Not negotiable in the face of the obviously very hostile Authoritarian Axis. (2) Public consent for rearmament can be obtained only by presenting a vision of what's at risk. I firmly approve of both rearming and explaining why it's imperative.
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  4048. You sound drunk. I hope you're a Russian tank commander in an open field north of Kherson. Ты говоришь пьяным. Надеюсь, вы командир российского танка на открытом поле к северу от Херсона.
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  4049.  @conradknight1181  The nonsense is on your side. British colonials in India were from abroad. The woman in question was not.
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  4050.  @gravegaming2023  My previous comment, of course, the one where I said a lot of jobs that may be generally all right still aren't suitable as preparation for being prime minister. Anyway, I'll just move on to the University of Calgary: I only know one person who went there; namely, my doctor for quite some years now. He's one of the country's more eminent physicians and is also an award-winning professor at its leading medical school. He heads his department at a hospital perennially ranked top-10 in the Newsweek-Statista World's Top Hospitals, which has been compiled annually for over 90 years. (4th globally in the current year, 3rd for two years before that). Which leads me to wonder: just how bad can U of C be?
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  4051.  @gravegaming2023  It was International Relations, not Economics. Justin Ocasio Cortez has a BA in English.
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  4052.  @gravegaming2023  He was born in 1979. If he earned a bachelor's degree in 1985 it would be one of the most remarkable achievements in all human history. This is beginning to annoy me.
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  4053.  @heimdalshorn  Thanks. That's all (or nearly all) been in the past few months since Pistorius joined the cabinet, I take it? Suddenly Germany is 3rd globally in defense spending and I am very glad of it.
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  4054.  @fawkesflames  Yeah, but don't blame students for rejecting honest and useful trades work. Mainstream liberal culture has loudly denounced it as demeaning, shame-making, and soul-killing for around sixty years now. It's almost like things getting good is exactly what ruins everything. Rags to riches to rags, on a continental scale, in less than a single lifetime.
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  4055.  @polishtheday  Your point is well taken, yet the years between the opening of the Seaway and the close of the '76 Summer Olympics, apart from the separatist troubles, were some of the most glorious in Montreal's history, a flowering in many ways. The Expo was a smash, McGill's profile grew, aerospace and pharma burgeoned, finance thrived. The world took serious notice of it for the first time. Yes, today Montreal retains good quality of life and other notable strengths, but if it weren't for the political rife that went on for several years and the low-key demoralization and money evaporation that followed, it would vie with Toronto for leading-city status today. At the same time I don't mean to let on that my assertions stretch out any further than this, that they extrapolate to an overall portrait of decay and misery. No, not that; just something of a stunting of potential. (And in the present context I'm suggesting that some of Chicago's potential may well be scooped up by places like Austin and Miami.) Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  4056. Nice semi-literate video title. Get someone with a high-school diploma to correct it, if there's one around. The word is 'testament', not 'sentiment.' R.I.P. Canadian Journalism.
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  4057.  @РулонОбоев-н9ъ  Ok buddy. You're lying about what I said and my posts are right there for anyone to see. And you're minimizing Stalin's atrocities! Omg. Time to mute you.
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  4058.  @jf-zq2qz  On this occasion, yes. You should watch the video if you haven't. But not if you don't want it etched in your mind. The incident was a nasty bit of savagery of Australian social, legal and political traditions. Covid will pass relatively soon, but we shall need those things forever. It was damaging.
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  4059.  @swankfiber5278  True, dark humour is part of life if you ask me.
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  4060.  @tom2010ad  Ignore him. Clearly just another not-very-bright disciple of the lower-middlebrow John Mearsheimer. The latter should have been the assistant manager of a small hardware store, a useful occupation where his brain-power wouldn't be overstrained as it is when he bravely tries to figure out the whole world. He would've told Roosevelt to back off from Germany as well.
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  4061.  @2009mrsaj  "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy, televised address to his country on the evening of October 22, 1962
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  4062. My life is little more than an attempt to find people, especially women, who aren't like her.
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  4063. I'm much older and many of my teachers, too, would tell us that communism and socialism were far better than generally thought. They intimated that they might well be better overall, much fairer than the free-enterprise liberal democratic system, etc., but would never catch on in the West because the Western economies were so much more prosperous. I got the impression they thought that adherents of communism/socialism had purer souls. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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  4064. Why don't they ever riot against what their own people are doing? [crickets]   Do they even disapprove?
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  4065.  @civilshaman8906  BS! The majority of Americans support ongoing aid to Ukraine. They have a brain.
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  4066. Hahaha, you're right, that's pretty good. I've always been a bit iffy on Burr but I'll give him total credit for that.
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  4067. The title and the clip are unrelated. Was there a staff party last night that ran really, really late?
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  4068. Decidedly good to have such regular access to his thoughts here on this channel.
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  4069. Allow me to edit that: Breaking news : Chris Cuomo really is stupid.
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  4070. Moss Park is the homicide capital of Toronto this year. See the TPS homicide dashboard's neighbourhood tab.
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  4071. That's fantastic and I congratulate you. (But 'victor' is not a verb. You needed 'be victorious,' 'prevail' or 'win.') Still a great post.👏
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  4072.  @suneelkumar5932  Just like earlier today when I robbed a Starbucks of a coffee and shut their mouths with $4.
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  4073.  @avomaxo  The term "book banning" has no place in a discussion of children's reading material. What a preposterous thing to say. What low rhetoric.
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  4074.  @avomaxo  Your ridiculous reply is not worth my care. Please leave it right where it is so that all can gaze on such a perfect specimen.
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  4075.  @thenewmayorofcrazytown7392  I wasn't talking about their health so much as the fact that they're already dead. On average Belorussian men are gone before they reach 70. Similar facts help explain lower mortality from Covid in almost all the world's poor countries. It's an old people's disease and you can't have much of it if you don't have many old people. For what it's worth, fatness seems to have a great deal to do with it, too. The CDC said recently that 78% of the Covid dead in America were fat. There's a strong contrast with Japan. Its crude mortality rate from Covid is 76 people per million and its incidence of obesity is 3.6%. In the US those numbers are 1,742 and 32%. These staggering differences are despite Japan having the oldest population in the world, with 6 years' longer life expectancy than the US. There are many factors, of course, and comparisons between countries are fraught with pitfalls.
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  4076. Let that clip of her haunt Tlaib forever. Let it live on in memes, in the campaign ads of opponents, in TikTok shorts, whatever—but let it never be forgotten. True colors.👏
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  4077.  @PanzerBuyer  In a recent 30-country survey of happiness, Hungary ranked 30th. He's been in power for 15 years, so maybe he should resign and more births would follow without the need to bribe anyone.
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  4078. Chris has been the most adult and admirable person on this show for the last 15 years. I used to think ill of him, but there, I said it.
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  4079. Does it hurt at all to knowingly say something untrue? Is it embarrassing at all to know that everyone recognizes it as untrue? Just curious.
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  4080. * Premier
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  4081. That horse was almost injured!😠 Is there a fine for endangering an animal?
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  4082. Le Pen may indeed espouse a lengthy list of useful policies, but one of her stances dismays me terribly: her Putinism. I hope that it's far more rhetorical than deeply-felt. In any case, I hope that the top-level security briefings which she'd be given once elected would set her straight on the facts of the matter.
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  4083. @ That's not the issue in this thread. The issue is the reporter's ignorance on a simple matter of fact.
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  4084. I love the way Gen. Hodges doesn't flinch from saying what he's been saying all along. The fundamental truths of the situation haven't changed, so why should he mind repeating himself? When you stick to saying what you believe, expressing yourself is easy and comes without hesitation or doubt.
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  4085.  @kimwit1307  I realize all that. You're telling me what I'm telling you. (Not that it wasn't worth going into some detail.) Cheers
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  4086.  @jasonjackson5696  I would speculate it's once every two or three years. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😂
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  4087.  @___SSS___  If you have been around ten times longer, shouldn't you be so much more perfect than Canada that millions of Canadians emigrate to India? Shouldn't life be ten times better in India? Why didn't you begin to colonize England in the 1700s, instead of the other way around? Why do you practice democracy, a system imported from the West? I wouldn't brag about having seniority if I were you. It's obnoxious. You should perhaps stick to extolling the actual merits of India and Indian civilization, which are many.
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  4088.  @normarojo5834  Him, too, and Cheney and Wolfowitz. That's the spirit. Let them have a shiv war behind bars against the Cuomo brothers.
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  4089. Come on, leave Chris Christie alone. He's one of the most highly educated politicians in America. Dr. Christie has his PhD... in Bacon Studies, from the University of Komuluh Herriss.
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  4090. "....Stay with us."
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  4091. Definitely. Likewise the way he says things like 'unabashedly right wing', 'openly religious', 'unashamedly conservative', etc., as though he's talking about advocates of sex with animals. He seems to be a left libertarian and gay, so I bet he is furious about the new Italian PM's call for a ban on gay adoption.
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  4092.  @jeremysmith4620  Read more carefully! The very insightful OP wasn't calling the US a failed state.🤨 He/she was referring to Mexico. Btw, anyone who in 2024 still trusts the BBC and NPR as one might have done 20 yrs ago has a long way to go to catch up. Stop reading govt news.
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  4093. Oh please🙄. Imagine failing to distinguish between necessary actions (along the border) and unneeded, botched and dishonest ones (Kove id measures).
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  4094. Hmm. Criminals trained in advanced and lethal techniques of violence, you say, including the use of light and heavy weapons? I don't see what could go wrong there.
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  4095. It's a pity they moved on from Ottawa to border blockades. That gave His Majesty a green light to step up his appalling tactics, because it alienated moderate Canadians who otherwise might be coming around. Bad move. It only satisfied themselves and their very strongest supporters.
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  4096. Headline: Trudeau Departs India, One-Billion-Plus Feel Sense of Relief Rumour: Modi to declare a national holiday.
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  4097.  @magicmerlin1  Yep. Super-vatnik.
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  4098. Mars Foreign Ministry: "Hey, stop comparing us to Russia!"
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  4099. "Where I come from / They don't like Americans much Think they're so loud / And so tasteless and so out of touch Stiff upper lips / Are curled into permanent sneers Self-satisfied / Awaiting the next forty years" — Joe Jackson, Forty Years (1986)
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  4100. This is a channel that promotes gold. All you will ever see here is gold promoters promoting gold.
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  4101.  @ClaudiaAnn-uk5dv  No. That word that you use, "dove," does not mean what you think it means.
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  4102. Too bad you savaged the better parts of yourself. What's left is a revolting mess.
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  4103. Start without us.
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  4104.  @ameliam7898  Yes. I have a great appreciation for him, too. I wish I'd known of them both many years ago, instead of only in the 2020s.
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  4105. Who can say? It could have been mere theatrics for domestic consumption. The Turkish economy is in dire shape, so any positive distraction is a huge plus for Erdogan. The rest of NATO wears the pants, let's face it. For all Turkey knows, if it were to depart from NATO, it would soon enough have very serious problems with Russia.
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  4106.  @geeetube1  That's so rae of you. And also cyst. In fact Elon Musk emigrated from South Africa as a teenager to avoid having to enforce Apartheid as a soldier. He left the country and his father behind, took his $2,000 in savings, and never looked back.
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  4107. Dumb video, that's how.
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  4108.  @ratnakordosshu6291  I never, ever do it. I'm not that type of person at all. I would do it to my wife or girlfriend and no one else. I consider it tacky and likely bad manners, but that's just my opinion. (Yes, opinion. For it's important to understand that people in, for example, Japan, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Brazil all have different cultural standards and such differences have to be respected short of extreme limits.) In any case, I can see criticizing it, absolutely, but it's not something for billions of women to get enraged over. The people howling for blood really have to get over themselves and spend some quiet time reflecting. Histrionical overreaction is becoming a religion, or maybe a better word is cult. Thanks for your reply and remember to act like an adult yourself. Seriously.😄
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  4109.  @dnbjedi  And the cultists compete for the prestige of who is most offended for the least reason. The more obscure and inconsequential the reason, the better. Within their groups it elevates status.
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  4110.  @sole__doubt  I think he clearly meant for public oratory.
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  4111.  @Repetoire  ...asks the dude who packed four writing errors into a 13-word sentence.🙄 Actually, difficulty reading can indicate you've had a stroke yourself.
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  4112. You can also be arrested for bringing the protestors food. Yes, arrested. Yes, for food. Yes, in Canada. Unreal. W-T-actual-F?
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  4113. If she was born in 1795 then she was 94 the day her grandson was born (1889). That's a rather uncommon sort of thing.
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  4114.  @MrHaShBaSh1988  'Polls,' you mean? If so, yes, but the Old Baked-Potato-in-Chief has one foot already in the grave. He looks embalmed, like he's auditioning for a remake of Weekend at Bernie's.
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  4115. The good news is that herd immunity is a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity The bad news is that it doesn't offer protection till most people are immune (from having caught the illness and recovered, or from being vaccinated). For SARS the threshold fraction was 50 to 80% of the population.
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  4116.  @TheJonboyg  "I object to being referred to as a member of a herd. We aren’t cattle" Better get on to Wikipedia and complain to them as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
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  4117. Yes. I've listened to him for a few hours altogether and this was the best yet. I hope he hasn't let up in the year and a half since.
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  4118. @ Laid, lay — either way, good times.
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  4119.  @anro5705  You made the identical post two comments up. My reply is the same.
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  4120. Most shocking of all, there's a Canadian company making barbecues.
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  4121. "Hundreds of millions of dollars per airframe." 😆 No fighter aircraft on Earth costs that much, not even F-35s. An F-16 lists for $63 million. Zero credibility, buddy.
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  4122. Clip is from Sky News UK. Barely-related company.
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  4123. S&P 500 at 1,500 anyone?
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  4124. It's wrong to suppose that the Western powers are ready to concede to Russia. There's actually value in appearing to Russia as though they're irresolute in order that their actual resolve, when they reveal it, takes Putin aback. From this point of view, if it is so, the US and NATO have been uncannily astute so far. I'm impressed by their management of the risks.
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  4125. Or Angle-kin?
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  4126.  @RodneyLaLonde  Cool. Go get 'em.
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  4127.  @Neothechozen  Got to be honest, you're completely negative yourself, and self-righteous too. You declare other people's opinions don't matter. You confront me by calling me confrontational. Have a nice day yourself.
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  4128. "Lady"? 🤨
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  4129. Pray tell, in which province do you yourself reside?
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  4130. It is the height not only of ageism but of dullmindedness to call a living person an anachronism, unless it so happens that the person deliberately and unmistakably cultivates an outlook and manners which plainly pre-date him- or herself. A very neat line also in rudeness. Anyway, he's 78, not 108. "Sir Meyer" is a separate gaffe. The form for knights requires either 'Sir Christopher Meyer' or 'Sir Christopher.'
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  4131.  @raylopez99  "Swan song"😆 Funny, since in Lohengrin there's a swan boat. In one production the guy in the role of Lohengrin famously missed it. It sailed offstage without him and he was left just standing there, so he sang "What time does the next swan boat depart?"
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  4132. Psychologist, not MD.
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  4133.  @Jag-leaper  Vaguely funny as written, since the lot of them together would probably give me a stroke, but perhaps you meant a coop?
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  4134. Hang on, though. She might've been completely right. Nobody picks those crops, nobody eats.
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  4135. "Trickling up" evokes the wrong image. And it's the higher classes Fussell referred to, not "higher culture." The right image is of people in those classes drifting downwards to embrace low culture, behaviour, tastes, usages, etc.
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  4136. Xi Jinping: Dictator Ray Dalio: Dicktraitor
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  4137. Or anybody under 30: "Eww, like, that's literally creepy. I like literally have PTSD now."
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  4138. Thank you Angel Merkel.😡
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  4139.  @oceanmariner  No, I rebut your point, namely the one that "Europe [...] doesn't seem to want to protect themselves." The EU countries' $140bn in aid, plus the UK's $15bn, a total of $155bn, argues that they do indeed seem to want to protect themselves. Any way you cut it that is not lunch money.
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  4140. Who can possibly imagine she had a satisfactory relationship with her father?
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  4141. ​ @Hutch-b2p  First, no one's talking about doing away with reportedly lucrative LCBO wholesaling. (In fact the Ford govt. set up provincially-run wholesaling for private cannabis retailing just a few years ago, so they're clearly not against that sort of thing.) So subtract wholesaling profits from that $2.5bn figure. Second, once LCBO retailing is done away with, a flood of private-retail taxes will flow into government coffers. So subtract a further amount from that figure to represent such inflows. Whether the new totals will amount to less than $2.5bn, about the same, or more than $2.5bn, should be (and has been, surely?) the subject of carefully calculated projections. I'm not about to trust union-hired tax consultants or economists on the matter, by the way. And I will preemptively point out to you that it cannot be presumed that, simply because profits will be made by private retailers, the net result will mean comparatively lower provincial revenues. Microeconomics and taxation don't work that way. It may very well be that the whole alcohol retailing ecosystem (including payroll and other business taxes quite apart from corporate income taxes, as well as those generated by increased real estate investment and activity, as well as investment and activity in other spheres), may yield higher total government revenues. Thanks for raising that important subject.
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  4142.  @JusticeForNicholeAlloway  "Why would I like someone just because they are gay?" Easy question. Because gay men are men but are not threatening, and a lot of women choose their men (just friends or otherwise) for non-threateningness. Surprised anyone would even ask that.
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  4143.  @stephenschmengle9190  "Actially he is very smart." He may be relatively quick and relatively shrewd, but "very smart", no. That's strong praise. I'd say hardware fairly good, software mediocre, data set bad. Is over-generosity a propensity of yours?
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  4144.  @stephenschmengle9190  Thanks for your reply, but I think there are three twists of confusion in the 'genius' sub-thread here including one of mine. So I'll just back out now. Sorry I said anything; don't even bother trying to figure out who mistook who in what order; doesn't matter. I agree good interviewer here. Cheers.
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  4145. Teslas have been on the roads for more than 10 years. All that time, the media narrative was that EVs are marvellous. Then about 18 months ago Elon Musk announced that he would vote Republican for the first time. He bought Twitter in order to make it the first social media platform not to suppress conservative (even centrist) opinion. Within a few months the media narrative changed: suddenly EVs were no longer marvellous at all.🤨
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  4146. Bless you.💖🇺🇦
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  4147.  @dumbseth2219  Not sure if it's real police. It looks like it says University of Toronto below Police.
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  4148. Israel: 8,019 square miles. Israelis: "We've been here continuously for 3,500+ years. It's our home." Arab countries: 5,100,000 square miles. Hs.: "With Israel taking up the whole Middle East, where are we supposed to live?"🙄
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  4149. Traffic through Suez is already >-60%.
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  4150. Unusual suspects.
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  4151.  @bramptonjeff81  I don't agree to that.🤨 ...Nah, just kidding.😄
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  4152.  @AnnaAnna-uc2ff  Nots yous, obviousing. But somes of we does.
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  4153. But I assume you soon discovered the same BS was catching on there too? Have Australian universities set up departments of indigenous fat studies, complete with undergraduate programs, graduate degrees and endowed chairs? (The latter extra-large and very sturdy, of course.)
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  4154. In fact she had just finished helping him, as he was being threatened/attacked/robbed by the others, whom she dispersed when she got there. And moments later he repaid her by trying to steal her gun! Lowest of the low. (Btw, I think he died.)
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  4155.  @bornfromforeign  What a great loss for humanity.
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  4156. Oh, btw, skip Orwell's fiction. Not that good, as fiction. The essays are his best stuff, by far. @wuweimarx1725 
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  4157.  @Larindarr  Yes. If they were real women they'd find men to do their appropriating for them.
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  4158. All such "affordability" schemes are doomed to simply raise house prices.
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  4159.  @Coover90210  Yeah, politeness requires letting it pass when that happens, or correcting the person very gently. But on the other hand, no one should say a word unless they know how to say it. That means looking it up. (But the right way to say proper names can be harder to verify.)
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  4160. Thus the ongoing decay at Yale. This chirpy woman strikes me more as the hospital receptionist who messes up your appointment booking (and doesn't say she's sorry) than a leading intellectual and scholar who fits out the next generation with penetrating legal vision. Her own vision is clearly: "Conservatives" don't understand that big government and its agencies are super and make America better! They save us from business! So courts should lean away from questioning them. An obvious diver city higher. (Didn't Earn It.)
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  4161. Sure, just like you Pooty-Bots swore up and down Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine for months up until Feb. 24. You Pooty-Bots crack me up. 🤣
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  4162.  @murat_kinaci  Thanks for quoting the Hamas figures, Hamas point of view and Hamas language. How's the weather in Qatar?
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  4163. All-in cost of supporting Ukraine for its liberal-democratic allies: 1/400th of GDP All-in cost of continuing war in Ukraine for Russia: 1/5th of GDP
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  4164. An undeclared campaign donation.
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  4165. I agree with every word of that. He nailed it.
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  4166. Yes, precisely. The trillions of dollars being handed out will quickly find their way back to the people who lent it, with interest.
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  4167. Density and transit are indeed increasing. People are coming into the city in droves and multiple subway lines are under construction. But it's madness to "reduce highways." We are way past listening to irrational "progressive" ideas like de-funding police, legalizing hard drugs and closing down highways.
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  4168. No surprise that when Russia castrates prisoners it makes Ukraine even more eager to eject the foreign attackers, ideally in refrigerated train cars.
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  4169. The Gilded Age of 130 years ago is back. Already there's a huge servant class again, even if a given servant may work for multiple households. Next up after this stage: Have you ever read any Charles Dickens?
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  4170. Claudine Gay watching on the night of November 9, 1938: "This isn't a problem yet. Let's just see how it goes."
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  4171. ​ @devononair  Don't let them off the hook so lightly. There's a lot of moral self-approval amongst them.
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  4172. In other words: "All thousand genders against their own genders!" Is that not only fair?
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  4173. I think he loves his own brilliance most of all.
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  4174. ​ @ninadinechannel7675  Ah, then any army can carry out any atrocities it likes as long as it places civilians around itself. In this manner, it could slaughter whomever it wanted and take over the world if it wanted. Brilliant thinking. Bravo.
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  4175.  @TheB1nary  Thank you. Please repeat those well-expressed points elsewhere and often. (Alas they're buried in obscurity here in this thread.)
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  4176. The Liberals would never dare try what they're doing if they didn't have the corporate media and the CBC in their back pockets. That's why they've showered them with so much taxpayer cash.
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  4177. loose = opposite of tight lose = opposite of win
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  4178. (1) Decades past due, but better appallingly late than never. (I guess.) (2) Why wouldn't China, Russia & Iran just evade this measure by falsifying applications? (3) I hereby nominate Dawna Friesen in the category Worst-Fitting Garment On Canadian TV in 2024.
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  4179. The two little Lukashenkos.
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  4180. ​ @annfoster6116 A resignation seems unlikely, but an election must occur within 15 months, and few if any expect him to survive it. In the latest poll only 4% strongly approve of his job performance. Only among Liberals does his approval remain high (strongly 15%, somewhat 61%), but they're just 22% of the sample.
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  4181. The more serious the topic the more people want to say something about it. Suggesting we should refrain from saying what we like is very illiberal.
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  4182. The more I hear about Denmark the more I like it. It's too bad it doesn't have a population of 200 million. And why doesn't it? I mean, Danish women are quite good looking. Danish men should either stop evading their responsibilities to human civilization in this way, or accept outside assistance.😄
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  4183. ​ @ahubdacap  His point was to tell black Americans that they're being particularly affected by illegal immigration by losing out on jobs. More are being taken from them than from whites. His opponents know that's true, so the only way to deal with his statement is to claim that it was disrespectful, instead of what it really was: respectfully truthful.
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  4184. This video is now Age Restricted because of what Meg just said.🤨
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  4185.  @МарияРадченко-х8й  It seems like Russia breaking up would be a terrible occurrence for its people, for Eurasia and for the world. I hope Russians don't let it happen. I hope they instead make some needed changes to its administration, if you know what I mean.
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  4186. I suppose it wasn't very difficult for police to figure out the connection between the victims, since they already deemed one of them a case of mistaken identity. So what was the motive?
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  4187. "¡Viva la libertad, carajo!" [Long live freedom, dammit!] — Javier Milei slogan And ¡Viva Malbec! 🍷(Please support Argentina and buy a bottle today.)
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  4188. We are sibling countries. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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  4189.  @lalywindland5764  Good-looking older men have zero problem attracting women (younger women included), in many cases way more of them than when they were 30, even if they never became very well-off. More daily maintenance is needed, that's about it. The stomach has to stay fairly flat. Rarely is this true of a woman of, say, 45 to 55 years. Really rarely.
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  4190.  @victorhopper6774  Yes to both. 👍  (I could've sad 'A few very key shared factors are in play.')
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  4191. The world cares deeply about what you have to say.
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  4192. I agree with that. All our worst present ills are the result of choices made in the name of improvement. People were warned. They were warned that what would be lost would outweigh any benefit. Beware the utopian telling you that attacking groups of people will improve things.
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  4193. ​ @dwightmcqueen5771  Hey, why don't you go back in time to 1942 and help Russia and Germany both? Anyway, I'm afraid we're out of time for today, but we can talk more about this in the next session. Phone me if the new dosage is a problem and it can't wait till next week.
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  4194.  @erikred8217  Ok, robotron.
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  4195.  @jankjaer1731  I think she was delighted with the way things went and is not being sarcastic.
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  4196.  @dermotmcglinchey282  World Troll Alliance: "Hey, don't use the word 'troll' for lowlifes like that!"
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  4197. Caligula to US: "Guys, guys, come on. They said I was mad and I only made my horse consul. Get a grip on yourselves."
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  4198.  @syntaxer1984  Asking them what?
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  4199. Boomers: "Insignificant low-birthrate Generation X, we will never allow you to do anything important. Mwah ha ha ha ha!" Millennials: "High five! And now pass the ceremonial baton straight to us. Mwah ha ha ha ha!" Elon Musk: "Allow me to introduce myself."
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  4200. Did she say "February the 36th"? What a curious mistake for February 24th. (Three dozen days instead of two dozen days.)
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  4201. "Bring me a bowl of alphabet soup."
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  4202. I'm really surprised, shocked almost. Re-opening by 2024 will require incredibly fast work. I thought they'd say some time in the 2030s. Can it be?
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  4203. ​ @MichaelaJungheim  Ok, so you thought you were being funny when you said "It’s totally okay for him to believe that". But how the hell is anyone supposed to tell nowadays? Other people say the same sort of thing with a straight face and they actually mean it. (Btw, if you think there's anything wrong with my English, you should read more.)
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  4204.  @CandideSchmyles  No probs. I still think he's has way too much of the arsonist in him. (I heard Michael Gove called a Maoist recently on Channel 4 and admired the commentator greatly for it, so you can see my fondness for rhetoric.) Cheers.
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  4205.  @FatNormanCoathanger  You mean 'admission.' Admittance has to do with being permitted to enter some physical location.
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  4206. Thanks for this. I join you in your denunciation.
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  4207.  @sirkana  "Germany sent that aid in spite of him, not because of him." My take also. In the 1980s, as a leading member of the Marxist youth wing of the SPD (the same party he leads today), he published essays railing against "NATO imperialism" and visited East Germany to meet with communist cabinet ministers in the government of Erich Honecker. So I'm saying his grudgingness on Ukraine aid is rooted in old antipathies towards NATO and an admiration for the Soviets so strong that it biases him in Russia's favor to this day.
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  4208. His greatest admiration by far appeared to be for Deng Xiaoping, whom he bizarrely called a monarch. Muddle-headed stoner, in my opinion.
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  4209. Catch-22: If they had half a brain they would not be her followers. Without half a brain they cannot rethink their lives. These people are in a serious bind.
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  4210. The BBC news operation should be de-funded. You should not get your news from the government. Let it sink or swim on its merits and vie for subscription and ad revenues.
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  4211. I've got a bit of an issue with a guy named Steve-something who goes with "Destiny (-no last name)." Cher, Madonna, Beyoncé...Destiny?😂 Just the weirdness of that nearly stops my brain. But with that out of the way.... Brief excursus on What's up with people under ~40: (Not all people under 40. I'm only talking about notable major currents.) It seems significant to me how he explicitly attaches great importance to what's "appropriate." I bet appropriate/inappropriate were the #1 and #2 words his and many other parents of his generation used in bringing up their kids. And I assume that when they heard "inappropriate" it went along with the withholding of affection and the inflicting of punishment. When you hear them use inappropriate, everything in their tone tells you they think it's the most serious word they know of. Now as adults they're so incredibly hung up on appropriate. It's their magic word. Their goal politically is to cleanse the society of everything inappropriate. It made me sad for him when it made him so happy that Ben freely conceded Trump had used "inappropriate" means to stall or forestall the handover of power. It was a more important matter for him than criminality was. Boomer parents went with pretty experimental forms of child-rearing (later picked up on by GenX parents) that really aren't working out. Their own libertine pasts boomeranged into an exaggerated polarity of, on the one hand, their famously over-the-top praising of their children and on the other hand a heavy censoriousness. ("You're the greatest!" and "Don't do that! Inappropriate!" ten times each per hour, every hour of every day.) I think their kids are as a result guilt-plagued and full of boxed-in rage with really unhealthy outlets: mostly it's either banal, frenzied, consumerist hipsterism or creepy, reality-ignoring political activism/posturing. And absent any outlets at all, crap-tons of porn and serious drugs. (Also, there needs to be tons of study and discussion of what internet porn has done to 25 years of kids who saw a really huge amount of really intense stuff beginning in mid-childhood, starting say between 9 and 12. There's no way passwords kept it away from them. No way. I think it's a prime factor in how they've turned out, in their 'gender identity' confusion and disorders for instance, but a lot more too. A lot more.) I can't, shouldn't and do not want to do an amateur psychological evaluation on a stranger based on next to nothing here, but dude here was so nervous, fidgety, upset and clearly angry. (Just keep your eyes on him.) He can't smile or laugh, unlike Ben Shapiro, who's cheery, humorous, relaxed and confident, all while maintaining admirable focus and seriousness. Ben shows zero of the other problems either. Which brings me to religion, or the lack of it, another thing I think enters into the situation with younger adults in a major way. I am completely irreligious myself but I can confirm that it's not the easiest path. It's full of hazards and challenges and offers quite unattractive odds of a great outcome. Anyway, I want to wrap this up, so I'll just say that you can tell that most people under 40 have a religion-shaped hole in their hearts as easily as you can tell that religion is working for Ben. Go ahead and throw darts at my analysis, which is no more than a little sketch. It's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  4212.  @cliveengel5744  Thanks for the Dmitry Peskov point of view.
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  4213.  @JNosewicz7569  It's important to note that despite California's relatively low rate compared to the rest of the U.S., there are still significant racial disparities. Black women in California are three to four times as likely as their white peers to experience life-threatening pregnancy complications or die giving birth.
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  4214. @ 49.8% is less than half the voters.😂 Only 1.48 percentage pts. more than Harris.😂 3rd-grade arithmetic: challenging for some.😂
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  4215. You first, if you think that sort of thing is a great idea.
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  4216. Now you've said that, it's on you to set a good example. If it's drastic measures, do be sure to tidy up your living quarters first. 😄
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  4217.  @CrRodney1  We can have climate change mitigation at the same time as Put your money where your mouth is.
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  4218. Fellow Canadians will agree that any leader aligning himself on policy with the iniquitous Justin Trudeau needs to do a lot of soul-searching. Clearly Alpo should file for moral bankruptcy. Or perhaps a thorough mental health examination is in order. Or just a resignation.
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  4219. Jojo should get back...to where he once belonged: on his front porch in Delaware, shaking his fist at clouds.
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  4220. A small man in a big job. He doesn't fill the suit.
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  4221.  @Z06666  He probably just saw the ex-Director of the CIA on TV a few years ago like I did. He said cover your webcam and other online cameras with black tape when you're not using them. Yes, the ex-CIA director. Yes, ordinary people's own online cameras.
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  4222.  @CarolineWolterHall  I've known some great Hamburgers! We're fortunate to have you.
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  4223.  @dogzdigital  Anyone who does not see the connection between intellect, research and common sense is lost, and will not be found. Mr. Thatch's analysis, while it doesn't cohere perfectly, does broadly answer to actuality and experience.
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  4224.  @dogzdigital  It's important not to think too highly of oneself. It's called hubris, and people afflicted with it never think they are. [ahem]
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  4225. These African tyrants aren't fooled. Sure, they're fools up to a point, but still not foolish enough not to know what he's doing. It's just gangsters doing business with a gangster who'll send mercenaries to keep them in power.
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  4226.  @judeflynn9223  We know what you think, o lover of whichever tyrant you live under in Russia or China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, wherever.
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  4227.  @ThMrksman  Nicotine and caffeine are both stimulants which it's safe to be addicted to. For nicotine to be unsafe you have to consume it in cigarette form, just as for caffeine to be unsafe you'd have to add, for example, arsenic to your coffee. (Also, you can overdose, but an overdose of Vitamin A is fatal too.)
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  4228. That never happened. Reported for misinformation.
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  4229.  @blancosanmartin  I didn't say "a" sentence. I said that sentence. Dude, you just can't read. Take the L and move on.
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  4230. The key to the success of the counterattack was simply that the Russian lines and the whole zone were lightly defended. No shame in that for the very well-run Ukrainian forces, of course. They conceived, planned and executed it all perfectly.
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  4231. @ Ok, you're right. No war started in 2014. I stand corrected.🙄
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  4232. Kingsley Amis knew whereof he spoke when he said of the proliferation of new plate-glass universities in the 1950s, "More will mean worse." There were many more, and they're much worse.
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  4233. Good heavens, an Ivan-free thread with excellent comments. All-too noteworthy.😕
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  4234. But it's the people's fault if they trash any politician or political group which steps forward to make this an issue. Saying that it's sad for them frames them as having a child-type dependency on the grown-up politicians when in reality, as voters, they're the grown-ups themselves!
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  4235.  @Wypipo  Gracious response to @J Hitchcock.
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  4236. Diversity isn't poison, if it comes about organically. Enforced, mandated diversity as a political power play is poison.
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  4237. The Real Poland: Abandoned? Ha! They spent their riches and spilled the blood of their best people to come help us.
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  4238. True. The US isn't doing capitalism right. It's wrong when no matter what sort of person you are you're widely considered a nobody and a loser if you don't have a real pile of money.
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  4239. Dang I love Sorting by Newest. Ya get the real & best sh... The Top comments aren't the best except now and then...
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  4240. Perhaps someone here should be spelling it out: The indoctrination wasn't a side-effect of what the school(s) involved were doing, it was the purpose. I'm sure they felt they owed it to the children to take them out of the school and indoctrinate them out in public without asking their parents.
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  4241. CC = cash cow?🤔 Pls. let me know.
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  4242.  @IvanIvanov-vy7pt  You know why I said it. No wonder you answer me like that. I suggest anyone reading this honour his memory by watching his revealing documentary Putin's Palace. On its YouTube release in 2021 it garnered over 100 million views in its first ten days. Anyone can be watching it 10 seconds from now. That includes you, Ivan.
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  4243.  @yaramay510  Ok, Baba Yaga.😄
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  4244.  @gigie555  😢
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  4245. For everybody reading this comment, Blue Shirt Man is the first guy in the video, around the 2-minute mark.
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  4246. Who else attacks all the corrupt ones from across the whole spectrum? Only a very few I know of. There must be more out there but I haven't found them yet.
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  4247. In a way I don't want her associated with Amber Heard to any degree at all.😄
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  4248. Counterpart of a US congressman/woman.
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  4249.  @aero6917  Yep. Ukraine War = USSR-Afghanistan War v.2.0 And quite possibly Ukraine War 2025/26😯= 💀USSR💀1991💀
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  4250.  @tiberio1352  With each passing week I see Western society ripening for totalitarianism. The descent is so fast that I really can't see the elections falling on time past mid-century, if they even make it that far. At one time we saw the Germans of the 1930s as pathetic and weak-minded for what became of them. Now, in our own way, we're copying their decay from most-advanced status to dumbass ignominy. (Cf. Elvis Costello, 'The Invisible Man', 1983: "Never mind, there's a good film showing tonight, Where they hang everybody who can read and write, Well, that could never happen here, But then again it might." (The allusion was to a book by Sinclair Lewis, "It Can't Happen Here", which you can look up if you like. Cheers.)
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  4251.  @milansavic2803  You seem to not know how replies work. If you want to reply to that person, click Reply under his or her post, not mine.
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  4252.  @BTinSF  In coverage on YT channels ~90% of Ukrainian forces members appear to be ~35-55. Been thinking maybe high command sees it as helping the odds of victory.
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  4253. Legit pro-Pootin oddball.
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  4254. Fascinating.
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  4255. Not the whole world. In this case just the criminal, the prosecutors, the reporter with her sanctimonious air, and the alleged human beings demonstrating outside the courthouse.
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  4256. Without a doubt he has smart parents and this is probably what he hears at the dinner table.
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  4257.  @Allahfearingman  I know all there is to know about what street deals look like and that looked like one.
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  4258. How is that hairstyle not "cultural appropriation"? Shouldn't it be a scandal that she appeared onstage in "whitehair"?
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  4259. But this is routine stuff. Do you see people panicking or something? People here are taking it in stride, of course. All that's happened is that the city announced people have to move their cars to make way for plows and snow trucks. 24-hour news stations have a lot of time to fill, and that's the reason for this 10-minute report on a thing that could've been covered in 15 seconds.
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  4260. So sad how dull-minded people like her, in desperation — desperate to feel like they're somebody, desperate for an explanation for their inferior social position, desperate to understand a world which confuses them — reach out and grasp the dirty hand of false affirmation held out to them by campus socialists, who earlier did the very same thing. Trapped now by her desperation, she stands up to endorse mass murder, mass rape, mass destruction, mass torture and theft of territory.
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  4261.  @jph4889  Somebody making a point: "If Taylor Swift loses any more weight she's going to fly away in a slight breeze." An insufferably literal-minded person: "I don't see how that could happen."🙄
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  4262.  @deanmckellar619  Dumpsters come in different sizes but I'd say they average 6x6x10 feet.
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  4263. "But Trump's like a grandpa." Was the subject the age of a man you'd wanna date? No, but the high priestess has spoken: Age is the criterion of masculinity.🙄 Unbelievable. Imagine the subject were femininity, someone floated Pelosi as an exemplar, and a male panellist chimed in "But she's like a grandma!" --> Meltdown.
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  4264. He's still spouting nonsense. Next time do something to his voice box.
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  4265.  mr oko  Do you boycott China 100% yourself?
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  4266. CBC: Fights for every dollar of government funding, always has, always will. Also CBC: "Hey, don't call us government -funded!" If the CBC were a person its doctor would offer it counselling or psychiatric medicine for this irrational behaviour.
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  4267. Canadians have responded to Trudeau's India meltdown by telling pollsters they want a Conservative majority. Poll aggregator 338Canada projects that in an election today the Conservatives would win 176 seats out of 338, six seats into majority territory.
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  4268. Back in the USSR, apparently....
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  4269.  @Megafoot2164  I would assume so. People all over the world have money invested in Canadian oil. Stop being coy with these posts and say something. Never hide your argument, as a professor once said to my class.
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  4270. It hasn't been $525 billion. Stop making things up. It's been a fraction of that. 1) 5% of the military budget to stop Putin is the best money the US ever spent. 2) For once Europe is paying its fair share: the majority of assistance to Ukraine. 3) Compared to the cost of fighting Putin later, this is lunch money.
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  4271.  @69kiwijon  Not many a man's comment ever said as much about himself, or less about his subject.
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  4272. Yeah, starring Tracy Morgan.😄
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  4273.  @1pcfred  Bull. American refiners make an absolute mint on Canadian oil. Do your reading.
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  4274.  @RisetoStrength  A spectral analysis would be fast, accurate, cheap and easy. It would reveal something fairly close to a chemical signature. Maybe not a smoking gun, but it would be a good piece of evidence. I wonder where you're coming from on this. Why are you ridiculing what the TPS practices are on evidence collection? They don't know how to do it? Are you pretty sure you know more than they do?
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  4275. Even according to the guest's analysis, I don't see how gold can move in tandem with copper. Copper needs a strong global economy to rise, but according to him gold needs a weaker economy to rise.
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  4276. Mindless supporter: "I'd like to buy your rock."
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  4277. What, his high school diploma doesn't qualify him?
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  4278. Take heart, because at last you're wrong about something; namely, being sick of being right. It's the greatest feeling, as long as you can find a way not to get used to it.
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  4279.  @georgehenderson7783  Five-plus minutes is very standard for a TV news interview of a public figure. Unless it's important, and this one really wasn't.
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  4280. Velvet suit in teal, loud tie and socks, cuff links: they seem to say "I'm a very delightful fellow, young people love me, I vote Labour, please do not superannuate me. I repeat, I am a most delightful fellow----but not a narcissist in the least, as many would hastily conclude from the cuff links alone".
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  4281. He behaved badly by interrupting a panel talk. He had no right to speak until granted a turn during Q&A. Yet she came off looking worse for her deep-throated abuse of him. It takes a special talent to accomplish that.
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  4282.  @mirka  Definitely. Honest, smart & non-crazy people never sound like that. Wtf would the Brazilian air force be doing in Poland anyway? Wikipedia: "On 27 February 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and stated Brazil would "adopt a neutral stance on Ukraine", would not impose sanctions on Russia, and that Ukrainians had "trusted a comedian with the fate of a nation"." Doesn't sound like Brazil's air force is anywhere near there!
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  4283. I don't understand why people are calling this guy an immigrant. Conceivably so, but why the assumption? Could just as easily be a lifelong Torontonian. I also don't understand Chow twice using the word "their" in reference to the cop, instead of "his". Too many adults, elites included, have zero idea how to reason.
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  4284.  @maggies9597  'Some people somewhere committed atrocities before, so who can point a finger at me?'
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  4285. Great take on the motivation some Republicans had for criticizing US spending and support: it was simply a refusal to support their political opponents. Now that two months have passed since the elections their opposition has mostly died off. What remains is the least that's necessary to keep their original motivation from becoming too blatantly obvious. Gen. Hodges, clear-eyed as always.
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  4286.  @2025SPACEDUDE  Never mind if America does it or doesn't do it. No country should formulate any policy on the grounds that America does or doesn't have it. That's not politically grown up.
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  4287. It's like he's talking to a 14-year-old. Only he shouldn't be, because her mind's not there yet.
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  4288. Well said! Say it again, say it often.
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  4289. I was thinking the same thing. It's totally ready for not ready for prime time.
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  4290.  @uglypinkeraser  My post itself was comically intended. (Although like most jokes there's something serious at the heart of it). Could have been better, I guess. Cheers
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  4291.  @cloudoftime  Nothing, unless one is an overgrown boy! How can you ask?
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  4292.  @Stephenwhite013  Sure. His dad, who as a boy literally lived in an orphanage, ended up with some money. So don't listen to him! Ok, great reasoning. Thanks.
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  4293. Cuz she's a droid, bruh, from trillions of miles away. A 1st-gen one, fizzing with design flaws and defects.
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  4294. That's like saying that Five Guys has done a poor job of appealing to vegans. They don't really want them coming in the front door!
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  4295. Based on Ontario liquor laws it's about 1910.
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  4296. The headline writer did not understand what was said in the clip. That person must be much more closely supervised, for the sake of viewers and indeed of Times Radio itself.
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  4297.  @birgittabirgersdatter8082  My dog: "Excuse me, but would you mind taking that back? You're making it sound close."
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  4298.  @zpqm693  We know what you think, Leonid.
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  4299. The liberal world order simply refers to the dominance of the allied democracies in place since World War II. Don't get 'liberal' in the sense of basic freedoms, representative government and the rule of law mixed up with 'liberal' in the narrow present-day sense of 'left-of-center.' Reagan, for instance, was wholeheartedly in favor of the liberal world order. (The word 'new,' btw, doesn't apply to it. It's something the West is trying to preserve, not change.)
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  4300. He was an embarrassment all these years. Now he's something far lower, far more serious.
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  4301.  @martinepstein3332  Why say it like that? There's not going to be any referendum on support for Ukraine, and the election has umpteen other issues which the voters will definitely put first. The fact is, the American people will not decide on it. The president will. High marks for sounding vaguely portentous, though🙄, like you know something.
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  4302. Notice he's of European descent so they decided to broadcast his photos.
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  4303.  @daniilkokorev5563  AGAIN, I say something neutral and you claim it is loaded with a particular intent to exalt the West above Russia. Dude, never mind Russophobia, take a look at your creative paranoia. That's where the problem is. Time to mute your annoying a##.
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  4304. Stop it, you're getting him all excited.
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  4305. Unless it's ours. Who can say?
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  4306.  @1texasminer  I'm irreligious myself but am nonetheless inclined to your view of things. I see you've been paying close attention for a long time.
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  4307. "They make it up. They tell untruths and then they tell more untruths.” Hahaha! First, my dear boy, they all tell copious untruths, not just the 'strongmen.' Second, Boris as a strongman is itself made-up and an untruth, so we can throw you in with the lot of them as well. I came here just to shower contumely on that headline and now I'm off. TTFN.
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  4308. The anti-American hatred of that garbage he banned could have come straight out of North Korea.
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  4309. Someone who can't even spell Palantir would say something like that.🙄
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  4310.  @Skygrey2943  The world is going to have security services the same as it's going to have earthquakes and glaciers. So one has to choose which ones to hope do their job better (or turn one's eyes away from the world entirely, but I can't). And I choose the ones Palantir works for, leaning towards the belief that, aided by Karp and company, their success will make the world less scary, not more. Likewise I cheer on Starlink because it's at the service of Ukraine, not Russia. Likewise Lockheed, because it serves the US government, not the CCP. I left childish things like Utopian hopes and dreams behind when I left childhood. A couple of years before that, actually. So instead of sanctimony and pearl-clutching and groaning, I have the mental energy left over to proofread what I write. It ain't much, but it's something rather than nothing. You've done well so far, I'm pretty sure, and I congratulate you on that. I also wish you the best on the rest of your journey. Thanks for your reply.
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  4311. After 9/11, Canada was faster than any other US ally to mobilize and get its troops to Afghanistan. By November the cream of Canada's special forces were there taking out Talibani. The 13-year mission cost 158 lives, 1000+ wounded, and $20bn. Trump didn't forget — he makes a point of not knowing such things in the first place.
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  4312. It's remarkable to find that a former counterterrorism chief is so cheery, relaxed and affable. I'd expect one to be permanently grave, not terribly personable, hollow-eyed from care, maybe even twitchy. Nice chap, that Chip Chapman.
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  4313.  @vedangkhandelwal5465  Interesting, thanks. I know little about our asylum laws and practices, so I'm going to assume you mean they're too generous. Cheers
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  4314. Jake Broe suffers from a few fixed delusions.  Another one is his belief that Elon Musk is the most evil man in the US. As they say in Texas, That boy ain't right.
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  4315.  @robderich8533  You're familiar with Lord Chamberlain, I expect?
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  4316. I experienced shrinkage of the geschtoinkel so bad my girlfriend's gonna leave me.
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  4317. That reminds me of how my best anti-Putin posts are all swarmed by legions of Pooty-bots. You have my best wishes and thanks.
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  4318. "Provocative" = "It provokes cognitive dissonance in me because I can't answer honestly." * _____________ * Cognitive dissonance: Mental discomfort when beliefs don't line up with actions or evidence.
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  4319. At certain moments which I found particularly gratifying, I imagined a clinking of glasses coming from a godless afterlife where Orwell and Hitchens sat together with pints of lager, drinking to some of these eloquent truths delivered ably, with a certain amount of courage and, who knows, perhaps just in the nick of time.
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  4320. What, pray tell, is the difference? At university I saw fit to skip over political science, but lexicographers, the people who write dictionaries and who thus tell us what words mean, seem to think they both mean a land in which ultimate power is vested in the people through elected representatives (though the idea of a republic lays particular stress --- ordinarily unneeded --- on the absence of a king). So are you a lexicographer of the maverick school or do I need to get a political science degree after all?
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  4321. There could be thousands more like him in Canada. Oh wait, there's no doubt TENS of thousands like him already in the US legally or otherwise. Plus hundreds coming across the Mexican border every day, as well as many just breezing right in at airports.
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  4322.  @lanpartyanimal5215  Any Republican aspirant to the office of governor of Florida who fails to pledge a continuation of the present policies will likewise fail to win the nomination. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  4323. I disagree. Yes, if Lukashenko is booted Russia will move quickly to install a puppet, and that is bad. But actions parallel to NATO support for Ukraine aren't possible. The simple reason is that in the Zelensky government and its military NATO had a partner they could deal with. In Belarus after Lukashenko's ouster, it would be chaos. You can't just funnel serious weaponry to people you don't know. And NATO definitely couldn't send in troops. Maybe another UN force à-la-ISAF could?
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  4324. I still say you should ask: "What would happen if Putin doesn't wake up tomorrow?"
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  4325. Have the Far Left started calling Glenn Greenwald right-wing yet?
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  4326. What a snake. He encouraged these festering camps his whole career. Now, weeks before Harris will make her VP pick, he does this. Plus he knows there's a chance Harris will get the Biden treatment and be dumped.
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  4327. 13:25 I love it when Marketplace interviews these industry association/lobby group types. There's something similar in all their faces, perhaps a lack of restful sleep.
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  4328.  @lauchaso47  Damn right!👍👏
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  4329. Why do you use a hero-portrait of Stalin as your avatar unless you admire him? If it's a joke it's not funny. Would it also be cool to use one of Hi tler? 🤡
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  4330. They can spray an outrageous number of metal projectiles and fragments, each one of which can open up a wound. The eyes, neck and groin are generally lightly protected or not at all. This one simply didn't go off, but that is nothing special. Dud munitions are a perennial fact of warfare.
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  4331. Turning your back on them is a very fine thing, but won't you figure out a way to give them a punch on the nose as well, please?
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  4332. I remember in 2014 the PM was furious, walking up to Putin at a summit (G8, I think) and saying with maximum bluntness "You need to get out of Ukraine." I knew he was going to find a way to do something. (And let me be clear, it was Harper, not Trudeau.)
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  4333.  @theloniousm4337  How can you ask? Why, to run its armed forces up to proper NATO standards, of course. It's the training provided by NATO countries over the past nine years that's kept Ukraine in existence for the past 15 months. All the weapons in the world won't help a rag-tag fifth-rate army. (Cf. the Armed Forces of the RF.) Your mom thinks along similar lines, and that's why she just yelled down to the basement to tell you to do your homework and then get to bed.
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  4334.  @eddietat95  I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya?
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  4335. ​ @adz951  What? Your claim about Los Angeles is 100% false. LA is very spread out and everyone knows it: 3.9m people in 502 sq. mi. Many US cities are more dense. Gaza, at 141 sq. mi., basically 7 x 20 miles, is not a country. It's a city, and its population of just over 2m people is not especially high for that size. My own (larger) city is about the same density as Gaza and is noted by foreign visitors for its spaciousness. I also don't care if Gaza's downtown is more dense than its other parts. That means nothing, since the same is true for every city on Earth. I'm so sick of this propaganda talking point for a group that's effectively the same thing as ISIS.
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  4336.  @adz951  There was a ceasefire and Hamas broke it. As a result, it's war. Gaza is a war zone, and it's a war zone thanks to Hamas. And tragically, civilians die in war zones. There are no longer battlefields like Waterloo or Gettysburg. In WWII, many civilians also died in the Allied liberation of Holland, since the occupying Germans were closely embedded with the Dutch population. It was tragic, but the Dutch still welcomed the Canadian and UK forces as the liberators they were, with flowers, tears and open arms.
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  4337. Apparently China has a shortage of professional internet posters able to deal with plurals in English.
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  4338.  @Hardrada904  "Innovating new things that don't exist in America" by buying chips from Nvidia, an American company? "LOL"
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  4339. Kringela. Go ahead, say it. It's her name now.
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  4340. You needn't wonder.
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  4341. Bro, do you know what a sentence is? You need about 8 fn periods in there, dude.
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  4342. Biden fans simply do not exist.
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  4343.  @josflorida5346  One, eh? That's quite a high number. As Paul Fussell would say, 'if you meet another, you may stuff and exhibit him. He's a rare specimen.'
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  4344.  @istvanglock7445  Quite right. Sanctimony is at play here. ('If I say something along these lines everybody will be impressed with the fineness of my moral weave. Truth value be damned, I'm gonna sop up the recognition.')
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  4345. What we have here is a completely uneducated complete lack of knowledge of what the word murder even means.🤨
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  4346.  @forky3525  The second I hear the word 'fascist' being casually and mindlessly thrown around for effect, I immediately say 'Have a nice day' and move on. Have a nice day.
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  4347.  @1dkappe  In fairness, you seem to know importunity when you see it.
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  4348.  @mikeburk3886  She reminds me a lot of Elizabeth Holmes, that Theranos criminal.
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  4349. It's sad what's become of journalism. For one thing, this person is too young to be telling people about a serious subject.
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  4350.  @tylerp5839  Yes, but that's not new. That's been cheap journalism forever. What's new is that (1) these newsrooms actually believe such nonsense up to a point; and (2) where they fall short of actual belief, they simply want to advance the agenda, the truth of the matter be damned.
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  4351. She's from Melbourne, Australia but you're still entirely right. Yes, absolutely.
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  4352.  @7natcho  Yeah, I'm with you. How it ended was ugly, disgusting and unpardonable. My point was that, to the extent I have an idea about such things, it didn't fairly represent the typical Ontario cop at all. (Well, big-city cops at least. Rural and small-town cops I know little about.) And I try not to judge groups by their worst members, just as I wouldn't like to be judged solely on the worst thing I ever did. Thanks for your reply, 7N., and I wish you the best. FJT!
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  4353.  @rara-yp5pq  Move on. I like my foes worthy.
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  4354. Expert: Anyone in any field who agrees with the CBC newsroom's opinions.
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  4355. 10,000BCE until 2015: "Everybody has an opinion." But now: "Everybody has a truth."😮 The greatest comedy writers would struggle to come up with material that good.
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  4356.  @TubersAndPotatoes  eBay is fine for used goods, don't worry about that. Just boycott Amazon—and Walmart as well. Those two should just merge and call themselves The China Store. I have never bought one thing from Amazon and I must say it makes me feel good.
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  4357.  @Finglebangle  At last some sincere frankness.👍 It's not intelligence but it's a good start anyway.
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  4358. Six with his first wife, Justine Musk. Three with his longtime girlfriend, Claire Boucher. Three (twins, then one child) with Shivon Zilis (no relationship, afaik). So, 12 not 11. Not very competent googling there. You use the term baby mama. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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  4359. Sorry, your guest analyst was unimpressive. I'd rather see someone with more experience and less bias. She was a student leader just a few years ago. Tbh, I call DEI on her, since male analysts of that age are never seen (rightly, for someone so young isn't experienced enough.) Beautiful shiny hair, though.
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  4360. You're doing all right. They ask me every 15 minutes.
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  4361. Yes, because if he waited until hostilities began China would no doubt react by instantly expropriating Tesla's factory.
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  4362. Watch the 1420 Channel and listen what comes out of Russians' mouths.😦
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  4363. Lucid: Q1 revenue of $173m on just 1,728 vehicles, which is low for a carmaker aiming for mass production. It operates at a loss, continuing to fundraise and focus on cost-cutting. Tesla: Q2 est. revenue $25bn on 443,956 vehicles, profit near $2bn. Buh-bye.
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  4364. No. No, it does not. The country doing that also ranks #1 here. But it isn't obvious through this video at all. Rather, it's a fact to be learned elsewhere. (Which I did.)
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  4365. $240 a day for hotel and restaurant meals.
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  4366. Soon: "My fellow Americans, with great sadness I announce that during this emergency, elections are suspended. We must do this to protect democracy. In addition, due to the grave danger posed by supporters of my opponent, martial law and the suspension of civil liberties continue indefinitely. We must do this to protect freedom."
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  4367.  @marcusaurelius4941  It's become clear to me over time that when they say "I have no interest in politics" they very well might be afraid to speak. But when they say this kind of stuff, I think they're sincere. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  4368.  @VictorLyuba  You are mistaken on what the First Amendment is about. It says that the US government shall pass no laws restricting what people can say (apart from slander, libel, incitement to criminal acts such as rioting for example, or revealing state secrets). Even almost all lies are protected speech (but not slander, libel). On the other hand, what you speak about is vigorous social disapproval of certain statements a person may make. There is no protection against such disapproval, nor is there such protection in any other country, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be. Allow me to illustrate by analogy. If you go to an Italian village, enter a café, and make insulting remarks to the staff and patrons about the Pope, you are likely to be told to leave. That cannot be construed as an infringement on your right to free speech, never mind what the Italian constitution may or may not say about free speech protection. You are still allowed to stand on a street corner and announce your views, or in the home or place of business of anyone willing to hear them. You can publish them in a book or on a website. I hope I have made myself clear about the difference between people rudely telling you to "Shut up!" and the government charging you with a crime. Thanks for your reply. I am entirely sympathetic to your views on the intolerance of what are called 'politically correct' Americans.
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  4369.  @verbalspaghettigaming7570  Marvellous. A perfectly useful and old word has been blurred and degraded. So get ready to "commemorate" the appearance of "yous" (as in Hey, did yous guys see that?) in next year's additions to so-called "descriptive" dictionaries. Yous peoples sure will be gratified.
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  4370.  @tryptophan5313  All right, I'll be patient.
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  4371.  @rachdarastrix5251  I'm considering taking on a belief in hell. That way I could take comfort in the thought of tech CEOs being [redeacted]ly [redacted]ed by the devil continuously for all time.
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  4372.  @missmayflower  You're right. Mothers are likelier to physically abuse their children than fathers are.
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  4373. So to stand up for Ukraine is to abuse Ukraine. Omg. It may come from Carlson, but that's Putin-grade rhetoric right there.
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  4374. And nothing more perfectly exemplifies that than Cortez accusing others of substituting political grandstanding for much-needed psychiatric treatment.
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  4375.  @joehalliday6081  Pearl Davis calls them "crazy lady glasses"😂
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  4376. No, the US doesn't want Ukraine to "fight to the last Ukrainian." More like to the last Russian tank, ship, AWACS plane, air defense battery, artillery piece, radar installation, Sukhoi fighter, etc., etc. Is it getting warm in that frog fondue pot, Pooty?
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  4377.  @teo890-i8o  Appears your report fell on deaf ears.
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  4378. Another simple way of looking at things: To be a Democrat is to have as your somber, your implacable, your terrifying enemy…. truth.
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  4379. You're serious? Russia is very lax compared with a full-blown dictatorship. Daniil wouldn't be allowed to do what he does in, for example, North Korea. Look at the ratings and rankings in the freedom indexes. The Cato Human Freedom Index ranks Russia 119th out of 165 jurisdictions, while Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Syria are down around 160+. (It doesn't bother rating North Korea.)
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  4380. ​ @mrburn6119  Archaeologists understandably get very excited about sizeable archaeological discoveries, especially ones that alter timelines significantly, as this one did. The fuss needs no more explanation than that. But I don't see what it has to do with springing up out of nothing. Civilizational changes (we're thinking of them as advances in this context) are neither incremental to the point of being slow and steady, nor do they occur overnight (alien visits excepted—lol). They are sort of lumpy, with a lot of small, slow changes and a far smaller number of larger, quicker ones. All I can say is that if scholars were formerly in the habit of talking about the great suddenness of events in the Fertile Crescent 8k or so years ago, they surely must have meant 'apparent suddenness'. In other words they would have assumed there was missing evidence. Lo and behold, they found some. And are they now saying that Göbekli Tepe sprang up out of nowhere?  I doubt it.  Breaking news events aside, they are sober people (unlike our host, let's face it, who is all about the passion and the narrative). But if you even more literally mean 'news' in the sense of large media outlet news, that's another question. To that I'd just answer that they do what they do for reasons that make sense to them. (Not being rude, I just find them an unpleasant subject.) I don't mean to let on that I find you unreasonable in the least. I don't. We're probably much less in disagreement than this thread makes it seem. Cheers and thank you for your reply.
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  4381. Brilliant. Now go collect your 5 kopeks, Sacha.
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  4382.  @jimwhelan9152  Excellent point. MSNutBarCentral hosts are not known for thinking things through, are they?
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  4383.  @pamelavickers8080  lol "Educate yourself." 👏🏻
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  4384. Yes. Nero fled after their betrayal, committing suicide in exile. He has quite a bit of company: Caligula: Assassinated in 41 AD by a conspiracy led by Praetorian officers. Pertinax: Murdered by the Praetorian Guard, 193 AD, after 87 days as emperor, due to his attempts to reform and discipline the corrupt guard. Commodus: Fell victim to a conspiracy aided by his Praetorian prefect,192 AD. Galba: Overthrown and killed by the Praetorian Guard in 69 AD, seven months into his reign, after failing to pay the promised donative. Didius Julianus: Executed less than three months after purchasing the empire from the Praetorian Guard in their infamous auction. Elagabalus: Assassinated by the Praetorian Guard, 222 AD.
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  4385. You all missed it. These were in fact softball questions meant to spur dovish replies, making him appear judicious and peaceful. All part of delivering support to him with very few noticing it. So-You're-Saying Newman up to her usual business.
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  4386. Democracy is little else but a popularity contest, a fact that should need no pointing out. The real estate business in Queens is hardly a model for arrangements elsewhere, another such fact. Cheers.
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  4387. True. The tensions ramped up in the late 1960s, peaking in the 1970-76 period. So by the 1976 census Toronto had caught up: both Toronto and Montreal had 2.8 million people (including suburbs). Now it's 6.7 million and 4.4 million respectively.
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  4388. The democratic-country alliances have enough, and Canada is a part of them. But yes, Canada needs to build up more military and naval power. So thanks for pointing it out. It helps to ensure it will happen.👍
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  4389. Ah, but the inspectors know perfectly well what's going on, surely? Come on. They merely want to collect their bribes with relative peace of mind, knowing that they'll have a sort of plausible deniability: "Mr. Regional Inspector-General, I did my inspection. I found that everything was in order, sir. Here, see this video I took from the van!" Then, much more quietly, passing a plain envelope: "Part Two of my written report, sir. It will be to your liking."
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  4390.  Stephen Laws Clifford  Dangerous, really, as it's essentially the same word as perilous. I'd put 'uncertain' afterwards.
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  4391. Carney was not elected PM. There was no election. He was chosen by his party as party leader. (And don't call him the PM. No date for his swearing-in has been announced.)
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  4392. I don't see how that's even a point worth making by anyone. Of course no sane person wants Russia's military to be in great shape for their next move. Of course we want its capacities diminished. It all goes without saying.
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  4393.  @catalinxnecula  Yawn. The more you Pooty-Bots splutter and fume, the more obvious you know you're doomed.
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  4394.  @markb.9086  That's not anything I'd go around saying. ("It's not my fault I'm an abominable fool!") Something inside should whisper to you that this is desperately inadequate and urge you to come up with something better. Scour around for better ways to go about things than you were taught. Many people throughout the ages, a sizeable minority never quite victorious, never entirely defeated, managed to do it. You can, too. I suggest you read, very widely and primarily to be surprised. Beware those who spout jargon and encourage you to resent others. Just remember what Confucius said twenty-five lifetimes ago--- 'The answers were all found long ago'---and don't bother supposing anything dreamed up by anyone alive today is the brilliant answer to questions that stumped all the geniuses for eight millennia. All the best.
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  4395. As legal representative of the World Clown Alliance, I enjoin you to cease and desist from likening Jimmy Kimmel to a clown. Clowns are occasionally funny. —Regards, D. Pinfold, Barrister & Solicitor, Tory, Tory, Crouchback & Last LLP
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  4396. Welcome back, we missed you. You owe us two back videos! P.S. the suspension was wrong, very wrong
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  4397. It's refreshing to hear from a "socialist Canadian" who seems a little bit sensible. I know there are dozens of you.
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  4398.  @johnwaldron7647  Winston Churchill, replying from beyond the grave: "I was just such a beggar for three years and more. If I made anybody sick, I don't give a f.f. I came through and my people lauded me for it." [f.f. = flipping farthing, if you want the polite version.]
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  4399.  @andrejpriterznik4034  (1) US public health care isn't universal, but it is extensive. Federal health care budget, 2023: $1.6trn. (Source: CBO) (2) The US has a public pension system. Payouts, 2024: $1.5trn to 68m people. (Source: Social Security Admin.) So these two things which you claim don't even exist in the US, actually cost 1.5x Russia's entire GDP annually.😂 (3) Home ownership rate in the US, 2023: 66% (Source: Statista) I don't know, Andrey. You're not very good at this.🤨
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  4400.  @andrejpriterznik4034  Still at it! No capacity for feelings of embarrassment? 🤣 Amusing, yet strangely boring. This is when I mute.
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  4401.  @andrejpriterznik4034  By what authority did you confer on me US citizenship?😂
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  4402. Did you mean "forced" or "forced not"?
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  4403.  @huggybear441  😩
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  4404. Turned out you were right.
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  4405. But the trans activists are merely copying all the loathsome techniques which she and all her fellow radical feminists used against men. She and they are simply hoist with their own petard, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch. Edit: Watch her face when Francis tells her he had a breaking point "with this stuff". Her eyebrows go up as if to say "You? A man? A nasty man has something to complain about?" 8:30 I expect she raced home to shower immediately after the chat.
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  4406. First of all, Usha Vance's family, the Chilukuris, are of the Brahmin caste, which is the highest in India. Second, she herself is not an Indian, as she was born in 1986 in San Diego, USA. She's an American.
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  4407. Completely phony announcement from a completely phony government led by a PM who completely re-wrote the book on phony. He will do zero to make it happen. It's time for Peter Pan to put on his shiny slippers, throw open the window and fly off into the night.
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  4408. And Bradford UK.
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  4409. Peterson doesn't have a clue what's going on with energy in Europe. Russian gas is done except into, I think, Hungary and Bulgaria. The Nordstream 1 and 2 are gone. Russia oil is done. So Europe has said no to Putin. If Peterson can't keep up, he should shut up.
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  4410. Not a very relevant point, since around 90% is bleak, frozen, uninhabitable tundra. It is also of no use in a war. Indeed it makes defending the country harder. The small piece which Ukraine took is a nice area to live in, well-suited to sustaining a significant population.
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  4411.  @monaliza3334  Remember Afghanistan 1988-89? Ukraine = Afghanistan 2.0
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  4412.  @americanhotdog  These vehicles are leaving in shipping containers through the port of Montreal.
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  4413.  @pjacobsen1000 <--"There will" etc. Yes, but telling this person that will have the same effect as telling an 11-mo.-old that the thunderstorms are going away and it'll soon be nice out. Too young.
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  4414. The criticism of Poland was hilarious, considering that Russia (USSR) invaded Poland viciously and brutally within living memory! (Well, it was 83 years ago, so a small handful of Russians might remember.) The invaders rounded up an immense number of all the smartest, most educated and most important Poles, took them back to Russia, executed them, and buried them in large pits. Ah, communists. Ah, Russians.
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  4415.  @sambocap  It's a ubiquitous, common and cheap procedure all over the world in places rich and poor, that's all. I can't imagine waiting six months to get one in the poorest part of Africa. It's a stretch to believe that anyone would have to wait even six hours to get one in Canada...except in the case of a major disaster if a small hospital were swamped with a massive number of injured people all at once.
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  4416. Soon, 66%
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  4417. I wish he'd come out with a phone no matter what Apple does.
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  4418. 🤔Doesn't The Times believe in bylines? So weird that the staff behind TR clips are nearly always anonymous. Good podcast though.👍
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  4419. She should be in Congress giving Cortez what for.
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  4420. In a poll two weeks ago by the Leger Group, Canadians were asked to consider the current party leaders and say which of them "would make the best prime minister." Only 16% (!) said "Justin Trudeau." He's gone. Oh, he's so gone.
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  4421.  @eavannicgabhann  Very well then, it was British soil as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are today, and part of the UK. Have it any way you like.
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  4422.  @russetmantle1  I can't tell which part of which post of mine you have in mind here.
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  4423. A clip of one English-speaking foreign volunteer = "These guys aren't even Ukrainian" Pure garbage from a dull-minded wannabe 'journalist.' Who needs the corporate media when we have squeaky lil Kim.
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  4424. Or imagine if it were in front of a certain type of medical clinic, legal in most US states?
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  4425.  @MnemonicCarrier  Start with the axiom that history is a pack of lies and take it from there. I'm just saying you're hilariously overoptimistic even if you're proved correct in this sole instance. Aside from that I'm with you. Cheers.
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  4426. Instead of Prime Minister Peter Pan, yeah.
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  4427. Given what Inspector Brown said, and doing some very minimal reading between the lines, it sounds like the mother is suspected of committed the very most heinous acts possible. 🤨And you're saying she was doing her best. Wow. Just wow.😠
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  4428. And she starts answering a question asked of HIM, as if a soul on earth cares what she has to say. Looks like nobody bothered bringing her up.
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  4429.  @gen_z_hippichikk  That username is all we need to know. 😂
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  4430.  @cdncitizen4700  That comments section is a national disgrace. The whole thing is outsourced to a UK-based company. Minimum-wage home-based non-journalists. Clearly a bunch of purple-haired nitwits with plenty of tattoos and piercings and a few gender studies credits serving as their education credentials. Among all their crippling deficiencies the worst is their conviction that if you disagree with them, the CBC or, usually, the Trudeau government, you are not entitled to an opinion. Trudeau's infamous phrase, "unacceptable opinions," might well have originated from somewhere in there.
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  4431. I was less impressed than you were, but those categories involve highly personal judgements. What was that about Trump "bringing in Fauci," despite Fauci being there for decades? Not smart.
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  4432. No. Under the law, a true statement or allegation about a person—and it need not be absolutely true; it is enough that it be "substantially true"—cannot be defamatory. (But you'd be correct if you said that, in the ordinary dictionary sense, simply to harm anyone's reputation is to defame him or her, and need not entail uttering any falsehood.)
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  4433.  @TwistyTrav   "Proving it to be false." No. Actually, in a defamation suit the legal onus is on the defendant to show that it's true, not on the plaintiff to prove it's false. (Thus an allegation which happens to be true but is not proved to the satisfaction of the court will be found defamatory. Yet every legal source you can find will say that the essence of defamation is a false statement or statements.)
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  4434.  @s.v.2796  I imagine he was trying his best and just wasn't able. Pity, that.
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  4435. Well, Democrats think you can cut your cock off and you're a woman, so changing your name is nothing.
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  4436. Absurd. Loblaw's markups are around where they were before. Their prices went up because the food suppliers raised their prices. The carbon tax also has a hand in it. This is like walking down the street when it's raining, getting wet, and blaming the roof of your house for not keeping you dry.
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  4437.  @FrustratedFisher  I did something similar. Impatient at the rise of miners' shares lagging that of bullion, I switched out half of them a few weeks ago and have profited from the switch since. Now Barrick is up 8% in after-hours since Friday evening, and Newmont gained nicely, too. At least I still have some. Lesson: Never assume you're not just as clever as Warren Buffet. ;)
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  4438. Interesting point. Still, vanity, where it means seeing clearly while doing minimal damage to the appearance of your face, though possibly a little contemptible, is clearly far less contemptible than greed where it means a mark-up of perhaps 1000%. I'd see it more your way if glasses were simply a form of jewellery. (I couldn't care less if diamond earrings are marked up 5000%.)
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  4439.  @moeheisenberg7410  Well, 67% voted against him again and he's still back. At least polls now have him in loss of power territory.
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  4440.  @joshfranklin1894  I think he's got surprises up his sleeve for Pootie...once elected and safely past the danger of Russian election interference. (He knows how close the vote is likely to be.)
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  4441. And there are a suspicious number of dots in Canada's frozen north, where metropolises are actually quite few. (Plot twist: There's a brand-new proposal for a Calgary—Edmonton hyperloop.)
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  4442. I enjoyed that so much I watched it twice, something I rarely do.
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  4443. Cool memory. 👏🏻🇺🇸🇨🇦
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  4444. Never let guilt run your risk management program. Nor your entire country, for that matter.
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  4445.  @Charlieband  And all the best in 2020! 🎉 You must be a nice guy.
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  4446. That young woman or girl was mostly wrong about what civil society is. In a word, it is whatever organized life there is outside of government and business. Thus: Clubs, associations, charities, religious organizations such as churches, labour unions, activist groups, foundations, as well as political parties in their aspect as private organizations outside of government. This list is not complete. Even families or clans can be considered civil society.
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  4447. Average house price ￡2m.
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  4448. Your videos are louder than just about anything else on YouTube, especially the intro and outro music. Please fix that.
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  4449. Very much so. The haut-relief characters spelling out the name are freshly painted in grey. Formerly they were white.
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  4450.  @bobtudbury8505  I don't think you know a pair of Jimmy Choo's when you see them.😆
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  4451. No, Canada's Conservatives were reduced to just three MPs — Campbell and two others. When she resigned, one of the remaining two, Jean Charest, became the new leader. A memorable joke soon circulated: "Poor Jean Charest. His wife is sleeping with half the Tory caucus."😂
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  4452. Cf. Norm Macdonald, University of Science.
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  4453. The reason is very obvious. Also, no one is depicted running here. Simply cleave to the right side, and if there's no space to your left just hope anyone coming up behind you isn't like this punk. Also, if you hear steps coming up behind you, make way without waiting to be asked. It's only polite.
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  4454.  @youtriedit4287  Of course I do.
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  4455. He did express concern for the loss of civilian life and said it must be minimized, but you weren't listening. Strange how I hear zero empathy from you about the ongoing uninterrupted targeting of Israeli civilians. Zero.
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  4456. There will be no crypto except government crypto. We will have arrived at the point where the government not only issues the money, it handles every nickel of it—every transaction, everywhere, no exceptions, forever. Actual cash, of course, will be removed from circulation, declared invalid, valueless and illegal. …Unless it is successfully fought in 2022—and forever after that.
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  4457.  @criticalcryptocollective7498  Seems massively likely. See my reply along the same lines if you like.
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  4458.  @wstavis3135  If you don't know of the impossibility of issuing new Bitcoin, or at least the enormous barriers to it, then you should look into it. Blockchain is a major achievement not just in math and computer science, but in guarding against destructive monetary monkeying around. Do you think it got to be worth $2trn at one point simply as an empty fad for mindless billionaires?
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  4459. Don't forget King's Cross Station and others in London.
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  4460. A well thought out comment, and well expressed. Repeat it elsewhere.
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  4461.  @aavvcc  Yes, and notice that there's no well-known and -funded "movement" for missing and murdered indigenous men. Nor will there ever be. When they're gone, they're just gone.
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  4462. Helpful comment. Thanks.
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  4463. Someone else signed that letter — and most unskilfully, at that. I daresay one needn't be a handwriting expert to make this claim. You just need a decade or more of experience signing your own name. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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  4464. You work 60 hrs a week as a manager and you borrow money to eat? Bro, cut down on the liquor and 304's.😂
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  4465.  @3Mudbone1  Likewise I eschew 'woman' for 'female.' For decades.
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  4466.  @sandrabasikbeach2980  I certainly don't think you're worth issuing a warning to, Brandine.
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  4467.  @brucewayne3892  Just watch us.
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  4468. Out of 145 million, literally millions.
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  4469. "Us"? So you're Danish? Or Dutch?
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  4470.  @emeraldwolf7920  Horse's ass. ;)
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  4471. Only 20 out of 30 pupils showed up.
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  4472.  @G360LIVE  Thankfully, it's not necessary for everyone to be vaccinated to keep the flu down. (Nor will it be for SARS-CoV-2.) As you have no doubt heard, transmission can be suppressed effectively with levels of immunity across the population as low as 40% or even lower, depending on the virus in question. If you are suffering anxiety over the pandemic, I suggest you spend some time watching the YT channel of the Yale University epidemiologist Dr. David Katz. The media ignores all scientists who don't fully believe in the most dire predictions expressed in breathless, panic-making language. In reality these more balance-minded people constitute at least half the research community. The media think they are absolutely doing the right thing by cherrypicking the most scaremongering scientists, believing that only by doing so can they make people behave correctly. I find this not only dishonest, but also patronizing, officious, insulting, and paternalistic, and it has ended my longstanding trust in news organizations. In the end, I think their distortions will lead people to be surprised when the pandemic fizzles out. They've been media-conditioned to think it will be worse and last longer than is likely. I would bet that many will refuse to believe it's ending. Recently I've noticed that US deaths (7-day trailing daily averages) have fallen quite steadily to a 94-day low. From the August peak of 1,178 deaths they are down to 725, which is 40% lower. They were last this low on July 10. Yet this is not mentioned in the news, a typical sort of occurrence throughout the pandemic. Hear out Dr. Katz. This professor is a highly qualified researcher into epidemics from one of the world's highest-ranked universities, and he is very, very far from alone. Best wishes.
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  4473.  @G360LIVE  Thanks. We agree on a lot. I suggest you binge-watch UnHerd.
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  4474.  @louistournas120  They objected to mandatory vaccination and harsh govt restrictions generally.
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  4475.  @staedlerok  So are the sun and the moon and the stars. Everything is.
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  4476. Since he's such a psycho I can picture his closet with stacks and stacks of the identical shirts and pants, scrupulously cleaned, ironed and folded.
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  4477. It's hard to believe Biden wants Israel to stop before it fully defeats Hs. and Hzbh. I think he's just responding to pressure from his party, although it's hard to be sure.
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  4478. Uh, losers.
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  4479. No, he said best case scenario is $2trn, realistic hope is $1trn.
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  4480. History records the disappearance of many peoples and nations bound together in unified will, who lacked means. And I'm sure history failed to record a hundred times more. Let's just be real and not indulge in emotions we haven't paid for.
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  4481.  @AllScarsHealTarotcardreader  Ukraine = Afghanistan 2.0 So get ready, 1989 will be paying a return visit. Then 1991. Prepare your beet patch.😂
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  4482.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Wow, really? I would've guessed her parents toiled in low-ranking jobs for quite little, meaning that she herself was educated at schools in a very poor area. Absolutely astonishing.
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  4483. No, it's for him to stop cutting it himself in the dark.
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  4484. Actually, it'll all be gone soon.
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  4485.  @michaelclarke6153   First prize.
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  4486. Very pre-modern attitude to laughter, seeing it as a loss of composure. It's notable that art from 150 years or more ago commonly depicted the lunatic (as a mentally-ill person might have been termed) in the act of laughing.
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  4487. There must be so many other things that investors say and do that bug you. Let's hear more. Your style of explication is great.
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  4488. I'm glad to say I've never touched it. He started it as a program to "rate chicks". What a putz.
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  4489. He was born 61 years after his great-uncle, Beaverbrook. I wonder if he takes after him in character, manner or mind at all.
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  4490. Namely?
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  4491.  @BodyTrust  Astute comment. There's no use booting Russia out before its war-making capacity is fairly crippled. To do so would just stretch out a series of re-engagements to the rest of the decade and beyond. We can be assured that is precisely China's fondest hope in this conflict, and just what they had in mind green-lighting it in the first place. Indeed I suspect they nudged Putin into it so craftily that he never noticed it was happening.
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  4492. Besides the attackers themselves, we should also apportion serious blame here to the disrespect and demonization of police by the radical left — whether activists, politicians or university faculty. And let's not forget their media allies: years of sympathetic or even merely uncritical coverage legitimizes radicalism in the public's eyes.
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  4493. Considering how people are in 2024, it's not at all unusual that the Counter Sniper Team Leader failed to think of getting Trump out of harm's way. Everywhere, throughout every day, there are now vast numbers of people in all walks of life failing to realize what's sensible. It's all part of what I call The Great Dumbening.
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  4494. Correction: Moments before and after. Interesting how it's like a typical airliner crash, where commonly it takes multiple failures to end in disaster. One, the car was clearly (unlawfully) speeding; two, the motorcyclist attempts an ill-advised (and unlawful) crossing; three, the girls are obliged by an obstacle to walk too near the traffic lanes and don't cleave as closely as possible to the edge.
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  4495. Good. Just make sure you don't blink while it's having its moment.
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  4496. ​ @Strafuzz  You compel me to admit that, no, I never did.
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  4497.  @Strafuzz  She was elected San Francisco DA and appointed State Attorney General. Not sure which one you mean. But if you mean AG, then yeah!
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  4498. Tiffany for Mayor of some woman's prison! 🤣
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  4499. Chris Parry is so astute. I know of few others who really tell it like it is.👍 Down here in the comments, though, it's over 90% rabid foreign propagandists talking to each other. Bit of a sewage system, I'm afraid.
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  4500. * unbiased. Unbias is not a word.
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  4501.  @squigglyarmz197  "smh"? I'm very glad of that.
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  4502. And then, to top it all off, they call it "social justice."😮 I suspect that's where the later idea of the Big Lie came from. But to me the worst part is how after a housemaid was 'given' to him, he impregnated her during his own wife's pregnancy (!), never acknowledged nor supported her nor the child, and left it to his friend to take the financial responsibility.
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  4503. Ha. You seem to be saying Chicago is above doing what it takes to attract employers. Not so much. More like it just can't. William Blake called what you're doing 'Making a virtue of incapacity.'
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  4504. Buh-bye.
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  4505. What a drama queen remark, insulting to the memory of the victims at Kent State. The authorities aren't overreacting, they're doing the opposite. They're over-indulging some entitled pro-terra wrist trespassers. The trespassers likewise insult the memory of the victims of October 7.
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  4506.  @Make_America_Native_Again  I see you have a rabidly intolerant attitude towards immigrants.
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  4507.  @JamesBonda-8621   As for scale, the capacity which Western and other countries paid for in China they can now pay others to create—and are. As for who those others are, to name the countries that produce alternatives to Chinese goods would take too much time and space. Concerning quality, you sound a bit undiscriminating for someone who calls himself James Bond.
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  4508. @channelofstuff Sounds right. The wealth of 60 years ago was sustainable only through sensible and united action. That didn't happen. Half the country decided to take drugs, 'find themselves', explore their personalities, try new child-rearing techniques ("Yay! You're awesome! You can do anything! Yay!"), watch TV, play video games, borrow money, commit crimes, read junk, and so on. Meanwhile the rest of the world gradually got its act together. It all adds up to a much lower standard of living on its way very, very soon.
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  4509.  @GM-db4bv  Look it up. I'll start you off as a favour: Hungarians voted 85.3% in favour of joining NATO. Have a fun time.😄
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  4510. I fear that soon it will be scarcely worth fighting for at all. Existence here is rapidly losing not only its pleasure and charm, but its meaning too, which was formerly rooted in a feeling of pride in its freedoms and the sanity of its people.
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  4511. Dear AGI: Please design and execute a plan for making all English speakers pronounce the 'h' in human.
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  4512. Oh but Biden does have horse sense. Only it's just part of the horse—starts with 'a,' ends with 'ss.'
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  4513.  @gone547  Wonderfully well said.
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  4514. Probably too strong language there, but it's right of Trump to demand everyone pitch in their fair share. Decades of US admonishing and pleading with its allies changed little. Last year's 1.9% of GDP ($32bn in USD terms) was a substantial sum, yet way below the country's large and fast-growing security requirements.
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  4515.  @АлександрДухин-р3ц  Putin to US: "Ukraine is a bag of carrots. A bag of carrots has no rights. It's there for me to pick up. Do not make friends with my carrots, or I nuke you." US to Putin: "You're a psycho." Putin to US: "Yes. Watch me kill 100,000 carrots right now." You: "This guy is my kind of psycho. Everything is a carrot to a psycho with nukes. I admire him so much."
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  4516. Quotation marks are for quoting people and are a normal part of proper journalism. Nice try, I guess.
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  4517. They've got it down to a science. They might as well have a huge dial with a pointer to the markings Brayne was h, Rinse and Spin.
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  4518. The worst part was the judge's kindergarten-teacher lecture.
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  4519. A person could dispute the first, since it's all a matter of opinion. But not the second, because it's a matter of fact.
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  4520. $25,000 for every man, woman and child in Melbourne is stunning. A process to remove Andrews should have been triggered automatically somehow.
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  4521.  @youtubetruthteller6880  It is bullying to call someone a troll merely because you don't like what they say. Do try to raise your tone whilst out in public. Thank you.
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  4522. That's a good point. The US didn't negotiate terms with Japan. Japan offered a bit of defiance and the US just said Ok, we'll destroy you. They promptly surrendered. If I recall rightly, Germany likewise made a feeble show of bargaining. The Allies said no to basically everything they demanded, asked for or suggested.
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  4523. In other news, Thunberg is up for a role in a re-make of The Exorcist. She's hoping to play a possessed demon-child.
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  4524. "They"? This is some American finance mogul. And like other conservative news outlets, SNA interviews these Tucker Carlson acolytes once in a while. So, sorry, but that is a very amateurish and unsophisticated take. A fanciful if not a pair-annoyed one. If not one straight out of the Kremlin foreign office.
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  4525.  @serviusm9523  Laugh through your tears while you can. Soon it'll be just tears.
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  4526.  @tonydanis1480  The man-made above ground reservoirs will really benefit, but I wonder about the underground ones, the aquifers. It would be great if they could be replenished for years to come but I fear most of the snowmelt will just end up in the Pacific. Above all I hope the spring thaw is gradual enough to forestall flooding. Wishing you the best.
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  4527. Try to find less morally corrupt acquaintances.
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  4528. Kitchener Leslie is gonna get you for that railroad tycoon remark.😂
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  4529.  @beccamultifandom  Yes, and greens.
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  4530.  @Miss_Kisa94  To me, fruit is a form of candy. But de gustibus, etc.
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  4531. Most overpriced assets on Earth, primed for a massive correction: the necks of Chinese billionaires. Entrepreneurs in China are approaching the end of their usefulness to the Party.
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  4532. But the name (and adjective) was self-chosen. We only pay respect to you by calling it what you did. And now you abjure it? Why? What a mania you have for re-naming and un-naming things. Well, it's too bad. It's yours, wear it. And since bigot means one unreasonably intolerant of particular group(s) you can wear that one too.
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  4533. DA in that district gotta be a Democrat. That's when they know they can be as bad as they wanna be.
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  4534. Actually, stigma is the glue that keeps society from disintegrating. Is, always has been and always will be. You didn't know that?
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  4535. I need closure on those party-crashing crows.
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  4536. When a man who throws around the word nuanced leaves our houses, why, let us count our spoons.   (Humble gratitude and apologies to Samuel Johnson.)
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  4537. God brought us this plague. All-powerful, remember.
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  4538. @marvenbaer That was a previous poll in 2023. Check the website. Nice try, though.
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  4539. "Nice naval escort you got there. Yep, really nice. Be a shame if anything happened to it." — Ukraine naval drone ops command 😄
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  4540.  @outoforbit00  Envy is not covetousness, the desire for that which someone else has. Not at all. Envy is the resentment of another person for having something which one does not oneself have. Envy is resentment, twisted ill-will, whether the envied party has ever wronged a soul or not. Indeed it's possible for the envier and the envied to never even have met, to have dwelt thousands of miles apart all their lives.
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  4541. The arrogance of equating helping Ukraine defend itself from monsters with Iran helping the monsters is what's unbelievable. Arrogance is too small a word for it.
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  4542. Or a thousand.
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  4543. You should forgive yourself for touching your aunt or sister or whatever. It would help with your crippling anxiety and guilt.
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  4544. Misanthrope much? Humans are very much part of the very fabric of nature. In no way are we not a part of nature. Let that sink in.
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  4545.  @veeo987  When I was a kid we were shown an NFB film called Nahanni in school. I thought it was incredible.
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  4546. The US standard of living has fallen. People aren't eating as well. There's a shortage of some kinds of beans. They have less (or zero) money left over after their mortgage or rent. Some are losing their places to live. They want a president who can do something about all of that, not one whose priority is letting men into the women's bathroom.
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  4547. 👎Pffft! First, it is not seen as "a great victory." It is seen as progress. Second, no matter how it is seen, a single small datum such as this advance is hardly sufficient to make such a grandiose assertion.
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  4548. I think it's weird to say girls have sex out of competitive pressures to land dates and relationships. Very weird. It's hard to trust someone who in effect denies that girls have sex out of sexual desire. They quite naturally have lustful urges. It's normal and healthy. Breaking news!: Human beings are not ethereal creatures, they are made of flesh and blood and were not designed for optimal conformity to the prescriptions in your chosen religious texts, Freya. (I noticed your very shiny cross.) Yes, girls and women love having sex. Face it.
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  4549.  @michaelrichardson8291  "I would be likely to consider it is you who is the one with resentment." A frivolous and content-free riposte, the equivalent of the schoolyard favourite everywhere, "takes one to know one." Besides that, I flagged my assertion as speculative. Lastly, under English grammar you does not agree with is . The form is you are . I can see who I'm dealing with.
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  4550. China is entitled to navigate anywhere in international waters. No problem. And so can Canada. You're inventing problems where none exist. But thanks for the Chinese foreign ministry CCP spokesperson point of view.
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  4551. I know which one's Curly. Who's Larry and who's Moe?
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  4552. And many more.
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  4553. He was also right when he said less than a year ago that Big Tech is vying for supremacy with the US government for the position of top power in the land.
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  4554.  @Myndir  Yes, the panel, esp. those on the right hand side, and a lot of commenters were/are talking past each other. The men were saying personality type, with all its consequences, cannot much be swayed by parenting. The women seemed to miss that, defending parenting as making a big difference in lives. The men never denied that it does, denying just that it makes you a different person in character. Women's self-image is very tied up in their self-serving if understandable view that they are all-important in children's outcomes. The thought that they might not be so important is crushing to them. Men can be thoughtless assholes, but women have much less ability on average to look at things without instinctively factoring in their self-interest in the matter, and so they resist seeing the truth in anything that might harm their personal advantage or that of their side. When boys are growing up this is gradually knocked out of them---not just at school, by other boys and their fathers but often, ironically, by their mothers, who tell them, over and over, to 'be a man.' It's a major cause of divorce, and it's a pity. How much it's innate and how much it's socialization, I don't know. Sorry to go on at length and off topic quite a bit, but the debate brought all this to the front, I thought. Cheers.
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  4555. His nonsense threats of nuclear war are fit to be ignored. The West is going to boil him like a frog—so gradually he doesn't feel it till it's too late.
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  4556. If wokesters call one a bad name — except in a terribly rare instance when it's deserved — one ought to wear it proudly as a badge of honour. Period. It's ordinarily evidence that one is clear-eyed, sane, and has zivilcourage (Ger.: the guts to uphold one's convictions despite social risks).
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  4557. Some total POS: "F the cops, man. They just another gang! They ain't no better than us! They a gang too!" Non-POS: "Ok, they're a gang, fine. Good! They're our fn gang." That's my way of putting it. Thanks for your comment.👍
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  4558. Who says that honouring someone amounts to worshipping them? Anyone who aspires to having an adult mind must know the difference, and care about it.
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  4559. Ok, Pavel 😂
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  4560. Let's not overlook how she says "ee-magine." Omg.
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  4561.  @phumeoli  Do something and your pain will lessen. "The busy bee has no time for sorrow."—Wm. Blake Tho tbh no one cares about whiners. Get a grip.
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  4562.  @jesusjose1377  Of course bulls make milk. It's obvious, since men can become pregnant.
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  4563. Be realistic: Two to five times as much misery.
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  4564.  @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz  A rare comeuppance for these overprivileged propellor-heads, and a satisfying one from my perspective.
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  4565. Then it'll be 97% in 20 years. That isn't a big deal.
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  4566. If I were Sir Richard I shouldn't like being told by her that my analysis had been sensible.
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  4567. Find more of Spencer in a really great 90 min. talk at (I know it's unbelievable but the name is highly misleading) Comedy Cellar USA. It's from 3 weeks ago and is very compelling. Frankly I find JP is in many ways a poor interviewer. He sprays out six questions at a time and only lets two of them be (half) addressed.
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  4568. Concerning your first point, on an escalator you have no right to delay others behind you. You're obliged to immediately make way for anyone who wants to pass. (I'm curious, purely as a side issue, whether she did that politely and promptly or not.) Concerning your second, I certainly agree. They must be mortified.
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  4569. More like an American model—of well-run American companies, that is. Remember, he brought his model to China, not the other way around.
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  4570. 1) Trudeau: always with the gestures, the words, the photo-ops, but little that is real. As a percentage of GDP Canada is very low on the Ukraine donations list. Its big item is a promise to arrange a $1bn IMF loan at some point in the future—not a donation, a loan. Number two is military aid...for 2023. 2) Is it smart to have the top three officials of Canada's government strolling together in a city that's still at times being shelled and bombed? (Answer: No.)
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  4571. Whenever I hear the word 'problematic' I release the safety on my Browning ( pace Hanns Johst). And so many other words besides. Not literally, of course. I own no Browning nor any other firearm. I just share the antipathy of the character in Johst's play towards those who hide their insidious motives behind words that sound sensible, nice, prudent, high-minded, etc. E.g. 'equity.'
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  4572. Finalist.
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  4573. Considering it's the English service of the national broadcaster, you have a bit of a point. The pronunciation is a minus. However, the content is great.
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  4574. Hey y'all, not knowing how to spell Delaware and not knowing that it lies on the Mason-Dixon Line is 100% i-word.😂
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  4575. Let's face it, "russkiy mir" is russkiy ad (Russian hell).
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  4576. German version: "Deutschland über alles." (She doesn't get that there's quite little difference. The reason: Nationalism and most other forms of enthusiasm are death to a sense of irony.)
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  4577. Please don't give us Hannity at the end of every clip. At least lower the volume.
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  4578. Btw, Kellogg's has an actual gay cereal now. Not kidding.
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  4579. ​ @pacman3556  Admit that encouraging and enabling life-shattering and deadly addictions is a failure. Stop repeating that mindless mantra that laws do nothing to contain drug use. It's like saying that because there are a certain number of road deaths, laws against speeding are useless, so let's legalize all speeding everywhere. The resulting carnage on the roads will soon correct you. Drug laws do something.
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  4580. She just wanted to do some drinking, dancing and socializing like any typical young person. Very saddening. I know the sympathies of all of us are with her loved ones.
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  4581.  @annabizaro-doo-dah  First, you're conflating income and wealth. They're two things. Second, it sounds like you think most private wealth was obtained through inheritance. Do you? Third, let's remember that enormous sums of income are unearned because they are given to people by the government, which has first taken them from the incomes of people of greater means. (Often barely greater.)
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  4582.  @aben4895  World Federation of Sea Anemones: "Hey, stop comparing us to Prince Harry!"
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  4583. Oxygen Molecules Association: "Thanks for standing up for us."
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  4584. I heard her taking a breath.
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  4585. Where are you people reading this?! We've both always tariffed each other, and at similar levels (quite low since the late '80s). Canada focuses on dairy, with sizeable zero- and low-tariff quotas before high tariffs kick in at higher trade volumes. Find some better information sources. Maybe try Perplexity.
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  4586.  @LM-uw1su  What makes you say that? Zakhar is a Russian name. Is it his accent or face? Did you have a look at his passport?
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  4587.  @queenslander8400  "On 5 May 2020 at 01:55:41 PM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be:  25,678,455" (Source:  Australian Bureau of Statistics Population Clock.) "New Zealand population is: 4,983,214 as at Tuesday, 05 May 2020 at 03:58:32 p.m." (Source:  stats.gov.nz Population Clock) Thus the multiple is 5.15x. That settles it.
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  4588. All I can think of is plastic surgeons with vacation homes on the water, very large boats docked in front of them.
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  4589. Bro, your whole spiel has a bit of "methinks he doth protest too much" to it. I mean, you're rather slick yourself.
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  4590. She's very level-headed. Her rhetoric is strong but never outlandish.
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  4591.  高东锋  It's hard for me to see a great imbalance of costs and benefits in the trade relationship between China and the West. Your people massively mobilized and worked extremely hard to provide us with cheap goods of decent quality. As a result of that massive effort, the European and North American continents groan under the weight of trillions of dollars worth of Chinese goods which raised our standard of living, as they would have cost ten times more to produce domestically. The cost was the disappearance of tens of millions of jobs, undermining longer term economic and social stability, and the loss of consumer and capital goods independence, undermining longer term economic and national security. Any imbalance of benefits is in the eye of the beholder. Overall, China appears to have made a good long term investment, but their people also had to make a great sacrifice. Time will tell. You and Gregory Moore both make several good points, but I encourage you both to see each other's lands as competitors, not enemies. A competitor one tries to outperform, an enemy one tries to destroy. Also, both sides should be careful not to overestimate the racism of the other side. There is also a lot of respect on both sides.   Chinese racism of the present day is rooted in the experience of a class of rapacious Westerners in the past, Western racism of the present day is rooted in 70 years of CPC cruelty. (Note the great respect of Westerners for Japan, which is on account of Japan's successful adoption of a free and open system.) So not much of the racism on either side is real ethnic hatred. If it were real ethnic hatred, tens of millions of Chinese would never have moved to the West, and the West would never have accepted them. If you've never seen it, I can tell you the relationship in the streets and in the workplace and socially is quite harmonious. All the best. Cheers.
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  4592. I quite understand your perspective. But as a mental exercise, try to think for a moment of China in the last 200 years up till about 2000 not as a land or an ethnicity, but instead merely as a group of poor people. Poor people get shoved around. A poor American in New York gets shoved around. A rich Chinese person in Shanghai does not. A poor housemaid in Monaco, Gstaad, or Marble Arch gets shoved around. A rich Nigerian in Lagos does not. Escape from poverty is the answer for individuals and nations. China was not shoved around in previous ages because she was Chinese. She was shoved around because she was poor. I wish you the best. Cheers.
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  4593.  高东锋  But I won't recognize you again! I have no ability to remember Chinese characters, alas. Maybe someday add a couple of Roman characters to your YouTube screen name, then Westerners can remember and recognize you. (Or maybe we'll never cross paths again, I don't know.) PS, I have huge respect for your skills in English. Cheers.
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  4594.  @williambranch4283  😂Finns keep their heads. TTFN. I have no more time for you.
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  4595. This is a man whose organization a great many American university students passionately support. This is a man whose organization certain Democratic members of the US Congress passionately support. This is a man whose organization many American LGTBQ activists passionately support. This is a man whose organization certain American celebrities passionately support.
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  4596.  @AltIng9154  Don't tell me I can't understand. I will understand absolutely anything which is clearly understood by anyone and therefore clearly explained. And now I do, as you explained it clearly. Thanks. I see your point of view and also accept it. This sounds like a bad situation. I wish you and your fellow sensible Germans better luck with it. (Btw, I've heard this before and always wondered how seriously to take it.) I appreciate your reply.
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  4597. @Kitty Silverlake Funny, that. What do you call research, reading the government news (i.e. the CBC)? Show some more dignity than a fish in a school of them. You're a human being with her own brain. (And speaking of school, you misspelled 'supremacists'.)
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  4598. I guess it's true what they say about Florida men.
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  4599. ​ @vhdlx  Quite a few words just to avoid "deplorables."🤨
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  4600. Quite often an indicator of PTSD. Watch interviews with the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who experienced the firestorm of Dresden and its aftermath as a US soldier in a German POW camp. He smiles briefly like this when describing horrible things, but it is just an oddity and coping mechanism, not an indication of a twisted or evil nature in the least. It's a sign someone has been through a lot.
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  4601.  @idongesitx1873  You mean there are job applications with tick-boxes that say "Non-white"? Prove it. By the way, the oh-so-pious woke term "person of colour" means non-white or it means nothing.
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  4602.  @patricksquinlan1  "Apartheid"?😂 Arabs in Israel are citizens who live in Jewish areas if they want. They avail themselves of democratic rights, welfare state benefits, access to a modern way of life, continuous social mobility, protection against Islamic fundamentalism, exemption from military service, and immunity from assimilation. When asked if they would move to a new Palestinian state, they unequivocally say no. Arabs hold 10 seats in the Knesset. I advise you to return to your university and demand your money back.
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  4603. Thanks for the dive into the ISW report. Solid go-to resource.👏
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  4604. Thus if it's not simple hypocrisy it's a pathetic attempt to assuage feelings of guilt. But I've got a much more effective solution to the guilt problem for them. I shan't specify it here, but will add a request that they tidy up their living quarters first.
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  4605. All these predictions come almost entirely out of pro-Trump or anti-Trump bias. The fact is that we don't even know what Trump is really saying publicly (it's impossible to decipher with certainty), let alone what he's saying privately, let alone what he really thinks and what his intentions really are. Schrödinger's peace deal.
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  4606.  @jdoedoenet  That's a clever insight. Cheers.
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  4607. Nice to see JP so chillaxed. It chillaxed me, just as it stresses me when he's stressed.
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  4608.  @joriankell1983  And you didn't get my gentle good-natured humour because you speak Stupid, you dumb***.
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  4609. Quite. He cornered Hitchens very efficiently on negotiating with Putin and exposed the complete emptiness of his position. There's zero reason for Ukraine to cede land to Russia, which any so-called peace talks would necessarily entail. It looks like 80 years ago Hitchens would've been a second Lord Haw Haw, urging his countrymen to negotiate with AH.
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  4610. And they don't even wait for him to finish. They cut him off with applause, which is the highest compliment any audience can pay a speaker. Stunning contrast with the rest of the panel.
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  4611. 👎It was sickening to see those three guys guffawing over such things.🤮 Russia invaded its harmless and lightly-armed neighbor and is blowing it and its people to pieces. Yeah, so very funny.
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  4612.  @apsert  No surprise there. As equipment and medicines have gotten better, people on average, for unrelated reasons I won't get into, have gotten less acute of mind and more selfish. They are kept quite busy by their cost-conscious managers, but---again, on average---they're not really thinking and care less than formerly. I'm not singling out health care, it's the same pretty much everywhere. It's the highly competent and energetic minority that's shrinking fastest, the able few, whether staff or management, who keep it all afloat, or used to. Thus medical mistakes loom as large as ever, if you're to believe the studies, and are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US.
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  4613. Her impatience and quickness in becoming irritated are never tolerated in male politicians, not since a lifetime ago anyway. A man with a personality like that could never make it to the post of Foreign Minister. Yes, she reminds me of German rulers and soldiers as portrayed in movies depicting the middle third of the last century.
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  4614. Make Justin Ocasio Cortez a Supply Teacher Again
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  4615.  @Martinmack333  Concerning side access to the bed, you can tap the screen before you get out and the whole truck lowers by 4". It might make a lot more of the bed pretty accessible. Btw, I spent half an hour trying to find the height of the top of the tailgate from the ground for both the CT and F-150, in order to get a baseline for the CT side height, and could find neither! So weird.
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  4616. Brutally mismanaged is too small a term for what's happened to Canada.
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  4617.  @brucenuesse5897  He didn't resign as senator, but he ended his presidential bid in disgrace.
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  4618. They're ratcheting up spending, but only from 2.1 to 2.4% of GDP. I'll have to look into w.t.h.'s up with that. And they produce over 60% of the world's computer chips, so why not 1% of the world's weaponry? ($21bn.) Also, according to BusinessWire "nearly 70% of the global mid-to-high-end bicycle demand is fulfilled by Taiwan."
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  4619. Yeah, she's a narcissist. She's the leader of the left narcissist community.
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  4620.  @guymontag2948  Except when you're right.
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  4621.  Ovidiu Tiță  True. They overestimate themselves so badly it's comical. So do many Americans of all stripes, but it goes double for Democrats. (Indeed it's true of many peoples, my own country and maybe me included, but the US has a chronically bad case of it.)
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  4622. True up to a point. A lot of moral truth to it.
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  4623. Unjustified blanket statement about EVs. I don't know about Chinese EVs, but in the US the NTSB tracks car fires and reports that EVs catch fire vastly less often. For example, Tesla reports 5 car fires per billion miles driven, compared with 55 fires per billion miles driven in gasoline-powered cars. Source: Politifact. Do your own search such as "do EVs or ICE cars catch fire more often." You'll quickly see the stats.
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  4624. Eff Jay Tee!
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  4625. What a pointless, speculative and totally off-topic post. The only purpose it could possibly serve is make dull and impressionable Americans think their country is just as awful as Soviet Russia and that Elon Musk is as stupid as a 1950s Politburo hack.
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  4626. As far as I can tell there's no confirmation—nor even allegations—that the Sig was "destroyed" except here. And here only in the headline. In the description it is only said to have been "damaged" and in the voiceover there is only confirmation of damage (from Russia) with very little elaboration. The NYT says a tugboat was moving it after the attack. So what the devil is going on with this video's headline?
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  4627. Well, it deserves something bad, yes. But a disintegrating Russia is likely to be very bad for the world.
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  4628. George Orwell: "Excuse me while I cringebarf."
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  4629.  @lauratyler4863  It is, very.
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  4630. Could be headed for United. Or to Ivory. Possibly to Virgin. Maybe Gold. Or New.
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  4631.  @tiberiusvindex804  If this were 1985 I'd side with you. But it's 2023, and we have a choice between how Russians say it and how Ukrainians say it. I also no longer say "Kharkov." Or "Dnieper" (although I would to refer to the part which is within Russia).
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  4632.  @PWNINSWAGMASTER  Ok. Well, now that I see your meaning I totally agree. Cheers
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  4633. All right, but it sounds like you're fluffing it off. Any way you cut it it's serious. If your profile pic is anything to go by you're likely unaware that in Toronto cutting up your schoolmate was still a huge taboo back when you were 10, and next to unheard of when you were in diapers. Yeah, it was a naïve and innocent joker place back when high school students just had fistfights, I guess you'd say. Maybe even that it will have fully matured once multi-punk gunfights start happening several times a year. If so, you've got a lot to learn about where you live, missy, because the vast majority of people in it don't accept this happening.
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  4634. Every communist country was in "a transitional period" when they put millions of people to death. Then they continued, in order to 'maintain' the 'transition.' Ask Kisin. Here's why Tyson behaves this way: To shield himself from the mob. He got away with multiple s. misconduct cases by going super-woke as a Get Out of Jail Free card.
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  4635. A privileged person's entire post would be visible. I can see just a single line of it. For the rest I must click 'Read more.'
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  4636. I love how you throw the term sociopath around like you know what it means. A key component of sociopathy is that the sociopath doesn't work hard, and Musk is an absolute workhorse.
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  4637. @Second Chance No, your comment is. It is actually an illuminating comparison. Nice virtue signalling on your part, though.
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  4638. I forgot to add: LOL
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  4639. He looks solemn, intent, respectful, dignified and impressive.
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  4640. I trust India to do the right thing. They are a great people and a great country. They will always side with the good governments of the world and never with the bad. I wish them the best and hope for their friendship.
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  4641. World Prawn Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to that ugly creature."
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  4642. Fuel for an hour, $120k? 🤡 I wonder if it'd even be $120.
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  4643. @icankillbugs From your account name, I take it pest control is your line of work. Can exterminators suffer neurologically or psychologically from the poisons they deal with? No real reason, just wondering.
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  4644. @icankillbugs So the answer to my question is clearly Yes. 😄
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  4645. It's going to be sold, and will go for bubkes.
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  4646. Canada, like all countries, has a duty to participate in upholding maritime laws in international waters. It's not a waste of money, it's money well spent protecting things under threat from bullying authoritarian regimes.
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  4647. Erdogan: "Gobble gobble!"
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  4648. The same to the US. Without you the world would be an immense and hopeless tyranny and you get bugger all credit. It's a disgrace. 🇺🇸 Huge respect for you guys despite some shortcomings and mistakes. Any other superpower in control would run roughshod over everybody and everything without thinking twice.
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  4649. What you said is incredibly condescending to poor people. My jaw just dropped. And I'm sure you don't even know why that is, either. No one who had the faintest idea of why it even might be so would ever come within a mile of saying it. No, I bet you couldn't come up with why if you wracked your brain for a whole morning and afternoon.
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  4650.  @freespirittransport5139  It's also certainly stealing.
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  4651. Which is exactly why it upset me how he went out of his way to express his empathy towards her at the end. It seems he's been infected by that vile empathy pathogen that leads some people to show their 'non-judginess' towards child sex abusers by re-naming them 'minor-attracted persons.' It's likely he'll grow up, though, as he does have some talent for seeing through nonsense. Thanks for your post.
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  4652.  @kristalkristal2506  His last upload was three days ago. So this is longer than usual between videos. I'm worried.
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  4653. Criminal, yes, but when they do it it's cute.
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  4654.  @guapochino140  In 2000, nuclear energy provided 30% of the electricity generated in Germany. That is far higher than 13%. (It was 12% as recently as 2019.)
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  4655. Please, make it Do Not Resuscitate.
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  4656. I admire your simple eloquence.👏👏
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  4657. Michael is very right about today's anti-humanism. Now and then I lighten up by watching some pet videos, and below them I read endless avowals that animals are divine and humans are lower than dirt. No wonder young people are depressed, anxious, don't date, don't want to have families, can't believe in a positive future, are obsessed with finding demographic groups to blame, demand that all others radically change themselves, etc., etc. They're misanthropes. They simply h8 people. Sooner or later they've got to realize that they're with humanity till the end, so they better find a way to reconcile themselves to it. They've got to realize that their only real option is to try and improve themselves. There's actually no other way of improving humanity and the world. And guess what, no sooner will they embark on that journey than their outlook on other people will brighten.
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  4658.  @LinA-it9vd  Something's got to be wrong with a person in a discussion of a murder who says the murder rate is meaningless. Have an awful day, because I think wishing you one is the right way of honouring your actual desire.
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  4659. ​ @lilrevo9651  This claim is often made. No doubt there is an element of truth to it, for a tendency to attack can probably be inculcated in probably just about any dog by raising it badly enough. But I reject anything beyond that possible veneer of validity. Pit bulls were bred to fight with utmost strength and tenacity. The word pit here refers to the literal pit enclosure around which paying spectators would watch one such dog incapacitate or kill another. When pit bulls attack it is due to the breed's genetics having been manipulated by breeders in days gone by (or maybe recently as well). Such deliberate breeding explains why it's pit bulls and other kinds of fighting dogs — but never yellow labs and poodles, for example — which are in the news for maiming or killing children, old people, or anybody. I greatly resent any attempt to gaslight me and other people in this manner. Even the more modest claim of "Most pit bulls don't chew into anybody's limbs and tear off parts of them" just doesn't cut it with me. Not even close. Thanks for your reply.
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  4660. Classic confession-by-projection. Looking forward to Musk's rejoinder(s) to Alpo (<-- and no, that's not a typo😄). He has a way of winning these little skirmishes.
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  4661. Purposefully vague. Carlson is over the top in his interpretation.
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  4662.  @JoeSmith-gp5dm  I like him. That doesn't mean I have to idealize him or be his disciple.
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  4663.  @leebaker2588  😆 Glad you took that well. Some flip out over friendly and harmless nonsense jokes.
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  4664. ​ @mikey90504  He should have done it in France. Some guy there killed ~20 people in a McDonalds and was captured by police. They took him to the police station and threw him off the roof, killing him. (Publicly they said he escaped from them while inside the station, wriggled out of his restraints, found his way upstairs, broke through locks and doors to the roof and jumped off. No one questioned their account.)
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  4665. (1) Those applauding just showed up and were not told about this part of the proceedings beforehand. The position of Speaker is a respected one, so they had no reason to imagine anything was wrong. They trusted the PMO to run the day's events properly, which was not done. They hadn't properly vetted the Speaker's personal guest. (2) The Speaker's intro did not mention WW II: "[He] fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians."
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  4666. Jussie Smollett: "She had to go. I mean, she's the me of American academia."
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  4667. Poilievre: polly-EV Easy once you know. It was anglicized by choice by his bilingual dad. (In French it's pwall-YEVr or pwall-ee-EVr, the r being one of those fancy French 'r's.)
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  4668.  @R.S.4672  It's like stepping through a cow pasture.
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  4669.  @Oleksandr_Kryvenko  Можливо, я був незрозумілий. Вибачте, якщо я був. Проте загадковий лінгвістичний приклад, про який я говорив, здається, зустрічається в українській і російській мовах однаково. Я дякую вам за вашу відповідь і бажаю вам всього найкращого. ————————————————— Perhaps I was unclear. Sorry if I was. However, the puzzling linguistic example which I was talking about seems to occur in the Ukrainian and Russian languages equally. I thank you for your reply and I wish you the best.
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  4670.  @innerforestschool  Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  4671. I've been enjoying your commentary for two-years-plus. 👍
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  4672. New infections are 30% lower than the winter peak, while deaths are 90% lower. That's down to vaccine protection against severe illness. The number of infections reflects the fact that the current variant is 2.5x more transmissible than last year's. Bear in mind also that 29% of the UK has not had even one shot.
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  4673.  @darlingdear2687  No sarcasm at all, friend. It's a plain fact that only those 3 countries could make a dent in a major shortfall of Canadian oil. But... they don't have 4.3m barrels/day just lying around. So expect a multi-year wait for it. Also, they'll jack the price way up. They're not going to sell at a normal price to a desperate US. (On top of that, shipping oil 8,200 miles by tanker adds even more to the price, probably about $2 a barrel.)
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  4674. @ [sigh] Some things are way more complicated than they seem when a person knows zero about them. Do some research. US oil cannot replace Canadian oil except via a refinery overhaul lasting a decade and costing hundreds of billions. Find me one expert or oil CEO agreeing with you.
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  4675. Republicans, from Trump down to individuals on every block in every city, town and village in the nation, must approach this election as though 10 million undocumented aliens are guaranteed to vote. Because it's possible they will.
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  4676. Rest of quote: "Actually I really like it."
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  4677.  @everready800  Oh yes. I think I see your position. Putin is straight-dealing and the most honourable man in the whole picture. Close to a hero if not one outright. He deserves a licence to pick up neighbouring countries like so many sacks of carrots. And any state which opposes such adventures on his part is an aggressive provoking warmonger.
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  4678.  @quintrankid8045  I wish to support your remarks on Ukraine joining NATO, but I think "close to eight decades of Russian imperialism and abuse of Eastern Europe" falls short. It's measured in centuries, surely.
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  4679.  @quintrankid8045  No, California. Just kidding.
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  4680. Not sure whether the lowest form of life is the humble single-celled protozoon, the Western university administrator, or the Western pro-Hum Moss activist. But I doubt it's the protozoon. I hope Jewish people in the West sever all ties with the left, now that the latter have so unmistakably shown their true colours.
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  4681. It still wasn't believable. We need to hear a theory worth hearing that such a thing was in Israel's interests.
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  4682.  @jerrybessetteDIY  Pretty ironic to castigate humanity by anthropomorphizing Earth.
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  4683. Mostly. Solid missiles tho, and not bad drones, both in large numbers for a regional power. As a certain monster once said, "Quantity has a quality of its own."
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  4684. To reduce govt. spending is to reduce GDP. Thus the economy is shrinking. Against this, yes, the rising trade surplus is a help. Lots of moving parts.
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  4685. ​ @janpamua7714  That's sort of word-salady. While GDP of course includes private, non-government economic activity, on the public side, every dollar (or peso) of government spending counts towards GDP. Having said that, there are multiple ways of stating GDP. For example, instead of private plus public sector economic activity, GDP can also be closely rendered as simply the sum of wages, profits and taxes. It does add up that way too. In the present context the important thing is that in Argentina, slashing govt. spending has slashed GDP dollar for dollar. I mean peso for peso.😄 As one would guess, it works the same in the other direction too: if a govt. borrows money and then spends it, GDP rises by that amount. Deficit spending literally grows the economy, even though it's correct to view it generally as growth of dubious quality and not conducive to lasting prosperity (depending somewhat on just how wisely or unwisely it is spent). I'm not an economist, economics is just a lifelong interest of mine and I learned all this through reading and in my job as research editor at a global investment bank which has economists on staff. Among other things I research, edit and write on economic matters every day.
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  4686. Bunch of total crybullies. Toss the non-students off the property, expel the students from McGill.
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  4687.  @3dogs3kids  Ok, yes, but you're telling me what I'm telling you. And besides that, so many of the ones who are most disgusted have left the country, and indeed have been leaving for many years now. When the better people leave, that has the effect of making the county worse. It's going in the wrong direction.
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  4688. 4:10 Really? "Gold has been around for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years as an asset for people"? That's hyperbole, or just ignorance. Metal mining and smelting are only several thousand years old, and even humankind itself doesn't quite date back 200k years. Why not just say 'thousands and thousands of years', instead of reaching like that?
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  4689. Yes. It's bad enough that you have to go to Canada for your hockey players!😄🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸
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  4690. Actually, the stored export-ready grain, as well as this year's harvest (which won't be even close to normal) can be shipped overland, westward through the EU by rail. As war conditions allow, that is. I heard it's ramping up from a low level, but the whole system out to tidewater doesn't have a lot of spare capacity or flexibility. Just as I would expect, since most of our vital systems seem to have become fragile. I've long likened our civilization to a juggler with ten thousand plates in the air.
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  4691.  @ThisBetterBeGood  <-----" tech specialists say it’s always listening no matter your settings." Could be, but on my PC I always keep my mic volume set on zero anyway.
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  4692. How old is this interview? It seems to be from the period between when Putin shut off the Nordstream and when it was blown up.
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  4693.  Gary Thompson  … with melted social decay on top. Oh, and a side of race war. For dessert, I'll have impoverishment, please.
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  4694.  @miff227  … which raises the question: Why couldn't she just be a failed actress who goes on to become a stripper, like all the other crazy daughters who hate their dads?
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  4695.  @kdc6884  Hah! You will see. There are good reasons the F-16 is still in production with an order backlog of a decade.
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  4696. It's lunch money compared with the potential mammoth impoverishment if the Authoritarian Axis runs away with the world. Make no mistake, they want to put us right out of business. I repeat, lunch money.
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  4697.  @PerryCuda  ["I lived in Russia in 1993" etc.] My first reaction was 'Look what communism does to people.' But it's not as though things were like that in the other former Warsaw Pact countries at the same time, was it? I guess it's better to say that what you describe is what becomes of a feudal people massively traumatized over and over again (first harsh tsars, then revolution, then Stalin, then World War II, then more Stalin...).
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  4698.  @MagDrag123  He gets more done before finishing his first coffee in the morning than you do between New Year's and Labour Day.
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  4699. Trick answer: She wasn't, we are.
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  4700.  @shewolfee4247  "His" pandemic? It entered the US from abroad, and the unimpressive response to it was a real team effort by politicians of both parties, many institutions, and countless individual Americans, particularly in the heavily liberal states. I am a liberal myself, but willing to admit it the obvious. To you, surely the present storms are "his" hurricanes, too?
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  4701. What about the eponymous crescent shape of the croissant? The crescent is a significant symbol in Islam, after all. Shouldn't the croissant thus also face the fate of the hot cross bun? Whether most take the icing cross for a religious symbol or not, fair is fair.🤨
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  4702. KH: "I grew up as a middle-class Jew." [uproarious cackling as everyone else stares in sombre puzzlement]
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  4703. 41 seconds of news commentary. 87 seconds of unfiltered pro-H...s prop ag and uh. Way to go, Global. Showing your true colours.😠
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  4704. He'd puke if he were around now.
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  4705. I hope our governments are doing a good deal of study, planning and preparation behind the scenes that we don't know about. I hope they're not watching the steady rise of global security threats and saying "It's too soon to tell. Let's see how it goes. We mustn't go to any wasted effort or expense."
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  4706. Dear YouTube: Before vaporizing comments in your tireless efforts, do you ever stop to assess whether they're innocuous or not?
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  4707.  @matthewwadwell6100  Nah. Don't take everything at face value.😄
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  4708.  @lucydayLucida  All right, but you have a way of, as they say, "hiding your argument." I'll take your word for it.
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  4709. ​ @tea4223  Historically speaking, the fact of being the defending party means a much lower casualty rate. I'm sure there've been exceptions, but it's a pretty sturdy likelihood. I hope that addresses your question a tiny bit at least.
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  4710. An excellent point, which you should repeat elsewhere and often.
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  4711. Month-over-month inflation took a great tumble in May, falling by more than half. From May 1 to Nov. 30, cumulative inflation expressed as an annual rate has been ~57%.👍 Thus November's headline annual rate of 166% reflects the new reality quite poorly.
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  4712. Friendly warning from the north: Economic destruction awaits if you elect her. She knows price controls. She grew up in Canada under them. Pierre Trudeau (name ring a bell?) imposed them from 1975-78. They failed. They took barely 1% off inflation but 2.5% off wages. Living standards fell. The voters soon tossed him out. She was there between 5th grade and her freshman year at college in 1982. She and Justin Trudeau grew up in adjacent wealthy areas of Montreal (a bare mile apart in Westmount and the Golden Square Mile). The country then was even farther left than it is now. 100% of her political and social beliefs and policies bear the stamp of Trudeau the elder.
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  4713. For some reason no one mentions the matter of his safety during retirement. The palace where he is to live is right on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, making him possibly vulnerable to attack. I wonder if this isn't largely about turning as much of the Black Sea as possible into a Russian lake. (Of course Turkish waters will remain Turkish; likewise those of Romania and Bulgaria, but they are far away.)
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  4714.  @quintrankid8045  Oh my god, why are you replying to that putz so seriously? He's just someone who thinks he's clever, but his leading propensity is foolishness. Eminently ignorable.
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  4715. 1655, King Louis XIV: "L'État, c'est moi." 2024, this two-bit mayor: "La cité, c'est moi."
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  4716.  @Shekhinah74  You didn't know he was estranged from his father, who beat and humiliated him for years during his boyhood? He would be the first to tell you that Beto Milei is a terrible man. He did not invite him to his inauguration. (The elder Milei attended as a guest of his daughter, who also has a govt. position.) Anyway, you affect moral outrage over government subsidies as though they were outright theft. Actually they are practically the backbone of the Argentinian private economy. The Argentinian government taxes you with both hands and passes you money with a third. (Hopefully all that is going to change soon.)
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  4717. Yeah. It basically means be ready to run for your life in a split-second...when trapped inside a moving vehicle. 🤨
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  4718.  @sawong8685  Thank you both for not saying "at it's."
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  4719. Just came to say Who cares what this O'Donnell dude thinks?
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  4720. You're hearing what was already playing in your head. She actually said People used to take our word for things and no longer do. She was speaking generally, but as far as generalities go hers were quite accurate. She actually seemed realistic and a bit humbled. And don't get me wrong: I firmly believe that the direction the mainstream media has taken in the past 10 to 20 years — a direction that's been power-serving and self-serving at the same time, at the expense of the truth and the interests of nearly everyone outside of the elites — has been disastrous and morally contemptible, often morally criminal. (At times criminal in the full legal sense, for that matter.) But I do not hesitate to add that, having said all that, the media which have rushed in to fill the trust vacuum left behind by the corporate and state media is by and large no better and often worse. It is rarely much better at resisting the urge to bias and ordinarily makes no attempt at all. Indeed most such outlets practically brag that pure bias to be the best or only avenue to truth, accuracy and fairness. They're filled with rigid ideologues, lack of brainpower, poor writing, poor editing, poor trains of thought and laughable amateurism. Most of its content campaigns openly for ill-thought-out solutions in line with some orthodoxy, a lust for revanchism, or just whatever popped into their heads while in thrall to strong emotion. All of that may be fine up to a point in certain contexts and it doesn't necessarily bother me that it's published, but it isn't journalism and journalism is what we need.
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  4721.  @ChewieOnTwoWheels  Don't advertize your xenophobia. That's right, advertize. Shows your true colours. Mate.
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  4722.  @stephano6793  If that's your point, why didn't you say so? It has nothing to do with whether he was or wasn't on duty. For one thing, if you're on duty you're getting paid. Going shopping at Best Buy is not an instance of being on duty. You're wasting my time, so I'm muting you. Have a nice day.
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  4723. Time to fix the mistake: Boycott now. Tariffs now. Decouple now. Reshore now.
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  4724. The warning at the start wasn't really needed. Your story was personal but it wasn't over-the-top emotional, a case of embarrassing over-sharing, or too much information in a torrent of weeping. Kinda odd. Was it meant even 1% seriously or 100% in a kidding way?
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  4725.  @healingsecretsinchinese2566  Glad you made it clear! :)
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  4726. Over and over this video repeats the common and tedious error of calling vapour smoke. Breaking news: vaping does not produce smoke, as the temperature is far too low to do so. More breaking news: those clouds up in the sky aren't smoke either. They're vapour.
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  4727. 3 seconds? Wow, you've got endurance, man.
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  4728.  @ChamberlainHere  Oh, how I wish. Yes, the waiting hurts.
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  4729.    Lawyers say a lot of things and give even journalists a run for their money in that department.
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  4730.  @matthewpolish375  Just because he's Jamaican-Irish doesn't mean he has to be 50-50. He could be 90-10 or 20-80, how the hell do we know? Her mother is 100% Tamil Indian, that we do know.
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  4731. Only the foolish imagine that America has no foreign policy aims which are vital to the interests of all Americans — which, in other words, are part of taking care of America — or that such aims do not entail spending on aid, particularly aid to poorer allies. But Putin, Xi and the ayatollahs agree with you 1,000%.
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  4732. Where I live food prices either drifted down slowly or trailed inflation for many years prior to the pandemic. Food absolutely became more affordable, and quality gradually rose too. (And no, I didn't just have a rising income.) That went double for most other consumer goods, thanks to productivity gains in the Far East, as well as perhaps a stronger dollar. I think inflation on this side of the Pacific over that period was all in accommodation costs. And cars.
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  4733.  @karnvir20  Welcome aboard. Good luck next year when you re-apply.
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  4734. The Dark Ages. I take it that was what you had in mind?
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  4735. Farage is entirely correct. I've been saying the same things for over a year.
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  4736.  @evansusmc  Thanks for your reply. Yes, I discovered that afterwards. It's very strange, since the video is not listed on his channel under Videos. It does show up, however, in one of his playlists. Ordinarily the surest way to find a recent video is to choose the Videos tab on the channel page and sort by Newest. Go figure.
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  4737.  @Samng271  He made a slight writing error: he meant "come to a stop," i.e., drop what it's doing to pause and watch the event happen.
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  4738. Michael Shellenberger is at the top of his profession. No question.
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  4739.  @mrbobbilly  If you had something against actual white supremacists, would that mean you had 'something against white people'? Use your head.
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  4740. Yes, as many of them belonging to Putin's army as possible.
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  4741. ....before he decides that elections, like anti-government protests, just aren't his cup of tea.
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  4742.  @imnotgayyy8489  I find it a bit interesting that you would ask that, my protestingly-named friend.
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  4743. ​ @zackweiland5545  Thanks right back at you. With any luck Trudeau will be calling a news conference next Wednesday to cry in public for the umpteenth time. Get the vote out on Tuesday and make it happen!
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  4744. The medical profession, formerly: "First, you shall do no harm" The medical profession now: "Look at me, I'm Victor Frankenstein!"
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  4745.  @lilzuplada1564  It seems like a gesture of special respect meant to not fuel speculation about what happened. But that's not normal practice, surely? Anyway, yes Canadian news is bad. To be generous I'd give it a D-plus.
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  4746.  @HeronPoint2021  The CBC really burns me up with that.
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  4747.  @refactors  Thanks for the Kremlin foreign ministry spokesman point of view. We can all calm down now.😂
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  4748. A devoted Putinist explained the situation in Russia to his 11-year-old grandson. "Listen carefully, Misha," he said to to the boy, who sat raptly at his knee. "During the age of the tsars and the Soviet era, century after century, every man was subject to perpetual exploitation and abuse by his fellow man. Under Putin, the opposite is true!"
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  4749.  @johannesstevens1929  I think you oversimplify the situation in saying that if Ukraine had better weapons than Russia they'd be pushing them back more by now. Good strategy and tactics against a formidable opponent require patience more often than boldness. Great care has to be taken to not slip up, and instead nudge Russia into slip-ups, or just wait for them to commit them spontaneously. Counteroffensives require, if at all practicable, not only time to prepare them in stealth, but also the establishing of quite a solid likelihood they will work. Preparation, circumspection, patience. You've heard of Operation Overlord, of course?
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  4750. ​ @kralikkral5560  Corruption may not be sufficient for us to abjure a leader. It depends how much, and there's incompetence too. Misdemeanour amounts of corruption I'm inclined to look at in context. If George Washington sold 1,200 acres somewhere for twice the market price while he was in office, I'm not going to say "Tear down his statue!" Between misdeeds and inability, it's hard to say where one begins and the other ends as a driver of ruin. So a man with a mediocre score may still be the best choice in the circumstances. Sound like life? (It's rarely a woman, for up at those heights of public life a woman is clearly at a large and unfair disadvantage.) I'm not carrying water for the guy or anyone but I want decisions to be optimal in whatever the circumstances happen to be, and seldom be driven solely by a sense of moral outrage. I regard that as impulsive.
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  4751. The way you said "Just pick one!" captured perfectly our sense of frustration with the less totally bad media personalities.
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  4752. Check a dictionary for the pronunciation of 'aborigine.'
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  4753. And not just in the heat exchanger. It would move right on to the wind turbines without missing a beat. Potent stuff, that.
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  4754. They remind of the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels, swarming him in their multitudes with their stakes and string.
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  4755.  @MariaMartinez-researcher  I think it was in the Yukon or British Columbia, not Alaska, but I could be wrong.
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  4756. Sub-par journalism to include the make of the car in the headline. Should've instead made room for the word 'alcohol.'
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  4757. ​ @CaliSteve169  Correct about Boeing planes, which are safe in absolute terms but less safe than those of Airbus. Meanwhile Teslas are not only safe in absolute terms, they're also safer than those of the competition. The media's issue is that Tesla's CEO owns a social media company which doesn't censor users according to their political leanings, but instead according to a uniformly-applied set of rules. This means that, as Canada's Trudeau would say, "He holds unacceptable fringe views." Also, he publicly switched his lifelong personal political allegiance about 21 months ago. Again, unacceptable fringe views. So the media and US govt. are simply doing what one does to an unacceptable fringe: they're persecuting it. Mind you, all this is just what I think is a fuller description of the situation. In my view you did frame things correctly.👍Thanks.
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  4758.  @sawssman965  I'll answer it: No, not entirely. Not all that close, actually—I'll give him a 5 out of 10. Sounds pretty lousy and it sort of is, but it's great compared to the average mainstream journalist, whom I'll give a zero, 1, or 2. If you can't see that, you need treatment for eyelessness.
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  4759. ​ @speedracertv4934  First of all, it takes a real genius to suppose he means people who literally declare themselves followers of orthodox Marxism. He obviously means neo-Marxists following doctrines of the French New Left. Second, he's absolutely right.
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  4760.  @speedracertv4934  I appreciate that, but while I can paint rather well, and once did a good copy of Girl with A Pearl Earring, I'm no Vermeer.
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  4761. And despite their many severe and glaring inadequacies they nonetheless believe that they're not only the most moral people of all time, but also the first, by a wide margin. They think it's not even close, that they invented high morals.
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  4762.  @laynecox3992  I suggest having more respect for the facts. The US imports 7x more oil from Canada than from Mexico, about 20% of its total consumption. Without it, shortages would ensue, particularly for diesel. US energy sector profits would tumble, resulting in layoffs.
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  4763. ...of Putin's choosing. He wants Russia's blanket of countries around it back again.
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  4764.  @maireboy  Same with terrific in English. "I heard a terrific explosion that rocked the house. I looked outside and the volcano had erupted."   "He was a terrifically accomplished man. Everybody admired him."
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  4765. Chuh!
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  4766. The largest city in the world, Tokyo, has a metropolitan area population of 37.1 million as of 2024, which is below Canada's population (latest Statistics Canada estimate: 41.9 million). Therefore, no individual city currently surpasses the population of Canada.
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  4767. Americans have such a difficult time with premier. Seems odd. Premier (PREEM-ee-er): a leader of a Canadian province Premiere (prem-YAIR / preem-YAIR): a debut of an entertainment production
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  4768. Fair point. The US can walk and chew gum at the same time. There's nothing 'either/or' about these two important things.
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  4769. Of course. Honesty always helps a person do that.
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  4770. Hollywood: 😥 Hunter Biden: 😭
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  4771. If she and I were the last two people on Earth…we'd be the last two people on Earth.
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  4772. I wish her well. (In the sense that I wish she'd fall down a well.)
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  4773. The way I see it, Russia has a bad temper and Ukraine doesn't. And what's a bad temper? I look on it simply as anger that comes out of thinking you've been wronged when you haven't. (Cf. China and how furious it is with Taiwan.)
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  4774. Every word of that is Russian lies and propaganda. Nice try Dr. Goebbels.
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  4775.  @willguggn2  Thanks for your reply. It's been a busy week or two since I watched the thing, so my ability to reply is really waning. But although they made their own answers, didn't the filmmaker choose which ones to highlight? And the filmmaker made the edit that went to air, so all criticisms from the public relied on his point of view. If you really think it was all fair to the point of airtightness, maybe you're right and I totally missed the point of something I was watching intently. I really don't feel like watching it again just to iron this out. Cheers anyway.
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  4776.  @willguggn2  I had time while I was eating, so I did watch it again! This highlight version of the actual TV program only covers a handful of survey questions from among (presumably) many more in the survey itself. But ok, lets assume it a was scrupulously representative sample. (I doubt it; I think Mr. Hoffman has an axe to grind here, but let that pass.) Two answers were very unappetizing, I'll agree with that. One is unequivocal: 52% admitted cheating on a test (one time only or many more times, we don't know). That's pretty bad, to be sure. Yet who knows? What if it's typical of high school kids? What if it shows merely that a high percentage of them had character good enough to admit their character had a serious flaw? Overall, not a flattering finding at all, but possibly not the end of the world. I think that before the age of seventeen, most of us have done something wrong at school. The other one was that their cars were what they "cared most about." But let's be careful. Hoffman points out that this response edged out "looks". These don't sound like answers to the unadorned question "What do you care most about?" I really doubt people who truly did care most about looks and cars would actually say so. They'd either conceal it or wouldn't quite realize it. I think we're in the dark about the actual question. Perhaps it was "What is most important to you when it comes to social success at school?" or "What do your fellow students care about most?" which are very different questions. When students answered that the keys to social recognition at the Friendship Dance are looks, money, being from the 'right family', and three others, this does not mean they approve. Isn't it likely they deplored this state of things? The student body at large is being asked to evaluate an elite social institution. They may be right; their answers, on the other hand, might result from lack of first-hand experience of the dance, or for any other reason be tainted by social envy. Some people admire their social betters mindlessly; we call them snobs. Even more people bitterly resent their social betters mindlessly; I'm not sure we even have a word for it. (How can 83% of the kids choose the identical answers, anyway? Five out of six tick off all the same six boxes in a list of about a dozen? Why wouldn't many of them select three, five, or seven?) As far as other survey answers are concerned, what is wrong with wanting good grades, a college education, a good non-demeaning job, and a nice place to live? Nothing. A what on Earth could possibly be wrong with dance lessons? What is wrong with liking the comfortable, pleasant town you grew up in and wanting to stay there? Nothing. Others, like me, who have a taste for much more exploration and excitement, and who consider small towns and suburbs the height of boredom, have no right whatsoever to look down on it. To do so would itself amount to a nasty species of snobbery. I can't go on forever here. The original documentary maker, I sense, had it in for this town and all the places similar to it. He used the filmmaker's craft and things such as tone of voice and rhetoric to guide his audience to certain emotional responses. It is very difficult to put into a few words just what it was I saw to make me think this, but I think he made sure to make them look bad, despising them as philistines. But all but a few per cent of all people deserve that label. Philistinism is everywhere. Why he wanted to pick on these people who seemed pleasant, harmless, productive and law-abiding escapes me. Maybe he hated them for being prosperous and content, and if they were poor and miserable he would have made heroes of them.
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  4777.  @snowman6910  It's true that Maoism preached continual revolution, insisting it had to be a never-ending state. Still, the Cultural Revolution was a separate thing in its own right. Look it up. It's interesting.
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  4778.  @Jcalwaysfree  Those are definitely words.
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  4779.  @emmanuelbriggs5182  The broad-based ridiculous statements are on your side, not mine. Just another instance of someone being clue-destitute going hand in glove with thinking they know it all. We have people like you to thank for Tate because you and your ilk created him. Otherwise we'd be all be spared. Far-left wokesters likewise create racists, who'd otherwise wither away into obscurity thanks to the reasonable efforts of moderate and sensible-minded people. You put them on life support and you'll revive the lot of them into perfect health if you continue. Feminists and wokesters are fizzing with mental illness. I'd say it's just tragic, which it is, but it's also intensely destructive because mental illness spreads spontaneously and that's what's happening. It's a contagion and that is the reason people shrink from it just as they do from the physically sick with hacking coughs and sneezes. These opinions are generally shared by those in parts of the world at a safe remove from English-speaking universities, corporate media and social media. People in those places are working vigorously to isolate themselves from us and our influence and I understand their motivations. At present they're moving to unite in order marginalize us, culturally, politically, economically and yes, militarily. They formerly admired and imitated us.
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  4780. Also the term "quack".
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  4781. They guy is a putz.
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  4782.  @sspbrazil  <---"At least he puts his money to what he believes is right whether you agree with him or not and that’s ok by me." But the 9/11 hijackers answered to that description too.🙄Omg
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  4783. It's "the London" now? 🤨
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  4784. He made basic mistakes in what is pretty clearly his own mother tongue. I don't think he's spent much time reading, except for probably textbooks. He nonetheless seems to have high verbal intelligence and fluency.
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  4785. The Iraq War, thankfully, was not a NATO action. The Afghanistan War was a NATO action, triggered by Article V when the US was attacked on 9/11. Afghanistan had hosted the Al Qaeda forces and their training and planning activities. You may reply that the Afghan state itself did not attack the US, but no such loophole can be allowed whereby a NATO country is attacked yet no one is really to blame. The Taliban government knew whom they were hosting and what their purpose was.
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  4786. Kennedy knows how to write, I'll give him that.
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  4787.  @kp1260  Ok social trash.
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  4788. He's standing up for what will keep US shores safe from impoverishment and tyranny long after we're gone. Don't be penny wise and pound foolish.
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  4789. And soon: "Breaking news: Law enforcement knew of his plans the night before, when he sent them an email containing all details of his plans. The morning after, he met them for breakfast at a local Denny's, where Crooks and officers from local police, the Secret Service and FBI went over everything for two-and-a-half hours."
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  4790. Coming soon: A fake JFK accent.
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  4791. ST*U
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  4792. Odd, that. And it could do with a cleaning and pressing too, it seems. Still, better than foppery at least.
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  4793.  @realfreedom8932  But is that not perhaps a promising indicator? When I was much younger and foolishly mixed up with investment bankers, a couple of them once told me that they paid attention to the parking lot when they visited clients. If the senior management drove expensive cars, they told me, they took it as a bad sign. If they saw instead Subarus, Maximas, Oldsmobiles, Passats, and the like, they deduced they were dealing with more solid and trustworthy people and conducted business afterward in part with that in mind. I never forgot the distinction. (They themselves sometimes preferred M series sedans and Jaguars, but let that pass. They didn't have shareholders and thousands of employees depending on them, just scores of women and bartenders.) Cheers.
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  4794. Yes, let me back you up on that. The snow and cold present a real barrier to biking only perhaps two to four weeks a year in total. But people abroad shouldn't get the wrong impression; only a minority of Canadians deal with -20C temperatures very often at all. A more typical Canadian in winter sees the daytime temp rise to somewhere between, say, 3C and ten degrees below, as by far most Canadians inhabit the more temperate parts of the country.
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  4795. Wait till they find out that the sale and consumption of wine is legal in France! 🙄
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  4796. If much sanity at all survives in the US, one day there'll be statues of Michael Shellenberger in town squares across the country. In many countries, for that matter. He's really a world figure now.
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  4797. You have a well-organized mind and a particularly strong ability to mentally put yourself, with respect to your script, in a listener's position. (Likewise, with respect to the graphics, a viewer's position.)👏 And English is not your first language.😮
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  4798.  @James-kv6kb  No it's not. It's a timeless way to be funny.
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  4799. I'd call Madame Mao paranoid for thinking the whole world is against her, but I honestly suspect that yeah, it probably is. And for good reason.😂
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  4800. I see the Pooty-bots here are out in full force. Great sign! It means things will be fine. They only come out in large numbers to deny reality. How to determine the truth: Find out what Russians are saying online; believe the opposite.
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  4801. Not a very bright comment. We shouldn't "make our 'leaders' fight instead." We should send one of those little bombs sailing down on Putzin at his next public appearance. To let on that Zelensky is responsible for this war just because he's a national leader is both stew and pid.
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  4802. Not many of them, no. But she's not an immigrant---London-born.
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  4803.  @MLCHRL  What "we did" to "accomplish this goal" (by which you surely mean this sorry state of things, for it was no one's goal) was simply to treat Russia just as we would any other militarily capable state shot through with gangsterism. (And it goes without saying that they were treated as an economic competitor, as every nation does every other.) Someone desiring affiliate membership in a club—in this case Russia desiring to cozy up to the worldwide group of rich and powerful countries and become rich like them—is well advised to conduct themselves in the club's accepted ways or they will not be admitted, but instead perhaps fully ostracized. Putin could have played nice with Russia's many neighbours over the decades. Instead he warred with multiple countries, giving Eastern Europe no real alternative but to seek security in NATO. They knew exactly what he was, and what Russia is—and to know them is to fear them. So it was no great surprise that it worked out like Tony Montana bringing automatic weapons to the luncheon table at a gentlemen's club in London, i.e., not well.
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  4804.  @pcopeland15  That all sounds correct or very believable to me. Thanks for your reply. (Hypothetical Norm Macdonald addendum to your post: "And then he lit up a big fat joint and hopped on a plane to England."😄)
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  4805. Ok, Ahmed/Farshad/Hyun-woo/Vitaly/Chanfun.
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  4806.  @foxymacadoo  The late Barbara Frum.
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  4807.  @ShovelMonkey  Excellent reply. The guy explicitly states "Crime is rampant" then suggests putting fewer people in prison. Born fn yesterday.
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  4808.  @matthewsmith5374  I hadn't thought of that explanation. You turned out pretty well in spite of it though. You should be proud of yourself.
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  4809. "Unchartered territory"? Is a high school student in charge of things there? Are there no fully literate staffers anymore?
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  4810.  @lordhighexecutioner   Why do you refer to a plane being brought down? Why do you have a Ted Bundy fan video on your channel? Why did you choose one where Bundy menaces someone with a comment about them dying in a plane crash on their way back home?
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  4811. She said "flaunt" instead of flout. She said billion instead of million. And no intelligent person would wear the jacket she had on. Still better than a Democrat though.
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  4812. Promos cover the subtitles towards the end of the video. Could you please get those off there?
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  4813.  @StanislavGres  There's too much respect for power-grabbing in Russia, rooted far too deep, for the spreading around of power to be taken at all seriously, at least anytime soon. Germany, like the Russia of today, was until about 75 years ago afflicted with a feudalistic societal outlook and set of political instincts and customs. Things changed rapidly after that, but it could only have been occasioned—and was—by a catastrophic military defeat.
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  4814.  @mirabella2154  Here's to your resolve and your parents.👍
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  4815. She didn't say 'inappropriate,' she said 'colorful.' Don't be lazy. You can nail her with what she was actually saying.
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  4816.  @Hotstuff5743  I strenuously reject your claim, and I don't care what any CBC program claims. I go to five or six different chains and observe prices very carefully. The discount chains have lower prices, period. End of story.
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  4817. China has changed. Its period of courting trust by appearing to earn it now belongs to history. The approach is no longer needed since the investment inflows were achieved, productive capacity goals reached, and poor-country loans made. The tree was planted, it reached maturity, and it is now being felled for its lumber. The cuddly panda act is over.
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  4818. Michael is ordinarily well-dressed but the way that jacket collar fits is a distraction. The talk itself was of course absolutely marvellous.
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  4819. Re-election.
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  4820.  @Nickbaldeagle02  That's the cleverest thing I've ever heard in my life. Congratulations on a good show. Do let your mom know what you said in public when your chance came up.
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  4821. Florida has mandated a once-a-year 45-minute school observance for Victims of Communism. Children are taught about how it came to pass that 100 million people in communist countries were put to death in various ways by their governments. Most were in China and most died by deliberate starvation. Millions also died in prison or death camps or were beaten to death in the streets. Every state and every country should have a program of such education and remembrance.
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  4822. Many other Russians expressing disapproval of Putin and the war have been fined or jailed. I am in favour of strategies which allow Daniil to keep posting videos rather than be silenced behind bars. From there he could do little of any use.
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  4823. Well, I've read a great many remarks here, and it's official: The overwhelming consensus among employees and partisans of the Russian Federation is that No, Ukraine must not undertake such a strategy, due to the chance that by doing so it will win the war.
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  4824. They targeted a Jewish-owned business.
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  4825. Their reaction came out of the fear that comes with guilt and styoopidity. What goes through their heads is "What I'm doing here is bad and I'm doing it for bad reasons. But my side wins if I do it. Now along comes this question which, although I don't grasp all its implications because I'm too dull for that, can't be trusted. It must be some kind of trick. I'm tricky, I do things for bad reasons; therefore this is probably the same sort of thing." Liars always think everybody lies all the time, etc.
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  4826. They brought life jackets for nothing.
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  4827. It's not even a community. It's a category.
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  4828.  @Spawn303  "Canada stays out of it." Yeah? Like Afghanistan? Thirteen years, 40,000 served, thousands of casualties, $20 billion spent, all to back up our American friends who had been wronged so badly. Canada was there barely a month after 9/11, its best commandoes picking off Al-Qaedas and Talibani. Or maybe you mean the First Gulf War? Or all the other times we made war against the same people the Americans did? You're probably thinking of Vietnam and Iraq, which we indeed did stay out of. No apologies there, buddy. With Iraq you simply disgraced yourselves.
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  4829. Actually I recall him gently mentioning a few months ago that he took half his bitcoin off the table in the low $50k's, saying it was nice to pay off an actual mortgage with BTC gains. No panic-mongering, just a gentle hint. Within weeks it was down to $30k.
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  4830.  @AmikYoungDon  I agree with all that. Btw, it might interest you to know, if you didn't already, that he said on one of his CNBC segments this month that if BTC ETFs received clearance he would sell half his Ether. (It's unclear how this applies to the BTC futures ETF, but I would imagine it doesn't qualify as a proper BTC ETF in his mind, as it doesn't have the same direct effect on inflows.) Good luck with everything.
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  4831. No matter in which decade or century, few if any wars don't involve the leading powers of the day. If they're not between the leading powers themselves, even if they're civil wars, they end up being to some degree indirect wars between them anyway. One should be shocked if a leading power sits out a war entirely via genuine neutrality. Lack of involvement is somewhat likely to shorten its leading-power tenure or, as in the case of China, delay its full efflorescence. So Xi was not going to pass up this chance to serve China's interests. Indeed it's my belief that he egged Putin on determinedly, if most likely in a low-key manner and or even with feigned reluctance. This war is chock full of goodies for him and China, one of which Sanger mentioned at the end. Another is the chance of securing a more reliable supply of grain. China imports great quantities of it in order to put pork and chicken on its tables (it is mainly used as animal feed), but the supply is vulnerable to Western trade embargo or naval blockade. A reliable supply of tens of millions of tons of grain a year coming into the country overland by rail from Ukraine, besides strengthening national security in a general sense, would be an enormous boost to the odds of a successful war on Taiwan.
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  4832. “It’s a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe 2011-2014, in remarks three weeks ago
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  4833. I've said it before and I'll say it again: They'll do anything. (To win the election, to oppress anyone who opposes them, to achieve absolute power....) Anything. If they have to repeat the Great Leap Forward (50 million dead), the Holodomor, the killing fields of Cambodia, they will. Just give them more time.
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  4834.  @vivienneb6199  😂That's not censorship.
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  4835. Rich, that.
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  4836. Skull of dubious volume, face that could stop Big Ben, instincts of a Soviet commissar, intellect like a block of Velveeta, ego that dwarfs the Trump Tower, voice that makes ordinary people envy the deaf. Otherwise she's great.
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  4837.  @jayrideau  "Women attempt more" That's precisely what Evans herself said on Newsnight in order to minimize the male rate of suicide. Terrific of you.
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  4838. No, by definition it's only gaslighting if it works. When the very same lies are told to no effect because the intended victim never believes them, they are just regular failed, laughable, see-through lies.
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  4839. I think it was the global humiliation of Canada over the accusation against India that really sealed Trudeau's fate. There was great resentment lingering among his longtime opponents over the Ottawa vaccine mandate protest, but it was his ham-handed confrontation with India that really hurt him with his own supporters as well. He's a worldwide joke and he's made Canada one too. No one likes that.
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  4840. Do you mean "Two months ago"?🤨
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  4841. Although vodka isn't exactly a size down in intensity from water (voda) is it? 😂
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  4842. So is there a corresponding condition in women, autoandrophilia?
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  4843. Try again. They're really just puncturing the hypocrisy of all those who aren't upset by this due to partisanship.
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  4844. 😡Make an example of those who deliberately bring overseas violence with them to Canada: Swiftly deport them.
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  4845. Disunity.
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  4846. His rear end. Notice, btw, the only disagreement here is in the newest comments. Everything older has been scrubbed.
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  4847. The fix is in. It's no mere coincidence that he's deteriorating just before the convention. They took away his meds to pave the way, first, for a media blitz on his mental state. Second, and the main reason, it's meant to ensure that he flops at the debate. That will cue a much larger media storm, enabling them to yank his nomination.
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  4848.  @armmelon327  First of all, it's preying (being a predator) not praying. Second, it's not preying. How is just observing and predicting being a predator? Think, then post.
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  4849.  @virginccyy7645  Sorry, but Hah! One, there aren't enough right now. Ukraine could easily make good use of 3x what it's getting. Two, there are multiple conflicts going on now and the number could rise. The larger Patriot stockpiles are, the less likely that will happen. The smaller they are, the more likely. Three, in a grim but possible scenario, hundreds could be needed on multiple fronts thousands of miles apart in a single day. We're seeing that modern warfare is about missiles and air defense far more than ever. AD production cannot run at rate of a few per cent of potential need. (Three a day!) Enemies take aim at weakness. Unpreparedness loses wars. Unpreparedness comes chiefly out of complacency.
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  4850.  @rogerphelps9939  Maybe they captured them from the Yemeni govt. forces whom they're at war with.
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  4851. @ I, too, am SB'd on YT and I'm curious, did u have to scroll way down to come across my post? .
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  4852. Many, many, many things like this have been going on at that company for many years. Remember, the same people showed the Founding Fathers as a group of black men. Remember also that they quietly dropped their maxim "Don't Be Evil" some years back.
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  4853. There's only one major university in Toronto. Just ask anyone from absolutely anywhere on Earth outside the GTA. The other two are deservedly totally obscure. Universities take at least a lifetime to have even a slim chance of maturing and achieving excellence. York didn't even exist until the 1960s and so-called "TMU" wasn't a university at all until about two decades ago.
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  4854.  @Megafoot2164  You know you can just go back and edit it, don't you? It just needs some hard returns. Easy. Good luck, you've picked the right side of a good issue.
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  4855. ​ @Megafoot2164  Pro tip: It usually doesn't even matter where you put the paragraph break. Not kidding, and I've written and edited for a living since I was 25. Of course if you're starting a totally new subject then it's obvious. But otherwise just throw one in every one to three sentences and don't worry for more than three seconds about exactly where. (Also, if you really want to punch any sentence for effect, even if it's only a few or several words, make it a standalone paragraph. But this practice when used for short sentences is a bit showy, so don't go nuts doing it all over the place. It's killer but it's for spot use.) Trust me, you're intimidated for no reason. Number of people who are going to say: "Wow, they don't know where to start a new paragraph. I'm so mad and let down": Zero. But put up a wall of text and people just say "Forget it" and move on. Final note: you're definitely a good writer. Cut this ball and chain that's hampering you. Quickly choose some spots to smash the return key twice and get it over with.
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  4856.  @Megafoot2164  Wow, I put a lot into that. YT is just screwing me.
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  4857. 😮Wow. Based on what we just saw, let's declare Gutfeld the winner of the debate.
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  4858.  @SturmiRallivaihde  Being forgotten: often a great advantage.😄
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  4859. Three fairly generous offers, but no thanks, I'll pass.
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  4860. Ok Minnesota, 363 days from now it'll be your turn.  Do not drop the ball.
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  4861.  @sirdrake1177  I certainly don't think they chose to kill him. I think they were determined to pin him to the ground till he calmed down and became compliant. I think they probably thought when he went silent and stopped moving that he had passed out or fainted from exhaustion or panic. I also think they could have done all the same things on a hundred other occasions and the suspect would be all right and not even pass out, or if passed out would come to a minute or so later. When he stopped moving and talking, they should have stopped restraining him except for his legs, turned him over, and checked his vitals. They did check his pulse and call an ambulance, but in those three final minutes before it arrived they should have checked whether he needed reviving or had instead fainted, and attempted to revive him if needed, instead of maintaining all their restraints. Maybe they just thought it seemed obvious that he was strong and vigorous, and thought that their restraints were pretty safe since they learned them in training, so they never suspected his heart had stopped, just that his pulse was not easy to find.
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  4862. Yes, the far left and far right resemble each other in many ways. Extremes Meet.
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  4863.  @deborahhennessey  Moles do not appear overnight.😂 How old are you? Half an hour? Now let's see you try explaining the other thing, that circle an inch in diameter. It made him look like a Manson Family member.
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  4864. I don't know if we can put all this down to real Russian incompetence. I suspect the dregs of recent conscripts and officers were quite deliberately sent in to soak up Ukrainian ammunition, reveal Ukrainian positions and strongholds, and generally set the stage for more serious operations later on. At this point they're doing a lot of knocking down of high-rises that would otherwise make for good defensive posts against armour and infantry in city streets. Another aspect of this is probably Russia, egged on by China, seeing what it can do to trigger an arms build-up in the West so expensive that it would bankrupt it.
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  4865. 1420, you are one funny dude. 😆
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  4866. Let's just say he's no Jacques Chirac or Francois Mitterand. (Mitterand was practically a communist, but let that pass for the moment.) To me, he "doesn't fill the suit," as they say.
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  4867. Oh, those "riding" house prices!🙄
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  4868. Some kind of cult thing, probably, like members of the Manson Family had on their foreheads.
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  4869. Conduct in playgrounds is ordinarily better as I remember it.
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  4870.  @sefp  Resentment of men, hatred of freedom. Yawn. Take your hate-based feminism and Marxism and go.
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  4871. 😂Even Russia, China and Vietnam changed over to free markets. You didn't know that?🤨 It's old news.
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  4872. Millions? No, actually. The amplitude of the rapid rise and fall over about 16 minutes was 5.6%, which translates to a market cap swing of around $51bn.
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  4873. That's not true. I've watched him many times and the longer he doesn't like the answers he gets, the more condescending and impatient he gets. Not so much back in 2020, but since then certain changes of persona have come over him.
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  4874. ​ @stevec6427  I don't see us finding our way back from the opinionated 'news' problem. The intelligent public which formerly refused to tolerate such journalism are dying off and are not being reconstituted in the generations replacing them. Starting maybe 25 years ago, people of small understandings began railing against un-opinionated journalism as harmful, for it allowed 'incorrect views' to be given a fair hearing and hence unearned legitimacy. This struck other small-minded people as true, and now it seems to be the dominant view. It took many centuries to create the former public which took the opposite view, and I think that now that it's mostly gone it's never coming back. Not here, anyway.
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  4875.  bobsimpletown9304  Babbling nonsense. I'm talking about one man, an ethnically-Russian Russian-speaking Ukrainian who left before the end of the Soviet Union. My point was only that he could hardly be a xenophobe. He just honestly found Russians ovine-like. They simply have a feudalist mindset, a thing which makes them a civilization stranded in time. It would distress them terribly if they ever lacked a ruler, just as it did in the 1990s when they briefly had lots of freedom. The cause of the Donbas war wasn't Ukraine. It was Russia, who backed, funded, armed, staffed, goaded and incited the Donbas separatists.
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  4876.  @dalecrocker3213  (1) "it's inevitable, let's just gear up now." (2) "No it isn't. 'Gearing up' is one thing which MIGHT make it so." Sorry, wrong — both of you. Gearing up is the one thing that will prevent it becoming inevitable.
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  4877. Fair take.👍 Let them stew in their regret.
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  4878. @FatalPies [Re: Rome, Egypt] Yeah, except in the case of Rome it had no serious competition for so long. It started going downhill and took centuries to finally fold (and also sort of escape to Byzantium). In the case of the US, China is busily screwing chains to the tower in order to pull it down. It could be over really, really suddenly and soon.
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  4879.  @MrChillidee  Don't hide behind made-up words as though they're magical. They can't make anyone whole who's half a person. Step up to reality, put your arms around it, and never let go.
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  4880. She makes my skin crawl just like Trudeau does. O meteor, streaking meteor, mighty though just a foot in diameter, find thy target swift and true!
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  4881.  @jdog2345  I looked up that word. While you sort of have the right idea, you spelled it wrong and have the meaning a bit off. (It has to do with aptness, not aprons.😄)
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  4882. AI might or might not be or become evil, but whoever gave that neural net that creepy, oily, pimply, smiling woman's face is deffo evil. It/she makes me sick and angry.
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  4883. Supporting terrorists is unacceptable, no matter who does it. Stop playing the ray ray card for fun and profit and sanctimony.
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  4884.  @timetraveller07070  Alejandro Mayorkas is the Secretary. But at this point, sorry, you should be using Google and Wikipedia like everybody else does.
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  4885. Canada: "Please go on. I'm listening."
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  4886.  @stu281  No commodities?😂😂😂 US + Canada Oil Production: over 18m bpd. The US is the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.
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  4887. Yet it is claimed by the left that these people are only unhappy because of society's intolerance. No, they are unhappy because 'progressives', the left, the media, academics and big tech teamed up to mess with their minds—and ruin their lives.
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  4888.  @coolioso808  That deluded woke mindset has failed miserably. It was totally based on empty sanctimony and it's done. Admit it and start over.
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  4889.  @secondchance6603  There's a Ministry of Men as well, and it has a budget of two hundred billion quid. Little is known about it, but its rumoured mission is to henpeck men and it is fully staffed by women.
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  4890.  @stephenf2354  So where did the two of you go instead? A dumpster?
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  4891.  @juditszabo8751  Peterson is an eminent researcher and clinician both, having been near the top of his field for a decades, and a professor at the University of Toronto and Harvard. Perhaps he himself wouldn't use the term diagnosis, I don't know, but he detailed Trudeau's narcissism in a manner which, as a psychology graduate myself, I found convincing. Your glib and smug dismissal of him clearly comes from the far left, which I absolutely disrespect. Your political views appear to have come out of a horribly stinking tube labelled 'CBC.' Good luck with chugging that foul stuff back. You may find it intoxicating but it's really just toxic. —Your friend, a lifelong liberal who's kept his head
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  4892. I made it through the pandemic sort of like that. On its scientific aspect — which of course ought to have been its most important one, but turned out not to be — I ignored journalism as much as possible. I instead spent more than a few hundred hours reading journal articles, watching talks given by scientists and doctors at well-reputed universities or hospitals, listening to panels of them discussing things on podcasts. (But it's a problem for a lot people that they don't know even the basics of how to read a paper. Their understanding of the article's content may not repay the effort of reading it.) Btw, I do think the media changed a lot. Not so long ago neutrality was quite strictly observed. Most people would sneer when a reporter for a 'quality' news outlet gave an opinion in a news article or TV report. Viewers were not there to be schooled in their values by journalists. Well, some were, but it was a seeming minority in contrast to today's seeming majority. Thanks for your comment.
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  4893.  @babblo1389  Sure, Pooty-bot.
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  4894. You might live in Michigan. 🧙‍♀
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  4895.  @80ZION7V  "A schoolgirl is more wise than beasts of burdens. [sic]" 🤔 I don't know about that. I'd say it depends on which schoolgirl. Some of them are no wiser than trees. Anyway, a donkey is certainly wiser than Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  4896.  Raymond   Thanks for your reply. Here's my cursory reply, the last I will send: Calling openness a shield strikes me as obviously silly. Botched drone strikes probably deserve criticism, but I don't have detailed knowledge about them.. Guantanamo arouses no disgust in me. The CPC doesn't need inspiration from US wartime internment. It rounded up plenty of victims and held them in re-education camps during Mao's era. Owing to what was in your last reply, I haven't have the time nor the inclination to debate you. But thanks for your sincere and courteous posts. I wish you all the best.
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  4897.  Raymond  I cannot make any use of your approval and so do not want it. Don't be so hurt and angry. I just don't want to debate you and for that you're attacking me. Please find someone else to debate or something else to keep yourself busy. Wish you well.
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  4898.  @mpdfog186  Cool, but would you mind not referring to people like me as "real men"? I regard myself as "a man", not "a real man." (Likewise I'm a male, not a cis-male; normal, not straight.) It's like saying real milk and soy milk. No, it's milk and soy milk. (It should be 'soy beverage' or 'soy drink' but we can ignore that.)
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  4899. Please explain the rationale for blurring their faces. And don't tell me it's to respect their privacy.
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  4900.  @pLayC  Well reasoned.👍 Ya know, sometimes I think women call men misogynistic all the time out of psychological projection. They're the ones who get together in groups to bash men relentlessly, to the point where so many boys and men under 30 now think they're vastly inferior. Does that upset women? Not a single one that I know of, but Pearl would be one of the exceptions. Because they're in it to win, three-quarters of them I'd say.
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  4901.  @ExpensivePizza  I suppose it's a matter of opinion up to some point, but I don't see how 450 coins a day will make a great difference when there are already 19.6m of the things, with close to 400k trading daily. Besides, the miners commonly hold the coins on their balance sheets anyway. (Or hodl, if you prefer.😄) I have a bit of the stuff myself but I'm strict about not fooling myself in any way. The halving may very well lead to a nice rally, and I hope it does, but it will have everything to do with sentiment and speculation, and little to do with a suddenly restricted supply.
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  4902. Ok, Pooty-Bot.
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  4903. Hey, he was a schoolteacher just like Justin Trudeau, so yeah.
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  4904. It's a quality smoke, you gotta give it that. I'm having one now.
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  4905.  @Sheek888  Go back to your campus lobby table.👎 Tell it to your TA.
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  4906. It's incredible how they have their own unique ways of behaving.
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  4907. Dan Quayle: "I like the way this is going. I'll be the #2 dumbest vice president in the public mind any day now."
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  4908. So would you. And you sound like a highly S.P. yourself.
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  4909. Yeah, what a piece of shit gutless wonder this car is. It needs upgrades so desperately its owner must be ashamed. I can see you all agree.
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  4910. Please re-program your narration bot so it doesn't say "Ursula von der Leyen" as "ER-sə-lə VON-der-lay-ən." It's OOR-zə-lə FON-der-line. (Tip: replace name in script with phonetic spelling.)
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  4911. Silly suggestion. The bank will write a cheque for it.
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  4912. My country allows 8 refugees a minute.🙄
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  4913. National Association of Worms: "Hey, stop comparing us to Gavin Newsom!"
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  4914. Cuddly Panda China is gone and we now have its jingoistic replacement. Now that they've been well-off for a few decades they're like the Americans of around 1976 who went abroad and sought to have lunch at McDonald's. Maybe it's not just the form of government (although I think that has to have a lot to do with it), maybe it's just that a few decades of runaway capitalism wreck the character of half the population.
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  4915. ​ @hl5910  Ok, but it's not anything blatant. The N.'s never showed much if any genuine socialistic tendencies, policies or actions. The "S" in the party name was more of a ruse than anything else. It's fairer to say that fascism and socialism share some things in common. I'm fine with that, with listing them, and with delving into all the meaningful similarities, but really it's the differences which are more major. Mostly the N.'s were just capitalizing on the spirit of the times, because people were pretty mad about the poor economic conditions, the inflation, the drop in the standard of living, the global depression, etc., while the rich were still doing fine. Many people (unfortunately) believed socialism was the answer, so it was helpful to a radical new party to claim socialist leanings. Really, however, the N.'s were all about (1) ethnic nationalism and (2) the supremacy of the state over the people, commerce, churches and everything else. They did believe in private property, which isn't something socialism really stands for, but their economic vision beyond that was pretty unfocused.
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  4916.  @jeffreysmith236  Ok, thanks.
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  4917. FYI, the wildlife sanctuary is around 100 miles north of Toronto.
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  4918. Thanks for being here, Putinist posters. Thanks for building Western solidarity!😄 You're doing for 🇺🇦Ukraine🇺🇦 support what Putin did for NATO expansion—making it happen by trying to stop it.😂
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  4919.  @athomefitness3089  Good thing nitbit's not in charge of anything, isn't it?
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  4920. It only needs to put out one-third more energy to power every car in the country. That's a tall order, but there's decades to do it in. Like when oil replaced coal. The 2032 mandate has got to go, but the power grid needs updating anyway. And it will cost a few trillion, but that much will be saved as oil investment falls.
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  4921.  @h.v.4148  Correct. And that 180,000 tons of grain which Russia destroyed equalled 6.1 billion food calories, which could have fed and sustained 2,000,000 people for 124 days. Way to go, Russia.😡
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  4922.  @KippGenerator  That's nice.
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  4923. I don't think he's the guy I want solving our problems but I'm fine with him at least pointing them out. I want him out on the political stage speaking and being heard.
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  4924.  @danielisenhood7086  *appellate
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  4925. The Ten Steps of a Conservative Idea Through Liberal Lines of Defence: 1) First, some conservative stance is "far-right hate"  2) Later it's upgraded to "far-right conspiracy theory" 3) Then the "conservative claims" are "baseless" 4) Then "unrealistic" 5) Then "unproven" 6) Next, there's merely "not enough evidence" but it "may have some merit" 7) Soon the words "right" and "conservative" are no longer used 8) Next, it merely "won't fly with the progressive base" 9) Then the media indicates approval just by not mentioning it 10) Finally comes outright media approval, and with that holy dispensation it becomes party doctrine.
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  4926. Yep, fair take.
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  4927. You are hinting that trying not to support a hostile and dangerous regime in China is futile. That's wrong. It isn't futile, nor does it spell war. That is hyperbole verging on histrionics. We built these economic ties and we can now dismantle them. Period. Be candid: what is your opinion of the CCP?
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  4928. I heard Chicago will be renamed New Detroit.
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  4929. You sure you're not overlooking the clear implication that the shooter was someone with ties to a rival towing company? I mean, are they usually suspected in downtown shootings? (I'd say no, except maybe when the victim is a tow truck driver, like this time, it seems.) I know what you're driving at and this doesn't seem like an apt occasion to say it, if it ever really is.
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  4930. Bravo!
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  4931. I love how scared of him you are, enough to make scurrilous false accusations like that. Great sign.😄
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  4932. Eye-opening.😮 I thought only Canada was being invaded en masse by brazen and highly-organized criminals thriving through sophisticated, effective strategies. Perhaps most angering of all, this is just when the native-born part of society had very much turned away from crime. By now we would've had Japan-like crime levels.
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  4933. No, just one: "W⚓."
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  4934. Just so you know, CNN is owned by AT&T, through its subsidiary Time Warner.
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  4935. They said "passenger van."
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  4936. It took intelligence to come up with that thought, but in my view no megalopolises straddle the border. BosNYwash is the only real American megalopolis aside from LA-San Diego, and no Canadians are very close to it. A few people in southern Nova Scotia are fairly near to Boston, but they're separated by ocean, which negates the nearness. The Great Lakes megalopolis is phony. There's too much rural space between all the cities, unlike BosNYwash. Look at the south shore of Lake Erie between Cleveland and Buffalo, for example. It's a long drive. And you could point out other examples all day long. It's too spread out. If you can call the Great Lakes area a megalopolis you can call nearly the entire continent of Europe a megalopolis. Call it an economic zone, call it a climate zone, call it an ecosystem, call it whatever, but it's just a heavily populated region, like northern France-The Netherlands-Belgium. And never mind megalopolises, the only US metropolis abutting Canada is Detroit, next to relatively small Windsor, and the rest aren't very close. It's 2.5 hrs from Seattle to Vancouver. Again there's Cleveland, only 40 miles or less from Canadian soil, but the lake makes it seem quite far away. Trust me, next to zero Ontarians have been ever there and vice versa. The Niagara Falls-St. Catharines region is close to Buffalo and the two areas are sort of integrated in some ways a little bit, I'll give you that. So no, I don't see it your way, although I understand perfectly well why you thought that. I don't speak for all Canadians, but I think to most of them Canada just doesn't feel as close to the US as you would think. You're onto something with the island idea. Canada is made up of widely separated population islands along the southern temperate belt. (Australia is similar in that way.) Cheers and best wishes.
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  4937.  @dennisbrower7959  I'm suddenly open to it.
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  4938. I wonder where the capital city would be.
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  4939. Follow suit with what? The headline is 100% unsupported by the video. Quite the opposite! Wilders has given up on heading the government. The election has gone for nought. Nothing is to be done. Josh said zero about "Dutch Doors Clos[ing] on Maghreb Migrants"
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  4940. Thanks for the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson point of view.
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  4941. "People [...] look to have others do their thinking for them." Only when we're lucky. When we're not, the bozos come up with their own brilliant thoughts and cause as much damage as they can.
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  4942. Uh, shouldn't your alarm system be at least as expensive and at least as good as your $24,000 ice cream freezer?
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  4943. 🙄 She had the country's largest journalistic stage at the New York Times! I used to read her pieces five or six years ago and believe me, she's one of the people who got us into this sorry situation. In fairness, she was closer to the political center than most of her colleagues dared reveal themselves to be, but she certainly never came out saying anything like DEI must end! She was often critical of The Times' and the left's worst excesses, I'll give her that.
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  4944. @Dickie Chaznick All very interesting and made all the more vivid by your relating the personal tangent. Might you have noticed her about now and then, or spoken to her? Unlikely, if she was anything like Nancy, whom one can only imagine seeing through a telescope.. It's her sister who interests me most, though. Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing, and Madame de Pompadour are old favourites. Quite a wrecking crew (the five of them, wasn't it?) with good points and bad ones, perhaps both in quantity. Having many detractors is ordinarily a bad sign, but by no means always! Thanks for your reply.
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  4945. Yes. And notice how she tried to straw-man him at the end. She tried to make it about him making too big a deal, in light of her unimportance, about her incendiary rhetoric. He parried that aside with elan.
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  4946. Heseltine: Repeatedly asks questions Oakeshott or Tice: Promptly reply each time Heseltine [having a stroke or some sort of conniption]: "You're interrupting me, you're interrupting me!"
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  4947. Electronic voting has also arrived in Russia. So if there's low turnout indicating weak support for Putin, millions of electronic votes can magically and easily be created to cover it up.
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  4948.  @stevesandgroper3241  That hardly means that he has no right to dismiss Sheridan's opinions. He does.
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  4949. When were the "numerous occasions" when Trump "promised" to end aid to Ukraine? I do not believe he has. I think he has hinted broadly at doing so, deliberately and deceptively, for tactical and strategic reasons. The world has taken the bait (including even, somewhat to my surprise, VP-En) in spectacularly dull- and lazy-minded fashion.
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  4950. Why does the lookout point appear spacious and somewhat sizeable in the old footage (5 :31) and cramped and small today? Strange, isn't it?
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  4951. Just like an American to think that social rank is only about money.🙄 In the UK (and where Blanchett grew up in Melbourne, British ideas of class prevailed) a newly-rich person may have 100x the fortune of a minor aristocrat who owns land but is very low on money, yet rank well below him socially. Thus: Software multi-millionaire whose parents were a doctor and an engineer, who charters a jet for family vacations twice a year: middle class. Lowly baronet with frayed cuffs on his beautifully-tailored suits: upper-middle class.
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  4952. Correction: Harris never went to Berkeley. She went to Howard University (in DC) and UC Hastings, which is in San Francisco. Berkeley is across the bay in a different county.
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  4953.  @laurens.2503  Tesla is the world's leading EV company, HQ in Texas. Their cheapest car is now ~$45k. So if the Biden proposal didn't unfairly exclude Tesla, you could get one for $33k. (I could be somewhat off on these numbers but I don't think so.)
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  4954.  @Batmann_  What about people who try to make words ending in n German by adding another n to them? Far worse, no?😄Das ist nur meine Opinionn.
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  4955. Congratulations on being a supporter of Saddam Hussein, the well-known meatpacker.😂
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  4956. To guard the market share of the Russian Orthodox Church. Drug dealing networks are like that.
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  4957. Things can never turn around until we no longer have a populace both sides of which think (see this thread) that "losing" is correctly rendered "loosing".
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  4958.  @mouseisbroken  Sure it is.
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  4959.  @TWolfe777  You have a few burnt out bulbs in your chandelier, my friend. There's nothing contradictory in it. If a rainstorm is a thunderstorm, it produces lightning. And if a rainstorm produces lightning it must be a thunderstorm. With me so far? And lightning is a leading cause of forest fires. You didn't know that? It tends to be when the storm produces a high ratio of lightning to rain, and especially after a stretch of dry weather. Get it this time?
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  4960. Everyone's so excited that she mentioned them by name.🙄But of course she simply meant Marine One, the helicopter used by US presidents.
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  4961. Some years back, a clever guy I knew took to playing online poker and made a small fortune over a period of months. His secret was to play on sites Russians were known to frequent heavily. Russians, he told me, always bluff and never fold.
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  4962. Would the CAF as you know it be ok with action against Canadians for political protesting? (I'm assuming "Not really" at the very least, but more likely an emphatic "No!".) How much latitude would they have for refusing? I mean, could they at least drag their feet so effectively that Trudeau would be virtually stymied? And what about the rank and file? Could they somehow effectively refuse?
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  4963. I no longer subscribe to or watch TR because of its contemptible take on nearly every aspect of politics and society. I make an exception for Justin Bronk. (Edit: Also for Gen. Ben Hodges and Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff. And that's it.)
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  4964. In my view, when you can tell which party a journalist supports, except in a leader or opinion column, that journalist is a contemptible swine taking mean advantage of his or her position. One may be able to guess , perhaps, whom they support, but when it's obvious from start till finish they ought to be sacked.
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  4965. Concerning how Russians "treat" Russians or "treat" other peoples such as Americans, translation can be hazardous. "Treat" is used in Russian to mean "have an opinion about." So for example someone can say "I treat Finland well," even though they've never been to Finland or met a single Finn in person. A correct free translation is "I have a good opinion of Finland." Just a quirk of language and translation.
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  4966. @JH Not a fair comparison. Ambulance chasers do actually serve a purpose.
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  4967. It's just Krishnan being the sphincter he always has been and always will be. How can you ask?
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  4968. That's your big insight?😂 The effects of tariffs are complex and often deeply negative, including the fact that they are tax hikes. It's amusing to watch certain people celebrate tax hikes they would've excoriated Biden for implementing.
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  4969. Ok, Peskovchik.🤣
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  4970.  @2403rygar  Ok, thanks, now I know that I'm not banned!
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  4971. Yes and no. Just think if we were inundated with the works and productions of all the brutally untalented people of the world. One could say that the shy humility of people realistic enough to admit they have little to offer actually makes life on Earth livable.
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  4972.  @peen2804  You're correct that it's already more than bad enough. Worse than ever, I'd say. So please don't write a book. If you paint, just put the paintings on your own walls or give them away to relatives. As someone once said "If you don't think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you."
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  4973.  @dalegehrking2862  Let's just say 'todd' now, instead of 'chuck.' As in: "No, that's totally garbage. Just todd it." Or: "Oh, man, all those clams and beer...I think I'm gonna uptodd." Or: "Let's have burgers. I'll get some ground todd."
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  4974.  @robertburns3605  Neither British nor living in the UK, I cannot make a comment about Question Time, but I spend some time watching political coverage on Channel 4 and Sky. Overall the tone is as follows: A Conservative minister or member is addressed with clear skepticism (this much is quite all right in my view) and antagonism verging on hostility. Interruptions are frequent and rude. Had Scruton extended his reference concerning humiliation to Channel 4, he would have been justified. Anyone hating conservatives or Conservatives must find the attempts at it, which regularly succeed, deeply satisfying to his or her hatred. A Labour member or shadow minister is addressed in a manner much closer to that one uses with a colleague, even a friend at certain times. Skepticism may make an appearance but on the whole it is ordinarily a skepticism bordering on curiosity ("I'm not convinced; let us explore this further.") It is usually absent altogether, as are antagonism and hostility. The whole tone is very close to what a Labour guest would ask for if invited to do so. In short, Conservatives are treated much as foreign enemies of the UK might be. Were they really foreign enemies, we would all like it. Labour representatives are treated, not as perfect, but nonetheless clearly the way defenders of the nation against foreign enemies might be. In this way, supporters of the Conservatives who are watching are made to feel as though they are possibly foreigners themselves in some sense, but certainly at any rate enemies of the nation. It is this sort of display of power which most thoroughly makes ridiculous any claim that conservatism is responsible for society's ills, by demonstrating that its opponents are the ones firmly in charge. The media, the TV media at any rate, have set themselves up as a sort of a third house of parliament with a permanent left majority. When a Conservative government is in power, they must accommodate themselves to the demands of this third chamber, which is always in session with members standing to speak. 'Just doing their job,' you might reply, with a certain amount of justification. That justification, in my view, falls short at the point where the media are participants in a battle which they are supposed to be covering. If they were to leave the battle and return to the impartial stance Scruton asserts they once had, they would remain rightly powerful of course, but their virtual parliamentary innovation would disappear in an instant, its arrogated power shifted back to the Commons, the cabinet, and Downing Street. These are the views of a foreigner quite sympathetic to the future of Britain, who has no home anywhere on the political spectrum but rather always finds himself a nomad, pitching tents somewhere within a stone's throw from the centre (perhaps occasionally two) on either side of it.
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  4975. You're right. Around $100bn a year is lunch money in comparison. Finally a sane comment in this Ru-bot cow pasture. Please repeat it elsewhere and often. On that note, I'm leaving to hose my boots off.
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  4976. Albo and Canada's PM Peter Pan simply have no conscience. (Psychiatry tells us that while the sigh koh path can feel the shame of failure, he never feels guilt for what he's done wrong.)
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  4977.  @hamsterman32  Toe-to-toe? No. If that were true there'd be no need to assert it. It would be the only topic of discussion in the world. Also you should not omit to mention that Asian countries figure into it.
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  4978.  @nicolasgarcia248  You might be right about the impact of losing 30,000 soldiers from a military point of view. (Or wrong, depending on which soldiers they are, and what equipment is lost along with them.) Also to be considered, however: the political impact. Putin's supporters would howl with discontent, especially since all are now aware of his direct involvement in strategic command. And his detractors might finally do the same.
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  4979.  @justhimo2728  The cops noticed a man at the edge of the road with a gun sticking out of his pants, who appeared to be in some sort of confrontation with people on the facing side of the road. Are you trying to tell us the cops should have ignored it? If no, are you trying to tell us they should have approached him as though he was a harmless little old lady? This is why you're posting weepy comments in this thread and not out there working in law enforcement. But hey, thanks for your great sci-fi weapons technology idea.🙄 Write a story about it and get it published. You'll be a famous author with an imagination like that.
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  4980.  @thunderbird1921  Apu to Homer: "I notice your country is dangerously underpopulated." [Actual quote]
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  4981.  @blackrhino3442  Soon: Kidnapper's rights. Buy the baby some clothes, teach it to walk and you don't have to give it back. It's all yours unless the parents hire 15 lawyers.😄
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  4982.  @stephaniehopkinsartist  My mistake. I read it twice and didn't see that word, which I apologize for. But I still vehemently disagree that hating someone for their culture or religion is racist. Only racism is racist. Your brand of category inflation is ruining the language, ruining minds and ruining society.
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  4983.  @stephaniehopkinsartist  No probs, cheers
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  4984.  @stephaniehopkinsartist  You are right. (Btw I cleared away all that junk higher in the thread.)
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  4985. This needs hundreds of millions of views. It's that good.
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  4986. He ought to well remember, since he was nearing mid-life at the time, that the USSR was defeated by US-backed Mujahideen irregulars in the 1979-89 war. The reason for this fact being so seldom mentioned in the context of the present war escapes me. In the face of it one really ought to hesitate to hint at Russian invincibility.
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  4987. I wonder if anyone could come along who's so awful they'd make us forget how awful Brian is.
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  4988. She needs a complete medical evaluation. Well, from the neck up anyway. Stat.
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  4989.  @ocean645  I was equally embarrassed at his use of capital letters for emphasis. I think that might've been a thing 150 years ago.
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  4990. No. It's just a short pithy name.
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  4991. Tokyo Rose the 2nd.
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  4992.  @p33t3rpark3r  Studies say a lot of things, many of them wrong. All kinds of research is corrupt, botched, can't be replicated. Graduate degrees are handed out largely as participation trophies or like unpaid internships that rich kids land. You didn't know that?🤨
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  4993. Don't get 'liberal' in the sense of basic freedoms, representative government and the rule of law mixed up with 'liberal' in the narrow present-day sense of 'left-of-center.' The word has different meanings, which is nothing new. 'Liberal world order' just means the dominance of the allied democracies in place since WWII. President Reagan was an absolute exponent of the liberal world order. And the elder Bush, when he said 'new world order', simply meant the expansion of the liberal world order following the collapse of communism in Europe. The nasty and loathsome Great Reset is something else entirely. In my view it qualifies in the political science sense as illiberal. If, like me, you don't want it, you're in favor of the liberal world order and should advocate its preservation. If you simply can't stand the world 'liberal,' just say the Western-led world order. It's not really widely used, but no one will mistake what you mean.
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  4994. This is a billion times better late than never. I think it's going to be a big deal.
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  4995. So far! How long will that last? Usually in history a country becomes powerful and soon wishes to demonstrate its power on the world stage. Will China be an exception? Or will it soon show hostility to its neighbours? Much depends on whether the CPC teaches hatred of foreigners to the Chinese people. It controls the country. Cheers.
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  4996.  @kwongwong6387  I've been familiar with the point of view that China is interested almost exclusively in China for decades. But great events can change a people. If you don't know, to give just one example, what the US and its people were like before the Civil War, you might be surprised to find out. China has been through a lot in the last 70 years and the transformations are hardly through. There's reason for hope but we certainly can't be sure how it will come out. Signs that what you refer to is coming town end are mainly what I watch for. Thanks for your interesting reply. All the best.
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  4997. What a pair of posh eh wholes. You could see their personality issues from space. I wish the UK could just revoke their British citizenship.
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  4998. Long live a strong America. The US is what stands between billions of people and tyranny.
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  4999. Leave Yuri alone. He's just trying to harvest little carrots from a patch beside the parking lot. Oh, and dandelions as well.
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  5000.  @StPiter111  I realized all that quite well.
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  5001.  @SherlockHolmes000  Thank you. This is one of those occasions when I can tell I would approve of a deleted comment just by how some people are attacking it. Btw, virtue signalling is a good term for it, but you can also call it sanctimony. Same meaning, but it infuriates them even worse.
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  5002. Yep, down with government news.👎I no longer get why anyone willingly gets their news from the government.🤨Why would you want to get your understanding of the world from people who make their living at the pleasure of the people who write your laws? Even if you're clinging stubbornly to your fantasy that it's been going great so far? It's impossibly risky.
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  5003.  M Y T H I C A L N O V A  "Ok" is perfectly correct. In a way it's more correct than "okay." The expression comes from O.K., which stood for either "orl korrect," a slangy rendition of "all correct" from the 19th century, or for "Old Kinderhook," meaning Martin Van Buren, a 19th century US president. Know first, then post.
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  5004.  M Y T H I C A L N O V A  Aww, I hurt your widdow feewings? 😢 Sowwee.
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  5005. Reminds me of Homer Simpson reading Mr. Burns his messages: "You have 30 minutes to move your car....You have 10 minutes....Your car has been impounded....Your car has been crushed into a cube....You have 30 minutes to move your cube." 😂
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  5006. For those who don't know, civil courage is when you stand up for something you believe in, even though you know you'll be socially or otherwise punished.
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  5007. Pronouncing the word huge as "yooj" is the nearly-infallible sign of a nincompoop. Saying Ukraine as "YOO-krane" (rather than yoo-KRANE) is a sign almost as bad. These are the pitiable stigmata of clue-destitute American conservative men. (And I have nothing against American conservative men per se, only the clue-bereft ones.)
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  5008. I admire your gift for emphasis.
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  5009. It's doing that anyway.
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  5010. Buh-bye.
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  5011. You forgot the centuries before the Tsars. There was the era under a lovely group of conquerors known as the Mongols, preceded by centuries under harsh kings.
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  5012. Please, I'm trying to eat my lunch.
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  5013. But my dear woman, he never claimed to love Canada. He openly despises it, and us.
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  5014. The mushy left are illiberal.
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  5015. Hey, I just ate!
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  5016. As if government over-regulation is a font of national wealth! It is not. Reduced regulation will free up capital for productive use, for which it will be necessary to hire people.
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  5017. Nyet, ocel.
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  5018. This should've been 10 minutes, lads.
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  5019. Yet I'm not laughing.
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  5020. The plural of aircraft is aircraft! You people write in English for a living? 😂
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  5021. She must [blank] a mean [blank], that's all I can say. Nothing else could explain why she ever had a relationship with anyone.
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  5022. That type cannot prevent a suicide, as a person can simply go over it. But it would prevent accidental falls and the majority of attempts to commit a murder by pushing someone. As I understand it most subways around the world now have the floor-to-ceiling type, or are gradually installing them. They're massively expensive, especially for a large subway system.
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  5023. Yeah. It would've been a great time for a brawl too, but I didn't see one. Kanal 13 clickbaiters strike again.
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  5024. Never heard of spalling?
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  5025.  @danhosking  That's a UN-related pin. If it's somehow also a WEF pin, please explain how.
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  5026.  @UzumakiNaruto_  Your points are well taken but without video we don't know: 1) how suddenly the turn was initiated, 2) how fast the driver lurched across the cyclist's lane, 2) whether the cyclist was in any way warned or signalled to stop, 3) whether the driver did a side mirror or shoulder check  Those are the things which this matter hinges on. Believe me, motorists whom a cyclist has no reason to fear can seriously injure or k ill him in an instant.
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  5027. (1) Welcome to the Putinist comments pasture. Enter at your own risk. Don't wear good shoes. (2) All-in cost to its liberal-democratic allies of supporting Ukraine: 1/400th of GDP All-in cost to Russia of continuing its war on Ukraine: 1/5th of GDP
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  5028. The side issue no one mentions (or central issue, perhaps, depending on your point of view) is that she was handed the job mainly on the grounds that she is not a man. Evelyn Waugh, 1942: Put Out More Flags Governing party, 2023: "Put in the most passable woman"
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  5029. Namely?
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  5030. "Votes"?
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  5031. They pretended to be confused. Insincere people.
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  5032. 👏👏 Smashed the like button on that one!
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  5033. Ju ssi e Sm ol let: "I don't know. Personally I would trust CN N on this."
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  5034.  @williamwilson6499  Ah, but so are you: the proper verb is hoist, not "hoisted." Hoist is actually a past tense conjugation in the correct archaic form, which dates back several centuries. "Hoisted" is like saying 'I setted my watch' or 'He casted the first stone,' etc.
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  5035. Michigan? Appears to be Labrador.
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  5036. Really, why show us people and then tell us they don't mean what they say? What is the point of showing us then? Think about it. Are we really all that interested in your opinions, or do we watch to hear from Russians? If they won't say what they think — and this may very well be the case, probably so — then shut down the channel.
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  5037.  @DeadJDona  ...На падающее пианино.😄
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  5038. True ten years ago but only doubtfully true today — and things are getting worse and worse. Like the 1936-1941 period, this is no time to be preaching complacency.
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  5039. The interviewer is smaller than the task she has unwisely taken on. I wonder if this was more painful for me or her.
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  5040. Reprobates are really gonna resent that remark.
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  5041. If you don't like the terms of the contract, don't sign the contract. If the contract says the production company owns the footage forever, your feelings ten years later don't matter.  Or if they do matter, then how about the other party's feelings? They could come along ten years later and say "We wish we hadn't made that video with you in it, so give us back the wages we paid you." If you're 18 and you sign a contract, you can't go back later and say "Oh, I wasn't mature enough to know" etc. and then when you don't get your way, say "It's so unfair!" It's clear even to an 18-year-old what a contract is, even if they're not of average intelligence. A contract is a binding promise. What's this about how things are "terrible" or "unfair"? Francis, I never hear you talk like this about choices people make. Are you flirting with this porn actress?
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  5042. Did you watch and listen? No measures taken. Wilders will not be PM. The headline is absolutely not true. I repeat absolutely. Please re-watch.
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  5043. "Cultural imperialism and appropriation: It's cute when we do it ! We can do no wrong, you gotta learn that. We make the rules and amend them on the fly as we see fit. We could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and get away with it. Benefit of clergy, tra-la-la-la-la." Etc., etc. ad nauseam.
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  5044.  @twelvecatsinatrenchcoat  No, it's not that. The segregation appears to be permanent. It almost looks like a way of allowing more 'controversial' remarks to be made while discouraging and suppressing them at the same time. Somewhat like a bookstore with a small taboo section at the back, shabbier than the front section, poorly lit and dustier, maybe inviting a little bit of shame. Not really but almost.
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  5045.  @brucenenke-vk5nk  You read the comment carelessly.
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  5046.    In life, experience is the great teacher. That goes for societies and civilizations, too, which is why the wisest of the findings of the past are so valuable. Ignoring them amounts to forgetting what we have learnt. (Cf. Confucius: "The answers were all found long ago.")
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  5047.  @brucenenke-vk5nk   [Groan] By the same token I would suppose that if you harshly criticized a man and another person told you "Judge not lest ye be judged" you'd respond "Jesus never met this guy." So don't be silly. Whatever the merit of the quote, it can be applied with equal validity to Lewis' time, our own, the deep past, or the far-off future.
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  5048.  @MrKerri888  Precisely. Telling people to forget everything they know because it's limiting and damaging is what cult leaders do to cult victims. Its counterpart in art is the solemn gallery exhibition of a urinal.
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  5049.  @brucenenke-vk5nk  Congratulations.
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  5050.  @brucenenke-vk5nk  It's all bullshit news. You didn't know that? We're more than ever before in the present lifetime inhabitants of Plato's cave, left with nothing but shadows of various types to draw inferences from. Various types , notice, not just one. Sky Australia and Fox, limited as they are, are thus valuable sources for patching together an estimate of reality. Since no one lies all the time, one is better off getting information from six liars than from five. In Fearful Symmetry Northrop Frye pointed out that history "is invariably a pack of lies". That wasn't an injunction not to read history, it amounted to advice to read a lot of it.
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  5051.  @MrKerri888  It does fly, as does much worse besides. That guy, Duchamp, was just the one who got the ball rolling a hundred years ago. We live in an age of decay in which almost everywhere in human endeavour, what is new tends strongly towards garbage. Only science and technology are advancing, unfortunately providing new and better ways for bags both scum and douche to carry out their loathsome schemes.
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  5052.  @brucenenke-vk5nk  I'm not a friend. I'm a well wisher. Thanks anyway, and cheers.
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  5053.  @MrKerri888  Thanks for your reply. Yes, even science has no way of insulating itself from the mental decline of a dumbed-down populace. (Feel free to use my term 'The Great Dumbening'.) Not only are they, IQs somehow aside, less bright, they are much more venal. So science is warped by the age nearly as much as any other aspect of the civilization, but it entered the mid-postwar period in sturdier shape than the others. I'd say it was still on the rise till about 1985 or '90. It had been much bolstered by the counterweight of traditions built up and scrupulously maintained during the previous century, say 1870-1970. At various points in the same period, religion, politics, social usages, art, culture, philosophy, basic education, academia outside of science, and most other things, had entered a phase of decay.
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  5054. Good heavens that garment in the thumbnail is wretched. Moreover, it is meant for someone with a rather different figure.
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  5055. Yeah but I'm certainly not going to take her word for it that those were frat guys. The prejudice coming off her is palpable, so assume that if she even so much as suspected from the look of a guy that he might be a frat member, she wouldn't hesitate to say he was one...as a slur, from her point of view.
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  5056. If China were a rule-of-law country, like France, Canada would not ask, since there would be no point. But it isn't, so why not ask them to pull a lever their system permits them to? It's you who are weak on foreign affairs.
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  5057. Nice sardonic touch.👏
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  5058. The guy is a smiling criminal, liar, and hypocrite and he is destroying his country. To think I was actually mildly glad when he won in 2015 against Harper (even though I couldn't bring myself to go to the polls). How brutally mistaken I was. Oh well, live and learn.
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  5059. I'm sick of his unfunny Kat jokes.
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  5060. Buttapick is indeed awful. But the power grid is antiquated and will have to be redone anyway, EVs or not. It's normal. And there's decades in which to do it. As for electricity generation, replacing every ICE vehicle with EVs would only increase demand by 40%. And there's decades to take care of that as well. America will address these requirements in the same way it always has: gradually and with ordinary long-term financing.
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  5061.  @rwh5350  Yeah, I guess so. Sorry for my earlier reply. It's a little ambiguous whom you're making fun of there. Cheers
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  5062.  @fuyoucktube4321  Ok, as long as you're trying to be funny. I'm sure we feel roughly the same about this news conference. Cheers
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  5063. Thatcher would despise Putin with a steely passion. Le Pen slides out of her seat just thinking about him.
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  5064. Numerous times over the decades I've heard that tariffs only hurt consumers. Likewise I heard many times that free trade hurts workers and domestic industry. Though the subject is complex, it seems both claims were largely true. Perhaps it's just as the economist Thomas Sowell said: "There are no solutions, only trade-offs."
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  5065. Yeah. When she dwells on his skin, facial features, and hairline, it's like they had a bad breakup.
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  5066. It'd be great if the music was by a Ukrainian metal band. Anyone know?
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  5067.  @henriettagibsonii3545  Very well. Send him where he can do the most good: North Korea, where he can toss Kim Jong-un's salad.
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  5068. "Russian World" 😂 Sure. A sick pariah state plunging headlong into needless impoverishment. Formerly a sprawling colossus, now having for its "empire" a single vassal state (Belarus) and a few mostly-occupied provinces of Ukraine. Right, world.🙄
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  5069. 'Messing with China'? If China can't handle criticism, it should withdraw from the world. Otherwise it's just a big baby.
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  5070. Censorship in the US and EU? We don't need any lessons in censorship from the likes of you. Thanks, though.
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  5071. He also always looks like he's on something. To me it's fairly obvious. Bonus 'looks-like': He looks like a DC toon.
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  5072. Russia can far more easily destroy itself. And it will. "C'est son métier."
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  5073. Typical Canadian media outlet, bought and paid for by the government. Of course it gives the Liberals the kid glove treatment. As for the Liberals and PM Peter Pan, just as their domestic polices are a middle finger to Canadians, their defense policies are a middle finger to our NATO partners.
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  5074. If I were a hostile foreign govt, this is just the sort of post I'd pay to have sprinkled all over social media in the US. Total irrelevance to the actual substance of the story, just vague yet intense disparagement of the country. Exactly what Yuri Bezmenov warned about.
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  5075. As the caterpillar lays her eggs on the fairest leaves, so the Russians swarm the comments below the most truthful videos about their monstrous war.
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  5076. The last person came to correct conclusions in my view, but maybe for the wrong reasons. Sociology is a corrupt field intellectually. It is very far-left doctrinaire, producing graduates convinced they know it all when in fact they've just absorbed what's in a handful of books rigidly selected for their adherence to dogma. On other questions chosen at random she likely would have spouted a lot of cant. I hope she learns what real independence of mind is, and strives for it.
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  5077. All the blame is on Russia, monstrous Russia, under monstrous Putin. Russia remains a feudalist civilization.
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  5078. Now tell us how you feel about Xi funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars into Democratic campaigns and Democrat-leaning influencers.
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  5079. Oh, come on. It's their children who isolate and neglect them.
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  5080. 🤨You mean it's not?
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  5081. YouTube severely restricts what you can show, and they do not apply their 'rules' consistently. These channels never know what to do.
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  5082. That is an arresting pronouncement. How did you learn of this interesting explanation of things? Can you please share that?
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  5083. Canadians will understand when I say the same thing has happened in Canada. Peter Pan, who calls himself Justin Trudeau, is really Canada's first NDP prime minister.
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  5084. Approval of Putin seemed quite insincere, for obvious and understandable reasons. Good.
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  5085. How I welcome it! But it must feel weird to them. I hope it continues, whether it's in coverage of things I support or not. Trust in journalism is a crucial public good, and it's never too late to start repairing the destruction that's been visited upon it in the past decade.
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  5086. That Ukraine aid (5% of the DoD budget) is lunch money compared to the many 10s of trillions of dollars of American wealth destroyed if inaction later resulted in a massive direct conflict with Russia and its allies...to say nothing of the loss of American lives. You're familiar with the saying "Penny-wise, pound foolish"?
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  5087.  @JJY888  See the replies of the last 10 minutes for the correct perspective.
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  5088. Then you're betting that a hive mind species can build spaceships. I don't know about that. One could easily imagine hivemindedness efficiently prevents such an attainment.
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  5089. In the only wars in which Canada and Russia both fought, we were allies.
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  5090. "Crazy maniac" seems an altogether too small a term for him. I always go with "complete psycho." Every decent man and woman in the world is with you, Ukraine.
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  5091.  @spec24  Don't like free speech laws much, or just don't like when they're enforced?
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  5092. Freedom has limits. If it didn't, everyone would have the freedom to shoplift, stand on a street corner to incite a riot, or to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. An elected government has the right to enact laws which are constitutional and pass legal challenges in the courts. Any law is nothing more nor less than a limitation on freedom. Any and all laws. That said, it's also clear that not all the laws are automatically rendered just by the fact that clean elections fall on time. And no one ought to claim the constitution is perfect. But it's the only one we have and there are ways to amend it. Governments can be wrong but they have the right to be wrong. These limits on freedom of course include economic freedom. A business owner doesn't have the right to hire someone for a dollar an hour. In my view the law which penalizes this is not only legitimate, but just and beneficial as well. I doubt what I've said so far has roused any disagreement. But now I'll go just a bit further and assert that the $15 law is just and beneficial too, for the same reasons. I assert that $9 an hour is destructive to society in ways that are worse than the disappearance of the lowest paid jobs. It leads to inequalities that are dangerous to democracy by eventually filling the workers who earn that amount with, first, disillusionment, then hopelessness, then desperation. True, unemployment can do these things to people, but not as badly. It has in my view less power to foster hopelessness because there will remain some hope of finding work -- and it has the added consolation that, if the minimum wage is not too meagre, it will pay enough to avoid abject poverty. Try a thought experiment: Would we pass a law cutting the minimum wage to $6 so that an extra 50,000 jobs could possibly be created? It depends on what kind of country you want. My feeling is that one of the chief advantages of living in the West over other places is the relative rarity of desperate and hopeless people. The ratio must be kept down.
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  5093. Just what a criminal says. "The police have guns and so do I. We're morally equal."
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  5094.  @Thichaou  It's un-woke. That's its main feature and merit.
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  5095.  @youtubewatcher2  The two go hand in hand. He was an ideological student; how do you so bravely assert that a young Marxist grew up into something else?
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  5096. ​ @terraria9961  Yes, he's a great patriot. Still, I would disagree with anyone saying it proves him a patriot, in the sense that no proof was needed. I hope it was the right choice for him and Russia both. It might have been wise, it might not have been, but I'm in no position to know. At any rate I say we should all wish him well.
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  5097. They recently bought yet another mansion for several million dollars. Not even in the US either—it's up in your country, as if that makes any sense whatsoever.
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  5098. What ever happened to wholesome ascetic self-flagellation, hair-shirts and setting oneself on fire? It was once so simple. Now their sacrifice is all on us, not them. It's a pity, a scandal and a gross embarrassment.
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  5099. They're not priests of anything or anyone, they're just in business.
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  5100. Her retort would be: "I would say there's some [r-word] behind that attempt to smear the great city of San Francisco." Dem spin is incredibly easy.
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  5101. pwall-YEV(r) is the true French pronunciation, but his family anglicizes it to polly-EV.
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  5102. I watched the White House piece with interest. Curiously, it brought to my mind something with a very faint parallel, namely the rise to positions of great power of eunuchs in the imperial court of China during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE). Here is a very bare-bones summary (please, no snickering; that wasn't a pun): The presence of eunuchs in the Chinese imperial court dated back to at least the 8th century BC. However, their power rose to extremes during the Ming Dynasty. In the early 15th century CE, eunuchs established their own mini-bureaucracy at court, which grew to rival the official state bureaucracy. By the end of the 15th century CE, there were approximately 10,000 eunuchs in the imperial palace. By the latter stages of the Ming Dynasty, the number of eunuchs had increased to about 70,000, and they had established almost complete domination of the imperial court. During this period, four infamous eunuch dictators — Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian — wielded enormous power. The Ming Dynasty is considered the height of eunuch influence in Chinese history. Their power was so great that they could select and remove emperors, control state affairs, and even cause the fall of dynasties. (It has been said that powerful eunuchs were responsible for ending China's incipient era of maritime exploration of the world. A great fleet of ships was dedicated to the purpose in the mid-15th century, but the plans came to an abrupt end. However, eunuchs were mainly responsible for the exploration program in the first place, and the view that they ended it is not widespread. Most attribute its end to the death of an emperor, Confucian insularity, war with Mongol tribes, and objection to the expense. Of course, around the same time, Europeans began their own energetic program of maritime exploration, leading to results with which we are all familiar.) After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) initially reduced the number of eunuchs to 3,000 due to concerns about their excessive influence. However, eunuchs played a role in Chinese politics until the abolition of the imperial system in the early 20th century. Of course my point is not to say that any peril to the US is posed by any group, but it is interesting to note that there is a historical precedent for a takeover of the topmost machinery of state by a minority comprised of people with sexual differences.
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  5103. In fact, his popularity suffered almost zero over his crushing of the protest against him with martial law. The reason: The media supported him on it a thousand per cent. It thoroughly demonized the protestors as right x stream mists, though clearly they were not. The ploy worked because most Canadians have been programmed over the decades to regard even moderate conservatives as morally unacceptable, practically as monsters. The education system has been tightly in the grip of the left for half a century. So this video gets the trucker protest issue wrong. Actually, polling records clearly show that the PM's popularity took its decisive and lasting hit immediately when his wife left him a year and a half later. (Freddie badly misinterprets most of what happens across the Atlantic, and always with an air of great confidence.) It sounds ridiculous, and it is, yet it is profoundly revealing about liberal and farther-left Canadians, who are broadly speaking about 60% of the electorate: Most think that women are ipso facto wonderful, undoubtedly superior to men, and humanity's natural moral leaders. Indeed it was the very fact of his flagrant effeminacy that put Trudeau in office in the first place and kept him there for 9½ years. For the electorate he was the most acceptable type of man, namely an ersatz woman. Note that the coup de grâce for his prime ministership came last month, not when Trump launched his fresh round of attacks on him, but when his finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned in anger at her upcoming demotion. Simply put, Trudeau was installed in office, kept there, and at last removed, by the country's left-indoctrinated gyneolaters.
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  5104. How many, how often, only Daniil can tell us. He makes no claim that he presents us with a totally representative selection of his encounters with the public.
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  5105.  @watDfacts  "Still losing" According to Russia-1, yes. Good luck with that. Meanwhile you're down 600,000+ healthy young men and 100 trillion+ roubles in total financial impact. Perhaps most importantly, an astounding portion of your non-nuclear arsenal has evaporated. Soon your frenemies in Beijing will be gleefully noting that (again, apart from its nuclear weapons) Russia is as weak as a kitten. I feel so bad for good Russians.
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  5106. No way. Kringela is 10x worse at her job than Jean-Pierre. Not even close. She's a fire on a refuse barge; KJP is merely a mediocre and tedious metronome.
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  5107. There should've been an effective slogan for those opposed to or skeptical of government measures. Like "It's Not Ebola!" maybe. Would I ever love to be a high-paid anti-government slogan writer. Edit: Are there places hiring for that?
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  5108. *You're
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  5109.  @rong2912  The batteries are recyclable. Eventually the #1 source of lithium for manufacturing batteries will be old batteries. Right now, this still being early days, most of the ones ever made are still in service. Try to have some regard for the facts.
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  5110. America is the arch 20th-century nation, with one foot back in the 18th.
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  5111.  @netmedia7373  Anyone who thinks the world will improve as a result of efforts to weaken the US is mistaken. With a weak US, a colossal amount of serious abuse in a lot of places is going to be unleashed, unlike anything you can claim the US has ever done. Abuse and violence on a scale to remind us of the 1914—1962 period. Enjoy the rest of the Pax Americana while it lasts.
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  5112.  @TheOz91  Really well thought out and stated. 👏👏 ("I second this ...") It takes a lot of experience to reach such balanced conclusions. (Also smart parents, friends, teachers, profs; good reading choices, etc.) All the best to you.
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  5113. There's a bird's nest in a tree, three miles away, with a direct line of sight... Sophie und Karl-Heinz: "Stopp die Welt! Wir können die kleinen Vögelchen das nicht sehen lassen! Sie werden traumatisiert sein." ["Stop the world! We can't let the little birdies see this or they'll be traumatized."]
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  5114. Same stuff motivates N.D. Tyson.
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  5115. People cannot "colonize" their own homeland. Are the Egyptians colonizing Egypt? Are the Japanese colonizing Japan? Are the Papua New Guineans colonizing Papua New Guinea?
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  5116. Boston University: First they gave us AOC. Now, as if she wasn't enough of a plague, they're inventing one from scratch. Just send in a SWAT team, encircle the place to make sure no one leaves, consult the proper federal authorities on procedure, and start shutting this lab or labs down entirely. And do it now.
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  5117. Please, Ottawa isn't paralyzed. Several blocks have trucks illegally parked on them, mainly on one street. Be more careful not to parrot MSM falsehoods.
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  5118. "I'm back in the USSR..." 🎶
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  5119.  @STHFGDBY  If I "knew otherwise" or knew either way, would I ask? Would I not, as my contribution, just assert what I knew? Frankly I am wondering how they feel in comparison to the rest of Western Europe—the British, Germans and Italians especially—but thought it less useful to ask directly.
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  5120. ​ @TurdFurgeson571   This amounts to saying "You know what they meant!" To which my reply is: Well, I know what they said. And there should be no difference between what is said and what is meant. "Charges are pending" is the standard idiom when there's no question that some will be laid. Aside from that, my reason for not making the assumption which you did is the fact that four juveniles are involved. Considering the state of the American justice system, I find no reason to automatically assume that prosecutors are interested in charging 16- and 17-year-olds who tried and failed to steal cars.
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  5121.  @TurdFurgeson571  Oxford: consider verb [with object] ∙ think carefully about (something), typically before making a decision: each application is considered carefully on its merits. ∙ think about and be drawn toward (a course of action): he had considered giving up his job. ∙ regard (someone or something ) as having a specified quality: I consider him irresponsible. ∙ believe, think: all three patients were considered to be in critical condition ⎮ I don't consider that I'm to blame. ∙ take (something) into account when making an assessment or judgement: one service area is not enough when you consider the number of cars using this highway. ∙ look attentively at: he considered the women around the table with wariness. The sense "ponder which (of various options) to choose" (she's considering husbands) isn't listed, and rightly so.
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  5122.  @TurdFurgeson571  By the way, when talking about reluctance to prosecute flagrant crimes, I forgot to instance the Columbia University rioters who broke into Hamilton Hall and smashed everything they could with hammers. That was certainly on the same order of magnitude as this half-million dollars of damage. And what happened? When police finally made arrests after an unconscionable delay, and lower-level officials laid charges....DA Alvin Bragg came along and dropped almost all of them. So away with your accusations of cynicism, bias ("admitted," no less😂) and all the rest.
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  5123.  OsamaBinLadensSecondGirlfriend  Anybody speaking in a serious tone who announces "Remember, this isn't a game" loses a thick slice of credibility. Cringetown City.
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  5124.  @isa-kw4lw  You lost me at "superior ISR coverage." (Of "areas.")
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  5125. Don't call the CBC a "bulls*t factory". Bullsh*t at least fertilizes farmers' fields.
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  5126.  @gardiloo  Watch the 2018 documentary Operation Infektion here on YT. Great look at communist propagandizing in the US and the West. Marvellously well produced, approx. 50 minutes but seems far shorter.
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  5127. For the US, 5% of its defense budget — incredibly efficiently spent, better than any other money in recent decades, on bolstering European and global security...and of course, national security. Compared to the potential liabilities to American wealth if Russia were allowed to run wild, it's lunch money. I repeat, lunch money. Have a nice "fn" day.
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  5128.  @bobbya51  They didn't agree.
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  5129.  @raka522  Quite right. It's uncanny how Putzin is stealing Hilter's entire playbook, page by page.
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  5130.  @andrewdishman26  I never said he was some kind of sleuth. He's doing a good job of spreading awareness and making himself understood in a clear and persuasive fashion.
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  5131.  @itsmederek1  What's not to get, Mikhail? Supporting services within the military are supposed to collect the dead and bring them back to Russia promptly. Soldiers carrying around bodies for several days is a sign that resources were not properly and respectfully allocated to his forces by Putin.
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  5132.  @jrkr7357  Omg, how can you ask? Because he has no desire to see the people in the countries helping him to survive freeze in their homes!
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  5133.  @Kronosfobi  👏🏻 Haha, an excellent reply perfectly phrased. 👏🏻
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  5134. Hitler: "Hey, stop comparing me to that madman!"
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  5135. Indigo's owner/CEO/whatever is Heather Reisman. I guess the police have evidence they targeted Indigo because she's Jewish. It was pictures of her face that were plastered on the windows.
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  5136. Excuse me, but the cheap, shallow, unreflecting and uninformed cynicism expressed in that opinion appalls me. We're not cajoling Ukraine into doing our bidding, nor are we hiring them, and Ferguson had no such thing in mind. We share interests with Ukraine, and Putin has blundered by aligning them to the point of perfection. We are helping them to survive, to exist. We are helping them in the way they have pleaded for us help. We have no moral right to stop or even slow down, nor is there any sense in doing so.
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  5137. CCP, Putin, Kim, Iran, ISIS: "Excellent. Just excellent."
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  5138.  @scottyP1672  I'm too close to the centre to call myself one, especially now that so many liberals (most, apparently) have lost their minds completely. I see myself as politically homeless, really. Early on I did vote Liberal. Chretien and David Peterson weren't too bad. Btw, I'm glad you saw fit to admit your mistake, even if you wouldn't believe me. Cheers
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  5139. "He." "They." "This person." "The person." The studio newsreader tries every conceivable way of avoiding the fact that the perpetrator is a woman. Wow. Just wow! But the reporter wasn't having any of it. She repeatedly stressed "she," "her," etc.👍 Now what was it Dana Bash was saying on CNN about male hormones at the DNC?
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  5140. They seem like Finns more than Muscovites.
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  5141. Welcome to the comments swamp. Paranoia, resentment, ignorance, unintelligence---and those are its good qualities.
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  5142.  @sidhaunt  Don't bother me. I said he is India's leader, which is accurate.
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  5143. The joke is that you're waiting for an interesting and hilarious punchline explanation from the guy for how he got his pumpkin head, but it turns out he just made an incredibly absurd, pointless and foolish wish, apparently because for a moment it seemed like a good idea. What makes it work is delivering it for maximum unexpected simplicity and silliness.
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  5144. Fake outrage.
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  5145. What a childish comment. Without weapons makers we'd be defenceless.
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  5146. ​ @trekkingalbertosaur8870  Ambulances couldn't get around to all areas, whilst the army had brilliant vehicles that could.
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  5147. Actually, strong Democrat support for Dahmer had him at 29%.
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  5148. Cool. It actually takes an immense amount of energy to wipe out decency. I think it has to do with parental love, which always leaves a deep imprint on people. Eliminate parents and you can eliminate decency, but I'm not aware of anywhere it's been thoroughly accomplished...yet. So there's still hope.
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  5149. *premier
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  5150.  @bayousbambino427  But it's not "premeir" either.🙄
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  5151. I have a strong feeling that Russia—never mind all its problems of governance at the moment—will in the second half of this century end up as the last good country left on Earth. By then, what remains of the strengths of the best countries right now will have disappeared.
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  5152.  @paulleverton9569  <---"Grow up, Tim." Excellent, I totally agree. When I hear the term "military industrial complex" being thrown around like that, it's like I'm listening to some lightweight, pretentious, juvenile-minded, know-nothing pedant in a cheap bar.
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  5153. Hi BDF, you replied to me earlier ("Interesting way to look at it, reminds me of [...]"). Well, now I only have the notification. The whole thread itself is gone. Did you delete that? Was it yours to delete? I'm assuming No. So this is about a suspicion that it was deleted by the platform. Wondering if you could say. Anyway, cheers.
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  5154.  @Matthew_Loutner  Perhaps you have a point. I did not have the same impression watching Part 1 (with the same title) a month ago. On the other hand, the question asked here wasn't something about the world, it was about their own personal feelings, which they know all about. And there's simply zero chance they don't know about US support and what it means. Sorry, zero chance. They all know, every one of them.
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  5155.  @carelgoodheir692  Sorry, but that's just laughable.
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  5156.  @Matthew_Loutner  Well, ok. Perhaps it is more strange and worrying than deplorable. And it was a small non-random sample.
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  5157.  @1midnightfish  "Grovel"? Grovel? I'd ask you if you're kidding me, but I think you're actually serious. Wow. Just wow.
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  5158.  @kyle-ld2gh  I never said it was a contest, Your Royal Pomposity. It was a statement of plain fact. It is scarcely possible to give more energy, time and resources (as a fraction of what I have) as a private Western citizen than I have done. Kindly explain to me just how, from a far-off chair in front of your computer, you dare assert otherwise. And to think, you feel yourself a very fine person for doing so!
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  5159. Also Russia: "Russia has already placed 1st in this summer's Olympics in Paris."😂
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  5160. Literally doesn't mean definitely.
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  5161.  @JackArkitekt  I'm not a historian but I'm fairly willing to go along with that. The way I figure it, if there had been anyone worse I would have heard about it.
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  5162. A hearty thumbs down for your efforts to worsen the health of the population. Vaping is instrumental in getting smokers off cigarettes and staying off them. Public Health England actually recommended to the government that it pay smokers to vape instead, deeming that vaping reduced the risks to health of smokers by 95%. It is absurd to equate vaping with smoking, calling it filthy, etc. Absurd also to clutch pearls over a vaping cartridge containing 14 packs of cigarettes worth of nicotine, and then saying "If you finish it in a week, that's two packs a day!" Are you f kidding? So why aren't you saying "If you finish it in two days, that's seven packs a day!" ? Or "If you finish it in half an hour, that's 450 packs a day!" Tbh, that hit me like an Eric Idle skit from Monty Python.
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  5163. I can't believe those false eyelashes. She's doesn't know she's far too old to be a teenage impersonator? What's next, cheek sparkles? Depressing.
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  5164. Yeah, you look like an international relations and global security expert.
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  5165.  @masongregory278  Who knows, it might have been just one parent plus something gross on a chair she sat on.
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  5166.  @larrybethune3909  I like him slightly and once in a while he's right, I'll give him that, but then he nullifies the value of it with his next utterance. (And there's something about a socialist millionaire that bugs me. Cf. Samuel Johnson: "The merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.")
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  5167.  @artemisjuno  I believe he was referring (accurately) to Zelensky and his background.
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  5168. Yes, and a man successful at comedy too. I have noticed ever since I was a boy that the funniest people are also among the most intelligent.
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  5169. Astute observers are betting on May. America: January. Germany: February. Australia: May. Canada: probably May. It's gonna be a great 2025 H1!
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  5170.  @zredband  I enjoyed that reply. May I offer my opinion that you write better, and have more verbal wit, than the common run of your colleagues, although I'm pretty sure you realize it, but without conceit. And I protest that you are no pedant, as you surely know also. Cheers.
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  5171. In private conversations only.
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  5172.  @carpathianhermit7228  That's much more helpful. Thanks.
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  5173.  @yashchowdhury1163  True. A cheap car is a sign of a quietly loaded person more often than most people imagine. I've encountered this many times in people who drive old Jettas and Sonatas, etc., but actually have solid means. Also popular with they sneaky rich are Hondas. Favorites of high-debt, low-net-worth people include Jaguars, Audis, Range Rovers, Mercedes and (for some reason) the costlier Jeep SUVs. The first type of person will typically seem imperturbable, the second kind anxious and discontented.
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  5174. Phased. (Fazed = Bothered, flustered, thrown off)
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  5175. Which Montreal panelist? There were two of them, one Liberal, one NDP.😂
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  5176. I thought I was watching Big Brother demonize Emmanuel Goldstein. Creepy, sinister, chilling.
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  5177.  @dovetonsturdee7033   Since the antecedent in my comment was 1939, when you replied with "September" I took that to also mean 1939, which is why it appeared you were correcting me. Excuse my part in the misunderstanding, which might be approximately half. Some of what you say is valid.
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  5178. Jussie Smollett: "Appalling standards of truthfulness. I mean, she's the me of American academia."
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  5179. It's bigger than that. Lying has been perfected.
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  5180.  @dekippiesip  It wasn't the age of colonialism. It was the age of advances in sea navigation and shipbuilding. It was something new only in that it was conquest done at a geographic remove, instead of to neighbors.
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  5181. Extremely poor reporting here, since there's no blockade. All passenger traffic and all freight of non-sanctioned goods continues to go through as normal. Restrictions on sanctioned goods only. Please, Times Radio, fix this blunder on your part. Revise the headline and the description section immediately.
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  5182. Hahahaha! Rus sob ots are out here in their thousands. We all know what that means: accurate remarks were made in the video.
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  5183. You nailed it.
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  5184. Intentionally misleading headlines are now what Times Radio is all about. Oh, wait. Besides perennially poor audio in many or most uploads, that is. Oh, and reflexively pro-liberal views throughout each one of them, of course. But I digress. It should be: "Only the voters can stop Trump becoming president."
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  5185.  @РоманПопов-ч6щ  1,2 м, вау! Но я не понимаю значения "Энергоресурсы далеко и энергия ДСЭТ АЭС". (Последние две аббревиатуры мне незнакомы.) Означает ли это, что вы не можете позволить себе столько энергии, сколько вам нужно? 1.2 m, wow! But I don't understand the significance of "Energy resources are far away and the energy of a DSET NPP." (The last two abbreviations are unfamiliar to me.) Does that mean that you are unable to afford as much energy as you need?
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  5186. Of course. Just look at all the liberals and Russians, Iranians, etc. piling on him down here. Tells us all we need to know.
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  5187. Yes. His personality turned (twice as) boorish.
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  5188. Unplug the little buggers.
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  5189.  @kennethjackson3285  Fantasists are tedious.
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  5190.  @karibordi2082  Never mind that little Anglophobe, a youngster, I take it, who has had an unsatisfactory relationship with his or her parents. TA-led seminars probably kept him or her from robbing elderly people or torturing small animals. Why not save your keystrokes for chatting with a healthy personality and mind? Cheers.
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  5191. I totally distrust that map at the start which purports to show "Countries with US Military Bases" because it indicates Canada is among them. Rubbish. There are Canadian Forces bases with Americans serving alongside Canadians as part of the NORAD airspace surveillance pact, and there's joint NATO training, but that's it. No US bases, period. Anyway, since these arrangements are reciprocal, it would mean there are Canadian military bases in the US, which is obviously nonsense.
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  5192. Thanks for the Chinese Foreign Ministry point of view. Or perhaps you're just enrolled at Berkeley?
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  5193. It's a war, and civilians inevitably die in wars.  And it's in an urban area, where the civilian casualty rate is historically higher. Yet the rate in the Gaza War appears to be low for urban warfare. I think you should complain to those whose Oct. 7 atrocities ignited the war.
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  5194. DW is presuming a more knowledgeable viewership than the channels over here would dare hope for. North Americans are generally hostile to the sort of background knowledge one would need in order to find this discussion accessible and interesting. They see such knowledge as in itself deeply boring and nerdy. It also makes them feel inadequate, so it doesn't fly.
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  5195. I agree with every word of that. You point out the most important thing concerning the referendums.
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  5196. ​ @Doom_Lara  Hmm...that's rather good to know.
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  5197.  @Trip4man  Yeah, I sort of thought the same things but I instantly put them down to cultural differences. Or maybe he gave great thanks on the way down the staircase. (Several seconds seemed to be gone because of an edit.) Or maybe he found it too hard to thank the guy after those remarks on the way out of the living room.
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  5198.  @chriser555  I edited out the second-person pronouns, which should never have been there anyway. Sorry.
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  5199.  @МаксимЛяшко-и3ъ  You're clearly correct.
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  5200. I dislike them because they are too loud.
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  5201. He gave away quite a lot when he called Trump "an element of the extreme right."🙄
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  5202. Obviously he is preparing the ground for dealing with enemies like Russia, Iran and China by treating friends like Canada and Denmark aggressively. Obviously. ("If he treats friends like that, what's he going to do to us?") How anyone can fail to see that is beyond my capacity to understand.
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  5203.  @donikatod460  A journalist or academic could well know far more than a soldier or diplomat, be far more up to date, and far better plugged into good sources. The phrase 'qualified opinion,' btw, is just my way of avoiding that grating word 'expert' which is thrown around all too often. (I should probably stop using it, as it has a specialized meaning in accounting that has nothing to do with expertise.)
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  5204.  @donikatod460  Well what do you know, it turns out we're of exactly one mind after all. Thanks very much for that reply, which I found way more comforting than I should have. If I ever inherited a newspaper from my grandfather like you-know-who did, I'd headhunt and try to hire you at however fat a salary it took. Cheers
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  5205.  @MFYouTube683  I lean that way somewhat too, or I wouldn't waste my time.
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  5206. Oh, I don't know. I think it's 50-50: She could also find herself a very weak man with a steady job.
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  5207. ​ @afritimm  The bottom line is that the trade deficit with Canada was a piddling $63bn in 2024, just 9th-highest among US trading partners.😂 Top deficits: China $295bn, Mexico $172bn, Vietnam $124bn, Ireland $87bn, Germany $85bn... Canada is not your trade problem. Period. Canada: buyer of 17% of US exports. Rank: 1st Also Canada: 5% of US trade deficit. Rank: 9th Sorry for the pesky facts.
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  5208.  @KujoYT  So people wished to avoid paying duties at an international border. Wow, amazing story. Deeply interesting. It should be repeated down the generations unto remotest posterity.🙄
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  5209.  @greentea8852  "Materially support" does not mean "supply with material." It means "support in a significant way." You can verify this in any dictionary of English.
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  5210.  @大汉忠臣曹孟德  You bore me with your PRC Foreign Ministry talking points. Muted. TTFN.
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  5211.    Ok, talk to you in five thousand years.
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  5212.    Oooooo. Hungary's coming to get me.
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  5213. Always, you say? Would that would include anyone in your own family tree, then?
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  5214. It's a scandal. So don't just say it once, keep repeating it. Tell your MP too. Cheers, mate.
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  5215. "[P]olice speech when the Constitution expressly allows it". Uh, in the context it appears you meant 'forbids it', not 'allows it.'
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  5216.  @Cannon_Fodder_Russians  Haha, yes.👍
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  5217.  @MrHellsing76  No doubt that's a fair take. Still, focusing on their own lives should probably include addressing something that's about to send their grocery bills higher.
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  5218. Q: How much panhandling did S tal in do from the USA during World War II? A: All he had to do, all he could, as a responsible head of state protecting his nation from peril. Next!
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  5219.  @livingtribunal4110  Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, so you ought to join the Wagner Group. 😂
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  5220.  @xijinpingsfavoritehemorrho1328  Get real. Up until Jan. 20 both countries charged tariffs amounting to 1-2% of total imports. I repeat, both. Look it up. Believing things that are simply untrue is the religion of the Dear Leader's supporters. Sad!
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  5221. Did she say breathe like it rhymes with teeth? I'm not sure we need to see clips of her inanities.
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  5222. You don't know that! I bet police are trained to ask right off the top whether the person is late with their payments. It makes absolutely 100% perfect sense. So as we're told the cop initially thought it was a repossession, if you want to assume anything, you should assume the man said "Yes, I'm a bit late," or maybe "I don't know. My wife's at work and she does the bills." You do realize that a person of any ray ce can be behind on a payment?
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  5223. You mean fat gone?
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  5224. False. For many decades schools have taught that Canada is a "cultural mosaic," always strongly contrasting it with the American melting pot.
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  5225. And don't forget: over 2/3 of Canadians who support the protests are vaccinated. When you point that out to the authoritarian illiberal liberals, agonizing pain fills their heads. The way they react is priceless. They'll say anything, including "opinion polling in not a legitimate way to measure opinion." Meanwhile, top established pollsters are compiling their findings using the most reliable and thoroughly validated research techniques known to the industry, not self-selected internet surveys.
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  5226. U realize that's how a 6th-grader would word it?
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  5227.  @PenskyMaterial  The pride factor could easily be outweighed at any given moment by necessity. Have you been at Putin's side every second for the past few days, months, years, assessing along with him every threat and worry? If not, ruling with certainty on everything which might or might not be to his best advantage is beyond your powers. On the other hand, if you've never been surprised in Thy life, I bow to the omniscience which is Thine.
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  5228.  @lapoose325  That's bizarre. Why would you make that connection? Did you think something I said indicated a liberal bias?
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  5229.  @lapoose325  You've got a lot of major problems. I'm muting you.
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  5230. Dear Sun: the comments with soft-po avatars are adult site spam. Scrub those things, please. Thank you.
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  5231.  @knowwhey7559  If they didn't cover emerging stories having few details like this one, he'd be the first to wail loudly that they were neglecting their duty to inform the public or even 'covering up' unpleasant news. Thanks for your great comment.
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  5232. What a salad tosser.
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  5233.  @roskis6493  I already got that. Seems you mistook me for someone who supports Russian actions.
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  5234. During the Cold War we would laugh at the absurdities uttered in public by people behind the Iron Curtain. In times since we chuckled at the things North Koreans had to say. Now the joke's on us. The absurdities are here from top to bottom in our own societies.
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  5235.  @fawkesmorque  Germany: "Sure, Russia is beastly, but we like our sausages well-browned over a gas fire, and we like to drive on the highway at 240 km/h. So we will do all we can to help Ukraine, but it has to be extremely easy, extremely safe, and not annoying to Russia. Oh, and Ukraine has to say publicly that we are the grandest people ever."
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  5236. I don't know if you should do one of these things with such poor sound. Maybe send the guy a decent mic and a prepaid return pouch, and then re-schedule the interview for a few days in the future. I was very interested in this, but bailed after four minutes because of the audibility issue, despite my costly speakers which ordinarily serve me well.
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  5237.  @Extion147  Yikes. "Defend the guy"? I wasn't attacking anyone. Which guy? 🤨 I was making a point to the TR management and even made a hopefully helpful suggestion. This channel has constant sound problems I don't encounter elsewhere on YT.
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  5238.  @henryperez606  The woke definition maybe. The real definition of racism is feeling animus and contempt towards an entire race, plus mistreating it or advocating for the mistreatment of it. This is more like racial prejudice and bigotry. In other words, a bad, harmful and intolerant attitude which falls short of directly and intentionally desiring to harm or mistreat the race in question.
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  5239.  @grapicusdrinktus  I see. To me, it was both to some extent, and it took a long time. It is widely believed that in W. Germany substantial sympathy and ardor for National Sox ism persisted until 1968, when the annus mirabilis of student leftism in many countries (notably France) nearly finished it off. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  5240. Claimed ranges are govt.-mandated combined city-highway figures, rather like gas mileage numbers are. However, unlike gas mileage which is far better on highways, electric car range is better in city driving. So what you've said is like someone getting 22mpg in city driving and wailing "Hey, they claimed 35!"
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  5241. That's just wrong. Russia is Europe's poor cousin. Even by a maximally flattering PPP calculation, Russian per-capita GDP is around $20,000 (and falling fast). In Europe it's over $40,000. Poor people are never in a "much better situation." But thanks for your typical, sad and dishonest Pooty-bot post.
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  5242. ​ @ThatsMrPencilneck2U  I'm sick of this moral equivalence nonsense. It isn't like supporting democracy dissidents is the same as trying to spread totalitarianism. How on earth can you spout such tripe? It's rather like saying the police are just as bad as the criminal gangs because both sides are armed and use violence.
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  5243. Concerning Musk, I don't think he did anything wrong with his (odd, to be sure) gesture of his heart "going out to" the rally crowd at the Capitol One Arena. And at this point in his life he's one person who, for better or worse, is past second-guessing himself over incorrect public perceptions. As for Germany itself, it's now a full lifetime since 1945. Guilty parties are supposed to move on after admitting guilt and atoning. They must never forget, but they must move on. It applies to people and nations alike and it's both practically and morally right. To me, that's why Musk was correct to say what he did. It seems to me that the AfD appears far more to the right in the eyes of hangdog and guilt-obsessed Germans than Germans with a more healthy and rational outlook. Those of us at a far remove should trust the German nation to put its past in a rightful perspective and feel ordinary pride in itself once again without lurching towards anything unhealthy or dangerous. That's just my opinion and, who knows, there might be a flaw in there somewhere.
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  5244. You know all about being trained, I'm sure.
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  5245. And talking down to voters like they're her pupils. Insufferable.
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  5246.  @404_BrainDidNotLoad  Oh no, sir. That's me looking up into the heavens and thanking the universe (I mean the rest of the universe) for sending you my way with those words of inspiration.😀
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  5247.  @404_BrainDidNotLoad  😀
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  5248. ​ @saltpeter500  I don't call that crying. It's clearly meant to stir feelings in the community that in time may coalesce into concrete, practical remedies. People don't always know what to do, so they start somewhere. Whatever it is it's better than being a total sfink-ola.
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  5249.  @saltpeter500  You're the 'tough guy,' just looking for a scrap while hiding behind your computer. Look elsewhere, sfinky. I mute sfinks on the third strike.
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  5250. 2:55 Great shot of Her Royal Highness admiring the little outbuilding that houses the toilets in front of City Hall in Toronto, and scrutinizing the trash bins at the same time.😂 Never the elitist, her.
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  5251. Putin needs counselling for his life's traumas. He's not well.
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  5252. You don't say!
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  5253. Just a retired colonel. And I would be careful about using the unvarnished phrase "removing heads of government." He stressed quite clearly that he meant supporting Russians who wish to remove Putin. There is a difference which should be respected in terminology.  On the other hand, despite his leaving no doubt what he meant, saying "get rid of" is loose talk and irresponsible phrasing. He ought to have been much more careful and precise. Anyway, I don't think what he does indeed have in mind would be wise. Possibly the exact circumstances could make it advisable, but I doubt it.
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  5254.  @jordane5150  I agree with every word of that. I would add that destructive people acting in good faith also generally need to be battled. Good faith doesn't mean that when Konstantin and Francis walk up to you with smiles and handshakes, armed with friendly reasonableness, you're not going to tell them with a smile to sod off. The two of them seemed almost high.
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  5255. You forgot 4. Immense capacity is being built for international LNG trade. Just immense. A great number of terminals are under construction or planned worldwide. Huge exports coming from friendly and stable countries. Will be able to supplement and replace many millions of barrels of oil a day.
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  5256. ​ @laurameyerministries  What a nice way to say it.
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  5257. He had robbed some potato pancakes from some poor baba in the last village.
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  5258. Funny, google translate says blondinais is Estonian for 'blonde woman'.😂
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  5259. "Jurisdiction"? "Embassy"? You radically misuse these words, as perhaps only someone living several time zones to the east could do. (1) The duchess has no "jurisdiction." (2) Russia's embassy is in London, of course. The Edinburgh mission is a consulate. All you got right was that, yes, she did meet with the Ukrainian president. Try building on that one success.
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  5260. He doesn't rank too high on the list of Residents of America either.
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  5261.  @kevbrown1867  You're welcome. As for your middle fingers, just pull them out of wherever they're stuck, Det. Brown, 😂 and wash them off well.
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  5262. Reduce Russia to Muscovy Again.
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  5263. Remember Charlie Hebdo in Paris? Who did it? Remember London train bmb at King's Cross? Who did it? Remember Theo van Gogh in Netherlands? Who did it? Remember the airport in Brussels? Who did that? Remember the Christmas market in Germany? Who did that? Remember the truck in France, 85 people gone? Who did that? Remember the train in Spain? Who did that? Remember the theater in Russia? Who did that? Remember the World Trade Center? Who did that? ....I don't have all day. You get the idea.
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  5264. Interesting report until that woman went off the rails in the final 30 seconds. On the surface an attempt to be breezy, but a show of weird and almost disturbing personality.
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  5265. Italy, eh? Volgograd is in Italy now?🤔
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  5266.  @scipioafricanus5871  That's all a matter of opinion.
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  5267. Let's give a nod to the entire galaxy of Norm Macdonald clips. Hell, let's start calling them a corpus.
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  5268. He's so dogged in his determination to make himself ridiculous that I think Alpo is more fitting. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😆
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  5269.  @Steakfrie  I know. Try reading between the lines of my post.
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  5270. @LastNamefirst-wv7jj That's all a matter of opinion.
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  5271. My mother always said "There's no fool like an old fool."
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  5272. How many months are we away from corporate support for the right of "Minor-Attracted Persons" to live without stigma? And shortly after that they'll declare them heroes.
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  5273. It's almost like you shouldn't be automatically taking the word of some author doing publicity for his new book, on an unproven claim for which he's presented no evidence and which is denied by the man he's accusing.
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  5274. Nikki Haley: 🤔If I stay in the race longer than the rest of Trump's challengers, I'll look like his natural successor next election cycle. Rest of Americans: 🤨No, you're gonna look like an unrealistic wishful thinker and hope-fuelled masochist.
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  5275. Swinish is my word for giving three seconds for a reply before interrupting.
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  5276. @j I can't understand why my reply keeps instantly vanishing. There couldn't possibly be less in it that goes against community guidelines. Maybe if I introduce it as an edit?... : No, the principal reason for Russia's war on Ukraine is that Putin's aim in making himself ruler of Russia was to re-annex former SSRs. He always planned to do it. The fact that Ukraine decided it wanted to protect itself by making powerful friends (NATO) only moved up the date of the invasion. Russia thinks it owns the countries around it like normal people think they own the sack of carrots they just bought for $5.  It has to learn that it doesn't. Other countries have a right to exist, not just them. Has Russia learned nothing?
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  5277. Toweringly entitled, effortlessly arrogant.
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  5278.  @Ktmfan450  I'm not mentally ill, nor in possession of twisted morals, that's how I'm not a Luigi fan. Pity that you needed to ask.
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  5279. This was followed by a cruise line ad. Which I skipped.😆
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  5280. Average South African: "Man, Chicago has such terrible problems. Crumbling. So glad I don't live there."
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  5281.  @gerardomartinez3920  You're telling him what he's telling you.
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  5282.  @daydays12  It was meant rhetorically, not literally. Just you missed that.
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  5283. I was astonished to find that 45 minutes had passed. Seemed somehow like about 20, and that says it all.
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  5284. Allow me to analogize by comparing China and the West to low-wage and high-wage workers. Someone making $17 an hour desperately needs large annual raises in order to grow rich. Someone making $200k a year will never become poor getting raises around $2k a year. The analogy has definite limits of applicability, but my point should be clear.
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  5285. Congrats SNA for getting it right. Every US outlet is saying Trump torpedoed his prime ministership, which is ~98% false. He's been walking the Green Mile for over a year. And all you had to do was interview a Canadian! No US outlet even bothered.
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  5286. After listening to this one (hell, after just seeing her, really), I think it has to be admitted: Minnesota is without a hope. Maybe it should simply be expelled from the union, but I guess a start would be just giving Omar the boot.
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  5287.  @echelon2k8  Nicotine, while a drop of it will kill you, is a safe stimulant in the milligram quantities obtained in smoking or vaping. It is most certainly not the the thing in cigarettes which causes illness. Yes, you can be safely addicted to nicotine if you do not smoke. For instance, the drugstore nicotine replacements recommended by doctors for smoking cessation (e.g. patches, mints, gum, inhalers, etc.) are considered safe.
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  5288. Gavin Noisome
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  5289. "Long-lasting oppression" Yeah, practically an eternity of it, much of it totally cut off from Europe. Their back foot is in the age of Genghis Khan, by whom they were conquered and whom they ended up founding their national culture in imitation of. (Not a complete exaggeration.) They're still feudal-minded.
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  5290.  @raiden72  Wasn't it a charity box (rather than "the store clerk's coin purse")? I never see money on a store counter except in a charity box. Larger point concerning your reference to "death": No one died, nor is it reasonable to say the stabbing was an attempted murder. The store owner relented when the robber went limp, then attended to his survival by calling for medical help.
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  5291. Cannot agree. Autocracies and dictatorships have a lot of similarities, but a dictatorship is the most extreme concentration of power in one person. An autocrat tends to be more consultative than a dictator, having concentrated and supreme power, but having more regard for laws, unfair though the laws may be, than the dictator. For example, Henry VIII was certainly an autocrat yet he was certainly not a dictator.
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  5292. Are you forgetting that Israel ceded the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt?
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  5293.  @thaguyKarlos  Writing is just about the best way to find out what you think! Cheers
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  5294.  @VapeAu  Is suppose you think I was critical of that PHE report to the govt. I was not, not in the slightest. Do some vaping to sharpen your attention, return to my OP, and re-read it. Anyway, reference to tobacco smoking is 100% germane to discussions of vaping. Vaping is saving the lives of countless smokers.
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  5295.  @jandeenphoto  Telling lies and labelling arrangements in the US as "total fascism" — in other words on a level with Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany — is itself baby talk. Or rather, spoiled teenager talk. "I hate you mommy, I hate you daddy! You're the worst parents ever!" Where did we go wrong with this spoiled brat?
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  5296.  @jandeenphoto  I rest my case. I mean you rest my case.
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  5297. ​ @joman563  "duncan smith" is an inmate of an insane asylum who thinks Putin is his father. The nurses are happy to let him play on the internet, as at least he does not bother them or the others while he's at it.
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  5298. 👏👏👏👏👏 Nothing could be more true. Please repeat it elsewhere, and often.
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  5299.  @V_for_Vovin  Blanchett lives in the US now but has lived in Britain and comes from Australia where, at least in the social milieu where and when she grew up, British ideas of social class prevailed. And middle class to them means something far different from it does to Americans. Just accept that, please, because it's a fact. Americans are stunned to learn that a rich and decidedly 'classy'-seeming person is considered middle-class in the UK but that's just the way it is. It's middle in the sense of middle-rank, not literally close to the 50th percentile of wealth of income. Think of it this way: In an army having 10,000 officers, a colonel may rank about 300th, with 9,700 majors, captains and lieutenants below him. But he is still a middle-ranking officer in the sense that there are five ranks above him and five ranks below him.
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  5300.  @V_for_Vovin  Economics I love, but here we're concerned with social class, which is properly in the domain of sociology. And not American sociology either, but British-Australian. They have their own quite different system whether Americans like it or not. Brits and Australians know just what she means and would nod their agreement. A married couple comprising a teacher and a personnel manager would be considered middle-class in America, absolutely; but not in the UK or Australia. What are called middle-class Brits are top professionals like doctors in major metropolitan hospitals, London bankers, well-reputed barristers, very successful and well-educated entrepreneurs and the like. Kate Middleton before marrying William was middle-class despite her parents having made tens of millions of pounds, despite going to the same university as him, despite her posh manners and tastes, despite even having traces of nobility on her father's side. His first career was in British Airways' operations nerve centre and then he made his own money by starting a business, therefore he is middle-class. He is thoroughly rich now, has a marvellous large old house, and his daughter is to be Queen of England, yet he will always be middle-class and he would be the first to tell you that. End of story. Stop struggling and have some respect for the facts.
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  5301. "World-class engineer." Not trying to quarrel with you, but the CEO isn't an engineer. He has no engineering training or education, having studied business and physics. But his dad was an engineer, and his first university, though he was a commerce student there, was among other things very steeped in engineering culture and attitude.
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  5302.  @cleopatrasnile  If by "many Canadians" you mean hundreds, then yes.
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  5303.  @j.obrien4990  Yes, absolutely, a far-off conquered land is the same as a country's own homeland. Yes, the Indo-Chinese frontier in 1946 was the UK border. Yes, if that's what it takes to get you to bugger off.
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  5304.  Maria Parker  I hate you people and your fake Anglosphere screen names. No one really named Parker writes English like that. As for "China Pass America", that's a laugh. When Chinese GDP per capita reaches one-third that of the US, China will have passed America, perhaps. But it still has to double before it gets there. That's right, in China the GDP per person is $10,000, in the US GDP per person is $62,000.
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  5305.  @5thribroarn304  Thank you. Repeat it elsewhere and often. For every one of us spending a minute there's ten thousand of them spending an hour.
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  5306. Look, things are so bad that we can't afford to push aside oddballs who are actually helping, just because they're oddballs.
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  5307.  @infinite8382  Oh please. But even if your 'The Rothschilds are in league with Disney and Soros and the Masons and the Deep State and Tom Cruise' mentality were correct here, there's still all that time before the BIS founding when Switzerland kept the integrity of its borders. Speaking of the BIS, it isn't even a large outfit by global standards (it would only rank, for example, a distant sixth among Canada's banks by assets) and its main purpose is to act as a discussion forum for staff of the world's central banks. I think it's a good idea for them to talk to each other.
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  5308. What you're doing is not working. Posts like yours just make the 1.2 billion+ people in Ukraine-allied countries, with $50trn in GDP, even more infuriated, more determined. You're headed for humiliating defeat, Sergei. You will pay very dearly.
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  5309. That's easy. The ruble is down about 25% since before the war. Russia's military has been weakened by more than that.
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  5310. Sounds incredibly far-fetched, don't you think?😄
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  5311. In time, artillery and missile launch sites within Russia are going to have to be liquidated one way or another. Russia has more firepower than NATO has air defense supplies it can donate. The latter needs its air defense resources both for self-defense and to present a deterrent to China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific.
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  5312.  @anthonyholder7629  I don't believe anyone knew that's what that old man was, although clearly more than one official dropped the ball and should've paid the price for that. As for "medals," you imagined that. My advice: Don't slander a country which is one of America's few friends. Canada, UK, Australia, Isr. That's about it. Four out of 190, bro.
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  5313. How about one with a mainly methane atmosphere?
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  5314.  @jfjoubertquebec  I admit I've been aghast at the people who've been cheerleading for a recession for about a year now, in the hopes that it'll impair Trump's re-election chances. I think it's evil to wish ill on others in that fashion (I mean on people who'll end up with jobs lost, money disappeared, houses and apartments lost, families split up, couples split up, lives ruined, bad times lived through for kids and grown-ups alike.) I took your comment for something along the same lines but referring instead (or also) to the need for change on climate policy.
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  5315. ​ @Krush4you  Such shantytowns will simply prevent real solutions from being sought, funded and implemented. They will do this by leading to a 'mission accomplished' mindset among voters who might otherwise push politicians for them, and by soaking up funding. They would be an 'improvement' that prevents improvement. They will encourage even more addicts to flock to California, because actual privacy behind an actual locked door is part of the dream for homeless people. But here it will enable and hence cement addiction behaviour in ways that the privacy of real housing wouldn't, because real housing affords real dignity. (If you're living in one of these toolsheds, you're still homeless.) I could go on all day here. This plan is a mistake. The need is for small subsidized apartments in buildings not dedicated to them alone, and dispersed everywhere (and in every state). Also, prescription drug coverage. Such a plan would in fact be a big money saver (if I assume correctly that shelters and other homeless services in California are publicly funded). But more importantly, it would deal a direct blow to the problem. Thanks for your reply.
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  5316. The weird thing about that word is that no squeezing is involved in using the thing.
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  5317.  @TheJlee28  What a perfect example of effortless arrogance on your part.👏 Such an outstanding specimen that I suggest you stuff and exhibit it in a national tour of museums.
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  5318. ​ @mariag.8242  Ah, Prime Minister, I wondered when you'd show up with your poyz'n rhetoric! Yep, anyone who doesn't support Olivia Chow's policies is "extra reigh cyst and misogynistic." Even a man (me) who married a woman born in the same place Chow was (Hong Kong)! Your screen name, btw, is quite precious, Prime Minister, considering you no longer have a marriage.😂
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  5319.  @spliter227  Enormous quantities are needed to produce spinach, too, and to quadruple-wash it on its way to the truck which takes it to your part of the country. If the water is at hand (unlike in California) then 1,300 gallons of it for a hamburger (or bag of spinach) should not be a problem. The vast majority of it goes to sustaining the cow, and water isn't destroyed when an animal drinks it. It runs through the animal and comes back out in the ways we're all familiar with. The important matter is whether water is used in sustainable ways. Is it sustainable to use water in the way the OP describes, desiccating a large region so our friend can eat sanctimoniously enough to slightly assuage some of her obvious emotional illness?
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  5320.  @spliter227  Thanks for taking the bait. I knew you would. It's nowhere that high. But if you really do care about urine pollution and the strain of agriculture on the planet, I think you know what you have to do. Please tidy up your living quarters first, so that no one else has to do it afterwards.
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  5321. You clearly don't know the meaning of the word. And do not want to.
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  5322.  @scottohara9001  Correct. Nearly this whole comments section is one big pile of CCP talking points. Too bad I can't use the terms I'd like to.🤬 For my part I agree entirely with where Joe Kernen is coming from. He gets it.
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  5323. This video goes around in circles.  "Putin is heading into 2024 with the upper hand," yet "Putin is near disaster in Ukraine." All too typical of Ukraine War reporting and prognostication.
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  5324. Every now and then a spacecraft passes behind the moon to take a look. When she implies we'll know at some point she is actually correct.
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  5325. Yes, but also for her politics.
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  5326. Answer: The British media appear to be around 90% Labour Party supporters. I don't think it's any more complicated than that. The older ones are old tankies and near-tankies, the younger ones are wokesters or near-wokesters.
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  5327.  @nbgoodiscore1303  YT does that to 'unauthorized' flag emojis. The Scottish flag, e.g., will show as black. (In my view it's really time for us all to migrate off this annoying platform.)
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  5328. In my opinion cunning and deceit are written all over her own face.
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  5329. Strange, Mr. or Ms. "Rodgers," that you haven't mastered the plural s in English. It's your native tongue, right Mr./Ms. Rodgers?
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  5330. As far as you're concerned, which is of course fine. But I certainly always did notice when milfy customers dropped away.
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  5331.  @priyajoseph7108  Good comments. In fact it is absolutely necessary that someone buys Russian oil. If its exports were totally removed from the world supply, a great shortage would result. Prices would probably rise above $200 a barrel. Recession and high inflation would overwhelm every economy, except perhaps those of top oil producers whose gov'ts passed laws to cap crude prices domestically. Further wars would break out.
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  5332.  @CakePrincessCelestia  Exactly. And how did little old Muscovy get to the point that it now covers 8 million square miles? With lots of minding its own business and respecting others?😅 Don't think so. Also, Europe and Asia have been home to massive civilizations for millennia, while when the British colonies started, the vast future US was home to only 3m people. It was just about as ripe for immigration as any place on Earth had ever been. Russia isn't in Ukraine settling almost empty land. Besides that, native Americans generally greeted European newcomers with considerable goodwill. Ukrainians aren't doing that either.
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  5333. I love hearing your point of view and enjoy the great production values of your videos, but I find the way you wave your hands and arms distracting and it makes you hard to watch. In my view hand and arm gestures are for emphasis, and it doesn't make any sense to emphasize everything. It's like writing with everything in boldface, everything underlined, everything in italics, or everything in ALL CAPS. It's a non-verbal form of shouting.
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  5334.  @ZeeshanAnsari-hy5zg  Develop, right. Like a cancer develops.
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  5335. It reminds me of the Arab countries, 22 of them with a population of over 450 million, occupying 5,000,000 square miles of land. They are furious that people indigenous to the region for thousands upon thousands of years, their Semitic cousins, have for themselves a petty 8,000 square miles!
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  5336.  @ГалинаБрагина-п2т  I know that UK special forces numbering over 100 are acting as the president's bodyguard. I'm comfortable with that even though I'm against NATO forces fighting on Ukrainian soil (for now). They are not there to do battle with the Russian state, but with assassins, from wherever such may originate. Concerning Oliver Stone, alas you and I do not share the same definition of "investigate."😄 Stone is yours if you want him, and you can keep him. For my part, I have never considered him a credible source of information on anything, and have never taken the slightest interest in his multi-decade career. (You can keep Steven Segal, too, and Tucker Carlson.)
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  5337. If the colors were reversed and it was W.♂smashing B.♀, the media would be turning this into a national crisis and major election issue. But it's not, so they're quiet as mice about it. Where there's R., they say nothing. Where there's no R., they say there's vast amts. of R. And I have to go around using initials and symbols for things.
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  5338.  @laars0001  The ship was not in Romania's territorial waters. It was on the high seas.
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  5339. There are two possibilities: (1) He's a plain old garden-variety c rook. (2) He's pretty honest at heart, but a sense has been instilled in him that he's a victim, and that's something that sooner or later leads a person to think of ways to get payback. There you have the problem with victimhood culture: It tends to corrupt people.
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  5340. I think that is the most ridiculous accusation I've ever seen in my life.  What impresses your pointy-headed gender studies TA is not so well-received in the real world, I'm afraid.
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  5341. In essence this is what Hippocrates knew about 2,400 years ago. It's why he came up with his oath for physicians. It starts First, you shall do no harm. But it turns out not only doctors but a lot of other people should take this oath. (Maybe all.) Let's see: All political theorists and politicians, all social engineers, all loudmouth activists, all 'progressives'.... While I'm at it: Cf. Confucius [a century earlier than Hippocrates]: "The answers were all found long ago."
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  5342. Wrong. It's your own ideology which got old and failed long ago. Look at what's been happening in elections. People don't want your old ideas. They don't want to be de-humanized, treated as pests obliged to follow the orders of self-styled moral superiors. Of course you announce yourselves not as tyrants but saviours. But having usurped power, it's always the same: "In order to attain the necessary social improvements, temporary sacrifices will have to be made. Certain rights inevitably stand in the way of progress. Elections will have to be re-imagined and, if necessary, delayed. Here is a list of The Four Olds..."
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  5343.  @UserName-ii1ce  Ok, you hate white men. Good for you. Give yourself a gold star and be proud of yourself for your accomplishment.
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  5344. Hardcore city. Particularly tough people. The Russian army can expect the most unfriendly response they've met yet. Pronounced odd-YES-a.
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  5345. “It’s a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe (2011-14), interview, January 2024
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  5346.  @eddastrohmayer251  Putinists who scrape things off their boots to say when a NATO general urges action to prevent war.🤣
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  5347.  @On_The_Piss  No, the numbers hardly make a clear-cut case against Sweden's approach. If anything, it's closer to the other way around. I've posted several replies in this thread which you can look at if you like.
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  5348.  @odette8905  Laws? I haven't heard about that. It's all been by decree as far as I know, making it even worse. Thanks for your reply.
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  5349. Even mid-adulthood is not too late to improve the way words such as 'skull' and 'adult' are pronounced. Start working on it now, then later on let's compare before and after!
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  5350. What was that they signed, a Chrismas card?
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  5351. Vladimir Putin: "I approve of The Hill. Finest journalism in the United States."
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  5352. @Articulate Management Yeah, he's a bigot.
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  5353. North Americans in the 1970s and 80s couldn't believe it when so many thousands of people joined cults, all of which taught scary nonsense and were dominated by flaming nutbars. "How could society produce so many so gullible airheads?' 'It'll fade away soon, right?' It was just the beginning.
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  5354. His job is to wave from balconies. May he stick to it.
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  5355. ​ @EthanLomas  ...and Canadian Tire! (Or as I call it, The Ch i na Store.)
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  5356. Actually, NoFrills makes it so that lower-income Canadians can eat decently. It would be a disaster for them if the chain disappeared. The stores are individually and locally owned, by the way. The Loblaw co. is just their supplier. Metro, on the other hand....
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  5357. It's all so crazy. Ordinary Americans and Russians should be working together to have more influence on the world than any other two peoples. They're natural allies at heart. They should be close. I like them both.
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  5358. Open AI privately owned, Wai-yin. Can to look these up fact easy on global internet. Oh, wait...
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  5359.  @nebnik2015  Yes, I see what you mean. Even with silence or neutrality we cast a sort of vote. (Cf. the final lines of A Strange Kind of Love, a song by Peter Murphy. "There is no middle ground...")
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  5360. If this appals you, just put everything you've got into November of this year and November of 2024. Save. Plan. Act, calmly and civilly.
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  5361. Fair take. Views collected with scientifically methodical scrupulosity have greater value in an important sense. But there's value in other ways too. Video of students walking around tearing down posters of hostages, e.g., tells us things that a well-conducted survey cannot. (Not to imply you said anything directly contrary to this view of mine.) Speaking of surveys, consider that Pew Research found that Democrats and Democratic leaners aged 18-30 sympathize far more with the Palestinians than the Is rae lis — 47% vs. 7%. (Survey results published April 2, 2024.) Views on elite college campuses — where people are younger than the 18-30 group as a whole, and lean politically farther left — are likely even more lopsided. While absence of sympathy for Isr. does not equate to endorsement of H.s., we can safely assume that among the callow & sanctimonious on elite college campuses, there is some relation between the two. In my view, any relation greater than zero is disturbing, wrong, harmful, and deserves to be publicized. Anyway, thanks for making a fair point in a measured way. EDIT: Note the multiple blank spaces above, inserted not by me but by the omniscient algo overlord at the moment of posting. Experience has taught me that they indicate that disapproval of my views which always precedes a period of shadow-you-know-what-ing. So dark, so very 2024.
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  5362. ​ @martygriffith2135  Actually, what the US is doing is about precisely the opposite: Avoiding a war with Russia. The road to war is paved with appeasement. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  5363. The US debt is about 40x the defense budget. So I think you wanted to say that the annual interest on the debt is more than the defense budget, which it is. (Or that the annual deficit of $1.8trn is twice the defense budget.)
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  5364. It was to be expected: Canada went first, tariffing Chinese goods.
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  5365. Ah, so blame the victim. Arabs have been pushing Jews out of their tiny homeland for thousands of years (never with complete success) and that's the fault of the Jew themselves? That's absolute R-word, my ironically-named friend.👎
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  5366. ​ @bertthompson4748  The fact that you're asking me these things shows that you didn't understand me at all, which I find odd since I made some pretty simple points. You must be thrown off by the fact that in my original comment I was satirizing a specific problem (fact-checkers, like other journalists of the present day generally do, present an empty and often unconscious left point of view) while in the second one I sought to explain why the enterprise itself deserves no special recognition or status, something which would be equally true if it involved a right bias or none to speak of at all. So I think you might be assuming I meant them as two parts of the same point, which I didn't.
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  5367. Not the 9 o'clock News resents that smear of its good memory.
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  5368.  @Flashback_Jack  Cool. I really think it's the most beautiful bird I know of. Just a stunning-looking animal.
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  5369.  @Flashback_Jack  Yes, I've seen males and females both. But only perched or standing around, posing like supermodels, and never in attack mode. I'm guessing other birds tend to stay the hell out of their way. Which reminds me of one time when, as I was sitting in a downtown park ordinarily populated by countless pigeons, a huge red-tailed hawk set down for a while. He was around ten feet above ground, atop the broken trunk of a big tree that had recently snapped in a storm. Despite his being preoccupied with feasting on the massive rat he had brought along, all the pigeons, thousands of them, took wing in huge flocks and fled the park within about half a minute. Replacing them, a crowd of at least a hundred people gathered just to watch this magnificent bruiser eat lunch. It was gruesomely worth it.
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  5370.  @dezerep  I guess, if you're pointing out Marcuse's belief that tolerance was dangerous: it would extend to tolerance of anti-leftist views. For of course it's totally settled that the far left is totally right. Amazing how leftists hate religion, yet are fanatically religious in their conviction that 'Ours is the one true faith and must prevail at any cost.' Add to that their panicky aversion to examining and discussing it sincerely. Personality cases, every last one of them.
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  5371. Dr. Felton didn't say Hess edited it. He said Hitler dictated it to Hess.
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  5372. 1) So just who was going to have this "unborn child"? Was it him or his husband?🤔 (Yes, in case you missed it the report referred to his "husband.") 2) It's too bad the animals he's treated over his career cannot be interviewed by police. I think it's safe to assume that horrors of some sort were committed against them.
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  5373.  @lindaglover7088  Jussie Smollett: "I believe every word Paul Pelosi and the police say."
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  5374. 👏👏👏
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  5375.  @jesuszamora6949  He's not my idol. I don't believe in having idols. But I do have a capacity for admiration. In those who don't, alas, Musk seems to bring out painful feelings of inferiority. It's a pity.
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  5376. Welcome to the Kremlin comments bull pasture. Wear boots which you can hose off afterwards.
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  5377. Yes: 1984…with Dan Andrews starring as O'Brien.
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  5378.  Bright Owl  It should be pointed out that once ~10 months have passed since the start of the war (and sanctions, inflation, foreign company pullouts, etc.), Russian maternity wards will likely fall pretty silent. Who would see this as the time for expanding one's family?
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  5379. I agree with every word of that.👏👏
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  5380.  @AjaxDGonzo  It's over your head. Have a nice day.
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  5381. It's simple: He eluded police, got into the collision, and evidently abandoned the car and fled on foot.
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  5382. One inaccuracy, one probable inaccuracy: 1) Russia does have a gas pipeline to China, albeit not one of a really high capacity. (In other world markets a similar delivery volume would be worth $10bn/yr., give or take.) A 2nd one is under construction. 2) I doubt this financial loss will much affect govt. revenues from Gazprom. Besides income tax there are major gas royalties paid to the govt. no matter what. I also doubt Gazprom even incurred a cash loss. It's likely — emphasis on likely — that it only took an accounting writedown due to the fall of the rouble. This is because it went to world debt markets to sell Gazprom bonds before the war, and issued them in US dollars. The rouble's fall thus means that in rouble terms the company has more debt and less equity than before. And because of this, accounting rules require it to charge the decline to net income. Hence the loss. But that would not itself affect the operating health of the company. It has to be harder to pay the higher USD bond interest nowadays, but this loss itself is more of a disaster for shareholders than to Russia or its government. (I repeat, I am not 100% certain the company did not incur a cash loss for some reason.) Key takeaway: The fact that gas exports are way down is a 100x bigger story.
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  5383. Meeting at The Times, 2019: 1: "How do we get this far-right s.o.b.?" 2: "Well, he's said to have slept with thousands of women who were anxious to sleep with a celebrity and carve a notch on their belts." 1: "Ok. I don't care how many years it takes, how many thousands you need to track down, find four with a grudge."
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  5384. Also "Race doesn't even exist. It's a social construction."* *Except when we say it exists, which is the vast majority of the time.
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  5385. To finish off American society and make it ready for Marxism.
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  5386. Brothers under the skin.
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  5387.  @fintux  Thanks for your interesting reply.👍Wonderful
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  5388. Correct, and the same thing goes for all our higher animal cousins, distant and near. Indeed, if natural immunity were not naturally robust and powerful, at the very least we wouldn't have a grand total of fewer than 40 human vaccines, even including all the new ones of the past year. We'd need to have 400, or 4,000.
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  5389. He's had a close call with cancellation, being credibly accused of sexual misconduct a few years ago. But he played the woke card in his defense and got off, so he's perma-stuck in the woke camp now. Never at all particularly sharp, he is nonetheless shrewd in maximizing the return on his meagre abilities.
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  5390.  @johnneville403  Thanks. I agree with every word of that.👍 I guess you sorted by Newest First. I'm all but totally shadowbanned.
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  5391. I can see her making a move to push Biden out. She can promise or hint at large rewards for those who help her. She'll do it if she can see a way to do it and all the while deny she's doing it. She's a sly one and so are so many others who'd love to be her confederates.
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  5392. 🤔Was that neuron-deprived moralizer in the California t-shirt (!) really Andrey, or was asking him if he was Andrey simply a way of pointing out to him that he himself is not serving on the front lines?
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  5393. @Youtube music Canada did a great job in Afghanistan in the very challenging province of Kandahar. It had realistic expectations given that absolutely conquering Afghanistan has long been impossible and remains so to this day. The UN-mandated ISAF did what it was there to do, and Canada and its allies left at a time of their own choosing.
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  5394. That's not what the guy said. He said he was representing Russia, not the Russian government. Lie number one.
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  5395.  @jamesrebbechi4471  Wuhan Dan could be perfectly cast as O'Brien in a remake of 1984.
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  5396. Now in Canada on the CBC (i.e. government news) they are no longer expectant mothers or pregnant women. They're not mothers, not women at all. They are 'pregnant individuals'. Ovaries, Fallopian tubes, wombs, lactating breasts, wide hips, a baby inside them, the works—yet none of them are any longer women giving birth. No, because motherhood—indeed femaleness itself, just like maleness—is now "transphobic" and a hate crime, punishable by law. The CBC has comments sections appended to its 'news' stories. If you write a comment objecting to this nonsense, it is deleted by a censor, called by them a "moderator". This is done with taxpayer dollars, the CBC budget being well over a billion a year. Horrifying, I'm sure you find it. (I'm taking you for an American.) But up here we find stuff down there stupefying, trust me. It's a tough call to judge on which side it's worse. I defy anyone to say for sure.
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  5397. The one on the right looks like she's in a Star Trek uniform.
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  5398.  @TS-wh4ey  Hey, I'm trying to eat my breakfast here.
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  5399. @4everBroadwayfan Thanks for your interesting reply. Your sketch of the young adults of the present day does indeed seem to answer to your description of them as diverse. Yet there's a point where the level of diversity seems quite significant but doesn't yet make generalizations worthless, let alone ridiculous or absurd. Thus there may be two thresholds we're interested in---the point at which generalizations become weak and the point at which they become insupportable. (You may have mistaken me in the first place. In what I asked I was thinking of a fraction or percentage of the age group. By way of analogy, if one claims the US is linguistically diverse, one is on very shaky ground if 97% of its residents speak English at home. But a claim that it is not linguistically diverse weakens when the number drops to 85% and becomes silly at some later point. Yet at 85% it's still quite sensible in my view to call the US an English-speaking country.) In a generalization you give up one thing to gain something else. Whether it's any good depends on the ratio of one to the other. By the way, where's the estimate you said you'll of course offer? Cheers.
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  5400.  @LouisTsuiful  May I suggest total war, starting two hours before sunrise tomorrow?
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  5401. Stop using dad as a term of derision. Ridicule is too potent to be thrown around that way. Fathers have been made the butt of jokes non-stop for about three-quarters of a century now and the results have been regrettable to say the very least. (Meanwhile mothers have been made into virtual saints to be worshipped.)
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  5402.  Tobias Reiner  Oh please, he didn't even come close to saying or letting on that 'all women are awful'. He said feminists are, and then challenged Ms. Loffler to do battle against them, correctly noting that the relative freedom to do so is her special privilege as a woman. You went immeasurably farther yourself in referring to "the few women who actually aren't awful."
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  5403. @Ian I think you mistake his tone. It was not an attack; it was the issuing of a challenge—in somewhat bitter and skeptical terms, I grant you—whilst in a state of high dudgeon against others, not against her. She sounds level-headed and confident enough to take it the right way—i.e., as a point of view and challenge perhaps worth considering, expressed not fanatically or with animus but polemically.
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  5404. What's the dollar value of all the oil resources in the ground in Syria? Find that out (it's peanuts) and then tell me how that measly amount can steer the thousand-trillion-dollar, 330-million-person ship of the United States. Tinfoil encloses your cranium.
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  5405.  @aluckyman1475  Other people's money.
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  5406. I was wondering how someone's eyebrows can be so high above their eyes.
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  5407.  @lw1zfog  It is ok to say savage as a compliment on YouTube? If so, I say it
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  5408. According to online sources the 52-ton Gepard has a 10-cylinder, 37.4L (!), 819hp engine. A small battleship, really.
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  5409. That testimony ought to be part of every child's education, first in school, then in college.
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  5410.  @thatboy3930  2:40, not 2:50, dude.
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  5411. Maybe because it tricks you. It's juggling, but a real juggler would be a bit irritated, I'm guessing. He has two tires in his hands about 99% of the time. I get that it's hard, though. It's still something.
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  5412.  @bruce12479  Cautious of them and their judgement, yes, but also of their trustworthiness. Which reminds me of Samuel Johnson, who is recorded as having said "Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons."
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  5413.  @SubjectiveFunny  It's another word for instilled.
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  5414. Incredible. They're acting surprised. The gall. The unmitigated gall.
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  5415. Never ask what percentage of the Pals passionately support Hum Moss.
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  5416. YouTube rules are easily taken advantage of by Russians. They complain about violent content and YouTube responds by removing the video. Cuz ya know, Russians are gentle, sensitive, dainty and peaceful people who abhor violence in all its forms.
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  5417.  @nicholasconder4703  Your anti-immigrant prejudice is shocking, intolerable and shameful. Who's your hero, Enoch Powell or Adolf Eichmann?
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  5418.  @nicholasconder4703  Ah, history. Or rather, "history." The automatic resort of the R-word and the illiberal. Most notably, in the last year or two, Vladimir Putin. You're in great company there, Slobodan. 👏👏👏
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  5419.  @cattymajiv  The population of First Nations reserves in Canada is 400,000 (2021 census, out of a total 1.05m who have First Nations status).  Of course not all have unsafe drinking water. And bear in mind that an unsafe water advisory may pertain to a source which serves as few as five people. According to the federal government, "Canada will spend at least $6bn on First Nations water infrastructure between June 20, 2021 and March 31, 2030." The provinces also provide some funding. This follows the earlier commitment to provide $4.6bn in infrastructure funding in the five years to 2021. The number of public system long-term water advisories for reserve residents is going down. It fell for 7 of the 8 years in the 2015-22 period: 69 were issued, 130 were lifted. (In the first pandemic year, it rose by two.) According to Indigenous Services Canada, "As of Feb. 3, 2023, there were 32 long-term boil water advisories in 28 communities in Canada." They say that 81% have been lifted, a lift is pending in 9% where the work is finished, in 7% construction is in progress, 2% are in the project design phase, and 1% are being assessed.
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  5420.  @nicholasconder4703  I specified quite clearly that it's your attitude to immigrants which is extremely repulsive and unacceptable. You replied with deliberately irrelevant points. I understand though. Anti-immigrant people seldom face up to what they are, instead hiding behind "history" and even "science"(!). It's difficult, I know, and I doubt you'll ever get there.
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  5421. Same old argument here:  "Pit bulls aren't dangerous. It's only a few bad owners." One, their sole purpose is to bite another animal to death. Two, only one type of person buys a pit bull: a maladjusted and dangerous one. No one else would want one. No one else does.
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  5422. I don't know what you think the average nurse is like.🙄
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  5423.  @AS-gm5yn  I'm glad to say the flurry of tweets from Ontario police forces in he past 24 hours makes it clear the police want nothing to do with the new arbitrary powers granted them.
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  5424. He's repulsive. Clearly an activist rather than a scholar of any sort, because the intelligence of a real scholar is apparent at once. He gave off a powerful impression of a lack of mental gifts.
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  5425. ​ @CitizenCraftymethod  The least I can say is they richly deserve the serious decline of the public's regard for them. In some ways they have come to resemble gangsters—ones disguised in clerical garb, pointing fingers at and denouncing the other gangsters. In other ways they are like a crowd of high school girls, telling lies and destroying reputations.
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  5426.  @thegeneralist7527  You mean that all-caps screaming guy? I read all his posts at the same time and thought he satirized the panicky overreaction people pretty comically. But, yeah, he got several readers annoyed.
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  5427.  @sullivan912  I accept your criticism and should have known better, since I did already know that Ireland's GDP is vastly bloated by its tax-haven arrangements. That distorts the picture of how large the government is and how much it must tax the people. (I looked at government expenditures as a percentage of GDP and took that as a proxy for personal tax rates.) My mistake, and I will edit the word Ireland out.
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  5428.  @Marshall_EL34  All this "as high as" business is exactly why I didn't go there. That adds up to 74% and doesn't even count municipal taxes.🙄 Such a joke. But I can understand why someone with an axe to grind would do it automatically: it efficiently avoids the low- and mid-range households, helping to make a biased point.
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  5429. 👍Yep, quite right. Or maybe one could also use the word 'dryly.'
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  5430.  @Sean-l5l  Usually posts with that word get offed. I think 'dilutional' is meant as an end run around that.
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  5431. Who doubts he'd do it if Walz were a Republican? [couple of crickets]
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  5432.  @markg1531  Considering that the avatar of the account is an emblem of the Wagner Group, I think we can safely assume that the writer is not actually British. As you traipse through this bull pasture of a c'm'nts sekshun, I suggest you don't wear good shoes.😅 All the best to you. Carry on!
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  5433. The US cuts a rather poor figure as an "evil empire." It has long stood for the right of the peoples of the world to self-determination and has contributed greatly to poor countries' economic development. It always takes its cut wherever it is involved, but a truly evil empire would have done little to nothing in those two areas. Look at how the world is prospering and how many additional billions breathe freer thanks to US efforts.
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  5434. Unimportant. While in error, it really takes nothing away from the report.
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  5435.  @marcbloch1963  Because you hurt my feelings so badly. 😄 But seriously, I'm a thoroughgoing Ukraine supporter.🇺🇦 I don't get why you thought otherwise,🤔because my reply was in no way pro-Russian. Cheers, mate.
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  5436. He looks embalmed.
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  5437.  @KenJackson_US  No, just the most important thing --- to the Democratic Party. You didn't notice that?
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  5438.  @KenJackson_US  ​ My mistake. I thought the question was in the title of the video, but it was in the video itself. It was: "Why Russia and not China?" And my answer is: It's because the Democratic Party will not attack anyone if they are non-white. I hope I've made myself clear now, sorry my OC made no sense. :)
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  5439. When the UK exited India in 1947, it was divided into India and Pakistan in a process called Partition. Unexpectedly, millions of Indian Muslims headed for Pakistan; millions of Hindu Pakistanis headed for India. During these migrations massacres claimed many lives, the usually-quoted total being 2 million.
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  5440. So M goi means "Oh thanks, nice of you to say/do that," but do ze means, "Thanks. Oh wait, I think I have a bag for that."
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  5441.  @cj-zd7zj  No one knows, and that includes you and me. We know the real number is higher than the confirmed 10k (based on sheer logic, since it's certain that not all infections have been detected and confirmed) but beyond that it's all conjecture.
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  5442.  @Smj1303  Elite, yes. But 'elite,' for all the significance of its meaning, is not a social class. She's actually thinking and speaking in the way members of her class are raised to do: namely, to consider that she's a member for life of the class she was born into, rather than thinking she's risen in social rank through financial and professional success. The latter belief would be considered objectionable, conceited and quite impossible anyway. Her parents were middle class according to the conventional class system, her mother being a property developer and her father an advertising executive. If you think those occupations smack of being higher than middle class, they likely would in most places since they would tend to place one in the top few percentiles of income and wealth. But they don't in Britain. There they're considered middle class, never mind if the people concerned have a considerable pile of money, received a good education, live in an expensive and tastefully-appointed house in an upscale metropolitan area, speak marvellously well in a good accent, never behave with vulgarity, and all the rest. Let's put it this way: the overwhelming majority of British people would love to be middle class but know they never will. But they hope that their children might, if they are taught to conduct themselves well, attend an elite university, move in higher social circles, become successful barristers in Westminster firms or specialist doctors in top hospitals, vacation on the Côte d'Azur and go skiing in the Alps, send their children to Oxbridge, and so on. Yes, all that is still middle class. Do not be thrown off by the word middle. It's not middle in the sense that the quantity 'six' is in the middle between one and eleven. It's middle in the sense that an army colonel is a middle-ranking officer between 2nd-lieutenant (the lowest officer rank) and field marshal (the highest): that is, that there are five ranks below him (or her) and five above. The 6th rank out of 11 ranks is square in the middle. It ignores the flagrant fact that out of 10,000 officers only 300 outrank him and 9,700 are below (8,000 being lieutenants), and that's just the way it is.
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  5443. The difference between this guest and the typical Millennial now turning 40 is the difference between growing up in your late teens and 20s—as you're supposed to!—and just not growing up at all. Her mom must be a pretty all right person...who's feeling pretty relieved.
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  5444. I read about bakeries so old (centuries) and with so many spores in the air that no yeast was needed, nor added. It seemed a serious article, so I was surprised this wasn't mentioned here as well.
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  5445. She said that men shouldn't be allowed to enter women's sports—unless they're too small and too weak to win. Then it would be ok. It's plenty bad enough that she's a "celebrity spiritualist" and "confidante of Oprah Winfrey," but with that pronouncement she demonstrated that she's simply a menace to civilization.
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  5446. Hahaha, all of that needed to be said and needs to be repeated often. (KC now, btw.)
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  5447.  @Jamie-Z  Yawn. Feeble boilerplate propaganda. But thanks for the Kremlin spokesman point of view.
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  5448.  @Jamie-Z  Russia's "economy has quadrupled." 😆 Thanks for that stat from the Ministry of Plenty.
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  5449.  @Jamie-Z  It wasn't an insult, it was ridicule. And now you add that the stock exchange announces economic statistics. It does not, as you would know if you possessed the least financial and economic literacy. You're out of your depth, and hearing you use the word "fact" is like hearing a streetwalker talk about love.
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  5450.  @sjent  The US dollar is also up significantly this year against the Indian rupee and the Chinese yuan. Are those major enough for you?
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  5451.  @sjent  CNY opened the year at 6.35 to the dollar. Latest, 6.75. Therefore down 6.3% YTD. That's a significant decline. You bore and annoy me terribly, as Party enthusiasts always have and always will. Talking to you is but lost time, and for that reason I shall no longer be able to receive replies from you. Have a nice life.
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  5452.  @stream2watch  You can guess what I tend to notice about people who throw around 'moronic' and similar words. Cheers, friend
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  5453. Yeah, because he was thinking 'Who is this crank?'
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  5454. Gen. Keane hasn't steered me wrong yet. His every prediction and point of analysis (of those with an outcome so far) have been borne out, no exceptions. That's why the pooty boughts turn out in such great numbers every time he's interviewed.😂😂
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  5455. I assume you mean "base."
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  5456. They can be out anywhere else, just not in evacuated areas. (Supposedly, anyway. I expect lenience for looters, harsh enforcement for residents.)
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  5457. That's triple the real figure for Ukraine. Why don't you think the truth will get anyone on your side, Dmitriy? Come on, give it at least one try.
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  5458. Fantastic. Thanks, I was wondering what was up with that.
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  5459. Ah, the Kremlin proudly showing off its mendacity. As usual.
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  5460.  @gaba_gool  1) Actually, 2 millon Arabs live inside Isr. and enjoy the equal full protection of its constitutional human rights provisions. They are citizens, workers, business owners, voters, public figures, members of the Knesset. Yes, Isr. is officially J ew ish. So what? The UK is officially Anglican. What matters is equal status of individuals. 2) 71% of Palest inia ns say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. Source: A poll of 1,580 adults conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research in mid-March 2024.
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  5461. He's thinking with his feelings. Anyone really thinking knows that for the same actions, no other person in the country would ever face those charges, ever be subject to a trial run in that fashion, ever be found guilty on such a thin pretext, or ever be rushed to sentencing in the manner planned. The justice system was re-invented for this case.
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  5462.  @louisestevenson5102  As much as I despise Trudeau and the things he's doing, that's an exaggeration and it's not funny. Save it for when he outlaws all other political parties.
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  5463. Yes it is. Censoring libel or other illegal speech is censorship, and so is censoring legitimate opinion. Nothing in the word 'censorship' itself implies that it's bad or unfair. Those things would have to be a matter of context. It's like the word 'discrimination.' To discriminate is simply to notice differences and perhaps act on them. So there's what people call 'fine discrimination,' which is ordinarily a merit, and there's unfair or illegal discrimination.
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  5464. The funny part was how the accomplice waited for the package to be in the car before zooming off.
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  5465. ​ @colinstock325  It's true that the middle-class is the natural habitat of snobs and virtue signallers. But let that serve as a reminder that middle class is a type of mind as much as a financial category. There are middle-class people struggling and others with serious craploads of money. (Let's also remember that every class contributes to problems in its own way.)
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  5466. It matters little. If they do agree, they will promptly violate it and falsely blame Ukraine. Mark my words.
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  5467. He's a senator? Make him Prime Minister!
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  5468. Who says that thing represented an ideal form? Could very well represent a specific person. (* Also, name is Willendorf)
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  5469. ​ @piman4102  Sadly, for anyone with a can't-do attitude, all these renewable energy problems are being addressed. (And they don't have to be absolutely eliminated either. Natural gas, e.g., can always play an energy role as a backup to other ways of generating electricity. No big deal, as long as its importance decreases greatly.) For one thing, the future of storage is looking great. Btw, I share your feeling that nuclear power (both fission and fusion) ought to have a very important place in our energy mix.
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  5470. Vintage design, to be sure. Whether of vintage manufacture, harder to say. Probably not.
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  5471. No, that's not pocket change for Loblaws. Ten million, sure; $50 million probably; but $500 million is real money. It won't cripple the company or affect its future, but they'll sure as hell remember it.
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  5472. Step carefully and don't wear good shoes down here in the Kremlin worker remarks pasture.
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  5473.  @adamcraft9118  I'd say it's fairly similar. I appeared to say otherwise? Btw, the race to succeed him as party leader should be over in 8-10 weeks. Days later, new PM sworn in.
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  5474.  @nickmotsarsky4382  It's 30, and will be 32 with Finland and Sweden. 😁
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  5475. It already does, hard, compared with 25 years ago. You weren't around then were you? There were always great and low people and always will be, but the brilliant and beautiful people of solid character of that time, now rapidly going away, are scarcely at all being reconstituted amongst their replacements (who are in comparison dull, ignorant, homely or worse, and spectacularly childish and nasty). Harsh, yes; unbearable to hear perhaps; but the reality itself is harsh and there's no point in candy-coating it.
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  5476. Extremely skilled rider! Can pedal slowly down street in straight line as thunderstorm begins...while asleep.🤣
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  5477.  @everythingclub599  She went to his house to shtup a celebrity and didn't like how he treated her afterwards, I expect. (Coolness and lack of consideration presumably.) Then, years later, she caught wind of his eventual political leanings. Finally, a reporter phoned and then later showed up on her doorstep. Presto!, total change of heart.
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  5478. Quite right. Hastily shoving Russia back to the border would never do, since they could just start the same atrocities again. Russia's military must first be weakened for the longer term, just as Ukraine's must be strengthened. This is why NATO's drip-drip escalation has been so brilliant. Soon if not already, Russia will be unable to resist a major Ukrainian counteroffensive, nor to re-mount an offensive of its own. These will be the twin pillars on which to build a peace and re-build European security.
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  5479. At first I thought the thumbnail was AOC. Turns out I wasn't far off.
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  5480. Thank you, madam. Your encouragement means something.
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  5481. @Rick Tick Congratulations, you're the first na st y Noof I've ever encountered.
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  5482.  @CanadianExtremist2024  Meh. Interesting claim.🙄 But far more importantly, @lastChang is stating facts.
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  5483. Just as in 50 or more other countries, Russia included. Evil cultists are unfortunately a permanent feature of humanity. A cause for concern and vigilance, but not invasion.
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  5484. Negative vote for clickbaiting title. The elephant didn't save the lion from anything, as the hyenas didn't even come close to it. Perhaps they meant it harm, but that is speculation. I will choose Don't recommend channel.
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  5485. One loses credibility presuming anyone has ever mentioned Iceland as a "military force." It was mentioned here as a member of the BEF alliance. It is strategically located for the transport of soldiers and materiel across the Atlantic, and in other ways.
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  5486.  @WhiteFluffy-g6b  Поддерживать эту войну ниже человеческого достоинства. Вы не понимаете, что вас обманывают в больших масштабах, хотя вы знаете, что использовать слово «война» для этой войны незаконно? У муравья больше мозгов и больше человеческого характера.
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  5487.  @hobobobobo2065  What canting nonsense. More like she was femsplaining. Hear the condescension first in her reply at 5:12, then even more in the one at 6:10, which culminates in open snark at 6:30. Real thought should be given to dismissal.
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  5488. @Lock Down When he said "Good interview," I took it for cheerfully-delivered sarcasm tinged with contempt, since I've never seen a guest treated with such determined rudeness. I actually suspect the producer ended the interview early because it had started to become a spectacle not fit to be aired.
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  5489. So the story checks out. I was wondering.
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  5490.  @thebeatcreeper  “ he fought against the Russians in WW2” That is a false quote and don't pretend you don't know it. The video is everywhere online. But thanks for the Kremlin talking points, Mr. Peskov.
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  5491. Don't forget San Francisco.😄
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  5492. The corporate media/big social media are now the leading power in the West. Not the people nor even the government. For the media can at times install and remove governments at will, while the government for obvious constitutional reasons can do little in return. (The media install and remove individual politicians all the time, of course.) As for the power of the electorate, perhaps the less said the better. It's too depressing.
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  5493. Grad students make fantastic soldiers though. As long as you can get them out of bed and a blunt and a latte in them by noon.😄
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  5494. What? Since Day One, long before you were born. Omg. Do you think you and the world were born at the same time? Ok, Millennial.
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  5495. So please, please help continue cancer-on-cancer violence.
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  5496. Interestingly, there was a highly-decorated Oberleutnant in one of the Panzer brigades named Karl-Heinz Churchill.
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  5497.  @MelkorPT  I find myself in agreement. I can't pinpoint why, but it's better. Cheers, mate
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  5498. She's so right. It's basically, "Caitlyn Jenner: totally a woman. Kylie Jenner: who can say? Ask a biology professor."
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  5499.  @norger  You heard a crash, you did not see it, and you know nothing more. Btw, "lmao" is the favorite of 12-year-old boys everywhere. You didn't know that either?
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  5500.  @Stelarjayflight  Impossible to dispute that 'logic', as it is circular.
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  5501.  @Stelarjayflight  Isn't there a salad you should be tossing somewhere?
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  5502.  @Stelarjayflight  William James, Varieties of Religious Experience. Read it so you can move on.
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  5503.  @levidudley  So much mirth packed into three little words. Driest of the dry wit.
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  5504. Good lord that is....well, I'm not going to say the word. But suffice it to say that you're implying Elon has an IQ of 5. Obviously she is a refugee from WEF-ism and wokeism. Fn obviously, dude. It stands to reason that she was dying inside, but really had nowhere else to go and continue work at the one thing she knows, hustling ads. When she started 30 years ago it wasn't like it is now. Ok, she was somewhat too conformist, I guess, but give her a break. There's a hundred million other people in the country who don't like what's going on either, but want to keep their jobs. They're not all p.o.s.'s. They have kids to support. They're up against something vastly larger than them. So praise the heroes openly fighting it; try to forgive those who haven't gotten there yet because they'd be jobless, cancelled, or both. Hero is a big word because heroes aren't that common, so just salute her for what she's now done: by which I mean turning her back on the whole world of woke garbage. That's really all we need everybody to do, and we could breathe again.
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  5505.  @gregbors8364  Yes, all goods from there, without exception. Thanks for your support. :)
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  5506. ​ @gregbors8364   Not that I think you necessarily care (I bet the whole subject bores you) but your reply got my curiosity going. So here are the basic facts (if I may give them that lofty label) for my own sake and that of other readers, if not you yourself. According to the Commerce Department (Oct. 28, 2020): "In 2019, U.S. manufacturing accounted for $2,359.9 billion in value added or 11.0 % of GDP, according to BEA data. Direct and indirect (i.e., purchases from other industries) manufacturing accounts for 24.1 % of GDP." And:  "China was the largest manufacturing nation, producing 28.6 % of global manufacturing value added while the U.S. was the second largest, producing 16.6 %, according to the United Nations Statistics Division data." Finding out the value of weaponry production isn't easy for some reason, but it looks like the Pentagon spends around $150b a year on gadgetry and US companies export another $175b, so call that $325b. Add a generous $25b for sales to individuals and other security forces (police, private security). Thus weapons industry sales appear to be roughly $350b out of $2.4t, or 15%, of US manufacturing. Huge, to be sure, but leaving lots of room for other stuff. I'm not a professional researcher, so someone else might arrive at different figures. (I'm also not an American, by the way. So congrats on knocking 90% off your rate of Covid infections. Cheers, DP)
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  5507. Bruh brought a rifle along to go see his daughter at a car wash at midnight. Uh, ok.😮
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  5508. 34% support protests: "Only one-third" 33.7% vote Labour: "Crushing victory, huge majority!"
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  5509. I enjoyed this documentary clip.
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  5510. Andy Ngo is an incredibly good and smart guy. Which is exactly why the left hates him so much. Support this man.
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  5511.  @lesfox2010  I did miss the sense of one part that was essential. Where you said his content was the important part, I read it as meaning the important terrible part. (Like when after an accident someone is charged with speeding, but the important charge is vehicular manslaughter.) The initial thing about pronunciation threw me off, as it sounded like a smug woke putdown of Liddle. Best regards
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  5512.  @fraserbailey6347  Ok, so he doesn't belong in A-ball. But you're familiar with the so-called "Mendoza line"? It refers to when you made it to the major leagues but your career batting average was under .200.
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  5513. Ok, but there's always weekends.
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  5514. If there's not enough time for all the questions, perhaps one might ask fewer questions. For me, cutting every reply short was unsatisfactory.
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  5515.  @jimothygreen8879  I hope someone destroys something you care about. Then you'll get the picture. Better yet, just remove yourself from society completely and do it right now. Take a hike. Your values don't cut it.
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  5516. The currency of that phrase, "a threat to democracy," has been debased by hyperbole into sheer, utter worthlessness. I would suggest to the senator that he find another one. He could try "a danger to the fairness of elections."
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  5517. Trudeau, Starmer, Ardern, Albanese...authoritarians all of them. The Cackler will be another — if America is reckless enough to allow the media to install her in the Oval Office. She will attack freedoms with all the power at her disposal. Mark my words.
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  5518. So close!
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  5519.  @maryrankin9869  Where did you learn that?
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  5520. I'm glad to hear people pointing out once again that we are sibling countries. It's always been true and always will be.
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  5521. I notice from the thumbnail that Jean-Pierre has mastered the skill of pointing at reporters during a briefing. It's great skill, to be sure, but someone needs to tell her she needs others as well.
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  5522. The poor asses don't realize what's happened to their minds. Like the proverbial frog in a slowly heating pot, their brains have begun to cook without their even struggling. They just feel warm, cozy—and superior.
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  5523.  Jason Campbell  It wasn't "a story"! It was a rhetorical point, something which is often found in argumentation, and which certainly has a legitimate place—indeed, an honoured one—in it. The fact that you evidently can't discern one from the other says nothing about his mind and everything about yours.
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  5524. Coherence, please.
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  5525.  @selffish6871  UnHerd already had a couple of interviews with Dr. Wittkowski. They're gone.
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  5526.  @pacman3556  According to Wikipedia's List of Countries by Intentional Homicide Rate, Canada's rate is the world's 85th lowest (79th not including six dependencies). That is not "one of the safest." The ranking of 79th places it not far above the middle. Concerning downtown, Moss Park (pop. ~22k) has recorded 6 homicides already this year, a shocking and unprecedented number. It works out to an annual homicide rate of 36 per 100k, which if it were a country would rank it 6th highest in the world. You ought to pay attention to facts instead of cravenly lobbing trashy and childish insults repeatedly.
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  5527. Good riddance to a middle-aged man twice convicted of prowling around for underage girls on the internet.
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  5528.  @peterjensen3076  Nope, 15 years old. Anyway, that's still splitting hairs. A man in his 40s cruising the web for 15-year-old girls? That's morally revolting, and so is condoning it.
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  5529. Prof. Gerdes, you have to understand that the Liberals are very unpopular and headed for defeat next year. What they're saying about the Conservatives and their leader is a see-through attempt to scare voters. In short, the Liberals are playing the Trump card, since Trump is as unpopular in Canada as Trudeau himself. It's that simple.
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  5530. "Attractive woman, can speak well etc" Whether from the pen of an American or not, that sentence is emblematic of what is wrong with the US. Namely, a shallow mindlessness propped up by unwarranted self-assurance. Likewise unwarranted: calling the close outcome in 2020 a "massive rebuke."
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  5531.  @matthewpetherick4350  Careful. Social media is forever and if he ever gets the chance he'll dock your Social Credit score for that. You could cast him as the torturer O'Brien in 1984, who was probably the hero of the book as far as he was concerned, not Winston Smith. A face only a commissar could love—and would love.
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  5532. Nonsense. The dry May and the lightning storm at the beginning of June are both well within the bounds of regular weather patterns. Nonstop lies. And go back to calling them forest fires. 'Wildfires' is simply an attempt to make them sound much more dramatic. Low journalism.
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  5533.  @jentwmen  What? Your English is very solid. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  5534. Think longer and you'll understand why lies are protected speech under the 1st Amendment. (Except when it comes to perjury, slander, libel, fraud.) Seriously, think it through. "Lying a lot at public" Which country are you writing from?
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  5535. The general said "fuselage" when he meant "fusillade." I mean, omg. Was he ok?😮
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  5536. Where've you been? It's been decades since the word 'former' was used when mentioning the names of ex-US presidents.
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  5537. Yeah. So what does that make the CBC? Jerks that'll aim for what they want 'by any means necessary'. Defund these pose-addicted unprincipled scum now. They're like a bunch of high school kids dissing in the cafeteria.
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  5538. The "top" Canadian politician suggesting US states join Canada is actually just the Green Party leader, basically a non-entity. (She's also an American, btw.) In the 338-seat House of Commons she "leads" only herself and one other MP.😂
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  5539. At the 25-sec. mark you can see there's a town northwest of Klishchkiiva called Stinky. 😂
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  5540. India doing anything to back Russia is a grave mistake. It will only legitimize an attack on India by China—indeed, attacks by any country on any other. Isolating and condemning Russia is important for stopping an outbreak of multiple wars all over. In addition, India is trying to lift itself out of poverty and can only do that in a stable and peaceful world. It would be very badly hurt by war damage to the global economy, knocking its development back by decades.
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  5541. Pol Pot & Hitler: "Hey, stop comparing us to Putin!"
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  5542.  @pooperscooperltm6312  Your shit: Enlightenment Other people's shit: Spam
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  5543.  @lepperkin  First part, polemical: That's very big of you to let them believe what they like as long as they keep it to themselves. Possibly it puts you below the 99th percentile for disrespect of human freedoms. Not much, but it's something. In return I respect your right to be annoyed by them, as long as you don't go around forcing it down people's throats all the time. Keep it private—you know, in the home and amongst family, as well as at gatherings of the like-minded annoyed community. Second part, non-polemical: To be honest I often find the same stuff rather annoying. I'm completely irreligious myself and incapable of any such beliefs. But what is my annoyance compared with their right to express their beliefs? (Unless their talk is about persecution of other faiths or atheists; then my irritation has a place.) I'm a hardcore believer in freedom of expression.
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  5544. Me too.
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  5545. Gee, they're only defending their boss.
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  5546. Just his personal style. Likes to p.o. everybody. Probably never tipped at any restaurant either.
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  5547. I am the candidate of change. "So what would you have changed in the past four years?" Nothing I can think of. Omg. She says stuff that her most somber enemy would want her to.
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  5548. Like counts are up to date. View counts are often a day behind in the early days after upload.
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  5549. Another successful raid on gaps in our knowledge by Mr. Felton.
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  5550.  @RR-et6zp  Inflation is lower in the West than in Russia, which is at 12%. Forecast for next week's CPI release in the US: 0.1% in December, 6.6% for latest 12 months. Previous 5 monthly reports: 0.0%, 0.1, 0.4, 0.4, 0.1.
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  5551.  @ArmantoAlex13  I wasn't aware of that. Thanks. Mind you, repeatedly in life there arises 'the exception that proves the rule'. I'll keep my eyes open as I range around.
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  5552. "Let me wipe that for you"—Alexander Lukashenko "No, it's my turn!"—Olaf Scholz "Come to mama."—Merkel
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  5553.  @meganh9460  It seems uncertain just how expansionist China will become. I prefer to ignore its historical record, because of the huge remoulding of the nation and its culture which the CPC have had roughly a lifetime (70 years) to achieve. But it still bears pointing out that conquering other countries isn't very Confucian. To judge by the present, the country keeps much more to itself than is strictly necessary, but I see this mainly as an expression of prudence and patience. The reason I see it that way is that as China gains economic and military power, it begins to use it, again with prudence but something quite opposite to timidity. Much depends on what the Party tells its people. If it teaches grievances and grudges, the results will be predictable. If it teaches benevolence, likewise. It will probably do both, and try to maximize the benefits of each. The other wildcard within the country is the rich. There are now about 500 billionaires there. The rich could foment hostility against other countries for commercial reasons but under a cloak of patriotic spirit. In this way, mercantilist-inspired expansionism could quite conceivably take over in time This has happened before in the world.   Or the rich could even go the other way and have a pacifying influence, or even outright oppose an expansionist government. Although they and the government are now comfortably allied, either one could cancel the partnership eventually. It may seem far-fetched that rich Chinese people would counter their government, but it doesn't have to stay far-fetched forever. The balance of the uncertainty comes from abroad. We don't know how voters in Western countries, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan are going to feel about China down the road, nor the Russian government. People and governments try to serve their own best interests, but they do make mistakes. You didn't ask to hear all this, so I hope you don't mind my expressing it. Cheers.
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  5554. Andrew Bolt came out fiercely in support of Justin Trudeau invoking martial law against protestors in Ottawa. I'll never forget nor forgive that appalling display of sympathy for arbitrary and authoritarian measures.
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  5555.  @a.a.7416  You left out the fact that Olaf Scholz wrote articles railing against "imperialist-aggressive NATO" and West Germany itself, as well as advocating efforts towards "overcoming capitalism," while a Marxist activist during and after his days in university. As a prominent figure in the Marxist wing of the SPD Youth, he met personally with senior officials of the East German communist government, including a Politburo member as well as a Secretary-General. (Source: Wikipedia bio) Presumably he began forming his opinion of Joe Biden at that time, as Biden was a prominent senator who among other things met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and negotiated with him on nuclear arms reduction (SALT II). I cannot say with any certainty, but it's possible that at age 64 he's now been waiting for the chance to thwart NATO for close to 50 years.
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  5556. Electricity export revenues themselves are small potatoes. The idea is to use them as a wedge to get the tariffs rescinded and protect the major exports, which are in the hundreds of billions of dollars from Ontario alone.
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  5557.  @mbb12   Thanks for your reply. I don't know. But from my lightly-informed perspective I don't think it's important and can't see how it would matter at all. (Unless, as you seem to maybe be hinting, perhaps only Chinese people are susceptible to it. That seems unlikely in the extreme, but I can't categorically rule it out as a virologist maybe could.) But the illness comes from China and so you'd expect the ill to be those in China (and therefore Chinese) or, if not, people who travelled there (and they're also mostly Chinese). It's only a month old, so non-Chinese victims will be appearing any day now if they haven't already, one would think. Btw, correction: Cases outside of China are only about 0.5 per cent of the total. (Spread across 16 countries, to be exact.)
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  5558.  @AnotherPointOfView944  He said it in the context of the 2022 invasion, not of Putin entering office.
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  5559. So there was a shooting, and then afterwards someone was injured? Make the headline "Victim injured in shooting in North York." CP24, I'm available to be your headline writer. Get in touch.
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  5560.  @darylfoster7944  You're painfully under-informed. He's provided Ukraine with communications equipment and services which have been absolutely indispensable. Ukraine would literally no longer exist without Starlink terminals and services. Many he donated outright, the remainder he's been partly compensated for by the US government. (Unlike Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, etc. They're all paid in full, of course.)
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  5561. Before long: "You might want to leave the country, sir. Your presence in Britain is likely to be triggering."
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  5562. I want closure. What was the outcome?
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  5563. He howled about "going after the person", but his own first salvo had been about the value of Morgan's employment contract. He then moved onto outright apparent slander. World-class hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness.
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  5564.  @peterolsen9131  70% vegetable glycerine, 30% alcohol. A mL a day. Where are the illnesses, where are the deaths? It's been 20+ years now. Meanwhile over 400,000 deaths from tobacco, and far more cases of serious illness costing taxpayers and the health care system billions.
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  5565.  @kermitfrog593  Well, you're thinking, I'll give you that. But you're wrong. Thanks for your reply.
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  5566. Zuckerberg was training with a guy even smaller than him, and he himself is only 5'7" and 155. Musk is supposedly 6'1" or 6'2" and around 190. Tyrus says Zuckerberg has been training for 10 years, but Musk has trained in martial arts on and off for about 40 years, meaning since his opponent was an infant or not even born.
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  5567. Or if you'd watched what was going on in your universities and media and culture and central bank the last 30 years.
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  5568. We're looking at a woman who's deeply in love with herself. But at the same time, herself has some reservations about her admirer (also herself). If that sounds confusing, it should. She's a profoundly confused person. I'm outta here, I can't watch this to the end.
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  5569. I wish I never had! Btw, why does he have that weird circle in the middle of his forehead?
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  5570. Crimea river.😭
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  5571.  ZillaH  Wrong, China is winning. Political, diplomatic, technological, industrial, economic, and financial power has been moving from the US to China for years, but the pace has really intensified since the end of February. Now this is making it worse.
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  5572.  @trugangsta4real  "THIS is what embarrasses you about America? Not our racist history? Not Alabama?" What? There's no room left for embarrassment after those two things? Hah. The list is long, and that's "true for real."
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  5573. @Ryan Cier "Self-help platitudes"? What? He was mocking those platitudes. If you couldn't tell, then I guess he was completely right about you.
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  5574. Avoid all Procter & Gamble things.
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  5575.  @LisaBowers  'Bean' is standard everywhere outside the US, including Canada where Ackroyd is from.
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  5576.  @tomstravels520  Canadian-built, American-operated
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  5577. Putin's sole focus is on Russia's negotiating position. This does not represent a genuine escalation of the chances of direct Russia-NATO conflict.
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  5578. Bouncing legs indicate a desire to leave, i.e. by walking.
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  5579.  @campingalbertacanada248  Actually, yeah: "it" is the right word for Trudeau. He seems not quite a man, not quite a woman, only dubiously even fully a human being. Is 'excrescence' a word in genetics?
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  5580. ​ @tessjuel  Not "any actions". They can veto any "substantive actions." Russia was powerless to veto the General Assembly resolution in March which condemned their attack on Ukraine, or they would have done so. But yes, they could have, for example, vetoed the authorization of ISAF, and did not. Maybe there are creative alternatives. I wonder.
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  5581.  @pistahufnagel7183  👍 Yep, no need to post my comment now, 'cause that was it almost exactly.
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  5582. "Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself." — Wilde😂
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  5583. ...he did quite well as a speechwriter for Joe Biden, though.
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  5584.  @paulhunter9613  Count it plus the foul.👏
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  5585.  @synaptic100  Ah, "usually." So all you do is wave your flag of prejudice in would-be victory. I get it though: No matter how low what you say is, if it's an attack on Republicans it's cool. [regretfully shaking my head]
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  5586. Скажи это Путину.
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  5587. ​ @Inductive_bias  Хорошо, спасибо за мнение Кремля, Песковчик.
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  5588. Let's not forget to mention the sway they hold over the NBA and the American movie studios. The United States has come to resemble the Soviet Union of the late 1980s, which simply fell apart over the span of just a few years, owing almost entirely to internal weakness. It's looking like a goner.
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  5589. The title very strongly implies that his amateur excision led to his demise. The video itself more or less directly 9:30 contradicts that. So a better title—better in the sense of not being misleading, although worse for attracting clicks—would have been "A Farmer Failed to See His Doctor Until It Was Far Too Late."
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  5590. Omg that was one of the best things I've seen in my entire life. ¡ Viva Milei ! 🇦🇷 ¡ Viva Milei ! 🇦🇷 ¡ Viva Argentina ! (Dave, have you had this just lying around since last year?)
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  5591. Good path to having an investment portfolio and eventually buying a house.👍
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  5592.  @LadaGaga93  He's not anti-Ukraine, he just has a hard bargain he needs to drive. Totally legitimate, and the same goes for the other side. The mutual rancor and stubbornness is mostly for appearance's sake, quite understandably.
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  5593. And Bari Weiss. For a lefty she really isn't that bad at all. She obviously has some sense of fairness anyway, and some sensible vision of a healthy political future, or she wouldn't be doing this.
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  5594. Thanks for putting the drugs on our streets, China, Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, Mexico....
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  5595.  @APKTu4ECKuCyPOBblu  I was misinformed by my dude at the bike shop. And I owned one myself, a Triathlon! Thanks.
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  5596.  @APKTu4ECKuCyPOBblu  Splendid guy though, I just think he was a stoner! Cheers
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  5597.  @madrooky1398  Don't judge, says Little Miss Judgy (& Resentful). Hahaha! This is why people flee Germany: so many of their countrymen are unbearable hypocrites. If only we were face to face!😡
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  5598. So-called "realism": Anything goes. No state should do anything in the name of anything, except whatever maximizes its power, its territory, its advantage. There's no right or wrong, there's only winners and losers, conquerors and the conquered. Its name, as a way to sell this "school of thought," is a stunning bit of low rhetoric.
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  5599. You are seething at the fact that he has the gall to be a man.
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  5600. We see right through you, tongzhi.
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  5601. What nonsense, lumping "persuaded," "reminded," and "incentivized" together with "lied to," "forced," "bullied," "punished" etc. If this Ian Watson, whoever he is, is being quoted accurately here, I'm afraid he simply isn't very bright.
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  5602. If she isn't too busy making huge coin as a pollster, give this woman her own show. She's really on her game.
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  5603. When Al Sharpton bitterly and publicly denounces you, that's when you know for sure you're doing a lot of things right.😂
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  5604. "Wayping."😂 Btw, it's over 40m.
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  5605. I question her judgment on those.😄
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  5606.  @DesGeneys  Yeah, people in that segment are wonderful. I'm with you there.
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  5607. 👏 Yay, Ukraine. Now do that 200,000 more times.👏
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  5608. What else is she going to say? Her husband heads a rival party. 🙄
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  5609.  @Yabuturtle  Mental illness, like all bad things, was better off fully stigmatized. Stigmatization discourages nonsense like nothing else.
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  5610. I think we just pinpointed what ruined universities. Dingbat lady professors.
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  5611. ​ @echillykahlil  "Meaning is weird." Oh totally. The things that give people meaning, that's where you look for weird. Also their systems of meaning, but it's not necessary to dig that deep.
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  5612. This needs 7 million likes.👍
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  5613. Against my will I laughed at the reaction of the Crimean woman off-camera in the nighttime sequence. I never thought I'd hear a woman say that! Let's hope the remaining weeks of Ukraine's counteroffensive yield spectacular results, astonishing everybody. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦
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  5614. ​ @billtmarchi4320  👍Very germane to what he said here. Sometimes I like him but really he only bats maybe .200. It's just better than the MSM team avg. of about .080.
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  5615.  @Stevie-joes6851  You throw RT in with MSNBC, CNN and Fox, do you? [gasp] Mmkay.
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  5616. ​ @jasonjamesbisson  Iran, Venezuela...and Iraq. All three are nice and friendly, just like Canada. Trustworthy too. I'm pretty sure.🤣
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  5617.  @spartanconscience2693  Thanks for the Chinese Foreign Ministry point of view, Tongzhi.
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  5618.  @spartanconscience2693  What a laugh. Assange and Snowden, had they crossed the Chinese rather than the US government, would each long ago have been the recipient of a bullet in his brain. Chelsea Manning, too; instead she was granted her sex change.
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  5619.  Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler  I'd reply to your pro-Xi, pro-Standing Committee chatter, but I'm too much of a Mark Twain admirer.
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  5620.  @spartanconscience2693  Sorry, Sparty, we each just think the other is a sorely deluded moron. I would rather publicly accuse a senior American government official of a crime than one in China any day of the week—if I had to live in their country afterwards. The same goes for spilling state secrets by the tens of thousands. The US has protections. But you go do it in China and see what happens. Best of luck.
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  5621. It's simply a form of abuse.
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  5622. Oh great, buy at the top of the market, sticking taxpayers with the highest tab possible, as well as flooding more money in to pushing prices even higher. And guess what else?: That puts upward pressure on rents as well, since landlords price rentals according to their own monthly payments. Is it any surprise that Chow graduated from Guelph in Fine Arts?
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  5623. (1) Madam, Canada is not a hotel you can check into.😠  You apply, then you wait however many years depending on how well you qualify.  Then, if you qualify, you're invited in. (2) If I were you I wouldn't count on qualifying.
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  5624.  @hnhl2770  AGI will basically be like either: (1) a pile of all the nuclear bombs in the world, with an alien as intelligent as God sitting on top, or (2) the same as (1), but the alien is programmed to obey the president of some country. What could go wrong, you ask?
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  5625. A bit strange that this self-styled narcissism expert thinks that narcissism is a three-syllable word. He strikes me as a charlatan.
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  5626.  @MrTom-kl7hy  What "tax reductions for oil and gas"? From oilfield wellhead to retail gas pump, in fact, the oil and gas industry is a gusher of tax revenue for governments. There are many breaks and exemptions for the industry, but such things are common across the entire tax system, for example mortgage interest deductibility in private individuals' tax assessments. It will be interesting to see how governments replace fossil fuel tax revenues as we say our long good-bye to hydrocarbons.
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  5627.  @CynVee  Your moral support is extremely welcome.👍
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  5628. The timing is no accident. When the Ukrainian counteroffensive begins inflicting heavy losses on the Russian forces, Putin wants people to have fresh memories of what happens to opponents of the government. I should think he's glad to have Navalny to make an example of.
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  5629. Hey, on Tuesday Denmark ends all restrictions. They have a brave prime minister.
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  5630. Of course their search engine does analogous things countless millions of times a day and has been for many years.
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  5631. I was thinking free to transition. He can trade in his sock collection for panty hose. 😄
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  5632. Ontario's homicide rate is consistently below the national rate over at least the past decade. On the separate matter of ordinal rank, it has been 5th or 6th each year. The City of Toronto and the Toronto metropolitan area also both come in below the national rate. Facts matter, as you may have heard.🤨 Use a search engine or go to Statistics Canada, my totally classy friend.
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  5633.  @jcali1323  Oh yeah, right. Nice neighbourhoods and ghettos are equally safe. Of course! Who don't know dat?
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  5634.  @jinkazama9017  They've never lost a war. Meanwhile Russia was defeated by a few thousand Mujahideen 😂 and they lost their entire empire within months of the defeat😂.
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  5635. Farage seems an ok guy and I'm congenial to [edit: some of] his points here. But he has a minor sock crisis going on. He should solve that and then move onto global security and Britain's future.
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  5636. Two elections in a row he placed 2nd with 32% of the vote. He then made an alliance with a fringe socialist party to form a govt. Just remember 68% of Canadians voted against him.
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  5637. With our choice of words, let's make it clear that our problem is with the government of China, not with the race of its inhabitants.
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  5638.  @jsshay01  (1) "Put together"? What? What the devil did I say about being "put together?" Do you hallucinate words as you read things? (2) They've been married since 2022. I wouldn't call that a marriage of "many years." That's just my opinion.
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  5639.  @MeMe-wz3po  I'm sorry you don't like it here. Maybe you made a mistake.
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  5640.  @TikkyTakMoo  Not true. Read through these comments to hear from numerous PR-status immigrants who got CERB.
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  5641. I think it's great that Times Radio is making an effort to interest children in this important topic.  I watched most of this and our host did an outstanding job. Other channels should follow their example.
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  5642. If there were nothing actually interesting here, I'd still come for the laughs. 👏👏
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  5643. They intend to have some of the children which the childless and near-childless are not having, just as the childless and near-childless mean to avoid having some of the children which some people in high-birthrate cultures or countries are having. Remember also that around 80% of intelligence is inherited, so highly intelligent people not having children—and they do in fact choose to have very few in the present era—is a fine way to lower the intelligence of a population...fast.
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  5644.  @tliltictotolotlmacehualli5796  That's an assertion that to follow his logic is to endorse it. That assertion is false, since his logic is false.
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  5645.  @WilfChadwick  It'd be hard to say it any better than that.
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  5646.  @ApexAL  Thanks. I would greatly appreciate it if you'd correct any misuse I've made of any words. Waiting.
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  5647.  @ApexAL  Try taking brisk walks to help with your symptoms.
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  5648.  @nfr333  I stand corrected
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  5649.  @terenarosa4790  What's your problem? What if somebody said of you "Terena? She's fine. I never had an issue with her." Would that be "weird"? Would that be "out of nowhere"? Would that suggest some kind of latent hostility, condescension, or anything else the least bit negative? Do not be a bloodhound looking for trace elements of any fault in people. It's wrong. Very wrong. People will not like you. Friendly advice.
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  5650. Well it's finally here: the US has what other countries call a Minister of the Interior.
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  5651.  @quackyduck1499  Thanks for the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson point of view.
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  5652. Whenever I hear the word 'progress' I release the safety on my Browning.
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  5653.  @Tpb247  No probs, sir!
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  5654. Bears a certain resemblance to payday loans. Expensive, but it could get people out of a jam.
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  5655. Oh please, that was only a Special Fireworks Operation. Some people are so suspicious!
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  5656.  @danielgriff2659  That's nice, but Piers Morgan's show airs in the UK. The audience is British.
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  5657. Otherwise, great comment.
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  5658. It seems there's a pretty good chance of the sanctions bill winning 2/3rds approval in both houses. Now wouldn't that be interesting? Classic thickening of the plot.
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  5659. Where r u getting ur news? For decades US-Canada tariffing has been mutual and at similar levels.
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  5660. 0:33 Plenty Wrong greeting her immediate supervisor and instantly setting herself to the task of gleefully shining his hinder part. Australia should stop messing about, place massive tariffs on imports from China, and direct the money to building those submarines faster.
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  5661. Actually Putin removed supports to allow the rouble to fall. The hope is to stimulate exports. (However, imports will rise in price too.) It's a negative sign for the Russian economy, yes, but not among the worst.
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  5662. I wouldn't let the other half of his ticket run a small daycare.
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  5663.  @pablocruise9514  Sure, but I say let the animators run wild with his face, voice and mannerisms. The guy's a born toon.
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  5664.  @bullwinkle60  I'm blown away at the content-free rhetoric here. It's all at the level of that Supreme Court nominee, now a sitting Justice, who said "I'm not a biologist."
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  5665. Please involve a sound person in the production of these videos. Our host should not be five times louder than the guest.
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  5666. Yes, but you're forgetting: "How very uneducated and ra cis t of you. Bad customer, bad customer! Go lie down!"
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  5667. 'Missel' is one of the hick-est things about American English. (Likewise 'imbecel,' 'mobel,' etc.) Which is why it's a good thing miss-aisle is also considered correct in the US.
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  5668.  @JamesMorton-hf3xb  I agree it's a good thing. You're quite welcome!
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  5669.  @frederikzinn5427  It takes years to approve a new LNG terminal, but when the need was urgent it was done in weeks. As for the MiGs, it's perfectly understandable Poland would need replacements. I see no disgrace there, and I see no justification for say they "weren't really hoping to send them." Sorry, Poland appears open- and stout-hearted in defence of European security and democracy. Germany appears as though it were controlled by officials born in the GDR who were six years old when they saw Honecker kiss Brezhnev. Harsh, but you get my point. Something is weird with German politicians and Russia. Two decades of them with warmer feelings for Putin than the American presidents.
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  5670. Correct. And it's fully costed for accounting purposes as a cash expense.
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  5671. If they're any good they do now.
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  5672. My condolences....to the innocent electrical equipment.😄
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  5673.  @Shei-vei  Actually the murder rate is similar to what it was 50 years ago in the early 1970s. (About 8% higher.) Back then murders were stable in the low-40s per year and the population (within the same borders as present-day Toronto) was 2.1 million. This year, with 25 days remaining, we're on pace for 65 murders and the latest population estimate is 3.0 million. So, 2.17 intentional homicides per 100k residents now, versus 2.0 back then.
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  5674.  @UzumakiNaruto_  It's an interesting coincidence that this reply should come from you, since just yesterday I was thinking how to put the matter, and I came up with this: The people from Canadian families that have been around since at least about 1955 (so I'm talking about (1) people with deep roots in Canada and (2) the post-war immigrants) really settled into law-abiding patterns after about 1990 or 1995. If it were only those families and their children who were around today, Canada would probably have a crime rate something like Japan's. The truly peaceful and secure nation we had a century ago likely would have been re-attained. I wonder if you might agree with that. Anyway, thanks for your reply. EDIT: I just realized that you are using a pseudonym, so maybe my reply has a major invalid element!😄
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  5675. Yes, and it's a move also indicative of the trembling fear third-world despots live under.
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  5676.  @justanothergmailaccount1353  Certainly not. Any misinformation, so long as it is congenial to their prejudices, is like mother's milk to them. They slurp it up with great satisfaction.
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  5677. No it isn't a minesweeper, it's the Kurs' sister ship, another sigint boat of nearly identical vintage called the Yuri Ivanov. Slight but very discernible differences in the communications mast-work, as well as the head-shaped dome-like things topmost above the deck sternwards, give it away without a doubt. But they'll never believe that on Russian social media, and that's the important thing. 🙄
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  5678. World Desert Island Council: "Hey, leave us tf out of it!"
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  5679.  @leviahimsa  UN agencies are not trustworthy sources of anything but misinformation. They were rather good in the 1950s and 1960s, even into the 1970s, but over the following few decades were ruined by a host of the world's worst governments working in concert, invariably at the behest of (or in imitation of) countries like the Soviet Union and China. You didn't know that?
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  5680. Omg. Name me a soul on earth who thinks Ukraine would survive without US help. Name one. Just one. Sir, there are no "folks [who] just don't want to admit" that. And the rest of your post is equally nonsensical.
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  5681.  @skyteam1199  There's limits concerning foreign propaganda, orko. Total freedom doesn't exist anywhere, but it's still a 97/100 here versus about 35 where you are. You're lucky you can post on this site so let that be enough for you. It's bloody well more than you deserve, orko.
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  5682. Absolutely right.👍 They should be the rule, not the exception. 99% should be like them, but I shudder to think of how low the number actually is.
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  5683. The 'alphas' were clearly deltas, though. That cringed me out.
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  5684.  @planderlinde1969  Very well then, he studied Hitler. But he omitted to read the last chapters.
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  5685.  @changemaison  Yes, but when territorial boundaries are breached, it also means "diverting" the aircraft, which means forcing it to turn back. On this occasion the planes stayed in international airspace.
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  5686. By rights that police officer's job ought to be to clean the bathrooms at football stadiums before matches, and then afterwards as well. There, that's the politest thing I can bring myself to say. (If you're reading this, I'm surprised. I expect this platform to behave like her and the visitors to the UK in the video, i.e., like a presumptuous bully.)
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  5687. In other news, Putin declared human rights a top priority of his government, shortly afterwards clarifying that his political opponents are not real humans.
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  5688. "Honestly, I'm poorly informed about it."😂 Yeah, we could tell by your "Versace Jeans Couture" floppy hat. That's mean. I'm not going to say that.
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  5689. Michael Burry's firm only manages $91 million? As Paul Shaffer would say, "I've got that on me "!
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  5690. They don't look like crooks to me. They just look like the normal people you'll see in 90% of TV commercials. Since June 2020.
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  5691. You probably do, except people won't elect him/her.
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  5692.  @Bob94390  True, what he said was greatly exaggerated. In my opinion this was not just in a factual sense but also in a moral one. Moreover, I strongly sense that the pace of aid has been strategically very adroit. The massive damage done to Russia's war-making capacity could only have been accomplished over this lengthy period. A decision to supply Ukraine with enough for an all-out defensive and counter-offensive response to Russia's invasion might have backfired horribly, with Russia possibly pulling back at little cost to it in terms of equipment, manpower and financial expenditure. Thus, with much of its NATO-provided materiel used up in early hostilities, Ukraine would have been vulnerable to a massive regrouping and fresh offensive by a still-healthy Russian army, navy and air force. In my view it has been vital that Russia be deeply attritted, i.e. weakened militarily, in order that any peace achieved will be both just and lasting. Nothing else will do. I think that NATO's delays and internal bickering, as well as its outward dithering and fearfulness, have been partly genuine but largely feigned. It gambled that Russia would buy it hook, line and sinker, and it was right.
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  5693.  @richardvale214  My remarks on NATO aid, you mean? Thanks, that is very nice to hear. Hmm, I wonder what you'd say about my hypothesis on Trump's desire (entirely feigned, in my view) to end Ukraine aid...🤔
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  5694.  @Shadow-cs7oy  People who buy $1,000 phones without needing them and then blame the company and "society" for "making them" buy them, do not deserve any respect or self-respect at all. They've screwed up all on their own and simply need to grow up.
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  5695. I don't see why they shouldn't ask anyone for help. Let them ask the Pope or Xi Jinping if they think it might be of any use. It's likely their British relatives who are doing the asking anyway.
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  5696. To me he seems to be sliding inexorably into the Grandpa Simpson zone. "As I said, I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time."
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  5697. Oh man, that thumbnail.😂 Personally I try to avoid ever having the gaping jaws of a 500-lb. bear within two feet of my crotch. That's just me, though. I understand everybody's unique.
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  5698. I lost whole clumps of neurons just listening to an overview of those criminally-noxious alleged ideas.
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  5699.  @barryledgister4496  Yeah, imagine the media telling the public to be on the lookout for a blonde woman — and then a second bunch of girls letting their guard down around this guy and dying as a result. Mad world.
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  5700. "Dudes"? That's so sexist.
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  5701. And they could have listened to Sir Patrick Vallance instead. Chew on that.
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  5702.  @kerdart351  Sick and accurate burn. 👏
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  5703.  @drpaynex4240  Has the claim that you're not a putz been studied and categorically validated in double-blind randomized controlled trials which passed peer review in prestigious journals and were then replicated many times in multiple elite institutions and in multiple countries? No? Then I don't believe it. Cheers.
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  5704. That's true. Especially compared to the overwhelming expense of dealing directly with Putin after he's invaded more countries, it's lunch money, as I've said all along. Lunch money.
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  5705. Who on earth is Patterson?
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  5706. 👍Sanctimony, thy name is Roger Waters.
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  5707.  @leroyrodgers6089  Thought so too. I guess it can only mean one thing: wholesale suppression of views in order to shape public opinion. And from their point of view, why not? I'm pretty sure it works. ☹️
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  5708. Not impressed by the host Manveen Rana. She audibly leans to blaming Israel for the hospital explosion. But it's nice that she is gently but clearly corrected by her colleague Catherine Philp. She also sounds like she's discussing some light and fascinating feature story, not hard news of the most serious nature. Yet she insists on repeatedly talking about WWIII in sensationalist terms. Cannot stay for the whole thing.
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  5709. Thanks for the Kremlin spokesman point of view.😂
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  5710. I'm guessing many people he talks to try to be somehow extra something-or-other—extra intelligent, extra imaginative, sensitive, funny, charming, insightful… something, anything —so as not to feel so ordinary in comparison to him that it's humiliating. They all seem to reach a little cringily. So yeah, this guy went for extra touchy-feely. Or maybe not. Maybe he's just a very typical old German hipster.
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  5711.  @mr.asparagus195  Is there a certain part don't you get, or all of it? Paste 'Stephen Hawking AI' into the search bar. As I understand it, he said that alien-smart computers, once we build them, will probably wipe us out once they realize how powerful they are. This is why Elon Musk is big on Mars. No joke.
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  5712. ​ @jeffrenman4146  I'm ok with some of that, namely with your point of view on what we have to fear from alien-grade machine intelligence. But you should really do something about your misanthropy. It really comes off as either sanctimony ('everybody is morally disgusting but me') or a guilt complex ('everybody is morally disgusting just like me'). Why judge mankind by the worst deeds of the worst people? Seriously, why? You're with other humans and yourself till the end. Make peace with both them and yourself —and do it now.
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  5713. Joly really knows how to phone it in. I saw her as very insincere. As for Blair, those rioters he referred to were dressed in the de facto Antifa uniform and behaved exactly as the latter always do. Calling them "anarchists" is wrong. They are in favour of an authoritarian communist-type regime, not anarchy. And he knows it.
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  5714.  @minnesotagal507  No, it never is as high, for any medical condition whatsoever.
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  5715. ​ @lindataylor6512  She attended only public schools in Canada. But she lived in one of the two or three most famously rich neighborhoods in the country (Westmount in Montreal). Justin Trudeau's house was a two-minute drive away.
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  5716.  @randallparsons3626  There are no Chinese troops training in Canada. Whoever told you that, find him and give him a sock in the nose.
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  5717.  @AdmoreMethod  You'd make a great historian, if you aren't one already. I love a bizarre tidbit that hints at things more significant. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  5718. He adores China and insists that Australia must imitate it. How did that work out during the pandemic? 😠 Speaking of which, he looks like Daniel Andrews' grey-haired double. 😠
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  5719.  @albertfinney1328  "Grammar police" isn't the shield for lack of consideration you think it is. Nor is insinuating that I think I'm a schoolteacher. The issue here is imposing on others by using substandard form. Most do indeed do the best they can with the capabilities they have. Others, alas, do not. And I wouldn't call myself offended by it, just bothered. "Offended" is much too big a word for it. As for "If posts are difficult or offensive to you, you do have the option to just pass. Save your own time and that of others," if that is good advice, why not take it yourself?
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  5720.  @teledoink  The silly word microaggression is a microaggression by its own silly definition.
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  5721. More like 800.
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  5722. Terribly disingenuous, and those are the nicest words I can find. On things like vaccine passports his thinking wasn't nearly so much in line with actual scientific evidence and reasoning as simply strident, overbearing, sanctimonious, lightly-informed and other terrible things besides. And here he is, being just as overbearing, sanctimonious and pompous in retreat. The damn fellow is clearly in a lifelong love affair with himself.
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  5723. 👍You and I are the only non-Russians here. 😂 I agree with you.
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  5724.  @rpmgrlca  True, and I've just said the same thing in longer form. Edit: But it's gone. Truth offended the algo. I'll have to try another way.
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  5725. 1/3 Not so. It's merely an intermediate tactical goal on the way to the ultimate strategic one: sending boys and men and people visibly descended from Yerrope (unless in the 1%) to the back of the bus, forever. I never thought that more than a few radicals wanted anything like that, nor that they could possibly make any headway towards it, but as usual my lifelong refusal to ignore evidence has steered me right. 2/3...
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  5726. Poule de luxe.
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  5727. Olivia Chow: "Not congested enough. Not nearly enough!" Prime Minister Peter Pan: "True. I'll bring in another million people. Hey, wanna go out with me?"
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  5728. When a cutting, angry or silly remark comes half-muted from way off camera, it's much, much funnier.
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  5729. People charge their cars overnight, when the price of power is lower and most commercial, industrial and home power usage is low. It isn't nearly as bad as you think.
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  5730. He should have been a baseball player. In baseball, when you get it right 28.5% of the time for your whole career you're considered good.
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  5731.  @GoodBoyOskie  He's had a minority govt for 5 years (only 33% of the popular vote), so he's PM at the pleasure of the small far-left 3rd party, which has finally turned on him. He's been at 15-25% approval for over a year & the Conservatives are set to take about 240 of 340 seats. He'll be gone in about 100 days.
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  5732. Burrata isn't something everyone who has "been to a restaurant in the past ten years" will have seen on a menu. That assertion was written by someone who badly wants to sound smart.
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  5733.  @marshalljohnson8117  They were ray cysts who did not welcome European immigrants. To this day they are full of ray cyst hatred even for the descendants of European and other immigrants.
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  5734. Good point. An immigrant French girl isn't going to don ordinary Western summer wear at the mall in Saudi Arabia. A Frenchman in Somalia isn't going to drink wine on a lawn chair in his front yard. Etc., etc.
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  5735. It's seven years later. How's her health holding up?
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  5736. Psychopathy and ASPD should never be confused. You should look them up.
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  5737. That freshman to comparing this situation to Kent State is what's nutty. He can't even speak his native English properly when admitting it's the protestors who've been committing crimes. ("There has been acts of violence. There has been incidents of absolutely unacceptable violence.") Subject-verb agreement, my boy.
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  5738.  @NotThatBob  By no means, sir. It was a successful attempt at humour. I don't know why you said that to me. I was good with what you said and merely added that Russia was more helpful with weapons than France, which is factually the case. Cheers, mate
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  5739. Eloquently put, but it's only common sense which all really goes without saying, especially the part about the knife.
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  5740. Your arithmetic's broken, Mary Huang. You sure that's your real name? $5,000 x 1 million = $5 billion And that's 10x what his legal issue is. He doesn't need the other $4.5 billion. Relieved?
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  5741. In the land of the far-leftists, the centrist is a right-winger. To put it another way: Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right.
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  5742.  @danielwarton5343  wrote: "After this is past we will see what the true cost of the last few months have been." I don't see how the cost across the Western world alone can come in under $20t---cash costs, lost production, future interest on borrowed money, deflated asset prices of all sorts, the future cost of lost education, the future cost of damaged health aside from covid-19 itself, and much more. Even if the shutdown doesn't go on that much longer it could easily hit $50-100t. And is there much reason to believe that even 2m lives were saved across all its billion people? (This is a plausible IFR of 0.25% with a very high infection rate of 80%.) These mere Fermi calculations imply a stupendous cost of $10-50m per life saved. I don't begrudge families the necessary money spent sparing the lives of their loved ones. I should hardly wish to be the one deciding on the matter. But it's got to be admitted, we've never spent so much money saving lives ever in history. Not even remotely close. It surely stands very high among the most staggering sacrifices in human history, perhaps even at the top, I don't know. Its effects will be felt well past mid-century, its reverberations for much longer still. And how much was necessary and how much avoidable? How much better could we have done if the coolest heads and brightest minds were in charge, as it seems was the case in the East Asian democracies? What did it cost us to allow the media to whip up fear and stifle reasoned debate on the pandemic response? And how much political and economic power is swiftly being transferred to China? It makes me nauseous to consider all these questions.  I feel rather like the doctor at the end of Bridge on the River Kwai, moved by what he saw to no more coherent response than to simply utter "Madness... Madness... Madness!" My worst fear is that the friendly, smooth-running, stable, and prosperous order achieved in the West after the Second World War, which was already damaged significantly in the present century through sheer mishandling by its governments and citizens alike, will very shortly be washed up. If I considered the West my loathsome enemy, I would at this moment be squirming and howling with pleasure.
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  5743. Meteor, o swift meteor! With thy glowing eye, Espy the mark and fare Thy just path straight and true!
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  5744. In barely a decade US grid power went from 79%-fossil fuels/21%-other to 60/40 now. If we green-light more nuclear and keep adding renewables it can get to 40/60 in 2038. Then to 20/80 in 2050. Savings on oil investment can pay for building out a bigger grid. A massive turnaround, like when we went from coal to oil being #1 in a few decades.
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  5745. The most inane part of this is how he's got his slower supporters fizzing with hostility & aggression towards close US friends Canada and Denmark. Uh, excuse me but America has actual active complete enemies in the powerful Authoritarian Axis, which wants war. Eyes on the ball, boys and girls.
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  5746.  @berniekatzroy  The left think that if white conservative Americans hate the Chinese system then it must be pretty good in a lot of ways. I'm actually serious. They're that far detached from reality.
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  5747. Why not mist them with that super-stinky aerosol spray? Harmless yet unbearable! Unbearable yet harmless! Actually a quick check shows there are numerous brands. So let the stankification begin.
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  5748. Pffft. The city's population has risen sharply and dangerous criminal elements have gotten stronger as a result of restrictions to police funding. You're blaming the victim. Your point of view, if taken seriously and to its logical conclusion, would oblige the city to cut the police budget in order to make the city safer. You haven't thought this through competently, I'm afraid.
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  5749. Scary enough for the bodycam guy, but the scout runs right towards the enemy across open territory. (I'm guessing it's a field past those scraggly trees.) The heart has to go at 250bpm.
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  5750. Yeah, probably safe to assume he'll have no descendants.
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  5751. If you really do feel that way, then I think you know what you have to do. Please tidy up your premises first.
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  5752. 1) How on earth is a carjacking a "crime of opportunity"? Unbelievable. 2) So this kid had no criminal record. I'm pretty sure that's because he was just never caught, because I'm pretty sure this wasn't his first rodeo.
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  5753.  @СергейМонин-д7с  It's Russia which has the superiority complex. Obviously. I notice Russians are in the habit of accusing others of that which they are themselves guilty. Your typical vatnik would be pummelling someone in the face and say loudly for all nearby to hear "Why are you hitting me?"
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  5754.  @TheDarthJesus  No special laws were needed, except to persecute opponents of the vile prime minister. The Parliament Hill protest was not violent. Not one person was so much as punched in the nose. No part of Ottawa was as free of lawbreaking over that period. Crime at a normal rate continued across the rest of the city. And the protestors there were not armed. Even if one or more were found to be armed, they could simply be arrested on the applicable weapons charge or charges. As for "demanding for an overthrow of our democratically elected government," that is a gross manipulation of the truth. The group simply wrote a polite letter requesting a meeting at Rideau Hall with the Governor General. Constitutional law does indeed provide for her to dissolve a government under certain conditions, in very much the same way that the GG of Australia did in 1975. And if the protestors were mistaken (as they indeed were) that such conditions were satisfied by the then-present situation, that hardly justifies such fevered, reckless, overstated language as "overthrow." They were seeking remedy through constitutional means. There was zero need to violate the rights of people in Ottawa on account of anything that went on in Alberta, or even Windsor. Anyone who claims there was is most likely a hyperpartisan but certainly devoid of the liberal values that made Canada what it is. Or was—until Justin Trudeau went mad with power. He's just not all there.
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  5755.  @Илья-у1ю  Between you and Konstantin Kisin, he is the much better comedian. Your material shows promise but needs much more work.
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  5756. What the foxtrot does that have to do with anything? I'll tell you: Nothing.
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  5757.  @JBondy007  No probs. Thanks for clarifying. See WAPO article from yesterday on the cause of the crash, exact title: "Russian plane crash debris points away from accident, experts say."
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  5758. I hope Farage enters No. 10 after Starmer so he can take down his portrait and re-fashion it into a litter box for the Chief Mouser of Downing St. (Current officeholder, Larry the Cat😾😄)
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  5759. What's that strange word he used a number of times which sounded like "wipe"?
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  5760.  @BOLLOCKS1968  Wow, good. How's your outlook? The story on opioids is that they give people a hateful scroo-you attitude towards life, the whole world and everyone in it, permanently. But I'm unclear if that always makes them insufferable for the rest of their lives, or if it goes away in certain cases once the use is 100% over (including methadone, which, let's face it, is government heroin). Did you manage to become free of that?
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  5761. Russia is experiencing a florid psychosis. It thinks it is a superpower and only getting stronger, set to explode in political, military and economic influence. They forget that they have less than 2% of global population and GDP. Goebbels [angrily, watching from hell]: "I taught this Putin guy everything he knows and I get zero credit. Wait till he gets here!"
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  5762.  @majortom8047   Is that you, King Charles? Because commoners don't use 'the royal We.'😄 Anyway, I listened carefully to every word. Maybe gratitude just doesn't have much of a place in your ethics.
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  5763.  @militantcapitalist4606  I'm more of a samizdat type, thank you very much. 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇿🇬🇧🇨🇦🇪🇺
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  5764. All blockades, unless they had been about two hours long, were a mistake, and will only become more mistaken going forward from here. They should be withdrawn immediately. After voluntarily clearing them, the next stage is to open it all up to the general population on the section of the Parliament Hill grounds where protest is fully allowed. If this is done, it will grow. If it is sustained, it will mean the end of Trudeau and the end of the mandates.
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  5765. These kids hear constantly how awful it is to live life as a woman under the patriarchy. So surely some of them are just fleeing womanhood (so much trouble!) for a more attractive sex (men's lives are easy, who doesn't know that?). There's something anti-woman at the heart of it. I see it as a form of misogyny that has things in common with sex selection (aborting female fetuses or discarding in vitro female embryos). Children need and deserve parental and societal supervision while they're children, not parental and societal obedience.
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  5766. Her $24,000 fridge can hold enough for everybody..
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  5767. Thanks for a comment that shows an interesting and mature mind and personality. 👏🏻 There's a shortage of them online.
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  5768. Klan Great Wizard, watching this: "Hey, Ibram Kendi, stop stealing all my moves!"
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  5769. This attempt at reductio ad absurdum doesn't work. All it does is emphasize that setting the minimum wage is a line drawing exercise. The costs and benefits must be weighed by people with the overall interests of the state or country in mind. Boring to some, but there you have it. Just where the wage is set is everything. The very best expert opinion of the most talented economists is indispensable. And don't forget that the money from a wage increase doesn't vanish into thin air. Poor people spend their money in a hurry. Directly after a minimum wage hike, while weak and mismanaged businesses relying on extremely low-cost labor begin to shrink or fold, consumer spending rises by dint of larger paycheques. While the disruptive dust is settling, increased consumer spending creates jobs. Libertarian leanings have a bit of a tendency to indicate really admirable strengths of personal morality and character, I'll grant that with no feelings of stinginess. But they only go so far as a viable system for the whole society, which is unavoidably stuffed with many others not quite so perfect.
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  5770.  @CyberEditing  Granted. But they're doing a lot of things right, these people who were until so recently mere management trainees in democracy. Or so I hear. As I understand it, too great respect for the people prevented much Western-style bossiness over the past 15 months. Is this true? A Peterson watcher in Taiwan...I could think of few I'd rather ask.
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  5771. Yes, and it's all over the place. It just isn't much on display on YT, social media, the news, movies, etc. See where I'm going with this? We'd all be better off just plugging into real life more of the time.
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  5772.  @TIVOSTUDIOS  Thanks. All you've said through this thread is great. Anyone who read through it all is fortunate.
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  5773. Ah, vindication. Except it's bittersweet, isn't it? (Mostly bitter, I'm sure).
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  5774. You sound racist.
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  5775. He's not angry at everyone, just supporters of officially-designated terrorist groups. Also lunatic wokesters. Also Democrats driving the US into the ground. In other words, everyone whom he should be angry at. But you like them, so you call them "everyone." You're welcome for clearing that up for you. Have a nice night.
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  5776. Here, let me help you. The words you're looking for may be those of Justin Trudeau in Sept. 2021, describing fellow Canadians who had yet to take a certain medical prophylactic. "They're often misogynistic, often racist. But they take up space. And with that we have to make a choice, in terms of a country, as a leader: do we tolerate these people?" Don't mistake me, I'm neutral on Brand at this point. No, I'm looking at you, and it's not a pretty picture.
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  5777. Easily avoidable by just staying home in Russia where they belong.
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  5778. Your quotation is an accurate summary of the situation. Who said it?
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  5779. ​ @CynthiaBlair  👍Whoever said it, repeat it elsewhere and often. All the best to you.
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  5780. If Ukraine's direct opponent in this war were not Russia but Belarus, surely NATO would have swiftly walloped it. Such an action, moreover, would be rather likely to unseat Lukashenko for good, and pro-Europeans might form a new government. Thus he must be in sheer terror of being coerced by Putin into sending his forces across the border. I say he ought to do it! Ukraine might soon have one less enemy and one more ally.
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  5781. Wow, that whole quote on-screen at 2: 48 is beyond brilliant. Just wow.
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  5782.  @Keith-sh4lo  What? He didn't know where his foot was? Are you kidding me? You're responsible when you ride your bike. You don't get on it unless you know it's right for you. Period. If it's not right for you and you ride it, it's your fault if anything goes wrong. Period. And there was nothing wrong with the design of that pedal. He's just past the point in his life where he's up to that sort of activity. He took a risk he clearly shouldn't have.
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  5783. Chap's name is Jonathan.
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  5784.  @bevgroves8062  Ah, I see. His dad, right? By the way, did you know that you can edit your own comments? Hover the pointer over your comment and click the 3-dot icon that appears to the right.
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  5785.  @bevgroves8062  Naughty on, madam.
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  5786.  @NYJGreatness  edit, dude
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  5787. When you say 'Peterson' you mean his difficulties, right?
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  5788. On the contrary, do treat them like royalty ought to be treated: Ignore them.
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  5789. Freud, Jung, Adler, Rogers, Maslow. All psychologists.
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  5790.  @uniktbrukernavn  I agree with every word of that. It might turn out we're wrong in some of these things, it might turn out we're right in all of them, but in any case they're points of view worth the mention. Thanks for your reply.
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  5791. The ballot in Russia's election: "Do you approve of the government's colossally violent attack on our weaker, smaller, harmless neighbour? Yes 🔳"
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  5792. Leftist garbage? CAA? Agenda 21? Duped? What are you? Did the staff at the asylum you live at leave the computer unlocked? Or are you just chilling in your government flat in Volgograd?
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  5793. Oh man, such great one liners in this section. 👏🏻
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  5794.  @MrSummerjamsam  That's a nice dividend yield.
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  5795.  @user-tl5sh8dg6e  Just who says they weren't repeat offenders?
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  5796. Christian Bale and Joaquin Phoenix are about the right age and seem clever enough to maybe wrap their minds around that of the character. Hard to say. I say just don't make the movie at all. It seems bound to miss the mark.
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  5797. It wasn't Elon's video. It was out for a little while before he shared it. Some other dude made it.
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  5798.  @Sehill0011  Bit odd to attack someone who takes the same view as you.🤔
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  5799. Let's bear in mind that Estee is married to a traditional husband and he views his job within the marriage is "to make her happy." What wife wouldn't appreciate that? Likewise she feels it's her job to make him happy. Refreshing. Modern couples tend to feel it's their spouse's job to make them happy.
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  5800. That's not true, I've witnessed that! 😄
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  5801. My guess is he wasn't really intent on harming the motorcyclist on the ground. I think he just didn't want to go back to prison (he had a long criminal record) and wanted the cops to shoot him. I could be wrong, but this strikes me as the simplest explanation. Any ill will towards the motorcyclist makes zero sense.
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  5802.  @protagonist1358  No problem. (By the way, did you know that you can edit or delete your posts if you aren't comfortable with them in some way?)
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  5803.  @teachermak5746  I'm glad you pointed that out.
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  5804.  @Sk-po9dx  NATO is devastating the Russian forces just by wiggling its little pinky. If it even used its thumb, its conventional forces could obliterate Russia's conventional forces. And let's face it, nuclear weapons are unusable.
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  5805. Who can say? I would want to hear from others on whether 60 days is too long or about right. It's likely she either sees something in this for herself, or is just beaking off as usual.
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  5806.  @RyanYoungMan  J'en doubte. The name sounds Belgian-French, which is very un-Quebecois. They are close to 100% Normans.
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  5807. Nice cheerleading for the Trumpflationary tax hikes!🙄Very bright.
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  5808.  @longshot7601  No, she knows she's defending the undependable. She crams the awareness down to the farthest and darkest part of her mind and soul, but she still knows.
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  5809. You mean she hasn't already? Bit of a surprise.
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  5810.  @isabelhoebel3189  You're completely right. That stuff is typical internet comments b.s.
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  5811.  @gluttonthesloth  Say hi for me!
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  5812. Mr. Orain, what does your judgment and experience tell you—Does this group reflect how Russians feel? I know sampling is a complicated area full of mathematical and other subtleties, especially statistical ones of course.
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  5813. Wuhan Dan
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  5814. Musk is half Canadian, lived in Canada for a few years (Saskatchewan, BC, Kingston and Toronto) and is a Canadian citizen. I wouldn't rule out his wanting to be PM someday.
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  5815. If they show it the video gets removed.
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  5816. Paranoia is heartbreaking to witness.😢
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  5817. Don't make things up. Imaginary things and facts are at opposite poles and I thought everyone knew that.
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  5818. You mean she has one?🤨
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  5819.  @lindajones4478  Seems plausible. Yet the elites also seem extremely determined that anyone with an IQ over about 110 be steered into the universities for indoctrination, lest they ever become a threat otherwise. I would love to see most of the universities shut down. They're economic inequality engines which work by sucking so many of the intelligent people out of the poorer half of the population. Oversupply of universities destroys social cohesion, blights small towns and makes reversing the blight in ghettoes practically impossible. Expansion of the universities after WWII also ruined the old and good ones. Kingsley Amis warned famously in the 1950s that "More will mean worse" and he was absolutely correct. If anything he should have been more emphatic.
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  5820.  @The-Contractor  Yeah, docile is ok. But trembling with fear is the real preference.
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  5821.  @TheJrr71  Guy reminds me of Lady Thatcher saying we should do away with metaphors.
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  5822. Hear, hear! Just listen to that treacherous pandering at the end where she says American companies really have no choice but to side with the terrible government of China against their own country. She makes excuses for them literally choosing and sympathizing with the Chinese state over the United States. Shocking. Who is paying off this nasty snake woman?
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  5823. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right. They make a leftist.
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  5824.  @jmhorange  And who expects the Russian economy to grow in 2023? The Kremlin's economists. 😂😂
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  5825.  @Wolfpaw754  The CDC tabulation of doctors' entries on death certificates did not reveal what you think it did, because you don't know anything about death certificates. Doctors are supposed to enter the proximal cause of death (and can also enter supplemental information, depending on the form in their state). Therefore it must never be, for example, diabetes or influenza , but instead things like sepsis or pneumonia , respectively. Those are proximal (meaning near) causes. Nor should it ever be covid-19 , but instead heart attack, ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), pneumonia, stroke, kidney failure , or whatever was the nearest cause. Things like covid-19, influenza, and diabetes are supposed to be listed only as underlying contributing factors. Thus the 94/6 ratio should have been 100/0, but 6% of forms were botched. Don't blame the CDC, or me, or anyone else for how death certificates work. Blame the 6% of doctors who need remedial training in how to fill out a form. And don't take my word for it. Hear out a highly respected covid-19 ICU doctor and UC Riverside professor of medicine.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TECf3xSFbU&t=632s&frags=pl%2Cwn How are we supposed to battle coronavirus hysteria based on incorrect arguments if we don't make the right arguments ourselves?
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  5826.  @peacejustice6355  It's god ("God") who gave us this plague. All-powerful, remember.
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  5827. But no, X does not "do it." X has no algorithmic leaning. (And the code is open-source!) No, Cuban and Stewart are simply outraged at any platform that doesn't harvest and destroy non-"progressive" opinion.
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  5828. DeSantis represents a return to strength, justice, reason. Americans have to stop the disintegration and make him president. It'll bring four great years.
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  5829. The Kerch Strait could use an artificial reef.😄
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  5830. I bet they look on us they way we look on mold in the shower: not interesting and not very threatening, but worth getting rid of anyway.
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  5831. Gordon Lightfoot: "That's it, I'm changing my f'in name."
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  5832. I actually like those proposals. They'd at least be an improvement on the current non-effort. Trump should publicly thank this guy for promoting them and send him a nice present.
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  5833. I would add this: People often mention that Russia can and will withstand—willingly— just about any level of losses in order to repel an invasion—an invasion, for example, like the German one of 1941. That may very well be true. But the Ukraine War has nothing to do with an invasion of Russia. What I'm getting at is that the Russian citizenry may, far sooner than is commonly supposed, run out of patience with the losses of this offensive war, this war of choice.
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  5834. Pfffft! When did Saddam Hussein ever win a clean election? Over what multi-decade period did Zelensky ever savage his people? (And don't you dare point to the Donbas, where Ukraine only legitimately fought back against Russian-instigated, Russian-funded, Russian-armed and Russian-staffed sedition.) The Prophet, Peace be upon him, surely seethes in Paradise to see such a false-tongued one using his name.
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  5835. The more I hear about this Stalin fella, the more I don't care for him.
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  5836. 😄 Maybe try knocking back a strong coffee. Or deep breaths to replenish oxygen. When a fisherman spots another fisherman on the water, he will approach the area under the assumption that the other one is getting bites. It's called opportunism. Are you forgetting that Russia ended up taking over 9 countries in Eastern Europe? They sank the German trawler and stole the fishing ground.
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  5837.  @Sergio-fu7mv  Unless this thing gets way bigger, the epidemic of morons going around saying "racist!" like metronomes is the most dangerous epidemic in the US. Cheers.
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  5838. First she (insincerely) said that zionism, a belief that Jews should have a homeland, is all right. "I think that's fair. I think that's fair." Once she started losing the argument, zionism was instead a problem. She made it about him, as though a 12-year-old boy's views are the crux of a major world issue. I pity her husband, children, co-workers. If any.
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  5839. I suspect Starmer or Trudeau.
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  5840.  @tom-was  It's not. It threatens to become that, certainly. But it's too early to tell.
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  5841.  @peterseth3296  Thanks for your reply, but I know all there is to know about this subject. Still interesting to hear your point of view, though, and I don't disdain it.
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  5842.  @gabriellamclellan1102  I hope they go too, but it's nothing to do with age. You won't get dumber as you age, I can promise you that. But my mother always said "There's no fool like an old fool." That's true enough, and I think that's what you're seeing. Their replacements can be young or old, but they simply must be clever and wise for a change, and able to bring out the best in people via an authentic personality.
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  5843.  @ciararespect4296  Thank you for that transcription. 😄
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  5844.  @jmmh1313  Oxford Dictionaries: "ge·o·po·lit·i·cal /ˌjēōpəˈlidik(ə)l/ adjective: relating to politics, especially international relations, as influenced by geographical factors." I knew this quite well, and that is why I wrote the comment. The word is almost always misused—including by you, apparently, given what you say—and it's that which bugs me. So it turns out that it's you who "[doesn't] know s--- about the actual etymology of the word." Now maybe you can tell us about the etymology of your name, Señor Moròn Hermano? 😂
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  5845.  @evaluateanalysis7974  It is 100% clear to any person with a thorough understanding of English, including children below high school age. Just accept that. And I did not make any "personal remark." (Look up the meaning of that phrase.) Please adjust your confidence in your abilities to the actual level of your abilities, my friend, and don't criticize things you don't understand. Once again, I wish you the best.
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  5846.  @evaluateanalysis7974  Wonderful! Have a great day.
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  5847. Super-good job, Artyom. Same on the edit, Anastasia.👍
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  5848. 'Tis merely that Canadian officials can spot a Labour enthusiast when they see one.😄 But seriously, this is so over-perfect it sounds like hoax material. (Does he say his harassers wore MAGA caps, by any chance?) It being Canada and this being 2023, I can see the airline and border agency apologizing automatically no matter what actually happened.
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  5849. Agreed. The stigmatization of bad traits or actions is the bedrock of civilization, while actively punishing minor or unimportant differences (like having acne) is entirely wrong.
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  5850. Yes, and it's for the best.
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  5851. In every regard which I'm at all familiar with, the UN is a tok sic organization dominated by authoritarian and leftist governments, despite being largely funded by the democratic and centrist countries, and especially the US. So what good is it?
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  5852.  @mutantpig4218  Interesting, thanks.
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  5853. Don't forget Russia's intentional homicide rate of 6.8 per 100k per year. Outside of Latin America and Africa, the highest in the world. (Also possibly Iraq, which has released no official stats since 2013.)
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  5854. ​ @rainmaker3700  As a band member he performed lead vocals.
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  5855. *Elicit
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  5856. Let's go back to the start here and point out that one doesn't become aware simply by announcing one is aware. The terminology the left wing chooses for itself and its so-called ideas is as hilarious as it is deceptive and outright dishonest. The most straightforward and classic example is 'social justice.'
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  5857. Elon Musk: Bringing Glasnost & Perestroika (Openness & Reform) to America
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  5858. Canada's economy is 9th-largest in the world. (5% smaller than 8th-place Italy.) But I always like getting the perspective of limited-success American men.🤣
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  5859.  @johnnyllooddte3415  This is why you're a vet and not a psychiatrist. In my view her decision about the dog was a lifelong rancher/farmer thing, not a mental health thing.
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  5860. Most of these people wear a collar on their brains and don't feel right unless some tyrant is holding the leash. Omg, talk about being born to be ruled.
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  5861. "Eager for war"? Yeah, sure. In fact the West is responding to the scene of a crime. It's showing up to assist a brutalized people.
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  5862. Also Italy, Israel, many countries. Worst PM ever.
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  5863. Mr. Walsh sounds a bit fevered to me. I think Trump has rather different ideas than he lets on publicly about NATO, Russia and Putin. I think he spouts off and hints at these various positions for tactical purposes only. I think he wants a strong NATO, a neutered Russia and Putin, and a restoration of Ukrainian territory, probably all of it, plus reparations. Attack, flattery, deception, threats—these are his ways of dealing with people he's up against whether friends, mere competitors, adversaries or enemies. Possibly he can succeed.
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  5864. First it was baguettes, then Brigitte Bardot, and now this! Incroyable.
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  5865. ​ @jmcg9822  The salivating wolf mistakes bushes rustling in the wind for sheep.
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  5866.  @biscaynediver  If 1420 doesn't go to hick areas, it's no indication they're not brave, any more that it is for you not to go walking alone late at night down dark streets in a bad neighborhood. There's no point in courting such danger.
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  5867.  @johnflynn-pk2mk  Shall I send paramedics? If your airway is clear, take slow, deep breaths.
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  5868. Nope. This would be happening without the tariff story or the trolling. If anything, Trump threw him a slight political lifeline with his attacks. Anyway, even six months ago only 17% of Canadians said they wanted so see this govt re-elected. (Two weeks ago it was down to 14%.😂)
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  5869.  @meola69420  I think probably their society took the opportunity to get rid of problem people it didn't want — people of low mental capacity, criminals, those with strong antisocial propensities, etc. We can safely assume that the victims weren't selected randomly.
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  5870. ​ @Flash3-22  Hahahaha. Says a person who in her reply makes assumptions based on her feelings.
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  5871. The dude was solid. He's got a million of those.
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  5872.  @voncarniola  You make a good point. It wasn't a world war as long as it was only in one region. And the regions which it eventually broke out in were, in order: East Asia (1937), Central/Western Europe (1938/39), Africa (1940), Soviet Europe (1941), and the Pacific (1941). So it is indeed arguably right to date its beginning to the invasions of the Sudetenland (1938) or Poland (1939). That's when it became multi-regional.
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  5873. Lynx boy band in the early stages of formation.
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  5874. People should stop saying things like that. Currency market exchange rates aren't everything. In a great many cases they show one thing clearly while distorting a great many others.
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  5875. And you didn't vote for any of the president-elect's other appointees or advisors either. Nor for his cabinet nominees. So?
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  5876. The hipster accent is rough. The way he enunciates the long o sound makes my skin crawl.
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  5877.  @terdferguson1736  old chunks of coal?
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  5878.  @tracyclaystowell6431  Proofreading is your friend.
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  5879.  @marcelcharette265  Believe it or not, lies — apart from slander and libel — are indeed protected speech. And I'm sorry to say that they ought to be. Anyone who really thinks it through will agree. But it's still right, in my view, to take strong action against foreign propaganda. In fact it's vitally important.
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  5880.  @Megafoot2164  Why don't you tell us what you know?
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  5881.  @Megafoot2164  That's it? Please go on.
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  5882.  @Megafoot2164  I don't see the point of your coyness.
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  5883.  @marcelcharette265  Well, that was a silly reply. Of course lying is bad and of course there are often — and should be — negative consequences for it. If you really thought it was necessary to point this out after reading my reply, your reading comprehension is rather poor. Note especially the part where I mention libel and slander and how they are not protected speech. They are illegal. Thanks for wasting my time, Captain Sanctimony.
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  5884.  @Megafoot2164  Well, thanks for your edit where you finally shared your earth-shattering info. But did you think I was going to see it? YouTube doesn't notify people when you make an edit, so I saw it by chance. Anyway, is that all? CNOOC (formerly Nexen) only produces about 70k bbl/d, which is a tiny fraction of the 4.5 million bbl/d the oil sands produces. 70,000 out of 4,500,000 is supposed to be a lot? To me it's a rounding error. I'm an anti-CCP hawk, so I was hoping for a lot more. If something else comes to mind, please share it. Cheers.
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  5885.  @Megafoot2164  I disagree. It's not what you spend to buy a company or shares in it, it's what the company then does to generate wealth. Bad investors and managers are disparaged, ignored and marginalized for a reason. Likewise a bad cook, let him pay however much for his ingredients.
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  5886. An M777 is a size larger.
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  5887.  @joyceedwards7379  No probs. Let's delete all that.
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  5888.  @munaabdi1503  Go tell it to your TA. Responding to you earnestly would be lost time. I'd hope you acquaint yourself with facts, life and the world someday, but plainly it'd be a vain hope, so I'll hope for things that are possible instead. Have a nice day.
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  5889. Yep. Fee mayle privilege.
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  5890.  @renearango8021  Nope. Ontario reactors came online between 1971 and 1988. And massive expansion is planned, with the building of more than half a dozen new reactors, four or five at Bruce and four SMRs. Ontario's electricity mix in 2022 was: Nuclear 51%, hydro 25%, natural gas 10%, wind 10%, solar PV 2.5%. Nuclear was one of Ontario's best ever moves.
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  5891. Time to end DEI. Time to go HOME: Hire On Merit Only
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  5892. This fellow loses points with me for his carnival barker/health tonic salesman persona that seems to date from Kansas in 1910. For sheer showy staginess he even outmatches [no I'm not saying that about her, it's mean]. For my part, I rate the odds of Biden or Trump or both exiting the ballot at >50%.
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  5893.  @not.likely  You shouldn't say that loners are of no value. They may be up to good things. Einstein was a loner. Some said that as a bachelor Lincoln was one.
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  5894.  @patricks6934  The longer the Pax Americana lasts, the longer the rivers of blood are forestalled and the longer freedom and prosperity have a chance. I've read 20th century history. All the best.
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  5895. 1) Gad Saad, Elon Musk and Neil Young all happen to be Canadian citizens — Young by birth, Saad and Musk by emigration in their youth. And all three have their claim to greatness. In my view Neil Young has tarnished his, but that certainly can change. 2) Let's be clear on Lemon's X program. It wasn't cancelled and can remain on X. All that happened is that Musk immediately after the interview withdrew from the generous partnership deal he'd signed with Lemon. So Lemon blew it, but can continue the show. It's just that he's on his own unless he finds another partner, which he's 100% welcome to do. Solo or with a partner (or partners), his choice. Musk is all about the inclusion and the choice. Liberals, conservatives, wokesters, Trump, everyone can come in — and be, and do, and say, what they want. It just has to be lawful. 3) It's true, Trudeau faces political obliteration in the 2025 election. The Conservatives, according to poll aggregator site 338Canada, have a ">99% chance" of a majority win to form the next government. Ahhhh! Such a heavenly state of pleasant expectation. A remarkable 74% of Canadians want Trudeau to step down, not next year or soon, but quite literally now. 4) SkyNA, please don't use that graphic saying "Quebec, Canada." Gad Saad is in Montreal, Quebec. If an Australian professor were in Sydney, surely the graphic would say Sydney, Sydney, NSW or Sydney, Australia. It would never say New South Wales, Australia, I think. Affection, gratitude and respect as always to Rita Panahi and Sky News Australia from Canada.🇨🇦🇦🇺 Sibling nations always and forever.
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  5896. Most universities should be closed. In the 1950s when many new universities were being built in the UK, Kingsley Amis famously said "More will mean worse." Of course he was right. The immediate result was far lower admission standards. (Imagine a pro sports league with 200 teams.) It's automatic: Dull students, bad university.
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  5897.  @theghostoftomjoad7161  Class resentments deserve to be curbed up to a point too. People shouldn't let them run wild. You disagree, perhaps, but thanks for hearing me out, assuming you did. Cheers.
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  5898. ​ @dave506  Are you?
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  5899. ​ Logically Irrational  Yet she goes out of her way to make fun of Stephen Miller's. My, but she goes to town on him, on how 'icky' he is. She seems to want us to know more than anything else that there's no way she is going to go out on a date with him. He's just so, like, conservative. Borrowing in advance the language of Justin Trudeau, she harps on the word "fringe" as a synonym for both 'non-left-wing' and 'cuckoo.' She would love have loved how Trudeau also to "fringe" added "often ra cist and misogynist" and "holding unacceptable views" in describing people who disagreed with his firing people from their jobs if they hadn't gotten vaccinated against Covid. (Bill Maher recently read many of these statements to his studio audience, following them by saying to Trudeau (who wasn't present) "Now you do sound like Hitler," and he wasn't joking or even quipping. Watch the clip.) She's one of these "progressives" who paints devil's horns on all conservatives, who along with others has destroyed the country's political center, and who, as a denizen of the Left Pole, finds anything to the right of it Far-Right. (This is by analogy to the North Pole, compared to which even the North Slope of Alaska seems downright subtropical.). People like her are why I'm politically homeless in the center.
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  5900. His head would pop off. So would Blake's. They'd consider it hell.
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  5901. When 'progressives' weaponize 'empathy.'
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  5902. That same question ("Is everybody everybody on the verge of not caring about this war?") has been asked in every interview of every guest here for the last 22 weeks of this 26-week war. Over and over and over. Tick, tock like a metronome.
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  5903. 1940s Linguist: "Of all mankind's inventions, language is the greatest." Mae West: "Talking is nice, but I still say it's the screw."
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  5904. Interesting question, but these drones have relatively primitive and extremely loud 2-stroke gasoline engines. Iran can fabricate them themselves. The cameras and computer chips might be a different story, but they might also just be consumer-grade off-the-shelf merchandise. I would wonder about the transmitters/receivers.
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  5905. There are now Russians just like her all over my city—pleasant, sound of mind, personalities in good health. I can only conclude Russia gets stupider and more brutal and lost by the day as people like her leave, never to return. Surely few things could delight Putin more.
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  5906.  @Joebidensonlyterm  Actual cheese: "Hey, don't compare me to that guy!"
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  5907. I look at Gwoopy Oldberg and all I can think of is the Road Warrior movies and all those nasty outback characters.
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  5908. How very thoughtful, pointing out colours for the benefit of people who may well have no idea what a colour is, or remember them with profound sadness. :washhands:
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  5909.  @riparianlife97701  Ah, but the whole dacha shall double as an ashtray before summer's end! (And a funerary urn as well.)
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  5910. You're right to be concerned. We are living under martial law. Thank you for pointing out Trudeau's low hypocrisy.
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  5911.  @MarcosElMalo2  It surprises me how many people think that American political and military leadership are perpetually unthinking blunderers and how few think that they are acute and realistic but simply have to conceal their real strategy. In this regard I put Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine all in the same basket. In each case I think they knew (or know) that attaining an absolute victory was/is not realistic in light of the enemy's commitment and resolve, the immutable facts of the terrain, the (un)willingness of the American public, the need to conserve American military and financial resources, and the willingness of the enemy's allies to back it with their own military and financial resources. Afghanistan may serve as a prime example. No one is ever going to conquer and pacify Afghanistan—perennially quite well armed and innately highly defensible owing to terrain—without a force of at least a few million, and at a great cost in lives. Knowing this, the US and the UN-mandated ISAF were under no illusions. They sent in small numbers of men and a lot of materiel with the aim of controlling Kabul, some other large towns, large areas of countryside, and that's all. That they were able to do it so well and for so long, without huge numbers of casualties, was in fact very impressive. They made their point about terra wrist training, they made it for 20 years, and they made it well. That point was that if the West is attacked, the nation sponsoring the attacks will receive some very unpleasant visitors who will stay for a very long time. And what was its effect? I say that the relative absence of Isla mist terra wrist attacks on the West for many years now strongly suggests that it created a strong deterrent. And the US left at a time of their own choosing. Mostly their own choosing, that is: it would appear that Russian troop massing near Ukraine in early 2021 was the cue that US military commitments were best trimmed to the minimum. Hence the Afghanistan pullout, which when seen in that light was well timed. (The disappointing aspect was the relative lack of passion among Afghanis for retaining democratic government. This largely had to do with an understandable exhaustion and a longing for peace after so many decades of warfare since the 1970s. It was this that led the Western forces to simply hope that all the kit they'd left the national army with would be wielded with conviction. Few, however, were greatly shocked when the Afghans quickly surrendered. But the notion that US and their partners left defeated with their tails between their legs is nothing more than anti-Western PR.) It must be borne in mind that the US cannot publicly admit its real goals in every conflict. It cannot begin by telling the American people that it cannot win outright and must settle for attriting enemies over a period of many years. They wouldn't accept it. Yet the outcomes of such attrition are successful. Vietnam succeeded in keeping China from attempts to spread Communism in the Indo-Pacific during all these years since. The hope of the US and NATO now is that Russia will learn a lesson similar to those learned by China (in Vietnam), North Korea and the Taliban, namely that over the long term they cannot win. Thanks for reading my even longer spiel.😄
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  5912. There is a new saying: "Xi is a monster."
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  5913. Equal opportunity: Golden DEI and quotas: Toxic
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  5914.  @supersuede6493  😳👏👏Plus what I said.
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  5915. Well, the sales tax could be higher if you'd like instead. But the higher the proportion of your wealth you spend on stuff, the less you're going to like it. (I.e., it's mostly better for rich people.) Property tax is mostly worse for rich people.
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  5916. The roof of a nearby building, as Mark stated.
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  5917. It's all they got.
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  5918. The whole US has already become like Detroit. That's the problem.
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  5919. Great metaphor for his "work" in Washington too.
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  5920. There's so many Karens out there, I think we need a new term that doesn't suggest they occur at the rate of one in 200. How about 'some woman'?—as in "Right then some woman started freaking out."
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  5921. Actually Trump generally seems to know his place. Harry does not. In quite a number of ways he equals or outdoes Trump for boorishness and caddishness, which let's face it is an achievement. Pretty amazing when you consider all four of Trump's grandparents were European villagers. Harry's grandparents were European royalty and nobility. In a sense it's a useful reminder.
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  5922.  @jabom99  The US is creating millions of desperate poor people every year. So yeah, the coffee-maker factory will come along just in time and have plenty of grateful applicants. Not what the previous generations had in mind exactly, but it'll be an improvement over gangs, mobile homes, crystal meth, opioids, and homelessness. A couple of decades later you might have a healthy smooth-running country back.
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  5923. India to Kremlin: "We will be postponing aircraft purchases until further notice. Thank you." India to US: "Are you guys by any chance, uh, opening up new horizons in hacking?"
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  5924. Next thing they're going to add is an emoji of a cucumber.
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  5925. Who hasn't known about that concept since reaching the age of maybe 12? It's a thing, but not that many shoppers would be repeat shoppers if it truly applied there, as people hate being lied to. My North Face sneakers for $55 and Columbia winter boots for $80 (both pairs would go for 2x that much at most places) argue that it doesn't. Reliably cheap prices.
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  5926.  @LucasFernandez-fk8se  Aye, but here's the rub: Yes they were the worst generation of all time, but each succeeding one is markedly worse yet. I think it's been going on since about 1850, although in most ways the slow decline was masked for over a century by mounting prosperity, improving health and the increasing ease of day-to-day living (including falling social coercion). But let prosperity stagnate and then start reversing, as it indeed is, and it's like coming down from a drug. With the nasty withdrawal mood everybody's in, social coercion is back with a vengeance. (There's a large bloc of society I call the New Puritans. You probably know who I mean.) Anyway, to return to the main theme, I'm confident that in 30 years or so people will speak of Millennials and maybe even GenZ-ers as the solid older people of a better time whom all the younger generations ought to emulate for their traditional outlook and moral virtues. And that's if everything doesn't go all Road Warrior before then. Or worse — suffering catastrophic war defeats for example. Did I cheer you up?😄
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  5927. It's fun. There are alternatives for almost anything. And the more of them you purchase, the more the buyers for the retail chains send for more to fill our stores, and so more get made. Meanwhile fewer get made in that certain other country.
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  5928. Most Germans know how to spell Reichstag.
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  5929.  @karlgaiser9783  Ok. Ja, wir sind immer nur zwei oder drei Albträume von der Tyrannei entfernt. Und dann nur noch einer. (Bitte entschuldigen Sie mein Deutsch.)
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  5930. They insist that anyone's truth is as good as anyone else's, but if you don't follow their truth they want you fired. Eventually, very drastic action against these people is going to become necessary.
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  5931. I assumed they meant Elon Musk. They're not billionaire-friendly and were hinting at an exception who might be helpful. That would be Musk.
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  5932. Or just born to be ruled.
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  5933.  @andrewk6717  Thanks, but I think your comment belonged up at the top, not buried in here. All the best.
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  5934. It's certainly no mystery why she failed her first attempt at the bar exam.
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  5935. When the VP's mouth gapes open to show her large teeth, it's begun to frighten me.😱 But still not as much as her profound lack of intellect, her radical beliefs, her vacuous ambition, and the eerie oddness of her personality. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😆
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  5936. On a scale from 1 to 10 it's about a 6.5. Some would say lower. A typical Euro country is 4.5. Recognize how much taxation and government there is in the US and save the word 'extreme' for extremities.
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  5937. Non-violent, non-destructive protestors are legitimate. Rioters and vandals are subject to arrest. If you want to try it, the loss of your freedom is the price. These people weren't arrested, and that isn't right.
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  5938.  @thepanda1980able  Putler : Donbas :: Hitler : Sudetenland. Perfect correspondence. The only difference is that Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland was unopposed by the democratic countries.
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  5939.  @martinjanssen79  That was the counterpart of the Anschluss.
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  5940.  @dagman85  You got that wrong. She leapt right into an attack on him and his career. Go back and watch. Then, after Piers told her to return to the subject, she claimed — not as you say, that "Americans have never been okay with the idea of 'equal rights' for gay people"— but that Americans have always been negative on gay marriage. She called his position "ridiculous" and attacked him again as a "scaremonger." That's not really an argument, for he said the level of support had fallen and she didn't address it. Her sole factual assertion was indeed factually incorrect. US public support for gay marriage was at 71% just last year. See the Gallup article "Same-Sex Marriage Support Inches Up to New High of 71%".
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  5941. Actually Forbes has batted .000 in winning elections Trump has batted .500 (Some would say 1.000) So....
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  5942. Fair take. One way of synthesizing it all, perhaps: Pinfold's dictum: Politics is a suit of clothes, worn not by a person but a personality.
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  5943. It sounds as though you regard women as fungible, interchangeable, monolithic. In fact each woman has her own opinion and own will, and if you were interested enough to find out you would discover that they are divided, as the whole country is. The last poll I looked at (released last night) showed women tilted to Harris by 3%.
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  5944. US Americans are some of the best Americans there are.
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  5945. This great narrator knows, as far as I can tell, how to pronounce every single word. Cringe factor: zero. Pacing: right on the money 👏
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  5946. About a quarter of the country, to each other: "America had it coming. This is good. This is exciting. It will inevitably be cleansing." About half the country, to each other: "Don't say anything. Don't say you hate this. We'll sound raci st." Remaining quarter: "This is exactly what it looks like, a disaster. I'm mad as hell and I'm not afraid to say so."
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  5947. From hell, you say? She looks very nice in the thumbnail. Appears agreeable, kind, intelligent, classy, etc.
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  5948. The best was the guy at 15.40! He instantly laughed so genuinely. I mean that was so open, so sincere. They would love him in my country.
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  5949.  @jinxesinshadows1994  So you likewise believe that a man working at a women's prison and screwing the women there should only be fired if caught?
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  5950. A Times defence reporter. That ok?
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  5951. Anyone else remember the song sung by the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz?: 🎵If I Only Had a Brain🎶
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  5952. Dem leadership in July: "Let's face it, we need a nominee with a working brain." August: "Problem solved!" September [patting selves on back]: "See?" Now [sotto voce]: "Omg, the working brain thing again." ☹
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  5953.  @OralSurgeonRider  Altogether in your remarks in this thread you condemn yesterday's rioting in unequivocal terms, while condoning the summer riots. For example, you say of the latter "I am not in favour of riots." Wow, brave and ethical position. Next will we hear that you're against homicide and child abuse? You show us all we need to know about your mind and morals, for rioting is wrong and criminal no matter who does it, and always for the same reasons.  Any other viewpoint is sheer hyper-partisanship --- and on that count Tulsi Gabbard accurately and incisively indicts you in this clip. She's got your dirty little number at 6:46 to 7:15.
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  5954.  @OralSurgeonRider  Do not place me behind Trump. That is classic straw-manning and you should take it back. You should also own up to the part your own side had in it. I don't mean agents provocateurs on the Capitol steps, although I am inclined to credit the video I've seen of someone said to be one. I mean almost a whole summer of the left elites normalizing rioting --- the political left, almost the entire media, academia, celebrities, business. Look what it led to. Who knew? Who knew we could let one group of people riot and no other groups would come along later and claim the same right? Who could have ever guessed that allowing Americans to riot might be a bad idea? I find neither occasion acceptable in the least, and for the same reasons, only this time neither side is condoning what happened.
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  5955. He always looks like he's on something. DeSantis, of course, always looks sober as a judge. Just one of the many night-and-day differences.
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  5956. "Germany has asked [Russia] for written clarification" concerning the payment currency for oil and gas. Omg, what a laugh. As though if you get something from Russia in writing then it's somehow binding on them!
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  5957. Roger Scruton was sent to us, as it were, to give us as full a picture as possible of the many things we are losing, the terribly beautiful, useful, charming, and profound things that have become in this day forgotten, perished, outmoded, lost, circling the drain. The more thoroughly proletarianized we become (Paul Fussell called the process Prole Drift) the simpler, the cruder, the more foolish, the more childish, the stupider, the crueller, the more cowardly we become. Poor us. Lucky us we had Scruton.
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  5958. @seven4489 Cancelling a guy's Tesla order isn't a violation of free speech. Free speech is about it being illegal to pass laws aimed at censoring speech. Don't you think it's a business owner's prerogative, within very broad limits, to refuse to serve anyone who he/she feels is antagonizing him/her?
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  5959.  @Kim-sq9gp  When you value free and open expression in the public sphere so highly that you're willing to pay tens of billions of dollars to increase it, that's integrity. Yeah, he paid $44bn, now it's worth ~$10bn. But it's earnings-positive.
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  5960. I would never drop a tactless hint by saying "Has anybody talked to you about hospice care? Is that the plan?" (And it was right after saying "I understand you two are newlyweds" besides, something that leads the mind away from death.) I was stunned to hear it. Why not just ask "Have you been coffin shopping yet?" She needs more training, or is perhaps untrainable.
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  5961.  @panemetcircenses6003  The customers who can't stand others' differing views are going to get lost. As they should. People of more developed character who can handle disagreement without their head exploding will flock to the site. Musk will find ways to make it a fire hydrant of cash. One should be careful when implying that someone far smarter than oneself is not thinking things through.
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  5962. Correct. The video "The Bomb That Ended a War" (meaning the Gulf War in Kuwait) details an American bunker buster that was able to destroy reinforced concrete bunkers 50 feet underground. And that was 32 years ago.
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  5963. She reminds me of the Springfield cop who took Bart Simpson on a ride-along. Bart: “Wow, can I see your club?” Cop: “It’s called a baton, son.” B: “Oh. What’s it for?” C: “We club people with it.”
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  5964. But the Gazans did demonstrate in the streets after the slaughter of Israelis...in joyous celebration of what the group they elected and put into office had done.
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  5965. Yeah, he seems like a master at talking out of six sides of one mouth. He was hugging Putin a couple of months ago. I've never seen him helping any situation, only trying to make sure India gains somehow...which it has done from this war, buying Russian oil cheaply and marking it up for re-export. Lucrative.
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  5966.  @jelsner5077  No. Be one if you like, I couldn't care less. Just don't become deputy prime minister.
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  5967. Governor DeSantis is a good man.
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  5968. Ah, but there's more: many other countries will piggy-back on the Trump tax hikes. If Canada's oil suddenly costs $90/barrel instead of $70, why would others just keep selling at their present price? They're not stupid. They'll jack their price up to about $85 to soak up an easy extra profit. These tax hikes are an own-goal by the US.
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  5969.  @bradcanning875  Great description of what you see in the mirror. Unappetizing though.
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  5970. I somehow doubt Putin will see this clip, so it's unlikely to affect him emotionally. His supporters, too, are apt to generally steer clear of news chats in England.
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  5971. Immanuel Kant: "You've uncovered more ethical truth than I ever could've done, even had I lived another thousand years. Your penetrating moral vision actually humiliates me." Soren Kierkegaard: "Same here, bro. I'm so small now."
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  5972.  Killbot  We get it. You hate people because you're wonderful and the other 8 billion are awful. Right. I'm guessing you only have animal friends.
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  5973.  @Φλωρος-Θωμασου-Ξ5Ξ  I think the rest of you can see some reply that I can't. Nothing else can explain this nonsense thread. Thanks, though. Cheers
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  5974. Thanks for adding that. I might have missed the first one or two seconds.
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  5975. Madam, I salute you.
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  5976.  @sumiland6445  Thank you.
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  5977.  @crazyfloridaman3073  Oh? Then work on your writing skills, Pooty-bot. You should have made it "I don't care", not "Nobody cares." (Nobody = not one person) Have a nice day.
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  5978. The far left and their Party have taken an oath not to uphold the US Constitution.
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  5979.  @johnhoran9840  Three short comments and it's already a great thread.👍
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  5980. and FGN!!
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  5981.  @iyamwhatiyam547  I'm sure he meant FADs. (A = all, D = party of Newsom & Biden)
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  5982. Shoplifters are why we can't have nice things. It's a massive problem nearly everywhere, in effect a second HST. Then there's Costco. Institute the Costco model. The honest 99% of shoppers will understand it and want it.
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  5983. Did the security lapse prompt Macron's surprise musings on direct NATO participation? My thinking is that (1) NATO (likely the US) ascertained that Russia had snooped on the WebEx call. And (2) since Russia might decide to publicly leak the recording, it was (3) thought much better to have Macron disclose a certain comfort level with the abstract notion of such participation, than to have the global public and media be blindsided by Russia releasing it first. The timing seems too perfect to be mere coincidence. (Unless the German WebEx call came after Macron's disclosure). And if I am correct, NATO's knowing — i.e., the Americans' knowing, surely? — that Russia knew may point to either marvellously penetrative American signals intelligence in the Kremlin/MoD/FSB, or a rather well-placed mole or two. Or both. One day, if the world lasts long enough, some terribly interesting books might be published on the spying going on.
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  5984. No, don't be revisiting this except maybe once a year. Not in your regular rotation. Very niche. How about something else in the realm of social media wars instead? (East or west.) I want to know if any Western social media platforms are doing anything about the hordes of hostile nation posters. I dip down into comments and 75% are from St. Pete/Shenzhen/Tabriz unlit basement dwellers.
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  5985.  @tritium1998  On the whole I'm glad that wasn't even coherent.
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  5986. It made me cringe how poorly rehearsed she was. Her staff did a poor job, preparing her with a list of weak and banal responses, and she thus appeared out of her depth. But then, maybe she just is out of her depth; otherwise she would have reworked what they came up with. She was like someone's assistant, interviewed on TV for the first time.
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  5987. "And of course I had an onion hanging from my belt, which was the style at the time…" Basically Grandpa Simpson, except slower.
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  5988. Maybe someday they'll hire a sound person too. I don't know.
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  5989.  @_John_P  I know, man—women, cooking, nature? I mean, that really is sick. 🤨🤮 Trying to appeal to the worst in people. I don't feel well right now.
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  5990. But why bother trying to decide? Samuel Johnson captured the right spirit here: "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea."
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  5991. Not sure about that, but apparently he said he'll save criticism of the Canadian govt for when he gets back home. Makes sense, because he's down in Washington to talk about China's misdeeds and really ought to make his visit 100% about that. Smart dude.
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  5992. He is! It's the Democratic Party of the present day.
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  5993. Why does CNN bring us a 31-year-old to explain the world? Good looks, obviously.
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  5994. Yes, exactly. A fifteen-year-old girl to be precise.
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  5995. It's impossible to colonize one's own homeland. Jews have lived in Israel continuously for an absolute minimum of 3,900 years.
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  5996. Terrorism, in the same way 9/11 was.
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  5997. It certainly is. The duping of a fool by a knave has been a classic comic motif since forever.
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  5998. Single most astute comment. (Of the three, they're most like Maoists, btw.)
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  5999.  Paul Mdlr  Who told you that, Noam Chomsky or your TA?
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  6000.  @federalreservebrown2507  You're so paranoid you don't need to smoke a thing. :)
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  6001. Wondering the same thing. Is there no way to approach the Russian forces from the west or north? Cannot their positions be attacked with artillery, drones or shoulder-fired missiles?
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  6002. Anyway, Marin herself is the PM, and she said on Friday that the possibility exists. I don't know about you but, today being Sunday, I consider Friday to have been recent.
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  6003.  @anasmferreira  Thank you for that. I imagine she's some kind of fake campus activist. Can't write, doesn't use punctuation, poor grammar ("I seen" "wars is"). Makes knee-jerk attacks on political centrism, which to her looks 'reactionary' from her Left Pole residence. Just a moral poseur identical to so very many others that plague our era.
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  6004. Oh, please. Sexual display to attract the attention of potential mates is at the core of existence in the animal kingdom. It has nothing to do with bowing to "the patriarchy." It sounds like normal sexuality disgusts you and you yearn for us all to be ethereal creatures rather than flesh and blood. In other words a type of biological denialism, which leads me to the point that it's that kind of feminist histrionics which the trans activists are modelling, because it got you and your ilk rather far.
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  6005.  @collybeans586  A bunch of unhinged rantings. A strong and rich Germany is a great thing for America. Take a kopek downtown and make a down payment on a clue.
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  6006. Sounds right to me. Except that I'm not so sure about the liability of officers under the command of a more senior officer. Imagine disobeying your superior in an organization that is entirely based on obedience.
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  6007.  @IarwainBen-adar  I see. In that case my intuition or gut reaction is that they seem destined for acquittal. Just like pro sports referees, the jury(s) will try to take some of the sting out of the last penalty call. Thanks for your reply.
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  6008.  @thecongo8505  Thanks for your reply. It's been several months now since I watched it and I had no wish to see it again, but now I have to, just to see what you mean.   Maybe I thought the same as you first time around, I can't remember. If you don't mind me saying so, you sound like you go about it right.
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  6009. Disposable clothes, meet disposable brains.
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  6010. You want the Price of Eggs Network.
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  6011. Soy kills.
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  6012. Brilliant. That's indeed what it is. Just as I will wear a kippah if I visit a temple but would never do it otherwise.
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  6013. Ah, so let's just shut down the Canadian Armed Forces? Brilliant. You're invited to run for office on that platform.
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  6014. Agreed. Meanwhile, rumour has it that Hutch is a roosky, so he can take a fg walk.
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  6015.  @bradleyroth9870  All too many Russians (most?) crave the Late Middle Ages and the spirit of its political and social system, i.e. feudalism, except with modern toys. The Nazis created the same atmosphere in Germany, breathing full life back into the same lingering spirit in Germans and turned them once again into a nearly full-fledged medieval people. Only total defeat followed by denazification extirpated German feudalism. [So glad I stumbled on this thread.]
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  6016. And not back in his intemperate youth either. It was in 2013. Yep, total role model for domestic abusers, not just men but all the hundreds of genders, around the world and for generations to come. 😂
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  6017.  @calebwidogussy452  And there's another one. You'll practically never hear truly well educated people use the words 'educated' or 'uneducated.' I feel gross even using them here. But the half-educated never tire of repeating them at every opportunity.
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  6018. 'Sir' plus a last name is never a correct form. Never. It must always be Sir plus either the first name alone or the full name. You're thinking of 'Lord' plus last name. (Lord is an aristocratic title which may be hereditary, while Sir indicates a knighthood, which is never hereditary. A knight is not an aristocrat, but a commoner.)
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  6019. Question for Russians: "Have you thought about what happens if Putin doesn't wake up tomorrow?"
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  6020. It is dream sleep. Not sure why you're puzzled.
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  6021. Watch other videos of the Second World War in order to have what you know confirmed. Watch Mark Felton in order to be surprised.
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  6022. And those are their most charming qualities.
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  6023.  @robollis  Pay careful mind to the prefix 'Neo'. It always denotes a movement which cherrypicks some of the concepts of an earlier one and then adds a few new ones, ordinarily resulting in a jumble. It doesn't cohere nearly as well as the original, but that doesn't stop it from attracting some enthusiasts. In the case of the Neo-Marxists you can easily do your own analysis. To give you a start, clearly they've dropped any of Marx's objections to private property. Class levelling is the last thing on their minds, and except for a scattered few them, they are even mum on tax cuts for the rich. Their novel contribution is their emphasis on race, sexual orientation, and sex. Take it from there yourself. It's not hard going. As for 'fundamentalist', I meant it not in the literal sense of any slavish devotion to Marx's works, and regret leaving it open to misinterpretation. I used it just as a generic term for intolerant obsessiveness and rigid fanaticism.
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  6024. Congratulations protozoa, left-wing activists have replaced you as the lowest form of animal life.
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  6025. What a bitter coincidence how so many Toronto businesses are struggling and so many are burning down. Imagine how they must feel for misfortune to pile on top of hardship!
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  6026. That's not true, I've witnessed that.😄
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  6027.  @eds6755  Pretty good plan. Maybe I'll fire up District 9.
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  6028. Explain what it has to do with the election.
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  6029. It was to the point where he could have endorsed children's laughter and the response would have been to denounce it as poison for their development.
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  6030.  @iyamwhatiyam547  California lost population in three straight years (years beginning July 1), 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23. (Source: California Department of Finance) A net of about a million people left for other states, offset partly by immigrant arrivals from abroad. California had not previously lost population since record-keeping began in 1900. Spicy sauce.
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  6031. @TheReaper74 This is why female toxicity is a thing.
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  6032. Nah. He wrote his own remarks. He invited the guy. He didn't tell anyone in govt, nor the Ukrainian delegation. As Speaker he ran the House and this was his baby. He's at least 90% personally to blame.
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  6033.  @FarmToMarketRoad  Oh goody, a Dem speaking on the subject of decency here.😂
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  6034. The Fed and the Treasury merged last year. Their purpose is to create inflation in the belief that debt is the greater of the two evils. Sounds paradoxical but there you have it: Create debt to create inflation to deflate debt. Sort of like how the famous Red Adair used tons of dynamite to put out oil well fires. Look at Yellen's face when she says inflation is transitory. It will appear as though the dollar and wage earners are being sacrificed, but they were goners anyway.
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  6035.  @loriag3444  Two can play at that game: let's see u call this an insurrection.
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  6036. So what would you have done? Built a thousand new hospitals, something that takes a generation to do? Invented a vaccine, something that takes a full year to do? Trained thousands of doctors and nurses, something it takes a decade to do? Expanded the manufacturing of masks, something it takes years to do? Testing capacity ought to have been ramped up, I would agree, but I don't think that's necessarily possible. The governments have money and authority but they don't have magic wands. Aside from that the only reasonable measures to take in advance of the spread were to alert the public and hospitals to be ready to take basic precautions and make basic preparations. Drug companies and university labs need no prompting whatever to begin doing whatever they can. The public would never have accepted travel bans, nationwide shutdowns, and extensive quarantining while under one person in a million was infected. Now that economic effects are emerging, governments are taking steps on that front. Their timing has been just about right. You can warn, you can inform, you can succour, you can write some cheques, and you can reassure, but you can't confine every person on Earth and you can't write a law against a plague.
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  6037. School is where they learned all this cant. A great many have degrees but have no idea they're not worth the vellum they're supposed to be printed on. A kind of hyperinflation ravaged the universities years ago now. It didn't make the news.
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  6038. Yet he'll never be prime minister—although he might make a good one—and instead at some point we'll probably end up with someone like her in No. 10. Stop the country, I want to get off.
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  6039. "I made money selling packaged, processed snack food so I'm the smartest person ever."
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  6040.  @srcarranza  Actually Cuauhtémoc has three syllables, not four: kwaw-'tem-ohk. (The stress is on tem, as indicated by the diacritical mark.)
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  6041.  @83wasagoodyear  I think he'd say the same thing. So we got consensus here.
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  6042. We mustn't forget that Olaf Scholz was a longtime member of the Marxist youth wing of the party he now leads, the SDP. (He remained in the youth wing into his 30s.🙄) A leading member, he famously wrote essays railing against "aggressive, imperialist NATO." He even travelled to East Germany to meet with communist cabinet ministers.
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  6043. You'd just take retirement.
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  6044. Regarding the Russian army's "human meat wave attacks," perhaps the Russian-born and -raised author Ayn Rand may shed some light on the Russian public's calm acceptance of them and of the war itself: "The ideological root of statism (or collectivism) is the tribal premise of primordial savages who, unable to conceive of individual rights, believed that the tribe is a supreme, omnipotent ruler, that it owns the lives of its members and may sacrifice them whenever it pleases to whatever it deems to be its own 'good.' ”
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  6045. The "free people" part was fine, but it seems to me globalization has weakened the West while at the same time it has strengthened Putin and China.
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  6046. This has 741,557 views. 741,557 is such a racist number.
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  6047.  @markraffer  And just so people know what we're talking about, the 1930s-40s slogan in Germany was: "One people, one nation, one leader." ["Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer."]
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  6048.  @dr.jonesusa7122  A hollow man, as T.S. Eliot might say, stuffed with straw, stones where his eyes should be. So insubstantial the right word might be hollowgram. He looks embalmed.
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  6049. ​ @tigermanmccool4037  A great deal of what Ukraine has been given was never going to be used anyway and was only collecting dust in American armories, taking up space and costing money to occasionally do maintenance on. In other words it was bought and paid for long ago and you won't be taxed again for it. The rest (Javelins, M777s, HIMARS, etc.) is extremely cheap compared with the direct costs to you of a war or wars which inaction would lead to. Let Russia be unopposed and the global security collapse that would lead to—serial Russian adventurism, toppling of countries by an emboldened China in the Indo-Pacific—would inevitably draw the US into direct conflicts: wars costing innumerable American lives and many trillions of dollars of treasure, resulting in a guaranteed large and probably permanent drop in living standards; all of this on top of a soon nastier and brutalized world probably too dangerous to travel or do business in. You're getting a backstop to the security and prosperity of your future and your children's future for pennies a day. Don't whine, my ironically-named friend.
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  6050. Did Trump bomb the hell out of Canada or Mexico? Did he invade them? Did he poison or imprison the Democratic Party leadership? Did he close down media outlets? Grow up.
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  6051. So full of it. Canada is the one country doing the US no measurable harm. In fact we subsidize you with about 1.5bn barrels of low-cost oil annually. Meanwhile the amount of unmitigated nastiness coming into Canada from your side is far, far greater. Never has the US tried to do anything about it.
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  6052. Try emailing the trrr. groups and asking them to stop attacking. Or hop on a plane, go over there and ask them in person.
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  6053. Remember when he had to drop out of a presidential race for stealing lines out of another politician's speech?
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  6054. Association of American Lizards: "Hey, stop comparing us to Gavin Newsom!"
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  6055.  @mycatspethooman5590  That's just plain untrue. How'd you manage to get that so, so very wrong? Check the BLS, or anywhere, then come back and say you're sorry.
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  6056. Wow! Two times two times two is eight? I thought it was two! Thanks, guy with an incredibly annoying manner of speaking. Amaze me some more, please!
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  6057.  @8rr725  I trust people quite a bit more than the average person as far as I can tell. I just don't trust authorities. I think that's what I said. Neither am I angry at my parents for lying about Santa. Did you think I said that too? Doesn't anybody read? But if either of those two things really were true, it would be odd, I'll give you that.
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  6058. ​ @AtteliaVel  I'm guessing the definition of it which you choose to call legitimate suits people of a far to the left political leaning and is rooted in the radical ideology of French extreme leftists from the 1970s. Or maybe not France, maybe another hotbed of radical ideologues like OISE or York University. Wherever it came from, you can keep it for yourself.
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  6059. He was never a genius, now he's not even stable. He's so erratic that it's time he got himself checked out by a team of doctors.
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  6060. Thank you. That had to be said.
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  6061. No. Jokes tend to be amusing, clever, and lighten the mood.
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  6062. Yes, but if you want to go deeper, blame the rot of the universities over the past 50 years. Much of the very worst of it has been in the education faculties, and it promises to get far, far worse. They see it as both a duty and a pleasure to commit arson that will eradicate Western culture and civilization. It's no exaggeration.
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  6063. Agreement is appropriate response to facts. Neither your mockery nor your hate can change that.
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  6064.  @theoffor647  If he had botox he wouldn't have those forehead creases.
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  6065.  @screechingwind114  Account name accurately describes comment.
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  6066. Fun fact: Huxley was Orwell's French teacher at Eton. As the literary, social and cultural critic Paul Fussell put it in his essay on Orwell titled 'A Power of Facing Unpleasant Facts', Orwell later perceived that "there was something the matter with Aldous Huxley."
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  6067.  david healy  I hear you crying in the future, after years of beets and carrots for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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  6068. Yeah. Ask what happened and the answer is very unsettling and could fill a bookshelf.
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  6069. My answer is no. Left zealots have their shivs, chains and baseball bats out for a streetfight and conservatives are still bending over backwards to be totally polite and fair to them. Not wise when dealing with bullies. For a timely allusion one can hardly do better than Putin: respectful treatment has done nothing but encourage him. Message for centrists and conservatives: Don't just disagree with them. Let them know they're being counterattacked. (Gov. De Santis said something milder but still immensely useful: "Don't try to get these people to like you.")
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  6070. It is not.
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  6071. 28:35 Why does she start smiling when she predicts dismal results for attempts to end shutdowns? Just trying to be pleasant?
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  6072. Our guest tends to end her sentences with words spoken very quickly, rather indistinctly and in a much softer voice. Worse still, they are the words which she has been building to. Thus the most important words are the most difficult to make out. Frustrating. I must say I'm tired of hearing about how dissatisfied women are. I've had to hear about it every day of my life. They've got the power, status, money and freedom they demanded and just complain more and more and more. Do they never tire of their own complaining? It appears not, and it appears that this is because complaining is richly rewarded.
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  6073.  @Nood1977  Actually, it's the other way around: it's worms who love Orcs.🪱😋
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  6074. So you're in the habit of accepting denials as the holy truth, are you? Without thinking twice?
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  6075. You have made a major habit of click-baiting. Pretty soon I will be mad.
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  6076. Where's the full clip of that scissoring? I need, uh, closure.
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  6077.  @scalesofleviathan9697  Don't confuse the libertarian with the anarchist.
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  6078. Likewise forest fires are now "wildfires," the former locution being thought insufficient for eliciting the strongest emotional response in consumers of the news.
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  6079. @Western Son So terribly overrated, yes, that it reflects poorly on Freddie Sayers. In tepid defence of the boomers, though, it might be said that they're the worst (and most overrated) generation ever --- except for all the others following them.
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  6080. 1:36 Here an estimate of the value of the Merkers treasure is quoted, $7 billion. At the current gold price of about $1,850 per troy ounce, a ton of gold is worth $53.9 million. Thus $7 billion will buy 129.8 tons. And as a ton of gold can be cast into a cube measuring a mere 14.75" on a side (1.86 cubic feet), the pictures would seem to call the estimate into serious doubt. There is little in them besides the light bulbs and the ceiling height to give scale, but it appears unlikely the gold in all those bags could be formed into a cube measuring only 6'3" on a side. It appears, I stress. Maybe each bag contains only a single bar, and a small one at that. But maybe the cache amounted to many thousands of tons, not 130. At any rate, the estimate wasn't Mr. Felton's own. 12:50 At the current price of about $1,850 per troy ounce, 10.5 kg of gold is worth not $1,772,000 but around $625,000. I know I am picking nits, but there you have it. Of course the video is marvellous, just as we always expect!
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  6081.  @brendadrumm9708  You reminded me of this: "The first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look" ---Sir Seymour Hicks (1871-1949) Cheers.
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  6082.  HomelessMan InKorea  Just to see if I agreed, I took a look. Out of eleven comments in this thread only two or three were moaning and groaning. I think maybe my quote really influenced you. Cheers.
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  6083. No, the rest of China is an inalienable part of Taiwanese territory! Dirty illegitimate communists out of China now. Cheers.
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  6084. They have some idea of the risks and are all over 18. The last thing we want is a total absence of 'zivilcourage' (German: the guts to publicly say something that others may not like to hear).
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  6085. 👎The newsreader's bias against the protestors was so audible it was palpable.👎
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  6086. @randall2020 Slow night?
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  6087.  @elizabethclover4  You tell him, Elizabeth!
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  6088. @randall2020 It's too late for you to get a clue.
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  6089. Canada: buyer of 17% of US exports. Rank: 1st Also Canada: 5% of US trade deficit. Rank: 9th
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  6090.  @gogaonzhezhora8640  Says a fraud.
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  6091. "A director at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police can expect to make an average total pay of $150,630." But it wasn't enough for this corrupt and greedy man. Likewise, 20 years in prison is not enough.
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  6092. They have such a huge endowment fund that they don't need his money. He has influence because he has a high public profile and because of the tweets he writes. Harvard is totally free to ignore him and that's what they're doing.
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  6093. Who? You mean Justin Ocasio Cortez?
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  6094.  @raydimmock4336  Hoover Vacuum Co.: "Hey, stop comparing vacuums to Justin Trudeau's mind!"
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  6095. Russia retains a distinct flavour of feudalism, as Germany did until after the war and de-N-ification was complete. To this day the domes of the Kremlin whisper the last enchantments of the Middle Ages.
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  6096.  @hardheadjarhead  🙄Then why did he place Ivan the Terrible in the wrong century?
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  6097. They still haven't come for the socialists and I'm tired of waiting.
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  6098. So Trudeau has courageously announced that terrorism is "not the way to go." Great leader.
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  6099. A particular danger for Rachel Maddow.
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  6100. Bien sur: le beurre.
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  6101.  @makokx7063  Mmmm! Yes, but I wish you hadn't said that, as I'm trying to reverse my pandemic weight gain now. [Sigh] This is just the wrong comments section for me.
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  6102. Ha! 👏🏻
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  6103. I think he's a shoo-in for the gold medal in the hotly-contested category of Biggest Psycho as well.
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  6104. You have an excellent PM. Respect to the Danes for electing her.🇩🇰
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  6105. China: "Lovely comment. Bonus coming your way."
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  6106. @Bret 1959 Sorry, that's dumb. Dumb. So-called crown land is simply public land, owned by the federal government. It does not belong to the British monarch. Calling it crown land is a mere manner of speaking which honours our heritage. Period. Some decades ago I drove a government car for a while. Its little registration card, which I kept in the glove compartment, listed the owner as "Her Majesty the Queen", but it wasn't hers. It was owned by the government, or the taxpayers you might say with justice. Do try to get real and select your beliefs on a better basis than how rewarding they are to your emotions.
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  6107. Wow, I'm impressed by that one. 👍
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  6108.  @Redfoxx-pg7km  You wrote: "... right wing/mainstream (same thing really...)" The mainstream is right-wing, you say? This assertion is unhelpful in every way except one: it tells us how far left you are. From the North Pole all points, however frozen and bleak they may in fact be, are South. In like manner, from the Left Pole all points are Right. I've come to believe that Left extremism and Right extremism alike are, far from being separate phenomena of thought, in fact a single aspect of personality. You and your mirror-image counterparts on the Right are indeed brethren and sisters at heart, less in thought than in character, with highly similar feelings, reactions, hopes, and instincts to one another. Extremes meet, I was told in boyhood, and I have found it to be true.
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  6109.  @Redfoxx-pg7km  You wrote: "I'm the common woman as well btw. We're smarter on average then [sic] the common man. Let's see who THAT triggers lol." Trigger (v.t.) To annoy, offend, etc. (another) for pleasure or advantage, whilst asserting that the ensuing annoyance, offence, etc. results not from inherent offensiveness of the deliverer but from a defect of mind or emotions of the recipient. Cf. Blame the victim , childish mind game . [ Pace Ambrose Bierce]
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  6110. I guess Texas forgot how to deal with people like that future florist from Germany. What's the state motto now, "Come on over and mess with Texas"?
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  6111.  @Rudraksh-ql4ce  Well, that sounds serious. But accusations are flying back and forth. I don't think Canada has made an effort to involve itself in this Indian dispute. It has no desire to shelter murdering terrorists so I believe that there must be more to it than you are letting on. I don't see Canada making a single exception only for Sikh terrorists. Perhaps you are right, I'll look into it some more. But you sound very partisan. In any case, I resent those specific parties in India and those Indian Canadians who have brought this Indian conflict into Canada. Whoever they are (and I cannot really name them) they could hardly think of a worse thing to do to a foreign land which has always been friendly to them, used to give them a lot of aid, and has welcomed them into its home.
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  6112.  @Rudraksh-ql4ce   Good! Keep going. I wish India a better 2024 and a better future. Canadians have always felt the same and used to be major donors. Also please excuse my inaccuracy. Tbh, I didn't mean it literally at all, I just meant it rhetorically. I'm a bit surprised I was that close.
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  6113. What a cow pasture of Putinists down here below the video frame. Don't wear good shoes.
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  6114.  @craighuntley6547  I don't condone such abuse. But landlords are destroying society with their outrageous rents. It's hard for me to feel for any group with so many bloodsuckers among them. Only a bloodsucker could charge $3,000 for a modest 1-bedroom. A place to live isn't a luxury or trinket.
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  6115. I agree up to a point, but to me it appears Zelensky knows something you don't. Isn't it time for you to concede that Trump just might be planning to firmly confront Putin?
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  6116.  @alicelund147  I don't know. He sounds like one of the world's top experts. 😜 Such an expert that someone quotes a fact and he proclaims they don't know anything. I'm buying rubles today to capitalize on his specialist insight.
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  6117.  @darkcoeficient  I felt the same way when he mentioned that. But C-Milk was still a youngster then. Newness and growth are more important and exciting to the young. He's maturing now.
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  6118. Who could fail to notice?
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  6119.  @TheSunTheSea  👏👏👏
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  6120. ...to a mental ward, yes.
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  6121.  @noahlachapelle523  lol Oui! <<Fleuve Saint-Laurent>> est une série de lettres et de sons d'une ravissante beauté, le trait d'union compris (inclus/included), et ce que cela signifie ne m'est certainement pas moins cher. Le simple fait de l'entendre me rend heureux, ou même de le voir par écrit. Forgive my uncertain French, translated incompetently and with difficulty.
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  6122. USSR, 1979: invades Afghanistan USSR, 1989: withdraws from Afghanistan USSR, 1990: amends constitution, allowing multi-party system; quickly falls apart Russia, 2022: invades Ukraine...
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  6123. I'd like to hear from Mr. Cancian regularly. He evidently has his thoughts straight in his head, communicates them clearly and strikes me as candid. Thank you Sky-Oz. (Can I call you that?)
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  6124. Nothing to admire, no humility. He's had many, many years to stand up for these things. He only begins to do it now because he sees which way the wind is blowing. He's shameless and vain as can be.
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  6125.  @nicolesalter2726  I find that incoherent. You start with an opinion that freedom may be on the whole a bad thing, or at least an untenable one. It goes without saying that you have every right to that opinion. But then you proceed to what sounds like a demand for a theocracy. You're Canadian, you say?
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  6126.  @atlasfeynman1039  Thank you.
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  6127.  @nicolesalter2726  You should know.
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  6128. TR, fix your sound issues. There's a problem in nearly every clip. This time the sound is so faint that one has to set the volume very high. So when ads interrupt with two milliseconds warning, they are mind-shatteringly loud. Enough of this amateur hour that's lasted years! Fix your sound once and for all.
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  6129. * You meant don't mind, I think.
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  6130.  Евгения Едалина  I suspected it was wasted on you anyway but, oh well, others may see it. Glory to Ukraine!
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  6131. I know you care almost exclusively about your agenda, Mr. Kudlow, and I favor quite a bit of it too, but take a minute to spare a thought for Ukraine. It stands on the verge of being swallowed whole by Putin. Don't deny that just because the government of the US is saying it.
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  6132. When exactly was he ever at that thing? Date or dates, please.🤨
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  6133.  @richdobbs6595  Try reading more slowly. He said outcomes all hinge on whether there's an intact couple (including a father) raising the child/children. You can't agree nor disagree with that?🤨
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  6134.  @richdobbs6595  I'd ask if you are a bot yourself, except I know bots reason and express themselves quite a bit more clearly.
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  6135. What? It makes perfect sense. Shiploads of garlic come in from Chigh Nuh for almost nothing. In stores, shoppers grab it up because Canadian garlic costs 5x more. Think, for god's sake. Just think.
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  6136. Yes, notifications are broken...or more likely throttled on purpose, under some belief it helps raise profits or advances their social agenda. Next to nothing these companies do is what it appears. It's all to accomplish things they don't want known.
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  6137. I knew it would happen. I just thought it would've been about 10 weeks ago. I'm so happy for Ukraine.🇺🇦
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  6138. It's probably been that way continuously since both cities have had subways, for a century or whatever it is.
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  6139. 0:11 She's flirting with you, dude. Don't drop the ball. 3:46 "Uritria" sounds like a kidney disease.
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  6140. ​ @BenignViewer  Give it up. You're wrong. As a very clever person (she clearly is) the OP doubtless appreciates the correction. Your own writing and thinking is loose and sloppy, incidentally, and I think that's probably what you're really standing up for: the right to abuse precise terms and idioms in the name of 'anything goes,' of 'let's all take it easy,' 'it's all a matter of opinion,' 'my ignorance is as good as your knowledge,' 'dictionaries don't need to be taken very seriously', 'all points of view are equally valid' etc.
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  6141. Probably due to a refusal to pay protection money. Canada is drowning in gangs.
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  6142. Ok, Sergei. Then go down the hall and give him a kiss.🤮
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  6143. Also in this section, some thinking they have the magical ability to tell people's age over the internet.
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  6144. But the Japanese, too, thought they were right in sweeping through East Asia. Until Japan got its rear end kicked by the US. It's impossible to accept as sane, yet it should occasion no shock. Invasions seldom begin before the government of the attacking state has whipped up its populace into solid and enduring agreement.
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  6145.  @jackreisewitz6632  <---"Most of what passes as racism is actually culture clash." A lot of it, sure. But most? I don't know. Because there's also class. If two racial groups happen to mainly be in two social classes, look out.
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  6146. ​ @norbertsiewert3917  Garry Wills makes clear in his scholarly book about the Declaration of Independence Inventing America, that when Jefferson, who wrote it, said "All men are created equal" he meant morally equal, and that alone. He meant that no one is born with a better sense of what is right than anyone else. He considered the moral sense the highest one.
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  6147.  @CeeDEE-l8b  Part of the Russian empire, you mean. So were the Warsaw Pact countries for 45 years. So what?
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  6148.  @BlurryFace-ro3mp  Do you not read comments before you reply to them? I specifically stated that it's a linguistics term. Go back and read, and maybe acquire the habit of reading each word. As for that word having roots in Latin, it sort of goes without saying. Most words in the English language can be traced back to Latin through French, which I find interesting, and indeed I know thousands of Latin roots. But interesting doesn't equate to important in every case. As a term in linguistics it retained its sense of male vs. female anyway.
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  6149. Everybody is their advertisers. They own most of the ad industry now.
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  6150. ​ @tomzamp8547  Nonsense. If not for the large Western democracies, billions more people would live with far less—or zero—freedom. Ask any resident of the former Soviet satellite countries now in NATO. And if it's "the past," why does the G7 account for 46% of global GDP? Talk to me when it's 10%. And ask Modi, by the way, what he's doing showing up this week for a meeting with "the past," and why he's in the Quad with "the past." Wishful thinking is all well and good, sir, but don't mistake it for what really is.
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  6151. "I'm gonna go for now." How about going for good, immediately?
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  6152. Joe: "If you look at, like, the size of [aliens'] heads, the fact that they have very little muscle, and they don't use their mouth anymore […]" Musk [inwardly]: "Good god almighty, here I am, talking to a tree."
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  6153. Sullivan was close with 'minstrel,' but we really need the word 'womanface'. Maybe 'girlface'. 'Chickface' as a slangy thing for people over 40, even.   We need to turn their woke firehose around and back on them.
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  6154.  @homiepiggy  Uh, I agree with the idea you have in mind, but could you please phrase it a little better? 😂 How about "the word West with the word Isl." ?
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  6155. Hard to tell, really. I notice he says "ga-RODGE", which is not the most promising sign.😄
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  6156. National Beet Assoc.: "Hey, leave beets out of this!"
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  6157. * Fox (not Sky)
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  6158.  @bongodrumzz  Peskov: "The Russian Forces efficiently destroyed the enemy missiles with our highly capable ammunition." There's often an element of truth in what he says. 😂
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  6159. Nor is she even that, my friend with dim eyesight.
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  6160.  @aishwaryalakshmi7500  Any sensible person would be inclined to think wider is better if they didn't know for certain from direct experience. I nonetheless go with the direction I've gotten from these skinny, longhaired, veteran bike mechanics whenever I go in for parts or service and pump them for advice. They say go for skinny and smooth. The first time I said "What?" and probably sort of made a face, but after the third time I said ok, and it's worked out fine since then. 35 mm seems to be good. But as they say, your mileage may vary. Who knows, maybe these guys are lunatics who give horseshit advice and I'm just lucky to be a fantastic and brilliant rider who keeps cheating death against the odds. LOL I don't think so. I think I'm a good rider, not a great one. Try it tentatively for a while, and ride the best way you know how. See if it agrees with you and the bike. Concerning my bike, I use a pre-1990 Fuji which I set up commuter style. It's steel and my summer bike is aluminum, so it sounds crazy on the face of it, but I don't want salt getting at the steel parts of my better bike. If it's out commission I use the good one—well, to me it's good—a Trek 7500FX, and it rides just as well as in the summer. These are both road as opposed to mountain bikes, but are hybrid/commuter-y in configuration. Rinse the salt and mud off the thing after (all or most) sloppy rides with a bucket's worth of tepid water, and let it dry off indoors somewhere after bouncing most of the water off. Later take two seconds to dot lube where it needs it, and don't be cheap. Instead of a wool hat/winter hat/toque, wear your helmet with a thin cap thing (whatever that's called) underneath. I almost want to say du rag, but that's not what it is. They're $15-40 at bike stores. Your ears and head will definitely be warm enough under the two items, as the temp almost never goes down much below minus 20C, which you know. It's about minus 3C practically 90% of the time, in other words a piece of cake.
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  6161. Why try to turn this into a pro-Trump/anti-Trump forum? I don't get it.
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  6162. Those expressions aren't overused. They're simply much-used, and rightly so.   In my view they're indeed underused.
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  6163.  @pigriser  I've read "the body of his work" and I disagree strongly. So what if his two most famous works aren't terribly representative of it? I don't see how that's a problem of any kind unless someone claims they are. And how have his works been distorted? By whom? Tbh, I think "fixation," "overblown" and "distorted" are actually fit words for your opinion itself. I could add self-important and fussy. Thanks for at least not using the word 'corpus,' though.
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  6164. No, imports will crash in Q2, reversing the Q1 effect, which was an incredible -5.0% drag on Q1 GDP. (Imports are subtracted from GDP.) For that reason a stellar GDP number is possible. Look for +3.0% minimum. It's H2 where things look fairly doubtful.
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  6165.  @Hulk2k6  Mick Jagger, 1978: "Sha oobie, sha oobie, chateauxed, chateauxed."
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  6166. What you say is striking and evokes pity in us all. But I must strongly disagree with your respondents who claim that the Allied attacks there constituted an immorality on those grounds exactly. Say a Wehrmacht unit of a hundred kills ten people in a Dutch village. The unit, having left the village, is then encircled by Allied troops and a firefight begins. Is the Allied commander obliged to estimate the German casualties as it proceeds and then at some point say "Right, cease fire! We've now killed fifteen of them and that's more than enough. It's not right to go on, since they only killed ten. We move out now."? No. It is right to battle them until they are wiped out or surrender. In like fashion, it is in my view right to bomb armaments factories in a war without qualms specifically about the record of destruction of the devices made there. It is right in the same sense that makes it wrong to bomb factories where uniforms are sewn together. Bombing the bomb factories is very much an act of self-defence, an effective one at that, which also might save more enemy soldiers and civilian lives than civilian lives are lost at the time, by ending the war earlier. And, not to seem hostile, but tell me, are there statistics enumerating war deaths which are not awful to contemplate?
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  6167. Blacks must fail, so that white liberal activists and politicians may succeed.
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  6168. A couple of days ago he went to the trouble of saying a court verdict made him "angry". He directly incited this mass murder.
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  6169. The date for this thing was chosen to allow the Dems, when Biden fails badly against Trump, to ditch him in favor of Newsom at the Democratic convention. Trump should insist on scheduling it after the convention instead.
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  6170.  @susieq9801  Hahaha, that should've occurred to me. 😆
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  6171. Likewise. See you there.😄
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  6172. Watches with a value running to the five figures strike me as vulgar anyway, suited to show-off trash reeking of cologne. They're really just jewellery for the shallow, vain and insecure.
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  6173. "I've actually left a steamer back there." Took me 3 or 4 replays to make that out but it was worth it😆.
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  6174.  @JesseS-ns2vy  It's Orwellian to arrest an organized group of vandals now?🤨 It's Orwellian to investigate damage to a Toronto bookstore which was clearly targeted because its owner is Jewish? (I refer to Heather Reisman, whose face was on the posters plastered on the storefront.) As a student of Orwell's writings for many years, I think it's fairer to use that adjective for your own post.
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  6175. Sure, Chanfun.
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  6176. Correct. But people should know that this has nothing to do with radioactivity or any type of explosive or nuclear properties. It's because it's a denser, heavier and tougher metal.
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  6177. We can leave it now? Two together, business class, please. One way.
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  6178. Nothing's being handed off.
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  6179. In that speech she showed her faith in the limitless power of berating people to make them like you and take orders from you.🙄 But actually she handed Trump more swing-state support just when he needs it.
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  6180. It goes like this: "People's race doesn't define who they are at all, and yet it totally does. Confused? Good. You don't know anything, so close your mouth until we say you can open it."
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  6181.  @blt4life112  D.R.I. symbol, as you may know.
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  6182.  @johnbox271  He wrote: "It’s great to learn how different people think, but not at the expense of your safety." To me that said "You should stop doing this." It was definitely clear enough to me, and I think I am right, but there could be some ambiguity in there, so if you see it otherwise, I won't quarrel with you. We can just not agree. Cheers
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  6183.  @johnbox271  Ok yeah, that's relevant. But what would you and the OP say to Alexander Solzhenitsyn? Or Col. von Stauffenberg? Or Nelson Mandela? (Don't laugh: Daniil is showing the sort of guts and brains that could quite conceivably elevate him to their rank one day. Once, they were where he is now.)
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  6184. It shows Russia is strained.
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  6185.  @doccarter5283  Yes of course there wasn't, but there also isn't much reason for the father to think he could lie about what happened at a semi-public event and not be found out. On the other hand, it's conceivable that he studiously kept his eyes off Biden the whole time out of resentment and doesn't even properly qualify as a witness for that reason. I don't know. Thus
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  6186. I thought it looked like John Cleese from 50 years ago. In drag for a sketch.
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  6187. Funny you should put it that way, because I don't think he's capable of a reality check. I don't think he's all there. Seriously, he needs to have a proper examination for mental disturbance.
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  6188.  @heresjohnnyy  You're taking it far too seriously. It's a tired schtick, yes, and I wish he'd drop it , but that's all it is. You'd never make those remarks in a million years if Kat were a guy. Ask yourself why, and don't stifle any honest answers that try to lodge in your conscious thoughts.
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  6189.  @shaqmac1458  Neither is it a joke. It is a most depressing reality.
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  6190.  @myushankaiswarm  When the industrial area a few hundred miles upwind of us phased out their coal power plants, our nice stunning sunsets got phased out too. They regularly used to be orange, purple, red , yellow, and even sometimes green all at once. Now, totally boring and very brief.
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  6191. 4:20 "...the Bitcoin community..." Whenever I hear the phrase 'Bitcoin community' I reach for the safety on mein Browning. ; )
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  6192. After judicial proceedings, convicted Nazis like Ilse Koch ought to have been delivered for a few hours each day to crowds of countrymen and -women who had been Nazi victims. Now supplied with small stones, from behind barriers they could have effected retribution sufficient to provide some psychological compensation. The punishment which Koch and others actually received, even when it was the death penalty, was too merciful and deprived their victims of what was owed to them.
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  6193.  @PawelLeszczynskipav  Speaking of time-spans, I've got one: amateur hour.😄
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  6194. Being "on the American side" means facing the fact that European security is vital to US interests. America needs a stable and secure Europe for its own future stability and security. Indeed it needs a stable and secure world, or its own prosperity is in deep jeopardy. Let Russia run rampant in Eastern Europe and such adventurism will soon be repeated in multiple regions of the world, imperilling many tens of trillions of dollars in wealth and economic activity at home in America.
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  6195. The disco synth soundtrack is inappropriate.
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  6196. 👏👏Quite right. A total, absolute, unmitigated fool.👏👏
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  6197.  @krashd  Device-matched tools that outlive the device are up for grabs.
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  6198. Yep. They don't give a f+++ about free speech, they don't give a f+++ about democracy. Those things can only threaten them. They think it's right for them to rule from the top down like the French royalty and aristocrats of the 1700s, whom they resemble in having so much respect and admiration for themselves that there's zero left over for anyone else. They completely worship themselves and each other.
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  6199. His life is a protest against the gross unfairness of being younger than his brother.
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  6200. No one? Who can really say? Maybe somewhere the core Democratic leadership is discussing one of them at great length because it's what happened.
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  6201. Spam thread, start to finish. Slicker than most, but this whole thing is just one bloody ad.
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  6202.  @johngatsby1473  You're a good man, Gatsby, for warning people.
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  6203.  @johngatsby1473  Yep. Three possibilities: One, it's an ok business making a pest of itself here, and deceptively so. Two, it's a real business providing some useful services, but an seriously untrustworthy one, since a trustworthy one is highly unlikely to ever practice deception. Three, total criminal scam not providing any beneficial services to anyone. Respective odds: 0.1%, 1%, 98.9%.
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  6204. @CNV I agree that would be a dubious assumption on his or anyone's part if it came out of the blue. Yet per capita median income at PPP in Canada did actually pass that of the US in 2017. The 19-millionth person in Canada made more than the 165-millionth person in the US. So in that sense the assumption could actually be regarded as somewhat accurate. American average incomes are heavily distorted in a certain sense by incomes of the very rich.
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  6205. Gutfeld set a personal best. "The person, not the pigment" is highly quotable. So it should be quoted about 331 billion times.
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  6206.  Tumero Picador  How do you figure?
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  6207.  @predzelj8858  You wrote: "Why would red states protest and riot they don’t care" A red state is a state that votes at least 51% Republican. So if we're to believe you, the Democrats in red states, up to 49% of the population, aren't bothering to protest either. Do they, too, not care? Btw, put a question mark after a question.
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  6208. Mao deliberately starved tens of millions.
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  6209. Oh dear. Time to rethink and re-contextualize that attitude in terms of revisiting the whole subject, re the re-norming of the colonial mindset.
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  6210.  @Mark-hc8ek  Best remark possible. 'Best' preceded by the letters d, u, and m, that is.
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  6211. Woman runs her mouth unaware that it was a case of female privilege. Never occurred to her. What a surprise. Actually, studies show that if you match situation for situation, detail for detail, "⚫ persons" come through police encounters better. Looks like somebody's been duped and exploited by the ray susslers.🤬
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  6212. Are we sure the Chelsea Handler video isn't a satire making fun of such women? Seems like it.
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  6213. I for one don't want anything covering his face as we watch him listen to that speech.
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  6214. No one claims it's ideal. It's what can be done quickly while there's still the time and the resources. It's an insurance policy against extinction by rogue AI (or other threats, but mainly rogue AI). Look into what Hawking said about it. It was his thinking which convinced Musk. You really think Musk didn't think about Venus? You really think he's that dull? Wow, dude.
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  6215. Mike Johnson is a good man. I can't name a more grown-up seeming person on the Hill. (I don't know his earlier career; I refer to the period since he was made Speaker.) As for strikes inside Russia with US weapons, Ukraine needs more air defense first. Its AD is inadequate even now and Russia would rain down hell on Ukraine in response.
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  6216. "Rainbows and unicorns and tolerance and love." No. Let's be clear: Trudeau has never said a word in favour of tolerance. I mean never. It's not a value he stands for at all.
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  6217.  @bigdawg3364  Although Canadian wealth has taken a massive hit since Trudeau took office, in 2017 median income was higher in Canada than the US, after currency exchange at purchasing power parity rates. Yes, that means that at the middle of society, Canadians were financially better-off. As for average income, which also includes incomes of the rich, it was considerably higher in the US. (The Canadian income distribution is flatter.) Having said all that, today Westmount would be a notably wealthy area in any American city — but even more so 50 years ago when she was there. Montreal was Canada's leading city at that time, quite a bit richer than it is now.
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  6218. Then straighten it out, don't cancel it. If the US armed forces are not being run right, do we close them down too? Come on, think!
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  6219.  @tayler2396  Seems like a clown to me too. As do the wu mao who post their pathetically obvious praise of him. This whole section is pulsating with them.
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  6220. He's been too busy giving himself the latest trendy white-girl eyebrows. (I guess he reads Elle, Vogue, Cosmo, etc., then goes out to the beauty salon.) They make them all look somewhat like Groucho Marx. 😂
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  6221. That's more of a top to wear for an evening out on the town, than for a discussion of the most serious matters in the world. Come on.
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  6222. I find the lighting gaudy and tacky, like the lights that some insecure young guys install on and under their cars. I always assumed it was imported Chinese taste, and here the CN Tower executive confirms it. At one time the building had a wonderfully serious look. No longer.
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  6223.  @lostintranslation1957  You're one of those Russians who Konstantin satirizes in his channels promos.
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  6224.  @lostintranslation1957  I think Putin has a salad in need of a toss. Off you go.
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  6225. When it is felt that enough Ukrainian pilots have achieved mastery over its operation. Some commentators assert that it will be in June or July, but who knows?
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  6226. Rep. Tlaib speaks entirely in anti-semitic dogwhistles.
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  6227.  @backintimealwyn5736  Thanks for pointing that out about vaccinated people joining and supporting the protest. It's the most Canadian thing about it of all.
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  6228. Your correct use of the en dash is shocking.👍
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  6229. Your ultra-cynicism tells us only about you, and is very saddening. Musk is definitely pro-Ukraine. He wants Russia out (but unlike random internet posters, he thinks several moves ahead in terms of the possible and the probable). SpaceX has donated over $100m to Ukraine since the start of the war, completely voluntarily, and continues to. What other companies have donated one cent? Raytheon? Boeing? Name some.
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  6230. The worst rot, the worst stink, emanates from the Kremlin—and from Putin's disciples, wherever they may be. There, fixed it for you.
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  6231.  @L0CALDRUGMAN  Yes, but I think that was just a mistake, as I seem to remember he's had 80m+ for some time. It think this was recent, when he was in Germany for Giga Berlin's opening.
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  6232. Transitioning may be 'hard,' but it does mean a bunch of adults have to pay a ton of attention to you; and if they don't, they face, according to what their relationship to the child is, career, parental care, or legal consequences.   It's an absolute bonanza for an emotionally and mentally ill child whose illness or illnesses create a craving for attention from and control over their parents and other adults, or just an intense desire to bother them.
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  6233.  @roxane1237  "My role is to guide teenagers throughout their path to adulthood, whatever it might be." Really? What if it's joining a street gang? Do you get all 'judgy' then? What if it's joining the Proud Boys? Apart from that, I question your pompous premise that your role is to guide teenagers to adulthood. I find that pompous nonsense. Such guidance is the parents' role. Yours is to teach them an academic subject.
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  6234. "Pushing"😂🤣 Yeah, right. Russia is minding its own business and the West is bullying it. You Pooty-Bots totally crack me up.
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  6235. Looks like a normal handshake to me, certainly for an octogenarian. Bad attempt to slag him off on your part.
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  6236. New and improved.
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  6237.  @ryanwells5887  Joke?
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  6238. Fellow looks like he went to sleep last night in the 18th century, appeared on $2 19th-century banknotes while a-slumber, and woke up this morning in the 21st.
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  6239. Haiti: "Come on, you're worse than us now."🤨
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  6240. The Ust-Luga LNG export terminal is still under construction. It is to enter service in phases (2027-2029), with a capacity of 13.1m tonnes/year, large by world standards. Such terminals are extremely expensive. One in Canada of 14m tonnes, just finished and entering service within months, took six years to build at a cost of $31bn.😮
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  6241. It is not hard to tell the best people: they easily manage to keep their heads while others go off the deep end.
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  6242.  @ji8044  Ok. ("LOL")
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  6243. Watch again🙄
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  6244. No one wants to make a tsunami with nuclear weapons and "wash Britain into the sea" anymore? What happened all of a sudden?
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  6245. And God bless you and all the Mindanaoans.
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  6246.  @aleksandrkymlach1336  👍пропагандьі
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  6247. When he gets out of jail the only job he can find will be at Subway. On the overnight shift.
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  6248. You don't know as well as 1420 where the line is drawn. If they took your advice there would be no more 1420.
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  6249. False. It's a small group of Alberta residents representing themselves.
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  6250. World Clown Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to Australian Labour politicians!"
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  6251. Don't forget Pol Pot and Nancy Pelosi.
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  6252.  @ranger0209  Omg. That's Douglas Murray. He is world-famous as a campaigner AGAINST this sort of nonsense. He is British but loves and admires America. Fox News loves him in return, and so does any sensible American who knows of him. His life's work is to uphold good sense and banish the sort of thing which is the subject of this video. He rails against it anywhere he finds it, whether in Britain, the US, or Europe. He is not interfering, he is helping uphold the things you believe in.
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  6253.  @yayhoo8848  An interview and questionnaire study revealed that women teachers commit adultery more than those in any other line of work.
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  6254. He used to live in Canada and his mother is Canadian.
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  6255. Uh, Dave? American college fraternities are not race-exclusionary. Don't even hint that they are. And that includes 'historically black' fraternities: they will admit white students.
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  6256. Wow, that was good. See? It can be done.
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  6257.  @spongememefunnypants9101  Typical nice American. 😄🇨🇦🇺🇸
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  6258. Certainly not.
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  6259. A funny twist on the Russian noun vranyo. Besides its basic meaning of "lie," it also means a half-lie or white lie not really intended to deceive, but more to create a fantasy in which teller and hearer collaborate superficially: "It's a lie, you know it's a lie, I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know..."
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  6260. Ok, but even many who have never heard of illiberal liberalism have no problem spotting it and are sick to death of it. A facility with terms can only help, but it is not strictly necessary. Good points nonetheless.
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  6261.  @benadams5557  The Russian GDP figure at market exchange rates is grossly distorted by the fact the ruble is nearly worthless on world financial markets. A more realistic assessment puts it roughly around those of the middle G7 economies, larger than France, smaller than Germany. But the assessment isn't easy.
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  6262. Russia remains a feudal society. It has come through the last 106 years mostly intact.
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  6263. I figure it's shrewdly intended to advance the relationship. Trump spent decades in real estate in NY and NJ, don't forget, and a while in 'gaming.' No doubt he was obliged to come into contact with, uh, colorful characters in industries like construction, waste management and casinos. I expect he has some idea of how to work shady, powerful, vain men to his and his country's advantage, or thinks he does.
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  6264. How long before Canada starts producing political exiles? 🤔
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  6265. But early on in the video I noticed a significant inaccuracy. Canada is third in wheat exports, not Ukraine. Russia $7.9bn, US $6.3bn, Canada $6.3bn, France $4.5bn, Ukraine $3.6bn, etc.
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  6266. As a far-leftist, Camus would know.
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  6267. In the long run the truth is virtually all we've got. Everything depends upon it. And yet, Lies: Legal Truth: Illegal
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  6268.  @Truthspreader70  Thank you! Finally someone else besides me states this absolutely certain fact!
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  6269.  @killbotone6210  You simply do not know what you're talking about. You just think you do. That's a problem. So stop it. And I already respect Musk to the hilt.
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  6270. His middle name is Sanctimony. His aim was to gain favour (and hotel room invitations) from fellow anti-Americans. That's all. Much was sacrificed at his personal altar of indiscriminate recklessness and posturing solipsism. I'll hand it to him for (errant) martyrdom, nothing more.
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  6271. Corporal Testosteronechenko: "The Orcs came along and interrupted my thoughts, which was bad enough. Then they fired their cannon at me repeatedly. That's when I got mad."
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  6272. Good on you for being fair and respectful towards everyone. Everyone including us viewers, instead of condescendingly telling us what to think or even steering us, really.
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  6273.  @ikjb8561  🤨No. The USSR wasn't mentioned. Nor was WW II. Verbatim quote of the way he was introduced: "[He] fought for Ukrainian independence against Russia." So much for your basic history. This is a transcript of video you can see anywhere. The whole thing is 100 sec. long. Find it anywhere.
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  6274.  @TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles  It will be done, and in a technically excellent and timely fashion.
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  6275. ​@@user-kn4hv4mw5f Her end of the conversation sounds like a real estate agent who reads news sites half an hour a week, on the phone with her sister (a yoga instructor who reads no news at all) and she's trying to impress her with how much she knows.
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  6276.  @warr1973  Just using a computer doesn't mean you have to be on social media or otherwise announce yourself. Maybe the only trail he left was usernames and cookie data. Maybe I mistake your implication?
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  6277. ​ @warr1973  I never heard that, that there was literally zero trace of him under any identity at all. I'm inclined to doubt that's what was meant....not that I really care. Things will likely turn up over the coming days, so I can't work up an interest just yet.
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  6278. The CBC News guy says that "at the time [1976] engineers probably had no idea it would become one of Toronto's biggest tourist attractions." Uh, yes they certainly did. That's why they designed it to include multiple observation decks, high-speed elevators, and a huge restaurant and nightclub. At one time the CBC staff were intelligent people of substance, and they had awareness of things that happened before they were born. Now they're millennial airheads without a clue what went on before their oldest memories.
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  6279. Any time protest works, it works for one reason only: it gets media coverage which is either sympathetic or neutral. For some time now the media have been the leading power in Western countries. How can I say that? Simply by observing that the media (and their new confederates in another main conduit of news and opinion, social media) have demonstrated an ability to at times install and remove governments, while for constitutional reasons govts can do little or nothing about them in return.
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  6280.  @ЕвгенийЛебедев-д2й  Nothing "funny" about it. What is undemocratic about the electric chair?
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  6281. They are bloodthirsty, they are foaming at the mouth. They are completely un-self-aware. They're in a fugue state, staring rabid animals, all of them. It goes to show you how people lose their heads under stress and suffering, and how when that happens and authorities then give them permission and encouragement to scapegoat and vilify a group, they lose all sense of themselves as rational creatures and become part of a mob. It's the permission and encouragement of the authorities that makes it work. Blame governments and the media, which are now one nauseating and treacherous thing.
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  6282. @ US govt. figures: The amt. of fentanyl seized along the Mexico border in the past two years was 106,000% more than the amt. seized along the Canadian border. Sorry, Ronnie-baby.
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  6283. 🙄No mention of the Arab countries. No mention of Iran. No mention of any onus on them to do anything worthwhile for peace.
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  6284. 15:14 Turns out it was paid for by Bill Gates, megalomaniac.
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  6285.  @UnavailableHandle.  Your own account was once eight hours old. Maybe you're a bot.
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  6286. 1) Cuz when you're more or less nothing, 2) lacking much merit of any sort at all, 3) you're desperate for the stuff, 4) and will spend whatever you've got on getting some. 5) But because of 1) and 2), your half-assed efforts at judiciously accomplishing 4) are going to amount to ca-ca. And then you'll dust off your hands saying, "Whew. I'm so glad I'm a great person now."
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  6287.  @christ2664  I think I've heard him say they should do what they want, not feeling undue pressure from society or anyone.
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  6288. Mon dieu! Formidable! First baguettes, now this. Vive la France!
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  6289.  @SRWill64  She's a horrible, anonymous restaurant worker plucked out of nowhere by the Democratic Party, who put her on the ticket in a safe district as a stunt very demeaning to its residents. Caligula, before he was assassinated, planned to have his horse installed as consul of the Roman senate. These are the sorts of things that happen when a national situation has gotten badly out of hand.
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  6290.  @nealorr5086  The name is Kringela.
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  6291. I'm sticking with "Putzin", although the simple substitution of "Putrid" works well too.
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  6292. The meaning of sick often can only be gauged by context or feel. "Smart" sounds complimentary but the emojis communicate ridicule. So wdym?
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  6293.  @robertdewar1752  Not sure I can explain that, since my own online Oxford provided by Apple returns no results for prophesize. The same goes for a number of other dictionaries online, such as the Cambridge. (However, I did have to make an edit concerning spelling (s versus c).😮) Thanks for your reply.
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  6294.  @himoffthequakeroatbox4320  Yes, but in defense of his beloved old Beaver, he was flying another plane at the time.
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  6295.  @charleshowie2074  You're forgetting the jail terms in Russia for talk like that? There's martyrdom and then there's pointless martyrdom.
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  6296.  @charleshowie2074  1420 are doing more good by posting videos than they could by sitting in jail cells. How can you even ask?
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  6297. She's the Kamala Harris of university academics.
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  6298. Omg, do not say that TSMC and Samsung are "returning their chip manufacturing to the US." They are Asian chipmakers, so they are expanding into the US. The lack of brains in millennials is just staggering.
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  6299. No one is worth listening to on the subject of nuclear war if they say nook-ye-ler. 😂 That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Anyway, he says that Ukraine has no way of winning. It's a pity he never heard of the 1979-89 war Russia/USSR lost in Afghanistan against the lightly-armed mujahideen.
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  6300. ​ @theclearsounds3911  In order: (1) I don't think you understand how the grid responds to overloading. It doesn't just crash. (And see below why I don't think it even has to get overloaded.) (2) Don't put too much stock in what governments promise or threaten to do, especially if they enshrine it in legislation saying "You'll have to do X within ten years." Decades ago the govt of California passed laws vowing to require things of automakers which they actually still do not. If a government needs to, it can issue exemptions or simply write a law out of existence. (3) As I already pointed out, the entire changeover to EVs will only entail an increase in consumption of electric power of about one-third. Yes, one-third, not 20x. And there are at least a couple of decades in which to do it. (I showed my work on this calculation in a standalone comment two hours ago. To view it, Sort by Newest.) Thanks for your reply.
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  6301. [Peter Griffin's voice]: "Ah, Juilliard. Whither Juilliard?"
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  6302. Ukraine already had a reasonably good government. From a very low position Ukraine has been rising extremely fast to higher rankings for clean government and for civil rights and freedoms for its people. It's gone from near the bottom to just above the middle in only the last five years. Not easy. That's why Putin despises it terribly: it makes him look so very bad. (Which he is.)
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  6303. The AWACS was in Belarus, yes. But the point of these channels is more to spread news than to provide actual footage. If there's no footage, they just read the story and show something else. It amounts to stock footage, and everyone is aware of that. What are you, new?
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  6304.  El-ahrairah  I initially wrote here that 80% is too high for 1966, but I suppose maybe it's pretty accurate after all, so I had to change that. But I do think that fantastical and false are strong words for something that 20% of the people enjoy. Would you use them to describe a portrayal of how the bottom fifth lived? (Not that you claimed this, but I always hated the idea that the dirtiest corners of life are the most real. As a cry for help or love or as an expression of bitterness and disappointment I can accept it, but not as an assertion with truth to it.) On the agreeable side of how I see things, I really appreciate how you express yourself. An editor's dream. What a great contrast with the garbled and pretentious language of people here who obviously consider themselves very smart and learned. And they're presumably sober! Cheers and all the best to you.
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  6305.  @007nadineL  Put that thing down. It's bad for the lungs and impairs cognitive functioning.
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  6306. looser = opposite of tighter loser = opposite of winner
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  6307.  @mokomoko-el6li  Tankie, tankie, clerical vestments on fire!
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  6308.  @jamesb1969b  Also, organized mass do wn vo ting and fake reporting of y our po sts by foreign tee-rolls or domestic activists will do the same thing. So the whole platform is not only ker upped on the inside, it's being gamed on a massive scale from the outside.
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  6309. I beg to differ with Mr. Jaffer. If NATO had been flooding Ukraine with a lot of heavy weaponry prior to February 2022, it would have been more likely to prompt a Russian invasion than forestall one.
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  6310. I can't help speculating that Nakamoto is not a person but a group of people tasked with planting a seed to destabilize and ultimately crash the Western monetary and financial system. Good old cui bono.
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  6311. (1) Let's be exact and not say "China" can't handle insults. There's nothing inherently wrong with the character of the Chinese in this regard. Say the CCP can't handle insults. (2) Let's not treat them like overlords or masters whom we mustn't criticize. They're a bad government making China a bad neighbour and, while avoiding needless attacks, let's never back down from saying just what we think.
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  6312. YouTube ads, Mark Felton ads. Soon the ads will have ads. You know, Dr. Felton, it's a thin line between noble academic historiography and being a ghoulish Naz-trepreneur.
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  6313. You think as well as you write.
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  6314. Yes, and she deserved it.
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  6315.  @suburbia2050  He clarified that he meant thumbnail.
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  6316. Deranged them, many quite thoroughly.
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  6317. 10.8% food inflation is just not believable. It's twice that at least. StatsCan has lost credibility.
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  6318. This was a great piece of work on Freddie's part and an absorbing and rewarding conversation on the part of both. But I daresay there was considerable holding back. Let's have a Part 2, possibly with more of the same, or possibly with just a little more incisiveness. We could get deeper into what needs investigating, and exactly why. Anyway, my gratitude to both of you.
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  6319. Yes, that's quite right. He's too sick-making for words. But he's only around another 10 days or so. America's embarrassment shall be with us all another 46½ months.
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  6320.  @Fridaey13txhOktober  Thanks for the Chinese Foreign Ministry point of view.
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  6321. Las Vegas kicking back with 2.8m people, despite a lack of soil and water. Phoenix 4m+, also rather little in the way of farmland. Whoever writes for this channel is a dorkus giganticus. I must have heard a dozen stupidities in this one video.
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  6322. I recently heard Michael Gove called a Maoist by a political commentator, either on BBC or Sky. Something about wishing to demolish things on a large scale in order to effect change. I quite enjoyed that.
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  6323. I'm puzzled by your assertion that Russia could not move troops and equipment out of Kaliningrad via the Suwalki Corridor. To me it seems unclear whether anyone would stop them.
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  6324.  @llJRLL1979ll  lol
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  6325. Why are you calling an individual person "them"? If he's really two or more people then that's big news which all humanity will be highly interested to hear. Waiting in suspense here, please don't keep me hanging.
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  6326. And 100% allowed on X.
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  6327. (1) Thank god for Elon Musk. (2) The Harvard president, what she looks like, her glasses and hairstyle, how she's dressed, what she says, and her name (Dr. Claudine Gay) all make her seem like she's not a real person, but instead came straight out of a Simpsons episode somewhere around 1998 or maybe 2002.😂 What a total toon.
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  6328. If you're "an engineer who’s [sic] job is literally to do load studies on the grid" why do you make middle-school D-student errors in English? (Also, "then" for than.🙄) Btw, we have decades to improve the grid. Even if 67% of car sales are EVs in 2032 (which is a big 'if' anyway) the US fleet will still be 60%+ gasoline-powered. And capital can be diverted from declining oil capex.
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  6329. Don't forget plutocrats. But yeah, technocrats.
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  6330. Great comment, but it will be deleted by the channel operator within hours. Edit: Maybe, maybe not. I scrolled down after Sorting by Newest and did see critical comments still up after 12 hours. Inconclusive. (Two of my maxims: Always sort by newest. Always point out your own errors.)
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  6331. Especially a certain one with a very narrow forehead and a face that could stop Big Ben.
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  6332. You slathered some very hot mustard on that remark.👏
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  6333. How I'd love to see them become a Nagasaki 2.0 some day when they cross Israel one time too many.
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  6334. You lost me at "no other choice but to resort to crime." That's like a woman having "no choice but to become a prostitute," as though cashiers and waitresses are obscure alternatives. Ridiculous, "bruh."
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  6335.  @RobzdaBlade  I only had the one objection. The rest of what you said I am somewhat or fully congenial to. Thanks for your interesting and heartfelt reply.
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  6336. Dang this guy is dangerous. However, since he draws more support from Democrats than Republicans, all the best to him! But I stress that he's a really odd, dangerous dude. I'm disinclined to trust the child of a famous politician seeking office after a low-key life. That's Trudeau's story.😮
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  6337. That word does not mean what you think it means.
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  6338. Some would say  @Vegansharks 's own remarks were a very neat line in sad-sad-sadness.
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  6339. What's wrong with saying "people" or "category"? Answer: Nothing.
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  6340. The guy is 26? Omg, 26 going on 13. Shall we say his character is half-baked?
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  6341. You started out fine and promptly went off the rails. This semi-wild scene is not the result of a lack of infrastructure spending, nor because of corporations or the market. It's the result of home and school environments and youth social media culture. (Mind you, there have always been impromptu rowdy youth gatherings from time to time. Usually smaller, but having a lot of similarities.)
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  6342.  @keanuwhittier1784  Did you know they even had cars back then? No, it's true!
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  6343. "He" with viciously skeptical quotation marks is fitting indeed. The time has probably come, in fact, to make the move to 'it.'
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  6344. Why didn't Mandela just leave South Africa and stay out, instead of landing in prison?
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  6345.  @utilitymonster8267  Great. That takes in a lot and handles it well, the best part being the second-last sentence. That's the part that hurts, because that's vicious-circle Catch-22 part that complicates it unpleasantly while explaining a lot. But the whole comment is quite true. You don't blog somewhere, do you (under a name not made of punctuation marks)?
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  6346. He also can't pronounce 'coup de grace'. The way he botches it would be understood in France as 'stroke of fat'.
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  6347.  @MA-fg5hz  Oh ok. 😁
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  6348. ​@Jermare He introduces himself by saying "Hi, Justin Trudeau here."
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  6349. I've seen a few of your videos now, and you're like a butterfly in how you lightly touch on many subjects and themes for just a second and move on. It's like listening to somebody read a table of contents aloud. All bones, no meat. Oh wait, no: You did tell us not to have our heads down looking at our phones when we're out. Brilliant advice, well worth the five minutes spent watching you wave your big thick fingers at me non-stop.
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  6350. Stop smoking whatever is making you confuse Crimea with Cuba and the United States with the USSR.😂 Or maybe it's not drugs, maybe it's just a lack of forthrightness. For decades the census found the percentage of ethnic Russians in the 60s, including in 2014. Then in 2021, seven years after the invasion, Russia measured it at 76%. Well of course! Russia encouraged Russians to immigrate to its stolen land, and Ukrainians to leave. Anyway, just because someone is an "ethnic Russian" doesn't mean they were fine with Russia's invasion or that they identify with Russia. And don't talk to me about that phony referendum.
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  6351.  @a5cent  Please. He didn't say every Western interview is a tough one. He merely said there are no tough interviews in China or Russia. We've all seen politicians being given softball interviews, but we've also seen the tough, even harassing kind, including, yes, in the US. Trump got hostile treatment at times; Biden gets a hard time from Fox reporters. No need to talk down to us like we're ten.
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  6352. ​ @evansusmc  Yes, I discovered that it's there again, or maybe it was never taken down. It's still not listed on his channel page under Videos, where every video is supposed to show, but it's indeed listed on one of his playlists. So odd.
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  6353. Breaking News: China has found life on Mars. They say it tastes good, kinda like bat.
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  6354.  @SOMEONE-yq3bv  Our PM has been walking the political Green Mile for two years. Even when candidate DT was trailing in the polls, zero people were saying he could win re-election. Dozens of his own MPs were asking him to Just Go. The Economist wrote his political obituary. The cope's on u, friend!
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  6355.  @johnwade1095  "There is only one human right—the right to be left alone. All others are subordinate." Sounds right. But now the New Puritans say "That's only half of it. I have that right, and another that you do not: My right to tell you what to do. And don't you dare try to deny me my human rights or you'll have hell to pay." (Orwell [somewhere in the afterlife, nursing a pint and shaking his head]: "I'll say it again, mate: Don't let it happen. It depends on you.")
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  6356.  @frgartner8446  That second part was a very neat line in unseemly innocence.
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  6357.  @TomSnout333  That should be good for a spot on the podium at the medals ceremony for men's histrionics.
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  6358. Unusual, actually.
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  6359. I'm torn. Usually if Daniel Dale says it's untrue, it's totally true. First time for everything? Stopped clock syndrome (right twice a day)?
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  6360.  @MultiBattlecry  Ok, tough guy. Fire them off. What are you waiting for, Gopnik?
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  6361. Thanks for mentioning "API" so many times and not saying what it is. That was really helpful. Because we're all internet tech geeks like you and therefore already know that type of fascinating stuff.
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  6362.  @stashiv  That was one for the department of redundancy department.
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  6363. Here he is condemning something he helped fuel with the divisiveness of his earlier condemnations. Denouncing and condemning long lists of things and people are really all he does. From one hour to the next he's either the Condemner-In-Chief or the Denouncer-In-Chief. Meanwhile this Peter Pan has done nothing real about Canada's problems. (Unless you count adding to them.)
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  6364. You don't understand any of this. And stop yelling.
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  6365.  @pomp4401  Russians too? Maybe. But so many of them are psychos that it pretty much negates everything good about them.
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  6366. It is indeed a sad and terrible show, but in fairness there is no canned laughter. They have a studio audience and always have.
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  6367.  @jimj2683  "You devil. You devil, you devil." —Peter Sellers, "The Goon Show" (BBC Radio Light Programme), 1961 I know it means nothing to almost everybody, but in the accent he used it was intensely hilarious, and a highly suitable reply to you. If you've seen him starring in "The Party," a movie of that era, you will get the idea.
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  6368. Does she remind anyone else of Lois Griffin?
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  6369. I have little sympathy for these women who spent their lives milking the twin agendas of preposterously and mindlessly slagging men while preposterously and mindlessly glorifying women — and now come making nice to men, soliciting their aid out of pure self-interest the minute it occurs to them they might be useful. As I see it, they are hoist with their own petard, for the trans activists are just copying all the loathsome techniques the feminists used for decades. Serves them right.
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  6370. Boring! I'm sick of these brilliant 1420 videos. Same thing every time: interesting, fair, clever, outstanding. Stop putting me to sleep! Please don't mind my typical Canadian ironic humour. Daniil & Company, we love you guys.
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  6371. Worse, actually, because no one's coercing them. They're doing it out of enthusiasm.
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  6372.    "no but you are just as dumb and would fit right in." You would fit right in with American leftists.
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  6373. @ They won't be in power. Try to keep up.
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  6374. One trillion dollars is the economic output of around 13 million Americans. If that $1.3trn is just sitting around, it should be used to retire some US treasurys. A large part of it at least.
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  6375. Give me two billion dollars for cheap drones and all that's needed to operate and arm them, and I could destroy the world. (Actually I couldn't. I just thought that would be the best way to put it. But a pretty small group of committed and bright people could.)
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  6376.  @raylopez99  Actually I was inspired by Chief Inspector Dreyfus in one of the Pink Panther movies: "Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world."
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  6377. Proving once again that improvement begins with ejecting left of centre parties from power, and not a moment sooner.
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  6378. 👍Mr. Rupert, you do pick a damn fine clip.
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  6379. Didn't care for that latter part. Konstantin's sudden near-religious conversion since the birth of his child reminds me of a keen observation by Cyril Connolly: "The most sombre enemy of art is the pram in the hallway."
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  6380.  @m.a.2282  Heavens, you write awfully. Now what "lie" would that be? Regale me.
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  6381. They're far, far worse. Nowhere near 40% of Americans approve of SNL enough to watch it.😂
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  6382. An insufferable dork.
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  6383. LEE-mən not "LAY-mən," for heaven's sake.😂   Appears this guy's a layman when it comes to finance. (When it comes to recent economic history, even). I had no idea what the poor devil was talking about at first.🙄 Yikes.
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  6384.  @pablodelnorte9746  You assume incorrectly that I am an American. You also incorrectly invoke the German family name Lehmann. It's irrelevant to the name Lehman Brothers, which was an American bank, not a German one. Its name was not pronounced LAY-mən, as anyone with any knowledge of global finance and investment knew, and knows. Just so you know, the American beer Budweiser is pronounced BUD-wyze-er, not BOOT-vyze-er. And Heinz (the ketchup company) is hynz, not hynts. These are not mispronunciations, they are correct American forms. Thanks for your reply.
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  6385. Ben Hodges is no ordinary (ex-)general. He has really rare vision. The combination of military, political, cultural, psychological, historical and moral vision all in one person is hard to come by. Either the US Armed Forces were really doing their job by promoting him, or he couldn't be stopped.
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  6386. ​ @noneyabizz8337  All kinds of users take pre-planned "FSD" routes all the time, and always will. Such trips are in no way antithetical to self-driving. Nor will they ever be, even if and when the day comes when you can sleep in the back seat.
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  6387. ....Then there's the media's confederates like Meta and this platform itself.🤬
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  6388. He is afflicted by the twin perils of hopium addiction and perennial pressure from the ultranationalist galaxy of the FSB, other state security apparatuses, and organized crime.
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  6389. The Twitter crybullies are the counterparts of those Russians who buy every word of Putin's rationale about the threat of Not-Seez in Ukraine. Yes, there are a handful of N's in Ukraine just as there are a handful in every country, but that is monstrous as a pretext for the atrocities he's carrying out. In social media terms, yes, there are some vile extremists to be rooted out online, but that is a monstrous pretext for industrial-scale bulldozing of moderate conservative commentary. They are invited to take this comment itself as representative—not of all of course, but nonetheless of millions—of posts which are deleted on big social media daily, hourly.
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  6390. France is glad it went nuclear too. Germany had to panic in 2022 and build LNG ports at lightning speed or freeze in winter.
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  6391. She won a Senate race in 2016. Also DA of San Fransicko? But mopping up Democrat supporter votes in Calif is like falling off a log. It's all in getting the nomination. I'd go there, but we have to keep it Rated-G on this platform.
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  6392. Views and likes updated via differing protocols.
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  6393. I agree with you. I'd like to add, though, that I don't think this guy is a Canadian. I've never heard a Canadian in my life—not once—say "PREMMY-er". Never. No Canadian says that. I repeat, not one Canadian. The word 'premier' is universally pronounced "PREE-mee-er." Dead giveaway, zero doubt. I would guess that his routes take him north into Canada regularly, and he's entitled to his say no matter who he is, but he's not a Canadian. If he happens to be a landed immigrant from the US, he sure hasn't been here long or Canadians would already have corrected him sternly. There's no other explanation.
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  6394.  @DavidJohnson-hg1mz  It's people like you throwing the temper tantrums, so thanks for your psychological projecting. You're also kinda pathetically wrong. Unvaccinated people, truckers or not, are only a fraction of the people opposing mandates. The former are only 9% of Canadian adults, while truck protest supporters are about 4x that altogether. (See Leger poll, Feb. 4-6. Not a self-selected online poll. A proper random sample of 1,500 Canadians.)
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  6395.  @nancetardiff339  That doesn't make any sense. (1) What would make anyone think I'm a citizen of Is.? (2) I'm talking about Iranian civilians. (3) Being around such factories overnight right now is too dangerous to be justified by a security guard's paltry wage. Courage doesn't enter into it, just common sense. Good luck recovering from that fever. Such a level of delirium is dangerous.🤣
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  6396.  @Rocksteady246  Well, I do know that the USSR was defeated in Afghanistan and then disintegrated under two years later.😄 So Russia should get ready for a repeat.
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  6397.  @Rocksteady246  Btw, I mute huge bores. So TTFN
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  6398. 1) How do you know what the cars will cost? 2) Anyway, $50k would be below average. ("In February 2024, the average cost for a new car is almost 50 per cent higher at $66,979." Source: National Post, Mar 8, 2024)
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  6399. This is a strict forum, so I can't really state what I'm guessing Smith was thinking. So I'll just say the initials: "S.U., B.!"
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  6400.  @oddforestcritter  (That explains his fingernails, I suppose.) Anyway, he does seem like an awfully solid sort of guy.
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  6401. Well, evidence, probably.
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  6402. Were you there?
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  6403.  @markusmuller6173  That's not a terribly interesting question to me. They were garbage-y people to start with and something happened to their minds. What made Jack the Ripper behave like that?
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  6404.  @rickvervoort9536  What kind of question is that? I suggest asking your teacher or your mom and dad.
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  6405. ​ @RockyB2b  'Cope' and 'lol' are not rebuttals. 'Cope' is a perfect example of cope itself.
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  6406. 👍 Even Serbia expressly refuses to recognize the Donbas as Russian territory. Tells you a lot.
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  6407. Do you mean his great concern for avoiding war with Russia amounts to an obsession?
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  6408.  @arribaficationwineho32  You misunderstood that guy. When he said "We all need to calm down" I'm pretty sure he was criticizing the driver, not the people criticizing her. He was pointing out how she didn't control herself. But after you (erroneously) shot back at him, he was a mega je rk to you.
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  6409. No. He's been highly critical of him overall, despite partly approving of his job performance. He clearly is not going to get behind his bid for a third nomination.
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  6410. A thoroughly uninformed and unlearned point of view. Actually, no psychologist prescribes any medicines. It's illegal. Only MDs can. Unawareness of such a basic fact betrays a complete lack of knowledge.
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  6411.  @paulheydarian1281  You: "Hahahaha! US allow us tell propaganda lies on their internet! We not allowing Americans tell truth on Russian internet! This show we are superior! Just like I beat my wife, she not beat me, I am superior! You get idea."
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  6412. When I was young I imbibed freely from the liberal media. I thought I was supposed to or I wasn't a nice or intelligent person at all. They basically taught me that Newt Gingrich probably wasn't even a human. I eventually learned better, and now here's Gingrich telling me youth are systematically brainwashed into leftism (which is of course 100% true). Somehow that's so tidy.
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  6413. If a protest against him is legal, he just passes a law making it illegal. That's what he did in February, abetted by the media—predictably, because it is now both licensed by the government and funded by the government. Viktor Orban, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Josef Goebbels, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-il, Xi Jinping: "Yes! Justin's my boy!"
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  6414. So-called "progressives" have never been happier than in the past 10 months. Suddenly they have a group which they can openly and energetically take out all their bottled-up h at reds on, with little or no fear of consequences. Finally, h ate is officially permitted in w Okeland! And they're having a real jubilee.
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  6415. I'm very good with your closing sentiment, but I think it's this platform with (their own version of) the Little Red Book. They know which country you're in, so the link is to a national authority in that country.
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  6416. After the Coronation, how about if they both just remain quiet and out of sight for the remainder of their days? I wish them all happiness of course, but there's the rest of us to consider too.
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  6417. Of course they were. You've got a lot to learn about the past, and not just the deep past either.
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  6418. Another way of putting it: In a private household, when your work hours are cut and your income falls, but you increase your spending anyway and start borrowing to keep it all going, it's considered a mounting disaster. In a national economy when you do the same thing, your GDP goes up.
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  6419. Good! It means fewer Ontarians endure longer wait times, suffer worse health outcomes, or die earlier. Clinics set up with private capital which take OHIP aren't new. They're all over the place in Ontario and they're helping keep the whole system afloat.
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  6420. ​ @dexterpoindexter3583  Recall how the previous 37 states joined: one at a time, as individual entities. But I think Canada's smallest provinces would have to merge beforehand. (Atlantic Canada can't have 8 US senators!😂The four provinces would become one.) So make that 7 in total.
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  6421.  @dexterpoindexter3583  If you say so, then they got away with it. But Prince Edward Island would never be a state, nor New Brunswick. I think Nova Scotia would (re-)absorb both; likely Nfld. too.
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  6422. Saw the headline and came by just to tell you that this does not qualify as news. 👎
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  6423.  @RorkesDriftVC  You're confusing very justified publicity about a small handful of very justified decisions with overregulation. But thanks for the DNC point of view.
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  6424.  @lewistasso8866  I don't know about that. I expect her trousers fit a little more tightly than his.😄
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  6425.  @sko1beer  Cheeky devil
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  6426. Thank you, Republic World. Keep telling India about what Trudeau is doing—in what used to be regarded as one of the world's strongest democracies.
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  6427. Man, get a load of that luxury villa. Wow, I guess crime really does pay.😄
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  6428. Finally some output from DW that matches the quality it routinely attained a couple of decades ago. I had very nearly given up hope. But I suppose we're just fortunate that the subject has nothing to do with "social issues," and I can probably resume losing hope next time. Ah well, a reprieve is nice.
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  6429. Strikes me as Yale-ified.
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  6430. Remember at all times that the rouble is starkly undervalued against the dollar. This is an indication that it's not much in demand, primarily due to (rightly) perceived riskiness. But this can be immensely deceiving. A rouble buys about 2.7x more inside Russia than in the West. So $140bn in Russian military spending is more like $400bn.
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  6431. No light nor even radio waves escape. Nary a neutrino.😮
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  6432.  @reaseancavana994  Wrong. "Ok?" commonly means "Is that all right with you?", which isn't something an arresting officer needs to or ought to say to a suspect. If an acknowledgment is needed, "Do you understand?" will do nicely, and has nothing of the air of a waiter in a restaurant about it.
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  6433. I don't buy the claim that it's 50 lbs., however. It's not that big. Look how easily the woman and especially that little girl pick it up.
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  6434. No, so far their record has been outstanding. Nice try, Pooty-Bot.
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  6435.  @JJUnohu  What $50bn are you talking about? What social services? What tax contribution? What on earth are you on about?
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  6436.  @RichardLucas  Corrected version: That's why Russia is way it is. Not enough have your thinking. Not enough have your attitude. [deep bow] — Your friendly neighbourhood editor
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  6437.  @The_ZeroLine  They're a super-unimpressive group. The guests are pretty good on average, so I keep coming back, but the staff mediocrity is fairly suffocating. Management should win an award for achievement in bad hiring.
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  6438. Look at the screen at the 20-second mark. SOAS is at the University of London.
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  6439. There's no need to hire anyone who's not a native speaker of English to read the news on Canadian TV. Stop your virtue signalling.
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  6440. It is not possible to occupy your own homeland. Jews belong in Israel. They are native to that land. They have been there the past 3,900 years.
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  6441. Border. Boarder is a person who rents a room and is served meals by the owner of the house.
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  6442. Except when he yells.😂
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  6443. The idea of 'climate reparations' seems like outright madness. But is it true that Biden could begin doing this in 2024? Why would the Republicans in the House let him? Has Speaker Johnson commented on the matter?
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  6444.  @williammkydde  Yes, and in WWII the US was also justified in attacking Japan, which was also "half-a-globe away." You're bad at this. Do find someone else to bother, will you please?
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  6445. The art of deterrence is the art of peace.
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  6446. She pre-cools herself in her $20,000 fridge.
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  6447.  @martinepstein3332  Noting the lack of objection to decrepitude, I'm moved to ask: any relation to Jeffrey?
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  6448. Just to clarify, you mean Prof. Gerdes' own survey of his viewers here, right? If so, then don't put too much stock in it. Any survey can be fun and good for stimulating discussion, but if effective steps to obtain a random sample aren't rigorously devised and followed, it mustn't be taken too seriously.
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  6449. CNN hostess: 'Female hormones magical, wonderful, holy. I love them. Male hormones dangerous, nasty, pathological. I hate them. Vote Democrat.'
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  6450. Coverage here of the Ukraine War has been fading away. Fewer and less interesting reports. I'm disappointed.
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  6451. In fairness, he does show up where he expects to find them.
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  6452. Curious about your claim, I went to eBay Canada. Sorting by price, I found many hundreds of listings for the Explorer model at $10k or higher. Which I thought was odd, since quite a few were listed for $7,500-8,500. Then I realized that the watch is available in multiple sizes, larger-diameter ones costing more. Btw, not one was offered at $7k.
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  6453. Pleased to find that this is not what I feared and suspected when I saw the title...namely, subtle pro-Russian propaganda intended to erode support for aid to Ukraine. This is my introduction to your channel. 👍 Very impressed with Gen. Butler's oratory at the beginning.
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  6454. "Violent protests". Violence, yes, on the part of the police. Sadists delighting in violence. They've gone mad down there, with govts. doing their best imitation of the authorities in China—and the population generally supporting them! So I take it Australians find China a model state and their fellow Western countries appalling?
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  6455. I am in a car theft ring and I totally approve your comment.
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  6456. A government which can't be removed by its people is illegitimate. Thanks.
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  6457. 👍Thank you. I see there's at least one actual non-Russian here besides me. The way paid foreign propagandists pile on this platform just sickens me to no end.
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  6458.  @mattsapero1896  😄
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  6459. It's the only decent country in the whole region. The rest are simply appalling.
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  6460.  @lizzylass4805  I'm talking about putting an end to thousands of rockets and other munitions being smuggled in.
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  6461. The old woman with the loaf of bread at 4:00 is going home to make sandwiches out of boiled children. She was the inspiration for Baba Yaga.
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  6462. So many restaurant fires in the past few years, just as so many restaurants are experiencing a downturn in business. Brutal coincidence.
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  6463. No doubt there's some good in them, but they're also despots, virtual pirates, meatpackers, fanatics. Good on you for turning your back on them and not letting them use you.
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  6464. How many lefties work for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong as Rutnam did? Global investment banking argues Tory, so look elsewhere than political stripe for the explanation here.  Try character clash, as in: who is more famous for narcissism, civil servants or politicians?
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  6465.  @christophergenovese9010  Your reading skills failed you here, or are just plain weak. Go over the thread again to discover your mistake.
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  6466. You've lost me, Tucker. That assertion about "forcing Ukraine into NATO" wasn't even honest, let alone accurate. Ukraine is interested in joining NATO for the most understandable reasons in the world: It knows what Putin is, it fears Putin, and it wants remain in existence as a country. If that bothers you because this war threatens to boost Biden's popularity, tough. Truth and morals first, then politics. Not the other way around.
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  6467. The thugs are the ones flattening Ukraine with bombs and massacring its men, women and children.
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  6468. 50-ton coffin.
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  6469.  @33stryker  So Trump curtails Russian efforts before even taking office, but it's only evidence that he's Putin's ally. Omg.🙄
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  6470.  @33stryker  So if Trump curtails Russian efforts before even taking office, a remarkable accomplishment, it'll still just be evidence that he's on their side. [sigh] Pretzel logic.
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  6471. The important thing is you're handling it well.
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  6472. Welcome to the Brixbot comments pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  6473. You're wrong about that. Ukrainians overthrew a guy who f.ed them over as much as it is possible to do. He campaigned and won on aligning Ukraine with Europe. It was unequivocal. Then the minute he was sworn in he announced that, no, instead Ukraine would align itself tightly with Putin. The country was furious and got him the f. out of there in a hurry. I don't doubt that the US pulled one or two strings to aid Ukrainians at the time, and I'm glad if they did. If they hadn't, Ukraine might not exist today except as a Russian province. If you're not fond of Putin and his lies you should find ways to defend your mind against him and them.
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  6474. Capitalism and religious myth certainly do have similarities in the foundation of each in the human mind. They strive and succeed at offering relevance to people's vital self-interest, they offer explanatory power, and they offer prescriptions for living--that is to say, morals. And, like religious myth, faith in money does indeed rest on trust, including trust in 'magic', if I may use that term for the aspects of money that are just about that murky.. The more you learn about economics and finance, the clearer this will be to you. Look into how banks create money, if you don't already have a solid idea of it, for example. If necessary, you can then move on to the hocus pocus of the securities markets. I guess you don't see 'story' as being anything but a narrative, like a creation myth or the gospels. Give Prof. Harari a break. English is not his first language and he picks up what he hears when he listens to Anglophones, the younger, more liberal, and more female among which use the word to mean just about anything we're told about. For the past ten or 20 years, everything's a 'story'. Whenever anybody says anything, they 'have a voice'. (See Prof. Harari onstage last year with Natalie Portman (!) if you want to see evidence of what I mean.) Canting, yes, but innocently used and not in his case evidence of errors in thought. Many Eurasians are understandably out of tune with how loosely most Americans talk, even supposedly educated ones like Portman (BA, Harvard). I don't doubt he's aware of and in agreement with the boilerplate financial markets epistemology you outlined, though not with the extension to pure maths. (So I would guess.) Check him out in his talk at the Royal Institution. In the Q&A he is taken to task for referring to millions of future AI-idled people as 'useless'. He patiently explains that he means for us to hear viciously skeptical quotation marks installed around the word. (Portman and RI talks are on YouTube.) First language or not, he has great power over English; whether 'provocative' (his term for his use of 'useless' at the RI), ironic, or neither, his use of it, as of historical learning, aims high. Since in my view, if you hit a bullseye every time, you're standing too close to the target, I approve. Many would not. Among the broadest thinkers, some with the most merit strike narrower ones as outlandish in their vision and unjustified in their conclusions. The latter say 'how does he know that? How can anyone know that?' The answer, in this case, is brainpower, learning, experience, character and I assume a rich family life, all combining to produce vision. The word fallacy weighs about a thousand pounds. When heaved, if the reasoning behind it is weak, it can fall on one's toe. All the best. I appreciate your clear style.
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  6475. Bang on, every word of that.
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  6476. No, of course not.
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  6477. I must bitterly point out that in fact the times are so lost that her present job is indeed her most proper calling. She didn't quite elbow her way in there. She was sourced and installed for exactly what she's got. If it weren't her, it would be someone just like her. (Only less bug-eyed, surely.)
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  6478. That would amount to a multi-billion donation from a Canadian company to the people of the US. I am shocked to see this coming from a person who clearly knows how to read and write. Btw, what is a doctor doing selling pills at retail?
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  6479. @ No matter what one thinks of him, that's simply not true.
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  6480. Correct, obviously.
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  6481. Tucker Carlson, stop spouting nonsense about the Ukraine War. If there were no reason to oppose it, we would not see all Europe opposing it. You are off the rails. You're so worried the Dems could pull an election win out of the fire that you're making stuff up. Please, there's no end of things you could go after the Democrats for. They're doing this one thing right, so live with it. And don't worry, they'll still lose in November, Ukraine or no Ukraine. But if you don't watch it, they'll win and have you to thank. So stop. Stop now.
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  6482. This thread is quite accurate.
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  6483.  @wendybradley1837  Robespierre was doing his job too.
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  6484. Albanese, probably in May, same month as (probably) Trudeau. Will be a fine month. Springtime for Australia and Canada in more ways than one.
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  6485. Or under some huge pile of....no, that's mean. I'm not gonna say that one.
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  6486. Dove, what about climate change? Your spokesthingy's methane emissions alone could melt a polar ice cap.
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  6487.  @marissaalonzo7997  Give us an example, Olga.
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  6488. And that's why they're given proper warning to get off what will shortly be a battlefield. It is mischievous to pretend not to realize that.
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  6489. Why? It's TV. On TV you lay it all on with a trowel and don't consider if it makes sense.
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  6490. Mass-made anti-Western Westerner: "The West only produces garbage people. Except me: I am the most moral and enlightened thing the world has ever come up with. By far."
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  6491. Fifty years ago, in 1974, the speed limit on the 400 was 75 mph (121 km/h).
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  6492. Drugs, pure and simple. Three possibilities: Two druggies, one of whom cheated the other out of his very scarce funds. One druggie and a dealer, and the dealer cheated the druggie out of his very scarce funds. Two dealers, one of whom tried to put the other out of business. However it went, it's pathetic.
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  6493. Perfect unexpected choice of outro there: Crazy On You.
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  6494.  @3letta90  Oh come off it and don't be so desperate to feel like a somebody. A joke like that totally gives you away, especially since "In comparable" isn't even English. Canada has about the population of Texas and NJ together, making it neither small nor big by world standards.
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  6495. Yeah, he was arrested.
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  6496. Basket counts and a foul!
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  6497. The professor from Warwick, when, at 39:00, he says "... one of the key tenants of the Scientific Revolution..." caused me to experience a stinging emotion born of disappointment and alienation. Worthwhile event, though. Prof. Harari is a good guy, and less brilliant than only very few other people alive.
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  6498. Smarter than Fox, apparently, who quote him saying "herding" as "hurting". That just shouldn't happen.
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  6499. Concerning safety and "lack of crime" in Russia: Russia is a fairly murderous place. Its rate of intentional homicide is exceeded only by a few dozen countries in Africa and the Americas (not the US); also Papua New Guinea and Iraq. In the rest of the world you're safer.
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  6500. 👏 Thank you. Very well stated and greatly needed in this very pro-Russia, anti-Western morass. So sick of all these low gopniks infesting Western social media under names like "Robert Wilson."
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  6501. 1) Konstantin mentions people who are now reflexively against any policy or action their governments come out with. Yes, that's bigger than ever. Prime example: the insane position that it's wrong to assist Ukraine. It's mainly rigid anti-governmentism. (Hope you like my new word for this.) 2) Richard seems to agree with what I was just thinking. I started by asking Why can't everyone just look after themselves and never mind telling others what to do, say, or be? After all, I went on, improving the world should mean improving oneself and it should end there, full stop. So all this busybody-ing that plagues our society is likely just a way of avoiding doing that. ("I'm a fine person; it's other people who need improvement.") Now Richard comes along to say it "absolves you of responsibility" and he ties it into untreated or improperly treated psychological afflictions. Noice. 3) I like how the replay graph is all squiggly. It shows people are replaying the most interesting bits so they can absorb them better, or just to savour them. (I refer to that graphic feature embedded in the video progress bar that shows viewing time, including "Most replayed".)
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  6502.  @joanndeck4315  Murray himself praises the National Post as probably the last good paper in Canada. It doesn't have to be entirely to your own taste to be good.
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  6503. Yeah well, in his academic career he was a well-respected research psychologist with a focus on personality, as well as a clinician treating patients with severe problems. He knows what people are like, including sick ones. So what's your point?
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  6504. National Association of Mental Institutions: "Hey, stop comparing us to MSNBC!"
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  6505. I wished that one driver who sped off would have taken the clear opportunity to shear the guy's door off.
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  6506.  @ajlynch123  Never a genius, he's no longer the least bit stable either.
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  6507.  @FelixMeister  You're right about overuse and vulgar misunderstandings of words, especially for the purpose of exaggeration and rhetorical overdramatization. I've devised the term category inflation for these things.
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  6508. Thank you to everyone in this thread for the Chinese Foreign Ministry point of view.
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  6509. * feint
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  6510. * med-VYED-ev
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  6511. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Russia's song, "We Will Nuke the Whole Rest of the World," came last.
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  6512.  @ellengran6814  Ellen Gran: "If the US doesn't want us to pick up our neighbours like they're sacks of carrots and potatoes and walk off with them, they are evil hegemons! We want to destroy our small and weak neighbours! Wahhhhh! 😭😭 We own everything within range of our artillery! Wahhhh!"
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  6513. Domestic consumption as a proportion of China's economy is far higher than you say. ("Very small.") You must be thinking of 20 years ago.
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  6514. The man on the panel made a series of good points. The smirking woman in the green jacket added nothing of value.
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  6515. Rob's story of the virtue- and class-signalling young woman ("marriage is patriarchal") reminded me of a youngish woman from an upper-class background whom I once knew. Her grandfather had been CEO and a major shareholder of a department store chain. She lived in a mansion in the city's most exclusive area but wore nondescript clothes and drove an old Volkswagen sedan. We had both worked in the political sphere (in my case for a centrist government, in hers a left-wing administration). One day, after she spoke in favour of hiring quotas, I mentioned two or three of my reasons for opposing it. She felt compelled to respond but had nothing at all to actually say, so she settled for replying blandly "I'm sure there are answers to that in a briefing book somewhere." (Briefing books are government policy manuals containing background information, commonly in the form of talking points.) It was enough for her to stand for the belief without knowing why.
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  6516.  @HeatherFoster-nk5vn  As if an ad takes away anyone's choice.🙄omg
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  6517. Good report. Thanks. Germany should follow through on its commitments.  They will look inexpensive compared to what it could cost them later. On that note, btw, it should also apologize to the US for laughing at its warnings about Nordstream and dependence on Russian energy. Look how that little cost-saving exercise turned out.
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  6518. Scary stuff, Rita.😮As usual. But what really scares me is that if you and Sky News Australia didn't bring us coverage like this, no media outlet in the English-speaking world would. Apart from independent vloggers there's literally no other place to go.😮
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  6519. See the excellent Ukraine Support Tracker of Germany's Kiel Institute. Its latest update released Sept. 7 ranks Canada 6th in the G7 in total support for Ukraine as a share of its GDP, not first. Our direct financial support portion is high only because our military support portion is low. Canada is likewise sixth in absolute dollar terms, behind four G7 members and Norway.
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  6520.  @rattatatat8507  Exports to the US are around 17 or 19% of Canada's GDP, not "most."
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  6521.  @rattatatat8507  Most of Canada's exports, yes. Btw, tariffs on US dairy products were removed years ago under the USMCA on everything (e.g. milk for cheese, yogurt etc.) except for beverage milk.
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  6522.  @bookie5667  One cannot say. Who knows which of them heard of the other's plans first?
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  6523. Exactly. You've been around the block a few times, I see.
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  6524.  @buelan.6525  <--------- Apparently denial happens in reaction to something negligent as well.
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  6525.  @suburbandystopia4130  Stop it! Both countries have always tariffed each other's goods.
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  6526. Comedy Central: "Hey MSNBC, stop stealing our moves."
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  6527. I'm all four: embarrassed, ashamed, disgusted and angry.
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  6528. As a certain American Jewish man always used to say decades ago, without any irony, "Next time we need to make sure we and Germany fight on the same side."
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  6529. That AI translation narrator is lame. Too clever by half. It makes mistakes, and it's creepy to see those passed off as Milei's own. Just give us subtitles.
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  6530.  @Jeyakumar-hs9zr  Both of those assertions are false and empty. Have a nice day.
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  6531. Endless leading questions, all of them phrased in the manner of "Do you think Russia's victory will come soon?", "Do you feel Western resolve will crumble?", etc.
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  6532. DW shows its viewers disrespect by giving work of this sort to such a young person. The interviewer showed a lack of experience, skills, and judgement at several points during the interview. An assignment like this requires a journalist seasoned over decades and having at least a few grey hairs (figuratively speaking, at any rate), not someone scarcely through their 35th trip around the sun.
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  6533. More money to Ukraine, another $10bn, from the heart of Canada!! After that, another $10bn. There's simply no better way to spend it right now.
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  6534. People really need to stop saying "There's a lot to unpack there." It makes them sound like they think they're really, really smart (definite note of condescension there) but are mistaken on that. No one who's genuinely bright and appropriately confident of what they have to say will resort to this buzz-phrase.   It will go out of fashion soon enough. Get ahead of the trend now. Send it packing.
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  6535. Even recommending the presentation to Ukraine of a fully-loaded Trident Class submarine would be a better idea than the Crimean proposal of Lord Haw Haw here.
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  6536.  @DocSolstice  Excellent points. The Kremlin is pure gangster, has been for a minimum of 105 years, and never says anything that's true. Let's face it, the prototypical Russian statesman's idea of honour is to do violence for its own sake. Navalny for President!
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  6537.  @tonupharry  "What about putin stealing all the military budget so the vaunted red army fell flat [etc]" Yes, exactly... and all so he could build his personal billion-dollar fortified retirement-town-for-one near Sochi! I bet that's the real reason for this war: to make the whole eastern Black Sea safe for him in his dotage. May he never live to see it!
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  6538. He did bring up India, and Musk replied that Indian law gives the government strict powers to remove content from news and other media. (Modi passed new laws in 2021.) Yet the interviewer hinted broadly that Musk did something wrong. Consider that in contrast to Old Twitter and the US government, whose requests to pull content they honoured just out of chumminess. Now, that's what I call corrupt.
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  6539. May you someday be personally acquainted with Brigadier-General Shadow, affectionately nicknamed by his men "the Storm."
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  6540. Great news, but I could really do without the DJ.👎
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  6541.  @嘻嘻大好人  I do not relish that possibility. What comforts me a little is that multi-party elections open up the possibility that limits and safeguards will be introduced on public surveillance. In China, that possibility awaits the growth of a democratic spirit such as that seen in Hong Kong at present. Here in the West, the government is not your dad. You do not live under his roof. He cannot beat his wife and children and then brag to the world about how smoothly his household runs. Here in the West one can breathe free. I urge you not to regard democracy as anti-Chinese. If you want a Western system to call anti-Chinese, try communism. Democracy can fit any nation or people, so long as they weren't born to be ruled, and don't prefer to live under the roof of a strict and violent dad. Cheers.
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  6542.  @嘻嘻大好人  Ceteris paribus. Chinese people under a multi-party system would have an incomparably more trustworthy government.
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  6543.  @嘻嘻大好人  2. I agree, education in the West ought to be strengthened. But then, how bad can it be if a clever person like you is studying in Germany and not China?
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  6544.  @嘻嘻大好人  How many thousands of protesters were shot to death on Wall Street? Refresh my memory.
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  6545. ​ @嘻嘻大好人  You can't get me to endorse the idea of not travelling the world, but the idea that 'objective' judgments can't be reached without leaving one's homeland is very understandable coming from someone who grew up under the CPC. But yes, I shall enjoy visiting China for a few months, probably in 2021. See you then maybe, if you're not still having a great time in Germany.
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  6546.  @嘻嘻大好人  "4."I urge you not to regard democracy as anti-Chinese." I will never regard democracy as anti-Chinese." I hope you understood that I meant democracy as a principle, not peoples or governments in multi-party democracies. My point was that a multi-party system should not be regarded as antithetical to Chinese civilization. Some Chinese speak of democracy as not reflecting 'Chinese values'. Your point hat complication enters into the evaluation of political systems, however, is very, very obviously true. Very, very obviously. Cheers.
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  6547.  @嘻嘻大好人  "I would say the billionaries in the west are your dads" Go right ahead. It doesn't hurt my feelings. Besides, I believe in your right to say it. I would also make sacrifices, up to a point, to help you say it in safety. Still, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. You seem like a nice person, and well conducted. Cheers.
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  6548.  @嘻嘻大好人  "You remind me of those crazy pro-communism teenagers in China 50 years ago. For them, communism is a perfect idea. For you, west-defined democracy is a perfect idea. For me or for any one who has received post-graduate education and academic training, any ideology can and should be CHALLENGED. There's no perfect and universally adapted system." Sir, I totally missed this post last week. I only want to reply that I completely agree with your opinion that any ideology can and should be challenged. Yes, no perfect system, including Western democracy. Total agreement. China and the West both have great drawbacks that they could lessen just by doing some things the way the other side does. No question about it. But there are universal desires of humanity that every government must be designed and operated to respond to. To keep it short I won't try to list them. Just one example and I merely assert the existence others: The security of the people. So all governments must adapt to permanent human needs...and I take it from there onward. But not here because you are probably sick of me! You sound like you deserve a fortunate position. All the best, my good man.
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  6549.  @MegaMerlin96  Thanks for your reply, but I can't find my original comment! Gone into the ether, it seems.
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  6550. Trans activists: " 'Man' 'woman' —those things aren't real, they're imaginary. Scholars have proven that. You just think you're a man, you just think you're a woman, according to narrow-minded social conventions with no foundation in science or truth of any kind." Also trans activists: "I am a real woman! / I am a real man! Don't you dare deny my human rights."🙄
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  6551. Please don't say "YOUR daily dose". It's what I call promiscuous pronoun punching. It's all over TV, especially on ads. The worst of the boomers foisted it on poor millennials, most of whom grew up on it. Now Z-ers, too. Reject it. Fight the power. ;)
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  6552. Xi hands him a dirty wedding dress and a tube of lipstick. "Here. Put these on."
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  6553. ...while in 2033 Russia has fallen behind India, and Russians ask: "What happened? Why do I eat beets and carrots every night? Putin told us we were superior to Ukraine, Europe and the West. Now look how they eat in Ukraine. And why does the Kremlin now answer to Beijing? Why are there a million Chinese in Moscow, moving into positions of authority? Putin rests in his grave now, but where is the rest for us?"
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  6554. Drugs: Dangerous but usually manageable Katana: Dangerous but usually manageable Drugs + Katana: Do your estate planning
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  6555.  @netnomad47  Rainwater is absolutely crawling with microbes: bacteria, viruses, amoebas and other protozoa. Plus water vapor can only condense around an airborne particle of dust, dirt or pollution, so rain is also filthy in that sense. Great for your lawn, trees, bushes and flowerbeds though.
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  6556. 1:45:06 Nine seconds, several exaflops come and go.
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  6557. Todd Smith made a strong impression on me here. Good attitude, obvious intelligence. I hope he eventually emerges at the federal level of politics.
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  6558. The lion's share of the tens of trillions of dollars created by the central bank–commercial bank partnership in the past eleven-and-a-half years had gone straight to the world's rich people. Thus the great increase in prices for luxury houses, restaurants, cars, clothes—and watches. Probably whores, too.
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  6559.  @charlesdavis3802  I'll go along with that. As he said himself, somebody had to get things going. There were no numbers on antibody seroprevalence out there at all.
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  6560. If the resolution is so faulty, what's his explanation for not voting against it? 🤨
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  6561. Paranoia....big destroya. Now you can't say nobody ever warned ya.
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  6562. It was probably a mistake not to go to war directly against Putin many years ago. Instead the West took the defensive half-measure of granting the pledge of protection to Eastern Europe which it rightly and desperately asked for. There! Sorted it. Do have a nice day.
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  6563. Oh wait, you needed a second matter sorted: If Putin hadn't decided to colossally wrong and infuriate Ukraine's people by basically stealing their government, no attempt by them at regime change would've existed for the US to support. My work here is done.😄
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  6564.  @02markcal  Saying that I'm "convinced Russia could take Kyiv this time" amounts to putting words in my mouth. I never mentioned Kyiv, did I? There is a danger of major Russian gains, but from my admittedly poor vantage point I in fact think the Ukrainian state in Kyiv will survive. The danger to Ukraine rests in the possibility of Russia organizing itself better and intensifying its attacks, suddenly and before additional weaponry arrives. A willingness on Putin's part to sacrifice aircraft for gains would worsen this danger. What I actually did say was that I think timely shipments of the right weapons will match Putin's escalations one for one, thereby continuing to frustrate his aims. It's just that the right strategy isn't a guarantee of results. Execution still has to be there.
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  6565. She should be relegated to backbreaking and repetitive manual labour somewhere, at minimum wage in some stuffy, hot and noisy building.
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  6566.  @maccarf516  Thanks, I appreciate it. You know, I should have looked it up myself! So if you call the Covid pandemic an even 8 months old, then the run rate over that time has been 1.33m deaths a year or 3,630 day, one or two percent below the road accident rate. The current rate, though, is 5,312 a day (past-seven-days average) or 1.94m a year, so it's running at a pace far above road accidents. (At least it fell 10% from 5,879 on August 11.) You can combine these two ways if you take the current total and add a projected number for the rest of the year at this week's rate. You get 1.53m. So it looks like road accidents are being bumped down one place this year. Still amazing, though, both ways: It's amazing the world's been turned upside down by something at this point no more calamitous than car crashes, and it's amazing there's so many road deaths in a year.
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  6567.  @maccarf516  Btw, the Spanish Flu killed 2% of the world's people, the equivalent of 156m today. For Covid-19 to match that mortality at the current rate, it would take 101 more years. That's right, it would not be as deadly as the Spanish Flu until the year 2121.
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  6568.  @maccarf516  Very, very strange. All the best to you.
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  6569.  @karlvonbahnhof6594  Great comment; too bad it's buried in obscurity as a reply in this thread. Copy it, adapt it and re-post it elsewhere as a stand-alone comment in the right spot(s).
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  6570.  @tipsy09  See if the people of Afghanistan think so.
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  6571. Ok, if it's a matter of terms, how about "Putin bootlicker"?
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  6572.  @isaaccutlip5815  The leader of Iran? No, he called one of their generals a killer.
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  6573. Right. Let's have women's spaces remain just that. Women's clubs, too, and all the rest. (Except they can't say men can't be nurses and things like that, obviously). Also, let's see the return of the Boy Scouts. Just the fact that somebody doesn't like sex exclusion isn't enough. There should have to be proof of substantial harm. The urge to micromanage everybody's lives, which in this day is mushrooming totally unrestrained, has got to be beaten back before life and society lose every shred of their charm.
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  6574.  @bradwilliams7683  Their evolution suits them to small social groups quite well.
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  6575. So the average person loses 7¢/year to rounding up. On a multi-item purchase with tax, rounding up and rounding down occur almost precisely equally often. What causes the 7¢ is single-item purchases with no tax, as with grocery items. They often end in 9 (as in $0.79 or $2.99), which of course is always rounded up. How trivial can we get here?
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  6576. Who can say what he knows?
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  6577.  @onbored9627  Just to clarify, I've lost faith which hasn't been replaced. In other words I'm politically homeless. (There is political housing available but I don't wish to live in a slum. I could easily afford to check into a political hotel, but they're all pigsties to me now.)
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  6578. When Santa hits the meth real hard.
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  6579. Tea with that? Sugar, honey or polonium?
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  6580. Merkel solemnly told Europe seven years ago (!) that "We must take care of ourselves from now on" or words to that effect. Germany then proceeded to do sweet FA. Since the Zeitenwende announcement on Feb. 27, 2022, procurement has gone at a snail's pace. The whole EU likewise, except Poland and a few countries with 5m or so people.
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  6581. At around 1,700 hours of sunshine per year, Germany is below the overall European average of around 2,300. But it is roughly average for European countries above the Alps. Countries with less sunshine include Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland. But yes, Spain, Portugal and Greece are far sunnier, up around 2,800. (Not Italy, however: just 1,900.)
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  6582.  @operator9858  Hahaha You like hiphop and Jimmy Dore.🤡😂
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  6583.  @EvilWizardWeedSheeee  Unique understanding of the English language and reality there. Terrific. You'd make a good gender theorist.
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  6584.  @sirdrake1177  The autopsies didn't show signs of asphyxiation, they fully concluded that he was asphyxiated. But you clearly don't know what that is. It is the failure of oxygen to be delivered to the tissues, period. It does not have to be from choking, blockage or compression of the airway, strangling, suffocation or anything like that. For example, committing suicide by sitting in an idling car in a closed garage is classified as asphyxiation, even though the victim can breathe freely the whole time. Carbon monoxide destroys the blood's capacity to carry oxygen, so the definition of asphyxiation is met. Likewise, pressing firmly enough on neck arteries prevents blood from reaching the brain, so it shuts down and therefore stops sending the nerve signals to the heart which are needed constantly to cause it to beat, and to the chest to cause breathing. That, too, is asphyxiation even though breathing and the airway are unaffected the whole while. But make no mistake, according to the autopsies, he could breathe until the moment of death. Notice from the video that he complained loudly that he couldn't breathe well before he was pressed on the ground, when they were simply trying to shove him in the car. He was, in my view, clearly high, having a panic attack, and not in his right mind. deliriously, maybe it was just meant to have an impact on the officers, or maybe
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  6585. Her face says it all. Quick divorce coming up. Mute the audio and she looks like she's mourning a great loss.
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  6586. It actually means "when we talked off-camera to each other during ad breaks".
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  6587. Who can say who filled out which part of the form? Maybe she did it all herself and left him to merely sign. To me he seems ( pace Lou Reed) like a dog tied to a parked car.
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  6588. Chicken feed. They claim it will get 2,000 houses built, but it's only the equivalent of the price of about 100 homes currently. Either way, insignificant compared with the need for 3,500,000 houses. Peanuts.
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  6589. Your last sentence is a very serious overstatement. You call both your powers of analysis and your motives into question with such hyperbole. Please either dial it down or offer us evidence from sources at least a little authoritative.
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  6590. The world's clowns will resent that comparison terribly.
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  6591.  @m1a1abrams3  As I understand it, the American lower class is worse off than that of most other rich countries. Making minimum wage and living in an American city, or being on welfare, is a worse slog than doing the same thing in probably at least 15 other developed countries, or maybe more. Btw, you should make '99%' more like 50%. For a long time now the rest of the world has been getting richer and the American poor haven't been.
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  6592.  @adrianmxmx  They think prosperity and security and freedom are just "there". Like mountain ranges, permanent and indestructible.
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  6593.  @saltmerchant749  Musk doesn't have inherited wealth. For one thing, his parents are both alive. For another, he left home at 17 with his own paltry savings ($2k) and never took a dime from his despised father. He worked his way through university. At 25 he and his brother, who were in business together, borrowed a smallish amount from their mother, repaying it promptly. (They soon sold the business for a colossal price.) That's the closest he's come to "inherited wealth." Around that time their father went totally broke. Despite hating him, Elon and his brother have supported him financially ever since. You should look into why you're saying things that aren't true about a stranger.
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  6594. Ok, Sergei / Chanfun / Farshad / whatever.
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  6595. 0:48 Explanation: Evel Knievel had a lot of casual one-night stands in France back in the day. The ripples are still spreading across the genetic pond.
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  6596.  @olgasitovenko1281  Canada loves you back.
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  6597.  @yewest131  🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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  6598. No, there's a reason. Inside he was in turmoil. Something to do with drugs.
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  6599.  @7bopper  You're the one who said "don't fight." That's a claim that Britain is fighting a war. It isn't. Now go peddle your nonsense on social media in your own country.
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  6600. @ @D.J-I3s Empty slander. [yawn]
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  6601. Ok, but he was never a comedian. He was a comic actor in movies and TV. Think Jerry Lewis, not George Carlin.
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  6602. I too heard about the unfortunate necessity for major avionics alterations (a couple of weeks ago). Thanks for the explication.
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  6603. Dorsey ended up despising Twitter for its algorithms and policies. The board of directors forced him out over them. I don't think he ever wanted that stuff to go on and I seriously wonder if 'deep-state'-type Twitter staff prevented him from standing in the way of it or even knowing it was going on. Keep in mind he supports Musk 100%. I half-expect Musk to hire him as CEO before long.
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  6604.  @Zhorik123  Fake like your comment, Lord Byron?
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  6605.  @CV-vi5zo  He's not ignorant. He's ignoring the flagrant likelihood that this wasn't an Israeli strike.   This is all part of Hamas and Iran's plan. They didn't plan 10/7 as a standalone event.
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  6606. The pacing is right on, which is a major, major plus. I can't handle it when a video drags on slowly, and equally if it goes hypersonic.
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  6607.  @fionawhiteford2128  Pffft! Please. They stole every one of their moves from the decades-old feminist gaslighting playbook.
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  6608.  @atlasadonis3752  Why do you ask such a question? I'm puzzled why you're so interested in a harmless drudge.
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  6609. I can't find that photo anywhere. The internet blows.
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  6610. Yeah. Or 🤔did she change from POS pretend-good-person to good person? She made it clear at the end that her whole level of honesty and sincerity went way up.
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  6611. Fair point, one which I've often made myself. Numerous famous people have been quoted as saying (in various forms) that "People in democracies get the government they deserve," including Thomas Jefferson.
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  6612. If only he had merely broken wind last week, instead of inciting mass murder by publicly saying he was "angry" about a certain jury verdict.
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  6613. One, somewhere between the 911 caller's words and the traffic stop, the information was distorted or lost. That's how it appears to me. Two, he was the one with the marks on his face and body.
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  6614.  @janesmith6346  "Less than 1% of fentanyl." Try less than 0.1%: Seizures in the past two years: Canada border, 45 pounds; Mexico border, 47,800 pounds. Difference of over 1,000x.
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  6615.  @stephenhill545  The Ministry of Truth.
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  6616. 49.8%, 1.48 points higher than the opponent.😂
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  6617. All that applies equally the other way! I'm so glad we're both turning things around.🇨🇦🥂🇺🇸
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  6618. This seems like a low-key version of Will Smith at the Oscars. ("Keep my wife's name out of your mouth!")
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  6619. Madam, Dimbleby was forming an interesting point about Putin being clever yet strategically incompetent, when you cut him off to challenge his assertion that Putin is clever. Do you really think that a dullard could rule Russia? Does the notion of a brutal man being clever offend you? I daresay it does. And that is itself a not very clever thing.
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  6620.  @charlaneparker890  I feel it's more explicit, wounding and in a way more accurate to just call her Marjorie "Hanoi Jane" Taylor Greene. Gets her dull disciples all nice and steamed.
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  6621.  @bertoldriesenteil1430  Second, yes, but a very distant second. It is still essentially making the US pay for its security, like a rich man's son. The good thing is that it finally announced its revised national security policy and has decided to change that. The whole democratic world looks forward to seeing these changes actually occur. Long live a strong NATO.
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  6622.  @BasedinReality1984  There appears to be something wrong with that word 'simp'. Whenever I see it, it seems it's used by a nasty person to level criticism I can't agree with
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  6623. No one likes them.
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  6624. ​ @crusaderslayer  H^^^^ invaded Is rae l and set records for barbarity. Ukraine never even tossed an empty paper coffee cup into Russia.
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  6625.  @reneblom2160  Ah yes. I heard Danes in Sweden are prohibited from speaking Danish and serving blue cheese at table. You must attack now! Liaise with Teheran at once to reserve your drones.😀
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  6626.  @item6931  I suppose you mean that's what a chin implant is made of? If so, quite right.
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  6627.  @Robert-er5wq  Why even try talking to these people? They're blinded by hatred and are not amenable to reason or discussion. Like Samson in Milton's play, they are Eyeless in Gaza. If they abjure their self-pity they will, like Samson, regain their strength.
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  6628. They're not that special, btw. There are many, many millions just like them. They're not far from typical.
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  6629. That long sentence of yours eventually died of exhaustion, becoming delirious and incoherent near the end. Have you never wondered what those dots are that you see all the time in other people's writing? It's time you asked someone to explain what they're for.
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  6630.  @NexPutax  Nice try. Actually, we will see what Trump has in store once he's elected. At that point he'll be safely past any chance of losing due to Kremlin efforts to undermine whichever of the two presidents appears the more hawkish. He'll then be in a position to reveal his aims candidly and in detail. In the meantime he's (wisely) bearing in mind that US elections tend to be very close. For my part I expect him to aggressively confront Putin if and when he's elected.
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  6631.  @Cotac_Rastic  YTM. How's that?
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  6632. Executing prisoners of war. Just more proof that Russia can't quite shake off feudalism and still has one foot in the Middle Ages.
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  6633. Putin just has the standard mentality of a lower-middle-class Russian man with something to prove: he thinks Russian greatness is assured by its having a thick layer of subordinated countries surrounding it. And when Russia is great he can consider himself great too, no matter how third-rate in the highest aspects he may in fact be. (Limited-success American men, and no small number of women too, are the same in that last respect.) Many people suppose that the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries alongside it were a communist agglomeration, but really it was just a Russian empire, successor to that of the tsars before it.
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  6634.  @JoyceMiller-w3o  You omitted to mention the corporate mass media. They must never be forgiven.
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  6635. Quality, sure--if it really is well-built and doesn't merely look that way. It's not true that steel is steel is steel. To be a great watch every part must be made of a great alloy, the right one for the job the part does, and damn the expense. Other questions include: How will the crystal wear? Will it be noisy and annoy you in quiet rooms? What will happen when it inevitably falls on the floor as you're putting it on or taking it off? When it needs a repair, how is the part to be sourced? (Strong chance, I'm guessing, that a genuine part won't fit.) How well does it keep moisture out? How is the paint on the bezel going to hold out? There must be many more. Great at keeping time doesn't equate to Great Watch, or Casio would be the last word (although I'm not saying you said any different; just wanted to say it). I lean towards a guess, however, that it's very ok for $600. (Except I don't like the Rolex look too much anyway.)
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  6636.  @andreyche193  Right, obviously. But then a disposable $600 isn't what a lot of people are after. Whatevs . De gustibus etc.
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  6637. The worst thing isn't that AOC tells such whoppers. It's that maybe 100 million Americans hear what she says and don't care whether it's true or not, they just back her automatically and repeat what she says. In fact, many of those 100 million do not believe her. They know she's full of it. But same deal, they support and repeat her claims. I don't even blame them, I blame the liberal media which warped their minds.
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  6638. Never did two things have anything less to do with one another.🙄
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  6639.  @secondchance6603  Your 2nd sentence, while not exactly valid, has ♾ times the truth value of your 1st.
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  6640.  @yang5159  Trying to earn Social Credit points? My dear boy, until you have multi-party elections, you're still living under your dad. And your dad beats your mom, you, and the rest of the family. Then he brags about how smoothly the household runs. Democracy doesn't eliminate every problem, but at least you can leave your violent father's house and breathe free. I believe you, your mother, brothers, and sisters deserve that.
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  6641.  @BL-wu9jw  I agree the Iraq war was a complete travesty, and protested vigorously against it. Too bad for your argument that it doesn't justify CPC slaughters one tiny bit. Cheers.
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  6642. Yes, the panda is a nice guy, very Confucian, and will in a friendly manner and by example bring improvement to the rabbit's conduct. The rabbit is not a teacher. By returning to being a student, he will stop being a rabbit. Cheers.
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  6643.  @masakichin6009  If you ever had freedom you would never want to give it up. In the West you can criticize the government all day long and never suffer ill consequences. It allows you to feel a type of dignity that's very reassuring and energizing. You may still be an undignified loser in the West and you may still feel dignity and be a winner in China. But there's a difference: Under one-party rule you are living like a boy under your tough dad. He can beat your mother and the whole family and then brag about how smoothly the household runs. And you can't say anything. Yes, I believe the countries (e.g. South Korea, Indonesia, Chile) that have gotten a lot richer in the last 40 years owe a lot their gains to democracy. It builds trust, and a lot of things can happen with a little money and lots of trust. Democracy breeds kleptocrats, yes, but compared with other forms of government, much, much less---and they are rarely bureaucrats or party officials but rather business people who at least produce something. The best system is a multi-party democracy with high taxes that finance excellent education, health care, and infrastructure. Its free citizens can sort the rest out from there. Yes, I believe the social credit stuff. You mean the CPC publicly disputes it? Not to my knowledge. Cheers.
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  6644.  @masakichin6009  Thanks for your interesting reply. It's true, one can criticize democracy all day long. People in the West certainly do that all the time, whether they realize it or not.  It's a major pastime. Among its many demerits, democracy has never been long-lasting. It goes on for a few or several generations and then tips over into the mud. Ordinarily the cause is its tendency towards oligarchy. Oligarchies are implicit in human nature. As Freud pointed out "nature introduces inequalities against which there is no remedy." Clever and useful people, especially if pleasing everybody isn't their goal, soon come out on top. They then marry the children of others like them. A sense of guilt, perhaps, in the end overcomes a corrupt oligo-democratic elite which does not answer to the people. Children, not least the children of the rich, never believe all the justifications told them their parents. It might also be fake guilt, but either way countless family-level abdications take place across the classes. In any case, a major weakness of liberal democracy seems to be its feebleness at producing the kind of people who can sustain it. And democracy certainly does not do an ideal job of promoting good society generally, because it opens up to people the possibility of improving their rank by the accumulation of money. Where there are different arrangements, as in an aristocracy, urges to rise in social rank are curtailed, being as a rule so far-fetched. But in a liberal democracy, the fact of plausibly having a shot at social distinction distorts individual personalities on a large scale and thus goes a long way towards harming the chances of good society. However, sensibly high taxes and the best possible public education (and health care and infrastructure) go a very long way towards moderating these problems. Of course in any democracy the best-off ten percent will be decently-behaved and will promote stability; the trick is to continually show to the rest that they can succeed with just average merit. In light of this, democracy is thus a juggling act with many balls, dinner plates, axes, and smoking chain saws in the air. But then, what is the alternative to it? If you live under a king, you can only hope he and his son and grandson will not abuse and rob you. That is not likely   And whether under a king or a repressive bureaucratic state, how pleasant is it to be utterly without a say in what the laws are? And not just for oneself, but for everybody outside a ruling elite numbering just several thousand or even only a few hundred. I recall you mentioning that public protest in China can affect government policy, but such an outcome is at the pleasure of the government, for they cannot be thrown out. Protest in such a case is not a right protected by the constitution, courts, and police. It is specifically opposed by the constitution, courts, and police, never mind the party, a restricted press, and an intimidated society at large. No, such a ruling party merely have to appear flexible enough to prevent a serious attempt at revolution. That is a standard low enough to guarantee that the people will be abused, as long as the the government's power is great enough. If that is so, large numbers of people can be imprisoned or starved to death, without its rule facing danger of overthrow. Unrestricted power is not safely put in the hands of a small number. To disagree with this is to forget about the role of instinct in human behaviour, to forget that human lives are run on hormones, appetite, and fantasy more than anything else, to forget how our cousins the chimpanzees live and the fact that they make war on one another. It also ignores millennia of history. In my view, if an unelected government not only has a monopoly on force, but also omnipotence in counteracting opposition (as when it has 400m surveillance cameras plugged into facial recognition software) great abuses of the people are absolutely guaranteed. What the absolute monarchy, dictatorship, or one-party state can offer is a sort of stability. But then, the government is something like a strict dad, and one lives under his roof. In a way you can never really leave your teens. And that is only if you are lucky. If you are unlucky, you live under cruel gangsters and spend your life not like a teenager but like a dog. I enjoyed your reply. We might have different opinions, but I can see you have observed life carefully for a long time. Forgive the length of my reply. All the best. DP
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  6645. "He's gonna get it. Mensheviks always get it. They got it a hundred years ago and you better believe this one's gonna get it now. "
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  6646.  @Matuse  Nah. I hit Dislike and also went back to the original feed to select Don't Recommend Channel.
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  6647.  @outsideview9052  I'm good with most of that, especially the 'Go get 'im Joe' bit. But there's nothing wrong with trading with Canada. Just zero, under any circumstances. Any American ever asked by anyone in the world "What do you want from our country, anyway?" can simply answer "Be like Canada."
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  6648.  @jsnjcnt  U could be right, I just don't want to reread that thread. I can't remember what's in it. I might have been thinking of the Russian oil ban. Agree with you on your points. Cheers mate
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  6649. Both!
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  6650.  @gerardbyrnes5780  Biden publicly thanked Vice President Trump anyway.😂
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  6651. Thank you so much, President She.😡
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  6652.  @pacman3556  Congratulations, you've officially earned a coveted place in the Guinness Book of Fn More Ons! That's something they can never take away from you. 👏👏
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  6653. It's like the letters S, T, F, and U were invented for this know-it-all with a high school diploma. Where's an enormous bolt of lightning when you need one?
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  6654.  @mazlanmdzain2409  You're welcome. It's always a pleasure to speak the truth. You know, truth? You've heard of it of course?
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  6655. Absolutely. See my above reply to @robertdragoff6909 (whose comment was 5 hrs. after yours) if you like.
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  6656.  @StopListenThink  Sorry, I was trying to not to make it cluttered and complicated, but failed! My reply wasn't in your thread nor my own, it was to actually to "caleb"-something-or-other, but within Mr. Dragoff's thread. His original standalone post was "Maybe it's time to say buh-bye, [etc]." Look there. PS, Love yer screen name.
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  6657.  @BT2RC  Highly intelligent response. Thanks.
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  6658. It will make a fine artificial reef. Starfish and coral will call it home.
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  6659. Hahaha, I made the same ostrich remark here two years ago and Daniil replied angrily and even mentioned me disparagingly on multiple occasions in other videos and Q and A's. To top it off he shadowbanned me from comments, so ever since I can only make replies. All this despite the fact that I was a big and appreciative booster of him and the channel.
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  6660. Nice try, Ivan/Junfeng. Americans are charging reasonable prices for energy. They are also paying enormous sums for European security. I recognize these posts instantly.
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  6661.  @DanielVoyles  That sounds like you've fallen into the postmodernist trap. Actually, there's no need to be anyone's disciple. To avoid it, read widely. And do it not to have your ideas confirmed, but to be surprised.
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  6662. Russia can export the attitude that if you're blowing up your neighbours, you're not gay and not cowardly. Basically a street-trash gangster mindlessness with strong notes of feudalism. The Russian mind's back foot is in medieval times. Thank the long periods of being cut off from Europe, which stunted its political, social and intellectual development terribly. (The many notable exceptions just make it more painful to contemplate; besides, those people keep emigrating, in some centuries more than others.)
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  6663. Title's incorrect, because Antarctica and Non-Hetero aren't countries. Greenland, close. Still, amusing and fun. (Canada is the champ—it must be from watching Canada-Russia hockey.)
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  6664. Just lower the speed to 0.85x.
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  6665.  @douglasmurdoch7247  No one could have, or nearly no one, and certainly not with much authority. To me it was clearly a trap. A really educated person, even a historian, would scoff and say "Who knows that?"
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  6666.  @Jesse--  Someone got it! Bless you, my good man. 😄
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  6667.  @mikesimmons2395  Or Lord Haw Haw. Heard of him?
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  6668. He repeatedly cuts off Harris' replies and at one point yells at him angrily.
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  6669.  @barryallen6927  Yes, so in this case fair is fair. Also because Canada only exports $30bn in goods to Ch ina a year. It exports $30bn in goods to the US about every 17 days.
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  6670. "You mean you doubted my obvious insincerity?" —Peter Sellers, The Goon Show
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  6671. It wasn't the airline, it was one solitary lady in Australia, supposedly a "professor."😄
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  6672. Almost never, yeah, but Ellen Page was fairly good-looking. So I'd say 'a good-looking woman with a grip on herself' would never. On the other hand Page was in Hollywood, so maybe she considered herself homely in comparison to the prettiest of her fellow actresses.
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  6673.  @rolandjohansson2714  No, for some reason it doesn't bore me. I'm so fascinated with language that it even extends to first and last names. (Also place names.) From early boyhood I would read with considerable interest all the names in the credits at the end of TV shows and movies. To answer your other question, I live somewhere in the English-speaking world. Thanks for your interesting replies.
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  6674.  @gavintoole9325  Maybe get your mommy to read it for you. That, or write a sentence as a reply.
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  6675.  @bubb5225  What eyes you have, able to tell someone's sex over a fibre optic cable without an actual signal.
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  6676. It happens to be in Canada for maintenance at Siemens Canada. 🙄 Nice try, Gopnik.
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  6677.  @tages_matuna  Okay.
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  6678. I think he should undergo a psychiatric assessment as a condition of continued employment. Not kidding at all.
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  6679. 'govener' 'well than' 😂
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  6680. Hardly. A cop and some huge dir tba g are boxing on a sidewalk, yet the random annoying big-m outh clown off-camera "stole the show"? You so funny.
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  6681. Kudlow for the federal cabinet in early 2025!
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  6682. That is empty and logic-free rhetoric. You must have been told that by your teacher.
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  6683. The spinning cube serves no useful purpose, as all of us already know which channel we're watching. However, it is rather irritating.
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  6684. Russians need to prove they are not cement-heads born to be ruled.
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  6685. What makes you so sure it's the first time?
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  6686. Me 25 years ago: People under 30 are just so d um b, what on earth are things going to be like in 25 years? Me now: 😯😮😱
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  6687. Almost one or two good points in there, but in the end half-baked. At this point Russia is an obvious and indispensable security partner for China. The depth of the relationship may be discussed and debated but not the fact of it, nor its necessity. Blinken may have asked Xi to stop supporting Russia, but we can be sure he did not entertain hopes of success. Unless he backed up the request with actionable and specific threats, or with a pledge of quid pro quos, it was just part of the broader diplomatic dialogue; in other words, just to communicate frankly and to see what the exact substance of the reply was.
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  6688.  @gravegaming2023  Wikipedia. You've heard of it of course?
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  6689. Quite right. (Still, it nags at me that she was in a relationship with that grossly awful man on Channel 4. [shudder]  I don't even want to write his name or initials. [shudder])
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  6690.  @1newme425  Her husband, a Frenchman, would say zhair-BOE. She anglicizes it as zhuh-BOE. She was born Sanderson.
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  6691. Heavens no, that's incorrect. Check the poll aggregator 338Canada. Right now he's way out in front and would be handed a large majority govt by the voters. Canadians want Trudeau out now...by a 3-to-1 margin.
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  6692.  @torrent1615  A would-be rebuttal totally devoid of relevance, intelligence and soul—in short, devoid of all basic humanity worth anything. Congratulations, that's something they can never take away from you.
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  6693. And finally gets what that stuff was he saw in that magazine that time.
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  6694. Yes, and perhaps sung also. Maybe we can use the tune of the Bayraktar song.
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  6695.  @amcleanYT  Thanks for the Kremlin foreign ministry spokesman psychopath point of view. You have no right to sleep at night—ever again.
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  6696.  @rossb3454  In the Toronto area (GTA) perhaps 35% of the population have both parents born in Canada. So the chances of it keeping the things which made it what it is are obviously zero.  But future socialism I'm not so sure about, although you might be right. In any case I very much do realize that "even Rome fell" and that cities and civilizations rise and fall. Way ahead of you. Cheers friend
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  6697. 86, but then nobody thought he'd actually be running the country himself in the first place. Everyone knew. It actually really bothers me, because power structures outside the Oval Office are accreting and solidifying, structures which the constitution never intended and which may threaten it.
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  6698. Or a casket.
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  6699. He has ten times the courage of Trudeau. (Btw, the description's term for him, "backbencher", seems wrong for a caucus chair.)
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  6700.  @TheKim369  Men make the laws? It doesn't matter who makes the laws, they are made in favour of women. Your head is stuck somewhere dark. Three sentences in and you call your opponent a Republican racist. That is a low, dishonest, and swinish tactic. "Insults and name calling": pure psychological projection, accusing your opponent of your own worst faults. Nasty and toxic behaviour.
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  6701. Kringela.
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  6702. A couple of months back I googled for the better part of an hour trying to find out what's up with his voice, read bios, etc. I turned up nothing, except that he has some bipolar. If he takes something for that it could explain the slurring, perhaps. But I remember him from 20 years ago or something and don't remember the slurring or the crazy sudden peaks and troughs of pitch. Anyway, his thoughts hang together more or less --- I mean like he's not drinking.
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  6703. Very true! China has a European system, Communism, but it's the wrong European system. If it doesn't want multi-party democracy, it should have instead a real Chinese system based on Confucianism. Too bad it has never had a choice. I wish the good Chinese people better luck.
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  6704. It was quite wrong of the video host to include that story. It's enough to suggest to me there's something wrong with his ethics and I won't be coming back for that reason. Can't trust him now.
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  6705. Yeah, absence of discussion about the truck itself, apart from insults straining with intensity, esp. if you Sort by Newest. The reviewers, since you bring them up, are imo cool enough but they veer disastrously into openly and shamelessly basking in their own coolness, which is of course profoundly uncool. Someone's got to tell them.
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  6706. Uh, why does anyone get 'credit' just for doing that? It's only doing what anyone's supposed to do.   Sorry dude, but you sound a little bit like you might tip the woman at the toll booth.🙄
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  6707.  @donnaw3765  Hahaha, I like that you would make a good-natured teasing joke in the middle of this.😂 Even if you aren't GenX, I must say that's very GenX of you.👏
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  6708.  @hardywatkins7737  Things change, yes. Often for the worse.
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  6709.  @mnntropy5615  That's true. PVC, made from natural gas, is still the main choice for drain pipes, but is not used for the drinking water supply. And overall most plastic is made from natural gas, but polyethylene is a type of plastic which is indeed made from petroleum. So what I said initially, while entirely true, was beside the point as far as substitution for copper piping is concerned. Thanks for your reply.
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  6710. Pretty sure you meant "Buh-bye." 😁
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  6711. The Bayraktar Song would do nicely as the soundtrack.
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  6712.  @rongarcia2128  Extraordinary how you can see someone's skin colour through the Internet when they criticize a Democratic governor. In like fashion, ironically, anybody reading your comment actually can see what you are---and I don't mean your skin colour, which they don't care about, I mean morally and intellectually.
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  6713.  @markmuller8829  You needed to read it. It's high in anti-oxidants for your commitment to human dignity.
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  6714. What a lousy title. An achievement in lousiness. Try "Former EU honcho may return to power in E. Europe's leading Ukraine supporter"
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  6715. *led
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  6716. She wants greater equality even if it means widespread impoverishment.  She can then rule over one huge slum. Ask Venezuela how that's worked out. Ask eastern Europe and Russia how it went. Ask Cuba.
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  6717. Hi, been a while since I saw you post. If you were away, welcome back!
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  6718. I'm very glad to see HTC, which is a Taiwanese company, doing so well in this area. It's so important to the world that Taiwan not only remains strong, but gets stronger.💪 (And HTC still makes smartphones too. Please consider them before PRC brands.)
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  6719. What a total sphinctoid. Committee chairs should have the power to confine witnesses to the chamber for as long as it takes for them to provide direct answers to the questions they're asked. And to fine them heavily for each evasion. Wilfully obstructing the business of Congress is a serious offence, in reality at least, if not in any statute.
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  6720. $2,500 for one letter? Is the law firm a subsidiary of T-Mobile?😂 1) He should find a different lawyer. 2) He should sue T-Mobile for emotional distress...for $143 million.
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  6721.  @ScotianDoomer  Guessing they meant notorious Kensington Philadelphia.
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  6722. ​ @evgeniybastrykov  Well stated.
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  6723.  @eastasiacreativemedia5777  Actually it's a bit under 10% of the national hydroelectric output in recent years.
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  6724. Reminds me of late 2019 when the subscriber comments in The New York Times were infested with cheerleading for a sudden and severe recession that would spoil Trump's chances of re-election. That's right, they were slavering for people to lose their jobs and homes, for savings and retirements to be ruined and families broken up for the sake of their own partisan political aims. I was thoroughly sickened and it did a lot to put the finishing touches on my red-pilling.
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  6725. Minor correction: The Democratic convention is not 68 days away. It starts 51 days from now, August 19th.
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  6726. Why is this reporter saying that "Wu is not wavering" when she's clearly signalling that she'll accede to the demands of the incoming government? Was she already planning to remove the policy before the election? Seems unlikely.
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  6727. (1) Entities like the BBC are the reason terrorism works. When they let on that the country attacked deserved it and should make peaceful overtures and concessions to the attackers, they encourage terrorism and help it succeed. (2) I was generally in agreement with Mr. Abell. I like the way he started off sounding almost exculpatory for the BBC but soon started being far more critical.
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  6728. That's a serious exaggeration. Russia is feudalist, America is not. Neither is Europe, and I notice you don't dare make the same accusation against France, Britain, Japan, Canada, Finland, Italy or Germany. U botz bormee.
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  6729. If you see right through the Government of China, listen to SkyNews. There, fixed it for you. :)
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  6730. Pure illogic. Ukraine aid isn't taken out of the border budget. If you want the border taken care of, vote carefully!
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  6731. He will be cutting cheques for several billion dollars in taxes for this year. It could be around $10 billion. For several years he really hasn't taken a salary. So, no income, no taxes; that's how it works. This year, by finally taking the stock options Tesla gave him in 2013, he will have a huge income and pay the top 53% rate on it.
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  6732. The NYT says the Constitution is "Trumpian" and I hope they get total nationwide agreement on that. It's far likelier to result in a 2nd Trump win than repeal of any Amendments. Most Americans like and respect the Constitution. Anyway, I predicted 3 years ago that the left would soon declare freedom dangerous and destructive. Although it sounded outlandish then, it's certainly coming true. Told you. In times gone crazy, crazy predictions come true.
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  6733. Excellent observation.
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  6734.  @andj2009  The OC said something very specific and it was undeniably, given that it was in response to this video, aimed at Trudeau. You then put his words in the mouths of made-up people who in addition to opposing Trudeau also, in your fiction, support Trump. It's a way of asserting that if you oppose Trudeau you must support Trump, and that is crap argumentation. It's a way of expressing your emotions but it doesn't qualify as thought, nor is it a debate-level thing to say. You made a straw man, you set him up in front of you, and you ran him through with a sword. It's like saying: "It's terrible that any person who doesn't want to take this va ck scene would also say misogynistic and racist things!" (Ring any bells? It should, since your guy Trudeau said it in nearly so many words. And I see you've learnt well at his knee.)
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  6735. Also: 2.8 m people in Las Vegas: "Welcome to Vegas, basically one big restaurant several hours' drive from farmland."
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  6736. Wow, a great deal of input from Joy Reid Canadians here. Like Joy Reid, many are downright deluded. Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, firmly supports Ukraine. It is a mistake to use a Liberal politician as your sole source on him, Darin!
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  6737.  @KathyMpamugo  Well, I just intuitively sense that he's not what you'd call a beaver man.😄  And he does love to go around condemning and banning things he doesn't approve of (having them arrested, outlawed, gradually phased out, and so on), so I figured he might be going after beaver next.
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  6738. Notice near the end the Russian said "we have five minutes left". That indicates clearly that they had earlier agreed upon a length for the interview. Just whose idea it was to make it around 45 minutes we do not know. Perhaps Freddie requested an hour and couldn't get it. Or 45 minutes was at Freddie's insistence, and there can be good reasons for that. Perhaps viewers react best to that length. UnHerd has the success of the channel to consider.
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  6739. I have to say that coming up with a robot to do menial tasks in a routinized factory sounds to me far easier than coming up with one to drive itself around safely in immensely less predictable traffic, day and night, in all weather, etc.
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  6740. As I understand it, most historians agree that Russia did the heavy lifting. That is not to say they could have defeated Germany on their own.
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  6741. Thanks for copying one of our favorite posts! —Your pals, Farshad, Ahmed, Sergei, Chanfun and Ki-moon.
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  6742.  @NS-tc9kk  By that logic, when the whole country tosses the Liberals out this year, Ontario will deserve all the credit and British Columbia none. All right, whatever you say.
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  6743. @ When he's gone as party leader he's gone as PM. That's what the Constitution says. He has wiggle room of maybe 10-14 days. And he said "quickly", not "not anytime soon."
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  6744.  Jebus Bhrist  I have been unable to find confirmation of this. There is reference to it in a YouTube video, but if it were an actual thing I think I'd find reference to it somewhere else as well, e.g. on an official US armed forces site, on army marksmanship enthusiast sites, veterans' discussion forums—somewhere, anywhere. The DoD site for the Army Marksmanship Unit makes no mention of it whatsoever. It notes that this unit is the "Best of the Best", and that "Fewer than 100 soldiers, at the top of their marksmanship game, make up this elite unit. They are the best of the best, not just in the military, but throughout the competitive shooting world." But nothing about a black hat, a black cap, any color hat, or any special honor. Black hats for snipers do however show up in a bunch of private-sector merchandising websites. So it appears to be something out of popular culture. ( Appears, I say.)
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  6745.  @ironmantooltime  Plausible hypothesis. Even if it's mere sober speculation it will do quite nicely for the moment. 👏
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  6746.  @rodneyfungus8249  Bombs have a hard time with bridges. They're quite overbuilt with the strongest possible steel and concrete. Up to a point one would be better off trying to melt a bridge than blowing it to bits. You can look it up.
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  6747.  @ironmantooltime  I agree with you there. But it could still have been UA special forces or even Crimean partisans. Whatever the war, partisans are known for taking matters into their own hands. And instead of those things, since Putin is feeling the heat and very likely looking for a pretext to escalate, it could also have been a false-flag Russian tactic.
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  6748. It's not a flex (i.e. showing off), he lives and works there. If he had a café, he'd be interviewed in front of his café. But he has a space company. What a goddamn display of envy on your part.
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  6749. ​ @kimwit1307  I regard GDPs of countries with severely undervalued currencies as being more suitably looked at by PPP. Nominal and PPP both have their aspects of reality and unreality, and are both important, but when an economy grows in domestic terms while shrinking in market exchange rate terms, you know something's not right with the USD-terms picture. Pre-war, Russia's GDP at PPP was just 10% smaller than Germany's, i.e., pretty close to $5trn. All that talk one hears about its economy being "the size of Italy or Canada" stems from a serious lack of understanding and knowledge, and in many cases bias and strong emotions. (Don't get me wrong, Germany's economy was a fundamentally stronger, more advanced and richer one, hands down. But GDP is a measure of size, not quality.) Thanks for your reply.
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  6750. But she was just a spokesperson for the airport. It's perfectly understandable for her to state that the airport itself is fine. Nothing happened at the airport except that the plane came in to land there. Do you disagree with me?
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  6751.  @iverson1900  She wasn't complaining, she was lying, simple and plain. I bet you think Jussie Smollett's criminal lies were ok too.
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  6752.  @BUNCHOFLOSERSYOUARE-sg8wl  I took it that the OP meant owners of these breeds of dogs (i.e. fighting dogs), not dogs generally. Many people write poorly. I'm sure it shocks you too, as you write masterfully well.
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  6753. Facts. Real facts, not far-left 'alternative' facts, what you call 'your' truth.
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  6754.  @paulinskipukprogressive4903  Yes, I know a great deal about the subject, thank you. But I only debate mature and intelligent people. So leave me alone. TTFN
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  6755. Dream on.
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  6756. ​ @TomorrowWeLive  Ouch. Sounds tough but fair. Looks have been crashing in urban Canada. The better-looking people of those born from 1950 to 2000 have had the fewest children of all, I should say. Being the objects of desire, they had little incentive to give up their sexual freedom within marriage and family. So their pretty genes are drying up.
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  6757. ​ @vijek6435  "Idyllicize" Haha, wicked neologism to twist 'idealize'. (Well, a neologism in English anyway.) 👏
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  6758. Shame on Prime Minister Peter Pan, his Liberals and the NDP. No surprise though, since he already decided to remove his fake "pause" on UNRWA funding. Lots of money for Hum Moss through their UN arm.
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  6759.  @whatsgoingon71  According to my beliefs, unless they are repopulated they will be empty. I hope that, together, my comments have helped you to sort out this challenging puzzle.
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  6760.  @sogerc1  So when your vodka bottle has only a few drinks left in it, do you say it is empty? Spell it out for me.
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  6761.  @sogerc1  So a few drinks are a few drops. I see. And are a few drops likewise a few drinks? Help me to understand the definitions of ordinary words. I've already learned that a small number of people is no people at all, so I want to continue learning from such an authority as yourself. An authority on both language and the real world, I mean.
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  6762. You're overlooking the fact that they're sexes, not "genders." "Gender" for sex is a feminist innovation. It's actually a term from grammar and linguistics denoting types of nouns (masculine or feminine) in languages other than English.
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  6763.  Commentator  You're confused. I'm not standing up for the corruption of the word 'gender'. I'm against it. It is indeed nonsense. But it was indeed feminists who devised the additional sense of the word, and it was at least four decades ago, but probably five or even six. Slow down when you're reading so you're better able to distinguish antagonists and confederates. Cheers.
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  6764. Bravo, Libero newspaper.👏 And brava, Rita Panahi of Sky News Australia!👏 Only, Rita, please go with 'wokesplaining' from now on, not the very loaded term 'mansplaining.' Men are not prohibited from giving women their view of things. Or if you insist that they are, prepare yourself for accusations of 'femsplaining' whenever you're addressing a man! It works both ways, my good woman.
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  6765. GDP per capita / Adjusted for currency undervaluation: US $75,000 China $13,700 / $18,500 Russia $13,000 / $27,000 India $2,600 / $7,000 There is a surprisingly large range of figures available for each of these seven numbers.
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  6766. But they are doing something: working as hard as they can to make homeless people the majority.
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  6767. Your avatar alone seems to show you're a great dad.👍
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  6768. 15-minute video (including promo) of brief and simplified guidance, telling us that brief and simplified guidance is invariably biased and reliably harmful. Mmkay. Deep and detailed information I love. Yet much of the best information and guidance you will ever receive is brief and radically simplified.
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  6769. What is so f'n hard about the apostrophe anyway?
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  6770.  @difference505  "I of course am from the England. How asking can you?"
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  6771. As you stroll here through the Kremlin workers remarks pasture, hold your nose and don't wear good shoes.
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  6772.  @johndaugherty4127  Tin Man-level intellect. Try reading the 1A.
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  6773.  @mcpowers26  Well reasoned and well written. Thanks.👍So much better than those who are trying to think with their feelings. (But hasn't the 40k been revised downward even past 35k?)
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  6774. ​ @brandonf1260   Not that many years ago I would've agreed with you, eight or 10 maybe. It's a very common opinion, and I thought the reason was that it was simply true. But at last, a little while later, I realized than my view of conservatives was highly caricatured. And I realized I'd been had. For opinions like the one you expressed are what one is taught by: most university faculty (especially younger ones and TAs of course), most of one's fellow students at almost all universities, most American movies, most American TV shows, most American news outlets, most American magazines, most American celebrities, most or perhaps nearly all American teachers, very nearly all American liberals, all American left-wingers and all American wokesters. And it's been that way since about 1980. The demonization of conservatism has been so energetic, so thoroughgoing, that you actually owe it to yourself to consider how it is that they haven't gone away. If your answer to that is that "Uh, because they're evil and immortal like vampires" and you say it because you don't think the question even deserves a moment's thought, I understand. I was once like you. It's what I would've said. But I suggest you take it seriously anyway, simply out of non-conformity — if your original liberal spirit of non-conformity still has a flicker of a pulse after however many years spent conforming to liberal ideology and prejudices. Consider if you will what liberal Americans have shown themselves willing to do and willing to give up in the past ten years alone in order to spare themselves the horrors of conservatism. Consider how many of them are grimly (or cheerfully) determined to re-elect a less-honest-than-average president with a clearly shrunken and wizened brain. Consider that they have joined forces to revamp the language down to its very pronouns. Consider that they stand up for the right of men to walk into women's locker rooms and showers and expose their sex organs in front of the women. Consider that they supported unnecessarily depriving their children of a year or more of irreplaceable education and socialization in the classroom. I could list another hundred irrational things they've done simply to thwart conservatism. And again, I understand. I understand that they think they have to do whatever it takes. They simply want to be good people. They want to oppose evil. They want to avert chaos, save democracy, ensure decency, save lives, rescue the planet and entrench everything else wholesome and desirable. Because conservatives are evil, ignorant, full of hate, they're a bunch of cartoon characters beyond redemption. Only it's all a hoax. Conservatism is relentlessly straw-manned. What they are is simply people who believe that the oath of Hippocrates, First, you shall do no harm, is well suited to more walks of life than just medicine, and especially to politics and social engineering. They are profound disbelievers in utopian solutions, in the idea that we today really might be the most morally enlightened and wonderful people of all time (we're not), in the idea that after numberless millennia of humanity struggling with eternal problems, it's the people born after 1945, '55, '65, '75, '85 or '95 who've Finally Figured It All Out far, far more thoroughly and better than anyone ever has! Nay, perfectly! (Cf. Confucius: "The answers were all found long ago.") Actually we're just the latest cohort set to blunder childishly and spectacularly if we make the mistake of believing in ourselves like that. That's what I finally realized after decades as a liberal. Not all at once, not right away. At first it was barely at all, in a painful haze of cognitive dissonance as what I believed and what I saw with my own eyes were in direct contradiction with each other. Then it was more and more, gradually, as I began to trust the rational and not the socialized part of myself. And at last I realized that my initial attraction to the 'truths' of liberalism was in fact an attraction to being in the 'right' community all along. I wanted to be "the sort of person who knows that [insert any of a thousand liberal tropes about how every liberal/left-wing tenet is by its very liberalness/left-ness inherently superior in morality]" and who is recognized for it. And I realized that it had cost me very dearly. It had cost me access to the very truth I thought I was picking off the shelf as easily as consumer packaged goods. I'd been had by a bunch of really rather awful people whose sole merit was sometimes or usually meaning well — especially when other people were looking — and whose demerits would take forever to plumb. I shouldn't have taken so long to realize all this. I actually stifled the budding of these realizations for a long time because I genuinely feared it meant no longer "being a good person." Oh, what an id io t I was! But late is better than never. (I also shouldn't have waited so long to start writing all this out. Again, better late than never. At least I've started now. Your comment somehow made it seem like the right time. So thanks.)
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  6775. And even those countries which do not may instead simply criminalize any failure, after entering by stealth, to report promptly to the nation's border authority. (E.g., Canada.) In practical terms it's the same thing, so in a way that figure of 124 is lower than it should be.
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  6776.  @volkerhartnegg8211  I will forward your retraction to the Rt. Hon. Minister of Interplanetary Defense. You shall live.
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  6777. It hit me 25-30 years ago that the flourishing of human freedom and dignity in this lifetime was a historical aberration. There'd never been anything like it at scale. It was antithetical to the greater part of human nature, a blip with nowhere to go but down. Its demise, however, is taking root sooner than I thought by a couple of decades.
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  6778.  @tonya5818  If they could make any progress militarily, they would. The best they can do is march towards Kiev 10 feet a day at one tiny spot on the 1000-km front. So they turn up the propaganda instead. It's called flailing.
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  6779. You can watch Sonya 1:27 inwardly come to a conclusion: "I gotta find some more intelligent companions."
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  6780.  @Newsthink  prin KIP ee uh
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  6781. Welcome to Woke America 2024. Here, laws don't apply to "progressives." (See Benefit of clergy.) Vote carefully in 27 weeks, my friends.
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  6782. This could have been a very small, cheap, unarmed reconnaissance drone.
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  6783. Thank you.
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  6784. The working class needs people who know better than to write "should of."
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  6785. No! Freeze, don't seize. Seize it post-war, for reconstruction. Aid can be funded during the war without it. Mark my words, right now Russia would make immense and highly-effective prop a gand uh hay out of its seizure by the West. Ukraine, '22: "I need ammunition, not a ride." Now: "I need ammunition, not cash."
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  6786.  @ratnakordosshu6291  Calm down. (If possible.) Think over what an emotional overreaction your last sentence is. That's not acceptable. Adults have to be above that. Have a nice day.
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  6787.  @batrachian149  Literally the du mbest comment ever. Congratulations, that's something they can never take away from you.
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  6788.  @Feyser1970  So the fewer people misled by a petty deception the better, even if it was meant as a joke. More rhetoric is visual nowadays than ever.
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  6789.  @Ridethebomb777  I bet it is real—only dead, the handiwork of a taxidermist. At any rate it's not in this chap's house.
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  6790.  @js70371  "Europe doesn't buy crude" 😂 Europe buys crude massively.
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  6791. @ You didn't say that. And it wouldn't have made any sense. It would be like me saying "That end of town needs a steakhouse. To get a good steak they have to go all the way across town" and you saying "But the people there don't go to any nearby steakhouses." 🙄Right, that's why they need one nearby!!
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  6792. Jill Biden
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  6793. Hear, hear!
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  6794. I never liked him either, but he's been winning me over these past few years by standing up for the decent liberal values that preceded wokeism by a generation or two.
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  6795. H@rris would be the same as, or very likely worse than, her political soulmate Trudeau. Quite possibly much worse. G୦d forbid she wins, but mark my words if she does. People laugh at her but, snapping imperiously at her crowd last week, she wasn't funny. A hint of true colours. Watch her throw her power around to violate rights if she wins.
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  6796.  @davidbrancaleone3039  "Merkel, [...] being an East German, should have been better informed about Soviet methods [...]" What can you say about parents (Merkel's) who would emigrate from Hamburg to East Germany with their infant daughter in the mid-1950s? I think we can safely assume that she was raised to idealize if not worship Russians/Soviets and their political ways. Your charming interlocutor would no doubt complain about my lack of concrete evidence, but might well also be agnostic on whether the light in his fridge goes out when he closes the door. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😄
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  6797. Also a valuable commodity for Trudeau: His shiny-slippered feet, as they transport him through the exit doors of Parliament after his upcoming shattering defeat at the polls. 😄
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  6798.  @itsalegendsproduction  Where did you learn about what an absolute angel the suspect is?
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  6799.  @bigsprucerabbitry6238  How can you ask? Women never use the toilet with the seat up; men use it each way sometimes.
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  6800.  @Redmenace96  Reminds me of a building where I lived. A small bit of holly and ivy taped to an apartment door at Christmas time was against the rules. The reason: fire safety. BBQing on a huge concrete pad outside? Fire hazard. On and on, everything was a fire hazard. Oh, and windows that could open wide and admit fresh air: safety hazard. Devices installed to keep the opening down to 2".
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  6801. Never take on an alliance of countries with 8x your population and 25x your GDP. Good luck, Sergei.
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  6802. A bit hard to believe, but the homicide rate in Toronto isn't far above what it was five decades ago. 1971 Pop. 2,089,729, 42 homicides, rate 2.01 per 100,000 ("Metro Toronto", same boundaries) 2022 Pop. est. 2,863,880, 71 homicides, rate 2.48 per 100,000 2023 Pop. est. 2,887,677, 1st six months 30 homicides (annualized to 60), rate 2.08 per 100,000
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  6803. Yeah, I think on this one file he and the rest of NATO have been stunningly adroit, Biden obviously leaning heavily on advice. Ukraine and NATO—plus a number of others—make a hell of an alliance.
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  6804. That's actually what he was referring to. If he's donated cash to Ukraine, that information is not public. (Btw, it's not satellites. SpaceX still owns all its satellites. It's free Starlink terminals and free access. After some months the US govt started making partial payments to SpaceX, so taxpayers are now kicking in a portion too.)
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  6805. 1837: "The Emperor has no clothes" 2024: The Emperor has no brain
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  6806.  @chivalryalive  She could go to jail for that, and be on a sex offender registry for life. A bit disturbing, really. Did she like 13 and 14 year olds, too?
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  6807. @Sredni Vashtar Depends which verb. There must be thousands of English nouns also used as verbs in the standard tongue. Not an English professor on Earth would agree with you. Promiscuous noun-verbing, however (to use a nonce neologism which is in fact an example of itself, lol), is indeed objectionable unless intentionally humorous, and I commend your implied criticism of it. Cheers.
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  6808.  @Daledavispratt  Awww, yo widdow feewings got an ouchie? 😭
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  6809.  @seanhiggins2740  I'm thinking that they are trying to make shipping insurance either unavailable or much higher in price—perhaps so much higher that shipping volumes fall sharply or remain low. Nearly the whole coastal route down to the Bosphorus Straits is alongside NATO countries, so I wonder if it's considered safe to hug the their shorelines so as to be within their territorial waters. (The map I saw showed that this boat was outside the usual limits.) I also wonder if navigability would be a factor anywhere along the way.
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  6810.  @seanhiggins2740  👍Wow, two consecutive intelligent and civil replies. Not very normal in the Ukraine threads.😄
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  6811. Woof woof is more like it.
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  6812. "Stop your protest! You hold unacceptable views!" "No we don't, ma'am." "That's an expression of hate! Hate speech, hate speech! Assault!"
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  6813.  @connoroleary591  "Leave them wallow" etc. Thanks for your reply. But, no, I prefer not to always be silent. They may seem batshit crazy and stupid but that's largely due to their longstanding habit of listening to and reading idiots. They were at one time much less silly. A mere squeeze of a lime treats scurvy, and in like fashion one sensible rejoinder can have its effect too, in time if not at once. ("From tiny acorns", etc). Some among the seemingly dim or unbalanced are actually longing for sound guidance, especially the young. No need to triage them out of the treatment queue, so to speak.
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  6814. Future cat lady.
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  6815. It's a very bad idea to acquiesce to the use of a term like "un-homed." It amounts to a surrender to the authority of the nincompoops who devised it. Call homeless people homeless. (Cf. Ron DeSantis' advice for dealing with wokesters, radical leftists, whatever you want to call them: "Don't be nice to these people. Don't try to get them to like you.")
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  6816. Noticeably a crank, though.
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  6817.  @thelookanchannel2560  Yeah, an independent crank.
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  6818.  @amalekita5009  Hahahahaha!🙄
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  6819. That clip of Trump on the Ukraine war was much appreciated! It's not being shown or reported on elsewhere, it seems. It looked important to me, so thanks for sourcing and sharing.
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  6820. For a whole century now, broadcasters have dealt successfully with the challenge of making two people sound equally loud during a conversation. Why is TR uniquely incapable in this regard? I and others have mentioned it a great number of times. It is baffling🤔and irritating🤨in equal measure.
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  6821.  @tstcikhthys  I'm not sure how much the spending of even twice the money could ever accomplish when most students think that mastering their own language is profoundly uncool, when they hate reading (except the near-gobbledegook on their phone screens), when they listen at home to the dubiously literate speech of their parents, etc. etc. Many emerge nonetheless into adulthood as intelligent users of language in some sense of the word, which certainly is some consolation. But that is hardly enough to maintain America's position as the world's leading country —and a rich one by virtue of that — for very much longer. Improved mastery of English isn't something that would put an end to the country's woes, but people have to get ready for another reduction in their standard of living, a much larger one this time. Anyone who knows about the 1950-75 period in Britain has some idea what it will be like. Except in that instance Britain passed the baton to its best friend, the US. This time the top spot will go to a very, very hostile nation.
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  6822.  @LunarEclipse-p9c  You don't know the difference between a religion and a race? Wow. Start over. Erase everything you 'know' and think and start over.
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  6823. Total area of the 22 Arab countries: 5,148,000 sq mi (twice the size of Europe ex-Russia: 2,562,000 sq mi) Area of Israel: 8,019 sq mi Ratio: 642 : 1 (99.84% / 0.16%) And yet: "Israel's existence is the greatest injustice ever! Our fellow semites, the Jews, must have not have this dot of land! 99.84% of the semite lands is not enough for us Arabs! It must be 100%!"
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  6824.  @TT-fq7pl  I see. How so?
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  6825. The problem with you people is that you never admit failure. You failed! How can you deny that flesh dropping off bones is not a failure? Have you no decency? Admit your failure. Go look at your face in the mirror and admit to yourself that you are wrong.
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  6826. Not a chance. They will produce a generation even worse.
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  6827. He's having dinner with Stalin.
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  6828. Dude sends his encouragement from Qatar. Then goes shopping for five new pairs of Guccis and one more Rolex.🙄
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  6829. (1) Well, at least Global gave both leaders time to speak. But unequally: Trudeau, 2m40s. Poilievre, 59s. (2) Notice that Trudeau focused on justifying Ukraine aid, which most Canadians support. But he offered no justification for forcing the carbon taxes, which most Canadians oppose, on a Ukraine trade deal. ("Majority of Canadians want carbon tax dropped or waived for three years — poll" (Reuters, Nov.16, 2023) (3) Every day Prime Minister Peter Pan looks more and more like Celine Dion. What's with that? (4) Anti-Americanism is Trudeau's shadow platform, his ace-in-the-hole, if you will. When he's in trouble, it's the card he plays. But if you look closely it's really his platform's central plank. Is it because the late Matthew Perry, an American and the son of his father's Press Secretary, beat him up one day on the way home in Grade 5? (They attended the same school in Ottawa.) In some ways Matthew Perry was a great man. May he rest in peace.
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  6830. If there were a political party that championed these views, I would dedicate my life to it. Great channel.
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  6831. You are very much outnumbered and outgunned, my friend. Don't kid yourself.
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  6832. Somewhat tepidly in his defence I would point out how wildly the available stats on oil production vary. For the US you can find figures from sources of some repute ranging from 12m to 19.5m bbl/d for last year or as an estimate for this year. It's amazing.
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  6833. ​ @conjureup6723  Thanks for sharing that about EIA numbers. Good to know. (Btw, tepid means lukewarm, so tepidly in this context means unenthusiastically. It never means apologetically in any way.)
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  6834.  @wokewokerman5280  Grab a coffee, clear the cobwebs, take a deep breath, and go over that again.
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  6835.  @TheChiefCoin  So what would be your three- and six-month targets? I admit I had half a mind to say 1,200.
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  6836. You're just as partisan as they are, and thus just as blind as they are, and for the same reasons. Lies, subversion, lust for power and money motivate your side just as much as theirs. What a load of self-serving, self-righteous rot. I wish all thoroughgoing partisans could be locked up together in a huge stadium to go at each other until the only ones left are those who have shaken hands with their opponents and begun talking to them as one decent person to another. Those few could then be fit onto one or two buses and taken home.
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  6837.  @annamariecaruana7956  I think a person in garb such as that she was wearing is practically begging for the subject of nationality to be raised.
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  6838. DeSantis for president at the earliest possible opportunity.
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  6839. Yeah, they're crazy. It's clearly you whose opinion matters.
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  6840.  @Neothechozen  You didn't offend me. I don't take offense like that. Nor did I think you gave an opinion on her. But you did give an opinion while saying other people's opinions don't matter. Something wrong there, friend.
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  6841. "If you can figure out [etc.]" Yeah, but can you? That's a king-sized if. Because the duties/tariffs could be king-sized. But a tantalizing idea for sure.
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  6842.  @fadil4049  Omg. Fadil, Fadil, Fadil. There's no comparison between the West shutting off a gangster's access to their financial system and markets, and Russia deliberately starving people in Africa and the Middle East. My dear boy, you would morally equate the two? Really?
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  6843. Uh, check them now.
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  6844. I agree with every word of that. Superb advice. Do it today, everyone.
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  6845. I wish them luck with a capital F. (Apologies to Elvis Costello for stealing his line.)
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  6846. Gee, they look like such a nice young couple. I'm really surprised.
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  6847. I need closure on that.
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  6848.  @camocas  Yep, that's how Russian trolls bomb any anti-Putin thread: 'US so bad! My wife screwed neighbour and was American fault!"
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  6849.  @minnigmanmad  You conveniently forget all the material aid Russia received from its Western allies.
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  6850. I agree he should have delved into the activities and subject matter that comprise the after-school sessions.
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  6851. I don't even believe her kid told her that. One, it's not all that plausible; two, it's a liar who's telling us.
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  6852. It's great, but at about 5 TWh annually it will raise Canada's hydroelectric output only by just over 1%.
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  6853.  @Thanos1908  That is false. He supports Ukraine and puts his money where his mouth is: SpaceX has donated over $100 million in equipment and services to Ukraine, and this continues. Please name any other person or company that's done anywhere near as much. Name one that's done anything, for that matter. Actual support for Russia would never include advocating for clean, binding, UN-run referendums on whether Russia must withdraw, since at the time they would've resulted in No To Russia outcomes, except probably in Crimea. I did not agree with his proposals, for the reason that I think Ukraine can win. Musk on the other hand (and I intensely hope he is wrong) does not believe Ukraine can win, and that was the source of his proposals. As much as I hope and still believe he is wrong, it may turn out that I am the one who is wrong. After all, although he is of course wrong at times, he is smarter than me. Thus I disagree but do not condemn him. Think. Determine the facts without bias as best you can, then respect them. Do not accept the shame of the only mind you have being mass-made by dishonest people and institutions. (Here I refer to the media businesses which instantly turned on Musk the moment he withdrew his support for the Democratic Party, the party which 99% of them quite openly support.) Despise the liars in your own country — all of them, not just selected ones — as much as the liars in Russia. Thinking is hard, fairness is hard, establishing the facts and the truth is hard, but there's no other way.
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  6854.  @hcpalmer  How do you know Musk's refusal was not at the behest of the US govt? From Day One, they have placed extensive restrictions on what Ukraine could do with their aid. Indeed, if the US govt. wanted to, could it not order Musk to do its will? If it wanted to, could it not find some way to enable Ukraine to destroy Russia's navy and largest naval base? Is Elon Musk, the controlling shareholder of an internet services company, really the only party on Earth which can accomplish that?
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  6855.  @tvgerbil1984  I share your views there. But how do we even know he didn't lay down such provisions in the first place? I would bet a dollar that he did. Thanks for your uncommonly reasonable (for this thread!) post.
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  6856.  @Sancsteq  Beautiful point.
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  6857. She uses the word 'medical' over and over. What low rhetoric. Pregnancy is not a disease and she knows it. Abortion is not a response to illness, it's a response to a mother's rejection of her baby. I actually favor abortion being available within stringent limits, but I heartily deplore any such dishonesty in the conversation.
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  6858. Soloviev (oddly, pronounced SO-lav-yov) didn't come up with the idea, of course. It's been around since at least the time of Horace (65 BCE - 8 BCE), who wrote of it in one of his odes, Book iii.2, sometimes called Dulce et Decorum est after its most famous line, indented below (">>>") : Let the boy, toughened by military service, learn how to make bitterest hardship his friend, and as a horseman, with fearful lance, go to vex the insolent Parthians, spending his life in the open, in the heart of dangerous action. And seeing him, from the enemy’s walls, let the warring tyrant’s wife, and her grown-up daughter, sigh: ‘Ah, don’t let the inexperienced lover provoke the lion that’s dangerous to touch, whom a desire for blood sends raging so swiftly through the core of destruction.’ >>> It’s sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Yet death chases after the soldier who runs, and it won’t spare the cowardly back or the limbs, of peace-loving young men. Virtue, that’s ignorant of sordid defeat, shines out with its honour unstained, and never takes up the axes or puts them down at the request of a changeable mob. Virtue, that opens the heavens for those who did not deserve to die, takes a road denied to others, and scorns the vulgar crowd and the bloodied earth, on ascending wings. And there’s a true reward for loyal silence: I forbid the man who divulged those secret rites of Ceres, to exist beneath the same roof as I, or untie with me the fragile boat: often careless Jupiter included the innocent with the guilty, but lame-footed Punishment rarely forgets the wicked man, despite his start. [I don't vouch for this translation. I wanted Samuel Johnson's but couldn't find it online at no charge.]
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  6859. You're all spelling it wrong. It's 'Stepanovna,' according to the subtitles anyway.
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  6860. Our national broadcaster in Canada, the CBC (taxpayer-funded counterpart of the BBC, NPR, etc.), also goes for 'pregnant people', 'pregnant individuals', etc. Whenever they do, many people reading the story on their website leave comments below it, objecting in strong and often hilarious terms. All such comments, if they manage to make it past the censor in the first place, are soon scrubbed, despite the many upvotes they earn.
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  6861. With Carlson having messed himself in the run-up to the invasion—he looks bad, and it's going to stick to him—I'd say she's Fox News' best asset.
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  6862. 1944 was the year German arms production peaked.
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  6863.  @PeopleHealthTru  He/she who made that post probably agrees but is just snubbing Musk's dad, whom Musk himself has made clear he regards as totally evil (and has had no relationship with since leaving South Africa in his late teens). So it was a comment meant for this specific instance, I'm pretty sure. (Mind you, I must add that the elder Musk is said to have been a first-rate engineer and serial entrepreneur, so no doubt he contributed to Elon's excellence in business whether Elon relishes the fact or not.)
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  6864. A second's thought is about all it takes: the restrictions have been more effective against cold and flu because those viruses aren't as transmissible as the Covid virus. Side benefit.
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  6865. As compared to financial markets in 2020. How can you ask?
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  6866. Tariffs by both countries have always been around and always will be. Yes, both. 'Free trade' is a misnomer. US-Canada pacts (e.g. NAFTA, or Trump's 2019 USMCA) merely chip away at both sides' tariffs, aiming at freer trade. A trade treaty thousands of pages long is clearly all about tariffs. That cogent enough?
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  6867.  @blacktomato9581  I agree. It's proper to take a complaint in a polite and even-handed way even if you strongly suspect it's phony. There's plenty of time to reject it firmly (or even indignantly) after taking a look at the bodycam video. Due process. (On the other hand, there's a fine line between kind, understanding, polite, etc. and kissing the butt of some 'VIP'. He did come pretty close to that line.)
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  6868.  @stephenschmengle9190  Oh, come on. He was calling Carlson a genius.
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  6869. Ok Andrei.
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  6870.  @kyledonahue9315  The word I used was reconquering, not reconsidering. And it is plainly accurate whether you realize it or not. But what on Earth is racist about it? I suppose you read my mind and found I don't like Mexican immigration? In fact I couldn't care less one way or the other, my empty-headed friend. You might have inquired first whether I have anything against it before calling me a racist. The problem with throwing that word around without any basis is that it debases its value. Like a cry of "Wolf!", the more it's misused, the less impact it has. That harms efforts to fight actual racism, and so you are helping racists. You are promoting racism. For promoting racism, you are a racist. Quite frankly.
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  6871. The video title is sadly incorrect, for Luna 9 was only the first moon landing of a certain type, namely a soft landing. It was not the first craft to land on the Moon. Not mentioned here is the actual first moon landing, that of Luna 2. The Soviet craft made a hard landing on September 14, 1959.
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  6872. *fazed🙄
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  6873. They should get married, that pretty pair. A punishment that would fit the crime.
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  6874.  @michaelportaloo1981  By the devil! That's exactly what I'm saying! Hey, is that you, Cathy?
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  6875. That's an exaggeration, although there's some truth to it. Maybe you could start a petition demanding that all countries of the world be very nice.
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  6876. Putin: "Look 'Vespasian', I don't pay you for absurd tripe like that. I expect your work to improve, or your new job is window cleaner."
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  6877. At 7:16 they bring in a pilots' union executive for his take on the disappearance of pilot jobs. I wonder what he'll say. He'll say what his role requires him to, of course. That is, that the government should give money to FlyBe so it can continue to employ the people who pay him to speak. And that if they don't, they're heartless---heartless Tories. 11:08 The interviewer goes on to invite the union leader to speculate on whether greedy capitalists have conspired with the government to put pilots on the dole and screw British people outside the Home Counties. The guy is taken aback, and deigns to reply with a mere "interesting". "So you agree!" says the interviewer. He won't confirm that, but no mind, the correct notes have been hit. Every day this channel reminds me more and more of Socialist Realism painting and sculpture. The Long March goes on, one news report at a time.
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  6878. Neither need one have any idea what the definition of "dog breed" is. One still recognizes the differences between a bull terrier and a toy poodle. Same species, different breed.
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  6879. ​ carl hartford  And the trick is to uphold the latter without being the least bit ashamed of the former, as much as you can. Don't forget your manners; don't savage your nature.
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  6880. Fifty-four years in Toronto (!) and she still has the command of English of someone who got here five years ago. Really quite surprising that she's not any sharper than that, considering her marvellous academic credentials (bachelor of fine arts, University of Guelph).😂
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  6881. 10th-largest economy out of all 190+. May soon pass 9th-place Italy.
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  6882. Physiognomically he's The Joker, of course. Btw, just a couple of months ago he finally stopped looking like he was always on something.
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  6883. Chinese anti-communists are fantastic people. I can't wait till they're running China.
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  6884. Australia is "pre-eminent" for hosting international events? Isn't that a strong word for it? Reminds me of the other Australian 'authority' in a clip a couple of days ago who called Australia a major world power. With a straight face. Are they ok?🤔
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  6885.  @bramptonjeff81  Please explain what you mean. I don't understand any of that. It is proper for the media to quote the govt's public reaction. Normal journalism requires it.
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  6886.  @edelgyn2699  Ok, Ahmed.😂
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  6887. By continuing to speak up you are very much doing the right thing. Do not stop now.
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  6888.  @highlanderoggi3544  I hope a lot more people will read and grasp your meaning now. Cheers.
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  6889. Charles the Woke.👎
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  6890.  @manofzuo  Try asking Perplexity. Usually works for me.
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  6891.  @CadiKane  The whole world knew several days ago that he sent Ukraine a good-sized shipment of Starlink dishes/transmitters. His support was not only practical help for Ukrainian military communications, it was also importantly a boost to Ukrainian public morale. Nice try, Vassily, Sergei, Ivan, whatever your name is.
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  6892. Sadly true. Likewise the West has no option but to amply arm them and supply them with ammunition. Our own future security, freedom and prosperity definitely depends on it too. More weapons and ammunition for Ukraine! Much more! NOW! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦!
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  6893. Apparently we feel the very same way. See my post of 7am UK time, 9 hrs after yours if you like.
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  6894. Carelessly thought out. It's only a part of the environment, so don't make it a synonym. Second, to use 'therefore' is to wildly jump the gun, also called beggaring the question. One side in the debate denies your assertion. That's why the debate happened. You must offer an argument you expect to convince the unconvinced or even hostile. A Marxist, are you? I notice they think they understand everything about people and society, having read some Marx and Marxists. It's not that easy, as wide reading and experience would probably show you. Try not to be anyone's disciple. It's a doomed enterprise and it's undignified. No one has all the answers. Let even your favourites always be under a sort of probation. And scout contrary views. Cheers.
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  6895. okay, thanks. @wuweimarx1725 
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  6896. 😩
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  6897. Whatever intellect you own surely had the leading role in coming up with your comment. Thus your point sits with you on the branch of a tree, whilst between you and the trunk your arm busily works away at sawing it off.
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  6898.  @anneb889  A great many instances were and are oblique references. It can be a wordless few frames in a TV ad, e.g. The reminders are constant and I wouldn't expect even what I look on as the best women to notice. There's less reason for them to, just as there was less reason for men to notice the metronome-like slights of women in earlier eras. Anyway, it sounds like you were well brought up, so maybe your home environment didn't amplify the dumber sorts of social messages. Also, in my view some point maybe around 1990 marked a high point in male-female relations in a lot of ways. The worst of male attitudes towards women were behind them, just as the worst of women's towards men were ahead of them. It's been downhill since, thanks to the tireless efforts of extremists and other fiends, to the point where not many of the young are interested in the opposite sex much at all, if I'm to believe what I read nowadays. Thanks for your reply.
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  6899.  @anneb889  That was an interesting reply. Thanks. I'll point out that as a boy I found it merely annoying and ridiculous but the moment I arrived at university I realized how deadly earnest the man-haters were. They had a department devoted to their activities which was called Women's Studies. They weren't about making sure women got paid equally or anything like that; their entire purpose was to raise women by degrading men. Or simply to degrade men. When I would point that out to girls, they'd say 'What's wrong, can't you take it? That's what men did to women forever' or similar things. They realized that they had pit bulls working on their behalf and valued them on that basis, expecting that they'd get to wear the pants. Where I grew up women dominated at least half of marriages anyway, so they were just looking for an even sweeter deal. It was around that time that talk of equality dried up. The tone moved to: 'Men are simply terrible and don't deserve anything. Whatever they have is illegitimate. We are through with men and don't like them or need them.' By this time I was looking back on the messaging I was drenched with as a youth and began to feel a complete fool for sympathizing with and backing their earlier campaigns. I'd been had. Which is why I now just laugh at the gall of feminists' asking men to help them deal with 'trans' 'men' invading their territory. Of all the damn nerve, after how you've treated us for nearing on a whole lifetime! Trans people are copying their whole awful, irrational, histrionical, society-destroying, fake-academic playbook and I think it serves the feminists bloody well right. I'm enjoying watching the thing they spawned come back to bite them. Hoist with their own petard, and it couldn't happen to a lovelier bunch of self-serving mentally-ill hate merchants. More than you bargained on hearing, I'll bet, and if you read all this way you have my gratitude and affection. This will be all though, unless you happen to ask me something, which I'll be glad to answer (tomorrow). All the best to you.
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  6900.  @craigsmith1443  Party solidarity has never been my thing. It seems hardwired into women, though. But yeah I can go part-way if there's a reason to, and I do. Problem is I was gas-lighted for so long, cutting way into my available time and energy. Maybe I can write a book.🤔 Books still make waves. Paste that reply of yours to your Notepad and make it to others elsewhere and often.👍
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  6901. Yes, the title is cheap, gleefully low journalism. A less biased title would be "Is Italy's new right-wing government extremist?" Closer to neutral would be: "We examine claims that Italy's new government is extremist" Fully neutral: "What is the nature of Italy's new government?" Journalists are now become activists who killed journalism in favour of their agenda. News articles are now political pamphlets. What Pravda was to the USSR, DW is to Germany.
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  6902. Anders, in my view you do everything right. On top of everything else, your English is faultless. For this, as someone who can't speak a word of Danish😂, allow me to express my humble admiration.
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  6903. L'Indépendant, a paper published in the south of France. What's the matter, can't you speak French?😄
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  6904.  @guillaumeroy7528  Or just not as French as his.🤣
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  6905. So are you a Dane or a Dutchman? Because Denmark & the Netherlands are donating the F-16s. Anyway, how does it feel to be a dupe of Pootski? (Whether an American dupe, or a Russian dupe on his payroll.)
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  6906.  @ryananderson5202  You wrote that the boomers have to get out of the way. I get how tempting that idea is, I really, really do. But it's no solution. You would quickly find their replacements more appalling yet. The civilization is in a long down-cycle of an even longer decline. No respite is on the horizon, despite what a few like you in the generations that followed the boomers ardently hope are possibilities their cohort can reverse it. I'm not sure you realize you are even more rare in your generation—it pains me to say it but you're far, far, far more rare— than your worthy counterparts were in theirs, back in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc. when they took over. They couldn't contain the landslide, so you and your skeleton crew, no matter how sharp-eyed and determined, have absolutely no chance at all. Go ahead and try, though. Trying delays the total collapse a little bit, so it's worth it. It will also hasten the onset of a minor counter-cycle if there is indeed even one of those left before the end. (Rome, as you may know, had several whilst remaining stuck on its course of total doom, but then its threats from outside were pretty manageable, so I'm wary of hoping too much.) Even if there is a bit of a counter-cycle on its way, I doubt you'll live to see it, as I would say our current momentum precludes it. I suspect you're Gen-X, and if so there's not enough time.
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  6907.  @closer71  lol See my reply of just now to Ryan Anderson in this thread. I think we see it the same way.
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  6908.  @contacttly6398  Yep!
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  6909. ​ @yandex9188  Negotiations will begin in one of two scenarios. The first I will name is that in which one of the antagonists decides it is in his country's interest to enter them—i.e., it is losing badly, with little prospect of victory and a serious prospect of total war failure. At that point it will be thought best to give up on victory and instead try to stem losses or preserve gains where they are. That point is not near at hand. The second is a point at which losses on both sides are so severe that (1) neither side believes in a reasonable chance of victory, or (2) both sides believe that continuation of the war will be the ruin of both sides, or (3) there is massive public clamour for peace in one or both countries. Or there may be nothing which might properly be called negotiations, but instead unilateral surrender/withdrawal. An instance of this type effectively occurred in August 1945. The US demanded unconditional surrender, received a counteroffer from Japan, promptly rejected it, and repeated its demand, which Japan granted.
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  6910. So to Maxim the key to international relations is "extinction." Reminds me of Stalin's dictum: "Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."
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  6911. Totally accurate take on activists. I've been saying that for a long time, so it heartens me that I'm not alone. Somewhat similar things can also be said about do-gooders of all sorts. Jimmy Savile was very, very prominent in charity work for decades.
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  6912. Of all the commentary in this video, the very last remarks are the most cogent and reliable. Oil demand isn't going anywhere but up for a few more decades. Increased energy production from renewable sources will do nothing more than restrain that growth.
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  6913. Well, it's 2022. Free pass to commit crimes. Dennis Rodman, 1996: "Bad as I wanna be." 2022: "Haha. Amateur."
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  6914.  @dominiquebala2475  Please use periods. It's just a little dot.
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  6915.  @mikewhite9818  Hardly is it efficient to saddle the economy with a colossal insurance industry. It's full of overpaid executives responsible to greedy shareholders who'll fire their asses for not delivering double-digit annual increases to multi-billion dollar profits. Twenty per cent of GDP is not efficient, and this is obvious to even the least discriminating eye. Efficiency is possible with a single-payer system, otherwise forget it. Free enterprise is great for running most things, but not police, fire departments, schools, streetlights, municipal water systems, the military, or health care. Forty-nine out of fifty developed countries agree. Again here's the link to a story on how 44% of Americans can't afford to seek treatment for illness. It makes your claim of efficiency seem a bit comical. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/03/26/poll-44-of-americans-skip-doctor-visits-due-to-cost/#47af36b56f57
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  6916.  @ohnono2850  Lovely work. Keep it up.
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  6917. In segment #10 with the (perhaps married) couple, the woman would find Canada her oyster. The man, however, would find Canadians very much against his jacket. Indeed, border officials might refuse him entry on those grounds alone.
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  6918. And what about now?
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  6919.  @dennisyoung4631  1) Turn on Captions. 2) Go to Settings (icon of a gear). 3) Go to Subtitles. 4) Choose Auto-translate. 5) Choose English.
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  6920. I will never get used to seeing the way British reporters rudely push government ministers around in interviews. Do the public really tolerate this? Do they in fact demand it?
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  6921. Usually? Nah, I disagree. I think it's always.
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  6922. Trudeau is the problem. He's got to go.
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  6923.  @tonybaloney8401  I said there's a benefit to society from gay marriage, not a benefit to society from homosexuality. Something's the matter with your reading comprehension. Society will have homosexuality whether it will or no. It always has and always will. And in my view there's a benefit to it from having the relationships of people in that category be more lasting and stable, and less like the San Francisco bathhouse scene of the late-1970s. Gay marriage, if I'm not mistaken, accomplishes that to a significant degree. What's your response to that?
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  6924.  @zackwalker1721  That wasn't real. That was someone caricaturing and attempting to marginalize normal people.
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  6925. I'm still holding out hope that the US is pulling a fast one on Russia, showering it with respect and making it think that the US favors it in negotiations to end the war, but secretly intent on giving Ukraine every advantage, even a shot at something close to an actual victory. I see nothing yet offering proof to the contrary.
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  6926.  @ninadinechannel7675  First of all, it's totally impossible that either every one of them or none of them will heed Israel's warning. It will be somewhere between 0.1% and 99.9%. Kinda obvious, but let's neither of us be absolutists on this. But even if you had said 90% won't, that would be still be hard to beat for sheer insanity on their part. In my opinion, rational people cannot doubt Israel's word on this, and the Gazans cannot be that crazy, so for that reason I cannot agree with your prediction. If it turns out that you are right, I'll be amazed and maybe a little bit shattered. If I were a religious man I would pray that you are wrong. Thanks for your reply.
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  6927. Did Australians always call their country "Estralia"?
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  6928.  @chrisprystupa8728  The spelling Pinfold goes back at least seven centuries. Speaking of at least: at least we live atop the toilet, rather than clinging to the bowl upside down.😄 (Just kidding, mate. Enjoy your upsidedownness in peace and prosperity.)
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  6929. "Britain has every right to defend itself. It must destroy the Nazi regime which started this war and massacred people in the UK. But I'm in a moral quandary because if we go after the Nazi regime, many innocent German civilians may die. Perhaps we should just let it go and negotiate a good deal with the Nazis." — said Sir Winston Churchill, never. Nor did FDR say anything like it concerning Japan either.
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  6930.  @televishenimoniker5546  That sounds reasonable on the face of it, but there's a point where if someone just doesn't care if they're in anyone's way, it can be called wilful obliviousness (i.e. being inconsiderate, or even passive-aggressive). If you don't experience people doing this often, I'm envious! Have a good one.
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  6931. His actions were superficially confusing but make sense if you draw certain inferences. His rhetoric against the protesters was pretty rabid, but what he actually did was extremely restrained. I don't think he held anything against them at all and wanted to leave them alone. In such a position, what he did was the way to allow the protest to go on. Finally they ordered him to resign. The remaining question is how will the rank and file—who are good people and are behind the protesters, I'm quite sure—handle themselves from here?
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  6932. Salaried workers can get overtime. Can. They can also get bonuses instead, or stock compensation. I'm not saying Tesla compensation is fair (maybe it is, maybe not), I'm just contradicting the letter of what you said. Cheers
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  6933. Dr. Seheult of MedCram (besides being a pulmonologist, ICU doctor, and prof at UC Riverside) is also board-certified in sleep medicine. See the MedCram website or YT channel for some sleep videos. (Btw, if you're a med student in California you can get credits for watching, it's that good.)
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  6934. I don't know, man. You never know that for sure. Maybe inside she's crying.
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  6935. ​ @RX120D  You can't go by consumer price inflation. Every product, every sector, every asset class has its own rate of inflation. I think the cost today would likely run to several tens of billions.
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  6936.  @kristend344  Nah, his right hand is busy.
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  6937. Better yet, he can be Secretary of Defense once Hegseth completes his assigned task of breaking things. Right after the mid-terms maybe.
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  6938.  @georgesikimeti2184  Interesting. Perhaps he could be asked again.
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  6939. This comments section is 95% Chinese people supporting (or employed by) the Chinese Communist Party government. I wonder if they get the irony that they can express themselves freely in the West, which they condemn, but can't do so at home. You shouldn't bother reading this crap, but at least you're allowed to if you feel like it.
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  6940. That smacks of class envy and thinking with your feelings. A rich/well-off person may have a vastly higher awareness of the matter. Better: Consult a range of people, always including those at the bottom, in the middle and at the top. Pay special attention to people closely acquainted with the facts.
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  6941. The art of deterrence is the art of peace.
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  6942. Don't be. That's not representative of the country. It took a cynical and twisted TV producer to source that kid.
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  6943.  @insideaero7660  The helicopter wasn't standing still. I don't know why you'd say that. We saw it moving at a steady clip from left to right in our field of view.
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  6944. And are they Muscovites?
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  6945. Stewart is factually wrong. X has a fraction of the reach of Facebook. A fraction. The amount of news and discussion on Facebook just dwarfs it. Active users, latest: X, 0.4 billion. Facebook, 3.05 billion. It's not even close. Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. Facebook is worth $1,338 billion. Not even close.
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  6946.  @SonsOfLorgar  Orban is firmly against isolated calls to leave the EU, yet there's no real benefit in remaining. Yeah right.🙄So believable.
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  6947. That's what someone is going to yell at the moment they rid Russia of Putzin by decorating a wall with his person.
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  6948. Near future? It's that way right now.🤨
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  6949. I had a co-worker who was perpetually just a first drink away from being like that. Now and then she was like that anyway. I think the boss hired her as revenge on the rest of us.
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  6950. For two years I would go onto the New York Times and CBC forums and write about the same things Jay talks about here. As a science graduate I would always frame my remarks in proper scientific as well as other terms, generally referencing academic research. Those comments were removed. Some of my comments were supportive of certain actions of the authorities. Those were never removed. It was as simple as that. My anger (and anguish) over that will never go away completely.
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  6951.  @russell-gt1dy  Thanks, that was perfect. Repeat it elsewhere and often.👍
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  6952. Would you object to a headline asserting "Cameron Comes Up Empty" despite there being no vote yet?🤨 ...No, I didn't think so. Ah, YouTube comments.🙄 Your assertion fizzes with illogic. If she talks to people in DC and concludes Cameron won Rep support for Ukraine, it's proper and correct for her to say so.
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  6953.  @utb15281  Russia continues to see high rates of new HIV infections each year: * In 2021, there were 58,340 new HIV diagnoses in Russia * This is nearly 6 times higher per capita than the rest of the WHO European region * One in every 2,475 Russians was diagnosed with HIV in 2021, compared to one in 15,536 people in the rest of Europe * Russia had nearly 6 times as many new HIV diagnoses per capita in 2021 compared to the rest of Europe * The U.S. sees around 36,000 new HIV infections per year, compared to 150,000 estimated in Russia for 2023 (and the US has about 200m more people) * Russia was cited as having the 5th highest rate of new HIV diagnoses globally as recently as 2022
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  6954. You don't like that in China, do you?
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  6955. Greg: Great monologue. It was funny because it's true, and also because it was funny. Kat: Yer my hero for telling Harris where to stick her patronizing and sexist 'help.'
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  6956. I read, to my shock, that falling is the leading cause of death for those over 80.
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  6957. Because to your elected officials you're an insignificant nothing. Get rid of them.
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  6958. Seems to me the Johnson family's privileges were well earned. His father worked hard at a good job. Boris himself had a good education whilst on scholarships granted for academic merit. Your envy makes you look small.
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  6959.  @fricozoid1  Perhaps so. But the comment above was concerned with his upbringing and so was my reply to it. Anyway, I feel reason to doubt the story, assuming the story is as you say it is. Johnson was at Oxford made secretary of the world-famous debating club, elected president of the student union, and earned an upper-second-class degree. I think The Times would have wanted to interview him family connections or not. Thanks for your reply.
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  6960.  @MazabukaProductions  You write a lot better than that youngster Mr. Meyerson. (You can tell he's young by his using 'literally' for mere emphasis, detached from the meaning of the word.) How long before people like him start saying "There are too many laws that need to be passed but are prevented by parties on the right. We should stop having elections until the country is ready for them. In less than a generation we can start having elections again. Right now they just ensure injustice."
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  6961.  @jessebai592  Sorry, but that was hilarious. First of all, how can anyone tell how popular the Chinese government is? By looking at the results of clean elections where the people can choose between at least two parties? What are you, a comedian? And you say if you don't like your government you will remove it? Really? Like you did during the colossal famines of the Great Leap Forward? And with what army? Against the surveillance of more than 100 million cameras connected to AI facial recognition software? Again, sorry, but these assertions are not credible. But I salute the outwardly independent spirit of your mind that you appear to show. In a way, that itself is a good form of protection. Best wishes.
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  6962. World Cockroach Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to Hzbh. and its supporters at CNN!"
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  6963. Just listen to this woman talk about how freedom should be dangled like a carrot in the service of coercion—in her Cee Cee P accent.
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  6964. I guess quite a number of intelligent moderate people like those we see here are headed out from Russia, most of them along with their families. I think that if the millions of people who've left Russia over the last 30 years were still there, it'd be a better place. Oh well, Russia's loss, our gain. (Except for any gangsters and assorted crooks. We could do without them.)
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  6965. I agree: he must find a way to let the world know how much he got from all three of those [deleted]s.
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  6966. I believe Moses.
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  6967. Right. Those who accept your lies, from that point onwards, in effect work for you. It's not that they merely don't oppose you and are thus neutral. A person neutral to your interests would be someone who hasn't heard your lies. The ones who accept them are an asset to you and thus multiply your power.
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  6968. * incompetence. (An incompetency is a particular area or instance of incompetence. In his writing, a hopeless vocabulary was just one incompetency among many.)
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  6969. Mad Colonel Kurtz here is in a long-established American tradition. Some sided with Saddam Hussein when he invaded and stole the nation of Kuwait in 1990. As late as 1941 Hitler, too, had many defenders in America. He reminds me of Gen. Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove (played by Sterling Hayden) and I keep expecting him to go off on a diatribe about "our precious bodily fluids." 😂
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  6970. U do realize ur cheerleading for a tax hike on the American consumer? 😂
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  6971. Good take on China as a 'peace broker.' They are simply Russia's supporter and ally. The closest they have come to criticism of it was mild admonishment that nuclear weapons should not be used. But Russia's nuclear posturing appeared empty in the first place, so I view that as mere sanctimony. In taxing the West militarily and economically, Russia is doing so perfectly what China would want, that we cannot expect them to become neutral. It's likelier they'll begin arming Russia, perhaps openly.
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  6972. Right. So to provide the jury with good-quality testimony on whether Al Capone was guilty, the prosecution should have brought in a string of Al Capone's close associates. Sure, makes sense.
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  6973. Correct, it's from Sky UK, a barely related co.
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  6974. The one who thinks showing off her arms is an important priority 🙄is a bit airy upstairs.
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  6975. Yep. China is virtually cashless, and that tells you all you need to know.
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  6976. Japan, Canada and Australia should all have nuclear weapons. Enough pussyfooting around.
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  6977. It bothered me that KJB said "The FAA is doing everything that it can to make Americans feel safe." Actual safety should be the concern, not the public's feelings. If the FAA does its job, people will feel safe. Just focus on safety and say you're focused on safety.
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  6978. This is only the worst of numerous posts here showing the worst side of human nature. Yet I'll bet every one of the authors is always quick to condemn 'hate' and 'haters'.
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  6979. PM Peter Pan and Madame Tinkerbell here are not the people to sort this thing out. They're incompetent and can only alienate people with their gigawatts of arrogance.
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  6980.  @pauldrake1858  Yes, they did and it's a scandal. The entire West made a huge mistake, partly out of greed, partly because China seemed to be growing more trustworthy, partly by sheer sleepwalking. That's okay. Live and learn. But it's time to de-couple now.
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  6981.  @CandideSchmyles  The foolishness is on your side. Reform and improvement are desperately needed in the West, but a bumbling arsonist egomaniac like Assange is not the person to lead them. After all, his role in electing Trump was indispensable. He is exactly the type of spoiled narcissist who most weakens the West. It treats him like gold and his response is to try to take a sort of a Maoist wrecking ball to it (Maoist in the sense of believing in the necessity of destruction for reform.). "Fully fledged fascist states"? I'm dealing with a grade 8 mind here. Voltaire called. He wants his character's name back. Cheers.
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  6982. Sorry, that's not accurate. Read history and learn that countries compete. It's not like friends in the community. It's not like Barney the Dinosaur and never will be. The best realistic hope is for agreement on rules to follow. Cheers.
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  6983. Yep. Super-easy to get a basic handle on; nearly impossible to fully master.
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  6984. They made it the headline, but for him it was a passing remark. And he was right. All he meant was "Canadians are like, What the foxtrot?" Or "gobsmacked," if you prefer. Yes he could've added the word 'angry,' but I think he eventually got that across at some point. Or Sorkin did. But whatevs.
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  6985. I don't know about pillock, but PH can still be rather a pill at times. Not here though, except for mumbling into his shirt pocket like Prince Charles at times.
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  6986. He left home with $2,000. He was a very poor young man for some years.
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  6987.  @seanmoriarty3412  Not interested. Have a nice day though.
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  6988. All of that sounds good, with one exception: Funding the development of flying cars. Let private investors waste their money on it, as they are indeed doing already. Plus a clarification: Like any sensible person Trump does support NATO. He's not genuinely out to get it. He's only playing financial chicken with Europe, and that's good.
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  6989.  @kerriwilson7732  Valid point.👍
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  6990. As the caterpillar lays her eggs on the fairest leaves, so the liberals and Russians, Iranians, etc. pile on to mock the most accurate and incisive commentary from leaders such as Sen.Graham.
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  6991.  @alisondaly5560  No need to be snarky, my dear. People can very politely disagree with you, surely? ;)
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  6992. Republicans are doing the right thing: (1) Press for much more border security, (2) Get it, (3) Then support the whole package. It was the Dems' idea to tie it all together in one bill — and surely they knew it would go like this. It's just their way of handling the border issue without appearing to do so willingly.
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  6993. @Jyl Freeman Spoken like a true woman ('female' if you prefer to sound like a veterinary patient) of a certain type, one who bought her mind at the plate glass campus bookstore, fit it all in her bag, and walked grimly home. Madam, you've wasted your years and that's putting it nicely.
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  6994.  @stephaniebarron52  Stupid men, at times yes. At other times, men who simply don't exist except in crude stereotypes. Kind of like the colonial who assumes implausibly every last cliched characteristic of the people of the mother country (e.g. the New Zealander of lore, tedious or charming according to one's taste, who's "more English than the English"). This is frequently the characteristic also of drag queens who, being not to the manner born, make some people cringe. Others, of course, really like that sort of thing.
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  6995. The product of an illicit union between Ted Nugent and a streetwalking beaver ca. 1980.
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  6996.  @hermes7587  You didn't know that in the 1980s, as a leading member of the Marxist youth wing of the SPD (the same party he leads today), he published essays railing against "NATO imperialism" and visited East Germany to meet with communist cabinet ministers in the government of Erich Honecker?
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  6997.  @MarcPetersson-ak67  What? I am pro-Ukraine.
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  6998. I agree with what you said and found it informative, I just wish you would shout as though to students in a cavernous auditorium without a PA system. Use your living room voice. Keep up the good work.
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  6999. Foxtrot Yankee.
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  7000. Jordan Peterson: "Welcome to my f n world! The suckage factor is at infinity. Whatevs, talk to you soon my good man."
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  7001. No one was deceived. It's 1000% obvious comedy/humor/satire/parody.
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  7002. Congratulations, you are now BMP-1 commander. Phone your mother, you leave in half an hour.
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  7003. Please send lots more of those special Czech inflatable decoys. Wonderful for wasting expensive Russian missiles.👍
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  7004.  @cliveengel5744  Only fiends and the dupes of fiends can fail to care about NATO and the vital things it safeguards, which I already named: North Atlantic and global security, meaning people's survival and freedom. See ya next Thursday.
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  7005. 1) Musk already cleared the purple-haired community out of Twitter with a bulldozer two years ago. (Javier Milei: "Afuera!") X will be an asset to Texas. 2) Do you really think the rocket scientists of SpaceX are coming to Texas to woke-ify it? Rest assured they will be glad to flee Newsomgrad.
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  7006.  @chickennugents4738  Look who's talking. The projection couldn't be any more obvious.
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  7007. Access to health care for trans people now! Mental health care, that is. Let there be hundreds of new mental health clinics for them across the country, and free access to psychiatric prescription medicines.
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  7008. I'm not sure what the video has to do with Jamaica. Probably nothing. But since you bring up that country, it does have the world's highest murder rate, around 25x that of Canada.
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  7009. You should have a look at your inoculation records going back ten years.
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  7010. Charming interviewer, polite and intelligent, relaxed. She sounds BCBG (good style, good attitude). What is 1420? A radio or TV station?
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  7011. An average turnip is smarter than that woman. (Sorry, turnips, for even bringing you into this.)
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  7012.  @nightknght  Typical left-winger, agitating for political weaponization of the justice system. Mussolini would applaud you for that.
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  7013. University students: Deeply clueless since forever.
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  7014. Unfortunately true. For some reason just about every YouTube channel thinks its ok to basically lie in video titles.
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  7015.  @s0ycapitan  You ended on a rather dull-minded, cynical and defamatory note. You also used the word 'refute' without knowing its meaning.
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  7016.  @Mondoblasto0  What? She gave Chow a moniker combining her name and the political system she thinks Chow aligns with. It's an exaggeration, as Chow is only a socialist as far as I know, but politicians' handles tend to be exaggerated. She did not allude to rheighce at all. You brought it up.
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  7017. Shhh! Let them embarrass themselves.😮
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  7018.  @kristalkristal2506  You moved the goalposts to seeing the human in your foe. But seeing the human in your foe is fine with me. I thought it went without saying. It's the Russian mind that has a problem with it.
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  7019.  @TheBalladier  The most common term in the heavily left-leaning and partly state-owned French media, perhaps.
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  7020.  @NDJ1978  "The Fed has printed 80% of all US dollars in existence since Jan 2020. There was $4.02 trillion dollars in circulation at the beginning of 2020. The number reached $20.08 trillion by Oct 2021. This amounted to an astronomical 30 trillions debt." You must edit this with a basic fact in mind: USD-denominated debt is not itself US dollars. I have learned from economists and authoritative reference sources that USD-denominated bonds such as Treasurys are not themselves US dollars, any more than a painting by Rembrandt with a price tag in USD is itself US dollars. I'm not attacking you, I'm helping you. I spotted other basic errors but I don't have the time or the inclination to go into any more of them. Your anti-Americanism is sadly one-sided and it's pretty clear that your opening position is one of total conviction. Horse, then cart!
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  7021.  @323azteca  Concerning your first point, that guy was for real, man. That was no act. If you really knew big city street people you wouldn't say that. But did they invite him over? That's conceivable, and I would actually forgive it, as I do think it's probably true that he lives there. I agree with every word of your second part. 😀
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  7022.  @WagnerWithShovels  Hey, your account name is accurate: Russia is offensive.
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  7023. "Knife fight in a phone booth" was quite funny.
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  7024. Trump is so full of it. The trade deficit is peanuts, and only shows the US can afford to buy what it needs. (Like oil they get for $10+/barrel below world prices.) Plus Canada is already the #1 customer of the US. As for Trudeau, he was already the political walking dead well before November 5. Trump had zilch to do with his departure.
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  7025. The WWII part isn't really right. They earned the victory when they took Berlin. I don't object to the rest of your list.
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  7026. No, he's an intellectual. The problem is that something's happened to him in the past four or five years. He was already majorly rattled, as so many psychologists and psychiatrists are, by years of absorbing the problems of his patients, and since then he's had to deal with the stress of illnesses both chronic and sudden, the illness of his wife, combined with an extreme amount of travel, money pouring in, criticism and controversy. It has not done his mind or his brain (he's had neurological problems, according to him) any favours and he's nowhere near as sharp as he was five or ten years ago. If he can pull himself fully together again I'll be amazed. I'm inclined to agree with you about 'air time.' He's qualified to speak on the psychology of whole nations, even maybe on that of Putin a little, but here he spent too much time ranging far outside the list of subjects suitable for him to comment publicly on.
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  7027. Ah, this is so triggering to the moral descendants of Himmler. As the caterpillar lays her eggs on the fairest leaves, so the Himmlerites, salivating for the ultimate solution,  swarm the comments of the uploads that expose the truth about them.
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  7028.  @pwillis1589  Very well. Then Sky has helped ABC to expose it. It amounts to what I said, and it's all good.
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  7029. Meteor, o swift meteor....
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  7030. Ok, if you're the expert. But try to develop other interests.
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  7031. From Pelosi's remarks to Jake Tapper, it's clear she's now got her Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kamala Harris.
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  7032.  @williamwu8452  Yes, I was glad to hear it a couple of days ago. But just like Germany we need new everything. If we want the 77-year peace to hold, the West has to be properly armed.
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  7033. Putzler: "The main condition for the economic development of Russia is the successful ending of the special military operation." No, just the ending. So far the total economic and financial impact of every type on Russia alone is over a trillion dollars, or about 100 trillion roubles. He's impoverishing his country. Russians must stop him.
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  7034. Or beneath one.
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  7035. First she rails about international law going against Russia. In the next breath she claims international law justifies Russian territorial claims.🙄 Incredible. Russian hyper-nationalism is a mental disorder.
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  7036. It seems like Russia is two countries. One, 75% of it being older, bellicose, paranoid, not very bright. The other, 75% of it being younger, reasonable, intelligent, without signs of personality deformation.
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  7037. No they don't. They just scoff at them as a phony pretext for war.
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  7038. What pointless fantasizing.
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  7039. 🤨Donors are just noticing how cray-cray these universities are now? 🤯They should've yanked their funding when it was already obvious 10 years ago.
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  7040.  norman smithers  Thanks, Professor Media.
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  7041.  @biddyboy1570  Yes I think that's very true, although there are surely multiple factors behind the delay. I think one is that the US wanted to get a year closer to production of PrSM (the ATACMS replacement). That in itself is a show of strength, demonstrating resistance to being rushed into risks. But as you say, draining Russia's capacity to make war — before expelling it from Ukraine — is a central aim.
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  7042. He didn't even know that Russia's war on Ukraine started in 2014. He jumped in to correct Zelensky that it was 2015. Imagine! What a buffoon.
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  7043. 1:45 This little kid in 40 years: "I'm very happy, but I wonder why I own the only banana store in the world."
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  7044. Are you guys feeling regret over your thumbnail that says "regrats"?
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  7045. She should be lecturing at a Chinese university.
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  7046. I thought poodles were French.
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  7047. Start printing the t-shirts for November 9th right now: His face, his vote percentage, and beneath that "Beto O'Rourke: Loser"
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  7048. (1) Foster + Partners really specializes in a purified form of gracelessness. (2) Down with AI narration. It's not only inhuman, it sounds inhuman and it dehumanizes the listener. Hire a living, breathing person. Yes, one who pauses for breath.
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  7049. He does talk about the ideas. But it's impossible to sum up hundreds of pages in a few minutes. If he wants people to really hear what he has to say, he's got to suggest they read his full explication of his ideas. "Writing ideas into a book is not the interesting part." What? You wouldn't say that if you ever wrote a book. (Or ever read many good ones, I daresay.)
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  7050. I'm seeing a recommendation next to this titled "Justin Bieber's 48 Hrs. with Diddy" from 14 years ago. I hope everything went in chill fashion.😮
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  7051. Apologizing for making someone upset is also classic for a person who's been doing the abusing. Calm and personable behaviour is also a sign of someone who has done nothing. It's tricky. I suspect that if you were a cop you'd soon be fired for making false arrests.
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  7052. Yes, sort of: one of the many Russian painters in my city. New York and Berlin must be crawling with them. I see a really good artistic attitude.
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  7053.  @LightYerPipe  On a macro scale, how about the Pax Americana? Or keeping the sea lanes safe so that world shipping runs smoothly? (If the American navy weren't keeping them open, it would be a somewhat different world.) Regarding the coronavirus, there seems to be one bright spot: the low case fatality rate in the US. At 3.0% it is far lower than the western European average (roughly 10%) and lower even than in Germany, where it is 3.8%.
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  7054.  tasos orfas  The US is 10th (source: worldometers.info) but this includes tiny territories and very small countries. Among countries with at least 5m people, they have the 3rd worst infection rate, behind only Chile and Peru.
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  7055. He's finally free to transition now. 😆 Hey, where can I bet on his new name? Since he really, really can't do blackface anymore, I say "LaTonda."
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  7056. That letter from the school sounded like its author could be the child of a couple of Red Guards, showing that Wokeism is hurriedly morphing into neo-Maoism. I designate the transitional variant we see here 'Upper East Side neo-Maoism'.
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  7057. You're watching a man who has calmly decided not to restrain himself, in the name of what's right. It's exactly what makes him a boy.
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  7058.  @enziofrancescoli288  Do we disagree at all? Letting oneself go in a situation demanding considered mastery over one's self-righteous impulses is unseemly in a boyish way, surely? I was unimpressed, not the opposite. I suppose I should find out who this Neil is. I'm not from the UK and just know C4 and Sky from the last four months or so. Thanks for your reply. Cheers.
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  7059. He made demands in the last week of November; Canada announced its response in mid-December, now 6 or 7 weeks ago. I think it's pretty normal for a new border security program to take more than a month and a half to implement. But yeah, stable genius, so much winning, the Diocletian of America, etc. etc.
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  7060.  @IvanIvanov-vy7pt  As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the Russians swarm the comments below the videos that tell the most truth and best show the monstrous iniquity of their state.
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  7061. I liked your remarks here, but can you please spell it out why it matters in this case what Hindu practices are concerning the dead? I sense what you're driving at in general terms but I don't quite get it, and I am very interested. Thanks
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  7062.  @nancetardiff339  I dislike to hear the word think coming from such a person as much as I hate to hear the word love on the lips of a streetwalker.
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  7063. This is the age of nicey-nice. If he said to the guy: "Thanks, let's get on to your question, we're short of time", he would have gotten a flood of people saying he was disrespectful and abusive to the people who watch and support him, just another narcissistic elitist, out of touch and doesn't care about ordinary people etc. etc. Often even nicey-nice doesn't cut it; it has to be double-nicey-nice. (Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed, 2001: "People are crazy and times are strange.")
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  7064.  @justinwhittle6163  Wake up yourself, crank. I take anyone who calls me a sheep for a wolf. Give back the money to whoever's paying you.
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  7065.  @fugawiaus  lol Perfect. I would only add that you should set aside about a million of those huge cans of Foster's and be ready on short notice to really, really, really, really shake them up.
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  7066.  @Struieboy  No, the coroner's (professed) finding was asphyxiation, not suffocation. Bear in mind that asphyxiation is not a mechanical event. For instance, someone who dies by suicide from car exhaust in their garage dies of asphyxiation despite being able to breathe freely the whole time. Asphyxiation is the failure of oxygen to reach the tissues, e.g. of the brain or heart.
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  7067. Someone please let me know if the phrase toxic femininity gets automatically shadow-deleted on YT. Simply reply Yes if you can see this.
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  7068.  @Lou_Mavs  Thanks. There was no better way for me to find out.
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  7069. I believe I saw one of these children two years ago as I waited at a train station. It was a little kid about seven years old running around in a 12-ft. circle while 'barking' continuously. It went on for about ten minutes. The child's negligent, massively overfed mother sat there in perfect equanimity, ignoring the child and never looking up from her phone. Very memorable, yet perhaps soon to be a common sight (and sound).
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  7070. Start with ravaging the emplacements, armour and trucks dotted around Mariupol. Destroy 'em.
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  7071. TTC-Detroit sale story: What, a million dollars?🤨 That has to be way too little. It's like they said "I'll give ya a grand."
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  7072.  @OrShay69  Are you for real? Israel has been shooting many hundreds of missiles at buildings in Gaza with the intent of hitting Hamas targets. What better target could there be than an active firing position? It could obviously prevent destruction, injuries and deaths in Israel as well as severely complicating things for Hamas commanders. Also, look up the word civilized. Consider just writing in your own language and putting it through a translator instead of making outlandish mistakes in a language you don't know. Thanks for wasting my time with nonsense. Have a nice day.
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  7073. ​ @احمدياسينأحمدياسين-ه1ك  That's the translation of the word Hamas, I suppose? If it's not, it certainly should be. Anyway, thanks for the highly intelligent and coherent response.
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  7074.  @Ranstone  I find every one of those assertions either wholly irrelevant or wholly false.
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  7075. No. A collapse of European security is something Canada very much needs to actively oppose, not only for moral reasons but even for selfishly material ones alone. Canada's standard of living and its security both depend on Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia not taking over the world. NATO leaders are acting with rare astuteness and backbone on this. You need to wise up.
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  7076. His columns in the NYT always have mistakes in them. Speaking of mistakes, the Nobels have a spotty record. Hey, now he's going to get the recession he's been predicting and cheerleading for since January 2017. It's more than three years late and caused by a pandemic, but he'll find a way to say "just as I predicted" and blame it on the president.
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  7077.  @613miami  Canada has a system a little bit like congressional districts, a little bit like the electoral college. If your party wins big in many districts while your opponents win a lot of districts by a hair, they can get in ahead of you with fewer votes. Also, we have not only two major parties but a few smaller ones, too. So he got in despite finishing second in votes (once again) at 32.6%, which was just 22% of the electorate. Key takeaway: He should not be regarded as popular.
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  7078. A good production with many interesting points. But I don't buy her central premisses. They conflict with too much of my up-close, very personal experience with people of East Asian descent going back decades to my childhood.   Still, she reminds us effectively of how much stereotypes can hurt people's feelings and contribute to life's difficulties, especially those that start early, at home with parents. From respectful listening I've learned that not everyone can handle sometimes outrageous demands from parents who have major problems of their own. Non-Asians must always be ready on an instant's notice to accept that not everyone fits the mold. And don't express surprise at those times. It must hurt. I expect to be criticized, but that's ok. To speak publicly is to invite criticism. I'll definitely watch more from this channel.
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  7079. "That Gates guy is your big issue. We'll handle him, no probs, then be on our way."
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  7080.  @tiberio1352  Consider the chilling dogmatism of that question-beggaring phrase ''violating community standards''.   In its distance between what is vaguely asserted and actuality, you can't get much more Orwellian. As though YouTube management were a 'community' and not a mere private business office!
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  7081.  @lonewolf2150  These two in particular should not be returned to China, except perhaps as cargo.
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  7082. 1st story: Solid messaging from the U of T admin. Now get them out of there. Foreign interference in elections: We simply must stop buying so many goods from that country. For the past three years I've made a serious effort and I've reduced mine by 90%. It's fun! And it will work if most of us do it. Tip: Ask store staff for help.
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  7083. Everybody needs to see the classic clip "What Fits Into Russia" from SCTV. (It was a satire, but it could be a real show in Russia today.😂)
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  7084.  @lukerichardson2404  Everything to do with Ukraine. Go do your own research.
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  7085.  @airborne63  Six, actually, but it's best to reduce detail in explaining to a foreigner. And as a European, Arko has surely heard of (more likely, lived under) a multi-party system of some kind, so there was no need to talk down to him like that.
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  7086.  @airborne63  Who knows? Maybe assumed Canada has a two-party system like the US. Some Europeans find the two countries are very similar, which they largely are.
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  7087.  @cartertucker8915  I think that's called cutting off your nose to spite your face. But ok. Anyway, thanks for your reply, which did answer my question! Best wishes to you.
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  7088. Obviously that driver isn't all there.🤨
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  7089.  @luke250829  I have thought about it and concluded that they have the easiest job in the world, in the sense that nothing is easier than giving into one's worst impulses if one has no consequences to fear.
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  7090.  @michaelschulte1097    He said there were Ladas before. He did not say there were not Ladas before.
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  7091. Thanks for the Global Times point of view.
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  7092. 🤨Uh, no. That itself is pure misinformation. Nobody touched any of his degrees, nor did anyone try to, nor has anyone even contemplated it. The body persecuting him is not a university or educational body at all. it's a professional regulatory body called the Ontario College of Psychologists, and it licenses clinical psychologists to practice in Ontario. (He retired from practice some years ago but maintains his licence.) So far he has been given a choice between taking remedial social media training or losing his licence. He appealed and lost in court a few months ago, but has yet to announce what his choice will be. (Btw, it had zero to do with "misinformation." Zero. His posts were judged by the College to be unprofessional, but for other reasons. In one, he tweeted that a particular Sports Illustrated swimsuit model was "Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that." That was it. That was the entire tweet.) So no, he hasn't had anything "removed." Not yet. And even if he does lose his licence it would still be entirely proper to call him a psychologist. Many psychologists do not practice clinically. According to the BLS, over 40,000 teach psychology at the post-secondary level, being generally university professors. For Peterson himself, clinical work was part-time, as he was professor of psychology first at Harvard then at University of Toronto, and those were full-time appointments. Having retired in 2021, he is now professor emeritus at U of T. But he's still a psychologist, no question. Thus, though you spelled his name right at least, every single thing in your post was untrue. Yet you're accusing him of misinformation. Oh my god. How perfectly emblematic of his adversaries and detractors.
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  7093. Uh, no. A people who go through something like this learn their lesson well. Ukraine will definitely not remain outside formal military pacts.
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  7094. I strongly oppose that.👎
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  7095. More like buying a building, stripping it down to its frame and then rebuilding it.
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  7096. Good choice of footage: those are the remains of gasoline-engine cars which caught fire, not EVs. And that's appropriate, since gasoline-engine cars catch fire ten times more often. Please Sky, do your research carefully and correctly. — Loyal viewer
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  7097. ​ @smokeemifyagotem8851  None of you people here are clued in. There is no sense of disaster or panic. Zero. This report was stretched out to 10 minutes because this lazy station has 24 hours in a day and nothing to cover. The only thing mentioned was that people have to move their cars off the main roads. Watch again to confirm this. Ignore the impulse to speak out of blind resentment. Listen, think and post carefully.
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  7098. Great Kennedy quote, but you lost me at the end. Yes, those people despised Kennedy deeply, but I'm with Carlson, who said a communist named Oswald killed him out of communist motives.
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  7099. Is Vladimir Kara-Murza on Russia-1? No. Putin throws his opponents in prison, or blows them out of the sky, or poisons them.
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  7100. Putin's copying his entire playbook.
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  7101. Nah, he likes them.
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  7102.  @jodemit655  Thanks for your reply. Of course Taiwan isn't the problem! It goes without saying. Every country should support and officially recognize them. All the best.
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  7103.  @richieboa9793  Nothing in human history can match the power of the Western Alliance of which Australia is a part. Over one billion people, 40 million square kilometres of land, half the world's GDP, colossal military with the best technology and weaponry, bottomless wealth. China's alliance? [crickets] It doesn't have one single friend. Nobody likes the Chinese state. Absolutely no one.
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  7104.  @visualpoetry3d  As has been said for centuries, the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. (Not a real one in the ordinary sense.) Moreover, it really took shape after Charlemagne was gone. But it's fine if anyone, including the whole Russian nation, has their own opinion.
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  7105. Russia does not have 10x the population of North Korea, as he claims, which would be 260 million. It's 5.5x. Who is this sloppy guy?
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  7106.  @lockk132  Wait, I take that back: I do know what you are.
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  7107. You misspelled Buh-bye. 🤣
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  7108.  @stevenperdue996  Have you ever been homeless?
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  7109. There are millions just like her. Tens of millions maybe. Could it have anything to do with the uncountable number of times people have heard that women are wonderful and men are terrible?
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  7110. More like: "Let's tear stuff down that we don't understand, let's be eyeless like Samson and cancel everything that our moral inferiors — which is practically all of the 110 billion people ever to live — ever brought into being. Out of the wreckage something better's bound to come out. Wrecking things improves them. If the Disney movies I grew up on taught me anything, it's that I'm right, and anything I do is right. Yay! Me! I'm the best!"
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  7111. You're thinking of Dumbo.
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  7112. Where's the inclusivity? (And the accuracy?) You didn't include Stephen Colbert. But goddamn, it was still a fine list. 👏🏻👏🏻
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  7113. No, they didn't say leave the keys outside. They said keep them inside the house near the locked door. The idea is that the cops don't want armed crooks going into bedrooms demanding keys.
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  7114. Karma is only instant in the John Lennon song. Actual Karma in Buddhism takes place in the subsequent lifetime.
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  7115. No it most certainly is not. But unlikely things do happen in life and this is a really good documentary.
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  7116.  @MultiBallzofsteel  Then you're out of luck, mate, cuz I don't think you want your brain being Bluetooth-accessible. (Password or no password.)
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  7117. Russian prop a ganduh: As high in quality as a Russian tank.
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  7118. On Feb. 23, 2022 the site Animals 24-7 reported that dogs of the same breed, Cane Corsos, "have killed five Americans in 10 months." One was a young woman whose "autopsy indicated that both her arms and 40% of her skin were ripped off her body." Its coverage of Kache Grist's case is likewise disturbing. His mother, whose Facebook content suggests she is a pit bull fancier and advocate, was arrested for trafficking crystal meth and GHB, the date r. drug.
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  7119. I will be very surprised if Zelensky travels to Belarus and makes it back alive. He should insist the parley take place by videoconference or even telephone.
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  7120. It's a pity that, being outside politics, Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff entirely lacks direct responsibility for decisions on this file. But I dearly hope that he is exercising influence informally. Thanks, Times Radio, for helping make that at least possible.
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  7121. Forty thousand gallons, wow. Helps explain why the Department of Defense consumes 1% of the world's petroleum output.
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  7122.  @tektako  Thanks for your reply. You mean if I visited I wouldn't find groups of people acting like that? Last winter I was intent on going this year for the first time, but, you know... Where I live, friendliness, confident affability, and the charm of everyday life in society were already in free-fall in recent years. Now, I don't know. I fear collapse might be a better word.
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  7123.  @thenewwavejoeshow  Let me guess: your TA told you that. Anybody named Gender Reel is too young to have experienced much real journalism. It's been a rare commodity for a whole generation now.
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  7124. He withdrew the word as demanded by the Speaker. He replaced it with "radical." That should've been the end of it. Radical is not unparliamentary language. To eject him after that can only be due to Liberal bias. (The Speaker is a Liberal MP.) The Speaker owes him an apology. After saying he's sorry, he should resign.
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  7125. It's very, very easy to imagine his views on adult-child 'involvement.'😠
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  7126. 'Twas a conflagration
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  7127. He no longer has to pay child support to the mother.
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  7128. I love all the sensible and good-hearted Indians here to express support for Australia. What could be more un-Indian than the nonsense of communism?
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  7129. He may be a former vice-chair of the Fed, but when anyone says "ick cetera," I don't care what they used to do, I'm done listening.
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  7130. A pipeline to nowhere, buddy, with no purpose anymore. It will never be used unless and until Putin is long gone and relations with Europe have been slowly and painstakingly restored. And at that time it can repaired in a straightforward fashion for some tens of millions of dollars, or the low hundreds of millions perhaps. It is 99% intact.
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  7131.  @northstar1060  You're the one wearing the little pleated skirt. I'm dealing in facts.
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  7132. A lot of people are single, young and in robust health, and love working hard. You don't have to be one of them, but don't pretend they don't exist in numbers, and don't resent them either. If they disappeared from the workforce overnight, or suddenly started doing the minimum, the world's standard of living would soon fall substantially. If you're working 37.5 hours a week, they're actually doing you some good. (Btw, it's a sad and eternal fact that many people in families hate each other anyway, but are stuck being together, so if work is a refuge for any of them, or spares the others their unpleasant presence, so much the better for all concerned. How I wish that the parent I couldn't stand had hardly been home, and I wasn't the only one who felt that way. We would've been far happier.) As Frederick the Great said, "Let every man be saved after his own fashion."
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  7133.  @FoxInTheBasement  I love the number of people saying Twitter is a disaster, or that Musk is a failure at business. (Soren Kierkegaard: "Envy is concealed admiration.")
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  7134. I'm having trouble finding out who is alleged to have benefitted by her alleged corruption, and how. Was it her and her colleague alone? Did it have anything to do with public health, in any way whatsoever?
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  7135. Thanks for bringing us some venture capitalist's view of world affairs. He's so d um b he called referendums 'elections' about four times. What on earth's wrong with you, Dave? On the subject of Ukraine your IQ has gone into remission. Btw, I am sick to death of hearing you pronouncing 'because' in your special little pretentious, neurotic way. [Sideshow Bob shudder]
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  7136.  @alainpannetier2543  Actually, he left South Africa at age 17 with a mere $2k of his own job earnings in his pocket, never to return, expressly because he did not want to enter mandatory national military service in the name of an apartheid state. How little, how very little, you know. Yet you spout off slander. 👎
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  7137. I really doubt it, but your point is well taken anyway!
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  7138.  @xcrimsinx  Your second and last sentences are exactly what I'd say to you.
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  7139. I don't see how it can really be called 'ransom' money to Iran when it's Iran's own money. It is Iranian money that's being unfrozen. It has to be regarded as a concession to Iran, perhaps a disastrously unwise one, but giving them access to their own funds needs another label, not 'ransom.'
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  7140.  @apersonontheinternet8006  That's a fairy tale, Mr. Grimm. There's zero chance the US can pull 4m bpd out of thin air. "Easily ramp up production"😂 I can see someone knows very little about the oil business.  And remember, it has to be done at a profit.
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  7141.  @jonathanbell9349  In my building, management came tonight and put up signs decreeing a 3-person limit in the elevators. (A lot of people will probably sacrifice the waiting time in order to ride totally alone.) Maybe you should have the same sort of rule/signs at your building.
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  7142. The way they can't find any fault in themselves reminds me of Principal Skinner, after failing to find any truants at the Museum of Natural History or the derelict 4H Club: "Am I so out of touch? [ponders] No, it's the children who are wrong." 😂
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  7143. They talk down to you, as do PBS and the NYT. That's a strong sign of people who aren't much good.
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  7144.  @earlmcmanus194  Well, of course. Left-wingers are simply the nicest people. If a left-wing ruler ever does anything bad, it's time to re-classify them as right-wing.
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  7145. Oh no. Surely not. It had its sights aimed far higher than merely the flattening and traumatization of Ukraine—namely, at ridding itself of 'the Ukraine problem,' which at root was from its point of view the American, European, Western problem. It is arguably little more than about 5% of the way to the fulfillment of its aim. Your wishes are passing unfiltered to your keyboard.
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  7146. Prime Minister Peter Pan has failed badly. So to defend his failure, he lists his failures and promises to carry on with more of the same.🙄 Let's send him and his government to the compost heap, where they'll be good for something.
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  7147. They should make it all one tennis association and see how much the women make based on their rankings.
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  7148.  @beastiekat4562  In retrospect I am too.👍 Thanks
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  7149. jibe = align, agree, or match up with It does jibe with all the known facts. jive = dishonest talk, nonsense I've had enough of all her jive.
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  7150. Why does this irritating hipster keep showing up in my feed? What part of Don't Recommend Channel is unclear?
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  7151.  @Rose_333_Buds  It seems like it must be a game with her. Before the show: "Hey guys. Watch what I can get our viewers to swallow today. It's a doozy!"
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  7152.  @Windsong-58  I'm saying that if this were some sort of important national issue, then the interview might have lasted ten minutes or something. As a story, this may be highly important concerning Noem herself, in the great scheme of things it is not. Thus, five minutes was appropriate.
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  7153.  @karenturgeon7616  But only if that friend, too, lives alone. Look it up.
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  7154. You are beggaring the question. I therefore hope you are kept far away from where anything more important than lunch is decided. Cheers.
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  7155.  @sethlucc9469  I love the way your post (entire thing: "They just loosers") has a Translate to English button below it.😂
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  7156.  @maggies9597  My reply was in support of what you said. I was sham-quoting him to characterize his unreasonable position.
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  7157.  @HairyDairyMilkMaid7854  Those aren't outdated either. They're dated, which is a different thing and worse in some ways.
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  7158.  @PapaEnoch052  Actually this whole Poot-bawt-infested section reminds me of INGSOC.🤬
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  7159. Hadfield was on it. No surprise there.
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  7160. In practice, wouldn't retirees with residences in two states be exempt, since they could domicile themselves in either one? (Absent employment income tax slips, how would any state know where anyone lives? Are agents going to camp out outside someone's house for 183 or more days a year?) Someone please correct me if that's untrue.
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  7161.  @rozz1106  I wish you all the best in your earnest quest for a bit of a clue, Rosie.
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  7162. Lavrov will have a hard time scrunching into his bed in an unheated basement in The Hague.
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  7163. Mark my words: In the lead-up to November, the frenzy of untruths—including but not limited to smears, false accusations, impossibly fevered rhetoric, and sheer fantasy—coming from Democrats, the liberal media, as well as just plain freaky people of every conceivable sort, amplified on Big Social Media, will be too immense for any words we already have in the English language. We'll have to invent new ones. Get ready to throw up over and over.
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  7164. I think it's the opposite. They booked the debate in order to set him up for removal due to poor polling. The stay at Camp David wasn't for debate coaching; it was to lower the dosage of his meds, to remove the risk of him having "a good night." In secrecy the new dosages were worked out. A week later, he was ready.
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  7165. Tiny correction: Trudeau's late brother was Michel, not Michael. Btw, it's clear enough from photos that Trudeau was sired by P.E. Trudeau, not Castro. Anyway, the important thing is that his time will soon be up and we can begin to recover from the nightmare and devastation of his tenure.
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  7166. ​ @putinscat1208  Yes. It's the trauma of repeated invasions and mass slaughter going back to Genghis Khan, baked into Russia's very psyche and culture. It last happened (barely) within living memory. If Russia were a person it would be diagnosed with PTSD (and quite possibly one or two other maladies). Btw, I'm not sure I agree with the thing about the expense of vacationing in Siberia. Yes, Crimea is a choice bit of land that's pleasant in summer, but I think it's more about having a land buffer, naval base and Mediterranean access down there. They also can't bear the idea of a potential loss of face from having conquered Crimea both 240 years ago and in 2014, and now being possibly stripped of it for the 2nd time in 30 years. They'd feel that even if it were a peninsula of barren rock jutting into the Arctic Ocean. While it's true that every nation objects strongly to ceding territory, 'face' often assumes a terrible and outsized importance to traumatized people. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  7167. How does one contribute financially to Amy's legal struggle?
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  7168.  @williambrown7203  It was a pleasure just typing that last sentence.😄
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  7169. I should think four bottles of gin are more than enough for two men. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  7170. I can't agree in the least. It was only his way of saying Leave me alone. ("These guys" were just random people standing in the direction he was facing. The V and Z banner isn't what he meant. It's not like they were visibly worshipping it or something!)
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  7171. For those who don't know, "papa" means pope. That's how "pope" translates in many languages.
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  7172. I think the kidnapping of large numbers of Ukrainians and their removal to Russia is simply a cover for the massacre that was the Mariupol siege. When finally the vast numbers of missing are tallied, Russia will say "Oh, most of them are now living in Russia," but in fact they were killed in the weeks of shelling and rockets and are now being buried in dumps under millions of tons of rubble. Putin is mostly copycatting all of the things Germany did in the 1940s.
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  7173. Leftism = poison It's no more complicated than that.
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  7174. ​ @ivywild628  They simply believe that dishonesty and incompetence in the institutions would be exposed effectively by the established news media. Since it hasn't been, it must not exist. Therefore any of your experts, and any media platform which features them, must be a bunch of uninformed and misinformed cranks, almost certainly having a scary agenda and backed, moreover, by forces of evil. They're probably in theory willing to look at it in an entirely different way, but only if confronted with clear and overwhelming evidence offered by sources or people they trust, but they would only trust those whom they already trust—so a change in their outlook is virtually impossible. Classic textbook Catch-22. Sound about right?
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  7175.  @albback8176  Correction: About $12bn per 100 days. So your figure was exaggerated by about 8,333%. Dang, bro, you're just not very good at this.
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  7176. I question Times Radio handing over the job of keeping us informed of highly important news of the world to such a very young person, i.e. one with so very little experience and knowledge of that world, however accomplished for her age and of whatever long-term potential as a journalist. It's rather galling, really. Even somewhat insulting. It might be fitting for a special program for teenaged viewers, but that's not what this is.
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  7177. But then in certain countries how would every family still be able to have ten children?
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  7178.  @joeuser633  Thanks for your point of view, but I wasn't getting behind that article itself, which I haven't read, merely the legitimacy of publishing such a thing.
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  7179. We can see the licence plate was captured in the video (although blurred in this public release). So the cops presumably won't have a hard time finding her. Fingers crossed!
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  7180.  @rayrautio4011  Dude, omg, no!🙄 The female version of patriarchy already has a name: matriarchy.
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  7181. The more I learn about those Trudeau and Singh fellas, the more I don't care for them.
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  7182. Capitalism has provided the greatest flourishing of human life ever, by far. Around one-tenth of all the humans ever to live are alive today, thanks mainly to capitalism. And btw, there's virtually zero pure capitalism in effect worldwide. It's very heavily modified and regulated throughout the West, with wealth transfer on a great scale via taxation being only the most prominent modification.
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  7183. Don't worry about the oil purchases. Someone has to buy some Russian oil or the world will not have enough, and prices would likely reach something like $200 a barrel. Even NATO wants Russia to sell oil. The important thing, however, is that Russia receives the smallest possible payment. Please, India, do not pay Russia the full world price. Thanks for your comments, Kumar.👍
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  7184.  @gekyumes_dad  It was when the teacher explained it to the class. We all got it, so I guess we were all geniuses.🙄
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  7185.  @wendigo53  I didn't want to go into pinpoint detail, but there is also a zone between northern Ontario (traditionally defined as the area north of Lake Nipissing) and the Golden Horseshoe. Likewise in Quebec, there are zones not properly regarded as either the St. Lawrence valley or northern Quebec. The point is that there are not far from about 2 million people combined in the two provinces who live away from the southern regions, even if not all of them are typically regarded as part of "the north." In any case, it doesn't matter whether food is grown in a given area. If there is an economic reason for people to live somewhere, then food can and will be shipped in. If you need examples in order to understand this, consider places like Norway, Las Vegas and the Persian Gulf States, which simply import a lot of food from elsewhere. Local self-sufficiency in food was more an issue a lifetime or more ago.
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  7186. How about that chemical that's harmless but super-stinky and won't wash off? (Called "Stink 'n' Go"?) Severe nuisance for severe nuisance seems fair, proportional and justified. Let the stankification begin.
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  7187. According to a rumor, the murder happened following a dispute over who would shoot whom.
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  7188. In a Reuters article titled "Kremlin, in change of language, says Russia is 'at war' due to West's role in Ukraine" (March 22, 2024) the top Kremlin spokesman, Dmitriy Peskov, is quoted as publicly and explicitly changing the term to "war" on two occasions in March 2024. (No word on the 2022 law against calling it a war. 😄)
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  7189. I have something in my eye. Wait, no it's in both eyes.🇺🇦
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  7190.  @slundgr  If you can't find an American-made version of something, there are 190+ countries in the world, so the odds are it's made in more than one of them.
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  7191.  @andrewondon  Thanks for the Global Times point of view, Wu Mao.
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  7192.  @TheJusnic82  "99%"? No, that is a gross exaggeration. I have not had real problems cutting my spending on Chinese goods by over half. As we do it, alternatives will sprout up in response. After all, at one time it was hard to find Chinese stuff, wasn't it? Consumer choices encouraged it. Just let Chinese stuff remain on the shelves and it will be replaced. That's how business and the world works. Cheers. Update: The guy at my sporting goods store said everybody's asking for stuff not made in China. At my favourite clothing store there was all kinds of stuff from Turkey, Pakistan, Kenya (!), Bangladesh, everywhere. I haven't seen that in 15 years.
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  7193.  @andrewondon  Ok, Tongzhi.
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  7194.  linkzable  Acer computer, made in Taiwan. HTC phone, Giant bicycle, made in Taiwan. Long live a free Taiwan.
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  7195.  @williamghost1516  It was her van, btw. His car was back in Florida.
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  7196. You're forgetting there's a rest of the world. China would love to see the West involved chest-deep in Ukraine and depleted of ammo. Then it could waltz into Taiwan and maybe elsewhere as well. It was presumably no coincidence that Putzin and Xi's many long conversations took place in the run-up to the Ukraine invasion. It seems to me very possible Ukraine is a trap for NATO. I'm saying any reluctance to feed Ukraine what it wants right now is best explained by worries about Asia-Pacific.
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  7197.  @annahajas7664  Not just the Communist Party of China and the government it leads in perpetuity, but its many strong supporters, too. I'm glad to say they are a minority of the Chinese people.
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  7198. The message of the past few years is clear: Don't move to Chicago, don't invest there, don't visit.
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  7199.  @klientproby  Your reading comprehension was poor. I certainly did not say that anything you said was fake. Read each word individually.
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  7200. Everyone thinks a psychopath is an insane, violent and malicious monster. The term itself seems to suggest the worst type of person possible. It turns out the psychopath is a commonly a mere misfit, unhappy but quite sane, and probably just a victim of one or more abusive family members as an infant or toddler. They don't get anywhere in life, disappoint people, and are less giving than most—major shortcomings which nonetheless don't live up to the hype. Burglarizing a post office is rightly considered a serious crime, disappointing others is bad, etc., yet if this guy were the worst thing society had to deal with, we wouldn't be too badly off at all. I liked him more than I did his betters.
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  7201. I forgot about him wanting to shoot the doctor. That is very serious I suppose, but we weren't told he ever drew a gun.
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  7202. Honest title: Azovstal soldiers surrender, taken prisoner
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  7203. All good questions.
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  7204. Saw this in my feed. Sorry, but who are DW to lecture me on using my brain? 😂Preposterous. If I'd ever seen DW using its own brains effectively, I'd hear them out. But I haven't and I won't. So TTFN.
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  7205. Agreed. I perceive that he has surprises in store for the Pootster. That is, once he's elected and safely past the danger of the latter's malign efforts to affect the vote on Nov. 5. Carry on!
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  7206.  @martinepstein3332  Decide on what? On who wins? Did I say someone else will decide? Or did I say Americans may be unwittingly exposed to malign external influence? Help me out here, my laconic friend.
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  7207.  @martinepstein3332  I appreciate a straight answer, despite not sharing your faith. I think interference works, up to a point. Also, the election is far from a plebiscite on US support for Ukraine. Very, very far.
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  7208. Click the thumbs down button. Simple.
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  7209. And what about the G7 security guarantee pledge given to Ukraine this year? "Outlining how the G7 will support Ukraine over the long term, the joint statement said the countries will ensure 'a sustainable force capable of defending Ukraine now and deterring Russian aggression in the future' by providing modern military equipment across land, air and sea, training for Ukrainian forces, and intelligence sharing." — CNBC, July 12, 2023 " 'We will work with Ukraine on an enhanced package of security commitments and arrangements in case of future aggression to enable Ukraine to defend its territory and sovereignty,' the G7 said." — Reuters, July 12, 2023
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  7210. That moustache costs him a whole standard deviation of credibility. He looks like a fringe theatre set designer in a small city.
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  7211. 🙄🙄🙄So what? He is clearly an educated and knowledgeable man and I have no doubt he knew that. One could say "There's a lot of Kabuki dancing" in any context, not just a Japanese one. You could say it about UK-EU relations if you wished. You could say it about your boss and the assistant vice president of your company. 🙄🙄🙄
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  7212. Please don't say "ex-PEER-i-MENT-al." I know you didn't learn to pronounce that word like that until adulthood. Maybe it's not that big a deal, but maybe it's extremely weird to start pronouncing words in a previously unknown way, just because it's catching on with a minority of children and younger adults. It's "ex-PAIR-i-MENT-al."
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  7213.  @wilsonfisk6626  Watching TV makes a man dull. A woman, at least as much.
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  7214.  @Superpooper-2020  [Revised version of my remarks, not using the name of a certain country, to replace disappeared one:] Please take over the global lead in manufacturing from [country name redacted, replaced by substitute phrase:] your appalling neighbour. That should take care of hunger problems in India. I wish you the best, sir!
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  7215.  @sliwka621  Of course it's biodiesel and I'm sure he understands that perfectly and approves of it as environmentally wise. He's only pointing out that it's inappropriate for the food system.
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  7216.  @stevepalpatine2828  Quite right. Projection, which is squinting to see wickedness in others that you subconsciously know plagues you yourself, is beginning to seem like the chief social and psychological plague of our times. The far left accuse everyone else of hate; they are the most hate-filled of all. They accuse whites (I mean other whites) of racism while directly spreading race hatred themselves. Feminists condemn men for sexism while never tiring of rank sexism themselves. Beware him or her who calls everyone else liars. Ten to one they're the most mendacious themselves. I'm hardly immune to it myself. The only defence is constant self-scrutiny. When was the last time you saw any evidence of a 'progressive' doing that? Never, I assert, for ditching self-scrutiny is their motivation in the first place. I call them the New Puritans. I think you'll agree it takes quite some time to begin seeing this. Cheers and keep it up---your civilization needs you.
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  7217. Federico Fellini called. He wants his bizarre-looking extra from the sanatorium scene in 8½ back.
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  7218. The plural of aircraft is aircraft. People who write for a living are supposed to know things like that.🙄
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  7219.  @phoenixtoash2396  I hereby nominate you for the 2024 "So What You're Saying Is" Cathy Newman Award.
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  7220.  @Professor-Gerdes  I did listen to him. I watched every one of his Ukraine videos for over a year until he went off the rails on Elon Musk and Republicans. And I did listen to you. And I've listened to many others. And I've determined what fits best. "We all have perspective," you say. Do you include me in that?
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  7221. You make some good points (and I commend you heartily for correct and apt use of the word admittance.😄) But mark my words, when Trump desires to enter Canada, he will — with the full, prompt and unconditional approval of the Canadian govt. He will attend the G7 leaders' summit in Canada next June, you may depend upon it; and if he wants to visit as president-elect, he will do that too. One must always maintain one's sense of realism. As for the threatened tariffs, I consider it very unlikely that they will be imposed, but not because they are ridiculous and unreasonable. Rather, I expect the threat will be withdrawn when Trudeau makes concessions on tightening the border from our side, as, in the circumstances, he certainly ought to. (We shall see if he obtains any reciprocal concessions, as he likewise ought to.)
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  7222.  @pacmancdi  I saw it there yesterday.
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  7223.  @RommelsAsparagus  I wonder if you were able to see my reply of 4 days ago.
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  7224.  @Tubluer  Please, this is no yolking matter.🤨
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  7225. "Man's oldest foe" — Montgomery Burns
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  7226. Kringela
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  7227. That's how wars are lost, no? :(
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  7228. The Canadian Tire nearest me, a very large store, has 100% self-checkouts.
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  7229. Berkshire has sold most of its BYD stake. Apparently Mr. Munger saw what you cannot see.
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  7230. What makes that nosy neighbour think he's in charge?🙄
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  7231.  @karlmaxwell9277  Thanks for your reply. I'm in pretty close agreement with all of that. As a quibble I would point out that Valium and Xanax aren't in the same category as benzos; they are benzos. (Xanax is a benzo plus an extra molecule or something.) Last point: As with almost every addictive drug, lots of people can stop benzodiazepines with no real difficulty. Lots. Too bad scientists don't yet understand why, or we'd be much further ahead.
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  7232.  @RodCorkin  It's possible that, across the West, the bill for it all and the wealth destroyed will mean the pandemic (which has some way yet to go) will ultimately rival the Second World War for sheer expense. It's already in the tens of trillions and could still mushroom much higher if it tips asset prices downhill. Let 200m houses lose $100k in value and that's $20t. A 30% haircut to the world's stock markets would be $30t. You get the idea.
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  7233. (1) Brilliant. (I think she pronounced her last name FLAIRD-ing-er-broke, btw.) (2)  She's an especially great peer role model for young people, given that they don't have many that aren't on the left. (3) Forgive my speculating, but it wouldn't really surprise me if suddenly Dave isn't strictly gay anymore.
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  7234. Smart. I say that because 8,000 square miles is nothing. The Arab countries have 5,070,000 square miles and I don't see how having 5,078,000 would greatly improve things for them.
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  7235. Stock footage error. Who cares? (Answer: No one, really, except pedants.)
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  7236.  @ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz  No discount of any kind then? No sweating long nights to get shares cheaper or anything? Nothing? Edit: If so, I never had that either. Ok, so it's options I have in mind. Those work like crazy. Even a receptionist will become a geyser of energy with those.
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  7237. I think what's probably going on are revenge killings by Russian troops in response to civilians picking off Russians by the hundreds in occupied territories. Every second building has a Ukrainian with a light or heavy weapon in one of its windows or doorways. Don't enter Ukraine without an invitation.
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  7238.  @johnbennett7407  A typo, surely? 47 is just unbelievable for such a callow person. On a number keypad the 4 is next to the 1.
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  7239. I really like that she took the gangway steps two at a time. But I heartily deplore that dress uniform. Does the navy really not have a suit of clothes for a woman? On top of that it fit her terribly. A bit of a disgrace, really.
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  7240. Careful. They could be on the job many weeks after giving notice. I would double-check on that.
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  7241. I'm almost certain they're sisters.
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  7242.  @sobrcelt  Both pretty, but the one on the left, I could look at her face for the rest of my life.
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  7243. Matt, I strongly support your work on this channel but, sorry, your innuendo against Elon Musk is misguided. Dealing with foreign manipulation on X is not straightforwardly done. It is extremely complex and difficult. Foreign resources, like China's for example, are immense, and they're only one of the countries seeking to subvert X in various ways. The whole world is trying to game Western big social media. You need to give X some time.
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  7244. It's the instinct of the totalitarian or tyrant to deceive with words, and it's this which the left wing is impressed by and emulates. They must thoroughly admire the bald-faced dishonesty of the long-winded "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" with its spectacular triple-untruth.
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  7245. This has not "weaken usa internstional image" at all. It just provides for the world yet more confirmation of the sinister nature of the communist government of China. Not that any more was needed.
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  7246.  @geoffallibone1414  Do you have any idea how foolish you sound? This just begs for some ridicule... Perfectly sane and well-balanced man, more clever than average [looks up at clear sky]: "They predicted rain for today, but I think they were wrong." You [sneering, sputtering]: "Believe the science! Conspiracy theorist! QAnon! Trumper! Educate yourself! [Gestures with one hand at rolled-up copy of The New York Times in other hand.] Educate yourself!" [Exits, proud and pleased ('chuffed') as can be.]
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  7247. World to Trudeau: "You suck, buddy." I wanted to distill it down to just six words. I hope I did ok.
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  7248. Europe has a straightforward Hobson's choice before it, luckily one which is affordable: Start paying cash for all the American weaponry Ukraine needs. (Although it's not possible to be certain, I see no reason why Trump would institute an arms embargo on Ukraine.) Over 500m people can come up with $50-100bn a year. Situation saved.
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  7249. And then, in order to halt it, Trudeau rescinded the measures. He just can't make a move that isn't to shut people up and prevent them criticizing him. He literally stole senators' chance to have their constitutionally-enshrined say on a legislative matter of the highest importance.
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  7250. Forgetting that a sizeable minority voted the other way? Slow down with that bucket of tar and big ol' brush.
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  7251. It's very obvious to me that Ukraine's grain would be earmarked for China. China relies on Western grain, although in slowly declining amounts, to put chicken and pork on Chinese tables. (Most of it is used as animal feed.) This reliance is a major factor keeping it out of Taiwan; likewise a major reason it green-lighted the Ukraine invasion. The US Navy, obviously, couldn't block overland exports of grain to China.
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  7252. INGSOC in 1984 was of course a left party as well.
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  7253. 1:00:15 The questioner, making a show of disrespect that surely played well with all her friends, taxes Scaramucci with hypocrisy for esteeming party loyalty whilst decrying political division. She does it with a rudeness scarcely possible to attain without one's considering oneself rather wonderful and indisputably righteous. Fellow audience members acted in a similar, for me regrettable, way. But as I'm not on Scaramucci's side politically, it was for other reasons that I cringed and felt disappointed for all those present to witness it. I invite anyone to speculate whether she would have been the least bit critical of another speaker taking the same stance were she fully congenial to his or her politics. My own speculation is that, no, had such a speaker said that division threatens us gravely, but we of the left, we women, we feminists, progressives, etc. must stand together, her rejoinder to Mr. Scaramucci would never have crossed her mind. It's not easy to feel sorry for her, for I think she'll have an easy time of carrying on in this manner for some years, perhaps decades. In our times, loathsome and pitiable as she may strike us at certain moments, she is actually much to be envied in many ways. I well remember my own hypocrisy during my youth. The trait is endemic in the young, for hypocrisy is on sale at a deep discount for a number of years following the onset of adolescence, in the anglosphere of the present lifetime anyway. Going easy on oneself, which is what hypocrisy amounts to, has many attractions, until at last its costs catch up with you. The sooner that happens the better.
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  7254.  @Bern1808  Generous of you. I way overwrote that. Covid isolation days and I had 11 weeks of the long version, thinking I might cack. It was hell in there. I sound fevered. I should have just said this shows how it's the golden age of hyperpartisanship and a sad lack of high-minded disinterestedness, what Orwell wonderfully called 'party feeling.'
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  7255. ​ @justintyme2451  It's disheartening to listen to a clearly intelligent person repeating top Google hits and Kirsten Gillibrand talking points as though they constitute accurate information. It's years past the time we could trust the way we formerly could. Realizing that is painful, like adjusting to bright light, but the only other choice is to cover our eyes. And before you reflexively accuse me of being a Republican, far-rightist or Fox devotee, I'm none of those things. I'm politically homeless in the center. You risk a horrifying encounter with harsh reality like Germany has just experienced, and similar regret.
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  7256.  @katwin659  I agree with all of that except your assertion that a switch to electric vehicles would devastate the US economy. That would only happen if it were accomplished by importing them from China, a thing which must be opposed and prevented at all costs. It must be remembered that a rapid and orderly move away from carbon energy depends entirely on prosperity and stability. As it is, the future of coal suddenly burns far more brightly thanks to Putin's stark raving lunacy.
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  7257.  @gp7910  Actually Trudeau is very pro-oil sands and pro-pipelines. Never mind what he says for the ears of his supporters, nor his piffling revenue-neutral carbon tax similarly aimed at their sentimentalism. He supported the XL, he supports the Trans Mountain, he supported the Energy East, and he has no intention of letting Alberta oil sit in the ground. He's the slyest thing I've seen in Canada in my life. Do not listen to what he says. Watch what he does.
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  7258.  @katwin659  No they cannot, but more affordable models will come. In the case of Tesla, its investments are being recovered from profits and its costs are headed rapidly lower despite current inflationary pressures. "Right now" are the key words in your question. Lower average after-inflation prices are on the way.
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  7259. Lines are ten times funnier on Family Guy when they come from another room. They just are.
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  7260.  @timrider1224  I agree with your view. There are other interviews and social media posts of his which evinced the same sentiment, but they've been ignored. I think his main aim has been to shrewdly avoid a hawkish stance against Russia, as Putin's interference could tip a very close election.
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  7261.  @fritzbodhi3220  That's silly. The people of the US are Americans, despite what people who hate them (like you) say.
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  7262. That lack of confidence is justified. Canada, the UK, and Israel are at 73, 70, and 68% vaccinated right now, and 66, 62, and 63% double-vaccinated. Yet thousands of new infections a day: 2.5k, 33k, and 7.7k, among populations of 38m, 68m, and 9m. Still light restrictions in Canada and the UK despite the infections, but then we're not barking mad like Oz, are we? You guys would be under virtual mass house arrest, with soldiers in the streets. [Numbers from Our World in Data (vax coverage), Worldometer (7-day avg. new infections)] Note that those vaccine coverage numbers include young children, who are ineligible. Counting only the eligible, it's in the 80s/70s. Sorry to say it, but you don't appear to have a hope.
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  7263. Pretty close. It's a plain red flag. "In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of left-wing politics, including socialism, communism, Marxism, labour movement, and anarchism." — Wikip.
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  7264. Are there limits? What if a special house would cost a million dollars? Should she get it? And if her medicine were another million a year? There's probably all kinds of people dying every day who could survive longer if we ponied up a further million for intense medical care. I don't think this is entirely a new thing or a Canadian thing. They quietly commit suicide where there's no legal process for it. Also, people should be allowed to die if there's no hope and their life is pure misery. People with ALS often just want to die after they lose basically all functioning. There may or may not be a scandal here. Probably, I guess, but not necessarily.
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  7265. You: "Misanthropy is a horrible idea. Let's promote it!"
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  7266. Just like in Afghanistan and Iraq? Your comment is what they call in the study of argumentation an "isolated demand for rigour."
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  7267.  @kitty2527  I appreciate your kind words. There's light at the end of the tunnel.
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  7268.  @BelloBudo007  At the very least Russia will bleed itself dry. And for nothing. As a nuclear power Russia was always safe from NATO and always would be. It did this for nothing. Putin did this for nothing.
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  7269. He looks like he drinks heavily and doesn't sleep much. That weird colour of his hair indicates that he dyes it. Lying forever has twisted his mouth into a spectacularly meandering curve.
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  7270. If Piers was indulging prior to the interview, as it seemed he had done, that was unprofessional. But it was a solidly good hour in any case.
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  7271. "Cold, cruel and small" is rich coming from the ironically-named Ms. Freeland!😮 All the left-of-centre politicians do is project their own atrocious qualities onto conservatives. (Their bought-and-paid-for media cheerleaders do the same.) Her name really should be Marie "Let Them Eat Bugs" Antoinette-Freeland.
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  7272. ​ @randychristensen7173  I can't stand that sort of thing. They wave it around during an election campaign and weak supporters eagerly lap it up and send them a vote, even if it never made it to the platform. It never comes to fruition, but the suckers say "Well, they couldn't bring it in because of rich people and Republicans." Meanwhile there was never any intention to institute it. Dumb suckers are going to be the end of democracy. The voting age should be raised again.
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  7273. Twitter: Suspends the Babylon Bee account Elon: "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
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  7274. I think he understands Russia and even Putin fairly well. In the war he sympathizes with Ukraine and thinks Russia is in the wrong, but he understands the Russian perspective and thinks that weak understanding of it has led to strategic mistakes on the part of the West. He also thinks (wrongly, in my view) that it's impossible for Ukraine to win. In this way he resembles Elon Musk, who strongly sides with Ukraine and has made enormous donations to help it defend itself, but thinks that Russia is somewhat justified from its own point of view and, like Peterson, that Ukraine can't win. Of course, if one thinks that struggling any further will be pointless and can only mean greater death and destruction, the best course logically is to sue for peace.   I disagree with them, but they're not stupid, they're not "jokes," and they are good men. I think they're influenced up to a point (and with considerable justification) by respect and admiration for certain aspects (not all) of Russian society and culture — but not of Putin. Musk I am sure despises Putin thoroughly. Peterson perhaps not quite as much, I don't know. His profession teaches the avoidance of black-and-white character assessments except rarely. I do worry that neither of them questions the publicly-made Russian case enough. For my part I think it's exaggerated to the point of being spurious, despite its core of easy plausibility. If it were completely sound, all Russia (or 95%) would accept it and back it, yet a large minority of perhaps one-third or more do not. Finally, it's possible that they have zero conviction that NATO will see things through. Again, such a belief would necessitate the view that the war should end now rather than later. It's not my own view, but NATO has its believers and its non-believers. Many are totally surprised it's still backing Ukraine at this point and expect it to give up at any time. Not me. I see quiet and shrewd resolve in NATO and adroitness in its actions to date. It's my belief that Russia is on a slippery slope to defeat not hugely different from the 1989 defeat in Afghanistan. But I bet both Peterson and Musk are better-informed than I am.
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  7275. "China have no homeless" Haha, thanks for the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman point of view, i.e., a very false claim.
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  7276. "Looked after well" And it will be, won't it? Yep. For sure. No running water, low-functioning tenant, maximum odds of chaos, but yeah.
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  7277.  @ButterfatFarms  These comments are mind-blowing. There may be one or two of these things that's intensely well-funded and babysat that works out not too horribly, but overall it's going to be a disaster. And the authorities in charge of them will defend them to the hilt and claim with a straight face that they're a success. And who am I to say so? Someone who, alas, knows everything there is to know about homelessness.
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  7278. Puffiness is often a sign of illness (e.g. a side effect of cancer treatments) and he looks somewhat like a Michelin man. And I agree: if he were 50 this wouldn't be happening. He's in that dangerous legacy obsession phase. (So is Xi. They're both almost 70.)
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  7279.  @syphe101  I don't get you. You reply to me, but you agree with him on his accusation aimed at me, addressing me in the 3rd person. And you also throw in that you're a native-born Canadian. Maximally puzzling. Clarify if you're so inclined.
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  7280.  @maximusvaliant8597  Another strange reply. Dunno what the h you're talking about.
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  7281. Up to a point, I suppose. Except that the majority of people are fooled by excellent marketing teams. 😄
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  7282. That's inarguably true. But countries donating or selling weapons to Ukraine do have the right to ask for agreement not to use them on Russian soil. Fair or unfair, it's those countries' right and Ukraine can voluntarily give their agreement or not. So it's really two separate areas. 🇺🇦 May they prevail over Russia, by hook or by crook, sooner rather than later.🇺🇦
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  7283. We should be able to set our preferences on Sort by Newest! In a way it means Sort by Most Real.
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  7284. 😁Love your low-key dry sarcasm. 👏
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  7285. And now with Mental Illness Chic an additional problem, the difficulties multiply. A significant minority of the young, considering mental stability 'boring', try to outdo each other in the severity and number of their maladies. (Stephen Fry didn't help when some years ago he said publicly that if offered a cure for his bipolar disorder, he'd definitely turn it down. 🙄)
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  7286. Like it or not, if you want to talk to the world on a single occasion, English is the language to do it in. It's the lingua franca. Billions of people know at least a little of it now. It is definitely the second language of Europe especially.
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  7287.  @LargeBlueCircle  👏👏
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  7288.  @dragononwall8733  Your last sentence strikes me as good English composed of simple and familiar words articulated with agreeable metre and on the whole admirably well written, yet it baffles me. Don't take this as a complaint though. It's more of a comment, really.
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  7289. Yes, and in fact he was touring an apple orchard and the farmer handed him an apple. He was eating it when the reporter began speaking to him.
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  7290.  @Obscurai  "Because immigrants are domestic labor." Quite a neat line in sophistry there, like saying an imported widget is domestically sourced because it was purchased from an import wholesaler.
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  7291. Be right there. We'll liberate you. We'll liberate you good. — Xi Jin Ping
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  7292. Justin Trudeau: Shameless, self-serving, corrupt, lisping punk. And those are his better qualities.
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  7293.  @moniqueengleman873  Ok, "stopping is death." Except when not stopping is death.
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  7294. "The world looks to us, the college students, for leadership."  — guy on The Simpsons explaining to Homer why everyone was packing up and going back to school from Spring Break
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  7295. Hahaha Brilliantly well put. You deserve a good writing job if you want one and don't have it yet. Tone, idiom, rhythm, pacing, rhetorical force, mastery of meaning, almost microscopically faultless usage, sense coherence, it's all there—the works.👏 America needs more You. The world needs more You, for that matter.
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  7296.    Yeah, I hear the lilt and every once in a while a trace of a Canadian vowel; also, very often clear signs of a mind and ethos I recognize as Canadian Gen-X. But I never would have guessed in a million years that he doesn't work alone. Every bit of the intellect and personality he reveals to us argues lone wolf... except for, I guess—and this is the part I missed—the fact that he wants to be with us, his audience. (Bonus speculation, just for fun: I bet he's left-handed.)
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  7297. CNN: All Rectum, All The Time.
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  7298.  @derbyd10  It's neither obscure nor trendy. It might be fair to call it journalese though. I've only ever read or heard it on the news (since forever).
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  7299. Govt's sometimes charge you tax on tax.🙄 Coming soon: Businesses try to make you pay a tip on your tip.😂 Yeah, it's out of control. Some cashiers want tips now and I won't go along.
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  7300. Can't say much for his drag king opponent in this discussion, who says "in-ack-er-it". 😂 (His version of 'inaccurate.') And like his woke comrades, whenever clearly busted he whips out the word "nuance" as a get out of jail free card. So nauseating when dull-witted and sanctimonious people pretend to be smart.
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  7301. Public respect for Case Western just went way up.
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  7302. Laowhy and Serpentza are highly skilled, talented, intelligent and experienced men who could easily be doing other high-paying high-status jobs. As it is they are doing a valuable service to people outside China, exposing its negative direction under the CCP. With such a huge number of followers, I'm sure they're well paid, which is great, since they're honest and outstanding guys.
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  7303. Fairly good report, but some inaccuracies. The border bridge protest hasn't blocked it for two weeks—check the figures, it's been 5 days. And the Parliament Hill protest hasn't "paralyzed" Ottawa. That's anti-protest hyperbole you've mistakenly borrowed. We're talking about several blocks of downtown having trucks illegally parked, that's about it. In most places within that small area a lane is still open, permitting traffic.
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  7304. ​ @MethodiousMind  It's a tactic of rulers known throughout the ages, because ever since they've applied abusive force to their people they've faced the problem of police or soldiers who quite understandably don't want to abuse the people amongst whom they have always lived and will continue to live. It's repugnant to any mentally and morally healthy human being, including police and soldiers, to abuse people in the first place, but add the further complication that the people live on their own street, and even the terrible ones won't want to do it. So, as you suggest, you get them from out of town or out of province or state. At Kent State almost none of the National Guardsmen were from Kent. Occasionally they're sourced from abroad: King George III hired Germans to push around his American subjects (they were called Hessians). In the present war in Ukraine, Putin has brought in Chechens, who are neither Ukrainians nor really Russians (although Chechnya is unfortunately part of the Russian state). If you can't easily get local authorities to act and thus source them from elsewhere, it's highly likely you're doing something that's not right.
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  7305. Communism is like smoking. You can only get kids to start. Impressionable, not-very-secure kids. Then they might smoke for five years of for life.  But you can never get a 35-year-old hooked on such silliness.
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  7306. Imagine if someone kidnapped five of his sons. I suppose you'd publicly urge him to negotiate to get three back?
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  7307.  @rara-yp5pq  You'd love it if I were British wouldn't you, rabid Anglophobe as you are? Sorry, old girl/boy. But hey, how bad can England be if they serve beer to demented pensioners in homes there?
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  7308.  @rara-yp5pq  Got it wrong again. I'm ok with Brexit and do not answer to the least bit of your description of "the only people who are." Not everyone is a toon. You must learn that, as you must still learn so much else. Stick to your highly significant worldwide projects if that's what you're good at. All the best with them.
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  7309.  @sifridbassoon  The thief could get a small amount of money for the wheel or trade it for something. It's highly unlikely the motive was not gain.
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  7310. Russian Army recruiter: "Do you know what I mean when I say Drone-Launched Mortar Munition?" Nervous Russian hillbilly: "No, not really." Recruiter: "You are Motherland's newest hero. Congratulations. Phone your parents to saying good-bye."
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  7311. Here in Canada we can relate. We have PM Peter Pan, the Condemner-in-Chief.
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  7312. It sounds like Bob Iger isn't the greatest friend to have. And I'm not at all surprised. I suggest finding some new ones.
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  7313.  @kurtpena5462  For someone who isn't afraid to call himself smart you have little understanding of how and why, for legal and commercial reasons, companies come to be regarded as monopolies. It's almost as if you believe, as liberals do generally, that to be a liberal is automatically to be good, intelligent, learned and just plain right. Tell me honestly: if a liberal and a conservative both commit the same crime, which one deserves a worse sentence?
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  7314. Another damaging blow to Canada's reputation. The Economist is read weekly by the cream of the world's decision-makers in business and governments. In positive news, a new Abacus poll shows the Conservatives have more support than the NDP and the Liberals combined.👏👏👏 (43% > 19% + 21%)
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  7315. Peterson says Ukraine can't win, but if he is going to define victory for Ukraine as expelling the Russian army without suffering casualties and without having their country half-flattened by bombs, well then of course they can't win. The expression "Duh!" was invented for responding to just such pronouncements. But victory can also be defined as expelling the Russians and retaining the sovereignty to join alliances as they see fit. The world can indeed say no to Putin, and already has.
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  7316.  @bearram9481  Me too, and I think we can depend upon it.
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  7317. It amazes me that anyone wants to pay that.  I'd feel sick twice over: once from eating the food, once from knowing the money I just blew.
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  7318. Russia is going to get itself bombed. I think Ukraine should start with its bases, focusing on destroying its air fleet. Instead of destroying assets which the Kremlin cares very little about—its tanks, APCs and the fifth-rate personnel within them—it should go after those it cares greatly about. It should also destroy Russian energy infrastructure and escalate its cyberattacks. If all this is combined with air defense, the point should register with Russia that the pain is going to start going both ways.
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  7319. His Royal Vagesty? Is that going too far? No, that's too much. I'm not doing that one.
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  7320. He once lifted and threw a huge sumo wrestler during a match.
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  7321.  @ellenrittgers990  Neil Patrick Harris: "Starting to feel just a little torn. Actually 'Neil Patrick Harrison' sounds really nice."
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  7322.  @Bonez0r  Yeah, she does look a bit embalmed. Still, she's no Joe Bidet for corpse-face-yness.
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  7323. There's got to be a better way to say that. Musk is not a woman. (Try 'the smartest person in the room'.)
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  7324.  @Лапша-ш5ж  Yep, absolutely. Canada has immense capacity and potential to churn out wheat, oil, fertilizer and all the stuff Russia sells. (Except arms). Just watch Canada turn it up in the coming months and years.
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  7325. It seemed like different side of her.
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  7326. Mein Kampf 2.0 😂
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  7327. Says a guy who can't even spell his own name. It's Ian Barmy , obviously.
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  7328.  @ianbalmy6992  Thanks for your reply. That's a mess of a rejoinder, my dear fellow. Little old Oxford Dictionaries has the idea that balmy means "pleasantly warm". Who doesn't know that anyway? The same humble lexicography outfit defines barmy thus: "Mad; crazy; extremely foolish" As for my screen name, take your best shot. Only a man secure in his staff-stoutness is going to cheerfully risk choosing one like it. (Since you brought it up, it comes from eponymous characters in Kingsley Amis (_Lucky Jim_ Dixon) and Evelyn Waugh (_The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold_.) Ya know, your original comment doesn't bug me so much now. On the whole I'd agree he ought to knock those things off his face. I guess I took a comment seriously because I found it struck me as serious itself. I mean I thought you were trolling him. Cheers.
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  7329. Dana Perino's right. Here's the mass media covering inflation: [As it was rising] "Don't worry, it's transitory. Biden's got this." [As soon as it started falling] "It's all better now. See? We told you it was nothing." They ignored the flagrant fact that it pummelled the US standard of living.
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  7330. If being at work dealing with customers is so deadly, why are so many grocery store workers still alive? If it's so deadly, why are customers/clients/club members risking their lives to show up? Why is providing a service deadly, but buying a service not deadly? And if you're worried it's so deadly, why not get vaccinated?
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  7331.  @dirthotch1982  You're assuming he/she/it has friends.
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  7332.  @lboogy85  "Romans are the descendants of Esau. Esau was black." My learning on this has been desultory, but what I've gathered from belle-lettres and other literary and historical sources is that the Romans were a Germanic people who migrated over the Alps, commonly blue-eyed and yellow-haired. Their name for the German lands, Germania, basically means "the land of those related," or loosely, "land of our cousins." Cp. the modern word "germane" (relevant, related, akin). The Germans themselves of course never used that word. As in many languages, their name for themselves just means 'people.' I would of course bow to the findings of geneticists conducting haplographic studies or to any other cogent academic case.
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  7333.  @roygeorge5364  I don't get why everyone here's assuming the dad was a donor. Many gay couples adopt. EDIT: By donor I meant plastic cup donor.
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  7334.  @fukpoeslaw3613  At last we are in agreement.
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  7335. Three weeks ago: "Twitter is a private company. No one can tell it what to do! Back off!" Now: "Elon Musk can't do this! Government, do something!—stop him!"
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  7336. Especially if their own side has been cutting prisoners' bits off.🤨 Yer either a genuine skeptic, a bot, or just not terribly fast. Out of A, B or C, I'm not going with A.
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  7337. Not so well worded, in my view. Perhaps you had in mind extreme right-wing ideology? In which case the salient observation ought to be that Extremes Meet.
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  7338. I remember that happening when I went for a job interview at a bank and they gave me the Wonderlic. Three out of 50 were like that. I got all three wrong.
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  7339.  @Rocksteady246  Actually 42 nations from 5 continents took part, including 12 from outside NATO. And the operation was in fact under the auspices of the UN Security Council, which voted unanimously to approve it ("United Nations Security Council resolution 1386, adopted unanimously on 20 December 2001"). Result of the vote: "15 voted in favour. None voted against. None abstained." Yes, Russia voted in favour. Yes, China voted in favour. ISAF, the International Security Assistance Force was thus formed. It comprised troops from Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Oceania.
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  7340. ​@Dave-gy5mv Russia had one of the world's largest and most powerful armies. It attacked a far smaller and weaker neighbour. Now, 26 months later, its army is in poor shape, has lost an incredible number of men and stunning amount of equipment, and controls less Ukrainian territory than it did in the summer of 2022. The economic costs have far surpassed 100 trillion roubles. Tell me, Mr. Davidovich, why is Russia doing so poorly? It looks to me like the Ukraine War is the Afghanistan 1979-89 War version 2.0. Prepare for defeat. Then prepare for 1991, version 2.0. 😩
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  7341.  @jeffmaxwell7391  The number of soldiers in an army does not equate to its effectiveness. Likewise the number of its tanks or other pieces of equipment. These are realities not lost on even the greenest cadet.
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  7342. @Why Not Put Salt In Your Eyes Congratulations, you've just earned a place in the Guinness Book of Feeble Comebacks. That's something they can never take away from you.
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  7343. @Why Not Put Salt In Your Eyes You know I'm right about Harvard. It eats away at your conscience. That's why you care what I think and say.
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  7344. As soon as I hear "military industrial complex" I know I'm dealing with an intellectually impaired person. The phrase comes from the US in the 1950s when the US armed forces were absolutely enormous — far, far bigger than in the present day. Twice the total enlistment at a time when the US had half the population, so 4x bigger. The US military and the companies supplying it really were running the country in some ways. Imagine today if the US armed forces were 6-million strong with a budget of $3.6trn. So to invoke such a phrase today is simply nonsense. The soft drinks industry is far larger than the military supply business in the US. And to associate it with Canada, which has nearly no military, is especially absurd.
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  7345. This has nothing to do with (1) old planes: 15.6 years is not old by aviation standards, it's average; (2) refurbing or prefabbing overseas: CRJs were made new from scratch in Montreal and Toronto; (3) Boeing: the planes' designer and manufacturer was Bombardier Aerospace, not Boeing.
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  7346. ​ @issadraco532  I believe you are correct. The attempt seems to be to heat the frog to just below a simmer and neutralize but not actually cook it. A very tricky sous vide stunt, really, and I'm not sure whether its like has ever been successfully pulled off.
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  7347. I applaud Australia's intention to bolster its Spice Agency. Spice has never been more important.
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  7348. 1) Unfriendly fire.😄 2) What on earth sort of ship was that?
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  7349.  @West_Coast_Mainline  To my surprise I did find the answer elsewhere: It's a submarine rescue/salvage ship. (Or was, I'm not sure.)
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  7350. Danill is such a good journalist he'll never find a job in journalism. 😕 All the best to you nonetheless, bro.
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  7351. I'd say she's more of a plankton-like life form than an actual plant.
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  7352. You're probably right. But NPDs and BPDs are often pretty charming, and today's young are almost uniformly charmless, so I don't know. Maybe it's time to name a new personality disorder.
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  7353. Stop waving your gawddam hands!
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  7354. I'd say intuition is more a faculty in aid of discovery than a direct way of knowing. It belongs in the service of rational thought a good deal more than the other way around. It's rather like a river, while thought is the irrigation system which uses it to grow crops.
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  7355. ...and also as nutty, don't forget that.
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  7356.  @dudleyvandergriff8174  Hey man, pass that to me before it's gone. I gotta try a hit.
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  7357. I'm not at all sure that many Russians yearn to breathe free. Decades ago I knew a Ukrainian man who was born before the Second World War. In mid-life he left with his family for the West. He summed up the Russian people with these words: "Born to be ruled."
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  7358. Who's that?
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  7359. Mexican border seizures in comparison, past 24 months: over 106,000% higher
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  7360. Yet I remember Australian police a couple of years ago easily summoning the strength to pepper-spray a little girl in the face for not wearing a face-mask (outside a shopping plaza, no less). Yep, a whole squad of them. So don't call them 'weak'!
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  7361. Very punchable face. :) The nose is quite tempting, but I think I'd go for the mouth, where his loathsome utterances come out.
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  7362. The American narrative style is cheesy and tries to tug at your heartstrings every two seconds. Embarrassing.
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  7363. I think Russia is headed for a lot of regret. The news that the oligarchs are forming their own Wagner-style PMCs (private military companies) is a highly ominous sign. For the sake of world as well as Russian stability Putin should withdraw from Ukraine. It's best if he remains in power for now and arranges an orderly power transition over the next year or two. The world does not want Russia fragmenting.
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  7364. ​ @istvanglock7445  Because it's still too early. But AI—specifically AGI (artificial general Intelligence, meaning AI that's at least as smart as a smart human)—is going to really turn things upside down, perhaps making life fantastic. (Also maybe getting all of us violently wiped out.) AI advancement, it is said, is going to go wildly exponential. Once AGI is achieved it will take off quickly under its own power, so to speak. One day it'll finally be as smart as an average professor; a month later it'll be rewriting Shakespeare in a far superior fashion; then after another month it'll be as smart as a hyper-intelligent alien. A further week later and it'll be as smart as God. I'm not trying to be accurate and precise, I'm trying to give the general idea. If such a pathway came to pass, environmental problems would be addressed quickly—as long as, I stress, the AGI does not decide to kill us all. Survival in that case would be impossible. This is the real reason Elon Musk wants a human colony on Mars. It's not really so much about asteroids, nuclear war or new deadly plagues. Stephen Hawking, too, said that AGI could be extremely dangerous to the existence of humanity. Go up to the search box and enter "hawking danger of artificial intelligence."
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  7365. 🙄Omg. Now, for an encore, see if you can say something even more jingoistic. Come on, I wanna see you try.
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  7366. Brilliant idea. I wouldn't want to get in a contract dispute with you. :)
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  7367. Michael Shellenberger is very solid in my view. Courage, brains and a very civilized person's idea of fairness. It's sad and speaks volumes that I can only name one off the top of my head, though, isn't it?
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  7368. Isn't 87k views far below the Triggernometry norm? Appears that way to me. If so, it's a pretty obvious case of algorithmic cloaking (i.e. they're keeping it out of people's suggested videos, which is a shameful thing to do).
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  7369. That's an argument for the abolition of all laws, and a very, very poor one at that.
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  7370. Under capitalism, one person exploits another person. Under communism, it's the other way around. 🤣
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  7371. The whole Wagner mutiny had an unreal and staged air. Perhaps the whole point was to move Wagner into Belarus so that (1) it could attack Poland and the NATO supply lines into Ukraine (2) then, against NATO retaliation on Belarus, twofold nuclear retaliation could be threatened—by Belarus itself with the nuclear weapons said to been moved there; also by Russia, putatively in defense of Belarus under the CIS treaty; (3) with Ukraine isolated in this way, it could then be rapidly defeated.
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  7372. No, I think you're right. I don't want to be super-critical here, so I'll just say she seemed nice; however, quite inexperienced.
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  7373. I call her Dr. Hamas.
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  7374. ​ @joannewilson6577  (1) I am intensely partisan in favor of Ukraine, but his points of view, although I disagree with him, were nonetheless legitimate and not pro-Russian but rather anti-war. I regret to say he may eventually be proved right. His belief is that Ukraine cannot win and will simply be destroyed at a great cost in lives. His proposal was to halt hostilities and hold binding referendums in the occupied areas, including Crimea, under the direct supervision of the UN. If the people voted against being part of Russia, then Russia would permanently withdraw. There are now problems with such an idea, since Ukrainians have fled in the meantime and Russians have moved in to replace them. But at the time it was more reasonable. The "will of the people" would've resulted in a Russian withdrawal, which I think would be ideal. (I hope your placement of quote marks around the phrase the will of the people was not a sneer, btw. In a free and democratic society the will of the people is a highly respectable principle, perhaps highest of all. If it so happened that, before the conflict began in 2014, a clean referendum would've resulted in a majority voting to separate and join Russia, I think that probably should've been respected, at the very least as a basis for negotiations. In Canada in 1995, Quebec separation was rejected by a mere 50.5% to 49.5% margin. At the time Canada would've respected a narrow Yes win. A clean referendum is better than a war.) (2) No one despises Russian bots on Western social media more than me. But they are everywhere, including countless hordes of them on this platform. It's a terrible problem, because it dares us to hold on to the openness and freedom of our system and society at the expense of the propagandization of our people. In the past we have partially shelved free speech and accepted systematic repression of opinion only during wartime. (Such repression via private media still went on, in peacetime included, but was generally disapproved of. Unlike today, people demanding or even accepting it were few in number. There was great debate on whether it was really significant in scope. Not like today. Everyone knows that public expression is quite tightly controlled, except now on X, where the control is looser.) Besides that, even as a practical matter it is extremely difficult to identify and remove posts from foreign govts. The latter can automate posts into a flood of enormous volume. They now use AI very effectively to mimic native-English-speaker expression. Your point about the EC may be perfectly true yet is very misleading. For one thing, the problem did not begin as result of his purchase. Foreign bots were highly active on Twitter before Musk bought it, and would still be if he hadn't. For another, he doesn't want the foreign bot traffic any more than you or I do. But it can only be addressed, as I understand it, by wholesale deletion of posts not only from overseas but also those of our own countries. (And for practical and technical reasons the effort still might fail.) And then what good will social media be, if you can only post what the tech titans approve of? Many people, including a great many liberals, find that notion abhorrent. It is an incredibly thorny problem which no simple answers can solve. I am not terribly optimistic, although it might become somewhat easier if Russia were defeated. (3) I sense that you are insufficiently skeptical of the news you read. Musk is clearly pro-Ukraine. SpaceX has donated over $100 million in equipment and services to Ukraine and continues to do so. (The US govt. now covers 80% of the ongoing amount.) Check into what Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin have donated and you will find that it is zero. SpaceX stands alone among corporations of any type. The large media outlets turned on Musk overnight, as soon as he withdrew his support for the Democratic Party, which is the one 99% of them support. They now publish an enormous number of hit pieces about him. Formerly, for many years, they praised him. If the author of these (very much unproven) allegations against Musk had instead written the opposite, the media would have ignored him entirely. You would not be commenting here, because Times Radio would not have uploaded a video concerning claims in a book by an unknown author about Musk if they were favorable to him. Thanks for your reply.
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  7375. The CBC is making them out to be the most evil people in the country.
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  7376. No one ever said civilization sprang up out of nothing a few thousand years ago. It goes without saying that immense preparation came before it. What was new in the millennia after the Ice Age were recorded histories, structures that at least partly survived down to our day, and a buried record of technological and agricultural development. It was always understood, always accepted, always in fact stated that civilization came out of very ancient roots, very old societies.
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  7377. It's amazing how 21st-century TV make-up can make Justin Trudeau look like Sam Harris. If your idea of democracy is the candidate you oppose getting fewer votes via media manipulation, you're anti-democratic. So when he said he didn't think it would've been ok to stuff ballot boxes to make sure Trump wasn't re-elected, I didn't believe him. (Btw, during this interview he was clearly on something. Note also the band-aid on the back of his hand.)
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  7378. Did you make sure there isn't actually such a video on 1420 before asking this?
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  7379. ​ @ekhionjr  It was during the male suicide discussion when someone added the point that more men also died of Covid and it was just a statistic that no one cared about. She responded by saying that women in lockdown were doing more house chores.
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  7380.  @Richard-or2km  I agree to your terms.
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  7381. Anyone curious about her old neighborhood there can gaze at images of houses for sale in Westmount Montreal. Go ahead, take 10 seconds. 😂
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  7382. As in Rome, first neurosis, then heightened corruption, then depression and a lack of will to carry on. Then more neurosis at a new level. Then a final spasm of utmost corruption. Then the end. Oh, and just before the end, setting sail for Byzantium. "Elon Musk. Paging Elon Musk, white courtesy telephone please."
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  7383. False. Top 5 countries: GDP in USD: US, China, Japan, Germany, UK GDP adjusted for currency valuation (PPP): China, US, India, Japan, Germany
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  7384.  PerilOS  Yes, as valued by the conversion rate of the rouble it's in the range of Canada, Spain & Italy. But even giving a high theoretical value to the rouble, it's below Germany. It is not 5th by any measure except maybe some voodoo calculation on Russian state TV.
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  7385. Great clip, but it should be noted that it's from April 18, 2023. Not a problem, just a significant detail.
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  7386. They steal them from flower shops and plumbers.
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  7387. Witty screen name, GMG.
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  7388.  Haroon Abdul Majeed  That's not how to spell 'Israel'. And do you care to state any reasons for saying so?
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  7389.  @mrbrainbob5320  Not anymore. It's importing 7-8 million barrels a day. Just over 50% comes from Canada, but it could be more if not for the more soft-brained Americans. And yes, Saudi Arabia, which despises the US with a passion, from its people up to its shockingly comic-book-evil ruler, provides some of it (and in fact always did, even during that vanishingly brief period when the US stopped being a net importer).
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  7390. Jingoist.  @SuperTonyony 
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  7391. Wow, five years and I just gave you your first like. Dommage.
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  7392.  @yamnayaseed356  "I'm tempted to take one. It might help me make serious life decisions." Awfully clever. So smart, maybe you don't have to actually bother. Just go right ahead down a demanding path. Cheers.
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  7393.  @ramseyadams3277  You have an interesting name. Where did you find it?
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  7394. Maybe she sniffs glue or smokes meth. Something has been dissolving her brain, that's for certain.
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  7395. If wokesters call one a bad name — except in a terribly rare instance when it's deserved — one ought to wear it proudly as a badge of honour. Period. It's ordinarily evidence that one is clear-eyed, sane, and has zivilcourage (Ger.: the guts to uphold one's convictions despite social risks).
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  7396. I agree, but it's 13th, not 30th. As to why, she refused to answer.
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  7397. I was gonna say she knows he would have zero interest in her as a woman, but then it occurred to me that she probably would, uh, have no interest in him as a man. Likely she doesn't much like many men at all, or maleness for that matter.
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  7398. Sweet, sweet take. 👏👏 Truth bomb. 👏👏 Take that, Carlson and Mearsheimer. 👏👏
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  7399. Danish or Dutch plane, Grigoriy.
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  7400. "So what is Google's response?" Hey, I can answer that: Its response is to get worse—less precise, less relevant, basically stupider—by the day.
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  7401. Didn't listen? GDP shrank simply due to a one-time 50% surge in imports.
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  7402. Sure. Because it's a sign of a white supremacist that he marries a woman born to southern Indians just a few years after they'd arrived in America. Em, Ess, Nutt, Barr, Sentral.🙄
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  7403. Regarding that thing 90-sec. from the end about already doing AI for a decade-plus before the current mania, the company was less noticed earlier on because they weren't making any money.
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  7404. So war is "a dark reflection of the human soul." I find that a little cloying and sanctimonious. I would say that ordinarily it's a reflection of the untempered aggression of the specific people who start it. I can't stand sanctimony.
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  7405. Not at all. I discovered $20 in my jacket pocket this morning. Last week I discovered a great shwarma place six blocks from my home. 'Discovered' doesn't mean any of these things had never been seen before. You've now discovered how wrong you were. Next, I hope: discovering ways to be less of a professional offense-taker.
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  7406. You raise a good point. I'd put it this way: The book, evidently, tells you a great deal about what's wrong with her—in its attempt to tell you why she's so great. But it tells you even more about what's wrong with the constituents of her district. (And New York Magazine.)
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  7407.  @jimburley5871  I don't know. I'd say that for anyone who behaves and speaks like her, life itself is hell. What else could make her like that?
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  7408. Michael Shellenberger for president. I'm serious.  He would need preparatory experience, so he should get some first. He's actually interested in entering politics. He ran for governor of California in the last election.
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  7409. ​ @u.s.1974  🙄 No, compared to countries of various sorts around the world. Say, the G20, which includes countries on every continent. What a weak try.
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  7410. Woman at 3:18: "Hope." "Wait." "Follow." Goes to show you what 800 years of Mongols, Tsars, Commissars and Putin (not to mention eons of brutal monarchs before that) do to the human mind and spirit.
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  7411. The 'hof' in words ending in -hof (meaning yard, courtyard, station, etc.) rhymes much more with 'oaf' than 'cough.'
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  7412. The crudely reeded crown was a dead giveaway.
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  7413. I don't know if it's just me, but I think Bret has absolutely caught fire in the 2nd half of 2023. His argumentation, rhetoric, passion and eloquence have risen to a whole new level. And throughout this autumn the same goes for Dave. Amazing to see them turn it up like this so far into their careers.
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  7414. And I thought only undersea creatures could look so scary, unappetizing and otherworldly. Ah, The View. Grossing You Out Since 1997ᵀᴹ.
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  7415.  @andrewb8235  If only she were a 'regular' journalist, but we're not that well off. It sounds like you're saying where you are the smartest people would never go near a journalism career. (Yeah, why would they?). But over here we do expect at least some of the brilliant to end up as journalists. Physics isn't free of frustrations either, nor is Wall Street or SV tech, and some people don't care as much (nor have to) about salary. Cheers.
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  7416. How can you say that the world's 9th most populous country out of ~200 has "a small population." Sounds like something only someone from China or India would say. 😄
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  7417. Well, the events that led up to it, yeah. But when it really started it wasn't mainly about children denouncing anyone. Perhaps a million people were beaten to death by the Red Guards, most of them in the street. And there was much more murder besides that.
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  7418. Maybe.
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  7419.  @froggycroaked1603  You know, the amount involved was pretty piffling. Wasn't it $600k or something? The principle involved is itself quite important, but that much money didn't make the thing happen. Don't feel too guilty or apologize too profusely.
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  7420.  @radradR0bot  Yes, he surely should apologize, to say the very least. But my point had nothing to do with what the research cost US taxpayers. Even a hundred dollars is too much, considering the circumstances. My point is that the US only threw a token amount on the pile and that it didn't affect the outcome. This was China's baby and a little bit of lunch money from the Americans was only (and regrettably) symbolic. Thanks for your reply.
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  7421. America's reputation with the rest of humanity takes yet another blow. Where was the booing? Where was security to escort him off the premises before he even sat back down? Why wasn't he arrested?
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  7422. Kate had no chance at preventing the entry of that vicious jungle beast. It's a good job she's tamed it a little, because I'm sure it bashed the door in. At any rate she ran a good interview. Hall seemed to offer distinct views, many of which I hadn't encountered before. Down with Putin, Putinism and Putinists. (Yes, Putinists themselves. There's nothing of innocence in Putinists. I do notice that there's something good in them, but it's hardly anything.)
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  7423. Sen. Hawley: "When someone commits a crime, is that a crime?" Nominee: "I'm not a biologist."
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  7424.  @ernestinebass4371  Come on, put some thought into it. It was the Dems' own choice to put the two things (Ukraine funding and border security funding) in the same bill. No one could've forced them to do that. So why do you think they did? It's because they know damn well the border is the top issue for Americans, including a great many if not most Democrat supporters, so they know they have their own hides to save. So what do they do?... Quite naturally they hand House Republicans a bill with a lever on it marked "Pull Here to Get Your Way on the Border (wink, wink)". Fake "grudgingly giving into the awful Republicans" is just the cover they need for assuaging the emotions of the farther left wing of the party. As for the Republican reaction to such a thing, well, they have mirror-image base support concerns, so they're more than happy to play ball if they can claim a win. Indeed, I would think it was probably as much their idea as the Dems, since they're actually as ok with funding Ukraine as Biden and the Democrats are with a major tightening of the southern border. It's going to be fine. Both parties have to pretend that their arms are being twisted horribly because if they didn't, they couldn't sell any compromise to their respective bases as easily. That's why all this wasn't done in December. There has to be a respectably long period of refusing each other for appearances' sake. But it'll be done soon. And it's politics the way any adult person would realistically hope it would work: that is to say, that multiple issues get moved along with some fairly efficient give-and-take, and a reassuringly large amount of power-sharing. It's usually not that good, so if it turns out I'm right, I suggest you feel really, really good about it. We'll see in the next month or so.
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  7425. Clickbait is an unacceptable practice! I see the phrase "banning from tribal lands" splashed all over the screen. Nowhere in the video is this referred to or explained. Clickbait is an unacceptable practice!
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  7426.  @brucemarsico6  I'll remember that. Terribly interesting, so thanks.
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  7427. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right. They make a Leftist.
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  7428.  @paultaylor7758  Correct. "Extremes meet" is the wisdom of the ages.
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  7429. Incorrect! Peterson has always used the pronouns that anyone asked him to. He considers it a proper personal policy from the standpoint of kindness. But he got very mad when the government made it the law. Big difference. [Edit: But I think your overall take was a fair one.]
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  7430. Yes, and here's a related quote: "Don't try to get these people to like you."—Gov. Ron DeSantis
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  7431. The 70s were nothing if not a multi-colored riot. If anything the 80s toned that down, especially the second half.
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  7432. The fact that I share DNA with that abominable thing is a minor but depressing and painful humiliation. Meteor, o swift meteor! With thy glowing eye, Espy the mark and fare Thy just path straight and true!
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  7433. @tipihedroncollider They sounded pretty cool to me. Just high-school-weird, not 'warp-your-mind-forever-weird.' I also liked what the name was an abbreviation for (even though I was ok with DM).
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  7434. Simply false.
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  7435. Sure. Battling murdering, psychotic communists and Marxists is meddling. Right. Clearly you've never talked to any of the Eastern Europeans crushed for so many decades under the jackboot heel of Soviet Marxist-Leninists.
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  7436.  @advicepirate8673  Thanks for saying all that, and saying it well. Repeat it elsewhere and often. Yes, the way these platforms are being gamed is a catastrophe .
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  7437. Stop cluttering up my feed with all this Noisome Twosome content, please.
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  7438. Thank you.
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  7439. Unfortunately Russia invaded, so Ukraine has to shoot at Russian positions on its own territory. Important to get the full picture, as Russian state media won't report it. But thanks, Leonid.
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  7440.  @CarlWheatley-wi2cl  All right, let me put it a slightly different way: Unfortunately Russia invaded the Donbas nearly a decade ago, so Ukraine has had to shoot at Russian positions on its own territory ever since. I have my own countless reasons for finding Western media appalling, but their sympathy for Ukraine over Russia is not one of them. And let's not forget that consumers of Western media have all heard Russia's positions many times. Articles on Ukraine often mention them. If they don't buy the Kremlin's self-serving nonsense, it's their right. Thanks for your reply.
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  7441. From the first two segments it's clear that the Manson Family was never extirpated from Southern California after all. It evidently crawled centipede-like into the state's public university system and has been laying countless eggs there ever since.
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  7442. Please, don't say "har-HEAVE". It's HAR-kiv. HAR-keev is all right too, I think. (If you want to give the initial H a gravelly, throat-clearing type of sound as Ukrainians themselves do, that's good but not necessary, since English speakers generally aren't good at making it.)
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  7443. It's basically like Novak Djokovic versus Sania Mirza—the outcome is in no doubt unless Mirza wields an assault rifle on the court.
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  7444. China has what they call Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics. Well, the US is rapidly becoming A Semi-Free Society With Chinese Characteristics.
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  7445. ​ @afuzzycreature8387  Most instances of using verbs as nouns that aren't sanctioned by dictionaries (e.g. 'encodes') are meant to exclude or to signal cultural status. I read that somewhere anyway.
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  7446.  @brianover_reviews  "[I]t has always been possible to use intelligence to evil ends." In that case, you yourself are capable only of good.
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  7447. "The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end." —Max Beerbohm
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  7448. Blaming his blunders on everyone else, Putin is reminding me of the angrily indignant Inspector Clouseau. E.g., in a hotel room, he clumsily almost injures himself: "Zis hotel is deteriorating rapidly!"
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  7449. But there are two kinds of them: One intends to keep you from having enough time to deal properly with what they're saying; the other may opt for the identical speed but is good-faith trying to make sure you can deal with it (or just really thinks you're up to it).
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  7450.  @aliekamara7992  Hungary is about the same as Poland and Portugal. It's high-income by world standards and lower-middle by European standards. What point were you making anyway? The OC wasn't about copying them in every way, just about learning from how they got a grip on uncontrolled arrivals of people in huge numbers.
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  7451. ​ @myplaylist7007  I suspect Biden's going to be removed by his own backers (somewhat as Cuomo will shortly be) in classic useful idiot style. He's may think he's a shrewd, cunning, well-loved, world-beating politician, but he's just the hapless frontman that was paraded in front of the masses by a much more cunning group of backers. He scored the least low on voter palatability and reasonably high on malleability, so that porcine group are wearing him like the lipstick he is. They're going to retire him before his term is up—that is, if he doesn't first do them the favour of croaking. The agenda and tactics of the replacement administration under Harris will shock you. Power will be scooped up on a scale similar to what happened in various European countries in the 1917—39 period. And don't think real dissent will be permitted. It won't, and they'll make even mere talking or writing about it not only taboos but punishable offences. Here comes Orwell's boot, straight at your face, forever.
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  7452. Yeah, he says it both ways. How can a guy like that be a good doctor? Internists are not well respected, btw, even though GIM requires vast knowledge. Also, he mentioned a study of 6.5m pot-using Danes, but Denmark's total population is only 5.5m. Come on. That's awful. EDIT: But his claim about serious risks is valid.
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  7453. Usage note in passing: I like that Trump says "different from." I bet anything the VP says "different than."
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  7454.  @JK-ru5vo  May they enjoy it. Let them have an improved customs arrangement with Mongolia, too, and free trade with Namibia and Mozambique. Iceland needs tea towels and would like to sell herring back.
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  7455. At an early stage the violent National Socialists of Germany were a fringe group, just as the violent far left which Andy describes are still a fringe element today. But they were well organized and extremely determined, just like those groups Andy describes. Not many years later, they started taking over Germany.
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  7456. In Britain the term middle class means something different than it does in the US. In the US it might mean a couple who work as a teacher and an engineer and live in a house worth $600k. In the UK it would mean more like a doctor and a finance executive whose house is worth £3m. Seriously.
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  7457. @ Disingenuous? Why? What's wrong with saying percentages matter and then saying they don't?🤣
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  7458. You're not meant to. You're meant not to. You're only meant to submit.
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  7459. Compare that with the hit-piece on Elon Musk from that odious and calculatedly bizarre-looking person starting at 24:30. Just a minute and a half, but it contains surely dozens of nasty words for something that has yet to even begin. A sort of would-be pre-cancelling that works best as a satire of itself.
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  7460. This comments section is a real Psychiatrist's Wonderland.
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  7461. Dear outraged English usage experts down in this section: Ever heard of the Oxford English Dictionary? Well, say hello to my little friend: howitzer ɴᴏᴜɴ [2nd sense] 1.b. A shell fired by this piece of artillery. 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭. The OED gives usage examples of this sense with citations from 1761 up to 1998.
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  7462. Don't you just love people who start their sentences with 'so' and end them with 'right?'?
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  7463. You said a US tariff on Canadian milk of 77¢ a litre might be 10-30%. Please verify that.🤨 It looks like 50% to me — or more, at wholesale trade prices. What could be more important in a video about the tariff fairness issue?
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  7464. A few years ago I listened to him riff on social issues and the main moral categories that are most talked about in our day, and he came off ok. I tended to agree with him. But listen long enough and he goes of the rails. So you then wonder what other stuff he's shrewdly not revealing. Worst of all he says things I know he knows aren't true.
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  7465. 1:41. The way it's called 'Times Radio' is just a manner of speaking. It's not really radio, mate, when there are cameras.
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  7466. ​ @matt9999  I felt in a rare mood to stir the pot.😄 It can't be all earnest platitudes and easy black-and-white hand-wringing all the time. There's a popular view of life and the world which although it's got something to it, is too smugly one-sided now. People display it like a crucifix or head-covering, to ward off aspersions about their moral propriety as they go about their lives. Difficulties and danger, dead-ends and misery, are spread around a lot more freely than formerly. It's perhaps the greatest time ever to be rich or at least in the top 5-10%, but that's about it. Anywhere outside of that, people in all demographics are under pressure from others in other demographics (and countries), as well as their own, who are straining to submerge them after taking their money, their position, or both. Not equally of course. Some of us are better swimmers than others, but 90% of us are in the water while the rest are in motorboats, or yachts. Virtually unassailable security has returned almost to the levels of 80 or 90 years ago, i.e. it's rare again. Concerning the non-boat people I just mentioned, no magical fake-curated list of categories from an academic journal article can tell you how good or bad, deserving or undeserving, safe or unsafe anybody is. It won’t survive much contact with life. Pardon my rant, which I've never articulated before. I do mean well.
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  7467.  @matt9999  I felt in a rare mood to stir the pot.😄 It can't be all earnest platitudes and easy black-and-white hand-wringing all the time. There's a popular view of life and the world which, although it's got something to it, is too smugly one-sided now. People display it like a crucifix or head-covering, to ward off aspersions about their moral propriety as they go about their lives. Difficulties and danger, dead-ends and misery, are spread around a lot more freely than formerly. It's perhaps the greatest time ever to be rich or at least in the top 5-10%, but that's about it. Anywhere outside of that, people in all demographics are under pressure from others in other demographics (and countries), as well as their own, who are straining to submerge them after taking their money, their position, or both. Not equally of course. Some of us are better swimmers than others, but 90% of us are in the water while the rest are in motorboats, or yachts. Virtually unassailable security has returned almost to the levels of 80 or 90 years ago, i.e. it's rare again. Concerning the non-boat people I just mentioned, no magical fake-curated list of categories from an academic journal article can tell you how good or bad, deserving or undeserving, safe or unsafe anybody is. It won’t survive much contact with life. Pardon my rant, which I've never articulated before. I do mean well.
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  7468. In the name of all that's decent, stop saying "yooman" and "yooge."🙄 Please. I know you know how to pronounce an 'h,' since you can say your own surname.
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  7469.  @Vladik_Minnullin  Hahaha! And what was the consequence for the US? Nothing. But what happened after 1989? One-party Soviet rule ended the next year. The whole Soviet Union crumbled to dust the next after that. Remember the 90s? Get ready, Vlad. Prepare a patch of dirt for potatoes and beets. Learn how to keep a few chickens.😱
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  7470.  @Vladik_Minnullin  The consequences of US exiting Afghanistan: Zero The consequences of the USSR exiting Afghanistan: govt fell, country disintegrated😂
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  7471. Yes, they made a mess of it. However, the withdrawal itself had to be done. And in short order, because Putin was massing troops on the Ukrainian border. (And sure enough he invaded six months later.) There was no choice. Two wars mean that another is the third, and three is too many if there's any way to avoid it.
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  7472.  @horatioguderian4694  Pathetic fantasy from the tissue and lotion brigade.
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  7473.  @horatioguderian4694  Check the nearest mirror to see who I'm talking about.
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  7474. I made spaghetti last night. Should I be ashamed?
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  7475. You're quite right. Jussie Smollett-level over-the-top fabrication. You can very often tell a hoax by whether its details are over-embellished, too perfect, extra-shocking. But look at the thread in response to you here! What a pasture. I took a stroll through, so now If you'll excuse me, I need to hose off my boots.
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  7476. He should have been thrilled to discover the truth in the first place. It's precisely the repression of aggression and "primitive thought processes" that makes civilization such a beautiful thing. It's a highly improbable miracle of intelligence and imagination that murder hasn't kept our population down to a mere million or so, and it's pure sentimentalism to dream of an ideal world: We are a hair's breadth away from it already.
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  7477. Reminds me of the origins of the opioid epidemic. Formerly opioids were hard to get and rarely prescribed. Doctors knew how dangerous they are. Then the MSM stuck its nose in, campaigning intensely for years to let the opioids flow. They called doctors cruel, said they didn't care about people's pain, lambasted governments for heeding doctors who warned of an explosion of addictions. And you know what happened. They won. Now they blame the government, the doctors and the opioid producers for the problem they themselves created. They accuse them of being cruel, not caring… I'm not sure the whole universe is big enough to fit all their shamelessness inside it. The media are actually the leading power in the country, not governments, not voters—and they're driving the society, the civilization, into the ground.
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  7478. He tries to compensate by talking faster, much faster than when he was vice president. It's a good idea, since you spend less time gaping at each of his struggles. Each of his shortfalls in logic and good sense, too, go by in a whirlwind. My usual reaction is "What the hell did he just say?"
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  7479. Wilde wrote it before Orwell was born, in one of his plays.
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  7480. Let's not forget Palantir while enumerating Ukraine's advantages and strengths in the war. There are credible assertions that the services it provides are massively important. (Likewise we mustn't omit mention of SpaceX's Starlink products and services.)
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  7481. I've never heard the phrase "popularity polls" before. Here it's used instead of polls, meaning surveys of party support. 🤨 Someone here hasn't been paying close attention to public affairs her whole adult life. Or ever. That's just my opinion, I guess I could be wrong. But I doubt it.
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  7482. Barely alive. I wonder what his core temperature is.
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  7483. Ms. Casey impressed me. Non-profit heads strongly tend to come across as shifty-eyed, holier-than-thou, sanctimonious scolds with an eye to maintaining their own surprisingly-high salaries. She seemed sincere and able and I wish her success.
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  7484. Why does no one else paint the same picture of China's demographic future as Zeihan does? Everyone else predicts decline, but says it will take much longer. No one else says a solid majority of Chinese will be dead within 27 years (by 2050) with a very small number of births to compensate. He predicts a population under 725m by then. Alarm bells are going off for me. He also misuses words he has never looked up.
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  7485. Stay away from using graphics where the flag of Russia disintegrates into blackness, bro.
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  7486. Listen to yourself. You're crying because people don't agree with you. Traumatized by "Crowds" "Noise" "Honking" That sounds like a protest to me, but because joining it doesn't interest you "It's illegal"! Waaaah. You're scared. Your friends are scared. Oh my god. You sound like you are made of marshmallows. Protests are public events. An idiot with a confederate flag can walk right in and there is nothing to stop him or her. Do not search around for nits to pick, unless you want your comment to be about your bias—and that's exactly what it is. Only bias could prompt you to come out with something like "the fact that they are still ok with participating in a setting along side them is so scary." Think about that: you're indirectly suggesting that if the aforementioned idiot shows up in a crowd of thousands of people, they should all go home because they shouldn't be "ok with it". Instead of saying 'I don't agree with the idea behind the protest, but it's good that others are having their say' you deplore the fact they're saying anything. For my part, I don't agree with what you're saying, but I'm glad you have somewhere to say it, and if anyone tried to infringe on your doing so, I'd be all over them in an instant. Why? Because I'm grown up. Because life and the world aren't just about me. That's the difference between you and me.
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  7487.  @jeffspicolli593  Good man, even if you did misspell Spicoli. —Mr. Hand
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  7488. Soon perhaps, air battles between squadrons numbering in the hundreds or thousands. It might await AI which can seamlessly orchestrate such squadrons. Or EW might prevent all that. But then ingenuity might break the impasse: Could there be fiberless fiber optics — high-bandwidth data transmission between drones by light signalling?
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  7489.  @acwright  Ok, cool. (U didn't reply to that guy, but I get you)👍 Awesome actually.
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  7490. Not mentioned yet by anyone, I think: What will this do to people with jobs in the tourism industry? Who tf is going to want to visit this sham of a country now?
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  7491. The birth rate chart shows that births fell 32.6% among US-born women, 30.7% for foreign-born women. A difference of 1.9 percentage points isn't a big deal. C'mon Tucker, research some better points. They're out there to be found.
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  7492. Poor Scholz. Even the appalling Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, received him on his tour with a disappointing response. He told him to drop dead. No Canadian energy for Germany.
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  7493.  @krac3x438  Are you 11 years old? Because you think like an 11-year-old. Go back to your mama and demand that she finish bringing you up. It's her job, not mine. Have a nice day.
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  7494. Dangerous may not translate well. It might be better rendered as formidable. In which case it was a throwaway scrap of flattery.
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  7495. In a display of customary New York City hospitality, the NYPD Harbor Unit showed up to offer free breathalyzers for all!
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  7496. I could've listened to an hour of this.
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  7497.  @gmf8171  I'm not going to ignore the professional opinion of some dude because he had an affair. Who gives af? I might mind if I were her brother.
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  7498.  @gmf8171  That did what it was supposed to do. The Baked Potato in Chief botched the exit badly, though, I won't argue there.
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  7499. Joe has learned well from Yuri Bezmenov. He gets it. So should everyone. There should even be statues of Bezmenov in city squares across the US. And all over the Western world.
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  7500. I don't trust any of these people, including the daycare-worker/Ivy-League-graduate-sounding narrator. The ones we see look like weirdos; the ones we can see or hear or both, pronounce a lot of their words strangely. (E.g. the new noun "IN-stall.") Lastly, I don't trust CNBC. I scour it for free info every day and find its feature-writing wracked with purple-haired New-Puritan points of view. This whole thing smacked of the NYT-hit-piece ethos.
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  7501. "Joke"? You don't think plumbers retire rich? Really?
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  7502. Stop it with this "Armageddon" nonsense, trying to scare people. Putin isn't insane—he's simply evil but rational. He's rationally trying to milk the nuclear threat for all it's worth, because he has little else to work with. He is not going to sentence half of Russia to death.
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  7503. Today she'd be completely run-of-the-mill to the point of being considered a conservative, depending on her precise zip code.
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  7504. The only non-Russians not against Russia in this war are rabidly anti-American and anti-Western. They've long wanted to see the West smashed, so they welcome the murder of Ukrainians, destruction of Ukraine and theft of Ukrainian territory if they contribute at all to such an outcome. Russia is their pit bull. (This is most especially true of China's government.) But Ukraine's supporters never wanted Russia to be smashed, only not to invade its neighbours.
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  7505. I wonder if you know what an x-ray is.
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  7506.  @ChrisSmyth1  Possibly, but only if all their dignity and all their freedom to think has been cruelly and criminally stripped of them by your moral descendants.
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  7507.  @JS-jn8ku  Yep, rank injustice in the name of justice. Nothing more than an excuse to abuse people, highly attractive to the botched and the sadistic.
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  7508.  @comradexdface  I'm not sure recovery and healing are real things yet, though I am very hopeful. At this stage I can only say for sure that the worsening has slowed.
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  7509. Why didn't the Remainers outvote them?
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  7510. Yes indeed. Tell me, is it true that most of your fellow Nigerians like and support Putin?
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  7511.  @sudanionline247  1) $14m a year is a trifling amount. 2) That nation was Saudi Arabia, was it not?
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  7512. ​ @sudanionline247  1) This frivolous matter has nothing to do with this news story. 2) It has nothing to do with my comment. 3)  You're hiding what your point even is. 4) No one cares about a few armored personnel carriers going to Saudi Arabia, or a puny amount of anything going anywhere. 5) No one should. 6) If you don't like Canada's foreign policy stance anywhere in the world, go discuss it somewhere it's being discussed, or write your MP, or run for office, or go wherever it's happening and join the fight. 6) I will no longer be able to receive these vague, sanctimonious, annoying, pestering replies. 7) Have a nice day.
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  7513.  @MKR5210  The hatred is on the other side. It's people like you who spew hatred and call your adversaries 'haters.' Pure projection, like the bully who's punching someone while stagily calling out "Why are you hitting me?" Maturity! hah! Self-censorship is the mark of a society living under bullies like Putin and the American left.
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  7514. The cellphone policy is fantastic. It's about time. I've heard that kids are not against this sort of thing. Many desperately wish they could be rescued from kid phone culture, feeling that it makes their lives very hard. I feel like Ford is really on a roll.👍
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  7515. Ok, Pavel
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  7516. It was over international Black Sea waters off Ukraine.
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  7517.  @marieromanova-po7ox  Nice try, Svetlana. If it was over Russian territory they would've been 100% within their rights to shoot it down (and the US would have zero chance to recover it).
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  7518.  @lunamaria1048  More like Luna-maria-tic.
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  7519.  @jrgzmn3692  How am I mistaken? First five years at Harvard, then 20 at U of T. How is that not "decades [...] at Harvard and the University of Toronto"? And yes, he stood out at Harvard, enough so that U of T, its psychology department having long had a good reputation, offered him a tenured position. He published a lot and was cited a lot and had standing in his field. And he still found time to treat a roster of patients. I'm not sure what your last sentence means. It has a question mark but appears to be worded as a command. Fill me in on that if you like.
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  7520.  @jrgzmn3692  Breathe, Mr. Guzman, just breathe. Maybe sit down. Maybe playing too much Call of Duty isn't helping. I didn't spice up anything, I stated facts. As for that Ringling Bros. complaints board, yes of course the woke brigade is abusing it to try to take Jordan Peterson down. Yes, they've submitted fake and trumped-up woke complaints. They're a disgrace and so is the kangaroo-kourt panel itself. Concerning religion, it's clear from his lectures that he considers religion profoundly important to humanity; vital for a healthy society, and perhaps for a healthy mind; a font of meaning, culture and intellectual riches; and far more than mere superstition. After calming down, perhaps acquaint yourself with actuality. Then embrace it for dear life. Perhaps finding a better pastime than playing Call of Duty would be an aid to that. And so, with that, I end our little colloquy. I had fun, but maybe too much fun, and now must go. I like my foes worthy. Here's wishing you a nice life.
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  7521. Message to the people who made those ads, or liked them: Wishing and imagining something doesn't make it real, or even possible. (Parents should start teaching that to 4-year-olds again. Immediately.)
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  7522.  @digi3218  Good summary, I agree with all of it except I think maybe Musk would want to write a new OS from scratch.
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  7523.  @bidenwearsdiapers4026  No, Toyota sells around 10 or 11 million vehicles a year, while Tesla hasn't broken 1.5 million yet.
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  7524. I remind you he is from the United States and is speaking to a woman in the UK. I remind you also that until about a decade ago nearly 100% of people in the English-speaking countries said the Ukraine, and had never said it any other way. My disrespect for him on other grounds notwithstanding, I will not stoop to condemning him on this flimsy pretext. He's not "up to date." So what?
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  7525.  @inra8842  I don't know about that. Anyone on board a train can get out through an emergency window exit. The exit cannot tell if you are a criminal who should not be allowed to leave.
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  7526.  @inra8842  Yeah, I guess you're right. The passengers were taking several seconds to get out the windows. And as you say, he's not stupid, so he would realize the safest place would be inside, where the police would never be able to seize him. After all, how are police going to get inside a train? They don't know how. What was I thinking? Thanks for setting me straight.
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  7527. The ICC has no arrest warrant for Xi Jinping or Tedros Adhanom. What more do you need to know?
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  7528. They all smoke Marlboros in their Jeeps.
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  7529. Well, one group commits homicides at 7x the rate the other group does, so they're more of a threat. Seven times. Seven. Times. Do you understand?
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  7530.  @ciararespect4296  Ma certo, cara, certo.
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  7531.  @darthwiizius  👏 If they have wars in Europe to the end of time, they'll have people like yourself to thank.
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  7532. Yes, Austin did say the US is there to weaken Russia. But that's nothing profound or sinister, it's basic military strategy for dealing with a highly powerful belligerent. Don't just knock them back to the border—they'll just come right back after a little while. It's necessary to drain their war-making ability. It's just straightforward security planning and practically goes without saying. The same goes for Biden wanting Putin's ouster. Of course we all want him gone, but that's not the same thing as a plan for regime change. That is a job for Russia itself, period. Likewise we want Kim Jong-un gone too, but we're certainly not going after him. So Kennedy was bizarrely and sadly way off there, but I do approve of his remarks on the ongoing merger of the state (the Dems, actually) and the plutocrats.
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  7533.  @Burnardcheasesaw  Ukrainians gladly step up to volunteer. It's Russians who can't be bothered to volunteer for the oligarchs. State media messaging is wearing off on them. Just try to imagine a Russian living in another country speeding home to sign up! Hah!
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  7534. It was a massacre and the MSM call it a 'crash' .
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  7535. More like "slideshows."
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  7536. Ukraine is using a great deal of its Soviet-era weapons and materiel.
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  7537. What your comment lacks in subtlety it makes up for in having the right spirit. Cheers.
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  7538. It's like Trudeau thinks the right to govern us just belongs to him. Like it's a right to rule us. Like he's Justin the First. He doesn't quite have that delusion, but I think he has that feeling. He has to realize instead that it's like he's a guest at a party somewhere and is now unwelcome. As an unwelcome guest, he should go. Now.
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  7539. Let's say it was a Ford F-150 and it was in front of a "women's health" clinic. Although in my view that act would exactly equal the actual one for iniquity (i.e., extremely iniquitous), yes, the mass media reaction would be 10x greater.
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  7540. She keeps talking about herself, as if people care. What's her problem? I'm outta here.
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  7541. You wrote: "... the truth always has a way of revealing itself." Not necessarily. One might say that's bloody rot, pure fucking humbug, and take that back right now. I might say Just imagine!--- I'm the 32nd person replying to you and I'm the first one to point out what nonsense that assertion is.
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  7542.  @LawrenceTimme  Um, I might deserve it. But be super-fair and check up on my edit of almost the same minute as your reply. I toned it down.
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  7543.  @MnemonicCarrier  All the best.
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  7544. Whatever Iran, Yale, Russia, Harvard, China, Berkeley, Syria, The Guardian, North Korea, Oxford, Venezuela, Stanford, Cuba, NYU, Nicaragua, the BBC, Eriterea, Rashida Tlaib, Ethiopia and Ilhan Omar howl that Israel, supported by its allies must not do, that is exactly what Israel, supported by its allies must do.
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  7545. Definitely true. There's still a big bill for restocking, though. And lower stocks mean less ability to address other hotspots. My opinion is that we're still in the early stages of a massive ramp-up in conflicts. The new axis of China, Russia, Iran, N. Korea and who-knows-who-else is just getting warmed up. I think they want to trigger so many wars and crises that the US has its Suez Moment like Britain in 1956. Except this time the baton of global security wouldn't be passed on smoothly as it was on that occasion from Britain to the US. It gets swiped from the grip of the US by the authoritarian axis. Game over, world ruined, Europe crushed. Developing nations bullied, enslaved or annexed; the US itself under threat on its own soil, no doubt. And certainly impoverished, absolutely no question. So it's important not to fall into traps. Xi and Putin would love nothing better than for the US and NATO to blow half their armaments on one or two or three emergencies and then be so weakened that they can mount no response to the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth ones. (E.g., Venezuela is clearly on the way to forming an intention to invade and annex most of oil-rich Guyana, which is flush with huge recently-made US investments. They want to steal all of them. A referendum seeking a de facto endorsement from Venezuelans for that will take place one week from now.) Each conflict will be selected for its potential to trap the US and its allies, and ruin them.
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  7546. Why are there zero small pauses for breath like every human being takes when speaking? The pace is inhumanly relentless and consistent, never varying even a tiny bit for emphasis, nor to correspond to subject matter such as mention of deaths. The video of the 'narrator' likewise shows no evidence that it is an actual human. Down with AI narration!
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  7547. Politically Russia most resembles Africa. Corrupt, authoritarian, ruthless, oligarchical. They're moral and political brethren. Putin is like Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent Kabila, Muammar Gaddafi, Charles Taylor, Jean-Bedel Bokassa. He even bears an amazing facial resemblance to Macias Nguema.
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  7548.  @yuliavictorovna6314  Thank you.  You sound like someone connected to actuality. Now please tell us: What will you see that will tell you "Now he is getting himself into serious trouble. He is losing the people, losing the country, losing the backers he really needs. It's not final, but it's bad enough that he can't go on the same. To hang on, he must either concede something or start slaughtering."
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  7549. Where are millions starving to death "by trade boycott"?
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  7550.  @Longtack55  Class envy is so very repellent.
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  7551. Parking on train tracks is something any cop would berate any ordinary citizen for and demand they drive off them immediately.
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  7552. "Russian troops retreating or preparing for another attack?" They're doing whatever Xi told Putin to tell them to do.  Putin is his new bride.  He wore tons of make-up at the wedding. Xi looked hilarious in his Mao suit.
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  7553. The pipeline and this are twin false-flag excuses for an advance closer to total war. Putin is under pressure and desperate for a pretext. This is a really bad development.
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  7554. Highly reminiscent of the 1934 German 'referendum' on combining the offices of Chancellor and President into the single office of Fuhrer. Quite similar tactics of electoral fraud and intimidation of individual voters were used. Notice how every day Putzin seems to be showing off how well he knows his German history. So ok, now let's see him replay the bunker episode.
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  7555. Criminal justice reform = Bad as we wanna be
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  7556. Somehow in the past six to 12 months The Rubin Report, already a great show, has just blossomed into something at a new level. I can't quite put my finger on it but it seems like something to do with focus, intensity, clarity and depth of insight. Great guests, messages, presentation, great hilarity from Dave. Was it life changes behind it, the move to Florida, new staff? All those and more? Anyway, it's been fantastic.
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  7557. Grilled turkey. ;)
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  7558. Feminists angry at trans activists should take a look in the mirror, as difficult as that may be. For what the trans activists are doing to women—i.e. blatantly undermining their legitimacy as a sex—is rather analogous to what the feminists have done to men these last several decades. And they're doing it by copying the entire feminist playbook. Now the feminists turn to men for support, which I find galling. Classic case of hoist with their own petard.
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  7559. Listen to yourself.🙄
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  7560.  @simonelliot3712  Oof, cheap tactic diverting attention to the country when the lust for violence is flagrantly on your side. [Sideshow Bob shudder]
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  7561.  @simonelliot3712  Nor do I care which side you're on. I think this is important enough to rest on principle, and interest be damned. Anyway, have a good night.
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  7562.  @simonelliot3712  You called for violence, then say I'm the one "spouting off a narrative" when I criticize you for it. 🙄 Fire up that copium and inhale deeply, deeply.😂
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  7563.  @booboodafoo3247  No way he meant it that way, as he clearly doesn't have an IQ of 2. He just omitted his punctuation: 'Empty' guns.
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  7564.  @gen_z_hippichikk  Your account name alone precludes 100% of any potential credibility. You have to learn that, and why it is.
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  7565.  @damiangrouse4564  It was bitter for me to say it though, as I'm very pro-American.
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  7566.  @maccaloube  "You don't know me." But wokesters know everything. They invented knowing everything... and invented moral goodness. But truthfully they're not even human, being closer to ethereal creatures. They go years between trips to the bathroom and only eat in order not to be found out. Ok, I might as well spill the beans: they're actually super-intelligent aliens. I know they don't look or sound like it, but there's no other explanation for their enlightened perfection.
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  7567.  @SIR_WINTERGREEN  He'll pass a law against anyone criticizing their half-brother.
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  7568. Just saying troubled-adolescent nonsense. Nuclear weapons are not part of this discussion, and do not pretend you don't understand the simple and clear distinction.
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  7569.  @juwon30  That's perfectly silly. Congratulations, you've earned a place in the Guinness Book of F#$%*! R#$^&%s.
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  7570.  @juwon30  Explain how an onboard reactor is a nuclear weapon. Explain how you know where this boat would be patrolling. Explain why the nurses let you near the computer. Explain how you toss your own salad.
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  7571. Amnesty International has lost its way, caved in with institutional rot. Mr. Hedges, you too, just as so many ministers of religion like you have done before, have lost your way.
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  7572. Prof. Gerdes, it's bizarre to me how your research into Canadian conservative politics consisted of watching a podcast interview with a Liberal politician. That's like researching US conservative politics by watching an interview with Hillary Clinton. Or AOC. Or a commentary by Joy Reid. What on earth were you thinking?
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  7573. ​ @Naschira  "1000 years older than the US." So? Then why is it still so ass-backwards? China brags in the same fashion that they are 4,000 years old. Why aren't they embarrassed to admit it? Why aren't they rich and free, then? They imported their political system from the West 70 years ago. That was a flop, so then they imported Western capitalism and stole all its knowledge and technology starting 40 years ago. Hasn't been able to feed all its people for a long, long time if ever. Not something to brag about.
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  7574. Elon Musk used to live in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. (He also holds American and S. African citizenship.)
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  7575. ​ @donkey7921  No, he's right. In supposing that the Resetters are merely bungling their messaging, the EE guy is quite lazy-minded. He gives them so little credit, as though they're naïve in such matters, that I find him less believable. "Grow up" is way over the top.
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  7576. You're not amusing anyone but yourself. Bugger off, please.
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  7577. Can we please stop saying Gaza is "incredibly densely populated"? 2.3m people in 140 square miles is far from outlandish. They have semi-rural areas in there. My own (larger) city isn't much less densely populated and is noted by foreign visitors for its spaciousness. Manhattan is 4—5x more tightly packed in. So please. You sound like reporters did talking histrionically about a certain health topic in 2020-22.
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  7578. To answer your question, Dave, the police are there to protect Hamas supporters, obviously. In Gaza, btw, anyone taking down a Palestinian flag to put up a US flag would be killed by police immediately.
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  7579. The US federal debt is rising by a trillion dollars every hundred days. This reckless government spending is going to destroy the dollar. It'll snap, and a tidal wave of impoverishment will sweep the country. You think the inflation of the past two years was difficult? Get ready.
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  7580.  @sqyup  No disagreement there. It's a word for a reason. (Although I wish people named Karen didn't have to suffer because of it. It should be replaced with a word, not a name.)
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  7581. Good point, but indirectly he bought ounces in the ground in the same sense that people own barrels of oil in the ground if they buy ExxonMobil. Barrick claims reserves of 71m ounces and he now (well, on June 30) owns 1.23% of the company, so his share is 870k ounces. That much gold, at the current $1950/oz is worth $1.7b, and would cost nearly a billion to get out of the ground. So he paid $568m for the indirect, theoretical, potential profit of about $750m, and that's if gold stays at this price.
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  7582.  @richh5824  You got his name wrong. It's Justin Ocasio Cortez.
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  7583.  @apurvd6177  Whether Pootie will have Ukraine or not is up to NATO. It is vastly more powerful than Russia. It's the most powerful alliance in world history by far.
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  7584.  @dianajemison105  Leading questions are not allowed in court trials. He is not conducting court trials.
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  7585.  @dianajemison105  You've either lost the sense of the thread or you mis-read my reply. Maybe go back and check.
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  7586. Factually WRONG. The average price he paid was $25.80, Friday's close was $26.99. That's not a loss of $90m, it's a gain of around $25m.
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  7587. Actually if you look at the standard formal rating system it stresses a lack of responsibility, planning, impulse control and lasting relationships. Risk-taking is frequent. So it's more of a loser thing and need not have anything at all to do with really dramatic and scary things like crazed and irrational thinking, violence, or criminality. A psychopath can be a relatively harmless and nice person. For example, the risk-taking can center around drug-taking; the lack of impulse control can mean quitting jobs; lack of responsibility can mean not building a career or starting a family. It's ordinarily a misfit syndrome more than an evil, raving, dangerous maniac thing.
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  7588. So the man who made no use of US military might against anyone but ISIS and Assad is exactly like the chinless devil who murders Ukrainian women and children? If you could only honestly see the untruth and immorality of your words, you'd never stop throwing up.
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  7589.  @bobroberts2371  Do u really think a bunch of stabbing victims made that up?
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  7590. YTM.
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  7591.  @hanswurst2360  That is wishful thinking. It's not a tank. It is a more lightly armoured infantry vehicle. An explosion above it would be devastating.
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  7592.  @Charlieband  "Shares and voting rights." That's quite clear, and up to a point valid, too. Thanks for rephrasing. But I don't know if the UK's influence on Europe has been in sufficient proportion to Europe's influence on the UK. If you're the tail and you can wag the dog, stick with it. If you're just a tail on the dog, maybe you should go off and be your own dog. To tell the difference one would have had to pay close attention for a long time, and I haven't, for I don't even live there. I also like your pointing out the limitations of democracy. Pretending it's perfect is dangerous. One must search for its weaknesses, identify them, accept them, and think hard about them. Then one is ready to do something about them. The whole process takes the brittleness out of it. Suppleness lasts. Thanks again for your interesting reply. Merry Xmas to you, too.
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  7593. The Rolling Stones aren't forever. Is even 1 in 500 teenagers today a fan? They'll go the way of Elvis Presley: famous name, almost zero enthusiasts born in the last 50 years. The future of takeout burgers and fries looks hazy to me too. It's closely linked to widespread peace, freedom and prosperity. The Beatles should survive a long while.
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  7594. Partisan slander gonna slandy.
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  7595. Who on earth is this Josh Matlow guy? Good lord, he just said "we was" (!), then pronounced premier "premmy-er." No wonder Ford wanted to disempower City Council. Matlow is one of its senior members and the mayor's educational qualification is a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Guelph. I bet she can barely read.
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  7596.  @lelestewy  The Left when capitalists are culpable: "Look at those dirty capitalists!" The Left when leftists or the public sector are culpable: "Look at those dirty capitalists!"
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  7597. That isn't right. Try 228 arrests, over a thousand cars.   Great job not paying attention to the video and then shooting your mouth off. Also, $50m would pay for an investigation by 500 officers (!) for a whole year. Project Stallion was shorter and surely far, far smaller than that. So please spare us.
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  7598. That couldn't possibly be any less intelligent. Max. US troop strength in Vietnam: 543,482. Current US troop strength in Ukraine: 0.
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  7599.  @laurelvanwilligen9787  All too true. Some days I feel it's the story of my life.
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  7600. Tbh I don't find her news-anchor demeanor the most sincere, but maybe that's illusory. Wouldn't it be stunning to find her on a ticket with a Republican? RDS, perhaps?
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  7601.  @12alocin  No, it's called different owners. See Wiki
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  7602. Different owners. Look it up
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  7603. Yeah. I almost wonder if SNA might expand to the US.🤔
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  7604. ...in multi-volume boxed set.😄
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  7605.  @Ofasia777  <---- "No one in the history of man who has 'done their own research' has even been right about anything." Ah, so this is your conclusion on the matter after researching it thoroughly?
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  7606.  @uncletiggermclaren7592  Cool rebuke.
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  7607. They also said "two factors: friction and wind resistance". Wind resistance IS friction. Who tf are these people?
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  7608. They also spelled Delhi wrong. ("Dehli".) There are many mistakes, misstatements, and outright blunders in this video. No wonder it has so many dislikes.
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  7609. ​ @CallMeDr.T.  No later than Oct. 2025. Another 17 months max.😮 Conceivably sooner. In our UK-type system it can be uncertain because within certain limits the party in power gets to decide. (Today the UK Prime Minster announced an election for July 4. Until now, no one knew when it'd be.)
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  7610. So Trudeau "has rejected the need to bring in the military to deal with the remainder of the protesters." Rest assured, the Canadian army would NEVER obey orders to attack peaceful political protesters. Never. It's not even up to the prime minister. It just would not happen.
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  7611. Who doesn't want no or minimal war? I've opposed nearly all wars during my lifetime. But supporting Ukraine isn't something we can't afford to do. It's something we cannot afford not to do. Something like $50bn a year is lunch money compared to the collapse of American wealth and standards of living if global security is ruined. Tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars in economic activity and asset values would disappear before many years were up. We can only thrive in a world that is predominantly stable, safe, free and open. It's a stark truth that you better let sink in.
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  7612. The news seemed to bring cheer to the fellow in front of the camera.😠 He appeared to have something of the ghoul in him, I should say.
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  7613.  @lepen_macron  What part of my clearly-written comment are you having difficulty with?
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  7614. Alexandr chirps like a nestling, and with equal intelligence.
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  7615.  @abrahamdozer6273   Correcting someone on a definition of something hints that one approves of that thing, does it?🤨 Your question simply blows my mind. How you could read that into my post is amazing. You, too, would be be a great nominee for a Cathy Newman Prize.
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  7616. Kasparov is of course correct. But people also fail to realize the extent of the problem on US and other Western platforms. Here we're not talking millions of such posts, but billions. Software to scale up, refine and partly automate the process is invaluable.
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  7617. Because bribes to the more moderate ones keep the most radical ones out of power, ones who would love to fire off nuclear weapons. On the whole it's probably money well spent. Yes the world is a mess. But it's perpetually on the verge of getting 1000x messier. It's the USA that keeps it where it is.
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  7618. "Why"? Cuz payoffs to the more moderate ones keep the most radical ones out of power, ones who would love to fire off nukes. On the whole it's probably money well spent. Yes the world is a mess. But it's perpetually on the verge of getting 1000x messier. It's the US that keeps it from going entirely off the rails.
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  7619. If you ask me, the best g un kuntrol is (1) not ruining the prevailing standard of living with things like _ockdownz, excessive government debt, and attacks on the energy business, (2) a proper justice system with well-funded police and sensible bail and sentencing policies, (3) not demoralizing the populace by telling them they're awful people bcuz they belong to an awful rei gh ce, (4) not educating people to believe their problems are other people's fault, (5) strictly controlling admittance to the country... ... and so on. My point should be clear. To put it briefly, many fewer people will reach for g unz and use them to address their needs and problems in a really well-run country than in a total [rhymes-with-chit]-show. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😄
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  7620. Can you?
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  7621. Voltaire, 1768: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Unwittingly prophetic. Whoever first achieves AGI will basically do just that, and thus have God at his disposal. (At least initially. Maybe only for seconds.) [Bonus comment] Dr. Victor Frankenstein, 2024: "All I did was reanimate a cadaver and I'm supposed to be some sort of madman? I mean, that was nothing. These weird people are creating God out of a heap of gizmos in some warehouse."
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  7622. Could've.
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  7623. If they're bad people, yeah. But good people can handle money and not lose their heads.
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  7624. Don't forget about the Faculties of Education in the universities.
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  7625.  @saintejeannedarc9460  All the mad self-assurance and self-righteousness of the Maid of Orléans herself. Hey! look behind you right now! It's the English army!
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  7626.  @Domesticated_Ape  The interviewer and guest ought to be shown from the top of their heads down to approximately corresponding parts of their bodies, preferably several inches below their shirt collars. It is odd if Kate's face fills the screen while we can see down nearly to her guest's waist, or vice versa. And oddness is distracting.
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  7627. Elk: "Yeah, thanks for ruining my relaxing bath time."🤬
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  7628. I remember it was supposed to be cool how Dennis Rodman defiantly announced he'd be "Bad as I Wanna Be". So how many thought it was so cool they made it their life's inspiration? (Or was it meant literally in the first place? Never did read that pos thing.)
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  7629. Very same as the senescent chatter in the TV lounge at a nursing home.
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  7630. Don't insult 14-year-old boys. They tend to have stronger character.
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  7631. You sure you meant to say that that way?
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  7632.  @rickypickles2219  [Don't mean to bug you, but you wrote "Life is worth living as a slave."]
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  7633. "I don't know what the f--- this Substack Notes thing is." In the next breath: "It's not a competitor to Twitter in the least. [That's] absurd." 🙄 Uh, okay. 🙄 But: "Substack is getting a new tweet-like feature called “Notes,” the company announced on Wednesday. The feature will let users publish small posts about things like “posts, quotes, comments, images, and links,” according to a blog post from Substack co-founders Chris Best [et al]." —The Verge, April 5. Quacks like a duck. Twitter rival, plain and simple.
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  7634. Canada doesn't need that headache. CETA, its free-trade treaty with the EU, is all it needs.
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  7635. The party contest to replace him has officially started. It's over. So relax, he's not some sort of immortal vampire. He'll soon be on his next career as a florist, an interior decorator, or a costume designer for a dance company.😂
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  7636. Sure he's out of his mind. This is not new. He's touched, taking after his mother. I'm not just quipping, he inherited some of her serious mental problems. (Also going mental, btw, the deputy prime minister. Look at her wigging out behind him. If you see the whole announcement, it goes on and on. She was pretty much in need of paramedics.)
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  7637. "This one time at band camp..."
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  7638. Hey Gad, this one's for you: "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." —William Blake
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  7639. The Taliban never had a chance either. Oh wait...
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  7640. @ It's another instance of the US overestimating itself. Sad!
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  7641. "Bla-bla-bla binary, bla-bla-bla iterations, bla-bla-bla we've evolved, bla-bla-bla collective wisdom." Dude's been studying videos of the Nuremberg trials. Hey Newsom, did you watch to the end? They were all convicted.
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  7642. So take this opportunity to upgrade your notion of loveliness. You should never have the same one you had ten years earlier or you're not learning anything.
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  7643. Your whole country f***ed up, dude. You can't blame it all on the federal government. It was a real team effort. The US is an unruly place tailor-made for a bad outcome. Plus I suspect China and Iran have been operating inside the US all year, as it's gone so bad as to defy reason. Best wishes for the rest of the year.
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  7644.  @fritzraake22  Correct. The louder and more numerous these bots are, the less confident they are. They know what they're in for.
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  7645. Fire the sound person, or maybe I mean hire one once and for all.
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  7646. Strange how a task of mere counting takes 13 months to complete. It should be possible to collect gun crime data faster than that — monthly, say — and we should have the numbers for 2023 by now. Canada is so slow, no wonder so many countries have caught up to and passed us.
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  7647. Don't forget the endocrine (hormone) disruptors in everything from plastics to cash register receipts (see NYT article "The Types of Plastics Families Should Avoid"). Plastic particles are in our food and water. Even in the air (yes, your home has considerable plastic dust). They're surely embedded in our flesh—they're in the flesh of fish caught in the middle of the ocean, so why not? Very widely prescribed anti-depressants also tend to significantly decrease sex drive. They do this by an unknown mechanism, often sharply and not just temporarily. So I don't know how much we should blame social factors. I suspect that if they were fine biologically, with hormones similar to humans of the past, young people would tell the social engineers to stuff their weird ideas, and then go out on the hunt for the opposite sex, as formerly. As it is, they are suddenly temperamentally very open to outlandish concepts concerning sex. Many of them don't know what gender they are. Many are grossed out by the idea of sex entirely. Tbh, I find they look funny. Younger women show less interest in becoming mothers every year. Males' sperm quality and quantity is very low, and deep voices have become very rare. Between 1990 and 2019, annual per capita childbirths fell 18%. But in the 20-24 group it was -72%. Those 25-29: -43%. Of course, some of that is down to skyrocketing infertility. Our endocrine systems seem to be collapsing.
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  7648. MIT CyberDefense Index 2022/23: Canada, rank in G20: 5th National Cybersecurity Index: Canada, rank out of 176 countries: 33rd (US: 46th) Harvard Kennedy School Top 10 Most Powerful Countries in Cyberspace: Canada: 8th Comparitech Most CyberSafe Countries: Canada, rank in world: 13th
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  7649.  @iCortex1  Omg. You're a big boy, spotting the obvious should be well within your powers.  If it's not, neither I nor anyone else can help you. Do have a nice day, my ironically-named friend.😂
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  7650.  @nileshjoshi6669  Oh, that's what you meant.
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  7651. Boris Johnson was forced from office in the UK for hosting a gathering after he'd imposed restrictions on everyone else. Likewise... Gavin Newsom must be barred from being nominated for hosting a gathering after he'd imposed restrictions on everyone else. He'd even told them to cancel Thanksgiving.
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  7652. And, credibility destroyed in 3, 2, 1.... "Hydro-electric generation continues to provide the majority of the State's generation, producing just over 83% of the total electricity generated on mainland Tasmania in 2021-22." — Govt. of Tasmania (Breaking news!: Rivers flow all the time.)
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  7653. ​ @BIlliE572  "Helping"? They are indeed 'helping': in 2023 and 2024 Europe provided most of the combined money/arms which Ukraine received as aid. Taking arms in isolation, the US has provided over 50% during all three years of the war. This is what bugs me about Republicans (and please note that I've never supported a Democratic candidate in a very long time). They shoot their mouths off indignantly before ever attempting to find out the facts of the matter. They hear untruths and (I hope) unintentionally but recklessly and carelessly repeat them, seemingly just to hear themselves talk and to make themselves feel better. They hold people in other countries in contempt, even despise them, without knowing a single thing about them. What is it about Republicans (the men appear to be worse than the women) and their lack of respect for the facts and the truth of things? Why do they put that lack of respect in the service of bad-mouthing the people of other countries? (Their latest target is Canada, which they are defaming as though it's an avowed enemy of the US right up there with Iran, Russia, North Korea and the PRC, even though it might actually be the only sincere friend the US has in the whole world.)
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  7654. Un fou a poignardé dix personnes. Ceux qui n'ont pas été poignardés se sont enfuis. Il a alors allumé un feu.
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  7655.  @ChinkyChan  All right, although in my view of accounting, if for example 10% of one's strictly minimized monthly spending is debt-funded, it means 10% of everything, including food. Btw, where is a 1-bdrm apt only $1,100?
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  7656.  @yourmomforpresident  Well that's going too far the other way. Run out for a 6-pack immediately! 😆
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  7657. ​ @joanntessel1026  Your internet connection enables you to easily do tasks like using the name of a restaurant to find its location.
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  7658.  @ethics3  @Z J I can tell by your quickness to explode with contempt at an American that you are a most superior human being. It is a great honour for me to address a person of such rare and distinguished excellence. You ought to be very proud of yourself for this achievement. If there is no one near at hand to worship you, by all means just do the job yourself.
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  7659.  @roxximusik8958  It's been reported that Prigozhin was flying the plane, so if the blast(s) were around the middle of the plane, he may have been in a good place to avoid injury due to it/them. As for the loss of pressure, it's necessary to turn on one's oxygen mask immediately, I do happen to know that. Upon losing 8,000 of the plane's 28,000 feet of altitude, he could have tentatively tried to go without it. Although I think you're speculating or joking about the door, the fuselage is said to have broken in half in the final seconds. If I were him I wouldn't have waited and hoped, but instead opened the door as soon as I was ready to jump out. As for shock, I don't know but I should expect Prigozhin wouldn't be the type to lose his wits. Even when people panic, they usually orient themselves away from the danger and towards safety, and they move quickly. Sometimes they do freeze, however.
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  7660.  @khiem1939  Sure. Do you also say the World Trade Center buildings went down in a 'controlled demolition' too? And 9/11 was an inside job? The Freemasons killed Kennedy? "Facts."😂 King Charles and the Rothschilds run the world...
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  7661.  @bookie5667  You could just wait 12 seconds and you'd be back down to somewhat breathable air. In the meantime you'd be putting on your oxygen mask, trying to keep flying the plane (Prigozhin was reportedly the pilot flying) and maybe taking three seconds to at least get the parachute in your lap. You'd still be able to get out and land safely for the next 20 or maybe even 30 seconds. I'm not even saying it's really even possible for sure. If it were me, I would certainly give it a go if I had planned and rehearsed what to do. Putting on a parachute is simple and fast. Not like a hat, but having it beside you is almost like wearing it.
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  7662.  @americanpatriot4227  Thanks. On the matter of the useful period of consciousness following depressurization, I'm pretty steamed to have confirmed that you are right. Turns out I was wrong even though my source, which I can't name anymore, was definitely a qualified one. As I say, the claim was that is there are mere couple of seconds without oxygen—i.e., get that thing on your face right away or die. It seemed incredible at the time (this was just a year or two ago) but what can someone do as a non-specialist? One is pretty much powerless when up against an authoritative-seeming, assertive, pushy 'expert.' Grrr!😠 I appreciate being set straight. Concerning other parts of what you wrote, tbh I'd like to counter one or two things as speculative (i.e., I'm not sure the events went the way you quite reasonably suspect/assume they did—for instance eyewitnesses reportedly say the plane actually continued level flight for a while) but there's not much point, so I won't bother. No desire to mess up again! Again, thanks for your interesting and courteous replies.
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  7663.  @CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY  I'm pretty sure it would've been fairly James Bond to even make a passable try. Your average SAS would've been hard pressed I'm guessing.
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  7664.  @hb1338  Appreciate the replies. If nothing else this thread is a decent place to ask the questions if one happens to be curious. My threadbare guess is that as the guy chartering the jet, Prigozhin demanded or asked nicely to fly the plane, but just because there's a report of him doing that doesn't mean much. I suppose the charter company or Wagner pilot(s) would've been sitting there, but anything's possible. Or maybe he was never in the cockpit. Probably few or no reports can be considered reliable. Anyway, to an average highly curious person every question here probably qualifies as fascinating.
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  7665. I see no reason to for concluding that the picture with Obama at the start was taken in a school. Not only are not all locker rooms in schools, but no one in the picture looks like a student. Sorry, bot, weak guess and a cocky one at that.
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  7666.  @TheJlee28  What disease was it?
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  7667. He's just d um b.
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  7668. I've come across responses to the same question before and the authorities' response has been "no", based on the idea that the virus particles cannot survive outside a host long enough to complete the journey from China to your mucous membranes. The particles usually die in well under a day and the maximum I've heard is nine days. So it makes sense. How fast can a ship cross a wide ocean at 25 knots? Then there's time on a train or truck, more in a warehouse, and then some on the store shelf. A lot of seafood moves by air, however. Does any of it come from China? I bet some does.
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  7669. Plus people in 150 other countries. That's why Asia, Africa and Latin America are against Ukraine—simply because the despised laughingstock US (and West) supports it. If the US supported Russia, the developing world would support Ukraine. It's that simple.
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  7670. It's very confusing, just after 3:00, when Prof. Streeck says "case fatality rate" (CFR) to mean what we call mortality rate or infection fatality rate (IFR). He found an infection rate of 15% among a municipality of 12,600 residents, just over 330 of whom had been confirmed cases, and 7 of whom died. That's a CFR of 2.1% and an IFR of 0.37% But he says it's a CFR of 0.37%, which is incorrect. It was just a slip, of course.
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  7671.  @Jaco059  Fine, but this one's worse.
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  7672.  @Jaco059  Very well, the same. The motion is carried, is there a motion on the floor?
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  7673. She calls Trump "a purely American phenomenon." But I think it's worth throwing in that all four of his grandparents and his mother grew up poor European villagers. And his wife grew up in a Slovenian town of a few thousand people. His mother was from the Outer Hebrides (!) off northern Scotland; his father's parents came of age in Bavaria.
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  7674.  @ladybug5859  Hmm? What? I think your reply was meant for someone else. :)
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  7675. "Anima sana in corpore sano" (ASICS) means 'a healthy soul in a healthy body.' Not many people are going to argue with that!👍
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  7676. Hard to defend…publicly. Perhaps it would be easier if he could speak candidly. We on this side of the cameras do not know what Xi has said to Biden. For all we know he has made repeated insinuations that China will act decisively on Russia's behalf in certain circumstances—or rather than insinuations, has made threats and promises. Then there are the threats of Putin of which we are all well aware. It's easy for us to disregard them, but we are not deciding anything. If we really did have responsibility for making actual choices, you can bet that we would be much slower to decide, much less sure of ourselves. An immense number of lives, even the future of humanity, is at stake.
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  7677. One cannot drive a helicopter around, so I don't know about calling it a car.
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  7678. ​ @brucewayne3892  The EU countries are crazy and twisted, but far less crazy and twisted than Putin. (No big accomplishment there!) They are far saner, far richer, far more well-armed, far more numerous and far more productive than Russia. They also have the US backing them up, plus a good number of other large or strategically important high-GDP countries (UK, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea—and no doubt India and many others if it ever came down to it). Game, set, match. Five or six billion people are going to vigorously oppose any attempt by China and Russia to take over the world. They all know the Pax Americana is good for them, because it is, and they're not fools.
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  7679. @Watcher Nothing but a complete lack of desire. To confuse the Westerners of today with the Westerners of an earlier lifetime who took over Chinese port cities is like confusing the disco dancers of Berlin and Hamburg today with the Waffen SS of 1940.
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  7680.  @thedishwasherakawomen8878  Haha. I'm nobody's bot, bro. I'm a grown man. Little boys under their strict dad, that's you guys in Russia and China. Little boys forever, and you watch dad beat up mom, helpless. Then you listen to dad brag how smoothly he runs his household. Of course he does! His sons are all nine years old for life.
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  7681.  @asianaiart  All right then, don't call it a warning, call it bargaining. Either way, the weak hand is yours. Don't make a move in haste. Keep your cool.
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  7682. Seems like the punchline got cut off your promising little joke.
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  7683. I lost dozens of neurons just from reading this.
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  7684. Canada's the one ally the US spends zero in cash costs to guarantee its security. It's like the house beside the police station, safe for that reason alone. Europe, Japan, S. Korea: different story entirely.
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  7685. And we should also get past taking Putin's nuclear threats seriously. They were simply made out of fearful desperation. Total bluffing and very much to be expected from a piece of street trash, which is what he is.
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  7686. Unbearable Hamas propaganda report. Seriously ill Gazans should complain to Hamas that firing on Israeli civilians is wrong and leaves Israel no choice but to defend itself by firing at where the missiles are being fired from. Israel is giving Gaza's civilians ample warning. Hamas gave the Israelis it murdered zero warning.
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  7687. It's hard to believe so many people are as panicked, furious, distrustful, hysterically bitter, and paranoid as these comments would suggest they are. It's got to be mental illness and paid trolling. L'Enfer, c'est les autres.
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  7688.  @youtubetruthteller6880  I thought your kind considered accent mocking racist. And a form of bullying.
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  7689.  Karrie Dee  "Yoo no makey much senis" is not accent mocking? How do you figure?
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  7690. Make no mistake: DEI is reparations. It's just not totally in cash form.
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  7691. He's a megalomaniac, as shown in the Alexei Navalny documentary Putin's Palace. See it here on YouTube. Part Ceausescu, part Stalin, part Kim, part Eichmann.
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  7692. Flash forward to 2029, when Mahuta is prime minister of New Zealand: Having banned US navy vessels from entering New Zealand's ports after one year in office (2025), she now invites China to build both a military base and a naval seaport in her country, citing the risk of eventual invasion by the US. In her speeches and interviews she has dwelt on the possibility for two years. She has repeatedly claimed to have reliable intelligence proving the danger, but says she cannot share the reports for fear of endangering lives. The media have fully cooperated, running frequent reports and opinion columns demonizing the US and praising China. The issue appears to have helped get her re-elected. New Zealanders are behind the government's China invitation by a slim majority. The US scoffs at the idea they ever wanted to invade, despite New Zealand's abrupt severance of military ties and cooperation four years earlier. They say that New Zealand does not make itself a US target as a non-aligned nation and that the US is eager for a normal friendship. But they warn that they may now have to take steps to maintain global security. (The security of Australia, Japan, and Taiwan would be seriously compromised by the New Zealand plan, as would that of a dozen other countries in the region. The US navy's ability to guarantee open sea lanes in the western Pacific, which the bulk of the world's traffic and cargo transits at some point, is in peril.) The US does not specify what steps those may be. Thus by her own actions Mahuta has created the thing she used to justify a close alliance with China---the possible threat of a US invasion. The US considers telling China it won't allow it to build in New Zealand, and eventually decides that it's worth it, simply because there's a chance it will work. (But they do not plan on starting a war with China. They are bluffing.) Australia backs the US, devastating relations with the Kiwi government. So do Britain and Canada, but in Europe only a few lesser powers do so, Denmark the most stalwart among them. The major powers unleash a diplomatic offensive instead. Russia makes numerous public statements in favour of China. The bluff works. China does not abjure building the base and port in New Zealand altogether, but announces postponement of the plan to begin building immediately. US and its aforementioned allies increase the number of naval vessels in the waters off Australia, greatly vexing Prime Minister Mahuta. Although she retains strong media support, polls show that New Zealanders are turning on her, the collapse of relations with Australia being called a disaster and completely avoidable. In response she announces plans for New Zealand to become a republic and to leave the Commonwealth, calling them racist, colonialist institutions tied to US hegemony. A new constitution will thus be needed. She receives significant public support for these measures, vigorously emphasized by the media, but still slides further in the polls, now with just 30% approval. The next election is three years off. committing to actions at this time. The US issues a warning to New Zealand that it may damage itself by alienating itself from the West, and urges it to change course. Mahuta spins this as a direct threat of imminent invasion, and the media go along. A week later on a Friday afternoon she declares a state of emergency and curtailment of freedoms as preparation for militarily defending the country begins. Parliament is prorogued. Press freedom is suspended and opinion polls can no longer be published. Internet connections with the rest of the world are broken and social media are censored. Capital is forbidden to leave the country.  By-elections to fill vacant seats are cancelled. Snitch lines are set up for reporting New Zealanders suspected of being American spies or agents. It is announced that international phone lines are monitored. Travel is not halted and tourism continues, so many New Zealanders leave the country, reporting that the people are furious but have no way to fight the government. Many with yachts or sailboats load them with belongings and head for Australia or Singapore. Others must leave with only their luggage. Departures are only allowed for 16 days. At that point Mahuta declares them too damaging to New Zealand to be permitted anymore and ends them. She blames the US for all the measures she has taken in the last five weeks, promising to restore freedoms as soon as it is safe to do so, but warns that this may not be possible soon. She likens the situation to the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020-21, saying that, as then, sacrifice alone can make New Zealanders safe... ------------------ I may or may not add to this (probably not) but if I don't, I at least know I've made my point.
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  7693. It doesn't have to be the sun. A relatively small nuclear blast in the very high atmosphere or low space creates what's called an EMP or electromagnetic pulse, which fries all electronic devices over an area of millions of square miles. Basically knocks everything back to the 19th century. Something properly shielded might still work, but the electric grid would be gone. Possibly really old cars could be repaired, but that's about it.
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  7694.  @ИринаРубцова-е7ф  Sorry, I don't speak Orc.😄
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  7695. [Sound of crickets, as 95% of this comments section is Communist Party of China enthusiasts, employees, and sympathizers.] Cheers.
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  7696. Newman asks if "human trips to the Titanic gotta just end ?" And she says it like it's some of her business, like the whole world is her own child she can make the rules for.🙄 We all know what women are like to live with. They have a strong tendency to try to run everybody's life. So now that except at the very highest rungs of power men are apparently divesting themselves of any share of authority, I'd say people of both sexes can kiss freedom good-bye.
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  7697. The mountains at the end were the best part.
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  7698. The thing I like most about Lindsey Graham is that that he hates to lie so much that if you're sharp you can tell when he's doing it. (Other things I like include his extreme quickness and the fact that his family, like mine for a part of my boyhood, prospered as tavern-keepers.) Late in the interview when he addresses the subject of the impeachment inquiry, he expresses support for Trump's conduct during the phone call with Zelenski. It's sham support. He is lying. And he's lying for a pretty bad reason (namely, ambition), so you have to sort of like him or at least sort of dislike Trump in order to forgive it. But here it is: He thinks Trump's goose might be cooked over Ukraine. If impeachment, however far it goes, comes to appear as though it is tanking the party's chances in 2020, there will be moves to open up the nomination to others. Lindsey Graham wants to be president very badly (good! I say) but he realizes, I say, that if Republicans end up looking for a new nominee, they will not choose him from among those who have participated in and supported Trump's ouster. Graham, therefore, out of ambition, is playing to Trump's base because it's tantamount to the Republican base. He knows, to spell it out, that he can't appeal to the party as a replacement candidate sporting a Judas hat. He will take his chances with a 150m-strong Republican base six or so months from now, rather than mere millions of centrist swing voters 55 weeks from now. And he probably has the confidence to think he can get the centrists anyway. Partisan Democrats and some Republicans never tire of labelling Graham as a Trump enabler or Never-Trump quisling. They actually know better, surely? Obviously (to me) he has the real, serious, dyed-in-the-wool-democrat respect for voters and decided to honour both the country and himself by offering his services to the duly-elected president---whilst holding to his principles (e.g. on NATO since 2017 and the Kurds this week) and placing a side bet on himself. Why distance yourself from a president from your own party and his 150m supporters when you can get close to him and at least have your say? For a guy with brainpower to burn like Graham, I daresay the choice was inevitable if stomach-churning. (Trump took the support for reasons fairly alike.) If I'm not mistaken, nobody but a weirdo really wants to be president anyway. But in my view, Graham is the weirdo with political and personal virtues salutary for the future of the country. Not only is he a good guy, he'll bring the real chess-playing skills to the job we variously call American president, leader of the West, and the leading role on Earth.
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  7699. I keep thinking Col. McGlugger is going to start talking about "our precious bodily fluids." Thanks for giving him what for, so to speak. It's about time somebody did.
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  7700. No. Just Alberta, but he can't say that. He wants to break the country first, then take one province: instant $20-trillion improvement to the rotten national balance sheet.
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  7701. Nay, this is comforting.
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  7702. No pint? Oh dear. Now this really has deteriorated too far.
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  7703. I didn't know who she was before this, but now I'd say that she must be one of the better orators in federal politics.
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  7704. Mette Fredericksen is a marvellous leader. She and Denmark are lucky to have each other. I'll never forget her simple message when she ended Denmark's restrictions due to the health event a few years ago, the first Western leader to do so: "We welcome the way of life we knew before." It caught at my throat to hear it.
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  7705. I think the sandwich was a Reuben.
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  7706. Forgive my quibbling, but actually tenfold means a 900% increase. (Doubling means an increase of 100%, tripling 200%, fourfold 300%, etc.)
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  7707. Omg what a stoner. There's people living in a park near where I live who talk like this. One told me that Persians explored, mapped and surveyed the entire planet 20,000 years ago.
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  7708.  @torontocitizen6802  What?
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  7709. Well said.
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  7710. Public support for his party is in the low 30s, trailing the Conservatives by 3—6 points in the various polls this week .
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  7711. Although for a couple of decades in the early 1800s a handful of US immigrants were allowed to bring slave servants with them, afterwards there were never any Jim Crow laws or segregation practices in Canada, where this film came from. So it turns out the "expert" is you.
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  7712. * wouldn't have
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  7713.  @SashaYanshin  Cool, thanks for your reply. Still, there's always gotta be room for others. 😝 Since you're reading these things at the moment, I might as well mention my admiration for your command of English, which is obviously not your mother tongue. I'm not sure one in a hundred people native to North America has attained the same sort of mastery.
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  7714. Buy a US-made Purism smartphone from $1,000. US-made. Or buy a Samsung. Korea is a great and dependable US ally. Or buy a Taiwan make. Also a solid US ally. Maybe there's other non-Chinese phones if you look into it.
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  7715. ​@lic8473 Yes they were. Where was it written into the Soviet constitution that the Ukrainian SSR was a subordinate colony of the Russian SFSR? It absolutely had every right to its proportionate share of the Soviet Union's assets upon dissolution.
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  7716.  @unsalbulent  But that's like saying if the US dissolved, Texas, Florida or California would have no right to nukes, only the DC-Maryland-Virginia area would. That's messed up. All states are equally American, just as Ukraine and the Russian SFSR were equally a part of the USSR. Ukraine was a very sizeable part of the Soviet population, too, like California plus Ohio.
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  7717. Down with this talk of Ukraine making concessions. If Britain were attacked by Russia, would we be hearing that it's time it began considering giving up Kent, Suffolk and Wales? I think that people sometimes have an awful tendency to worship power and thus to coldly regard the weaker party in a violent conflict with traces of contempt. Until, that is, they get a hold of their moral sense, ordinarily by imagining themselves in the place of the victims.
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  7718. Also, somewhere/sometime somebody who's now dead probably had the same name as all of us, so levelling this accusation was straightforwardly easy. No scam is too low and obvious for the Kremlin.
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  7719. He's right, he's already done the cognitive testing. In front of all humanity. And it was just as hard on us as it was on him.
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  7720.  @Fedaygin  It's a colloquialism not much used by believers except as a mild profanity; mainly with slight irony by atheists, the totally irreligious, and people of other faiths. Just a mild, highly secularized quasi-swear word/phrase. Take your show-off intolerance and presumption elsewhere. If you think you're funny, that is highly debatable.
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  7721. How does it matter whether someone's a Putin lover or not, if she's in favour of giving him what he wants? Sickening. Just puke-making. Mass murder, mass rape, mass torture, mass pillage, mass destruction—and you want to reward him? If he's not firmly opposed he'll just keep on gobbling up countries, eventually costing the US not a mere $40bn ($16bn spent so far) but instead many trillions, as well as a huge number of lives of American soldiers. Think. Try to think.
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  7722. You can guess the feelings of the guy in the beige leather jacket just by his semi-Xi haircut. In fact, the way he stands so stiffly with his arms tight to his sides reminds me of how Xi himself stands in parades, sticking up in the same comical way through the hole in the roof of his extra-small limousine. Then our friend opens his mouth to speak and removes all doubt.
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  7723. I disagree with the woman who denied being a prostitute. She called the West "tiny," but Europe (ex-Russia), the US, Canada and Australia are far larger in area and far more populous than Russia. (Add the democracies of East Asia and the difference is even greater.) Approximately 35,000,000 square kilometres and 1,200,000,000 people. Not to mention about $50trn in GDP. "Tiny"!😂
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  7724. She'll run if she's even close to being convinced she'd win.
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  7725.  @MattKangCooper  Oh yeah, right. I did see that one clip of her dancing with what appeared to be some dangly bits pressing through a snug dress or pair of pants.
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  7726.  @willwalker6894  In fact we have a surfeit of such assertiveness-trained wind-up toys. So many that the social tectonic plates groan under the weight of them.
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  7727. The US and ISAF certainly did not lose. They were smart enough to know just what would happen against the Taliban. They stayed long enough to show the world what happens when you pull what the Taliban did in hosting Al Qaeda and its training camps…and then they stayed another ten years for good measure. Point made, and the world made far safer for a long time. Partial occupation for 20 years is likely exactly what they planned for.
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  7728.  @shumoon1  They sleep under them.
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  7729. Joanne Rowling is 100% right.👍 I'm so glad she has 'eff-yew' money. It makes her safe from blowback from the so-called 'progressive' tail which has been so absurdly wagging the dog of our institutions. One of the world's most deserving billionaires.
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  7730. Buh-bye.
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  7731. @ Uh, what?
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  7732. Exactly which car hoods/trunk lids/doors can you safely close on fingers that are soft as carrots?
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  7733.  @jodycochranpo9898  He had left his pantyhose in front of the fireplace.
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  7734. It's time to end this division. Lemon and Cuomo are both the dumbest.
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  7735.  @Pamaracas  Thanks for your civil reply. Cheers. (I was not the OP, though.)
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  7736. Dave, your tuckeris maximus is showing. Learn how to ignore that putz on the most important things, will you? He just doesn't want Biden succeeding on any file, which I understand, but this is too important to the future of the US and the world. Right now you're teaming up with him to hand over the world to China and Russia (plus Iran and North Korea and other assorted skuhm). Use your head. Defeat Biden some other way that's not pyrrhic for America.
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  7737. Come on, try to do better than that. It's permanent, not "permiment." Good lord. And don't yell in all-caps.
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  7738.  @pillcosby777  No need to know. That would be your area, I'm sure.
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  7739. Tell me this, Professor Pascal: How can an illness which makes over 80% of those it infects only mildly ill cause the death of 50% of its victims? You should also realize that heads of health agencies and ministries are smart enough to listen to statisticians. Heads of government, in turn, are smart enough to listen to heads of health agencies and ministries. Good try, troll. All the specific dates and percentages were a nice touch. Busy night?
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  7740.  @bisbeejim  First, why are you called bisbeejim (i.e. Jim Busby)? That's an extremely anglosphere name for someone who's not an native speaker of English.
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  7741.  @bisbeejim  Second, you do not present any mathematics for me to address.
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  7742.  @bisbeejim  Third, you address me and still don't present any mathematics.
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  7743.  @bisbeejim  Fourth, I asked you to explain an absurdity in your numbers and you didn't respond.
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  7744.  @bisbeejim  Finally, thanks for your concern about my well-being. You're a nice troll.
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  7745. Grrrr! Unethical, Lex. That title is clickbait and you know it: You deliberately exploit a quote out of context to make people think Musk is condemning cookies, and it turns out he is fine with them. Thanks, now I trust you less.
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  7746. Activists and social engineers of all kinds who insist on programs of radical change, often involving the scrapping of constitutional provisions, ought to be forced to swear to and uphold the same Oath of Hippocrates which doctors do: First, you shall do no harm.
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  7747. "No change in message"? Uh, what about his decision to study reparations for black Canadians? That's a bit of a new message, isn't it?🤨
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  7748. Yeah. So the way they see it, depending on the righteousness of your opinions — as defined by them (!) — vandalism should be legal. Next I guess they'll say that depending on your ancestry, shoplifting should be legal. Then that depending on your voting choice your ballot may be legally tossed in the garbage. They're just unreal. They're high on their own sanctimony.
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  7749.  @nonamehouse4442  I think you read my comment too fast. Your reply seems to indicate that you missed my meaning.
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  7750.  @pkl8811  It's down 20% from three months ago, so that's not what I meant by having its moment. I meant when it doubles in a mere month at some point, that sort of thing.
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  7751. Greg is cool and a smart guy, but Katie Pavlich does not have the slightest clue what she's talking about. She probably knows about something, but not economic or financial matters. At all. At all. She's the Kamala Harris of this program, at least till they change the subject.
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  7752. "Trump's Peace Plan Unveiled" That part of your video title is false. It is not "Trump's peace plan." If and when Trump has a peace plan, he will announce it as such.
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  7753. There was a ceasefire! Hamas broke it on October 7.😠
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  7754.  @anglodoomer5995  That's right, your royal semi-literateness. It's a series of accurate observations.
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  7755. It's bad to have a crippling trade deficit with the whole world, but any trade deficit with a single given trading partner may not be bad in the least. Economists would point out that everyone runs a massive trade deficit with their supermarket. It's not an issue. It shows they can pay for the groceries they need.
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  7756. Hear! Hear!
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  7757. Also spending it on a long-lasting roof. Also paid for in present dollars, while future electricity could be $1 per kWh, or who knows, $10. Also possible huge energy sales to the utility over time. Also recoupable in higher home resale value. (Many variables. University training needed to figure it out! 😂)
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  7758.  @nicolek4076  Oh, roll up your Guardian tightly and store it safely in an appropriate place.
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  7759. @Todd Wasn't it some uninhabited swamp?
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  7760. Quite a few are middle-aged or old activists. Don't forget it takes corrupt grown-ups to corrupt youths.
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  7761. The RCAF motto is Per ardua ad astra, which means very nearly the same thing. (It is also the motto of the RAF, RAAF and RNZAF.)
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  7762.  @benstapley6077  It was a bit early in the day to be drinking, I should say.🙄
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  7763. "It's a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff (NATO Dep. Commr. 2011-14) Jan. 2024 2) 0:14 James' voice comes in at a level twice that of our guest's. This jarring sort of thing happens often, year after year after year. Please, TR, do something. Thank you.
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  7764. 6:09 Gives a not very coherent and rambling comment. Wraps it up saying "I really can't comment."
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  7765. What a pity that ordinary women have to face this women's spaces business. Because watching the TERFs fight it out with the trans activists is sheer delight. I wish they'd pick up the pace of defaming each other. Doyle is brilliant.
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  7766. Thanks. Here in Canada the left establishment and institutions have vacated the moderate centre. I'm pretty much a polar bear on an ice floe here. To put it another way, millions of Canadians of the centre-left are sheltering in the centre-right. Nothing else could explain the mass migration from the Liberals to the Conservatives this year.
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  7767. There's sufficient oil and gas available on the open market and global LNG capacity continues to skyrocket. Enjoy your paltry revenues from China, Dmitri.
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  7768. Are school board trustees human beings? —Can't Help Wondering
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  7769. During the 1970s and 80s she and Prime Minister Peter Pan grew up in adjacent wealthy neighbourhoods in Montreal, barely a mile apart in Westmount and the Golden Square Mile. And they are political soulmates to this day.
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  7770. It's a solid system ruined by the gradual destruction of the Canadian economy and thus the tax base. Thanks to Trudeau and numerous Liberal-NDP provincial govts, there's an empty hole where an additional $15k per capita in GDP should be. Out of that, $4k (or an additional $165bn) would cover health care just fine.
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  7771.  @Navybrat64  🤨?
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  7772.  @sulkel  They're different measures of different things and both have their (incomplete) validity. It's essential to know both.
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  7773.  @sulkel  Using the word 'real' shows how well you understand the matter.
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  7774.  @sulkel  Yes! EDIT: And you're cordially invited to advance one or more points of argument in support of your snark.
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  7775. Better than TV. I wouldn't mind seeing the long edit.
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  7776. Want some more irony? When he worked there he was an honest man often writing lies and half-truths. It was wartime and he was a patriotic BBC-based employee in the Ministry of Propaganda.
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  7777. Elon Musk lives in a small house near the SpaceX site in Boca Chica which cost $45k. He often stays over at the houses of friends, usually that of a co-founder of PayPal in Austin. (Its owner paid $18m for it.) He has reportedly been looking around for a place somewhere near Austin for a year or two.
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  7778.  @Nauda999  Your reply tells us more about the nature of your personality and imagination (both of which may well be very respectable) than anything else. I'll just toss in this about banks and debt: A very large bank with $2trn in debt on its loan book isn't worth $2trn. More likely 5-10% of that. You could buy it for $100-200bn, since it is valued on its profits, not its assets. Banks don't merely lend out deposits; mostly they create the money they lend. Few people know this. Most believe central banks create money, which is false except now and then. A customer 'borrows' money at the instant a bank creates it out of thin air. They largely don't subtract it from anyone's deposits in any sense; mostly they just write a line in the ledger depositing the sum in the borrower's account. Presto!, as magicians say. And this about who owns banks: for the most part institutions like pension funds and mutual funds ("groups"). But also many individual shareholders, rich and not rich. And this about who owns government debt: besides banks, the same institutional funds, plus foreign govts in a form of cross-ownership intended to bolster stability. But yes, ultimately the wealthy for the most part. And yes, the richest 1%, let's say—i.e. 80m people—own half of everything, it would appear. I'm not against the Fermi estimates of highly-knowledgable brilliant people. Actually they interest me intensely; incompetent guesswork doesn't. Don't trust me though, nor any sole other party particularly. Determining the facts on these matters for the most part is the work of a lifetime. (That one thing, and no other, you can indeed trust me on.) Please excuse the length of my reply.
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  7779.  @juliogonzo2718  You have to visualize what was described. The truck, according to the officer if I understood him correctly, was in the right-hand curb lane, not the centre lane. Making such a left turn is inherently dangerous, as it involves turning into and across a lane of traffic going in the same direction. It is of course ordinarily unlawful for that reason. If in special circumstances it is permitted, as it may have been here, it has to be performed with the utmost possible attention and care. The truck, it would certainly seem, surprised the cyclist by initiating the turn. That is quite understandable at least up to a point, since one rarely if ever encounters such a vehicle turning left from the right-hand curb lane. Possibly the cyclist ignored a warning signal, gesture or shout from the curbside worker to make way for the truck. (I wonder if the cyclist's attention was inappropriately divided or if he/she was listening to headphones.) Still, in my view the onus is on the driver to allow for such things. I can't see the excuse to not check what's going on in the centre lane before moving. One can always simply put one's head out the window first. Perhaps you interpreted the officer's account differently. If so, you are welcome to let me know.
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  7780. ​ @thecinephilefish9465  Thank you. Were we the only two people paying attention to the video? I made the same point here in this thread, btw, and I don't even see my post now. EDIT: I can see it by selecting Sort By Newest.
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  7781.  @thecinephilefish9465  It's just one of the worst channels for prevalence of posters with awful personalities. To me it really stands out.
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  7782.  @_josephbogdan_  I, too, am impatient with the view that Ukraine and its allies had better not upset Putin by attacking Russia at any time, and really should avoid upsetting him at all. He should be treated like a punk, which is what he is. Many of his boyhood friends and acquaintances ended up in jail. He's very 'street,' and I think that will be the reason for it if he happens to die a bloody death.
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  7783. Aren't you people doing enough with Fentanyl?
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  7784. Can't believe they actually got Joe Biden to join the interview. Only question: Why's he in the Ozzy get-up?
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  7785. Sure, and Nelson Mandela should have sneaked out of his country too.🙄
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  7786.  @KingNo  Can you specify what funding and subsidization you have in mind?
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  7787. I strongly suspect a great deal of creepy, freaky, brutal stuff is going on under Luka-psycho. Someday soon Belarus is going to be in as many shocking and revolting headlines as Russia, if not more.
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  7788. Oh, please. The Robinhooders, WSBers, and Reddit crowd decided to up the ante and attempt to out-casino the original casino dwellers. Why pick sides in a battle between the two most self-interested and greedy financial armies in the world? Simple gang-on-gang violence. So can the sanctimony and let them annihilate each other.
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  7789. Merely to interview is not to interfere, if that's what you're trying to say. Anyway, everyone has a bias and it's just as well in this case that Piers didn't hide it. And he's only dubiously an actual journalist—he has an opinion-themed interview show, that's all.
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  7790. 74% of Canadians want Prime Minister Peter Pan to resign. Polls show the Conservative opposition leader would win a large majority. The Conservatives even lead across greater Toronto. But the next election isn't for a year and a half.😮
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  7791. link to long version on the screen in the last 5 seconds
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  7792. Today he begins his search for the real hoaxers.
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  7793. God, I would love that. But I think any serious resistance to Lukashenko would trigger invasion by Russia on a large scale, and possible annexation. In fact I worry that annexation of Belarus is in the cards soon anyway. Just watch for the Putin, Lavrov or the Kremlin spokesmen to start saying bad things about Lukashenko and telling lies about how Russians in Belarus are in peril. Empire-minded psychos gonna empire-minded psycho.
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  7794.  @scrotewart2186  I'm no doctor but surely scrotal warts should be burned off.
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  7795. Tesla and SpaceX are now up to 100,000 employees.
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  7796.  @mdmoz1777  Actually, goods inflation has remained low all this time. It's food, energy and shelter that went crazy.
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  7797. "America has now joined other ‘banana republics'." Yes, two years after Canada did. In 2022, Prime Minister Peter Pan invoked martial law to arrest, jail, and hold without bail his countrymen and -women who had the gall to protest his policies with traditional Canadian peacefulness and restraint in front of Parliament.
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  7798. Ok then, let's not centralize food distribution. The resulting extra costs will mean your standard of living goes down the other 360 days of the year, permanently.
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  7799. Ouch. And actually the whole Western world is the next South Africa unless we can turn things around. It's vital that we encourage each other, my friend, and share the best tactics. Will, intelligence and unity are all that's needed to move mountains. (But doses of kindness and heathy anger make the job go faster.)
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  7800. Phelan .... how apt, in the sense of "failin'." Failin' rhetoric, that is. Failin' morality. Failin' humanity. Simple failure altogether. 'Marc' my words.
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  7801. I'm a David Bowie enthusiast but planet nine should be named Telos. Also, be prepared for a non-Westerner to find it and call it something hard to say and spell.
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  7802. That's the way it's supposed to work. But Trudeau keeps sticking his nose in with subsidies. He gave Bell money without strings attached (apparently) so he has no one to blame but himself. If he weren't aiming a firehose of cash at private news companies, maybe Bell wouldn't lose money on those businesses and would retain the employees. In trying to distort the news, Trudeau is distorting the market.
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  7803. "Emergency"? Who used that word in this video? No one.
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  7804. Remember last month when he set a deadline for the release of hostages by a certain group? He vowed that "all hell would break out" if the deadline were not honored, but it passed without all hostages being released. And nothing happened. They called his bluff and nothing happened. Weak!
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  7805.  @GM-db4bv  Try not to be so 🤡ish. Just try.
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  7806.  @GM-db4bv  A poll published last month, the results of which are searchable (Statista article: "Share of people who would vote to stay in NATO if there was a referendum in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 2023, by country") showed that Hungarians' support for remaining in NATO is at 89%. But not all 11.3m Hungarians were polled, so you probably don't accept that.😂
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  7807.  @HayilAl-Qadhaafi-ws9of  Oh, poor Qaddafi!😢
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  7808. She's not sincere. She's toeing the neo-Marxist line.
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  7809.  @organisationxiv2927  Nope. The idiom refers to obediently lining up with other soldiers, as on a parade ground or other locale for military drills. Please, my ironically-named friend, use a dictionary. You've heard of them of course?
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  7810.  @TheZenGarden_  You're on the right track in the sense that holding such a belief is an act of imagination. Paranoid fantasy is a somewhat stronger term for it. X tree mist indoctrination describes it well, too.
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  7811.  @TheZenGarden_  I looked that up: "And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard." What is the point of making that allusion to me? It seems rather like an unhinged threat. Are you ok?
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  7812.  @TheZenGarden_  Yeah, you were directing it at me. It was a reply specifically to me, addressed to me. Reported for harassment. Account muted.
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  7813. They haven't learned how to manage their electric fleets yet, or they're giving them tasks they shouldn't. If a car has a range of several hundred kilometres, work within it or don't use it. Few police cars need to be driven so far in a single shift. Highway patrolling that really does require 1000+ km a shift is quite rare and can be left to gasoline-powered cars for now. Or the battery-powered car can be swapped for a charged-up one before the juice runs out. "Sort it," as they say in England.
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  7814. Slavery wasn't seen as criminal in our modern sense by almost any powerful force until the English-speaking countries made up their minds that it was. By philosophers or priests in certain times and places, certainly. By sensitive and visionary individuals in small numbers, everywhere and forever. But entire societies and civilizations? There have been brief or isolated exceptions here or there intermittently, but they were rare to say the least, and it's a little hazy whether history records any. (Ashok outlawed the slave trade, but not slavery itself. The Aztecs are more compelling. A constituent republic of Dubrovnik? That may be.) For thousands of years (tens or hundreds of thousands of years, I'm assuming, but history doesn't go back that far) slavery was thought of as something that happened to unfortunate people, just as military invasions in which nations were conquered were viewed up until perhaps a century and a half ago. It was accepted almost totally that at the national level the weaker party got waxed. The modern view, the view of today, is exactly that. Modern. Today's view. Actually, 'modern' is too small a word, since modernity supposedly kicked off in 1750. Let's say contemporary. The contemporary view. What we call white people, too, were of course enslaved any time some other peoples managed to get the upper hand, to raid a European coastline and kidnap people onto boats. Many were taken away to the Arabic lands, for example. In any country, both those who were captured and those who avoided such a fate and remained in the kingdoms they inhabited, hated it passionately, naturally to the maximum degree. But it wasn't seen the way it is today. It was seen as a miserable defeat, which is something quite different. Look on slavery for a moment if you like as a concept something akin to living under a tyrant monarch. It went without saying that you wished for far better, but it was taken for granted that the way the world worked, it was an ugly fact of life, and permanently so. Not resembling a clear-cut crime as murder so much as the oppression of a king or warlord, or wartime conditions. In other words a harsh reality. It was an ugly wrong in the category of "Yeah, but what're you gonna do?" Moreover — and this is the main thing I have to say — the same nation which burned with resentment and anger at the enslavement of its people would, when its own turn came, gladly enslave the people of some other nation or race. This, I hope, gives an idea of how slavery in profound ways wasn't widely questioned for a really long time. It took that long to prepare the ground for the way we look on it today. The failure of people to understand the values and meanings of things in previous lifetimes at its worst amounts to an intellectual disability, a mental blindness, a debilitating ignorance, a regrettable, sad and weak incapacity. In a person who has been fortunately educated it might be looked on as a childish refusal to recognize how lucky one is to be alive in an impossibly lucky time and place.
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  7815. If you watch as ex-agent Yuri Bezmenov reveals in Operation Infektion how the KGB used Western media to shape what the West thought of itself, it's impossible not to believe that when the West's enemies saw social media emerge as an incredibly powerful force, it must've looked like a mountain of gold just there for the taking. And so it was.
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  7816. Up to a point, yes. But make no mistake, the real heavy lifting is done in dorms, campus coffee spots, club gatherings and student publications. Profs and the school administrators do set the stage and the tone; immature, self-righteous student enthusiasm does the rest.
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  7817. "We're well entitled, aren't we? Our cousins the reindeer have been towing Santa Claus around every year for centuries."
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  7818. This blackshirted homunculus looks as though he's been cast by Federico Fellini. So does Ava Evans up to a point. I submit that this is no mere coincidence, but rather evidence of Fellini's penetrating social, psychological and artistic vision. He had a genius for translating infirmity rooted in the psyche into visual terms. He's gone, but thanks to the age it's like he's still with us, except every day instead of only when we watch his masterpieces.
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  7819.  @VaxxedStories  It's not so much the Deep State as The Revenge of the Losers, the logical extrapolation of Christianity. Christianity, from its Roman days and then more and more since, is a defence and celebration of being a loser. All the garbage in Western civilization, from communism to funny haircuts to radical feminism to doing away with bail has ultimately come out of it in one way or another. Nietzsche had its dirty little number.
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  7820. ​ @isitoveryet9525  Seven things to realize and follow: (1) The great mistake is to respond with patient politeness. As someone said recently "Don't try to get these people to like you." It's them who made it into a street fight. (2) Instead let them know they're being energetically counterattacked with (3) more intelligence and (4) determination than they will be able withstand. (5) The number of combatants also matters a lot, and (6) so does money. Our job (7) is to encourage others, and to impress on them how vital are the other six things I listed. If we fail at even one, all is lost.
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  7821.  @technicianbis5250  Rhetorically useful. It's like a level-headed regenerate quote from Trotsky you can use against Leninists to incite and undermine them. I have a soft spot for that Aussie harridan. She suffered a brutal assault as a young woman.
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  7822.  @KyleRedfield5197  That strikes the tone of the boy of 28 years of age who despises his father yet sprints to the bank to cash every one of his cheques.
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  7823.  @KyleRedfield5197  Looking more like 28 divided by 2 now.
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  7824.  @maestoso47  He's obviously referring to an incident, Professor Logic.
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  7825.  @ephraimwinslow  World Pigeon Congress: "Hey, stop comparing us to that guy!"
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  7826. So hilarious how the pomposity of the group's self-appointed bully backfired on him so very completely. Rich as rich gets. Hoist with his own petard. Absolutely classic instance of the Streisand Effect.
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  7827. International Affairs ≈ International Relations, but broader.
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  7828. And under the rules of war they are forbidden to deploy many drones at once?
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  7829. ​ @purplehayes5718  Ok, but don't mistake what I said for a suggestion that there were a particular number in the air at once. I don't know what they have available in that region, nor a million other things. Yet by the same token I don't think we should assume particular capabilities on the Russian side either. We've seen the Ukrainian forces get away with a lot of things due to their opponents' incapacities of one sort or another, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Russians weren't picking off easy-to-hit drones for sheer disorganization or other hard to excuse reasons. If I were a Ukrainian commander and I knew I should fear my drones would be jammed if I sent them, I might try anyway, in the reasonable hope that the Russian jamming equipment just never arrived on the battlefield, had arrived but wasn't working, etc. (Not that I would take many chances with the best and most expensive stuff in my fleet, e.g. the high-end Turkish drones.) Your point about the date stamps in this video is well taken. A lot of it's from the first few days of the war.
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  7830. She thinks the world revolves around her. She thinks she's the Pope of San Francisco. 🤮
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  7831.  @acidicascetic  An intelligent woman wouldn't have failed her bar exam. Admit it, no intelligent person considers her intelligent. Narrowly shrewd, perhaps.
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  7832.  @acidicascetic  An intelligent woman wouldn't have failed her bar exam. Admit it, no intelligent person considers her intelligent. Narrowly shrewd, perhaps.
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  7833.  @acidicascetic  An intelligent woman wouldn't have failed her bar exam. Admit it, no intelligent person considers her intelligent. Narrowly shrewd, perhaps.
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  7834. Not true at all. They and some other families from India had been driven in vans up close to the Canadian border by traffickers. They wanted in, not out. They lost their way in frozen fields in the snow and the pitch darkness.
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  7835.  @resomony  It's not like it used to be. And we're not just kidding ourselves either, they formerly didn't dare tell you lies or they risked everything, so it happened rarely.Mistakes embarrassed them enormously. Anyway, cheers
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  7836. "The Secret Service has the best security minds." Uh, why do you say that? Its head, Kimberly Cheatle, was selected on the basis of her preference in intimate partners. The holder of a BA in sociology from a place named Eastern Illinois Univ., she was recruited to the top Secret Service position from Pepsi, where she worked in security.
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  7837. Parents are sending their children to universities where they learn the opposite of the truth for $80,000 a year. This video was free.
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  7838. It's well past time to stop saying "public broadcaster." That's a euphemism. Call it what it is: Government news.
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  7839.  @MicovskiMC  True. But so what? If someone tells you lies it's their dishonesty that really matters, far more than the precise details or nature of their lies.
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  7840. Why women ? Why not women and men? Mindless, low.
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  7841. The empty gap in my comment was added by YouTube. A little act of vandalism. How very 2022.
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  7842.  @fornax5798  In a way, I don't see why I should. I rather leave it showing what they do here. But yeah, I'm pretty sure I could.
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  7843. That's a moral position ('it should be such-and-such a way', 'somebody should do something'), not a practical one ('here's how'). Show, don't tell. What good is wagging one's finger? You are calling on others to sacrifice what they have. You could instead put a homeless person on your couch every night, or some equivalent sacrifice. That would be putting your money where your mouth is.
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  7844.  @juanasenjo8515  Approx. 500m people, but yeah, it's a big market Tesla will need to pay attention to.
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  7845.  @kralikkral5560  I appreciate your sharing that experience. As for your last two sentences, I agree with every word of them. 👏👏👏🇺🇦🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷🇳🇴
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  7846. It's clearer to me now why the US chose August 2021 as the right time to leave Afghanistan. Putin had been telegraphing his intent since March, when he began massing troops and arms near the Ukraine border. Thus I'm guessing the US wanted to lighten the burden of its active commitments ahead of a full-scale invasion. Perhaps uncertain what Putin would do, they were nonetheless unwilling to take chances. They would've struggled to win US public support for involvement directly and indirectly in two wars.
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  7847. And that's what he really yearns to do, surely? Typically the messed-up person craves the geographical cure, so anybody anxious to get light years away has issues, I would say.
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  7848. It's not that simple. To be attacked by the MSM, honesty is a sufficient condition, true. But hardly a necessary one. The real criterion for the MSM to attack someone is that they refuse to stick their tongue you-know-where. They can be honest, dishonest, mistaken, whatever. It's all about the sweet, sweet tongue action.
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  7849. "Gitty" is not a word. You wanted giddy. Sizable dose of cringe there from an organization of professional writers. Wait, let me rephrase that: People paid to write.
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  7850. I offer here a response to your question about financial costs. Russia's estimated bill for direct military costs alone is $10bn a month. The US says its military aid cost $2.6bn a month for the 49 weeks from the start of the war to February 3, 2023 (a total of $29.3bn). Despite considerable effort I have been unable to obtain a military aid total for all Ukraine's allies, but it is often stated that the US provides more than 50% of the overall total. If this is true, then military aid altogether is no more than $5bn a month. If the estimates I have given are more or less valid and accurate, then Ukraine's allies' military spending has totalled $55bn so far, versus $120bn by Russia. (Obviously I have not accounted for spending by Ukraine itself, but that is a matter outside the narrow scope of the subject you raised.) Russia's $120bn would compare with its 2021 military budget of $66bn and its GDP in 2022 of about $1.7trn. The allies' $55bn would compare with the total military budget of NATO countries in 2021 (thus excluding Japan, South Korea and Australia) of $1.6trn, and total GDP in 2022 in the neighbourhood of $50trn (including Japan, South Korea and Australia). Thus Russia's military spending on the war is 200% of its 2021 military budget and 7% of its GDP. For Ukraine's allies the figures would be 3.4% (of NATO military budgets only) and 0.15% of GDP (all allies). (Indirect and other costs—including, for Ukraine's allies, humanitarian and financial aid—are of course much more for both sides, but here I am addressing the part of your comment concerned with military spending.) The upshot is that Russia's military financial burden is immensely greater than that of Ukraine's allies. It appears to be something on the order of 45x greater in proportion to its total economic resources. Against this, a number of factors may be considered relevant, including the undervaluation of Russia's currency versus the dollar. I wish to stress that I have little expertise in these matters, despite having a longstanding interest and some knowledge and work experience in finance and global economics. Nor am I a professional researcher. It may interest you to know that on Tuesday, February 21 the Kiel Institute, a high-profile German think tank, will publish online a major update to its Ukraine Aid Tracker.
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  7851. ...along with a $1,000 debit card and a free hotel room. Why the hell not? It's America and it's 2024.
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  7852. No! Please come back. Your voice counts for something. Leaving gratifies those whom you oppose.
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  7853.  @DeltaDemon1  Best answer. Simple and accurate. :)
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  7854. I think Ukraine's agricultural exports might amount to the low- to mid-$20 billions. The value of what cannot go out any way except via the Black Sea might be most of that. So it's a lot of money, but still actually way down the list of giant expenses and financial losses. I wouldn't call it lunch money, but it might or might not make their top dozen most pressing issues. I wonder if seed oils have been part of the agreement at any point. The number of calories in $6.3bn worth of sunflower and other oils must be just staggering. (The seed oils category is actually larger than wheat and corn, and they are the number one exporter worldwide.)
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  7855. See what bad drugs'll do to you?
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  7856. Your comparing Russia's economy to Germany's based on market exchange rates is questionable enough, but comparing their military budgets on that basis is entirely misguided. The nearly worthless ruble makes these things look far smaller than they really are. Russia's economy is nearly the size of Germany's at PPP exchange rates, which consider how much a ruble buys in goods and services within Russia, and ignore what it buys abroad. (The same thing goes for China. Its expenditure is far closer to that of the US than these figures make it appear.) Sorry, this comment deserves zero upvotes.
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  7857.  @defendfreedom1390  Germany was naive, not wicked. It hoped and believed that commercial ties with the West would temper Putin's behaviour. Perhaps it was a more realistic hope some years ago, before his outlook changed. In any case, time has shown that Germany mishandled its risks.
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  7858.  @parabot2  What claptrap: So Peterson knew a guy who knew a guy who worked for a guy at an institute founded by a guy at a university that once did CIA experiments. He taught at Harvard, where many leftists have taught and studied. Oh, and he's well-known, so that shows you Soros owns him, etc., etc.😂
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  7859. We are all dumber for having read this comment.
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  7860.  @tylerdurden3722  I suppose so.
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  7861. Christopher Wray: "Come on, there might've been a Boy Scout playing around with a slingshot in a nearby farmer's field. We just don't know."
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  7862. I'm a sympathetic foreigner watching in horror. Look at your f#*%@& country. Collapse of mind among the people. Collapse of mind among the elites. The two are feeding each other. Breaking news, my friends: Democracy and nitwits do not mix, and the nitwit class isn't going anywhere. So kiss democracy good-bye.
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  7863. Yep: "It's cute when we do it."
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  7864. The study he discusses in this video was published in a reputable American medical journal and passed peer review. Explain exactly why we should believe you and not them, Professor.
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  7865.  @vicdiaz5180  What? Ukraine plus its allies are vastly richer and more militarily powerful than Russia plus Iran and North Korea.😂 (China is Russia's frenemy in this war, not its ally, and has provided minimal help. It relishes Russia's weakening, as it improves China's position in Asia. It's been selling vast amounts of drones, drone parts and other supplies to the Ukraine side.)
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  7866.  @throughput6674  Russia too has federal debt and is running a budget deficit (likely far worse than official Kremlin figures). Russia's revenues from energy and other resources have fallen sharply. Such a shame for Russians. Their situation had been improving 2½ years ago.
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  7867.  @throughput6674  Russian economic output and net worth is puny compared with the West. It's pointless to feign to believe otherwise.
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  7868.  @efghggdxlmfn33  I do compare GDP PPP. You're not very good at this.
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  7869. ​ @efghggdxlmfn33  I wonder if you even know what GDP is. You certainly are under incorrect impressions concerning how it is calculated. GDP can rise sharply not just during a ruinous war but due to it. Also, you appear to be using World Bank figures for 2024 GDP estimated rankings, but guess what? The World Bank just complies national government estimates, so that is just an assertion by the Kremlin. The IMF's economists calculate their forecasts independently and they say that Russia will be 6th, not 4th. Also, thanks for the figure from a year ago.😄 But I have better things to do than to read these highly dubious replies. Don't send anymore. Thanks and have a nice life.
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  7870. Congrats on that, btw. Lovely for the parched reservoirs.👏👏
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  7871. Gotta love that pumpkin-coloured moon though.🍔🏀 (No pumpkin emoji so going with hamburger and basketball.)
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  7872. Hostile foreign government fake bot comments are complete BS. Internet drowning in sewage.
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  7873. Amazing how the 21st century is about one-quarter gone and Russia has had only one president. (Two if you count Medvedev, but you shouldn't.) Just one in all that time. He's been president since December 31, 1999. At that time it wasn't even a decade since Margaret Thatcher left office. That date is closer to Jimmy Carter's presidency (19 yrs.) than Joe Biden's (21)!.
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  7874. Quite right. And I think historians will regard the Ukraine War as the prelude to much larger Indo-Pacific conflict. (Some analysts already do see it like that.) What looks superficially like Russia v. Ukraine really boils down to the West v. China. There's no question Xi greenlighted Putin's decision to invade, but I go farther and believe he actually nudged him into it. Russia and China are really more frenemies than real allies, and are actively trying to game each other. Xi's interest is in using Russia to study the West's response, drain the West militarily and financially, and make use of the war as a drone lab in preparation for Taiwan (and what I'm sure is an intended series of regional aggressions).
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  7875.  @LLchuckL  Who rules the Indo-Pacific will rule the world. Sorry, China, but we have interests and friends there too. Just because you're closer to all those billions of people doesn't mean they have to be crushed under your commie dictator boots.  "Follow orders?" Forget it. It is Chinese oppression that's on the wrong side. You will be opposed and billions will breathe freer. Have a nice day.
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  7876. For all its rhetoric about black interests, I have to think the Democratic Party would present an attractive vision of blacks' place in America for a Klan member from 90 years ago who'd time-travelled to 2024 and was looking for a party to vote for.
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  7877. Guys, I'm sick and tired of your intro and outro music being so loud. Please just make your clips as loud as the rest of YouTube and no louder.
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  7878. A sampling of Kringela Harris' astounding irrational beliefs: She thinks cloud storage is in a magical dimension. She thinks infrared light is blindingly bright x-rays. She thinks she is qualified to be president.
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  7879. The loathsome government news site in Canada, CBC, started saying "pregnant people" last year. If you object in a comment below a news story where they use this abominable term, they delete your comment. "Pregnant woman" is now hate speech.
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  7880.  @irvhh143  None is needed. It is building an LNG port in British Columbia for exports to Asia. It should build one on the east coast too.
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  7881. The NATO countries should sell nukes to Taiwan as soon as possible. But US fighter jets are a good start.
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  7882. I believe you're thinking of the CBC. I comment on Global clips all the time and I honestly cannot remember seeing the comments turned off. (I'm not claiming it's 0% of the time but it is definitely close.)
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  7883. From this point onward, the rise in household food bills is effectively a shoplifting tax. Come to think of it, before any store of any company closes due to shoplifting they should try a shoplifting surcharge on every purchase. Who knows, it might work.
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  7884. "The border is secure." — John Mayorkas
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  7885. Is a misdemeanor the ordinary charge in a case like this? 🤨 (And what about when an 18-year-old girl dies and it's a boy who was driving?)
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  7886. He looks like he just gets out of bed in the morning and says "Ok, time to start the day. Fuck the hair."
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  7887. At least he finally spent a moment or two on personal grooming. But we should crowdfund a few items of decent clothing for him.
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  7888. For a few years, every SpaceX rocket blew up. Then Musk and his team solved every problem, and today SpaceX sends up most of Earth's spacecraft. Most of its tonnage to orbit as well. (More than NASA, China, Russia, Japan, other rocket companies, etc. combined.) The three people in this video remind me of nothing so much as Lilliputians, complete with stakes and string.
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  7889. Smarter people are having fewer kids than the dumb ones.
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  7890.  @barefootarts737  You think people aren't influenced by other people's public statements, actions and examples? Brilliant! Bravo! [four slow claps]
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  7891.  @barefootarts737  A smug and graceless evasion. But I know for some people they're an indispensable resort once they've cornered themselves.
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  7892. Poor us if David Frum is the voice of reason! He can't even sort out Canadian and US dollars, mixing up $1bn in spending cuts with the 2022 budget of $26.5bn in USD terms and calling the decrease "3 or 4%." Not right. The proposed C$1bn cut is from our 2023 budget of C$36.7bn, or 2.7%. Yet he's right that the cut is wrongheaded. And he's still more sensible than the fatuous Mr. Ling.
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  7893. Why does the reporter sound like he's addressing kindergarteners?
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  7894. But only Alberta & Sask. are conservative, not British Columbia & Manitoba. Look at the 2021 popular vote: Alberta: Conservatives 55%. Libs + NDP = 35% Saskatchewan: 59%, 32% Meanwhile: BC: 33%, 56% Manitoba: 39%, 51% Ontario: 35%, 57% Note also: Ridings in Alberta + Sask. = 48 Ridings in BC + Manitoba = 56 I'd like to know how you respond to that.
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  7895. 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. Source: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research, poll of 1,580 adults, mid-March 2024
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  7896. @marvenbaer Can you read? Mid-March versus last December.
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  7897. I invite you to use my term for it: The Great Dumbening.
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  7898. ​ teet1337  Thank you. Y'know, this channel has the worst commenters of any I know of on YouTube. Unintelligent, hostile, bad personalities. Then there's all the posts hustling for business at adult sites with their soft-po profile pictures.🙄 Lately I've finally come to agree, after decades of contradicting the accusers, that Toronto really is full of eh wholes. The pandemic and eight years of Trudeau has just unleashed them like a tsunami.
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  7899. ​ @UrbanBricks   Where the OP wrote "Scarborough is the largest (or 2nd) borough in the city. It is a large area," it sounds like a pair of separate assertions, not one. That's why I treated them as such. If I were to say "So-and-so is the most childish or 2nd-most-childish person in Toronto," why tack on "He/she is juvenile," as though that adds something? It would fail even as mere emphasis. I'd be better off remarking on, for example, that person's hilariously embarrassing Pokemon (!) obsession.😂 Now stop bothering me and spend a while thinking about why it's wrong to bother people, especially to initiate hostilities with unprovoked insults. (It's also against the rules of this platform.) If left to fester on its own, this problem conduct isn't going to get better and is likely to result in further decades of unhappiness. Have a nice day!
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  7900. Thanks for the Kremlin Foreign Ministry point of view, Peskovchik.
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  7901.  @overseer7385  Sure.
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  7902. Ok, Chanfun.
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  7903. Nice campaign video. Mostly word salad. Carney is headed the way of Stephane Dion, Michael Ignatieff and Kim Campbell — i.e. obscurity, because voters will never elect him.
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  7904. Damn, Jordan struggles so hard to express himself since the health problems. I hope his verbal abilities come back eventually.
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  7905. Both groups now start about two-thirds of their sentences with "so." Their elders now say "look."
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  7906. "WITH his own petard". Not 'by' or 'on'. It's Shakespeare, so our opinion doesn't matter. A petard was the IED of the time.
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  7907.  @raaid85  I see you're a big believer in the claims of Hamas. It also said the IDF bombed that hospital (they didn't) and it said there were over 500 deaths (it was around 50). So not cute.
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  7908. "Wait till he sees what I left in his bag. Heh."
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  7909. It's tough to handle getting the news of the world from someone with that much of a Drew Barrymore accent.
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  7910. The CBC posts hit piece after hit piece on the protests, teeming with lies, smears, and half-truths, even calling for the Canadian army to move in to shut it down. That's really angering. To make it worse, they have closed commenting on every single one of them. No feedback allowed. What slimy cowards. It's time to defund that pig of a lie, defamation and propaganda factory.
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  7911. And in response, mark my words, the left will double down on their wokeism. The New York Times will hire dozens, even hundreds more reporters to ratchet up the activism. The total number of lies across the news media and social media will skyrocket. They'll do anything they can dream up to work the whole country (but each other especially) into a moral panic. It will not last mere months.
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  7912. Whenever a government spends a dollar or a rouble — even if it borrows the money first and then simply sets it alight with a match — it counts towards GDP. Now picture Putin setting fire to hundreds of billions of roubles. There's your booming economy.
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  7913.  @daughterofeveandhateroflil2683  Yeah? The victim was Turkish.
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  7914.  @Sourduck444  Yeah? Who told you that?
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  7915. Dude lost his flip-flops and ended up in his stockinged feet. Don't wear those things out in the streets. You need to have shoes on.
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  7916. Way to racist! Keep the hate up! 👏👏👏 ............./s
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  7917.  @sandilemfeka4658  America is multiracial and you have a problem with it. The fight against racism starts in the mirror.
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  7918.  @remco6816  Maybe there could be a constitutional arrangement for autonomy in numerous aspects, i.e., much more than Puerto Rico has.
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  7919. @ @ 🤔What if it were just as autonomous as at present (i.e., highly)?
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  7920. I think some of this s^^^ has to be headed to the Supreme Court, because sooner or later there's going to be lawsuits, criminal charges, or both, and then lengthy appeals. This is probably part of why the MSM, led by the NY Times, is all aflutter with talk about how the Supreme Court is "illegitimate".
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  7921. Ms. Davydova was the better guest. No pretentious academic gobbledygook like "instrumentalize" or hipster buzzwords like "space." (As in: "the post-Soviet space." A civilized person would say "the post-Soviet era.")
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  7922. $40bn spent on Russian oil in six weeks? Sorry, no, that's about 400m barrels (!), which is vastly too high by at least 4x. Fox, please book only guests with at least a tenth-grader's command of arithmetic and easily researchable facts.
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  7923. Far too many distracting, over-long, close-up reaction shots. When Mr. Vindman is speaking, that's where our interest is, so show him to us please. This is a news interview, not the place for camera work suited to a drama series on evening television. Otherwise a fine segment.
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  7924. Those things are best only where enemy air defences are weak and one's own air capabilities are broad and deep. A-10s will be useful later as part of a NATO-allied Ukrainian Air Force, but for now they could only see very limited spot use. There appears to be no point. Or do you have serious rebuttals to these views oft-repeated by experienced military analysts?
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  7925.  @JoeD0403  Hard to judge the exact state of things on that count, but I think it's safe to say there's a lot of AD along the actual eastern and southern fronts. At any rate it's not like some of those wars the US has been in where they faced very little danger in the skies. That's where A-10s were at their peak potency.
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  7926.  @titaniumskunkogkush4365  You'll eat your words.
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  7927. A man? Ha! He isn't even human. He's something a cow left in a pasture.
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  7928. To me she is a politician with real bite. Y'know.
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  7929. Great comment, but it is alas woefully incomplete without some consideration of their approval ratings.
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  7930.  @MrEVAQ  This only goes to prove there were clueless and masochistic Millennials and GenZ-ers two thousand years ago, too. "Beat me some more" and "rob me some more" are not maxims for a sustainable society or personal life. There's very limited scope for loving your enemy. It should be more like "If a good friend or family member wrongs you, don't freak out too much. Try a bit of understanding and forgiveness and if they're any good at all they will repent and try to atone for what they did. Then you may end up with a better friend or relation, instead of a bitter foe." That's about it, and even that would often be going too far. I recommend against modelling your life on the beliefs of cult members worshipping their leader.
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  7931.  @MrEVAQ  Cool, discussion is good.
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  7932. Poilievre ought to be up late figuring out how to offer voters something better than Prime Minister Peter Pan's scandalously failed justice and immigration policies.
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  7933. In my opinion PET was strong on national unity in the 1970s, satisfyingly hawkish on Quebec separatism. If you mean the economy, like the US we had stagflation, unemployment and falling real wages, but "collapse" was never a worry.
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  7934. It's been 19 years. What's three trips a year to an interested and patriotic ex-serviceman member of the HASC with easy access to seats on an air transport? What's that, about one trip per thousand killed or wounded and $50 billion spent?
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  7935.  @DOI_ARTS  Soviet??! No, it is Ukrainian, my highly inaccurate friend, developed in Ukraine 20+ years after the Soviet Union evaporated.
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  7936. Try watching the video.
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  7937. I keep an eye on Australian politicians only intermittently and from abroad, but Dutton seems the most solidly bright and decent of the lot.
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  7938.  @tamaveirene  Sorry, I don't speak child nerd fiction.
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  7939.  @redlightmax  I hear you. But do you suppose that his failing to do so indicates approval of the secret shenanigans? An actual spirit of tolerance for them? Or participation in them? Just wondering. He impressed me with his response to the changing situation with China. That file seems a lot more important than where he is on the support-indifference-condemnation spectrum concerning an ex-PM. But I repeat, I hear you. We do all want to see morals as fine or finer than our own in our respective capitals.
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  7940.  @davidgarris2513  "Nose boogers" 🤔What? 😮So there's a new kind of booger now? Stop the planet, I want to get off.
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  7941.  @daniilorain  Yay! Thank you very much indeed for your reply. I repeat...Yay!
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  7942. Yes, it's clearly both. In my view, genetics is akin to hardware, parenting to software. Bad parenting is like installing Pong on a Cray.
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  7943. Joe Scarborough: Something that got through the sewage treatment plant intact and made it back into the world. First stop: the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives. Second stop: MSNBC.
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  7944. Wanna publicize state secrets? Fine. Just get ready for long imprisonment. Extradite him now.
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  7945.  @NickFrom1228  Tinfoil hat? More like a Mao suit. See my reply to him concerning the vaping illness outbreak if you like.
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  7946. I don't get the video title. I thought I was going to be shown a Chinese online advertising trick that would illustrate an aspect of Chinese life, culture, or character. I did learn about those things---and in a pleasant and somewhat interesting video---but he did not expose any clickbait trick. So the only clickbait was the video title itself! Wtf gives? Please don't mislead us. Not cool.
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  7947. Famous guy v Unknown. There's your explanation.
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  7948. They sound medieval, all these people. Modernity has barely touched them. It reminds me of what the famous American diplomat George Kennan said about denazifying Germany after its defeat, and setting up a constitution and government. He wrote that it was the conscious aim of the occupiers to finally rid Germany of feudalism, which they saw at the root of Nazism.
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  7949. Prof. Ferguson, the guest, is a Scotsman, not an Isr. Are you ok, buddy?🤨
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  7950. "Another state has great programs for recent arrivals like you. Want a free trip there?" = 'Dehumanization' Ok, Captain Woke. Nice cape you got. 😂
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  7951. Other women in front of TV news cameras should study Gabriella Power for guidance on exemplary dress and every other aspect of style and presentation. Doesn't wave her hands around, doesn't pull faces, marvellous diction, low-key jewelry, no fake eyelashes...a class act in all ways. It won't hurt men to take note too. Keep it up, Gabs!
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  7952. "They obviously believed they had some sort of mechanism or formula for pushing opinion and cancelling rival opinions that would allow them to engineer society in this direction." Actually, they did. And now they don't. Thanks to you, Dave Rubin, among many others.
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  7953. Analyst. Annalist is a type of historian.
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  7954. 👍I was looking for this. Thanks. No doubt Prime Minister Peter Pan is an inspiration to would-be tyrants far and wide.🤮
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  7955. If it's this impossible to get a place, how do 99% of people have a place?
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  7956. The number of Americans who've been vaccinated is only 195m. The 350m he quoted is the number of doses given so far, because many people have of course had two. Not what you'd call command of detail. Thank you, Sky. Thank you, Rita Panahi.
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  7957. I notice there are stages to my feelings on this: 1. Hilarity 2. Sadness 3. Helplessness 4. Simmering anger
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  7958. He's saying Trump is the cleanest dirty shirt, you brainless fool. There are only two candidates on the ticket.
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  7959. He's simply a moral peasant-with-a-pitchfork saying you will pay with misery or death or both if we think it will create a fairer society--- we , mind you, we professors of neo-Marxist Critical Theory. When millions of Ukrainians were starved in the 1930s, when tens of millions of Chinese were starved in the Great Leap Forward, and during all the purges, the very same moral and political spirit made it all happen. Extremely dangerous canting nonsense.
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  7960. Demand that your retailer start labelling the front of all packages containing Chinese-made goods with a sticker of the Chinese flag.
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  7961.  JOHN SMITH  You forgot to misspell it 'looser'. Better fix that, Old Yeller.
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  7962.  @greganderson7216  A very fair guess, I'll allow that. But if it's correct, why did Blinken just say to Poland that he'll replenish their fleet with F-16s if they donate their MiGs? Who wouldn't give her Corolla to her son if her boyfriend promised to replace it with a Lexus?
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  7963.  @revlouch  I would keep an eye on Alaska if I were you.
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  7964. ​ @greganderson7216  I'm not sure Ukraine is even the main consideration in Blinken or Biden's mind. I suspect they think it's high time Poland had some decent stuff anyway. I found your reply reasonable but I'm very far from ready to regard Putin as desperate. I suspect rather that he is attempting to draw NATO into a trap. His Ukraine tactics have been half-hearted considering the troops and weaponry at his disposal, and this argues that they are for the most part bait. Keep in mind the numerous long meetings and phone calls he has had with Xi in the past year or two, and also that the Indo-Pacific is of greater strategic importance to the world even than Eastern Europe. Far greater. It's the big prize, and an overextended and exhausted NATO could put many significant countries, some of them highly important, within China's grasp, to be either conquered outright or put under domination: Taiwan (home to 60% of the world's semiconductor production),  Japan, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia. And if even two of those go, I don't see how Guam would be likely to last. The countries and peoples of the West have to come together immediately, lest we find ourselves in a fight for our survival. It's absolutely not out of the question.  (So far Germany is setting the best example, despite keeping its head in the sand until the last possible moment.)
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  7965.  UFO  I agree there is ample reason to suspect just that, and that Ukraine is a trap. See my reply in this thread to Greg Anderson just now, 4 hours after yours, outlining in part my own reasons. (It begins "I'm not sure Ukraine […]") Cheers
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  7966.  @gbennett58  Doubtless it is so. But now we have a far inferior grade of idiot, and in greater numbers. If the common idiot gets any worse or more numerous, we can scarcely survive.
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  7967. I'm more than fine with the message. But the fake-teenager delivery and the motion-sickness edits are not for me. Let TikTok audiences be impressed with those two cringe-making aspects.
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  7968. Iranian woman (she is clearly Iranian, not Palestinian) moves to Indiana (!) to kill Jews. Un-fn-believeable.🤯 You simply couldn't write this caca-poopoo.
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  7969. I think people were saying that before D-Day too. But I think it's as the American general said recently, that it's like a game of pool. To win against a tough opponent you have to play ahead several moves, right to the end perhaps. Each shot begets the effectiveness of the next. So in such a perilous endeavour as this, I say planning and preparation get priority.
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  7970. If a journalist not writing an opinion column reveals by his or her reporting or commentary which party or politicians he or she favours, that journalist is a scoundrel.
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  7971. I support the US actions so far in Ukraine and I've never trusted Gabbard much because I just can't take her super-artificial near-robot manner, BUT Romney and Olbermann have gone light years too far and I hope she kicks their butts in court. They need to be taught a very public lesson.
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  7972. He's going to take it on the chin. (Chin implant, that is). 😄
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  7973. Trump has been pro-Ukraine since February 24, 2022. He keeps saying simply that he would end the war quickly if re-elected, and the media have kindly obliged him by firmly concluding that he sides with Russia. How very predictable and helpful they are! I do not expect my view to be vindicated, however, until Trump no longer has reason to fear being kept out of office through the efforts of Putin's active measures colossus. That likely will not be until he is actually re-elected.
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  7974. No surprise there. Hitchens takes after his Edwardian dad quite a lot, and I noticed long ago that the Chinese in the West are the new Edwardians. That's why people who like them like them. I don't know about party members, but the others seem trustworthy. Other people here seem to trust them, too.  Try Orwell's essays if you don't know them. The whole pile are good. Cheers.
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  7975. True. A hyper-strong currency makes a country a shopper, not a store.
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  7976. Absolutely.
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  7977.  @favesongslist  Interesting. Wth is that all about?
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  7978. Ukraine remains in existence mostly thanks to the government of the United States. In a sense you could even say solely. Partial credit, however, is due also to the governments of the NATO and other countries which more or less share the American view of the invasion and what needs to be done about it. But surely I'm mistaken. Surely you're not good with one sovereign and free people after another being blown up and shot at, their farms, towns and cities levelled and burnt, then for them to be gobbled up by tyrannies?
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  7979.  @SB-ok3xc  Email the Kremlin with that message. Or just write it on a piece of paper and drop it off on your way in tomorrow morning.
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  7980. I see from the posts here that influencing the opinions on lithium of English-language social media users is highly important to the CCP regime. Many social media commenting jobs are created and sustained.😂 Good use of AI makes it easy to sound like a native English speaker. Just add a name like "aidanjones2758" and YouTube is your oyster. Presto, billions of posts....
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  7981. Often the best comments attract the most pro-Russia replies. The reason: it's an attempt to "ratio" them. To "ratio" means to pile on a number of replies to a comment greater than the number of likes it has attracted. Social media algos monitor closely for this event, because platform designers believe that more replies than likes indicates unpopularity. So when a comment is "ratioed" it is moved far down so that many people don't see it. In this way, pro-Putinists game the algo in order to bury good pro-Ukraine posts. Don't engage excessively with pro-Putin commenters in such threads. They will try to bait you into many replies, but if you take the bait you are helping them. If you post any replies at all, try to make your points in a single one. This helps avoid ratio-ing the original comment and the whole thread below it, which will end up burying it. * Also, if you read a good pro-Ukraine comment, give it a like. It will be shown to more people and more people will read it. Sometimes defeating Russian bots means limiting your engagement with them. Be like Ukrainian artillery units: shoot 'n' scoot.
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  7982. The CBC is slandering with furious intensity the convoy and the many protests it has spawned on its way across the country. As trite or even kooky as it sounds, they richly deserve comparisons to Pravda, Tass and Isvestia. Their appalling bias has reached shocking new extremes.
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  7983.  @kath2ndrew  Uh, that last sentence needs an edit. It reads like you're saying it's not corrupt. How about a period after CBC, making it two sentences?
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  7984.  @kath2ndrew   It was a great comment but had problems. Here it is with some light editing. Easier and faster to read, clearer, illogicalities (e.g. "disagree they should not be fired") fixed, all without changing your style or voice: That's not true—they are just interviewing people with a negative view. The majority of the truckers are vaccinated and support this because they are for freedom, and they disagree that those who legally chose not to get the vaxx should be fired! The CBC is a puppet for Turdo. They are changing the narrative, saying they are extremists, the convoy has been hijacked, they defaced the war memorial—it's all BS! Turdo is even in hiding. Well this is Independence Day and Canada is awake! The whole country has had enough, united we stand! Don't believe the CBC. The Commie Broadcasting Corporation is in the leftist Liberals' pockets!
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  7985.  @djknox2  Yep, she's right.
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  7986. Don't forget left-wing people. Lee Harvey Oswald was left-wing and fit the profile very well. But not Trump and Putin. They are disqualified by their commitment to career, inhibition of impulses, and long-term planning. (Not that they would score zero on the test either. But they wouldn't get a high one qualifying them for the diagnosis. Look it up.) Whatever they could be diagnosed with would be something else.
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  7987. The common thread here was that the subjects had to some extent lost touch with reality. The word for this in psychiatry is psychosis, and I have a firm impression that clear instances of it have gotten far more numerous. At a train station, a kid of about 8 and his mother were beside me. For every second of the 10 minutes I was there, she stared at her phone. Likewise for every second, he ran in a circle while barking loudly like a dog.
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  7988. Vlad: $3 billion is a lot. Musk [inwardly]: Pffft! Yeah, right. I got that on me.
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  7989. In other news, a fragment of a diary belonging to Jeffery Dahmer has surfaced. In it he noted: "They made me kill, dismember and eat them." Kremlin reaction: "Maybe was Russian. We feel like that about all neighbors. Is life." [Not true at all, although in a way it totally is.]
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  7990.  @howiescott5865  Yep. More like frenemyship. But of far greater importance to China is this conflict's potential to weaken the West by depleting its military and financial resources, splitting its alliance and, perhaps most importantly, arraying developing countries against it in favour of Russia and China itself.
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  7991.  @danieldickson8591  China: Frenemy to the developing or distressed countries. Avowed enemy of the West, which it is avowedly determined to weaken and supplant. After that to dominate, if history and human nature shed any light at all on probabilities.
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  7992. Or Moscow, as president. 😆🤣😂
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  7993. Imagine if Trump said that. In a tremendous fury the media would block the sun and the moon from the sky for three days.
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  7994. (1) What they call 'gender affirmation' is 100x closer to being 'gender assignment' than what they actually call 'gender assignment.' Amazing how they always accuse others of doing what they're doing. (2) When anyone tells him/herself that if they question their young child's 'gender identity' it's because they're transphobic, that's when they should know they've been gaslighted. Like a kullt member saying "If I doubt the Leader, surely I must be possessed."
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  7995. You're not thinking this through. There's no such thing as zero censorship. Elon himself allows that this is true. If someone posts that "We have to start murdering by the millions right now," that simply must be censored, both legally and morally. The same goes for a bunch of other types of illegal speech that aren't protected by the First Amendment, never have been, were never intended to be, and never will be. All there can be is minimal censorship. Ok?
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  7996. A strange rumor holds that Gavin Newsom is not a human-reptile mix. The things people dream up.🙄
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  7997.  @catharsismemory  If either is super-crowded then there's nothing for it, you have to do what everyone else is doing, meaning stand in one place or move up or down slowly. At other times faster traffic should be allowed to pass, just as on a freeway. Maybe it's different where you live. Where I live it's actually officially prescribed in the subway. Anyway, of course you say excuse me, of course you don't hit people, and of course you apologize if you do accidentally. Thanks for your reply. Cheers.
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  7998. Well it's only two months so far, so we'll have to see how it goes. But this 10,000 who were let go are only 2% of the 500,000 workers who got the raise, which was $4. If it stays at 10,000 then the move is a success. But I doubt anyone's expecting that. (Btw, only about 2/3 of fast food workers were eligible. A quarter million are out in the cold.
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  7999. "Lozenge" really killed me as a rhyme for orange.
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  8000. And it's the same in China, dude. Together those countries threaten to take over the world, since their people don't dare oppose their governments. This century is shaping up to be pure shit.
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  8001. My screen says 664k views, 46k likes.
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  8002. No, Marx was not rich. He had no money and never worked. He did live well, though, because the family of his buddy Engels owned textile mills in England. He lived off Engels his whole adult life. That's right, he leeched off capitalists. He lived so well (with his wife and kids) that he had a young live-in housemaid. Right under his wife's nose he got the girl pregnant. He denied paternity and sent her away with the baby. Engels stepped in to cover for him, paying for the child's upbringing. Marx never admitted anything, so the child grew up without her father. Engels revealed all this shortly before he died in old age. So there you have it. This is the guy whose ideas socialists and communists worship—literal moral garbage.
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  8003. World Clown Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to your prime minister!"
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  8004.  @marcusleja7133  That's not true. Canadians would be white hot to make war on him (even if they ended up doing no such thing).
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  8005.  @marcusleja7133  Ok, but they can't be a monster. If Pol Pot wanted to obliterate all that, that wouldn't make him ok.
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  8006. 🤨He made zero reference to Jordan.
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  8007. With dividends re-invested, that $13k invested in the S&P 500 index would be $2,614,391 today.
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  8008. That was terrible. Someone had to say it.
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  8009.  @wandpman  i.e., Karen Johnson, I believe?🙄 Anyway, they all have the same middle name: Worthlyss.
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  8010. Dang I love this clip. Bravo, Konstantin.
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  8011. It doesn't matter whether Charles thinks such a move would be morally correct or that it would strengthen the monarchy. Either way, he's wrong. Either way, the opposite is true.
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  8012. Yes, the US monitors communications. But they are not doing it in the service of repressing or controlling their people. I think that to believe they are is paranoia. Governments have extraordinary powers, and they ought to. They can lock people up, fine them, police can commit violence, etc. That's fine as long as it's all in obedience to laws to which the people have given their consent, albeit indirectly, via the ballot box. In a one-party state the people have not given their consent. Thus the government's exercise of power is illegitimate, suspect, and dangerous. It is bound in ways to benefit the party at the expense of those governed. That is how human self-interestedness works. Democracy is a check, imperfect but indispensable, on that self-interest. In short, the exercise of power is inevitable. In one's own neighbourhood, armed force will always be a fact of life. But there is a difference between a police force ultimately answerable to the community and a gang answerable only to itself. I could go on all day about the flaws and weaknesses of law enforcement and the justice system, likewise about the flaws and weaknesses of democracy, but I prefer it to a one-party system as much as I prefer police to gangs, and for the same reasons. An elected government, because it can be thrown out, has a built-in advantage in trustworthiness. That is why US spying does not scare me the way Chinese spying does.
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  8013.  @mikemurray2027  Thanks. Terribly important, that. It's what I have in mind when passing over two-bit paranoia and vulgar cynicism.
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  8014. He could read love poems and still sound like a sergeant lecturing cadets for bad behaviour.
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  8015. ​ @CS_Pickle  I think perhaps there's something to that as well. It's well known that Ukrainians are stars at 2nd and 3rd+ languages. Not that I'm secondhand bragging, since I'm lousy at my own 2nd language, but they're very conspicuous in that way. I've known several such Ukrainians, including two (from two widely-separated Ukrainian cities) who started learning English halfway through their adolescence and in under ten years were not just advanced in their new language but geniuses at it, with accents like those of native-born physicians. I gather from elsewhere that NATO country trainers and other liaison people are habitually impressed.
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  8016. ​ @CS_Pickle  ["ya, that's all I'm saying."] It's amazing how intolerant of disagreement people seem now. Formerly: "It's a free country. I'm entitled to my opinion." Former response: "Ok yeah, that's true. You can think and say what you want." Response now: "Look, it's already too late for you to shut up. We are going after you—and we know how to do it." The minute people are confidently asserting stuff like that, you're in a real sense more than halfway to gulags and a lot of the way to mass bloodshed. I know your post had to do with the literal intelligibility of what you were hearing, but a lot of the response was political and that's why I wanted to respond likewise.
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  8017. Putin is about to star in the sequel to a movie he saw long, long ago. Its title will be "Afghanistan II."
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  8018. DW, you treat these Russian denials of responsibility with absurd generosity. Get a hold of yourselves.
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  8019. Zat working yet?
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  8020. Dalton's sanctimony would have the National Socialists of Germany still occupying Europe 80 years later, for if anyone but a German soldier perished in the Allies' efforts to liberate it, it would be a "war crime." And if the tally of dead Germans of whatever sort passed that of British, French, Dutch, Polish, etc., it would be "disproportionate." Lovely to hear from him in his lofty and secure perch in his Grade II listed country house, Hauxwell Hall.
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  8021. What a load of HS. Musk stopped supporting Democrats, so Warren is weaponizing every part of government she can against him, banana republic-style. It's that simple. And this weird-seeming 'reporter' looks like she's becoming ill trying in vain to seem mostly unbiased. That's actually odd for the CNBC 'newsroom,' which (unlike the on-air CNBC people) is ordinarily openly hostile to Musk.
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  8022.  @beeftec5862  "The bell is ben" A frivolous point, and therefore pointlessly irritating.
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  8023. Well, actually things are still getting worse. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is still multi-double-digit inflation, but it is falling very fast. Austerity has hit the people hard, but the government is running surpluses. Money is tight, but investment is increasing and foreign money is beginning to roll in. The economy will shrink this year by 2.8%, but the stage is being set for growth. The country is struggling, but optimism is bubbling up all over.
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  8024. On the sensory homunculus the eyes and the dangly bits look way too small. That's my personal phenomenological report on things anyway.
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  8025. If Maher was as smart as he pretends to be, he'd know that four years ago this week there was no pandemic yet. We had moved from hundreds to thousands of confirmed cases but there were no mask nor lockdown mandates. Life was still normal. He says the wrong thing twice here — with his usual great self-assurance.🙄
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  8026.  @protorhinocerator142  Not every woman, I'd like to think. But in the ordinary case, yes, certainly. And she may or may not throw it back in his face directly: She doesn't need to, because there are infinite other ways less direct and lower in risk to herself.
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  8027. Ah, a trifecta in my recommendations: Rising, RFK Jr., and Roger Waters. Perfect for clicking on, giving a thumbs down, dropping a dismissive comment, and moving on without watching it.
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  8028. Did the Luxembourg PM borrow that suit? 2:50 The jacket collar floats centimetres away from his neck, making him look like a man coming apart. Odd.
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  8029. Wokesters think human nature itself can be changed by their activism. It's the classic far-left, socialist, communist, radical feminist error. They think that, well, we get people to drive on the correct side of the road, so surely we can turn humans into ethereal beings by just trying harder. But we are flesh and blood, and that's what horrifies them, what gives them their anxieties, neuroses and all their obvious tics and outright mental illnesses. They're the New Puritans yearning to have no body, only a soul.
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  8030.  @watchyabak_  "Florida Man" is a joke, meme, etc. There are t-shirts and other novelty items all making fun of how often there's a news story starting with: "A Florida man is in custody after police were called to the scene of...." Or "Now footage of a Florida man at a gas station..." Or "Restaurant patrons were shocked last Sunday when a Florida man started..."
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  8031. Godless, yes. But the only overall evil is the limitlessness of its government's power over its people.
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  8032. "As long as it's a case against Trump, any guilty verdict is good enough for me. I don't wanna hear no details. If the case and what's justice conflict, still you must convict!" — pretty much her line of thinking
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  8033. Enter another country uninvited if you like, but expect a sour welcome.🇺🇦👏
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  8034. That warp-faced long-haired guy with the earrings and the girly voice annoys me terribly. You can see how he ended up on national media. No one else would hire him.
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  8035. Perfectly well written from the Party's perspective. Draw them in with anti-Chinese sentiment and then drive it home that China supports their standard of living and environmental health. I saw it coming a mile away. In any case, it is actually the best advice, despite the twist that you don't want us to heed it. We might, though.
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  8036. If you can't compete, steal! It's the China way.
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  8037.  @JoyMartin-rk4pm  Oh, he'll be so far from civilization that his little hut will be a prison. Think of a Siberian gulag, only colder. You know where Ellesmere Island is, don't you?😂
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  8038.  @waynejohanson1083  Really the most important question of our time.
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  8039. What are you, new? Did he look like he was quitting his job? You're the only one who doesn't think he was told to resign. (If, that is, it wasn't an outright sacking. As far as I know we haven't been told, exactly, but the point is rather moot).
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  8040.  @Sol-dk2sd  All right, then. Maybe you're right and most people are wrong. That happens. We'll find out, probably? Cheers.
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  8041. Ok, Yevgeny.
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  8042. $99.7 billion? That's actually lean for a state with 21.5 million people.
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  8043. Then they would no longer be democracies, for in a democracy the people wouldn't stand for the abuse and would throw the rascals out. But it's true that democracies don't last long. They've popped up now and then over the past 2,500 years or so and always fall back pretty quickly into tyranny. Democracy has difficulties producing succeeding generations who are capable of sustaining it. The US holds the all-time record at only 245 years.
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  8044.  @artmcteagle  You're welcome.
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  8045. I love that that fired Twitter wokester is named Vijaya. Hahaha! See you next Thursday.
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  8046. Insane devotion to detail, and a great amount of investment in plant required. I'm kind of surprised they don't start at 10 grand a pop.
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  8047.  @pottacoola  And in the divorce proceedings she'll say he hit her during drunken rages, and she'll trot out friends of hers to say "Yes, she confided it to me at the time. She was too scared to leave Harry or tell the authorities because he said 'I'm a royal so no one will believe you. The royal family can easily have you killed'. It was devastating and she was suicidal." etc.🙄
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  8048. I disagree. She insists that the real problem is that the Conservatives and Rebel News are going to make illegitimate hay out of it, which is ridiculous. Any such hay is absolutely legitimate. A reporter was arrested for doing his job and that's the problem, period. And if she doesn't realize it, she's part of the reek. Someone open up a window and let the bad air out of that studio.
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  8049. If we're lucky we can trust them not to enter into alliances with China or Russia or both. (I don't mean this year or next, I mean at any point before mid-century.) Democracies everywhere threaten to become as unpredictable as any other type of state, since their populaces have ceased to be much less if at all less nitwitted than those in other types of states. The movie "Idiocracy" looks more and more like a documentary from the future.
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  8050. If the Democrats would make major concessions on southern border immigration, Republicans would reciprocate. Both sides have to play ball. Both sides ought to have a say in things, meaning parties have to make deals. That's democracy, that's how free countries are governed, that's how it's always been and always will be — especially when elections result in a government divided nearly equally along party lines. So let supporters of all parties be ashamed if no deal is reached. If you want my opinion, both sides want progress on both issues. Most Republicans are privately and deep-down amenable to aiding Ukraine; most Democrats recognize that in this election year voters see immigration and border security as an issue second only to the falling standard of living. But they don't want to be punished by their respective bases or look like they've make one-sided concessions. So it was bound to go on for weeks and months simply for appearances' sake. When the pressure finally reaches a breaking point an agreement will be reached and both sides can blame the other for forcing them to compromise. Both parties having saved face in this manner, their supporters will, though no doubt with bitterness and resentment, grudgingly accept the outcome. I could see all this coming from miles away as soon as I heard the two issues were to be tied together in a single bill. I expected everything that's happened so far.
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  8051.  @etruscancivilization  Bro, I would see a doctor about that Black & White Fever and delirium. Don't ignore signs of neurological damage. Seriously, get that checked out.
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  8052.  @De5O54  I love the fact that a Chomsky disciple is willing to pretend it believes I was trying to pass that off as an actual quote. I almost feel bad letting an "effing child" donate its labour to me. Almost.
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  8053. Trump should delay the debate to make things more difficult and awkward for them. They're setting Biden up to fail in advance of their convention. Better if they dump him too late to crown and publicize his replacement at their convention.
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  8054. For guarding your pantry a few months from now when your heavily-armed neighbours notice you don't look as skinny as they are.
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  8055.  @pjtufty66  Bro, can you please reply to me so I can mute you?
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  8056. Quite right. And a lot of comment scrubbing is going on. If you look at Newest, there's a lot of mordant criticism of him like yours and mine. But the older comments that make into 'Sort by Top comments' are uniformly fulsome and adulatory. Always Sort by Newest to get a far better idea of what people are really thinking.
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  8057. Professor in the humanities: "This creature is the alien face of white supremacy."
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  8058.  @charlesmartin1121  "Go choke [...]" etc. People with healthy personalities don't go at each other the way those on this thread do, especially you. It's just a short step from this reply of yours to bloodletting. What do you think preceded 1933? I wish you all would marry each other. Then the air out in public would clear.
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  8059. No, it's that they were used.
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  8060. Vive la différence!
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  8061.  @akinpaws  Ah, maybe. (But why do you say "LM"? I see the post labelled "@user-gu9qd7wd5f".)
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  8062.  @akinpaws  That doesn't explain why I don't see LM anywhere on that person's post. If you see it, then I ought to see it as well. (And if you see me as dixon pinfold, how did you even know that my so-called 'unique handle' is dixonpinfold2582?) "This is indeed a puzzlement." —Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
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  8063. Some divorced mothers whose children live with them turn their children against their fathers, sometimes deliberately. (Sometimes the attempt is successful, sometimes not.) As a child of divorced parents, I can tell you at firsthand that it happens. There are reports that Justine (Musk or Wilson, I've heard both) has done this. I do know that she has slammed Elon Musk publicly in the past, something that probably has made it harder for their six children to maintain healthy relationships with their father. I would refrain from taking sides, especially if it's just out of partisan political feelings which really have to do with the upcoming election. You don't know. EDIT: In my middle paragraph I was referring to the Marie Claire magazine article.
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  8064.  @brianholloway6205  He gave approval for the gender transition of his child. Smoking mass media output is bad for one's brain health.
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  8065. That's not true. I had an inflamed bunion and it actually gave me a laugh once.
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  8066.  @gorkyd7912  Sorry, you're making a rookie mistake in your stats. You're describing case fatality rates (CFR), not death rates (usually called mortality rates). A mortality rate is deaths divided by infections, a CFR is deaths divided by documented cases. These are very different things, because the great majority of SARS-CoV-2-infected people are undiagnosed. In fact the great majority of infected people clear the infection and have no idea it even happened. This is revealed by the presence of antibodies in their blood serum. Current estimates of the multiple of infections to documented cases in the US range from 5 to 81 times, with most ranging from 10 to 30 times. The real number will emerge over time as more Americans are randomly blood-tested. So it's an error to proceed from a 1.5% CFR and 20m infections to 300,000 deaths. Thus, using the 10-30x range, 20m infections in the US would, at present rates, show up as 667,000-2m diagnosed cases. And a 1.5% CFR would result in 10,000 to 30,000 deaths. So you should feel quite relieved, as 270,000 to 290,000 people just had their death sentences rescinded.
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  8067. They should get married, that pretty pair. A punishment that would fit the crime.
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  8068. Ok, Chanfun.
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  8069. I don't know if that enters into it. I doubt it. I think all the supply lines are the same, and most of the drug companies involved too. Big pharma just gouges the US to the hilt, and Canada not so much. So the net effect will eventually be to simply drive up prices for Canadians, I should think.
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  8070. Might be to do with his current battle with cancer.
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  8071.  @dogh8356  I don't know. I'm just pretty sure a retired general is most unlikely to take up his granddaughter's passions in the grooming department. But seriously, I have heard more than once that the nail beds are capable of giving important health signals.
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  8072. I've no doubt that the better things look for Republicans, the more frenziedly Democrats will c he at.
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  8073. The nomination, I guess you mean. What about the election?
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  8074. (1) Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right. (2) But I do find Le Pen's flat-out Putinist rhetoric terrifying. If she wins she will at last get access to full intelligence briefings. Those, I hope, will snap her out of it.
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  8075. You don't know wtf you're talking about. That's extremely helpful and safe medicine for almost all who take it, best suited to people under great temporary stress, like bereaved survivors of their spouses or other family members. It helps them get through rough patches of life devastation, sleeplessness and so on. Most simply stop it after a month or so, with no consequences. Others can be very unlucky, as Peterson was.
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  8076. I'm now on the verge of hoping Carney asks Canadians if they want him to stay put till October before calling an election, so that he can see this file through the tough part. Then I'd like to see his party defeated. It's a terrible, terrible party and I don't want 4 years of him. His overall policy aims are revolting.
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  8077.  @madelainepetrin1430  Because of all of the above.
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  8078. Correct spelling of his name (I don't care what anyone else might say): Putzin.
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  8079.  @deadtome44  My point was that this video comes conspicuously just a little after important state races. It could have fed a great deal of discussion during the campaigns. And your reply was...that you are skeptical of the value of Republican governments. Oh, ok. What was I thinking, making a comment irrelevant to your unrelated response to it?
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  8080. Yes, but not only them. All decent people. I'm embarrassed that humans can be that low and awful.
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  8081. Rumor has it she changed her name from Kringela.
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  8082.  @ЛескаЛеска  Just to clarify, I'm guessing that her political judgments are pretty good. I'm only saying I can't take what she says at face value.
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  8083. As someone who's been paying attention for thirty-some months, may I point out that he never writes anything his base can't get without effort? This fact is common knowledge, meaning Erdogan knows it quite well himself. Moreover, Erdogan has to take him seriously, willingly or not, by virtue of the office. While it's internally valid up to a point, your comment is frivolous. You're applying checkers rules to a chess game. (And I'm not saying Trump is some kind of Bobby Fischer or Kasparov; I'm just pointing out where the match is.) Cheers.
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  8084. People holding that package of views couldn't morally reason their way out of a cage of wet tissues.
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  8085. That's so dumb. Come on, I'm sure you can do better.
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  8086.  @mim8312  Loved your long comment, finding it balanced and penetrating. You've been paying attention for a long time. Keep it up.
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  8087.  @peetsnort  So, warm sun and affordable living? Sounds nice. What about younger people, 20-40?
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  8088.  高东锋  I meant to add, good health, long life!
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  8089.  @johnchong4690  Thanks. It seems they did a good job standing Japan back up on its feet after the war, instead of stepping on their neck and robbing them.
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  8090. You say that like it's bad. It's not.
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  8091.  @ajwiz0816  Trump and Biden both racked up huge debt during their respective pandemic years. So let's look at non-pandemic years. His first 3 yrs Trump raised the debt $1.05trn/yr. Now with the pandemic long gone we're still adding $1trn in debt per 100 days...$3.65trn/yr. 😮
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  8092.  @user-gv8xf9ul5j  Ok, professor. Keep pining for that Nobel. 😂But keep your job flipping burgers.
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  8093.  @user-gv8xf9ul5j  Ah, and what gives you that idea, Professor Rando? The same thing that makes you 98% sure that 129% is a healthy debt-to-GDP ratio? I suppose you think it's appropriate to run a central govt deficit of 6% of GDP during an economic expansion as well, two years after the "health event" is over. Gimme some fries with that, young lady, please.
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  8094. For a good laugh look up the Norm Macdonald standup clip 'norm macdonald heckler teacher'. (Both his parents were teachers.)
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  8095. 😢
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  8096. We can safely assume everything Trudeau says is a lie. Find us something he's said that wasn't.
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  8097.  @FinatikGames  I took it we were talking about Trudeau here. He has been making outrageous claims about protesters, including that one about taking food from homeless people. He's allergic to truth.
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  8098. Stop calling their demands "rules." It plays perfectly into their hands. They obviously should be called demands, and then attacked.
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  8099. Pilot error. Pay attention when performing basic pre-flight procedures, kids. Look at what you're doing. And never let that pilot pack your parachute or babysit your children.
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  8100. Enough with the Anker promotion. Turns out the whole video was a paid Anker ad. Isn't that enough?
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  8101.  Falun Gong BS Cult  Your point isn't clear.
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  8102.  Falun Gong BS Cult  The guy was defending Chinese goods. Still think he's stupid? By the way, try to swear less.
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  8103.  @thebigk3009  Twenty per cent is a nice margin in a competitive business without branding power. If you meant gross margin you omitted to say it. Cheers.
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  8104.  @MrWizardjr9  I congratulate you.
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  8105.  @BenBen-bt9to  I commend your insight and courage. In the long run the problem is human nature itself, but the more proximal problem is unconstrained power, whether that of the very rich or of government in one-party states. Thanks for your comment.
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  8106.  @brianlevine249  Educated people nonetheless had no idea of the details of this unknown old man's life. The Speaker told the House that he was "a WW II veteran" and that he "fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians" but they were never told these two things were one and the same.   For all they knew, his WW II service was in the Red Army, battling the Germans, while his fight for Ukrainian independence was against the Soviet government at another time (or even concurrently). Ukraine had both for enemies, after all. The last thing MPs would have assumed in the context was that he indeed never served in the Red Army. The Speaker, who meant well but isn't perhaps very bright, is the boss of the House of Commons and by right of that respected status he invited the man on his own, not even (according to the Govt. House Leader) informing anyone else in the PMO, nor Global Affairs, nor the Ukrainian delegation. He blindsided all involved with his mother's-little-helper stunt and should have resigned hours later, not days. The delay made it appear to many that he was a fall guy. Spectacularly, effortlessly inept. Thus he was in my view at least 90% personally at fault for the whole fiasco, except that the PMO should have had such airtight control over this important state visit that the Speaker's plans did not escape their scrutiny. It's important for us to always analyze events for ourselves and never carelessly rely on the judgement of journalists (the quality of whom is much degraded in our day from a generation ago) and common internet mobs.
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  8107. Excellent.
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  8108. She should be running a daycare company.
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  8109. 👏That should go without saying. But for some reason, no, it needed to be said.
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  8110. Yeah, and since Bret would never — and never did, I'm sure — spam the guy, the explanation has to be weird, scary, funny or some combination. It's almost like the account of one of them was hacked; single messages were made to look like 12 msgs. or something; a spy in the house of X; god knows what.
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  8111. Maybe, but money's not the problem. The US govt started pitching in around last Nov. It began covering 80% at that time, so SpaceX's share fell from 100% to 20%, where it has remained.
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  8112. Some superannuated pothead.
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  8113. Reticent is not a fancy word for 'reluctant.' It means reluctant to say. Wrong: He was reticent to have lunch with her. Right: She was reticent on how much her vacation was going to cost.
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  8114. But there's no such thing as the far left. Only a far-rightist would claim there is. What you think is the far left is the centre, and the Associated Press recognizes this fact. At least, that's how it looks to me out here at the Left Pole.😄
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  8115. Yes, unless you're hunting them.
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  8116. What was so great about the 1776-1790 period, and why did it end? Curious.
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  8117.  @bretthines6893  Sounds more like it.
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  8118.  @AltIng9154  Who was the excited one? Just read my whole post.
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  8119.  @grandn8646  It wasn't "contained to the truck." Thanks to the truck's strength and design, it was forced to blow out mainly skywards, meaning far less harmfully.
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  8120.  W Lin   Funny coming from you.
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  8121.  @joebush1663  Unfortunately in 2021 only Alberta and Sask. solidly backed the Conservatives. The Liberals & NDP won as many or more seats than the Conservatives in 8 provinces.
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  8122. "The world looks to us, the college students, for leadership." — possibly the funniest line ever on The Simpsons. But these children actually think that way.
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  8123. I see what you mean. Initially I was going to say that prevailing public opinion back at the last part of Clinton's tenure was that that was exactly what was happening. (In my opinion this view had some truth to it.) But then I remembered that, yeah, there actually was a huge outcry demanding that Kenneth Starr be reined in, wide agreement that he was out of control. People were up in arms. This time it's crickets from half the public and most of the chattering classes and media. At least we have Kevin O'Leary to b---h about it in proper fashion like the voice of reason.
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  8124. I see what you mean. Initially I was going to say that prevailing public opinion back at the last part of Clinton's tenure was that that was exactly what was happening. (In my opinion this view had some truth to it.) But then I remembered that, yeah, there actually was a huge outcry demanding that Kenneth Starr be reined in, wide agreement that he was out of control. People were up in arms. This time it's crickets from half the public and most of the chattering classes and media. At least we have Kevin O'Leary to rail against it in proper fashion like the voice of reason.
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  8125. Get yourselves a sound technician, for our sakes and your own. In every video, the guest's voice and the host's should be at a comparable volume. Please and thank you.
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  8126. He was never a genius, let's get that out of the way. But it was somewhat fair to regard him as stable, at least not the binary opposite. After seeing this news I'd amend that and say Not Anymore. Two weeks left and Justin Trudeau suddenly has competition as worst Western leader.
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  8127.  @T.Z.M4N  No government has ever been in bed with big business like Harris and Biden's administration. As for Warren, she's not "for the people." She's for herself. I can't believe anyone falls for that mountebank.
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  8128.  @maxfitnesstraining1585  But where is the well-organized class of white people going around on university campuses and TV asserting that such things are ok? It doesn't exist. If it's wrong, it's wrong, so you shouldn't come anywhere near defending it on the grounds that it's on rare occasions done to your group.
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  8129.  @maxfitnesstraining1585  You came near it at the very least, mate, as I said. And by telling me to calm down you reveal that you're ready to make a point but not ready to be calmly challenged on it. Try pointing to the part of my reply that wasn't 'calm'.
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  8130. ​ @idongesitx1873  "You can look it up." That is an empty assertion. Try offering what you consider evidence.
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  8131.  @maxfitnesstraining1585  🤨Strange. But I'll take your word for it.
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  8132.  @kamelionify  No probs.
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  8133. He has a wicked sense of humour amongst family and friends no doubt.
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  8134. General Dynamics already cannot address the growing multi-year backlog of orders for F-16s. Anyway, the whole US defence industry is not that big and not that important to the US economy. Apple alone absolutely dwarfs it. The tech, finance and energy businesses are far more vital. Your remark is the sort of thing one would hear at a dive bar next to a factory or 4th-rate university campus.
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  8135. Whenever I see Albo I'm reminded of Mr. Peabody, the self-important and annoying little dog on Rocky & Bullwinkle. So maybe 'Albo' should be Alpo. 😂
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  8136. Gutting the thing was the entire idea. He paid for the brand name, not the company run under it. He's rebuilding it as though it were his own startup. I for one am glad.
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  8137.  @jesuszamora6949  I just know a lot more about him and his companies than you do. One of the keys to happiness is having little to no capacity for envy. (See Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, which you can dig up online for free.)
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  8138. The Independent Order of Foresters? Really? Hmm. They provide quality life Insurance services from what I hear.
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  8139. It's just fashion, as it was in Paris in 1968. "Hey, let's go wild and take a strong stand on some trendy cause that we have zero understanding of." They'll soon go back to their TikTok, Instagram, piercings, funny eyeglasses and haircuts, their hormone treatments, anti-depressants, anxiety obsessions, huge false eyelashes and all the rest.
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  8140.  @spidey5324  Those are to protect those countries from the PRC (and North Korea, the pit bull of the PRC). If the US left, they would all be invaded, encircled, dominated, enslaved by the PRC. Friendly government in Beijing and Pyongyang ---> No US bases. Simple formula. Authoritarianism is the problem. PRC, Russia, DPRK, Iran are the Authoritarian Axis.
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  8141.  @kamsunleong6648  As a Korean, you should know far better than to say any of that claptrap. Unless you're in the DPRK, in which case it all makes sense.😂
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  8142.  @铁子-x2g  I am glad to provide the following list of all the military conflicts which the PRC has been involved in, directly and indirectly. Direct Military Conflicts: 1) Korean War (1950-1953) 2) First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954-1955) 3) Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958) 4) China-Burma border campaign (1960-1961) 5) Sino-Indian War (1962) 6) Nathu La and Cho La clashes with India (1967) 7) Sino-Soviet Border Conflict (1969) 8) Vietnam War (support role, 1965-1975) 9) Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) Indirect Involvement and Minor Engagements: 1) Battle of the Paracel Islands (1974) 2) Johnson South Reef Skirmish (1988) 3) Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1995-1996) 4) Scarborough Shoal standoff (2012) 5) 2020-2021 China-India skirmishes
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  8143.  @铁子-x2g  Silver medal for tediousness, gold for pomposity. [four slow claps]
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  8144. Two can play at this harassment game. How about the loudest horns or other noisemaking devices made anywhere, blasted steadily at them from three feet away?
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  8145. Classical Liberalism isn't what Rubin seems to think it is. It's a 19th-century term which means something close to libertarianism --- espousal of lightly-regulated capitalism, free trade, minimal government, plenty of civil liberties. I've seen Rubin use it a few times. By contrast with the correct definition, he seems to think Classical Liberal means 'traditional 60s-70s-80s Western liberal', an adherent of the liberalism espoused by the Kennedys, LBJ, centrist/free enterprise/high-tax Europeans of the era, etc. If he wants a term for that I think he should say Post-50s Liberalism or maybe Boomer Liberalism. I think people would then understand what he means. If Rogan really does dislike Rubin on account of this matter, possibly he, unlike Rubin, does know the right definition, i.e. knows that it comes close to 1980-2010 Republicanism --- yet he doesn't realize Rubin is ignorant of it. So he thinks Rubin is trying to hide something. Rogan is a bit dozy, and has been hit in the head countless times, so I can easily imagine that Rubin confuses and angers him. Neither one of them is really so bright that he deserves a huge following, actually.
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  8146. So true! That's just what I've been saying. Please vote for me in the next election. I need your support. —V. Putin
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  8147.  @AB-ry7bl  That is not news to me. But his rosy view of socialism had already taken a beating by the time he wrote The Road to Wigan Pier. He already hated socialists themselves: that's who the quote refers to. The whole book is a great exposé of the left and its thinking and behaviour.
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  8148. Good! I hope he and their shareholders do well! They're on the right side morally, so it's only right. Russia is going down, bud.
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  8149.  @analyticalmindset  The Liberian state was founded by black Americans. So returning and returning-ancestral African-Americans colonized Africa?? [super-hyper-mega eye roll 🙄] Now I've heard everything, buddy. Maybe go back and get a refund from your school or your bookstore cuz somebody plain ripped you off.
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  8150. ​ @analyticalmindset  And other Africans complain about a lack of US and other Western investment. Not investing is racism, investing is colonization. Not helping us is destroying us, helping us makes us dependent. All around the world, in America and everywhere else, there's Marxist whiners who're never at fault—it's always someone else. When they take over and steal land and imprison farmers and the populace starves as a result, it's still not their fault. My neighbour murdered my other neighbour and it's the fault of a foreigner now dead a hundred or two hundred years. But don't worry, Russia and China are coming to your rescue. Xi and Putin: "Come to papa. Heh heh heh."
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  8151. Every decent woman will give the Barfie movie the Bud Light treatment.
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  8152. Golden comment, all of it, especially the "because" part. Deserves immensely, vastly more likes. If we ever meet I will not suffer you to buy your own drink though we should knock them back for three days straight.
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  8153.  @brucerideout9979  Your reply was just shadow-truncated.
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  8154. Pretty stunning production values in that ad. Where I come from you get a voice-over of the candidate behind bland stills and stock footage, with maybe a little from a public campaign event mixed in.
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  8155. @Dog Faced Pony Soldier Great comment.
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  8156. Hey, your mom told you to make your bed!
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  8157. Russia hosted the BRICS Olympics recently. Did you watch? You should've, for a good laugh. Russia came first with 173 gold. Belarus came 2nd with 32 gold.🤣 BRICS is just Russia and China, the world's top frenemies.
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  8158. No! Freeze, don't seize. Seize assets post-war, for reconstruction. During the war, aid can be funded without it. Mark my words, right now Russia would make extremely effective prop a ga nd a hay out of asset seizure by the West. Terrible idea. Ukraine, '22: "I need ammunition, not a ride." Now: "I need ammunition, not cash."
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  8159. It's interesting how there's no protest against AI development when there's such a strong lobby against carbon pollution. Zero, for something poised to wipe us out in a decade or two, versus the world's number one concern, for something that will warm Earth slightly and make the oceans one metre deeper over the next century.
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  8160. Thanks for the Kremlin news release.🖕Now get out of Donetsk and there'll be no need to shoot at you. You remind me of the guy in the French play: "Cet animal est très méchant. Quand on l'attaque, il se defend." [This animal is very vicious. When you attack it, it defends itself.]
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  8161.  @CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY  Curious whether my reply of 60 min. ago appears in this thread. (Begins "Thanks...") Would appreciate a quick Yes/No. Cheers.
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  8162. He has one of those terrible wide socialist faces I can't stand. He could play O'Brien in a re-make of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Get him out of there.
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  8163. He has no had no formal instruction in economics. He has degrees in social work. Yet he's the Chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisors. Vote carefully in 5.9 months, my friends.
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  8164. Now stand by for the marriage proposals to roll in. In this day many a normal man despairs of stumbling upon a woman like you. (Just as you presumably seldom run into someone both unmistakably male...and available.) This sad state of things goes double for people in California I'm guessing?
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  8165. I have not yet finished watching, but I ask these things anyway: Is liquefied natural gas not available on the open market? Does it not sell for a decent price? Does Germany not have an LNG port? If it doesn't, could it not build one? Does Germany enjoy taking long-term strategic risks?
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  8166. Ilhan Omar just broke the record for stupidest tibch in 120,000 years. In fact she broke it in three separate days.
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  8167. "Almost four months"? What? Douglas my good man, how did you lose a month somewhere? It's barely three months till the US election.
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  8168. Like you I'm not a Trump supporter, not a Republican, and I rarely watch a minute of Fox. But this isn't an advertisement for Trump. Biden and the Democrats in 2020 as a group are an advertisement for Trump. (Possible exception: Mike Bloomberg, but not necessarily. Time will tell.) It wasn't news, I'll certainly agree. It was an opinion piece, which is allowable, and a very good one.
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  8169. I saw the title and started laughing pretty hard, but I felt so bad I stopped and said "sorry," despite being the only who's awake.
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  8170. Next it should be moved to the designated dog pooping section of the park. Let the Great Danes, bulldogs, Pekingese, etc. express what their un-demonstrative British owners feel inside. Especially the Great Danes, I say.
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  8171. "Could of"?
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  8172. Too bad the government of India is callously indifferent to them. I have begun shunning products with Made in India labels. I will no longer reward evil support of evil.
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  8173.  @FionaelAchkar  Ask the latter yourself, next time you dine together.
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  8174. Hey, whaddaya know? A channel with actual news!
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  8175. Yes. Pigeons should be afraid he will step on them with his high heels.
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  8176.  @theoneonly259  He's kept it from his rock 'n' roll days, I believe. He was once a lead singer. Not kidding. It was in a mostly cover band though.
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  8177.  @dutchreagan3676  You probably have a point there. However, while I'm no neurologist, a lot of stroke victims do come back from awful brain damage.
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  8178. The editorial board and the newsroom staff at the WSJ are like day and night. (The editorial board sheds the daylight. The newsroom staff are benighted with no-limits liberalism.)
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  8179.  @Notbigbird  That wasn't a body, it was tank wreckage. Later the clearest picture in the whole video shows that. My guess is he heard the drone and bailed off the tank at the last instant, hitting the ground towards the treeline. Quickly he decided to book it across the road and field in a panic, but changed his mind and reversed back towards the woods again.
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  8180. Thanks. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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  8181. MSNBC: Televised mental institution Rachel Maddow: Inmate-in-Chief
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  8182. Attack it and find out if you're right. Kemp's point about NATO in Afghanistan, which he said was proof of that claim, was trivial.
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  8183.  @guymontag2948  You're defining a generalization, then, as false. But it is a generalization, yet not false, to say, for example, that summer weather is warm in Chicago, let there be whatever small number of chilly days from time to time.
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  8184.  @guymontag2948  Not really, no. To me stereotyping is having the same thing over and over, i.e. the meaning of the word in science. What I instead have in mind are correlations of the stronger sort. And I say they deserve plenty of attention, since they're half of what we've got. It's a main current in Western thought, culture and civilization for a couple of centuries now.
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  8185. If you announce that under your system, whether proposed or extant, abusing other people terribly is the way to improve the world, countless followers will come out of the woodwork to sign up. I've been saying this for a few years, but it turns out someone else said it during the era of peak totalitarianism: "The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behaviour 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” —Aldous Huxley I notice in the video's chilling analysis of totalitarianism numerous eerie points of sameness to today's extreme wokeism. We're past the replanting of seeds. Seedlings are now become saplings. The era of peak totalitarianism may soon come to be thought of as the first such era, much as the Great War came to be known as the First World War.
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  8186.  @rffromusa8319  Buddy's probably mad after a 90-year-old turned him down for a date.😄
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  8187. Bull. He is selling 10% of his shares mostly to pay taxes with the proceeds (around $15bn). He owns nothing else but shares in Tesla and SpaceX so that's how he must pay taxes. He earns no salary. He has no house and lives at SpaceX in Boca Chica in a literal 20'x20' foldable box that cost $50k. Check your envy. Root it out of you.
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  8188. A man wouldn't judge manhood on such frivolous grounds as you just did.
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  8189. For the second consecutive election, Trump is the second most misguided, second most dangerous, and second most annoying candidate for president. Thus, he is preferable. (Please, America, see if you can do better in 2024. Do something about your slide.)
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  8190. Harold Ford is 13 months older than Elon Musk.
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  8191. They're going to hand you an entirely new dictionary. 'Gaslight' will now mean 'enlighten'.
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  8192.  @josecarvajal6654  Thanks. So Mr. Geography didn't really get it right in the video?
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  8193.  @k96man  100% correct. Being intelligent means being able to (1) tell far higher-quality lies, (2) cover them up much better, (3) talk your way out of trouble if you do get caught, (4) justify them to yourself in ingenious ways throughout your life, thereby making your conscience into a pipsqueak.
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  8194. Who's paying Tim Buckley for that empty spin? Ontario hasn't built reactors since 1988 not because they're not working out, but because they are indeed doing their job very well. And the technology has been kept fully up to date with constant modernization and refurbishment. The electricity price (US$0.10/kWh) speaks for itself.
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  8195. Mushroom cloud over Moscow. Wow, look what you brought on yourselves.
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  8196.  @righteousone1  Your comment sounds like racial hatred, my ironically-named friend. 👎
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  8197. Then do more against the globalist elites. You can always do more. Just don't condone China's government, for you would never be able to do anything against it.
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  8198. Remember at all times that the rouble is starkly undervalued against the dollar. This indicates that it's not much in demand, primarily due to (rightly) perceived riskiness. But it can be immensely deceiving. A rouble buys about 2.7x more inside Russia than in the West. So $140bn in Russian military spending is more like $400bn.
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  8199. Can we please stop saying Gaza is "incredibly densely populated"? 2.3m people in 140 square miles is far from outlandish. They have semi-rural areas in there. My own (larger) city isn't much less densely populated and is noted by foreign visitors for its spaciousness. Manhattan is 4—5x more tightly packed in. So please. You sound like reporters did talking histrionically about a certain health topic in 2020-22.🙄
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  8200. Simple threat.
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  8201. (1) If you have to walk where there's no sidewalk, walk beside the road on the side where you will face oncoming traffic. 🤨 (2) This guy thought of everything else, though. He's the only surviving witness. 🤨 (3) "Had ran out of gas"? Try "Had run out of gas." 6th-grade education? 🤨
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  8202. Prime Minister Peter Pan spends at least half his time condemning or denouncing people or things. The Denouncer-In-Chief. He's not all there. He needs treatment.
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  8203. I am Vladimir Putin and I appreciate how you believe me when I say stuff. You're a smart guy and you get it.
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  8204. Peru woulda helped this man.😂
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  8205. Correct, except that the word you want is upstream.
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  8206. ​ @corneliussmiff2773  I agree to an extremely limited extent, putting the Iraq War in its own miserable category and viewing GW Bush and others in his administration as culpable for war crimes on account of it.   But I view the rest of American actions—Bay of Pigs, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, Kuwait, Afghanistan, etc.—as actions to liberate peoples from oppression or to protect or restore national sovereignty. As an anti-communist absolutist I even endorse the installation of Reza Pahlavi in Iran. Despite his serial vicious crimes I think it justified on the grounds that a communist regime would have been far worse. The US knew quite well what kind of staggering industrial-scale atrocities had gone on in communist countries in the previous 40 years or so: the gulags, the deliberate starvation of several tens of millions or people, the treatment of entire nations as prisoners, the dehumanizing loss of all human rights, the impoverishment, the infantilization—when the government is your strict dad, you never attain to adulthood—and the simple insanity. Under the corrupt and awful Shah at least a large and fairly relaxed middle class emerged into relative prosperity. At least that's what Iranians tell me. (When he was toppled he was replaced by a cadre of slavering yokels whose rule has produced nothing redemptive in the least. Again, according to Iranians.) There as elsewhere, in opposing communism there was seldom if ever a shining white alternative to it. Some sort of bog standard criminal dictator was the usual resort. But such a lowlife still appeared more amenable to eventual democratization of his land than the arch-communists. Look at Cuba and China: after about 65 and 75 years respectively, still the same. Vietnam roughly likewise since 1975. Look in contrast at all the right-wing governments turned democratic over the decades. Imagine a world today without that US interventionism. Billions more would live under an iron fist of entrenched communist rule. Not only Eastern Europe but perhaps all Western Europe too, Britain included. Perhaps all Asia, Africa and South America. It's so easy to point fingers at America as so many do, to preposterously assert that the alternative to its actions was a paradise of daisies and apple trees, bunny rabbits and sunshine. It wasn't. It would've been closer to a nightmare dystopia of a boot stamping on a human face, forever.
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  8207.  @jamesgornall5731  Just try to identify actuality, run towards it, throw your arms around it tightly, and never let it go. Start trying systematically to root out mental error. If the idea doesn't terrify and sicken you too much.
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  8208.  @paulbeaver1  Yes, and even on the CBC site itself the entire point of comments is to filter out centre and right-of-centre opinion in order to create a left-wing echo chamber and mechanism for electing left-wing governments. Even Twitter is nowhere near as bad.
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  8209. Turns out the whole thing was a paid-for ad. Bye, Wendover, nice knowing ya.
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  8210. The Puritan found sin everywhere...except, ordinarily, in the mirror. There's a reason for that. Deep down, it was a satisfying cover for their own wrongs. (Shakespeare: "The lady doth protest too much.") When people go over-the-top with accusations, it is right to suspect that they're dealing with their own wickedness in a convenient way.
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  8211.  @mithrandirthegrey7644  YTD sales of EVs were down 3% in Europe and up 11% in the US. We're talking about nearly 2.5 million cars. But yeah, "they just don't sell."🙄
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  8212.  @mithrandirthegrey7644  I'm going to pay attention to real stats, not some guy who knows a guy. Anyway, half the US market belongs to Tesla, which does not have dealers.
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  8213.  @mithrandirthegrey7644  Over a million EVs sold in the US in 2024 is not "nothing". The highly reputable Cox Automotive has the stats. They also note that EV market share is up to 8.9% and may even crack 10% this year.
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  8214.  @mithrandirthegrey7644  A temporary slowdown in market growth is not the main issue here. The chief reason for the cancellation of EV expansion plans by legacy carmakers is that it's impossible for them to sell them at a profit, due to their inherent poor management and business models.
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  8215.  @mithrandirthegrey7644  Comparing annual sales to the total fleet shows you're not very good at this. The year will end with ~6 million EVs on US roads. Worldwide 40 million, next year 56 million. Yep, it's still early days, but already over 15 million Americans live in a household with an EV, rising by 3 million a year. As for the idea that most EV owners want to switch back, the facts don't back that up. Surveys vary. One found that 46% wanted their next purchase to be an ICE vehicle but that doesn't mean selling their EV. In many cases it means they want one of each. And other surveys found repeat EV purchasing intentions over 70%. It depends on what question is asked. The overall picture is not one of a rapid EV takeover of the market, that's obvious. But neither is it your vision that EV sales are nothing and no one wants one. That sounds like more of an emotional thing rooted in various frustrations and allegiances than a respect for the facts thing. (Danger to the mind increases with amount of mass media smoked — Surgeon General)
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  8216. Cool. He sounds like the kind of Englishman who once made the UK the world's leading country. I guess they still have them.
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  8217. Any German, any Frenchman, any Italian or Dutchman—any Western European—who won't take transit, or pedal, or walk a couple of miles to work in order to deny Russia oil revenues, rather than drive his or her car, deserves the greatest possible contempt. Three simple words for Putzin: P.O.S.
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  8218. Scott Morrison should learn how to buy a suit or how to choose a tailor. He looks like a middle school vice-principal in that ill-fitting jacket.
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  8219. Welcome to the pro-Kremlin opinion pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  8220. "Let me be clear." That's what a Trudeau Liberal says right before they deliberately spin untruths. Every time.
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  8221. And this clown matters why? He has a micro-audience which is not only the smallest on talk-show TV, it's also far smaller than tons of YouTube political/social commentary channels, this one included. Not worth my care.
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  8222. So that the election goes a certain way. How can you ask?
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  8223. This MedCram video, Coronavirus Update #106, tells you how to interpret the CDC announcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TECf3xSFbU&t=632s   If you don't have the time, he makes two main points. First, realize that it wasn't truly CDC research in the sense you may have in mind, it was merely their tabulation of death certificate data entered by doctors across the country. Second, the MedCram video doctor explains how the 94%/6% should really have been 100%/0%, since the proximal cause of death listed in a Covid-19 fatality should always be pneumonia, kidney failure, heart attack, etc. and never Covid-19. To put it very bluntly, his point is that in 6% of these death certificates, the dumb doctor needed remedial training in how to fill them out. The other 94% knew what to do, listing as they are supposed to do the immediate cause of death.
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  8224. No big deal, but I've watched dozens and dozens of your videos and this was the first one that bored me. Surprising.
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  8225. Trudeau: "Whucha waiting for, Emmanuel? Declare martial law, outlaw travel, suspend civil rights, seize their bank accounts, round 'em up and hold 'em without bail. It's so easy!"
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  8226. In my city I often notice G4S trucks on the streets. They compete with Brinks. They also provide other company security services in multiple countries and also run two or three prisons. They guard oil refineries, for example, and have operated food and supply truck convoys in conflict zones, but as far as I know they are not regarded as a mercenary group. Nowhere is it alleged that they do any actual soldiering. Even by you. So far.
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  8227. Please, please, please let the pun is h meant fit the cry me.
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  8228. There's a few Seths.
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  8229. "Eg-zo-skeleton"?🤨👎
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  8230. I loved the clip of her speech! I am irreligious myself but ready to stand up for people's right to religion without stigmatization, and I dare to say that must include Christians. (I know, shocking.) And swipes at financial speculators don't equal 'anti-capitalism', Freddie. How did you make that leap? No doubt she is very much pro-free-enterprise. The rest of your take on the speech was mere paraphrase, but you clearly fancied it a revelatory analysis! Not your best day.
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  8231. Check your pants, Pooty.
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  8232. It's the arms race to end all arms races. Winner take all.
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  8233. No one seems to mind the study of intelligence differences between males and females. The reason is simply that study hasn't turned up differences in the sex averages. So it's ok to study. 🙄
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  8234. That's a deeply fascist question. Your commitment to the hard-won freedom of the West is like a forty-ton tank resting on a layer of phyllo pastry.
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  8235.  @uchicha666  Aw, did it hurt your wittle Stalinist feewings? Mistoo Ohwell make my wittle commie cwy?
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  8236.  @rutgerb  Yes, I heard that a few times over the years too. Perhaps all three hypotheses are correct up to a point, or just one or two. The digit transposition one seems somehow the least likely to me.
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  8237. That's untrue though. 100% incorrect.
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  8238. ​ @lylealexander4861  My family have been Quebecers since 1631. TROO-doh has indeed been common in English Canada for nearly 60 years, chiefly because it's an anglicization. In Quebec it is not used, nor does the PM himself use it. In English, the stress is more often on the first syllable of words than in French. (For two-syllable words it's 80%.) If you put an unfamiliar word or name in front of anglophones and ask them to pronounce it, they will stress the first syllable much more often than not. In French it's the other way around. As for Canadian newscasts, I've watched as many as about 98% of people. Much less often since around 2010, as I began to find them highly unsatisfactory. (And btw, more reporters pronounce words and names poorly than formerly, although they still tend to be good at it.)
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  8239. Ah, I see the combine harvester of truthful posts is mowing them down on an industrial scale here. Way to go, Google. Everybody has the right to an opinion, as long as it's the right opinion.
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  8240. An impossibly stupid premise. Texas would never ally itself with Putin. Untouchably stupid. Ukraine, on the other hand, did indeed show interest in joining NATO. And why? For the same reason the rest of Europe including every neighbour of Russia except Belarus is in NATO— because they know Russia and they do not trust Russia. No one trusts Russia! Get that through your head. No one!
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  8241.  @truthman7692  Thank you. Btw is my post in this thread visible?
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  8242. Poodles are smart.
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  8243. Basic duties? Nowhere on earth is it the duty of a country to guard its neighbour from its own side. Note that the US has never done this on Canada's behalf. Yet Canada never dreamt of demanding the US keep its guns, drugs and migrants out of Canada. Canada is the golden neighbour the rest of the world wished it had.
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  8244. The Democrats today are reminiscent of the corrupt Democrats of the Tammany Hall political machine under Boss Tweed in the 1870s, sewing up all the power for themselves. The New York Times was instrumental in its demise, and Boss Tweed died in prison. Today there's no counterpart to The New York Times, for this time the Democrats have the media sewn up too. I remember a few years ago they even wrote an article on Tammany's "forgotten virtues." Thank you, Forbes. Thank you, Sen. Graham.
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  8245.  @PhilMoskowitz  "The people"? Please, do not get carried away with easy sentimentalism. Those whom you call "the people" were a small cabal, what I've heard many times called a loathsome gang of brutal, backward and fan at ical hicks and thugs, who frogmarched the country back to medieval times. Try to imagine Oklahoma City bomber types (but worse!) taking over the US to the horror of every civilized and right-thinking American. Would the onset of their tyranny amount to "the people making their choice of what kind of country they wanted"? Because that's basically what happened. And the real "people," pitiable ordinary Iranians, are now suffering in Year 45 of the revolution which children in schools are taught was glorious and literally heaven-sent. They were actually far better off back when children were taught that the Shah and his father were great men and national heroes, though they were really self-serving autocrats. They were still more enlightened and fair-minded, and less beastly, than their replacements.
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  8246. Can you rewrite that so it's understandable?
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  8247.  @PWNINSWAGMASTER  No. You still wasted my time. Read your posts, then hit the button.
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  8248.  @PWNINSWAGMASTER  That actually wasn't the problem. It was a trivial mistake I found easy to see past and I didn't care. What I don't get is what "colder" is about.
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  8249. Actually, Musk left South Africa and his reviled father permanently at age 17, emigrating to Canada alone with his mere $2k in savings, specifically because of disgust at Apartheid and unwillingness to take part in it or benefit from it. MSNBC makes Tass, Pravda, Isvestia, the Global Times and the People's Daily look like great journalism by comparison. It really, really does.
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  8250. Most shocking of all: He at one time had a girlfriend.😮
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  8251. "Anyone from outside interfering". What? Russia is from outside and it is bl———y well interfering. The more you threaten, by the way, the weaker you sound.
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  8252. A big methane-emitting bully preaches about violence.😄
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  8253.  @rwo5402  Well observed. What a rotted mind he has, and what nasty character. It sounds like you see right through this thoroughgoing charlatan.
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  8254. Sometimes he is. All too often he's just really, really bad. Like this time. Only two days ago he (rightly) praised Americans for their outright rejection of corrupt media narratives about the various prosecutions of Donald Trump, noting that it was something to celebrate. And here he mostly reads to us articles from corrupt Time (!) and NBC. Not sure he bats above .250.
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  8255. Welcome to the Russian internet worker comments pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  8256. Yeah, just like Australia and the US west of the prairies. No one anywhere in the world wants to move to any of the three.🙄
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  8257.  @horse-lover68  'News' is a singular mass noun. Every person with direct recollection of the time when it was a plural is now dead. And when it was a plural, English grammar would require Those are, not "That are." Telling you so no one takes a swing at you at a social gathering or on the pavement.
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  8258. Relax, the Conservatives will be in power in four months or less.
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  8259.  @lanaistheneworange3013  That sounds made-up. Certainly the part about "mines" (plural) is.
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  8260.  @ivicamajmunskikreten9714  I realize that and I feel the same. You mistook me for some reason. 😃
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  8261.  @lanaistheneworange3013  There's just nothing that jewellery-wearing Western white women don't know, is there? The most enlightened human beings there have ever been and ever can be, even knowing in detail what went on half a world away, half a century ago! How lovely for Zambians to have them on their side...to sanctimoniously campaign against their livelihoods and move their jobs to other parts of the world. [very slow clapping]
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  8262.  @BigChap117  ...says a zombie Russian, born to be ruled like they all are.
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  8263. Britney Griner: ____ privilege, ___ privilege, _____ privilege, and lastly, very-low-grade-celebrity privilege. The first three I can't name, or you'd never see my comment. (The algorithm sees all.)   Wait, I almost forgot: Thanks to Elon Musk I finally have an option😄. I can say them on Twitter👏.
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  8264. Thumbs down. Such a rich opportunity and you blew it.
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  8265.  @jiminverness  I agree with every word of your comment except cringe. Maybe it's strange, because I'm pretty hawkish on diction and usage generally, but I got used to it fairly easily. In my view it also happens to be a good adjective for based. 😠
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  8266. I think that was ok. If one can point to some things being impermissible while others are freely allowed, and one can make a case that the distinction is unfair, that belongs in a debate. Let such a point be talked through.
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  8267. But skilled translators never choose words for their literal sense. They translate freely into idiomatically corresponding words. If in another language someone is said to be "Working like a mule" (toiling at length) it's no good translating it literally into English. The free translation is correct: "I've been working like a dog."
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  8268.  @TheLoyalOfficer  Yes, but you're forgiven for bringing it up despite that.
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  8269.  @tommysts1920  Ironic in light of the way they deplored the influx of "Okies" in the 1930s. Now an influx of Californians is probably one of the top fears of Oklahomans.
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  8270. "In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion." — Cyril Connolly (By sex-war, of course, he meant what was later called 'the battle of the sexes.' He went on to say that ordinarily it's male thoughtlessness which has lit the fuse. But he had a hard time finding and keeping a woman.)
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  8271. Doesn't matter what the dollar is worth, Canada will charge the same. Nice for us, irrelevant to buyers. It is no advantage to buy oil from a country with a weak currency. It will still charge the going rate. Same for all commodities with a world price.
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  8272. It's a bit confusing to me, being from elsewhere, trying to reconcile his saying that he kept his accent, but also saying (my paraphrase) "This is a general London accent and if I spoke Cockney you wouldn't understand a word." How can both things be true? Are they both simply somewhat or half true, and I should accept it on those terms?
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  8273.  @mattd5073  Then why didn't he say that? Is he an inarticulate and nervous boy? I wouldn't say so.
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  8274.  @DaveSmith-eu2ld  "A small two-seat training helicopter with a piston engine typically burns about 9 to 16 gallons per hour. A larger five-seat turbine helicopter typically burns about 25 to 30 gallons per hour. fuel costs vary on region but expect $4.7 - $5.5 per US gallon." (2022) So, about US$100 per hour. Helicopters burn either Avgas or jet fuel, the cost being around C$6-7 per gallon in Canada in 2023 for a commercial buyer. (Not even as much as diesel.) So, maybe C$150 an hour for a not very large police helicopter. Maybe less, maybe more. Add maybe $1,000 an hour for other costs, i.e., crew and added maintenance. So you're off by around two orders of magnitude. You're thinking of a Blackhawk maybe? Or you're not so good with powers of 10?
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  8275.  @DaveSmith-eu2ld  I went to multiple Canadian fuel price sites. Smoke salmon, not drugs. "lol"
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  8276.  @DaveSmith-eu2ld    I'm sorry you wasted your time not developing your mind. "lol" <---- the favourite retort of less-bright-than-average 12-year-olds everywhere
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  8277. In that case, the Russian SFSR never had nukes either..."it was for the Soviet."🙄
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  8278. University students: Pompous, Self-Righteous, Callow & Clueless. Since 1088 ᵀᴹ
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  8279. Reminds me of a comedy sketch Alec Baldwin was in, a home renovation show from Ireland named "You Call That a House, Do You?"
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  8280. Pro tip: make marriage proposals in person, and only to unmarried women.
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  8281.  @danielle9825  I wasn't saying he's that bad, btw. But the channel should have other pundits as well, if for no other reason than to reassure people like you and me. I appreciate your reply.
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  8282.  @administratioization  Proof? What should I prove? I'm not making any claim. An opinion does not amount to a claim.
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  8283.  @administratioization  I think you did not read carefully enough. Nowhere have I expressed a belief about who committed the murder in BC. I have no such belief, yet.
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  8284.  @administratioization  May no one argue with you about that.👍
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  8285. Stop supporting HamISIS. Stop throwing around the word genocidal. Everybody knows it's crying wolf. If Isr. really did have genocidal intent, 100% of Gazans would be dead, not 1%. Honesty is important. You didn't know that?
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  8286.  @levantinian  I repeat, honesty is important. In the long run truthfulness is virtually all we've got. How long will you continue to deny that?
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  8287. ​ @thejudge3658  Well, a socialist would say that, wouldn't he? He would never add "or posed as a champion of the people," because then people would instantly refute him by pointing to his Marxist heroes, those better regarded as history's all-time all-star meat-packing glitterati (Stalin, Mao, Lenin, all the rest).
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  8288. Especially if. GDP will plummet, to recover who-knows-when.
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  8289. You gotta hand it to Fox News. They don't respond to the mushy-minded community with outstanding heroes. They just serve up people decisively, not vastly, better than the people they deplore. That's fair, and it makes the point they want to make.
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  8290. What? "Gorgeous" is an obsolete word now? Hmm.
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  8291. Wow that was a refreshing talk. Maybe someday I can watch something that good on the BBC.
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  8292. She's somewhat dull of mind.
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  8293. Far left: "Power is evil. Let's seize power!"
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  8294. (1) Super-hyper-mega thumbs up. This stuff has to be pointed out. The exaggeration on some right-of-center media and in comments sections is terrible. I hear $200bn sometimes. Who knows, maybe many of them wouldn't mind being set straight. (2) Thanks for sourcing those other breakdowns like the one from the CFR. Highly useful. (3) So where did we end up on Mr. Illarionov? He says $20bn in 20 months, these other sources say $40bn+ in 20 months. Should we give his $20bn some credit but also a big asterisk and a plus-sign? I think in some ways he gives the wrong idea. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. (4) I guess it goes without saying that this topic deserves ongoing attention. More figures and more commentary are going to be coming out all the time. I'm trying to keep my eye on the big slice contributed by countries other than the US and what's happening with that as well. (5) Lastly I have to state the plain truth that all this aid amounts to lunch money in the wider context and looking into the fairly near future (four to 12 years, say, which isn't that long). If instead of giving it to Ukraine we just let Putin take a wrecking ball to wider European security, the destruction of American economic output and wealth would run into the several tens of trillions pretty quickly. I repeat, in comparison this is lunch money.
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  8295. They had roughly equal hands in the silliness, I thought.
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  8296.  @yoopernow  And Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi.
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  8297. I had my earbuds in wrong, so my left brain hemisphere enjoyed it.
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  8298. Barrick has something like 70m ounces in the ground. That's what he's after, not a cash stream.
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  8299.  @rpbajb  That's why you find out first how the company feels about its dividend, and how long it has felt that way. Nothing is etched in stone, but when a company hasn't cut for a lifetime and has been increasing for decades, it counts for a lot.
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  8300.  @rpbajb  If I meant to say 'it could never happen again' I would have said that. Instead I said 'nothing is etched in stone.' If you want something eternal, I advise you to invest in the stars.
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  8301. I understand perfectly why you are upset. I am too. However, there's been an incredible amount of rot talked on the internet about this story. Here is my version and analysis of what really happened: 1) The role of the Speaker of the House The Speaker of the House is a Member of Parliament elected by fellow MPs to run the House of Commons, not politically, but procedurally and administratively.  Both the office and the holder of the office are traditionally accorded considerable respect, especially the office itself. As the senior official, the Speaker presides not only over day-to-day legislative sessions, debates, etc., but also over visits to the House of Commons by foreign heads of state. Overall responsibility for state visits, however, falls on the Ministry of Global Affairs and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). 2) Zelenskyy's visit The visit from Volodymyr Zelenskyy was an important one politically for the government. President Zelenskyy is popular in Canada, while Prime Minister Trudeau himself has been suffering from low popularity, so this was a chance to perhaps borrow some of the president's prestige. Perhaps to assist in this way, the Speaker, Anthony Rota, who is also a Liberal, came up with an idea. He knew of a man in his hometown (where he is the serving MP) said to have been a Ukrainian freedom fighter several decades back, so he conceived that the man could attend the goings-on, sit in the gallery, be announced by him (Rota), and be briefly lauded by him. This was entirely his own idea. One would expect that the PMO would have to approve the idea, but it turns out that, according to the (Liberal) Government House Leader, Rota informed no one in the government, nor anyone in the Ukrainian delegation. Now, the PM in Canada is a more powerful figure than the national leader in many other liberal democracies, and the PMO is said by many to practically run the country, so it is hard to know how this came to pass, but I suspect that it stems from a parliamentary tradition that the Speaker does not answer to the government. Rather, in the House of Commons, it is the other way around. So Speaker Rota invited the man, who agreed to come. Rota, no student of history, failed to vet his invitee, or at least failed to vet him properly. And as it appears the PMO and Global Affairs were unaware of his invitation, they did not, and possibly under the rules could not, subject him to supervision on this aspect of procedure. 3) The fateful minute-and-forty-five seconds He thus went ahead and wrote his one-minute introduction of the man, presumably carrying it into the House in his briefcase or pocket. When the moment came, Speaker Rota told the assembled MPs, the Ukrainian delegation and the two national leaders that the old man was "a World War II veteran who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians." He called him "a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero," to general applause and two standing ovations. It obviously wasn't clear to anyone listening that this unknown old man's WW II service was the same as his "fight for Ukrainian independence against Russia," nor that they were even concurrent. (As we all now know, they in fact were the same thing.) I doubt anyone imagined any more than Speaker Rota that anything was wrong. Perhaps some were puzzled, but they likely just assumed that there were hostilities between Ukrainians and the Soviet government at some point in that era (perhaps before the war, perhaps during, perhaps shortly afterwards). A few maybe assumed that the Speaker misspoke; still others may have thought it best to trust that the Speaker and the PMO somehow knew what they were doing. In any case, it appears no one guessed that the two biographical details referred to the same thing, and that the man had in fact never served in the Red Army! And if some did suspect that perhaps something was amiss, who would risk withholding their applause only to later find out that they themselves had not thought things through adequately during a mere 100-second tribute? Allow me to repeat myself, to stress that No one applauding knew he was a Nazi, nor even that it was during WW II that he "fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians" as the Speaker worded it. (Of course, one certainly doesn't even have to be a soldier to fight for a people's independence. Besides soldiering there's fearless open activism, underground partisan activity, appeals to diaspora for money — there are a lot of possible roles.) They clearly didn't know or they most certainly would not have applauded. 4) The blame Thus in my view the entire fiasco is about 80% the Speaker's personal fault. Although he meant well, he blundered. The remainder of the blame I place on the PMO, specifically on the PMO Chief of Staff. I don't even know this person's name and I don't care what it is. But I do know that the onus for ensuring that the visit of a head of state goes well (i.e. perfectly) is on the top staff member of the head of government. That's the PMO Chief of Staff. That person should resign or be fired. ————————— Ms. Cain, I'd like to hear your reaction to my reply. Thanks for hearing me out.
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  8302.  @dorothywillms115  Thanks. Yes, he seems somewhat like a man coming apart.
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  8303.  @geoffreyquaile4383  Good point, but it is buried in obscurity 169 replies down in this thread. Repeat it elsewhere and often.
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  8304.  @joeshmoe7967  I was thinking of a lucky meteor or fragment thereof.
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  8305. Most shocking of all, 18% of people told pollsters that Biden's policies "helped" them.😮
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  8306. Interesting and important story but I disliked the protracted, highly-emotional introduction. Especially the reaction shot of the reporter crying. I'm against reaction shots anyway, but a showy one like this one which intruded the reporter into the story is bad journalism. The wonderful movie Broadcast News (William Hurt, Albert Brooks) hinged on just such a teary reaction shot and its unethical nature.
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  8307.  @paulm518  At the time, governors like Gavin Noisome had laid siege to their own economies, forcing businesses to shut down. Remember that forever.
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  8308.  @geargeeks8955  They should both go. It's that simple.
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  8309. "Everyone would vote for me if I had a [peepee]." You mean you don't?
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  8310. Like anybody said that.🙄
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  8311. $2.3 billion for "infrastructure resilience." One penny out of every $100 in GDP. Well, it's too little to really bolster infrastructure, so it can only be about a few political favors, perhaps including a warm personal gesture to the Democrats or even himself.
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  8312. 2x Normal Speed helps, but here we could use an 8x option.
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  8313. Craft similar to the XPeng have been around for a few years.
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  8314.  @thoughtsfromaidiot5928  Good question. Because it could stop a retired Canadian from buying a condo in Florida, making it racist against the Canadian race?🙄 This kid is just callow and indoctrinated. One of the lost generation. He'd probably say that not allowing China to have military bases in the US is racist. Mentally a total write-off.
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  8315. Extra points for having a lisp.
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  8316. And so he did. He pummelled the hell out of an 87-year-old. The clinic staff split their sides laughing.
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  8317. ​ @arthurmontreal  If government repression of expression were fat, the Western countries would be like a woman weighing 55 kg (120 lbs.) Russia would be like a woman weighing 180 kg (400 lbs). "We are not much better in my opinion." I'm sure your obese girlfriend (here meaning Russia) appreciates your opinion, but inwardly she knows what she is.
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  8318. Clever screen name 👏
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  8319. Until they are, you'll have to settle for this farce.
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  8320. A preposterous and juvenile conclusion. Actual fascists would be beating people up in the street and forcing opponents to drink castor oil. Thanks Professor Addlebrain.
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  8321.  @seanpatrick1243  You're lost.
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  8322.  @andreanagy4801  Rumor has it Russian vatniks are human beings.
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  8323. Came here just to say that thumbnail is an act of cruelty towards your subscribers. It came up in my feed a few times, once when I was eating.🤮 Had to reach for the Not Interested button.
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  8324. Check those figures. That difference of $138bn is far bigger than official stats of either country shows. Something's off. Still, the per-capita ratios which you show do lean the right way. That's broadly how it is.
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  8325. On the Washington Post website you can find the manifesto of the Unabomber. He ended up carrying out truly reprehensible actions, but the part where he assesses the psychology of left wingers is uncanny in its insights and accuracy. It's nearly at the start and you can read it in about ten minutes or less. (Don't get me wrong: I'm thoroughly glad he was caught and convicted. I've just always had a policy of giving the devil his due. The part of the manifesto I referred to, btw, is the only part I've read. Someone on YT posted a blind link to it in a comment, and when I got there I thought "Oh, what the hell, why not?"
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  8326. The perfect cover for a narcissist: warn people about narcissists, point fingers in every direction, make accusations of narcissism, perhaps make a living at it (possibly with a YouTube channel), etc. etc. There have been religious leaders doing the same sort of thing for millennia, thundering from the pulpit about sin and sinners whilst committing unspeakable atrocities under the cover of upright respectability.
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  8327. Average North Korean defector: "Wow, watch her spout that brainwashed jargon non-stop. So sad."
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  8328.  @fritzdeuces  Yeah, but for a while and in some ways it's gonna be Software Engineer (and Coder) Wonderland. Sure it's not space, but it'd be very wrong to say there's nothing there to interest people who know about how to do that stuff. Lots of tearing down and rebuilding and lots of chances to make your mark on a super-high-profile platform with Musk making final calls. Who wouldn't love to brag that he picked your idea or that you changed his mind on something? And let's face it, Twitter is actually a far more important company than SpaceX in most ways, with far more impact on the world in most ways. Tesla is certainly just as important as Twitter, though. All depends who you are and what floats your boat.
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  8329.  @nigelT16  Please, you make it sound like her death doesn't matter to him. I think he's wrong about using the sidewalk, but his heart sounds like it's in the right place to me.
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  8330. As a student in the Marxist youth wing of the SPD in the 1980s he wrote essays railing against "the NATO imperialists." I cannot trust him.
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  8331.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  I'll have what she's having.
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  8332.  @oneshothunter9877  Putin also got a chin implant when he was far into middle age.😆 Last year he put on a wedding dress Xi handed to him. ("Here. Put this on.")
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  8333.  @yumi-e2o  Cool fairy tales, Mother Goose.
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  8334.  @kristalkristal2506  Uploads in the 24 days up to the last one: 18. Previous month: 22. Previous month: 24. Previous month: 23. Less than one per 3 days, as you claim, would mean 10 or fewer per month.
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  8335. BA, Harvard University; Masters, University of Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship
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  8336. I forgot: Get lost.
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  8337.  @Chudhole  All I learnt is that you think your prejudice against people with money makes you wonderful. It makes you something, all right, but not wonderful. Just try refuting his points. It's harder than relying solely on ad hominem rhetoric, but less swinish and more conducive to self-respect. The real self-respect. You've heard of it of course.
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  8338.  @thalentekhuluse2829  Chancellor Scholz himself wrote strongly anti-NATO screeds in SPD Youth publications while a student and later🙄. (He remained in the Marxist wing of the SPD Youth into his early 30s.🙄)
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  8339. I've never known a decent person who wants to own those dogs. I think that's the crux of it.
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  8340. Beginning at 12:40 Fox gropes for a political self-evaluation and gets around to mentioning having taken a Political Compass test. (Google it and take one for what it's worth. It takes just a few minutes.)   But beware, it has a hard time labelling someone who's untidily all over the place and who finds there's something to be said for many points of view. I took it and it told me, like it told Fox, that I'm a left-wing Nazi. A less ham-handed designation would be Left Libertarian, again probably just like him. It means you don't want the rich rolling over everybody, and not the government or anybody else either, but disagree strongly with the radical decentralization or dismantling of authority. You think there should be very restrictive laws which ensure restrictions remain loose. Left Libertarians don't often think people who disagree with them are immoral or bad, they think they're unbalanced and not at all sensible. Being one may in fact mean you'd like a centrist or conservative government to take power and really raise taxes on the rich and increase regulation, all in the name, perhaps oddly, of moderation, fairness, and a certain mind-your-own-business decency. It seems to mean you are more skeptical of heroes than any generation except the current 15-to-24s, but thinking highly of the essays of George Orwell (the lapsed Marxist) seems to be very common. LL representatives struggle to access political power. Obama and Bill Clinton had some of it in them but were too cozy with Goldman Sachs to really qualify. Boris Johnson though being off type for preferring low taxes is actually not a much weaker exemplar. John Kennedy and the Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau are to some LLs inspirations from decades ago. They are the group most incensed (or are they the only group incensed?) when their opponents are shut up, have their free speech trampled on, or are in any way deplatformed. They have strong distaste for anything smacking of repression unless it's repression of repression itself on the part of fascists, communists, or religious zealots. The orientation is strongest among educated people who think they're clever and who were born between 1960 and 1980 or slightly before those dates, and is otherwise spread pretty freely across the lower-middle, middle, and upper middle classes, and the sexes. It's an odd group which refuses to do its part in the important work of dividing society and pulling it apart into shreds.
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  8341. ​ @gacek5036  There was only one world-leading commentary platform out there to buy. He had to pay what its shareholders were willing to accept. So he did the standard thing and offered 20% over the previous day's closing share price — exactly what the book says you have to do, exactly what his advisor Morgan Stanley suggested. It turned out the market was overvaluing Twitter, but that's not something you can do much about if you're drafting a takeover bid. You go with an offer you expect will eventually find favour.
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  8342. Pro tip, ladies (or whatever tf you are): If you can yell at people in that manner and they don't beat you up, they weren't fascists.
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  8343. "Bikers"? There's got to be a better word for these people than that. 99% of people think of outlaw gangs. lol
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  8344. Incredible quantities of food and drink aboard, except for wine. (Approximately 3x the alcohol was in liquor form.) Just not the British drink, I suppose.
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  8345. Cringe-tastic out-of-touch champagne socialist.
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  8346. False! Misinformation. There've always been tariffs both ways. Look it up.
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  8347. Don't say 'broken.' It has an awful air of finality to it. They are recovering from great stress and suffering, and beyond that you have no idea. Pity tends to tread somewhat near to condescension and nowhere near encouragement.
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  8348.  @PMaynard-22  <---💩
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  8349. Brits in Canada, yes.
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  8350. We don't just stop there. Sometimes we eat baby-head stew. I add turnips, Marsala wine, garlic, and bay leaf. Mmmm. --- Sincerely, A Scientist
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  8351. @L. C. In all seriousness, I see scientists just as I see people at large---most pretty good, some disgusting. Most nice, some evil. And I am not a scientist (although I have a science education) nor truly pretending to be one. The comment was a joke in the same spirit as the OP (would-be comical overstatement with a hint of seriousness). Cheers.
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  8352. Newsom always looks like he's on something. Why does no one ever talk about that?🤨 He also looks like The Joker. Same question goes for that. And I bet he sees nothing wrong with that book showing the guy on his knees "appreciating" the other guy. Voters aren't as immoral as they seem. It's just that the left has been extremely successful in demonizing conservatism.
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  8353.  @karenconger2224  Could be.
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  8354. Grille pronounced 'grill'? Sure it's not 'grill-ay'?
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  8355. Greater suffering doesn't mean lesser suffering is nothing. The fact that some person had their leg amputated doesn't make it ok that your ankle was broken. Nice try tee-roll.
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  8356. He's soft on China. Of course, given that Xi calls Marx the "greatest thinker of modern times."
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  8357.  @saltburner2  I know. I was only messin' about
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  8358. Here's Channel 4 News doing everything they can to affect the election results, and from a survey of the comments it appears they're very much pleasing thoroughgoing Labour and other opposition partisans, as well as Anglophobes presumably worldwide. Engineering political outcomes to their taste is among their core de facto missions, as the least critical eye can discern on any given day.
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  8359. I wrote a post on a news site when the govt. announced it was downgrading the illegality of cannabis. I said that cannabis use led to a lot of psychotic illness including schizophrenia. I said this was a serious problem and worth bearing in mind. Nearly every reply was hostile, claimed I knew nothing, was lying, was "repeating conservative talking points," etc.
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  8360. Except Antifa and college students whose parents pay $100,000 a year for their tuition.
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  8361.  @davidford3115  Your interlocutor might be one of those German diplomats who openly smirked and laughed at Trump when he warned Germany on that very point in a speech at the UN. They didn't look like people capable of admitting error or learning from experience.
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  8362. Wow, that dude talks the same sort of hipster cant that Justin Trudeau does. Odds are strong that he's one of his idols.
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  8363. With that remark Biden sounded like Duterte. What's next, paid hit squads?
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  8364. Ess tee eff yoo.
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  8365. Don't you just love people who start their sentences with "so" (sneakily giving off an air of "therefore", as though they are concluding a well-constructed argument) and end them with "right?" ("please agree with me―you're pretty much obligated")?
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  8366. 85 armored fighting vehicles? That many in one day? Wow. I know that in most categories of AFVs Russian reserves are running low and production is well outstripped by the rate of losses. Good job, Ukraine! 🇺🇦
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  8367. "They made a giant economy"  😂 What, seriously? Sir, GDP is lower than it was 12 years ago! In after-inflation terms it is much smaller. SA living standards are falling. The economies of tiny Norway and Israel are larger.
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  8368.  @susansmith9263  Hmmm. Looks like TVR made mistake with the map, then Latvia made a mistake of their own. Seems like a phone call or email could've resolved it instead, surely? Thanks.
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  8369. Actually the military budget this year is $36.7bn. (If it were 2% of GDP it would be $54bn.)
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  8370.  @bikingD  No! Canada has not cut its military spending in half to 0.65% of GDP. It just didn't. The $15bn in cuts is across the whole govt, not just the military.
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  8371.  @bikingD  Yes, I thought you were confusing 15 and 18. Your numbers are kind of all over the place, but whatevs. I don't know what should be done overall. I think total spending is around $450bn and revenues are around $400bn. Tough call. We should reduce the borrowing but the country needs so many things. Btw, $9bn is for 1.5 yrs, so $6bn a year not 9.
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  8372. 😢 😂
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  8373. There = In that place They're = They are 🙄🙄🙄
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  8374. He's pushing 90 years of age.
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  8375. I believe he has a surprise in store Putin and us once he's re-elected and safely past the danger posed by the Kremlin's election interference resources. Go way back and read his social media posts right after February 24. Watch his interview with Bartiromo from last summer.
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  8376.  @AS-np3yq  I believe he has a surprise in store Putin and us once he's re-elected and safely past the danger posed by the Kremlin's election interference resources. Go way back and read his social media posts right after February 24. Watch his interview with Bartiromo from last summer.
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  8377. I believe he has a surprise in store Putin and us once he's re-elected and safely past the danger posed by the Kremlin's election interference resources. Go way back and read his social media posts right after February 24. Watch his interview with Bartiromo from last summer.
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  8378. [Here I will use my Russian voice for some reason:] Danya use good pose for interview of people. Like fencer. Olympic fencer.
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  8379. She did get another job, at the Financial Times. Not sure what's going on, but I'm very pleased to see her.
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  8380. GDP is now within a stone's throw of $3trn.
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  8381.  @dirtlump  Sept. 30, 2023: $2.904trn. Source: Statistics Canada, Gross domestic product by income account – Seasonally adjusted at annual rates You're thinking of 2017 or 2018.
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  8382. Yet another interview where the interviewer's audio level is far higher than that of the guest. Amateur hour.
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  8383. See a doctor.
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  8384. Yikes, no. You must find metropolitan art museums sickening then.
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  8385. Richer by $55 million since 2019. Just how did Warren's net worth go from $12m in 2019 (Forbes article: "How Elizabeth Warren Built A $12 Million Fortune") to $67m in 2022 (CAKnowledge article: "Elizabeth Warren Net Worth is $67 Million (Forbes 2022)"? $55 million in three years on a $193k salary? Quite mysterious. No doubt some of those 87,000 IRS agents will look into it.
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  8386. It does seem like the murders are of a more disturbing character now. However, the murder rate is only a little bit higher than 50 years ago. In the early 70s, Toronto (the six boroughs, then called Metro Toronto) had a population just over 2 million and just over 40 homicides. Now the population is 2.9 million and we're headed for 60 homicides this year. (39 so far with the year 2/3 over.) So the rate is about 2.2 per 100k vs. 2.0 back then.
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  8387. No, just his own personal custom dumb-tinted glasses. He's worn the same pair since he was a boy.
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  8388. Vaping is not smoking. Vaping produces no smoke. The temperature is far too low.
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  8389.  @brandonporter6223  lol I certainly agree with that last part.
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  8390. If they can stop you from ridiculing them, they rule you.
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  8391. True. The world doesn't want Russia falling to pieces. The pieces would be caught by China.
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  8392.  @fcv1967  The US homicide rate is the 94th-worst in the world.
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  8393. Total Pooty-bot zone here. Hahaha, Western weapons and assistance are going to boil your sad little army in its own juices. Pack it up and go home, Ivan. You are doomed.
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  8394. It's England. Although that would greatly overestimate the importance of mere wealth to social rank in England, you actually somewhat have the right idea. Out of nearly 70 million people in the UK, only perhaps a million or so are considered to be above middle class and probably 65 million are below. So middle-class doesn't mean 'ordinary'. Oh no, not at all. It means 'starting to get way up there' in the social ranks. (The US class system is different and uses different terms. There she might be called upper class by some people, though her peers would likely think of her as upper-middle.)
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  8395. Most shocking of all, 32% believe Kringela Harris is ready to be president. 🤯 I didn't think that many Americans had an IQ of 32.
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  8396.  @Viktor-5.10  Look, Viktor, if you Russians hadn't committed genocide on Ukraine, killing millions of them, maybe some of them wouldn't have welcomed the Germans as liberators. The whole USSR would've welcomed them with open arms if they'd posed as liberators from Stalin instead of conquerors. Stalin had been a rampaging monster for well over a decade.
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  8397. It's quite typically female of her to try pretending that reality isn't real. There's a reason women were largely excluded from public life for millennia. (But that era is over, and we now have feminized men like Trudeau who outdo them at their own game.)
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  8398. No small portion of the blame goes to Prime Minister Peter Pan, the Divider-in-Chief.
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  8399. (1) I'd like to hear more about this resemblance of Yemen to Afghanistan. But let that pass... (2) So you contain them, as you contained the Taliban. You also can potentially bring the Saudis back into the effort, cheaply or at a reasonable cost.
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  8400. 7.4m views. Hmm. Makes no sense. Why not 100m?
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  8401. Fathers are ridiculed for being fathers. In a way it makes sense, because by becoming fathers they ordinarily render themselves powerless and the least important member of the family (except as an ATM). This is untrue in maybe every fifth or tenth case.
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  8402. It was apt of you to say mythology. As the parade in the video accurately hints, Germany at that time actually did still have strong strains of feudalism remaining in its culture. It had one foot mentally in the Middle Ages, and myth fed into that in a major way. The conscious aim of the Allied occupiers was to root out feudalism for good. They considered it a deeper problem than Nazism in some ways, despite denazification being their proximal task.
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  8403. Excuse me, but I'm unclear how "New Black Panthers" are morally superior to a teacher who allegedly did those things. What were you thinking here, Fox? What on earth?
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  8404. "Interview total disaster".... .....Signed, A Member of The Team Paid by The Cackler to Hack the X Site Last Night
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  8405. I didn't care much for the guest, but he said social scientist (specifically, economist), not sociologist. And New Zealand might have flopped from one's political perspective, but it has been a model of success, medically speaking. It has a low rate of infections and deaths. See the countries table at worldometers.info.
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  8406. I've noticed a frequent linguistic oddity in both Ukrainian and Russian: the word treat is synonymous with regard, view or look upon, in the sense of have an opinion about. In English treat means to behave towards (a person or thing). One may have a certain opinion of something or someone, yet treat (behave towards) it/them in another way. For example, a conversation in English might go as follows: 1st person: "What do you think of Americans?" 2nd person: "I have a poor opinion of them." 1st person: "And how do you treat them?" 2nd person: "Well, I'm careful to treat them decently. I wouldn't want to be unfair to an individual, give offence, or display prejudice gratuitously." In contrast, here's a native English-speaker talking to a Russian or Ukrainian: 1st person: "What do you think of Americans?" 2nd person: "I treat them negatively." 1st person: "Your opinion of Americans is not good?" 2nd person: "Yes, I just told you that." 1st person: "Ok, sorry. And how do you behave towards them?" 2nd person: "Well, I'm careful to behave decently towards them. I wouldn't want to be unfair to an individual, give offence or display prejudice gratuitously." 1st person: "But you treat them negatively?" 2nd person: "Yes. You seem confused for some reason." It's so weird.😄
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  8407. I'm very glad I was directed here by the Suchomimus channel. 👍
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  8408. Of ever!
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  8409.  @jeffw8218  Your opinion is why you're not a director whose work is popular, widely viewed, admired and discussed 20 years after you were so intelligent, motivated and organized as to get it filmed and released in the first place.
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  8410. ​ @amirreza1622  They look that way, to be sure. But then, her hips look good in clothes that are cut to look good on hips like hers.
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  8411. ​ @jeffw8218  My point wasn't to praise those dogs but to contrast your output with that scene in T3.
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  8412. Where do they line up by the millions to get in? How many millions of Americans and other Westerners live in China? How many tens of millions of Chinese live enjoying respect, comfort, and prosperity in the West? How many Westerners go to Chinese universities? Come on, answer me.
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  8413.  @shuangshuangzhao8729  Finally, English is one of the easiest languages on Earth to learn. This is not my opinion, it is a fact affirmed by all linguists. It is, however, very difficult for anyone to master (native speakers unfortunately included!). All the best.
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  8414. It's mentioned that these are US companies but I noticed two that aren't. TikTok is 100% Chinese-owned; Shopify is Canadian-owned and based, mostly operating there. (Pretty minor point, since they're probably laying off a few US employees, but I'm an editor, so, y'know.)
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  8415. Don't say "on face value." Say 'on the face of it' (meaning 'based on how it appears'). You're confusing 'on the face of it' with 'at face value' ('for what it claims to be').
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  8416. What are Swedish people saying 20 months into this? Do they feel different about the Swedish approach than they did earlier on? What's commonly their evaluation of the pandemic response from beginning to present?
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  8417. The numerous meetings and phone calls between Xi and Putin in the lead-up to the war evince clearly that this war is a China-Russia joint venture. China's visible role is limited so far to its tacit approval of the invasion, its financial support via trade, its provision of strategic materials and components, and its public pressure on Ukraine to "negotiate" (surely meaning to cede territory or surrender outright). But its involvement by stealth is almost certainly greater. It has space-based intelligence resources which could aid Russia greatly. It can campaign quietly on the diplomatic front, applying coercion to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to withhold their official support for Ukraine and condemnation of Russia. It may already be sending finished non-lethal war materiel or even weaponry. Its involvement, whether covert or overt, could escalate rapidly at any time. It might step in to aid a Russia in the ascendancy or in the midst of a crisis. It has a lot of levers at its disposal—each of which, I hasten to add, would carry elements of risk, but how much risk is very difficult to say. The risks might be palatable. All this makes it far from outlandish to say that:   (1) This war would not have begun without Xi's blessing,  (2) It is really a war between China and the US every bit as much as the Vietnam War was,  (3) Its purpose is to weaken the West militarily, financially, economically and diplomatically as far as possible, with an eye to making its support for Taiwan of any type (but especially, of course, militarily) untenable; likewise Western support for any country in Asia which China wishes to intimidate, dominate or invade,  (4) A secondary and related purpose may be to secure large-scale supplies of (Ukrainian) grain which would allow China to forego Western exports, currently vital for putting pork and chicken on Chinese tables (it is mainly animal feed), thus making a Taiwan invasion much more feasible at an earlier date,  (5) It is possible that China's relationship with Russia is far closer to what Putin claims than Western observers have reason to believe. Make no mistake, this is at bottom a US-China conflict, for if they weren't adversaries it would not have begun; and if it somehow had, they would have ended it through their joint influence by now. Among the many other fruitful ways of viewing it is to bear in mind that Xi and Putin are both 70 years old. Unlike Biden, they know that the direction of their respective countries can change vastly after their departures. (The direction of the US and other Western countries is far more predictable in most ways, since their leaders are chosen by electorates whose desires are not especially volatile. The difference between, e.g., Biden and his successor can hardly be as great as would be the difference between Putin and, say, Navalny.) Putin and Xi are thus Men in a Hurry. I have no doubt whatsoever they are trying to rapidly turn the world upside down, to place their own countries on top, to marginalize, weaken and impoverish the West; in short, to gain the whip hand.
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  8418. Sorry, it's called renewable worldwide.
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  8419.  @goonerboz6023  Ok, Arkady.
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  8420. She has a Master's in imbecile babbling, that one.
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  8421. Ukraine wants its whole country back again! The US is trying to contain Putin, who wants to go rampaging around Eastern Europe. That's what's going on, not some paranoid fantasy of yours. You want to seem knowing. You are not. There were Americans like you in the early days of the 2nd World War, too. They ended up costing many, many American lives and limbs, and millions of European ones, plus an immense amount of US taxpayer money.
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  8422. ​ @williamwalter4992  Sure. Whenever the US chooses right-wingers over left-wing meatpackers it's somehow the wrong thing to do. Like favouring Taiwan over China today? US business is much better of with Taiwan and its 60% share of global chipmaking, as you know. The one thing you got right is that Russia is paranoid. You know this, yet you swallow its narrative on 2014, ignoring the legitimate desires of the Ukrainian people. And if Ukraine joining NATO is somehow an 'existential' issue for Russia, how does stopping it do anything about the 'existential' threat of NATO along Russia's eastern border? The Baltic states are considerably closer to Moscow than Ukraine, and so is Finland, whose accession to NATO Putin himself in recent months pronounced a matter of indifference. All these arguments of yours fall apart in the slightest breeze. It's time for you to admit that Putin constitutes an enormous ongoing and mounting threat to global security, including US national security, and absolutely must be opposed with an iron will until his threat vastly diminishes or ends altogether. That is all to say nothing about the imperative of supporting Ukraine militarily for moral reasons. Mass murder, mass rape, mass torture, mass destruction, mass theft, not to mention a mountain of hateful lies—if you're fine not opposing those things with force you are morally bankrupt. Have a nice day.
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  8423. ​ @williamwalter4992  I have no truck with the Iraq War and never did, including during the run-up to it. The sole thing to be said for it is that it rid the Iraqi people of Saddam and the rest is on the other side of the ledger as far as I am aware. Yet even that is far more than what Putin has to justify himself, for Zelensky is no Saddam. He has not plundered nor tyrannized nor terrorized his people. He was freely elected and remains highly popular. All this should need no pointing out. The fact that NATO was already 'on his doorstep' in the Baltic states, and the fact that Putin declared Finland's accession to NATO a matter of Russian indifference, indicate how precious little pretext Putin needed to set him off on the matter of Ukraine. NATO had no intention of granting membership to Ukraine and he knew that quite well. The salient fact is that he's a dyed-in-the-wool Soviet KGB Russian nationalist imperial-revivalist. You've lost sight of that. In my view it's a state of things like the present one which a former US president had in mind: "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy, televised national address, October 22, 1962
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  8424.  @williamwalter4992  Ukraine has never been anywhere near qualifying for membership and it was still around a decade away when Putin invaded and began flattening it with bombs and murdering its people. Anyway you miss the point that it has the same right that every country in the world has to enter into alliances and conclude treaties. NATO interests it because Russia menaces it, the same reason nearly all Eastern Europe is now in NATO. They know Russia. And as they will all tell you, to know Russia is to distrust it. Nothing could show us more clearly how right they are than the present war and the shameful explosion of imperialist arrogance in public life in Russia which has accompanied it. Russians believe they have the right to wear an immense blanket of countries around them, and they make no bones about it.
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  8425.  @darlingdear2687  Venezuela's not the only choice. There's also Iran!😂 Oh, Iraq too.🤣
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  8426.  @Mr.White10-65  What?! It's every country's own job to watch who gets into their country. That's how the world works. The US doesn't go to much trouble protecting Canada from the people who end up sneaking northwards out of its territory now does it? No, it doesn't, because you don't see it as your job (which it isn't), just as in Canada it's not our job to protect the US. Put up a wall and guard it if that's what you want. You don't think Trump just sucker-punched Canada? He did. That's what this is.
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  8427.  @Mr.White10-65  Excuse me for just repeating so many things! I forgot which thread I was in, so I forgot I already said them here.🙄
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  8428. Don't try to downplay this. The truck also contained quantities of gasoline, and the whole arsenal most certainly created an explosion, hence a "blast." Consult Oxford Dictionaries about the meaning of "blast."
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  8429.  @BozoTheclown-cs9mk  Gasoline can be made to explode when: 1) Vaporized and mixed with air in the right proportions, 2) Confined in an enclosed space, 3) Exposed to an ignition source. The explosive range for gasoline vapor in air is approximately 1.4-7.6%. It appears these conditions were met, since the top of the CT exploded upwards and away from its very strong hardened steel moorings and into small pieces. Watch the video and try to tell me that was a mere fire. I mean, while maintaining honesty.
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  8430. Kim Campbell and John Turner were made prime minister the same way, by party vote. Thanks for coming, please see yourself out.
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  8431.  @GuidoKpimp  Try not to hyperventilate. 'What I am saying' is exactly what I said. Any confusion on your part may be dealt with by going back and reading it.
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  8432. You need an editor. :)
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  8433. I have a simple approach. If 'twit' is in the company name, I don't bother.
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  8434.  @ericjiang4282  What a sane thread. Are you aware how rare this is? I think you're a great guy. All the best, Mr. Jiang.
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  8435. He used it in a sense which has recently made it into some dictionaries, but I think they are far too permissive and regard this sense ('unfair') to be a serious corruption of the word's meaning. Invidious properly means 'apt to cause envy or resentment' (e.g. bragging at work about the size of your pay raise, or giving a present to only one of your children) and it has meant this for centuries. The root is the Latin word for 'envy.' Nothing really to do with unjust distinction-making.
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  8436. @Jim Carner The word is gaining a corrupted meaning which I believe is related to a phrase in longstanding and somewhat common use: 'invidious distinction.' It properly refers to making comparisons which are likely to make people upset by arousing envy, normally through express or implied praise (of one party over another). Parents, teachers and employers, e.g., are usually careful not to make invidious distinctions in order to keep everybody getting along with one another. It can also refer to distinction in the sense of distinguishing oneself. For example, becoming a billionaire may be regarded as invidious distinction, as may the achievement of fame or anything else people might envy. It's a handy phrase, but people picked it up and, as they so often do, misused it because they guessed loosely at its meaning from context instead of looking it up. They started using it to mean simply 'unfair' or 'invalid' rather than 'bound to get people riled up with envious resentment.'
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  8437. @Jim Carner That quip at the end is hilarious. 😄 You must tell me what it means so I can use it correctly.
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  8438. Your comment start out all right and then bog down at end like Russian tank crossing river on fire. Translation program do good job translating 'exceptionalism' though.
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  8439. He might have an opinion on Canada, as he's a Canadian citizen. His mother is Canadian, also his first wife and Grimes, so most of his kids have a Canadian mother. He lived there, worked in three provinces, and went to university there. I almost wonder if he'll one day be its prime minister. (Immigrants are eligible.)
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  8440. @ "They"? Who are "they"?
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  8441. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇫🇮
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  8442. On the other hand, they make your own intelligence stand out and shine. Bit of a consolation there, no? I'm with you in spirit Edit: I just read your last comment and now I'm really, really, really with you. That really touched me. Hang in there.
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  8443. Hating violence is racist.
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  8444.  @snflas  So if Russia were balkanized, how many separate and unstable little nuclear-armed powers would we have, half of them run by pure gangsters who would make Putin look civilized by comparison?
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  8445.  @PravinDahal  Ok, bro. From now on your country is pronounced IN-dye-aww.
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  8446. It's bodycam days. Formerly the cop would've just done what it took to subdue and cuff him.
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  8447. Everybody knew who wasn't dull enough to put all their trust in obvious liars and idiots. That's most people who had much interest at all. It was the lesser news anchors who were surprised, and nice members of the public.
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  8448. You forgot to put quotation marks around that Xi Jinping quotation.
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  8449. Idi Amin: "No it's not."
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  8450. "Stranded" seems overstated. Applied to space travel, the word has overwhelming connotations of extreme peril or hopelessness. Here, an already-scheduled SpaceX Dragon craft is expected to seamlessly take them and 3 other Americans home in 5 months. As "stranded" means "left without the means to move from somewhere," the other 3 were technically stranded as soon as they were dropped off back in March.
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  8451.  @simonmackenzie6230  Quite right. A birth rate persistently too low bears a relation to one persistently too high which is similar to that of monetary deflation to high inflation: overall it may be even more scary and harmful, lead to strange and terrible things, and in a longstanding case practically defy correction.
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  8452.  @franciskeys9810  I deleted nothing. Any deletion is someone else's doing. Your own initial reply to me is gone. Eh-ho'.
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  8453.  @franciskeys9810  Have one yourself, frout.
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  8454. 190? Ha. Ha.
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  8455. I don't think he was hiding in Tehran. I think he was just there to meet the freshly-inaugurated president of Iran. If he had been there for some time, I haven't heard mention made of it.
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  8456. She's an AI-generated hologram, bro. Nobody looks like that. lol I think you must be right about the eye thing. Check out the detailed lip job also, and of course the frames.
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  8457. Saadly true, you might say. 😄
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  8458. "Far Right"🙄 (1) They're not far-right. As far as I can tell, based on the reason for their protest, they're people with a normal healthy outlook, normal healthy values and normal mental health. (2) Just as from the North Pole all points are south, from the Left Pole all points are right.
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  8459. Just a nervous cough, I think coming from a front seat on the right.
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  8460.  @annishilcock4587  You're not ignorant at all, except in the sense that you're unaware of what the woman looked like. Look at a head to foot photo. She appeared to be from a faraway place as much as one possibly can. Not a soul on earth would have guessed, let alone presumed, she was British.
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  8461.  @lawrencejohnson3259  Anyone dressed as she was is practically begging for a show of interest. I'd say she was avidly hoping for exactly what she got.
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  8462.  @conradknight1181  Look at photos of the woman.
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  8463.  @blackqueen164  It is not a 'transcript.' It is an alleged account given from memory by one of the interested parties, i.e. the woman herself. Are you familiar with the concepts of bias and self-interest?
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  8464.  @jgreen2015  George Orwell and Spike Milligan were born in India. They didn't at all consider themselves Indians.
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  8465.  @Deedeevenice  Absolutely brilliant reply. But it's too bad it's buried deep in this thread. Please re-post it, altered as-and-if needed, as a standalone comment. I wish you all the best.
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  8466.  @Sadenaike1  Look at what she was wearing. It's nearly rude not to ask her.
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  8467.  @Sadenaike1  I highly doubt Lady Hussey cared a fig which country the woman was from. She was simply making conversation with someone almost certainly, as strongly suggested by her dress, either from abroad, or with recent family heritage abroad. (And she was right.) As I surmise from the woman's account of the conversation, Lady Hussey took a dim view of the woman's evasion, finding that it revealed a difficult personality. (Right again.) Rather unwisely in this instance, she took the bait and pressed her for that reason—again, I say, not because she really cared but because she doesn't like people with difficult personalities and a chip on their shoulder. Few of us do, and sometimes we do low-key battle with them for a few moments.
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  8468.  @Sadenaike1  And here's an imaginary scenario of how the same sort of encounter might go if the roles were different and if all concerned had healthy personalities. It's intended to show that no one would mind at all if his or her back weren't up in the first place, in eagerness to think the worst of another person and take offense for that reason: Dignitary at reception in capital of an African country, to a white woman in European clothing: "Where are you from?" Woman: "I'm from here in [capital]." Dignitary: "Ah, but where are your people from?" Woman: "Spain. They came in the mid-70s." Dignitary: "Interesting. Well, I'm getting tea. Will you join me?" Woman: "Yes, thanks."
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  8469. But on the whole the Russian people like it. They're mostly quite gratified by the attack, the murder, the destruction, rape torture, theft, poisoning of the land.
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  8470.  @richard70854  Why do you say that?
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  8471. In Ontario 80% of fatalities were in long term care homes. The way it was handled is nothing to brag about. And you sound like you're cheerleading for a calamity in Texas. Moral posturing both ghoulish and loathsome.
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  8472. Communism is not a race. It's that simple. Imagine the level of a mind which somehow can't sort that out.🤯
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  8473. A sentimentalist is appealing to the sentimentalism in others. I'm glad when that happens. It greatly simplifies the task of assessing who I'm dealing with.
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  8474. The better Chinese industry does, the better their loathsome and illegitimate government does. Therefore I do not wish them well, until the multi-party system comes to China.  In the meantime the rest of the world can easily handle the job of transitioning to EVs.
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  8475.  @jujuria13  No, Americans have a real and profound horror of totalitarian rule anywhere on Earth.  It is not for show. The US could deal with China being much more rich and powerful than itself—but only if China had respect for its own people. If it did, and if Taiwan voted to merge with mainland China, it would only wish the combined nation well. Conversely, no one can deal with any totalitarian state, no matter how small and weak. North Korea is an example, small and weak but so dedicated to suppression of the human spirit that it will do anything to preserve that suppression.
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  8476. The pizza was not so lucky.
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  8477. At $45k the Model 3 is almost exactly the average selling price of a car in the United States ($44k). It was average until it went up $1k last week. Tesla says it will continue to bring out cheaper models, including one for $25k within a few years. For now they have to sell more expensive ones to fund the growth of the company. This is the way to replace the world's gasoline fleet. Selling cheaper ones now would slow expansion and prolong the use of fossil fuels. You don't trust him because you heard someone else speaking disparagingly of him. Look into it for yourself. Start over, saying 'I don't know anything for sure but I'm going to find out'. I'm not asking you to take my word for anything (and I hope you wouldn't anyway).
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  8478.  @Method9  Perhaps my learned colleague will explain what's debatable about the fact of their trespassing.
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  8479. The guy in the thumbnail gave interesting answers. He now holds a place in the Guinness Book of World Imbeciles.
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  8480. It takes a floridly twisted and grandiose personality to dress like Whoopi Goldberg 0:42. You can see she wants to be the empress of someplace, preferably of the US.
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  8481.  @Alien_isolationist  😢Poor Russia! It brings peace to the world, and Ukraine shoots back at it!
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  8482. So very many promoters of the Xi regime in this section. Zero honesty. Just zero.
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  8483. On May 9 Russia commemorated the Great Patriotic Special Operation.
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  8484.  @tylektsarran2076  Ok but those are two separate meanings, not a single long one. They need not go together. Also, the meaning of the word in any jurisdiction is subject to modifications by dint of whatever exactly is in the statute(s) conferring indemnity.
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  8485. At less than 1 TWh per million people it remains well behind many other countries. Still, I'm glad they have adequate electricity. Now if they can start burning far less coal, planet Earth can breathe better. (Not gonna happen.)
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  8486.  @aison2735  Yep, white derangement syndrome. They're so awful that other races can actually do no wrong, ever. Other races have licence to do anything bad for the rest of all time, because whatever they do it could never compare with the original sin of being white.🙄Yeah, sure.
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  8487.  Johney Smith  Rubbish. Every one of the many millions of Chinese in the West enjoys complete freedom, social equality, and prosperity in his or her adopted home. Anyone who wants proof of this can simply observe that these immigrants stay right where they are, their children often intermarrying with locals. Really, Mr. 'Smith'. your mind was badly built by the CPC. Take it apart and start over.
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  8488. Alas, the Nobel Foundation has devised no category in which Professor Ioannidis can be nominated for a prize for his services to science. It's a pity.
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  8489.  @cam_Tbl_gupak  Ok, vatnik who'll believe anything.🙄
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  8490. Which reminds me of what is a lot of it for a man. Compare Charles Maurice de Talleyrand​: "A married man with children will do anything for money." Cp. also Cyril Connolly: "The most sombre enemy of good art is the pram in the hallway." (And why not politics and statecraft as well?)
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  8491. I don't think Ukraine had any hand in it. There were many reasons to leave that bridge alone while proceeding with a serious counterattack. I think they're going to deny responsibility and I think it will be a sincere denial, because I think it was a false flag Russian tactic. Ukraine's strategy has been very temperate and this seems out of character. At the same time the pressure is on Putin for something far closer to total war. He needs pretext.
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  8492. With respect, I disagree. I think he was just observing trends and speculating on their outcomes. But I'll be on the lookout for clearer signs. All the best.
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  8493. I'd like to see Musk step away from his corporate roles temporarily via blind trust arrangements in order to take on a far more senior role: Secretary of Defense. The US armed forces direly need to be whipped into shape for the coming era and he'd be just the man to do it. Xi and Putin would need fresh trousers immediately.
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  8494. Yeah, democracy is hard. I suppose that's why the desire to jail opponents is so strong in Washington.
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  8495. It's almost certainly untrue that this war will speed the move away from carbon energy. This would happen only with a quick withdrawal by Russia and the overthrow of Putin, the odds of which are very low. No, stability and prosperity are the keys to a fast transition to renewable energy, and we can expect this war to bring huge increases in instability, impoverishment and desperation. The future of coal is suddenly burning much brighter.
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  8496. Alternate title: How the Soviet Union Spread Communist Ideology and Came Close to Ruining the World
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  8497. Who are you? Who owns "Velocity"? I don't trust channels with a concealed identity behind AI voice narration.  You claim above that "Velocity bring[s] you up-to-date and cutting-edge news about the automotive and technology industries." From your channel page: "Velocity is here to deliver the best Tech, Tesla, Space X, Ford, EV Industry, Elon Musk content." But your recent uploads are about China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, NATO, N. Korea, Yemen, and now Israel and the US. Who are you? What are you? Why are you promoting Macgregor, who is the American counterpart of Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose? He has appeared on Russian state TV, i.e., RT (Russia Today). He has spoken publicly many times over the past nine years in support of Russia's military invasions of Ukraine and is Putin's most prominent supporter in the Western world. Reveal who you are. YouTube users deserve transparency! Transparency, now!
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  8498. Sad but completely necessary. I wonder how bad this will have to get before a few million Russians take to the streets. If and when they do, the shooting will stop within a week.
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  8499. It's government news. The day has long passed since such an optimistic and ridiculous thing could fail to do harm.
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  8500. Things in America took an enormous turn for the worse when politicians decided to greatly improve society by greatly lessening punishments for crime. They were pressured into it by 'progressive' activists, the lowest form of life on Earth. Everything those activists touch turns to you-know-what.
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  8501. "Mark Carney replaces Justin Trudeau" False! Try Mark Carney to replace Trudeau "Justin Trudeau has finally stepped down" False! He's still very much in office. The date of Carney's swearing-in isn't even known yet, and may be weeks away.  Please, SNA, sharpen your wits and get some more respect for the facts. Thanks.
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  8502. "Muslim Broski" wouldn't refer to the Muslim Brotherhood would it?😂 Because that would show that you yourself are completely unbiased.😂
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  8503.  @guymontag2948  Broski means brother. You can put your back out covering for support of a global terra wrist organization like that.
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  8504.  @guymontag2948  Only 71% of Palestinians call Oct. 7 a "correct" action according to a mid-March poll, so I hardly think he's any sort of rarity. There are peaceniks among them but Gaza is hardly a safe place to be open about it. H---s tortured this guy for his views.
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  8505.  @guymontag2948  You listened very selectively what he was saying. Like you're ignoring numerous whole sentences and parts of others. He's actually a very smart guy, and wise too. As for being in Germany, he hasn't been there for very long. Before that he lived many years under H----s.
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  8506.  @guymontag2948  The mayor and deputy police chief of New York City happen to agree with him about what's behind these protests. Anyway, the stress he laid was on how these protests would hurt Palestinians, not how bad private American citizens or immigrants are.
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  8507.  @guymontag2948  First of all I have listened to them. I've listened to them go on ad nauseam. But whether what they say is true all depends on whether they elect say what is true, and whether they can discern truth in the first place. I've given them a more than fair hearing but I'm quite particular about whom and what I trust and believe, thank you very much. I recommend considering adoption of the same policy.
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  8508. 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. Source: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research, poll of 1,580 adults, mid-March 2024 On that grim note our exchange of views has ended. I cannot receive your replies anymore. I wish you well
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  8509. This campaign is the first time in her life she's not shielded under the DEI umbrella. She's been handed everything on DEI grounds, but you can't be handed the Oval Office. You have to win it, which you do by winning months worth of verbal contests. And since the odds are very high that she'll flop at that, she's playing the odds.
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  8510. They break into attics and cause many thousands of dollars of damage. Their feces are also dangerous to the health of humans and dogs. This donut shop, which supposedly has been doing this for a long time, is multiplying the problem. It's no joke to people with dead dogs or a devastated attic.
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  8511. To be resold to a fence of stolen goods. It's actually mentioned in the film that the fence was caught and some stamps recovered.
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  8512. On a pettier scale, Canadians should take careful note of that in light of how protestors against Trudeau were criminalized, arrested, held without bail, etc. last March. He can't be directly compared to Putin, but you can hardly be too careful about the future of such things. History is little more than the chronicle of slippery slopes.
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  8513.  @republica13  Yeah, Patrick Brown, that's him. Now the CBC is just the communications arm of the Liberal Party. The counterpart of TASS, Pravda and Izvestia. Government news. And I'm sorry to say the BBC caught the Labour Party 'variant' of the same illness. Both ought to be entirely de-funded. The generations of both staff and viewers which would never have tolerated even a small fraction of such corruption are gone and they're not coming back. Time to wind down 'public broadcaster' news outlets permanently.
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  8514. She has tremendous difficulty speaking. Highly unusual for a politician. For any leader of any kind.
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  8515. Justin Trudeau: "Hold my maple syrup. I'm an absolute loon."
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  8516. George Orwell ridiculed the 'patriotic' slogan "My country, right or wrong" by rendering it "My mother, drunk or sober." George Orwell machte sich über den „patriotischen“ Slogan „Mein Land, richtig oder falsch“ lustig, indem er ihn mit „Meine Mutter, betrunken oder nüchtern“ wiedergab. (Übersetzung von google)
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  8517. Doctor who happened to be there: "I need a platter of sandwiches in here, stat."
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  8518. 'P*ss-poor' command of English in the title. A 6th-grader should have a better idea of where to locate the apostrophe, let alone people who write as a profession. Also semi-literate and uncouth: using all-caps for emphasis. It's yelling.
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  8519. Shocking twist: She copied her resignation letter word-for-word from the ex-president of Penn. Well ok, not shocking.😄
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  8520.  @fredbloggs8816  What does it mean to deserve something you don't even want?
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  8521.  @fredbloggs8816  Right, that's what I said. I said all 140 million Russians think alike.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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  8522. I wouldn't agree to debate her until she's the nominee. It could be someone else. Between now and the convention she could poll so badly that they give her a good old-fashioned Biden Farewell — a boot to the rear end.
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  8523. Oh yes, the West has been weak and non-committal.🙄It has only donated $200bn-plus to Ukraine, who've since obliterated half of Russia's conventional forces. The effect has been to inflict on Russia a total financial impact somewhere between R.100 trillion and R.200 trillion. If that's weak and non-committal, I suggest withdrawing from Ukraine now, before it becomes 'strong and committed.'
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  8524. Oh yes, the West has been weak and non-committal.🙄 It has only donated $200bn-plus to Ukraine, who've since obliterated half of Russia's conventional forces. The effect has been to inflict on Russia a total financial impact somewhere between R.100 trillion and R.200 trillion. If that's weak and non-committal, I suggest withdrawing from Ukraine now, before it becomes 'strong and committed.'
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  8525. The West has donated $200bn-plus to Ukraine, who've since obliterated half of Russia's conventional forces. The effect has been to inflict on Russia a total financial impact somewhere between R.100 trillion and R.200 trillion. If that's weak and non-committal, I suggest withdrawing from Ukraine now, before it becomes 'strong and committed.'
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  8526.  @MuiKaHo  So anyone who says "Perhaps you're being a busybody here" is himself a busybody. Got it.
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  8527.  @travelerforever8849  Something's wrong with that assertion. Either Musk doesn't "work the workers to death" or people like being worked to death, because Tesla receives applications from 3 million people a year, and a lot of them have their pick of employers. It's the same sort of thing at SpaceX, which is full of top achievers. I'm assuming that most people commenting here are trying to self-validate for their own laid-back approach to work. Fine for you. But why not just leave people who are into working hard alone? And I'm skeptical that you know what hard times are. In hard times, unemployment is triple what it is now.
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  8528. It was a rough December, but the homicide rate has been falling. Counts have drifted down for 5 years as Toronto's population rose by hundreds of thousands. 2021 was an exception, and it's true that counts fell to generational lows in the early 2010s, but the rate is still only about 10% higher than in the early 1970s.
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  8529.  @danielsociety9234  Yes, but that's not to be closer to the US. It's to be closer to the equator.
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  8530.  @dannyzero692  Cold in winter, yes, but my air conditioning is on full blast right now. Here you need full sets of summer, spring/fall, and winter clothes.
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  8531. ​ @sebastianvangen  Ok, then. Come and give it a try! Find a piece of land a bit wind-sheltered, with lots of trees behind it, on a gentle south-facing slope, close to water, and as far south as possible. Then drill a well and build your cozy house. Starlink can be your ISP.
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  8532.  @fl7886  Correction: Clustered and hugging the sun's rays. Don't flatter yourself.
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  8533.  @christian8782  NYC appears to be the cheapest of the three, $0.9m. Then Vancouver, $1m, then SF, $1.4m. (All in USD.) However, I don't know how lot size and interior square footage plug into these prices. Toronto looks better at around $50k below NYC, but a huge number of small apts is blended into that. An actual house costs around 70% more. Not a pretty picture.
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  8534. We should perhaps say that Harvard has returned to its roots and now is once again, as it was 388 years ago, concerned with the training of ministers of religion. The woke religion. Full circle. The 17th century has staged a remarkable, partial comeback.
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  8535. Lighter consequences for being a woman.
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  8536. I think probably a male anchor would be held to account, if not via dismissal, then some other way.
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  8537. Thorpe has been partially successful in her attempts to bring a continent into disrepute. She shows real determination.
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  8538. Anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism is strong. It makes the Islamic world shrug off China's mass imprisonment of Muslims. It makes South Americans, Africans and Middle Easterners tolerant of Russian brutality. Uncountable legions of propaganda workers on the internet work day after day to slander the US and the West, and they've been doing it for decades now. Over time, it really works.
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  8539. I did not care for him at all. I find it bizarre that he thinks NATO is a sinister force for censoring us. He speaks very rapidly and makes funny faces. I would've much rather listened to Michael (and Freddy, although he was far from his best here) the whole time.
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  8540.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  Back to the fragrant cheese named after you, Fritz.
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  8541. Help stamp out the plague of adult site spammers on this site! Please downvote posts that lure people to adult site links on their account pages! They're the ones with soft-po photos in their avatars and short, polite, blandly appreciative remarks beside them. Click dislike to help send them down to the bottom. Report as commercial spam. Thanks.
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  8542.  @Robert-Downey-Syndrome  Within limits it's true. I'd ask him to explain what he meant.
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  8543. At least it wasn't the whole Iliad.
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  8544. Small closet for four men. Even smaller hotbox for four men.😄
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  8545. Nice little hitpiece. You can have Chris Cuomo's job.
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  8546. I thought it wasn't very bright and not what I call thinking on your feet. It was a chance to communicate the German position in a productive way and she sounded merely flippant and irritated. I'm surprised she advanced to this job at a young age with such skills. Or maybe I'm not, when I think about it.
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  8547. The evaporation of $336b is something to worry about. Where do you think jobs come from?
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  8548. No, he's very rational. Only a highly rational person could keep a grip on so unruly a nation for two decades. What you sense is irrationality is in fact twistedness of soul — or if soul is too rarified a word for it, then at least character and personality. Big difference. Irrational people are much more seldom monumentally dangerous.
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  8549. It's true. They've merged. Western governments, media, academia, large corporations and central banks are now practically a single great, reeking, pulsating thing. I remember when they were generally against each other. Those were golden days compared with now, although any day now schoolchildren will start being taught that they were dark days of brutality.
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  8550. Several tens of millions of Americans live right beside or close to the Great Lakes, so I guess they're huddling along the border trying to stay cool.
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  8551. It's like it's going to become Cuba.
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  8552. Hear, hear.
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  8553. It's a harmless peaceful country with old ties to Canada and it's been brutally attacked for no reason except that Putin wants to re-extend the Russian Empire. Ukraine didn't even so much as toss a piece of litter over the border into Russia. That's hard to understand? 😂
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  8554. Defund government news everywhere. Now.
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  8555. @timeverse237 I think Trump is going to have a few surprises for Putin. Mark my words, it is not going to go as the major news outlets claim it will.
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  8556.  @luisjayson  He wasn't even fishing. He simply lobbed something at you in hopes you'd take it for an insult, which is how he meant it.
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  8557.  @tidbit1877  Typical female triumphalist bullying. Reach deep down for the part of you capable of shame and revive it. Its loss morally cripples you, and mentally too. All the best.
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  8558. ​ david healy  And Ukraine is frying his hapless recruits like so many chips. Sooner or later a cadre of his countrymen are going to throw him in the oil too. Or a mob of millions. History affords them an example of how to deal with tsars (or a would-be tsar, which is what he is, being in reality a Petersburg street urchin punk).
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  8559.  @kyle-ld2gh  Yes I can! 😄
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  8560.  @xoxomanuel  I saw it blow up on the Suchomimus channel.
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  8561. Really? But check out those womanly hips!😂
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  8562. Only if you pay a fee. What you see here on Youtube is a promotional trailer.
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  8563.  @oldtools  What's that in reply to? I've posted several times in this thread.
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  8564.  @ConArtista  I find this welcome. Too many people disagreeing with me these last however many days. Cheers.
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  8565.  @wanderinggremlin2388  Seems like a fair assessment.
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  8566.  @laylaindy  Sure, it may be a sign. But absent a number of additional possible indicators it can be simply a part of bad judgment or immaturity. I think it's important to avoid over-medicalizing behavior that's the least bit unusual, not really sensible or even harmful. You know it's important when you realize that many things are considered acceptable, not unhealthy or even virtuous in one country and unacceptable, pathological or even criminal in others. And even within a single country, it may depend on one's walk of life. (What about a father who works in an anti-gang police squad and regularly participates in conducting raids? Psychopath or hero of society?) Personality psychology is rife with pitfalls.
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  8567. Toxic femininity.😕
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  8568.  @wizardhacker2887  Re: post starting with "in this case." I agree with every word of that. Great reply. May I add that in many ways dealing with people of left political persuasions is like dealing with heroin addicts. No matter what, getting high on a dose (of heroin, or the dopamine release from spouting left dogma) is their answer to every situation of every sort, all day long every day, year-in year-out. The similarities go on and on. For instance, both people's personalities are ruined by their devotion to their drug. They end up not caring about anything or anyone else, and become unbearable. They're reduced to interacting with each other only.
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  8569. The more I learn about war as these months go by, the more I realize how a close an analogue for war is the game of chess. E.g., in neither is any single asset a silver bullet. The aim is to have as many pieces as possible and to deploy them as a unified force such that each additional piece makes the others stronger. F-16s are thus like suddenly having another knight, bishop or rook, instantly strengthening protection of the king while boosting the powers of the queen and all the others down to the pawns. They're a big help.
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  8570. A variant is the result of mutations. Mutations are random errors in replication. Errors in replication, although rare, rise in frequency as replication rises. Replication rises the more the virus spreads and causes illness. The virus spreads and causes illness more if people are unvaccinated. Thus being unvaccinated raises the chances of variants emerging. Hope this helps.
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  8571.  @joeakajrossdockhesterpach3943  I don't specialize in the study of these matters, but as I understand it the whole health care system has identical standards across the US and Canada. Pharma, medical education, treatment protocols, the works. The only real differences are prices, wages, a certain amount of higher-end care in the costlier US hospitals, and the fact that private health insurance is a pretty small business in Canada. The supply of medicine in Canada is perfectly up to snuff, up to the point it leaves the country anyway.
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  8572. Thanks for the FSB point of view.
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  8573.  @arianekelly2633  What? How tf was he a jerk? The guy expressed simple agreement with you! Shaking my head.
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  8574.  @bbqchezit  Commonly a term for severe treatment.🙄
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  8575.  @sithhunter126  Lackwit. You do not know what quotation marks indicate? [sigh] They indicate quotation, not agreement. Utter lackwit.
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  8576.  @bbqchezit  Ah, you meant 'What exactly did they do?' I guess.
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  8577. Same year after year after year...🙄
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  8578. Smashing the like button. Perfect point.
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  8579. Marie Antoinette: "Yeesh. Talk about out of touch and privileged. Makes me sick."
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  8580. I thoroughly agree. But it's deliberate of course. One mustn't mistake shameless cynicism and lack of respect for incompetence.
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  8581. I disagree. The perfect subject of totalitarian rule is the terrified person. Arendt's person takes the silver, because even someone who is confused about what is true may stand up for themselves when attacked, but never if they tremble in fear.
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  8582.  @Larrypint  Sorry, O'Brien, but convincing the idiot that 2+2=5 is a far smaller task than convincing the brave man.
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  8583. Skull so simian, face that could stop Big Ben itself, instincts of a Soviet commissar, intellect of a block of Velveeta, ego that dwarfs the Trump Tower, voice that makes ordinary people envy the deaf. Otherwise she's great.
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  8584.  @danielkisonit  Why have Congressional leaders if the caucus can simply vote on its own? Sounds like your quarrel is with the Constitution.
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  8585.  @paulrasmussen8953  It was all thought out in hopes that enough authority could be concentrated when needed so that things could get done, while spreading the authority out enough to ensure it wouldn't be systematically abused. If you just go by the country it created, you have to say it's worked outstandingly well by historical standards. I'd say it should work well for any people worth its salt. But it won't save a people gone bad. A people gone bad has problems so enormous a constitution is mostly powerless against them.
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  8586. Actually inflation is fizzling. Monthly price increases have been cut by 2/3rds since Milei entered office.
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  8587. You're right, but using 'anymore' like that also shows that English instruction is really bad anymore.
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  8588. @Oners82 No one, I think, would fail to grant that the panelist has attained to the status of adulthood, as opposed to childhood. But would you not grant that such a bipartite scheme is a rather crude and insufficient one in this context, which requires the most fully-developed qualities of mind and judgment, backed up by considerable if not thoroughgoing learning and experience? Not to grant this, in my view, is tantamount to accusing the other panelists of wasting their additional decades by omitting to gain anything from their reading, thinking, and experience. I do not say that only a panel of eighty-year-olds could do the subject justice, only that the young woman, in her fourth or first year of adulthood depending on one's definition, simply hasn't had enough time yet. She's of course fully entitled to her opinions; so is any 34-year-old in the US entitled to vote, but that person is not permitted to stand for election to the presidency. There's something disagreeable about weighing things of this nature like groceries, yet it's impossible to avoid completely. Finally, I wonder what sort of objections might have been raised had she been middle-aged, facing in the debate a lad of just 21 summers.
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  8589. @Oners82 Who, me? I think you mean someone else, at least on this reply thread. Elsewhere I might have said something.... But I see both nature and nurture in operation everywhere, so.... 'fallacy', probably not me. Cheers.
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  8590. @Oners82 It was you, not me, who asked about her age. You chose the topic. I addressed the matter of her age because you raised it. I addressed other matters elsewhere. Are you ok? Yes, a 21-year-old hasn't had the opportunity to give consideration to these things.  Would you want one as your president or prime minister? I bet you'd be open to the idea, as you sound quite daft.   If you're looking for a way to improve the world, never mind others for now and start with yourself. The world will appreciate it and you'll be glad, too! Consult a professional, maybe. Lastly, thanks for sharing the term genetic fallacy. Though I knew of the thing since boyhood, I didn't know of the term for it. It's misleading, though, to one unfamiliar with it, having the word 'genetic' in it. It's likely older than the science of genetics, I suppose. Do have a nice life, my dear little pompous one. You'll be fine.
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  8591. This time Carlson's full of nonsense. He wants the Dems to lose in November so bad that he's throwing Ukraine under the bus just to oppose Biden. The Dems losing in November would be a fine thing, to be sure, but I'm not cool with Carlson backing Putin with all his might. He should find other stuff to go after Biden for—there's an endless supply of it. As it is he's losing my regard.
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  8592.  @quintrankid8045  A group of TAs probably ordered him to.
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  8593.  @distanttraveler6531  It doesn't elude them at all. They realize quite well that so long as they're not rich, it's a transfer of wealth to them from the rich.
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  8594. The rest, like you?
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  8595. "I assume mine output should be declining [because of Covid]" Come off it. Every gold mining company wants to maximize output now if they can, obviously. That they will move mountains (literally) to do so, and succeed, is a better assumption. There's something in this guy's voice I do not trust.
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  8596. Domestic problems don't mean that we can pretend nothing outside Canada matters. There's still a world and Canada is in it. Get real. World War II started and we were still in the Depression, remember. Besides that, the global turmoil that would result from unchecked aggression would cost Canada so much more than the current war that it would make current spending on Ukraine look like lunch money. It would literally be 1000x more.
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  8597.  @frankmoon9350  Why t.f. are you telling me this? What in my comment suggested to you that Liberal spending is something I needed to be lectured on? I can be 10x more of a hawk than you on federal debt and still think 1% of the budget should go to the #1 global security problem right now—Ukraine and its defense. I spoke about aid to Ukraine. If you have something to say about that, fine. Go ahead.
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  8598.  @frankmoon9350  Irritated by your lecturing manner = "Triggered"? Ok, Moonsie. Whatever you say. Anyway, try to mature a little today. "Yo need it." (You can start with finding out whether someone even disagrees with you before patronizingly lecturing to them. Btw, I am indeed a debt hawk.)
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  8599.  @LizaJane17  Agreed. The debt will be forgiven before very long. For my part I think that would be appropriate. I regret the expense, but it's the thing to do.
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  8600.  @markstrong2190  No, not really. You're just guessing, guided by your own emotions. In fact what I want is for Biden and Trump both to be pulled by their respective parties. Anyway, do me a favour and get lost. I don't want to have an extended conversation with anyone who resorts so easily to calling people who disagree with them idiots. I like my antagonists worthy.
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  8601.  @jalenbunn7114  "is your mind blown?" Mine isn't. People left of centre---call them Democrats, liberals, lefties, whatever---weren't always so weak-minded or such kooks as they tend to be now. And many are still perfectly reasonable. Those are the ones I call swing voters.
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  8602.  barb lee  Are you high? Try reading my comment again. Cheers.
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  8603.  @jalenbunn7114  Ok, so you're far left and have at least a scrap of intellectual honesty in you. Have a Lenin Prize. Cheers.
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  8604. Ah, but it's gravely serious world-historically-significant business at the same time. That's gotta be the great thing about being him: doing both at once.
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  8605. "Old," yes, if something from a few years ago is old. Nevertheless it's not out of date in any sense. It's timeless.
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  8606. Western countries are protecting Ukraine against the Russian attacks that began eight years ago. Putin has no right to do this to them. They did not threaten Russia in any way. There were no nuclear missiles on the way from NATO to Ukraine. Moreover, there are already many NATO countries on Russia's border. (There was not even any realistic path to NATO membership for them, for that matter.) The rationale you share with Putin is phony. In the Cuban missile crisis the US was protecting itself from blatant Soviet aggression. The cognitive dissonance is on your side.
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  8607. Incorrect. Russia makes its own missiles. It has made a lot since the war began. (A lot fewer than they've used, however.) What they can't do is make their own chips, nor import them directly from most countries which make them. But they're still sourcing the chips, e.g., getting 3rd countries to do it for them.
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  8608. That's pretty funny coming from you, Mr. Peskov.
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  8609. Imagine believing the spin disgorged by a teachers' union.😮 They're the most self-interested organizations in existence. Actual crime syndicates have more concern for society at large.
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  8610. 300,000 acres.
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  8611. Did that take as much skill as it appeared to? A lot these crosswind clips disappoint but not this one. Wow.
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  8612. It has to agree with left orthodoxy or it just doesn't make it onto PBS news and current affairs. They've got life and the world all figured out, you see, so the need for wide-ranging discussion has been eliminated.
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  8613. It's not so different from their other video on who will replace Putin. This outfit is staffed by woke oinkers.
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  8614.  @goemon9378  I happen to find it ridiculous myself, but not scary. The reason is that support for this specific point of view is low. She has zero prospect of becoming the nominee. About the same as a "Squad" member has on the other side of things. Moreover there is no buzz about her running for president. So pointing to her in this report was probably a little frivolous. There was, however, real condescension towards DeSantis. Dwelling on hand gestures is an example, since the limited repertory of them available to people entails a high possibility of overlap. A bit cheap perhaps even for a partisan, but certainly for a journalist.
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  8615. Between which two cities is this piece of road?
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  8616. No, He opposes murder. You didn't know that?
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  8617. Now if only she would leave off with her loathsome, ceaseless arm-waving, we could look at her while we listen. It detracts from her capacity to instil her ideas in others. It's indeed so extreme that I can't help thinking something may be wrong with her beyond a sad obedience to the directives of cynical and inadequate 'media trainers'.
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  8618.  @arjan2777  You are plainly under-equipped to read words and understand them. I said nothing concerning her looks nor anything against her ideas. I'm embarrassed for you. But have a nice day.
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  8619.  @arjan2777  Why don't you mind your own business and leave me to my dislikes if you can't politely offer a reason I shouldn't have them? Oh, and another thing I can't stand is a bullying manner—like yours.
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  8620.  @arjan2777  Well, if it's all right for you to issue me commands, here's one from me to you: go fy. Muted.
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  8621. To a leftist, interpreting words is far more important than actual tangible occurrences. Headline: "Over One Thousand Israelis Slaughtered In Hours" Leftist: "You have to be a fascist to call Hamas inhumanly evil!" Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right, they make a Leftist.
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  8622. It's true. Their nation has been hijacked by religion-obsessed yokels.
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  8623. The rise of a tyranny is hardly good news, it's a disaster. China must be opposed energetically because it is going to follow the same path as Russia. The signs are all there. Everyone ought to do their part and scour the shops and online sites for goods not made in China. I've cut my purchases of Chinese goods by 90% and feel great about it. Many others are too, and Chinese factory orders are down by 40^%.
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  8624.  @docb825  Ok, Mr. Peskov.
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  8625. And an interrupting machine. [Sideshow Bob shudder]
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  8626. Steel tariffs: Save 12,000 steelmaking jobs. Cost 250,000 other jobs. He may have been a 5x better choice than Harris and he may be stable, but he sure af ain't no genius.
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  8627.  @ChewieOnTwoWheels  "...criticized it behind their back ..." And in front as well. He's made no secret of his disapproval.
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  8628.  @ChewieOnTwoWheels  I meant to reply lightly and banteringly, taking mock exception to what some would find an unmannerly question. The point was to throw in spelling that would confound the question. Sorry if I gave offence.
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  8629. MLK: Let people be judged on the content of their character. Sunny Hostin: If you see a picture of someone, you know everything important about them.
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  8630.  @poffu3842  Sorry I was snippy there. Sometimes I don't realize it.
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  8631.  @barbaragalbreth4429  Native Americans also considered smoking it a spiritual if not religious experience owing to its intoxicating, dizzying effect. They didn't consider it suitable as an hourly or daily habit.
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  8632.  @tzuccolo2001  🎵Pair a noya, big destroya.🎶
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  8633.  @suchabadkitty1293  I guess you don't know what methadone does to people.🙄
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  8634. I daresay most people are a little more intelligent simply for having listened to him attentively for an hour, even if they forget immediately what he said. Something of his powers of analysis will remain with them and add to their own, briefly at least.
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  8635. Dante's Inferno has an unpleasant circle for this guy, with a nice high number, where 'traitors to well-meaning viewers' go.
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  8636.  @blattsee6095  Your mother says it's time for bed.
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  8637. Interest in boys might strike others as creepy. Find a political point to make will you please.
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  8638.  @tjitse3916  You brought 'creepy' into it. Political criticism is not only fine, but a necessity. But leave the kid out of it, or live with the personal criticism, careless wound for careless wound. No doubt we can agree or disagree more cheerfully on some other matter sometime. All the best.
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  8639.  @tjitse3916  Ok, a little edit would have helped for clarity: "Political criticism is not only fine, but a necessity. But keep it strictly political and leave the kid out of it, or..."
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  8640. I disapprove of his politics but I doubt that he's financially corrupt. Provide some evidence of that accusation as a token of your own honourability.
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  8641. Similar facts explain why men earn more at tennis and golf, and why there's no women's weightlifting tour. (Ok, there's no men's weightlifting tour either, but if there was….)
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  8642.  @Roosterdoodler  Correct. In time, perhaps we'll be treated to more feminist outrage if they look into the restaurant business and find out that female-owned eateries are less popular than male-owned ones, and demand that the men write checks to the female owners.
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  8643. Different owners.
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  8644. It should almost be called a disease, or medical syndrome.
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  8645.  @s1n-n3d  Man, I wish I could read what you're talking about. It's been taken down.
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  8646.  @jimbo4260  You didn't catch the sarcasm, I think.
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  8647. It's very much as personal as religion. Not everything is for school. Some things are just between you and yourself, you and your family, you and your God if you have one.
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  8648.  @theengine1x  It's generally accepted that the USSR learned how to make nuclear weapons through leaks from people working on the Manhattan Project, some of them Soviet spies, others just scientists who happened to be communists. This is a very mainstream position which is also upheld by the government. People were unmasked and tried for these crimes. However, none of them was a Soviet national or of Russo-Soviet descent. Most of them were American communists, I'm afraid.
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  8649.  @pacman3556  In 2022 violent incidents on the TTC were up 50% over 2021. Please, educate yourself before posting.
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  8650. Agreed. And that's exactly why it gets so many panicky anti-Western Commie-bot posts. I'm guessing a lot of them aren't even human beings. Dictators use Western social media as their toilet.
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  8651. Ladies and gentlemen, the Ribbentrop of 2022. (Except Ribbentrop's suits fitted him properly. This one, you could send a Javelin down the gap between his neck and his collar. In fact, someone should.)
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  8652. Canadians are going to freak when they hear Biden is gunning to interfere. That's a serious line to step over and is 100% not acceptable. The only thing more serious is armed forces actually crossing our border.
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  8653.  @healingsecretsinchinese2566  Careful with your rhetoric about China. No one here hates Chinese people, instead we have a serious problem with its illegitimate, dangerous, and destabilizing government.
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  8654.  @aloysiusjones3985  Thanks, Neville Chamberlain. Appreciate your point of view.
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  8655. He has been nastily condescending—not just to Canada's government, but to the country itself—for years. So don't get so excited.
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  8656. 1) 0:00 Andres Segovia isn't spinning in his grave. 2) 2:00 Correlations of 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 are interesting, but it's unclear what they prove. There's a great deal of interpretation required if you want to go very far with that. 3) I wish you yelled less.
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  8657. Buying Nike products: Just Don't Do It. It's the new religious fundamentalism, brought to you in obedience to the New Puritans. Excuse me while I cringebarf.
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  8658.  @martinc.720  1) I don't like it when people misuse their own language, period. 2) My comment had to do with the video. 3) Your comment seems calculated to offend and I can't call it thoroughly clever either. Find something better to do, please, and have a nice day.
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  8659.  @mstar7520  Please see my first reply. Also, I have pointed out that moments earlier the officer had indicated he knew the accident victim was of the male sex. He used "his." There was no remaining ambiguity or doubt. So it's potentially confusing. There were two boys involved, so "They've succumbed to their injuries" can make it seem as though they both died. I was watching but wasn't paying 100% attention, so when I heard that I had to go back to check if I'd heard right.
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  8660.  @melodeev5487  'Get with the times' is weak. Being with the times for all but the last maybe sixty years—so for thousands of years, basically—has meant persecution for a lot of people who didn't merit it. I'm surprised to hear anybody exhort anybody on those disreputable grounds.
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  8661.  @wayward-saint  Exactly. An economist would point out that we all run huge trade deficits with our supermarkets. It means nothing except that we can afford our groceries.
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  8662. I am Vladimir Putin and I approve this message.
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  8663. Right, but they have 9 months left, fair and square, legally, constitutionally. If it turns out to be only 4 more (early May), I'm good.
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  8664. Absolutely. Every dollar sent is at least 1,000 it won't cost us later.
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  8665.  @rustyshacklferd1854  I love it when one of you is so upset by the truth of my posts that she just has to reply with some of her crap.
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  8666. They won't. They were raised that way.
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  8667. The suit Jacques Chirac was buried in would make a better president of France.
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  8668. I saw the thumbnail and said "Hey, wow, Cathie Wood as an Emirates drag king!"
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  8669.  @hulynchow8505  Why does that mean 1/8th? Her father was likely anywhere between 20 and 80%, so I'd say for her it means anywhere from about 10 to 40%, and who the hell knows? You're assuming he had one 100%-black parent and one 100%-white parent like Obama. But in mixed-race communities of long standing, as in those of the Caribbean or Maryland, it doesn't tend to work that way. You can get people having four different ethnic or racial strains in them, most of them described by weird or uncertain percentages or fractions.
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  8670. But this is the new affable, cheerful and charming Cathy!😂
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  8671. Only the childishly naïve imagine that America has no foreign policy aims which are vital to the interests of all Americans — which, in other words, are part of taking care of America — or that such aims do not entail spending on aid, particularly aid to poorer allies. But Putin, Xi & the ayatollahs are with you 1,000%.
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  8672. @ False dichotomy, Ahmed. (Or Farshad or Sergei or Tucker...whatever.) If the govt. wanted to, it could provide money for both. It can walk and chew gum at the same time. American wealth is immense, so immense it's making crypto worth trillions. Same for tech stocks with barely any profits. So tired of foreign govt. workers sticking their noses in on Western social med year after year. Fix ur own govt. and society.
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  8673. Ukrainians replaced a crooked Putin puppet who betrayed them on a colossal scale. And if the US helped them do it, I'm very glad, as would be Ukrainians.
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  8674. Kamala Harris should be a daycare worker, under close supervision.
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  8675. If it is true that Europe is trying not to get China upset, Europe is deluded. It amounts to a denial that the Ukraine War is a China-West proxy war, not a Russia-US proxy war. Make no mistake, China is trying to drain Western militaries so as to weaken their influence in Asia, and drain Western economies by raising their defence budgets. In short, China is attacking European security. And they have a pit bull over in Europe to do the job.
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  8676.  @vilmabootay9228  Splendid display of how to be an a whole.👏👏 U take pride in your work, I see.
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  8677. He couldn't run a small hardware store unaided, let alone the leading country in the world.
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  8678. Some of your 'facts' are brutally wrong. You falsely claimed that Tesla all-time revenues from regulatory credits ($10bn) exceed what it has made from selling cars. Tesla sells about $20bn worth of cars every quarter of the year, cumulatively totalling hundreds of billions of dollars, with profits in the tens of billions.
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  8679. She got tired of having a MINO. (Man in name only.)
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  8680.  @ak5659  Listen to him speaking to an election official 3 1/2 years ago, a phone conversation he never expected to be made public. No sign of the vernacular or his wonted broken syntax. Sounded every bit like the Ivy League graduate he is. Did you want to talk about the fluency of the current president, by any chance?
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  8681.  @rinkashikachi  The victory of Stalin and the USSR over Hitler and the Nazi regime was just that. It was not the world being saved. It was the Soviets saving themselves —with Western aid, by the way!—and then conquering about a dozen countries themselves.   One monster slew another monster, that's all.
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  8682.  @michaelsalmon9832  Then send it on a permanent tour circulation in all the former Soviet republics which are interested in hosting it. You're the arbiter of morals, you decide on the details. As for the people of Germany, they don't need this hairshirt in order to remember what happened, what their ancestors did. Or is there a need for a monument to Hamas fighters in downtown Tel Aviv too?
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  8683.  @michaelsalmon9832  Hairshirting be damned. Russia took immense revenge on Germany, so let them be satisfied with that if that's the type of people they are. I'm not on with this "the sins of the father" nonsense. Enough. It's only going to perpetuate strife unto eternity. Revanchism, irredentism, reparations; recriminations made against descendants; demonstrations on campuses... A pox on professionals in the historical victim industry, I say. Reductio ad absurdam: And hey, you have some sort of genetic connection to the Isr.'s, don't you? By your standards (not mine, certainly) a Hamas monument ought to go in your front yard, shouldn't it? (Look what you've reduced me to.😆)
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  8684.  @michaelsalmon9832  Thanks for your replies, btw.🙂
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  8685. This was broadcast eight years ago in 2012. Maybe that fact has something to do with the improvement (if any). Over time, competition has a way of eventually eating away at rip-off companies and industries. And maybe this very episode has had something to do with it. I don't see why not. Where did you hear about allegations of "notorious" Marketplace "scams"? I'd be interested to consult your sources. Cheers.
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  8686. Many more comments are usually visible if you Sort by Newest.
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  8687.  @hollyhouston5837  What? Don't correct him. You have know I idea what his family background is. You've never met either of these people and you're lecturing one of them? That's so offensive.
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  8688. Really? He essentially said "Get t.f. out of my face or I arrest you." HFS, dude.
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  8689. Harris does not stand, sit or walk well. Her clothes fit her terribly. She doesn't think or speak well. Her understandings are small. She's massively under-accomplished and under-qualified for the worlds most important job.
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  8690. Proving once again that complicating a thing is not a reliable way of optimizing it. Good analysis though, and I learned stuff.👏
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  8691. The solution is to not expect human enterprise to be infallible. Peer-reviewed science is merely our cleanest pair of dirty underwear.
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  8692. Massive Pooty-bot response down here in the comments. Good! I like it when they're so worried. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  8693. Thank god his dad is still alive, trying to recuperate in another ward of the same hospital, according to another report.
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  8694.  @1pcfred  Just like you say.
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  8695. ​ @chavezchrissy  Quite right. But the pharma companies were just the beneficiaries. The real culprits were the mainstream media, with their relentless multi-year campaign to get heartless doctors (i.e. almost all of them) to start writing a lot more opiate prescriptions. "No", said the doctors. "The immediate result will be a lot of junkies, overdoses, lives ruined, and deaths." "Heartless!", cried the media without interruption. They got their way, and when it became clear what a deadly disaster it was, they flocked to blame the companies who merely filled the orders generated in effect by themselves, the media. Does it get any more sanctimonious and self-serving than that? Any more abusive of civilian power and trust?
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  8696.  @KnIf0rTITAN   Peter Hitchens called the EU "the continuation of Germany by other means." Paste that phrase into the search bar above if you like. It's a one-hour video if I remember right.
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  8697. What do you mean 'joined'? Merged into one country? Having a laugh?
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  8698.  @Prodigalfur  I'll admit I've daydreamt about an Anglosphere alliance much stronger than the informal one that exists and includes the Five Eyes agreement. I've wondered whether some crisis could force it upon us, and besides a war doing so temporarily, it seems far-fetched. Vanishingly few people would want it unless it massively bolstered security during wartime or against a serious threat of outbreak of world war. Even then, it wouldn't be a merging into a single state, surely. If that's really what you're asking me to mentally entertain, I must say I find it nothing short of an absurdity. A union of the US and UK is unimaginable in the present world. Predicting the future is hard but it seems safe to say no such union will occur in our lifetime---at least. What could possibly bring it about? I wonder what makes you even think of it for a second. Are you a youngster? If so, that's quite all right; unrestricted fantasy is one way, perhaps essential, to build up one's mind. All the best.
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  8699. Mais frappez un intimidateur dans le nez. [But punch a bully in the nose.]
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  8700. Lord Dannatt is absolutely right to speak of the danger to the West if Putin concludes he's been victorious in Ukraine. No question. But he omits to mention Russia's other neighbours, the former SSRs. They will be in grave danger of attack, subjugation, installation of puppet rulers, even annexation. Incidentally, his remarks echo the wise words of an eminent leader while in office: "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy
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  8701. "Some of the media coverage of it I don't think is 100% fair." 😳Sure. After all, who would know more about unfair media coverage than Cathy Newman herself? 🤨
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  8702. Two wrongs make a leftist.
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  8703. "Criminal gang". Hmm. We should be careful not to jump to conclusions. It could easily be some of the many government cyber-warriors around the world. How many thousands --- or tens or hundreds of thousands --- might there be?
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  8704.  @lxnnqrt  To people like him, anything bigger than Ikea is a Trojan horse filled with a million US soldiers. Evidently three-quarters of Russians over 40 are clinically paranoid. (And born to be ruled.)
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  8705. People are foolish to have those things in their homes. What we see here may well be only an exaggeration of what's to come.
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  8706. "Dear Neighbour: My wish is your command. —Insincerely yours, Some Soy Victim"
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  8707. When one leaves your house, count your spoons.
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  8708. Getting into a fight on X with the world's premier tweet assassin: Not smart
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  8709. 간단하고 아름다운 진술.👍 다른 곳에서 자주 반복해 주세요. A simple and beautiful statement. 👍 Please repeat it elsewhere and often.
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  8710. Or sometimes malls.
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  8711. The "right wing of the Lib Dems." Oh my god. Time for the world to crap its pants. They may get into power, cut a penny off the gas tax, and spend a little extra on flags. After that they'll probably overthrow the entire globe. Btw, Wikipedia says Vox UK folded in 1998.
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  8712. Stop saying "gave them" like it was US taxpayer money. Also, the money isn't yet in their hands (according to Sullivan in the clip), so stop using the past tense. It seems clear that although he can't come out and say it yet, they're looking at cancelling the release. We'll see.
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  8713.  @A_Stereotypical_Heretic  Oh come off it. She was stating a simple fact. I consider Iran the enemy of all mankind, yet it remains true that it was their money. Breathe. Just breathe.
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  8714.  @n9wox  Blast!
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  8715. Of all the addictions perhaps the worst is an addiction to workahol.
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  8716. Fair request.
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  8717.  @johnsmith1474  No he wasn't. Have a look into 'Road to Wigan Pier.' He thought certain restraints on capitalism were helpful but actual socialism he found a tad puke-making.
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  8718. @sallygo1234 He didn't care much for Huxley. You couldn't fail to notice "there's something the matter with Aldous Huxley" he wrote somewhere. I'll reply on the other matters soon when I have time. Two of my damn paragraphs just vanished.
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  8719. 1:43 "Ask her therapist." Thank you. At last someone starts getting to the heart of the matter.
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  8720.  @notsodelusional  haha. That's right. It's the staunch loyalists who get purged, not those who cower meekly. When they're dragged off they assume it's a mix-up and everything will be straightened out once they reach the offices of the security service. But then the car takes them somewhere else much more dilapidated-looking.
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  8721.  @HenrykSzlangbaum  So? She left Russia as a little girl.
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  8722.  @adamk.7177  Jake's views of domestic politics are sadly both simple and simplistic. Nice enough bloke but in some ways low on, uh, mental horsepower. I had to unsubscribe after a year for that reason.
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  8723. "Here, lads, divide this amongst yourselves."
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  8724. Normal = Urgently in need of being marginalized 😄 Which is sort of amusing but mostly barf-making. Thanks for your comment.👍
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  8725. Exactly when did this Sovietization of the DOJ happen anyway? When did it start, when did it flourish and when did it become entrenched?
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  8726.  @ian-flanagan  Livestreams become just videos once they're no longer live, so in my view they should be listed under Videos, but ok. (Or YT could simply list them under both Videos and Live. Then nobody looking for one would run into frustration.) Thanks for your helpful reply.👍
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  8727. We're "two, almost three years into this pandemic." Seriously, what? Are you high, doctor?
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  8728. A number of them are about as smart as their livestock. It's the perennial problem of rural areas. The smarter people tend to head off to cities and larger towns where their intelligence can be put to more profitable use.
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  8729.  @zcream5978  No doubt you are one indeed, but take your confession elsewhere, please.
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  8730.  @whutdafeq1715  Dunno. That was months ago and I can't remember. Sorry.
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  8731.  @KeruxLand  Whatevs. Let's face it, it's been a real team effort. Canadians knew very well that they were putting their own country out of business by going into stores and buying cheap Chinese goods. Now Chinese cars are making inroads into Western markets. Have you been urging the government to increase tariffs on them?
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  8732. Fire him now.
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  8733. I wonder how many heart attacks she had.🤔
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  8734. Turnout is all-important, because so did people who are total newcomers to the country. And how do I know that? Because I know the character of the other party.
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  8735. Trump wasn't on track to get the childless cat lady vote anyway. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😂
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  8736. His rants don't hang together and he's not clever enough to understand the subjects he tries to tackle. But he's also not clever enough to be intimidated by that. He's like a manual labourer who goes after the university mathematics establishment, just a joke. What I like is that he's got something bad to say about everybody, so it practically doesn't matter who you're against, he's got a dig at them that you'll like. However, that's the bad side at the same time: He gets everybody riled up to no good effect because he calls everybody a liar—except for those who, like him, call everybody a liar. For example, Joe Rogan. So he's actually contributing to confusion, distrust, nihilism and chaos. If the day comes when everybody starts shooting at everybody else (a civil war or whatever will be the right word for it) he will have made a serious contribution to making it happen...while making a pretty damn good living at it. I'd say his conscience is weak in that regard. But calling Barack Obama "black Santa Claus" had me in stitches and you could see KK and FF got a huge kick out of it too. EDIT: Omg then he went on to point out that Bill Gates is only a high school graduate yet the media treats him like a virologist, and also that he was a buddy of Jeffrey Epstein. KK and FF almost fell out of their seats laughing. Oh ffs I did love that.
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  8737.  @theclash3015  Are you sure you read that post right? Or has one been deleted? I can't see much if anything for a patriotic Russian, if that's what you are, to object to in Mr. Karavida's remarks.
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  8738.  @wesleyyu1394  Don't be so dumb. It's simply praise for the outstanding Chris Hadfield. Delete your fool comment, please.
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  8739.  @wesleyyu1394  Fine, but how is anybody supposed to know that? This is the Internet, where no one can see your sly smirk indicating you're trying to be funny. Instead of "calm down" it should be "Sorry."
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  8740. Stewart's factually wrong. X has a fraction of the reach of Facebook. A fraction. The amount of news and discussion on Facebook just dwarfs it. Active users, latest: X, 0.4 billion. Facebook, 3.05 billion. It's not even close. Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. Facebook is worth $1,338 billion. Not even close.
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  8741.  @voralong2116  *him (Am me wrong?)
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  8742. First time I've ever seen one of these things get likes. Goes to show who our company is here.
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  8743.  @tatewalquist7523  You must work at the Kremlin, because you just made Russia 11x larger than all the land on planet Earth. I mean, objectively you added 3 fake zeroes.
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  8744. ​ @contractorvegas5384  Afghanistan? You don't remember 1988-89, Russia's sorry defeat by the Mujahideen? You don't remember losing, and then the Soviet regime falling, and then the country breaking apart into many pieces? My dear Vitaly, the Ukraine War is the Afghanistan War 2.0
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  8745.  @contractorvegas5384  The bomb saved millions of lives, mostly Japanese of course.
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  8746. Yeah, independent like the ultranationalist Russians on talk shows criticizing the war effort every night on Russian government TV. By howling for the Kremlin to employ extreme measures, they're there to make the war and all government policy seem not only reasonable but actually far too restrained. Nauseating. Orwell would puke.
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  8747. Quite correct. And the number of miles of track just went down, because we just closed a transit line.😱
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  8748. I'm confused by what I saw.
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  8749.  @BZB1900  Bill Gates 'reminds us of that' how? By saying so, or by the fact that his highest academic qualification is his high school diploma?
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  8750.  @BZB1900  It wasn't debased when he was there 50 years ago. Any 20-year-old who found it had nothing to teach him was an arrogant little putz who was destined to remain one.
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  8751.  @BZB1900  <--- "Positive Wasserman" You should know. Or maybe, as The Beatles said on Magical Mystery Tour, "Your Mother Should Know." 😄
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  8752. Watch Norm Macdonald's set at Gotham.
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  8753. Time for a bigger flag. 😏
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  8754. First the headline says EVs produce "soot" (!) despite not burning anything. Then after waving around the term "junk science," the host trots out a lawyer to pronounce on scientific matters. 😂
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  8755.  @redford4ever  The IMF simply re-publishes numbers submitted to it from member countries. That's a Kremlin figure.
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  8756. He acknowledged them by responding to them, but it must be allowed that their points did not address his questions. He indicated his support for a transition to renewable energy off the top, and from there his questions were about the wisdom of their 'protest' tactics. They kept responding with personal attacks on Morgan himself, as well as claims about climate change and the necessity to transition to renewable energy. They thus deserved all the insults they got.
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  8757. There's a word that's shockingly absent from discussion of these people: Fanatics.
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  8758. Zero deaths. Source: General Statistics Office of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. Who could be a more trustworthy source of facts than a communist government?
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  8759.  @sagepirotess6312  No one ever said authoritarian rule can't be efficient. Indeed, that is its main, even its sole, merit.
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  8760.  @johannesstevens1929  I acknowledge there's a chance your original point was accurate. One fear is that the weapons aren't being delivered to where they are needed and then promptly and effectively deployed. They have to transport that stuff several hundred miles across the country.
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  8761. But I expect classes in the Ivy League will be cancelled for the next month.
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  8762. You mean Justin Ocasio Cortez?
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  8763. The winning bid, considering how low the bidding was right up to that moment, seems to me a dramatic and inspiring gesture. I have a guess who the bidder was. Does anyone else?
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  8764. Dismal Fact: That is a bullshit stat.
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  8765. People are dying because of the Russians who, like Putin himself, miss the days of the USSR, when 150m Russians pushed around 130m other Soviets and kept over 100m Eastern Europeans in fear. They want to savour that power and inflict that fear again. So, the same motivation as someone who buys a pit bull. Putin is the Russian chauvinists' pit bull. E.g., Svetlana, 62, government worker; Irina, 49, mother; Vladimir, 35, sportsman. Zero class, all of them, like pit bull owners.
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  8766. Make no mistake, few Trump supporters would care to consult the BBC on anything.
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  8767. It's still just as golden as it was...if you count the puddles on the sidewalks.
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  8768. That sounds like saying "a male bull."
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  8769.  @SuperJrod01  Do you understand what I mean when I say female cow? Or daytime sunshine?
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  8770.  @SuperJrod01  Do you?
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  8771.  @SuperJrod01  Look out behind you! It's a female lioness!
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  8772. The American universities rotted. Far-lefties burrowed into them like termites, and at length the intellectual timbers that kept them up gave way. They are now factories for making unthinking leftists.
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  8773. Yep, agree. (But btw, please say 'civilized society.' The phrase civil society refers exclusively to the the non-business/non-govt sector of society, like clubs, non-profits, charities, professional associations, even churches, etc. It has nothing to do with decent behaviour, harmonious relations or anything like that.
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  8774. AGI will be to nuclear weapons what nuclear weapons were to machine guns. Not having it will equate to absolutely vulnerability. Think how Ukraine now regrets handing over its nukes to Russia after the USSR dissolved. That will be how anyone who could've attempted to achieve AGI, but didn't even try, will feel.
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  8775. The idea that a 25% tariff on nearly $400bn worth of goods is "minor" is laughable. Just ask China, which sells the US around $550bn in goods. "Major" is the word.
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  8776. The danger of wrecking her brand-new $40,000 SUV didn't faze her one bit. Why is she going to worry about losing her $3,000 bail?
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  8777. Funny, coming from someone who sounds more like a two-bit shill for a raving, murdering, thieving psycho in high heels with a chin implant than a human being with the least bit of decency.
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  8778. He looks like a creep.
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  8779. Rumour has it that Toronto Police are racing to Montreal to be their coffee and donut waitresses.
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  8780. Gavin Noisome. (Noisome doesn't mean noisy, it means annoying.)
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  8781.  @jakederoy2715  Lay off the lotion.
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  8782. ​ @bushcraft3773  Marxism is a novel attempt to deal with self-interest but strangely, in practice, its adherents have very weak grasp of self-interest. They remind me of the students who go to single-sex high schools, whose view of and relation to the other sex is stunted and awkward---and they never catch up. Marxists are never at home with the subject of self-interest because they're segregated from it.
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  8783. ​ @tracer0017  Well, them too. Sure. But as you may be aware, no army flies the WEF flag. I of course meant Chigh Nuh, Rush Uh, Ear On, North Curry Uh, and all such garbage-regime-ruled countries as they may from time to time pull into their orbit. (Cube Uh, Seer Ee Uh, Air a Tree Uh, e.g.) In my opinion it all really went without saying, but thanks nonetheless. All the best to you.
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  8784. Agreed. The results make it worth it. But yeah, it's not leading to any tax cuts, that's for sure. It isn't as much as some people say though. ~$20bn spent so far, and a lot of that is an accounting thing because much of the stuff was old stockpiles that were bought and paid for long ago and had close to zero chance of ever being used by the US forces anyway. The burn of actual US taxpayer cash is likely 10 or 15 cents/person/day.
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  8785. Rare? They never even heard of it.
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  8786. Frankly it looks like they might be taking his medications away from him in order to facilitate a Great Switcheroo. Highly speculative, yes, but highly plausible. A 2nd possible view would be that his deterioration is proceeding rapidly on its own. A 3rd would be that his state is fairly stable, but that the liberal elites dominating public narratives, panicking over the prospect of a Trump victory, have opened the Overton Window to discussion of the second view. In other words, nothing's really changed but the amount of attention given to the subject. So: 1, 2, or 3?
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  8787. 8.55. The most deeply wise of all these people, wise like the charming owl on her pocket. I would want a wife who, like her, has a solid idea of people, life and the world. Close behind her for insight, but better for technocratic understanding, was the man interviewed last.
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  8788. @@duncantarter7162 Nice try, t- roll. Gen. Hodges was on active duty 20 years ago when his brigade was attacked. Two of his soldiers died, 14 were wounded and he himself received a shrapnel wound. With your lies you are only bringing the West even closer together against you. So keep it up! Hey, why don't you go on Austrian and Irish social media? NATO could always use two more members.🤣
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  8789.  @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl  "BUT!" nothing! What a load of word salad.
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  8790. Doubtless she does. I knew a man who became a famed biographer of one of Russia's most esteemed composers with under a decade of experience reading Russian. Although Russian, like English, is hard to exhaustively master (even Einstein found mastery of English beyond his reach, although Nabokov didn't after decades of concerted effort) if you're good at languages, not particularly so.
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  8791. 2.1k dislikes, courtesy of the Wumao brigade of Government of China paid Internet commenters. Western social media is crawling with them. Nice, eh?
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  8792.  @sawssman965  Yes, it is embarrassing that he actually qualifies as not totally bad. Also disgusting and depressing. But it's not that he doesn't often l i e, it's that he often tells the truth, and people like your hero Jon Stewart (!) so rarely if ever do. You need to tear your outlook down to the ground and completely rebuild it. Tbh.
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  8793.  @sawssman965  You're tying yourself in knots like a theologian. Hopefully at some point you'll realize there's no burning bush in front of you and never was. It's not going to be fun for a while after that.
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  8794.  @sawssman965   My standard? "My god"? Dear boy, I've viciously criticized him in no uncertain terms and clearly highlighted his insufficiency and how he fails to meet my standards. I merely point out that he's better than your idols because he does frequently say things that are true. Get a grip on yourself. Breathe. Just breathe.
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  8795.  @sawssman965  Whoever made you so clue-destitute, self-satisfied and simpleminded. It appears one is Jon Stewart and you know the names of the rest of them. Now if you'll excuse me, I have good people who want some of my time. That means TTFN.
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  8796.  @iaonyt  What are you, hard of reading? Where TF did I say I was happy? It's right there in front of your eyes that I said: "Yes, it is embarrassing that he actually qualifies as not totally bad. Also disgusting and depressing." Why aren't you so embarrassed about your dullness that you're afraid to open your mouth? Really, I want to know where you get the courage to even speak.
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  8797. The left showing its nauseating true colors, that's what.
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  8798. He's not gonna make it another 14 months. Get set to live under the Kringela Harris administration.😮
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  8799. No, I think he shot himself at almost the same time the lead cop's gun also went off. (No surprise there. In an intense scuffle like that, two guns with the safeties off, it's almost surprising it took that long for a couple of shots to go off.) But if I gather correctly from everything here (video, description, comments) the cop's bullet hit no one, while the suspect's bullet got himself. The coroner will give the official pronouncement soon, I suppose.
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  8800. So ridiculous. Even Chauncey Gardner, the mental defective who becomes president in Being There, has a sounder mind.
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  8801. Yeah? Consider his countrywoman Margaret Atwood. You take a cute picture, though.
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  8802. Hey Kilmeade: in that outro promo, stop telling us you want us to do you a favor. That sounds gross, actually. It doesn't work like that. If you work for some channel, none of us is going to subscribe to it as a favor to you. Did you get that from some salesman course? Drop it, because — I repeat — it's gross.
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  8803. Great. The most corrupt profession in the country — journalism — pointing fingers. Number of times the media has exposed corrupt journalism, ever: Zero. Number of times they've even spent a single minute trying: Zero.
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  8804. Let's get a look at the jawline of that perp.
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  8805. Maybe it's just to do with being over 35, but I really have a hard time with how the young have decided to suddenly change the way they pronounce the letter 'u'. There are four ways to say it, as in these words: use, dune, pull, and sun. Each of course has its place. But millennials have started messing with the distinctions, for some odd reason. 'Mulitply' and 'result' are the most common cases. Suddenly they say the 'u' sound in these words not as in 'sun' but as in 'pull'. How odd it is for people to learn a word and then one day say "I really must now start saying this word differently. I believe I'll find that satisfying." I find it mindless, loathsome trendiness probably amounting to identity-building and herd-following for those in search of an identity and a herd.
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  8806. 'Ultimately' sound particularly foolish when rendered millennial-style.
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  8807. Not the Kremlin. That would be uncivilized. It's too pretty and too vital to the Russian psyche. Get him at home in the Moscow suburbs, in the middle of the night, as was done with Bin Laden.
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  8808. He mentions the matriarchy of prehistory. I've read (was it Russell?) that men overthrew it when they at length fully realized what paternity is. They asserted their, if you will, reproductive rights, and threw off subjugation. Skipping equality, they grabbed all the power. Whence the patriarchy and the last 4,000 to 9,000 years. All revolutions Go Too Far, and always will. Third wavers, I'm looking at you. On the loss of female gods and some problems resulting from it, see if you haven't already The White Goddess by Robert Graves. Best wishes.
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  8809. Well, it's a big place. For each Australian there are over a dozen Americans. But yeah, Australia runs pretty smoothly.
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  8810. No, it's Russia's Afghanistan 2.0 You mean you don't remember 1988-89? The loss to the mujahideen? The ignominious withdrawal? The fall of the one-party Soviet state? The collapse and break-up of the USSR?
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  8811.  @techluvin7691  Albert Einstein himself was fluent in English but refused to write in it. "The spelling is treacherous," he said. 😀
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  8812.  @MattRowe182  My point is that something doesn't have to be a fact for it to be protected speech. The bar isn't that high. If it were, any sort of religious utterance, for example, would of course fail to pass the test and thus be prohibited. If it were, we'd have to have some sort of government Fact Determination Tribunal (a branch of the Ministry of Truth) so that all expression could have judgement passed upon it. No, mere belief will do very nicely. As such, the "my truth" nonsense (nonsense, yes) is likewise protected, and should be. But yes, I'd say her belief also happens to attain to the level of fact. Thanks for your reply.
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  8813. 👏👏 They'll say anything. Something rendered them incapable of shame.
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  8814. Ok, but Death Valley is in CA, not NV.
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  8815. You don't believe others are fed up because you aren't. Breaking news: You're you, they're them. You think others care how much you make because you care so much. Breaking news: No one else gives af. But aside from tons of nonsense, great comment.
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  8816. @Li F But also "I was terribly interested." and "His sister is terribly good-looking."
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  8817. Nah, careless smoking by Russians.
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  8818. Maggie Haberman, Confidence Woman.
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  8819. To clarify for those who don't know: Disney does NOT own Fox News. Disney bought the movie and some cable and TV production parts of Fox in 2017, but not the news or sports parts, the local TV stations, and some others. The latter businesses are a standalone company traded on the NYSE. (The Murdoch family owns 39.6%, numerous mutual funds and other financial institutions own half, retail investors own the other 10%.)
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  8820.  @michellebaymiller3388  The law is in no way about attacking anyone and making them commit suicide. Your take on this is mentally unsound. Breathe. Just breathe.
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  8821. What a silly take, handing credit for this to Trump. This govt has been a shambles for a long while and already appeared headed for sure defeat, probably in a spring election, before the US election. Trump didn't even hasten things along. He threw a lit match at a blazing dumpster.
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  8822. M S 🌰🍫Central.
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  8823. I don't know. For one thing, I wouldn't call inscrutability an emotion. For another, I'd say he's fairly scrutable.
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  8824. The New York Times is a far-left activist rag. Representative Cortez should be its honorary publisher.
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  8825. 2008 in his local district in Montreal; nationally his party was out of power 2011 in his local district in Montreal; nationally his party was out of power 2019 as PM, despite being 2nd nationwide with 33% of the vote—he's not popular 2021 as PM, despite being 2nd nationwide with 32% of the vote—he's not popular
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  8826. ​ @ArtyGoat  Plus the capital gains taxes paid by shareholders (if they've cashed in any of their gains, and many have). Plus the taxes paid on its profits by Tesla itself. Musk and the companies he runs are producing a gusher of government revenues. Is there another person who is doing more to make the country wealthier?
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  8827. How can you tell? Is it the way he consistently looks like he wants to punch the next person he sees in the face, or stab them?
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  8828. It's an optimistic man who pulls the vividly red sweater out of the pile and puts it on. A good sign on a good day. A lot of his wonted frustration and tension over recent days and weeks was gone from Sir Richard's voice and face.
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  8829. Not strange, unless one is clue-destitute. Putin knows that Trump has a bit of a hardcore streak in him that Biden and Obama have nothing of.
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  8830. Permanently stuck. Not much they can do at this point.
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  8831. Zing! 😄
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  8832. I don't know. Is insufferable naughty?
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  8833.  @desolateones  You're correcting him? He literally said strength first, then "plus height and weight." Read properly, then compose comment.
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  8834. Tbh I heard barely any booing. Quite disappointing.
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  8835.  @john60123  Maybe calm down a little bit. They caught her didn't they?
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  8836.  @Doomsdeath17  It appears she's corrupt but what you say is highly speculative.
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  8837. The meme is wrong, because it depicts the center moving. Actually it hasn't. It's just that the media and cultural elites claim it has.
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  8838. We come from all over, mate. 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸🇹🇼🇭🇰🇫🇷🇩🇰
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  8839.  @nhedd0s839  I never watched it, so I'm curious what you mean.🤔
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  8840.  @smartstuf1026  I said nothing of the sort. I said what I said in plain English, my ironically-named friend.
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  8841.  @manchuratt8900  No, Starlink is becoming a geyser of cash. It has been cashflow positive since 2022. Revenue is expected to be $10bn in 2024. An IPO is planned for the next two or three years. You're spouting pure misinformation. No, wait: pure disinformation.
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  8842. No. He's a Putin supporter. He objects to helping Ukraine.
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  8843.  @anakelly76512  Not a very clever take. They are using it to beat back an invading army!
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  8844. ​ @z0634  And if I think our fire department should have a couple of new trucks, pony up some of my own dough or keep my mouth shut? Pfoff. It's my perfect prerogative to say what I think the government ought to spend money on. And you know it is. Anyway, it's all but done.😄 And when it is, I'll raise my glass high to American power.
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  8845. For many years I heard people say that there was a "war on reason," and I thought that, while there was a rhetorical angle in there that I agreed with, it was in no real way literally true. I now realize it actually is indeed very literally true. The stratagem is to gaslight and gaslight and gaslight until all power can be snatched with barely a murmur of opposition.
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  8846. What does that tell you about the CBC? How about: 'By their friends ye shall know them.'
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  8847. No, an actor in the upcoming Russian remake of Deliverance. One of his lines: "You shore do have a purdy mouth, boy."
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  8848. He was 2 going on 50 when the show debuted.😄
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  8849.  @iso.braiii  Think I'll fix Stewie's birthdate as July 1, 1997, because from the show's debut he was two years old and some months (we're never told how many). So let's make that two months to match, and that way he's 26 yrs 2 months old now. Yep, in his 27th year. Poor little guy. 😄
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  8850.  @pocahontasseguinart7099  Why?
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  8851. Trucker Carlson! Ok, it's a real stretch…but not totally: I think he respects people doing ordinary hard jobs, unlike that snobby woman on the screen earlier.
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  8852. Researching public opinion isn't like researching a mountain. A mountain you can photograph and drill core samples out of a single time and it's done. With people, you have to come back after a while and see if anything's changed. Besides that, don't ask a man not to do his chosen work, especially when it's meaningful to him and he puts his entire heart into it. Or is your post more of a low-key command than anything else?
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  8853.  @Disorder2312  Stop throwing that word around. It's a bomb. R-word has to have some hatred in it or it's not R-word. Merely saying, for example, that Americans are outgoing or Russians are politically timid or Germans have wanderlust is not R-word. Stop it! Just register your disagreement if you wish and leave the R-word out of it. Save it for people who make hateful false statements that imply the worthlessness of a people.
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  8854. Thank you. We absolutely must keep making fun of this stuff. It's the best way—sometimes the only way—to deal with straight-faced self-important buffoons and their buffoonery.
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  8855. Danish PM Mette Frederiksen is amazing. I'm guessing her move to conscript women carries political risks, and that's one of multiple reasons it's so impressive to me.
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  8856. Ah, Larry Kudlow. Will he be back in the federal cabinet in nine months? I hope so.👍
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  8857. Thanks for this. You should certainly be proud of yourself. I'll definitely keep coming back as long as you keep posting videos.
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  8858. What an ignorant fool. He's literally repeating everything Solavyov, Peskov, Medvedev and all the rest of them say every day. It'll be a pleasure hearing him splutter and make excuses later on for why he was wrong. That's if he has the nerve to show his face.
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  8859. You can always work with a man who wants just one more yacht. Makes him a trustworthy and reliable fellow.
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  8860. I think it was Engels who said that.😂
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  8861. ​ @TedEhioghae  I watched a Hiking With Kevin Nealon video recently and his guest happened to be Sarah Silverman. It went well enough, I guess, until he used the word comedienne. It was in the context of praising Silverman in the most lavish and generous terms, moreover in the precise context of her status as a woman in the comedy business and a venerated idol of young women making their name in it. It really was a solid gold tribute. Not to put too fine a point on it, she practically bit his great big head off for daring to use such a term, which according to her was an enormous insult, a belittling of her as "something less than," to quote her locution. She went on for a while, and in my opinion made herself look very small in her own effort to belittle him. My point is that if you're trying to communicate unctuous respect with your would-be correction, I doubt you should bother. All too often it seems they don't want respect, but rather something on a higher tier altogether: trembling and uncertain submission.
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  8862.  @emmanuelbriggs5182  The broad-based ridiculous statements are on your side, not mine. Just another instance of someone being clue-destitute going hand in glove with thinking they know it all. We have people like you to thank for Tate because you and your ilk created him. Otherwise we'd be all be spared. Far-left wokesters likewise create racists, who'd otherwise wither away into obscurity thanks to the reasonable efforts of moderate and sensible-minded people. You put them on life support and you'll revive the lot of them into perfect health if you continue. Feminists and wokesters are fizzing with mental illness. I'd say it's just tragic, which it is, but it's also intensely destructive because mental illness spreads spontaneously and that's what's happening. It's a contagion and that is the reason people shrink from it just as they do from the physically sick with hacking coughs and sneezes. These opinions are generally shared by those in parts of the world at a safe remove from English-speaking universities, corporate media and social media. People in those places are working vigorously to isolate themselves from us and our influence and I understand their motivations. At present they're moving to unite in order marginalize us, culturally, politically, economically and yes, militarily. They formerly admired and imitated us.
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  8863. I think there's room for a new category called unwanted fugitive. 😄
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  8864.  @FlaMan991  Eric Idle and John Cleese initially applauded...then they found out it wasn't comedy.
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  8865.  @rhysgriffiths3544  Best 'meta' response.
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  8866.  @mr.patriotjol  Correction: 21% of America's celebrities and hedge fund founders.
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  8867.  @spywalkz1  This thread tells me ordinary people are ready for the truth: Cheese is made of the moon.
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  8868. Putin's secret police, spies and army aren't what keeps him in power. The real siloviki are the baba brigades.
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  8869. (1) Why was that first woman yelling? (2) So 33% would buy this costly Cybertruck? That's an outstanding number. (3) I suspect that a slow production ramp-up is on the way. Tesla hasn't had a really smooth and quick product ramp-up since four or five years ago in Shanghai.
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  8870. To me it appears very likely that he plans to confront Putin with a harsh ultimatum. I've been saying this for a year. No one agrees with me. (Except his former ambassador to Russia.)
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  8871.  @alexleibovici4834  I'm as curious as you are but we'll all have to wait. And he has to get elected first.
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  8872.  @alexleibovici4834  No, Trump did not say that. Breathe, just breathe. You can watch his interview of about 14 months ago with Maria Bartiromo and interpret what he said yourself.
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  8873.  @alexleibovici4834  Don't mess yourself. Slow deep breaths. Shanah Tovah, by the way.
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  8874. "Canadians' rights" means two things to Trudeau the mad utopian: 1) Rights for the groups he approves of, amounting to onerous obligations on the part of those he disapproves of—i.e., normal healthy people. 2) No rights for those who just aren't his cup of tea—i.e., normal healthy people.
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  8875.  @evanray8413  Not a real biggie. I take him for a Lebanese guy without strong English.
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  8876. Churchill: "Capitalism is the worst system ever invented, except for all the others." Me: Trump sucks every bit as much as capitalism, but the others, his opponents, are even worse. It's the sparkling Democratic team effort that'll re-elect him..
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  8877.  @JonKino828  <---"cannot fathom why people don't want to know the truth. They prefer to believe that other races are beneath them." You mean anti-Westerners in China, right?😄
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  8878. Biden just found his new running mate.
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  8879. They do it to beat up on you and break your will. It's called triumphalism. In Revolutionary France they renamed all the days and a week became 10 days.
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  8880. Flight II: The Flippening Directed by Denzel Washington
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  8881. Jim Rickards says a lot of things. Look him up years and years ago saying gold is headed to $2,500 very soon. It never happened. It went down in price instead and stayed there for years. Now he says it'll be $5,000 or $15,000 or whatever. He talks fast but says little. One learns very little by listening to him.
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  8882. Don't equate politicians and police.😠
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  8883.  @thejusticeization  Yeah. I thought so myself.
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  8884. How to spot a lying intellectual socialist: Easy. His or her lips are meaning.
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  8885. Hmm. That could mean two things. 🤔
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  8886.  @milanmali9013  I would add: "Go now! Bloody get on with it!" Which, in my own way, is also support.
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  8887. To them, those children died a glorious death in the name of the Muscovite Rus. Every dead Ukrainian child makes the Russian Federation stronger. Are you throwing up yet?
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  8888.  @Houthiandtheblowfish  China pays 50 cents a pop and accepts freelancers. How about you go that way?
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  8889. @@SHlTPOSTAltAcc Sure it is.🙄 That's why Jews are a minority of the population of Israel and the territories.
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  8890.  @goylanddefree80  Ah, you love to throw terms around. "Ethnic cleansing is a purposeful policy of rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons from another ethnic group."—UN As all of Gaza's population is Arab, as it is continuously rising, and as 21% (and rising) of Israel's population is Arab in the areas outside of Gaza and the West Bank you are clearly wrong. Either that or it's the most inept and failed ethnic cleansing in all history.
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  8891.  @1mlister  You're right in the case of Iraq but not Afghanistan. That was a NATO-sanctioned Article V war with participation by all 30 members. (The total was 42.)
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  8892. Interesting, but not so unique if you understand food retailing. A woman I know in the grocery sector says almost all items lose money. Any given chain is in business only due to the profits on meat, dairy and breakfast cereal, according to her. (Industry-wide, btw, overall net margins are typically 2%.)
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  8893. Wearing a t-shirt like that is for a girl with a different sort of physique than she has. Kinda shows you how she's at a remove from actuality, in case you couldn't already tell.
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  8894. From the viewpoint of civilization and society, DEI = IED 💥
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  8895.  @repentorperish1405  "Please, someone gouge my eyes out!"
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  8896. 👏Go with it. It belittles the foolish WHO, it's funny, it makes sense and it works. Bring it back a few more times this month.
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  8897.  @romeob.8369  There were defeatists and collaborationists like you in WW2 as well. "Please rule us, Hitler! We want peace! We'll do what you say! Forever!" Their lack of spine kept Hitler in business longer. You would do well to emulate Zelenskyy yourself. He's a man, not a mouse. Ukraine strongly supports him.
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  8898. Actually, no. Treason is betrayal of your own country and he was loyally serving his own country—i.e. China.
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  8899. Ok, Vassily.
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  8900. Thanks for the Great Leap Forward point of view.
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  8901. @ Guys who bring up effeminacy and homosexuality on zero pretext, and who name their channels after fantasies of a manly paradise, are pretty obviously hot for other men. Eww.🤢
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  8902. @ Methinks the fruit doth protest too much🤣
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  8903. I think that's an important point. Still, these people came into Canada legally at airports with passports and visas. I'm sure they do the same in the US, just like all the 9/11 hijackers did. I'd like for both our countries to have higher standards for frisking newcomers, really. But how possible is that? Also, can you imagine how many security threats came in through the wide-open border with Mexico among the total of 10-million-plus?
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  8904. There've always been toxic managers and toxic employees. Unfair managers traditionally had the advantage, as they could ordinarily force workers out or fire them and expect to get away with it. Nowadays it's gotten much harder for good managers to get rid of the worst employees, while becoming marvellously easy for the latter to accuse managers of bullying. But many people who are mentally inflexible and sanctimonious can only conceive of power imbalances going one way.
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  8905. A priest should never be 100+ pounds overweight like that guy. Surely the Church is a major factor, or the central one, in Russian political and social backwardness.
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  8906.  @jeffbunnell  "It's cute when I do it."
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  8907. For some reason Trudeau resembles the cretinous sort of person you deal with when a problem comes up with how your child's been treated at school — total nonsense, total stonewalling, total lack of co-operation, and all the rest. Oh wait...
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  8908.  @sarahu8090  Random example: Robert F. Kennedy, a beloved political figure in the US, was murdered in cold blood by a Palestinian for reasons related to Israel in 1968. Educate yourself, if you know what education is.
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  8909. "Well, they made Greta Thunberg a hero for Level 4 hysteria & tantrum-throwing, so why don't I try Level 9?"
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  8910. How many do they have?
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  8911. You're missing what he explicitly said: US deficits will be partly financed by monetary monkeying around. The central bank will pretend-buy whatever bonds are surplus to global demand.
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  8912. The 2.5m subscribers here are an irresistible temptation for Putin-bots. So welcome to the Putin pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  8913. But if what he refers to happened to some given person, that person by definition would deny it, right? Never did any brainwashed person say "Yes, I'm brainwashed!"—or they're not brainwashed.
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  8914. Jordan insists on staying out of it. Entirely. Farshad, I suggest strolling downtown to the Presidential Institution and telling Khamenei to just stay out of everywhere.
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  8915. I think many will agree that's the Thumbnail Of The Year.
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  8916.  @ItsJustnotCricket  I heard differently. But thanks for the Kremlin Foreign Ministry spokesperson position.
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  8917.  @dean8542  I've heard differently and I don't trust a thing you say, Pooty-bot. 🖕Gee Eff Why.
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  8918. Hilarious how they consider one month of stable prices a stunning win after 18 months of runaway inflation. One month. It's like having a finger chopped off each month, then a month goes by with no fingers lost. "Yay! Things are great!" Meanwhile you're down to one pinkie and a ring finger.
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  8919. What's that nonsense on the hood? Some kind of decoration in case a potential purchaser finds the car isn't tacky enough?
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  8920. I notice you always ignore the tally of Special Equipment losses sustained by Russia. Compared with the loss of trucks and fuel tanks, which you always highlight, these are often far more strategically valuable and hard-to-replace items such as mobile radar units. They may have small, intermittent production runs and cost a lot more.
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  8921. You're so wrong. You're feverishly joining an internet mob. He is an immense benefactor to Ukraine, literally the reason it still exists. And Ukrainian high officials have said as much. They criticized him for saying — because he believes (rightly or wrongly) that they can never win — that they should have potentially compromised by agreeing to clean UN-controlled and -administered referendums which both sides would bind themselves to accept the results of. The referendums would have consisted of a sole question: Do you wish to join Russia or remain part of Ukraine? At that time, pro-Ukrainians would have carried the vote everywhere but Crimea, and maybe even there. (Russians thought they would win in all four regions — Musk knew this, and that was exactly why he proposed it — but like Russians so often are, they were wrong.) I did not support his proposal, as most Ukrainians did not, simply because I thought Ukraine could win militarily instead of compromising in the very least, as most Ukrainians did. But possibly he was right. I don't know. He's almost certainly smarter and far better informed than me. Who t.f. am I compared to a guy like him capable of accessing extremely high-quality information and opinion? You have zero awareness that you're multiple steps behind him in your thinking. You're just leaping at the chance to paint devil's horns on a public figure and assuage the feelings of dissatisfaction within you, never mind if you've thought it through or not, never mind if you even can think it through or not. So saddening to me.
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  8922. Word salad with too much dressing. I see she's been getting her media training from Kringela Harris.
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  8923. 'Been a threat', yes. But only since 1967, you say?
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  8924.  @Hurao48999  Hmm. Like from Afghanistan in 1989?🤨
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  8925. When society heals from decades of no-limits liberalism and mental health improves.
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  8926. Obviously the purpose of that TV program is to always make the Kremlin look sober, measured and wise by comparison. That way, the public will be more accepting of its reckless blunders. Although crude, actually not a bad strategy.
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  8927. Notice how the liberal media is quick to name this guy based on the brand of his car — Tesla. Strange, but I've never heard of a car-brand criminal before this. They pull that dirty trick because the Tesla CEO withdrew his support for the Democratic Party about a year or two ago. Ever since, never-ending rhetoric and hit pieces against him. Well, at least I've got a partial answer: "Don't Recommend Channel."
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  8928. Bad choice there, as tear has 2 pronunciations. Try tair or tare.
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  8929. I lost neurons just reading that remark.
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  8930. It was a dumb parable in the first place. If Carol is making endless good trades, the investors will never let Bob's bad personality bother them, and will never pull their money out. That fault ruins it. If your little story hits such a solid wall of implausibility, it's no good. Don't sell it, throw it out and start over.
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  8931. Yes I do. It was at the UN General Assembly. Those people should be interviewed by the media now.
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  8932. She herself is a pit bull enthusiast and was arrested for selling and possessing meth and GHB, according to Animal 24-7. Only one type of person has anything to do with fighting dogs of any breed. I leave it to you to decide what type that is.
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  8933. I am not a historian, but as I understand it, although the Soviets conquered it in 1945, Konigsberg's annexation to the USSR was not internationally recognized until it was left off the agenda at the Paris Peace Conference in 1946. A number of borders were not settled until that time. It was not re-named until 1946. Thus, perhaps, the ambiguity of the precise date.
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  8934. It appears that headline is not meant humorously. Good heavens, you must be draft. 😄
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  8935. She's actually claiming the media is mistreating the pro-Hum Moss demonstrators. Omg. Poor Caryn Johnson (her real name). Her brain is like a jigsaw puzzle straight out of the box.
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  8936. ​ @yeshuamyrock6879  "Ye shua" do know all about being gullible yourselves, those of you on the left.
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  8937. And another pompous, snide and sanctimonious one, who it so happened worked for the Canadian state broadcaster.
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  8938. That's like saying "Why can't I see more interviews with unrepentant child serial rapist-murderers?"
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  8939. * Saw
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  8940. I see you're now using Perplexity. Good move. But it does make mistakes. Scrutinize its responses carefully. Think them through. It transparently shares every source, so visit them. You can also debate responses and Perplexity will consider your properly-made points in good faith. It admits errors and apologizes for them. Golden.
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  8941. "JD Vonce" 🤣
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  8942. Looking down at me through cool, dry air, It was spectacularly bright. Lovely.
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  8943. 😢
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  8944. Suddenly, calling for genocide is not misconduct because it is not conduct. Yet so-called "misgendering" is violence. And why? Because "context," which is the close relative of "nuance" and "it's complicated." Such destruction of social and moral norms and language always precedes atrocities.
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  8945. If Russia doesn't want NATO on its border it's free to move elsewhere.
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  8946. Millions of UK houses have fireplaces (or wood stoves). You should be ordering massive shiploads of firewood from Canada so those houses can do with much less gas, saving it for elsewhere. Get off your ar s es before it's too late.
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  8947. ​ Annie Springer  It seems like it deserves a different name. In a lot of jurisdictions the vast majority of deaths were in care homes for seniors. In mine it's 80%. Of the remaining 20%, three-quarters were old and sick. The focus should have been on saving them. Obviously. To me it seems criminal that they weren't better protected. Instead businesses were deliberately ruined, jobs destroyed, hundreds of millions of lives damaged. And the government and other elites? They're all ok.
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  8948. Poison, actually.
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  8949.  @MakinItHappenn  Yeah, I figured so. But I'd like to know when, how and why.
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  8950. Also valuable is a conviction that no one ideology or theory, no one religion, system, book, person, group, community or civilization has all the answers. It will set you free to absorb all you like from any one of them without the risk or worry of drowning in it. I thank A.S. particularly for the coruscating & unforgettable first of the two parts here.
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  8951. Bravo, Rishi Sunak! 👏 I'm surprised and impressed.
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  8952. I don't think you understand either country, nor leadership itself. Also, any country where the govt. throws dissidents in jail — not via miscarriage of justice but systematically and strategically — is palpably its own worst enemy. One which re-nominates a president who succeeded in his 1st term is not.
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  8953.  @shawn-lq4nr  "theyre friends and trump has said he admires him." Trump was in the real estate and casino businesses in NY and NJ. For decades he had to deal with mobsters, it was just a fact of his life. He knows that "making friends" with them and expressing "admiration" is the way to handle them. Watch what he does, not what he says.
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  8954. "Her people in Palestine"? Excuse me, but that's an Iranian face and surname if I've ever seen them. (World's prettiest women.😂)
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  8955. Liz Storer declares that Israel, the US and Australia are simply destined for defeat by Hamas, since any attack on it only makes it stronger. Interesting outlook.🙄She stops short of insisting on unconditional surrender, so let's stay tuned for her next fascinating pronouncement.
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  8956. Oh yes he does.
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  8957. I am Vladimir Putin and I approve this comment. This guy gets it.
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  8958. Yeah, he's not a really classy guy. But that doesn't mean everything. He might have strengths as well. Sometimes I understand things better by imagining the opposite of what he says. Which makes him a useful man even if he argues poorly and proves nothing.😂
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  8959. Yeah, defoliating the American consumer's already beaten-up wallet.
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  8960. 12:55 Just look at that big vulgar gaud around Swinson's neck. What person worth listening to would choose such a distracting thing? Jon Snow will be on the hunt for a matching necktie.
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  8961. In the case of Russia, no. But it's still fair to say that Russia is undergoing extensive re-Sovietization and re-Stalinization.
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  8962. The standard Montreal accent of the time was best exemplified by the newspaper reporter near the end; the subject of the film also sounded like a Montrealer, the doctor only possibly. Others may have had rural or small-town roots or been from cities elsewhere in Canada; the post office manager was a European.
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  8963.  @roguetrader33  Do you have any idea how 17-years-old that makes you sound? How could a rational mature adult even come up with that?
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  8964. ​ @maxnator  Someone who calls an individual person "they" is not worth my care and I will not answer their questions.
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  8965. The truth of it is that the German leadership knew that the conversion to gas would play in the high-circulation newspapers and main news channels. The news media (and their confederates in big social media) are the leading power in the West. They can install and remove governments, the second-leading power, more or less at will.
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  8966. They at least know what Putin is, and only 9% have any use for him.
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  8967.  @ccrider3435  Sounds like someone's really stuck at the self-important sanctimony stage.
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  8968.  @heybabycometobutthead  He has a chin implant. You didn't know that? One which he got as a middle-aged man, no less. Compare photos of him from the 1990s (chin the size of an 10-year-old girl's) to photos of him in the past decade (chin the size of 17-year-old girl's).
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  8969.  @eusouamarela  Quite right. It's what I and others call a religious face. Key features include the blank serenity and unemotional condescension which result from dogmatic conviction. It's very often fat, pink and clearly well-rested. (Picture Vatican officials responding to abuse allegations. In Harris' case less so, as I see signs of drug abuse.)
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  8970. Sure, commie. The plane was over international waters, doing its job under a UN mandate to monitor North Korea. China voted in support of the sanctions. Your support of an evil, tyrannical, dishonest, illegitimate, jingoistic, hypocritical, genocidal Chinese regime is morally nauseating. 🤮🤮🤮 Tens of millions of Chinese dead within living memory.
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  8971. The MSM shift is being engineered by the New York Times. The rest of its little buddies—CNN and network news, late-night TV, Washington Post, etc.—follow its dictates obediently. The Times' latest machination, in today's op-ed, is a call for Biden and the country to give Harris a chance to do more. (Yeah, right. Let's give a complete incompetent more responsibility.🙄)
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  8972. You sound like Ilhan Omar.
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  8973.  @wetot2  Yeah, they do: keeping the countries of the western Pacific independent and secure. Those countries have benefitted greatly from this protection. They are thriving as never before and their people have never been so free.
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  8974. Imagine the people who watch that stuff night after night, year after year.😮 They're bathing their brains in audiovisual formaldehyde. Although if you think about it, those over 35 had that done to them long ago by the Soviet state. So you can see why Putin wants to act now, before the young attain to senior roles.
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  8975. Interesting remarks down here. I never knew the overwhelming majority of Americans think so ill of their own country and admire Russia so greatly.😂
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  8976. Sure, but they were in production until 2017. Does a 6-year-old plane belong in a museum? Do F/A-18s (1974-2000)? How about F-16s (1978-present)?
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  8977. If Trump had said that Canada rips off the US via military underspending of about $40bn a year, I would agree. But on trade, Canada rips off the US for exactly zero cents. Du m b remark.
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  8978. Objectively untrue. If Russia had air superiority it would be flying 50 times more sorties at least. I appreciate your shabby effort there, Yevgeny.😂
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  8979.  @davidearea242  Yes, but there's undeniably some political significance to it if any country has such a law. Clearly there had been no stomach for repealing the law in earlier years, and that does tell you something.
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  8980. Carolyn Bennett: Fentanyl Santa
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  8981. an
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  8982. On the other side of the border here. Earlier this year I tipped 15% pretax on a takeout order, pre-paying when I arrived and it wasn't ready. In fact it was supposed to be waiting for me 5 minutes earlier. I thought Oh, well, this will save half a minute anyway. And I thought 15% was fine for a task identical to a cashier's at the drug store, ringing in four items. Well, she showed me. I waited a further 15 minutes as the kitchen burnt my food at her request, and didn't know till I got home. Lesson learned.
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  8983. Including the two people we just saw? They're in the media.
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  8984. Whitmer, please. Oh good god please nominate Gretchen Whitmer. I want to witness the most one-sided loss ever. (Or Abrams. Whatever.)
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  8985. It was back-breaking work to provide you with all your desired consumer goods, professor. The coffee beans or tea leaves that went into that cup of yours didn't pick themselves, your ratatouille didn't prep and cook itself in the miserably hot kitchen of your favourite vegan restaurant, your expensive clothes didn't weave and sew themselves, nor did the metal for your jewellery mine and smelt itself. You pay people to do the unpleasant work you don't want to do, why shouldn't there be such an occupation as rancher or butcher?
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  8986. I predict that a re-elected Trump will immediately pursue a course closely resembling the one Gen. Hodges described at the end of the interview. It amazes me that almost no one shares my view of his intentions. But that's what he wants and it is for the best. It must remain obscure for another 7 months.
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  8987. Right off the bat when she has no idea what to say, she leans over on one elbow to press her cleavage together a little bit. Low-cut top at a solemn and important occasion in the afternoon in the White House: always good for showing how serious, dignified and classy you are.
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  8988. This time around, Trump appears inspired by a maxim from an unlikely source, Mark Zuckerberg: Move fast and break things. Ah well, useful things are wherever you find them.
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  8989.  @mirabella2154  I'm on your side but in many (most?) cities even a bachelor apt. is unaffordable for half the people unless maybe one is willing to settle for a diet of instant noodles and dressing in rags.
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  8990. He won't go near the word terra wrism but wantonly throws around jenna side. 😠 So arrogant and solipsistic that he doesn't realize he's flaunting it. How content he was to dwell on himself endlessly: "I," "me," "my" non-stop. It's all about him. Finds himself massively fascinating. A hot-head besides, with every quality of an old tankie. My old mum did his one better: She added "Don't believe everything you read."
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  8991. Democrats, eventually: "Elections are hereby suspended indefinitely. We must do this in order to protect democracy. Elections will return when the right-wing threat to democracy is dealt with."
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  8992.  @zombieowen  If it weren't for free markets you'd be eating chicken feed instead of chicken.
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  8993.  @zombieowen  Sorry, I don't speak socialist oink.
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  8994. Feudalists, all of them. Wherever a medieval, feudalist mindset remains in Europe, Europeans will go to war. It was still alive in Germany when the Nazis revived it into full vigour and immediately began large-scale violence. Denazification, the US diplomat George Kennan wrote in his memoirs, was in fact consciously a program to root out feudalism. Minor instances remain in areas of the Balkans, but Russia is its final real stronghold. So Russia went to war.
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  8995.  @CapitalismDeathSpiral  It's a problem for me, caused by the jacket. Is that too complicated for you? If so, or if you simply don't like my comment, that's your problem, not mine. (Btw, I suggest looking into what semicolons are for.😄)
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  8996. Yep, that was pure theatrics. The Liberals are simply 100% obedient to unhinged activists who are out of touch with reality.
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  8997. Right. Russia remains steeped in feudalism.
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  8998. Oikophobia is a powerful and indispensable tool in the hands of revolutionaries. Once people have been convinced that their own society is no good, they'll gladly see it dismantled or destroyed, and replaced by something else. And they are highly unlikely to want to defend it from foreign interference or foreign attack, making the fomenting of oikophobia a top priority of hostile foreign countries. In the absence of oikophobia, a people or a nation will stand up to protect and preserve their society. Thanks for your comment. Sir Roger Scruton was a great man.
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  8999. Kringela was kringetastic.
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  9000. That headline should be removed as misinformation. Reptiles don't become moderate. They just sometimes move onto a cold rock.
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  9001. Banished? That's all? I think it behooves us to as a nation consider taxidermy as the core of a solution to the Justin Trudeau problem.😄
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  9002. Hamas: "Thanks for your comment! We don't want US troops rescuing any American hostages!"
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  9003. @Chad Zues India? What a laugh. India has a formal military alliance with the United States, Japan and Australia. To (Putinist) Russia they are a long-term threat, dude, even if you can't see it. They are buying oil opportunistically. India's greatest foe, don't forget, is Russia's great hope (but likely frenemy), China.
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  9004. Quite right. Repeat it often.
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  9005. Murray is right. The necessity for systematic de-Nazification of Germany by the Allies after 1945 has its counterpart in the necessity today for de-Woke-ification of companies, school boards, news media, politics, government bureaucracy, the entertainment industry, and the universities. Get them OUT.
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  9006. Find innovative ways to go after the occupiers. You can do it. There's always a way. Even in the face of certain disadvantages, with good weapons, high motivation and good information there's always a way. I wish you the best.
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  9007.  @kimobrien.  That's it, bitterly denounce someone (à la Marx himself 😂who never tired of personal attacks), showing that you take their claim quite seriously. (I can see three faults in it, btw. (1) Missing apostrophe in "thats," (2) missing "on" after "go," (3) calling one single word a "binge.") Just curious: any relation to O'Brien the Inner Party official and torturer of Winston Smith in 1984? 😄
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  9008. 👍Let 'im have it, Stiggo! Sorry you had to suffer through that. You'll feel better after I nice hot shower and shave.
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  9009. But don't you see, she's accusing a man with elite-approved, media-approved political views. It's no use.
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  9010. How many more million Russians would have died without Churchill's stoutness of heart? Had he not kept things together in the West, Russia would be a German dominion today, Moscow and surrounding oblasts a shallow lake. I hate to hear the word "ignorant" coming from you.
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  9011. (1) "Sky train"? What are you smoking? (2) People saying Musk is bad do it to assuage their feelings about their own limited success. (3) Musk is building a new plant to make a $25k EV the common man or woman can afford. (Women: you've heard of them, of course?)
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  9012. Fantasy corrupt journalism.
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  9013. What a ham-handed and simplistic Yes/No option on immigrants "giving up their customs and traditions." I think it greatly encouraged No responses. Such a complex matter calls out for 'strongly agree/somewhat agree/somewhat disagree/strongly disagree' options.
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  9014. And when someone uses it, they always pause slightly to see the effect, expecting to enjoy an impressed or intimidated reaction. It's so matey. You expect to hear 'innit' a within a moment or two.
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  9015.  @ryanb3908  Loblaws, Sobey's, Metro, Walmart and Costco are the main companies. That's five. Mono- literally means one. You didn't know that? Good lord, it's basic English. I'm giving up on my fellow Canadians. No wonder Americans call us numnutz.
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  9016.  @ryanb3908  1) My grammar is faultless and I think you know that. 2) The food supply chain consists of the seed companies, the fertilizer companies, the millions of farmers, the thousands of independent food processing companies large and small, the transportation companies and their countless truckers, and on and on and on. And it extends far outside Canada across the world. The idea that the five Canadian majors "control" all that is preposterous. They own their grocery stores and a certain proportion of wholesaling. And they compete against one another. I know they compete against one another because whichever items I buy from one of them I could easily pay 25, 50 or 100% more for elsewhere, if I were less discriminating.
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  9017.  @ryanb3908  1) Logical fallacy. One misdeed does not necessarily indicate others. That's a timeless principle of justice. 2) Oxford English Dictionary: "fault·less /ˈfôltləs/ adjective free from defect or error. your logic is faultless " Btw, I just got back from Loblaw-owned Shoppers Drug Mart. I bought items which were about $120 pre-tax at regular prices, and would've come to $135 with tax. But they were all on sale. So I paid $76 pre-tax, for a total of $83. For doing that, I also got $1.14 worth of Loblaw ("Optimum") points. Finally, for spending over $75 pre-tax they gave me a further $25 worth of points. So instead of $135 it really only cost me $57. I managed to save $78. Ya just gotta be smart, my good man. Have a great day.
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  9018. 'Horseshoe theory' isn't a hypothesis as far as I'm concerned. It's the wisdom of the ages. Much older version: extremes meet. It applies here because political tastes and styles come out of character more than, say, intellect. Pinfold's dictum: Politics is a suit of clothes worn not by a person but a personality.
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  9019. Certainly not.
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  9020.  @louciphre2803  So there's never any validity in saying "I don't care"? That was an asinine remark that identified as a clever one.
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  9021.  @louciphre2803  The comments section below every video is a direct solicitation of us all for our opinions.
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  9022.  @louciphre2803  Yes, I do see the irony. I saw it instantly. But it was a speck, and a sophistical one at that. I might point it out myself, but only smirkingly, not in earnest. Thanks for your civil replies. You were nicer than me in this thread.
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  9023.  @yellowtunes2756  The USSR had a 20x advantage over Afghanistan but still lost in 1988-89. Ukraine is the Soviet-Afghanistan War 2.0.
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  9024.  @yellowtunes2756  They withdrew without accomplishing their war aim of defeating the mujahideen. When the Najibullah government collapsed in 1992, it was succeeded by the mujahideen warriors and their political affiliates.
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  9025.  @yellowtunes2756  Cope-tastic!
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  9026. It's 2024. Do a search, if you know what that is. Or pose your query to Perplexity.
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  9027. Your point as expressed seems to be: If two things are at all similar, let's go ahead and call them quite similar. I find that dubious.
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  9028. Please don't take this the wrong way, but whenever I hear the word 'nuance' I release the safety on my Browning.😄 This allusion is a googlable thing & just for laughs
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  9029. They were not informed of his Nazi past. They are now steaming mad at the govt.
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  9030. I don't like it when you give us melodramatic titles, thumbnails and intros, and then add "That's what some people say"—and then you tell us it's all quite untrue. It's tedious and annoying and I wish you'd stop it. E.g. "China plans to vaporize Australia in 2023! One blogger wrote that last week. But it's obviously false." I otherwise really appreciate your great content. 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇮🇷🇬🇧 etc.
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  9031. From the cheering it sounded to me like her supporters were 99% female. So maybe it's really just half the country dragging it down. Actually that's an overly optimistic thought, but there might be something in there.
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  9032.  @teronfelix5217  Russia does not have first strike capability against the entire US nuclear arsenal. For one thing, the US has hundreds of warheads aboard its submarines.
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  9033.  @teronfelix5217  Sure, kid.
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  9034. Yes, there's a frenemies aspect between the Authoritarian Axis countries, but they nonetheless pose a great threat when they really do work in concert. Which they do. And not only specific aims but also blanket anti-Westernism binds their respective peoples together. Populations to whom it's peddled unite behind their regimes. On Chinese indifference to Ukraine, I cannot agree. It must be remembered that China cannot feed its people without vast amounts of imported grain, a great deal of which comes from countries with whom relations are marked by considerable unease, e.g. the US, Canada. That is why a guarantee of tens of millions of tons of grain a year from Ukraine would be of immense interest to Xi. It would solve a lot of his problems if he could invade Taiwan and still be able to put chicken and pork on Chinese tables. (The imported grain is mostly fed to animals.) The US Navy, obviously, couldn't block overland exports of grain to China by rail.
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  9035. No he didn't. That would be a First Amendment violation and the vast army of Disney lawyers would be all over it, if it were. Fake assertion there, my ironically-named friend.
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  9036.  @castrodenavarrone  Your point isn't clear, because 'muzzling' is hardly an ambiguous word. So what did you really mean?
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  9037.  @castrodenavarrone  Ok, so you take back 'muzzling.' Good. Now admit that Disney made it a street fight. They know they did, they just thought they were golden and invincible.
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  9038. "Debunked" according to the one who claims he himself 'debunked' it, a Chinese-Canadian man who says he's a doctor, who has a YouTube channel with 1.4k subscribers. So that wraps it up, does it? Thanks, Doctor Science. Btw, CSIS, Canada's national intelligence agency and counterpart of the CIA and MI6 has repeatedly told the government and Canadian public that the Government of China has infiltrated many major Canadian institutions in an attempt to obtain influence, and that this poses a large national security risk. Consult any large and reputable Canadian media source about my assertion. Nothing against this YouTuber personally or specifically; I am only keeping in mind the Canadian government agency's findings and recent stern warnings.
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  9039.  @memegazer  No one in this thread is putting forth any science, including you, and me, for that matter. I replied to someone who confidently pronounced the matter at an end by responding directly to her very empty appeal to authority. Dr. Campbell is at least waving a peer-reviewed meta-analysis published in a reputable journal. She wasn't and neither are you. I haven't yet given my time over to consideration of the points raised by "Dr. Yu". I'll get to him; in the meantime I'm in the middle of watching someone who calls himself "Professor Greg" going to great lengths to attack Dr. Campbell's video talk. So far he is droning on about total irrelevancies in an entirely unconfident and downright nervous manner completely inconsistent with an experienced academic. If he is what he claims to be, he would have decades of experience talking in front of people, yet his voice is shaking like that of a man who doesn't believe what he's saying. Most unusual. At any rate, thanks for your lecture on scientific thinking. It's not up there with the ones I listened to from the estimable professors of my youth while I was getting my science education, but I appreciate your spirit of selflessness.
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  9040. Notice who produces the most oil: the US, not Russia. And they have lower production costs than Russia. Fire up that copium and inhale deeply, deeply.
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  9041. @ I appreciate your pleasant attitude. Generally a rarity in these times. Edit: Btw, here's my take on this video, apparently buried way down and unread by anyone: Breaking news: Canada is retaliating against VisualPolitik for saying "on-TARR-ee-oh." At 12:01 a.m., all Canadians will start saying WER-sest-er-shy-er and BUCK-ing-ham-shy-er. 😂
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  9042. Project much?
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  9043. 👍Ukraine is squeezing Bakhmut like an overripe pimple. 🇺🇦 Watch the morale of the RF forces bleed out.
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  9044.  @QuantumMechanic_88  Let's face it, another face.
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  9045.  @calispieter  Her weak intellect would sink America.
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  9046.  @calispieter  The weakness of her mind would breed disasters by the hour.
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  9047.  @jmdavison62  Omg! If you have to ask, you'll never understand! (Unless you're 16, in which case maybe things will be ok.)
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  9048.  @jakel3574  You're thinking of Jeff Zucker at CNN.
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  9049.  @mildloser2248  So you read my comment that you didn't agree with and it made you cry.😭Get over it.
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  9050.  @mildloser2248  Congratulations, but... Breaking news: It's not 1980. No one cares anymore. Find another pretext for pretend-heroism.
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  9051. I can't stand the loud promo at the end of every video. So sudden, so jolting.
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  9052.  @spizzenergi2292  It was relinquished in the hope there could be a quick workaround for the 1973 recession. Nixon was shortsighted, just as he was with Watergate. And he was forced out. When will China force out the shortsighted Xi? Oh wait, it won't. He's the dictator.
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  9053. PM Peter Pan: "I think I'll allow this."
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  9054. Well, that plus weapons and fantastic intelligence no doubt, from their appalled friends. Thanks Turkey, thanks Sweden, thanks 29 other NATO countries. Thanks Japan, too, for the money, the volunteer combatants, the sanctions, the refugee assistance. Thanks Australia.
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  9055. Hmm. When will that be, at the latest?
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  9056. The US doesn't fund the Russian Army and it's the latter who did it.
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  9057. They'll say anything. They have EDS (Everything Derangement Syndrome). Whatever they say, believe the opposite.
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  9058. Comments section: "Yeah! Let's all celebrate! To the starvation of lions! Let them eat grass!"🙄
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  9059. Wtf is that supposed to mean? Are you usually so insulting when doling out praise? Y'know, Americans thinking they're so great is actually the source of all their serious problems, of which they have an incredible number. America, staring in the mirror generation after generation: "Heh, heh. You handsome devil. You're just the handsomest. I love you."
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  9060.  @wulf7463  Not after setting things straight. How you doin'?
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  9061. For me, free speech includes letting Michael Shellenberger finish his points. He's the best political-social-ethical-journalistic mind in America that I know of. I'd never cut him off. No way.
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  9062. 0:39 Look how a rifle butt is being used to smash a protester on the ground. Watch the muzzle going straight up and down in the centre of the screen. Hear the sickening sound it makes as it strikes him or her.
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  9063.  @iam6673  I don't get you. One, I have some crypto, so you're wrong there. Don't know why you'd flatly state that I don't. Two, why didn't he move his BTC proceeds into FAANGs? I can't speak for him, but I would imagine he's already at or past peak allocations of them. So while he's a believer in FAANG stocks (because they're cash fire hydrants who've shown they can make the right moves year after year and are brutally hard to compete against) even great investments have a point past which you ought to stop buying them, simply because you must always maintain proper portfolio diversification. Btw, he doesn't only recommend FAANGs. No way. He's also been pitching energy and banks, as well as certain chip makers and pharmas. So, we good? Keep learning, and be sure you know what you're talking about before you blurt out the word 'moron'. The brightest people seldom resort to using it.
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  9064. ​ @thJune  Your first sentence is clearly accurate…for now. But let crypto get big enough and things will change. Mao said political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, which was very true of China at the time. Today in the US, it grows out of various locales, but notably out of the financial services industry and the products it trades and keeps custody of. Bitcoin didn't start out as a product of that industry, but it's one now. No politician wants to get thrown out of office for hijacking and crashing the fortunes of tens of millions of voters. And the number of crypto owners has either reached that level or, on present trends, will soon. So already it would be extremely messy for the US to stomp all over crypto, and before long it could be out of the question. That's how it looks right now. Their window of opportunity to crush it is open, but narrowing fast.
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  9065. "Ancestors" strikes the wrong note. We're talking about his grandparents. European villagers, all four.
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  9066. Her brother did America a favor by taking her off the market.
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  9067. Your last PM was a politician with real bite.
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  9068. Imagine the furor in the US liberal media if Brazil's awf ul Lula were a conservative. But he's not a conservative, he is a certifiably far-left authoritarian figure.  So he gets largely ignored, either with muted criticism or good old-fashioned crickets.🤨
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  9069. Why is everyone reacting by calling Loblaws greedy? I don't get it. Exactly how many products can a store sell before it merits that label? I need a number. Remember when they added rotisserie chicken? Was that 'greedy'? Help me out here. Calling them greedy seems pointlessly resentful and small.
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  9070. Bring back reading your own post to make sure it makes sense before hitting the comment button.
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  9071. Good lord I hope so with all my heart.
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  9072. What? Who says "China cannot trade with Russia"?
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  9073. Good heavens these questions are bloated, wordy and all over the place. I must go now.
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  9074.  @Don.Challenger  Watching Sir Lawrence, I perceived that it was a struggle for him too. Our loved ones owe us a fair bit of patience; strangers don't.
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  9075. Let's not waste time naming every high political office and other important public and private institution they've deeply infiltrated. Save time by naming some they haven't. In the next 60 days I want to hear candidates in the upcoming election tell us what the hell they intend to do about this problem! And the media better start pushing them.
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  9076. He didn't bring these points up. The lame interviewers did. Wtf's wrong with you? One big fat dislike for this comment. "Envy is concealed admiration."—Kierkegaard
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  9077.  @yanceyhudson5794  K
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  9078.  @yanceyhudson5794  Kierkegaard was a philosopher, btw, not a psychologist. But whatevs.
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  9079. Omg he called him "Pal"! How would he thank Queen Elizabeth if he forgot her name? "Hey, thanks, toots"?
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  9080. If the figure went from 41% to 57%, that's worth noting. A higher number makes it harder for govts. to beat up on oil cos.
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  9081.  @vivienneb6199  Just curious, what grade are you in?
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  9082.  @vivienneb6199  Ah, 6th grade, I see!😂
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  9083.  @vivienneb6199  Thanks. It's an honor to be insulted by the likes of you.
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  9084.  @vivienneb6199  Now it's become entertaining watching you do this to yourself. So I'm honored and I'm enjoying some popcorn too.🍿😄 Wow, look at her go! Very energetic in her harassing. Tireless! 🤣
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  9085. You should know, Oleg🤣
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  9086. Yes there is hope. Ukraine will push Russia out. Someone will end Putin in the blink of an eye.
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  9087. Yeah, but then he fattened her up for a few months and ate veal sandwiches for the rest of the year.
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  9088. Zero details on the arrests and what preceded them? W t foxtrot?
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  9089. "Problem set"😂 Is this a freshman homework club?
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  9090. A Biden Supreme Court nominee would've said: "I don't know. I'm not a historian."
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  9091. Let's work hoax in there somewhere.
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  9092.  @TranceGurl20  Some, yes. Tell the one you see in your mirror to keep her misanthropy to herself and stop trying to spread it.
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  9093. 1) Coming soon: 'I too am black. I realized it when I went to war.' 2) If Tim Walz were caught cheating on his wife: 'The PTSD which I got from going to war left me unable to resist temptation.' Yeah, Semper Mendacem. 3) What's with EC's little cocktail party dress? Nice, I suppose, but NSFW. Not this work. The main purpose here isn't to impress fashion-minded women or to turn men's minds to, uh, activities of a frolicsome sort. Her garment signals a frame of mind too unserious for sitting down to discuss serious national matters.
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  9094. Fine, but then why come to the 'thank you' tutorial? lol Never mind, it's ok, Vivi
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  9095.  @LittleJack-qe1ft  That was really bad.
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  9096.  @casper191985  No, how this guy waltzed in to be maximally rude and lower the level of discussion.
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  9097. For me there's next to zero credibility in this very hard sell. The emphasis is on the narrative of the proud heretic versus the stuffy old believers, as though he's the Galileo of 2022 and today's scholars are the counterparts of the 17th-century schoolmen and popes who opposed him. Quite the story, but I'm not too impressed that he's aiming it at kids. We've always and forever had a steady stream of people pushing various highly-imaginative visions ("it's time we awakened!" etc.) but very, very few Galileos, and very far between. Careful, kids. Consume with more than a few grains of salt, do not impulse-buy like it's a cool toy, and above all consult multiple other reputable sources. Award one bonus point to anyone clearly not trying to create a disciple by pushing you to believe.
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  9098.  @AustinKoleCarlisle  And I'm literally questioning what he told me.
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  9099.  @AustinKoleCarlisle  You mistake my point (perhaps for eristic reasons, it's hard to tell).  Yes he is 'questioning things,' but that is not what I'm criticizing him for. I stated clearly what my criticisms were. I dislike the un-intellectual pushiness not just of his argumentation but also of his pressure on non-specialists. The way it looks to me, he'd love to set himself up as one of the argumentum ad verecundiam elites he explicitly derides (because 'it's cute when I do it'). Red rhetorical flags all over the place. Please forgive the lateness of my reply. I very often don't get reply notifications; that's probably why.
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  9100.  @AustinKoleCarlisle  Asinine is claiming that he makes no claims. Omg Now if you'll excuse me, I have time I have to stop wasting time on this. I can no longer be reached.
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  9101.  @anindividual4916  Aha! So he has improved. I remembered him from CNN years ago as a bit of a turkey.
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  9102.  @aydntheoddguy9936  It's TV. It has to end when the allotted time has been used up.
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  9103.  @zacharyb2723  He has to interrupt him at times because the guy is a metronome and will go on for three minutes every time in response to a ten-second remark by Carlson---despite knowing that these things are interviews but also in part discussions. Thus it's really West whose standard of conduct could be better and who needs to be corralled lest his own form of boorishness take over. It's a five minute interview and West has been told that beforehand. He also knows the longer his answers, the less Carlson can respond or follow up. And what's wrong with laughing at him, if it doesn't show bitter or played-up scorn? I'll stick with Blake: "As the air to a bird..." etc.
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  9104.  @screenPhiles  "[...] the minute you act as if you have anything approximating a will, he goes on the attack." Except here. Okay.
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  9105.  @screenPhiles   "That you actually think Candace Owens has the wherewithal to debate Cornell West shows I can't take advice about debates from you. And you also show your ignorance because acknowledging the role skin color–“race” is a misnomer–is just reality. Hit me back up when your able to face it." You have a very unappetizing personality. And mind. Grow up, kid, and do something about the poison in you. You're out in public amongst strangers.
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  9106.  @svonkie  I can think of few personality traits more attractive than a willingness to pay a compliment to someone you oppose. It's completely out of fashion and that is, if it's possible, an understatement. All the best.
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  9107. How to ruin a country in one or two generations: Listen to the lefties, trust them, put them in charge
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  9108. This needs a table of contents.
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  9109. The thumbnail ("DON'T OVERDO THIS") is a neat little piece of clickbait craft. Turns out to have nothing to do with the video.
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  9110. Privatize the BBC now. Let those who like it become paying subscribers. Everyone else can give it a Spike Milligan sailor's farewell (i.e., heave it overboard😄). And let the meagre proceeds from the sale be sent by cheque to taxpayers.
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  9111.  @PolicePaparazzi  I don't know, man. Look at how people drive here now.
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  9112. The US got out of Afghanistan suddenly, a few months after Russia suddenly started massing troops along the Ukraine border. They did so advisedly. It would not do to be in Afghanistan while a major war raged in Europe. Want to hold someone responsible? Try Putin.
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  9113.  @JS-es5ep  On the whole, Canada's restrictions have not been nearly as draconian, considering Australia's vastly lower level of spread, illness, and deaths. For example, a curfew was imposed only in Quebec, meaning nearly 80% of Canadians were spared such a measure. And a lockdown like Victoria's a few months ago because of infections in the mere single digits wouldn't have happened in, say, Ontario or BC. Many Canadians quite naturally compare their restrictions with those in the US, where they were lessened or removed earlier. But that was largely because the US achieved fairly high vaccine coverage two or three months sooner than Canada did. Canadians also tend to compare the strictest provinces with the least strict states.
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  9114.  @JS-es5ep  I agree with all that. He's got to go, and so does wokester illiberalism. Let's all rack our brains thinking of what we can actually do. Honing one's thinking and rhetoric on social media is a great first step, but action has to be taken elsewhere. My own experience in politics taught me that politicians pay more attention to constituents' letters than they really should, so this avenue should be heavily used. One drawback is that such a letter has to be really well written and sound like it came from an intelligent and educated person, because those people are likeliest to vote. Only a minority of people of any political persuasion can really produce such a letter, alas. Thanks for your reply. It was good for my morale.
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  9115. ​ @JS-es5ep  The American writer Susan Sontag, born about the time your European friend was, and though not everybody's idea of a great sage (that's me in dry understatement mode), was right when she said around 25 years ago that, while in the 1950s it made sense for people to relax a little, people took it way too far, and that by that time (the second half of the 90s) it was well past time they started getting much more serious again. I think some people did begin trying around that time (some, of course, were always appropriately sober-minded) but it was too late. A 'laid-back' cluelessness was by then entrenched and couldn't be stopped. People's commitment to letting their personalities run wild, just to see where they ended up, was too strong. People thought things like order, prosperity, and freedom were bulletproof, were just 'there' like the sun and the moon. Any necessary adjustments to the 60s-rebellion let-the-kids-rule program could be handled in the far-off future. But the future has a strong tendency to show up early, and here we are. Thanks for that reply, which I read with interest and sympathy. I'm surprise these posts aren't being truncated, as mine often are if they are long and have a low Positivity and Cheerfulness Quotient—as measured by the electronic overlord minding our conversations.
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  9116.  @seneca983  Come to think of it, what about Seneca? Just a romanized spelling variant?🤔
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  9117.  @maryandrea2833  Danger to the mind increases with the amount of CBC and other Trudeau-bought-and-paid-for Canadian media smoked — Health Canada
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  9118. It's remarkable how long that's been going on. Word gets around back in the Subcontinent about how bad it is, yet the employers still get their new recruits year after year.  I wish the supply of willing workers would dry up. It's the same in some other Gulf nations, too.
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  9119. These people reminded me of the actor John Hurt throwing tantrums as Caligula.😱
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  9120. Predicted typical reply: "All those countries and all their media are robots controlled by the US. The US points a gun at their heads and hypnotizes them with it. And drugs them. And plants microchips in their ears. I saw all this on TV. You should open up your eyes if you don't want to be a robot, hypnotized, drugged and microchipped by the US." And so on.
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  9121. Left wing movements would be better if they analyzed their own critiques.
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  9122. This analyst appears to realize what few do: that a rare event in the history of business is unfolding before us. Falling sales, falling stock prices, mergers and bankruptcies await a great many auto makers. How many is unclear but the total could be reduced to a mere several in the West and China each. A lot of brands are going to disappear. Musk is going to make superior cars that are five, ten or twenty thousand dollars more profitable, and that'll be the end of them. Talent usually enters the auto industry to suffer and die, but Musk is making sure it rules at Tesla. Musk alone makes its C-suite bolder and more brilliant than any other the auto industry has to offer. The minority that believe this have awarded Tesla over half the global auto sector market cap. Only Apple could spoil things, because they can attract and manage talent fairly well, and for every hundred billion Tesla can muster towards its efforts, they can raise perhaps half a trillion. Two sumos are set to go at it, it appears. One is an absolute behemoth already, but the other one is huge and getting much bigger with astonishing speed. I'm betting on the second one, who is half sumo, half badger, half Einstein, half Tesla, half Edison. There, that's the same as what you said; it's just my way of expressing it.
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  9123.  @jingjing8560  Thanks for the BYD and Xpeng viewpoint.
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  9124. No it wasn't. It's just his rhetorical would-be-impressive schtick. Impressive a little bit, but not magnificent. Irritating as a matter of fact. I shouldn't have clicked on this, come to think of it. 'Scuse me, must be going.
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  9125.  @timeWaster76  Thanks for that link. I found it a helpful summary and it's unlikely I would have stumbled on it. In fact I stumbled right past the first place you pasted it! :)
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  9126.  @timeWaster76  I ended up on an entropy ramble all over the web that killed just about 8 hours. I blame you. ;-)
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  9127. He has long spent time in clinical practice, but his main gig for decades was as a research psychologist, first at Harvard, then University of Toronto. That's correction one. Correction two, he doesn't mind the funny pronouns so much, or has always said he doesn't at any rate. He says he uses them our of courtesy whenever asked to. His beef was with the government making it illegal not to use them.
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  9128.  @TK-mf5in  No one with a personality as bad as yours has much of anything figured out, if anything at all. That young man @Drake Robichaud deserves an apology.
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  9129.  @trisss8074  Nothing against Norway, but pumping 750 million barrels of oil out of the ground per year really, really helps to raise the per-capita GDP of a country with 5 million people. If the US could do the same (proportionately) it would be producing 122 million bbl/day, which is far more than the actual total of the entire world.
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  9130. Uh, you seem to be saying "u-KROY-nee-ans".🤨
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  9131. Piers Morgan is an employee of the State of Florida? 🤔Hmm. 😂
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  9132.  @colinyandon6137  Although that's totally silly and off-colour as well, and I think you should remove it, I gotta admit it's very, very funny🤣😂 Omg
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  9133. That Florida Covid dashboard fraud and Elizabeth Holmes have the identical creepy vibe.
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  9134.  @RavenMobile  TDS/MDS
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  9135. Maintenant et pour toujours !
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  9136. Glad you like it so much. If the reaction here is representative of Americans you'll have several million of them within five years. Shantytowns everywhere with no plumbing, like in Brazil or Bangladesh.
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  9137.  @annother3350  Your "two sides" remark was perfection.
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  9138. It's far past time to stop comparing Russia's nominal GDP to that of Ukraine's allies, e.g. Germany. It's meaningless for many purposes, as the rouble is so greatly (though in a sense fairly) undervalued. Russia's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) must be considered. On that basis it's about 2x the nominal figure, not far below Germany.
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  9139.  @patrickdolinski7105  I almost said "Blonde girls with long legs!" (not so sure about Estonia there)
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  9140.  @patrickdolinski7105  I almost said "Long-legged blondes"
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  9141.  @patrickdolinski7105  I nearly said long-legged blondes😄
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  9142. And I thought maybe they'd be a bit better on a medical story. Now I realize they'd find a way to pillory the government on a story about a neighbouring galaxy.
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  9143. Not that the government is necessarily doing a perfect job. Perhaps they're not. I'm in the process of finding out enough to form an opinion, but alas Channel 4 will not be much help.
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  9144. Robby, Robby, Robby, I'm so disappointed. You just read CBC's tweet claiming editorial independence without questioning it or thinking it through in the least. My dear boy, government politicians appoint the executives and directors of the CBC. They are free to appoint the people they like. Can't you understand what that means? Are you so naive that you don't suspect they will select people who will support their political interests? Were you born yesterday?
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  9145. Moreover, that man was against slay very and recommended a gradual ban on the slay very trade in order to get the bill past the entrenched interests in Parliament. Many historians think his idea was for the best.
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  9146. Bullshit. The CAF are a great fighting force to this day. They will not be any sooner forgotten in Kandahar than in Holland, France, and Belgium.
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  9147. All very well. Perhaps all quite true. Yet he drank himself to death, poor fellow. I hesitate to follow him but I'm carefully examining what he said.
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  9148. Fascinating.
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  9149. My mother always said, quoting her grandmother, "You play with the bull, you get the horns up—" well, you know.
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  9150. So what? A lot of Americans buy their clothes at Walmart and Target. In purchasing-power terms, median Canadian personal income passed median US personal income in 2017. I'll bet you can't handle that.
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  9151. Under the Emergency Act they could monitor this space, track us down, and smash in our doors to arrest us just for talking like this—and it would be legal, perfectly legal. I'm not exaggerating. It would be legal. Two weeks ago an Ontario woman was on Facebook praising the protesters, saying she would join them. The next day the police came to her door to warn her that she better not violate any laws, then left. You can find her phone video here, unless they've removed it. (That's happening a lot.)
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  9152.  @jacqdanieles  Uh-oh. Hadn't heard about that. How new?
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  9153.  @jacqdanieles  Nice of you, thanks.
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  9154. Dear CP24: You are a popular target for a lot of Only-Fans-type accounts. I mean adult commercial spam. Can you please assign someone to minimizing this crap? In the meantime I'll do my part and downvote it. Cheers.
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  9155. Marek Kolenda never to learning the of a English.
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  9156. Pretty much. A cloying appeal to the immature sentimentalist in everybody. Near enough to Disney.
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  9157. Sky: Andrews' actions were "diabolical" Lucifer: "Hey, you take that back! Stop comparing me to Daniel Andrews!"
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  9158. Cool. We can't ignore when well-meaning policies fail.
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  9159. It's Boss Mayorkas with the fins and scales. Also the Director he recruited from Pepsi, selecting her because she fancies women. Such a relevant qualification.🙄
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  9160. It strikes me that the goal of flattening the curve is probably at odds with avoiding the impoverishment of us all, perhaps for no payoff whatever in lives saved. Lives may be at first be saved by slowing an otherwise uncontrolled spread, but slowing the spread roughly means shutting down the country until most people are vaccinated or have caught the virus and recovered. Pausing the economy for a full year or longer would likely be a disaster in many ways worse than letting the disease run its course whilst the sick and the old are safely hunkered down for several months. And drawing out the spread over time is not guaranteed to save a great many lives anyway, as hospitals may be overwhelmed even by a relative trickle of patients: it's clear that they can't handle an influx of the sick amounting to 5% of the population, but what makes anyone think they could handle even 1%? Hospitals will no doubt rise to the occasion in astonishing ways, but they operate within realistic limits against which there is ultimately no remedy. Thus the best way to save the most vulnerable might be to focus on isolating them in the most thoroughgoing manner possible, a task more achievable if people are working at their jobs and circulating freely, maintaining the normal functioning of things needed to support such an effort. It would also free up things like masks and medicines for those who need them most, including medical workers. To isolate those most at risk for, say, half a year is not only much easier on them and all of us than doing so for twelve months or more---it also gives the virus much less time to get through to them. Imagine on the one hand emerging from the summer with herd immunity achieved at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and with a quick economic and social recovery at hand, versus having the disease hanging over us all for a year or longer whilst it slowly but inexorably picks off the vulnerable one by one, at the cost of a similar (or greater) number of lives and also an economic and financial hole so deep that it takes several years or a decade to climb out of it. All the while we would swing back and forth agonizingly between tantalizing reprieve and resurgent outbreaks which continue through 2021. Quality of life and standards of living, obviously, but also the health of the people in all other respects would be sure to be seriously impacted. Do we know whether society could hang together throughout all that? We are most certainly (whichever anglosphere nation we inhabit) not the same people who withstood the Second World War with such stoic resilience. And what if the net effect of an unnecessarily protracted struggle against the disease is a sudden massive transfer of political and economic power to China? The national science advisor may have been right to float the herd immunity idea. The country which gets through this soonest will enjoy an enormous feeling of gladness and will also be the envy of the world. Possibly it could mean considering how many lives we permit (or cause) to be ruined in favour of the uncertain chance of saving a single one. Possibly it could mean sacrificing a certain number of younger lives for a vastly greater number of older ones. As Orwell said, "It is disagreeable to weigh human lives like groceries", but in the worst circumstances that may be precisely what is wisest.
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  9161. The chart at 14:09 clearly — and falsely — shows that Trump's term lasted five years, (!) from early 2016 to early 2021.
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  9162. Well, well, well. Ford is unable to make a buck on EVs, gets its hind end handed to it by the competition, and then the CEO goes on TV to say what a poor choice EVs are for consumers. What a surprise.🙄
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  9163.  @emersonasuncion8856  What's stopping your wife from doing the plumber? Nothing. I should know, I'm your extremely well paid plumber.
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  9164.  @emersonasuncion8856  Not that I relish the thought, but just a portion of the missiles in one NATO submarine could turn Moscow and its surrounding oblasts into a single great sheet of glass—and Putin knows it. Low coward-bully that he is, he only attacks countries he perceives to be defenceless. So stop getting all excited, Pooty-Bot.
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  9165.  @johnfeng4374  Want some Kool-Aid to mix with that whine? Oh, I see you already got some.
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  9166. Gordon Lightfoot: "I'm 83, but good lord I think I gotta change my name."
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  9167. Russian viewers very vocal down here.🙄
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  9168. Ever been homeless yourself?
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  9169. DW needs to replace its girl commentator with a grown-up man or woman, preferably with a few grey hairs. It's painful to listen to this callow person, whose views need more decades of seasoning. What was DW thinking?
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  9170. It's time to outfit these drones with automatic weapons and make them into mini remote Apaches.
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  9171. He did commit crimes.
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  9172. (1) America's president ought to have one of the best minds in the country. If he or she's not even in the top few million, that's not a good situation. But I doubt Joe Biden's mind even ranks in the top 50 million. (2) I'm just daydreaming on this 2nd point, but maybe Biden takes medicines that help him get by cognitively. If that's so, then he could probably be removed from office by any person or persons who can stop him taking them.
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  9173. Ah, but there's Trump's habitual exaggeration of $200bn. Remember, when he puts a price tag on the victimization of the US, he always tacks on an additional made-up $200bn. (When the dry cleaners lost one of his suits he sued them for $200,000,002,000.)
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  9174. Your videos usually have things of substance in them. What happened here?🤨 Bunch of obvious fluff.
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  9175. Imagine a man persisting in that manner with Oakeshott (as Newman also did with, e.g., Jordan Peterson). He'd be called a misogynist and his career would be affected if not soon ended, quietly or otherwise. It goes to show you how things have come full circle, women alone now having a sort of a 007 prerogative: Licence to Pill.
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  9176. That is definitely accurate. Thank you.
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  9177. Most trustworthy major news outlet in the English-speaking world.
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  9178. I am Xi Jinping and I approve of this entire episode. I love what you people are doing to yourselves. Never thought you'd move it all along this fast. Bravo.
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  9179.  @PabloGonzalez-hv3td  54 minutes ago you referred to it as "The interception." Anyway Zhang-Zhang, it's tedious conversing with you. I like my foes worthy. So buh-bye.
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  9180. Yeah, except many people "noticed" this.
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  9181. If eighty percent of Americans agreed with you on the horrible "day-to-day consequences" of the Trump administration, you might have a point. But about half the country thinks he's ok, and he might be re-elected. So why should Saad empathize with you instead of them? Because you're "right"? Your opening position is that you've won the argument.
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  9182. In my mind that groups them in with wills and funerals. Hey, let's have them cremated and put in an urn. Then let's lose them on moving day.
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  9183. It seems to that 20 years ago no one could even imagine a mayor of Chicago so illiterate that he would say "Democrat-ran."
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  9184. 😂Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra?
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  9185. Yes, but that is so godawfully dangerous. It sounds like precipitate lunge back to the 18th century, and not in a good 18th-century way. In an 18th-century mob way. I'm pretty sure.
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  9186. It must be admitted that we are all in Plato's cave at the moment, scrutinizing shadows on the wall. Secrets, deceptions and motivations unknown to us should be presumed, and presumed to be of major importance.
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  9187. Picking on Australia is what Xi does to keep up the morale of the Chinese populace—and armed forces. It's tactical.
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  9188. Russia and Africa seem to have a great deal in common politically, socially and temperamentally. Largely feudal in mindset.
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  9189. He took to crime after, due to heavy smoking, failing miserably to make the track team.
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  9190. "The Secret Service will be more direct with its local law enforcement partners." I have zero doubt they were 100% direct in the past. So clearly something happened. Knowledge, policies and procedures were forgotten and discarded. Same thing everywhere across institutions and families. Forgetting on a mass scale.
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  9191. "More expensive currently." Now that's high-powered punning. Highly conducive to the transmission of grins. Ok, I'll stop now. ;-)
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  9192. Human being, Sam A.: Human being writes statement pointing out that statements of human beings can be false. Feel the overwhelming irony.
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  9193. Always go right down to the bottom of the description to see the original posting date. This one was Feb. 4.
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  9194. I heard she loves to be fed apples.
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  9195.  @randohuy9446  Pretzel logic. His executive orders which were keeping illegal entry down were rescinded by Biden in January 2021. And during the preceding four years the D's fought him tooth and nail to prevent him doing much of anything. They also retook the House and its budgeting powers in 2018.
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  9196. I wonder what percentage of professors hails from the lower middle class. Seems like a strong majority.
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  9197. Fair coverage of the Ottawa protest at last! What took you so long?
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  9198. His hate is only for ignorance and hate, which makes it salutary and commendable. So don't worry. Relieve your anxiety by hugging yourself, perhaps.
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  9199.  @andymoore9977  Loose: opposite of tight Lose: opposite of win
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  9200.  @scallen3841  Oddly, from the timing it appears that it was Obama's re-election in 2012 that really brought it home to white liberal America that the US was hopelessly, irredeemably ray cyst.🤔 Of course odd is too small a word for it. Bat-sh-t-cray-z is a better term.
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  9201. Seriously. We could make it into a drinking game and get quite tipsy.
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  9202. Smoke another one. China is not promoting peace. It is doing the only thing which it thinks serves its own interests, which is to tell its chosen enemy, the US, that it is doing the wrong thing. However, the US is very much doing the right thing, and so is Canada. But smoke another one.
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  9203. Imagine stealing food for hungry people and then accusing others of starving them in an act of jenna side. HamISIS is the lowest of the low.
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  9204.  @xinyiquan666  "China is the undisputed champion in artificial intelligence research papers" Yes, China is famed for the sheer volume of published papers in many fields. Many a Chinese academic considers a morning wasted without submitting one, and will not risk losing face in such a manner.
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  9205. How can such tweets be lawful? Where are the police?
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  9206. Q: How uneducated and mindless is a news team one of which writes "international exports," another one of which signs off on it, and another one of which reads it on-air? A: About the same as the team in charge in Ottawa. Canada isn't even half the country it was when I was born.
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  9207. What's with the illiterate headline?
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  9208. Hey, can I get a hit off that?🚬
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  9209.  @billsattic  Sounds more like someone who didn't make it past 7th grade. No one born outside the US can become president. Also addicted to her own fantasies.
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  9210. It strikes me that the goal of flattening the curve is probably at odds with avoiding the impoverishment of us all, perhaps for no payoff whatever in lives saved. Lives may be at first be saved by slowing an otherwise uncontrolled spread, but slowing the spread roughly means shutting down the country until most people are vaccinated or have caught the virus and recovered. Pausing the economy for a full year or longer would likely be a disaster in many ways worse than letting the disease run its course whilst the sick and the old are safely hunkered down for several months. And drawing out the spread over time is not guaranteed to save a great many lives anyway, as hospitals may be overwhelmed even by a relative trickle of patients: it's clear that they can't handle an influx of the sick amounting to 5% of the population, but what makes anyone think they could handle even 1%? Hospitals will no doubt rise to the occasion in astonishing ways, but they operate within realistic limits against which there is ultimately no remedy. Thus the best way to save the most vulnerable might be to focus on isolating them in the most thoroughgoing manner possible, a task more achievable if people are working at their jobs and circulating freely, maintaining the normal functioning of things needed to support such an effort. It would also free up things like masks and medicines for those who need them most, including medical workers. To isolate those most at risk for half a year is not only much easier on them and all of us than doing so for twelve months or more, and cheaper---it also gives the virus much less time to get through to them. Imagine on the one hand emerging from the summer with herd immunity achieved at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and with a quick economic and social recovery at hand, versus having the disease hanging over us all for a year or longer whilst it slowly but inexorably picks off the vulnerable one by one, at the cost of a similar (or greater) number of lives---and also an economic and financial hole so deep that it takes several years or a decade to climb out of it. All the while we would swing back and forth agonizingly between tantalizing reprieve and resurgent outbreaks which continue through 2021. Quality of life and standards of living, obviously, but also the health of the people in all other respects would be sure to be seriously impacted. Do we know whether society could hang together throughout all that? We are most certainly not the same people who withstood the Second World War with such stoic resilience. And what if the net effect of an unnecessarily protracted struggle against the disease is a prompt, massive transfer of political and economic power to China? The UK national science advisor may have been right to float the herd immunity idea. The country which gets through this soonest will enjoy an enormous feeling of gladness and also be the envy of the world. Possibly it could mean considering how many lives we permit to be ruined in favour of the uncertain chance of saving one. Possibly it could mean sacrificing a certain number of younger lives for a vastly greater number of older ones. As Orwell said, "It is disagreeable to weigh human lives like groceries", but in the worst circumstances that may be precisely what is wisest.
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  9211. Of course our scolding elites consume colossal amounts of fossil fuels.🤯 They get around in heavier SUVs and limos, travel in their boats and private jets between their multiple large homes burning more fuel, eating more food shipped fresh from far away, than anyone who's ever lived. And those on whose toil they depend for this way of life—us, their inferiors—they lecture, accuse, demoralize and threaten.
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  9212. Of course our scolding elites consume colossal amounts of fossil fuels. They get around in heavier SUVs and limos, burn more fuel travelling in their boats and private jets between their multiple large homes, eat more food shipped fresh from far away, than anyone who's ever lived. And those on whose toil they depend for this way of life—us, their inferiors—they lecture, accuse, demoralize and threaten.
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  9213. They get around in heavier SUVs and limos, burn more fuel travelling in their boats and private jets between their multiple large homes, and eat more food shipped fresh from far away, than anyone who's ever lived. And those on whose toil they depend for this way of life—us, their supposed moral and social inferiors—they lecture, accuse, demoralize and threaten.
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  9214. Distance from Montreal to Iqaluit: 2,053 km or about 1,300 miles nearly due north.😂
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  9215.  @Paul37Ontario  The same distance south is in the Bahamas.
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  9216. According to Ukraine, in 2022 the population of the Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area was 604,000 (est.). According to Sen. Wicker, Kryvyi Rih is "a little village." 🙄
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  9217.  @forky3525  If you don't think freedom and democracy are why Ukrainians are fighting back, you need to put billions more neurons to work. A thousand isn't cutting it.
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  9218.  @Megafoot2164  I sent you a reply to your previous post two days ago but I don't see it. It was a bit long. Did you receive it?
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  9219.  @Megafoot2164  Hi. Did it say anything about a financial website? And Substack?
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  9220.  @Megafoot2164  to d p at jee male? No, nothing there. But try me at Quora. Guaranteed to work, no barriers. So silly of me not to think of that before.
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  9221. 'Night 😴
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  9222.  @Megafoot2164  Nothing. So instead, just reply to anything I've ever written on Quora. Couldn't be easier. I'll be notified.
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  9223. Perhaps ever.
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  9224. Not true. The whole thing happens simultaneously, far and near. Use the period key to advance frame by frame and you will definitely see.
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  9225. Dude just compared a really tall guy with someone who was born with a tragic, very serious and rare DNA-related mishap of nature. Not a justifiable comparison.
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  9226. There's an export version as well. "Lol" It has more conventional armour. "Lol" Poland just bought 250 such used ones. "Lol" Thanks for the attempt at disinformation. "Lol" "Lol": favourite rhetorical resort of 11-year-old boys and girls everywhere.
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  9227. You're talking about the difference between perplexed, baffled and amazed, staggered. I think we're both, and the two words are first cousins at the least if you ask me. Btw, the built-in Oxford dictionary in my browser includes bewildered in the list of thesaurus words for astounded.
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  9228. Dost mefinitely.
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  9229. As befits the Condemner-In-Chief. How can he condemn one group of Canadians or another—about twice every waking hour of every day—if he can't in like manner laud and heap rewards on some other group? 🤔 You know, maybe Divider-In-Chief is more apt.
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  9230. And there are sensible reasons for that. As the RCMP points out, Canadian production of fentanyl is small and most is consumed in Canada. What enters the US is mainly via what it calls "micro-exporters" who use Canada Post and the US Mail. Meanwhile, most fentanyl in Canada is believed to enter from the US.
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  9231.  @user-lv5bt3nt3r  Sure, that's why it's always in the headlines. Super-important. Russia invades at that border and it's only 2,516km from Oslo by road! 😄
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  9232.  @user-lv5bt3nt3r  I've got things to do now, buddy. Have a nice night.
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  9233.  @korelly  Yep, I and others covered this earlier in the thread. Good points.
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  9234. No, it's decidedly liberal for a conservative party. The "Progressive" part of the name is no misnomer.
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  9235.  @Wichnam  You sound just like him!
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  9236. UK? What?
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  9237. Thumbnail of the decade.😂 High-impact.
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  9238. The expected US invasion force in Japan was expected to be far larger than a million men. I'm sure he meant a million deaths, which is how high some estimates ran, and four million total casualties. It was going to be colossal. Anyway, for my money Lindsey Graham is the most entertaining politician in Washington and I'm on his side on most things too.
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  9239. Ah, but you're on social media right here. What about that self-contradiction?
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  9240. They need to start making these things shorter and larger in diameter. The tall skinny ones are too hard to access for cleaning. We need them more the shape of large coffee mugs. How can this not be obvious?
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  9241. Bill Blair, well-known for his impression of the sound a sink drain makes. Glug-glug.
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  9242.  @philg4116  <---🤡+💩 You have zero clue whom you're talking to. I made no claim about being sure that things I buy exclude all inputs from Chinese supply lines. But if, e.g., a jacket is made in Bangladesh, or better yet Italy, then it wasn't sewn together by a Chinese worker. The Chinese market share of many kinds of manufactured products is falling steadily, and that is well documented. Every month, billions of dollars worth of business is siphoned away by foreign competitors. The tide has turned, and it's a major reason China's GDP growth has seriously slowed.
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  9243.  @randmayfield5695  Sometimes, yes. But it's sometimes fun as well. And either way, you end up owing nicer stuff. I do, anyway.😄
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  9244. You've learned a little bit of English. Great. Keep at it.
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  9245. How many airworthy Hurricanes are there in Canada? I saw four planes this afternoon which I thought from their silhouettes might be Hurricanes, Spitfires or Defiants, but could've been Fairchild Cornells, flying over my city and looking and sounding fantastic. I actually thought it was 8 altogether but maybe they circled around faster than I realized.
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  9246. ​ @unnamedsomebodyintheuniver1761  That was a warning about Putin and Xi, who share a white-hot hatred of the West. It was not an expression of my desired outcome.
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  9247.  @musafawundu6718  I'm skeptical. What's your evidence for that?
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  9248. Imagine the level of a mind that would trust the MSM mafiosi to verify what's true. Fire Spring now, defund the BBC now.
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  9249. 👏👏👏
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  9250. It's past time to start calling 'critical race theory' 'critical racist theory'. It's racism posing as anti-racism, a sick and criminal fraud.
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  9251. How does he figure inflation is 8.5%? (!) It's 3.7%. I can't conceive of any excuse for getting that number wrong.
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  9252. Everything woke turns to ca-ca-poo-poo. Including entire generations. Including countries. Including civilizations.
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  9253. I see from the picture of him with Putin that they're the same height, around 5'4". Poor guys, they feel shortchanged by life I guess. They need a therapist who will prescribe them a few drops of nicotine.
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  9254. It's hardly unfair to China to stop helping it. Especially when China has been helping itself to US technology by just stealing it. Forty years of helping China is over. No more US chips.
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  9255. No mention is made of any deterrent capability. The impression left is that not only is the UK defenceless, but also it could mount no attack of its own. Whilst being destroyed, the UK would simply sit back and wait to be destroyed some more. Is this realistic? For one thing, the UK belongs to NATO. Does Mr. Felton suppose NATO to be a defense organization with no defense capability? Or is he simply intent on alarming the British people (to salutary effect) by giving a slanted picture?
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  9256. There's something really, really wrong with you if you're laughing at other people's problems.
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  9257.  @laurameunier5290  Uh, reading comprehension alert! Irony alert! Emojis that spell it out for you alert! Obvious overstatement alert! And so on...
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  9258. Correction: they hate the government of China, which has not been freely chosen by the Chinese and is thus illegitimate. The government of Taiwan is the legitimate Chinese government. The PRC is a rogue state.
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  9259. What gives you that idea?🤨
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  9260.  @ItzChickenYall  Interesting claim. Thank you.
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  9261.  @Gman44324  Yes, and Toronto should've been in quote marks as well.
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  9262. She can't help showing off. She just got her Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  9263. Watch the cool YouTube channel '1420'—which is all interviews with people on the street in Russia, nearly all in Moscow—and tell me if it looks 3rd-world in the least. Spoiler: it absolutely does not. (But new uploads may soon end, cuz it's obvious the 1420 guy is anti-Ukraine-War and anti-Putin. I mean he might get jailed.) Other than that I agree with every word of what you said. Cheers
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  9264.  @ScentlessSun  Omg. Everything we're saying in this thread is scary if you think about it. Cheers.
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  9265. @@nickshannon7442 In highly-politicized academic subjects, and probably even in some that aren't, peer review is broken.
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  9266. It could happen here.
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  9267. Glad to see the support down here in the comments for your take on this fiasco.👍 Either the president and VP had this planned or they simply lost their cool. I think it was the former, but either way it was contemptibly bad and unforgivable.
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  9268. For the left, anything that weakens family relations, anything that drives people apart, is good advice.
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  9269.  @COTH23  TTFN. Be a dear and close the door quietly when you go.
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  9270.  @COTH23  I just meant don't slam it.
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  9271.  @COTH23  Ok. Enjoy the new Tesla you ordered.
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  9272.  @COTH23  Did you order it in red? It's a gorgeous colour in the pictures.
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  9273. I wonder what you mean. Lost souls is a phrase devised by Christian worshippers for those whom they consider the worst sinners.
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  9274.  @dylonjackson8863  Can't it only be sympathy when you've been through the same thing or something similar? Empathy is compassion when you don't even know what it's really like, I thought. E.g. sympathy for someone who got dumped; empathy for someone who has dementia
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  9275. I respect her less for showing up for work in the skimpiest, tightest little top possible. No sense of respect or propriety. If it wouldn't fly at a hospital back home, it's not right for a battlefield either. Why not pair it with a thong?🙄
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  9276. I disagree with Peter Hitchens' uncle here. The oblivious fellow hasn't even heard that Kissinger changed his mind.
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  9277. Grace calls the subject boring and says it shouldn't be discussed. To me the amazing part is her not realizing and expecting that people will say "Then why on earth did you show up to discuss it?" Leftists think being a leftist means your character and mental coherence don't matter, because leftism gets you 5 gold stars for your personhood automatically. It's why, e.g., left Canadians don't mind Trudeau's blackface or groping a woman.
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  9278. Maher spent his life watering the seedlings of woke, grooming society for its emergence. He's full of anger, but it should be anger and remorse.
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  9279. At 7:00 they discuss 'toxic cynicism', agreeing that Russia is feeding a pre-existing syndrome in the US. For a cogent argument that it is not a native species but was instead seeded in the first place from abroad beginning decades ago, see the 2018 New York Times documentary Operation Infektion. Watch it here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo&t=1272s&frags=pl%2Cwn or the NYT site.
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  9280. If you were older you'd get it. I was gonna say "some dorm in 1985 called…they want their haircut back." (I'm talking about when he was 14, when some guys had that haircut.)
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  9281.  @CorsetGrace  Just 80%? According to researchers whom transgenderism thrills as the next great advance of humanity, those who see it as a hysteria foreshadowing civilizational collapse, or both?
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  9282. Hit the closed captions button. Poor transcription but still makes the difference.
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  9283. Because you're witnessing a rapid collapse of character.
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  9284.  @mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat  I don't recommend doubting that life is real. That's a very junky American thing. We need to put our arms around reality and hold on tight forever, not dream up the most far-out possible fantasies that we can substitute for it.
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  9285. What do you mean? Like it or not, Scotland is Britain.
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  9286. The new mic sounds excellent. Apparently you're a skilled shopper.👍
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  9287. Odd as it seems, children are the least affected. This has been easy to establish, requiring only simple observation and counting. That's why the emphasis is on the elderly. Cheers.
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  9288.  @victoria.matthews  Yes it seems odd on the face of it. Search "Sam Harris coronavirus" here on this site for his podcast interview of a leading expert who hypothesizes that an over-strong immune response in adults may be causing deaths among them. Cheers.
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  9289.  @Chad-sq3ie  Stomaching the mere existence of trust fund babies, even if having to do so is demoralizing, or even in some cases spoils one's whole life, is a part of the price we pay for prioritizing the freedom and dignity of the individual. Possibly you see it the same way, but it didn't look like it.
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  9290. Dalio urges Americans to pull their money out of the US and send it to China. After the US treated him like gold, after it made him a billionaire. He completely nauseates me, and so do his admirers.
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  9291. I bet you on her birth certificate it's "Kringela."
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  9292. Population of Ukraine plus the NATO countries: 1 billion. And don't forget the backing of South Korea, Japan and Australia, a further 200 million people.
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  9293. Hey, my mother said 'sook'. I haven't heard that in a long, long time. Which country are you from/do you live in?
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  9294. I'm an alien and that's totally untrue. But smoke another one if you like.
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  9295.  @LoveWins-xv9lm  They're fighting for the destruction of his family, aren't they?
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  9296. Fine. Say the obvious is the valuable. Say there's money in playing it safe, in swimming with the school.
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  9297. You're so right. Possibly they were the leading power 15 years ago too, but since then they acquired giant allies in Big Social Media, so now they're firmly in control. In many cases they can install and remove governments at will. Thanks for that great comment. You should repeat it elsewhere many times and for a long time. 👏🏻 You're a good man Gareth.
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  9298. @jamie_a6500 Stop pretending there are men who regard women as their servants (You would have to point to one of those countries south or eastwards which leftists insist are oh-so morally superior to the English-speaking ones). If anything it's the other way around: "Who's gonna work himself into the grave for me, so I don't have to go to the trouble of taking half his stuff by divorcing him? Damn, I need a footrub right now. Fight the power!"
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  9299.  @secondchance6603  But there's a Ministry of Henpecked Men as well, in operation since 2012 and fully staffed by women. Little is known about it, but its rumoured mission is to henpeck men and it has a budget of two hundred billion quid.
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  9300. Why's that necessary? U of T is what everyone calls it.
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  9301.  @TheAcadianGuy  Yep, agreed. Sure, the border should be fairly nice and sealed, but that guy needs a few slow deep breaths. Concerning this issue, so do many people of various political leanings.
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  9302. @Clem Fandango Translation: "I hate the West so much that it makes any atrocities committed by others elsewhere quite all right."
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  9303. "No doubt"? Your sanctimonious speculation is based on what? What evidence do we have? It may be so. It may instead be the case that the would-be hero was a virtual Artie Ziff. We owe our society an adult level of patience before running to comments sections to render our would-be mob verdicts.
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  9304. Why is no one at all saying that dressing in drag is morally equivalent to wearing blackface? Why on earth?
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  9305. 0:23 Hey, it's AOC!
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  9306. A good lesson in the worse side of human nature. Thank you.
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  9307.  @yoloswaggins7121  That guy's not a Finn. YouTube comments are a cesspool of fake identities. Thanks for injecting some sanity.
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  9308. Yeah, what an idiot. Imagine, not wanting to get married and then some years later marrying! Some people! What an accurately incisive comment! Can we have more, please?
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  9309.  @AliAli-et7zy  😥 And I wasn't mocking anyone's name. I was implying that the person is a foreign prop a gandist intending to be taken for a Westerner.
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  9310.  @AliAli-et7zy  In this instance the odds are strong, yeah. The bitter resentment and the blanket dismissal of SNA coverage as "lies" were the clues. Have yourself a nice life!
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  9311.  @AliAli-et7zy  Thanks for the good laugh.
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  9312. ​ @timothychung4811  "Second World," though the term has mostly fallen into disuse, means the communist countries. You didn't know that? Thus China has been a Second World country since 1949, and remains one.
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  9313.  @JaiAcuneIdeeQuoiMettreIci  🙄No, it is not implied that there's anything wrong with being a schoolgirl. You mistakenly infer that, or at least you claim to. What is very obviously meant is that a schoolgirl is a far from appropriate person to be the head of a national government. You can't see that?🤨 I must say your account name is fitting, since you had no idea what to write in your comment apart from the first four words.
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  9314. ​ @mentalphilanthropist35  Please acquaint yourself with actuality. First of all, the safe drinking water problem has been almost entirely addressed. Try to keep yourself up to date once every five or ten years. Second, contrary to the impression given by the media, the so-called problem largely amounted to settlements that couldn't qualify as villages or even hamlets. In most cases we were talking about a few houses with maybe 10 or 20 residents demanding a multi-million-dollar water treatment plant. (Or at least city-dwelling activists demanding it on their behalf.) And before safe supplies were provided at multi-billion-dollar expense, govts. provided bottled water. Third, the claim that one in four people are using food banks, meaning over 10,000,000 Canadians (!), is a simple and abominable untruth. A disgraceful falsehood which should be immediately retracted. As for people working three jobs, surely that in itself isn't a problem. For one thing, it's hours on the job that make work potentially over-burdening, not how many employers one has. For another, it's a good thing that they could find places that were hiring. Yes, life for some in Canada is hard. That has always been true and always will be, but better times come for nearly all. In the meantime, even being poor in Canada remains something better than being poor nearly anywhere in the world. It's sad that you think the best response is sanctimony and hatred of your own country. Such an outlook would spell personal misery for anyone, even in a country that were a virtual Eden. As I began by saying, please try to be less out of touch and more realistic. You'll be glad you did. Now please have a really nice day.😀
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  9315.  @mentalphilanthropist35  And how many people is that? Extremely few. Over 90% of the problem has been addressed, at the expense of billions and billions of dollars. Moreover, they are well outnumbered by the number of Canadians outside reservations who don't have safe or treated water. It's a simple fact of life for a minority of Canadians in remote areas whether they are First Nations people or not, whether they live on reservations or not. And of those 31 (which is itself an outdated figure, as the number is now lower: 28 and falling) most now have solutions currently under construction. If you and a few dozen other people locate yourselves in a remote area, no one is going to come along and build you a multi-million-dollar water and sewage system and treatment plants, no matter if you're the whitest people in the history of the Earth. That is a fact. I leave you to your media-fuelled hatred and media-fuelled bias. Buh-bye.
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  9316. Ah, but it's you who are clearly the expert in baiting the people with false narrative. A base achievement, to be sure, but you've gotten there, and I grudgingly applaud you. [very slow clapping]
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  9317.  @lilchristuten7568  No. Not at all. It's another term for MTF trans, and has been used in this sense for decades. Always with the "I'm sure it's an insult somehow" eh? See the comment of Bogdan P in the other replies to this comment (1 week ago).
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  9318.  Bogdan P  Meaning male-to-female trans?
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  9319. "I want to China to do well, just not as well as us" Yes! China is a competitor, so of course! The US wants EVERY country to do well, just not as well as them. They feel that way about the UK too, and Canada! The US is competitive. Who isn't? Does China want to be a friendly competitor like Japan is? Or non-friendly?
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  9320.  Raymond  Thanks for your reply. I'm not here to attempt any exculpation of American faults. In other contexts I rant about them all day long. But openness tends to put a cap on excess and abuse. The US, for instance, has yet to start rounding up Muslims. I'm not much in the mood for debate at the moment. Let me just say the two countries ought to both practice healthy restraint. And improving a situation always starts with a long look in the mirror. Not very big statements, but all I feel like saying at the moment. Cheers till another time.
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  9321.  Raymond  No, it's about your mind and personality. Now you've supplied extra unneeded proof that I made the right call. Cheers.
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  9322. This guy dresses far too strangely for me to trust him.🙄
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  9323. My advice if you decide to stroll among these comments: Don't wear good shoes. 💩
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  9324.  @seekerotruth8033  "Where have they gone?" How can you ask? Women, led by feminists, have spent the last lifetime attacking masculinity and demanding that boys be raised essentially as girls. Hoist with your own petard, madam.
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  9325. ​ @lavinder11  Appalling smug unfairness on your part. He made a very reasonable point, only to be accused of spite and revelling in women being beaten. He also never said he was at such events to protect women, but simply to support them, yet you put "protection" in quotation marks. 👏Congratulations on managing to touch so many bases in toxically reprehensible public conduct.👏
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  9326.  @susanjones7734  No it wasn't. I think something is clouding your judgment there. And why should they even be called "women's events"? That's exclusionary language. We are talking about events concerning the rights and standing of women, and such things are quite rightly of interest to people generally. I'm not sure I can put my finger on it just now, but there is very obviously something perhaps not at all far from spite in your own language.
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  9327.  @susanjones7734  I don't see what a public meeting has in common with a someone's visit to a bathroom.  Your previous reply gave me a strong impression (now fully confirmed) that you have an objectionable and strange bent of mind, and for that reason I clicked the mute button. But it appears that the mute button doesn't work. So I ask you not to reply to me again.
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  9328. They were 100% for it. They announced hundreds of billions of dollars worth of plans. Then Musk bought Twitter and the media narrative flipped. It turned on a dime. Suddenly EVs changed from being the best thing ever to the worst thing ever. Just in time for ICE carmakers! Because only Tesla is able to make them at a profit. The saddest part is how many conservatives they duped, as you can see here.
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  9329. 🙄The generation born with a phone in their hand, but all of a sudden nobody had a phone to record it with.🙄
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  9330. The training project was led by Lt.-Colonel McGyverenko.
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  9331. "Between 12 & 15 years old. So, pretty young." Yep, that's an assertion few will gainsay. 😂
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  9332. Nearly as silly as the US & Canada uniting (this century, anyway) is the WSJ thinking all Canada could become one state. Surely the provinces would accede individually (after a likely merger of the four small Atlantic provinces) as the 51st-57th states. Their average population would be 6m, not far from the present 6.7m.
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  9333. Crimea river.😥
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  9334. Vance shows us how Trump should've dealt with the VP — by taking the reins. (I really want to see him debate her again and do it right this time.)
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  9335. Out of any thousand of the least sentimental Americans, still about 980, like this guy, are shot through with childish sentimentalism. A boy with grey hair and a camera. It's the archetypal American fault.
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  9336. I'm not, but I'll drink to the sentiment.
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  9337. Yes, exactly. Thank you.
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  9338. Gotham Comedy Live appearance had to be one of the best 10-minute sets in history. (Happy The Dog channel for decent resolution.)
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  9339. The woman being interviewed is quite right. China is drooling to have an ally on Russia's level. To them, Putin is pure gold. And of course that's what he is—to the Party. For though a thousand years should pass, as long as the Party rules China, China will never have a friend. Having no friends, it will take any psycho as an ally, since any sane country will automatically ally itself with the West.
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  9340. Zero.
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  9341. If I were a Trump aide I'd make it a top priority to not get into a "massive blowout" scrap with Elon Musk, who's suddenly one of the president-elect's close advisors. The claim that such a thing happened should be treated as highly dubious, imo.
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  9342. I axe you!
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  9343. What a good man.
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  9344. Just watch, the liberal position on this will eventually mirror that of conservatives. Like the Vatican issuing an encyclical, the liberal media will announce that it's no longer heresy to condemn Huh-moss, just like it did with the Lab Leak Theory, the border wall, and other elements of conservative opinion. Media-pious liberals will instantly obey.
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  9345. She was, though. You didn't know that?🤨 No less a moral authority than Christopher Hitchens said so.😄
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  9346. This deserves 50x more views at least. With over 10% likes it should be spreading faster. The algo is suppressing it because of its content.
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  9347. People are starting to wonder if the counteroffensive might not start until September, when a bunch of F-16s go in to active duty. So was there just a strategic benefit in feigning the onset of an offensive and then going later? Or maybe at this point they're making it up as they go along. Hard to say for sure, but to me Ukraine and especially NATO are looking very calm and deliberate right now. I think they're generally minimizing risks but do have big plans to unfold.
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  9348. It seems very likely that drones are eventually going to be used to kill many, many people.
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  9349. Nice try.
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  9350.  @yoramgt  No. If social justice were the constitutional aim of the nation, the motto inscribed in the pediment of the Supreme Court Building, "Equal Justice Under Law," would instead read "Equality, By Law."
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  9351. @ No. If social justice were the constitutional aim of the nation, the motto inscribed in the pediment of the Supreme Court Building, "Equal Justice Under Law," would instead read "Equality Via The Law."
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  9352.  @WallyPyneoil  Thanks for the link. I found Straughan immensely refreshing.
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  9353. It's a rock-solid medium-tax, capitalist/free-enterprise democracy 100% committed to NATO. It's also just about totally out of patience with China. Stop pretending you're smart.
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  9354. Innocent civilians also died in the Allied liberation of Holland in 1945. Tragically, many thousands of them. Yet the Dutch welcomed the Canadians and British as liberators, with flowers, tears and open arms. They rightly laud them as heroes to this day. The socialist guest here needs to accept that isolated battlefields like Waterloo can never be the norm again, and so what matters is the targeting of civilians, or gross carelessness.
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  9355. Proof that if you're a woman you just have to blank the right man's blank and you're a philanthropist and politician.
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  9356. More than once we hear that women sought concentration camp work because it paid somewhat well. I can hardly guess why such a generous and understanding stance is taken towards their free choice, except that it is due to the mere fact they were women, for we are also told of Braunsteiner's "bestial crimes", and in other videos those of Ilse Koch and Irmgard Huber. Should we therefore inquire into the salaries of the male staff at the camps, and those of Eichmann, Himmler, et al.?
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  9357. Ok, Peskovchik. Hey, don't you have some beets to dig up?
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  9358. In the thumbnail I thought he was wearing powder and lipstick.
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  9359. It may be a straw man of you. I'll take your word for it and add that I'm glad to hear it. But it's not a straw man of a large and influential cabal with money, media backing, numbers and political capital. It's a fair take on them.
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  9360. Explain why it's so important not to call our representative democracy a democracy as a shorthand. Everyone knows how it works, everyone knows we don't have direct-democracy referendums every day. So how does it matter? I always think comments like yours reflect the inarticulate rage of someone who's pretending to be smart. If I'm wrong I need to know how and why. Help me out.
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  9361.  @Dundertaker1  I expected something like that.😂
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  9362. The workings of the algorithm are like weather: there are definitely reasons behind every infinitesimal detail of both, and you can see patterns in the higher effects, but the causes are so complex that there seems to be a randomness to them. Explaining this video getting in your feed is like explaining why a breeze from the WNW blows on your face on a particular summer day for five seconds. In a sense there are reasons; in another there is no reason.
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  9363. Are you serious? I love it but it sounds too good to be true. Source, please and thank you. All the best.
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  9364. "Born to be ruled" is how they were described by an acquaintance of mine who left the Soviet Union in his 30s.
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  9365. The Griner bit was a real clincher, or cherry on top. He'd let her play for for the Mavs even though he knows, as we all do, that she's not good enough to be on the team. So he's eager to discriminate unfairly by rheighce, basically telling us that "R.'sm isn't a bug, it's a feature — you just have to do it well."
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  9366. Mike Tyson: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." Minneapolis version: "Everybody's a liberal until far-left activists burn their house down."
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  9367. Tell it to your TA. Oh wait, it's a morning class, so you'll miss it while sleeping in.
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  9368. A million Russians bereaved of their sons, husbands, fiancés, brothers .... hate your Kool-aid guzzling nonsense. A great many Russian generals, colonels, majors, privates .... likewise. To them it's you who are useless, you who spew propaganda. They are right.
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  9369. It's a scandal. Such traitorous work must be made illegal.
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  9370. Aside from your second-last sentence, which is largely erroneous, I agree with every word of that. [Russia comprises 11% of the earth's land area ("land mass," as geographers call it 😄). Its GDP in 2022, if construed in terms which sidestep the large undervaluation of the rouble (so-called PPP, meaning purchasing power parity), is estimated by the IMF to have been barely 10% smaller than Germany's and 1.5x that of Italy. (Approx. $4.6trn, vs. Germany $5.3trn; Italy $3.0trn. Equal to that of California and New York combined).]
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  9371.  @kirktierney  Wow dude, just use resources like Google Search or Wikipedia to verify basic facts like land areas. You continue to write incorrect assertions about them. Both assertions you make in part (a) are factually wrong. GDP at market exchange rates (often called nominal GDP) and GDP at PPP are measures of different things and each is valuable its own right. In my view both are essential for understanding the economic heft of any given country, but in the case of internal military procurement, PPP is especially important. Consider that if the rouble falls by half, its military budget is then deemed in a nominal GDP calculation to have also fallen by half, even though what it continues to get for its money remains the same. And it also works the other way around: say the rouble rises 50% while everything in its MoD and arms industries remains the same. Outsiders relying on nominal GDP will falsely observe that its military budget has shot up sharply. I think you should understand things better now. Although the post of yours to which I responded has been deleted, I distinctly remember that your second-last sentence was about military spending in Russia as a proportion of GDP (5-7%; 6%), not "Europe does not need Russia and will cast it loose." To me the former wasn't coherent; the latter point I understood fine and thought was basically true. Again I find that I am in close agreement with most of what you say but you are not strong on facts and figures and economics and you should face that.
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  9372. That email to staff 6:49 is all anyone needs to see. Cuckoo-bananas, plain and simple. Thanks for posting!
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  9373.  @bug5654  The same sort of person also claims that the totalitarian regime in Animal Farm and the INGSOC party in Nineteen Eighty-four were right-wing, while in reality Orwell based them on Stalin's communist party in the USSR. It's all part of their never-ending attempt to bury truth.
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  9374.  @jeffreysmith236  Did you acquire this view through university coursework or your own program of reading? (Or both?) Either way, have you found it largely summed up in a single book (or two)? If you have, please let me know which one(s). Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  9375. Leftists never tire of praising democracy, then they protest when they lose an election. So it's about always wanting to have it both ways. Which is really all about never growing up. Leftism = Peter Pan syndrome
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  9376. Netflix didn't say "Our competitor is sleep". Its CEO Reed Hastings used the word "enemy".
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  9377.  @Eric-lx8hp  That's wrong, unless you didn't know the dark ages were the centuries following the fall of Rome in the West. In certain places and times the average life expectancy might have been thirty, I can accept that. But people would still commonly live past middle age if they were in stable circumstances with adequate food, water, and shelter, and weren't otherwise particularly unlucky. A 30-year-old with kids around ten wouldn't be considered an oldster.
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  9378.  @erncortez  Meh. Across all media channels 95% of video posted isn't produced in-house. It's nonetheless, as the OP rightly said, content.
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  9379. @ I comes from Clapham South, mate.
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  9380. Give me a thousand women like Hostin and I could destroy the world.
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  9381.  jakebremin5450  Tbh, you sound like you're begging for some of that.😂
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  9382.  @volkerr.  It was my comment on Lukashenko, Herr Schnellemann.
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  9383. ​ @selanryn5849  The OP is right, and yes it's vigilantism. Clearly both.
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  9384. Thanks. I find the fawning fulsomeness of most of the comments here nauseating. It's amazing the marionette-like effect Hollywood movies have on people.
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  9385. No one has satisfactorily explained why these things are being taught in schools. (E.g. "Now Gareth, tell us what sex you are. Remember, you can say whatever you like"—and Gareth is 8.) Few people believe in these ideas, so we need to determine exactly how such practices came to be.
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  9386. Sad to see what became of Lance Armstrong.😕
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  9387. And who says it is correct information?😉
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  9388.  @Christdeliverme  I have your answer, which was candid in spite of itself.
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  9389.  @eyasulegesse6208  All quite true, but you forgot something: the US and China are kept company in the world by another 190 or so countries.
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  9390. Carlson is after Biden here, that's all. The fact is that Putin has always wanted to grab Ukraine, a sovereign country of close to 50 million people, one that has its own language and a strong national identity. (It has a large pro-Russia minority.) I repeat, he just wants to grab a major European country within easy reach. Yet Carlson believes the world should raise no objections. And why? Because he can never admit that Joe Biden gets even one tiny thing the least bit right. For that, he says to Ukraine 'I'm sacrificing you if I possibly can to my struggle over who sits in the White House.' Basically his little Prince Metternich mini star-turn. He should realize Biden can easily be destroyed on countless other grounds and fight him on those.
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  9391. Ok, comrade.🙄 We know what you think.😂 You had your turn, and failed, and lost. Now it's Milei's turn, the people's turn. Buh-bye.
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  9392.  @stgnsw  Tick, tock, tick, tock. Just like a metronome, except less interesting.
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  9393.  @_Chicagosfinest  Sorry for that, btw. It wasn't nice in so many ways.
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  9394. I read that the people of Brazil blame Ukraine for being invaded, and warmly support Russia, chiefly due to hatred of the US. Is this true? Google search gives me zero hits for Brazilian opinion polls.
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  9395.  @rustyshackleford7265  Hahaha, he kind of set us off with a vague remark didn't he?
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  9396.  @JohnJ469  True. They need manipulation infrastructure in place to restore their chances.
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  9397. Hey, can I get a hit off that?
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  9398.  Jamie d  No, you suck, whiner. Life is fine.
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  9399. Because experts are narrow. Cp. Fachmann (expert), literally 'compartment man, pocket man'.
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  9400. It's the same in Canada and Australia. It's like I've left the country (i.e. emigrated)—only I haven't. And it's not as though this has occurred gradually over a full lifetime (I'm not old, nor even grey-haired). It's happened in just the past 25 years or so. There's a Chinese-owned and -staffed supermarket near my home. While there not long ago I had a question, but no one understood what I was asking. I resorted to saying "Do you speak English?" to one employee after another. A pair of men I addressed this way just looked gruffly at me at first, then one of them repeated "English" back to me awkwardly, said something to the other man which made him smirk, then turned to me and said "No" with evident sardonic pleasure. The two of them laughed derisively at me. The universal language they spoke in the land which had welcomed them was Intentional Rudeness. (It turned out that no one working there spoke even a little English, in spite of the fact that they had moved to an English-speaking country, and the fact that about 20% of the world's people can converse in English, while a much larger fraction have studied and learnt at least some. China alone has an estimated 300m learners. I would've been better off in a supermarket there.)
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  9401. I don't know. Jokes tend to make life lighter.
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  9402.  @Ofasia777  Quite right. They've declared the US and the Pax Americana dead 12 times in the last four wars. They love the sound of it.
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  9403. ​ @t-rex4211   I love how people just say stuff like that as though they're talking to drunks in a bar. US arms exports are a tiny percentage of global military spending. Revenues of the entire US arms industry aren't much higher than the US soft drinks industry. Sales of fast food are 1.5x higher. If you wanted to buy Tesla, for the same money you could not only buy every defense contractor in the US, with your change you could buy GM and Ford. It's simply not as big as The Guardian will "whisper to you stark-eyed in breathless tones of holy sanctimony."
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  9404.  @t-rex4211  I could go for one of those right now.
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  9405.  @billm8442  Musk doesn't do "just business," my tardy friend.
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  9406. No, you don't need citizenship to get those things. Certainly not.
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  9407. Good job, Premier Ford. Send the bill to PM Peter Pan.
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  9408. Music to my ears. Thanks, and I wish you the best. @Y T
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  9409. @Y T Please make a habit of this.
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  9410. Yes, singularly unimpressive. @ConservativeAtheist
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  9411. This is simple trolling. The need to do it is itself pathetic, and you need know that before you can get better. I really wish you well. No doubt there's something good about you. Just breathe; that's a start.  @joeburnett1701 
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  9412. "you should find a clearing in a forest and wait for Jesus" Why not a subway tunnel? Cheers. @TeaParty1776 
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  9413. "This includes looking at when powerful people propagandize and distort historical fact, to trick people into trusting their dangerous policies." My vision for universities includes looking at when people propagandize and distort historical fact, to trick people into trusting their dangerous policies, whether they are powerful or not. Liars are liars and fools are fools regardless of skin colour, wallet thickness, or what's in their underwear. Realize that, and you've had one of the best days of your life. Cheers.  @giantsloth126 
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  9414. I always said it's foolishly dangerous to get your main perspective on life from a Jewish woman who fled Soviet Russia. It's necessarily unbalanced. Cheers. @aidaflores613 
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  9415. I can tell you meant that as clever and cutting repartee, but it isn't. If you're going to troll people, at least try to be good at it. Would you like to discuss the debate instead? Make a point or ask a question. Say something clever, interesting, or nice. Please do not bore me.  @joeburnett1701 
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  9416. You're a girl.  @joeburnett1701 
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  9417. You are what toxic femininity looks like. And you are a boring troll.  @joeburnett1701 
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  9418. Nice documentary. Tough but fair. Enjoyed every second.
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  9419. She's a "spiritual consultant" (or something like that) to Oprah Winfrey. Once anyone knows that, how can they possibly care? Well, care any more than it takes to say "Buh-bye," that is. So Buh-bye!
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  9420. Yes, there's TDS. But it has turned out, in my view, that TDS is just a part of something that's far more deep-seated: Conservative Derangement Syndrome. When a country is flailing and falling apart, crying out for rational conservative policies, but 50 or 60% of the country won't vote for them, that's CDS. When a drowning man is thrown a lifesaver but it says "Conservative" on it so he chooses to drown, that's CDS.
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  9421.  @capndave9158  I think he's afraid that alien-grade AI will either wipe out humans or, if not that, be put to use to by some party or parties to create an unbearable and unbreakable tyranny. Legit worries. What's your own take?
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  9422.  @AKHWJ3ST  Incorrect. Lying is 1A-protected speech. (Although not when part of libel, slander or fraud.)
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  9423. And yet Biden continues to talk to Iran about green-lighting higher oil production. That would only provide it with many more tens of billions of dollars for funding both nuclear weapons development and more attacks on US supporters like this one. Madness. What has he done to get Canada to raise production? Nothing. I repeat: Madness.
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  9424. In covering for the SeeSeeP, he clearly knows his medieval Italian literature. For in Dante's Inferno the 8th Circle of Hell, the farthest down and most unbearable of all, is reserved for traitors to benefactors.
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  9425. We Canadians may be wonderful in some ways and horrible in others, but we are certainly not colourful, except for numerous exceptions that merely serve to prove the rule. As The Economist once noted, "Canada is famed for its ordinariness." Famed, notice.
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  9426.  @hellgates_javed6451  You tricked Ukraine into handing over their nukes. If they had not made the mistake of trusting the untrustworthy, you would never dare touch them. But they did and for some reason you sound proud.
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  9427. That first guy wasn't real, he was deepfake over a speech by Justin Trudeau.😄 Identical mind, language, enunciation, speech rhythms, everything.
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  9428. Ilhan Omar: Oh man, liar. Ah, the power of the anagram.
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  9429. No, not stupid. Not as bright as Dr. Peterson, but not stupid. Her problem is being deformed of mind and personality. Cheers.
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  9430. As are you, in your own small-time way. 👏👏👏 Way to go.
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  9431.  @sratus  Looking like Jonathan Bree, which isn't a bad way to go. (Cigarette Duet video, e.g.) But I don't see any goatee.
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  9432.  @thetruth156real3  "I will say no more." Then I will, though you left out little. It's a marvellous way to sweep into power. Hand out weapons actual or metaphorical, and the moral right to use them, and the world will beat a path to your door --- the door of your armoury, graduate seminar, bolshevik meeting. Countless fairly ordinary people will come out of the woodwork for the opportunity to beat up others on a moral pretext. It's mother's milk to the typical demented sort sick to death of repressing his or, just as often, her aggressions. You're familiar with cancel culture, of course?
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  9433. Wow, this is a thread and a half.
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  9434.  @thetruth156real3  Good has nothing to do with being "nice" either. Some of the worst people I've known were "nice". In fact, niceness makes me wary. Faking goodness by being nice is just too easy, and is popular for that reason.
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  9435. In communist countries it's the regime's supporters who are targeted in 'purges,' 10x more than suspected opponents. The reason: it's enthusiastic supporters who are deemed dangerous, precisely because they don't fear the regime. And as they're dragged off in the middle of the night, never to be seen again, they always say the same thing: "No, there's been a mistake! I'm totally loyal to the Party! Ask anyone!" (Reply: "Oh, I'm sure we did. Get in the van.")
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  9436. She better watch it. With her terrifically rare good looks and strong support of the present arrangement, she could find herself Putin's bride whether she will or no. You know, autocracy.
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  9437. I wish you well in your search for a clue, just one clue, any clue.
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  9438. Leftism = The would-be Revenge of the Deserved Losers As a rule, life and the world are stupefyingly complex. But in a number of important ways they're not at all.
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  9439. I'm not saying Canada deserves a gold star or anything, maybe we were just lucky, but she's wrong saying that we're doing worse than the States, economically or health-wise. Cases per million 3,325 vs. 17,856; deaths per million 240 vs. 547; July unemployment compared with February, up 5.3 percentage points vs. 6.7; second-quarter GDP -12% (estimate) vs. -33% (actual). Federal government Covid spending is very tricky to compare. The year's not over, plus Canada has approved all its measures but the US still hasn't approved Phase Two stimulus. The bill in both places should be between 10 and 20% of GDP but that's a huge range. It'll probably be about 15% in both, not counting state/provincial spending. At this point it's murky, to me anyway. Our stock market is down close to 8%, though, while yours came all the way back. Otherwise Laura delivered a good commentary.
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  9440.  @eriklehnsherr5169  Yeah, that actually needs toning down now that I see it again. More like "she wouldn't go as far as most of her colleagues."
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  9441.  @eriklehnsherr5169  "often critical of The Times' and the left's worst excesses"
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  9442. Starting to really look down on Russians, thanks to your channel. The national IQ was either lower than I realized or it has gone into remission.
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  9443. To avoid having to have a nine-hour conversation just to get the vaguest idea of who someone is. How can you ask? (I'm not saying it always works, I'm just answering your question.)
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  9444.  @23strawbale  It delighted you to reply to someone who asked you not to, didn't it? I bet you stalk people, too. And either really love yourself or really hate yourself. Ah, well, there is the mute button.
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  9445. Paul Shaffer: "$95 million? I got that on me."😄
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  9446. Dunno, but maybe the Red Cross?
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  9447. You didn't see her change throughout the clip? By the end she was hot for him, concealing it with considerable but incomplete effectiveness. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. But I speak from experience, and I've been probing intelligent and honest women for insights on other women for a long time.
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  9448.  @norrislaitinen5011  You're not addressing a lefty, bud, just so we're clear. Cheers
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  9449. Solid comment, but I will point out an exception: Kate Gerbeau. She's in her 50s, and I guess it has to do with that, plus maybe the fact that she married a Frenchman.
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  9450. "I caught you knockin' at my cellar door, I love you baby, can I have some more?" —Neil Young, The Needle and the Damage Done
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  9451. The media---most of it, although CNN is the worst---is dog-whistling to the rioters and those considering rioting.
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  9452. French generals in early 1940: "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Are you by any chance a French general?
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  9453.  @OleDiaBole  Ah, a voice from the civilized portion of the world.😂
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  9454.  @OleDiaBole  Ok, Slobodan, Radovan, or whatever your name is. Thanks for schooling me.😄
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  9455. "Yooman"? Good lord. Try to have guests who know how to pronounce the word 'human'.
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  9456. Oh?
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  9457.  @innac7853  Correct, but I did not put a link. I knew not to.
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  9458.  @recoil53  I knew not to do that. I just wrote the description/title for search bar purposes.
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  9459.  @innac7853  Yeah, I only did that. Edit: Anyway, I hope someone watches the video now that so many people went to so much trouble talking about it indirectly.
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  9460.  @rshenry1  That's a fair take on it, but I still interpret "the 3 Rs" as standing for "the very core basics" much more than "nothing controversial or moralistic".
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  9461. Source your art elsewhere. People aren't art.
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  9462. I came for the Sowell.  I stayed for the Sowell.
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  9463. Send them home for the day.
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  9464. I'm sick of those unfunny cracks.
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  9465. The US has traditionally given money. China loan sharks. Big difference. So what if the US later asks for support in some way, or requests business opportunities? At least it's earned the right to ask.
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  9466. ​ @JMack1053  "Read this one book that I totally believed." That's your answer? I've read thousands of books and read more all the time. One suggested by you is not going turn my view of the world upside down, certainly not one containing a single person's alleged confessions. Something so intellectually undignified is for uneducated people. I've no doubt the US has always pulled a certain number of dirty tricks. Every country has. Every person, or nearly every person, has too, on a scale petty or not so petty. I bet you yourself have. The odds, simply at random, are very high. So reading your little book won't introduce me to the world of government misdeeds.   If it's really true (as is sounds you might have it) that it proves US actions around the world are on the whole malign, not benign, and that this has been true not only during the time of the author's involvement with them, but also during previous and subsequent eras, then it must be one of the finest and most enlightening books of non-fiction written anywhere by anyone in history. Oh, and such a super-fine book would also cogently show that quite a few other major countries are saintly, and not just by comparison. It would force us to conclude that the US isn't better in this regard than the vast majority of countries to have achieved Great Power status. How many volumes is it? How much does the whole set weigh?
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  9467. ​ @JMack1053  I've only got time to lob some insults at Mearsheimer, so you're unlikely to find my reply worth your time. I've listened to him (painfully, but at least I got it over with) speak on Russia and the West for about four hours in total and found him one of the least impressive political minds I've encountered. One of the leading members of the "I'm just as smart as smart people" community. What can you say about people who cringingly style themselves "the Realist School"? Omg. Why not just "Wise," "Highly Valid," or "Totally Correct"? I picture him in a baseball cap and old windbreaker in his free time, sitting in an ugly chair with a second-rate book that's congenial to his prejudices, sports on the TV. (Ad hominem polemics, but there you have it. I did give him more of a chance than I felt like doing once I started.)
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  9468. Especially when 'smiling.'
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  9469. ​ @stevesandgroper3241  The idea, as I perceive it, isn't "no foreigner could possibly get it right," it's "this guy's got it wrong in ways no native would," meaning that being a foreigner is his particular issue. Let's face it, strolling into a foreign country, one is surely at a disadvantage. For what it's worth I agreed that the 'bloke' is out of touch with America.
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  9470.  @stevesandgroper3241  Try cold compresses to the forehead. There's no discussing things rationally with someone with a high fever and delirium. And breathe. Just breathe.
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  9471. You're right that they're constantly saying things that no person capable of shame would ever say. Many of them clearly think that being a Dem means nothing you ever say can be false, no matter how outlandish and patently untrue or immoral it is. Any person like that is incredibly dangerous, quite truly a sociopath.
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  9472. Yep, feudalist mindset. Even 70+ years of communist rule failed to do much to it.
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  9473. What about the world doing away with CFCs and saving the ozone layer? What about Western society sacrificing a lot to lower CO2 emissions, as it certainly has been doing? (Asia and the other parts of the world, not so much.) Always hesitate before misanthropizing. Misanthropy is a buzzsaw that rips through human happiness, and no one's so much as that of the misanthrope him/herself.
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  9474. In fairness, we don't know he's not the more normal and upstanding of the two. Have you seen the women on this channel?
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  9475. Good work, Maxim! Keep it up.👍
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  9476. Guard your own border. That's what Canada does. That's what every nation on earth does. The US never guarded Canada from the American side. Never.
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  9477.  @SayChunJo  True, but it was actually 32%. And 33% the election before that. Even in his first election it was 39%. Dude never broke 40. He's never been very popular, he's just been backed 1,000% by the media and also the small farthest-left 3rd party. Sick situation but finally about to end.
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  9478.  @rickymartin875  Yep. Far-lefties drop the word "nuance" and think they've ended the discussion in triumph.😂Remember those Ivy League ladies testifying to Congress? They liked that word, and also "context," and now they're gone.
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  9479.  @SayChunJo  True, but it was actually 32%. And 33% the election before that. Even in his first election it was 39%. Dude never broke 40. He's never been very popular, he's just been backed 1,000% by the media and also by the small left ist 3rd party. Sick situation but finally about to end.
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  9480.  @susangibson2706  The opinion of someone who can't write in her own native language above a 4th- or 5th-grade level is not worth my care.
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  9481. Simply to be in a society, even the freest ever obtainable, is to be less than totally free. Even the right to oppose the government isn't absolute, for you can't say "Let's get our guns and overthrow it." The vital right is the right to criticize it mercilessly, even extravagantly, dishonestly, yet it still can't shut you up or jail you, owing to the rule of law. I don't know every last thing that happens in the US, but I do believe Americans have that. Maybe you can think of exceptions.
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  9482.  @clibis2  Oh, was that who he was talking about? Ok, I missed that.
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  9483. A clear vision, clearly communicated. Great talk.
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  9484. The West doesn't have ghost cities but there are major similarities in inflated property prices, low interest rates and to a lesser degree in unoccupied new apartments (many of them owned by Chinese investors, in fact!). Maybe a key difference besides the ghost cities is where the debt is. Here I think it's all in the unit buyers, whereas in China the message seems to be it's in developers who are now teetering on insolvency. Anyway, this was illuminating. So glad to hear about it from someone who's actually had a good, long look at the situation in person. 🤩
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  9485. That's fine. Humans likewise prefer dogs to you.
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  9486. Which way are opinion polls trending on this stuff?
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  9487.  @juniorjames7076  Brings to mind Bob Dylan, Positively 4th St.: "You just want to be on the side that's winning." Anyway yeah, you're quite right. I'm guessing that a lot of institutional/corporate/academic support for wokeism is a mile wide and an inch deep. And that it's the same out among the general population.
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  9488. Who doesn't know that a great many perpetrators are acquitted by a verdict of "not guilty"? It happens all the time.   If it didn't, there could scarcely be such a thing as a famous defense attorney.
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  9489. Ok, can I have the vaccine, please? Oh, that's right, it's going to take another year. You had me going!
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  9490. Toxic femininity.
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  9491.  @poollife777  Sure. And Ferdinand Magellan, James Cook and Christopher Columbus just hired genius sailors. Henry Ford just had brilliant riveters. Michelangelo just sourced the top marble quarrymen. Julius Caesar just had a whiz-kid adjutant, etc. etc.
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  9492. What can you say about Russia? Possibly it has the world's most intense level of admiration for 'hardcoreness.' That's a stance which all by itself tends to put it at odds with both the West and with East, South and Southeast Asia. Societies in those places esteem moderation. The zones with considerable-to-heavy disdain for moderation are as follows: a lot of the Islamic world, a lot of Latin America and a lot of Africa. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. I'm open to contradiction.
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  9493.  @AngelofDeath1431  Yeah, but in all fairness, they've got a really important election victory to engineer on behalf of Democrats and the big money interests. You can see the bind they're in!
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  9494.  @AngelofDeath1431  Happened to me as well. Because wrongthink.
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  9495. It should never be said that "2,000 casualties were killed." (Altered somewhat, it's like saying "Last year in Chicago 1,000 dead were murdered." Not a proper way to speak, particularly for one in his or her own field of study.)
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  9496. World Cabbage Marketing Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to Chinese goods!"
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  9497.  @laurens.2503  Isn't he planning to give $12k to EV buyers? (Except those buying Teslas—and purely for political reasons, of course.)
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  9498.  @laurens.2503  Ok.
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  9499.  @VictorTucker-o6h  Dude, farm workers are not H-1B material. H-1B is for in-demand skilled talent. If abuse is occurring, stop the abuse. The program should continue because it helps make America unbeatably competitive.
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  9500.  @embracethenoise  Thank you! Well said
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  9501.  @Batmann_  It was a playful joke. Bro, something's off. I would get that checked out. Hope you have coverage.
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  9502. Check out smirking little Rodent Farrow [Sideshow Bob shudder], who inherited every gross trait from all three of his parents, but especially those of his twisted mother.
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  9503.  @PeterbFree   How did Kuwaiti citizens die in a war which was in another country and in which they had no part? You just made that up. That simply wasn't the same war. It was 13 years earlier. It's poor argumentation to change the subject. Do you have any comment to make on the subject at hand, the Kuwait War? Btw, I always opposed the Iraq War.
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  9504.  @richardthomas5362  Why? Here is why: “It’s a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Former Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe (2011-2014) in remarks last week. He is also a historian (BA, MA, Oxford). In 2016 he published War with Russia: An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command, in which he detailed (some say predicted) a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia—as well as of the NATO Baltic States. In response, the UK government, headed by David Cameron when the book came out, roundly dismissed any such possibility.
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  9505.  @НурланАджиматов  In constant use since 1871. "The Iron Cross is now the emblem of the Bundeswehr, the modern German armed forces."—Wikipedia article "Iron Cross". Постоянно используется с 1871 года. "Железный крест теперь является эмблемой бундесвера, современных немецких вооруженных сил". - статья Википедии "Железный крест".
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  9506.  @НурланАджиматов  Think of the fact that the double-headed eagle is still the emblem of Russia. Does that mean Russia is tsarist?
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  9507. Yep, "prosecutions." The magic word. Thank you, Governor.
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  9508. another
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  9509.  @calvinblue894  Information from your vile, illegitimate government is for you to swallow whole, like a big cockroach you have to eat because they're starving you (for information). Add salt and pinch your nostrils. I bet it tastes good to you. It's all you've ever known. Chow down. Go back for seconds. And have a nice life.
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  9510.  @herov3463  "Boy" is the correct word. I don't care if he's 30, inside he's 12. That's what a totalitarian government does to its people. It's their strict dad forever, so they never attain to adulthood. Little boys for life, and they watch him beat their mother, and then they hear him brag how smoothly the household runs. Not a pretty picture.
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  9511.  @d2vid  For some reason no one ever mentions that they're the Arabs most disliked by other Arabs across all the Arab countries. Yes, even other Arabs consider them quite unappetizing.
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  9512. KGB man vs. restaurant owner. Hmm, which one is probably the more practically-minded?
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  9513. (1) I'm not surprised that you overlooked the women clapping in the front row. Clearly this is an instance of mentally transforming actuality to conform with interior emotional demands. (2) "All his boys" And do you tolerate women being called 'girls'? I assume you do not, since this is clearly intended to offend. It amounts to a form of bullying. Delusion, aggression, projection. Nice triple package.
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  9514.  @nyakwarObat  Sure, that too. (But maybe you could consider an upvote to go along with that moral support? As you can maybe imagine, comments like mine put a person in perpetual shadowban danger, so every 👍helps. Cheers.)
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  9515.  @HiThisIsMine  (1) I didn't overlook it. It was not worth contradicting. You stated it correctly. (2) Oh, here we go! You can read their minds! They only clapped because they were intimidated by the big bad men.🙄 Omfg, you really think women are weak. (3) He didn't call them boys. You did. You. (4) You woefully underthink things and are prone to psychological projection (e.g. calling me delusional). One thing I simply won't put up with is a lack of respect for the facts. For that reason I bid you a firm adieu.
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  9516. Her, stirring ingredients into a huge cauldron: "Eye of newt...wing of bat...Bill's toenail..."
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  9517. Yeah, I can see her stirring at her cauldron: "Eye of newt, wing of bat, Bill's toenails..."
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  9518. And now Canada is the next Ukraine. It starts with "It treats us very badly," "It's not a real country," and "It would be better off as part of our country." Then bombs.
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  9519.  @LuisZarate-w3y  He's not stew pyd. He's a lyre. The people who believe him are stoop id.
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  9520.  @geradkavanagh8240  I looked up imports of Canadian maple syrup and found they were only $30m in 2024. I'm guessing practically all of the American supply comes from New England.
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  9521.  @battenburg6089  What do you mean? The UK alternates between Tory and Labour govts. Isn't there an election on the way soon, and can't you throw out Sunak and his whole government? You don't want there to be any government at all, is that what you're trying to say? If so: 🙄.
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  9522. The politically putrefied Met Police are become hideous monsters. Rot suffuses the country. Its coffin is completely studded with nails, and that's before a Labour win. R.I.P., Old Girl.
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  9523.  @Roberta-anne  Inappropriate for all but their little fringe fetish community, I'd say. Or should the "straight" "community" also be entitled to put on an erotic show if its own, featuring performers from Le Crazy Horse or Paradis Latin?
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  9524.  @eda8612  "Years of subsequent investigations proved there was no such Russian manipulation". Oh? Says you? Correction: Investigation turned up no evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russians. That in no way proves there was no Russian manipulation. Enormous interference could have taken place in the total absence of any cooperation and collusion with Trump or his people.
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  9525.  @isaakchuk  Less trade with China—far, far less—would be a help to the future of the world. I am glad to be doing my part in that regard, as I have for years now. It actually wasn't hard to cut purchases of their stuff by 80%. It's fun!
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  9526.  @isaakchuk  I'm no anarchist. I think if you don't have a government you don't really have a civilization. But yes, when government and big business merge in that fashion, liberty comes under fierce attack. I have no use for any of the companies you mention, nor Microsoft either. Cheers
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  9527. I don't know, man. Even worse than Celine Dion?😂
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  9528. He's so right about Andy Warhol. One night my girlfriend saw him at a Korean greengrocer's in midtown with a Filipino boy on his arm who looked about 14.
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  9529.  @wyattcole5452  He'll never grow up. He's determined not to, and it will be his great accomplishment and great reward. In fact it already is.
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  9530.  @wyattcole5452  Yeah, despite your noble effort. I wish you the best.
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  9531.  @LesliePeter  Sure. Praise the system that makes a child out of every Chinese person, living under their incredibly strict and violent dad. He beats his family, then brags about how smoothly his household runs. You like that, do you? You think the world yearns for that, do you? Then you're a little boy and want to remain one.
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  9532.  @w.reidripley1968  Touché.
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  9533. 1) "Pull out"? It's not "in." No US personnel on the ground in either country. 2) The US has a lot of resources. It can walk and chew gum at the same time. 3) Your words are music to the ears of Hum Moss, Khamenei, Hezbollah, Putin, Xi, Kim, and every single tyrant roasting in Hades. But you know that.🤨
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  9534. Yes, Canada is sorry it allowed Canada-haters in.
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  9535. Mainly female involuntary celibates protesting, it looks to me. 'Paging Dr. Peterson, Dr. Jordan Peterson, white courtesy telephone please....'
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  9536. Hahaha Elon took his time and gave that tweet something.😄Very good grade of rhetoric. He's gotta find some way to speak directly to more Democrat/Democrat-leaning people.
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  9537. VW should sue those trespassers for the reasonable price of an overnight stay. Their premises are not for unauthorized use as free accommodation.
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  9538. Probably some people are going to say "Don't blame yourself." Me: Uh... Isaiah Berlin said "The purpose of education is to render the young proof against the seductions of rhetoric." I say yes, and it's the purpose of home upbringing likewise.
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  9539. Promote that Russian General to Field Marshal immediately!
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  9540. San Fransicko
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  9541. My take: (1) Putin has a vanity election coming up in three months. (2) He knows Ukraine has reduced capacity to retaliate and defend itself during this bit of a hiatus in arms shipments. He's trying to deplete their Patriot reserve. [Edit: I see one of your sources (10:50) agrees.]
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  9542.  Professor_Gerdes_Explains--.  I don't talk to spoof accounts. 😠Muted.
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  9543. Run that shit through Google Translate to make it coherent. Then repost it. Then immediately delete it. Then go back to your life and start doing things entirely differently. Then post intelligent comments after ten years.
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  9544. Y compris la ponctuation?
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  9545. Most pathetic Pooty-bot attempt ever. He says newk-lee-uh just like a properly educated Brit. You're not earning your 50 kopeks, Dmitri, so I suggest you join the battle at the front. I hear they have openings for tank commanders.
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  9546.  @funkymonkeyman1000  Good lord, no it isn't. Vancouver is.
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  9547. Not "a" drone, obviously. Multiple drones, perhaps. Or a drone-artillery combo, even some shoulder-fired missiles on the ground as well.
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  9548. You sound exactly like Connery as James Bond. 👏😄
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  9549. Lives in a $50k house. Literally a folding box. He owns one house in SF and rents it to some family.
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  9550. Behind pointed use of the word 'populist' I find a hatred of ordinary people and democracy. It may it go all the way to misanthropy.
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  9551. Fan adulation does that to many a formerly decent mind. Decades of drugs and drink pitch in with a large assist. So does the highly iffy nature of the artist personality in the first place. (People tend to try to ignore the fact that the man regarded, if I am not mistaken, by most people as the most twisted and evil person of all time was an artist.)
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  9552. Their lawyer was Jussie Smollett, back when he used to pretend to be an attorney.
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  9553. How is your roof? I'm quite sure it's been re-tarred.
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  9554. It's around $450 billion. If that's lunch money to you, I don't get why you're spending your time down here. Get out and live. Spend some of your trillions.
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  9555.  @ironmanandspidyroc  You can't even spell 'schizo.' Your future is really, really bleak unless you go into crime.
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  9556.  @tonyroy8123  No, O'Reilly.
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  9557. ​ @mhlangamlungisi5108  Who says Putin didn't back the Taliban? I call that a hypothesis, and a non-falsifiable one at that. And since unfalsifiable assertions are the order of the day, what about the river of capital flowing into Afghanistan during the ISAF action from citizens of Arab and other Mu slim nations? Finally, 'victory' and 'failure' have meanings different in Afghanistan from elsewhere. Unconditional surrender and disarming of the Taliban was never the aim of the US, as indeed pacification of the Mujahideen was of Russia. The Americans knew it was impossible from the get-go, and Bush said as much when he warned from the outset that the war would last a very long time. Thus the US semi-occupation was no failure, for it did exactly what it was supposed to do: It told all the world that if you host terrorist training and then its graduates attack the West, your country will get some very well-armed and unpleasant visitors—and they will stay for a generation if necessary. You may debate whether that warning was worth the price of issuing it. But obviously the question is whether the loss of thousands of lives and supposed $2trn bill prevented additional 9/11s. The 9/11 attack itself cost thousands of lives and surely many hundreds of billions of dollars even apart from the Afghan war expense.
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  9558.  @leviticusemmanuel4421  Yeah, well there's a lot of places to make tea towels and toys for cheap. And it might take a while but South Korea, Japan and other countries can take over electronics manufacturing. Who tf needs a bunch of China-made things that strengthen the corrupt and genocidal Xi regime? I'm happy reading a book instead of staring at some little screen. If I don't have a smartphone I can place landline calls for a year, or five years. No fg problem.
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  9559. @ Excellent post. Thank you.
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  9560. Peterson says certain words his own way. Other Canadians, e.g., never say potential with an oh sound. Aboot, is a myth, btw. I've never heard it, not once in my life. Canadians say either abowt, like Americans but typically a little clipped; or (mainly small-town) abuwt, with a bit of an uhw instead of an ow sound. (You also hear it sometimes in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.) A handful of very rural or Newfoundland-bred Canadians say aboat. But never aboot.
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  9561.  @joeschembrie9450  Suit yourself. What was the other word anyway? Wiki, fwiw, says "In the U.S., aboot [əˈbut], an exaggerated version of the raised pronunciation of about [əˈbʌʊt], is a stereotype of Canadian English.[2]"
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  9562. Bear in mind that Moscow and Petersburg are the hotbeds of anti-Putinism, pathetically weak as it is. Outside these capitals of Russian intelligence, learning and cosmopolitanism, opposition to Putin/Putzin/Poo-Poo/Putrid—and his war—is difficult and extremely dangerous to even search for.
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  9563.  @ОлекЛис  Congratulations, all that is perfectly psychotic.
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  9564.  @yellowtunes2756  So the key to peace is surrender. Got it, Poot-poot Boy.
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  9565.  @АртёмРоманенков-о4х  Pathetic rearguard reasoning, excuse-making, victim-blaming. A loyal barking dog has an excuse, because it's a dog. You don't.
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  9566. If you watch the clip Trump says it in a denigrating fashion. He was exposing him and going after his reputation. Nice try though, my fittingly-named friend.
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  9567. "Canada left off Gaza border list of countries whose citizens can leave" Should be "Canada not on list of countries whose citizens can leave Gaza"
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  9568. From another prominent Australian, Germaine Greer: "A man who cuts his c@@@ off isn't a woman. He's a man without a c@@@."
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  9569. Was leaning "Like" until I realized your title is fake. Dislike. This deserves algorithm burial.
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  9570. Can I ask a little favour? Sort by newest and see if something by me shows up 2 minutes before yours? I wanna know if I'm being s.b.ed. It should be the next oldest one after yours. Please let me know. :)
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  9571. You're condescending to your customers and you haven't even started your business yet. Nice person.
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  9572. Type Omega-Omega civilization: patrols the universe destroying civilizations that produce lame teen-mind-level videos. Deliver us, o mighty Omega-Omega patrol officers.
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  9573. Don't say half. Trudeau's party only got 32.6% of the votes.
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  9574. Jimmy Carter was not a millionaire? That might need double-checking. According to Perplexity, "Jimmy Carter's net worth at the time he became president in January 1977 was estimated to be around $2.3 million." Fat stacks back then.
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  9575. Zelensky talking to his grandkids in 2045: "Then they showed us around the bombed-out Odesa cathedral. That's when I got mad."
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  9576.  @nafisfuadayon6832  You can always tell when Russians somehow manage to be ashamed of their acts. Beneath the video, the comments are infested with them denying responsibility.
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  9577. It's touching how so many random people suddenly care what a bunch of random strangers make. Never seen anything remotely resembling it in my life. (Actual story: it has nothing to do with caring, or anything except hatred, envy and resentment of Elon Musk. Especially unacknowledged envy. But especially hatred. And I bet most of them go around all the time saying how bad hatred is.)
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  9578.  @xlyal8908  There were only those two choices?
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  9579.  @xlyal8908  First choice: Navalnygrad Second: Tretiakgrad
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  9580.  @anjaanka_01.  You're talking like the only choice would be to go back to the German name. That's hardly the case. It could be called Приморскийград or Бабушкарад. But that's only a point of logic, and I understand that logic ordinarily doesn't enter into such decisions. As long as Kalinin is being honoured for his military leadership and not for the purity of his devotion to communism or its leaders.
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  9581.  @aquilliusranger2137  What about the Society of Friends?
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  9582.  @aquilliusranger2137  I was playing around. The Society of Friends is the official name of the Quakers.😄
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  9583.  @k1ttyF158er  15 TWh in 2023, yes. But that's a net figure for some reason. It combines 33.2 TWh to the United States and 18.1 TWh to Canada. But yeah, 51 TWh in total trade is only around 1% of total US/Canada supply.
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  9584.  @francisdec1615  Ok, so you named an instance of AH's many blunders. What does that add? Stay on topic, will you?
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  9585.  @francisdec1615  Get a pointy hand tool into yours. It will improve your thinking, by stopping it. Putzin has trapped himself. He had no idea what trouble it is to have 1.2bn rich people with far more weaponry than him up against him. The core of it, NATO, is the strongest gang in history, by far. And he can't even fire a shot at us. Hahaha. You lose, Frankie baby. Pack it in and go home. Oh, and get used to a diet solely of bread and beets for the next 20 years.
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  9586.  @francisdec1615  Not my fault you didn't write it well. I remember puzzling over w.t.h. you were trying to say, and judged it as best I could. The big shoes are on your feet, 🤡. Have nice night though.
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  9587.  @nicolasgarcia248  Omg. Putin needs to have his country behind him. Period. Politics doesn't only mean party politics.
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  9588. "I am baffled, the fact that I'm single." Meanwhile she has trouble speaking because of her massively over-injected lips. My dear woman, those lips say to men: "Run. Run now. Run screaming!"
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  9589. "Reverse discrimination." But no. How is there any such thing? It's like 'reverse theft,' as if it's a special case of theft if you steal from the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of someone who stole from your great-great-great-great-grandmother.  It's either unjust discrimination or it isn't—it doesn't matter who it's by, nor against whom. Mr. Slater, I urge you to instead cite Pinfold's Dictum: Two wrongs make a leftist.
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  9590. Others make the "airplane lands sideways" claim. They're not to be trusted, but Daily Dose is. As always, 'story checks out.'
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  9591.  @jasondashney  Farms are civilization, you silly twisted boy.
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  9592.  @benjafranklin5996  They're insignificant leftists whose candidate lost the election. So their backup plan is to make stuff up. Leftism: the last resort of the worst people.
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  9593. World to preachy university students: "ST*U"
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  9594. What's going on? Are the Russians trying to run Ukraine completely out of anti-aircraft missiles?
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  9595. They're just attention-seekers and should get over themselves. (People who seek attention, btw, are really seeking love. So a more sensible plan would be to figure out how to make themselves more lovable.)
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  9596.  @julianbransky7168  He said 'Republicans' not 'House Republicans.' So you're omitting not only Senate Republicans but Republicans across the country. Let's be fair, let's be accurate. Including the 2/3rds of Republican senators (31-15) who voted Yes, a narrow majority of Republicans in Congress supported the aid bill. As for Americans identifying as Republicans, their sympathies lie 59% to 7% with Ukraine vs. Russia. (Neither: 29%. YouGov poll of 1,682 Americans, March 16-19). In fact, you have to go to MAGA Republicans only in order to find a majority wishing to see Ukraine aid reduced (51%, YouGov poll of 1,651 Americans, April 21-23). Surprised? If you are, that itself is hardly a surprise. The media simply never mention any Republican support for Ukraine — let alone for direct Ukraine aid — except for that in the Senate. It is necessary to do one's own digging. Thanks media, for helping people not know stuff!
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  9597. "The people of France voted wrong! How is this allowed?" "It's only democracy if my party wins!" "C'est une abomination! Freedom doesn't mean the freedom not to vote Left!" Macron, quickly change your immigration policies or you'll lose to the Putinist LePen.
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  9598.  @dekmackie  Uh, I think he might be right, since it hasn't dawned on you that you watch Fox News too.
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  9599. So they've declared that if you're not a neo-Marxist you have mental problems. It's so patently ridiculous that the natural reaction is to simply dismiss it with a contemptuous sneer. Alas, the people saying it are actually in charge. The doors are starting to close on a tolerably sane future. Madness is to be imposed.
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  9600. Good clip, but stop these end-of-video 'please subscribe' promos that come on at a higher volume than the video itself. They are alienating and it's a problem. Sort it out.
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  9601. Relax. He's done. He gave his notice. The race to replace him as party leader is officially on.  New PM sworn in probably by March 15, election called by end of month.
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  9602. An eloquent and persuasive address. It's great how the Ukrainian military and government show all the best things needed right now: Ferocity, determination, ability, intelligence.
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  9603. 3:40 I don't want to see a president shaking with rage, his fists clenched as he shouts at a friendly audience. It's inappropriate, creepy, and frightening. What's the explanation for his many public shows of anger over the past two years? It's neurological, isn't it?
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  9604. There's more than a dozen of them. Definitely Freeland, Carney, Leblanc, Joly... Agree about election. Probably in May.
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  9605.  @klezper  How quickly people forget what a firm Democratic supporter Trump was for so long. The minute he at last threw up his hands at their nonsense they call him a right-winger, fascist, dictator, authoritarian and all the rest. It's a mental and emotional block they have, and a case of political infantilism. The same goes for Elon Musk, even more liberal in spirit than Trump.
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  9606.  @АлександрДухин-р3ц  And what do you suppose put the US (mainly) and Soviets in a position where they could do such a thing? First and foremost it was the social, economic and financial damage the wars did to Britain. Too many men killed or enervated, too many of them the better sort of man. Too much money spent, burnt, borrowed, blown up. Around a year into the war, Orwell stood with (I think) Cyril Connolly on the roof of a block of flats in London, watching the oil storage yards burn some miles away down by the Thames. He turned to him and said "After this war Britain will be a second-rate country." Connolly agreed and there was nothing else to say.
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  9607. ​ @АлександрДухин-р3ц  You're still telling me what I'm telling you. I left out that part for simplicity's sake because I'm not writing a book here. But yes, the whole way, Roosevelt was intent upon making Churchill and Britain twist in the wind. Britain needed America — because of the second immense war in 25 years — and Roosevelt was intent on exacting his price. And he succeeded. Because, above all, Britain was sapped of its power by wars. Maybe you went to university after 1995. That could explain why you're going on like this.😄 Or you're an anglophobe maybe? Anti-this-or-that? Because this doesn't sound like interpretation of history as I love it. It's got a smug weird-eyeglass-frames ring to it. (Seems so, anyway.) Nice wall of text by the way. Never heard of a paragraph before?
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  9608.  @НатальяТерехова-с6х  What? What did I say about "Young Empire"? I believe your reply was meant for someone else, not me.
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  9609. ​ @НатальяТерехова-с6х  Va-t'en. Vous m'avez ennuyé.
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  9610. My reaction is just three letters, which I'm (rightly) not allowed to spell out, but they're probably clear enough anyway: H. F. S. Just H. F. S.!
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  9611. You wish. More like: in other words, Ukraine and the most powerful military alliance in world history combining to batter and defeat a shockingly weak Potemkin army. There, fixed it for you. "Lol"
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  9612. This really starts at 2:56.
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  9613. He's just afraid he'll get exactly what—deep down, in the tiny little dot which is his conscience—he believes he really deserves.
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  9614. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right, they make a leftist.
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  9615.  @Geffo555  Tactical flattery of violent and ruthless figures is something Trump picked up from his days dealing with organized crime bosses in trades allied to real estate in NYC and casino gambling in NJ. One encounters them whether one will or no, and appeals to vanity tend to be wise in dealing with the vain. I expect observers taking such appeals at face value find it vital to the satisfaction of their own temperaments and prejudices.
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  9616. He sarcastically called him " that hotbed of reality" and went on to mock him. That's an attack.
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  9617. Look at that photo of the Bud Light marketing team.🙄 See any clue as to what the problem with it was? Hint: dingbat factor. This woman is high as a kite on her over-inflated opinion of herself. She needs help.
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  9618. @Gideon N  "... USA came in to wipe the floor with the Krauts..." Don't flatter them like that, will you? Russia did the heavy lifting. But I'm congenial to your other points.
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  9619. Legal protest — no legal consequences. Illegal protest — removal, arrest, charge, trial, conviction, sentence, fine, imprisonment. It just could not be simpler.
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  9620. "First step towards peace." Pffft. Far likelier the prelude to a gigantic new offensive. Putin is the least trustworthy person on Earth.
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  9621. Why doesn't she just sit silently with a middle finger raised to the senator? What she does instead amounts to the same thing, but takes up more of our precious time.
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  9622. That middle sentence trails off into incoherence. Mr. Nielsen, for his part, is never incoherent.
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  9623.  @jonathanmasilela1569  No society in all human history has ever lived by such an absurd dictum. But you know better than all 100 billion people born at least slightly before you were. By some unfathomably great fortune you're the most enlightened person in all history, and the most moral. I hope you can take a look in the mirror and see the delusion in the eyes staring back at you.
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  9624.  @aminarassoul   "Where would they go?" Omg, how can you ask? They would go southwards. This "prison" narrative is absurd and ridiculous Hamas/Harvard-student rhetoric. It's not a matter of empathizing or not empathizing. It's a matter of whether they can or cannot get out of there. And yes there are vehicles which could be used—that is, if Hamas does not deliberately prevent their being used. Stop weaponizing empathy. You give it a bad name. Stop flinging cheap rhetoric. You're taking a counterfactual side and then pointing a finger at me. Pure sanctimony. Try connecting with reality for a second next time. It's call sane honesty.
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  9625.  @Cbd_7ohm  Yep. E.g. SpaceX.
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  9626.  @darkdan3379  Space exploration obviously, but also a tie-in with Elon's longtime use of the X name. It's not just a coincidence.
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  9627.  @darkdan3379  Put the doob down.
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  9628. Hey, can I get a hit off that?
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  9629. I have long believed that much if not most mental illness is contagious, spreading through close contact. Nothing to do with microbes as far as I know, but exposure is requisite for many forms of it. When I at last realized this, I felt embarrassed it had taken me so long.
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  9630. Just 50? What?
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  9631. Russia never concealed the build-up of their huge invasion force. They advertised it. Ukraine did what it could to conceal their own far smaller one. They were discreet.
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  9632. Nice argumentum ad baculum. Now say something passably intelligent.
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  9633.  @marvinrosenthal6158  I know.
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  9634. Even though that Brooke lady read good points off her prepared notes (!), it's still clear that she's pretending to be smart.
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  9635. Trudeau identifies as a woman now?
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  9636. One career Liberal staffer and party strategist. One Liberal campaign worker. One veteran NDP MP. One milquetoast Conservative supporter who specializes in admonishing other Conservative supporters to take it easy on the other parties. (I'm serious about that. That's what she's all about and that's why she was invited onto this panel.) That's how the CBC assembles an unbiased panel. That's how the CBC approaches every single news item, day in, day out.
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  9637.  @DaretoExplore  Tesla. SpaceX. X. Those are not minor headquarters. And there are numerous others. Meanwhile, which companies are moving to California? ........ [sound of one cricket]
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  9638.  @davegower7843  Domestically, yes it is, unfortunately. But again, with respect to the Russia situation, he's referring to Western supremacy and its backing of free elections, human rights and the rule of law. We're not tangling with Russia over abortion, free daycare and trans pronouns.
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  9639. Reminds me of Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner: "Wake up, it's time to die."
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  9640. Someone here's confused about the fact he doesn't speak for everybody. Very arrogant attitude.
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  9641.  @jumbome7420  Ah. I now realize I meant to say very, very.
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  9642. Of course they have, numb-nut.
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  9643.  @edwardshestko3139  'Nut' is an established colloquial synonym for 'head'. 'Numb-nut' is thus equivalent to 'numbskull'. You're thinking of 'numb-nuts' which is a rude variation that refers to testicles. I guess you have testicles on your mind for some reason. Good luck with that, my fruity friend.
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  9644.  @edwardshestko3139  Name-calling reflects contempt.
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  9645. HFS, yeah!
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  9646. Grechka is porridge made of buckwheat, with butter added.
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  9647. Uninformed bullshit, Dave. You're in over your head on this subject. Stick to Israel, Biden's senility, the Ivy League and anything else you understand. You're great on all that other stuff.
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  9648. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right. They make a leftist.
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  9649.  @MrTOMXM  Yes, I would. Especially if the interviewer had a history of posing asinine and inexplicably hostile questions. Speaking of inexplicably hostile questions, you've just asked one yourself. You've no no evidence on which to base an implicit accusation of sexism. Check your biases and try to contain eruptions of party feeling.
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  9650. Make AOC a Waitress Again.
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  9651.  @richardlafleur8389  He just publicly told your country's leader that his country doesn't exist but is part of his own. I repeat, he should stick to insulting the PM only.
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  9652.  @raykane2063  You're referring to Bill Ackman's wife? What do you have to say about her?
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  9653. Dude, $20 billion a day is $7.3 trillion a year, which is more than Japan's total annual GDP. It's triple all the military spending on Earth.
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  9654. 1) Gad Saad, Elon Musk and Neil Young all happen to be Canadian citizens (Young by birth, Saad and Musk by emigration as youths). And all three have their claim to greatness. In my view Neil Young has tarnished his, but that certainly can change. 2) Yes, Trudeau faces political obliteration in the 2025 election. The Conservatives, according to poll aggregator site 338Canada, have a ">99% chance" of a majority win to form the next government. Ahhhh! Such a heavenly state of pleasant expectation. A remarkable 74% of Canadians want Trudeau to step down, not next year or soon, but quite literally now. Affection, gratitude and respect as always to Rita Panahi and Sky News Australia from Canada.🇨🇦🇦🇺 Sibling nations forever.
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  9655. I think the joke is that they hand out PhDs on very scanty grounds nowadays. Universities are pretty much toast until, well...🤔I don't know, but it took approximately 4,500 years to make them good in the first place. (Earliest institution of higher learning: Egypt, 3000 B.C.E.) So I'll guess 250.
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  9656.  @Admiral45-10  I meant it to be clear that precursor institutions arose first and counted as part of their development. Just as modest structures preceded stone churches and palaces, the founding of Bologna was preceded by the preparation of the ground of civilization some centuries beforehand. Although there were of course no universities in Greek antiquity, for example, they had irregular academies for the intellectual training of young adults which one may loosely regard as proto-universities.
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  9657. Well, he's the most ignorant US president.
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  9658. It's worth more to Russia this way than in working condition. It keeps European energy prices aloft, and that's of far greater value to Russia right now than the cost of the eventual repair job (if any).
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  9659. They're zombies. Give them the zombie treatment.
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  9660. Well stated, although I hope he stops saying Halifax like it rhymes with Alley Cats.
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  9661.  @oliverreedslovechild  The i should not have a long e sound. It should have the indistinct vowel sound, like the middle syllable in Canada (symbolized by the schwa, which looks like an upside-down e). It can also have a short i sound, as in fit.
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  9662. Highly manipulable college students are a huge danger. Once their minds are taken over they weaken the resolve to go after every degenerative world threat.
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  9663. Shouldn't we in fact say "new level"?
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  9664. Concerning the need for and benefit of Canadian oil to the US, read up on the subject. That's all I can say. Do the reading.
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  9665. "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy, address to his country, evening of October 22, 1962
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  9666. "Happy Birthday to a tremendous leader."😂 Dry, simple, funny.👍 (It's 100% true that brevity is the soul of wit.)
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  9667. Thank you. Please repeat this often and elsewhere. If it is not deleted by the channel or the algorithm within hours or days, it will in any case be buried so far down as to disappear. At least save it to your notepad.
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  9668. should have been
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  9669. I don't believe for one second that grocery stores are to blame for inflation. Trudeau is desperate and resorting to cheap blame-shifting stunts. This is all about polls and caucus grumbling, not helping consumers. See Wikipedia re: Hand-waving. Explains a lot.
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  9670. Which foreign ministry in the Russia-China-Iran-North Korea axis do you work for? That should be disclosed early on.
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  9671.  @omarr6465  No, you are.😂
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  9672. I like how Brian is an Ivy League graduate but has never read the inscription on his collar because he can't read. That's so wonderful.
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  9673. Count your trinkets, jewels and spoons after she leaves your house, though.
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  9674. What a fake Hostin is. Take her fake hair, for instance. How much time and expense, how many people does it take to maintain the illusion that she's halfway to blonde and her hair isn't frizzy? Then there's the plastic surgery on her nose. She's basically the female Michael Jackson.
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  9675.  @cynthiadecker1424  I think probably it's his, and he just doesn't see the need to remodel it. (Or would abhor the mess, noise and general disorder of a kitchen reno.)
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  9676. The country is like Gulliver tied down in Lilliput with countless strings and stakes. It should have one of the highest GDPs per person in the world. The Lilliputians in my simile, btw, are its elites, but most especially Putzin of course. Recall that their restraints weren't actually powerful. Gulliver could use his strength to easily break free whenever he decided to.
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  9677. To tak, jakby jakiś mikrob zjadł połowę ich mózgów. Zupełnie nierealne.
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  9678.  @AntonSobyanin  Your reply is just further evidence (although no more was needed) that the Russian mind has dissolved into the acid of state propaganda. Psychologists will study this extraordinary collapse for centuries.
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  9679.  @I_AM_Uto4ka  We know. We know there are golden people in every country.🤗
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  9680.  @ImGoingSSJ97  That all sounds correct to me. Thanks for your reply. (But did I say otherwise, or are you just adding to my comment?)
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  9681. Thank you. It is absurd to be neutral here. Who is neutral when the police are closing in on a mass shooter in a school?
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  9682. Thanks for the upload and its very worthwhile message. I can't handle the stock footage, though. Cringe City.
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  9683. What is crazy is to think that one war should last as long as another fought in a different age, a different place, between different countries, on different terrain, in different climates, with different weapons. 🙄 Oh, I nearly forgot to say "my friend."
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  9684.  @sebastianelytron8450   You wrote "...leader of a deranged cult of angry, aggressive, "tough-guy" morons and is a danger to society if he's not stopped." Your remarks drip with hatred of men. Congratulations, this shows you've absorbed the culture of hatred of men quite efficiently. You're deranged, angry, aggressive, a danger to society, and must be stopped. I stop short of calling you a moron. I wouldn't even if you were one. Cheers.
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  9685. It's weird how The View inspired Shakespeare to create the witches in Macbeth over 400 years earlier. Weird but obviously somehow true.
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  9686. This can't be a one-off thing. It has to be repeated.
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  9687. "The president and vice president" doesn't refer to Biden and Harris. It refers to Harris and Jill Biden.
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  9688. Biden is taking orders from his boss-woman, the VP.
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  9689. The duty-free and low-tariff levels (e.g. 7.5%) have quantity caps on them. These percentages you quote act as the caps. Intentionally or not, these numbers are cherrypicked and don't reflect the whole picture. (Btw, Canada doesn't "charge the US" 1¢. It doesn't work that way!)
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  9690. Calling plagiarism "sloppy attribution" is like calling bank robberies "sloppy withdrawals." She didn't steal accidentally. So what we have here is CNN showing its true colors. They'll never change.
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  9691.  @warehousejo007  That is the dullest, most out of touch, least relevant response to my post conceivable. Congratulations, you've earned a coveted place in the Guinness Book of Rabid, One-Track-Minded Hyper-partisans. That's something they can never take away from you.
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  9692. Few things could help race relations right now more than everybody in the country watching this video.
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  9693. The grown-ups are talking. But there's avocados, soft butter and bread sliced for toasting in the kitchen. Help yourself.
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  9694. 👍 Capt. Nielsen, you should be next in line for a position on Denmark's National Security Council.
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  9695. So is Canada's CBC. All its features and half its "news" are simply left-activist articles; the other half of its news is likewise delivered from the left-activist point of view. Reader comments critical of the Liberal government or of the woke agenda are scrubbed wholesale from its site. The remaining comments are largely attacks on conservatives. A cesspool and an echo chamber simultaneously. (Excuse the unpleasantness of that final image, but the metaphors are apt.)
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  9696. The pay package for me as the owner of my home since I bought it has been spectacular, and the home's pre-tax profit has been negative (taxes, insurance, maintenance, etc.). For me and for Tesla shareholders it's not about profits, it's about what their holdings are worth. Also, they have the right to be wrong.
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  9697.  @ThomasBeltz66  Interesting. Thanks for the info. I always wanted to enter that business but never even tried due to a shortage of capital. Ok, I'm off!....
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  9698. How to make your whole country China's b - - - - permanently, in under 30 days. Nice going, Putin—you just made Russia a minor power forever.
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  9699.  @federalreservebrown2507  Problems inside the Party took down the USSR.
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  9700. NATO intended to protect people from the monsters leading Serbian populations in the former Yugoslavia. It also intended to prevent them from destabilizing the region.
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  9701. This is really the Essay Channel. Little 5 to 10-minute essays, usually opinionated, set to simple cartoons.
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  9702. The professor suggests other matters will have a much greater impact on Britain's future. Probably. But the Brexit lever is the one Britain alone can pull. The others are in the hands of the US, China, India, other Asian nations, etc. That puts Britain's intense concern over Brexit safely above worry that it's a sick obsession. But that's what Gibbon clearly wanted him to say.
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  9703. The impossibly stagy narration voice tells me I'm supposed to be deeply intrigued. I'm not. More like deeply un-intrigued. Bored, actually. I wish I could get this time back.
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  9704. Dr. Drew says people can work on mere traits. It's full-blown disorders which are minimally treatable. He recommends battling narcissistic traits by immersing oneself in the Golden Rule, being mindful of it 100% of the time. Also potentially helpful are traits one may have on the far side of malevolence, i.e. positive ones. They can be a base from which launch attacks on the dark traits.
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  9705. In my opinion the line to be drawn — and to me it's a hazy one — is whether the place is a bar at a brewery, or is a restaurant which happens to be located in a brewery.
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  9706. Cool. (But it should be during business hours only.)
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  9707.  @judistench2167  Right. And their actions are not an example for actual civilized human beings to emulate in the least.
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  9708. What's happened to you is what the wokesters, the Left, the radicals, the neo-Marxists want. They want disharmony, hatred, chaos and violence (as well as widespread poverty) so that a populist appeal for revolution will find support. People like you, from their point of view, stand in the way and must be engineered out of existence.
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  9709. Ok millennial.
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  9710.  @user-kv8gf7zv9n  Ok then. Thanks.
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  9711. Yes. Putzin is very "street." All kinds of his later-boyhood friends ended up in jail. He's still a sort of a punk.
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  9712.  @feedyourmind6713  No, no, no. That is far from clear. Russia: 145m people. Ukraine plus rich democracies on four continents: ~1.2bn people Russia GDP: ~$2-4trn. Ukraine plus rich democracies on four continents: ~50trn I wouldn't place a large bet on Russia if I were you.
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  9713.  @nealwhite5602  Ok, Viacheslav. 😄
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  9714. His mistake there is what amounts to a belief that Putin—and the Russian forces—are insane. Putin is very twisted, but he is not insane.
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  9715. Appeared more like a limb.
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  9716. Dear BBC: Apples to apples, please. Most of Russia's fossil fuel export revenue is needed to cover exploration, production, transport and refining costs. The amount going to Russia's government since Feb. 2022 is thus in the range of $350–$400bn, not $940bn. In contrast, all aid from Ukraine's allies can be used or spent by its government.
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  9717.  @buddhasdisciple4935  Correct. Modi plays both sides to India's benefit. He doesn't give a flying f about Ukraine.
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  9718. Agreed. Bunch of sociopaths. Instead of mere prison buildings there should be a state created out of hundreds of square miles of unpopulated land, with wells for drinking water and tents for shelter, an enormous wall put around it, and all the men and women like them tossed inside for good. Bags of food, clothing and other necessities can be airdropped. No guards or police; let them deal with each other. They basically have to be completely cast out from society. Let them be free within their own country which they cannot leave. Imagine the peace everywhere outside of that place ever after. Oh well, it makes for a good daydream anyway. (By the way, it has been said, perhaps without a great deal of exaggeration, that doing pretty much those very things in the 17th and 18th centuries made Britain such a success in the 19th century that it practically ruled the world. It sent a great many of its criminal dregs, its fanatics and troublemakers to the New World.) Edit: Forgive my wild rant. I did it to soothe myself, I guess. It did work, but I know it was probably annoying. Sorry if it was.
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  9719. The now openly threatening climate towards Jewish students has already been a menacing chill for a generation. The fraction of Jewish students in the Ivy League fell from 23% two decades ago to 9% today. They were unwelcome once and are unwelcome once again, in both eras thanks to the administrations.
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  9720. Maybe as late as 1995 it was possible to look on journalism as something helpful to society. Certainly not in this century. The founding fathers said it was a vital part of a free nation and gave it special legal protection. Now it militates energetically against freedom and seems destined to destroy it.
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  9721. The CNN anchor-thingy can't pronounce 'bivalent.' Ah well, circuses have clowns.
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  9722.  @antoniotula262  Yeah, on a scale so small the world has seldom if ever seen it elsewhere: Over a period of about two centuries up until 1833, mainly in the 1700s, there were a total of ~4,200 slaves (of which ~1,440 were black). (Not that this means it doesn't matter at all.)
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  9723. "Store prices become mad as fuck." 😂😆 🤣🤣 I'm really sorry to laugh but the way she said that was so casual, calm and outrageously funny. Just the way she gestured with her cigarette like she's your sister sitting at your kitchen table. I love this charming person.
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  9724. I'm guessing it was a protest zone with only Antifas about. Who else would want to stand around with them?
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  9725. Thanks for the Russian Foreign Ministry point of view, Peskovchik.😂
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  9726. Your sneering remark has zero basis. The report made no attempt to say Australia was better, did they?
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  9727.  @dontbestupid0199  How? Sky News Australia has vigorously attacked the Australian authorities equally, time and again. You would only have a point if it were an Australian government minister making these criticisms. So why don't you just delete this baseless remark of yours?
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  9728.  @dontbestupid0199  I watch at least a few minutes of Sky News Australia every day and have done these last two years. It all adds up to perhaps a hundred hours, and I've seen them sharply critical of the authorities many times. I don't mind granting you that they could have been even more so, but bear in mind what you said; namely that Sky are the pot calling the kettle black. That most certainly implies that they came out in favour of authoritarian overreach. If I somehow missed them do that I'd be amazed.
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  9729. ​ @Gary-l6o  I know it shocks those inhabiting their own little media bubbles, but many people with actual brains consider it important to stay abreast of what news other people are seeing and reading, even if the process of finding out turns their stomachs.
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  9730. ​ @Gary-l6o  It shocks those inhabiting their own little media bubbles, but many people with actual minds consider it important to stay abreast of what news other people are seeing and reading, even if the process of finding out turns their stomachs. It's why I subscribe to The New York Times.
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  9731. Process, although derived through Old French from the Latin processus, is an English word, not a Latin one. As such, the plural should be pronounced PRAW sess 'z, not PRAWSS e seez. Say it pretentiously and people will be suspicious of your PERP e seez.
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  9732. Kuomintang is pronounced GWOH-min-DUNG in Chinese (usually kwo-min-TANG in English because of the transliteration spelling). The Pinyin system of rendering Chinese into Roman characters is absolutely terrible. No, wait: beyond terrible.
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  9733. RT: "Men demoralized by DEI leaving labor force in droves, Amerika turns to educating great-grandmothers to fill the void."😄 Sound about right?
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  9734. They strike poses of 'niceness' all the time but they're not nice people. It's really all about satisfying their aggressive urges under a mirage of 'nice.' If I had a kitten I wouldn't trust him alone with it.
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  9735. I won't pardon his error on Bear Stearns 13 years ago, but ever since, how Cramer warns you is by saying 'it's ok right now'. You can't stay on financial TV saying the end is near. Pitchforks and your own bosses will come and get you. It's the same every time: When he says it's risky but it's still good for the moment, sell. He's telling you to sell. The clip you saw was tightly edited.
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  9736. It's hard to feel sorry for the man who puts up with her. No one in his right mind could love such a shrew, so it must have to do with not only a thorough lack of self-respect, but also a deep belief in the immorality of divorce. As for her, she needs long-term counselling.
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  9737. I agree with all of that, except that when unvaccinated people are very much in the minority but are a solid majority in the hospital with Covid, it's clear the vaccines aren't garbage. I think you should stick to the message that the government has no business bossing people around on this, and that it's all a set-up to start bossing them around much, much more.
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  9738. Quite right. It spread through the university faculties and grad students.
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  9739. "Mitchigan"😂 Makes you question this guy's acuity and the strength of his ties to reality. He was actually in that state just days ago.
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  9740.  @MostafizurRahman-ln4vx  I find that falls somewhat short of being fully intelligent. Didn't you notice that the childishness was suggested by the moderator and that the Republican Party candidates rejected it? This is the problem with liberals and leftists: They're so infatuated with their own moral superiority that they cannot think straight. And that, I submit to you sir, just isn't how to live a life of real "self-respect and dignity."
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  9741.  @uscgmom9796  I think the comment you replied to was meant ironically, like slow sarcastic clapping. Just a cheap shot at the US. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  9742.  @MostafizurRahman-ln4vx  Whoever she is, she's not a party official.
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  9743.  @motimobo  Where did you learn of these alleged things?
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  9744. Really? Some stuff is secret? No! I refuse to believe that. It is such a radical statement.
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  9745. 👍One or two of these a day will end the war this year. 🇺🇦
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  9746. Canada is going to band together with Mexico and China? It's sad to see someone with a degree of intelligence so deeply unacquainted with actuality.
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  9747. There's no delay. It's been less than 4 years since the last one, which entitled the Liberals to a 4-year term. However, within days there'll be a new PM who can call an early one. It will likely be in April or May.
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  9748. You don't say! Piers Morgan having an opinion and letting it show? What's your evidence that he's ever been that way?😂😂 You say it as though it's not something everyone knows already, as though it's not his bread and butter, as thought it's something he might care to deny!🤣
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  9749. Everyone knows it, and yet in the US more and more people say Left Authoritarianism is absolutely vital for preserving democracy. It's enough to make you wonder if there's some kind of chemical in the air, food and water that's dissolving neurons.
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  9750. I suppose, but is that so much less uncommon in, say, the US?
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  9751. Wow, Kara Swisher has aged 15 years in the past 4.
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  9752. If you don't, I'll have one for you. 😄
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  9753.  @SCRUT  NATO has been at Russia's borders for many years now. It's never been a problem. Finland too borders it, and a few months ago Putzin himself pronounced its accession to NATO a matter of indifference to Russia. So it's got nothing to do with NATO or "USA ambitions." Putzin wants to just pick up Ukraine like a sack of carrots and do with it as he likes. (It's likely to steal its immense gas resources and agricultural output and sell both to China. Also to turn the Black Sea into a Russian lake.) He's simply a violent criminal and must be treated like one. His Western nickname, "Vladolf Putler," is entirely apt. All his moves come out of the Nought-See playbook.
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  9754. Jesus Christ himself would be "indicted of embezzlement" if he were resurrected into Putin's Russia and dared speak his mind about its tyrant. That's if he weren't shot dead on a sidewalk or poisoned with the tip of an umbrella. You make us laugh by pointing to state charges.🤣
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  9755. Based on five million TV and internet commercials I've seen since June 2020, it's not possible this incident even happened.
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  9756. John Madden: 😥
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  9757. I feel a painful desolation watching that woman. And it must be painful for her too, having to pretend to be smart. Then there's the grim thing noted in a Paul Fussell book, "the psychologist's wonderland which opens before us when charmless people try to be charming." Bleak.
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  9758. Arithmetic boo-boo: "$120m x 165 (days)" should be $120m x 365 days = $43.8bn
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  9759. The West will make Russia pay. Your point should be that Putin is ruining Russia.
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  9760.  @malcolmsherwood19  He was a member of an inspections team. He was last there 5 years and 2 months before the war began. He went on the internet and tried to pick up underage girls. He was caught twice and convicted. In recent times he writes for the Russian govt news site RT. Your hero, whom you trust. Pathetic.
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  9761. There are already children who think they were "assigned the wrong species at birth." They meow or bark in class, and teachers are instructed to "affirm" their animal identities. Next, one imagines: Species reassignment surgery done on 10-year-olds, with bits of their bodies used to fashion tails and peaked or floppy ears, snouts, etc., against the wishes of their mothers and fathers. No, wait, their "gestational parents" and "non-birthing parents." (Actual new cant terms.) Expect opposition to result in loss of custody.
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  9762. Yeah, he's not very bright compared to you, who can't spell 'thought' . Better send him an emergency email.
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  9763. Yes, that projection is ridiculous. It also makes Greenland appear larger than Brazil. Time it were ditched.
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  9764. (1) Pinfold's Dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right. They make a leftist. (2) Tedros Adhanom, head of the WHO, is in fact a politician, the first non-physician to hold that position. A former health researcher, he showed his dedication to the field of health by abandoning it entirely from 2012 to 2016 in order to hold a job as Ethiopian foreign minister. The government was at that time headed by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. (!) According to the World Bank, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (now dissolved since its electoral loss in 2019) stood for “close co-operation with China on economic and trade policies”. A gloss of the “close co-operation” may be found on Wikipedia, part of which reads: “Between 2000 and 2014, China provided over $12 billion in loan finance (usually tied to infrastructure projects undertaken by Chinese firms). [...] The Chinese appear to be interested in Ethiopia for political reasons (among African countries, its governance and developmental orientation is closest to that of China, and it hosts the African Union headquarters).” And let me point out that all this didn't come to an end in 2014. That was merely the year up to which this statement covers. Ethiopia-China relations have remained close. And I want to stress that Adanom was the foreign minister, Ethiopia's point man for its deep ties to China.
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  9765. And that's why Judy Butler has devoted her life to this nonsense, because she wants one so bad that she'll say anything to convince herself and the world that she can still be a man.
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  9766.  @Cassieniemann2541  Like, that's like why I like said "can still be" rather than, like, "is."
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  9767.  @laylaalshaby7933  Google automatically supplies definitions from Oxford Dictionaries every time.
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  9768. I agree with every word of that. But the discussion isn't over before addressing the fact that the real game right now and for the rest of the century is in South and East Asia. China really wants all the other major powers to be involved in an economically sapping war with one another, the US most of all (of course) but also Russia. With Putin and his burning desire to do their will they must have been in disbelief at how good they had it.
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  9769. ​ @GoogleAreEnemyCombatants  It doesn't appear to, but it could patch together solutions, for example with aid from China and North Korea, both of which would very much hate to see Russia thwarted and embarrass the authoritarian axis while substantially unifying and strengthening the West. The two of them, plus Iran, could simply dare NATO to do something about it. To me the outcome is uncertain. All I know is that NATO must quickly rearm and be ready to respond quickly to events. I think the future will prove to be full of sudden surprises and traps.
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  9770. Russorcs.
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  9771.  @osiris91yt  Let Z stand for the eternal sleep of the next 100,000 Russian soldiers, just like the last 100,000. And so on, as many hundreds of thousands as it takes. Your call, Russia.
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  9772. As a member of a family who lost members in the Holocaust, your flippant and baseless comparison disgusts me. Shamelessly offensive and bad.
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  9773. Clearly she has her Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  9774. A patriot with the right outlook who has things straight in his head. He's not fumbling to figure things out, he understands them thoroughly.
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  9775.  @robertadsett5273  NATO cannot be strong without a larger contribution from Europe. Trump and the Europeans all know this equally well.
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  9776. R.I.P. Journalism. Died 2020, After A Long Illness.
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  9777. 👏Keep repeating this nonsense. It just hardens the world against Russia even more. Literally zero per cent of the world believes that preposterous Nazi crap. Meanwhile the whole war on Ukraine resembles nothing so perfectly as an actual Nazi invasion. If irony were bad for your health, Putzin would be dead. Anyway, as I said, keep it up.👏
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  9778. I find it apt, clear, simple and convenient to call it the Authoritarian Axis.
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  9779. The Adams video from 2011 hit me like an SNL skit by Tracy Morgan. 🤣
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  9780.  @janpeterbaark7540  I am the most pro-Ukraine person you will ever find. But I still have to admit that your point, although fact-based and morally valid, would seem small in the aftermath of a Russian nuclear rampage. I am so pro-Ukraine, in fact, that I wish Musk had taken that chance — and gotten away with it. But who am I? The choice was his to make and I am certain he made it after careful thought. Imagine feeling responsible for such a disastrous outcome. It is wrong to blame Musk. The people who could really help Ukraine defeat Russia are the ones in Western governments with the world's largest arsenal of military power in their hands. They could have provided Ukraine with 3x more firepower and equipment than they have done. If Biden really wanted to, he could find the legal means to compel Musk to give Ukraine whatever it asked for, just as he can force Lockheed Martin to produce more missiles. He did not. So if you want to blame anyone, blame the political leaders with the resources and the real authority, not somebody with an internet services company. But bear in mind that they and Musk alike are highly conscious of the importance of avoiding a third world war, as they should be. If they followed your implicit advice and then millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of deaths resulted, I doubt you would be generous enough to forgive them. And you would be right.
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  9781. * They think sovereignty [etc.] Edit needed there?
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  9782. I think it's safe to say she's permanently lost her appetite for lobster.
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  9783. Are you serious? Strict platform rules.
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  9784. Dual spirit: human being and toon.
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  9785. Good lord that is toopid. So at some earlier point a rich person was poor and then made just one more dollar, thereby becoming rich. Then bought a bottle of wine to celebrate, and was instantly poor again. Effortlessly toopid, my ironically-named friend.
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  9786. It's weird how the cops don't just arrest lawbreakers when they see them doing something. What to they do when they see an arsonist walking away from a burning building? Ask the building what it wants? I wonder if it's like that in every state or it's just a California thing.
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  9787. Somebody needs to tell Ben Affleck that it wasn't "our forefathers" who "endowed us with inalienable rights." According to the Declaration of Independence, which he was trying unsuccessfully to quote, it was "our Creator." But he didn't end it there. Without missing a beat he went on to mix up "inalienable rights" with the very different "self-evident truths." The great [insert your own choice of invective] wanted so badly to show off, but instead landed on his hinder regions.
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  9788. I mostly agree except on Bezos. Telling him to stuff it was a good idea. A billionaire is a type of pirate in any case, but some pirates are of course worse than others. Good riddance to bad garbage.
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  9789.  @anonymousperson6119  The likelihood that someone will start pushing other people around and ripping them off tends to increase with the power to do so. So I see it as a strong generality but not an automatic thing (Elon Musk comes to mind). I, too, object to "[the] notion that the only way you can get rich is by exploiting people." What I have in mind is along the lines of the old maxim 'Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' Most who've had a good look a humanity accept that there's a lot of truth to that. Temptation increases with capacity. Mind you, aggression is built into human nature and so a great many powerless people are quite corrupt, too, aren't they? Thanks for your reply.
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  9790.  @anonymousperson6119  Thanks for your cordial reply. I must admit I was careless for tossing the useful word pirate around without some needed qualification, because its associations are somewhat complex. We love it when an upright navy rids the sea lanes of them, yet there's something about them we respond to and inwardly relish, too --- the idea, at least, that their cavalier unruliness and lawlessness doesn't preclude an enviable and healthy cheerfulness nor absolutely a certain gentlemanliness (e.g. Walter Raleigh). Myth for the most part, to be sure, but we value our myths. It takes a thoroughgoing socialist or Marxist --- meaning, to me, someone with personality problems --- to work up feelings of ressentiment and unreserved hatred for all billionaires, I think. Everyone else just agrees they should be judiciously taxed and regulated, lest they enslave us all.
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  9791.  @anonymousperson6119  Some glitch messed with my edits, so I've now fixed my last reply.
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  9792. Yes, and you may take heart by also considering that no country is going to use up all its materiel in a particular category. Once they get down to their final 25% or something, they'll simply slash the pace of putting them into battle. They'll try to figure out how to use something else instead—something presumably inferior, but of which they have a healthier supply.
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  9793. I've started to think that Mr. Bremmer is nothing like the plugged-in insightful guy he poses as. In the dozen or so clips I've watched over the past couple of weeks, there's little difference between him and an average liberal who simply reads all the headlines and a few of the articles from the various major news outlets which were considered blandly reliable 25 years ago, before The Great Dumbening, the Age of Woke and the death of journalism.
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  9794. Long live Joe Biden. He's all that stands between us and a Kringela Harris administration.😮
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  9795. RF Army, you are all being watched, everywhere, all the time. Whether by civilian spotters, camera drone operators or super-high-tech satellites, it's all noted and relayed to Ukrainian forces command. You can't hide, you won't survive. Just go home.
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  9796. There are more leprechauns on this Earth than Joe Biden fans.
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  9797. Latest poll in Canada: Conservatives 47%, Trudeau Liberals 17%. Waiting for other polls to confirm this surge from 21-point lead to 30. There's buzz about a March election. 🎉🥂🎊
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  9798.  @nancetardiff339  It's been sorely absent to date. I wish he had removed PM Peter Pan in 2020 and rusticated him to Camp X-Ray—for good. I'm losing faith in his toughness.
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  9799.  @Rocksteady246  😂😂Funny sarcasm.
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  9800. Good interview by Mr. Goodwin, drawing out the expert views of the TR host on various subjects.🙄
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  9801. Yesterday's upload was open to comments for a couple of hours. But they disapproved of the response, so they erased it all and closed it down. No capacity for sh a m e , any real understanding of what they're doing to people, or even serious self-reflection. (These are leading characteristics of the nar sys i cyst, by the way.)
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  9802. How so?
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  9803. It's obvious they are really supporting Hamas, since Hamas has never stopped firing missiles at Israeli civilians for the past three weeks, yet I don't see any of these "pro-Palestinians" protesting Hamas, only Israel. That should tell you all you need to know about their "support for the Palestine people." They want Hamas to remain intact so that it can carry out more civilian massacres. And you?🤨
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  9804. Reminds me of my neighbour after work when he's drinking.
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  9805. Warning: they're putting in long years treating you mostly quite well for the purpose of gaining your trust and respect. But it's a Faustian sort of bargain. The time will come when they withdraw their savings and feed you stories you should never believe. Russians I love, but of all things Russian I trust the communications arm of the government of Russia least.
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  9806.  @ting280  That's the spirit. It's so wishy-washy when anyone says "Hey thanks, I didn't know that."
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  9807. Neither. They don't end up getting their promised money.
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  9808. Just guessing, but maybe around 160 vs 130. But it's on a log-type scale, so he probably has around twice her processing power. Something like that, much of it accounted for by better software, meaning thinking strategies and tactics, rather than mere speed and memory (roughly speaking, hardware).
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  9809. @Andrzej M Ok, yeah, 160 is way higher and I don't know why I said that. Wanted to err on the side of generosity I suppose. As for 130, no, that's not so high as you say, I don't think. Roughly 97th percentile, so only faster than around 29 out of 30 people. Again maybe a bit generous. Call the difference 30 points, which is still a country mile. Cheers.
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  9810.  @williamrockwell9705  Ah, "LOL" — the perennial favourite of 11-year-olds everywhere. But it does not, alas, make un-funny things funny.
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  9811.  @LiveFreeOrDie76  I definitely hear you, felt the same way until recently and I still have reservations about her. But I've decided that she deserves a lot of credit for acknowledging what's in front of her eyes. There's a shortage of people of that sort, and as a rule I'm fine with anyone who improves. As I understand it not many of these people become a lot more moderate. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  9812. Plot twist: Earth is used by other planets as an insane asylum.
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  9813.  @Off-HandedBarrel  Denmark paid General Dynamics cash for it in the 1990s!
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  9814. Blinken doesn't even believe what he's saying. He's just taking orders from the Squad and the Harvard Students' Association...everyone except the Baked Potato-in-Chief, who's in such a daze he doesn't even know if his diaper needs changing. 25 weeks to go!
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  9815.  @rhobatbrynjones7374  Ok, Sergeant Hum Moss.
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  9816.  @rhobatbrynjones7374  Ok, Ike Monn.
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  9817.  @rhobatbrynjones7374  I wasn't joking.
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  9818. He said "Auguste Comte" just as you'd expect by taking a look at him.😄 Should be oh-GOOST KOHNT. (Rhymes with 'oh boost don't.') Then he went on to interrupt his interesting guest over and over. That was rude to her and it deprived us of knowing what she had to say. Bit of a mess.
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  9819. If it works paraplegics will be able to walk. If it works we'll be much safer against a threat of alien-level AGI wiping us out. It's just a faster human-computer interface than a screen, keyboard & mouse.
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  9820. Englishman makes anti-American hit-piece video showcasing his bitter resentment of what it has, or has achieved (dictionary definition of envy, btw). Uploads it to....(guess where!)...American video-hosting platform. 😂 Although I'm not an American, nor have I ever lived in the US, I invite anyone to point to any segment of this video and I will take it apart on grounds of its rank emotional, intellectual or counterfactual immaturity.
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  9821. ​ @masonhunter2921  Hah! There's zero parallel to be made. Worse, your tone evinces a feeling that evangelicals, somewhere around 30% of the US population, or about 100 million people, don't deserve political attention from a president or nominee. That amounts to religious bigotry. Let me guess, when your own concerns are addressed, or those of groups u don't despise, you never call it pandering. Anyway, it's not like he gets 90% of their support (like the other party does from that certain group they've conned and deceived into political servitude). A great many evangelicals don't care for him a whit. So I can't see how the little attention he pays to them rightly qualifies as pandering; thus I find your claim to be just more of the category inflation the far left is addicted to. (Because it's all they've got.)
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  9822. Gerard Butler: "Hey, leave us out of this!"
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  9823. No, you're the expert.
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  9824. Everybody's ragging on Jill and Hunter Biden, but not me. Hear me out... They're all that stands between us and a Kringela Harris administration. And that makes them heroes. Unlikely and undeserving heroes, but there you have it.
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  9825. What on earth is the deal with middle-aged American men who began saying "YOO-krane" about 14 months ago, when for all time beforehand everyone in the English-speaking world always said "yoo-KRANE"? I seriously want to know what's up with this bizarre incomprehensible weirdness.
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  9826. Justice should be blind. Democrat justice has eyes the size of octopuses'.
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  9827. The plane was not donated by the US! It was given by either Denmark or the Netherlands. Please, honesty and accuracy matter.
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  9828. "Albo" Shouldn't that be Alpo? Just wondering, because he has dog-like qualities.🐩
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  9829. She knows the Democratic Party has exactly the problem he described. But she loves both the Party and angry young lefty women, so she turned to aggression.
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  9830. Joe Biden: "Come on, man. Everyone plagiarizes. America was built on plagiarism. This has to be a MAGA witch hunt."
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  9831.  @pacman3556  He's making s--- up.
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  9832. You have to tell Americans this a hundred times before it starts to sink in. They think that being upper-class is only about money. They will allow that just winning a giant lottery prize doesn't make someone upper-class, but they can't keep going and grasp the rest of the picture. It's because they have no system of aristocratic titles and treasure the touching but half-baked idea of 'classlessness.' And just the idea of thinking it through strikes terror into them. And they get all angry.
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  9833. 1st paragraph: The word you might want there is heterodox. (Fancy word for eclecticism in beliefs.) 2nd paragraph: The term you might want there is illiberal liberals. 3rd paragraph: The term you might want there is neo-Marxist. ('Neo-' anything is a version which is merely inspired by the original and indeed might well horrify the originator(s), but the lineage is clear enough.)
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  9834.  @pixtilla  way tl;dr Nearly barfed at "good old Karl". He fucked his young maid right under his wife's nose, then fired her and never supported the child. And you follow this POS? Muted🖕
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  9835.  @brucenenke-vk5nk  I meant no one called him evil. He was quoted with approval.
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  9836.  @brucenenke-vk5nk  And I thought Plato had his cave-dwellers in chains to represent the eternal limitations on human awareness. Silly me, he could have simply freed them. Of course! I never realized how simple it is! The cure for a benighted mind is enlightenment! Thanks! I gotta go and tell everybody! You're a genius! Wait, I've got other ones too: the cure for poverty is more wealth! The cure for illness is more health! And why die when you can simply live longer!
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  9837.  @alangale3545  7?
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  9838. Well stated. Hey, let's go occupy the upper storey of his house and tell him if he cedes it to us we'll recognize his sovereign ownership of the storeys below. Oh, and when he calls the police, let them say he has to negotiate with us.😂
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  9839.  @JohnBarns-jv6vb  Uh, I think it's our stabby perpetrator, posting from inside the hospital. Probably had an extra phone stashed in his lady parts.
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  9840. Came after seeing the thumbnail, not to watch, but just to say who on earth cares what this guy thinks?
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  9841. Why does the solicitor-general begin EVERY sentence with the word so ? Why on earth?
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  9842. "Alter your course 360 degrees." 😂  He actually said that. 🤣 Omg, the British crew must've been howling.
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  9843.  @JustUsFlyers  Heading three six zero.
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  9844. Wow, they could easily have not made it through that alive.😮 Their willingness to face risks like that is something we all have to really appreciate. Big respect and gratitude.👍
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  9845. That segment was way too long. I wanted 3 tight and solid minutes and she ended up giving us 20 highly uneven ones. Who has time for that? I started tuning out.
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  9846. Correction: Like they are her campaign team. Which they are.
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  9847. I'll go with "Ding dong, the witch is dead!"
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  9848. Oh come on, Cuomo's not waking up to anything. To me this was a temperance lecture from a guy who's been sauced to the gills for decades, up to and including last night.
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  9849. ​ @thricefan89  Found the thin-skinned, ankle-biting, resentful, small, tiny, miniature little dipper.
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  9850. It was indeed an excellent question, but the even far larger matter is control of his stakes.
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  9851. This guy sure can talk jive.
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  9852. Weirdest of all is that it took 15 seconds for the officers to make their move. And it was only after a city councillor or official gave the sign (the leftmost seated woman). And she had to do it twice. What on earth were they waiting for?
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  9853.  @rustyunquebecoiserrant.8049  More like 6-7x. 4m bpd vs. 0.6m bpd.
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  9854.  @christined2495  Good to hear. Gutfeld must have a bit of a beef with her, cuz to me it's not cute. (And I don't know, maybe she's at fault—but I just want him to keep it off the air.)
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  9855. And being a devout lefty, he no doubt deplores the armed forces as a bastion of reactionary power. Thus he would have hated to give any suggestion that they are useful or deserve respect. In addition, since he is not their commander-in-chief, as it were, he couldn't relish real control and power over them.
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  9856. ​ @j29maniac  I think that was well said and I am indeed against EV mandates. (I am however not entirely against things like subsidies for new EV factories and battery facilities, and tariffs on EVs from Chigh nuh, as necessary evils. Such measures leave a bad taste in my mouth but are a way of ensuring 90% of cars won't be imported by the time 2040 rolls around.)
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  9857. I think Musk's point is analogous to the point of antitrust laws, the laws that regulate monopolies. That's because Twitter is in a monopolistic position: It's like Microsoft and its Internet Explorer, like the old AT&T, like Standard Oil—yes, they had (minor) competitors and were not pure monopolies. And they might have had pure intentions. (Please do snicker.) But they grew into positions so dominant that the public had to be protected from harm. So that's why governments moved on them. Now, that's not going to happen with Twitter. Governments are not about to micromanage social media (although some left politicians want to so badly that they are bound to try eventually). And so, as the harms mount and no one is protecting the public, Musk has gallantly decided to do something: He's going to undo the micromanagement of the discussion, the suppression of the discussion, where such suppression is doing social damage and is dangerous to the health of democracy—namely on Twitter, to where practically all the high-level discussion moved years ago.
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  9858. If you ever have occasion to re-upload this, take the apostrophe out of the title.
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  9859. Poopi Goldberg: "I don't have the words." [Just keeps droning on anyway.]
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  9860. They will not let up. They will push and push and push until they are pushed back against with great firmness. We The Sane must greatly improve our turnout at elections whilst they continue to fall on time. It may not be for much longer.
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  9861. Pfft. Turkey doesn't GAF about anything but Turkey.
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  9862. But if the Republicans win at the ballot box, doesn't that mean democracy has perished?😂
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  9863. @Goldtau88 You tell us, Tucker.
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  9864. Who else is thinking about the guy on The Simpsons who disappeared with Springfield's monorail money?
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  9865. Sit down. Breathe. Just breathe.
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  9866. I know what you're trying to say, but the way you said it you're wrong on purely logical grounds, because they could surrender and end the war any time they wanted. What you're referring to is the fact that they don't have free and absolute access to NATO armouries containing the largest stores of weaponry ever amassed by mankind. And you're saying it as if that's not right somehow. I support Ukraine entirely, but any hint that NATO countries should have no say in the matter of what leaves their weapons stores is more than a little silly. Just say "NATO should help Ukraine more."
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  9867.  @kd8199  You're too dense to even understand what I wrote. Reading comprehension issues. If you only understood my meaning, you would agree. In any case, although your composition is passable, you write poorly. There should be no difference between what is said and what is meant, and in your writing there is.
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  9868. World Lizard Federation: "Hey Dave Rubin, stop comparing us to Justin Trudeau!"
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  9869. Hundreds of posts paid for by hostile foreign govts, telling the Canadian govt to spend money on Canadians, not other countries. No mention of Huh Moss, just "other countries."🤨 Plus a few monkey-see-monkey-do Canadian simps chiming in to agree. Guess which hostile foreign govts want Canada not to help anyone?🤔
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  9870. Rath's group does not fit any formal definition of a "delegation." It's a small group of Alberta residents who represent themselves. Rath's use of the word is pure cunning, nothing more.
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  9871. I wonder whom the aliens are going to appoint President of Earth.
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  9872. R.I.P. Journalism Died 2020 After a Long Illness
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  9873. Battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales in Europe were 1.43 million units for the first nine months of 2024, a 3% decline from the same period in 2023. Meanwhile, overall car sales rose 1%.
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  9874. Kremlin: "The pilot will be disciplined for careless smoking. This press conference is over." [entry of security police, assault of reporters]
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  9875. Christopher Walken: "I got the oversized-eyeglasses fever, and the only cure is more bigger glasses!"
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  9876.  @pauly230678  <---"The likes of Norway, Sweden and UK would be in full noise regardless of what the rest of NATO do." Yes, I agree. And they already have a mechanism for that: the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a UK-led force which consists of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and the Netherlands.
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  9877. Good luck. But don't call it horse paste. It's on the WHO's list of the world's essential medicines—for human beings.
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  9878.  @АлександрРоманов-м3й  😢
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  9879. I don't know about world-wide as in everywhere possible. I only want to see it where it respects human rights and has a strong commitment and track record on clean elections that fall on time. If all these are its attributes, then yeah. Change is needed. In the West it seems almost like governments are losing control of themselves.
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  9880.  @mathieucloutier8605  You're welcome, it was a pleasure and a great honor for you.
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  9881. Doesn't matter where Andrews is put, just get him out of the premier's office.
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  9882. Hurray for platforming this guy, Times Radio!👋 Shame on anyone whose sanctimony perpetuates this human misery and degradation.👎
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  9883.  @burger_kinghorn  Stunning. The people who told us men could be women are now telling us that we should see people from India and China as whites, and for that reason reject them. Just stunning.
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  9884. Kringela
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  9885.  Kelvynn Lee  Thanks for your reply. It seems to me each is still treating the other mostly as an opponent rather than an enemy. I'd be delighted to know what you mean if you see it differently . Cheers.
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  9886.  Kelvynn Lee  To be more frank, I don't know what you mean. All the best.
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  9887.  Kelvynn Lee  I agree it's best not to be enemies, if that's what you mean. (You actually don't even come close to saying that!)
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  9888.  Kelvynn Lee   Thanks for your reply, but... Wait, what? Would you please explain what you mean? The US does a lot of business with China. And when you say China, who is China anyway? The government? The CPC? Who agrees with that?---only a lot of indoctrinated hicks (for 70 years!) whose grandparents couldn't read or write, because literate people were sent to rot and die somewhere. Can they represent China if China cannot get rid of them? The CPC might say the US Congress is the political wing of the Strategic Air Command. You might agree. But it isn't: Definitely not yet and definitely not for a few generations to come. Please think things through, my friend with the very HK name. (Nice English. Sorry I can't answer in Cantonese or Mandarin. I know, lame.) Best wishes.
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  9889. Thanks for the fake numbers. (1) "$1.8bn" is 50% higher than the real number. (2) "0.01%" of $1.2bn is $120k. No one is talking about $120k. Police can't respond when calls come in. They would if they could. They can't.
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  9890. Hoist with their own petard. 👏👏👏 Splendid.
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  9891. Oh, he knows. He's simply [opposite of standing].
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  9892. Those words remind me of nothing so much as the 13-year-old boy (or 15-year-old girl) who yells "You're the worst parents ever!" There is indeed such a thing as bad parents. There is indeed such a thing as the 'worst parents ever.' Some adolescents are right. But most aren't right about their parents and many aren't right about anything at all. In analogous fashion, many governments go to war and many of them are right to do so. And if the rich indulge themselves with exemptions, let it be noted that the rich are too few in number to get the job done anyway. Even if they enlist in outlandishly high rates as in Britain in WWI they still can't make up much of the fighting force. The point is that "toffs" making out all right out of the war doesn't make the war wrong. They make out well perpetually, never mind what's going on in international relations. My last point is one the whole world would be better off and happier for understanding. Envy and resentment fill the universe. But take heart: when wars are finished the rich ordinarily cede some if not very considerable power to their social inferiors, if not out of gratitude then out of guilt. Postwar booms consist largely of such concessions and they shape generations, countries and civilizations. Ozzy Osborne, quick-minded and a good lad in many ways, was a bit too high to get all there is to get.
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  9893.  @L98fiero  I'm not that cool with them. I just know that any other way is worse.
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  9894.  @L98fiero  You must've loved it in mid-2020 when that woman was stopped on a sidewalk late at night near where she lived and had to apologize to that stranger on her knees. And she had to make it convincing.
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  9895.  @L98fiero  Yeah, I bet you don't. We speak different languages. I made it through a good university before The Great Dumbening.
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  9896.  @L98fiero  Oh, you mean my last post at that time? If you don't remember that thing happening, just look it up. It was a guy and a woman, the guy stopping her on an empty sidewalk late in the evening and telling her he's BLM and she has to apologize to him, on her knees. Shades of a Cultural Revolution struggle session. He did a few of those.
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  9897. Yes, Kisin is quite brilliant and unfailingly honest.
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  9898. Plus the trade treaty in place is Trump's very own. In 2017 he demanded terms which he subsequently got, immediately declaring a total victory. Now he calls them unfair.🙄
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  9899. She'll probably be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028 or 2032.
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  9900. 13,000? Big deal. That's a fraction of a per cent. How is it news before the vacancy rate reaches a couple of per cent, i.e. 100,000-plus?
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  9901. Yeah, and a swoss tikka is a religious symbol. The two go hand in glove.
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  9902.  @williamblake827  Then stop trusting yourself as well, because cynics are untrustworthy. I feel for you, but when you start saying things like Media Matters is a billionaire (which you did in your OC) something's broken.
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  9903.  @jonathansanders7756  That's a reach-and-a-half, for multiple reasons. One of them: What would that have to do with "the lawyers" winning?
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  9904.  @erick93622  You don't understand the things you are talking about. That's very saddening to me.
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  9905. Thanks, that's interesting. Mind you, the damaged section is in Swedish waters, so their co-operation and permission would presumably be necessary. Conceivably there'd be a hitch there.
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  9906. Thank you, Glenn. That was a cogent presentation of actual evidence.👍
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  9907. I would say the visit was Xi's signal to the Chinese industrial and financial elites, as well as ordinary Chinese people, that China supports Russia in its war, that its support might increase, and that ties with Russia will in any case continue to deepen. And that's about all. Somewhat vague though these positions may be, it was time for Xi to give some indication of them so that the Chinese understand a bit better what to expect, and what's expected of them.
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  9908. You appear to share the opinion of Hamas.
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  9909.  @ericwillis777  Absurd argument. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Go look in the mirror. Have a good talk with yourself. Resolve to improve your standards of thought and ethics. Have a nice day.
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  9910. Ah, Rita. Hitting the nail on the head as usual. 👏👏
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  9911. Lefty response: "Logic and reasoning are just covers for white supremacy. Ban them now in the name of equity!"
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  9912. Not a chance. That money is only part of what Russia will have to pay. Already they owe Ukraine and the world at least a trillion dollars. And in terms of foregone Russian GDP, the price will end up many times that.
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  9913. This smooth, affable, self-interested Twitter shareholder just wants his payday. He calls for Google to jump in as though he's never heard the word 'anti-trust'. Why on earth was he invited on this program just to see if he can get a higher offer by throwing in his spin? The host should have rudely put him in his place instead of smooching his hinder regions.
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  9914. ​ @memodev  👍Tienes razón. Eso es solo un metrónomo de Izquierdista. Tick tock, tick tock... [👍You're correct. That's just some Izquierdista metronome. Tick tock, tick tock...]
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  9915. Let's face it, as long at they're fairly close to 18, society doesn't actually care much about the girls. If they really cared, more would be done to stop underage prostitution throughout the country. There must be tens of thousands of girls too young to have finished high school who are doing such work, and not much ever interferes with it.
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  9916. I understand you feeling that way. I was just the same when I was 14 too.
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  9917. Any time you want to give us a break from Justin Trudeau content by giving us some Sydney Sweeney content, I'm more than all right with that.😄
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  9918. I'd like to know what such a plate of food costs.
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  9919. And how many 'news' outlets will report it accurately?
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  9920. (1) No vehicle "crashes" into water. Try drives, falls or sinks into. 'Crashes' is illiterate. (2) "Play a factor" is very bad English. Something can play a part, or it can be a factor, but it can't play a factor. Illiterate. (3) Why wait till the final seconds to tell us where this happened? Why on earth?
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  9921. These are lawbreakers. The way to deal with lawbreakers is straightforward: Arrest them, charge them, jail them and prosecute them. Then convict them, sentence them and put them in prison. Why does this even need pointing out?
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  9922. I have ten fingers but I identify as differently-fingered. The government must pay for my six-finger surgery or it's more tyrannical than the state of North Korea.
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  9923. Basically Grandpa Simpson.
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  9924. If the mayor's been in Paterson all his life, which appears to be around half a century, and he says he's never seen it worse, then it's just plain bad. Full stop.
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  9925. Well? What was your verdict? I need closure!
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  9926. Who's the interviewer?
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  9927. I'm guessing it didn't 'go off' but was deliberate, as he knew that milliseconds counted and that he had to get a round off immediately, left hand or not. I don't think he was panicking or clumsy, he just went smoothly with the moment. From there the smoothness just continued.
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  9928. She wouldn't admit it but she's trading on her sexuality by wearing that tiny top. That's unethical and shows a commitment to career, not her profession. But her core lack of ethics is shown by the hatchet job she does on Bulgaria. She risks little backlash because it is a small, poor country and generally not respected around the Anglosphere, where her viewers are. By portraying Bulgarians as backward, stingy, and racist she can score points for herself as a moral person. A simple, winning approach that works throughout the media. She represents everything that is wrong in journalism. You can see her complete confidence that she has the upper hand.
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  9929. Probably interesting, but it doesn't cohere. Read back to yourself one word at a time and then edit, please.
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  9930. Yet another well-educated elite airhead badmouthing individual rights, too stunned to realize that if you don't put them at the top, they fall out of existence. We should take away his and see if he maintains his position.
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  9931. I like your prime minister. Denmark has made good decisions in the last few years. Carry on!
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  9932.  @snowbird9449  On the face of it you have more credibility on this than the CBC and most of its clown commenters. Do us a favour and keep it up, for they're generally a bunch of callow stoners who never grew up because they're against that kind of thing.
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  9933. Yep. Born to be ruled.
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  9934. You don't get it. Tesla, being really well conceived and managed, is the only maker presently able to make money. The other makers are in no way being greedy. Certainly not. They lose a fortune on every EV sold. When Tesla slashed prices by $10k a car (while continuing to make billions in profit), they all started throwing in the towel. They can't compete. If they persist (except on a tiny scale) it will mean bankruptcy.
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  9935. ​ @HorseMaster23  And how would you figure out something like that, Mr. Gopnik?😂
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  9936. The woman interviewed just goes to show you that Russia, too, has a millennial nitwit problem.
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  9937.  @gr4vityjuli4n  No doubt the sort who doesn't know what a woman is either. "It's nuanced"🤡
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  9938. I savoured every word of that. Thanks.
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  9939. Seemingly, yes. But it depends on the sample. Depends on the day, the location, the choices made in the edit. Polling is a sort of a science based on statistical math. This is not polling by Gallup, Ipsos or YouGov. Still useful a.f. for its ability to communicate flavour, nuance and feeling, but it leaves Russian opinion still a bit more than somewhat unknown.
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  9940. Dang that was well said, Dave. Go ahead and repeat it often.👍
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  9941.  @11235but  He's saying we create the world in our minds in such a way as to make it tolerable. I think neuroscience backs him up on that up to a point. Think of babies and toddlers. Before they've reached the age where they're getting a handle on existence they're very often totally overwhelmed. Baffling data is streaming in by the terabyte and it makes no sense. Learning to cope with it largely amounts to learning how to efficiently and effectively ignore almost all of it.
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  9942.  @jessewahwah  Factually wrong. Europe has spent more. See the Kiel Institute's Ukraine Aid Tracker, which has been tracking all this for over two years. The US spent more than Europe only for about the first 10 months. The 30-month mark is in August. Europe damn well does "believe my if."
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  9943. ​ @jessewahwah  Entrenched precedent, that's why. The US shouldered 3/4 of the cost throughout the Cold War, too. It was a case of institutionalized j e rk-ism (for want of a better term😄) on the part of Europe, and it's only changing now after a whole lifetime. And no, I'm not counting only the money. It's true that the US is sending >50% of the actual armaments and ammo (Europe can't donate what it doesn't have), but the total bill is far, far higher and European money is paying for a lot of the US weaponry (as it certainly should!) as well as cash aid. I love it, because the result is a much stronger NATO, just like the US always said it would be. Shoulda been like this decades ago.
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  9944.  @jessewahwah  Yes I did answer the question, directly. Absolutely. Read it. If you won't bother reading my reply, fine. But then don't say anything. Don't you see, Europe has been playing chicken with the US for several decades, knowing that if they didn't pay their fair share, the Americans would feel they had no choice. The US perennially caved. What on earth did you think my reply was about? Look, dude, I need to spend my time on this earth with smart people, ok? I gotta go. That's it.
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  9945.  @monaholt4066  U misspelled Kamala 😄
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  9946. I'd say a safe is a wise place to keep rocks you believe are from other worlds. Makes basic common sense.
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  9947. As a Canadian I fully agree with Karol. Canada is absolutely worthless and would ruin the US. All it would do is skew the US toward leftism, add more debt, and soak up American wealth. Super-bad idea. Please repeat all this to your friends and family. Moreover, it'd be the 51st-57th states, not just one. That means 14 Canadian senators.
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  9948.  @Philipwaltho  His Lordship knows quite well what sabre-rattling is. He is only being a Right Honourable pedant and noisome gadfly.
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  9949. ​ @darylfoster7944  The domino theory was absolutely correct. You think it was "debunked" but it was not. It was derided only by leftists. Time proved it was right. Only the Western cold warriors stopped the USSR and CCP from spreading their system all over Eurasia, Africa and Latin America.
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  9950.  @darylfoster7944  The domino theory was absolutely correct. You think it was "debunked" but it was not. It was derided only by le ftists. Time proved it was right. Only the Western cold warriors stopped the USSR and C CP from spreading their system all over Eurasia, Africa and Latin America.
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  9951.  @skyeplays1772  Yep, everybody is selfish. Yep—everybody except you.
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  9952. What on earth is that thing? Is this a variation on the Manson Family's forehead thing?
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  9953. A long time ago I realized that sort of behaviour is most likely aimed at currying favour with girls/women. And let's not kid ourselves: although many do not fall for it, so many do that it's always worth a try.
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  9954.  @dontsupportrats4089  The number of locomotives supplied is striking: it was at least 1,900 according to one source, while another states it was 2,047.
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  9955. ​ @Watching-tf1gc  Ok, thanks for the Belsen oberleutnant point of view.🙄
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  9956. I'm good with capitalism but I don't care for this smug pu tz at all. What's with this idea that if you're not rich you eat dog food? There's something really wrong with his personality and money can't compensate for it.
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  9957. That's very instructive. Any enemy of America would quite naturally think of turning its greatest strengths (the one I'm thinking of here is its openness) into its greatest weaknesses. That has been happening on a great scale in the past several years, ever since Xi took over, and faster than ever since he became friends with Putin.
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  9958. Yes, her arguments were flimsy. Possibly my attention wandered at times while she was talking.  @Vgallo 
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  9959.  @dpelpal  India disgusts me with its majority public support for Russia, its government's refusal to condemn the invasion, as well as its hobnobbing around with both China and Russia in the BRICS forum. The fact that my phone rings all the time with fraud calls from Indian scammers doesn't help either. Come on India, get your act together. (At least you are a sensible person, dpelpal. Always appreciate your posts.)
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  9960. Small head?
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  9961. Everybody gangsta until other people have guns, too.
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  9962. * 8 billlion. Great comment though.
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  9963. I thought it was about as opinionated as could be.
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  9964.  @jakedubs  Who could fail to notice?
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  9965. They're being told it'll save their lives, and old people are quite sensible. You didn't know that?
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  9966. There are tons of liberals who are sheltering in the centre-right. They have the choice between that and outright political homelessness. There's little in them that instinctively suits them to conservatism, but liberalism as it presents itself in the culture has packed up and moved off to the Left Pole. And just as from the North Pole all points are south, from the Left Pole all points are right.
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  9967. Way to feed it to her. We were all tired of that nonsense.
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  9968. Thanks for taking time out from picking daisies and petting kittens to share your wisdom.
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  9969.  @boota1979  Right, because any cosmic force for good would never take sides.🙄 Thanks for the theology lesson.
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  9970.  @gazza9463  Schroeder, Merkel, Scholz: Wynken, Blynken and Nod. Three little children so sleepy in their comfortable beds, waiting for the Russian sandman.
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  9971. Why were they saying "stealth"? She is openly very far-left and always has been. Even when she was a senator she was rated the #1 farthest-left out of all 100. 😱 Btw, Canadians easily recognize her as a standard 60-yr-old Canadian far-lefty.
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  9972. Check your trousers.
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  9973. Was Lenin a patriotic Russian whilst living in Germany?
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  9974. The women of the Democratic Party are our natural moral leaders. They should definitely be running the country, for that reason alone.
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  9975. Erroneously, both the presenter and the description state that "28% of Americans reckon he doesn’t have enough mental capacity to be president." No, that's the percentage who do think he has enough mental capacity. Please correct this. 😮Most shocking of all, only 72% of Americans did not agree.🤯
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  9976.  @MartinMary-c2n  Danger to the mind increases with amount of CBC News smoked — Health Canada
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  9977. He looks like he's on something. Hitler was doped to the gills too.
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  9978. Possibly, since he has strong senses of irony and humour, but frankly the way you wrote that makes it sound like he's gleeful about a bad turn of events. I imagine that, like the rest of us, it might strike him as slightly amusing in a way, but I doubt he was glad to hear the mission had a major problem.
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  9979. I don't care. Per km driven, 1000 infractions over 2+ years must work out to a low rate.  And if CTV can't prove how many were related to non-emergencies and tell us the figure, they shouldn't run the story. This is why people have low trust of news now. Exaggeration, bias, unprofessionalism, sensationalism, etc. Fake/fake-ish news.
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  9980. People on the left think that just to be on the left means always being right, even when they're wrong. For them it's the ultimate free pass for every mistake and every ethical transgression, equating ipso facto to moral purity. And it stretches to infinity: Stalin and Mao put tens of millions of people to death, justifying it on the grounds that it promoted communism. True believers erected statues of them and hung their portraits everywhere.
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  9981. Satoshi is not only anonymous but indistinguishable from fiction. Who says there was any Satoshi? Who says he isn't a fabrication of the government, who foresaw no normal way to gain control of every penny of all the US dollars in the world, aside from converting it all to crypto? What public wouldn't receive such a plan with outrage? And so one can easily imagine Satoshi was really a government team who launched it as a math and programming thing, only to soon seed it in the public mind as a freedom thing. Then, after it caught on sufficiently, the government could say, as they now have, "This is very dangerous. Crypto is good, but it must be government crypto." Presto, the end of paper money and the least bit of un-traceability. Guess where we'll be when we have only the Internet, the 5G cell networks, and crypto?  Landlines, gone. The post office, closed. Physical money, gone. No need for the Big Brother tele-screen in every home. You won't be able to spend a cent nor communicate with anyone except the person beside you anymore, without the government observing and recording every detail. Whether the government invented Bitcoin or not, I would say the ante in this game for the future of human dignity is being upped massively.
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  9982.  @Mark-hc5eb  Your first sentence I find of no possible use. Your second I find incoherent. If you can remedy those two things I promise I'll reconsider them fully.
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  9983. Which Hong Kongers want to live in mainland China? Nobody. Ask yourself why.
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  9984.  @kenny-ou5pn  I would expect Milei, as a libertarian, to respect above all my right to my choices whatever their basis in reasoning. You seem to mistake him for an economist who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. You also sound like you have too little experience of Argentinian wine. I suggest you bring ten or twenty dollars with you to your wine shop and do some catching up, starting tonight.
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  9985. On principle I object to that funding as much as anybody. But don't forget it was only $600k. An ethical crime if you ask me, but along the lines of a petty one. The China of today is never $600k short in its budgeting for a needed breakthrough. If they need $6 billion, they can come up with $6 billion.
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  9986.  @glenncordova4027  Always? No. I watch every 1420 video closely from start to finish and this is not so. Mostly they express themselves a little gruffly, but seem quite tolerant of 1420's presence (despite them maybe looking like big-city hipsters). Last week an old villager courteously invited 1420 into her home and spoke at length. This week a drunk demanded our guy's papers, but this has only occurred once. You exaggerate your point, I'm afraid.
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  9987.  @nirajshrestha5621  I don't think money wins wars, nor did I say so. But it helps. My point is that the war is more affordable for the West than it is for Russia. Still, I erred in giving the GDP figure such emphasis. I didn't mean to do that. So just now I went back and put that sentence in parentheses. Cheers
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  9988. They're determined to marginalize normal, healthy, sane people. Orwell would puke.
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  9989. Notice that Trump makes a merely symbolic demand in exchange for his blessing. (Loan, schmoan. Ukraine will never repay that loan and Trump knows it.) Which tells me I've been right all along: Trump doesn't intend to "end the war in one day" by abandoning Ukraine; he intends to do it by telling Putin "Withdraw your forces now."
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  9990. Nuclear fusion power R & D is a good thing. Don't badmouth it.
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  9991. Unbelievable. That cop ought to be thrown in jail himself. What a disgrace he is.
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  9992. Like a lovely textured throw cushion to enhance your sofa. Wow your visitors with your accessorizing acumen. Coming up, drapes to keep your home cool in summer, cozy in winter. Stay with us.
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  9993. Great upload. To me, all four of those who detain him act like cops, and look it too. (Might be a 5th as well.) If they weren't, I think we'd see any civilians get shooed away instantly after machete guy is immobilized. Plus a foot sweep is a very cop move isn't it? I saw it in use once. It remains to be explained why none is in uniform but there could easily be a strange reason.
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  9994.  @neilcarvalho8349  Yep.
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  9995. He didn't say "in investing". He's talking about a set of stocks which you'll just lose more on if you don't ditch them now. Pay attention and use your head.
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  9996. ​ @williamc4221  Ok, he did say—or rather, mumbled, as he does so often—'in this business'. I didn't hear that even though I indeed was paying attention. Happens a lot. Conceivably he meant 'in this matter', i.e. the matter of the loser stocks on the screen. Probably not, though. Twenty times more likely he did mean in investing. In which case I think one has to doubt he meant it in the most literal possible way: e.g., you buy a stock, it immediately falls below your purchase price and stays there for 10 days, so you sell it. This seems to be what you made of it, but I think there's not much chance of that, and that's why I replied to you in the first place. I my view nothing makes any sense at all except that he meant you must not be too patient, or endlessly patient, as in: "In this business, having a deep well of patience is not a virtue." That means his problem is having (in this instance, though not ordinarily) a sloppy manner of speaking. A moment's carelessness in choice of words, not a confused and mistaken view of investing and when to sell stocks. It sounds like you hate him, or you wouldn't have been concerned and seen it the way I do instead.
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  9997.  @CarlosRamirez-wb7zu  Actually, if you dive into the opinion polls, the YouGov US tracking poll for example, Republican supporters do not like Putin. (They're not giving a breakdown by party-support in this month's poll, but only 3% of Americans give him a "Very Favorable" rating, so that's clearly very low approval by Dems/Reps alike.) It's just something the media and commenters on social media say.
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  9998.  @emmanuelarizechukwunwekenw4275  What on earth are you talking about? It was a joke at Cher's expense.
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  9999. Yes she is a scold, but it's not funny. His questions were quite apposite and he was right to press her for example on Germany's 13th-place support of Ukraine. Coming somewhat close to losing her temper in response to rather mild if persistent probing is a serious demerit in a country's top diplomat. Or anyone, really.
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  10000. You're confused. Few people have so much curiosity that what a Putin mouthpiece has to say is of any interest to them.
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  10001. In fact we're expanding the existing export pipeline to the West coast. Has gotten good support from the fed. govt. and should be completed in 2022. However, Michigan's governor badly wants to shut down the line that is Eastern Canada's only source of oil from the West. It cuts through Michigan. Nice lady. Friend and political ally of the Potato in Chief.
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  10002.  @alhutchinson3627  He was fine with it. It was the province of Quebec that quashed it.
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  10003. So does much else.
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  10004. Correct. She helped rapists. But it's not true that women and girls are never believed.
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  10005.  @unconditionalfreedom  Your readers depend on you to express yourself clearly. One lets them down when there is a difference between what is said and what is meant. Here a simple the or those before women and girls was all that was needed. In the absence of either of those, never posed the hazard which led to our exchange. I can recommend The Careful Writer by Theodore Bernstein. It's been highly regarded for a lifetime now.
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  10006. All quite true. But let's face it, he was working for that no-good outfit yesterday. So let's hold off on excluding him altogether from the 'more on' community. Probably a run-of-the-mill wokester in 99 ways out of a hundred.
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  10007. ​ @ubub932  Dictionaries now simply list nearly every word people use, regardless of how abysmally non-standard, and almost never note which words more literate users of the language avoid like the plague. (They make an exception, for instance, for the use of "yous" as a plural for "you.")
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  10008. In my view, the picture is not an unintentional revelation on the part of Mr. Gerdes, but a proud announcement.
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  10009.  @ubub932  A bit slow, but you got there at the end. Good boy, now go lie down.
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  10010. I could never stand to look at her. [Sideshow Bob shudder] 🤢
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  10011.  @laars0001  Well, he's passionately anti-American more than anything else. But sure, yeah, he's a moldy old tankie, every bit as much as Bernie Sanders.
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  10012.  @laars0001  Yes, although mainly he's passionately anti-American. So for all his life, the USSR and Russia have had a special place in his heart. (Possibly he felt disoriented in the 1990s when Russia and America got along fairly well.)
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  10013. Paul Bremer, an upper-class American from Hartford, Connecticut, born 1941. Ian Bremmer (last name spelled differently), born into poverty 28 years later in a poor suburb of Boston. Couldn't be more unrelated.
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  10014. A plot twist which will surprise most people: His eyebrows outlasted the rest of his person and survive to this day. Initially they were revived, which was reportedly not difficult, and maintained on life support by the notably odd — and more oddly yet, Jewish — Sir Keith Joseph. This was a year after he left Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet. (He was Minister of State for Education and Science, which in this story is the sole unsurprising element.) Later they dwelt in the spare bedroom of an obscure rich woman in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, widow of a onetime successful skier and owner of petrol stations. Rumours have Michael Jackson, David Cameron and Boris Johnson as later owners, but these appear to be entirely speculative, defamatory, or meant to be funny.
 No one knows who has the brows now.  But if one is to believe specialists in video identification who have certified its authenticity, on a Dark Web site you can observe 24-hour streaming video of Deputy Führer Hess's last chapter, still without an ending.
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  10015. Ok, that's 6 per day recovered over that time, but 30 a day are being stolen in Toronto. So it's a start. But 20% has to get up to 80% and then a lot of these rings will shut themselves down. Train more squads to open shipping containers or buy X-ray machines. A few million dollars for a billion-dollar problem makes sense.
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  10016. Jesse: "Her people say she has no political identity" Then none of them are Canadian or they would easily recognize her political identity: she's a totally average, standard, 60-year-old Canadian far lefty.
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  10017. Odessa is the last Ukrainian city that would ever fall. It's been avoided by Putin because he knows how intelligent, resourceful and totally hardcore its people are. Avoided, notice, not spared. I don't care who you are, in a fight between you and Odessa, I'm betting on them, not you. (Pronunciation: odd-YESS-a) Edit: what a bunch of putrid puke-making Putzin-Bots infesting this section. If you walk through this pasture, don't wear good shoes.
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  10018. Good thought. To me a conservative is simply someone who thinks the Hippocratic oath's imperative to First, do no harm should apply to most if not all walks of life, not just medicine. I'd start with politics and social activism and take it from there.
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  10019.  @calbeebbqbbq  They're selfish because they know they can get away with it. Run-of-the-mill human beings. Many of them think it's ok and even legal to go through stop signs and red lights when they choose. I find it very galling, and I'm a daily cyclist.
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  10020. ​ @calbeebbqbbq  The cause of such selfishness is knowing they can get away with it. Run-of-the-mill human beings. Many of them think it's ok and even legal to go through stop signs and red lights when they choose. I find it very galling, and I'm a daily cyclist.
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  10021.  @DanielS-ri1fw  I hope you rethink yours. It's their homeland because there have been Jews in Israel continuously for 4,000 years.
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  10022.  @xwize  Fair reaction.
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  10023. He ought to have removed his coat upon reaching the front of the hall. The whole time he looks like he's on his way out but just wants to say one more quick thing. He ought to learn to enunciate his words. He pronounces, for example, 'national security' as 'nashkerity', a reduction from seven syllables down to four.
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  10024.  @miguelurdaci7884  Thanks for your reply. What sort of prop? On the whole it looks like the sort of coat he would have acquired a taste for whilst riding the elevator, decked out himself in a barn jacket of the type he nearly always favours, up to Goldman Sachs on cold mornings long ago. Investment bankers wear that sort of garment with considerable (often revolting) dignity, and sometimes panache. But he abjured the Goldman ethos long ago. The effect of his leaving it on, like that of eliding so many letters and syllables, was to impress upon me a severe lack of couth.  Not what you want with an Oxford Union audience unless you enjoy antagonizing them (and if you do, why not go just a little further and wear a MAGA cap?). Then again, maybe he was truly worried he'd have to flee an invading storm of hooligans with so little warning that it seemed incautious to take the coat off lest he lose it. (And if, lastly, he had no such worry and merely wanted to give off that air, it lumps him in with the men who at other times and places would wear a beret to make it seem they might have to tangle with fascists or police on the way home from the café or International Socialists meeting.
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  10025. "[Trump is the best choice] if you want to not have war breaking out all over the world." I agree. But I think people should be ready for him to shock them and strongly back Ukraine once he's inaugurated. Because he's wise enough to know that that's the way to keep wars from breaking out all over the world. See his posts at the start of the war.
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  10026. "Currency is dropping" Against what, by how much? Not by much against most things. But most things are dropping against gold. Your point is so murky, I don't think it's there.
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  10027.  @lppoqql  "The world's confidence in the USD is dropping." YT posters are saying that. No one knows who tf they are. I think I have some idea. And the dollar isn't moving.
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  10028.  @phoenix5054  Thank you. Caw meants are a swamp.
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  10029. It's good to do what you promised. But it's bad if you promised unhelpful things. So in my little old view, you should feel like you're in a bit of a bind. But I get your call. Cheers.
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  10030. No, he isn't. He has been quite lucky for someone without notable gifts of mind. He's more of a determined plodder, a tedious one in my view. I like his being sympathetic to average joes, though.
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  10031.  @mikerodgers7620  What, do you agree he's a genius or just disagree that he's a plodder? It so happens that I'm congenial to quite a few of his opinions. But I've gone wading in his intellect for a dozen or two hours now over the past four years and even when quite far from shore my trunks are still dry.
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  10032. 'Vaccines are bad'? I missed that. I think you heard what you wanted to hear.
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  10033. Yeah, all the kids at school are saying that.
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  10034. "Would" love this? "Would"? My dear man, he was the director, DOP, executive producer, screenwriter, camera operator, editor, costume designer, choreographer, lighting guy, key grip and receptionist.
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  10035. If I were a paid Chinese internet commenter, I would post comments in non-native English calling for the death penalty for such Chinese or other spies in the US Armed Forces. That would make it look like foreign nationals in the services tend to be highly US-loyal, which in turn would make it safer for all the many other infiltrators like them who are on active duty. And it's just what I see here.
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  10036.  @reecewatson5311  Nah, some rich and super-hyper-mega mentally ill guy who lives in Martha's Vineyard.
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  10037. What's with the Drew Barrymore in 1995 accent?
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  10038.  @a.alphbond9003  There's no such thing anywhere in the world as no limits on what kids can read in school or on what's in school libraries. Every jurisdiction on earth carefully curates those lists. The world: get to know it. Start today.
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  10039. Please see my other reply in this thread of just now.
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  10040.  @a.alphbond9003  I reside on Earth. You? On which planet are school curricula simply undefined? As for conservative "hysteria," liberals have no need to be "hysterical" simply because they've already excluded what they view as not-liberal-enough books from the curricula and libraries for a long time. This they arrogantly assume is their natural right. And of course it is, from their point of view that they are by an enormous margin the most morally and intellectually enlightened people of all time — indeed the first and only ones. I think I might just stop saying 'liberals' and use 'the arrogantsia.' I say this as someone who regarded himself as a liberal his whole life and as recently as maybe eight to ten years ago, when the left finally went far enough off its nut that doing so was no longer tenable.
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  10041. That white marble statue knows how to swing it.
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  10042. The leadership shown by Australia is outstanding, and so are the courage and self-respect. I'm glad to say the government of my country supports your investigation call, so keep it up, we're with you. 🇨🇦🇦🇺  I'll be toasting you with a down under Shiraz this weekend. What else from Oz might I find here?
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  10043.  @Lee-Van-Cle  Thanks for the Chinese Foreign Ministry point of view, Tongzhi.
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  10044.  @donaldmiller8629  Don't bother arguing with a commie Wu Mao fundamentalist. Their strategy is to make it look to the very, very naïve like there is a huge debate going on, therefore it must be pretty close. The more threads with many posts back and forth, the more the Wu Mao like the way that might look.
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  10045. A nation turns its back and barfs.
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  10046. The word 'troll' has no meaning anymore. You're just using it to mean saying something that someone else would rather wasn't said.
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  10047.  @march9807  By your definition that's trolling me, and both my comments including this one are trolling you. Tedious.
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  10048. Clever, that Hugo. I had always thought the envious lacking in their capacity to admire. Damn, I resent him so much.
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  10049. It's not supposed to be an award. It's supposed to be more of a naming, as most newsworthy person of the past 12 months. Many highly honoured people have been named Person of The Year, but so have Hitler, Stalin (twice) and Ayatollah Khomeini.
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  10050.  @bunyip7343  Both of you guys are using your noggins.👍
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  10051. Who said "Iran" was "decimated"? The assertion is that Iran's air defences were decimated. Drink stronger coffee.
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  10052. I agreed with every word he said. Great guest.
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  10053. Yes, he made splendid use of that word in applying it to the hypocrite concerned.
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  10054. I can well imagine the wording of that if they were rioting against a Democratic president. How does it feel to be hyperpartisan to the point of total moral blindness?
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  10055. I noticed they all chipped in to stress the good-looking people who are untalented, not smart, successful solely because of their looks, or are insecure. I could be wrong. They weren't schticking though, they delivered it straight. Is this just how a lot of people feel?
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  10056. "Expected to"? Why, sir, you are commanded to under the law. For those who don't know, it's called a TV Licence. And you must pay even if you're blind and can watch no TV; indeed, even if you do not own a TV. You might only listen to music on YouTube and still you must pay. But if you are blind you are granted a discount. The fine for not paying is a maximum of ￡1,000. If you don't pay it you can go to prison.
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  10057. When I was five, I thought I was an astronaut from another planet where light came from an enormous streetlight above my home city, whence I flew through space until my ship crash-landed on Earth and I luckily survived. In modern terms, I 'identified' as an alien astronaut. But I was not. And thankfully it was a saner time, so I was not offered hormones and surgery to accommodate my fantasy.
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  10058. Dead wrong. Blame the Divider-In-Chief Trudeau instead. Here's a real leader, Pierre Poilievre: “I unequivocally condemn the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists and the sadistic violence they have subsequently carried out against innocent civilians. Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks and respond against the attackers. Canadians pledge their solidarity with all the victims.” It's the left that's anti-Semitic, not conservatives. You didn't know that?🤨Why not? Why on earth not?
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  10059. YouTube has (erratically-enforced) rules against depiction of violence. You didn't know that?
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  10060.  @scottyP1672  For an expert on political science you sure do have your basic facts backwards. Pro tip, Professor: Any nation with a monarch is by definition not a republic.
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  10061. Post your comment on Russian social media as well. They're the ones who most need to hear it.
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  10062.  @dominic6055  Putin stole Hi tler's entire playbook and continues to follow it slavishly every day.
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  10063. Total fail. But in typical BBC fashion, they gaslight us that it's a stunning success. We're supposed to go along, despite seeing a minute earlier how amazingly well the cuttlefish does in the sea environment. It's hard to say if their wildlife unit has learnt from their news service or the other way around.
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  10064. How much better a path the US would've been on — then and now — if McCain had been president!😕 Economically, fiscally, militarily, culturally, of course on global security, even morally. Very sad how things turned out.
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  10065. He's exactly right.
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  10066.  @ODX171  Ok, but you're telling me what I'm telling you.
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  10067. Couldn't be any more clearer, could it? Wright's prediction was golden. Thank you, Dave. Speaking of golden, will definitely be going to the full video to get Andy Ngo's take as well.
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  10068.  @Jbonethekid  Trudeau says it like it's something shameful and wrong to get into a tub with another man, like the alleged remark was a grievous insult. If he really does see it that way, I think it's him who's homophobic.
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  10069. To save time making future meals, could I freeze a whole bunch of battered pieces? If yes, would it be best to thaw them first before putting in the hot oil?
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  10070. ​ @constantin88   What do I care where in Russia they were born? If they were not Petersburgians at birth, they are now, and I say they are in outlook and personality somewhat like Finns. They seem distinct from those in the capital. Your tone is a little rude, frankly.
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  10071. He wants to say just the right thing so he can be Michelle Obama's running mate.🤣
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  10072. All four, really.
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  10073.  @Tiger25149489  "Be a more critical thinker." Take your own advice 🤡. Fgs, woman, just listen to yourself: "Why don't victims of severe abuse just get their act together?"
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  10074. Elon Musk, please now expand Twitter into a huge all-purpose video hosting platform. You know why. We all do.
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  10075. @Psycho Killer The logical fog, irrelevancy, and imaginative wandering of your reply tickle the brain. Carry on in your inimitable fashion.
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  10076.  @NAk-si3mk  Note that since the party is being called far-right, the electorate itself is being called far-right.
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  10077.  @NAk-si3mk  Did you miss one or two words in my post?
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  10078. Thanks. That's useful to know.
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  10079. Jaguar XJ X351: 271 hp That sweater: an additional 125 hp
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  10080. She went for the one who could toss the meanest word salad.
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  10081.  Tri_ggernometry  What is the purpose of your fake account pretending to be Triggernometry?
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  10082. Polite way to deflect interruptions during his allotted time at the debate, but too polite for wokeism in general. I'd rather go with "b----- off."
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  10083. Let's zoom in far closer on things than "mental help for men," an inappropriate prescription given that this was a 17-year-old Tunisian boy (in Germany). So instead of "for men," how about for a certain religion with its spectacularly awful stance on women and girls? And why leave out sex workers who consort with drunken minors?
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  10084. 99% of the news media is simply garbage. World Garbage Council: "Hey, stop comparing garbage to the media."
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  10085. Plenty wrong with Penny Wong. She knew what was going on. She wanted Australians' money to go to H^^^^. Send her packing. Investigate her for possible prosecution.
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  10086. What's she wearing? A low-cut red sleeveless party dress for discussing war? Was she on her way out for cocktails? I wonder what she wears to funerals.
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  10087.  The Tablet Talks  That site is a joke. Try the Economist Intelligence Unit Safe Cities Index. (1 Copenhagen, 2 Toronto...)
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  10088.  @silentmajority8365  Yes they do. What are you, hard of reading? In 2021, Incidents of shots fired: 409; People shot: 209. In 2022: Incidents of shots fired: 379; People shot: 194.
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  10089. 1) He will pay around $10bn in taxes for this year. 2) It's impossible to bust a union where there is no union. 3) He has a physics degree from Penn. 4) Tesla employees make more than the unionized workers at other companies. Find someone to hate who deserves it.
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  10090. We've heard this before. From Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin etc.
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  10091. I notice you speak in iambs. It shows you read the better English poets and novelists from middle boyhood.👍
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  10092.  @Bart-Did-it  Cuz of a lust for life
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  10093.  @souptec  Quibble on figures: 10x is 900%, not 1000%.
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  10094. Going after Musk tends not to end well for many people. Bezos is really asking for it.
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  10095.  @PoetwarriorFletch  Nice try, Misha.
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  10096. Why is there even such a thing as an "Independent Women's Foreign Policy Forum"? What can be its purpose be except to say 'Men are a group we don't agree with. They are icky. They do not meet our standards. We have to be separate from them. We must exclude them.' ? You can easily imagine how they would feel about a Men's Foreign Policy Forum. Thus I have no interest in the views of this or any other seks ist organization.
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  10097.  @ThatTallGuy0  😱🥶🥶🥶🥶😱
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  10098. Both facile points of view here. Competing governments is civil war. You're not thinking this through
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  10099. No, after you.
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  10100. Biden does know what Iran is doing, but Hamas allies and pro-Hamas leftists in the West would have a field day over the sort of accusations Larry here asks him to make. The Hamas-apologist left media and paid propagandist internet commenters would demand the sort of direct proof which is either unavailable or would compromise US intelligence personnel and techniques to reveal. It could well even speed up Iran's plans. Bad idea at this stage.
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  10101.  @Soundoverload  The dude is already in Russia! He's a three-kopeck Vatnik and always will be.
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  10102. If you're Canadian, remember a year ago when new powers to stop and arrest people were granted to police forces in Ontario. The following day, dozens and dozens of police forces sent out tweets: 'We won't be doing any such things, period. We don't want any such powers, period.' And nothing more was heard of the matter. Come on, that was incredibly solid.
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  10103.  @Didigetitwrong  US$0.5bn a year is piffling.
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  10104. 😂You raise a good point. I'm sure you must in one way or another, whatever it may be exactly.
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  10105. Jail Time for JT!
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  10106.  @StephenRoss-po1rp  How do you figure he probably wasn't, may I ask?
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  10107.  @StephenRoss-po1rp  Ok, thanks.
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  10108. That tweet by Nikki Haley on foreign influence was golden. Excellent share, thanks.
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  10109. No, that's deeply unreasonable. It was obviously a (very!) stupid mistake by the Prime Minister's Office. Think for a moment: Would the PMO invite him knowingly, and assume that this important detail of his life would not soon come to light? Obviously no. That's simply too far-fetched. Add to that the fact that none of these people are tolerant of Nazism. Come down to Earth.
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  10110. You're right. When the Americans who wanted no part of the Revolution came to loyal Canada, after the British lost, they at least doubled its population. Americans have considered Canadians goody-goody ever since, and they're probably right, from the revolutionary point of view they've somewhat hung onto ever since.
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  10111.  @JK-gu3tl  Because fighting Germany twice over a thirty-year span, the second time partly on their own soil, bled them dry financially and cost them huge numbers of their most able men, of course. How can you ask?
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  10112. I can see why the federal govt would want to prevent that, naturally. What I don't get is why they can't be bothered to just pass the necessary law. They have the numbers in both houses. Why are they afraid of the democratic process? Why are they crouching behind a health agency? There simply has to be something wrong.
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  10113.  @littlebitofhope1489  Dear Little Bit of Education: Only the ill-educated—insecure in their awareness that a few years at some clown college absorbing the lectures and syllabus of a fake-degreed left-activist faculty did less than nothing to alleviate their ignorance—would ever resort to that sort of aggressive rhetoric about "lack of education". No one with a truly solid education would dream of it. I've got your dirty little number: it's a self-image and personality problem, a huge and probably intractable one. Take your sad abuse habit and turn it on yourself for a while. Spare innocent bystanders your baseless lady-doth-protest-too-much snobbery.
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  10114. ​ @kathrinejeon3649  Left politicians, egged on by academics and other activists (today's academics are mere fake-learned activists dressed up as scholars), are determined to make the problem worse and worse. As they do that, fundamentalists lacking all conscience as they are, they amplify their rhetoric blaming the problems they've deliberately created on their political opponents. That's when their confederates in the media machine step in to support them, while Big Tech does its own heavy lifting by writing algorithms that bulldoze and bury dissenting opinion on an industrial scale. Chaos having thus been built up under cover of lie after lie after lie, the ground is ever more prepared for the implementation of a radical agenda which includes mass political repression backed up by state force—police, courts and prisons. They talk of the death of democracy as they plunge rusty blade after rusty blade in its heart. Goebbels is on his feet in hell, clapping and cheering, hopping in delight: "Ja Wohl! Ja Wohl!"
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  10115.  @DYLAN102001  Why don't you? Why not create a fund for doing that and put your own money into it? Start today. Or find some independent group that's already trying to get some built and donate to them. Spend your time politely canvassing for donations. If people wanted to work and pay taxes so that a million drug addicts can have a free apartment to spend their lives getting high in safety and comfort, the housing would already be built. But they don't, clearly, so it's up to you, and those who feel the same way you do, to do it yourselves. Best wishes in your endeavours to encourage and multiply addictions.
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  10116.  @DYLAN102001  Drugs are not only an escape. They don't follow homelessness, they precede it. You not only ignore the many millions of low-wage workers who keep it together—whose labors in fact keep the country running—you insult them terribly. Eventually you're going to kick yourself for moral grandstanding when you could have instead helped things in a logical and whole-cloth way. Actually improving things has zero to do with the great feeling of convincing yourself that you have the finest values. In fact such a feeling is a practically infallible sign you're doing something very wrong. I'm sure you're somewhat or very well-meaning, which is nice, but that's wholly inadequate. It's just the possible start of an uncertain beginning, and doesn't necessarily lead anywhere good at all. It typically doesn't. I wish you well in building something real on it because I imagine you'd quite like to.
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  10117. Omar: past repair. 🤮
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  10118. Hey, I remember 2.5 years ago when you gave us a tip for "The Best Investing Opportunity" of the year. It was the stock Fiverr, which over the rest of the year lost over one-third of its value (from $171 to $113.70) and fell steadily ever since. It's now at $23.15, down over 85%.
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  10119. "OP" is online gaming slang. So using it here, outside of a gaming context, says nothing good about you. Is the audience here a bunch of gamers? Do you think you're impressing people with your coolness? Do you have any judgement at all? No, no and no. Dislike button smashed, Don't Recommend Channel button smashed. TTFN
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  10120. ​ @shadowreaver1851  Sorry, what about them? Exactly which of my remarks are you responding to? Kindly clarify so I can respond. Thank you.
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  10121. Hard to say. Possible, but the only safe assumption is it's somehow good for the Party.
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  10122. It'd be stressful, but the US would cope.
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  10123. I was going right along with what he said until he declared there should be mandatory rehab or prison for street-dwelling drug addicts. What about them voluntarily entering shelters as a third option? Otherwise, how would it be unjustified to also clear out shelters in the same way? I'm not in favor of going from the present maximum slackness to maximum heavy-handedness. Mandatory shelter or rehab with prison as a later resort, is likely as drastic as we need to go in order to improve things and generally restore order.
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  10124.  @ligafftheindifferent3495  You have a point about Chads there. I've heard that DNA testing shows that an astonishing percentage of children born to women in intact marriages were not fathered by their husbands. (I think it was something like 25%, but that study could have had validity problems. Studies also show that an astonishing percentage of academic studies are no good.) And then there's single, unattached women.
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  10125.  @ligafftheindifferent3495  I forgot to say that no one's contradicting me that there's been a collapse of good looks. Proves nothing, but may suggest a fair level of agreement.
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  10126. "Show me the money"? That's so weak that it's pretty strong evidence someone has a job they shouldn't.
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  10127. My own city, noted by foreign visitors for its spaciousness, is only about 25% less densely populated than Gaza.
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  10128.  @alvinjohnson773  There'd be all kinds. But I think that frequent mentions of the population density of Gaza are meant to make it sound terrible to live in whether in times of active hostilities or not.
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  10129.  @alvinjohnson773  I don't think you're any good at reading Alan Dershowitz's mind.
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  10130. Why can't you bump up the video quality? 360p?
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  10131. This fact is rarely mentioned. The impression always given off is that electrified transportation doesn't create carbon dioxide or other forms of pollution. How did people become less adept at facing reality? And so obsessed with obeying popular sentiments at the cost of standing up for good sense? What is making them so cowardly and weak-minded? Western society has become deeply depressing, boring, bad-mannered, awkward, empty, stupid, and charmless. This is now very off-topic, but even good looks have collapsed. People have become ugly and fat. Where are the gorgeous and well-built people who used to be quite common? Oh well, maybe bicycling will help a bit.
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  10132.  @mashcomments  Très bien. Will that be for much longer? Germany does not plan to replace its old plants when they get too old, as I understand it. And France?
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  10133.  @İbrahimMoncada-l1h  Detroit...or Johannesburg.
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  10134. You would have been great fun in 1941 as well.🙄
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  10135. Pure neo-marxism, laundered into respectability through degenerated university departments. Adherents of these viewpoints don't really care how they're advanced, whether it's by educational indoctrination, a McCarthyist overthrow of legal and social systems, or just plain violence and revolution. The important thing is their confidence in the belief that they and others of identical mind would be more vastly more important afterward, they themselves quite possibly ending up personally in charge of something. They wave a Utopian flag, but are really authoritarians gunning for power through destruction.
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  10136.  @klivityloja3067  My first thought is that she's doing it to bug Newsome.
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  10137. Marianne Williamson: "I'm surprised he said that." Claude Rains in Casablanca: "I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here!" [Dealer hands him money: "Your winnings, sir." Rains: "Oh, thank you very much."] Similar level of honesty.
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  10138. I love it!
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  10139. Whoever you are, you sound very self-righteous yourself. Btw, I do respect Putin in most ways.
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  10140.  @irvingclarendon6227  You too, my friend. I respect him enough, by the way, to court unpopularity by regularly standing up for him in conversation (within certain limits.) People are not too pleased to hear me talk that way.
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  10141. It has to do with YouTube rules on the depiction of violence. This site is fizzing with Russians "reporting" every video depicting events on the front lines, and their complaints are very often upheld, meaning the videos get taken down. 🤨🤨🤨 So channel masters edit as they must. Sucks, doesn't it, how Russia censors not only in Russia but, in effect, abroad as well?😡😡😡
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  10142. Actually, Trump put Kim in his place with a direct, clear and intense public threat of massive destruction.
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  10143. Go back and look again! It's 0.18%! Edit your comment, please! It is misinformation, and although most people will see it as such, some dull people will not! So upsetting.
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  10144.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  Possibly it hasn't changed much since it was sacked by the Mongols in 1238. I consider that it remains stuck in feudalism.
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  10145. I am Vladimir Putin and I heartily endorse your point of view. Come by in the morning. I want to shake your hand.
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  10146. I'd love to know how many basis points the rise in the dollar will take off the CPI in Q4. Just a couple, ten, twenty? Or will importers and retailers just be pocketing the whole thing?
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  10147.  @superflyguy4488  Interesting plot, and it may serve to remind Westerners who the really great threat is. The ideal outcome of this war is a Ukrainization of Russia, by which I mean disillusioned and patriotic Russians discard Putin and decide to patch things up with Europe rather than hopping into bed with China. Few Russians who were already adults in 1991 would be interested, but the remainder, those 50 and under, just might be.
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  10148. No one's going to win this war with mines.
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  10149. Ahh. Not a tr ol I around for miles. Peaceful.
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  10150. Deception is written all over her face and audible in her voice. Who could fail to notice? She's an impostor, a fake, a great danger.
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  10151. Don't forget the university faculties. They're the real heroes.
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  10152. Including The Road to Wigan Pier. Its great portrait of left party workers and activists is unforgettable, and they haven't changed a bit in all the years since.
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  10153.  @memorycard1000  Tbf, then he's in deluded denial that murder at scale and savagery of rights are inherent in the imposition of any such system...per se. This is why all such governments pile on the fake modifiers when they rename their countries: People's Democratic Republic, e.g. Simply the opposite of what's true, since clean multi-party elections are never part of the arrangement. All they leave out is "Totally Fair And Not Bloodthirsty At All."
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  10154. Clinical psychologists don't prescribe psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists do. You know that, of course? Thus psychologists, though they can acquire some knowledge of some medicines, tend to have pretty patchy familiarity with the vast majority. I would venture to say that pharmacists know more. Perhaps owing to his professional's respect for formal training, Professor Peterson relied on his doctor's judgment. Benzodiazepines are still very widely prescribed because of a dearth of alternatives, and they help most people without harming them. That's why they remain on the market. Professor Peterson probably heard this from his doctor. I assume so, really, because doctors discuss medicines with their patients before prescribing them. Perhaps the doctor mentioned risks but downplayed them. Who knows? It's pretty poisonous to accuse someone of lying on such threadbare grounds. (By the way, academics/psychologists/authors don't have constituents, elected politicians do.)
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  10155.  @becomed1  Not one doctor prescribes them a lot? That's odd. Global benzo sales in 2017 were a little over $2b, and the cost per pill is low. https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/benzodiazepine-drugs-market.html For the sake of comparison, mainline anti-depressants (SSRIs) are very widely prescribed and are a lot more expensive, yet their 2018 sales were only about $3b. https://www.visiongain.com/report/global-antidepressant-and-anti-anxiety-drugs-market-2019-2029/
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  10156.  @becomed1  He never took a benzo and can't prescribe them, but "He knows." And you know he knows, because you're a nurse with experience with addicts. Ok. (That's some fancy epistemology you've got mastered. Hey, some people claim Bush knew in advance about 9/11. Can you settle that for me, too?) I'm not saying Peterson didn't know. I don't know one way or another. His record of successfully handling personal responsibility throughout his life argues against it, but I do not know. For all I know his doctor warned him sternly. That's my epistemology. I don't get carried away with it.
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  10157. I don't think he's as bad as he looks. He was rather clueless in the immediate lead-up to the war and in its early weeks, but he has adjusted and recovered since, and his army's retreats and let-ups seem to have been voluntary and tactical. I expect battle strategy was rewritten in the late spring and stressed a large accumulation of men and resources requiring half a year at least, without much other activity. I lean towards thinking that he intends to strike as soon as possible with overwhelming force, making full use of the army, navy and air force. When everything will be in place is known to very few if anyone. Ukrainian air and other defense installations would exact a heavy toll in losses of aircraft, materiel, ships and men, but to win a battle by incurring heavy losses would be a rather Russian way to do it. (I listed those four losses in descending order of significance to Putin and the military leadership.) Whatever his motto is, I think it ends with "or die trying." If our luck is any good, various supply constraints and shortages will get in his way. And there are a host of other ways to potentially impede him besides that.
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  10158.  @Pikkabuu  It was a miscalculation. They understood neither their adversary nor their own capabilities. But they are learning, unfortunately. Ukraine's aim must be to stay a step ahead.
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  10159. "Dark money" Sure, Jussie. 😂 I mean, Jamaal.
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  10160. They have stuff wrong with them, clearly. One can see just by looking.
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  10161. Correction: 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧 I'm not agreeing with your prediction of war, but if it did come to that, Canada would never fail to come to Australia's aid. Never, you can depend upon it. (Look up Passchendaele, Vimy, Ypres, Battle of the Atlantic, Normandy, Holland, Italy, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Kandahar.) I was shocked we were left out of your comment. Wtf?
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  10162. I sense Diallo is one.
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  10163. Where in Britain do people actually talk like this reporter?
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  10164. Think you're clever, do you?
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  10165. Mainland China is a rogue province. It will surely soon collapse and fall under Kuomintang rule. Vive Taiwan!
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  10166. "My country, right or wrong", went the jingoistic British slogan. "Science, right or wrong" might be yours. Mine is "My mother, whoring on the streets on crack or sober at home with me and Dad".
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  10167. The art (& eyeglass frames) of contemporary artists: Oddness for oddness' sake. It says: "I am eccentric, therefore I'm beyond scrutiny, criticism, blame. Now pay me." Meanwhile their leading personal quality, just behind their glasses, is ordinariness. But what other tactic could possibly work if one has nothing inside to express?
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  10168. I decided to find out about the guy sitting next to Rosamund Pike who, in the course of a 90-second question-speech 59:28, pointedly called Eagleton an elitist, then alluded about half a dozen times to "controlling" elites. As might be guessed from her spectacular eye-roll at 1:00:06, he was, and is reputed to still be, her boyfriend and partner, one Robie Uniacke. From his tendentious question one would think he is as far as can be from privileged, controlling elitism, surely? Not quite. Details are few and perhaps unreliable, but he is called a businessman and "mathematical researcher". An Old Etonian, at 22 he married the daughter of an earl. While married to her, he reportedly gave up a job in the City to scuba dive for sunken Spanish treasure for several months. The marriage ended after about five years, multiple sources claiming both he and his wife were treated for serious heroin addiction not long afterward. In 2004, when he was 43, the 19-year-old daughter of former Tory minister Lord Hesketh (once the owner of a £50m mansion) had to publicly deny that she was his girlfriend. The two had been seen out together at London cinemas and restaurants. "Just good friends," she said of Uniacke, who was more than twice her age. He was at the time "a City speculator." A company of his went insolvent and folded a few years ago. It was reported he failed to pay £179k in taxes and was overdrawn by £133k, although he had withdrawn £144k for personal use. He has six children with his two wives and Pike. His current partner's net worth is variously estimated at $6 million and $9 million.
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  10169. @Conor O’Brien A bit of a flair for misinterpretation and straw-manning there. No, wealth does not automatically entail elitism; I've known that quite well for a very long time, thank you. But I didn't say so, did I?; nor did I mention his fortunate financial position alone. My point is that he is a pompous --- 'Now hear this, plebes! Everybody listen to my rambling speech! Set your lives aside for a full minute-and-a-half! Important guy speaking!'' --- privileged, long-time, fully-paid-up member of the elite, complete with a clearly selfish and entitled attitude, and as such has only a very dubious right to whine about the elites. And my point about the eye-roll is merely that it is something especially likely to be done by any woman whose partner happens to be an insufferable putz, period. Thanks for your reply. It turns out I had a little more contumely left anyway! Best to get it all out. Cheers. ; ) : )
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  10170. Enjoy your pastrami sandwich for breakfast. I'm having bacon and eggs....with buttered toast. :D
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  10171. He "was spotted with a bruise on his chin and a swollen neck." Yes, of course. After all, it's well known that Madonna gives her lovers a real pounding, and they were shacked up in Rome for two days and three nights.
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  10172.  @JimP-tc7gg  I also always forget the year the Corn Laws were repealed.
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  10173.  @Arbitertaco  You're not kidding, are you? Sorry, but that's preposterous. Maybe, as your screen name suggests, you're English. Maybe the UK PM wouldn't use government transportation to make a partisan trip, but you better believe the US president flies nowhere on private, commercial or chartered aircraft. Air Force One only, the only exception being trips to Andrews AFB, Camp David or other nearby and secure destinations aboard Marine One, the familiar helicopter which picks him up at the White House.
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  10174.  @zvenarschficker6663  Who tf is defending Trump, my accurately-named friend? Learn how to read. The pathetic one is you, turning to attack Trump when Biden is the subject.
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  10175.  @caribman10  What has Trump got to do with this? Explain that, please.
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  10176.  @zvenarschficker6663  This isn't at all complicated, yet you're still not grasping it. It's about billing the people for something that's not the nation's business, which is never ok no matter who does it. Period. Buddy.
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  10177.  @zvenarschficker6663  At last we're in full agreement. Partisan hackery is the rich diet on which destructive division feeds and grows strong. Cheers.
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  10178.  @fieldthrasher  Are you? I fail to see how one a--hole's profligacy makes another's any less objectionable.
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  10179. But in all seriousness I think it's about the grain. Xi is hamstrung militarily by China's dependence on the foreign grain imports needed to put pork and chicken on Chinese tables. (It's mainly used for animal feed.) That's because if he invades Taiwan he's going to get a lot of that grain cut off. And that would really sour the populace on him. Along comes Putin: "Please be my buddy. I'm just about to get my hands on ever so much more grain. Think about it: tens of millions of tons of hog feed a year—reliably. You can more or less give the finger to America, Canada and Australia, and not worry about Brazil turning on you either." Xi: "Keep talking. I'm listening." [turns back, rubs hands gleefully, thinks "Heh-heh-heh. I just love this smarmy little sucker. I should buy a wedding dress and make him put it on!"]
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  10180. Wow man, you commented on the wrong video. Uh, can I get a hit off that?
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  10181. Some people call them propellor-heads! lol Gentle ribbing, not an insult.
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  10182. Makes you suspect he tips the woman at the toll booth while wearing an ingratiating smile.
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  10183. I deplore the use of the words male and female as nouns for human beings. It's livestock and other animals which should be called males and females. People are men and women, unless they're children, in which case they're boys and girls. To respect your viewers, respect the English language.
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  10184.  @redmoonspider  I know just about everything there is to know about downtown shelters.
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  10185.  @salvvilona9078  Says somebody who doesn't even know how YouTube replies work.😄
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  10186. Some Californians used to chuckle that they had more people than Canada, a G7 country. About 2.7m more in 2020. But the state’s population peaked in January of that year, says the NY Times. So in 2023, the Great White North is home to an estimated 1.7m more people than the (under Gavin Newsome) Now-Less-Golden State. Well, still just as golden if you include the puddles on its sidewalks.
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  10187. Today's addition to Pinfold's Dictums: If you want to stand proudly behind your goal, call it a quota. If you're afraid to own up to your rigid quota, call it a mere goal.
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  10188. You: "Oh, he’s a leftist, he didn’t mean to wear blackface." Correct, and the very same could be said of Justin Trudeau.
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  10189. I notice the Sky text on the screen was all written from a pro-woke perspective. How did that crap happen? DeSantis is taking politics out of health care, not inserting it into it. Thumbs down, Sky. Start supervising your young interns better.
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  10190. Then you know what you have to do.
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  10191. 🤔That '-chook' part of your family name didn't happen to be '-chuk' a couple of generations back, did it? I'm sensing a Ukrainian-Canadian prairie boy here.
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  10192.  @jamesewanchook2276  Don't know why I even asked, really. I basically knew.😄
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  10193. Correct.
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  10194. Ur not in possession of the facts, my friend. Facts. Get them.
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  10195. Cool! Btw, your videos are so well done. Great camera, sound, pacing, animated graphics, narrative build, every last thing.
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  10196. What are the odds that these two guys were raised with fathers? Or even knew who they were?
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  10197. I think the touchstones are victimization, exploitation, harm, and whether sincerity fades back out of sight and habits of truthfulness wither. Strong contempt concealed behind a positive facade also fits in here—except not at work. At work that's just what you have to do. 🤥
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  10198. Immigrants with citizenship or even just permanent resident status are not mercenaries. They serve in the armed forces of their adopted home country. (If you are Japanese, I understand if you don't get the notion of real status for immigrants, or the whole idea of immigration at all, but almost the whole world accepts these things.)
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  10199. Hard to say. The random sampling protocols demanded by generally accepted public opinion polling practices are not part of the 1420 approach. I have zero beef with that, but neither do I have any illusions. The 1420 'responditariat' skew wildly cosmopolite. Great people, but they're uncommon amongst Russians generally.
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  10200. Kara-Murza only criticized the govt. In contrast, Assange published state secrets. Big difference—except to lovers of tyranny. Think, then post.
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  10201. (1) I think it behooves you to invest in a seismograph with a nice clear display. I wanna see some Richter numbers when these objects go Boom. (2) I'm very impressed by the hardwood objects in this one. Crazy strong. (3) Thanks for the unexpected items this time. Fun.
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  10202. Nice try. Polling on parental consent shows strong public support for the kind of action Smith took. Very similar numbers in each province right across the country. Only 10-15% side with the radical activists trying to hijack society. The media are out of touch, which explains their massive wave of layoffs.
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  10203. Short version: Be nice. Not mentioned: Don't shine a--.
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  10204. Speaking of Tesla, anyone long on it had better start paring now. How much upside could you possibly miss from this point on?
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  10205. A homeless person in a metropolitan area (here, greater Vancouver) can quite easily get a blanket from a community services agency, church, etc. during daylight hours, and almost certainly at night too. (They go through a lot of blankets, ordinarily throwing them out when they get dirty or wet.) A long walk might be required, or might not. It's unlikely he was fazed at the loss.
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  10206. People who chop the heads off babies. Next.
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  10207. 1) How crass the 2nd woman is. And that's only one of her unappetizing qualities. 2) The 3rd woman is so filled with counterfeit self-satisfaction that only a stance of dissatisfaction with men can prop it up. 3) Thanks to a lot of research, the idea that birth control pills mess with women's feelings towards men and attraction to men has become mainstream in recent years. 4) At one time prohibitions on any masculinity in women and any femininity in men were overstrict. The enforcement of sex roles was rather cartoonish and did not allow for normal variation across individuals. So it was right that it be tempered somewhat. So society went about achieving just that. But it was likely accomplished two generations ago. Pinpointing the precise date is difficult to impossible, but it was certainly before 2000 and probably close to 1985. Since that time we've sailed past the mark so far that we are out somewhere past the Asteroid Belt. I suggest a return to the breathable atmosphere of planet Earth. 5) Wm. Blake: "Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep." Everlastingly wise.
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  10208.  @smarkwick7814   There should be no difference between what's said and what's meant.
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  10209. I can't bear that stock footage.
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  10210. The title wasn't deceptive lying clickbait this time. Lovely.
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  10211. JKR, what a GigaChadette and a half. Gigarespect and gratitude.👏👏 Voltaire [from the ether]: "Vraiment formidable!"
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  10212. @@camrobertson1886 If Burt Bacharach is in hell there's been a mix-up.
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  10213. The answer is that the Republicans can't do squat. The real holders of power in the US (and across the West) are the mainstream media and Bi g T ek. They're the only ones with the power to remove governments, and they've shown it.
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  10214. 100% wrong, 100% hypocrite. Did I miss where Erdogan stopped killing Kurdish civilians and offered statehood to the Kurdish people? Turkey out of NATO until it gets rid of this bozo. He's incapable of shame.
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  10215. The web address of the organization which produced this video is given in the description above. There you can find a brief but well-written and fairly clear article titled Borderline Personality Disorder and Psychopathy: What’s the Difference? Because you more or less equated BPD and psychopathy in your comment, I think you should read it and see what you think. I wish you the best.
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  10216. Cool. But don't call Trudeau a d-bag. D-bags have a use.
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  10217.  @tomhenry897  And Erdogan.
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  10218. DeSantis can win. The MSM, Big Social Media, Democrats both DC and grassroots, and the Dem-weaponized justice system will not let Trump win.
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  10219. It runs deep, going hand in glove with their mindless, sanctimonious, fundamentalist anti-Americanism. It's hard to know where one starts and the other begins.
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  10220. The newsreel narrator sounded like Lorne Greene.
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  10221. Who knows? Quarantining and lockdowns work. Chinese people are ordinarily incredibly obedient anyway, and that probably goes double in the present circumstances. They're under the dual threat of the government and a deadly illness.
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  10222.  @grimmer2005  Well, when this blows over, Chinese international travel on a huge scale will probably resume. In all likelihood, we'll hear the stories then if there are any. I have a hard time believing the CPC can permanently keep a lid on major skullduggery given how much freer the (Han) Chinese have become. We know all about their Uighur camps, for example. Cheers.
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  10223. Sounds like an old expression to me, and a funny one.
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  10224. I would do another run-through of the recording of the audio. It's pretty close to acceptable, and not very far from pretty good.
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  10225.  Dylan sky  Quite true. Thanks.
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  10226.  @DetectiveTrupo203   Oh please. You have no idea what he does. What are you, stalking him in person, electronically and telepathically? Anyway, if your claim could be proved (and it can't) such a thing is nothing to be praised for, any more than not beating his wife. (Not that I'm actually claiming he doesn't. That would be another unprovable claim.)
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  10227. Pretty good summary.
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  10228. "No country other than Isr. would benefit too much from this operation." It's unclear whether major oil exporters would quickly replace the missing 2m barrels a day. But they would benefit greatly from the resulting much higher oil price. They include Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iraq, the Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.
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  10229. Since Roman times the classic question asked in the investigation of a crime is cui bono? (Who benefits?) Here, no one benefits, so I should say that there was no crime. Those edits were all pointless in the sense that they didn't make anyone look wonderful. I should say someone was messing about aimlessly and the wrong version got out.
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  10230. ​ @LoLMasterManiac  Hahaha "Kraut" says the guy with the most German name in history.👍 (Geist von Friedrich der Große: "Zum Donnerwetter, Dieser Konrad Typ ist wirklich, wirklich Deutscher!") Is 'Kraut' ok to say in Germany?
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  10231.  @timmytwodogs  Thanks for your interesting reply. Possibly your grandfather used an even more colourful term than "son-of-a-gun"? ;)
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  10232.  @Thompson011  That's definitely great, but at the same time, when it comes to solemn statements on serious subjects, there should be no difference between what's said and what's meant. Don't mean to be a prig, but I'm very sure of that really rather modest assertion. Thanks for your sincere reply, which I unhesitatingly take to heart very much at face value.👍
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  10233. On SNL, with guest host David Spade as the Statue of Liberty: Biden: "We finally killed medicare." Spade: "Let me see...Oh yeah, I've got it: Buh-biden." B: "Can you carry your own bag?" DS: "What part didn't you get, the buh or the biden?" B: "White kids are just as smart as pretty girls...kids... ... ...Jill, where'd that man go...that awful man?" DS: "I'm right here and you misgendered me, bruh. Not good. Buh-biden." B: "You watch it, missy. I'll take you in the shower and teach you a good lesson." [Security takes him away] DS: "Buh-biden."
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  10234. "Every American is fat," says the kid who doesn't look poor but does really look like he could use a large sandwich.🥪
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  10235. List of who's responsible for making Trump the candidate who can't be dislodged: 1. Democratic Party and its supporters 2. Republican Party That is all.
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  10236. I wonder what you and the guest think of charity dinners. People pay several hundred dollars or more for a meal, and the charity mops up a huge and helpful amount of money. I'm inclined to suppose you'd both say, "Look at all these people, dining at the expense of a charity! How shameful!"
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  10237.  @elzbane4588  You can't argue with someone who just wants to seize the wealth of the rich. Invariably they think wealth is stolen, not created or earned. Whether they know it or not, they are parroting the theory of Karl Marx—a man, by the way, who never worked. He lived his whole adult life off the money of his fox-hunting friend Engels, whose family were extremely rich capitalists that owned large textile factories in England and Germany.
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  10238.  @bisaiah9797  Go back to your little 4th-rate "university" and get your money back. They robbed you. Edit: Then take that money and spend it on counselling.
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  10239. The 1911 sends two casings right at the user's forehead at 10:24. I wonder how many eyes it wrecked in action.
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  10240. Kringela. Why aren't people making the connection there?
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  10241. The Dems yanking Biden's nomination are like a country defaulting on its bonds.
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  10242.  @EndoftheBeginning17  I agree with all that. But why address it to the OC of this thread when clearly it's meant for Mr. Kay, the uploader of this video? It needs to be taken out of this spot. Put it in the main comments.
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  10243. Even the government of Serbia, despite domestic pro-Russian sentiment and close ties with Moscow, supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and does not recognize Russia’s claims over any Ukrainian territory, including Crimea.
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  10244. The weirdest thing by far: That spoof YT channel shows an opening date of 2013! The real channel itself (this one, the one you're on right now) opened in 2022.😮 What's up with that?! It suggests that channel opening dates can be faked. I don't know, but if that's the case it's disturbing. That type of YT info should be un-fakeable.
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  10245. It is amazing that the academics and professionals who study and work with the data which indicate such things can know how much money everyone has and where they got it. But it is more amazing yet that you know better than they do.
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  10246. Dang, I missed it when you came thru town. Next time!
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  10247. While it's true that business is way down, Russia does sell a good deal of gas to Chigh Nuh via pipeline. Neither the volume of gas nor the price is publicly known with certainty, but based on published figures for the volume, at prices common around the world, it's worth around $10bn a year. Not massive but fairly sizeable. (Also, a new line is under construction.) Other neighbours buy Russian gas too, in smaller quantities, and there are also LNG exports which may (or may not) reach about $15-20bn this year. A lot of guesswork is involved here, especially concerning prices, but the total is likely over $25bn. (Of course that's revenue, not profit.) It's along the lines of revenue that a non-sanctioned country would earn by selling maybe 800k to 1.2m barrels of oil a day. There's a very wide margin of error.
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  10248.  @PeterSedesse  Since total pre-war gas exports were estimated at $62bn (2021), 5% would be $3.1bn. At the risk of quibbling, and although the realized price on specific contracts is secret, that sounds low for the volume shipped to China. (I must say the $62bn total seems a little paltry, especially since prices soared in 2021. It was only a few per cent of Russian GDP and 12% of exports of all kinds.) Gazprom claims, btw, that its pipeline volume to China rose 47% in 2023 over the previous year. Who knows all these details for sure? Not me.
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  10249. "Most scientists" is a very unscientific phrase to inject into one's thinking. Actual scientists are trained not to pay it a lot of heed. Science is about evidence and its evaluation, and scientific truth, if it exists at all, resides in the individual mind. It certainly has zero to do with what most scientists think. It's non-scientists who refer to "scientific consensus" with an air of finality. Scientists go straight on to looking at evidence—that is, if they're any good. Incidentally, he never said what you attribute to him. He said humans play some role. His views may or may not fit well with the current available evidence, but he was a good researcher with a sober mind, an MIT prof of atmospheric science. If there's a variety of decently credentialed opinion out there, give it all a hearing.
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  10250.  @Redsundog  Physician, heal thyself.
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  10251. Some people will tell you they've gotten 500,000 miles out of him.
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  10252. 🙄After decades of pure theft of Western technology, now the little babies of the comments section are schooling Americans about fair competition.👎 Ha!
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  10253. It's a favourite of hers. Telling in a way.
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  10254. Meh. It's between the two of them.
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  10255. Ukraine: "Excuse me, sir, but you are full of it. We have the right to exist, to affiliate ourselves with whom we want, and to protect ourselves from the psycho in the Kremlin. But thanks for the Russian Foreign Ministry talking points."
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  10256. Time to stop saying "the left." They themselves never say "the right," but only "the far right." So, the far left it is! ...Or hard left or eck stream left, as it suits you...
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  10257. Madwoman, pure and simple. Make AOC a Waitress Again.
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  10258. Oh man, that last abbrev. You know how to write a biting comment.😯
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  10259.  @au3264  Actually I thought your comment was good. Breathe. Just breathe.
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  10260.  @Liberal_From_Prairies689    But 74% of Canadians want PM Peter Pan to step down.  Omg, I never knew 74% of Canadians were Russian agents. Shocking. Bro, should I call CSIS or did you already?
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  10261. You use this word, reticent. I do not think it means what you think it means. — Inigo Montoya Also, foxtrot yankee.
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  10262. Sorry, I don't listen to Democrats.
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  10263. @a.brekkan4965 ⬅Wind vane
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  10264.  @GlobexCorporationHank  You don't know me from the wind. But I do now know you: "He who suffers you to impose on him, knows you." — William Blake
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  10265.  @jeanneglisson8428  Thanks for your reply. I try to do something about the many forms of madness plaguing our society by doing a lot of internet commenting of this nature, but find I am ordinarily outnumbered by the mad themselves, who are full of vitriol. That's when I'm not simply ignored or people mistake me so badly that I think they must be far below an average IQ. Today has been rough, with tons of people who want Canada to smash the peaceful anti-mandate protests with military force. Madness. (Dunno if everybody has heard those protests are going on, but they've been on the news a fair bit.) Appreciate it.
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  10266. ​ @soniajulie6465  I want them to have enough to eat and something clean to put on. But the system is broken. They won't be helped properly by factory-scale approaches. It takes a person to help a homeless person, one-on-one shepherding back to well-being in real society. (Not literally at a one-to-one ratio; I just mean real personal attention.) I've seen it work many times. It might superficially sound more expensive but it isn't. It's actually the way to stanch the financial bleeding from the many very costly government-paid or -subsidized programs. One homeless person can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars over a long enough period of time. In my city each shelter bed is subsidized $80 a day, and the person will also use other taxpayer-paid services. They make heavy use of hospital ERs and generate a lot of work for police. You're quickly looking at $30k a year. Letting that go on year after year is madness when you could do something at an earlier stage. But of course the homelessness industry (let's face it, that's what it is in a real sense) endlessly pushes for more money—which when spent will actually discourage people from going back to the more reasonable life they once had. And of course these groups will be energetically backed up by politicians who know there are easy votes to be hoovered up, those of compassionate people who know nothing. These latter people are similarly the targets of our cynical and selfishly destructive friends known as the media. Journalists (and there's next to zero exceptions) will say anything for sanctimonious brownie points, anything but the real truth. They are quite likely, if any reform is proposed, to raise hell until the proposal is squashed. Sanctimony, you see. Nauseated yet?
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  10267.  @pennstation5638  'Believe' is a big word. I don't tend to believe everything I see on the news, as news is generally no good anymore. And I'm not from that city. But what he says very well accords with my long experience. What about you?
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  10268.  @pennstation5638  I read your other assessment higher up in the thread. I would be more cautious if I were you. Just because what he claims to be getting is more than he is supposed to (if I am to believe you, and I do not) doesn't mean he is lying. Some people on the street, perhaps a great many of them, do get more than the rules say they should. You believe that bureaucracies don't leave all kinds of taps running all over the place?
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  10269.  @pennstation5638  Go back and read. I'm not your secretary.
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  10270.  @stevenchen5460  Good point, but don't be mistaken: no one except a tiny number of insane people blame the Chinese at large. Everyone else knows the CCP calls the shots, 999 people in a thousand. All the best to you.
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  10271. He did. He said he was wrong. Remember, to be a great investor you only have to be right around 55% of the time. People who make a lot of money also makes lots of mistakes.
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  10272. Is this thread for real? Elite may refer to high rank (those at the top) rather than merit (the best). The English language: get to know it well and it'll become your loyal friend.
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  10273.  @NickM_FirstofHisName  By "her" you mean militant & organized transgender activism? I'm thoroughly unconvinced that she ever left.
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  10274. No one alleges Trudeau broke a law. Just you. Paid misinformer?
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  10275. You've got a lot of nerve. Let's see yours stop ordering the pepper-spraying of peaceful protesters in Hong Kong. Let's see them pay restitution to the families of the thousands murdered in Tiananmen Square. "Do it."
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  10276. Why did this election take place about five months before the rest?
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  10277.  @Gr8putin  Keep running your mouth, Pootybot. You only draw the West closer together. Hey, why don't you go on Austrian and Irish social media? NATO could use yet more members.
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  10278.  @MmmMulholland  I see that as true in the sense that radical feminism is the model for trans activism. Radical feminism went to ridiculous extremes against men, ordinary women either backed them or remained silent in the belief that they stood to benefit in the end (which they did), the whole thing succeeded spectacularly, and now its excesses are being imitated in a way that harms women. Hoist on your own petard.
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  10279. I think she meant syringe.
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  10280. Or social engineers and activists.
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  10281. It won't be Americans to blame for a world war, let alone young Americans, if all they do is stand up to the attempts of the nauseating Authoritarian Axis to gradually take over the world. So please redirect your remarks to the tyrants in control in Beijing, Moscow, Teheran, Pyongyang, etc. They're the ones who need your moral correction, your 'teaching.'
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  10282. ​ @JRufu  "Editorial independence" is an unverifiable claim, not a fact, and Twitter ought not to support or deny such claims made by anyone. It ought to continue doing what it is doing (and so should Google here on YouTube) — namely, alerting people to the potential link between the news as presented and the government of its originating country. Readers can take it from there. It's just a low-key factual heads-up, not "Enter, and hold on to your purse." In the case of the CBC, I think the claim of editorial independence is preposterous. The twelve directors, the president and the chairperson are all federal cabinet appointees. That is the salient fact. It constitutes a rather enormous similarity to a government department, and not by any coincidence.  I loved Neil Macdonald, Peter Mansbridge and even Knowlton Nash a little bit. As a little boy I had a crush on Barbara Frum. But as in so many other ways, it's 2023 and a great many institutions are going sour. There's no proper place left for such an optimistic venture. It's impossible to imagine the return of lightly-biased journalism at the CBC.
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  10283.  @Dear--Leader  Where on earth did you come up with 24 murders in Toronto last year? It was 71.
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  10284. @@thisguy971 The metro area is around 4.5m but the part of which the mayor of Detroit is mayor is a small part of it.
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  10285. Absolutely correct. R.I.P. American journalism. Died 2020, after a long illness.
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  10286.  @henrytaverner1803  Really? My normal-sized bed is 32 square feet.
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  10287.  @henrytaverner1803  Dang. Are they quite unhappy? Is there a constant flood of emigration?
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  10288. "Marjorie Taylor Greene drops bombshell news" Hey Fox News, stop it with the disrespectful, manipulative headlines. Think about it for three seconds: That would not be an acceptable headline in a newspaper, for good reason. It's no more acceptable on your YouTube channel. Stop it. It's not just you, but start setting a good example.
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  10289. You're not thinking this through. Borders can be closed to tourists without being closed to merchandise. Personal protective equipment is good enough for health care workers, so it's good enough for shipping personnel. Anyway, a tiny amount of contagion from a handful of truck drivers, sailors, etc. at ports and points of entry can be accepted as a consequence of getting enough food to avoid starvation. Rational thought will endure in most of us even if it has already deserted some. Moreover, as time goes on there will be an army of people who have recovered from the illness and thus have acquired immunity. They can step back into their jobs.
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  10290. Probably. Another immense project, I suppose, to go along with carbon sequestration and others. Throw it on the pile. On the other hand, why bother? Super-intelligent AGI is going to deliberately kill us off by mid-century anyway. Might as well eat the remaining fish, breathe the remaining breathable air, drink the last drinkable wine, and watch the final sunsets in a state of equanimity.
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  10291.  @rara-yp5pq  Really clever people do not make a habit of asserting they are clever, accurately sensing it is unnecessary and somehow beneath their dignity besides. Methinks you do protest too much. Why not start seeing a therapist, or a different one?
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  10292. Doesn't much matter at this point, as Scholz will be defeated in a general election within days.
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  10293. He'll be defeated in the national election within days. So who cares?
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  10294. Omar Baddar in 1942: 'How badly Germany was treated since the First World War! Did you think there would be no repercussions? This war against Germany is totally immoral! Stop it now! Innocent Germans are dying!' Today, if everyone listened to him: The same German govt. would occupy and rule Europe.
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  10295.  @drsuzuki6506  Taiwan is China—the Republic of China. The PRC is a rogue province which must be brought back into the fold.
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  10296. When a news or analysis piece asks a question in the title, the answer is No over 90% of the time. For some reason that's just how they do it.
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  10297. How could that happen? How did people lose their basic good sense? I guess since video games have been around for a few decades, most people under 50 have had their mental development stunted from a young age. I call it The Great Dumbening. (Yes, I know it has to do with more than video games.)
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  10298. I'm not against you, but why do you say love-bombing is incorrectly applied? It's a term for an intense campaign to win someone over which is not in line with how well the love-bomber knows the person, and so inappropriate that it calls their motives into question. They are suspected of setting up the object for manipulation or worse.
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  10299.  @RikuofManyPaths  So you just told me what I told you. You also told me why the term is correctly applied, not incorrectly applied. This is why YT comments suck so hard. K bye
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  10300.  @tossaja  You may well be right: maybe he was scared. But what makes a frightened man a sinister man?
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  10301.  @racoonfrenzy3617  That sounds totally reasonable. But it's cause to feel bad for the guy, not get the creeps from him. I don't see people as sinister because they're struggling. I bet he himself was getting the creeps from the situation. He was very plainly trying to say the 'right' or Russian version of 'politically correct' thing.
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  10302.  @CyberBeep_kenshi  ("Govt doing loyalty checks") Probably, sure. But that's a reason to feel empathy, isn't it, not get weirded out?
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  10303.  @craiggallup5706  ("I hope you're not etc.") People in repressive states often feel they have to say things like that. It's political correctness of its own sort, and a very sad and scary thing. Thanks for your reply.
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  10304.  @yggdrasild755  (You: "russians are heroes for protecting the west from the filth of degeneracy") Then let the West return the favour and protect the soldiers of Russia from the decrepitude of old age.
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  10305.  @andrewgpisme  Oxford Dictionary: sinister 1. Giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen. 2. Evil or criminal. I think he was just a little troubled by the situation, as well as by the national situation. The number of people here who think he was someone to run like hell from quite frankly disturbs me. I'm not applying this to you, but they sound like a bunch of weird people themselves: sheltered, inexperienced, paranoid and not too bright. I find those between 18 and 40 right now extremely slow to accept others who aren't just like them—which is ironic and I'd say highly hypocritical too, because they never tire of saying that it's absolutely essential to be the opposite of that.
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  10306. I was going to stay home but now I'm going to make a point of offsetting your vote. You should have kept quiet.
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  10307.  @J.M.254  Don't be so impatient. No one is stopping you from crossing the River Styx.
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  10308. More good thinking. Keep it up. You're a breath of fresh air.
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  10309. No. Neither are free streetlights or free fire departments. Socialism is public ownership of the 'means of production.'
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  10310.  @frontagulus  It's a very old picture. I know him, he's in his 90s. He's a farmer in North Dakota.
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  10311.  @rotierender_lurch  🙄 I'm just here making light jokes; and they also have nothing to Ukraine and its equipment.
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  10312. Look at who Trump chose as his lead attorney, Alina Habba. She epitomizes female strength and intelligence. Mark Cuban should just go away somewhere and never come back. I suggest Cuba.
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  10313. China is surely learning enormous amounts, too. What can be gleaned from space alone must be valuable. And since it's starting from a lower base, it might well be gaining a proportionally greater benefit. However, I can scarcely speculate on how much Russia is sharing with it — voluntarily😄.
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  10314. Crazy-o Cortez.
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  10315. I am Xi Jinping and I approve that comment 1,000%.
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  10316. Republicans: Sane policies without delay Democrats: Insane policies for three years, followed by Republican polices
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  10317.  @donikatod460  I never equated them. I mentioned academics merely because you left them out. I could have also included people who simply have a good learning background in a particular subject and write books.
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  10318. @ That's commie talk. There was indeed a level field and that's why there's a small surplus. Let's change the subject to something you know anything about.
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  10319.  @shirleybalinski4535  Sure, it's a normal thing for all travellers or cross-border shoppers. Micro-unscrupulous maybe, but hey, it's taxes!
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  10320. Canada getting its act together too. Spending has gone from $19b to $31b in seven years. Much more is needed.
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  10321.  @大汉忠臣曹孟德  "Non-aligned". What a laugh. China promptly blamed the US and NATO for the Russian slaughter in Ukraine.
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  10322.  @greentea8852  The people on Democracy Now never wash their faces or hair. I doubt they brush their teeth or take showers. They are mentally ill. And I do not watch BBC, CNN or Fox either. It's you who needs advice on what to watch. As for the Ukraine War, Russia will exterminate all Ukrainians at the expense of ruining Russia forever, knocking it back to before Peter the Great and making it the poodle of Xi. This is no doubt what he always had in mind. The new Mao, that's how I see him: egomaniac, psycho, extremist, meat-packing monster.
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  10323.  @greentea8852  Every Russian soldier Putin sends, Ukraine will send back to mama in a refrigerated trailer. So far over 15k, hundreds more every day. Plus even more captured and surrendered. Besides that, huge numbers are deserting. Russia's wealth is being devastated. Impoverishment is their destiny. GDP sharply contracting. Every meal will be bread with boiled beets and carrots till 2050.
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  10324. Hochul recently screen-tested for a small role in a planned remake of a Hollywood classic. Her two-second take: "I'm melting, melting!" According to rumours she landed the role.
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  10325. Everyone is eligible for a licence fee refund except those who type in all-caps. You didn't know that?
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  10326. Happy highest murder rate in the Western Hemisphere down there.
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  10327. Yep, 50 million dead in the Great Leap Forward alone. That is within living memory.
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  10328.  @jake8855  I rarely debate a communist. I like my opponents worthy.
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  10329.  @henryng7893  Sure, comrade. Communists are known for their truthfulness. 😂
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  10330.  @jake8855  Stalin, Mao, Xi, their little admirer Jake
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  10331.  @jake8855  Well, well, well. Look at big important Jake, wetting himself in fury when the dart hits the bullseye. Yeah, 50 million corpses in a Great Heap Upward. All at the hands of the government of China meatpacking glitterati. Followed by millions more in the Cultural Revolution. Red Guards beating countless people to death in the streets. Tiananmen Square, thousands of defenceless people riddled with bullets. Uighurs rounded up for mass abuse. State industrial development at its finest. Bulldozers digging graves at a record pace. To celebrate, let's have an Olympics! Let's model it on Berlin 1936! Wonder what's next. My guess: let's see what kind of numbers your heroes can post up in Taiwan.
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  10332.  @jake8855  Yes, for the past, present and future Chinese dead at the hands of Xi and the Party. 😞
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  10333.  @jake8855  Stalin: "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." You: "Tens of millions of deaths is funny."
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  10334. "China's not so bad. The real threat is the US! Fukushima on Bondi Beach! Trump! I repeat, Trump! Meltdown!" [Inwardly : "I think I did that rather well. Now to reward myself with a lovely bowl of soy cereal with soy milk."]
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  10335. Way off topic, but something in this video made me quite glad for tweezers having been invented.
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  10336.  @vasilileung2204  Good! Keep it up.
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  10337. Please don't say "Canadaw." Thank you.
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  10338. Thanks Dave, I've never seen these outtakes from Idiocracy.
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  10339.  @legshakermaker1968  I feel that you gave up your position too easily and that others, including Prof. Baron-Cohen, wish to pathologize or medicalize Daniel's unusual make-up far too easily. They seem to be saying "He has a disease and yet, remarkably, he is not ill." Almost like "This man is certainly racked by cancer, yet has somehow never had a tumour. If I hadn't diagnosed him myself I should say he were healthy! Poor devil."
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  10340.  @legshakermaker1968  … And one is inclined to speculate why this is. The essayist and wit Sir Max Beerbohm may possibly be of some slight assistance here: "The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end."
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  10341. Why weren't people in the same community out in numbers to directly counter-protest the cheap messages being peddled at this event? Their complete silence is tacit agreement.
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  10342. Jordan my very good man, learn how to not jump in when Konstantin is telling you about life in Russia. He's the Russian. You're from Edmonton. Just sit still and listen, ok? (Unless he's been going on for simply far too long.) Other than that, please carry on in your inimitable fashion!👍
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  10343. The emperor has no brain.
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  10344.  @dpelpal  1.9trn rubles, not 16bn, but yeah.
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  10345. "I'm not talking about Prince Harry." Another way of saying "The bloody less said about that bloke the better."
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  10346.  @elizabethlacky6068  Yes, thanks for saying that. Flabbergasting, isn't it? Y'know, I don't think these are real people. I think it's hired people sitting there doing the work, maybe at home, each one pretending to be hundreds or thousands of people, along with a language assist from AI for shaping it up to native-speaker level.
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  10347. Simply marvellous. Classic "hoist with their own petard"!
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  10348. Le Pen's shocking Putinism makes her a serious threat to European security. It seems she thinks that his anti-wokeism excuses his attacking his weaker, smaller neighbours and flattening their country with bombs. For my part, I don't think her anti-wokeism excuses her rank Putinism. Not one bit.
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  10349.  @woolyimage  A few roubles? More like a few copecks.
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  10350.  @livingtribunal4110  I guess you're right. We're only on Day 2 of the invasion. It'll be wrapped up tomorrow morning, right?😂😂  As for the Wagner Group, its main activity is the creation of available basement hovels for rent across Russia. Their hapless former occupants are returning in pine boxes by the thousand.
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  10351. "Ish"? Pls explain
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  10352.  @rickshaw3397  Why not just answer? I simply don't know what that means, and I doubt most people do. Never mind what's socially appropriate, that was an inappropriate answer just from a psychological health point of view.
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  10353.  @rickshaw3397  Look after yourself. Seriously, something's really off. I only asked you to define an obscure slang term.
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  10354. Good. Then get on a train to Moscow and do it a favour.
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  10355.  @Пловсребенком  Good. Then you can walk, drive, ride your bike, or take the streetcar to the destination where you become a world hero.
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  10356. Dr. Johnson: "Why madam, 'twas no failure. The Romans would fain have conquered Scotland, and doubtless would have done, only it troubled them that upon conquering Scotland they should find themselves the possessors of Scotland. [To Boswell:] Eh Bozzy, what what!" Boswell: "Och! [Sotto voce:] Ya great round whale, ya."
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  10357.  @rick_fraser  Nah, that's not even possible.
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  10358. She identifies as Joan of Arc.
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  10359. But no, these are not lies. That's why the Pooty-bots are out in force here. They only attack truth.
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  10360. Defeatism is saying when knocked down that it's best to lie down flat on the ground and stay there.
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  10361. Her maunderings about space are the latest in a series of signals from the US government over the past four years that they're getting ready to tell us something about UAPs (they gave a new name to UFOs, notice).
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  10362. US: One grave mistake, which yes, probably involved a lie. Iran: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 lies & terrorist acts. There, fixed it for you.
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  10363. Fine. So strip out those provisions and pass them separately.
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  10364. It's the US plus an additional 9 to 15 countries, not "5". The following countries are confirmed participants: UK, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, Spain. Reportedly, additional Arab states are involved but prefer not to be publicly named, including: Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Egypt.
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  10365. Jake Broe is marvellous as a Ukraine booster but is not a worthwhile source of political insight. At all.
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  10366. Your command of articles gives you away, Olga.
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  10367. ​ @Dot-he2ke  That's only natural. It's just not the sort of thing that would ever stand out in people's minds. Nothing in human nature yearns for or demands a mosaic. It was a university-bred idea in the first place, and I bet it had something to do with the CCF/NDP. As such, of course few people were going to care about it. It was bound to be far from people's interests and to elicit a passionless response.
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  10368. No, the machine that's pumping them out is just the United States of America, gone off the rails. Cf. Sigmund Freud: "America is a mistake. A great mistake!" It'd be marvellous if he was wrong. But I don't think we'll have to wait that much longer to find out. It either gets a lot better over the next 20 years or it's gone.
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  10369. Funny how she looks down on the masses. The masses were the ones who paid for her schmaltz, making her rich.
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  10370. In this world that's quickly getting much smaller and much more dangerous, it's time for much closer ties between Canada and Australia . Let's not mess about. We should start in May, both under new leaders!!
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  10371. If the discussion doesn't interest you I suggest opting out of it, while respecting the desire of others to continue it.
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  10372. Wishful thinking on your part, I'm afraid, if not something far worse. Russia itself expects its economy to shrink by a sixth this year. Next year will surely see a continuation, as everything that's causing problems now will only worsen. The point you make about its raw materials is only a case for its GDP not collapsing to zero, not for its economy being "very stable". Murray is right: basket case.
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  10373. From middle boyhood I sensed a perversion in the aspirations of the powerful, that it was ordinarily the sick who rose to the top while the healthy were content with other rewards. Only later did I see that it was envy which motivated the power-obsessed. Envy + a plan = Robespierre, Lady Macbeth, Stalin, and all the rest.
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  10374. I will thank you not to raise the volume of those Hannity promos at the end of every video. Also, get someone else to do them.
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  10375.  @sole__doubt  He grinds up NYT opinion pieces, mixes them in with his junk and mainlines them, evidently.
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  10376. So you're whining that a leader past normal retirement age didn't go to fight on the front lines? Brilliant. And so he should have offered to surrender his country to Germany on that account? Effortlessly brilliant.
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  10377. Says somebody with the SAT score of a screen door missing its screen. DEI = Didn't Earn It
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  10378.  @presidentselect3822  Don't believe that hype. It's like Mexico paying for the wall, just made-up nonsense from DT. There's no US "subsidies."😂 The US doesn't pay Canada's way. And it's always had tariffs on Canadian goods, and always will. Hundreds of pages of them in the USMCA.
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  10379. The camera operator like so many people wants attention, recognition, a chance to shine, time in the spotlight, to 'express myself'. Me, me, me, me, me. Even the person who records street and station names for the transit system in my city goes nuts with funny pronunciations and stresses. She wants to be famous or something, even though she only says "Walnut. Walnut Street is next." So she does dumb stuff like "Wal-NUT. Wal-NUT Street is next." How very 2020s.
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  10380. As Govt. Efficiency Czar, Elon certainly would get a lot of flak. Being a Canadian citizen, he might easily relate to John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian economist whose job in the Office of Price Administration during World War II was to tell US companies of all sorts what prices they could charge. They would've loved to declare war on him.😂
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  10381. Soon it'll be in trendy restaurants. Hipsters will brag about knowing which one prepares it best.😄
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  10382. Good lad. Defund the BBC now. It's government news and no one should get their news from the government anyway.
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  10383.  @adrianh332  Afford? Why, members shoot the pheasant themselves at the OU's 7,000 acre wood, of course, and it owns a great vineyard in Champagne. The caviar they steal from shops, getting away on Cannondales. You didn't know? Just kidding, they're lovely people no doubt.
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  10384.  @adrianh332  That's not true. She hasn't worn underwear since she was eleven. You didn't know?
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  10385. 1) Gov. Hochul says the subway is safe. So let her start riding it twice a day. Seriously. 2) How did the police cite a stat on subway shootings up to Mar. 17 — on Mar. 14? 🤨 3) Dude at the start who wasn't crouching down at all musta really been packing. 😂
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  10386.  @alaskanhermit8863  Absurd and delusional. Why does Russia think it can justify the inhuman atrocities it commits today by pointing fingers elsewhere at things that happened multiple lifetimes ago? If that is legitimate—and it is not— then let's talk about the dozens or hundreds of distinct peoples wiped out or subsumed into the Russian Empire over the centuries. How did little Muscovy grow to 17,000,000 sq. km?
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  10387. The Wall Street Journal makes a good point. You do have to poke Canadians quite a few times with your stick before you finally get them really mad. But then watch out. Axis armies in the Second World War learned that lesson in a memorably unpleasant fashion.
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  10388. I'm going to the bank to apply for a $2m mortgage. When they turn me down, I'm telling them they're getting sued and charged---because I identify as rich.
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  10389. Yeah. His command of language is "yooge."
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  10390. The status quo remains >90% intact.
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  10391. Combined armored vehicle losses for Russia now exceed 30,000. Tanks 9,751 + Armored fighting vehicles 20,271 = Total 30,022
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  10392. Tucker is afraid of Biden enjoying a surge in popularity if he stands up to Putin. That's why he must side with Putin against Biden. His take on Ukraine's 43 million people, anxious to support and join the Western world? "Pretty small country." "Not important." He would feed his own grandmother to rats if it would cost Biden a thousand votes.
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  10393.  @disf5178  Yes I do hear that. The first is a cover for the second. You can tell because he resorts to claiming Ukraine is small and unimportant, clearly implying those are the criteria for drawing a line. Then why doesn't he expand on his case for those claims? He doesn't and he can't. Ukraine isn't small and it isn't unimportant to European security. He knows that. If Republicans wanted to stand up to Putin (as they surely would if, say, China mobilized a huge army for an invasion of Japan) and Biden did not, Tucker would side with the Republicans and rail at Biden as soft. Thus he acts as though the whole world and all its people ought to revolve around this November. He doesn't really think that, but then he also doesn't think he can make wars happen nor prevent them, so he's going all-in on something he actually can make a difference on, the election outcome. (I'll just ignore your hotheaded name-calling. I'd have to be more impressed with you to care.)
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  10394. I've heard many times that the Hell's Angels gang was founded by disaffected veterans of the Second World War who returned home to low-paying jobs and social rejection. They were soon alienated and later were among the first of a great wave of drug addicts in the post-war era.
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  10395. It was 100% to be expected that, after the genocidal brutalization of Ukraine by Moscow, at least a tiny percentage of Ukrainians would see the Germans as liberators. Millions were intentionally starved to death just a few years earlier. There were sadly such sympathizers in every hellhole that Germany invaded. Doubtless some exist in Russia today as well. Yes, Russia. There must be a certain number in 50 countries at least. So what? They are evil, but evil cultists are a permanent feature of humanity. The point is whether they are on the fringe or they hold power and influence. Anyone claiming that Ukraine is a N. country led by N's is a sad victim of paranoia, his or her own gullibility, and Putinism. Simply born to be ruled.
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  10396.  @globalist1990  Sounds fair-minded if a bit lenient. But I've already seen numerous screenshots of the guy's posts already. So how long should we give the Beeb on that? And if you don't mind a hypothetical, what if they just don't go there at all for whatever reason, neither sooner nor later?
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  10397. This is the high-level, far-into-the-future analysis that's so rare in commentary on the war. Much needed. It's a bit eerie how closely it all aligns with my own views, except that I think NATO's strategy, while not entirely foolproof, is decisively more astute than Putin's. I foresee it continuing to strengthen NATO, while his is hollowing out Russia.
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  10398. No, not as long. No, far bloodier. It's far bloodier already. But in some sense you've got it right.
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  10399. Concerning your question, I'm really not sure. What's your own feeling, Turd? [Man it was fun to write that and not have it be cruel but be about Norm Macdonald instead.]
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  10400. When Bill Maher is your prophet you're no longer the voice of the right.   Set aside for one second whether this is even criticism, I'm just saying somebody had to point it out.
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  10401.  @carmiethompson2676  I suppose so. But how exactly do you figure? Your line of rhetorical attack there does somewhat tickle the brain.
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  10402.  @geeetube1  Starlink has only been in beta service about a year. Nice t rye, t roll.
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  10403. Only in 2022 did it dawn on me why it always seemed Russians were terribly bright people with well-developed minds. I was long aware that it was in part due to the glaring examples Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Chagall, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Chekhov, etc.; in part to the Soviet/Russian emigrés I knew. (Konstantin would've fit right in with them.) Turns out it was largely an illusion hinging on the fact that Russian dullards very seldom set foot outside Russia.
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  10404. Very interesting side note on Chinese social media reaction. Thanks for that.👍
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  10405. Instead ask, Why declare a tariff war which will result in harm to oneself and virtually zero gain? The harm to the party attacked can hardly mean much to any attacker except an aggressive sadist doing it for the pleasure.
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  10406.  @mholm1587  "Another provider"😂 Namely who?
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  10407. Premier Andrews would be ideally cast in a remake of Nineteen Eighty-Four as O'Brien, the thoroughgoing INGSOC commissar. He has the classic visage of the socialist fundamentalist: wide and coarse, the eyes expressionless, the mouth cold and cruel.
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  10408.  @henryperez606  Thanks! I'm happy that I got through to an unfortunate under-25 victim of the vitiated and corrupt educational elites.
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  10409.  @MassiveTrackHunter  "No substance. Can't argue the point at hand, so..... Resorts to adolescent insults." Proceeds to deliver an adolescent insult.🙄
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  10410. The only needless waste of fuel here is caused by the protestors themselves.
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  10411. "The swamp" doesn't mean DJT's staff.🙄
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  10412.  @catherinecredle9620  Javier Milei: "Afuera!" 😄
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  10413. I agree with every word of that. And it's retailers, too, who dance around the issue with zero openness. You look at something on their website and even in the detailed part of the description you aren't told the country of manufacture. It just says "Imported." Sorry, Amazon. Forget it.
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  10414. Bad As They Wanna Be. Year 5 of the spree continues.
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  10415. Yeah, in a few ways he's out of his depth here. His illness a couple of years ago left him with neurological problems. I left two comments just above yours which may be of interest to you (one a standalone, the other a reply). You would have to Sort by Newest.
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  10416. ​@Truth Hertz "[T]here is nothing in it for NATO to unleash WW3" Sure, nothing—except, somewhat paradoxically, the prevention of World War III. If NATO were interested in doing nothing, it could be doing nothing right now. But it knows how bad an idea that'd be, how much encouragement it would give not only to Putin, but also to Xi and all the rest of the d-bag tyrants in this world. Likewise with any use by Putin of nukes: NATO must answer with firmness or through inaction it will simply invite him to do it again. The latter would pave the way for a huge war later on—"WW3"— just as appeasement in the mid- to late-1930s did. "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy
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  10417.  @immealldayeveryday9425  Introduce yourself to punctuation, please. Following that, capital letters.
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  10418. 45 mph is quite the precise estimate of another car's speed.🤨
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  10419.  @derekbaker3279  I've made up my mind that I'm against government news. People should not get their news from the government. It is sure to end up working in the government's favour and not theirs. I would argue it's now gotten to that point in numerous countries, perhaps every one of them. It wasn't always so bad, but it's 2023, and almost all our institutions are going sour, government news as much as any. (So then why, it will be objected, am I even here? I am here because something like an interview with the estimable Gen. Hodges isn't to be missed, and I would watch him even if he were appearing on Rossiya-1.)
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  10420. It's lovely to hear someone speak whose mind is totally uncorrupted by the degenerate ideologies infesting the universities for over a generation now.
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  10421. Possibly the world's biggest psycho and creep since Stalin. Is there a pattern here?
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  10422.  @thekaiser4333  That is your belief.
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  10423. What's it about? I instantly assumed it was a memorial to The Few (i.e. the airmen of the Battle of Britain), but then what would "the North" have to do with them? It's rather obviously an anthropomorphized airplane, isn't it?
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  10424. Perfectly well said.
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  10425. @ That's got to be true. What reinforces a choice more reliably than knowing the bill is lower as a result?
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  10426. Typical limousine liberal, pigging out nightly on rich restaurant food and drink, I should imagine. Nervous overeating is often a compensatory response to guilt feelings rooted in hypocrisy and lies, and you can see the resemblance to the monks, bishops, cardinals and popes depicted in old oil paintings.
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  10427. Nice to hear Drew Barrymore is getting some voice work.
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  10428. "Christ-ee-ans" U fn serious bro? Christians has three syllables now?
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  10429.  @jpflock1078  I guess you're just more edumacated than I am.
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  10430. VNF (video nerd factor): Incalculable. Story checks out.
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  10431. Where are the charges against the girlfriend, who pulled out a knife and stabbed Alba multiple times? W t actual f?
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  10432. A Russian moth? Uh, I think it just means the light was on.
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  10433.  @MrJankert64  Have fun watching a Conan O'Brien clip that's become famous: "Norm Macdonald Conan moth" 1-second search.
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  10434. If you've lived it, you've experienced it, and vice versa. So 'lived experience' is a silly tautology. Anyone who uses it isn't thinking about what they're saying as they go along. It's an expression used to demand respect for one's point of view. "I have opinions on what I've experienced and they're correct because I say so. Don't contradict me." Meaningless. I don't have a big problem with your comment (although you seem to radically underestimate the value of learning anything from other people for some reason) just your use of that phrase.
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  10435. In fairness, Jillian Michaels mostly turned on the left some time ago, not this week. And I don't know if, being a fitness guru, she should be called part of Hollywood.
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  10436. My mother always said "There's no fool like an old fool." (I look back in amazement that she risked me quoting it back to her, though.😄)
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  10437. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right. They make a leftist.
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  10438.  @sw4882  "Tomorrow's forecast date is November 30. If we make a mistake, phone in to win!"
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  10439.  @Z4Zander  In my opinion she began warming to him quickly. There was a smoulder there that wasn't just antagonism, if you know what I mean. It wouldn't surprise me if ten minutes later she slid out of her seat.😄
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  10440. 1:25 Woman behind them looking for crack on the ground. Human wreckage.
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  10441. Running the country? Did you mean ruining the country?
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  10442. Perfectly stated.
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  10443. In fact Sonnenfeld's analysis on this subject has been featured more prominently across the US media than anyone else's. Mainstream coverage has made his recent paper famous. DW is actually playing catch-up.
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  10444. ​ @ugli88  Your GDP comparison uses the flattering PPP method. But the $27k figure plunges to $12k by the unflattering market exchange rate method, which gives a perspective on the country's position in the world, especially in trade and finance. Each method is valid in its way, so I would be inclined to average them and say Russian GDP is about $20,000. It is also falling as the Russian economy shrinks.
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  10445. "Problematize" Always with the made-up words. Always with the puffed up number of syllables meant to give an impression of great learning, when really it's a Potemkin metropolis of fake erudition. I've got your dirty little number.
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  10446. It's strange enough that he decided it was a brilliant idea to improve his likability and appeal by ditching his Jewish family name in the 21st century🤔, at age 38🤔. But then he proceeded to select, as the ethnicity that he would thenceforward pretend to be... Scottish. 😄
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  10447. Welcome to the Pooty-bot comments pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  10448.  @napinkpa  So? People of any given faith must express what they've learned through their faith only to people of that faith? You probably don't mean to insular (OED meaning), but you really are on this.
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  10449.  @404_BrainDidNotLoad  You have the bar set incredibly low for "impose".
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  10450.  @404_BrainDidNotLoad  Still intolerant if you ask me. Live and let live, no? I mean, cut others a slight amount of slack, and then you can demand some back when you need it. I dunno, I guess I've looked at the same way you do at certain times in my life.
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  10451.  @404_BrainDidNotLoad  It sounded pretty clearly like "Oh, shut up" to me. Everybody already knows that not everyone is a Christian, so what other reason could there be for so pointedly stating such an obvious truth? (For the record, I happen to be irreligious myself.)
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  10452.  @404_BrainDidNotLoad  🙄
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  10453. Comment of the decade. As all those quotes show, they're so unafraid they're not even hiding it.
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  10454.  @MegaBanne  Hey maybe they can be made into prison towns for Party members once the CCP gets outlawed. I can dream.
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  10455. @Moonlight Including Muslim Asia?
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  10456. If a "small" US base were in the neighbourhood you were fighting in, what kind of respect would you give it? Twenty-eight guys or ten thousand, they're members of the strongest gang there's ever been, unless you want to say that's NATO (more of less the same thing). Never heard of the Pax Americana?
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  10457. (1) bête noire: a person or thing that one particularly dislikes. Example: "great-uncle Edward was my father's bête noire" — Oxford Dictionaries (2) bête noire: a person or thing that you dislike very much or that annoys you. Example: "My particular bête noire is cigarette butts being left in half-empty glasses." — Cambridge Dictionary
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  10458. Is the full version available anywhere yet?
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  10459. This madness didn't just happen. People promote it because they are terrified. They've been convinced that the madness will prevent something else which is so awful that the madness is preferable—namely, the election of a conservative government. The left has demonized conservatives so outlandishly, hyperbolically—and dishonestly—that many would almost rather die than see one in power. Big Brother did it, too, in 1984, by demonizing Emmanuel Goldstein.
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  10460. "Contempt to the contemptible"—Blake
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  10461. A woman in search of a clue.
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  10462. But it wouldn't be ash-TAW(n). It would be ash-TOW(n).
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  10463.  @patricepicaud5490  Et pour vous, monsieur, <<La Grenouille Avec Sa Main Gauche Toujours Dans La Poche De Son Pantalon>>. Un très long sobriquet, oui, mais on fait ce qu'on peut. La précision fait surtout l'affaire.
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  10464. She should be sweeping floors somewhere, or maybe teaching first grade.
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  10465.  @barneyreichman127  I thought your comment was brilliant, your interlocutor sanctimonious, bitter, humourless, somewhat bullying in manner, etc.
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  10466.  @renataostertag6051  Yes, of course you are with Russians, and so am I. A splendid people except they're a little bit born to be ruled, perhaps. Otherwise very much to be admired. The Russian government, no. They are out with me. I mean he, Putin, is out with me. It's time this Tsar were thrown out according to custom.
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  10467. People of Salem, Mass. in 1692, addressing Democrats in 2024: "Wow, you people are coming apart. Get a grip on yourselves. Deep breaths now."
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  10468. Sec. Austin knows, but did not acknowledge, that each weapons system is like having a chess piece. One by itself won't literally win the match, but another knight, bishop or rook, well deployed and integrated with the rest into a unified whole, can make every other piece more threatening to the opponent. One more pawn can be a key to victory.
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  10469.  @spiffenage1  But you're here too, so if viewing the video and leaving a comment makes me a gross bigot, it makes you one equally. (N.B. I'm not; you probably are, though.)
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  10470.  @UniqueBreakfastTaco  That's who keeps your trade stats. I think your big orange wig might be too tight.
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  10471.  @UniqueBreakfastTaco  I'm not mistaken. I've sourced trade stats there numerous times. It's your government, not mine. Btw, the FTC has absolutely zero to do with international trade. I'd check the tightness of that wig, man.
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  10472. Try 'blowing out the candles on a birthday cake,' kiddo. Big difference.
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  10473. He ain't too slim. Just imagine him noisily going at his food like livestock.
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  10474. 1932? The Second World War started in 1939. The world attended the Berlin Olympics in 1936. And Germany was not dirt poor. On the eve of the war, 1938, it had the 2nd-largest economy after the US and the 2nd highest per-capita GDP, also after the US. Germany was rich.
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  10475.  @lez075  The video was not about electing parties. It was about going to war. If you wanted to comment about electoral choices you should have announced it. The world doesn't read minds.
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  10476.  @lez075  Ok, enough, just go away.
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  10477. 43K is a ton o' likes, bruh. Well-deserved.
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  10478. That model car is on sale now for $36,500 after the tax credit.
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  10479. Rubin is right. It's time to inscribe it in stone: RIP American Mainstream Journalism. Died ca. 2015, After a Long Illness.
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  10480.  @ShortsHound  Above freezing in Toronto by Sunday, +5 by Tuesday.
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  10481. I am a foreign internet poster for an anti-Western nation and I approve your post.   High five, bro! Down with perfidious Albion!
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  10482. Educate yourself. Step one: Turn off CNN.
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  10483. It's time NATO commissioned a statue of him to put in the plaza in front of headquarters in Brussels. 😉
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  10484.  @usa91191  Yer so confused. Finland just got safer. Weird how Russia thinks its neighbours don't know what's good for them. 🤪 They do know. They know what Russia under Putzin is.
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  10485. If only they weren't waving their hands about constantly. It's well past time this affectation, this plague, this shameless attempt to convince you by distracting you, this corruption of otherwise pleasant chats, were expunged from the stock of acceptable behaviours. It must become once again what it was 20 years ago: a thing magicians do to stop you noticing where the rabbit goes.
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  10486.  @tablescissors  Do the right thing with your scissors.
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  10487. The speech recognition software ain't working. Try typing if you're able. Reply afterwards if you like, so I can come back and appreciate what you had to say.
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  10488. Well, 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. Source: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research, poll of 1,580 adults, mid-March 2024
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  10489.  @tamashumi7961  But they could just scrub their accounts right before starting their job search. Terribly cunning, many of these people. Enough of them to ruin your business, to be sure.
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  10490.  @OutRAjious  Yes, and they're making war on the very idea of a university as well. Bloated, pompous, full of self-regard, out of touch, corrupt and sitting on giant piles of wealth, they may soon be going the way of the English monasteries (i.e. gotten rid of) and largely for those same or similar reasons.
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  10491. Thanks for the communist point of view. No one cares.
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  10492. What? He endorsed this.
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  10493. This is the genesis of Russia's next war in its campaign of wars against the West. An eminent observer characterized the war in Ukraine this way: “It’s a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Former Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe, Jan. 2024
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  10494.  @estibon3872  I know. I know.
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  10495. The reporter makes hilarious faces. How can anyone get a job on TV doing that?
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  10496. I once believed all the same things. Then I turned 17.
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  10497. (1) Rule of English writing: Write sentence, put period or question mark or exclamation point; then start new sentence with a capital letter. (2) This only happened tonight and the police inspector answered questions while the crime scene investigation wasn't even wrapped up yet. Forgive the police if a murder investigation takes more than two hours.😂
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  10498.  @googlesucks662  That isn't true! I was calling for the maintenance of peace prior to the Iraq War, and was working to prevent it from happening. The war started nonetheless, and my freedom of speech to call for peace and the end of the war was not infringed upon. I kept right on going, unimpeded. Your claim is likely true, however, anywhere free speech is a weak or non-existent right in the first place.
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  10499.  @googlesucks662  Ok comrade.😂 Put that in your speech to the Comintern.
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  10500.  @ExplosiveLandmine  <---Markedly frivolous, pedantic, illogical, sophistical, thick, noisome...and now muted.
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  10501. China's government well earns any hatred towards it, and its brutality at home and awful rhetoric on the world stage justifiably makes foreigners feel insecure. Clean multi-party elections would give China a fresh start. Can China not trust its people?
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  10502. She has the ability to make Anthony Scaramucci seem like a more than first-rate guy. Say what you will, that actually is pretty amazing in its own right. :(
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  10503. Jimmy Fallon: Unfunny low-talent partisan hack salad tosser.
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  10504. Agreed. Clips are fantastic of course, and 1420 does them really well, but let's have stats too. Without stats it's like knowing only that "There's money in my wallet." Ok, there's money…but how much money? Five dollars is money.
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  10505. Am I the only one who suspects Putin is simply conserving his good troops, good weapons, and even stores of rations and other food for the time being, all in order to get Ukraine to go through all its good troops and weaponry first? I'm not ruling out a certain level of failure and incompetence, lack of preparation and resources, etc. I just think that in the main he's probably not very bothered with how things are going, given the extent of destruction and death he's rained on Ukraine. On this view, he's burning through country boys and old materiel he just doesn't care about, and has scarcely drained his armed forces of any of its real strength at all.
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  10506. After a few minutes it hit me: This man's outlook & style of thought is like a normal 25-year-old's. That he managed to preserve it all the way to late middle-age astounds me. 🤔Is this the ultimate expression of the power of student ratings? — i.e., that success as a professor hangs on securing the approval of self-admiring 20-somethings?
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  10507. I don't think NATO wants Russia soundly beaten, as it would entail Putin's ouster and, yes, a high risk of someone even more extreme replacing him. Its aim might therefore be a partial Russian withdrawal followed by a long-term Korean-peninsula-style truce.
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  10508.  Piatequila  Well summed up. Needed to be said.
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  10509.  @ma3stro681  Maybe. But even then, as a "progressive" he doesn't know the difference, does he?
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  10510.  @cherokeefit4248  Google the 3-word phrase, from the next page choose Images.
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  10511.  @Glubtubis_Wepal69  Manifestation in the facial and cranial features depends on how much the mother (and/or other ancestors) drank. Only the worse/worst cases show every feature. His face shows most of them. Absent are a thin upper lip and a particular type of eyelid folds; also doubtful is an underdeveloped jaw, but then the photo angle and the tilt of his head may have something to do with that. I see all the rest of them, thus altogether 4 out of 5 discriminating features, 2 of 4 associated features.
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  10512.  @Glubtubis_Wepal69  I'd say it is, but I respect your opinion and I thank you for your reply. Btw, I don't know his name. If there are two accused, we might not be talking about the same one. I mean the one on the right-hand side of the thumbnail. Anyway, cheers and good night.
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  10513.  @rizzoj9399  Ok, while I'm at it, since you don't take me for an idiot, let me add that this Schiff guy strikes me as a half-clever blowhard and that's being kind of nice about it. Good God, man, give him at most a 3% position in your portfolio of influences. "Run. Run screaming," is a blunter way of putting it. I kept stumbling across his name so I decided to have a look-in, but I certainly will not be back. All the best to you.
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  10514. World Salad Council: "Hey, stop comparing salads to how Kringela Harris speaks. We're about to start suing people."
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  10515. Really good video. Highly informative. Just don't wave your hands non-stop! My two-part advice: (1) Use hand and arm gestures only for emphasis (or to simulate some other real-life motion, or to point to something). (2) Don't emphasize every single thing! By following these two simple steps you won't drive anyone crazy. Thank you & best wishes.
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  10516. Dear Sky: "black sea" gets initial capitals.
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  10517. Afghanistan 1988-89?
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  10518.  @albion4044  The US accomplished what it wanted to in Afghanistan and was under no illusions about it. It (wisely) left when Putin began massing troops on the Ukraine border. The USSR (or rather, Russia) in Afghanistan simply bit off more than it could chew.
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  10519.  @TrevorCrook-c1s  They did not lose. They accomplished their realistic aims. But yes, they botched their exit. No question there. They currently have an especially bad govt.
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  10520. ​ @albion4044  Nope. The US was not incurring significant casualties nor equipment losses. It left so that no necessity of leaving during a war with Ukraine would arise. Europe is vastly more important to America than that small-time and very stale situation in Afghanistan was. If the US is to fight multiple conflicts at the same time, each one must matter a great deal or be shelved. Risk management, my oh-so-English 🙄friend. Try locating the deluded party in the mirror. As your worthy countryman 😄Samuel Johnson would say "And that's an end on't." But thanks for your reply.
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  10521. She repeats the brand of the car about 10 times. Why? In collision reports the usual word is "car." It seems she wants viewers to suspect or blame the car, not the kid driving it.
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  10522. Superb.👏 I can't see any reporter asking him the same question again, or even a similar one. And therein lies a lesson for us all. Reminds me of what William Blake (1757-1827) wrote: "Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."
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  10523. Really? But jokes are often funny.
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  10524. What the heck is she doing from 40 to 43 seconds? It's like she's about to do something that's, uh, not for family viewing...
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  10525. This is just one more aftershock of the pandemic, like when Krakatoa erupted in 1883 and the pressure wave travelled around the world three or four times. Prices peaked a year after the last trillion-plus gusher of government stimulus. The direct effects are still resounding; the indirect effects will last decades.
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  10526. Dear people who write for a living: Farewell is not a transitive verb.
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  10527. ​ @valinorean4816  It's just you and me against the vatniks here in the pootybought comments pasture. Hope you didn't wear good shoes.😄 All the best to you. It's important that we support each other.
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  10528.  @AshleyBidensBathTime  Ok, Gopnik.
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  10529.  @AshleyBidensBathTime  I work in oils and egg tempera. But thanks for your generous advice.
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  10530.  @dpelpal  Some polls indicate much increased support for Ukraine amongst Indians. Do you think this is accurate?
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  10531.  @familymatters8707  What's the deal with you and the comma key? Are you ok?
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  10532.  @1066yo  Sounds like you get it. About 99% of supporters of both parties and 100% of politicians and pundits here and in other countries say he's obviously a fan of Putin and will abandon Ukraine. I don't buy it for a second. I've been saying since Day 1 that he's dead set against Putin's war.
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  10533.  @lindahanna4753  I'd say you get it. About 99% of supporters of both parties and 100% of politicians and pundits here and in other countries think DT is obviously a fan of Putler and will abandon Ukraine. (Thanks, media!🙄) I've never bought that for a microsecond. I've been saying since Day 1 that he's 100% against Putler's war. If we watch him, we'll see.
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  10534. Never mind the pardon, the real scandal here is the epidemic of crazy-person eyeglass frames in 2024.
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  10535. "What the devil does the hallmark say? I forgot my reading glasses. Well, silver or not, I'm gone." [flies off]
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  10536. 1) No ceremonial inauguration of a dam can be worth risking the lives of the grandees set to perform the honours. After all, that dam ain't going nowhere. If it's worth its salt it'll still be there when the fog lifts. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. 2) The precision alignment of all those microphones just comes off as suspicious.
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  10537. Clowns use words they can't spell. 😆
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  10538. Brilliant skit. Imagine if it were real!
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  10539.  @JohnJacob33  Correctly noted, and this is also true of far-left Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians. Yes, a major prop to their self-esteem, I'm afraid.😤
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  10540.  @Anita-k  Very thoughtful in spirit, but an interviewer's duty is toward the reader/listener/viewer, not necessarily the person being interviewed. Your editor and/or producer would (rightly) soon give you an earful.
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  10541.  @BigDsGaming2022  D um mist, most diss aw nest comment of the year. Congratulations, that's something they can never take away from you.👏👏
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  10542.  @wmiles-ts2dk  I must admit that's a very cunning swipe at Gen. Hodges, trying to smear his name at the same time as praising him. But your internet psyops will be no use...your country will lose this war. Anyway, Yevgeny, I feel the same way about you: I kind of like you now, while previously I thought ill of you for your abuse of so many young children. It's good that you at least found something to do in solitary confinement.
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  10543.  @72mespo  Putin: "It's a civil war, so I can slaughter as many people as I want, and it's morally justified. Next I'm having a civil war with Poland!"
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  10544. And the population supports this war. 😲 I have to say it looks like for criminality, Russia : US :: US : Norway. Just an entire other level of thuggery.  (E.g., UN stats show that Russia has the highest homicide rate in the world outside Latin America & Africa.) ISIS: "C'mon Russia, try to be a little bit civilized."
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  10545.  @Aengus42  Thinking of phrases with highly similar translations is fun, like The Hundred Fingers of December.
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  10546. ​ @John_1_0  It has never meant 'lady', that much is sure, but it has certainly not been "always somewhat discourteous." It almost always is now, but well within living memory it has ranged all the way up to merely informal, as well as affectionate. Social class had a lot of bearing on its use. People much above lower-middle class, meaning the 'top' half or third of society, used it more rarely. Period movies and other depictions don't properly indicate its onetime popularity and versatility (not that I've seen many thousands of movies). Its main purpose, I daresay, was to indicate a certain freedom from sentimentality. Women, of course, used it too. ("I'm at the bowling alley with the rest of the broads from work. We're havin' a great time, Marilyn, you should come down.")
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  10547.  @John_1_0  Sorry, I can't. You may wish to consult learned journals instead.
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  10548. World Monster Association: "Hey, take that back!"
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  10549. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon, c. 1780
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  10550.  @holii2483  ⬆ Bad answer. Wiki: "Milei obtained an economics degree (licentiate) from the private University of Belgrano and two master's degrees from the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social and the private Torcuato di Tella University. (Wiki: "In Argentina, the Licentiate degree (Spanish: Licenciatura), by which one becomes a licenciado, is a four to six-year degree with a required final thesis defence. Upon competition of the licentiate degree the student may be eligible to apply for a postgraduate degree such as a master's or doctorate.")
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  10551. Ok Yevgeny.
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  10552.  @angelrojo6466  Between apocalyptic and apbolcoplyptic, I prefer the latter.😄 (Cf. Apbolcoplypse Now)
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  10553. What can you say about somebody who's worked at the LCBO for 26 years? Ouch. All I can say is that the perspective of such a person doesn't exactly fascinate me. Move on, my dear woman. Explore life a little bit.
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  10554. Best if this activity is paired with large protests. I am unaware of any historical examples of a few million people in the streets accomplishing nothing. One historical study concluded that 3.5% of the population (and often much less) suffices, which for Russia would be 5 million or fewer.
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  10555. They're incredible. They'll lie to you and say "You're a liar." They'd hit you and say "Hey you hit me!"
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  10556. The Russian mind has dissolved into the acid of state propaganda. Stunning.
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  10557. Yeah? He'll have it ready, just when a replacement nominee is needed, one who steadfastly always opposed the impeachment.
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  10558.  @ingridsywak8572  Possibly a bit of Eraserhead syndrome there (i.e., dreadful unattractiveness, given the looks of 3 of the 4 grandparents). I don't know. Still, I figure they do exist.
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  10559.  @ingridsywak8572  Possibly a bit of Eraserhead syndrome there (i.e., dreadful unattractiveness). I don't know. Still, I figure they do exist.
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  10560.  @CrazyHorse5163  Yes, and it's actually "Mudd." After John Wilkes Booth fled the scene of his assassination of Abraham Lincoln, having been wounded himself, he was given medical attention by a certain Dr. Mudd. Let's just say Dr. Mudd lost the esteem of the community.
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  10561. Two-child policy now. (Many will go with one or zero, so 1.5 will result. Tidy, swift, painless reduction.)
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  10562. At the extremes you can't tell the left and the right apart. They both wear jackboots and swing cudgels. Extremes meet.
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  10563. The false eyelashes are the perfect emblem for the falseness of everything she says. So is the dyed hair. What am I missing? False teeth and a chin implant too?
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  10564. Those girls at 2:50 know full well what happened on Oct. 7. They pretend they don't, simply in order to avoid saying anything bad about Hamas, in order to make condemning Israel easy. See you next Tuesday, girls.
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  10565. Quite impressed by Andy Ngo, whom I hadn't seen before. What in psychology is called 'blunted affect' is a bit of a concern, though (it means close to zero emotional expression). I hope he's ok.
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  10566. No, the principal reason for Russia's war on Ukraine is that Putin's aim in making himself ruler of Russia was to re-annex former SSRs. He always planned to do it. The fact that Ukraine decided it wanted to protect itself by making powerful friends (NATO) only moved up the date of the invasion. Russia thinks it owns the countries around it like normal people think they own the sack of carrots they just bought for $5.  It has to learn that it doesn't. Other countries have a right to exist, not just them. Has Russia learned nothing?
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  10567. No, the principal reason for Russia's war on Ukraine is that Putin's aim in making himself ruler of Russia was to re-annex former SSRs. He always planned to do it. The fact that Ukraine decided it wanted to protect itself by making powerful friends (NATO) only moved up the date of the invasion. Russia thinks it owns the countries around it like normal people think they own the sack of carrots they just bought for $5.  It has to learn that it doesn't. Other countries have a right to exist, not just them. Has Russia learned nothing?
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  10568.  @j3kfd9j  No, the principal reason for Russia's war on Ukraine is that Putin's aim in making himself ruler of Russia was to re-annex former SSRs. He always planned to do it. The fact that Ukraine decided it wanted to protect itself by making powerful friends (NATO) only moved up the date of the invasion. Russia thinks it owns the countries around it like normal people think they own the sack of carrots they just bought for $5.  It has to learn that it doesn't. Other countries have a right to exist, not just them. Has Russia learned nothing?
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  10569.  @gary6576  All lies and pathetic envy, disguised as moral indignation—except the part about contracts: yes, he won many NASA contracts, chopping 90% off the amount NASA used to spend on rockets. He bid on those contracts and won fair and square with low bids that have saved taxpayers a great deal of money. Envy is incredibly ugly. Catholics call it a deadly sin and that sounds right to me.
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  10570. Even gangsta rappers are actually aghast at what a bunch of criminals that posse are.
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  10571. Ibram Kendi: "Wait, I figured it out: Considering definitions important is racist."
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  10572. Several great interviews here, but Russia shows us the eternal danger of state media. It's a big risk. The BBC was a major exception for decades, but now it's definitely a political force and government control of it, however indirect, poses a great threat. The same danger exists for DW in Germany, ABC in Australia and CBC in Canada. (Especially bad, that last one.) Government news, all of them. Don't get your news from the government! It likely will not end well.
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  10573. Ukraine 🇺🇦 has been doing that with fake wooden HIMARS batteries. They cost a few thousand dollars and have consumed a lot of Russian missiles.😆👏 Inflatable fake weapons systems made and donated by the Czechs 🇨🇿 are performing the same function.😂👏
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  10574. Pro tip 1: When making fun of someone's language abilities, choose the right word. That word you used does not mean what you think it means. Pro tip 2: Spell it right.
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  10575.  @2FadeMusic  A little bit, I guess, but not much. It's one thing to make an insulting reference to a public figure in a discussion of them, but something else to insult the person you're debating in response to their point. If you call Plato a fool, the last thing I should do is say "No, you're the fool." It's my job to show why you're wrong. At least in public discussion.
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  10576. Hahaha, Gen. Ben Hodges cuts straight to the truth as always.👍🇺🇸
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  10577. I hesitate to dismiss your point entirely but maybe research a bit and discriminate fairly. There's a wide range, and many developing-world societies are less homicidal than ours. For instance, Canada's homicide rate of 2.3 per 100k is above the median for Asian countries (although below Sri Lanka's at 3.4). Personally I feel that speaking in generalities tends to be helpful, but being specific is also important. For example, maybe Canada should vet more carefully when considering applicants from the #1 most homicidal place on earth, which has 20x our homicide rate. It could at least be discussed.
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  10578. In fairness, I don't think post-election ratings shrinkage is anything weird. Their viewers don't want to tune in to hear about the incoming government. I would've expected it, and expected it to last several months.
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  10579.  @jiffypoo5029  Btw you have a weird way of spelling Jiffy Pox.😄
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  10580. Hearing this stuff, I'm unnerved that Ron DeSantis won't be the presidential nominee. He'd be able to handle any subsequent overblown emergency with adroitness. The nominee-apparent, I'm worried about him fumbling the ball badly. My comment on the incumbent: None is needed. On Newsom: "The horror, the horror."
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  10581. There are some interesting details about it in the description.
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  10582. At least a few countries can. Probably more than is widely known.
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  10583. Putin "wants to see himself next to Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, or Stalin." Yes, that sounds fantastic and I'm all for it: I hope it happens before sunset today!
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  10584. 100% of that makes zero sense, plus it's ra syst. 1) Russia has been trying to 'eat Ukraine for breakfast' for 75 days now and so far it has been a failure or a draw. 2) Since NATO is not interested in a war with Russia, Russia's air defence systems are no more a particular concern than they were, for example, 12 months ago. Anyway, there's now ample reason to doubt those systems are very good. Which brings me to… 3) It's Russia's forces that look more like a joke. In its indirect supporting role NATO's equipment, intelligence, logistics and diplomacy are all producing very satisfactory results. Its unity, so far, is outstanding.
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  10585. If I may say, he is nobody. In a manner of speaking anyway.
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  10586. 😂 "Savage!" 👍
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  10587. Yeah, charlatan. Where's all these rockets, spaceships, and satellites he promised? What about the NASA astronauts he was supposed to send up? Oh, yeah, he did all that stuff. But it all cost the taxpayers so many billions! Oh, yeah, he did it so much cheaper than before that he still saved NASA and the taxpayers billions. But he's still a charlatan! Where's all those cars he said he was going to make? Oh, yeah, Tesla makes 50% more cars every year and will reach 1 million deliveries this year. Charlatan! His company makes no money! Oh, yeah, it'll make around $6 billion this year and more than twice as much next year. And so on.
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  10588. So "believe all accusers (or all women)" just means "investigate"? Then say "investigate all accusations." "Believe all accusers" is different and goes vastly further, in contravention of every principle of justice. You can't just make words mean whatever you like. Don't try and gaslight us, my ironically-named friend.
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  10589.  @PartStupid  Just more gaslighting. I'm not twisting anything. You're the specialist in twistedness, calling for the end of the presumption of innocence. It would destroy the justice system. You're in over your head with your weird political worldview. You sound callow. And somehow Believe All Women means 'investigate'. Sure. [‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” —Through the Looking-glass, 1871] If you care about being honest at all, you need to change your slogan to Investigate All Credible Accusations Properly. No one will disagree with it.
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  10590. $40trn GDP for Ukraine's allies is certainly too low. Their GDPs: US: $25.6trn (Source: US Gov Bureau of Economic Analysis); EU, $16.6trn (Source: IMF); then there's other big economies adding another $12.2 trn: Japan 4.5; Canada 1.8; UK 2.9; Australia 1.4; South Korea 1.7. Total: $54.2trn. There are also some other smaller ones, plus you have to include Ukraine itself. As for Russia, valuing its GDP is difficult. For one thing, the rouble is very undervalued in dollar terms in light of how much a rouble can get done within Russia itself (this is called PPP, or purchasing power parity). It is not fully true that Russia's economic output is similar to Italy or Canada's (i.e. in the neighbourhood of $2trn). For another thing, Russia's government-compiled national statistics are in martial-law mode. A great deal of data is no longer released, and what they do release is quite suspect. But it is well at least to recall that the year before the pandemic Russia's GDP at PPP wasn't even 10% smaller than Germany's. Even this year it's forecast to remain within 15% (something which certainly remains to be seen). Neither GDP at currency market USD exchange rates nor PPP are the whole story. Both measures have their own aspects of reality and unreality. But they are complementary, and together they give a good idea. It is thus reasonable to consider Russia as having economic weight somewhat on the scale of the UK. It is probably next behind it in the national economy rankings, which makes it a fairly close 7th worldwide, not a far-back 11th or 12th. I am less competent to comment on Russian alliances and their value in money terms. But I daresay only North Korea, Belarus, Iran, Syria, Nicaragua, Cuba and Eritrea show relatively or fully firm support, whether military, economic, financial or diplomatic. And either separately or as a group, they have minor economic and productive heft and extremely scanty financial heft. As for India and China, I am satisfied that neither fully backs Russia or even comes close. If Putin were wise, and he probably is in this regard, he would regard India and China as frenemies. They are most eager to take more from Russia than they give, or lend, or hint at providing. India could do far more to make or break Russia than the other way around, and the same thing is obviously even ten times more true for China. Either of them (up to a point, both of them) may be simply feigning support. Ukraine's key allies, as well as being vastly richer, are in my judgment a lot more sincerely enthusiastic.
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  10591. The cellulose orange-peel texture is an exquisite added touch. Huge respect to the writers/layout artists for that.🤣 Well-selected clip, Roop.👍
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  10592. I'm not trying to take anything away from the case you made, but to be honest her remarks did sound menacing. However, it might come down to exactly what tone, volume, nuances of expression, stance and gesture she used. Perhaps it would've sounded totally harmless. It might have seemed clear to a reasonable listener that she was talking about a probability that other drivers—not her—might go wild with rage and violence.
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  10593. As he spoke, the one next to him just turned and started looking in the other direction. So professional! 🙄 (Not hard to imagine what it's like being married to her, is it?)
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  10594. To my way of thinking De Santis is most of the way there. He is anti-woke, wants less govt., is passionate about freedom, and is quite eager to make bold moves. His track record in Florida is strong. Although he dropped out, he did lead the race for a while and will be back next time.
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  10595. To me this clip made it clear that he's once again, vis-à-vis his treacherous understudy, the better candidate. He had his wits about him better than I've seen for years. Meanwhile the Cackler-in-Chief isn't touring; in fact she hasn't even released the album yet. But her label and her media machine are a Niagara of promotion and hype.
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  10596.  @NapoleChan  Be patient. They blame it when they get backaches or step in sh++.
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  10597. Recent strikes on just three large refineries have disabled over 1 million barrels a day in refining capacity. That's not just a lot for Russia (around 14%), it even registers on a global scale, cutting 1% off the refining capacity of the whole world.
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  10598. Squirrel follows woman home and demands nuts. Viewer reaction: "Cool!" "Cute" "Awesome". Yet every time I do it I have to deal with the police.
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  10599.  @zacksmith5963  Use your dictionary.
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  10600. Saying that he will put his money where his mouth is doesn't necessarily have a thing to do with money. It ordinarily means "I will put myself, or risk putting myself, to some trouble or expense, or both. I won't merely talk."
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  10601. It's a classic F shaped recovery. Most of us are F'ed.
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  10602. Around the world, and even to many or most Americans, PM means prime minister.
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  10603.  @Ofasia777  AI would know when to use who and when to use whom, though. So maybe it wouldn't be so bad on ethical issues and moral dilemmas after all.
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  10604. $12k was a real pile of money in 1971. For reference: "The 1971 [Cadillac] Sedan DeVille had a base price of $6,500 while the Coupe DeVille sold for $6,270." Median household income in the US in 1970, which was certainly higher than in the UK or France, was $9,870.
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  10605. Moral of the story: Never disarm. The need for national security is permanent, eternal.
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  10606. Bomb threats are terror activity. It's that simple. But thanks for the input, Mr. Himmler.
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  10607. Sure. That's why the US dollar's value is rising. Go back to sleep—Xi-Bot, Pooty-Bot, Berkeley TA, whatever you are—that's where your dreams are real.
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  10608. Believing that Trump is Putin's poodle is equally intelligent as believing in Pizzagate. Wait, no: Less. Bonus two-part enlightenment: Neither has he any intention or desire to pull the US out of NATO, nor to withdraw support for Ukraine and leave it high and dry.
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  10609. Don't blame ordinary Chinese. They live under perpetual threat of severe punishment. Only people over 75 have any memory at all of pre-communist days. Everyone else has been indoctrinated since infancy and can't be blamed. It's very sad and I'm not happy about it but all I can do to help them is not buy Chinese goods. I almost totally stopped three years ago. Sorry, Chinese people, I can no longer do things which strengthen the Party. It wouldn't be right to do that to you, to my own countrymen and -women, or the world. :(
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  10610. I don't get it. What's the reason for making a connection?  Bullion either has serial numbers or it doesn't. (Smaller bars don't.)  If it does, it can be traceable. If it doesn't, it can't. Pretty simple.
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  10611. Time to start demanding retailers put a Ch in ese flag sticker on the front of every Ch in ese product in their stores.
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  10612. Do you risk a longer sentence if you deny your guilt after conviction? Hope so.
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  10613. (1) Did the editors go home early? Criminal acts should be called by their legal or at least their ordinary names, not "instances of inappropriate contact." (2) Who wears a big grin in their mugshot? 🙄 (Reporter and editors please note, this is a suitable place to use the word 'inappropriate.')
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  10614.  @raiden72  Yes of course I heard that. So he buys change out of it as a convenience. Why wouldn't he?
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  10615. What does "fat-nippled" mean, anyway?🤔
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  10616.  @giselameunier4788  The West's problem with Russia is only with how Russia treats other countries. Following the dissolution of the USSR, the West was cool with Russia's largeness and power. It gave Russia recognition for its (nascent) transformation into a democracy and definitely gave it a chance. Grudges were generously dropped. The West gave Russia a chance, and also considerable assistance. Investment boomed. Co-operation blossomed. Russia entered all the global institutions and even the G7, which became the G8. Then, year by year, Putin led Russia astray into more and more violence against its neighbors. (He claims NATO wants to destroy Russia. That is false. NATO's eastern members merely want insurance against future Russian aggression, and their worries are well justified by their experiences since 1939 and also before.) I think maybe he is weaker than he appears and unfortunately has to take orders from the siloviki. Soviet-era power structures and corruption have either survived intact or haven't changed enough. It's a pity.
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  10617. Just sue her for $10 million.😠
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  10618.  @nextup6074  Pro tip: any time you say "Fox", people hear "I'm desperate. I'm out of spin and I'm scared. I got nothin' "
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  10619. We'll never evolve so far that we cease to be living creatures, with all that entails. Forget becoming ethereal and drop the misanthropy. It only makes things much worse.
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  10620. Global doesn't want you to know
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  10621. Maybe you're right, maybe you're not. Who says that was all video from a single drone? Who says it wasn't from multiple armed drones arrayed all over the sky? Who says those weren't dozens of missile hits from dozens of drones?
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  10622.  @mpalfadel2008  Drones that can't be jammed are the way of the future.
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  10623. Sure, total and profound immorality wasn't the reason for the double homicide of innocent children, inflation was.🙄 Omg.
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  10624.  @dyllonw9879  A man's not likely to be a billionaire.
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  10625.  Khaled Rapp  I just watched this video yesterday on YouTube: Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience" Just paste that whole thing into the search field. It's the first climate skeptic thing I've ever checked out. Lemme know what you think, please.
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  10626. Wondering how you can back Milei by doing something concrete? And delicious? Easy. Start buying all your wine from Argentina. Viva Milei!🇦🇷 Viva Argentina!🇦🇷 Viva Malbec!🍷😆
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  10627. How delightful it would be to tie up in a chair the person who decided to insert the sound effects at the beginning of each TED video. I could then take my time in dreaming up punishments that fit the crime. It is in fact delightful just to think about it....
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  10628. Still waiting to hear about a ban on private jets. Because Democrats are all about the fairness and aren't hypocrites at all.
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  10629. No contradiction there. They're trying to maintain a healthy society in many respects but keep it completely under Party control, not destroy it.
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  10630.  @thaguyKarlos  You and I know it's a dystopia, but it would still have healthy aspects, just like North Korea does today. North Korean society is no doubt quite harmonious and smooth-functioning, with stable and quiet family life and high educational attainment (in the sciences, reading and writing skills, music, etc).
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  10631. I don't buy that for a second. Elon Musk is passionately pro-Western. He operates in China like all the Western automakers do and follows local rules, but he has the integrity not to actively help the CCP. In fact Beijing doesn't trust Tesla not to transmit Tesla owners' data to the US, and for that reason Teslas are banned from many locations.
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  10632. The interviewer is thoroughly contemptible. Pure cad.
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  10633. Piers, 'fulsome' means over-the-top to a nauseating degree. Not the word you wanted.
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  10634. I've come to believe that only mass public protest has any chance of preserving the remaining health of our society. I know it went poorly in Ottawa last year, what with the invocation of quasi-martial law, but it has to be attempted again. I'm convinced there's just no other way.
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  10635. What an absurd comparison, my unsurprisingly-named friend. Absurd to the point of deliberate misrepresentation, I should think, for only a very rare person is so shockingly lacking in honest good judgment. (But—who knows?—maybe you're indeed one of those sadly unfortunate few.)
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  10636. A building can be evacuated of its occupants. Occupants can be evacuated from a building. Occupants can evacuate (themselves) from a building. Source: Oxford Dictionaries
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  10637. Mikhail Baryshnikov also had a great advantage over all the other men with zero physical aptitude for dance. Michael Jordan had a great advantage over everyone in the NBA who didn't have his jump shot and never could have no matter how much they tried. Einstein had a great advantage over the guy who swept the floors of his apartment building....
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  10638.  @Juck_Fews  Sure, Einstein and his janitor were in the same category.😂 But you're not. You're only in the same category as one of them.
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  10639. Zuckerberg won in 2010. Bezos won in 1999.
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  10640.  @classickalmusick431  Correction, two confirmed cases, not one. The guy's wife has it now, too.
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  10641.  @tgvjyczxx6234  Nah, zero cases in Texas. Here, have a handy-dandy world map with data, put together by Johns Hopkins and constantly updated: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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  10642. You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. —Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet, 1885-1940
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  10643. Thanks for the Global Times point of view, Wu Mao. 50 million corpses from the Great Leap Forward.
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  10644. No more than interviewers would be if listening to long harangues in interviews with unrepentant serial child rapist-murderers. Contempt to the contemptible, as Blake would say.
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  10645.  @madalin4802  Thanks for your comment. But if what you're saying is true, why are you the only one saying it?
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  10646.  @madalin4802  But you later edited your original comment. And the part that I thanked you for and asked you about is the part you later deleted. What's up with that? Is it because you referred to women as "we"?
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  10647.  @Yaci7  It was a short paragraph. Anyone could say the same thing because anyone has the time to write under a hundred words. (Don't know why you're even saying book when you didn't see it. It was edited out a couple of days ago.)
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  10648.  @oddixgames6704  Linguistic irrelevancy there. Handle: v.t. (1) Manage. (2) Tolerate, put up with. n. (3) Thing for opening a door. And so on.
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  10649. Enjoy your shellacking of historical proportions in the election. Prime Minister Peter Pan's days are numbered. Oh the celebrations there'll be!
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  10650. Let's go back to having a non-partisan group host and moderate these debates.
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  10651. * Invincible? Indivisible works too. Luv right back to our British friends and family.🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦
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  10652. The Western world is slashing imports of Chinese goods. 4 things: (1) US imports, China's share: 22% in 2017, 13% in 2023.👏 (2) Volume: $536bn in 2022, $427bn in 2023. Least since 2012. Deficit $103bn lower. (3) EU imports, China's share: 21% in 2019, 9% in 2023. (!) (4) Canada once again #1 US trading partner, Mexico #2, China #3.👏
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  10653. But Hadrian's Wall was very far indeed from Rome itself, and the Mexican wall is on American soil. So the comparison is valueless and shows that you want to think you're smart without actually thinking smart things. Sorry, but that makes you a sentimentalist and pseudo-intellectual.
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  10654.  @j.obrien4990  You made my point for me. Thanks.
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  10655.  @JB-uv4hm  How, professor?
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  10656.  @JB-uv4hm  Yes, absolutely, a far-off conquered land is the same as a country's own homeland. Yes, the Indo-Chinese frontier in 1946 was the UK border. Yes, if that's what it takes to get you to bu++++ off.
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  10657.  @JB-uv4hm  You're in over your head. Texas is American in ways that York simply wasn't Roman. Don't be tedious.
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  10658. Seriously "would not have survived"? In comparable central shopping and business areas?
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  10659. Go back to loving them. The CPC government cannot be equated with the Chinese people, as the Chinese people never consented to be governed by them.
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  10660.  @GTRNR  Then you must have a great grudge against Soviet citizens for passively consenting to Stalin's rule when he was putting millions to death. But I doubt you really do. To be reasonable, in my view, one generally ought to hold publics responsible only if they vote. (I gotta admit I was really steamed when George W Bush was re-elected after the Iraq War had been on for 18 months with no discovery of WMDs. I might have been only one of billions.)
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  10661.  @GTRNR  They can't entirely help it. China is a Confucian civilization deep down, despite efforts of the CPC to supplant the ancient doctrine. For reasons I won't give here (too busy) that means they are more likely to obey authority. Confucius may not have exactly intended this (though I think he mainly did) but that's the way it has worked out. At least the Chinese don't dislike mistreatment less than anyone else. Hong Kong is showing that. They offer cause for hope. Just don't expect mainlanders who've lived under 70 years of CPC indoctrination to act in any similar fashion. They and Hongkongers diverged generations ago and have become quite different from each other now. Cheers.
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  10662. Fiction.
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  10663.  @KevinForst-n2t  No. You do.
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  10664.  @KevinForst-n2t  Nope. You do.
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  10665. It should have been asked. Republicans would (rightly) be irate if was the other way around — Dem president, Republican governor, Republican mayor — and no reporter asked it.
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  10666. Best anagram for Ilhan Omar: Oh man, liar!
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  10667. That's a funny abbreviation for Turkey.
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  10668. What's the usual price for an above-average baguette (in a large city)?
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  10669.  @francisuster1821  Wow, that is cheap. I'm a little shocked. Thanks.
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  10670.  @real_dddf  Welcome to the watchlist life.
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  10671. As the French say, "BCBG". ("Good style, good attitude".)
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  10672. 👍When Ukraine needs gadgets, Captain McGyverenko is on it! 🇺🇦
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  10673. What on earth r u thinking, suggesting invading a peaceful neighbor? What r u, Vladimir Putin ff s? (Also, I can't help throwing in that Canada wouldn't be only 1 state. WTH r u thinking there?😂 It would be 7 states at least.)
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  10674.  @UlexiteTVStoneLexite  So you agree to downgrade "terrified" to "nervous and irritated" while still pretending to know something special. Looks like someone doesn't understand words but still wants to be a professional femsplainer. Blah blah blah, bellyache bellyache, empathy empathy, emotional intelligence, etc... Anyway, by the same token maybe the two men were terrified. Some men ask for a woman's number when they're scared to death.
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  10675.  @akm960  Empty rhetorical drivel.
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  10676.  @UlexiteTVStoneLexite  Very well then, have it your way: she was, as you say, "nervous" and "very irritated." Reasonable take. But sorry, not "terrified."
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  10677. 80s? They were completely retro even then. Try 50s.
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  10678. U live in your own imagination, like this girl I met who believes that people live in cities on the moon right now. Sorry but yer lost. Please snap out of it.
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  10679.  @xxkampflappenxx8368  The word you were looking for is 'subjunctive.' Anyway, what you were doing was was beyond mere speculation or even plausible hypothesizing, and imagination wasn't strong enough a word for it. The idea that significant wars could go on without our knowing it is just fantasy, and maybe even that's too weak a term. 'Sheer irrationality' would cover it better.
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  10680. He saves NASA billions. There is no disagreement about that from anyone, not even those who hate him. NASA pays him money because he is a NASA contractor. US and other astronauts fly to space on Tesla ships. He is their best contractor ever, doing things so much better for so much less money that he benefits them immensely.
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  10681. ​ @DRdukedexster  He teared up when reminded about how his Apollo astronaut heroes dissed his plans when it would have meant a lot to him if they encouraged him. Well, now look. He has revolutionized space rocketry and is its leading force worldwide, more than any government of any country. He does it all so much more cheaply that no one will come close for a long time. Your mind is lost, dude.
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  10682. The corollary of: 1,200 really fat people will put on a better production of Swan Lake than the standard 120 lean and well-trained dancers.
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  10683.  @MrTubinification  Nice try, but no one has to whip out a nice recipe card before they're allowed to reject the plate full of 💩 that's been put in front of them.
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  10684. Crimea river, bot.
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  10685. It's quite clearly under his shirt.
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  10686. Calm down. His point of view is being uniformly endorsed here, as it was in the video.
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  10687.  @bookashkin  Put the pipe down.
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  10688. It was a protest against him personally. That's why.
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  10689. Watch for her to escape back to North Korea.
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  10690.  @brianmsahin   I heard this reply of yours in the voice of Harry Secombe. Lovely, thanks.
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  10691. Sound problem: Raising the volume high enough to hear Dennis Miller means Dave Rubin's voice is way too loud. Please, Mr. Rubin, don't let this happen.
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  10692. You say this as though China truly is and wishes to remain neutral. Ha! While India actually is quite neutral, China, in contrast, has already publicly blamed the US and NATO for the war, in essence for forcing Russia to murder Ukrainians in self-defence.
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  10693.  @cq4fun  You have a queer way of using the word "you." I never said or did any of the things you accuse me of. I never mentioned which country I'm from, either. In fact everything you say is a falsehood in one way or another except that China is the enemy of the West (along with Russia, Iran, and North Korea). Calling the Ukraine War "your war," although everyone on Earth knows it is Putin's war alone, is especially comical.
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  10694. "Adult male" is a term better used for livestock, pets or other animals than people. Applied to human beings, male should be an adjective, not a noun. The proper and respectful term for a male person in his adult years is man.
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  10695.  @1985Fritz  That makes chilling and depressing sense. Thanks.
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  10696. She's neither intellectually, psychologically nor temperamentally fit to be president. Nor does she have a suitable record of achievements or executive experience. She's never, ever not had a boss. As DA she was answerable to the State AG. As AG she was answerable to the governor, as VP (a do-nothing job anyway) to Biden.
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  10697. The word "space" is nearly always unnecessary when used as it typically is. E.g.: "The air enters the space and is directed..." can be "The air enters and is directed..." I notice that "space" is nearly always uttered with a self-conscious miniature flourish, revealing that its intended purpose is to impress others. (It only impresses the very easily impressed, never those whose regard ought to matter much more.
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  10698. Well, I agree that in the whole world no one likes their government. But then, the Chinese never chose it.
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  10699. Guessing that by "him" he meant Putin is pretty logical. I mean, if not Putin, then who?
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  10700. No allies, no friends? You talk like a billionaire who slags all his business partners and wives as gold diggers no matter what. Perfect way to lose all their goodwill, sympathy, and support. See you alone and freezing on the heath, King Lear.
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  10701. Clearly you were never a teenage dude.
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  10702. ​ @texasskyliner704  I think they meant that Trump may commit heedless blunders leading to a painful period of economic decline, currency devaluation and falling living standards, perhaps triggered by a Suez Moment. (Britain's, in 1956, soon resulted in all those things, plus vastly lower global influence.)
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  10703. No doubt some Liberal Party-connected ad agency came up with that pos. And the contract was un-tendered and the minister signed off on it. And the ad agency owner went to school with Prime Minister Peter Pan. And the Liberal Party skimmed its share of the jackpot. One more year of this.
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  10704.  @totallyinsane6431  The ruble was about 75 to the dollar in Jan. /22. Now it's around 95 to the dollar. That's a drop of about one-quarter of its value. I hope that's clear. 🇺🇦
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  10705.  @totallyinsane6431  Stable at about 75 to the dollar for two years before the invasion. Must end this waste of my time now. Bye.
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  10706. Leftists including the NYT: "We own all non-whites. Our property. Disobey and face punishment."
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  10707. I'm very dismayed to see the level of factual accuracy on Fox coming down rapidly since Jan. 20, and before that since Nov. 5. Come on, Larry, the Republicans won. Making up stuff is a strange way to celebrate that. Go back to straight facts, please.
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  10708.  @McLovin1759  Quebec's measure will reduce arrivals by 3k. In total.😂
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  10709.  @McLovin1759  Right, you didn't say anything about their total. I did. I think we should think about the fact that according to StatsCan ("Canada's Population Clock" page) the population is rising by 4.7k a day, or 1.72 million a year. At that rate it will pass 50 million less than five years from now (May 2029).
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  10710. I don't even hear about disasters anymore, except well afterward and by chance.
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  10711.  @РоманМоре  A troll in search of a clue. The reference is to American TV. (Anyway, MacGyver is now in the Oxford Dictionary as an English verb.) Тролль в поисках зацепки. Отсылка к американскому телевидению. (Во всяком случае, MacGyver теперь есть в Оксфордском словаре как английский глагол.)
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  10712.  @kparker2430  I sorta think he's on drugs, like Hi t ler and Michael Jackson.
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  10713. I'd like to see him get the Mussolini treatment.
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  10714. ​ @anthonyholder7629  It's slanderous to mischaracterize a loyal ally for an honest mistake, however ridiculous it is for that country's PMO staff to drop the ball in such a manner. And no, high-school history does not teach the history of Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Hah. Many Canadians do know that Ukraine was systematically starved in the 1930s by the Moscow regime, and therefore, when told that the old man "fought against Russia," would assume that it was in that context. (It wasn't specified in the ceremony that his service was in WWII. Eyebrows would've been raised.) But except perhaps in some school districts in Saskatchewan or Manitoba where many Canadians of Ukrainian descent live, they wouldn't have heard about Ukrainians battling Russia during WWII ever in their lives, let alone in a high-school classroom. Not a chance, period.
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  10715. 70k views after a week? What? Least popular TRR video ever? Hmm 🤔😕
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  10716. What does that American girl know about Australia? (Or anything?)
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  10717.  @claudiovallone9217  👍Yes, that's true, and the fact of it is unfair.   🤔Mind you, nowadays a professor commonly is indeed a crazy person, so it's not like anyone can prejudge a professor as rational and sane as we might've done a generation ago.
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  10718. Pinfold's dictum: The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  10719. This video seems to imply that the US findings make Canada's allegations look baseless. I find that an absurd and senseless interpretation. On the contrary, the US findings lend considerable credibility to Canada's allegations. It looks as though India has disrespectfully sent assassins to both the US and Canada.
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  10720.  @jacqueline1150  There should be no difference between what is said and what is meant.
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  10721. Any apron which is now there to use for jet fighters, if there was no such apron there before, is an upgrade to that air base. It sounds like you're talking about an array of berms. Anyway it's definitely an upgrade even if it offers no protection. It means more fighter craft can gather there during battle, for one thing.
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  10722. The actual James Bond, were he to exist as a person, would become great friends with Musk. And they would never, ever, ever invite you to hang with them.
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  10723. Russia is learning that it can't steal countries. They have a right to exist. Eastern Europe only wants to protect itself from Russia, especially Russia under Putin. It knows Russia. It knows Putin. Russia created NATO in the first place, and Putin has done all he can to bring it to his doorstep. (Latest: Finland). He needs good psychiatric counselling.
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  10724. I'd go further than that: The religious idea of justice in an afterlife was conceived in order that people like Fauci could live out their natural lives. Otherwise it would never happen.
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  10725. I don't get the fuss. She's only about the 20-millionth craziest American.
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  10726. Cuddly Panda China is gone and we now have its jingoistic replacement. Now that they've been well-off for a few decades they're like the Americans of around 1976 who went abroad and sought to have lunch at McDonald's. Maybe it's not just the form of government (although I think that has to have a lot to do with it), maybe it's just that a few decades of runaway capitalism wreck the character of half the population.
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  10727. Concerning Elon Musk, my view differs from Gen. Chapman's. I think he's right that Musk's concern is humanitarian, but there's a further reason behind that: he doesn't believe Ukraine can win. If he did, then he might well express support for continued fighting which would raise the toll of death, injury and destruction. But he doesn't. I think he's wrong; I somewhat fear he's right. Concerning Kate Gerbeau, she makes it look rather easy. I doubt it is, since very few others seem able to rise to her level. It's a relief to watch an interview without suffering a frequent sense of annoyance, and a distinct pleasure indeed to escape one entirely.👏
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  10728. What? In other words "isn't a series of disasters what we need to improve things?"? You're dreaming. Disasters do not add up to exciting change, they add up to traumatizing misery, period. I suppose in 1939 you would've thought "hey, maybe this is gonna be just what we need iron everything out". I suppose if you found your family life unfulfilling you'd hope for your kid to die, your wife to lose her job, and your house to burn down in order to "shake things up" and make for a fresh start? Good god, man, get real. You really sound like one of those people without any clue of how good they've got it. Life isn't a fascinating TV series. It's real. This crisis is bringing out rarely-seen dark human pathologies in a lot of people, if YT comments are any indication.
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  10729.  @jfjoubertquebec  Thanks for your reply. In your OP, you weren't very explicit. When that's the case, I assume I'm more or less being requested to take the meaning that's most apparent. But this is great news. Glad I misjudged you. Sorry, then. So what did you in fact mean?
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  10730.  @jfjoubertquebec  Ok, just don't cheerlead for calamity and we're cool. Good luck staying healthy.
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  10731. Now you're talking. These shantytowns will quickly become cesspools (including literally, for they have no sewage). Babies will be born into them. They're not built to proper code and are crowded together, so what happens when they catch fire? That size shantytown with all homeless people will likely have one or more arsonists in it, or ones who come simply to target it.
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  10732.  @saratemp790  Yeah, some of them, although I wouldn't generalize strictly. Of those, a lot could lose that preference under the right conditions. By that I mean if some of their bad experiences could retreat into the farther past. Time does heal a lot of wounds.
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  10733. Ok Ivan 🙄
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  10734.  @kaw628  So I figured. I imagine that in reality, billions are diverted secretly to DARPA and various unsavory but worthwhile payments abroad which keep the Authoritarian Axis from getting the upper hand. Or at least delay it. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  10735. Unpromising news: "Russia tests secretive weapon to target SpaceX’s Starlink in Ukraine" Washington Post, Apr. 18. Hopefully it's nothing.
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  10736. Good reports, but I'm not coming back to your channel anymore. The way your hands are always moving is distracting and unbearably irritating. Best of luck.
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  10737.  @vladnovikov4483  You, 22 minutes ago: "You just can't take a stand in a respectful way, can you? That's sad, but it's up to you to try to be a better person." You, 6 minutes ago to someone else: "What's up, Mr Fanboy of DeSantis?"🙄
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  10738.  @vladnovikov4483  He crossed no disrespectful line. You did. Anyway, I have better things to do than seek out the opinions of sanctimonious hypocrites, or to try to change them. Thanks, though.
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  10739.  @billfarley9167  Harper wasn't as disliked as Trudeau is now. Even while ceding a majority win to Trudeau in 2015 he was about as popular as Trudeau was in 2019 and 2021. Harper, Conservative popular vote in 2015: 32% Trudeau, Liberal popular vote in 2019: 33% Trudeau, Liberal popular vote in 2021: 33%
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  10740. Coming soon: NYT reporter James Glanz takes on Big Shampoo for promoting unnecessary hair washing.
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  10741.  @freebolt5913  That claim, made in John Bolton's book, is unverifiable. The book was dismissed by Trump as "made up of fake stories." Bear in mind that Trump humiliated and fired Bolton, or at least demanded and received his resignation. But let's say that Bolton's claim — namely, that this came out in an in-person meeting with UK PM Elizabeth May — is factually true. I would still put it down to feigned ignorance in an attempt to show disregard for Britain's capabilities. He behaves that way with people to try to get the upper hand with them, to 'put them in their place.' In any case, it's not credible to me that he'd be unaware the UK is a nuclear power.
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  10742. For profound derangement and lack of intelligence that comparison is unbeatable.
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  10743.  @ehmha3641  His English is faultless.
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  10744.  @YujiroHanmaaaa  I would call that guy's account highly mutable.🙂
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  10745.  @ehmha3641  No one with any real self-respect behaves how you're behaving here. Think of some way to address that. Cheers, mate. Now to smash that mute button...
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  10746. Ok, Rep. Schiff. Great insights.
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  10747.  @kmat3802  How much is gone? 95%?
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  10748.  @spliter227  None of that was intended as an insult at all. But if you want to take it as one, be my guest. Btw, nothing is weaker than the 12-year-old's favourite resort "lol."
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  10749. A gun is not an addictive substance 100x more powerful than heroin, Mr. CCP.
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  10750.  @Bee-tj8gc  I'm so glad someone said that.
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  10751. "It's physical work, but it brings great satisfaction." What? Where's the sense in "but"? I find her a typical hipster in her casual condescension towards the dignified and invaluable work of the hands that actually makes human life possible on this earth. She'd be at home anywhere in the West with her unthinking left snobbery.
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  10752. He sounds like he could have gotten an academic scholarship if he didn't already have an athletic one lined up.
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  10753. We are in agreement. On top of that, it must be understood that, as immense as the the implications of this war are for the future of the world, it is nonetheless a mere prelude to the really decisive struggle, the one in the Indo-Pacific.
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  10754. Such lame spin on Europe. It faces five months of tight energy supplies and no more. By one year from now, arrangements to source them from elsewhere will be in place. And already it has months of fuel in storage, besides which ships will bring more throughout the fall and winter. Prices will be high but Europeans will not freeze. Drop it, Tucker: the Dems are headed for disaster without you keeping this up. Look ahead with cheerful good hope to 2024.
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  10755. They could've stayed in prison.
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  10756. That comment reminded me of a stand-up double stroked to the gap in right-centre for some reason.
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  10757. She's more verbally fluent when drinking, I notice. Which can tempt someone to drink too much and too often. Watch out, Kringela.
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  10758. Sounds like you might be saying Canada "abuses" the US.😂😂 Please confirm or deny.
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  10759.  @Xenosaurian  Sad to say, that's not much of an exaggeration at all. Raving drug-addled derelicts on the street are barely more detached from reality.
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  10760.  @Xenosaurian  It was an expression of support for your last previous post. Maybe I should take it back though. You seem ill tempered and rude.
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  10761. The CNN reporter's weak ability to think anything through before speaking shows the value of higher education since The Great Dumbening of the universities.
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  10762.  @ConstructiveMinds100  Your likening Boris Johnson to Putin illustrates why throughout history the engineering mind has almost always been kept safely away from anything important. I don't mind them one bit when they stick to their calculators and screwdrivers, but those activities simply cannot prepare them for understanding and interacting with human beings.
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  10763.  @airlife2u  Jokes are supposed to be funny. You didn't know that?
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  10764.  @airlife2u  All right, I'll take your word for that.
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  10765. I figure he also has a grudge against Canada over the former Trump hotel in Toronto. Opened in 2012, he didn't own it but managed it under the Trump brand. Locals and travellers, however, avoided it so assiduously that the owners axed the deal.
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  10766.  @nbgoodiscore1303  What is it?
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  10767.  @nbgoodiscore1303  Thanks. Only the English flag is blacked out for me.
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  10768. Many a small man dreams of getting into uniform. Women are the same, and for the same reasons. You have a sharp eye.
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  10769. Right on, bro. Great comment.
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  10770. Stop spreading poison.
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  10771. Actually it's Russia whose economy is going to get knocked back to the 1930s. Enjoy eating beets three times a day for the next 25 years, Vassily.
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  10772.  @hellopeace5675  haha, you are now China's poodle. They own you. Bend over and take it like a girl. Putin, Xi's bride-to-be, is in makeup getting fitted for his white wedding dress. (He's a size 4.)
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  10773. We need to examine just how we went from "It's a free country" to "You're going to think and do what we tell you to, and we're not going to listen to your objections either." 🤨How did the power and dignity of everyone outside of the elites crumble so fast and (it appears) so irrevocably? The people who are happy about it clearly have no idea how quickly it can engulf them as well.
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  10774.  @anthonydelke3193  Nah, it's a million trillion billion. A day.🙄
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  10775. ​@ You just proved his point by saying "Stop thinking." That's a PRC thing to say. No one says it in a US company. Such cute unawareness of your own pratfall.😂
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  10776. @ So the quantity of papers is proof of their quality? We here that now and then in the West, too...from people at inferior colleges comparing them to MIT.
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  10777. Equal opportunity: Golden DEI and quotas: Morally wrong and poisonously destructive
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  10778.  @Method9  Where was the emergency in Ottawa?
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  10779.  @Method9  The loud noise was stopped voluntarily some days before martial law was imposed. I can't remember how many, but I think I can say several; it wasn't in any case mere hours, which might be too little time to reverse a planned course of police action. Thus, not an excuse for martial law. Parliament Hill may have people living not far from it but it is not properly thought of as a "residential neighbourhood." It's the most appropriate possible place for protest against the government of Canada. Anyway, "late-night partying," if there was any, is risible as a justification for the suspension of civil liberties which is the purpose of martial law. Ordinary police action is sufficient for any such nuisance. As for "the resolution to their demands," it is a simple departure back to their respective hovels and the resumption of their work and studies, if any. They have made their point (illegally, mind you, and most arrogantly). And now it's well past time to sawed off.
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  10780.  @luannecorlett4683  He/she certainly is.
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  10781.  @Method9  "Coup"😂Sounds like someone is taking a dangerous mix of bad street drugs.
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  10782. Nice try, Skynet. Nice try.
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  10783. Look, Mr. Herbert [the commentator appearing here], stop beginning your sentences with "Look." If you have something worthwhile to say, we will see it, but we will not be convinced of anything simply because you issue us a command to do so. Telling people to "Look" repeatedly is rude. Like "Listen", it's a way of talking down to someone and showing your impatience. Look, I've had enough. And I'm sure I cannot be alone.
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  10784. Audit the YouTube Pooty-bots.
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  10785.  @matsgustafsson46  Hahaha, good one. Btw your name seems very good for the NHL. Work on your wrist shot and you could get signed.😄
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  10786.  @nottingtohide  It was a medley: Evil Woman, These Boots Were Made For Walking, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, and The Death of a Disco Dancer.
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  10787.  @whowantstoknow2617  She's currently auditioning for her next role as Vidkun Quisling.
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  10788. Letting people say just what they please (excluding slander, libel, incitement to crime, sedition, and perhaps one or two other tightly-defined things) is not the answer to our problems, it does not make society or life in society wonderful, and no one should be claiming that it does. In fact, it's the worst arrangement possible. Except for all the others. Thank you, Elon Musk.
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  10789. "Parenthood and certainly Motherhood should be regarded as obscenities." Well, at times, yes. Just say 'at times' and people don't have to dismiss you as extremely unfortunate. Give them an actual choice. Best wishes.
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  10790.  @aleksd.6465  I don't think there's a problem with shortening Zachary to Zach. Anyway, that was pretty ironic coming from someone named Aleks.
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  10791. If you don't like it how it is, consider how unappealing plain old "After School" would be.
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  10792. Don't take Trump so literally and seriously. (1) When he says these things about NATO he's (rightly) trying to scare the countries that are taking the US for a financial ride. Reassuring them would be counterproductive. (2) When he says fairly nice things about Putin he's simply flattering him strategically. (Likewise Kim Jong-un.) Remember, he spent decades dealing with the organized crime bosses who control construction, gambling and other businesses in the NY/NJ area. (3) When he says things about "ending the war in Ukraine" he's angling to avoid Russian state interference with his election bid, as Putin's minions will work hard to defeat whichever candidate is most hawkish on his war — i.e., seems most hawkish on it. Why assume he means and intends what he literally says? I don't think he's like that. I think that if he's elected we'll hear him singing a different tune on these matters, either immediately or when the right time comes. Take a look at his social media posts right after February 24, 2022.
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  10793.  @Propain4eva  It's your business if you want to be alone in the world. Good luck with that, y'all.
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  10794. You keep making distinctions which, though they may have been useful to you in getting things straight in your own head, do not help us. (Direct v. indirect, e.g.) And there's that amazement you show (weak anthropic principle) which is like the amazement a stoner might have upon realizing the amazing odds against half his genes coming from that one strong swimmer amongst a hundred million of his father's sperm. ("A hundred million! Yet here I am."🙄) You could've used a good editor of your script.
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  10795.  @kev3d  🙄A party can lose an election; likewise its supporters collectively. But for an individual to lose an election, he or she must stand for election, not merely attempt to influence it. With your dubious command of idiom I wouldn't trust you to edit my grocery list.
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  10796. Your voice recognition software has gone ka-ka koo-koo.
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  10797. She's the mayor of Word Salad City, capital of the great state of Word Salad. Find it on a map of the country of Wordsaladia in any atlas published by the University of Kamala Harris Press. The UKH itself offers bachelor's, master's and PhDs in Word Salad Studies. (Contact UKH about non-repayable loans!)
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  10798. Dunno. Is 100k too high?
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  10799. I'm shocked, shocked!
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  10800. Except for the border with Canada, which itself ended up with the lowest national death rate in the whole Western world after Norway (and not incl. Oceania).
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  10801. And is that supposed to be regrettable? Or some sort of paradox? It's neither. It's normal and understandable and not even unhealthy. It's certainly not immoral. It's appropriate in the circumstances.
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  10802. Don't be absurd. If possible.🤨
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  10803. UK: roofs (Source: Oxford Dictionaries) That is all.
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  10804. I'm glad to say YT might've restored the autocomplete now. Her name filled in as the top hit as soon as I hit the h after mik, while her dad's came up 4th after just jo.
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  10805. No, it's tightening...the noose around Putin's neck.
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  10806. The president always sounds like an angry old man yelling at his wife.
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  10807. He didn't have the guts to say "I will refuse to appoint a man to the Supreme Court. I will refuse to appoint a white woman to the Supreme Court."
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  10808. Quite right. The importation of additional cases cannot fail to quicken the spread of the illness and push hospitals closer to peak loads, past which severely ill people must be triaged out of intensive care and thus written off. The man interviewed here is not thinking straight because of his hatred for the president, which you could see from space.
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  10809.  @wilee.coyote5298  "Definitely [etc]." Yeah but she warms my chair cushion. I find it hard to care at that point.
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  10810. The on-air people are generally ok. It's the ones who just type that I really don't care for.
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  10811. "O'Brady Shaw" Classic local news name somehow.😄
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  10812. All the crypto in the world couldn't buy that baked potato a clue.
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  10813. I wonder what you think "shattered" means. Watch it again.
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  10814.  @MichaelPetersFenwicks  "Politics of personality" 😂 Stop pretending you're smart. You aren't. You can't even write a coherent sentence (even in your own language I'm sure).
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  10815.  @Kitajima2  It was a casual comparison treating a far stretch as an accomplished fact. That's the left academic way and everyone knows it. It's why they hate Fox News so much, for they are brothers under the skin.
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  10816. ​ @Kitajima2  Yes, they're neo-liberals more than anything else. Yet they and their hack academic underwriters are what we now have instead of the left. They're the leftists who forgot class. (Counterparts of the 'right' media who forgot what the right used to care about.) Thus a chat I didn't really want to have comes to an end. Cheers.
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  10817. Face it, he's an unusual suspect.
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  10818. The Algerian boxer, according to the IOC, is not trans and was assigned female at birth. The signs seem to point to intersex (older word: hermaphroditism) but the boxer identifies as female, not intersex. The boxer's chromosomal status is not publicly known.
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  10819. "It's not fair that a plague made our job so tiring. We'll go back to work when the pandemic is over and our workload eases. Patients, look after yourselves." Truly the actions of heroes.
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  10820. Wait, what? There are people who say 'Yeah, war is great. I'm pro-war'?
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  10821. Embraer must be eager to jump in and steal market share. Citing "neutrality," Brazil steadfastly refuses to co-operate in Western sanctions against Russia. It also claims "unilateral" sanctions are "incompatible" with the UN Charter. (🙄) But Embraer itself may be co--operating, in order not to lose Western business.
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  10822. The money is intact and remains in Russia's accounts in Russia's name. It's just frozen. Consult a doctor about the latest brain medicines.
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  10823. Russia has about 800,000 of its approx. 1,200,000 personnel involved in the Ukraine War. Where did you get this risible "10%" figure?
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  10824. People complain that Trump isn't tactful, but here he tried the tactful approach and it didn't work.
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  10825. "Republicans prepare to hold Hunter Biden in contempt" They're a little behind the curve: the rest of humanity already does.
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  10826.  @guff9567  That is unquestionably the dumbest thing I have heard anyone say this year, and your competition has been stiff. My friendly advice is to tear down your mind to the foundations and rebuild it, this time with care. Best wishes!
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  10827. CPC mouthpiece, just like you.
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  10828.  @millevenon5853  No, as close to the equator as possible. It's about the climate and agriculture.
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  10829. What??!! She didn't stand up for Peter at all, she only said the Chicken was just like him. This was about her objection to being issued an ultimatum, and she expressly said so. Amazing how u & 179 people missed that.⬆
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  10830. Biased anti-Jewish so-called journalism.👎 Down with biased politically-partisan commentary.👎 Hard Left supports Ukraine against Russia's attack, but won't support Israel against Hamas (& now Hezbollah). Hard Right won't support Ukraine against Russia's attack, but support Israel defending itself against terrorists. Sane people support both Ukraine and Israel hitting back hard against their vicious attackers.
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  10831. Thanks for the Global Times point of view.
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  10832. ​ @AkrepsFist  The heartlessness is on the side of H^^^^^ supporters who mask their allegiance by calling themselves "pro-Palestine." They're morally equivalent to the official H^^^^ spokesman who said on Lebanese TV: "October the 7th! October the 8th! The 9th, the 10th, the One Millionth!"
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  10833. Soviet commissar: "Under capitalism there is only the exploitation of man by his fellow man. Under communism, the reverse is true."
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  10834.  @Naschira  No, it's true: the world did have sympathy for Russia's people. Absolutely. Why shouldn't they? You think they don't have human decency? Bro, stop this "The world despises Russia" nonsense. Everyone wants a good future for Russia. No one's coming to get you. Finland is not going to march on Moscow, nor the US, nor NATO. The world simply wishes Russia to have leaders with no desire to threaten other countries or abuse the Russian people. Aside from maybe theoretically China, no country, no alliance of countries, will ever attack Russia first. Ever. And Putin knows this, right down to the marrow of his bones. Stalin created NATO, remember. Just get a govt without the desire to insulate Russia with a thick blanket of other people's countries. Then slowly NATO will dissolve, automatically, unquestionably. As a friendly nation with a free people, Russia would likely become the richest, happiest and most advanced country in Europe.
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  10835. ​ @Naschira  No, you had a president capable of taking you out of communism with a chance of no civil war. That's what he was good for. So after that he had to go. After that you needed a different president to mop up the mess left by one-party corruption. But there was next to no chance for a seamless transition into prosperity, because no Russian leader could ever make that happen except Superman. Yeltsin was not Superman. So after that he had to go. After this waking bad dream, Putin. [By this time, even in the '90s, NATO expansion was inevitable, not because NATO wanted to expand but because all Eastern Europe badly wanted in. They had zero trust of Russia. They knew Russia, they knew Putin and they knew what's good for themselves. Lifetimes of being the neighbours of Russia are going to leave lessons that aren't about go to away in five or ten years. So on their one side, Europe: relaxed, free, prosperous, smoothly-running, friendly, respectful. On their other side, Russia: chaotic, dangerous, crooked, autocratic, poor, domineering, contemptuous. Their choice was overwhelmingly obvious.] Back to Putin: He put the ex-KGB and the oligarchs in charge under him, and the economy improved and gang network crime went down. But now he is the gang, now he wants to be tsar, now he's taking away prosperity. So now he has to go. It's time for the next leader. Shed this one like an old skin, and get someone comfortable with having neighbours he does not yearn to dominate and treat like garbage, who is ready to show them normal respect. To that add greater rights and freedoms for the people, and all problems with foreign countries will evaporate quickly. You can immediately move on to competing in business, where owing to Russian talent, you will kick EU, American and Asian rear ends. Russia with a free people and good international relations would have double the GDP of Germany within 25 years. No question. Thanks for your polite reply, Maximova.
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  10836. I don't know. I think this is all activist news media hype. Grocery chain profits have risen, but they rise every year. High food prices are mainly due to the prices that grocery chains have to pay to buy the stuff. We've been importing a lot of inflation from the US because we import a massive amount of US food and food inflation has been much higher down there.
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  10837. Both of them dwell literally and metaphorically in No-Limits-Liberalism-Land, so they cannot admit to it, but despite their respective public vows I would wager that both Bret Stephens and Bill Maher will vote for Trump.
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  10838.  @eddastrohmayer251  So a man who's explicitly trying to prevent war is a warmonger? Mmkay.  So people trying to start a war are warmongers; and people trying to prevent a war are warmongers. That means logically that everyone is a warmonger, I guess including both of us.🤣
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  10839.  @eddastrohmayer251  Just breathe. It'll be all right.
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  10840.  @eddastrohmayer251  Actually he's a retired private citizen.
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  10841. Nor does staying in your lane on the highway protect you from collisions. But you'd be mad not to do it.
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  10842.  @ashleyfairway.540  Thanks for your reply. I did get your point but I still say that reducing contacts is better than not reducing them. And banning visitors is fully practicable whereas banning staff is of course an absurdity in a care home. "On fait ce que l'on peut" as the French say. (One does what one can.) Maybe masked and gloved staff won't give the virus to anyone. Probably they will, but maybe not. Anyway, the slower the spread the better hospitals can cope, keeping the death rate down. Cheers.
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  10843. It was pointless except as a claim of 'victory,' since she wouldn't have endorsed the Cambridge definition a year earlier.
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  10844. China not only green-lighted this war, they probably nudged Putin into it subtly enough that he didn't notice. Reason: Taiwan. They needed somebody to deplete US and NATO ammunition. Reason: Taiwan. They wanted a war somewhere to act as a drone warfare lab they could study. Reason: Taiwan.
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  10845.  @weird-guy  I don't think Americans want to drive Chinese cars. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  10846. "Literally"?🤨 Would it have been possible for her to be born figuratively ?
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  10847.  @MikeScott55  How do you literally figure that?
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  10848. To fail to condemn is to condone. That's what condoning is.
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  10849. "More nefarious"? Since nefarious means wicked or criminal and this hapless pair appear to be neither, I think the "more" is rather histrionic.
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  10850.  @mikegohagan1257  Wow, how slow can someone get? Yes, that would be unquestionably nefarious. But not "more" nefarious, since what we see was not. Grab a coffee and see if that clears the cobwebs.
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  10851. Ukraine is the largest country in Europe by area after Russia (which is mostly in Asia). It has 43 million people, four million more than California, which it is about one-and-a-half times larger than in area, with far less waste land. "Pretty small country," says the man who doesn't care about it for one reason and one reason only—the current administration does.
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  10852. Kamala Harris' Canada: She moved to Montreal, Quebec at age 12. There she did 6th grade, middle school and high school, plus the post-high-school transition they have in that province before university. Her stay there was around 6 years in total, until, as you say, she moved to DC to attend Howard Univ. Although the city of Montreal is mainly French-speaking, she never picked up much French. She went to Westmount High, a public high school in an English-speaking area which was then more than halfway in a transition from being rich-establishment to well-off multicultural. The school also drew many students from a nearby largely black Caribbean-Canadian area, not nearly as prosperous but with reasonably good social conditions. There were very few Indians in Montreal at that time. By ethnicity her own area would've been maybe majority-British-Canadian (or maybe not, by that time), but also Jewish-Canadian, French-Canadian, plus smatterings of many other European ethnicities and small numbers from other races. Not many blacks in her neighborhood, but definitely at her high school. It's worth noting that the city, the province and a lot of Canada were fairly left-wing in that era. Definitely liberal, with socialist-leaning people being not all that uncommon. Communists were rare but not unheard-of. The government had its tentacles in everything, the federal and provincial governments still owning many things: railways, airlines, a lot more infrastructure, two aircraft makers, a big oil company, most universities and hospitals. At the same time, the commitment which people typically had to personal freedom and civil liberties was extremely strong, stronger than today. It was a very free country, no question. Just as she got to Quebec the situation there quickly worsened. Language-based ethnic political turmoil swiftly knocked Montreal off its perch as the largest, richest and most powerful city in the country. So she has seen the costs of division.
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  10853. @Flatus Antiquitous But lifelong highly privileged ones, which should have done something to forestall that high-blood-pressure ready-to-explode demeanour. It's incredibly unappetizing and I say something's off about them. Just an opinion worth no more than anyone else's.
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  10854. Only two of those are really significant. The Liberals held on in the polls until his wife left him in the summer of '23. He and they immediately fell behind the Conservatives. Then this fall when he fired Freeland, he immediately lost yet more media and voter support. Weeks later it proved to be the coup de grâce.
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  10855.  @tonupharry  Didn't take long, did it?
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  10856.  @WhateverProduction4  For him to win, he has to turn out to be like the Brad Pitt character in Snatched. (He was a little guy who was so lightning-fast he was just a blur, and could easily knock out guys literally twice his size.) But I don't foresee that. Guys like that character are born fighters with long experience from early boyhood onwards. Zuck, I don't know, but I doubt it. I know he only took up martial arts (BJJ) three years ago at the age of 36.
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  10857. Interesting talk, but your hand waving is terribly distracting. I guess someone told you to do it. But lighten up and use it for emphasis. When you emphasize everything, the benefit is instantly lost, like when you write in all caps. I had to move the window to get your arms off the screen.
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  10858.  @randomrazr  Go on yourself. I registered my point.
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  10859. The attitude across Canada right now is very hard against China.
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  10860. ...says a soulless propagandist in support of the least civilized government on Earth.
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  10861. Homeless person? 5p? What are you talking about?   This is a significant payroll tax reduction which restores some of the buying power lost to inflation. Sorry, but that was very, very low-grade spin on your part.
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  10862. I love the way you think you know anything.
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  10863. Defy can mean openly resist, according to Oxford Dictionaries. They give it as the first meaning. Don't be so pedantic unless you check first to see if you're right.
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  10864.  @ttemp2631  A cartel is basically an oligopoly where they collude in anticompetitive ways. But oligopolies don't have to be cartels. They can compete viciously against one another. E.g. drug gangs, often.
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  10865.  @notmyname8527  That's a double evasion and you know it. The first one was pretending to think that the OC meant that not everyone could understand her. Clearly he meant that she herself lacked top skill at understanding English. The second was the red herring that "truth is Universal [sic]", which may very well be true. But — and this really needs no pointing out, but you force me to it — no language is universal. I'm not here to praise or blame the OC for his comment, but to call attention to your nice attempt to muddy understanding with evasion, pretense, red herring and cunning rhetoric.
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  10866. The answer is easy: tariffs on American goods mean fewer Canadian people & businesses will elect to buy them, resulting in lower volumes of those goods being exported. Most Canadian people and businesses have other options for these items (e.g. Canadian brands of ketchup, Asian or European brands of autos or machinery), so if they don't simply go without, they'll just switch suppliers. And for countless US companies, Canada is 10-20% of their sales. Thus their lower exports to Canada will result in weaker profits and inevitably job losses. As for how things will work in the other direction, it may be quite different. For most of Canada's exports to the US, there are fewer options for just sourcing domestically or looking overseas instead. That's because the US generally buys stuff from Canada that it very much needs but cannot supply itself and prefers not to buy from far-off countries which charge more, are unstable, or are hostile to it. For example, heavy crude oil: the other options are Venezuela, Iran and Iraq. Forget about getting it for $55-60 a barrel from them, or counting on them to always be there. Zero chance. If I were them, knowing how little choice the US has, I'd set my price over the Brent benchmark and dare the US to pass it up. (A lot of refineries would close.) Many other things too will be a challenge to replace or will cost more. Or both. Some examples are potash fertilizer, various kinds of food, all kinds of other metals and minerals (uranium and aluminum especially), lumber, and the list goes on and on. When it comes to manufactured goods, the average price of a Big Three SUV is forecast to rise by $9,000. Expanding domestic auto production much would take until the mid-2030s — and at great expense, so that $9k increase isn't going anywhere. Only a small minority of US corporations will be eager to expand production at home at a cost of billions of dollars, when the next president could simply remove the tariffs with the stroke of a pen. You wouldn't believe how much planning, permitting, investment, construction, supply chain building and sheer time it takes to open a US aluminum smelter, especially unattractive since they'll never, ever match Canada's minuscule electricity cost. US aluminum executives say it takes 30-40 years. (!) There's much more detail but I gotta go now. Thanks for having the curiosity to ask. You're practically one of a kind.
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  10867. 11:15 Ms. Alden, how is tying the petrodollar system into trade and military considerations gangsterism? Call it what it is, a quid pro quo. Clearly you have a weak idea of what gangsterism is, so you should look into that. But I can tell you right now that it has nothing to do with a voluntary exchange of benefits entered into after bargaining.
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  10868. Absurd. Foolish. What the US is doing is about precisely the opposite: Avoiding a war with Russia. The road to war is paved with appeasement. The art of peace is the art of deterrent.
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  10869. Absurd. Foolish. What the US is doing is about precisely the opposite: Avoiding a war with Russia. The road to war is paved with appeasement. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  10870. Absurd. What the US is doing is about precisely the opposite: Avoiding a war with Russia. The road to war is paved with appeasement. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  10871. What the US is doing is about precisely the opposite: Avoiding a war with Russia. The road to war is paved with appeasement. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  10872. Hostile foreign governments are energetically using fake social media accounts to whip up anger, hatred and violence.
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  10873. Thanks for your reply. Yes, the federal debt is indeed a massive problem. But I stop short of crediting the president with any intention of addressing it. There's only one way to go about it, and that's to shrink the size of the debt relative to that of the economy. As far as I can tell, he intends to cut spending and taxes at the same time, which may not reduce the deficit at all. Unless he takes it down to zero, he'll increase debt, and nearly everyone expects the latter to happen. (So do I. In fact I bet the deficit won't shrink much, and debt-to-GDP will barely budge or indeed rise. In theory, rapid GDP growth could come to the rescue, but I doubt it will. Private capital doesn't like what it sees right now and I think it's good at judging these matters.) And speaking of things the average person doesn't know, Europe is already outspending the US on Ukraine aid, and has been doing so for the past year and a half. On military equipment and ammo alone, the US is still covering well more than half, but there's a lot of other aid besides that. The average person also doesn't know that a great deal of the materiel delivered by the US to Ukraine has been costed as though it were paid for in cash rather than paid off decades ago. Much of it was mothballed or marked for disposal due to obsolescence or sheer age. So it had to either be used up or tossed out anyway. As he normally does, the president has exaggerated on all these matters to a degree I can't excuse, and it's gotten far worse since November 5. He sounded reasonable during the campaign and had my support (whatever that's worth) for that reason. Not anymore. Finally, regarding your first assertion in this thread, I always felt the same way until lately. Now I no longer believe he's merely playing chicken with allies on military spending, which seemed like a good course of action. If he really does hand eastern Ukraine to Russia on a silver platter as he appears set to do, then he's not trying to strengthen NATO after all; he means to marginalize or even end it.
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  10874. That never happened. Providing service to Ukraine along the front lines is going to result in anomalous events where a Starlink terminal a few km behind Russian lines is going to function. Let me guess: you despise Elon Musk and are ready to believe any negative claim made about him made anywhere by anyone.
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  10875. But isn't a pocket square naff?
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  10876. Depends. If the renter has money, it's true. The money can earn a good tax-free return within the RRSP (let's say it's 5%-25% in a run-of-the-mill ETF). For a $2k rental, that's $100-$500 a year, minus the premiums. If the renter doesn't have the deposit in the first place, or isn't going to make an RRSP contribution that year anyway, then it's simply an expense.
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  10877. You went off the rails, Harris. How is it NY Magazine's job to "celebrate women"?🙄 A publication doing so, unless also 'celebrating' men — an unimaginable possibility —is implicitly asserting that women are better than men. That's sexism. Oh wait, that's what they all do, and have been for the past fifty years at least.
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  10878.  @richardalmeida2646  Tucker is full of lies in this video. Distillate stocks (diesel, home heating fuel) are about 15% lower than normal for late October and that's all. Around 110m bbl vs. 125m in the past few years. It would take several hurricanes and several large refinery fires to present any danger at all. Prices are high; that's all. And he knows it. He also knows that Europe is going to be fine. At times he's a hyperpartisan hack; this is one of those times.
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  10879. He and others like him are culpable for painting devil's horns on anyone even slightly to the right of them, i.e. anyone scoring over about 35 on the liberal-conservative continuum running from 1 to 99.
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  10880. "Roger. Excellent work. Return to base."
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  10881. Yeah, that microphone gag of yours was hilarious. Who wouldn't be impressed by that? Everyone laughed their guts out, surely. Now in come the Hollywood offers.
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  10882. Untrue. He did say things uncongenial to the Sky editorial stance.
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  10883. Congratulations.🙄
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  10884.  @Hathur  It's for headlines. I think it's fine. They should try another voice, though. Btw, it's a way to work an American voice into each video. Quite shrewd, actually.
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  10885. ​ @bertthompson4748  I said nothing about pipes or kits or anything related to them, or about this case specifically at all. My point concerned these various pompous, self-styled "fact-checkers" collectively as a species of enterprise. They are indeed just journalists and not even a special type. They just self-importantly give themselves a special and important-sounding name. "We're the branch of journalism specializing in accurate statements." Utter nonsense, and you sound like you're one of them.
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  10886.  @bertthompson4748  My dear boy, I've already made myself clear. Now you're making a pest of yourself, so it's time for the good old mute button. Ta!
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  10887. Gross underestimate. Lower GDP is a minor part of the picture. Plunging asset prices would quickly collapse wealth by many tens of trillions of dollars just to start with. Standards of living would plunge worldwide. A mere decade of mounting impoverishment would be a rosy outcome. Nearly certain: An economic, political and human rights ice age.
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  10888. Russia should be horrified. Putin goes around in a wedding dress and lipstick handed to him by Xi.
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  10889. ​ @Fishingadventureuk  You should know.
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  10890. This is what Leftists in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US are supporting and celebrating. Unbelievable. Can they sink any lower? I assume so.
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  10891.  @ik7584  You're so wrong. He's America's greatest single asset right now. Envy is such an ugly emotion, that's why the classic cover for it is moral indignation, and always will be.
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  10892. I hope they realize that if they go on strike they won't get paid.
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  10893. But if "Russia can just sell its oil to other countries" then, equally, France can buy its oil from other countries. How is oil one big market for the sellers but not for buyers?
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  10894. ​ @Driziationz  I can see how Arabian oil would perhaps cost more to ship, but am unclear about carbon footprint. The way you say it, it sounds like it is a cause of a higher price, rather than both it and the higher price being effects of shipping over a longer distance.
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  10895.  @johnperry7883  A good add-on is "Take a deep whiff."
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  10896. That weatherthingy was all about race solidarity and nothing more. Just like the OJ jury. For the precedent they set, btw, they deserve some of the blame. Their notorious choice resounds down the generations.
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  10897. That is one hell of a quote, but when I google it I get nothing. I suspect they don't want people reading up on that, but to confirm my suspicion I have to actually trace the quote and confirm it's real. Do you know where I might find it?
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  10898.  @saschawagner5167  Be considerate and use spell check.
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  10899. Welcome to NATO, bro. What took you so long? When was Russia ever not a mafia nation? It's never had a friend besides Cuba. It has some nice people, but they'll never have the upper hand. Description of Russians: Born to be ruled. Edit: Description of Finns: Golden people, great sense of humour.
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  10900. 2min. 43sec.: "Our country is one of the biggest, it's 1/6 of the land." No, it's the biggest. And it's 1/9 of the world's land. 5min. 35sec.: Young Konstantin's hair is actually less of a mess than his thoughts. Let's wish him well.
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  10901.  @GarrisonFall  😂So Iceland (pop. 0.3m) should have equal say in the world with Communist China (pop. 1.4bn)? Dream on. Life and the world will never work that way, nor should they.
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  10902.  @chollyappleseed1969  In the business which you run, do you hire everyone you need...and then hire 3x more just for good measure?
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  10903. He didn't mean the IDF is unprofessional. He means it's staffed mainly by people who aren't in the army for a career, didn't attend military college, etc. There's no real dividing line between a low and high ratio of soldiers in any given army as a profession. He must just think the IDF skews fairly low.
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  10904. 'Cis' means 'non-trans'. The late comedian Norm Macdonald called it "a way of marginalizing a normal person." For my part, I don't want to be called non-trans any more than I want to be called straight (which really means non-gay), non-person-of-color, non-white or any such thing at all. Any attempt to overhaul the language is an attempt by a group to seize political control. The absolutely necessary thing is to let them know they're being counterattacked very energetically.
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  10905. No one's talking about the literal billions of anti-Western posts a year on social media by anonymous foreign posters. Just 100k workers a year, posting 10x an hour for 6 hours a day = 2.2 billion posts. And that's undoubtedly a gross underestimation. Imagine how cheaply a hostile foreign government can hire a thousand avid anti-Westerners. My own eyes were opened by the (easily findable) 2018 New York Times-commissioned doc "Operation Infektion." (Yeah, I know all too well how awful the NYT is now. But five or six years ago, high-quality pockets still existed there. See it for yourself, it's time very well spent.)
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  10906. The end of August, and only if it were supplied long-range precision fires, including ATACMS. Seems to me that the one who can't quote someone else accurately and uses Latin pretentiously and incorrectly is the real Bozo🤡. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😄
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  10907. 4,500 comments. Wow, quite the deluge. Good. Anyway, yes Russia is fighting NATO—up to a point. That much is obvious to the most uncritical eye. Less obvious, apparently, to the average Muscovite on a sidewalk near downtown: Russia is fighting Ukrainians in Ukraine in order to fight anti-Putinists at home. Let that sink in.
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  10908. 49 years later, the story remains the same: "We're gonna need a bigger boat."
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  10909. Welcome to the CCP-paid internet comments pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  10910. ​ @bluemax92  What you call subsidies were paid to Tesla by OTHER car companies, not governments. Google regulatory credits Tesla. It was government's way of saying to them: start making electric cars. And lo and behold, they are sick of writing cheques to Tesla so they're coming out with electric models in order to legally stop.
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  10911. Democrats can just get together with the Fed, the MSM, and Big Tech and simply ordain that 'it shall be'. You didn't know that? 😜
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  10912. Tip: YT treats any characters bookended by asterisks (no spaces) as text to be bolded, then it hides the asterisks. (Trust me, your three stars are in boldface.) So to get five asterisks, type seven of them.
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  10913. There's a marvellous quote from Lord Owen about his political outlook in the Early Life section of his Wikipedia article. If you don't care to read it, let me just hint at its significance by saying I think all the best figures in Labour and on the left are congenitally exasperated by Labour and the left. (As indeed everyone ought to be. Among Orwell's leading merits was the fact that he was a socialist who never tired of complaining about socialists.)
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  10914. Technically not right. He could buy all he wanted—except he would get the boot upon reaching 15%. But there was nothing stopping him from sailing past 15. Of course, if and when he hits 50.1%, he can use the current Twitter by-laws for buttwad. (And wouldn't we all?)
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  10915. They think they are the first and only enlightened people in history.
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  10916. Two people who speak for a living, yet both have pretty much unbearable voices.👎 Outta here.
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  10917.  @AjaxDGonzo  Pinfold's dictum: Politics is a suit of clothes worn not by a person, but a personality.
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  10918.  @AjaxDGonzo  What you said is not worth my care.
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  10919. I wil contact my local legislator. Best wishes.
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  10920. Dear Forbes host: the plural of aircraft is aircraft. It is important to remember that.
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  10921.  @jordanlee3078  Quite right: a cop arriving at the accident scene minutes later doesn't just arrest the nearest person walking in the other direction.😂 Nor does he or she come up with a description of a long-gone suspect just by closing his eyes, clenching his fists and saying Abracadabra! So funny.
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  10922.  @Cent51  What? This thread is about Musk repeating what Peterson said. U hi?
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  10923. Nation to Prime Minister Peter Pan: Just go. Go now.
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  10924. "It's the billionaires!" she says.😄 (Just like Hillary saying it was "a vast right-w*ng conspiracy," but it wasn't. Her husband just couldn't keep his pants on.) She blames billionaires; then we get a look at the people trying to get her recalled. I don't know their names, but they ain't no billionaires. They're just area people.
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  10925. Don't let him off so easy, Dave. He actually adores Gavin Newsom. He actually claims Gavin Newsom isn't a human-reptile mix created in a laboratory. I mean, how far-fetched can someone's thinking possibly get?
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  10926. Rubbish. Russia demands the right to exploit, dominate and insulate itself with a thick layer of other people's countries around it, and it does not have that right. The West has made no demand of Russia other than to leave them alone. Period.
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  10927.  2FLIPS3TWISTS003  Yep.👍 Let me clarify, though, that my problem with the headline is on grounds of illogical language alone, and has nothing to do with my opinion of the situation outlined in the story. According to the headline, he was apologizing for people being angry or "concerned." That's just illogical, since one doesn't apologize for other people's feelings. You can't say "I apologize for your anger." That's absurd. One apologizes for what one has done to cause those feelings. (To me this is axiomatic, meaning I don't have to make a case for it because it's just self-evidently true by definition.) Thanks for your reply.
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  10928. When Meghan met Harry he had a lever sticking out labelled "Pull here for complete control, riches & glamour". She reached out and grasped it, she has not let go since, and she will not let go until it doesn't work anymore.
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  10929.  @Mads_on_YT  Yes. And since the putative purpose of the war is to shield Russia from foreign influences and threats, it is ironic that its effect will be that Russia becomes increasingly run according to Chinese tastes.
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  10930. Pffft. That grandmother, Tamara Lich, was thrown in jail and held for months without bail, merely for organizing the Parliament Hill protest against the prime minister. (As I understand it she went nowhere near the US border.) He passed a special law to prosecute her and others, just like Putin did in his own country. It was a savagery of Canadian social, political and legal traditions and if you endorsed it you're in a small way culpable.
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  10931. The feudalist mindset came through not only the czarist period but also the Soviet era quite intact. Russia is the great bastion of feudalism. Yep, politically and societally they never made it fully out of the medieval era. They wish to be ruled by a ruthless despot and are disgusted by every other conceivable sort of arrangement.
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  10932.  @Carlito_Brigante93  Then enjoy that if it's so important to you. Channel the morality of the father of your country, Genghis Khan, for another thousand years. But expect to be opposed if you keep alive his lust for conquering smaller, weaker nations.
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  10933. They're driving the country into the ground. They're so desperate to get the job done quickly that they're on the verge of panicking.
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  10934. Kinda bizarre how anyone would need to defend a country's killing enemy troops on its own soil in an unprovoked invasion.
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  10935. ​ @fintux  True but that's beside the point. The point is more that they sham Western identity. As far as I'm concerned they're generally see-through, but some people do mistake them for the real thing, which is not what I want happening. There's a lot of them, some or most or all greatly assisted by spamming software and AI translation (or AI translation assistance). The number which one person can do per day is astounding.
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  10936.  @zifnab7691  Yeah, they did it so there could be multiple people with the same account name, like Emily Smith, with one getting the unique handle @emilysmith2854, for example, and another @emilysmith7472. It just lets more people choose the name they want without duplication confusion problems.
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  10937. What on earth did Michelle Obama ever accomplish? I don't think being somebody's wife is a job qualification.
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  10938. Wasn't he Cher's husband at one time?
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  10939.  @ed4096  Clicked on that link. Wow. Just wow. That chart blew me away.
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  10940.  @TugIronChief  It would be in the second half of his term, as time would be needed to engineer media/Big Tech/social media consent and support. It's really they who install and remove governments now. She need only paint him to elected Democrats as an obstruction to a progressive agenda and to the media groups as cognitively impaired. Those aren't the hardest sells. I don't say this is likely to happen, I merely see it as a possibility. He has no fans at all. (Neither does she, but neither will she bear much blame for his administration's failures, should they lead to unpopularity that amounts to a crisis.) Do you feel certain he will complete his term, assuming his health remains where it is?
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  10941. Sure, that's why he married a successful and prominent surgeon.🙄
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  10942.  @snoodlebug1800  So maybe keep trying to learn about types of people. No offense, but I think you really, really should. That was a really cartoonish take on him. You came up with it on really scanty grounds, I suppose? Please tell me it wasn't just because he went after Haley. That would smack of so many bad things. Check out the recent clip where she (Apoorva) talked to a reporter, finessing yet not seriously hiding her differences with him on a certain matter I won't name here because the algo is touchy about it. Vivek Ramaswamy’s wife differs from his personal stance, etc. I take them both for serious people. Thanks for your reply.
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  10943. I've never heard anyone in Canada lump it in with Scandinavia to call it a social democracy, because it isn't one. Canada is a medium-tax capitalist liberal democracy. That shows you how much Davis is in his own world, patting Canada and himself on the back as he compares the best of Canada to the worst of the US. (Objectionable Americans, of course, with equal injustice compare the best of the US to the worst of Canada.) He strikes me as an old Canadian-left quasi-hippie who's done very well out of the Canadian taxpayer. Not everything he says is wrong, to be sure, but he's very politically biased, which I consider a demerit. And he not only sees nothing wrong with not restraining his bias; indeed he presumably thinks it's morally essential not to, since his political views are so advanced, so intelligent, and so salutary. Like the FDA bending the rules for a new drug to fight the pandemic: sensible, considering the potential benefit in a time of crisis. The whole segment shows the problem with PBS: They interview one or two staunch liberals/leftists and consider that they've surveyed a huge subject quite well --- despite consulting only the left, or perhaps both the rather-left and the very-left. They and their loyal viewers then pat themselves on the back for being so damn smart and so very good. And I'm a patriotic Canadian liberal, but I find this comments section a ridiculous echo chamber: 'Canada is a super-wonderful social-democrat paradise and not inferior to the US in any way, except that the US has The Grateful Dead. The US is a horrible country that deserves a horrible fate, it was never much good, and it serves it right that it will soon be supplanted by China.' That about sums up the comments: views covering the full range from the rather smug self-satisfied to the very smug self-satisfied.
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  10944. The video has a normal number of likes, around 3%. Those who don't like it are hotheads, that's all. I'm not dismissing their views, just their collective temperament.
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  10945. What a lapse, not mentioning Gen. Chapman's prime qualification to speak on the subject of Iran: his years of service as the Chief of UK Counterterrorism. (Iran, for anyone just waking from a 40-year coma, is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism.) It's alas too late to edit the video, but the description can still be edited to mention it, surely?
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  10946. So the move "is a pointless exercise and mere posturing"? And you say this why? Are you and relatively small handful of others going to be driving back with $1 billion of US booze? 😂 Don't think so.
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  10947.  @mariomartin1981  US alcohol products haven't been made illegal! Please. The LCBO has merely decided not to carry them. Individuals are still perfectly free to bring some back through the border.
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  10948. @ < 🤡
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  10949. Quite right. Apologies will breed ever-greater denunciations, demands, cruel punishments. The worst the world has ever seen of human nature flourishes when one group extends abject guilty submission to another. People don't know, or they forget, how rare was the American forgiveness and magnanimity towards Germany and Japan. It was a beautiful aberration. No one should expect it to be repeated.
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  10950. Mmmmm! Where can I find this cup? I totally need that in my life. Is it available online? Do they have it in 32 oz?
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  10951. Consumer goods are largely plastic.
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  10952. I don't see exactly why. Should an order of his not be followed, as commander-in-chief he can immediately have the refuseniks thrown in the brig, then summarily courtmartialed. Who on earth would hesitate to do so? He could even have them shot in front of their replacements, "pour encourager les autres" as the French say.
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  10953. That's one tacky ship. [Shudder]
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  10954.  @skywillfindyou  Pass that thing, Professor Hopium. You've had enough.
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  10955. "When we do it it's cute."
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  10956. China is welcome to sail international waters just as Canada is, just as every country is. Your comment makes zero sense, my CCP friend.
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  10957. @Youtube music Have you ever removed your head from your colon?
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  10958. Do you remember any details?
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  10959. She has dual addictions to hopium and copium.
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  10960. He's now my man. I loved this. If elected, he's gonna do the right thing. Putin expressed a preference for Biden the other day. That's tells you most of what you need to know.
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  10961.  @chrisdyer6370  Autocrats seldom tell the truth about what they intend to do and how they will do it. They are ordinarily truthful about what they want.
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  10962. In a way it only seems fair, given that college loans are being forgiven by the tens of billions of dollars. Something for lower-earning people too, not just middle- and high-income earners. But for the most part I really dislike this. It varies, but commonly restaurant servers are overpaid anyway. What they do takes effort and attention, but little knowledge, training or skill. When I see how little they do to earn a $10 or $20 tip, it makes me feel sorry for all the countless others who do so much more for less. And they serve many, many tables in a shift.
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  10963. All very nice. But I should still probably get around to The Golden Bough. Yes. Soon.
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  10964. Maher must sob uncontrollably trying to get to sleep at night over the ever-decreasing diversity in South Africa. And the way diversity has never gained a foothold in Japan. And the way his own neighborhood is (no doubt) far whiter than America overall.... He makes me wanna throw up.
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  10965. $0.00
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  10966. Up urs, Bolt, after all the lize you told about Canadian protesters. The best part of you is that growth beside ur nose.
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  10967. ​ @AmandaFromWisconsin  Not really. It's more of a leaning towards a political and social Hippocratic Oath: First, you shall do no harm. Built into the left stance is reckless quackery and endless pill-pushing.
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  10968.  @annonymous6827  Sure, but he didn't say he expected anything else, that he was surprised, or that anything else was possible. I don't think he was at all lacking an understanding of things. It seems his point was to offer advice and state his reasons for it.
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  10969. Headline not representative of clip.
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  10970. I can relate to that. I once had a neighbor who behaved really terribly, and who thankfully moved out. Now a new neighbor has moved in. If my old neighbour was doing those behaviors, I can only imagine how much worse it’ll get if my new neighbor normalizes them. See my concern and how logical it is?
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  10971. Dr. Jackson claims Bi g Tek searches are "complete garb ag e." Accurate claim.👍
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  10972. People who want to make a good living ought to get a good education. Those without one don't have great prospects, but might do very well working for themselves.
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  10973. How about Baffin Island?
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  10974. Why can't Americans say premier? It's a politician, not the debut of an entertainment production. PREEM-y-er, three syllables. Not prim-YEER or preem-YAIR.
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  10975. @ That's what you bother writing a reply about?
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  10976. @ Somebody who didn't learn in grade school what capital letters are for thinks he's clever. He isn't. He's dull as dishwater.
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  10977.  alexstrasser1924  I'm comparing civilian left-wing student radicals to civilian left-wing student radicals. You're bringing airmen in a wartime military chain of command into it. Maoist much?
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  10978. He's not saying dive in indiscriminately, chasing possible growth stories and sentimental favourites, I don't think. I imagine he's saying the S&P 500 overall will be anemic or worse, so avoid SPY. I perceive that he's thinking you should pick out the sturdiest inflation-resistant high dividends and get them before their yields get them priced through the roof. What do you think will happen to the current 4-10% earners if and when the market tanks? There's no way buyers with nowhere to go are going to let those yields rise. They're going to pile in and push the prices up. Lean defensive now, dial back on growth longshots and consumer cyclicals or anything with heavy exposure to inflation and a weak economy. You could have another number of months, but who knows? Keep some cash, just don't make it half or a third.
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  10979. All democracies which rightly qualify, yes. But some others might not be trustworthy. When you join NATO you become privy to a great deal of highly classified knowledge. And in some countries a pro-Russia or pro-China administration could be a few short steps from attaining to power. Or their armed forces could just have a lot of members with divided allegiances.
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  10980.  @-JA-  "Such mechanisms"? I didn't refer to any mechanisms. What do you have in mind?
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  10981.  @-JA-  Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  10982. Clarence Thomas' lawyers are going after this guy for copyright infringement.
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  10983. The right to protest means the right to stand by the side of the road holding signs and shouting slogans. It doesn't mean a right to break laws, and blocking the road is breaking the law. Civil disobedience is about breaking laws, getting arrested and claiming you're a martyr. It's not about having some sort of right to break laws.
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  10984. Yes, quite a few people in that world are in the top 1% of 'earners,' with shoplifters, beggars, whores making 150,000 a year and more. [Ja, nicht wenige Menschen auf dieser Welt gehören zu den Top 1% der "Verdiener", mit Ladendiebern, Bettlern, Huren, die 150.000 pro Jahr verdienen und mehr.]
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  10985. The 8 Stages of Truth in 2022: 1) Honest people with healthy minds allege or assert something ('X'); the other kind of people say it is definitely untrue and amounts to proof that the first people are deranged, lying, uneducated, cruel, bigoted, or all five. 2) It becomes forbidden to say X. Saying it on social media means having the post deleted by censors or suspension of one's account, or both. If a famous person says X it makes the news, framed as a scandal and disgrace. 3) In a few isolated locales, the number of which tends to diminish (see 2), some people, stubbornly and often at serious cost, decide to uphold X anyway. They refuse to give up. 4) The thing that makes X worth mentioning in the first place, whatever that is, grows in importance, worsens, or simply for some reason(s) fails to fade away completely. The issue itself maintains a heartbeat, if a weak one. 5) The evidence for X accumulates, simmering well out of sight of most people, who still believe with both obedience and enthusiasm what they've been told about it by the mass media and the self-appointed keepers of public truth and morality. 6) Suddenly and without warning it is acknowledged by one or two prominent among those who had consistently denied X that it might well be true, or indeed is true. It is not acknowledged, mind you, that their earlier denials were for the purpose of discrediting their opponents and advancing their own primacy or ascendancy. In other words, for power and its conspicuous exercise. 7)  X slowly becomes—if not mainstream—licensed speech. 8) The obedient livestock engage in their usual mimicry and nodding their heads up and down. "Well, of course it's true. Now that there's evidence!" In this way, the viewpoint in the above video will become somewhat widespread accepted wisdom—but only after the thing it refers to does significant, pointless and preventable damage and harm.
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  10986.  @aranos6269  You missed my tone of irony and wry humour.
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  10987.  @SPENKER52  Sorry. Not digging through 165 replies to see what you mean. What does this concern?
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  10988.  @SPENKER52  Oh yeah, now I remember. Yes, I just mean official stats out of Russia may be a tad suspect. The national stats office hasn't been releasing numbers for almost a year, so whatever we get is all Kremlin-generated. The underlying brave assertion (by me) is that Putin is a way bigger liar than Zelenskyy. Pooty-poot's pants are chronically on fire.
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  10989.  @rhh3582  Did I say anything to the contrary?
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  10990.  @rhh3582  (1) I think if you check you'll find it is not me who is drunk. (2) Is 43 so old? (3) It was a rhetorical question: I was challenging you to show me which of those basic and irrefutable facts you cited I had contradicted. (Because I never contradicted any of them.) (4) Where is your hostility towards me coming from? Out of a bottle of booze? Just take a break from what you're doing. It's bad for your health.
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  10991.  @rhh3582  That's crazy. I never once disagreed with you about anything, except your weird outburst at me.
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  10992. Every country has them in every war, even if they have to emigrate to open their mouths. Think of Ezra Pound and Lord Haw Haw.
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  10993. He doesn't come from the financial world. He's a lawyer who became a judge and then a popular choice for company boards of directors. The companies were of many types: an engineering and technology giant, a pro soccer team, Ernst & Young, an insurance company, the Cologne-Bonn airport, a maker of rail cars, a paper tissue company, a real estate company.... You get the idea. He served on the BlackRock board for four years, 2016-20, one role among very many. But thanks for yet another flagrantly silly invocation of the F - word. That word is getting destroyed from constant misuse on a massive scale.
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  10994. Has nothing to do with votes or the election. Wow r u stunned.
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  10995. India, 2023: "Can I be in NATO, please?"
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  10996. All the fawning over her here is a bit fulsome. Has she really proved a lot in these 3 min.? It's rather intense when it should be more reserved in the circumstances. Please, everybody, you didn't just read three separate biographies of her. What a lot of gyniolatry on display.🙄 American women and men both seem desperate for the chance to approve of a woman. Undignified.
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  10997. Sounds like you should be an integral member of such a team.😆
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  10998. Q: Could all the seemingly hostile and illogical US trade moves against basically the whole world, especially the ones against its best friends and traditional allies, all be part of a scheme by Trump to beat up on everyone, China included, in order that at some point he can leave off trade attacks on just about everyone except China? In this way he could perhaps pull off a stunning feat. Namely, to have declared economic war on China, while making it look as though it was China's fault, by casting it as the only one among America's significant trading partners unwilling to make peace on trade. There would be plausible deniability for going after China, without which he and the US might very well land in hot water internationally. He could thus escape worldwide (as well as domestic) blame. Whether this is his aim is one question, whether he could succeed in it is indeed another; but I think they're good questions. Who could fail to notice, after all, the very stagy quality of all these events?
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  10999. An excellent communicator, on top of everything else mentioned here.
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  11000. What a sorry lot of books on this guy's bookshelf. Omg. Somebody like that shouldn't be interviewed for their opinion on important matters.
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  11001. Very lower-middlebrow pseudo-intellectual self-congratulatory claptrap—your remarks and the writings of your heroes, that is. Your views amount to a call for, and an attempt to justify and glorify, a bloody revolution and brutal repression...in the name of a utopia. Perfection through destruction and death. No, thank you.
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  11002. Who is Gordon?
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  11003. At 1:35 Gaetz is shown wearing a jacket which is shockingly bad in style, quality, and (above all) fit. His shirt and tie really look no better. He looks in no way like a man who might ever become Attorney General of the United States.
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  11004. 🤨I almost can't believe Niall Ferguson said Gen Z didn't get the message about why Hilter was bad. If they didn't, why do they never tire of calling people who want to discuss whether the current immigration levels are appropriate "fascists" and "Na--s"?
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  11005. She is popular, I'm glad to say. "Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has an approval rating of 48 per cent, the fourth-highest among the 22 world leaders monitored by Morning Consult, a US-based global decision intelligence company."—Jan 19, 2023 And here you are, modelling Trudeau's awful behaviour. Why don't you run along to CNN, MSNBC, etc.?
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  11006.  @RoseAtabey  Trump isn't far-right either. He was a lifelong Democrat until he'd had a bellyful of Obama. Bill & Hillary attended his wedding to Melania at Mar-a-Lago. The liberal media were ok with his politics. And he hasn't changed much since those days. Moreover, a great many American conservatives find him not even authentically conservative, let alone far-right. Your implication that he resembles Hilter at all arises out of profound naïveté or else cynical disingenuousness.
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  11007.  @misamisatv  Nice argumentum ad baculum. 🙄
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  11008.  @arthurkjr  Liberal media: "Democracy! Democracy! Democracy! Democracy! Democracy!" Liberal media when a conservative party wins an election: "Threat to democracy!" Liberal media when the Liberal Party tramples Canadians' rights: [crickets] The liberal media, according to the classic definition, are actually illiberal. You're badly misinformed about a whole dictionary full of words. It's all part of The Great Dumbening.
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  11009.  @robertcanavan2712  Diving into capitalism is nothing less than an admission of the inadequacy of communism. They're beginning to reverse course back to Maoism now, which shows you it's been about authoritarianism all along.
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  11010.  @IB4U2Cme  How can you ask? How on Earth? Yes, it is good to deny financial support to the hostile, totalitarian, dangerous Xi regime.
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  11011. ​ @IB4U2Cme  Thank you for your reply. In no order: 1. You may deal with the devil all you like; others may do it as little as they like. That's the nice thing about a boycott. It is an individual voluntary action. 2. Boycotting is not always about knowing the supplier and their dirty secrets. In this instance, for me, it's about not wishing to support the CCP and the Xi regime, which is hostile to my country and by extension to me. It has nothing to do with Chinese manufacturers and their secrets (although they most certainly have them). In like manner I would not have been buying German products in 1942, even if they were available (which they presumably weren't) or Soviet goods in 1975. 3. What I consider a reasonably non-exploitative wage depends on what food, housing and other normal purchases cost in the country concerned. 4. As for how much more I am willing to pay in order to avoid buying Chinese, 5, 10, and 20% all sound workable to me. But it isn't necessary in all instances. The shirt from Bangladesh costs no more than the Chinese one. But when my (Chinese) salad spinner broke this summer and I needed a new one, I paid twice as much for one from Italy ($28, I think) than the Chinese alternative next to it cost. It felt good. (And the salad spinner is certainly very nice indeed.) The story is similar for my hammer, pots and pans, headphones, and many other things I've bought in the past few years. Perhaps you just have warmer feelings about the government of China than I do. Cheers.
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  11012.  @johnnykwon8173  Chinese people in the US are doing very well as far as I know. They have been welcomed into business, into universities, into all areas of life, into Americans' homes and lives as friends and as romantic partners. They enjoy security and prosperity and are widely admired for their success (although by one group in particular bitterly envied). As for opiates (actually, opioids), Chinese authorities (translation: Party headquarters in Beijing, and President Xi's office) have done nothing to stem the export of Fentanyl and Carfentanyl to the US and other Western countries. Online, their supporters crow about the sweetness of this revenge for Western actions in China one to two centuries ago. Nice try at painting the Chinese as victims of foreigners. It's exactly the strategy used in Germany in the 1930s to convince the people it was time to go to war. Thanks for the Global Times point of view.
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  11013.  @IB4U2Cme  Thanks for your interesting reply. The question of whether it's good to buy from a country whose regime and labour practices one wholly disapproves of can be quite difficult when one considers that it might raise workers there out of deepest poverty. But I didn't understand your very last sentence fully. (Also, not very important to the discussion, but: Yes, boycotts are an individual choice, but not necessarily a strictly private one, or one which politeness forbids discussion of. A little debate or a little extolling a position is safely far from coercion, intrusiveness, or any impropriety, I think.)
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  11014. People in British Columbia must be so glad the Fulsome Twosome left after barely two months. Who needs them?
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  11015. What's with the sub-par speech from people who speak for a living on TV? 'Cellist' pronounced sellist? Instead of 'he was attacked,' "he had an attack"?  You're kidding me. Did these people make it past 4th grade in school?
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  11016. @4everBroadwayfan Thanks, but that party membership number doesn't help much. Which is ok, I can find out what I want to know without much trouble. You give off something that tells me Orwell's non-fiction would be your kind of thing. As a man who embraced Marxism (up to a point but not thoroughly) then dumped it, he takes you through his deliberations (though not always in so many words) . The essays, first of all, then Down and Out in London and Paris, then Road to Wigan Pier, but read them in any order you like. (Animal Farm and 1984 are to Orwell's best work what T.S. Eliot's The Book of Practical Cats is to The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock---more famous, not as good.)
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  11017. More likely a simmering personal enmity.
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  11018. I wouldn't be so quick to assume, as that Russian source does, that secondary sanctions on Russian oil would send world prices up, at least not for long. There would be a spike when the news broke but it would be ephemeral. There's a lot of spare production capacity worldwide right now.
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  11019.  @mantabond  Ah, I think you quite like him. Hey, you're not one of those f'in teachers, are you?
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  11020. His mic dispenses product.
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  11021. Yes, but it relied exclusively on one source. It loses points for that. I liked it though.
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  11022.  @carlzipperman6689  He looks like he should be asking if you want a date square with your latte.
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  11023.  @user-sx4jb6xu9t  I wouldn't leave him alone with my dog.
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  11024. He made a couple of million from book sales over the past three years, but before that he was worth an estimated $100-300k. He was very broke and sometimes on public assistance till about the age of 40, when he became a mayor---and remained pretty poor afterward too, till becoming a senator.
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  11025.  @kerrynisbet1514  Mm-hmm.
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  11026.  @cameronspence4977  I think u clicked the wrong reply button. But what you wrote makes total sense to me.
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  11027. The worst is when pregnant women drink. The babies' brains and very genes are damaged and they go through life with major behavioural problems causing constant misery for themselves, others, and society. On top of that, they pass down the damaged genes to offspring, polluting the species progressively over time. There's even a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome face (and it's not good-looking, that's for sure).
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  11028.  @anjaanka_01.  "What does the consumption of alcohol have to do with politics?" Really? How can you ask?
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  11029. It's not over, dude. But thanks for the Global Times point of view.
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  11030. I can't rule out the possibility that if Trump keeps favoring Russia and maintains his very tough stance on Ukraine, yet Putin remains intransigent in peace talks, he is ready to turn on Putin and side strongly with Ukraine. Recall that he has pledged multiple times to do just that. Putin would be absolutely unable to claim bias against Russia.
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  11031.  @timothyofcox2450  I'll oppose unfairness against anyone. I can't, however, excuse your qualified support of fascism. None for me, thanks.
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  11032.  @timothyofcox2450  But you wrote "I don't mind fascism, when [etc.]" Write that without meaning it and you're just begging to be misunderstood. Whatevs.
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  11033.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  Which amounts to fighting extremism with extremism. That is just not for me. The sword if need be, but the pen for as long as possible. It tends to be mightier.
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  11034. Wrong. One "big guy" is attacking global security, the other (Biden) is dedicated to preserving it. Your assertion is pure, classic, state-sponsored propaganda designed to eradicate belief in anything, and isn't worth the two cents you got for it.
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  11035. Quick, someone draft Julia Louis-Dreyfus to run and save the world from Kringela Harris. Please.
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  11036. Ok, AKmed.
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  11037. Why is Hippocrates' Oath for doctors only? Why on earth cannot developers of AI be likewise obliged to First, Do No Harm? If a doctor does harm, after all, the worst that can result is a single dead patient. AI might result in 8 billion dead. My modest proposal: Adoption of this splendid oath on a great scale. We start by forcing it on far-left activists and social engineers of all types. We swiftly move on to politicians, prostitutes, screenwriters and, in the nick of time, programmers.
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  11038. NATO missed a chance at a "permanent peace with Russia," you say.😂 My heavens, you do have an awfully high opinion of Putin. (Did you believe in a 'permanent peace' with ISIS too?) Canvass the opinions of people in Russia's many neighbouring countries, like Finland, Poland, Georgia, the Baltic states and all the rest. You may learn something from their centuries of experience.
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  11039. I don't like it either. But the US and Western Europe shouldn't be pushing him towards China. Their tactics are disgraceful. Would his communist opponents likely be any cooler to China, btw?
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  11040. "Female" is not a job qualification.
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  11041. Oh, don't tell him. He'll be crushed.🙄 "No! Not Daniel Dashnaw! It can't be!" he'd say. "Why even go on?"
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  11042.  @Hazleton1376  Hey thank you.
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  11043. Nation to Andrews: Drop Dead. (Cf. New York Daily News front page headline, Oct. 1975, regarding Gerald Ford and NYC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Daily_News)
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  11044. Kringela.
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  11045.  @blairmulholland  Ok, sure. But don't you see?—it's all part of the Kringeosphere. Or Kringeiverse, if you will.
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  11046. Dear Global News: 32 months ago was mid-December 2021.🙄
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  11047.  @garyvandenbrink3664  Ok, but you're raising a different point unrelated to my straightforward correction.
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  11048. I would rather a war's beginning be dated from the crossing of troops into territory which is being surrendered, if that comes first, rather than by the outbreak of shooting or a formal war declaration. A lot of territory had been taken at gunpoint prior to September 1, 1939. The Anschluss is particularly glaring simply for its scale.
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  11049.  @jeffn8218  Up to a point it was. Hitler threatened invasion in order to stop the referendum. The Wehrmacht poured into Austria uninvited.
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  11050.  @jeffn8218  No one will contradict you there.
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  11051.  @jessescarr  He only now has 153 of 338 seats. So 30% support would be 101. There are easily 52 of his members wanting him to go. Over 20 are publicly demanding it. So actually I'll go further and say about 120/153 want him gone now or very soon, the rest of them being just 10% of the House.
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  11052. You failed to notice the video is 7+ years old.
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  11053. Don't be either. Just build your sanity and what other people do can neither tempt nor repulse you: your sanity will be your light. But I guess you're off to a start, kind of.👍
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  11054.  @captiveexile2670  Since you're wondering about getting a bullet in the head after speaking up, I will point out that China is a great place to experience just that. And Russia's not bad either, but may substitute radioactive tea. Is neither your style? Then try an Arab country. Hope this helps. Cheers.
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  11055. World Pencil Association: "Please leave pencils out of any sentence mentioning Adam Schiff. Thank you."
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  11056.  @МаксимЕвдокимов-т2ь  Maxim, when the government has absolute power over everyone else, it necessarily embarks upon abusing them terribly. The rotted bones of tens of millions people killed by their own government in the past century attests to that. Wait, correction: 1917 was 102 years ago. You've heard of it, of course. Cheers.
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  11057.  @МаксимЕвдокимов-т2ь  They say Russians are born to be ruled, rather like a little boy under his father's roof. Would you agree?
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  11058.  @checkfactschecking  That's where you're wrong. It's not something. (Except in the incredibly limited sense that this time it wasn't so one-sided.) It's hand-waving and sanctimony, which count for nothing. If one knows that none of the parties involved is interested — and I'm talking zero chance — pretending to address them is entirely for one's own pleasure and benefit.
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  11059.  @uplandknight5782  👍Yep, just more horse ca-ca from the Moralizer- and Divider-in-Chief.
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  11060.  @ceridangauv3955  For a ceasefire? There was a ceasefire. H^m^s broke it on October 7th.
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  11061. Skankerrific.
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  11062. Wow, what a coincidence how closely worded that is to the comment three comments above from "Choose Wisely": "Really puts the cry babies in North America who are upset about having to get a vaccination and put on a mask in perspective." Right down to making 'crybabies' two separate words. Hmm. Now what are the odds of that? Congratulations, "Jason": 2 x 50 cents = 1 whole dollar.
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  11063. Hey, Sky News, Ontario is not in the US. Edit that bloody title, then fire your copy editor.
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  11064. Ok, Sergei.
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  11065. I spotted a bullet hole in the left door, so I went back to see when it appeared. Turns out it was there to begin with. You can see why they have an armed guard.
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  11066.  @scottbarbour9745  Ah, but they do. If she's not ipso facto proof, take a look at the creature on his way out of the Oval Office. Looks like belief formation in Canada could use a little less state oversight.😂
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  11067. ​ @HouseofBurgessesLR  I'm off by a couple of unimportant words, so look it up before using. Same meaning though.
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  11068. Sounds like the shoe definitely doesn't fit. So don't wear it. Simple. Give yourself a well-earned pat on the back and carry on.
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  11069.  @prakashbhushan7561  Uh, it appears you missed my capital-L in "Liberal." There can't possibly be any objection to calling her a Liberal. It matters which party a politician belongs to!
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  11070.  @rtoma76  Or she got briefed but has a hard time remembering stuff, not being so close to hyperintelligent.
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  11071. That diagram at the end was golden. Thanks Dave.
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  11072. He's not the Chief. Correct this video title.
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  11073. Never ask a G^^^n why over 80% of them swear loyalty to H^^^s.
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  11074.  BillyJoeMcallister  Tell it to your TA next time you see her. (Probably at a stuffy church basement meeting of the International Socialists in Portland.) You can't "occupy" or "colonize" your own homeland, one where your people have been continuously for 3,900 or 4,000 years. And it's the P's who are the Neo-N's. Very obviously.
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  11075.  @negril7446  My point wasn't that they shouldn't be making a living. It was to comment on their commitments and priorities. Enthusiasm for enterprise doesn't tend to mix terribly well with doing something for one's community, because it's mainly to do with doing something for oneself. The best thing enterprise does for communities is to provide jobs, but a YouTube channel seldom creates many of those. (Not that I'm slagging a one- or two-person YT operation that makes good money. I definitely call that a good outcome.)
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  11076. Ukraine has been destroying enemy artillery at a run-rate of around 2,000 a month.😮 Incredible.👏 But I fear Russia's abetters in the Authoritarian Axis will come to its aid.
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  11077.  @yearight5303  Ok, Herr Doktor Frankenstein, but that day is not here, nor is it close. By the time it is, you'll also be able to get your brain redone so it measures up to Einstein's, and your face so it's identical to whichever descendant of the Kardashians you find most attractive. If we get there we should call them The God Days, but bear in mind that by that time inequality will far surpass even that of the PRC today. In all these aspects it sounds grotesque to me. Look into what one man thinks that'll look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_Tomorrow
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  11078.  @vincegalila7211  No. Ethnic and racial hatreds are always unacceptable and always for the same reasons. Stop spreading hate, please and thank you.
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  11079. I think he did it to keep Ukraine in existence, which it literally has. Ukraine would be long gone by now.
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  11080. NYU has a library now?🤨 Truly this is an age of wonders.
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  11081. War is like chess. One piece isn't going to spell victory. It's about all your pieces working wonderfully well together, right down to your pawns. So the A-10 could see spot use. It's suited to war zones where the enemy is limited to armor and infantry and has light air defences. It's slow and it flies low. However, where air defence is thought to have been knocked out, where Ukraine's own air defences against incoming Russian aircraft and missiles are strong, and where the potential benefit makes the risks worth it, it might make a solid contribution.
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  11082. There was such a glut of supply pre-Covid (to March last year). Did so much capacity really disappear that quickly? Or are we in fact seeing real producer solidarity to hold back? If so, will it evaporate at $90? $100? Is it fading right now?
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  11083. Most cops ARE like that. They will make very sparing use of their new powers, I think you can count on it.
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  11084. Gibbon really must find a way to not interrupt his guests after giving them three seconds to reply. And then he often says things that amount to "Aren't you lying when you say that?" or "We can all see what a failure you are." I can't stand Swinson at all, but it's boorish treatment in my view. It scarcely needs pointing out that he treats Conservatives much worse yet.
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  11085. Once the direction of the DoD has been 180'ed by Sec. Hegseth, he might be replaced before Trump's term ends. The best choice to succeed him might be Gen. Jack Keane.
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  11086.  @nelsonmcatee3721  Your points are well taken. I must say though that I always thought those words of Jesus were more in the spirit of a lament than an endorsement. Perhaps I was wrong.
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  11087.  @sharpenflat6002  Really? He told me you should swim out to sea.
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  11088.  @roystake6081  See MedCram Coronavirus Update #106 on YT for an explication of the 94%/6% death certificate data breakout. In a nutshell, he says the 6% should have been 0%, as the listed proximal cause of death should never be Covid-19. It should always be pneumonia, renal failure, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, stroke, heart attack, etc. That's how death certificates should be filled out, he says, and the 6% were simply botched by doctors spread out across the US. The findings were not really built by the CDC; they were merely a tabulation of doctor reports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TECf3xSFbU&t=632s
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  11089.  @grantperkins368  He's being sarcastic.
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  11090.  @benmm8244  Your sarcasm detector is set too low.
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  11091.  @neuromancer5703  No, you're just not hearing his sarcasm.
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  11092.  @thegeneralist7527  He's pretending to be an idiot in order to make a point.
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  11093.  @Em-who-me  Severe Acute, not Sudden Acute.
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  11094. Wrong, it is actually a lot more deadly than a mild season of the influenza. The influenza mortality rate averages about 0.1%. The Covid-19 mortality rate appears to be 0.3% to 0.6%, or three to six times worse. The 884 k deaths from 27.1m confirmed cases yields a crude case fatality rate (CFR) of 3.2%. This must then be adjusted for unconfirmed infections. These are estimated by checking people randomly for antibodies in so-called antibody seroprevalence studies. So far these are implying around 5 to 10 unconfirmed cases for every confirmed case. Therefore a good mortality rate estimate is obtained by dividing 3.2% by 5 to 10, yielding 0.3% to 0.6%. It's too soon to tell for sure, but it looks like the higher end is a little more likely at this point.
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  11095.  @roystake6081  You didn't read my reply. It offers you expert help with interpreting that CDC report. Try reading it. Better yet, click the link to Dr. Roger Seheult's video, where I got this perspective. He's brilliant and fair and stubbornly apolitical.
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  11096.  @thegeneralist7527  To be honest, I suspect Freddie simply admires Cowen for his libertarian stance (and it's his perfect right) but let that admiration unduly influence him to invite him on to discuss Covid-19. Oh, well, everybody makes mistakes.
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  11097.  @roystake6081  I got a notification of your reply to Marshall Eisenberg and I notice you still haven't read what I've written to you. You're certainly not paying it any heed, anyway. Do have a look!
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  11098.  ecwaufisxtreme  Ok, I enjoyed your satire and laughed, but give it a rest now.
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  11099.  @thegeneralist7527  Scott Adams, good example.
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  11100. Further incontrovertible proof, as if any were needed, that most of the venom directed ordinarily and habitually at men is just that: venom directed at men, and because they're men. A man would be tossed from caucus by now. Might he not also face even worse things?
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  11101.  @guydreamr  For such a bright guy you don't read very carefully. I said there's nothing special about people speaking English at an IR faculty in a non-English speaking country. You thought you were correcting me, when you were really just telling me what I already told you. At least we agree.
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  11102.  @ramrod9556  Concerning airports and aviation, there are major limits to that. Air traffic controllers in their home countries often use their own language with native-born pilots. A lot of French, German and Mandarin, e.g., is spoken in commercial aviation. It's true that few if any airports with international flights have no controllers fluent in English.
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  11103. Police warn the public they should not be approached but should be considered very nice and expensive-smelling around their loins.😂😂
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  11104. Let's stop referring to the problem as inflation and start saying what it really is: a lower standard of living. Original: "Canadians are struggling with inflation." Corrected version: "Canadians are struggling with their lower standard of living."
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  11105. I don't think it's enough to cover any sort of rent. (This may not be true everywhere.)
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  11106. In a classic Simpsons moment, the elderly Jasper got his beard caught in a countertop manual pencil sharpener. All he could think of to try freeing it was to turn the crank a little more. Over and over he did the same thing, the sharpener pulling in more beard each time. Putin's war is Jasper's beard. NATO is the sharpener. Putin is Jasper.
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  11107.  @Jamie-uk2zh  Galloway 😂 A man who really knows how to put a gallon away. [Glug-glug] 🤣
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  11108.  potentialily  Not to my ears, but it's like they moved there 30 years ago.
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  11109. It finally dawned on me recently that the part of the world which Russia most resembles in political mindset is Africa.
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  11110.  @martythemartian99   I don't agree on the significance of much of all that. But I could fully agree and still give the US an F—or perhaps in a cross moment a D-minus—for its evil-empireness. For some reason I remain amazed that so many people fall into the moralist trap of comparing the US in its aspect as the world's leading nation to some imaginary country of ethereal beings. It can never be anything other than a real country of flesh-and-blood people. Thus it must only ever be compared with other possible world-leading nations. And how would the world be working out with China or the USSR/Russia calling the shots? I can't help adding that it is allowing Mexico to slowly reconquer the Southwest.
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  11111. I disagree. I think he'd make a nice average McDonald's manager.
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  11112. This interviewer, who asks a question, then allows five seconds of response before interrupting to ask another, or to make a comment or contradiction, is a perfect swine. I would love to see him punched very hard in his contemptible mouth.
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  11113.  @marcbloch1963  😢
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  11114. By tradition this annual event is supposed to have a roast-style atmosphere of very sharp but overall good-natured zingers, somewhat like the WH Correspondents Dinner. This clip wasn't one of the funnier parts though. For long stretches he was quite witty and had most or at least many in the room laughing.
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  11115. I saw Konstantin Kisin, whom Thickens grossly and gratuitously insulted to his face in a debate at UnHerd a couple of weeks ago ("I'm sorry you're so young!"), say the same thing a few nights ago on the Morgan program.
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  11116.  @SagaciousFrank  I just love how now that Russia and Iran are starting wars, those who oppose them are accused of wanting wars. I see through the accusers like a pane of glass. Likewise Peter Hitchens, a man not up to the task of sorting out his own head. Once and for many years a Trotskyist and tankie, so he's very experienced at confusion. Now a fearful old...what? Sentimentalist? Pacifist? "Realist"? Reluctant pro-Putinist? Would-be éminence grise of the Versailles-1919 type, ready after long days of drink and cigars to wipe Ukraine off the map? PTSD case? Crank?   He doesn't know, but he feels very strongly about it. (I say he's all of those things.)
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  11117.  @billybloggs3214  lol Don't you remember when he messed up quoting the Declaration of Independence so badly he just said "You know the thing"? I'm not even American and I could do it! Dude just needs to retire. He reminds me of Weekend at Bernie's. Or the last days of Glen Campbell. Cheers, my man.
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  11118. The comments here with the most replies are those that the Russian govt. workers feel both wounded by and afraid of.
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  11119. Other reports confirm he's picking off YouTube propagandists 18 hours a day.
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  11120.  @IusedtohaveausernameIliked  I think we'll see some more countries coming out to explicitly support Ukraine before long. Many more supported the UN resolution two weeks ago which named Russia as the aggressor nation than voted Yes on the UN resolution in March 2022 which condemned Russia. Notably, this included China and India. A lot of people in developing countries resent the West for its wealth, but a sense of decency will prevail.
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  11121. ​ @IusedtohaveausernameIliked  I repeat, that's not what it is. It's hatred of the West, whipped up by propaganda worldwide on every conceivable communications platform for decades now—by China, Russia, Iran and certain other ME nations; N. Korea as well. If you've heard all your life that the West is evil and deliberately causes your low standard of living, you are somewhat or very likely to celebrate anything which the West condemns. Even if, like the Ukraine War, it's vicious brutality on a great scale. Propaganda works. (It is of course thick with outrageous slander, but I will allow that the Iraq War was completely wrong and is costing the US and its allies to this day in many ways. In money terms, the oft-cited trillion dollars is now far, far out of date, and many trillions more in indirect costs are yet to be added. The future of Western prosperity will rest on its reputation as much as anything else.)
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  11122.  @SterileNeutrino  That sounds like something every Russian mother teaches her babies as soon as they can speak.
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  11123.  @Sinner85  What is that?
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  11124. Tucker asks why Biden attacked Russia, not China. That's no mystery. Just take a look at the skin colour of Russians.
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  11125.  @KenJackson_US  The question is in the name of the video: Why Russia and not China? And my answer is: It's because the Democratic Party will not attack anyone if they are non-white. I did try to be clear about what I meant.
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  11126. I love how Peterson pulls no punches. It's high time more people did the same.
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  11127. Yeah, but smell isn't everything.
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  11128. Uh, what are these millions of men who've flooded in — they're overwhelmingly single men — what are they doing for women?🤨 From experience I can report that when a man crosses an international border alone, his interest in women does not evaporate. Indeed, it tends to intensify somewhat.
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  11129.  @JB-pd3ir  Was it a bad idea?
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  11130.  @JB-pd3ir  I just thought you were upset I mentioned Partition in India. But thanks for that reply. What a miserable subject, eh?
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  11131. In time, depending on what happens, you could see the Model 3's price drift back down in that direction. Remember, that was its base price just two years ago. It went up sharply not because costs rose, at least not primarily. It went up because demand indicated they were letting it go for far too little. There are various competition- and production-related reasons they could potentially have to adjust the price back down, while still making a good mark-up.
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  11132. Halloween is really a celebration of innocence, as well as an excuse for harmless merriment. It is not a celebration of death. Your outlandish wild guess about its significance bears no relation to reality. It comes out of your scattershot knowledge, limited imagination and clearly your personality.
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  11133.  @richardhunt3051  Look what fanaticism has done to you. smh
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  11134. An additional reason to continue delaying my first-ever Amazon purchase indefinitely.👍
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  11135.  @rorus9530  You tell 'im, Rory.
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  11136. I'm one of Musk's strong admirers, but I find him misguided here and I have an idea of perhaps why. Numerous publications (Bloomberg, Newsweek, The Independent, The New Yorker, etc.) attribute some credibility to reports, denied by Musk, that around the time of the invasion he talked by phone with Putin, who told him he was willing to use nukes if thwarted in his aims in Ukraine. I bet that's what did it. (Musk went ahead and provided Starlink service to Ukraine anyway—free for the better part of a year, and at a discount since then—which I think was an exemplary move. Without his help it's likely Russia would've annexed most of Ukraine in short order, reducing it to a rump state with Lvov as its capital.)  So I'm saying that Musk is seriously spooked about standing up to the Russia-China-Iran-North Korea axis. He thinks they totally mean business and will escalate with few to no limits. War terrifies him. Of course, Putin is very, very good at issuing threats and having them taken seriously, and for this reason I can't really blame Musk. Even the US government and NATO are clearly somewhat intimidated. For my part, I too think the authoritarian axis means business. I think they likely are indeed willing to start wars all over the place. I am close to saying eagerly intent on. But I differ with Musk nonetheless. Standing up to them isn't optional. If the US and the other democratic countries don't, then we'll be finished in relatively short order: China, Russia and Iran will basically start running the world. Thinking resistance extremely dangerous, the vast majority of lesser powers will quickly submit to the turning tide. The West will be thus isolated, marginalized, rapidly impoverished and soon under direct threat itself. And fewer than ten years might suffice for all this to materialize. For these reasons, I see this as not only the best but probably the only time to stand up for ourselves and for a world where people can for the most part breathe free. Before very long it would likely be too late. We have everything to lose, so the choice right now is to oppose or capitulate.
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  11137. Welcome to the fake acct foreign tee-roll comments pasture. Wear shoes you can hose off afterwards.
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  11138. Frenemy alliance between two terrorist states.
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  11139.  @lastthingsministry  Very true, very sharp of you if I may say. Although maybe one is on shaky ground as a celeb at those heights and must really watch one's step. One false move on Mustique and Mick is on his way back to Britain or the States thoroughly chastened. I don't know, seems precarious and not bankable. Somewhere on YT, btw, there's a long documentary of a tell-all type on Margaret and Mustique, almost a bit raunchy at times, made maybe 30-40 years ago and a good piece of work. Somewhat otherworldly as I remember it. Thanks for your interesting post.
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  11140. Welker just lobs softballs at Whitmer here and allows her to blab on and on and on with word-salad talking points. Pretending to conduct a real interview but really just handing out free air time. In truth this was an undeclared campaign contribution from NBC to H🅰rri⚡.
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  11141. One of the better speculations I've heard. Bitcoin, Fentanyl, campus Neo-marxism, SARS CoV-2—all of them strike me as Chinese imports, not just some of them. All of them look like ways of turning Western strengths into weaknesses.
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  11142. Maybe there was no one there.
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  11143.  @Lastmashstanding  It's always possible. It depends a lot on what parents have been saying to their kids in private. No one knows for sure. Thanks for spreading some hope.
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  11144.  @Asubatsu  Wtf? You don't know a thing about my opinions on Trudeau, the globalists, China and the UN. Sorry, but your talent for speculation is a big fat zero.
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  11145.  @deadreckoning6288  They all matter, depending on who you are, but I have no problem with where you're putting your emphasis. Do keep it up.
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  11146.  @gillps5130  I do think major mistakes were made. Govt borrowing was too high. I disapprove of mandates and passports. The media were simply awful. But we didn't bear much resemblance to Oz or NZ, except maybe in the spring of 2020 in some parts of the country. No pepper-spraying little girls in the face. The police forces of Ontario rejected extra powers offered them. Protests and marches weren't restricted (unless I'm forgetting something). Maybe things were worse in your province and I didn't hear about it.
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  11147.  @lynnfiloso5013  Ok, Dr. Science.
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  11148. ​ @lynnfiloso5013  Isn't there? "Try using some common sense" doesn't sound like any form of politeness I'm familiar with.
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  11149. See what bad drugs'll do to ya? 😄 Stay off them, boys & girls.
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  11150. There may be a low chance of biological aliens zooming around. Space travel with wetware accommodations is prohibitively expensive. It would take a small fraction of the resources to send highly advanced droids.
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  11151. The US doesn't give Canada any money. That's made-up. (See also "Mexico will pay for the wall." He makes things up.)
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  11152. I bet he's got some additional sexual misconduct accusations lurking out there, on top of the ones he deflected a few years ago with a barrage of phony woke posturing. It worked so great that he now wears his wokeness like protective armor. Imagine being one of his victims. Knowing he's woke and protected, you'd remain silent. Cunning little man.
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  11153. And desalinate water with it. (Then refine gold out of the slurry. One ton per cubic mile of raw seawater.)
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  11154. You're beginning to sound like a Kremlin spokesperson. In fact, no one ever said sanctions are economic nukes. They are a slow poison, inducing economic anemia which is at first mild, then acute. The target gradually weakens, languishing in bed as its muscles waste. Russia, economically stunted since 2014 despite its wealth potential, now faces distinct impoverishment.
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  11155. ​ @Jamie-Z  The ruble is up for two reasons: Imports have plunged spectacularly (hacking away at living standards) and the country is rapidly burning through its foreign currency reserves. Thus it resembles an aircraft which is pointed upwards but has lost lift—a stall is imminent.  (The dollar meanwhile has risen against the major currencies.) Please excuse my troubling you with facts.
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  11156. Women are the natural moral leaders of humanity. That's what society has taught me since I was a little boy, anyway.
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  11157.  @ВладимирМаевский-о7х  Low, mindless vatnik-ism. It's your country that's been copying wholesale from the WWII Axis handbook. I can see you would've made a great Bavarian hausfrau in 1938 indeed.
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  11158. Pure histrionics on your part. These are people legitimately and honourably concerned for the future of political liberty in the US. Just breathe.
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  11159.  @losttribe9107  True. Baerbock is a Green in love with her own authoritarian spirit. See her here on DW scolding the interviewer for bothering her with fair questions about a week ago. "You vill not repeat kvestion! You vill accept mein BS evasion answer! You vill listen! "
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  11160. 44:55 Does anyone know what the devil Prof. Jefferson is on about in the final minute? I cannot make out his meaning.
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  11161. Hahaha Excellent.
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  11162. Breaking News: Toronto blacks riot and protest over black violence, gangs and crime in the city, saying it must end now! Nah, I made that up. Not something that would ever happen.
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  11163. Zero tax dollars and zero cents. Donated by a European country. Please, accuracy and honesty matter.
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  11164.  @josephthurman2062  I heard that when nurses in psychiatric hospitals catch an inmate using the internet, the punishment is severe. Watch out.
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  11165. Give the man what he needs. Save Ukrainian lives.
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  11166. Latest: Scarborough outdid himself again by complaining that butter is $3 a pound. When informed that it's actually $7 a pound, he was in a state of disbelief. He's simply out of touch with nearly all reality.
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  11167. Earlier today they were given a prolonged standing ovation by members of the Bundestag. (They were gathered to hear Chancellor Scholz, whose address on the war I found stirring.)
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  11168. Claims heard multiple times on 1420: "Russians are the freest people in the world" "Russia has never started a war with another country" "Russia is the world's most peaceful country" Now: "Russia is the richest country in the world" Coming soon: "Russia has a population greater than all other countries combined"
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  11169.  @dustintacohands1107  Yes it does. 🎯
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  11170. Hard to say. Ford did go from totally powerless and in deep jeopardy to getting a top-level meeting on Thursday, which is something, but we have to see how that meeting goes.
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  11171. Stalinesque tyrannical instinct is wherever you find it. It's all about hateful bullies hatefully bullying others in the name of anti-bullying. And yes, it's dangerous. You think they're heroes till you find they've made the world safe for bullying for anyone, because bullying loses its bad name. Then someone comes for you. Peterson is very interested in your rights and freedoms and, I think, is happy, nay eager, to stand up for them unless your claims reach the point of unfairness to others, or absurdity. And rights, alas, aren't absolute and infinite. It's about a civil, good-faith debate on the exact placement of the lines that need to be drawn. Not about who gets to have all the power, not about shutting others up. I assert those are values that will stand the test of time. Abandon them and invite a future where Trump looks like Bob Rae by comparison. All the best.
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  11172. This, ironically, is a media report on the consequences of media reporting in 2020-22. That's when they gave favorable coverage to rioters, to demands to "defund" the police, to demands to stop putting convicted criminals in jail, to a wave of left-wing pressure for ordinary decent people to bow down at the feet of the worst people. Never pay any heed to ridicule of the idea of 'slippery slopes.' History is little else but a chronicle of them.
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  11173. ...in both the adjectival and nominal sense of the word. I thought I should endorse your remark in its formal linguistic aspect, just for good measure.😄
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  11174. I died when you showed the Refresh symbol. 🤣😆 Omg, that's a really good sense of humour for a serious moment. 👏🏻👏🏻
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  11175. Certainly not and certainly not, in that order. I'm predicting an S&P bottom of 1,200 to 1,400. But in 18-24 months it'll be a party like we've never seen. The Great Reflation is gonna be great.
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  11176. I suppose you're looking at pictures of him on vacation a year or two ago. He lost weight since then and has been looking pretty trim in recent months. I think your assertion is out of date.
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  11177. ​ @justanothernick3984  Well, for one thing he's been training in multiple martial arts disciplines from time to time since Zucky was in diapers. The latter took up such training only in 2020 at 36. "Musk has trained in Kyokushin karate, taekwondo, judo and 'Brazilian jiu-jitsu briefly' throughout his life, he revealed on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he has also shared a photo of himself fighting a sumo wrestler in the past."—Daily Mail. He lost to his 350-lb. opponent, but he won the first round, in which he actually lifted the sumo champion up and threw him. For another, he has a large size advantage including about 6" in height and at least 30 lbs. in weight. How strong can a guy be who's 5'7" and 155? When Musk was a young adult he worked as a manual labourer on a farm on the Canadian prairies and in a sawmill in British Columbia. As you may know, a lot of one's strength when young can easily be regained through training. When Zucky was a young adult, his exercise consisted of tapping a keyboard in his dorm room. It seems to me that the outcome will depend a lot on what kind of shape Musk is in, by which I mean the results of his recent strength training and his cardiovascular capacity.
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  11178.  @hardinFrisco  Look who's talking! Omg, Biden. Omg, Harris.🤣Omg, Obama... Stop this bickering, our countries are friends and neighbors and will remain exactly that.
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  11179.  @hardinFrisco  Haha, thanks. The important thing is we've both got a fresh start coming! Good luck and make the most of it, dammit!😄
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  11180. Do not believe the petrodollar hype. Saudi Arabia will go right on selling the overwhelming majority of its oil for dollars. No close observers of Saudi Arabia, global trade or the oil industry expect otherwise. The KSA has merely said it is free to accept other currencies. It still strongly prefers dollars.
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  11181. Comparing military budgets based on market exchange rates is entirely misguided. The nearly worthless ruble and undervalued Chinese yuan make their budgets look far smaller than they really are. Russia's economy is nearly the size of Germany's at the PPP exchange rate, which values the ruble on what buys in goods and services within Russia, and ignores what it buys abroad. The same thing goes for China. Its military spending is far closer to that of the US than these figures shown in the video make it appear.
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  11182.  @carpenter3069  It's nothing to do with the US holding anybody hostage. The world chooses to conduct trade in US dollars of its own volition, simply because no other currency is as reliable. This would change the moment traders decided to change to another currency, and they are free to do so. It is true, however, that the dollar system prevails for petroleum due to a 1973 agreement between the US and OPEC.
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  11183. An obvious site for a parley would be in Turkey, either in Istanbul or at a small and easily-secured resort town. Despite being a NATO member, Turkey has well-established relations with Russia. It has also sold weapons systems to Ukraine during the war. Erdogan would be most eager to host such a parley for the sake of prestige.
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  11184.  @maninthestreet01  The correct word, correctly spelled and in use in English since the 15th century, is parley. And no other word in English has the same meaning. But thanks.
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  11185. Lovely quote but I think you meant to post it elsewhere, no? Maybe concerning something in the news of late? This video concerns Canadian support for Ukraine.
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  11186. The dumb random and pointless comment by someone who mistakenly thinks they're cool and funny. annoying, waste of time
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  11187.  @62Cristoforo  You would've made a fantastic participant on the night of Nov. 9, 1938.
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  11188. On the face of it, it seems a Europe air travel ban, by reducing the importation of cases, will serve the top priority of slowing the spread, thus keeping the peak hospital load lower than otherwise. Fewer victims needing hospitalization means fewer victims triaged out of intensive care, off ventilators, etc. and thus fewer left under-treated or untreated and facing higher risk of death. Many other measures will of course matter as well, some of them much more. But a simple step which costs little---and would surely save at least a small number of lives---strikes me as worthwhile. In the present context 'a small number' could be many thousands.
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  11189. Nowadays Putin always looks like he's on something. I wonder how many parallels his life has with Michael Jackson's in his last months.
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  11190. I prescribe treatment with a course of ricin, starting with a bolus dose.
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  11191. The Belgian prime minister doesn't see why his people should be burdened with the costs of opposing the war. After all, European security is the responsibility of the United States.
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  11192. 140 countries condemned Russia.
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  11193. How many? 15%? 25? That minority are very fine people, but talk to me when it hits 55. As a robust generality Russians are stuck in feudalism and born to be ruled. Basically their hearts reside in 1900, which is about 1740 in Western terms. Even medieval times still reverberate loudly in their ethos. They panic and sweat if anyone suggests they should be in charge of themselves. Seriously. Pickled in servility to a King (i.e. National Strict Dad) like so many beets in vinegar.
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  11194. Cops have a way of dealing with the worst ones like this in an indirect way. When she's put into the jail population they can just give a discreet nod to an extremely violent prisoner, thereby granting them informal permission to do what they do best, namely commit an assault for the sheer enjoyment of it. They then beat up the new prisoner the first good chance they get.😄
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  11195. What about it makes you suspicious? Maybe I'm not seeing something.
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  11196. It's lunch money compared to the many, many trillions of dollars in present and future American wealth at risk from an unchecked run at world supremacy by China and Russia — along with Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and all the other horrible countries which would support them.
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  11197. Yes. But it's often difficult to make out what he's saying. His microphone is of mediocre quality at best, and he has a way of beginning each sentence in a fairly loud voice which then trails off until finally the last five or six words are quite faint and indistinct.☹
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  11198.  @1001Balance  A rather meager rearguard defence on your part there. For my part, if he were cited for that disobedience I wouldn't object.
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  11199. AI will be to the internet what the internet was to the phone system. That is to say, it will make it look quaint, and also be quaint.
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  11200.  @marc.ristau  I don't think "next big step" covers it. It's more like the last big step, although quantum computing will be embedded in there at some point, so it'll be a two-part step. That'll wrap things up. Hawking, Musk and others saw/see a strong chance of Planet Bot resulting, meaning the extinction of humanity. That's why Musk wants to bail for Mars while there's still time, or might be.
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  11201. Calling Lake Rosseau in the Muskoka Lakes district of Ontario "upstate" is very odd, since Ontario's not a state.🤔
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  11202. It doesn't matter to this story whatsoever. But you should have added that it is a sail training vessel, so as not to baffle readers on top of boring them.
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  11203. Yep, thanks to Trudeau, the illiberal liberal, Canada's authoritarian Erdogan or Viktor Orban.
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  11204.  @demonlemon6454  The algorithm didn't like your opinions, so it cut them off. Try again.
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  11205. Never watched any of them. The hype alienated me from day one. Schmaltz for the masses. The Family Guy version was good though.
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  11206. Seriously bro? I don't think so. The most southerly point in Russia is 41.2 degrees north, about the same as Cleveland, USA on Lake Erie. Only 400km (275 mi.) farther north and you're closer to the North Pole than the equator. Canada, too, has a point about as far south, 41.7 deg. N. and it's not subtropical. It's not even close.
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  11207. Communism was a fairly large threat there in the 30s, too, as it was in the UK and elsewhere. Prosperity is the Rx for that problem. Americans leaning way left right now may not realize it, but their real beef isn't with capitalism, it's with any status quo that isn't promising them a good shot at prosperity. Three good years of economic growth would quiet them entirely. "I missed your cologne" they'd be saying as they threw the sheets aside to let Capitalism back into bed.
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  11208.  @shenzhendrake2429  Due to secrecy, very few people know what's really going on in AI and new weapons in both countries. Maybe no one.
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  11209. I'm certain that if you check the roof of his home you'll find it must be re-tarred.
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  11210. Correct. Even Serbia adamantly refuses to recognize the Donbas as Russian.
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  11211. It's ok not to wave your hands around 100% of the time, Mr. Nielsen.
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  11212.  @markwatson6166  Are you an Australian? If so, that's a decently flattering comparison. Cheers, mate.
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  11213.  @nothankyouYouTube420  Don't be ridiculous. By the same token, telling someone "Don't let anyone tell you what to do" is self-contradictory and paradoxical. But it isn't. Neither is "Be independent-minded."
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  11214. ​ @MirzaAhmed89  Thanks for pointing that out. Ya know, this whole comments section is filled with people who take it fairly easy in their working lives and deep down feel a bit bad about it, so they cope with that by saying how bad it is to work hard. But in fact, again deep down, they admire Musk and his hard-working teams, so they cope with that by viciously criticizing him and flaunting resentment of him. I hope they sort themselves out. "Envy is concealed admiration"—Soren Kierkegaard.
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  11215. Correct. He could breathe. But consider the autopsy findings: One, he died of heart failure. Two, his heart failure was caused by asphyxiation. (And asphyxiation is not necessarily choking --- it is simply a failure, from any cause, of oxygen to reach the tissues. Carbon monoxide poisoning deaths in garages are asphyxiation deaths too, even though the victim can breathe with perfect freedom the whole time, simply by virtue of the fact CO deprives the blood of its capacity to carry oxygen. Technically, a death from a slit throat is an asphyxiation death, too, because oxygen stops being delivered to the brain. Now you know what asphyxiation is all about.) Three, the asphyxiated tissue in question was the brain. When a brain does not receive oxygenated blood it shuts down. When the brain shuts down, it stops sending the nerve signal that makes the heart beat. Four, the cause of the asphyxiated brain tissue was pressure on the arteries of the neck. So according to the autopsy, breathing or not breathing did not enter into it. Pressure on his neck arteries killed him. Drugs and heart disease were listed, I believe, as possible contributing factors, but you might as well check that yourself (don't quote me). You made an important point, though, and I hope my reply was a little bit useful for understanding what happened.
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  11216.  @JaneLike5  Hey, FBMF. All rather murky in my view, but I like the last bit. Had to give a like for that unfashionable point of view.
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  11217. He doesn't sound French-Canadian. Montreal has long been home to countless ethnicities and I take this man for an Eastern European.
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  11218. These major media outlets just seem to trot out dull thinker after dull thinker. The real intelligence seems to have disappeared, along with the disappearance of high-end everything except self-interest, villainy and low taste and style. It was somewhat battered but still around in hope-giving quantities just 15-25 years ago, or even 10.
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  11219. *Colombia But no. China is the new Colombia.
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  11220.  @piman4102  You're so right.👏👏
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  11221. Ok that's amply plausible, but I want more information. Share, please.
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  11222.  @AndreS_22246  I think it's just a manner of speaking. I think never means hardly ever. Like "That guy never tells the truth," which isn't literal, it means he's been caught many times. I see why you read it that way, though.
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  11223. @jp He's simply the guy who rubbed Trump the wrong way. For the CBC to imply he's in any way a moral exemplar is just sick-making. De-fund the CBC now.
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  11224. @jp What? Like the Taliban, the Republican Party, Bjork, Bieber, and ISIS? If they're objectionable, throw money at them?
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  11225.  @greatpower8147  Yes, but it was in the sentence: "Man, didn't we have a hot waitress that one time in Serbia?"
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  11226.  @amcleanYT  Whenever every word of a comment condemns anti-Putinism, I assume it's a Putin-bot who's written it.
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  11227.  @amcleanYT  Any point of view that doesn't condemn Putin deserves only contempt. You support him, so fuh cue.
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  11228.  @amcleanYT  Wise choice. Have a nice life.
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  11229. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
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  11230. If Brand is eventually charged and convicted, that's when I'll say he's just as bad as The Sunday Times and Channel 4.
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  11231.  @mharro88  I wasn't talking about the country, I was talking about JT's political career.
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  11232. ​ @tjcole6249  It's a long story and YT doesn't let me post more than about 100 words. Just know that he hasn't been popular since his first couple of years. 33 and 32% in the last 2 elections.
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  11233. ​ @marijankovacevic8748  Relax. Party leadership race over in 8-10 weeks. New PM sworn in days later. Parliament restarts days after that. Quick non-confidence vote...election in early May.
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  11234. Back five years ago, the govt. consulted both the OPP and the Toronto Police Service before moving ahead with the colour change. Both forces responded with a thumbs up.
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  11235. Ukraine, a nation of MacGyvers.👍 Or should I say MacGyverenkos? 🇺🇦
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  11236.  @JohnDoe-nd6rt  He forgets that Africa was rife with slavery before America was even discovered by Europeans. As they were settling the Americas, Africa basically had a sign up saying "Slaves For Sale." So dude should request Africa be nuked as well. Plus the whole world, or 99%, practised slavery at that time (including tribes in the New World). The guy is a know-nothing violent psycho.
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  11237. Yes, but I think I could read his mind at one point: "Ok, stoner."
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  11238. Thanks for the Russian state viewpoint, Mr. Peskovchik.
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  11239.  @paulinemccarthy8355  "Lebanese perspective"? Shove your hateful racism and lack of respect for diversity. Fucking xenophobe. Bear in mind also that he's now a Canadian, so you need to slag Canada too. And what a laugh, someone like you telling anyone to "stop making up new words and pathologizing other peoples [sic] lived experience to force and justify your ideologies." That's not what he does. That's exactly what your kind does, and has been doing for decades. And that in itself is something else you've all been doing for decades: accusing your opponents of doing something they don't do but which you yourselves do. Read all about yourself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
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  11240.  @richardlloyd385  She's just a messed up great fool.
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  11241. It would be hard for anyone to improve on this. The thirteen minutes passed like five. I haven't seen very much of him before, but none of it was up to this level. So even though it's an easy topic in many ways, I'm guessing he got better. It's like a highlight reel in one take.
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  11242. Keep it up. Do it twice as often. Keep labelling all criticism of any woman or any non-white person sexist and racist. Just keep it up. Please.
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  11243. Profile picture reported for glorification of political violence.👎
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  11244. It's very simple. Trump would quickly put Putin in his place. But he is wisely afraid to say so, since Putin probably has the ability to tilt a close election in the favor of the candidate he prefers. Just a million votes may be enough, and with the billions and billions of Russian state-sponsored posts flooding US social media, Putin can likely achieve just that.
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  11245. What's this (6-minute mark) about the virus "killing 10 million people"? What are you smoking? The official count is ~5.5 million.
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  11246. ...of Belarus into Russia? Yeah, that's most likely coming.
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  11247.  @timothymcintosh2932  Like you, I wish him luck with a capital F.
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  11248. Trudeau: "You don't get it, do you? When I speak with hatred against groups, it's good. I'm a leftist, so whatever I do is good. You have to learn that. If I made a big pot of stew out of baby heads, it would be a good and wholesome act. If one of my political opponents helps an old person cross the street, it's a hate crime. Simple."
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  11249. Next you'll be telling us the US put Russia up to invading Ukraine in the first place, for financial gain. Man, crackpots crack me up.
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  11250. If you are right, then it's not just socialism we could avoid, but perhaps wars also. After all, the greatest war in history was started by the most famous artist in history, a man who was bitter about his inability to earn a living at painting and drawing.
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  11251. Return them to China via weather balloon in wintertime.
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  11252. I once knew a young woman from just outside NYC who was an Ayn Rand libertarian and who did in fact think that streets and roads should be privately owned. But then she moved to the Bay Area. When I saw her on a return trip some years later, she had renounced the belief.
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  11253. No, billionaires who own social media are coincidentally untouchable. Cool how that works, eh?
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  11254. Only a steaming nit could assert that when people sell their three-year-old cars, they're consigning them to the scrapyard. Of course, it's simply a practice inherent in our economic system: the well-to-do drive new cars, the less well-off buy used ones, and finally the poor buy old clunkers and drive them into the ground. Who doesn't know that? I only lack the time or I could add other howlers. Atkinson should be screened for dementia.
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  11255. Anyone searching for the proximal origins of neo-Marxism in the West should watch the documentary (available here on YouTube) called Operation Infektion, released in 2018. Approx. 50 min., very watchable, very well produced to a good standard of thought, and guaranteed to surprise you. First released on the video section of New York Times website. (I know, shocker of shockers!)
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  11256. ​ @morfiis5117  Russia simply thinks it has the right to forbid countries from entering security arrangements with Europeans and Americans. Why? Why do those countries want into those security arrangements? Because they know Russia quite well and want to be protected from it. They know what is good for them. And the West accepted them because they want all Europe to enjoy security. Russia poses a security threat to Europe as it is constituted. It thinks it has a right to dominate its neighbours against the will and against their interests. But sorry, Russia, in Europe if unfortunately not everywhere, countries are expected to stifle their urges toward empire and colonies in the 21st century, as well as to change borders by war. Tell me why these countries—Sweden and Finland now included—are all so afraid of Russia. Why are at least a dozen countries so goddamned afraid?
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  11257. First of all, I question the scientific validity of some rando's "study" on which continent the ancestors of drivers pulled over in Peel came from—a study which he conducted as he drove by.  Second, you're really talking about quotas here. That means before an officer in traffic can take a drunk off the road or nail a speeder, he/she has to check to see where the department is on drunk drivers who are of a particular reigh sss. Tell me how you're not talking about ticket quotas. Tell me how you're not talking about crime quotas. Tell me how you're not talking about penalty ceilings which any skin-colour group can't go over. And if you're serious that that's not what you're about, take back that "majority pulled over" nonsense. Thankfully the black Canadian community is divided on this. The good side is upset with people like you trying to excuse and exalt the bad members. Those who conduct themselves in a solid fashion have no truck with this permanent campaign to make criminality something that's ok and cool and justified. Yes, justified. That's the contention of the other camp.
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  11258.  @pablohanc  "Massive by a huge amount". Really? An increase of 90k deaths a month across a population of a billion (the Western world) is "massive by a huge amount"? A population that size should expect around 8 million deaths a year.
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  11259. ​ @georgeharisson1880  You asked "why has it already killed over 17thousand in Brazil ? " Brazil's population isn't far from that of the UK, France, Spain, and Italy combined. Their deaths total 124,000.
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  11260.  @cravinehogan1191  Yes. Pablohanc does not seem to realize that average monthly or weekly total deaths stats smooth out considerable year-to-year variation. The surge we've seen this spring isn't exactly typical; neither is it very different from a heavy flu year.
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  11261. In fairness, it was an awful fate those poor student borrowers were facing. (That mayor in Minnesota, for example.) I'd say $136 billion was worth it for saving them from having to live under the tyranny of Vladimir Putin. That was the reasoning, right? 🤨Wasn't it?😠
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  11262. Yes, down with cowardly British Canadians. What are they even doing over here? Get rid of them. Good job, boys! Keep campaigning against these British Canadians. It's high time!👏
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  11263. What?
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  11264. Oh no! Whatever will we do without their tripe?
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  11265. I think it ignored the chances of the perfect superbug arising unconnected with any expression of will. Like Gambler's Ruin, the decisive filter might be the eventual appearance of a bug like no other, in the analogy a losing streak so bad it bankrupts our survival. (Cf. JM Keynes: "In the long run we are all dead.") Btw, it was horrible how you shtupped your housemaid under your wife's nose, got her pregnant, refused to acknowledge the child, and relied on your super-rich fox-hunting buddy to take care of financially supporting her. Appalling for anyone, really, but ten times more so for such a preening moralist. Child textile workers in England sweated day after day in the dim light of stuffy brick piles so you could get your rocks off.
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  11266.  @BlackOps-Ent  It was the older guy, the priest/medic.
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  11267. Remember, 61% of Ontario votes went against him.
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  11268. Terra wrizzm, thy name is Iran.
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  11269. The "Your" part continues to be muteworthy. I can't stress that enough.
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  11270. 0:52 If that anonymous Columbia student were in LA in 1969, she probably would've joined the Manson Family. And if she were in Bavaria in 1938 — well, who can say? 🤔
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  11271.  @aaronarmijo3626  Thanks for that important correction and clarification. Nothing worse than an inaccuracy staining the sacred memory of a beloved historical group.🙄
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  11272. It's a New Wave haircut from when he was 13 or 14. I bet Grimes or somebody dared him. Or Grimes and he aren't talking so he's really depressed. You need an explanation like that for such a childhood-based choice.
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  11273.  @Andrew-vx2ls  Yes, he should have hidden those wind farms with 25th-century cloaking technology.
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  11274. Warthogs are sturdy beasts all right, but they would draw so much fire and so many fighter jets that they'd need a serious escort. Love the sentiment though.
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  11275. ​ @thebeatcreeper  Zelenskyy applauded him as a Ukrainian separatist. He was not given a proper bio of the guy. The blame goes to the clueless Speaker, and to the PMO for not supervising his disastrous decision to make a "contribution" to the proceedings.
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  11276.  @thebeatcreeper  False again. Are you really that incompetent that you can't listen to words and write them down accurately?
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  11277.  @thebeatcreeper  That's truly awful of you. My point is not to endorse this old guy joining the Nazis or any evil the Nazis did. I'm only telling you that Canadian MPs didn't know that his WW II service and his Ukrainian partisan activities were the same thing. They were not told that. They quite naturally assumed that in WW II he was in the Red Army.
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  11278.  @jacobkudrowich  Sorry Jacob, you're confused somewhere here. Grab a coffee, clear the cobwebs, re-read, and then get back to me if you still want to.
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  11279.  @craigbeatty8565  No, it was not obvious that his service in WWII and his fight against the Soviet Muscovites were the same thing. They could've been separate activities and even, to the ears of someone who's never read Ukrainian history books, at separate times. Not everyone would assume that WWII was the only time Ukrainians ever struggled against Russians. Because not everyone is as learned as you, who of course has read thousands of books of history on all 160+ countries. (If only you had learned to think well, in addition to committing historical facts, dates, etc. to memory.)
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  11280.  @craigbeatty8565  You obviously either have an extravagant idea of what constitutes common sense or you have no sense of social propriety. Or both! When someone you know and trust introduces another person whom he or she knows, and the latter extends his or her hand, do you shake it or do you say "I have not personally investigated and vetted you, so forget it, I'm not shaking your hand. You might be evil."? I suspect it's both.
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  11281. If we had last summer's variant, spread would be hammered down to nearly nothing. But the current variant is 2.5x more transmissible than the original. You didn't know that? The vaccines are also marginally less effective against it than against the original.
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  11282. ​ @lidiaspazzard  Why are you assuming 2.5x greater transmissibility ought to result in 2.5x more infections? One could only expect that if there were only a single cycle of transmission. But it's not over when one infected person infects another. It goes on, and so the numbers mount. By the same token, were transmissibility to fall by half, infections will fall by much more than half, other things being equal. Yet other things are not equal, are they? The level of human contact is a major factor, and it is surely far higher this summer (where I live, as well as in the UK). So take a variant that spreads much more easily, add more contact, subtract vaccine-conferred protection, subtract infection-conferred immunity, allow for many other relevant factors, and you get where we're at right now. I could go on, but the algo truncates long replies when I try making them. Cheers.
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  11283. ​ @lidiaspazzard  Concerning death rates, I checked Worldometer for cases vs. deaths, this year vs. last. On Sept.7, 7-day avg. deaths were up 16.9x (from 8 to 135); infections were up 18.8x (from 2,028 to 38,015). (I should have staggered the dates by 20 days to compare properly, for that's an average timespan from a positive test to death, but I'm trying to keep this simple where it's not too unreasonable to do so.) So the survival rate is quite similar. Confounding factors abound. For one thing, a great number of the vulnerable are already dead. You can't die twice. One would expect crude mortality to fall for that reason. Hospital protocols thankfully are constantly improving. As for backing up my claim about this summer's spread if we had last summer's variant, I don't think I have to. The vaccine efficacy numbers make it axiomatic. (Initially (e.g. January) they were in the mid-90-percents for infection, now they're down to the 70s neighbourhood, depending on the brand.) I say axiomatic because I'm not making any inferential leaps. If your infections are at x and you vaccinate 75% of the people with a 75%-efficacious vaccine, the new level, y, will plunge dramatically. It's the 2.5x higher transmissibility of the delta variant that's preventing that (although increased social contact and less mask-wearing are contributing). (I should add that vaccine efficacy is still around 90% for preventing severe illness, hospitalization, and death. This would help explain why infections are 30% of the winter peak while deaths are only at 10%.) If this whole post makes it up I'll be amazed.
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  11284.  @bubb5225  He knows that. It was an incisively ironical and rhetorical question. But yeah.👍
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  11285. Confused? I looked up the meaning of 'schoolies' in Australia and found that it means 'schoolteachers.' So I didn't get how these porn makers "flocked to schoolies" when clearly they flocked to senior high schoolers. Oddly, it turns out it also means students nearing graduation, as well as what are elsewhere thought of as grad week festivities.
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  11286. It was the part of you that hates to see a caged human. It was your instinct for empathy.
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  11287. I would be surprised if, should Russia manage to triumph over Ukraine, a mood of exultation didn't sweep over its people and they practically demanded that Putin move on to invading the next country.  Things like that have occurred many times, probably because it's just human nature.
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  11288. Do you want humans to survive? If yes, then accept that we need to be able to interface with computers a hell of a lot faster than we can now. Otherwise, in terms of intelligence, a computer will soon be to you what you are to a tree. Bear in mind what we do to trees, even though we like them.
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  11289. Yes, they are not suddenly becoming allies. No, it is not a mere formality. Ask any Finn.
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  11290.  @juliec5309  That type of opinion is unheard of in Canada. No doubt a Pooty-Bot hiding behind a phony account name.
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  11291. When this video ended, my screen filled with recommended thumbnails. One of them: "Haiti crisis: Feds airlifting vulnerable Canadians out, Joly says." I found the irony bitter. "The Feds" created the crisis that made the woman in the video vulnerable to being robbed by gunmen at formerly safe Yonge & Sheppard. 🤬
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  11292.  @murrydog100  I don't know why you're telling me that. I don't really care. What that tells us has too much to do with the undervalued ruble rather than Russia's productive capacity to make it very useful as a standalone measure. I'm fine with market exchange rate comparisons as far as they go in characterizing a country's position in the world economic and financial system; however, they often generate absurdities. For instance, if a country's currency falls by 20%, its GDP at market rates falls by 15%, even if its economy was nonetheless vibrant and grew by a healthy 5%. Still useful information from one point of view, but absurd and useless from another. The size of Russia's economy ought to be looked at by both market rate and purchasing-power-parity measures. In PPP terms in 2021 it was about $4.2 trn, compared with $4.4 trn for Germany. That's not the whole story, but it's an indispensable part of it.
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  11293.  @murrydog100  Again, why are you telling me these things? Where did I say that Russia's prospects are good? Wtf, bro. Don't address me like I'm some sort of cheerleader for Russia. If I'm a cheerleader for anything it's for Russia to get its ass kicked up into its nasal cavity. Look for some Pooty-bot or Mearsheimer fan-boy to set straight. There's lots of them out there.
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  11294.  @marikalathem813  That was an interesting and good explication. Thanks for going out of your way to provide it.
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  11295.  @GS-by7ci   It all depends not on Russia but on the will of the developed countries, all of which oppose Putin's war. All of them. I myself despise MSNBC and all its MSM kin. But I still notice that it's 1.2 bn people vs. 145 m. Approximately $50 trn in GDP vs. (depending on your measure) $2-4 trn. So the hope must be that the developed countries find an appetite for appeasing Russia, or that Russia is somehow far better armed than anyone is aware. Which is it?
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  11296. You're going to be relieved when you find out all that's false, because you won't have the burden of hatred anymore.
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  11297.  @robinkaskey3251  Sanctimony bears an inverse relation to respect for the facts, so the phrase 'fact check' coming from you cuts as little ice with me as it does coming from the New York Times or CNN. Like Sen. Warren, you're grandstanding about taxes when he just sold many billions of dollars worth of shares, 53% of which (the maximum rate) will be payable to governments for this taxation year. It will be largest tax payment—$10bn perhaps, even as high as $15bn, some say—ever made by anyone, anywhere, in history. Like her, you're demanding that he do exactly what he is already doing. Like her, your point is the same: grandstanding and sanctimony. Fact check your lack of respect for the facts and your real motivations. Or don't—just enjoy the pleasure of your resentments.
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  11298. They are proceeding carefully with their counteroffensive, which only began a week ago. The goal is not to steamroll Russia right out of the country. That's not possible. The goal is to retake some land, but more importantly to cause Russia to hemorrhage men, weapons and materiel. This is a long game won by spilling Russian blood and destroying their equipment.
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  11299. It's no good to just agree with one another in spaces like this one. So I thought this man might have some practical suggestions. Did my attention wander when he actually gave some, or did he indeed suggest nothing more than to turn to religion? I want something I can use.
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  11300.  @AsEasyAs_  Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did catch that. It's great as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far. You might call it passive resistance, and it will only slow down the unfolding of this disaster. We need more drastic measures, surely.
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  11301.  @norger  What on earth does "always in service" mean? The translation program you're using leaves a lot to be desired.
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  11302.  @glenturney4750  Who tf are you people? Run along and attend to affairs in your own country, the lot of you.
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  11303.  @bozejoetheclown3554  Another one of the three stooges heard from. Why are you all so anxious to pronounce this matter closed? I say that's the job of the investigators.
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  11304.  @mattjingles5758  Gracious reply, t bagger.
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  11305.  @andrewhadden216  I can't be bothered doing something like that. I was never claiming you were wrong, I was only saying internet observers like us had no idea one way or the other.
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  11306. Intelligence and foresight are best, but cunning will do in a pinch.
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  11307.  @Greatlakeskyle.  But that's like saying how well Bernie charmed all the other party guests in Weekend at Bernie's. The actual credit is due to his puppeteers. As for Trump, he is the opposite of Biden: less dumb than he seems. So say what you will, terrible a president in most ways as he was, I think Putin would have been less tempted to mess about in this way if he had remained in office. The calculations feeding into such a judgment are complex, but at any rate Putin evidently made up his mind on this war mere months after Biden's inauguration. In my gut I could always tell Biden was never going to do more than scold from a safe distance, while with Trump one never quite knew. (This doesn't mean I want Trump to run again in 2024. I most certainly do not.)
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  11308.  @salvatoremartin1499  No cruelty is involved in criticizing a politician who has brought him or herself into the spotlight and invited the world to pass its judgment upon him or her. Rid yourself of the sentimentalism your question exemplifies. It is a form of cruelty you wreak on yourself.
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  11309.  @SpiralMystic  Really? That cute wiggle that men love (and women's reciprocal love for men's distinctive features) put you and me and everyone else on this earth. By disdaining it you show you have no idea of the workings of the universe and substitute for an adult understanding a child's fantasy. No wonder you chose as your screen name something to show off your fondness for inventing a pseudo-reality instead of accepting the actual one with a warm and lasting embrace.
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  11310.  @BeneGesseritSaya  Point of order, my good woman: Putin is a putz.
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  11311.  @NspPrick  People like her are the New Puritans, psychologically and psychically overwrought and disabled just like those predecessors were. Possible real first name: Goody.
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  11312.  @anjafrohlich1170  Yes. Would you like me to teach you how?
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  11313. I don't know if that's fair. Come on, actual douches serve a purpose.
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  11314. I expect Trump will confront Putin aggressively upon taking office. The eagerness of the media to distort what he says, and the public's lemming-like acquiescence to their will, have made it astoundingly easy for him deceive nearly the whole world about his intentions.
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  11315.  @urgreatestenemy  Nice wall of text. Yet your return key clearly works, and your writing is fine. What gives? Fix that problem and people will read you. :)
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  11316. Sorry, no. If you are sued for slander, the onus is on you to convince the court that, on the balance of the probabilities, the accusation you are being sued over was "substantially" true. Mind you, in this instance Poilievre made no accusation beyond saying Trudeau doesn't see his commitments through to their fulfillment. Any inference you draw beyond that is your own.
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  11317. My hypothesis: the regret is fake. They're probably even kidding themselves about it. So since there's no real regret, neither is it any mystery that they ignore their regret.
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  11318. If it's to enact regime change in Ottawa, yes! Good god, yes!
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  11319. True up to a point, yes.
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  11320. Thank you for not saying 'body double.'
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  11321. Few like him, and for very good reason.
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  11322. ​ @lpr5269 In other words reality surprised him, which is damning, not a defense. "Anomaly" just means 'I didn't see it coming,' a failure in punditry. Btw, Trump's share of the popular vote fell in Washington state compared with 2020 by 0.2%. It rose in all the other 49 states, plus DC. 😄
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  11323.  @gozza1993  Oh? How do you figure?
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  11324. Maybe his plane will disappear into a Pacific typhoon. The odds are low, but we can hope.
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  11325.  @stevenpreston5619  Amerfrica, land of the violent assault without warning or provocation, where they bad as they wanna be, until some smaller guy immobilizes them, then they cry for help.
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  11326. All four times he says her name it sounds like "Bommen" or even "Bommy" rather than Bronwen. So odd.
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  11327. Is there really any such thing as a "lion tamer"? Or should it really only apply jokingly to someone with a loaded high-calibre rifle?
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  11328. I don't know what the deal is with Maher and his glasses. Any optician can adjust frames so they sit horizontally level across the face.
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  11329. Something seems wrong with the arithmetic of the "1 in 10 Torontonians" claim. User visits to pick up food total 2.5 to 3 million per year. But food bank users can visit once per week. So the total visits divided by 52 gives us 48,000 to 58,000 year-round-equivalent users. That raw range is 1.6% to 1.9% of the population of Toronto. Some visits, however, cover multi-person households. Multiplying by the average number of people in a Toronto household (2.4, according to StatsCan) yields 115,000 to 138,000 people. (Food bank users, however, skew towards smaller or single-person households, but let that pass.) This is about 4% of Torontonians, which is a far cry from 10%. I suspect that the food banks are trying to report total unique users visiting at least once per year, a much higher figure based on user registrations. Presumably there are many people who only visit very occasionally, or whose income rises, enabling them to stop getting assistance. But if so, is it right to say that there are 300,000 people "relying" on food banks? (Toronto population 2023 est.: 3.0m.) I also suspect that, since the food banks do not require ID, but just ask for users' names, some users visit multiple food banks and give different names in order to (dishonestly, if perhaps understandably up to a point) be eligible for more food. This would inflate the number of unique users. For these reasons I take "1 in 10" with a grain of salt.
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  11330.  @Edaloy27  That's exactly what Facebook wants: purity of users, purity of messaging.
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  11331.  @Edaloy27  Please use the reply button or I don't get notified that you replied to me. I found it by accident by looking at the thread after someone else replied to someone else in it. So I got notified of that, but not about your reply. Anyway I see your point. But I don't think it's time to give up on peace yet. Not while barely any blood has been spilled.
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  11332.  @tristan8435  You sound callow, Tristan. (Callow means youthful and inexperienced.) The tip-off is starting your sentence with "I feel like" --- as though from a long-held conviction that people definitely ought to care about what your feelings are, which is nonsense --- and then failing to add anything . A mature person would just make a flat assertion and then provide reasons that might reasonably justify it. The hazier your thoughts, the less you should trust them, especially if you sense that the people you know would instantly agree with and approve of them . Social approval is poison to thought, so never drink it. They will put the glass in front of you, but just let it sit there. Don't pick it up. In general one should go apeshit devil's advocate on their own most precious beliefs until the haze disappears. Then do it again for good measure. It's frequently agonizing and will lose you friends, but it gets you closer to the truth. I wish you well.
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  11333. Heating contractor arrested on charges of Existing While Not Being Trans, Or Even Just a Woman (Whatever That Is). Wow, did he really think he could get away with that? Imagine the nerve.
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  11334. Your post is properly regarded as — let's see, how do the kids say it? — a sick burn. 👏👏👏👏
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  11335. "We let criminals out of jail, made felonies into misdemeanours, stopped police from arresting people, hired prosecutors who don't prosecute, cut the number of police, stopped responding to many 911 calls, discouraged reporting of crime, undermined the stats in umpteen ways, and demoralized effective cops out of their jobs. Therefore, crime is down." —Wee Pete
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  11336. The big question: Does she know that the book she read on public speaking to train for this appearance was a manual authored by the funny moustache guy? That's literally how he went about giving speeches. These people are putting comedy writers out of business.😳
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  11337. ​ John Katz  As Robert Graves wrote in I, Claudius, 'Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.' It'll do its damage, then be gone.
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  11338.  @j.w.m.415  Excellent point. Please repeat it over and over.
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  11339.  @carterbentonjr399  I respectfully disagree. Save niceness like that for less damaging and baleful people. Gloat like mad. Stoop, stoop, rub it in, lecture, punish, shun, extirpate. It's war, and when it's over there must be dewokeification so it won't come back.
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  11340.  @Patric-y1g  No probs.
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  11341. Senior military (or naval) men are by long tradition considered to belong to the professions, not the working class. You may consider them out and accountants in, but the Hitchens family were and are Edwardians, so in their outlook surely Papa Hitchens was a professional man. Outlook is the key to the matter as far as character is concerned. He hints at this outlook, I would say, when mentioning mixing with all sorts of people "as equals". You can tell he was the one deigning to mix in generous democratic fashion, not them. As for his diction, yes he's a good talker and great user of the language. Alas one element of his diction gives me a problem: In his subordinate clauses and towards the end of his sentences he tends to lapse into a mumble. What a lot of hitting the left arrow key I had to do to get through this.
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  11342.  @JustSavageThings  My bad. I suppose I interpolated "wonderful" or some such word between 'that's' and 'coming'. I don't know about you, but my reading comprehension becomes rather numb at times from reading YT comments, for when they're not in broken English because written by ESLers, they're in broken English because we're well into the 21st century, decades since most people in the anglosphere gave up on careful writing. In other words I took it I was replying to a poor writer. I ask your forgiveness for that. But it worries me that you angrily jumped all over what was pretty obviously a misunderstanding, flirting with histrionics in the process. It's all good though, just as long as it didn't make your day. Btw, I've thought it over and decided he's a putz, a victim of Loser in One's Own Eyes Syndrome, which is a pity because it was probably unmerited and probably avoidable. I mean he judged himself too harshly ("God, I'm such a loser"), a mistake which can wreck a personality. But I doubt you care what I think by now. Cheers anyway.
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  11343.  @duncansmith7562  You are an agent of the enemy. That is all anyone needs to know, Lord Haw Haw.
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  11344. Vous comprenez moins que rien. La prochaine fois, anglais s.v.p.
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  11345. There's a difference between thinking aliens exist somewhere and thinking they exist off Virginia. It's somewhat similar to the difference between thinking that killers exist and thinking there are killers outside your bedroom window.
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  11346. Don't say "Eglington." It has one g, not two. Don't say "ashphalt." It has one h, not two. Don't say "on a whole." It's "as a whole."
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  11347. Comes as no surprise. People have been told for decades now that men are thoroughly terrible — except if they're well to the political left, and the farther left the better.🙄 So when a man moves towards the centre or (heaven forbid!) slightly right of centre, he must be thoroughly bad, he must be 'taken down' through the joint efforts of media outlets. It's simply part of a fight against wickedness.
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  11348. Poor Ludmilla, Svetlana and Oxsana. All they've got is their memories. And men to replace their boyfriends are in short supply in Russia.
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  11349. Complete ignorance. The US has not donated one jet, nor does it plan to. CORRECT OR REMOVE that falsehood.
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  11350. ​ @margo7059  "Western journalists who went to Donbas are prosecuted. [...] Lord, what kind of hypocrites you are." Who has been prosecuted? Journalists are sometimes prosecuted in the US, but only for collecting information in illegal ways, or publishing it, or both. (Here I refer to state and military secrets.) Not only some journalists, but the most famous and popular journalist in the US—hated by 60% of the people but adored by 30%—speaks out against the war every night on a highly rated cable-news interview and opinion program. At least he was the last time I checked, and let me put it this way: if Tucker Carlson had reversed his position on the Ukraine War in the last few months, I would've been unable to escape reading or seeing news about it. Having said that, I will at least agree that from what I've heard the climate in the great majority of newsrooms is pretty hostile to the idea of defending Putin or Putinism at all. In my view it's the one file they're covering that they're not utterly flopping on. I'm almost prepared to give them a C-minus and it comes as a surprise after so many extremely bad years in a row.
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  11351.  @margo7059  I assume you're leaving out inconvenient facts concerning these alleged instances. But let's say I grant you that it's all quite true. There is still nothing profoundly significant in a few cases of miscarried justice of some sort, over a period of years, in an area of the world with a billion people. There is no legitimate comparison between the drunk who guzzles down two bottles of whisky and another person who has two ounces. Media suppression in Russia (and all your frenemy countries like China, Iran and North Korea) is next-door to total; in the rich democracies it's next-door to none.————————————————— [Btw, feel free to ignore the following:] This post was shad dough-banned, so I wanted to post it somewhere else and am doing it here: "Two million German women were [word not allowed on YouTube] by Russian soldiers.😠 Russia made a statue of a Russian soldier rescuing a girl, and that's what this guy mentions.😠"
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  11352. For well over a year I've been convinced that one of Trump's central aims is to confuse and mislead the Kremlin.
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  11353.  @tomrobertson3236  Breaking news: If one wishes to influence people, especially extremely powerful ones, condemning them isn't the best move. At times even to flatter them is wiser.
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  11354. His fellow prisoners should give him some "moral instruction."
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  11355. Twaddle. The list of countries which had smaller populations than their attackers but were never conquered is long. For example, the one which Russia failed to conquer and had to withdraw from in 1989: Afghanistan. And it was thanks to US aid to Afghanistan. And the USSR fell to pieces and dissolved two years later in 1991. "Diplomatic attempts" to end the Ukraine War? Omg, all too often you're just 10x too confident of your powers.
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  11356. A lot of striking statements in this one. Especially the guy who implicitly said the West depends on avoiding hostilities with Russia for its position and will suffer if Russia loses. Come to think of it, yes: hostilities with Russia will hasten an expansion of BRICS. Iran just joined, I hear. What a sorry lot of awful countries, although I admire them all in some ways. I also don't know if canvassing so many cosmopolites is the right thing. Interesting people, but a tiny minority.
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  11357. Odd slip on his part. Armed teenagers are so dangerous that it's hardly necessary to make any comparisons.
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  11358. Front loaders are far more efficient---and effective: they get your clothes cleaner. They're quicker, too, because less time is needed for filling and draining. Top loaders eventually disappear as countries get richer. And a really good thing about dryers is that they remove lint, a lot of which is actually dead skin particles that never make it down the drain of the washer. Who wants to walk around with that big grey clump of stuff spread out all over your clothes?
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  11359.  @Oneslap1000  For a second it troubled me that you meant to hurt my feelings. But I quickly realized that this was probably just someone living in their own little world. Which is fine nowadays.
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  11360.  @Oneslap1000  Oh ok. I've done that before.
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  11361. I notice he has the face of a longtime alcoholic: dead eyes surrounded by overly delicate, overly pink tissue; puffy bags under them; sick-looking skin. And that's even with TV makeup on.
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  11362.  @robertatkins9419  Quod erat demonstrandum 😂
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  11363. No one's saying it, so I will: Anti-Israel American leftists are against Israel in large part because Israel is so close to the US. American leftists are against the US, they're against people descended from European stock, and they're against Western civilization. So they have no choice but to be against Israel, seeing it as way too intertwined with all three. Makes you wonder what they'd say if China bombed Australia.
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  11364. That's a strong endorsement of his demographic forecasts. But no one else's predictions for China are anywhere near as dire as his. The academic and institutional demographers say it will have 500-1100m people by 2100; avg. estimate around 750m. (Easy to google.) He says China's population will drop by at least 750m within 27 years, not 77. Nearly 3x as fast.🙄🙄
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  11365.  @alyonazem3480  Y op tvo yu m ut.
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  11366. Brilliant. You can run the Treasury in Biden's cabinet.
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  11367. Incredible how all TR interviewers sound like the same person with the same mind, speech patterns, accent and personality, differing only in pitch of voice.
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  11368.  @jamessmith-pf5zf  I find other English people vary greatly in how they talk.
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  11369. Thank you, Sky Oz. You're on the right side of things.
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  11370. 12:20 One per cent of $5t isn't $500b. It's $50b. That's bad. I want a guy who's telling me what's what in investing and finance to be good with numbers. And I don't want him to say "space" every two minutes. I also saw him in another video from a few weeks ago say that Mark Carney was at the ECB. (He never was, of course. He was governor of the Bank of England.) I know he's an experienced insider, but I trust him less and less and am nearly ready to drop him from my watch list.
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  11371. You can tell how unsuccessful at investing and lacking in knowledge most people here are by how they insult people and brag. These behaviours betray emotions which success and knowledge erode and eliminate over time. And just the fact that they're here probably says bad things, though not necessarily. Some are just YT wanderers.
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  11372. You're right, Dave. Trudeau is simply a Fruit Loop in human form. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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  11373. Since 2017 he's had a negative net approval rating and hasn't received more than 33% of the popular vote. He's been propped up (1) by the 3rd party and (2) by the mass media, 95% of which has 95% backed him on 99% of issues.
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  11374.  @UnKnownv5  He hasn't been popular since late 2017. The Conservatives came first in votes the last two elections.
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  11375. Just wait.
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  11376. Capt. Wilson, the first man interviewed, has kept himself in incredible shape. He looks healthy and obviously has a quick mind despite being about a hundred years of age. For some reason Dawna Friesen addresses him sharply with a stern voice and harsh gaze as though addressing a notorious criminal. I've never liked her.
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  11377. Not true. They prevented an unbelievable quantity of mayhem around the globe, both during the war and for a long time to come. Who is going to host terrorist training on their soil now—now that they know it will serve as an invitation to very unpleasant company to drop by…and stay for 20 years?
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  11378. When he said the ratio is similar in engineering, he didn't mean the number of women and men in the field is similar. He meant the ratio in engineering is similar to the ratio in nursing, meaning 20 to 1.
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  11379. Thank you Niall Ferguson for your able defence of support for Ukraine. The cost for the 50 liberal-democratic allies has been about $300bn over 28 months during which their GDP has totalled about $125trn and their defence spending has been $3.5trn. That $300bn is lunch money compared to the many dozens of trillions they would hemorrhage across all forms of spending, output and wealth in later war(s) with the Authoritarian Axis (AA) which a further $0.5trn in Ukrainian aid would, it is to be hoped, forestall permanently. At the least, that amount could be deployed and maximized in order to put off such a conflict for a further decade, during which time they could properly prepare themselves for it. The AA want such a conflict, make no mistake, for they badly want a double, triple or quadruple share of world power over what they have now. They passionately want to end the West and they are energetically seeking additional allies. Freddie's problem — similar to that of the wokesters chiselling away at the masonry of the Western edifice of civilization in the name of Utopianism — is that he thinks Western power and wealth and collective security are just "there." They don't have to be nurtured, safeguarded, actively defended. They're just there, like the sun and the moon are just there in the sky. Sir Niall is thank God free of that problem.
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  11380. That's why Putin's latest utterance, to the effect that he sees no point in a nuclear attack on Ukraine, seems to me tantamount to a promise that he will make one.
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  11381.  @E82N55  I would imagine she went straight to the comments section and hardly watched any of it after that. Bad, but less bad than you say. Or possibly you're right.
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  11382.  @TheJlee28  Your various pithy posts are quite accurate.
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  11383. "$275 billion in military assistance to Ukraine" 😄 Please re-record and fix that error.
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  11384. Dude, YOUR. You're means 'you are'.
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  11385. It's true that the homicide rate is about the same as 50 years ago. At that time annual homicides were in the low 40s and the population was 2.1 million. Now it's 2.9 million and we're headed for around 65 homicides this year. (At the early 1970s per-capita rate we would have about 58 or 60.) But I disagree about politeness. People are rude and unfriendly by comparison with even 10 years ago.
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  11386.  @tdwz1652  My, how knowing you are! Wow, you've really been around. Tell us kids all about the world! You're so "street"!
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  11387. This report is stale. Germany will be paying in Euros.
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  11388. The telephone is only dubiously a Canadian invention. The claim is vigorously disputed by Americans (if they've heard of it, which is unlikely), with good reason. Much of the device's development did in fact occur in Canada but much did not, it was patented by Bell while he was living in the US, and he didn't even manage to make it work until ten days after that. ("Mr. Watson," etc.) You can be forgiven for believing what your schoolteachers told you.
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  11389.  @sharliah  Someone's teenage daughter, if they had one, wouldn't last more than 5 minutes with Scott Ritter either.
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  11390.  @peterjensen3076  Hilarious, coming from the backer of a convicted sex offender. Hilarious and disgusting.
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  11391. ​ @jeanmichelverret3473  C'est donc comme Henry II l'a dit dans Shakespeare : « Est-ce que personne ne me débarrassera de ce prêtre gênant? »
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  11392. Does one need to be a seasoned defense analyst oneself in order to assert that few (if any) 50- and 60-year-old defense analysts commenting publicly on the war have got as far as Prof. Bronk in his much shorter time at the game? If the answer is that no, one needn't, then that's what I say.
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  11393.  @thorsrensen3162  Yep, Ivy League MBA (Wharton).
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  11394.  @AS-dr1cp  You really meant this reply for me? Why?
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  11395. I intensely oppose Trudeau and his whole Liberal government. But this presenter, James Macpherson, is not really any brighter than the now ex-Speaker of the House of Commons. Like Anthony Rota, he hasn't properly looked into things before he opens his mouth. I don't get it. There is so much rich fodder for condemning the Liberals here, yet he manages to muddle it up.
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  11396. It's 2022. I'm sure you know what I mean.
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  11397. Nah, he's a true believer in free and open elections and limited government power. Autocracy, authoritarianism—those are far-left wet dreams, not conservative libertarian ones. It's 2021, stop it with your cartoon visions of long ago. (Myself, I'm politically homeless. Like a guy rifling through dumpsters behind restaurants, I dine politically wherever I can find some scraps, waiting for better days.)
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  11398.  @KimNguyen-hz1eh  It appears some would, but very few. Head-to-head in a YouGov poll Jan. 24-30 (1,000 surveyed), it was a bit tricky. She would narrowly lose to Biden (while Trump would narrowly win). But when people were asked to set aside their own preferences and just predict the outcome, they rated Trump's chances against Biden far better than Haley's. No breakout of numbers by party leaning. In another YouGov poll she gets a 32% favorable rating, 28% from both Dems and Inds, and 42% from Reps. Biden overall gets 45%, the same sub-groups giving him 86%, 35% and 11% respectively. So while Dems approve of her more than Trump, there's little to suggest they would vote for her. (Numbers from Feb. 4-6, 2024; 1,591 surveyed.) Other polls will vary.
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  11399. Get a grip on yourself. He presented verbatim the entire litany of talking points of the Chinese foreign ministry. When prodded for criticism of it, he only repeated that China is "not saintly." Not saintly! Unbelievable. Chomsky simply hates the US, as much as any CCP official, and for reasons that are hardly different. He is a far-left ideologue and a thoroughgoing charlatan.
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  11400. I think you and I are the only two people left who use the word 'incisive'. We better not book seats on the same plane.
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  11401. All through history since the beginning: "Ancestry is everything!" 2nd half of the 20th century: "Ancestry shouldn't mean anything!" 21st century: "Ancestry is everything!" Don't see where they get the gall to call themselves "progressives"? It's not just you.
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  11402.  @suportbghelp4938  You say "Americans." It's actually a tiny fraction of Americans who "like shooting" people. Let's not forget that Russian support for shooting Ukrainians and making war on them is around 80%, if we are to believe your opinion polls. And you can go to Wikipedia and look at the immensely long list of Russian wars throughout history ("List of wars involving Russia", a standalone article that goes on and on and on). I wouldn't get all sanctimonious if I were you.
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  11403.  @jayjh1311  Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  11404. Ukraine has taken back more territory than Operation Overlord had after the same amount of time in June 1944. This is just three people pretending to be smart.
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  11405. Pathetic try, Sergei. Fuel in Ukraine is very scarce and must be saved for the army. Their cars are parked at home. You're working for murderers. Just remember that.
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  11406. On Canada's despicable state broadcaster CBC they no longer say 'pregnant women'. I'm not kidding—it's now 'pregnant people.' And if you post a comment objecting to an instance of this insane usage, they delete it. No doubt if they could have you arrested for hate speech, they would. (Which is probably on the way too, and I'm truly not kidding about that either.)
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  11407. Her real name is Trasha.
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  11408. U clearly have no idea how unpopular he is and how incredibly few votes allowed him to remain PM so long. (Last election: 32%.) Btw, the mass media are at least half the reason he won in the first place, and then remained in power. They're 99% woke and have been 99% behind him since Day 1. In many Western countries (including the US) the media are the leading power, not the govt.
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  11409. Be careful not to badmouth propaganda too roundly, Rep. Bishop. It's nothing more than institutionalized persuasion, and persuasion can be a very fine thing when it's honest. Even now and then when it's less than fully forthcoming. I first began to understand this as a boy when I learned that Orwell worked as a wartime propagandist at the BBC.
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  11410. Joe Kernen gets it. His inclination towards pessimism is warranted by the facts of the situation.
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  11411.  @chdao  I fear that people will just accept the craziness by becoming themselves more crazy. We'll see. And now, just because my standalone post is buried in obscurity getting zero views thanks to my lowly YT status, I'll repeat it here: Trans activists and other wokesters think that everything is a state of mind, that by believing things you make them true. This encourages, or necessitates, a retreat from reality. And so they have wilfully lost touch with it, and consider that this makes them morally superior. Note that these things also distinguish the religious phenatik. Cheers.
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  11412.  @catpurinn  Yeah, lots of people love bad cops and fully support them. Right. Of course! That's the likeliest thing I ever heard, and one of the smartest.
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  11413. You're referring to the so-called "law of regression to the mean," long rendered in ordinary language as "What goes up must come down." It can also be tied with some justification to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states (in simplified terms) that heat tends to even out across matter. But not everything that goes up comes back down again. For instance, numerous spacecraft have gone up in the air and ended up on Mars or have left the Solar System entirely, and they're not coming back. More profoundly, perhaps, it also tends to be uncertain just when a given thing will regress to the mean. The New York Stock Exchange periodically falls for a while and then resumes rising, but overall its rise has been persistent for at least the 139 years since the inception of the Dow Jones Index, and probably since the exchange's founding in 1792. Although a steady daily rise over one year or a thousand years seems extremely unlikely, it is in theory possible. More realistically, it should be expected that it will eventually return to its original now-minuscule value, since even the Solar System will not last forever. But no one knows when. My point is that it's not axiomatically true that the majority of people would be against wokeism at this time. Logically speaking, it could have gone on becoming more and more popular, or maintained a steady popularity, for a much longer time. A lot of uncertainty can lie behind the word eventually.
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  11414.  @Fulcrumshift  Far too glib. You're not thinking this through. For one thing, not every post is in good faith. There are bots galore (many, many of them paid) who are absolutely determined to wreck X—and Musk at the same time—by poisoning it beyond belief. They can put up a million posts a minute if they want to. You have no idea. They can kill its reputation so thoroughly and permanently as to actually poison the future of open expression on social media forever. You think it's simple and easy. It is not. But you can trust that Elon will reduce censorship to a lower level than anyone else in the world could, or he'll die trying. Think about it: he already lost a beloved son to woke. His will is absolutely iron. Even just his spending $44 billion should tell you all you need to know. The idea that he's giving up or was never that serious in the first place is absolutely false and (sorry) frankly just not very bright all.
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  11415. I disagree, thinking it was sanctimonious (show-off moralizing: "Oh, the authorities are so cold and don't care" ), glib and puerile (a 14-year-old's type of remark), and dumb (whatever melts your phone will already have blinded or otherwise incapacitated you). Add to that, plainly incorrect: a phone warning could very well indeed save your life. For me, a vast difference between the would-be impression and the actual one.
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  11416. I bet that slob near the beginning is just as angry and miserable when sober. Or more so. It's not always true that drinking wrecks people. Often wrecks take to drink.
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  11417. It's quite legitimately news in Montréal and Quebec, just not across the country. But the beauty of YouTube is that you only watch what interests you. So why didn't you just type "liberal corruption" in the search box if that's what interests you? Seriously, why?🤨 Think about it, buddy, you clicked and nobody forced you or tricked you into it.
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  11418. Look how these fundamentalists behave when they don't get their way. They'll do anything. Next they'll be secretly recording deliberations and releasing them. Hey, why not reveal the home addresses of justices who vote the wrong way?
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  11419. NATO could've armed Ukraine more heavily at earlier stages but I suspect there are good reasons why it didn't. Forcing Russia back would not have been sufficient in itself. (1) Had Russia been knocked to the canvas (so to speak) early on, but without losing much of its vast ability to make war, it would've remained a colossal danger and probably would've restarted full-scale hostilities after a short pause. It is unfortunately necessary to drain it of its combat power before trying to conclude the war in a way favorable to Ukraine's future. I view this as a sad reality of the war. (2) It is unwise to drain NATO stocks at a rate which leaves it unable to fight a second or third war on short notice. A well-stocked NATO is the world's best hedge by far against widespread outbreaks of war. It must keep huge amounts of its powder dry, and perhaps what it has got is not much above a safe minimum. Its arms and ammunition production capacity needs to go way up. And that takes years, not months. (3) It takes time to see what Russia can do and will do. Know Your Enemy is a valuable maxim which entails studying what the enemy does if circumstances at all allow it. Pitfalls are everywhere in war and it is much better to be safe than sorry. It can mean the difference between winning the war and losing it. (I realize the bitter irony of invoking the concept of 'safety' at a time when Ukraine is in great peril, but avoiding haste and the errors which ensue is of prime importance in pursuit of victory.) (4) It is good during this period of attrition to convince Putin that he's never really very far from success. It encourages him to throw resources at the front faster than is advisable for his long-term chances. The appearance of timidity and reluctance on the part of NATO actually serves Ukraine well in this regard. A little of it is real but mostly, I believe, it is feigned. NATO is under no illusions about the importance of a good outcome in this conflict. I could go on for a while but I don't have all night, so I'm going to cut it short there. I welcome responses of any sort, even from vatniks.
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  11420.  @TonyM540  I agree with your points.👍
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  11421.  @MinhPhan-nz4tr  On behalf of all decent people in the world, I dare you.
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  11422.  @Joaquin2028  😮
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  11423. Wow, makes the Lower East Side people in the movie Liquid Sky seem tediously normal.😄 Anyway, I almost can't help feeling that the late Norm Macdonald, at one time a Manhattan dweller, would have the right take on all this. See the 9-second video "Now This Might Strike Some Viewers As Harsh".
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  11424. It's more than a billion taxpayer dollars a year for that woke cesspool. Defund the CBC now!
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  11425.  @coconutmacaroon7226  You'll have to speak up. I'm not fluent in koo-koo-bananas.
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  11426. Dave, give your head a shake. You've got all these great takes and positions on politics, society, the economy and everything, and then you've got this turd in the punch bowl — your appalling stance on Ukraine. What the West is doing is right morally, geopolitically, economically, militarily and it's right for the future of freedom. Just give your head a shake, fix yourself a strong coffee, take in a few deep breaths of fresh air and re-think what you've been saying.
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  11427. Watching him, I honestly thought he was on something. That's not normal behaviour. He was high.
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  11428. From this comment I know you. But I don't want to know you.
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  11429. Would he be able to afford such a thing—on what he'll be making as a nightshift worker at Subway?
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  11430.  @joekopsick1540  I guessed in half an instant just from your [on second thought, I'll delete this long string of bad words]-hipster avatar what your comment would be about. And I was right.
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  11431.  @bigjimtrucker  Yep. Hard time for such a destructive crime.
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  11432. Russia has lost so many thousands of vehicles that its soldiers now make their way around in stolen bakery vans. Slava Ukraine!🇺🇦
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  11433. Because they're Woke Lite-ists.
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  11434. Yeah, same except way less.
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  11435. It depends entirely on which weapon and where and to what effect.
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  11436. Slippery slopes are real. All history is little but a chronicle of slippery slopes and the events they culminated in. Isn't this headed for, at some point, a legitimization of infanticide....and finally its legalization?
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  11437. They cut off my last paragraph (🤯 !) so here it is: The final results of the experiment, obviously, are not in yet, for the dust of the war and occupation won't settle for some time. But let's not judge its success by ideal standards. Let's judge it by more modest and realistic possibilities in one of the very most difficult places on Earth.
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  11438. He's good on military disengagement, there's no denying that. It's a matter of plain fact.
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  11439.  @nathanroche7908  🤨No disagreement there, mate. Needed no pointing out.
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  11440. So basically Tonya Harding is back, but this time she's driven not only by envy but race hatred as well. Makes sense: it's 2024. So very "progressive."
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  11441.  @planetvegan7843  Spotted the projectionist.
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  11442. What are you on?🤨
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  11443. It's non-cash but it is dilutive, so it's very real in that sense.
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  11444.  @markthomas7279  I'm not dissing SBC at all (I favor it), but dilution is dilution and there's no way around it. Company success obviously matters but it's still a separate matter. In the end there's essentially no difference from a cash payday. (Note just what the OC said.) Every per-share amount, from EPS to cash flow per share, to FCF/share and equity per share goes down. It's 100% as real as cash, without being cash, and that's my point. (Possibly there's a tax advantage, I don't know. I'm not a CFA or tax accountant.) Anyway, in the end I think we agree 98% at least.😄 Thanks for your reply.
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  11445.  @markthomas7279  It appears they deleted my longer reply. Oh well. In a word, my point was that it's not a money-saving thing as such. Let me try a reductio ad absurdum: If every single employee were on 100% SBC, no shareholder would ever say "It’s not like the staff are getting paid money from me or us or the company." <---quote from the OP. Shares from treasury are just salary in another form. They're a transfer of an asset from all shareholders to the employee in question.
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  11446. No, thanks. Canada is worse in some ways at the moment but it is far enough down to one man (Trudeau) that we can count on it to improve once he's gone. Alas I cannot say the quite the same thing of the US. If Biden were struck down by a meteorite at supper tonight, things there would only get worse.
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  11447. Woof woof.
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  11448. "Joe Biden is stunned as soon as he wakes up" Yeah I assume you're right. But I bet it's nothing compared to late in the afternoon.
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  11449. Are we sure what this means? After all, two clinics will replace it. This causes me to worry that the closure is like decapitating the Lernaean hydra: Off came the head, but two grew back.
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  11450. Every person has a clear understanding of what kindness is. This is why "progressives" and no-limits liberals carefully avoid the word, despite its being upheld as a cardinal virtue for millennia. So they opt for empathy, a far vaguer word which they make into a cudgel by defining it any way they like. The shrewd cunning is endless.
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  11451.  @jager6863  Canada has no LNG. Its first giant export facility comes online in 2025.
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  11452. Yes, after getting into bed with them.
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  11453. ​ @259dubs   They were against what was happening, but opposed it far too weakly. That's not "tacit support," nor was it getting into bed with the Germans. So the tendentious slander and unhistorical rhetoric sucks big ones. Britain initially made mistakes, then did the right thing. Thus, today, abjure the mistakes, emulate the correct moves. The mute button is a great way to defenestrate rubbish. Buh-bye!
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  11454. Note the comments here from Putinists saying that the Russian forces are a peaceful group who would never hurt a civilian fly. Wait, no. Do not take any note of their risible denials.
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  11455. He seems rather like an impostor to me. I find his points aren't cogent, I catch him in errors, he smirks too much, and he waves his hands incessantly. One of the worst choices Freddie's made in quite some time.
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  11456. CP24's headlines are more poorly written every day. "Many Canadians concerned with the economic state, poll" is simply bad English, semi-literate and un-idiomatic. Should be: "Poll: many Canadians worried about the economy"
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  11457. Justified if you think torture is justified, because that's what that prolonged application of the taser was. Simple gleeful torture, worthy of a Russian soldier in Ukraine. Everything else looked professional and totally fine, although I'm not a judge of whether backgrounds were properly considered for every one of those shots fired on the suspect's moving vehicle.
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  11458.  Happy Day  "President Reagan does not deserve a second term!"
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  11459. I love how the mayor claimed in her filing that the woman was using the pictures to "weaponize my character," as though weaponize is a synonym for attack. 🙄 The mayor, whatever diploma(s) she may claim to have, is not an educated person, nor intelligent, nor qualified. Classic case of a scammer who Didn't Earn It.
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  11460. Teachers are the real heroes.
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  11461.  @SeanTheShinigami  And other grown men, evidently, are playing the sanctimonious curmudgeon while other people are jawing about stuff, as is their perfect and salutary right.
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  11462. Nitwit.
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  11463. No one in the world of high-status men, it appears, was willing to really look at the complex of gigantic changes happening in Western society with a highly analytical, competent and critical eye, to stick his neck out fearlessly and without regard to the consequences it might have for him personally. Then along came Jordan Peterson.
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  11464. Fact check: With acreage much reduced, Ukraine's 2023 wheat harvest is expected to be around 2.5% of the global total, not 10%. Pre-war it was about 3.5%. (Source: USDA Foreign Ag Service)
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  11465. Yes, that's what they call anyone not hairshirted with national, class, colonial, and race guilt. 'Outside the church there is no salvation.'
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  11466. And in a twisted way maybe it wasn't a moment too soon. Scumminess and corruption has been quietly skyrocketing, the scummy and corrupt rapidly consolidating their power. Will we look back on Covid as having saved us at the last possible moment?
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  11467.  @kevynnedallaire1815  That amounts to saying that what's good for Ukraine is bad for planet Earth. I'm not going there, sorry. I want Russian energy revenues to be low and I don't want Russia to be able to blame high inflation on Ukraine's actions in the war. If you think it will help anything, you need to stop using energy yourself unless it's from wind and solar, and force your family to stop too. Sell your car and walk or ride your bike everywhere. Stop eating. Have you done all that stuff yet? No? Then I don't want to hear about it.
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  11468.  @kevynnedallaire1815  To me that amounts to saying that what's good for Ukraine is bad for the Earth. For my part I want Russian oil revenues to be low and world inflation to be low. I want Ukraine to win. Maybe you should just sell your car and reduce your carbon footprint to zero. I said similar things in a reply just a while ago, but I don't see that reply now.
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  11469. Thank you!
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  11470.  @Mygg_Jeager  Very much not what I heard.
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  11471.  @Mygg_Jeager  Yes, troll, I do know a fighter pilot, although I haven't talked to him in years. I suppose you're a MiG pilot yourself?
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  11472. ​ @Mankysausage  Neutrogena is good and it's made by Johnson & Johnson. Schick used to be an Energizer division but they butterflied off their personal care products and together they're now independent. A sister product is Edge shaving cream. GUM floss is Japanese-owned. Toothpaste: Colgate Palmolive. Detergent: My grocery chain carries a fine store brand which, if it is in fact made by P&G, still denies them a lot of margin and profit.
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  11473.  @habichiblah7534  Good man!👏👏👍
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  11474. "Anyone with an R next to their name." 👍 Quite right, Mr. Murray, and there's a book in there about the demonization of conservatives stretching back the better part of a lifetime, growing in intensity and volume year by year, decade by decade. Someone ought to write it, maybe you if the project suits and appeals to you. It merits at least half a shelfful of books, really.
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  11475. WW2? Actually they've yet to move out of the feudal era. Seriously, they still feel the tug of the Middle Ages.
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  11476. Unless there's a shortage of D's, let's add Disgusting.
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  11477.  @AmiliaCaraMia  A man can be married and have kids even though he's been disgusting to almost all girls and women his whole life.
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  11478. People of means do not need tax hikes to want to get the hell out. They want to get the hell out because of deteriorating conditions on the streets. Even a large tax cut would not stop many who want to leave from leaving. What Ocasio Cortez is talking about matters (in the sense that it's not constructive) but not that much.
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  11479.  @Biketunerfy  Industry sources say it can be repaired. Just search "can the Nordstream pipeline be repaired" to see how wrong you are. Stop spreading misinformation.
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  11480. Sometimes grim approximation borders on hilarious accuracy: This came up when I searched for "Nuremberg rallies."
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  11481. For god's sake lower the volume of your intro and outro music.🤨
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  11482.  @jwwebnaut7045  Who says these are not independent outside estimates?🤨
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  11483. Will no one organize public demonstrations against this arrogant monstrosity? Don't they have a building with a square or sidewalk in front of it?
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  11484. We need some real journalism here, not just this lazy "Libs say this, Tories say that." In a Toronto Sun video Brian Lilley shows a table of figures from the Parliamentary Budget Office which shows Carbon-Tax-minus-rebates by province and income group. Trudeau claims 80% get a net refund; the PBO numbers show it's 20%. Well, CP24?
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  11485. Fairly soon he might once again have all the say in the world about who may be a guest in the White House. That, I believe, establishes ample grounds for him having the right to say what he did.
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  11486. With a glossier coat.
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  11487.  SA S  We didn't see him shove past her. We saw him strike her from a position above her.
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  11488.  @TestTest-ft9xh  Society was not built by men. Hah! It was built by men and women both. And no one cares what some semi-literate thinks is a real man, especially one with bigoted prejudices like yours.
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  11489.  @Realist369  Yeah, unlike Honest Vlad.🙄
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  11490. Yeah, if you go back and listen, he says that of mentally healthy people who had a psychotic incident on marijuana, one in four developed schizophrenia. Then he radically re-phrased it. He's sloppy. He mentioned a study of 6.5m pot-using Danes, but Denmark's total population is only 5.5m. Come on.
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  11491.  @keithmorrison3520  Hahaha you destroyed.👏👏👏
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  11492.  @seaofghosts  Who t.f. puts their phone in the bathroom? What's the point in that? I can't think of one, except if your high-risk lifestyle means to you that you stand a chance of bringing home some kind of deranged person for fun and games in the middle of the night, and you might need it there to save your life.
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  11493.  @hollygolightly7475  Down in hell Ted Kennedy heard that and leapt to his feet saying: "No f%%%ing way! You're trying to say what?"
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  11494. Big deal. There's always airlines on the brink. Sometimes it's most of them. And right now business has tanked. But here we have the BBC, sourcing a Labour MP to come in at the 0:30 mark to plaintively ask "How and why [did] the government let this happen[?]" How many years have they been doing this? Word is going round that the BBC is in for a comeuppance. It can't happen too soon.
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  11495. Jack Russell terrier: "I could have taken care of the whole situation at an earlier stage."
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  11496. Is it just me or did this produce some unwanted comic effects in anyone else? That honestly felt really uncomfortable.
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  11497.  @knightdragon5640  Really? You sounded like you think you know everything a second ago.
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  11498. Cool.
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  11499. "But I digress." My very good woman, that was the finest digression of the 21st century so far.
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  11500. "Taiwan and Singapore both blossomed from highly authoritarian seeds." Yes, so did Japan, and now it's China's turn. For a moment, it almost seemed like you had a point. Cheers.
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  11501.  @meganh9460  You're a rara avis . Nice to see. Cheers.
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  11502.  @dimes3967  Yes, harshly authoritarian government that answers to no one is terrifying. Is that your point? If so, thanks.
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  11503.  @meganh9460  Sounds right. Demographics is largely what I had in mind when I said "not far-fetched forever". And geography, yes, is really the root of it all unless one wants to say it's human nature. Thanks for the name, never heard of him; but then I'm a dabbler. Cheers.
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  11504.  @alanfriesen9837  Quite true. Equipoise is the goal. Nothing is can be guaranteed but I believe multi-party elections yield the best chance of it. Tidiness is to be shrunk from. Thanks for your reply.
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  11505.  @alanfriesen9837  Thanks for your two replies of agreement, but I can't tell which of my posts you meant. As Wyndham Lewis would put it, Blast! Things are going wrong with my notifications.
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  11506.  @alanfriesen9837  Our assessment of the business-govt relationship is quite the same, I think. Although I said 'comfortably allied', I thought it went without saying that the govt absolutely wears the trousers. And like you (it seems anyway) I'm watching for signs that the rich will start very very carefully to assert themselves. They will have to wait for men born later and with more regard for rich businessmen to move up in Beijing, I believe. And even then they'll be risking their necks. What I wonder is, can that day ever arrive? Rich people get their way in this world, but I hear rumblings about govt intentions to swing way Marxist again as soon as growth has funded enough civil infrastructure, productive capacity, and weaponry. That would be one colossal stratagem. If it were to come about, fortunes would be seized, their owners exiled, jailed, or, you know, disposed of by New Red Guardsmen, surely? Till next time. I'll always keep my eyes open for your comments. I don't know about you but I dabble all over the place. Cheers.
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  11507.  @alanfriesen9837  I meant to add, good health, long life!
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  11508.  Johney Smith  People love this type of government, yes, if by their nature they were born to be ruled, as though they are still under their father's roof. As for Singapore, yes, they like their government. But they can throw them out if they like, and treasure that right. Cheers.
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  11509.  Johney Smith  I don't mean overthrow. That would, yes, be funny for Singapore. Meaning hilarious. But, no, in English, 'throw out' when it refers to a government means to vote out of office. Sometimes "Republic" actually means something. Cheers.
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  11510.  @alanfriesen9837  Thanks for your reply. I'm not going to dig through the thread for my old comment, but I certainly never meant to "advocate for private fortunes". I probably just said Xi or his CPC successor is likely coming for them. So that's your inference, one made, I would imagine, after accurately detecting that I'm not a socialist or communist. And it's not a surprising one given your overall tone, which matches that of typical Western sympathizers of the Soviet state in the mid-1930s---haven't seen any abuse by Stalin, great advances made, some things slightly troubling, injustice probably no worse than things in the US or Britain, repression no more than breaking some eggs on the way to an omelet, etc., etc. That worked out well.
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  11511.  @Scrollupone  Her persistent boorishness set him off. As an adult her conduct ought to have bothered you, but of course you didn't even notice it as such: it was congenial to your prejudices. This is the disease sweeping our civilization. People pick sides, and their own side can do no wrong. Magnitudes worse than embarrassing.
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  11512.  @Scrollupone  I would've preferred he keep his cool rather better, but I did want to see her pilloried for vandalizing the Elizabeth Tower. She surrendered any claims to deserving respect with her acts, and then she came on his program to double down on her cravings for publicity and ignore the fact the he runs his show. Arrogant is far too nice a word for her. A criminal and common toxic sociopath who's not all there, who needs help and I hope she gets it. She won't.
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  11513. ​ @Scrollupone  You and your disturbed hero who identifies as Joan of Arc can hate me all you want and look on me as moral garbage for eating an omelet or piece of salmon. I just don't care. Only 1% of the world is vegan and only a fraction of those share your bigoted outlook on normal human beings. Get over yourselves, please.
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  11514. ​ @peterjones4180  Yep. Science is a good system, the best one we have for approaching the truth about a great many things, but it does regularly involve blunders which may take decades to root out. It's not something people stand back and watch as it does its magic, it's something people do, which guarantees errors. (Few pairs of words go together so well as 'human' and 'error'.) The conversation is never over just because someone says "researchers concluded."
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  11515. It's where the window is, Dr. Freud.
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  11516. Golden comment.👍 3rd 'sentence' perfectly pronounced. 😂 Almost certain I can guess your generation. X, right? If not, close to it. Cheers.
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  11517. Thanks for this clip go out to the purist neo-Marxist education faculties in every university in the English-speaking world.   Because they made it necessary.
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  11518. It strikes me that the goal of flattening the curve is probably at odds with avoiding the impoverishment of us all, perhaps for no payoff whatever in lives saved. Lives may be at first be saved by slowing an otherwise uncontrolled spread, but slowing the spread roughly means shutting down the country until most people are vaccinated or have caught the virus and recovered. Pausing the economy for a full year or longer would likely be a disaster in many ways worse than letting the disease run its course whilst the sick and the old are safely hunkered down for several months. And drawing out the spread over time is not guaranteed to save a great many lives anyway, as hospitals may be overwhelmed even by a relative trickle of patients: it's clear that they can't handle an influx of the sick amounting to 5% of the population, but what makes anyone think they could handle even 1%? Hospitals will no doubt rise to the occasion in astonishing ways, but they operate within realistic limits against which there is ultimately no remedy. Thus the best way to save the most vulnerable might be to focus on isolating them in the most thoroughgoing manner possible, a task more achievable if people are working at their jobs and circulating freely, maintaining the normal functioning of things needed to support such an effort. It would also free up things like masks and medicines for those who need them most, including medical workers. To isolate those most at risk for half a year is not only much easier on them and all of us than doing so for twelve months or more, and cheaper---it also gives the virus much less time to get through to them. Imagine on the one hand emerging from the summer with herd immunity achieved at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and with a quick economic and social recovery at hand, versus having the disease hanging over us all for a year or longer whilst it slowly but inexorably picks off the vulnerable one by one, at the cost of a similar (or greater) number of lives and an economic and financial hole so deep that it takes several years or a decade to climb out of it. All the while we would swing back and forth agonizingly between tantalizing reprieve and resurgent outbreaks which continue through 2021. Quality of life and standards of living, obviously, but also the health of the people in all other respects would be sure to be seriously impacted. Do we know whether society could hang together throughout all that? We are most certainly not the same people who withstood the Second World War with such stoic resilience. And what if the net effect of an unnecessarily protracted struggle against the disease is a massive transfer of political and economic power to China? The national science advisor may have been right to float the herd immunity idea. The country which gets through this soonest will enjoy an enormous feeling of gladness and also be the envy of the world. Possibly it could mean sacrificing a certain number of younger lives for a vastly greater number of older ones. As Orwell said, "it is disagreeable to weigh human lives like groceries", but in the worst circumstances that may be precisely what is wisest.
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  11519. Yes, a few per cent of the cases are spread over a dozen or two countries. Wikipedia has a big article people are updating every few seconds.
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  11520. "[A] war like this is not viable in today's world." True, but Russia clings tenaciously to the Middle Ages. So did Germany until 1945. I was interested to learn from George Kennan's memoirs that the Allied occupiers considered that, as much as denazification, their real aim was the extirpation of German feudalism. Matthew Arnold wrote that, to him, the Gothic towers of Oxford whispered the last enchantments of the Middle Ages. That task now belongs to the palaces and cathedrals of the Kremlin.
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  11521. Seven is quite high. It's within the top 10% I'd say. Probably 80% of men are a 3-6. Definitely a bell curve, as with all human characteristics.
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  11522. Steven Tyler is six years older.
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  11523. He was already dead. They fired for nothing, risking hitting someone innocent in the background. "Yee-haw!"
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  11524. Capital letters don't work the way you think they do.
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  11525.  @gaoxiaen1  Indeed. Yet another apt take. Keep 'em coming.
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  11526. Some anagrams are magically right: Ilhan Omar = Oh, man! L i ar.
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  11527. A lot, but far less than a quarter, which would be 9.5 million. It's 6.8 million out of 38.1 million, so just under 17.8%.
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  11528. When lowlifes like this guy are removed by the next regime, it will negotiate for their extradition to The Hague. I can't wait.
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  11529. Republicans need to find more candidates cut from the same cloth as Ron DeSantis. They're out there somewhere. Easy path to victory.
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  11530. What a hypocrite. He's only started coming around in the past two years. Maybe coming around. "After 9/11" my a55!
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  11531. 👏🏻 Finally a comment free of errors and major omissions! 👏🏻. (Those are clapping hands emojis. Did they render right or do they show as blank boxes?)
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  11532.  @peterh.1521  Sounds about right. I can see why Mark Putzerberg is lunging headlong into the virtual reality business: half the population, and most of the young, already prefers unreality, fantasy, alternative facts, fanciful unscientific theories, drug trips, patent nonsense, and so on. The US navy has now made someone who divorced his wife after deciding he was a woman at age 54 a four-star admiral.
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  11533.  @vincentmackinnon3601  Nah. She's all woman. Just a certain type of person I don't prefer.
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  11534.  @Immortalizable  I don't see it. Small lower jaw, no orbital ridge. All girl. There's no need to get fanciful about it. I understand what you feel emanates from her but I'm entirely certain it is something else. It's probably to do with often thinking "what would a successful male politician do?" and then trying to channel that, to incompetent effect. But in politics it's politics that matters. The fact that I can't stand hers is the only thing in my mind.
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  11535.  @Sydneywide1  Yes. The last 15 years especially have been The Revenge of the Weirdos & Losers, simple and plain. Everything healthy has been declared sick, and vice versa. If you enjoy philosophy written not in a dry technical way but to a good literary standard, read The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset. It's a classic work from about 90 years ago and not at all difficult to find.
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  11536. Politicians at Moncton City Hall: "Well, even the rest of Canada considers Moncton unimportant. So obviously nothing we do will affect what happens in the Middle East. We're powerless. So the best we can do is give the middle finger to Jewish people here in town. At least it's something."
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  11537. Dear narrator: don't emphasize every pronoun for nothing. This is called Promiscuous Pronoun Punching.
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  11538. Yes, far. If by far you mean months.
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  11539. The instant that Markle loses hope of becoming half of a billionaire couple, her mind will be made up to leave. This may already have occurred.
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  11540. World Slime Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to CBS News!"
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  11541. Not that Ontario, the big one.
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  11542.  @TerraNova1967  Childish analogy, as no such occurrence would ever arise. The presence of the invaders offshore would itself certainly be sufficient to stir an appropriate response. But ok, I'll play along. How about if the young lad's immature antics were so repulsive that they actually created support for the invaders?
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  11543. A leader who would poison his opponents or throw them in jail? So you're wishing for the end of the US as a free country. Try to smarten up.
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  11544.  @cjay2  You try again. You clearly expressed a wish for "a leader like Putin", and that's what he's like. Wear it.
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  11545. Nice attempt at division. Actually the video describes an attack on virtually everyone. On values, not classes—values concerning truth and freedom, which are in fact the concern of people in all classes. How infested this whole comments section is with assertions posing in support of the video which are in fact in support of division, meaning they are against the spirit of the video—a spirit of people maintaining a healthy solidarity.
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  11546.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  S tuff your Marxism immediately.
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  11547.  @kermitfrog593  I didn't notice you backing up your claims about Clooney and Pitt in the least. Pick a scrap with someone your own debating ability.
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  11548.  @wokefromhome7389  Get out of here yourself. Oh wait, you're out of here already, in your own little woke universe. It's cute how they even speak English there.
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  11549.  @charlesbadoola535  True, the 'vulnerable' in the West are generally vulnerable on account of having rich people's illnesses.
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  11550. I mean rich in world terms, not Western terms. In Western terms they're middle and low income people.
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  11551. Who is this rather awful person bringing me the news of the world? Has there been some sort of mix-up?
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  11552. But the worse the organization, the less likely the best have risen to the top. So, what if those next in line are vastly more fit as commanders than the fellows you pick off? Then you've committed the blunder of interfering with your enemy's incompetence.
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  11553. I always thought admitting you were wrong about someone was one of those typically Canadian traits. These days, I might be on the verge of admitting I was wrong. Or maybe I was right until recently, and it's just that 90% of the entire world is suddenly going downhill fast.
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  11554. Oh, they're so concerned about Ontarians' health care and education.🤣Sure. No, actually. They're simply terrified at the thought of working in the private sector. Unsuitability for the private sector is why they work at the LCBO in the first place.
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  11555. You mean there's been intentionally race-based deployment of the fire department during this crisis? Wouldn't surprise me one tiny bit. There was some of that during the thing in 2020-22 which I'm not even allowed to say the name of.
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  11556. A very weak case. Mr. Pakman asserts that spelling mistakes in tweets indicate low literacy; then he says that, owing to low literacy, it's actually others who write his tweets. And if looking for reasons why an old man with a BA and MBA can't read something and doesn't have his glasses with him, try vanity rather than illiteracy. Why not go after Trump for a thousand other reasons? It wouldn't be at all difficult. Surely he was right when he said Democrats would call him clever if he were one of them. This video is just one American turkey going after another one.
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  11557. Thank you. That's exactly what's going on in this section. You and I would get along great. Cheers, mate
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  11558. Why can't malls finance their own customers?
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  11559.  @danieldickson8591  Don't worry. France will never go all the way to what she wants even if she's elected to two terms. And even if it did, it would be the will of France. Democracy means accepting electoral defeat or it means nothing. The danger she poses is to European and global security with her thoroughgoing Putinism.
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  11560. The police not being armed means there will be a great rise in deaths from terrorism. Guaranteed.
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  11561. Profoundly nonsensical and morally bankrupt rantings. Nothing but a judgment you can't bring yourself to bring down on the one you see in the mirror. Courage, my dear man, scrape up some moral courage. Some redemption.
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  11562. Different owners.
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  11563. Try a meeting of the International Socialists in Wigan in 1935.
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  11564. It is marvellous that Putin thinks the West is weak. It will encourage in him overconfidence and an eagerness to take larger and larger risks. Come the right time, it will mean that he incurs massive losses.
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  11565.  @nadiaoak5123  Expressing serious dissatisfaction over unreasonable harassment within a marriage is hardly threat-making. Or maybe you think it is when a man does it, and not when a woman does it. I rather suspect you do. Uncool story, madam.
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  11566. (1) Cost to replace a Tesla battery: "The cost of a new Tesla battery ranges from $5,000 to $20,000." (Source: Insurify, 2023) Most sources say around $12,000. (2) Lifespan: "A survey of 350 Tesla owners in Europe found that their cars dropped around five percent of their capacity after 50,000 miles before dropping much slower thereafter. The group extrapolated the data to claim they would have lost 20 percent of the original capacity after 500,000 miles." (Source: Inverse) Tesla itself says it their batteries should last 300,000 to 500,000 miles. Their warranty is for 8 years or 150,000 miles. (A Tesla motor has the same warranty and costs $6,000 to replace.) (3) Engines/motors: Please compare this cost, longevity and warranty to those of a gasoline engine. And be sure to compare to premium cars in Tesla's range.  E.g. BMW 3-Series: You can buy a knock-off brand, but "[engines made by BMW itself] cost between $15,000 and $17,000. The labor cost will vary between $2900 and $4000 ." (Source: YourBMWBlog) Total: $17,900-21,000. (4) A gasoline-engine car has a transmission as well. A Tesla doesn't. So you & your upvoters can feel relieved that you were earlier fed misinformation😄.
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  11567. And that men who say they feel like women should be called women.
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  11568.  david jeffery  "I feel the same way every time I hear Justin trudeau speak publicly." I understand what you mean, but I don't think he'd be as lenient as the mayor of Seattle. I know some people would disagree with me there, but that's fine. Notice he joined in supporting Australia concerning China recently, which is a major shift of some sort (for him). He might be getting a little more serious [fingers crossed].
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  11569.  ZillaH  Alas, you're wrong: Their GDP will grow this year, yours won't. And you're overoptimistic: Disentangling supply lines from China, a worthy project, will nonetheless be slow and expensive. A new factory in, say, Malaysia, Vietnam, or even India may be Chinese-owned and operated anyway. Optimism butters no turnips.
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  11570.  ZillaH  Disentangling isn't really all that major. The top level is "decoupling". Anyway, I haven't heard about these bans you speak of. What might be one or two news sources on that?
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  11571. Just imagine "yelling at city officials because they haven't provided [you] with a permanent place to call home." I can see how someone might want to take the city up on an offer of housing, but if it's not there, how can you yell at them to demand it? It's like a panhandler screaming angrily at people to give them their change. These people are just so mixed up.
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  11572. Bartiromo interview, summer 2023. Watch it.
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  11573. For anyone wishing to avoid any unwarranted suggestion of conservatism given off by calling them neo-Marxists, I say It's time to start calling them the New Puritans. Rhetorically superior, I would assert, with advantages in accuracy too. It's my coinage and you're invited to use it.
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  11574. In the US, 'bin' seems to rank highest socially, then 'bean', with 'ben' in last place. In the other English-speaking countries, it's always been 'bean'. 'Bin' and the grating 'ben' have made big inroads, though.
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  11575.  @LisaBowers  I thought you found it bizarre and didn't realize countless millions consider it normal, that's all. Cheers.
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  11576. The Global Practical-Mnded Government Thinking Index is going to hit generational highs over the coming days, weeks, and months. The populace may prove to be a very different story, but world institutional stupidity is in for a major hit.
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  11577.  @markbartoszek8585  This commercial spam makes YouTube worse.
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  11578.  @pierrestolinski104  Formidable!
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  11579. The New Republic😂😂 I encourage any interested person to read/watch the source material. Why get a TNR writer to think things through for you? Btw, you quote the writer without naming him/her. Ackman's wife credited her quotes with superscript numerals and footnotes with names, but without quotation marks. Bit of a parallel there.
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  11580.  @moderneurope  Great. Then you've convinced yourself. You've also exonerated yourself about something having to do with Wikipedia Illustrations. That's super too.😄
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  11581.  @darkz1940  If they indeed are granted any such blessing, Putin will not wake up tomorrow morning.
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  11582.  @aaronperry5948  Canada's response to any serious threat to Australia would be immediate, unequivocal, and vigorous. It would not matter one bit who was prime minister, there is simply no way we would let Australia face an aggressor without us. Not a chance.
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  11583. Unquestionably. 🇨🇦🇦🇺
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  11584. Apartheid, sure.🙄 That's why 2 million Arabs live inside Israel, enjoying full and equal citizenship and protection under constitutional human rights provisions. They vote, they own businesses, they have political parties, they sit in the Knesset. These are the sorts of facts which pretentious and sanctimonious liberals absolutely love to ignore.
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  11585.  @joshbates9015  Thanks for the steaming pile of copied-and-pasted tendentious bull💩. It's the same sort of crap used to "prove" that women are tyrannized by the "patriarchy," blacks really aren't responsible for the staggering amount of crime they commit, and all the rest. Hand it in to your TA and collect an automatic A for it. (Of course there's a strong chance that you are a TA.) It would take honesty and integrity to acknowledge the vast differences between Israel's legal and social provisions and South African Apartheid, in extent but especially in kind. Without honesty and integrity, the sole resort is to category inflation, an exemplary form of tendentious bull💩.
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  11586. The NYT just ran a puff piece lionizing her for being a woman. This exemplifies why I'm an ex-subscriber. Its readership is now 93% Democratic supporters.
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  11587. Good luck becoming a person who can think things through. You aren't one yet.
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  11588. (1) There's no sound coming out of the right channel. Please fix, SNA. (2) DeSantis announced his candidacy not quite six months ago, not "a year-plus" ago.
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  11589. 1) Leadership contest over by mid-March. New PM. 2) Parliament re-convenes, instant non-confidence vote, forcing election. 3) Early May election, mega-crushing Conservative majority. E-z peasy.
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  11590. I too have begun to think that if Russia hasn't won by now, it's not going to.
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  11591. As Chris Rock recently pointed out to laughter and applause from his mostly black audience, talk and speculation about the skin tone of forthcoming children is usual in ordinary black families. He criticized the Sussexes at length, especially Markle of course, and the whole segment received warm audience approval.
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  11592. See my reply of just now to the post immediately above yours. [@Gamma_Draconis "The problem..." etc.] (So we're either great minds thinking alike or fools not differing.😂)
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  11593. Don't make me laugh. The end of Russian gas to Western Europe was already a fait accompli. No one on the anti-Russian side had anything more to gain. It's Russia who'll enjoy the higher energy prices which instantly resulted and Europeans who'll be saddled with them.
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  11594. Make AOC a waitress again.
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  11595. You forgot: Population: Russia, 145m. Combined Ukraine–NATO–Three-continents rich democracies, ~1,200m GDP: Russia, $1.5-3trn. Combined Ukraine–NATO–Three-continents rich democracies, ~$50trn
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  11596.  @Solaire_au_Frohmage  Thanks for your interesting reply. I agree with about half of it. Cheers mate
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  11597. About $150 per American. But rich people pay most of the taxes, so your share is probably five bucks. (Actual example: if you pay $10k in federal taxes annually on $60k in earnings, you've kicked in $20 so far.)
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  11598.  @KC9UDX  What is that supposed to mean? I think you're just trying to sound smart and hate being corrected. I suspect you're now going to say that 10x the official amount is secretly being sent over there, and it's such a secret that even Tucker Carlson doesn't know, but you do.
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  11599. Canada's friends outside the country, please be aware that his party only got 32.6% of the popular vote, actually placing second behind the Conservatives. By a quirk of the system bearing a slight resemblance to the Electoral College in the US, he remained prime minister anyway. And it was the same the election before. He is not popular in the country he governs. Wait no, I mean the country he rules.
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  11600. I wish you were a multi-neuron organism already.
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  11601. I'm with Potato Joe on this one. What's he gonna say? "No, he's not a dictator"? He is a dictator. He knows it, his country knows it, everyone in the world knows it. It's no worse than saying only women are women. Blinken thinks his job just got harder but I don't think it makes a difference. There's no point in trying to get Xi Jinping to like the US government. None.
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  11602. People say the same thing about the illegality of street drugs for addicts. But look what happens when the drugs are legal (e.g. in Vancouver). Turns out illegality means something even to addicts, so it likely does to homeless people too.
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  11603. She's not real. She was made up by Stephen King.
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  11604.  @dildobaggins9628  You're the one in ten thousand who would take it as literally an assertion of fact. 🙄
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  11605.  @dildobaggins9628  It's not important how I did at school all those years ago. But since you ask out of clear interest, I did finish. Incidentally, I won the English prize in my senior year. I went on to graduate with a subsidiary major in English from a university which in the better-known global rankings perennially makes the top 20. And one way or another I've always made my bread by the written word. Thanks for your reply.
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  11606. He's clearly the arch baby boomer airhead.
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  11607. "I know because my staff tell me so, every time they enter the room and put something down for me 20 meters away at the other end of the table." —V. Putzin
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  11608. Thousands of km from Ukraine. Could've been an accident owing to a panicky production ramp-up. In lots of ways Russia just isn't that slick a country, especially far from the two metropolises. Corruption and repression will do that to you, making it very hard to get people's best out of them.
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  11609. Wait a second. First of all, what exactly is the harm in what we saw? No harm, no foul. Second, what would Huh Mass do with a wounded Eye Dee F? I can't say for sure but I'm guessing they'd execute him, not take him to a hospital. Third, for what distance was the man there? 50km at 80km/h is one thing, 1km at 15km/h is another.
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  11610. "Which is fine nowadays." — Norm Macdonald
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  11611.  Clydesider711  Thanks for your reply.
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  11612.  Dawn Doran  Oh please. He has Parkinson's, which has zero to do with senility. Get your facts straight. (Btw, what is the significance of "in real life"? As opposed to in movies? Hahaha)
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  11613.  @john8582  That sounds like soon to be red pilled talk. Carry on! You'll be fine in a while.
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  11614. Yeah, they're not that good. That's why SpaceX sends up most of the world's tonnage to orbit. It's because they're not very good.
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  11615. And you just know that it's not gonna follow the number one rule for using a hot tub. I'm not specifying what the rule is but everybody knows it and it's an excellent rule.
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  11616. Many (most?) 8th-graders know it's the Food and Drug Administration.
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  11617. Will ABC now move on to giving its airwaves over to Holocaust deniers? Will they too have an hour to tell their lies, threaten Jews with "harsh punishments," praise WWII-era German leaders, and all the rest? I hope not, but I daresay they might.
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  11618. This obviously insincere move by Joe & Mika calls for a cold-shoulder response. If, as it seems, they are twisting in the wind at this moment, I'm good with that. I stand ready to wish them and their little show a hearty "Buh-bye!"
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  11619. Appetites is an even better word.👍 Instincts might be another. We need to inventory our instincts and appetites, examining each one to evaluate how salutary or self-injurious it is to follow or suppress it to any given extent. One might say the study of morality amounts to little more than that.
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  11620. Now have 3 women swipe a line of men.
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  11621. The Osborne effect is why they are going to spring it on the world suddenly. Few people seem to realize that—as you can tell from how so many continue to talk about how its debut is so very far away. They'll be doing that right up until Tesla announces it'll be available in three months or so. I don't doubt the company is busily planning and developing it now. Upon its introduction, the concern will then be Model 2 cannibalization of the more expensive models. They will therefore want the range of higher-priced, higher-margin vehicles, including the Cybertruck, to be solidly rolled out in all the major markets first, to try to cement their market position and reduce the potential for that.
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  11622. He's not a jerk at all, if you can go by this. He was really funny in a way that was for the most part also gracious, considering that this event is supposed to be pretty much roast-like. This is a side of him I was relieved to see. (Not that I was surprised.)
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  11623. "I'm a professor! I'm a professor!" ....The sound a fool makes when reality makes a surprise appearance. If only the idea had occurred to her, she would've shouted: "I'm a female professor! I'm a female professor!"
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  11624. Everyone on that All-In Podcast seems like they're at the top of a business with numerous people "below" them who are smarter, more knowledgeable and understand things more deeply than they do.
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  11625. Lovely point about envy.👏 Envy is up way over 100% from the end of the last century. And it is such a hideous and destructive fault. Earlier ages literally called it a deadly sin. But if we're trying to explain mainstream attitudes about energy generation, let's not forget sanctimony. Right up there on the podium with envy, and either one could get the gold. Tough call for the judges.
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  11626. Xi is simply Russia's ally and representative. He has less than zero credibility as an intermediary. His interest is for every democracy to fail and thus for Ukraine to lose; for every autocracy to succeed and thus for Russia to win. If you read his so-called peace plan, it is nothing of the sort. It is a list of how he wants the world to be ordered in China's (or rather his own) interests. It's like a page torn out of his private notebooks, a memo to himself.
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  11627. It's 2.5x farther from Dnipro to the westernmost point of Ukraine than it is to the easternmost point.
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  11628. I fully agree, and may I add that social media is a plague on humanity for giving unlimited scope to such messages in support of tyranny, murder, destruction and genocide. Those with the brains and morals of ants are ripe for social media warping by those whose morals are worse yet. How can people fail to see that Russia is totally wrong in committing these things against its harmless, peaceful, smaller, weaker neighbour? Sickening. But all the best to you, sir.
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  11629. That's pretty juicy. Source, please and thank you.
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  11630.    Thanks a lot.
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  11631.    Very much appreciated. 😀
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  11632. [Yawn] Throw another one on the pile: On every issue, the leading conservative and Republican position or claim ends up prevailing. Biden's health is just the latest. To guess what liberals and Democrats will be saying about anything in 6 months, a year, or two years, just find out what conservatives and Republicans are saying now.
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  11633. ​ MystiqWisdom  <----- " '[C]riticisms' (really just complaining/judgments) are never accompanied with details or suggestions on alternatives/improvements." So? Since when does raising an objection oblige one to be officiously helpful? But my main point is that your own comment answers to that description very neatly. Note also the intense negativity of "cesspool of negativity." As to your last point about "creators" not complaining about others' work, I'll stick with Samuel Johnson: "The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life."
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  11634. Ok, he was correct in what he said here, but don't go nuts. What if he handed you a cup of tea?
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  11635.  @samuelross9884  Ok, but my point was that he's more clever and insightful than trustworthy and scrupulous.
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  11636. So the people we call psychopaths are simply the bad apples among those steely people who are masters of themselves; who have decidedly superior, effective and powerful interpersonal abilities; and whose concern for others' feelings and approval is below normal. Makes sense. After all, how dangerous are those weak people who possess little self-mastery, who fall apart under pressure, who can't persuade others, who seldom take risks, and who yearn to please others?
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  11637. He probably admires Putin's "basic dictatorship."
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  11638.  @marktheo1563  I really wish no ill on ordinary Russians. I think that they are a great people in many ways and that Russia one day could be the last good country on Earth. But it is also unfortunately true that they remain born to be ruled. Someone close to Putin needs to "do him a favor," as the macabre saying goes. Concerning Trump, I confess that shortly after his inauguration I did suspect him as an authoritarian at heart. I still (foolishly and to my present embarrassment) had a little trust in the corporate media. I later realized that he wasn't at all, and that the real anti-democrats were those who had made the accusation. It is they who inwardly long for a one-party system, while supporters of the former president shrink in horror at the very idea. I believe in the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome as a widespread and destructive malady in the US. As I say, I once had a mild case of it myself, but thankfully now carry the antibodies. Beware the American left. George Orwell, an exceedingly clever man, foresaw clearly that it was the left, not the right, who threatened democracy in the West, and he was a socialist himself. In the end they disgusted him. There is poison in the left and they will never get it out.
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  11639. Also, communism has never been tried. We know, we know.... 🙄
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  11640. India imports 9 million bpd of Russian oil? Simply not possible. Russia doesn't export that much, and a lot goes to China as well, plus other countries.
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  11641.  @globalthings6774  Like in London on that bridge where the men tackled the knife murderer with the bomb vest? Thanks for the Global Times or Chinese Foreign Ministry point of view.
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  11642. Correct.
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  11643. The bleakness of the national mood could've been emphasized a bit more. Still, a fair take. Only a couple of minor inaccuracies. Stock footage not too old.
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  11644. Kink, definitely. About six different kinds rolled into one, plus multiple non-kink mental afflictions in the mix too.
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  11645. It's Day 156 of the Kursk offensive. I'm guessing the Kremlin wants to be able to say "Of course we ourselves could eject the Ukrainians! It's the North Koreans who aren't up to the job. But they insisted on helping, and we owe our friends the chance!" I am, by the way, wary of underestimating Kim's troops. It's still early.
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  11646. Do they receive state funding? I don't think so. Pro-government slant doesn't make any news outlet state media. State media would be NPR, BBC, RT, People's Daily, etc. Just call them scat media.
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  11647. 1) I'm so happy for Ukrainians finally getting some news to raise their spirits and their hopes for a favorable outcome. How brave the battalions going into Kursk are!🇺🇦 2) Final clip: What it would be like if Kamala Harris were running America.😄 Wait, I mean 😮and 😥.
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  11648.  @ME4503  I made it clear to even the most careless reader in my original post that I am quite aware of that. But it is not ideal to use it in a medical context. Think about it.
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  11649.  @jonhay75  I'm so glad you made that point. So then how about a video elsewhere in which our friend Dr. Smith (PhD, history) is interviewed about Covid vs. the 1918 Pandemic, and it is given the title: "Doctor Says Covid Is Nothing Compared to 1918 Pandemic." Comfortable with that?
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  11650. ​ @lewisbenzie845  You mean you're assuming I disagree with what he says? I don't, really. I'm generally congenial to his points of view. I watched a fair number of his videos during the pandemic and for the most part they met with my approval. I don't even have a problem with his credentials. Indeed, the hypertrophy of credentialism during the pandemic was one of its more ominous and unappetizing aspects. Rather, I simply don't want his credentials to be misunderstood for any reason, and my complaint is clearly addressed to KK and FF. Why are you and other people taking this in any way for opposition to Campbell or an attack on his positions? Sorry, but that's not a solid supposition at all. It's also a sign of the hyperpartisanship which just might be the chief plague of our time. I'm not calling you partisan; I'm referring to how so many people assume the other guy is probably a thoroughgoing enthusiast (i.e. fanatic) of some sort, just for seeming to disagree with them in the slightest. I hope this clears things up, and thanks for your reply.
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  11651.  @simongreaves9465  Thanks for your reply, but you've rather badly mistaken my point. Have a quick glance at my replies in this thread if you like, and I think you'll be reassured about my estimation of Campbell. (I do nonetheless strongly feel that 'Doctor' in his case is an academic rather than a professional title, however outstanding a practitioner of nursing, university instructor, and researcher he may in fact be—and that the distinction must be made in this sensitive context.)
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  11652.  @dendradwar9464  One second sufficed: I said nothing about differing with Campbell's views, and in fact I am quite congenial to them, as I was during the pandemic when I watched his videos (with interest and general approval) probably about once a week. Your thinking, if I construe it properly as it was expressed, is faulty and, it appears, lazy. That whooshing sound was my original point speeding over your head. Let it come by for another go, please.
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  11653.  @dendradwar9464  1) I alluded to a possibility that I couldn't make out your meaning because of how you write. Ok, it turns out I couldn't, but at least I was alive to the chance. 2) I don't know what you're on about here, for I see no question mark in your initial reply, but it is phrased as a question. Fill me in if you like. 3) My medical history is private, but I'm willing to say that my choices reflected my tendency toward moderate stances on just about everything life. I did spend hundreds of hours going as much as possible straight to learned academic sources in order to inform myself, whilst studiously ignoring media reports. Your original post is baffling to me. To me it has an air of challenge and disagreement, but its precise point of contention eludes me. Can you put it another way? Thanks for your reply.
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  11654.  @dendradwar9464  That's all fine, although I still struggle to get your meaning entirely. The thing is that I don't want to debate the vaccines. I grew tired of that subject. Let's just say I am not interested in a booster unless I can get the Novavax one, which is based on a platform (protein subunit/protein adjuvant) which broadly speaking is of 1980s vintage. I only wrote my OP because I was concerned about how readers would construe the video title, and it had nothing to do with the value of a nursing PhD degree versus that of an MD. Zero. Several people are reading far too many things into it. Classic case of "So what you're saying is..."
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  11655. Both sides really want both things, because there's an election this year and swing voters must be courted. It's the Rep and Dem hardcore bases that don't want Ukraine aid and an immigration clampdown, respectively. A single bill is the solution: all they have to do is wrangle over it publicly for weeks and weeks, reach a deal, blame the compromise on each other, and their bases pretty much have to forgive them. Democracy works a lot of the time, you just have to accept that it involves well-meaning deception, just like life itself.
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  11656. "Why didn't they de-escalate instead?"
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  11657. "They couldn't understand how such a thing was possible." Well, just give them 30 seconds and they'll blame colonialism, for Africa was the most civilized, prosperous and progressive place on earth until the day they made contact with Europeans.
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  11658. Carlson is fairly brilliant and writes really well. Supposedly Trump takes him very seriously, which reflects well on Trump.
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  11659. It was appalling how she talked down to those honorable servants of the community. There are just no limits to her arrogance and smugness. They're infinite. They stretch even wider than her expansive hinder region and her very wide face.
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  11660. I agree with every word of that. Definition creep is a fine term for a nasty thing. And you said "troubling" instead of the faddish problematic. Marvellous.
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  11661.  @Geffo555   "The referendum was advisory! " If it really were merely advisory an opinion poll could have done a better job. When people actually vote the credibility of the democracy is on the line, whether anyone feels that's reasonable or not.
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  11662.  @Geffo555  Heavens, man, I knew that already. I am in possession of the basic facts. When I wrote "really" I meant in the sense of what mattered really, and was not trying to deny what everybody knows. Do I really sound so unreasonable that you must automatically assume in my every utterance a congenital thickness? That's the second time you've done so, now leave me alone. Cheers.
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  11663.  @Geffo555  Please excuse me, that was someone else before. Too many live threads. But I stick to my point about advisory vs. binding. If you say to a woman 'If I asked you to marry me what would you say?'' and she says 'yes, let's do it', and you then say 'but I wasn't really asking, I was just curious', you're being silly and unfair. Some important questions just can't be asked 'in theory'. Or how about 'I'm not really asking, but if I would go along with a divorce, would you want one?' If she says yes then the marriage is effectively over. It doesn't matter that you 'weren't actually asking'. 2016 Question: De jure non-binding, de facto binding. Sorry again for mixing you up with someone else.
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  11664. ⬆The ironically-named De moc rats will say anything, do anything. Anything.
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  11665. Fanny might be a good journalist but her English is so hard to understand that she should really be working in another language which she can enunciate well.
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  11666. Europe was not originally thought of as a continent in the same way we think of continents today. Britain seemed a large enough island to be not a part of Europe, in a way that Sicily didn't. And we didn't always know about plate tectonics. You complain about a mere manner of speaking rather than something that deserves to be taken seriously.
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  11667.  @mike.B.1  I invite you to notice that I said no such thing. Clearly I view the usage as an unimportant survival of an earlier era. Geographically the UK is part of Europe, as it's not a continent; as this needs no pointing out, I didn't bother to. Cheers.
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  11668. Old videos can catch fire pretty spontaneously. A couple of likes get them suggested to fifty more people, five more likes lead to forty more views. From there it might die out, it might smoulder, or first thing you know it's a million views in a week. It's natural in systems with aspects of randomness. It's going to happen unless you purposely suppress it, and why do that? I think it's fun. This one will go back into obscurity soon enough.
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  11669. Enough misinformation! Harris' family background is as follows: Mother's side, 100% southern Indian; father's side, combined African-Jamaican and Irish-Jamaican in unknown proportions (but doubtless far more black than Irish). And anyone saying "Jamaica isn't black" disrespects the facts: 76% black/15% black-white (together 91%).
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  11670.  @footballnerd277  Don't say "this channel" claims anything about the IFR. The claim you refer to is that of a University of Oxford epidemiologist. Do you not know the difference? Recall that this channel also hosted an interview with Prof. Ferguson.
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  11671.  @footballnerd277  Why can't you see that if by interviewing Prof. Gupta it is 'promoting' her claims, then by interviewing Profs. Ferguson and Dean it is also 'promoting' opposite and competing claims. Actually, it isn't really promoting either and thus comes closer to unbiased journalism than anything else I've come across in months. Debate is salutary. You've heard of it, of course? By complaining that this channel is not an echo chamber, you're part of the problem. So just go back to CNN kids' table. The grown-ups are talking.
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  11672.  @footballnerd277   Thanks for your reply. An IFR is not a single number that applies everywhere. Just like a homicide rate, it's an average that applies to a given population. So when the dust settles on the pandemic it will have been observed that the US , Canada, Japan, and Somalia all had different IF rates. The extent of their respective hospital resources and the average health and average age of their populations will have been among the important factors in this. So would the whole shape of their overall pandemic responses. For the same reasons NYC and Idaho can be expected to have differing IFRs just as they have differing homicide rates. And differences are sustained through increasingly granular examinations. The Bronx and Brooklyn Heights too have differing homicide and IF rates. As do New England boarding schools and New England nursing homes, as well as various population cohorts such as UK young adults vs the UK middle-aged. So don't be too quick to point to a population with a higher IFR (e.g. New York state) and conclude that it falsifies the professor's assertion. In time the New York IFR may to an extent be offset by far lower IFRs such as we are seeing elsewhere in the US and around the world. The US northeast, southern England, and Lombardy may well prove to be outliers . A 0.05% IFR across a billion infected people (very roughly the maximum number of people in the West that could pick up the virus) implies 500,000 deaths. So as the IFR at present looks more like 0.2-0.6% (or 4 to 12 times higher) her estimate does indeed appear too low. But as it is very unclear how many people remain susceptible to infection and also how many of those would be vulnerable to a serious case or to death, we don't know how close to the end of the pandemic we are. Possibly the virus, as the professor asserts, has already picked the vast majority of the low-hanging fruit available to it (excuse the metaphor for people elderly, sick, and crowded together) and will make its way through the rest of the population causing a vastly lesser rate of serious illness and death. It's too soon to tell. She is not alone among epidemiologists and other academics in expecting the IFR to plunge to below 0.2%. And I don't know about you, but putting---as she does---special emphasis on keeping one's head while others grow panicky, on developing the widest and longest-term outlook possible, and on resisting all temptation to join the herd for the sake of its security, are all things that I ordinarily see as merits. They are not to be found everywhere, to say the least.
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  11673.  @footballnerd277  Fine. Just remember that party feeling is death to intellect. (The term is Orwell's and means belonging totally to one side of a struggle, cheerleading for it, and not merely favouring it for what one perceives as its legitimacy and superiority, but clinging to it because it confers that legitimacy and superiority to oneself. It's for pathetic people who are nothing if not part of a winning team. It warps the mind, makes it rigid, and makes admitting to fault, error, or even the least weakness on one's own side the last thing one would ever want to do. Roughly speaking, it's thoroughgoing partisanship of any sort, a thing in the present day almost unnoticeable in its ubiquity. Its opposite is the impartial independent-mindedness which couldn't care less which team it's on, and which results in the real self-respect, or allows for the possibility of it, anyway.)
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  11674. The vandalism is not intended to accomplish any aim so practical as that. It's only to help her cope with her obvious mental afflictions of whatever particular sort.
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  11675.  @trevornganga7298  "females haven't developed countermeasures against the penis" Wow. That is hard to beat for sheer stark raving derangement. So in fact, females indeed have developed such countermeasures: Their efforts produced you and men like you.
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  11676. Oh, come off it. It's one thing to take a chance on your own and quite another to take a chance on hurting both yourself and someone else you care about. You didn't know that?
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  11677. Such a narrow little forehead on that one. Speaking of head, Pooty couldn't ask for a more perfect little servant. Come on, John, don't have such a mass-made mind.
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  11678.  @poempadgett4664  😢.... 😂
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  11679. ​ @user-zr6pl6nb6z  Key fact: he is not popular. His 1st win was a mulligan. The 2nd and 3rd times he did rather miserably but remained prime minister anyway because of Canada's parliamentary system. The US has the Electoral College, Canada has its own counterpart issues. In the last two elections he kept his job with 33 and 32% of the popular vote. And now a new widely-publicized poll shows the Conservatives with more support (43%) than Trudeau's Liberals (19%) and the very far-left NDP (21%) combined. He is in for a shellacking for the history books. (But he has the state and private media a thousand per cent on his side, so it is logically possible on that basis alone that he can turn things around. However, at this point it would be a poor bet.)
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  11680.  @BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr  As usual, a far-lefty makes empty accusations out of pure sanctimony. The days of such inanity are coming to an end. No one cares anymore if a far-lefty disapproves of him or her. "Ableist trope"! Hahahaha!
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  11681. What took them so long? They don't give a ff.
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  11682. Both of Tesla's top two models cost less than the average selling price of a new car in America.
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  11683.  @742ebutuoy  Explain to me, if you can, what's wrong with being persuaded, reminded or incentivized. (It's obvious what's wrong with the other things in the list.)
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  11684. ​ @742ebutuoy  What see-through sophistry. The word in your quote was "persuaded." So go again to your Oxford Dictionary and look up 'persuade.' It says zero about coercion, force or threat. Zero. It says "through reasoning and argument." Big flailing fail. And you had the gall to tax me with ignorance. You do not know the man with whom you're dealing. I've got your little number with your pathetic attempt to drop the word 'context' and pretend that by doing so the discussion is over, with you the victor. What're you going to try now, dropping the word 'nuance'? I see far-leftists use those two words for the same low and abject purpose all the time. Sophistry is always wrong, and always for the same reasons. (By the way, I agree with the quote apart from the three words I mentioned, and I agree it's germane to the shocking and loathsome behaviour of the elites and the authorities during the pandemic. That's not where I disagree with you.)
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  11685. Gradually the news media became participants in the battle they are supposed to be covering. R.I.P. Journalism. Died ca. 2012 after a long illness.
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  11686. 50 million corpses from the Great Leap Forward alone.
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  11687. Concerning your model battlefield, 5 square km isn't 3 square miles, it's 2 square miles.   So I think you mean 5 km square, which is 25 square km; equating to 3 miles square or 9 square miles. In other words, a 5x bigger piece of land. That's how it strikes me, since I bet you had the 1.6x conversion ratio correct, but I could be wrong.
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  11688. It's no secret. Most export bans don't work well. A target country having good relations with any neighboring country can route most things through them. Sales of iPhones to Armenia, e.g., are now surprisingly high for a country of less than 3m people. But the intermediary country earns a mark-up for the service, so sanctions are inflationary for the target country. (Also, obviously, after-sales service, warranties, parts, and software updates can be a problem.) Of course, export sanctions are not the only sanctions. Import sanctions are far more damaging. Russia has lost hundreds of billions of dollars due to lost European gas sales and much lower prices for its oil. (It turns out that if your market shrinks because of sanctions, the remaining countries can offer you a fairly insulting low price and there's not much you can do. India and China are both laughing all the way to the bank.) Then there are sanctions related to the international financial system which are also hurting Russia. Things like this are part of why the Russian bank rate is 16% and (according to the Russian govt.) inflation is 7.4%. The year before the war, 2021, the bank rate averaged 6% and inflation was 5%. So sanctions are slow poison, not a sword thrust. This isn't news, it's always been true. Carlson isn't blowing the lid off anything. Be very, very careful taking anything Carlson says at face value. I was burned a couple of times and started checking out everything. Most of the time his story doesn't check out worth a damn. He's a sneak. As far as I'm concerned he's good on social issues and nothing else.
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  11689. Sort by newest, totally works
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  11690. Hey man, can I get a hit off that?
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  11691. 👏Dave, you're hilarious when you pull a face, put on a funny voice and just straight-up mock the total nonsense of the Dems, the left and the wokesters. Ridicule has power and definitely has its place. Not only do I laugh, I also take heart from it. 👏
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  11692.  @jarvisb.6013  If "India is a neutral country like Switzerland" what is it doing in a formal military alliance with the US, Japan and Australia? Neutral countries don't join formal military alliances. (Also, the word is bloc, not block.)
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  11693. @@awesomeguy2689 Where've you been? India is "cooperating big time" in a formal military alliance with the US, Japan and Australia. Search 'Quad Alliance'.
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  11694. @@awesomeguy2689 I'm confused. "India is cooperating with Russia", then "Against China not against Russia"? But cooperating with Russia against Russia would be a logical impossibility anyway. Moreover, Russia cooperating with India against China would instantly sour Sino-Russian relations. So am I missing something here?
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  11695. Tr oll-on-trol l thread, designed to pump up the Replies count and make it look to the person scrolling past like there's a big debate about the original post. Like it's disputed and there's definitely two sides to it. 🤮
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  11696. 👏I think that might be the best comment I've ever read on YouTube. 👏 First time I ever made a copy of one.
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  11697. Military aid to Israel. Food and medicine to Gazans. Yet you can't understand. Brilliant.
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  11698. ​ @robriceridge  When someone clearly demonstrates moral jaundice and cognitive deficiency, I don't get drawn into pointless and irritating prolonged discussions with them. It's a self-respect thing, sorry.
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  11699. Cogent means logically persuasive and convincing. I think he's got it mixed up with coherent.
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  11700. One for you: don't watch videos that don't interest you. One more: discover the proper usage of capital letters and the period.
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  11701. Brandon Johnson: "Black wives matter!"
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  11702. What a lot of prattling on. 1) You are called terfs for wanting to keep men out of your toilets and change-rooms. 2) Toilets are "sacred" now? Sacred?
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  11703. I feel like at some point we're going to be told on some flimsy pretext that we have to get on trains and go somewhere "for our safety," that we have to leave everything behind, that because of some "emergency," elections are temporarily suspended, i.e. indefinitely. The news will be news as they knew it in Germany in WWII, there'll be no more travel, no more decent food, no more ability to speak up at all, countless things all of a sudden against the law. Total powerlessness. You know that notorious motto "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"? It'll have other de facto ones to go with it: "You'll have no idea what's going on and you'll be happy," "You'll have no idea what's going to happen to you and you'll be happy," "You'll be silent and you'll be happy"....
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  11704. They also had something better than any vaccine. You could fit it in your wallet and use it whenever needed.
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  11705. A poor effort. You aren't thinking; whatever you're doing, it has to be called something else.
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  11706. Yes, they are doing everything right so far. Everyone must bear in mind that this is a dress rehearsal for something ten times bigger at least: a Chinese takeover of East Asia and its shipping lanes. Xi enabled Putin in this atrocity. Their many meetings and professions of friendship in the months leading up to the attack on Ukraine were no mere coincidence. In my view, Xi egged him on with promises of support in order to get an idea of what the West would do about attacks on Taiwan, other lands in the Pacific, and the badly-named South China Sea. He also expects Ukrainian grain so he can dispense with Western imports. Cunning.
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  11707.  @ufosrus  An unheated cell in The Hague will also do nicely.
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  11708. Don't get carried away. First of all these are relatively cosmopolitan Muscovites. Second, our estimable interviewer is an obvious hipster whom a lot of people will avoid talking to. Third, every country has a large stu p id-people problem, let's not kid ourselves.
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  11709. @Val Perry Something along those lines, yes. Some Russians are like good Germans in the Nazi era, counterparts (slightly, anyway) of Oskar Schindler. Other are more like the ecstatic masses who attended the rallies at Nuremberg.
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  11710. The phrase "baby daddy" just makes me sick. Behind her screaming it over and over again you can hear her real meaning: Where'm I gonna get more money? I can't do no robbin'. I ain't got no gun. You done shot my meal ticket.
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  11711.  @itsacorporatething  🤨? First of all, everybody knows what it means, so there's no need to spell it out like you know something special. Second, the sickening reality of the situation depicted in the video bothers me as much as it does anyone, including you. So your show of sanctimony only matters to you, not any of us. Third, if your mental powers were sufficient you'd notice without any effort that my deploring that term has zero to do with that tragic and awful situation. It would bother me equally if I heard it in a cat video. Come off that high horse of yours.
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  11712. "Further discourage" ? Hah! NATO and the United States are in no way discouraged! Begone, low bot!:face-fuchsia-poop-shape:💩:face-fuchsia-poop-shape:💩:face-fuchsia-poop-shape:
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  11713. Now get the latest: Biden eggs Trudeau on, telling him to end the protests. Offers him the assistance of US security forces. Canada is going to lose it over this news.
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  11714. Don't listen to that turkey who called you deluded. His mother says sorry, and she's nice.
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  11715. "It's complicated" = "You're too dimwitted to understand, so just go away"
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  11716. She moved to California 60 years ago. She's your problem.
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  11717.  @MarcosElMalo2  You stated it well and I hope you're right, friend.
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  11718. Good forensic pathology and police work.👏 Now do the late Bob Saget.😢 (RIP, Bob)
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  11719.  @nerobaal6655  No, I never heard about that. Don't know who you mean. I just know that it looked extremely unlike a mishap.
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  11720.  @ellee2937  But I can indeed take your word for it and it doesn't reflect poorly on him at all. I repeat, there is nothing wrong with a man knowing a married woman. You may feel differently, which is of course your perfect right. It's only correct that you should obey your moral sense.
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  11721.  @OssamabinKenny  You think you're clever and funny. That makes one of you.
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  11722. 10x bigger miracle: "gender" didn't come up even once. 🤯 Bingo card incomplete.
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  11723. Yes, your last sentence sounds definitely true.👏 But a pit bull makes such a good emblem of totalitarianism that it kind of takes the shine off such a maxim. 🤔 Also, I don't really see how freedom and fighting for freedom are supposed to be (uh, what's the term?) 'mutually ironical,' if you will. Who came up with that?
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  11724.  @SomeCanine  A pit bull puppy, right? It's a small picture but it looks like it.
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  11725. They call it insurrection when all they did was honk horns and politely request a meeting with the Governor General. Talk about new frontiers in hyperbole.
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  11726. He said the old relationship was over. He's right, and it was Trump alone who ended it.
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  11727. That was one hell of an ad!
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  11728. Wtf do you know? To you, "establishment locals may have acted unskilfully" (talk about glib) but he lived through it and is ten times more entitled to his views than you are. At least ten times. It's you who are demonizing Saad for your own "whatever" agenda, and it's you who are disgusting.
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  11729. What a cow pasture of AI-assisted state-funded Putinists down here. Don't wear good shoes.
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  11730. The MPs were told that he was a WW II vet and that he "fought for Ukrainian independence" as though they were two separate things. The natural impression to take from his bio lasting a few seconds was that his soldiering and his Ukrainian separatism took place at different times. The last thing anyone would have guessed was that in WW II he wasn't even in the Red Army.
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  11731. What part of Don't Recommend Channel doesn't YT understand? Can't stand this pompous loudmouth.
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  11732. Not much, you say? Canada buys more from the US than any other country — more than Mexico, vastly more than China, and about as much as all Europe combined. Your best customer, bruh.
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  11733. I strongly agree. Or at least they cut his dosage. That's why they needed a week out of the spotlight, not so much for debate coaching as to calibrate the reduction. It had to yield sufficient results while permitting him to stay awake and on his feet.
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  11734. The fact is, every problem society thinks it's 'addressed' since 1970, it's made far worse.
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  11735.  @pvosoccer1585  You let on, it seems to me, that "CEOs and others" have twisted the arms of the people of the world, forcing them to work productively and become richer. I would say it's closer to humanity finding a way of satisfying its desire to become prosperous. Whether it's entirely wonderful or not (it is not) is beside my point; I'm saying the people of the economically free world got what they were in it for. Not every person in every country in every decade, but largely so. They won't regret it on the whole until it goes bust. Why would they?
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  11736. World Trash Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to Olivia Chow!"
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  11737.  @thet3504  You mean Layton, but yeah. In its tone your reply seems like it's meant to correct what I said. If so, you totally mistook me. Read it again.😄
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  11738.  @thet3504  I want to say you made a good point. Layton may have been a misguided socialist but at least he was an intelligent man and he earned a degree in Political Science at McGill. Chow is definitely not smart and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Guelph.🙄
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  11739.  @kevinkasp  Really great comment, but a 747 weighs about a quarter as much, not an 1/18th as much.
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  11740. @Jordan Little SpaceX launches rockets up to orbit about every six days. Practically no one notices anymore. SpaceX transports more people and freight tonnage up to orbit than the rest of the world combined. Fifty percent of all the world's operational satellites belong to SpaceX. Many of the remainder were launched by SpaceX for a fee. What do you have to say to that, my ironically-named friend?
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  11741. Facebook has banned the word Hamas? That is stark raving bonkers.
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  11742.  @Gothicc_senpai  Something can play a role or be a factor, but nothing can "play a factor." To speak like that is to butcher the English language. Bad, bad, very bad. This illiterate new phrase has really caught on fire in the last year or two, so let's try to douse it simply by not using it. (P.S. You're not to blame so please don't feel picked on. If it were I who'd used it, I'd want to know, so I'm just following the Golden Rule.)
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  11743.  @adamduarte895  Do tell us just a little about it, please. I can't recall from my university stats course what "an interactive coefficients" is. I looked up the term just now and couldn't find anything.
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  11744. ​ @technofeeliak  Absurd talk, basically saying that Matt could be on China's side. 😂 I've never heard such a dumb thing in my life. Obvious CPC shill trying to undermine Matt ..... Busted, O Redder Than Red One.👎
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  11745. Well, now we know what especially concerns you. Only, we didn't want to know.
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  11746. Depressing but brilliant and accurate.
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  11747.  @anthonykobiec8569  "Stop comparing us to Joy Behar."—World Bird Council
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  11748. Probably 'equity.'
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  11749. ​ @sacul135  I agree with every word of that. I just think the creative drive, as impressive as it is, is no better nor any worse than any other of the drives. I would neither put it down nor exalt it in general terms, but instead do both. As it took all of our drives to get us here, we should respect all of them up to a point, and not place any too far above the others. Attempts to bury or annihilate any of the leading ones are mistaken in the sense that they will cost more than they return, over a lifetime or the span of a society or both. In the long run we cannot get away with savaging our natures. This makes moderation the great virtue in a way, by virtue of which we are here as much as any other, or perhaps more; underrated and unsung but actually the star of the show, because it's the only one that's at all very artificial and strained. Intelligence, courage, and kindness reside in people pretty naturally or not much at all. Civilization is little more than an effort to extract it (moderation) from everyone, which explains why it is the primary function of religion and why religion is a permanent part of civilization. So it's fine for anyone to say things like 'religion reveals eternal truth and meaning,' but they only refer to how useful it is for producing moderation in the name of civilization. Whatever system doesn't, we try to deny the status of religion, judging it cultic, heretical, Dionysian, dogmatic, fundamentalist, witchcraft, madness. In the same sense we have always been tempted to call the godless (i.e., atheists) wicked, and many still do. This is how I look at it instead of judging it on its own terms, which is the other option and the more vastly more popular one.
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  11750. A thousand times yes.
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  11751. He's right, of course these are drug dens. All these users know it and would agree. The govt used to put them in jail, now it's their dealer.
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  11752. How does emotion enter into it? Emotion is an aspect of creatures running on instinct, neurotransmitters and hormones. No wetware, no emotions.
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  11753. Yes, from age 12 until she returned to the US to go to...Howard University.(!) She is a poorly educated woman. And she hasn't read anything. Btw, she failed her bar exam.
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  11754. Possibly the total cost to the NATO countries ex-Japan, all told in cash, debt-repayment including interest, asset value destruction, lost production, future health care costs including those stemming from present neglect of other ailments, lost future income due to lost education, and all else, could be $50t. (I don't see how $20t covers it, anyway.) Generously assert that 5m lives were spared, and that's S10m per life, and we're talking about a 75-year-old on average. Wow, just wow. Don't like my numbers? Then call it $20t for 2m lives. Same thing.
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  11755.  @jasonmoser8957  Thanks, that's helpful.
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  11756.  Psycho Johnny II  Look here, Psycho Johnny II, if that is your real name: I have nothing to add, I just liked that opening line.😝
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  11757. He doesn't say "There's a male in there with a female." He says "There's a male in there with a ski mask." Captions autogenerated by speech recognition seem to make really bad mistakes.
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  11758. Dennis Rodman: "Bad As I Wanna Be" Kim Jong-un: "You da man!" Russians: "Too bad you're an American and too bad you're not white, cuz inside you're definitely one of us."
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  11759. His cabinet nominees and appointees to other roles make sense if you realize their task will be to attack their own departments. They're cannonballs. Once they've done what they're supposed to, most will be replaced later in his term.
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  11760. Since when is tipping not based on the price of the order? Also, the delivery company is paying her too, if one is to believe other people here claiming experience with Uber Eats, etc. Her disappointment is hers to deal with. She was badly brought up.
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  11761. It's America, after all. People don't really don't know what to think about anything until they know how money works into it. Only democracy in the world where the left wing is in it for the riches.
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  11762. Yes and no. On the No side, the world cannot lose 7m bpd of oil supply. Inflation would re-ignite with a vengeance. India and China are actually doing what the West wants them to do, what the world needs them to do. On the Yes side, all other forms of boycott except for that of Russian grain exports are salutary for global security.
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  11763.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  Yes sir, Sgt. Hedges, sir!😂
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  11764. ​ @Silence_Duder_Gooder  If you need someone to point out how, you'll never understand.
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  11765.  @dhruvadude808  Thanks. And why haven't you delivered all the same praise to the original commenter?
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  11766.  @Trustme77  Same thing with ISIS! They've been terribly libelled. Some guy said so. He said they were totally nice guys!🙄
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  11767.  @dhruvadude808  Nice reading comprehension. The OP had two parts, one of which clearly was an assertion of the wonderfulness of "Glenn's integrity"  — and without any context or substantiation.😂 New to reading? Keep practicing and it may lead to an ability to think. As for my feelings, they're impervious to kids' attacks. Btw, you're muted. I like my foes worthy. Have a nice life.
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  11768.  @Stevie-joes6851  No, unlike Glenn I don't consider RT credible. Not in the least. It's funny that you think you know what I think.😂 You have far too much confidence in your mental powers.
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  11769.  @Stevie-joes6851  Fair enough.
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  11770. ​ @jasonjamesbisson  Shortages in stores due to a shortage of diesel for the national truck fleet would soon show otherwise.
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  11771. The Ukrainians describe their attacks as "un-coordinated but very destructive." Potent combo, very hard to go up against. 👏🏻
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  11772.  @roberthboyd6073  LT = Lawrence Taylor OJ = Ottis Anderson
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  11773. Hurray Lithuania. There must be something really, really right with you.
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  11774.  @spartanconscience2693  It's your funeral. But for a Spartan you sound pretty easy on yourself. Cheers.
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  11775. This nauseating decade happened to it.
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  11776.  Astir01  Brilliantly observed. Blast, why am I limited to just one upvote?
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  11777. Total punk. He's facing quite a bit of confinement once he's in police hands.
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  11778.  @thismodernmonkiedelection1647  A tough but fair assessment.
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  11779. ​ @khiem1939  Yikes, how did I leave out Idi Amin?
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  11780. Amazing job. How quick 12 minutes goes by when what you're hearing makes sense.
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  11781.  @lef1970  And yet I'm not a right winger. I'm politically very close to the centre. Political Compass actually scores me a shade to the left. I've been a bit left my whole adult life, even worked as political staff in a left of centre government. You know vastly less than you think you do, my putzy friend. Wipe the drool from your own chin, because bells are ringing for you, not me. Cheers
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  11782.  @lef1970  Here's what you wrote: "echo machines for people like you." "It’s the right wing echo chamber" ST*U. Learn to think. If you can. Talking to you is lost time. Muted.
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  11783. All just sounds like an average woman, tbh.
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  11784. Life imitates Weekend at Bernie's.
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  11785. More than half? No. Only around 35 out of 195. And if you think India is cool with Putin, dream on. They have relations with Russia only to have a source of weapons and oil to fend off their enemy China. In about 30 years if not sooner, Russia will be the poodle of either India or China—unless it comes to its senses and integrates into Europe.
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  11786. "Gentlewoman"! Pure comedy gold. 😆
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  11787.  @frodriguez2863  Yeah, pretty good list.
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  11788.  @hnhl2770  Sure, I understood it. Then, finding it inane, I contradicted it. Is that a first for you or something? And I never said anything about preventing AI, any more than I would've said anything about preventing future war by putting the UN Security Council in charge of the world. (That last part is an analogy for the hopelessness of your bold plan.) "Decentralized and free" AI is the unlikeliest thing I've ever heard of. And even if it were to come to pass, the best result it could generate would be AGI wars, to which humans would be mere spectators, and which would devastate the world with breathtaking speed. No, our best hope is something like the race, which the United States won, to build nuclear weapons during the Second World War — except that this time the US had better make sure some fiend nation or other fiend entity doesn't build its own shortly afterwards.
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  11789. YouTb offers to Translate that to English.😂
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  11790. Step aside, Piers, I'm taking your job. I identify as a first-rate TV presenter, immensely skilled and popular, complete with an eight-figure contract. Sorry, old boy. (Oops, did I presume your gender?😂)
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  11791.  @peterb5  Oh, I don't know about that. Waters is such a loudmouth, I think he'd do fine.
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  11792.  @julieaskingforafriend  I insist you borrow it!
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  11793. Is this somehow part of the Party's recently-embarked-on charm offensive?
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  11794.  @REP2016RTM  The more you say sanctions don't matter, the more we can tell they will spell Putin's doom. You're losing, Yevgeny. Face it.
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  11795. I'm guessing Trump's entire trade agenda is about preparing America for the end of trade with China. That'll obviously be among the first consequences of war with China — and yes, I'm saying he appears to expect it.
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  11796. Just another first-rate interview. Yawn. Mr. Sayers makes it look easy. Notice that when he asks his interview subjects "Is it fair to say you think such-and-such?" they always say "Yes, that's exactly right." That tells you some important things.
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  11797.  @Joey-ct8bm  No such thing on the Worldometer site. It's wrong making things up and pretending they're true.
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  11798. A good comic novelist like Evelyn Waugh would come up with something like that. Life is stranger than fiction.
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  11799. ​ @Viewer-qm3qx  You ought to use Google to test your ideas, not just to try confirming them. Consider the engine, transmission, radiator, starter, alternator, exhaust system, fuel pump and fuel tank of a given BMW which costs the same off the lot as a given Tesla. Those components are the counterparts of a Tesla's battery and motor(s). (It doesn't have to be a BMW. You can choose another premium make and model. Just don't make it a Corolla, Equinox etc.) Find out what it costs to replace these items in the respective cars once each is off warranty and has been driven, say, 300,000 or 400,000 miles. Get back to me if you like.
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  11800. You used to give us the clip shown in the thumbnail first every time.☹
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  11801. Smoke one yourself. Go see Putzin and inhale deeply.
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  11802. Propaganda can be dishonest; it can also be entirely honest. It's like commercial advertising, but done by institutions like governments. Like ads, it can be legitimate or not, even if it tends to be one-sided. Disinformation, on the other hand, is always dishonest. It's false information intended to mislead. So Schellenberger incorrectly blurs the vital distinction between them.
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  11803. Musk was right in the sense that once they sew up enough power, they might decide to just sprint the rest of the way — to total domination — thinking that they're only doing what's right: namely, ensuring a utopia free of farr rite-izzm (i.e., the 100% mainstream values of 20 years ago). They definitely do have that in them.
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  11804. Most people I think would agree with you. But in these comments sections we're outnumbered by Russians. They've solved the problem of poor English by copying and pasting comments and fragments of comments from native English speakers on Western social media sites, then sharing with each other, as well as clearing drafts through a small number of expert users of English. It's a big change from a couple of months ago.
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  11805. Until it's "educated" out of them.😕
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  11806.  @repaid1  DJI Mavic drones are modified by Ukraine to drop munitions and have a signal range of 50km. But I didn't catch the make and model of the drones in the video.
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  11807. ​ @repaid1   Your intuition about the curvature of the earth left something to be desired, namely a fuller understanding of geometry. You're right that the earth curves 8 inches in a mile, but (and here I quote from a nerdy math site): "So in 10 miles the earth drops not 80 inches, but almost 800 inches, or 66 feet -- so it's nearly quadratic (proportional to the square of the distance), which can be explained with a little more algebra. At 100 miles it's dropped 6600 feet, over a mile." Turns out the curvilinear relation isn't linear. By the correct formula, a drone at a distance of 10km must be about 300 inches or 25 feet in the air to maintain a line of sight with the operator, and that's if the terrain is dead flat. (Whether it actually needs a full line of sight for a workable signal is a separate matter and I have zero idea about that.) Sort of interesting how it works.
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  11808.  @Ryanlexz  It's long past time to stop holding the door open for them.
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  11809. This wasn't a victory. It was an exercise in calibration. Much more to come, Ivan. Much, much more.
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  11810. Wow, even Sky News UK has toned down the anti-Musk rhetoric. A couple of months ago this would've been an outright hit piece.
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  11811. Yes. (Except for Tulsi Gabbard, maybe. But while still a prominent Democrat, she is now out of politics after deciding not to run last year.)
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  11812.  @cacampbell3654  Moi?
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  11813.  @MS-yc2tb  "How come trans women mostly focus on the overly sexualized woman image?" Because they're generally if not all gay men and they want to attract straight men. I wonder how can you ask. I have a question for you: Why do you refer to some people abused as children "admitting" to going on to have opposite sex sex? Opposite sex sex is normal. My confusion must have to do with the comment you replied to no longer being visible for whatever reason.
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  11814. It's always nice when someone is expressing their appreciation for your help---and one of your friends steps in to make it clear how little he thinks of you.
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  11815. 1:15 Mistranslation in a quote attributed to Zelensky: "If Putin doesn't come to Turkey it will be his total defeat." The French "cela ressemblera à une défaite totale pour lui " properly translates to "it will look like a total defeat for him." Quite a semantic and rhetorical difference.
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  11816. What would happen then?
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  11817. Overstated. Plenty of what is freely made known is news and is worth knowing. I like Bill Moyers, though.
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  11818.  @roccoburns8886  lol. Ok, I'll take that as a no. Here's something in a similar vein I couldn't possibly recommend and more highly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKC21wDarBo
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  11819. This strikes me as a sneaky pro-Putin comment. It's not about the West crushing anyone. It's about the West helping a friend under massive, brutal, vicious attack. If the West prefers the Russian military to be weaker after this, that's simply normal and rational. You think they'd want them to be just as strong, so they can contemplate another attack on a weak neighbour immediately afterwards? It's something the whole world doesn't want, Putin going on a decade-long spree, even China and India (its frenemies).
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  11820. Lesson: don't obey Putin's call-up, don't go with your unit to Ukraine. Leave Russia instead. Send your family first. Don't like the countries that will take you? Then leave there later on for one that's more to your liking. Just get out of Russia now, and live. Object to the idea of leaving your beloved country defenceless? You're not, because it's in zero danger. This is just military adventurism on Putin's part.
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  11821. Here's hoping that after the next election that board member finds the unemployment line an extremely unsafe environment.
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  11822.  @Winter-CIG  It is odd to defend the right to irresponsible stupidity. I wish I had something at the ready to satirize it, along the lines of Orwell's "My mother, drunk or sober" as a lampoon of "My country, right or wrong." Let's have both press freedom and press good sense.
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  11823.  @bingbong8239  The truck didn't explode, the stuff lodged inside it by some person did.
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  11824. I thought that fairly central to F was a conscious, emphatic commitment to brutality. Rather than brutality for its own sake, the idea would be that (1) without it, no society or civilization can attain to great heights; (2) a great society/civilization which dispenses with it cannot avoid decay and collapse. I read this ten or 20 years ago.
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  11825. ​ @Keithphysics  Not "they," her. Assange himself seemed jubilant and relieved. As for "what she should look like," that's all a matter of opinion, I suppose, and I don't begrudge you yours. But I don't have a settled opinion myself. I was more openly wondering. And hardly did my remark have anything to do with not "leaving them alone." Sorry, but isn't that a touch histrionical? I wasn't following them down a sidewalk somewhere, or publishing on the op-ed page of The New York Times.
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  11826.  @msudawgma  He was in prison. In prison for years. I repeat, in prison. What planet do you live on, the planet of sunshine, lollipops, rainbows and butterflies?
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  11827.  @brigittebeltran6701  Good for her. Too bad she didn't fight for the freedom of a better man.
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  11828.  @sshah3324  What's with the interrogation? Just bad manners or trying to sound like FSB?
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  11829.  @abaig3855  I get that they have no Canadian passports, but neither do 7.75 billion other people. Do they have no passports at all? And lots of people can't see their loved ones.
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  11830. Two min. into the video, the Inspector states "We do not believe the victim was on a bike." So why do the video title, the description and the desk anchor call him a "cyclist"?🤨
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  11831. That was an error to say Musk re-tweeted an anti-Semitic post. The post was merely critical of super-liberal/woke/far-left American Jewish communities for favoring bad policies, including racially-prejudiced ones. Nor was the post hateful. It was partly a warning that such left-wing policies are deepening anti-Semitism in America.
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  11832.  @qinshihuangdi1739  Thanks for the reminder of whose government unleashed this thing on the world.
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  11833.  @qinshihuangdi1739  Btw, have fun at the tennis tournament. Oh, that's right, you don't have them anymore.
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  11834.  @qinshihuangdi1739  No you don't know, my Tongzhi friend. I refer of course to the government of China. Boycott Chinese goods! Boycott the China Olympics!
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  11835. Nice GDP numbers are reflecting growing government and government borrowing only, not a growing private economy. "Sugar high" is too cute. More like endless adrenaline shots to a sick patient on a hospital table. (Adrenaline never cured or healed anyone. It can't.)
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  11836. See Chris Rock on this matter of the Oprah interview allegations, delighting his mostly black audience. Many channels to choose from.
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  11837. Reported for that veiled threat.
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  11838. Vain people who tired of their vanity.
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  11839. I think I can tell, and I think all that food looked cold, or barely warm. I suspect a lot of it went uneaten for that reason, especially the burgers and fries.
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  11840. Don't be daft. Of course they know the USSR was a WW II ally. Problem was, the doltish Speaker introduced the guy (in remarks not pre-cleared by anyone) saying (1) that he was a WW II vet, and (2) that he "fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians." He never said it was at the same time. No one would guess from that intro that this totally unknown guy was never even in the Red Army.
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  11841. If you want to back the aboriginal peoples of Canada, you are obliged to join them in supporting the pipeline twinning. Well under a tenth of the aboriginal groups which can be potentially affected by it oppose the project.
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  11842. Just imagine a male interviewer conducting himself in this manner. He'd soon get his ticket punched.
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  11843. World Tapeworm Federation spokesworm: "Hey, stop comparing us to your unintelligent critics!"
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  11844. "Democrats facing a turnout deficit" 🤨Shhh! For heaven's sake, don't alert them.
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  11845.  @vsstdtbs3705  There are just over 3 billion women in total. So there are not "2-3 billion elderly women."🙄
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  11846. Yes, they're good. But then there's the prosperous or rich dems generally. He has their number, too. They like throwing white-male steaks at the poor and near-poor all day long, but they like their taxes right where they are. Democrats: The left-of-centre party with amnesia on class and money. Puke-making hypocrites most of them, not just the corporatist ones. Which makes it bizarre to me that Sanders is out front. He's got the youngsters behind him, but can they get him the nomination or will he fizzle again? I think rich wheels are going to turn between now and the convention and insert Bloomberg in his place. Eighty per cent of financially secure democrats over 35 will breathe a sigh of relief, thinking their pocketbooks will be safe and they'll be rid of Trump as well. For even if Sanders won it, I really doubt he could win the election. Why should he win when maybe 10% of the country identifies as socialist? Or is it 3%? Cheers.
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  11847. Notice it only took 13 days? That's insanely fast growth.
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  11848. I love you people. I spoke to my member of parliament about supporting you. It's not much, but more than nothing at least.
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  11849. ​ @張素真-b3r  Tell any rich and important government or manufacturing business friends you may have that they should endeavour to open Made in Taiwan stores abroad. I would travel an hour if I had to, just to patronize one. I look at product labels in stores and don't often see Taiwan/ROC tags. Make the actual Taiwan-ness of your products their USP (business jargon: 'unique selling point'). Retail workers have told me that "everybody" (actual quote) now wants to know "What do you have for [type of product] that's not made in China?" The growing distaste for China has something to do with support for Taiwan in the first place, so you should capitalize on that. Call the stores Made in Taiwan, call them Taipei Emporium, call them Pacific Imports, call them whatever, but you should have them. It would make for stronger relations between us besides, raising the thought of Taiwan more often in the public's mind. Thanks for your reply.
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  11850.  @張素真-b3r  "Taiwan is not good at brand operation." But in saying this, my friend, you are simply telling me what I am telling you. Taiwan will help itself by compensating for its poor brand promotion in the manner I suggested. Promote the sale of Taiwan-made goods. Open all-Taiwan stores in countries around the world now! At the very least, do it on an e-commerce site!
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  11851. Wait, you're saying "maga" is an attack on the US from a hostile foreign nation?
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  11852. That goal is still many years off, and he can't accomplish it if free expression withers in the meantime. There's a reason the US is the country where the Mars mission is based—namely, the whole American system, and free expression is an anchor of that. Everything good about the US will go if it goes. So actually for Musk, who has vision, Twitter is indeed about making man a multi-planetary species.
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  11853.  @odonovan  I think Alena meant glory to the nation of Belarus, not the State of Belarus. Like her, presumably, I too wish the nation of Belarus were rid of its fat and scummy dictator.
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  11854. Gov. Botox's lack of response amounts to encouragement of this dangerous, unlawful, societally destructive behavior. What on earth is she waiting for? She's still saying it's an internal Columbia matter(!). When she hints that it's a serious situation she sounds insincere. What a contrast with Florida Gov. De Santis.
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  11855. It's vulgar.
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  11856. You're missing the fact that the first sentence spoken in the video mentions the parents' phone call.
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  11857. Sunrises and sunsets are racist. Animals are racist. Molecules are racist except melanin. Return for daily updates. (But note that returning, days, updates, and the word 'for' are racist too.)
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  11858. Sounds like you have it all sized up just about right---the illness, people, the country, and probably the times.
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  11859. 🙄I missed the news that there are no unemployment benefits in the UK anymore.  That's a bit shocking, really.😂
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  11860. Just because a car is coming straight at you in your lane doesn't mean anything. If you swerve, that's unconscious bias against the 'differently-laned.'
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  11861.  @ApexAL  Your would-be instantiation of logical fallacy is itself riddled with illogic. Merely to consider a source trustworthy is not necessarily an instance of confirmation bias, nor does it mean one seeks only answers one wants to hear. Here you appear to have begun with the opinion that SNA is not a trustworthy source, and then made a leap of reasoning in order to deem anyone's trust in it as ipso facto an instance of illogic.
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  11862.  @ApexAL  Maybe find less noisome and soul-blighting ways to vent frustrations and hostilities. Better yet, look into ways to prevent them arising in the first place. Re-thinking one's whole outlook on life is straining, I suppose, so maybe just taking brisk walks can tide you over. All the best.
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  11863.  @ApexAL  Maybe try to find less noisome and soul-marring ways of venting frustration and hostilities. Re-thinking one's whole outlook on life can be straining, I suppose, so maybe just brisk walks will do the job for now.
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  11864. @Dave-gy5mv How anyone can tell a Pooty bot knows he's lost and is flailing desperately: "B-b-b-b-but Yugoslavia 30 years ago! NATO went after our butcher cousins! Crime of the millennium!"😂
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  11865. @Dave-gy5mv You're not very good at this, Misha. Maybe enlist instead.🤣
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  11866. Except the US would never accept the 2.5m people of Atlantic Canada having 8 senators. Not a chance. The 4 provinces would have to merge first, meaning there would be 7 new states and 14 new senators (not 10 and 20). But thanks for your post. That needed to be said.
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  11867.  @motherrussiaisspeakingitst4965  Admiral Trident is ready to answer any dumb moves. Mach 18, buddy.
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  11868. Yep. It will make a fine home for mussels and starfish.
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  11869. Douglas is never short of good points to make, but I heartily deplore his teenage-impersonator haircut. It clashes terribly with his 50-year-old's persona, which he wears very well despite being 44.
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  11870.  @maxcharles6354  Long day of drinking? Not only are your last two sentences somewhat incoherent, your whole reply is entirely irrelevant to my post. Tell yourself you're a moral hero and go to bed.
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  11871.  @mamajuana3603  Not sure what your point is. To follow naming trends slavishly does in fact bear a resemblance to assigning one's child a serial number. So if you're expressing agreement with me, thanks for your reply.
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  11872.  @mamajuana3603   Thanks for your opinion. I'm curious whether taking deep breaths is possible for creatures with gills.
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  11873.  @Occamsrazer  Wrong. No charges were laid. He was arrested and later released.
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  11874.  @michaelbinbc  "1/4 speed" 😂😂 What a desperate thing to say. Since when do police decline to lay charges when there's video evidence of an assault on a police officer or a senior government minister? Impossible. Never. And you know it.
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  11875. We all run into people like this at parties once in a while. [yawn] It's nice to walk away from them after a few minutes.
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  11876. He's right. He just hasn't been cult-indoctrinated like all the sanctimonious left-wingers here. I was pretty close to being one myself, but then at last I grew up. The cult of far-left liberalism—thanks to academics, journalists, politicians and the cultural elites—created what's happening in the streets. Absolutely, although we can also thank China for exporting Fentanyl and Carfentanil.
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  11877. Not only that, but think about the upper limits on support for him too. Is not a fanatical Joe Biden supporter nearly impossible to imagine? It would be a form of lunacy.
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  11878. Yeah, everybody's always saying that. I've been hearing it all my life.😂
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  11879.  @joshuaj.chinda9873  But why state something that's so obvious and that everybody already knows?
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  11880. Opening two sentences of the Quillette entry on the ironically-named RationalWiki site: "Quillette is a far-right 'academic' online magazine that tries to present itself as centrist and libertarian, when in reality it serves to legitimize and propagate many views shared by the alt-right. For example, Quillette regularly publishes wingnuttery-laden articles from a strongly conservative and reactionary viewpoint that are anti-feminist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and transphobic, with several articles outright endorsing racialism and HBD ("human-biodiversity") eugenicist pseudoscience, popular among white nationalists and Neo-N[---]s." And the author of that toxic claptrap no doubt feels that he or she is an intellectual of a very high order. Ms. Lehmann, please make an effort to expunge that nonsense from the entry.
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  11881. Yeah, however sh!t can serve a useful purpose. It makes crops grow in farmers' fields, and roses bloom in flowerbeds.
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  11882. I just perused, rather enjoyably, a few hundred responses. And it appears to be nearly unanimous: "NO, Lord Haw Haw!"
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  11883.  @zensvlognotapro  Of course. And assembling that team is a highly impressive achievement in its own right. Inspired hiring is a core competency for a good manager of any sort, let alone a CEO. It all goes without saying in every way. If you've built the world's 7th-most-valuable company out of nowhere, you're obviously doing most things really, really well.
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  11884. Let's get this straight: Elon Musk supports Ukraine. He only wanted the US to shoulder all the cost of providing its absolutely vital internet services, to find somewhere in their $40bn Ukraine piggybank $20m a month and take over his share. They said no. He said fine, "the hell with it, I'll keep paying." As for service outages, it turns out that when Ukraine takes back territory, there's no service there. Duh. On request, SpaceX turns it on.
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  11885. "Normative" Just drop the pretentious university jargon. Those protestors would use that word, as well as 'trope' for phrase and 'problematic' for problem. Just say normal.
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  11886. Ben's a good guy and quite bright. So it stuns me that he lacks the slightest clue about Ukraine. Russia's war on Ukraine is a war on us, on the West. It poses a grave threat to US power, wealth and national security. Compared with the many tens of trillions of dollars in American wealth it endangers, aid to Ukraine so far is lunch money.
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  11887. Peterson absolutely favors Ukraine. Don't make things up.  It's called motivated unreason. And it's wrong.
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  11888. "Oh no. These are my best trousers."
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  11889. Professor Scruton looked so hale here; and it wasn't long ago, just 16 months. He was 74. How fortunate to reach your mid-seventies and have your mind and your person in such good order. He outshines his interlocutors here, not merely by dint of sheer mental speed (Peterson in his way might be quicker) but by being approximately as quick yet much more relaxed, and that for well-earned reason. The well-prepared man is relaxed; the relaxed mind thinks well. I think we had in Roger Scruton a person who fed his mind with great care and fussiness, for a long time, and to great profit. The other two men are all right.
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  11890. Is that why all these things have gotten immeasurably worse the more America liberalizes? You people are just incredible. The more capitalism is modified and regulated, the more you hate it, despite extreme liberalism being disastrous. Just as the more racism faded, the more widespread you claimed it was. Sure, denying reality is fun. Sure, sanctimony is very rewarding. Only it's not just you you're harming.
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  11891. This business about Kinsey being a super-creep (and scary monster) is as highly interesting as it is eminently plausible. Where can I learn more about it?
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  11892. HamISIS refuses food aid for Gazans. Some won't believe it, yet this is factually true. HamISIS soldiers are blocking several hundred food trucks from entering. Now they stand ready to refuse food arriving at the Gaza shore. All this is ably explained by John Spencer, a world-leading urban warfare scholar who was recently in Gaza.
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  11893. All made-up #s anyway.
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  11894. Bear in mind that the Speaker of the House of Commons is a Liberal Party MP. Yes, the Speaker is a Liberal politician and government member. The opposition leader criticized and insulted the Speaker's literal boss. Professor, please learn more on this subject this before forming even interim opinions.
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  11895. @ Fair take but could be worded better. "0% tariffs" isn't true. Many products are tariffed (you use the word "penalty" for some reason). But yeah, only after a certain volume goes through duty-free.
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  11896. Hamas = ISIS On The Mediterranean
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  11897. Why?
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  11898. I am sympathetic to Le Pen's points of view generally, but it must be admitted that she paints herself as a Putinist. This aspect of her is abhorrent to me.
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  11899. I don't know why, but I wanna smush the two sides of that campus together.
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  11900. And he's the running mate of a woman I wouldn't trust to run a small daycare.
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  11901. A short story collection, I believe. Look it up.
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  11902.  @bullwinkle60  I was expressing support for your own comment.
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  11903. See you there 😆
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  11904. Coming soon: "In order to safeguard democracy, elections are suspended until further notice, in order that we can deal with the opposition parties threatening our freedoms." And where? Hard to say. It may be in the US ("the Republican Party has been declared a terrorist organization" is what they'll say), maybe Canada, Australia, NZ, the UK. Impossible to predict.
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  11905. Even as an entirely hypothetical fantasy the very idea of a pill to 'improve' one's morals is rather dim. What on earth would that even mean? It surely took a lightweight to devise that as a survey question; it takes another to regard it at all seriously, as she evidently does. I'm left to surmise she's from the early cohort of participation-medal children who were praised unconditionally by their parents. ("You're the best, honey! Yay!" "I'm the best! Yay!")
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  11906. Latest poll: Germans support sending Leopard2 tanks to Ukraine—but only 46% to 43%!
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  11907.  @frederikzinn5427  Be real. Poland "has not applied" to Germany to send Polish Leopard2's to Ukraine because Germany made it publicly known that the answer would be "Nein!" The moment Poland gets a phone call from the Chancellery saying "Ok, you may now apply for an export license," they will apply. Do you drive to the store when the store is closed for the night?
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  11908.  @frederikzinn5427  Ah, but now it will ask, since Annalena Baerbock publicly announced Germany will not stand in Poland's way. The formality of an application can take place any time in the next day or two, or maybe it has already now been received in Berlin. Have a nice day.
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  11909.  @CensorTube84  Claudine Gay, zat you?
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  11910. Bob Dylan: "You know something is happening here / But you don't know what it is / Do you, Mr. Jones?" Most people here aren't defending him. They're (rightly) attacking TR.
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  11911. Any disrespect for racial/ethnic/national groups normally incurs the wrath of progressives whenever they think they detect it in the ppb (parts per billion). But when it comes to Jews, they themselves pour on the visceral hatred .... in quantities that make Niagara Falls look like a creek in Arizona.
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  11912. Progressive-liberal elites: "Hey, let's clear out all the competent and well-suited men from law enforcement, and replace them with progressive liberals. The result will be Utopia. Nothing could possibly go wrong."
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  11913. ​ @teekay_1  I had no idea I had it so good. By refusing to pay more than $12.50 for those 4 items, I never do. I shop carefully for the best prices, meaning I can rarely get all 4 in the same week, but my fridge and freezer make it work smoothly. The bread is a very correct French baguette baked that morning. Mid-range cereal at good markdowns about every 4 mo., milk every 2 wks., 4.5-lb. trays of hamburger every 2 mo. Seriously, $12.50 at middle-class people's stores. It must be where I live. (I won't say where but it's a metropolis that has a media reputation for being expensive.) Just curious, how far below $25 could you get if you put your mind to it (for stuff of mid-range or slightly premium quality)?
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  11914. I'm sure they're less rare than you seem to suppose. The power of one's mind has much to do with its freedom, which in turn has a shockingly great deal to do with freedom from envy.
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  11915. Meanwhile the West has yet to issue any threats. You don't have to when you know the other party doesn't doubt your capabilities.
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  11916.  @george3697  What part of a threat to use nuclear weapons is not a threat? You waltz in here and announce that a threat is not a threat? Let me guess what else: Men can get pregnant too?. Two plus two equals five?   Sick man, heal thyself.
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  11917. War with Turkey was never a possibility. Zero out of 7.5 billion people claim that. Literally zero.
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  11918. For anybody wondering why he pronounces Xi as "see," he's right. That's the right way. How the English-speaking world ever came to settle on "shee" is something really weird. Same with "bay-zhing" for Beijing. It's "bay-jing." (How do you get 'zh' out of a letter j?) The whole Pinyin system of romanization of Chinese characters is messed up. In the reverse direction, Zhou is pronounced "joe."🙄
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  11919.  @lopdaniel  Splendidly well-put. Keep it up.
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  11920.  @loriclem6889  Fine sentiments, my very good woman. I second them, and your array of flags and emblems too. But please see my reply to the OC just now.
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  11921. Our narrator sounds like she's about 19. I for one do not relish getting my news of the world from a youngster.
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  11922. Right, let's get the perspective of tyrants and tyrant lovers here.
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  11923. That's just arse over teakettles wrong. Thank you Rita and SNA. Like button pounded. Simple sanity merits you a gold star now it's 2023.
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  11924. Russia is warming the house by throwing the family's best financial furniture into the fireplace. Soon, plunging temperatures and nothing to sit on.
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  11925.  @McMeevin  A frivolous point.
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  11926.  @McMeevin  No, a frivolous one, since we are talking about Russia's economic and financial prospects, and warmth was a mere metaphor. I don't care how much gas Russia has, you're going to shiver monetarily in the upcoming years or decades of the Great Russian Depression. Dress warm.
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  11927.  @McMeevin  You took the leading characteristic of Russia—that it still has one foot in the Middle Ages, in feudalism—and labelled the democracies with it. That's hopelessly unaware, and has me reaching for the mute button. I'm not a glutton for tediousness.
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  11928.  @tilenHD  It's in a cool location.
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  11929.  @bastricalex775  One or two million is still small, China or anywhere.
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  11930. I don't see it as a big deal that she misspoke and said "recapture" instead of recover. I'm sure that she well understands what was hoped for, what the mission is about. She simply used the wrong word, likely because she was nervous and inexperienced at making TV appearances. Every expert we see once had his/her first few interviews.
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  11931. Human ambition, silly. You've heard of it of course? We're flesh-and-blood creatures running on instincts, neurotransmitters and hormones. We're not ethereal beings.
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  11932. It's an interview?
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  11933.  @idaadamovic3387  Him....or (in your case) her. Meanwhile, more Ukrainians die by the minute. Pat yourself on the back some more.
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  11934. ​ @UzumakiNaruto_  I agree with all that, although I want to clarify a point about "if Canada had [...] only brought in people who were mostly peaceful, law abiding and hardworking". I believe that most immigrants do already fit that description. The vast majority, no doubt whatsoever. But I will allow that it's probably 99.5% from Japan—yet only 95, 90 or 85% from a small group of other countries with an unfortunately strong culture of criminality across a minority of their people. One country which is a source of immigrants to Canada has a murder rate 25x the Canadian rate (!), 8x even the US rate. Heaven help the country which accepts the wrong people from it. Few people realize what mayhem very small numbers of criminal troublemakers can cause. Consider a hypothetical group of just 100 people on the streets of, say, Toronto, who are addicted to hard drugs. They need anywhere from $50 (Fentanyl) to $500 (cocaine) per day in order to stay high most of the time. They don't have jobs, so they take to shoplifting, stealing bikes, or smashing their way into parked vehicles for valuables. Fencing shoplifted and other stolen goods is not lucrative. Thieves commonly receive 5-10% of retail value. That's $50-$100 for a $1000 bike; $10 for $80 perfume; $20 for a $250 jacket. So that means that for a very minimal $100 a day for drugs, food, drink and other expenses, they need to steal $1,000 or more worth of stuff per day. They may on average need to commit 10 thefts in order to finance that, ranging from failed to petty to more major ones. (A car may turn out to have nothing of value inside, a stolen pair of pants may not find any takers.) One hundred people x 10 crimes a day x 365 days in a year equals 365,000 (!) crimes a year. (These people work 7 days a week.) The total bill to their victims comes to $365,000,000. (So for 300 thieves it's over $1,000,000,000.) Thus it's incredibly important not to allow people in who are prone to end up like that. But how can immigration officials tell? Even in the most chaotic, violent and lawless countries most people are fairly honest and law-abiding. That's the problem and I don't know what to say. People would be up in arms if the government announced Canada will not take immigrants from the most violent or high-crime countries. Canadians want to think of themselves as "nice," even if there's a cost to society for that. They hate harsh realities which come up against their treasured self-image of "niceness." (This self-image, however, is often not justified at all. In fact, the more unjustified it is, often, the more loudly they cling to it and trumpet it.) We live in highly sanctimonious times.
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  11935.  @saphire2214  Tell us you're sanctimonious without telling us you're sanctimonious.😂
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  11936. Ok, Andrei.
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  11937.  @arnoldali1  He doesn't have one. He talks in circles, stating the obvious, showing off the fineness of his moral weave, pointing out things that are absolutely useless to anyone anywhere actually interested in how to move forward. All he really said is that Israel has been incredibly vicious for 80 years (yes, since 1943!😂). His main thrust was: "I am an incredibly sensitive person. The universe bursts at its seams in an effort to contain all my heart and wisdom. Please remember my name and the titles of my books, and please buy my books."
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  11938. What are you, ten? They've turned their populace into docile sheep, through 70 years of brutal oppression and ceaseless propagandizing from cradle to grave. While the West proceeded straight to becoming wealthy after the Second World War, the communists ruled a very poor people with a vicious iron hand, putting an estimated 100,000,000 to death. Educated people were wiped out, so its is nearly impossible to find people in China today whose grandparents weren't illiterate peasants. I do happen to like Chinese people a lot, but who can fail to notice their uniformity of personality? Something terrible has been done to them. Namely, it was murder, oppression, and forced indoctrination. Do you think North Korea is "real amazing", too?
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  11939.  @adamcetinkent  Put the punctuation mark inside the underscore or the italics won't work. (And be mindful of spaces. There must be spaces just outside the underscored zone, none just inside of it.) 😀 But yeah, great comment.
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  11940.  @mattayres5147  #defundTheCBC 🇨🇦
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  11941. @Helen Annie Hillyer It was a witty joke on the Australian news channel for misidentifying Canada as the US. Sailed right over your head.
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  11942. It's true, Fauci is now a politician who moonlights in infectious diseases.
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  11943. Murder rate still around the same as 50 years ago, 2.25 per 100k population vs. 2.0. However, it was quite a bit lower 10 years ago, around 1.5. I think there've been 5 in the past week, but there were a couple of weeks with zero before that.
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  11944. ​ @leviahimsa  You just accused me of killing people. (Or did you mean chickens and the like?) Either way, stark raving derangement. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Whom they would make mad, they give a thirst for sanctimony.
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  11945. This can't be one of your better posts, Yevgeny. If it is, you should hang up and try Russian TV journalism. Gen. Hodges is clear that certain conditions must be met in order for Russia to be ejected from Ukraine, and he spells out those conditions. Nothing could be more desirable than such clarity. He goes on to explain why each condition is necessary. Sorry, Yevgeny (Mischa, Oleg, whatever) but expect boss going to not like way you doing job are.
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  11946. They did.
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  11947. I still feel there's a less-than-50% chance it will be a Biden-Trump ballot. Harris and Newsom would vie to replace Biden. DeSantis and Haley would vie to replace Trump. Other rivals might emerge too, so in this sense at least 6 contenders remain, not two.
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  11948. Democrats: "If we are not in power it means America is no longer a democracy." Psychos, plain and simple.
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  11949. Liberalism always had threads of snobbery running through it. Then cables. Now it's a steel frame and the edifice they've built out of it is taller than the Burj Dubai.
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  11950.  @NZobservatory  What's that, psychological projection? You think there's no such thing as tolerance for disagreement and fairness to everyone just because you yourself abhor it?
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  11951. Yikes, get help.
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  11952. No, he's right and you're wrong (if you're saying we can't keep this from swamping the health care system and in effect the whole country). It takes around seven or eight weeks but social distancing can keep the numbers low even at this point. They'll still climb for a while, but then they'll stop climbing, then fall. Without social distancing, they'll keep climbing. Even if the infections rise from the current 250 to peak at 100,000 active cases, that's still not a cataclysmic total. What we don't want is 5 million active cases. Even if most people end up catching it, we need to be drawn out as slowly as possible.
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  11953. Let me guess: she wants to send social workers instead.
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  11954.  @cnh1710  "All the way is far enough"—B. Ferry
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  11955. Newsome always looks like he's on something.
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  11956. Make AOC a Waitress Again
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  11957. Only sometimes. In America Professor is used for all the more senior faculty as well, meaning there's simply no other title to have.
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  11958.  @MmntechCa  Ford respected the voters. You're forgetting that pro-lockdowners were absolutely furious with him nearly the whole way, the news media were uniformly clamouring for stricter measures, and so were the public health authorities. He actually stood up fairly well under their enormous and unrelenting pressure. He steered a middle course between the polarized desires of a public who were very divided but leaned pro-lockdown.
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  11959. Guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Heavy crude from Canada wasn't a thing 25 years ago, let alone 50 or 70 (!). The big ramp-up was in the 2010s. Same for the refinery configuration to heavy crude. Get a proper expert.
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  11960. Jussie Smollett: "I totally believe everything Paul Pelosi says."
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  11961.  @trepidstation  You were fooled by your own eyes. When she fires her taser the male officer had already tased the guy.
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  11962.  @Maz-zb9uf  Wrong. It's not even hard to see. The guy is tased first by the man off to the left.
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  11963.  @trepidstation  Great. And later she ran right up to a fierce dog on two feet of chain locked to a post.
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  11964. I strikes me as possible that NATO will go after Belarus if it joins the war as a direct combatant. Has NATO given any hint on such a thing, either way?
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  11965. I'm picturing Ilhan Omar together with Justin Trudeau, stranded forever at the South Pole, shivering. It makes me feel warm inside.
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  11966. You state your case well. But my contrary viewpoint in the (standalone) comment which I just posted may nevertheless be of some interest to you. ('Sort by newest.')
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  11967.  @partricklin9749  Ok, Chanfun.
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  11968.  @partricklin9749  Don't insult yourself like that, even if it's true. Wait no, go ahead. I myself am nice and bald.👨🏻‍🦲
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  11969.  @TheAakeeb93  Yeah. They're counting on people not knowing what the military definition is.
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  11970.  @theinfinityruler  No, they flew out and chased them. There's video, I've seen it.
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  11971.  @kshen7485  I understand. What is good for the Party is good for China. Whoever does best in the Party is the best for China. The leaders of the Party have merit, so China is a meritocracy. Do you disagree with any of that?
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  11972. ​ @HH-le1vi  Yes he is putting tariffs on food and energy. Look for the tariffs on oil alone to add about 1% to consumer prices.
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  11973.  @HH-le1vi  Canada, Mexico and Wall Street missed it when he said he wasn't taxing energy or food imports.😂 Thankfully you can clear that up by sending them your source for that claim. (Can I see it too, please?)
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  11974. Thank you for the left wing point of view on people who are not left-wing. It was uninformed and biased, but otherwise really, really fascinating. You might want to go to the CBC channel to hear your views confirmed. Have a nice day.
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  11975. About two years ago. Is that all you've got? You better hope you don't get sacked for weak performance. Time will tell.😂
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  11976. Who joined you in the fight immediately after 9/11? Who had moved into Afghanistan and begun slaughtering Taliban as early as November 2001? Who was there beside you for well over a decade? Who kept a lid on the very difficult province of Kandahar for so many years? The price of helping our allies: besides cash costs of $20 billion, tens of thousands served and a couple of thousand casualties including many dead and seriously wounded. That's what friends are for. (Oh, and good friends also tell you when you're being a moron, like in the late winter of 2003.)
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  11977.  @kungszigfrids1482  I like the way you sound. Come on and give it a try.🇨🇦🇱🇻
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  11978. Tech job demand is racing ahead of the number of Americans available to meet it. Instead of working in the computing field, top interests for young Americans include: doing degrees in woke studies, sitting around playing video games, using fentanyl, hanging out on TikTok, and exploring a new gender identity.
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  11979. That's a word with practically no meaning in today's world. It sounds dated and nearly archaic. But thanks to a few people like him it still has a heartbeat.
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  11980. That guy's really a lawyer? Common law dates back over 900 years, not to "1800"? And no one even asked either; he chimed in with that just to get attention.
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  11981. The "Kievan Rus is a part of Russia," he repeats over and over, 'protesting too much,' as Shakespeare would say, just to let us know that he himself doesn't believe it. In fact the Kievan Rus gave birth to Russia, which alas grew up monstrous and deformed. Its beautiful souls like Daniil, eternally in the minority, eternally struggle against it.
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  11982. Imagine when your 4.4% raise is $620,000.
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  11983. Good lord, the guy clearly said first time around that people weren't paying to see him.   Anyway, the question was faulty. What we'd want to know is: Do people pay money to attend, knowing that he'll be a speaker, and does he then get a share of that money? Asking it that way would give him no wiggle room.
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  11984. Ah, but who schooled them? The worst members of the two previous generations. (Same with the hippies. They got their nonsense from awful people aged 30-50.)
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  11985. Ah, but who schooled them? The wor st members of the two previous generations. (Same with the hippies. They got their no n sense from a wf ul people aged 30-50.)
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  11986.  @RyleyVelichka  What? You're talking as though you work in Canada and live in the US. That's the only way the exchange rate would matter. Man, this whole thread is so shot through with ignorance.
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  11987.  @gsxrkz  The guy's comment was peak cringe.
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  11988. Her persistent boorishness set him off. As he correctly pointed out, she was there to answer questions put to her, not to deliver harangues.
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  11989. You just weren't watching. Check again...
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  11990.  @PlanetEarth3141  1) I repeat: You just weren't watching. Check again... There was no c-bait. Go back and check, paying full attention. I am positive. 2) I fully agree with the rest of your remarks.👏Thanks.
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  11991.  @PlanetEarth3141  Look dude, Elon's posts were on the screen in plain sight. Fer fs sake, just watch. 🤣
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  11992. @ Give it up. "Infrastructures" isn't a word. You haven't mastered English plurals. Further proof: you wrote "a systems."😂
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  11993. Maybe because Hamas runs Gaza, absolutely and with an iron hand. They're ISIS by another name, bro.
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  11994. Right. And you would be "openminded" interviewing an advocate of adults having sex with children, I suppose? Or someone who thinks the world is flat? Or a man who insists that he is Napoleon? Please, Madame Pooty-Poot-Poot.
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  11995. Michelle Goldberg has to defend political correctness because she owes everything she's got to it. Nothing else could explain her presence here given that she talks and thinks at the level of a barely-above-average 20-year-old undergrad.
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  11996. 🙄I gather you are a highly experienced aircraft crash investigator over there in Iran.😠
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  11997. With money earned blanking Sergey Brin's blank.😂 Don't get me wrong, that's an honorable way to become a super-multi-billionaire(ess), but I don't think it qualifies anyone to head the government of the world's leading country. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.🤣
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  11998. "Majority"? What?!! 33% in both of the last two elections.  2nd place in the last two elections. Behold, ladies and gentlemen, the Liberal understanding of arithmetic ... and the world! Sort of like a carnival funhouse mirror ... only more warped.
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  11999. Stepping way back for a wide perspective on the US, it strikes me that Friday's debacle was all just fallout from the deep deterioration of both political parties. Their potential to lead America forward on a course beneficial to it and the world has practically collapsed. What a dismal pair of tickets Americans had to choose from in November!
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  12000.  @seymorefact4333  I am Xi Jinping and I totally support your idea!!! If you're ever in Beijing look me up and I'll really take care of you.💖 (PS Do I know you or your parents?)
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  12001. Actually, all history is little else besides a chronicle of slippery slopes.
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  12002. Sorry, Mr. Sayers, but this has not been the Suez Moment for the US and the West which you appear to be so sure it has, and with seeming relish as well.
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  12003. "The same ethnic tribe"? What? You mean the same political tribe. Come on, dude, don't mess up such a great comment with a silly error. Obviously Russians haven't taken over the country (!) and you and everyone else knows it. Excellent quote but: Edit in Aisle 3! Cheers.
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  12004. What's your point, Ashish?
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  12005.  @aaceece8452  It is leased, but Australia still belongs to Australia. When you have tenants in your house, there are ways to get them out. If they have pre-paid rent, they can have that money back. By the way, I never identified myself as an Australian. Thank you for your reply.
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  12006. Actually NATO is handling itself quite well so far, for a change. I wouldn't encourage Poland to donate MiGs, though. All this talk about "We pushed Putin too far" is crap. He doesn't own Ukraine and has to live with that. NATO is not coming to get him like Napoleon marching on Moscow. That's delusional. NATO wouldn't so much as throw a rock into Russia in a trillion years.
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  12007. I have a theory which others may wish to help me evaluate: Namely that the cult of hypersensitivity, victimhood, fragility, hurt and mental illness—and last but not least, gender switching—has to do with seeking attention. For when do even the busiest, the most selfish and indifferent parents give their children attention and care? When they're injured and in pain, of course. When do divorced or separated parents come together with their child or children? At a time of crisis, when something is threatening him/her/them. So who can doubt that children neglected in any significant way—or conversely, fussed over to the point where they become addicted to it—will come to realize that the attention they crave can easily be obtained by claiming hurt, or by asserting the need for an enormous program of medical intervention? And how likely is it nowadays that parents will fail to respond? It's now the law that they have to follow orders from their children on 'transitioning', is it not? Please let me know what you think: Are child-generated crisis and perma-crisis a way for emotionally desperate children to get attention—or at any rate something they need that they're not getting from their parents, in the form of attention?
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  12008. "Henyard" I wonder if that's what the call the outdoor enclosure at a women's prison. She'll soon find out, won't she?😂
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  12009.  @wyliebutler9570  Canada, in every war except Vietnam and Iraq. After 9/11 the cream of Canada's special forces (the only part of its forces with an international reputation) were in Afghanistan eliminating Taliban fighters within weeks. Canada was there for 13 years. 158 dead, thousands wounded, $20bn spent.
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  12010. Hey Tucker, you were, uh, saying about Canada? Well, two months later Biden's going even further. He and Trudeau are clearly out to one-up each other.
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  12011. This is what Putin and Xi watch when they meet up to plot against the US and it's time to stop for a break. It gives them confidence that they cannot possibly fail since they'll be going up against such a total loser country. And you know what? They're right. RIP America, a pretty great people not so long ago.
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  12012. That fake-charming squint at the end makes me want to heave.🤢 🤔But then, so does every word he utters.
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  12013. Apparently torn between saying China wanted Taiwan to know resistance is futile and resistance is useless, he mistakenly opted for "resistance is useful." Hahaha
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  12014.  @richardvale214  Yeah, I know this channel is Kamalaland.
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  12015.  @Kizron_Kizronson  Wow, I don't know where to begin. 1) "Duh!" 2) Who t F said anything about "out of the goodness of their hearts"? 3) What a pointless emotional rant. 4) Great, so you realize what anyone ought to realize. Congratulations on not being born yesterday. 5) Now if you can work on not being so bitter about fixed and eternal realities of relations between people and nations. 6) ....and acquiring a more mature outlook.
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  12016.  @adriansheldon7778  My mom always told me to beware moralizers. They're reliably worse than the people they moralize about, she said.
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  12017.  @adriansheldon7778  Hahaha, you know, if the nurses catch patients using the internet they will punish them severely. Don't take chances. (My sister is one on a high-security ward, poor thing. Bad career.)
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  12018. These freaky people have gone from one in a million, to one in 100k, to one in 10k, and now the needle is almost slapping one in 1k. When the meter hits one in 100, they've won and they're taking over.
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  12019. Thank you.👏
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  12020. Nice catch on 'categorical imperative.' Regarding Macron, he's "leaving," yes...in 2027. The elections just now were legislative, not presidential. Dang, that Skabeeva just can't be outdone for false statements and cluelessness.
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  12021. I wish the title didn't contain an error even few Americans would make.
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  12022. That was simply prudent in case they misquote him or twist his words. They'll do that. What bugged me was how she was trying to give an answer, as if anyone on Earth would gaf what she might have to say. No one was asking her anything.
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  12023. It has to be spelled right, as Nietzsche spelled it: ressentiment. But he was right, and so are you.
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  12024. I see the algorithm wants you to get out too. It appears it cut off your comment when you started getting too independent in your thought. How about trying to restore what got truncated? I want to hear it.
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  12025. Tesla HQ moved from Palo Alto to Austin a couple of years ago.
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  12026. Since De Santis is so brilliantly effective in his political strategies opposing the disastrous ones of both state and federal Democrats, it is certain that an avalanche of hateful and thoroughly dishonest hit pieces and every other kind of attack will be coming his way. It's already started of course, through the MSM-Democratic media machine. Wait, avalanche is too small a word for it. Let's go with tsunami. Or whatever's bigger than a tsunami, you tell me.
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  12027. I fully agree with Lindsey Graham. It's even hard to say whose idea the invasion was in the first place, as it's far more certain to benefit China than Russia. What could be more perfect for them than militarily and financially draining the West prior to a Taiwan attack? Sometimes the background instigator makes the foreground party think it was his own idea. (Cf. the Sussexes moving to LA.)
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  12028.  @spqr1945  Thanks for your reply. At those raw rates of replacement Russia wouldn't hit the wall very soon, I suppose. However, I'm inclined to think that lightly and even extensively refurbished old models (T-64/62/55s and the older T-72s, which entered production between 1946 and 1969), while not being useless, might not really deserve much regard, being prone to subsequent breakdown and unable to deliver or (especially) withstand much punishment.
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  12029.  @spqr1945  Perhaps that is so, but when you steered us onto the subject of tanks specifically, I had not even used the word tank. So one second you brought them up — if not due to their importance, then why? — and then promptly dismissed them, it would seem, as not very important. Please clarify. Thanks.
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  12030.  @spqr1945  Thanks.
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  12031. Why tf did it have to be "celebrities" anyway? They were so stagy.
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  12032. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Vice President Kringela Harris. Round of applause, please.😂
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  12033.  @thecuttingsark5094  Yes, and for that they should be enjoying a feeling of gladness. I love that they've been so materially, rhetorically and symbolically supportive of Ukraine.
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  12034. It's been maintaining the same support as a fraction of its GDP as the US all along (i.e., 0.25%). It doesn't have much in the way of arms to pitch in, but it's there with funding. E.g., it paid $400m for a NASAMS air defence missile battery made by the US and Norway.
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  12035.  @commanderiosifstalin4938  Thanks for the vatnik/gopnik point of view.😂
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  12036. I'm not as dead-set against the EU as that, but I endorse the rest of these remarks and your other one on Trump. I would add that it's not only the free-ride aspect of underspending to which I object. Far more important is that it stretches the US too thin. It necessarily entails a weak alliance which can't do nearly enough to sustain global security. And the Authoritarian Axis is determined to challenge it in multiple regions, and to topple it. It aims to deliver the entire West a Suez Moment far more momentous than the actual one in 1956. The world would be profoundly, fundamentally different after that. It would be vastly worse. This could come any year now, and we're not even close to ready for it.
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  12037.  @wlm7434  Nice try, insinuating some low-key support for Hilt er into support for this video's message of freedom and sanity, in an attempt to corrode its moral legitimacy by association. Classic technique! 👏👏
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  12038.  @jpip1382  Clearly not.
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  12039. Bernie Sanders is like a minor recurring character from sitcom from 40 years ago. A clown worked into the script for the point when the show gets too quiet. One minute in front of the cameras, then he's gone until next week. There really were ones just like him.
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  12040. People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked down tight, I'm out of range I used to care but...things have changed — Bob Dylan (in 2001, actually—as usual he could see pretty far ahead)
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  12041. The presenter shouldn't say Eglington. The second g shouldn't be there. (I guess he just moved here.)
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  12042. Russia, although substantially depleted in battlefield equipment and ammunition, seems rather more on the ball than a year ago. Ukraine, having major new capabilities, would be galloping east- and southwards through the occupied provinces otherwise. So unless and until Ukraine gets its ATACMS and F-16s, it had best find additional capabilities which will give Russia grief. I can see them going experimental, and no doubt Lt. McGyverchuk and Sgt. McGyverenko are already on it.🇺🇦
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  12043. On the subject of Sanford & Son, Tyrus is right about Esther, but Greg was right that he was wrong about Edith. The name they were looking for was Elizabeth, as in (while clutching at his chest, pretending for the hundredth time he was having a heart attack): "It's the big one! I'm comin' to be with you, Elizabeth!"
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  12044. He'll never listen to you as long as can't you type.
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  12045. No, that plane was sold to Denmark in the 1990s for cash.
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  12046. Note that Prime Minister Peter Pan has been unpopular for most of his tenure. He and his party have twice won re-election—but both times with a small share of the popular vote, first 33.1 then 32.6%. Both times the Conservative Party placed first in votes. He governs only by dint of an alliance with a small 3rd party, farther left than his own. Incidentally, it was to me quite ominous that Starmer became UK Prime Minister after Labour had got only 33.7% of the votes. Now he'll govern with a majority for five years. I expect he will make use of it as though he well earned it from voter support.
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  12047.  @Yuri-z2y  Your beloved Russia has higher wealth inequality than the US. Take five seconds to confirm it.
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  12048.  @thebigone9781  The US has around a dozen big bases in Germany, Japan and South Korea, plus one in Guam and one in Qatar. All the rest are puny installations for storage, refuelling, radar, radio repeater stations and so on. Not real "bases." A couple of buildings, a fence around it, a few workers and a few lightly-armed guards. How's the weather in Petersburg today?
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  12049. @Jo Sm Thanks for your reply. This is a bit off-topic, but while we're at it, how about the many millions of people worldwide marching against government Covid measures like vaccine passports, vaccine mandates, and lockdowns over the past 20 months? Only a little sporadic reporting has begun in just the past few days. RIP Journalism. Died ca. 2016 After a Long Illness.
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  12050.  @WAAAAAAGH  No. Surprise factor zero, actually. I just think it's good for the discussion to be sort of dotted with plain-vanilla statements of the main problems in an indignant enough tone that it reminds people that they should never, ever have occurred. Accepting this crap because it seems inevitable is the one thing we must not do. Thanks for your reply.
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  12051. Not "fellow Americans"; one single political opponent. Get it straight and be truthful, if u even can. Biden, on the other hand, cast a wide net over Trump's many tens of millions of supporters.
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  12052. Year after year after year after...
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  12053. Lukashenko found his wife in bed with his minister of the interior, the plumber and the plumber's wife. Quite naturally it was the West's fault.
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  12054. Assuming you mean 'publicly,' sorry but that wouldn't be smart. She took a job working for Musk, the guy who publicly said "If we can't get rid of the woke mind-virus, nothing else matters," and that tells you all you need to know. There's no need for us to imitate the wokesters themselves and start demanding public declarations of repentance. That's commie crap, and we don't want it becoming cemented in as a lasting part of our culture. The crucial fact right now is that she has a job to do at X, namely attracting advertisers. That's her job, that's what she's good at. She was good at it at Comcast and she's perhaps not very good at anything else. So if she grandstands about the evils of wokeness (which she was presumable sick to death of at Comcast) she's bound to fail, thus harming the company she and Elon are trying to turn around and build. It would be the least smart and most totally pointless thing she could possibly do. It's us—Elon, you, me and as many hundreds of millions of X users as possible—who should be the ones speaking out against wokeism. Literally everyone else in the world, but not her.
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  12055. Perfect post from the Xi-bot perspective. Distract from the content of the video, foment anger at the US government. Nice job, Chanfun. Ban it! Ban TikTok now!
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  12056. Six minutes in, I find this such a poor report—the worst I've ever heard on TR—that I'm bailing. Two truly dim blokes.
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  12057. Imagine even an ordinary person — let alone the Secret Service (!) — thinking that a rooftop 150 yards away is outside what must be maintained as the "safe zone." A thousand or 1,500 yards, maybe. Maybe. Resignations will not be nearly enough.
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  12058. She's a wind vane in the breath of campus Marxists with severe personal issues. Marxism is for the psychologically unhealthy, always has been, always will be. That started with Marx himself, a man who never worked; who lived off his ultra-rich, capitalist, fox-hunting buddy Engels his whole adulthood; who impregnated his pretty young housemaid under his wife's nose. Rather than acknowledging the child and paying to support her, he fired the poor maid at once.
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  12059. Nah. It's all of the above. The billionaires are setting us up to be handed over to China (and their little buddies, Russia). Except Musk. He's a centrist libertarian, a civilized human being, and not cool with any of this. I think he cultivates business with China intending to use the position to defend against them. Crypto, by the way, is a last line of defence against China. It won't be hackable until quantum computing.
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  12060.  @AmateurishAstronaut  What? China are pushing against this kind of thing, yes—but in China, not in the West. They're thrilled it's happening in the West. In the end Zuckerberg will side with China because people like him always, always want to be on the winning side. You already see this with people like the hedge fund manager Ray Dalio.
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  12061.  @AmateurishAstronaut  China are already de-industrializing like the West and Japan. It happens as you become rich; it's just happening to China while it yet has many poor. Look how much low-skilled production has moved to Vietnam and Bangladesh, for example. Factory to the world is just a stage for China. So is billionaire capitalism, by the way. It's all just the fastest way to get to Superpower Maoism (my term, but the idea is not mine). And they're happy to see manufacturing go away. It pollutes their country, for one thing. For another, robots are going to hollow out manufacturing anyway, which can then can be domiciled in any country, not just low-wage ones. China is thus turning away from exports and converting to a situation more like the US: limited but high-value exports in a service economy focused on domestic demand. Sending consumer products to the West will be so 2010; sending the People's Liberation Navy all over the place and spreading superior Chinese culture and the CCP model will be the new order of business. ——————   Bezos' comments on India ring false to me. I think it will miss the superpower boat and play 1980s Cold War Russia to China's 1980s Cold War US. They're already so far behind China in economic and military development and China seems set to totally sew up the region. Even rich and well-connected Australia is in danger, so India with all its problems will be busy trying to advance at all, let alone to the status of master of the globe. Bezos is probably just trying to puff up Indian pride to encourage Indian industrialization for selfish purposes. Amazon could be desperate not many years from now for somewhere to source its crap from. ——————— Oh, but why, you asked, does China relish the West sinking into the metaverse? Simply because if the West allows it to happen it will stupefy, impoverish and weaken the West socially, economically and militarily. It will speed up the whole process of the CCP ascending to total world rule. But I guess that practically went without saying.
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  12062. Three responses of indifference or denial: (1) "I live by the Bodrov principle: 'While war is going on, don't criticize your people.' " (2)  "Based on our news sources, [the bombing] either wasn't us or somebody was hiding there, or it was a mistake." (3) "It's not our topic [...] it's not in our competence." Germans were like that 80 years ago. That's why 20 million Russians/Soviets died. Strange thing is, these Russians know that.
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  12063. "Even though"? Automatic bravery isn't bravery? It's not bravery unless you're a coward?
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  12064. Kat, my regards to your stylist. Ok, it's you, so regards to you.
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  12065. Pete: "Well, you're clearly an uneducated, intolerant, backward, unenlightened, white heterosexual man. That's hot."
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  12066. "It started furiously." Nice English. Really nice.🙄And you write for a living?
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  12067. Neil de Grasse Tyson is one of those people who pretend they're smart. He's actually flagrantly slow-witted.
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  12068. Great minds think alike. My post before Vivek made this appearance: "Regarding the Biden-Trump debate, Biden's willingness is so surprising that I actually think it's something that the people around him are going to use to remove him, in time to hand the nomination to Gavin Newsom. They'll do anything not to lose to Trump. So they told him he would do great and that moreover debating Trump is necessary for victory."
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  12069. I retroactively withdraw my sympathy for Hungary over the brutal 1956 invasion by the USSR. (This is unfair, but no matter. It was well before my time, but no matter.) May their callousness towards Ukraine, while basking in the security of NATO (!), be repaid in low-dose karma. 2) Finland is golden! 3) The Kyiv Post really botched the name of the Chinese premier, Li Qiang. He should be called Li, since Li is his surname, not Qiang. (And they they misspelled it 'Quiang'). Incidentally, the 'q' in Chinese romanization, for some confusing reason, has no 'k' sound. It's pronounced as 'ch.' Thus: chee-ONG, roughly.
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  12070.  @Professor-Gerdes  It's simply a way of expressing my dismay with Hungary. I feel wounded by its Ukraine War stance, which has negatively affected my former longstanding high regard for them.
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  12071. I noticed that one of the headlines said "Self-styled World's Coolest Dictator." Self-styled, if accurate, means this is what he calls himself. (A 'style' is a title or form of address.) So if it's what he calls himself, it's not wrong in any way to use it in a headline. I suggest you verify whether he chose the phrase himself or not.
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  12072. Those are mobile crematoriums. Sad but entirely necessary.
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  12073. Alternate title: AOC: Says a Bunch of Stuff, No One Listens or Cares
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  12074.  @r.a.8618  What a mess of unconnected, incoherent maunderings, addressed only to people so weak-minded they don't mind being addressed as idiots. Simple trash talk which I take it you earn your living at.
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  12075. At first I thought this guy was hungover, then I realized he's just drinking. And that smirk is simply unbearable. Get rid of him.
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  12076. Tucker, please stop saying "a-GIN." For our sake and yours. "Again" is pronounced "a-GEN."
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  12077. Clinton: "You need policing. [It's only] common sense." Oh yeah? Where t.f. were you in 2020 when the country could've used you saying that? And here's her advice to Dems: "Don't say what you really think for the next 4 1/2 months. Pretend you're reasonable."
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  12078. Written with brilliant simplicity. Not an easy achievement. I enjoyed it of course, but I get an uneasy feeling somewhere in the back of my mind when I discover that I agree with every word someone says.😄
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  12079. Well, thanks for the Kremlin spokesperson point of view. But a great many well-informed people besides Anders disagree with you and the Kremlin on that. I myself believe that quite favourable conditions for a withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine are achievable.
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  12080. This channel has a very stupid side to it. Makes sense when you remember it is connected to the Discovery Channel.
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  12081.  @davidduxbury7530  Kenneth Williams 😆😆😆 Omg I don't know if he can ever be surpassed. On "Just a Minute" at some point most weeks he brought down the house .
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  12082.  @5D_Films  😢 😂
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  12083. He's a POS Lord Haw Haw.
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  12084. Liberals think mining is 'icky.' (For one thing, it lacks any feminine aspect. That alone marks it for doom.) Thus next to no mines open in the West anymore. Brilliant! So we're now vulnerable in myriad ways. Here we learn most uranium now comes from Central Asia, a region thoroughly dominated by Russia and China. Fantastic!
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  12085.  @afollower7808  Don't call him useless. Here it amounts to praise.
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  12086. Well expressed. Surprisingly — and a bit disappointingly, I admit — non-polemical.
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  12087. Not just the West but ALL humanity will condemn China if it makes war on Taiwan. (Except for a few poor dupe Quisling countries of no importance. China has not one friend!)
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  12088.  @shabalalamartin  Incoherent zombie.
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  12089. Well, yeah. They're commies. That's why. It's certainly not just something Chinese, as a glance at how Taiwan and Singapore conduct themselves will suggest. It's more characteristic of Chinese people not to make aggressive moves without necessity.
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  12090.  @waltershink6878  Guilty. 😞 We're so bad.
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  12091. Trans activists and other wokesters think that everything is a state of mind, that by believing things you make them true. This encourages, or necessitates, a retreat from reality. And so they have wilfully lost touch with it, and consider that this makes them morally superior. Note that these things also distinguish the religious phenatik.
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  12092. It isn't, as our guest asserts, anti-free-speech or snowflake-y to be up in arms over what someone's said. If it were, then his mere saying that would itself be anti-free-speech and snowflake-y. (Anyway, free speech is about the prohibition of laws limiting speech, except for those against libel, direct incitement to crime, etc. Cancel culture is a separate problem.)
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  12093. My advice: Don't enter this state-worker comments pasture, even with easily-hosed-off high rubber boots. Not worth the anti-US, anti-Ukraine, anti-Western reek in the nostrils.
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  12094. ​ @takethegas  I heard it was under the Queensboro Bridge.
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  12095.  @takethegas  It wasn't a comment, it was more of a joke, really. I sort of thought you were joking yourself.
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  12096. Well, we vaccinate ourselves, many of us, for influenza, yet the typical wintertime flu is survivable by ~99.9%. That's not controversial, it's agreed-upon fact. For about the middle ten months of the pandemic, the survival rate for Covid-19 was generally thought to be 99.7 to 99.85%, in the West at least. Multiple indirect measures (it is not possible to measure the mortality rate of a virus directly in the usual sense) suggest, however, that it has been rising. 99.7 is starting to look pretty outdated as an estimate, I'm glad to say.
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  12097. I'm sure you were far from the only one.
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  12098. Why are you saying he should have paid for the guy's chips? It doesn't fit with the rest of your comment.
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  12099. Adams tested positive for being a crook.
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  12100.  @vocaldancemusic  Hwittoooo! Hwittooo, hwittooo! [sound of a whip]
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  12101.  @baffledanderanged2101  Sometimes extremely important, e.g. in this sentence: "Jack, off that horse this instant!" 😄
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  12102. Most shocking of all, she actually believed her videos could get a man excited.
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  12103. They screen-tested something just like it in pre-production for Alien but rejected it as too outlandish, even for a space creature.😆
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  12104. Now write one about asteroid strikes and ice ages, so we can prevent them too.
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  12105. Vivek Ramaswamy's position will not be cabinet-level! Please fix this amateurish factual error.
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  12106. Adam mega-nailed it.🔨 DEI is systemic racism, systemic sexism.
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  12107.  @RazorMouth  Quite right. They (we) are scrupulous in exactly that way, it's glaringly clear and undeniable.
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  12108. That's not how it works. Historically, when a government is toppled by force it is replaced by one under a tyrant or group of tyrants. The War of Independence was one of those exceptions that prove the rule. Around the world people's minds are blown by how Americans think revolutions are cool.
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  12109. In fairness to the voluble and often impulsive Mr. Trump, election results which are fraudulent (as he professes to believe) can hardly be constitutional themselves. Yet if they are upheld by corrupt means (as he likewise professes), means which are nonetheless upheld, accepting them necessarily entails accepting an illegitimate government. If I am not mistaken, the leaders of the American Revolution regarded Britain's rule as illegitimate, consequently rebelled, and thereby violated the British constitution which was then the law of the land. I grant that this is in no wise a sophisticated nor even, I assume, an adequate view of constitutional law. I'm not a constitutional lawyer, and neither is Mr. Trump. But I think it is a line of rough-and-ready moral reasoning which many if not most Americans would find generally acceptable if it suited their partisan leanings in the case of an allegedly fraudulent election outcome. (In other words, if they believed their own side, not their opponents, had been unlawfully deprived of an electoral victory.) In this light we may consider a few reflections of eminent Americans: "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." — Abraham Lincoln "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" — Henry David Thoreau I of course realize that many quotations could be marshalled against Mr. Trump, perhaps including the one of Lincoln's above. Indeed, all this is not to express my support for Mr. Trump. For one thing, I am in no position to form a belief about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. For another, he might even be acting in part or entirely on ill intentions. No, it is merely to give whatever credit is due to him, marginal though it might in fact be. I don't know.
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  12110. HAV-ee-air, not HAV-ee-ay It's Spanish, not French.
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  12111. Norm Macdonald, ca. 2013 [when his podcast guest Stephen Merchant (co-creator/co-star of the original The Office series) expressed bafflement about the meaning of "cisgender"]: "It's a way of marginalizing a normal person."
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  12112. Women are special. There are no rules for them. No wonder so many boys get their boy parts chopped off.
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  12113. Make AOC a Waitress Again
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  12114. Without deterrence there can be no peace. The art of deterrence is the art of peace.
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  12115. Whoopi Goldberg: OK (I..e., Original Karen)
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  12116.  @testowevt1  Are you aware of recycling regulations, and all of the other wonderful laws at the avail of prosecutors?
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  12117.  @testowevt1  I said failure to sort their recycling properly.
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  12118. "Here, divide this amongst yourselves."
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  12119. Perfectly stated.
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  12120.  @andrewgardiner563  A comment which describes itself quite well.
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  12121. ...from a high ledge.😄
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  12122. Samantha Power had done some homework, made apposite remarks, didn't shout her head off and didn't attempt cringy jokes that flopped. Class.
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  12123. You in 1943: "Dear USSR: surrender to Germany. Save Russian lives."🙄
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  12124.  @bobrisse9823  @Zach Quarry You're both right about the Boomers but miss the larger point. The generations replacing them are not better, they're far worse yet. Sheer party feeling prevents younger people from realizing this, but the jerry-built nitwit quality of their minds plays a large role too.
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  12125. Gillette is part of Procter & Gamble. I stopped buying five of their products ever since those ads. Schick razors are fine, so are other brands of shaving cream, detergent, toothpaste and floss. Never going back.
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  12126.  @franzfred7511  why tee em.
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  12127. Thanks for pointing this out. I was on the verge of thinking I was imagining things.
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  12128. Make a point or don't post.
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  12129. Not one of them—the Potato, Harris and Sharpton—is at all popular or at all respected. Not even close, never were, never will be.
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  12130.  Drifty_Daisy  If I use his surname in a comment it is shadow-banned. I have verified this. If I edit it—to Potato, the Potato-in-Chief, a pronoun, anything—it gets un-banned. Nice, eh?
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  12131. Because Russia and China both have Security Council vetoes. Because many Asian countries are terrified of crossing China. Because so many African countries simply admire Putin's vicious brutality. Because the UN is crawling with Marxists who despise the US so much that they will support any monster or monsters which oppose it. Any. Some of those who support Russia have no doubt also clandestinely supported ISIS.
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  12132. @Julia Kimberg Great country in a lot of ways. Just work on not being born to be ruled like little kids under a strict dad forever. Demand adulthood..
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  12133. @Julia Kimberg Hey, I just noticed the algo truncated my post to you. Believe me, it contained other nice things about Russians, whom I always find myself respecting when I meet them. Unbeatable intelligence. I just hate their government. Thanks for your reply.
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  12134. Not so. It's merely an intermediate tactical goal on the way to the ultimate strategic one: sending boys and men and people of European ancestry (unless in the 1%) to the back of the bus, forever. I never thought that more than a few radicals wanted anything like that, nor that they could possibly make any headway towards it, but as usual my lifelong refusal to ignore evidence has steered me right. The progress of their efforts to date is down to the grotesque alliance formed between left radicals and the power elites. The elites are terrified to death of the pitchforks which history indicates would otherwise be sure to result from class resentment generated by the gross inequalities of income and wealth in the present era. So they've rushed to wear the mantles of "caring," "empathy" and "social justice," endorsing them to draw attention away from the collapsing economic futures of most people. (Girls and women especially have drunk the Kool-Aid, hearing loud and clear that there's something for them in all this.) It's almost impossible to say which group is which's useful idiots, the radicals or the elites. But eventually one of two things will happen: one will eliminate the other, or they'll merge into a single thing. Either way it'll end in totalitarianism, guaranteed. Unless they can be stopped soon, before our fairly free speech and fairly clean elections cease to exist.
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  12135. Not so. It's merely an intermediate tactical goal on the way to the ultimate strategic one: sending boys and men and people of European ancestry (unless in the 1%) to the back of the bus, forever. I never thought that more than a few radicals wanted anything like that, nor that they could possibly make any headway towards it, but as usual my lifelong refusal to ignore evidence has steered me right. More to come...
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  12136. The progress of their efforts to date is down to the grotesque alliance formed between left radicals and the power elites. The elites are terrified to death of the pitchforks which history indicates would otherwise be sure to result from class resentment generated by the gross inequalities of income and wealth in the present era. More...
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  12137. So they've rushed to wear the mantles of "caring," "empathy" and "social justice," endorsing them to draw attention away from the collapsing economic futures of most people. (Girls and women especially have drunk the Kool-Aid, hearing loud and clear that there's something for them in all this.) It's almost impossible to say which group is which's useful id io ts, the radicals or the elites. But eventually one of two things will happen: one will eliminate the other, or they'll merge into a single thing. Either way it'll end in totalitarianism, guaranteed. Unless they can be stopped soon, before our fairly free speech and fairly clean elections cease to exist.
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  12138. 1/2 Not so. It's merely an intermediate tactical goal on the way to the ultimate strategic one: sending boys and men and people of European ancestry (unless in the 1%) to the back of the bus, forever. I never thought that more than a few radicals wanted anything like that, nor that they could possibly make any headway towards it, but as usual my lifelong refusal to ignore evidence has steered me right. The progress of their efforts to date is down to the grotesque alliance formed between left radicals and the power elites. The elites are terrified to death of the pitchforks which history indicates would otherwise be sure to result from class resentment generated by the gross inequalities of income and wealth in the present era. Cont'd...
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  12139. 1/3 Not so. It's merely an intermediate tactical goal on the way to the ultimate strategic one: sending boys and men and people of European ancestry (unless in the 1%) to the back of the bus, forever. I never thought that more than a few radicals wanted anything like that, nor that they could possibly make any headway towards it, but as usual my lifelong refusal to ignore evidence has steered me right. 2/3...
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  12140. 2/3 The progress of their efforts to date is down to the grotesque alliance formed between left radicals and the power elites. The elites are terrified to death of the pitchforks which history indicates are likely to result from class resentment generated by the gross inequalities of income and wealth in the present era. So they've rushed to wear the mantles of "caring," "empathy" and "social justice," endorsing them to draw attention away from the collapsing economic futures of most people. (Girls and women especially have drunk the Kool-Aid, hearing loud and clear that there's something for them in all this.) 3/3...
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  12141. 3/3 It's almost impossible to say which group is which's useful iddyәtz, the radicals or the elites. But eventually one of two things will happen: one will eliminate the other, or they'll merge into a single thing. Either way it'll end in totalitarianism, guaranteed. Unless they can be stopped soon, before our fairly free speech and fairly clean elections cease to exist.
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  12142. 2/3 The progress of their efforts to date is down to the grotesque alliance formed between left radicals and the power elites. The elites are terrified to death of the pitchforks which history indicates are likely to result from class resentment generated by the gross inequalities of income and wealth in the present era. So they've rushed to wear the mantles of "caring," "empathy" and "social justice," endorsing them to draw attention away from the collapsing economic futures of most people. (Girls and women especially have drunk the Kool-Aid, hearing loud and clear that there's something for them in all this.) 3/3...
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  12143. 2/3 The progress of their efforts to date is down to the grotesque alliance formed between le f t radicals and the power elites. The elites are terrified of the pitchforks which history indicates are likely to result from class resentment generated by the gross inequalities of income and wealth in the present era. So they've rushed to wear the mantles of "caring," "empathy" and "social justice," endorsing them to draw attention away from the collapsing economic futures of most people. (Girls and women especially have bought into it, hearing loud and clear that there's something for them in all this.) 3/3...
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  12144. Canadians didn't elect Carney, dude. He was chosen by the rank and file of Trudeau's Liberal party. (It can work like that under the Westminster system shared by Canada, UK, et al.) The Liberals' 4-yr. term is up in Oct., but Carney will likely call an election quickly.
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  12145. Nice try.
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  12146. Correct anagram for "Ilhan Omar": Oh, man. Liar.
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  12147. Please equalize the sound levels between interviewer and guest. Thank you.
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  12148.  @AtteliaVel  That's so toopid that it will be the cause of toopidity in others.
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  12149.  @notsunnydaysahead  But an average Canadian resident, whether born in Canada or not, continually sends whackloads of money out of the country for imported goods, most of it you-know-where. And for vacations, where he or she delivers the money in person. I expect "almost his entire pay" is a major overstatement. Just to house himself and eat likely consumes most of his earnings, remittances to his family coming at the expense of Amazon, Best Buy, imported clothes, a lease on an imported car, etc. I say a solid person with a respectful attitude towards Canada's people, traditions and institutions is a welcome asset to the country even if he sends a thousand or two a month abroad to support family members. (This one sounds like he'll soon be voting Conservative besides.) It's people who are hostile to us and who commit crimes whom we need to exclude.
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  12150.  @notsunnydaysahead  Nice double negative. Suggests a failure to finish elementary school, and probably not for lack of effort.
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  12151. I bet they're throwing you in the smelly back of some van if they catch you doing that now.
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  12152. He was talking to a POS and gave him a more-than-fair hearing. Your Pooty-Bot bias is showing. Shame.
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  12153. Hoax-a-hontas.
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  12154. So culture isn't important unless it's religious? Destruction of public property is ok? Mob violence is fine with you? Give your head a shake.
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  12155.  @og-big-shepherd4468  How tf do the years before 1776 not count as American history?
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  12156. If the balloon possessed no capabilities beyond those of Chinese satellites, then what on earth would be the point of sending it? Speaking of pointlessness, why interview Chinese nationals like this man? If we want the Chinese government's point of view and to hear their lies, we can simply consult their Foreign Ministry website. As they do not pretend to be impartial, we can at least presume their hostility is sincere. I can make no presumption of sincerity in the case of this guest.
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  12157.  @FirstLast-yj1hp  In that case it should be embarrassed to be so politically primitive, still with an emperor who rules via a Frankenstein hybrid system derived from two traditions that aren't even Chinese: capitalism and communism. A people so old should be exhibiting more wisdom in their self-governance. Seriously, Xi is an emperor. Come on, don't we all want more for China? For its people to rule, not one man and his clique of courtiers?
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  12158. Yeah, sure.🤣
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  12159. The monologue jokes used to be good. Now they're very, very good.👏 (Evidently the show practices the meritocratic hiring it preaches.👍)
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  12160. Warning to the US! : She and Canada's prime minister🤢grew up mere blocks apart in adjacent posh neighborhoods. Although she didn't know him, they are nonetheless clearly political soulmates for life. She would be America's first NDP president. I'm not kidding. Her lefty Canadian upbringing shines through in everything she does.
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  12161.  @cynthiardh2004  Billions less than when NASA or the Russian Space Agency did it. (Remember that? The US formerly had a space program at the pleasure of Russia.)
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  12162. Hammering it home to liberals that this happened is comparatively simple, given the cumulative evidence. The far harder (or impossible) thing is getting them to see it as wrong.
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  12163. CNN, talking down to you since 1980.
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  12164. ​ @bobwoods1302  What an odd smear to attempt. It makes no sense at all, since Russia's interest is in NATO failing. The last thing Russia wants is for the US to succeed in strengthening NATO by finally getting all member countries to make a fair contribution. A Russian would advocate for the status quo.
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  12165. ​ PoliticsAndCoffee_1865  That is highly misleading, buddy, and flirts with outright falsehood, buddy. It is misleading because it implies that people of non-French background will no longer be allowed to live in France. In fact that would be true in a tiny minority of cases. In normal cases the usual pathway to French citizenship would remain open; it would simply not be automatic. Nor is not to grant automatic citizenship to those born to foreigners at all extreme, for such an automatic grant is given in only 22 out of 190+ countries in the world. Japan, for instance, would like to have a word with you. I don't have all day to improve upon the truth value of your crude assertion, so to help speed things up, here is Perplexity's response to the query Does the Rassemblement National say that people born in France who are not of French background should be deported? : "Based on the search results provided, there is no indication that the Rassemblement National (RN) explicitly states that French-born people who are not of French background should be deported. However, the party does propose significant changes to French citizenship and immigration policies that would affect people born in France to foreign parents: * The RN wants to abolish France's "droit de sol" (jus soli), which currently grants French nationality at 18 to people born on French soil to foreign parents, provided they have lived in France for at least five years since the age of 11. * Instead, the RN proposes restricting automatic French nationality by blood, granting it only to people born to at least one French parent. * The party aims to impose "very strict conditions" for naturalization, based on guarantees of assimilation, mastery of the French language, and respect for French laws and customs. * The RN suggests that naturalized French citizenship could be withdrawn in cases where naturalized citizens commit acts "incompatible with French nationality or prejudicial to the nation's interests". * Jordan Bardella, the RN president, has made comments about "French people of foreign origin locked into in repentance and hatred of France," suggesting a distinction between different categories of French citizens based on their origins. While these proposals do not explicitly call for the deportation of French-born people who are not of French background, they do indicate a desire to restrict access to French citizenship and create distinctions between different categories of French citizens based on their origins. The party's overall stance appears to be focused on significantly reducing immigration and tightening citizenship requirements, rather than explicitly calling for the deportation of French-born individuals without French background." —Sources listed: Le Monde, Reuters, France24, Radio France Internationale [And note that these sources are known more for hostility to conservative points of view than for freedom from political bias. Two are owned and funded by the French state, buddy.]
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  12166. In Canada the government gives addicts free morphine in the form of hydromorphone pills. But the addicts find it too weak compared to what they're used to. So they sell the pills for cheap, thus flooding even more drugs onto the streets, and take the money to a Fentanyl dealer. This is how to wreck a country with the intent of then declaring an emergency and forcing revolutionary change.
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  12167. Misanthropy is dangerous, to you and humanity.
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  12168.  @dbodooley  You should quote people's OCs when you reply to them in a 250-reply-long thread. I'm not about to spend ages looking up my post here.
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  12169. There's abundant evidence they have no sound person, which is more comical than anything else for a 'radio' business.
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  12170. Spare us the term "olds". It's straight out of communist dogma and propaganda, as in Mao's "The Four Olds," ("old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits") which the Chinese were commanded to abandon in order to let them die off. It was nauseating rhetoric, to compare a dignified civilization to a living thing near death, or a worn-out shoe. Look what replaced "the four olds": mass murder, mass deliberate starvation, soulless tyranny. I take you for a communist. 🤮😠
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  12171.  @Emperorhirohito19272  They went hand in hand. It was a coherent whole. The engineered famine and the resulting 50m deliberate deaths were part of eliminating the Four Olds. Maoism is total revolution, permanent revolution. The same thing was done in Ukraine 20 years earlier. Midrange estimate: 6m deaths. It is now known by the name Holodomor. That's the danger of extremist belief in utopian ideology: in its name extremists will calmly decide to put millions of people to death, millions more in prison camps. They believe that something so wonderful justifies a course of action producing rivers of blood and mountains of corpses, which they call The Great Leap Forward.
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  12172.  @cba4389  You are definitely correct. As I see it, all one has to do is concoct an ideology for the sake of which it's ok to hate, under which to hate or even do violence is all for the sake of a better society, a just society, and soon millions of people, drawn by the prospect of letting loose their suppressed aggression, will come out of the woodwork to join it. It's happened multiple times. It will happen again. It's surely happening or starting to happen somewhere now. Perhaps here.
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  12173.  @Emperorhirohito19272  I hate to hear the word 'progress' on the lips of someone who thinks like you. Chilling. Do me a favour and move on. Seriously, move on, which means don't reply.
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  12174.  @Emperorhirohito19272  Hahaha. That was partly a test of whether you have any respect for the wishes of others, and as I suspected, you don't. You'd make a great commissar, a great gulag warden, a great O'Brien to someone else's Winston Smith.
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  12175. @ Check 338Canada for a round-up of polls plus the site's own seat projections.
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  12176. @ Which conditions? Sounds like an interesting point but help me out.
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  12177. In your dullness you fail to consider the actual (terrible and hopeless) alternatives in such remote locations, instead comparing company stores to arrangements in paradise. Very, very dull dullness.
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  12178. Mostly peaceful vengeance.
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  12179. He speaks out on behalf of the rural poor, making him a very, very rare rich person. Would you prefer he were like the other 999 out of a thousand (most of them liberals) who couldn't care less? If you just hate rich people indifferent or hostile to the rural poor, you need to look at liberals, not Tucker Carlson.
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  12180. When I was a little boy in the 70s I was astonished to find, on a car trip with my parents, on a 400-series highway for the first time, a speed limit of 75mph, or 120km/h.
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  12181. Recall that Biden met with Trump last Wednesday, a meeting which by all accounts was most cordial and went decidedly well. Ukraine was reportedly on the agenda. I speculate for these and other reasons that the ATACMS authorization had Trump's blessing. I still think Trump has planned all along to take a hard line with Putin.
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  12182. When your neighbour holds the title of World's Nastiest Country for the second consecutive year.☹
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  12183. I think the homely resent the attractive more than ever because the latter are more rare than ever, yet still soak up all the attention. Yes, the average person is far less attractive than a few decades ago. It appears that good-looking people practically stopped having children, I assume because they can have better lives without them—more sex partners, disposable income, free time, and all the rest. I began noticing this about 20 years ago and it's far worse now.
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  12184. 200x more donations than France.🙄🤔🤨😠
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  12185.  @kirstinevad347  As to your first assertion: yes, certainly. As to your second: so say members of his family. But then, "If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business." —William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848
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  12186.  @deepaulie8701  I'm not in a position to form any such belief and my comment wasn't about him. It was about journalistic practices and integrity.
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  12187. I agree with that. It's fairly ghetto.
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  12188. The universities, the media and the cultural elites, in that order. All three turned into absolute poison, with rare remaining pockets you can call exceptions. (But it goes back to social class and the widespread American belief that if you don't have a pile of money you're truly nobody.) There you have it, the proximal and root causes.
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  12189. ​ @dianebooth745  I don't see how Canada enters into it. I didn't say a thing about Canada. The original post concerns the US, and so did my reply. But I certainly DID blame leftist nutjobs. Sounds like you smoked too much pot in Vancouver, lady, cuz you can't even read. Read my comment again. As for class and money, yes, ultimately a people obsessed with them definitely will get warped in various ways, which may appear to have no connection to them. Not everyone has a mind capable of seeing this, alas. If the US didn't have class and money problems it would never have become susceptible to the myriad cons presented by leftists. Calm down, breathe, read everything twice, and watch who you call a liar. But especially calm down. No frenzied person ever thought well. Cheers.
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  12190.  @dianebooth745  Oh, and as just more evidence what a complete bomb your reply was, I had actually given upvotes to all your previous comments in this thread. Lamely written and somewhat hotheaded, but I found them sensible enough to give my support. Grab a coffee to clear your cobwebs. Cheers.
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  12191. ​ @dianebooth745  Omg, you're totally unhinged. I didn't delete your comments, I gave them upvotes. (How can anyone delete someone else's comments anyway?) If you this is how you treat people who broadly agree with you, I'd like to see how you treat opponents! 🤣☺ Good luck!!
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  12192.  @dianebooth745  Muted. Reported.
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  12193. If Trump wins I'd quite like Elise Stefanik to be given some sort of important job. She's obviously sensible and strikes me as dependable.
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  12194. It might be unknown whether they ought to be painted in green camo or in white for deployment on snow-covered terrain. It's been a mild winter in Europe, at least up until the last week or so.
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  12195. You say that "[I]n 1984, the national heroes are made-up, not pedophiles and rapists." Oh? Can we assume that? Were you never suspicious of the INGSOC brains-trust that conceived of the Junior Anti-Sex League?
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  12196.  @saraa6040  Yes, Huxley was one of Orwell's French teachers at Eton. Orwell thought there was something the matter with him.
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  12197. Yesterday's high was 26℃ (79℉ ). That's not "scorching hot." I think your "emergency" is a personal one. I would get that checked out.
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  12198. I can only chuckle at people who say "yooge." (Not that if Chairman Sanders expunged this howler from his diction it would dignify his maunderings much.)
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  12199. Thanks for your interesting comment.
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  12200.  @aaroncabatingan5238  He said they don't have a record of lying about this sort of thing, whereas Russia does. Your wife doesn't have a record of lying, right? So do you believe her when she says she still loves you?
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  12201. I bet he was exactly right, but had no idea how to deal with someone in need of psychiatric treatment.
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  12202. Make AOC a waitress again.
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  12203.  @RandomAussieGuy87  I read tons of Trig comments and I disagree strongly. I too view myself as a centrist.
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  12204. 8:29 A mention in passing of Canada as an ally, which is better than nothing, I suppose. I'm more than annoyed that Canada isn't in on this pact. What gives, Trudeau? Explain yourself.
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  12205. Every word of that is fair, when rendered into its opposite.👍
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  12206. "Series of polling"? "Cue-beckers"? Omg. These gaffes, as well as his overall deficiency of style, are strange for a man who writes and speaks for a living. He does not have an impressive command of his own language. Perhaps if he had read more throughout life he'd be better at it.
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  12207. Yes. This should be obvious to most people, but I don't think it is yet. It sounds like something Rubin will be saying soon.
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  12208. Great guy, but he may not be right about infrastructure spending. By the time the money is actually spent it may be helpful for supporting a crashing economy. Strong demand and inflation may turn to recession and disinflation on very short notice.
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  12209. It's 90% Putinists chatting with each other here, sitting in their mothers' basements, waiting to be drafted...and then, before their boots are even broken in, returned home on refrigerated transport. Ah well, other hapless boys can wear the same boots for a few days, then others...
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  12210. Great thumbnail.
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  12211. The precise pace of that help is the key to its success, for unfortunately Russia must undergo considerable military weakening before any drive to eject its army from Ukraine has a good chance not only to succeed but to endure. A Russia driven out with most of its military strength intact would never accept the situation as final and would soon attack again. Some of NATO's apparent reluctance is real. The rest is strategic, even at times played to the hilt.
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  12212. Have another toke.
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  12213. The left might make hay with his vision. That doesn't make it error. I'm no self-hating Westerner from the Left Pole, but he takes all the ideas right out of my mouth. I suspect he's politically homeless, like me. Cheers.
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  12214. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvCCTzTzuk
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  12215.  @mak2675  As a longstanding admirer and student of Orwell's many works I can tell you unequivocally that there is nothing "Orwellian" about that assertion. Question it if you like, just don't call it Orwellian.
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  12216. 🤨Excuse me, but those troops are training and rehearsing for the rescue of American hostages.
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  12217.  @mak2675  (1) It was someone else's statement, not mine. (2) You're hazy on what doublethink is. It's not about mere paradoxical thoughts or claims. Consult a good dictionary. (3) The statement wasn't even particularly paradoxical. Consider police stations, which are all about the use of force, yet their purpose is largely to reduce violence. Not exactly one for Bertrand Russell to throw on the pile. (His pastime was collecting paradoxes.)
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  12218.  @mak2675  Ok, you don't like the US. While I'm sure that makes you a wonderful human being🙄, don't attempt to enlist Orwell's backing on these strained, empty and self-serving pretexts. There's no doublethink in the use or threat of use of armed force to maintain freedom. Maintaining freedom is impossible without it, period. And now I've had a bellyful of chatting with you on this. Have a nice day and good-bye. Nay, adieu.
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  12219.  @markdubois4882  Obtaining, carrying and aiming an aerosol can of the stuff that smells like farts is immeasurably easier than doing the same things with a skunk. EDIT: Unless "skunk spray" is a commercial spray, in which case you should capitalize it so that others know w.t.h. you mean!
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  12220. I'm not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but I don't think you need to be one merely to observe that she's not all there. Why are there so many like her now populating what were formerly realms of reasonably sober thought and decision-making? Why have we made so much space for the irrational at the table of serious debate?
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  12221. Even if that's the reason it came into being (and yeah, I'd say you're right for the most part) it still does mark a thing very much worth commemorating. It's just that g.d. dumb name for it that I can't stand.
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  12222. I thought "that wears me out" sounded very stylish on the lips of a Chinese woman.
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  12223. Yeah it is. Does that ruin it for you?
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  12224.  @MarinaJBoyd  Your comment's unrelated to the rest of the thread. It belongs elsewhere. Also really bad English. Just run it through a Russian-English translator for better results.
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  12225. All of Big Tek's errors bear a strong resemblance to one another. They're not errors.
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  12226. ​ @edwardabrams4972  Look, I don't take you for an awful person. I figure you aren't one. I just know a leaning towards sanctimony when I see it.
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  12227. ​ @dbochner  Good comment as far as it goes. But, yeah, well, that's your country. For 55 years you set the dial on Do As You Like, and this is where you ended up. Not to mention Parent to Child: "Yay! You're special! You can go anywhere in life! You're amazing!" for the last 30 or 40 years. But while you're on such a roll don't mess things up and fail to notice that Democrat supporters are not much less clueless if at all. In some ways, of course, they're stupider. I recommend strongly against thinking for an instant that there is an enlightened segment of American society. They're spread around pretty freely, for it's less about than money, class, education, and political affiliation and more about personality than most people suppose (character is of course another word for it). I don't think many of them at all inhabit the political polar quartiles. That's territory for people with poor personalities. It gives me no pleasure to add that it ('enlightenment') does have quite a bit to do with intelligence, and unfortunately as time goes by the link between intelligence and money grows stronger, because of semi-meritocratic policies and practices throughout the institutions and in people's choice of marriage partners (i.e. few people now marry much up or down in economic status). In some ways all the other trends pale beside the concentration of intelligence and wealth in the ruling class of the US because when the middle class is really gone, the country is gone. At that point the what used to be a strikingly original country is just the Hamptons----1% mansion-dwellers; 90% staff, other poor service people, and casual labour;.with Other, meaning the middle and upper middle classes, thus totalling a mere 9% (down from perhaps close to 50% in 1980). And right now the middle class is on its last legs.
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  12228. The host didn't know that tall buildings sway in the wind. But I bet he has solid knowledge of the video games released on various platforms since his early boyhood.
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  12229. Which Asian govt do u work for?
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  12230.  @jerryjeromehawkins1712  Hahaha, sure.👍Some funny replies here.😆
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  12231.  @oddsends6048  You haven't heard about the much improved corruption picture in Ukraine since 2014. If you look at country corruption scores Ukraine has risen dozens of spots over that time. (Russia has not, it will not surprise you to hear.) Likewise its armed forces were much improved, thanks in large part to the extensive training provided by a number of NATO countries. In both areas, it appears, Ukraine adopted a much more serious attitude towards its problems, presumably because it was clear the country was at high risk of being overrun. And I think that improvement got a turbo boost starting in early 2021 when menacing Russian troop movements signalled what was likely on the way. Cf. Samuel Johnson: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." (A few months later the US exited Afghanistan, and I think it was no mere coincidence. The timing of the decision was as wise as the withdrawal itself was poorly executed.)
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  12232.  @peterwilson5528  Lots of channels have no content. Mine has no content. I like it like that.
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  12233.  @BlackStump172  Thanks, that's a million times nicer to hear than the viciously hostile feedback I nearly always get (i.e. from Pooty-bots).😄
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  12234.  @TheDarthJesus  You say it's "a bit depressing that [Sky] misrepresent the reasoning behind what the truckers did." Yes, and indeed in one commentary Andrew Bolt actually attacked them at length, endorsing Trudeau's loathsome "emergency" law and its suspension of civil liberties among other things. I'll never watch his clips again, although occasionally I click just to write him a reminder of my permanent disapproval.
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  12235.  @TheDarthJesus  Completely false.
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  12236.  @TheDarthJesus  There you go again, conflating events hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Pure hyperpartisanship, sickening and loathsome, destructive to our futures together in this country. All I can say is I hope the same things happen to you personally should you ever protest publicly and lawfully. That would indeed be a fitting reward for the civil destruction your cheerleading encourages. Don't reply. I don't want to hear any more of your false, arrant nonsense and illogic.
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  12237. Ok Ms. Peskov.
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  12238. "Sexual toy"? Omg. I hereby nominate you for a Histy. It's the award given for the Most Histrionic Comment on YouTube. Just to be nominated is a real honour, and that's something they can never take away from you.
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  12239.  @maxworth4687  "fascist measures" What, really? Although I can agree that most people can support, enjoy, or at least placidly tolerate institutional strictness or even cruelty, quarantining and other life-saving emergency measures do not deserve that name. Save it for nationalist authoritarian political movements in favour of forcible suppression of opposition. Please be a little more sensible. Cheers.
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  12240. My advice is to take a firearm with you when you leave the house anyway. Don't take chances, mate.😄
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  12241. No, he's just base. A base fellow. Fixed it for you, my accurately named friend.
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  12242. Stop calling it "gender-affirming healthcare." First of all, it's gender-denying. Get real. Second, it isn't healthcare. Being a boy is not an illness. Being a girl is not an illness. These are not things that need to be cured. Get real. The only illness involved is the mental illness they're desperately in need of treatment for. They're being abused by all the adults around them. Imagine the wreckage of their lives when these sterilized children realize what's been done to them.
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  12243.  @jbagger331  Really? Come on, T, where'd you get that from?
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  12244. She doesn't even believe what she's saying. Her opponents do believe in free speech and she knows it. So she stoops to man-hating comments and takes cover behind the reassurance of buzzwords like "presenting" (meaning 'evident') and "silos." What a basket case and embarrassment.
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  12245. There's no way of knowing if they showed up. The media do not cover protests if they're against Liberal govt policies.
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  12246. It should be pointed out that Ukraine has been leapfrogging up the rankings for things like freedom and (in the inverse) corruption over the past few years.
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  12247. Justin Ocasio Cortez.👎
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  12248. Blast you and your blatant advertising thread.
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  12249. Can we please not hear any of this nonsense about "the US is not a democracy, it is a constitutional republic"? Both terms accurately enough reflect the fact of what the US has, which is representative democracy. So does a 3rd term from political science: presidential republic. They're all correct. No one's trying to redefine the state by calling it a democracy, so sit down.
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  12250. I think some of the reluctance of Western countries is real, and the rest of it is played up to the hilt. Putin is best kept under the impression that his enemies are pusillanimous and he is therefore only six weeks away from winning the war if only he pours in some more resources. NATO tanks are being sent now that 2,500 Russian tanks have been destroyed. Earlier on it was not yet time. People should wake up to the idea that the Western military support strategy is very wise. (Or maybe the less said about it the better.)
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  12251. May 27 Leger Group poll of Canadians: "Which of the party leaders do you think would make the best prime minister?" Those responding "Trudeau"........... 🎊🎉16% 🎉🎊
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  12252. Your fantasy, your folly, your delusion, your dying dream. Russia is spent—militarily, financially, economically, diplomatically, demographically, geopolitically, industrially .... morally —except for its nuclear arsenal, which is unusable. Let it fire nukes and a deluge like the sun will rain down on it from every point on the compass. But let it withdraw from Ukraine and it will be granted the mercy of survival as a nation, a people. Survival.
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  12253. I do not believe that the Algerian boxer's chromosomal status is publicly known. There have been conflicting reports but the exact nature of the situation has not been cleared up. EDIT: It may be potentially relevant to note that the proportion of live births where individuals are neither XX nor XY is estimated to be around 0.018% (1 in 5,500).
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  12254. Staffers told him he had a lead. They didn't mention that it's only among committed Democrats.
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  12255. Warning lights flashed when the guest called the 2020 rise "artificial." That's a sloppy and naïve use of a word that seldom applies to financial or commodity markets. He was looking for temporary, passing, or ephemeral, Even natural would still be a more correct word for it than artificial. Artificial should be reserved for price swings owing to things (including intentional market manipulation) which do not reflect underlying supply and demand. The pandemic and the monetary response to it legitimately affected the demand for gold.
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  12256. Of course he doesn't know about Thorium reactors. He doesn't know anything about physics, he's not interested in electricity generation, and he totally doesn't care about the future. He generally knows nothing about anything.
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  12257.  @jimbodimbo981  No, up late in Petersburg.
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  12258. I hear she even eats food that gives her tremendous gas. And doesn't even pipe it into the family furnace. She just sits in front of the TV and lets them rip.
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  12259.  @sanders555  So what? Who ever said self-interest and human decency can't get along? Some of your TAs and know-nothing young friends?
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  12260. What a reach. When the Troubles began in the 60s China was busy putting millions of its people to death.
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  12261. Bam! Next! 👍
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  12262. Getting people off the sidewalks is good. So is saving 15k euros a year per person on side costs. But I still see two problems. 1) Moral hazard. Why will people tackle their problems when a luxury rescue swoops in if you simply give up instead? 2) Insult to the working poor. Seeing the golden treatment given to homeless people, they may boil with resentment as they struggle with long work hours, very low pay, poor diet, hard-to-afford rent for awful rooms/apts., inability to save, and all the rest.
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  12263. ​ @aucourant9998  Where do you get your information? 😂Dmitri Medvedev's bartender? Euro Area inflation is 2.6% compared to Russia's reported 7.4%. And Russia's rate is down from 2 years ago only because the outbreak of war had sent it up to 18%. Then the expenses of war began to be sucked out of consumers' pockets, hence lower CPI. Right now it's triple what it was last spring and you can expect further repeated swings up and down in response to erratic decisions from the Kremlin. Make no mistake, Russia's total financial losses in this war in terms of direct cash war spending, reduced oil & gas revenues, fallen production, withdrawal of foreign investment; as well as seized and destroyed assets, inflation and other forms of evaporation of wealth (like the fall of the value of the stock market to only $62bn) are already over a trillion dollars. Yep, over ₽100 trillion.
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  12264.  @aucourant9998  And where do you get your information? Dmitri Medvedev's bartender? Euro Area inflation is 2.6% compared to Russia's reported 7.4%. And Russia's rate is down from 2 years ago only because the outbreak of war had sent it up to 18%. Then the expenses of war began to be sucked out of consumers' pockets, hence lower CPI. Right now it's triple what it was last spring and you can expect further repeated swings up and down in response to erratic decisions from the Kremlin. Make no mistake, Russia's total financial losses in this war in terms of direct cash war spending, reduced oil & gas revenues, fallen production, withdrawal of foreign investment; as well as seized and destroyed assets, inflation and other forms of evaporation of wealth (like the fall of the value of the stock market to only $62bn) are already over a trillion dollars. Yep, over ₽100 trillion.
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  12265. I think they took away Biden's drugs. The polls look bad, the election is 4½ months away, the Democratic convention is weeks away, and they want to ghost him like a Tinder catfish... His team is scrambling for a banana peel to toss in his path. It's med withdrawal.
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  12266.  @koolaak2926  Assentior. Putzus giganticus Putin est.
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  12267. Going into information quarantine is no answer. An uninformed people will most certainly be ruled harshly, and before long. The task, which is admittedly a difficult one, cannot be avoided: Seek out the best information possible, and encourage in yourself and others the values which made the information climate formerly so much healthier.
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  12268. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the notorious Butcher of La Cabana, perhaps?
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  12269. I like how Ford is going into problem-solving mode. I wish him well. Prime Minister Peter Pan should try to emulate that instead of spending most of his time condemning and denouncing various people, groups and things about once every half an hour. The Divider-In-Chief.
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  12270. Ordinarily I would pass over your comment without comment of my own, but considering that good English is itself the subject, I feel it apposite to suggest that you recast it, removing the awkwardness so that readers may understand it first time through. (f you do, I'll remove this paragraph. Fair is fair.) As to your point itself, invoking Shakespeare, I think I'll leave the Lloyd Bentsen-Dan Quayle debate largely out of it, but wasn't there a Roman saying along the lines of 'Jove is permitted what an ox is not'? P.S. I'd like to be helpful, not just critical. If you like, you may avoid all caps by italicizing. Type an underscore on both ends of the text concerned, no spaces, and presto, italics !
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  12271. I dispute that: His opinions are poisonous to the future of liberty. He regards the US as the Great Satan and China as "not saintly" (!).
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  12272. Women: Our natural moral leaders.
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  12273.  @wishusknight3009  Yeah but leave the poor little Pooty bot alone!🤣
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  12274.  @stevesandgroper3241  "Warren Talbot" or "war rental bot"?😆 Irresistible.
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  12275. 90% vatniks here.
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  12276. So yeah, we're living in a fairly stable economy—for the time being—but at a considerably lower standard of living than four years ago. That's like having a spouse who's fairly stable in her (or his) weight—for the time being—but she's 80 pounds heavier than she was four years ago.
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  12277.  @BOLLOCKS1968  Thanks for your reply. That was really interesting and moving as well. You never directly answered my question about a return to a normal level of congeniality towards others, but that's ok because indirectly you gave me a full answer in your whole response! Wishing you all the best in everything, B-1968.
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  12278. The moon: "Hey, stop comparing me to those h ags on The View!" The world's oceans: "Leave us out of this too."
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  12279. Sanctions aren't bombs or missiles but they do damage nonetheless. The partial recovery of the rouble was achieved at a ruinous cost. They're keeping the living room warm by throwing furniture into the fireplace and there's no more where that came from.
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  12280.  @miriamweller812  GDP means financial power, the power to develop or buy resources. With ingenuity you can stretch your money, but only up to a certain point, and no one should suppose that economic output and wealth mean nothing.
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  12281.  @francoislechanceux5818  Except that the low value of the rouble at market exchange rates gives a distorted impression of the size of its economy. Prior to the war it was reckoned on the usual alternative measure (purchasing power parity) at about $4.2trn, which is not even 10% less than the GDP of Germany.
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  12282. ​ @francoislechanceux5818  Thanks for your reply. I agree with all that. I would add that this war is not just about Putin. Mark my words, this is just the first fruit of the China-Russia alliance. Much larger, much bloodier, much more disastrous proxy wars will come out of it. Direct wars between major countries are also probable within a generation or two, possibly within a few years, even conceivably this year. The first half of the 20th century is storming back. It can't be stopped entirely, it can only be slowed down, reduced in scale. A significant number of countries are going to attack and attempt to impoverish, subjugate and destroy the West; it will have to respond with massive militarization. Enjoy the rest of the Pax Americana while you can. Get your travelling done if you can. A world which in many areas, including the West, are relaxed, open, free and prosperous is likely slipping away. The one we grew up in will be seen as an aberration, and I expect most children will be taught that it was wicked and hellish.
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  12283.  @francoislechanceux5818  Nominal GDP means something, to be sure, but it means a lot less when a currency is quite over- or undervalued. All you need to know is this: some years a country's currency goes up against the US dollar, sometimes it falls. But, up or down, the change may be totally irrelevant to what happened to output. From 2012 to 2016 my own country's currency fell from $1.05 to under 70 cents US. Its nominal GDP in USD terms fell sharply. So it had become massively impoverished, right? No, not at all. It had enjoyed steady economic growth the whole time, with rising incomes, rising production volumes, and rising per capita net worth. Both GDP measures describe reality accurately up to a point; neither does it perfectly. I trust I've at least raised serious doubts in your mind about your position.
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  12284. 1729. But yeah, good satire.
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  12285.  @Roamlee23  Don't bug the guy. People are allowed to have opinions which may differ from yours. Tbh, I feel the same as him. This channel has issues and should hear back from subscribers instead of just losing them.
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  12286.  @Roamlee23  Customer: "Waiter, you brought me cold soup." You, from the next table: "So go another restaurant if you don't like it."
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  12287.  @Roamlee23  Sure, and I was saying that "restaurants and social media are the same thing." 🙄 Your mind is incredible.😂
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  12288.  @ChosenOne6666  Of what?
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  12289.  @ChosenOne6666  Which one, in what way?
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  12290.  @1midnightfish  I'm grateful for all kinds of things. For me, every day is Thanksgiving. You, I don't know where you're coming from, except a place of sanctimony.
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  12291.  @bcorr42  I'm in close agreement with you on a lot of that, mostly, except for a couple of bits where I didn't know what you were referring to, like whatever it was you meant in your first thing. It's kind of a long thread now and I posted a few replies.
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  12292.  @1midnightfish   👎 Who says I'm not grateful, o sanctimonious one? Indeed I am, to Zelensky, for instance, and all the members of the Ukrainian armed forces. Who I'm not so thrilled with are (most of) these people on the sidewalks of Lviv. 'For the last time' is right!
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  12293.  @hotcheetoman86  Don't be ridiculous. If possible.
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  12294.  @michaeljohnston980  A complaint is not a threat. How's that for nuance, pal? More nuance: gratitude isn't fealty. Btw, I never even said I'm an American, and it so happens I'm not, so there's some more nuance for you...pal.
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  12295.  @Weeks25  Thanks for your reply. Actually if you check out Part 1 (same title) from a month earlier, the people speak much more warmly of the US. Which is nice. 🇺🇦! 🇺🇸! + many more!
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  12296.  @qksf1645  You don't understand how much global security has to do with your own country's prosperity and that of yourself personally. The billions being spent aiding Ukraine is like lunch money considering what it does to keep you and your country safe and well-off. The cost of addressing this later would be in the tens of trillions.
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  12297.  @Aberrantly  If you think Canada is part of the US, you need help. Try googling 'did Canada join the Iraq war?'.
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  12298. Apparently it was in fact not pejorative. The following is from the Wikipedia entry 'Common Misconceptions': "The ancient Greeks did not use the word "idiot" (Ancient Greek: ἰδιώτης, romanized: idiṓtēs) to disparage people who did not take part in civic life or who did not vote. An ἰδιώτης was simply a private citizen as opposed to a government official. Later, the word came to mean any sort of non-expert or layman, then someone uneducated or ignorant, and much later to mean stupid or mentally deficient."
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  12299.  @mpingo91  Yeah, it's important to trust everything your professors say. Learned people are always saying that. But if you change your mind, you might want to dig up a 2007 paper, "Idiots, Ancient and Modern" by A.W. Sparkes of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Newcastle, where he is or was a senior lecturer in political philosophy. (In Australian universities and those of other countries the position of senior lecturer is tenured and is roughly equivalent to an associate professor in the North American system.)
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  12300.  @mpingo91  Oh b$%$&* off.
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  12301.  @mpingo91    It's your right to regard political philosophy as being not a genuine part of philosophy if it gets you through the night, but it exists regardless. I don't want to get into to that with you. Moreover, the question isn't even a philosophical one, although it might interest philosophers. It's a historical matter of rooting around texts to find the sense of the word in the relevant era(s) of Greek antiquity. I'll thank you to stop wasting my time.
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  12302.  @mpingo91  I asked you not to bother me. Muted.
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  12303. Rules of the platform.
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  12304. So you've known that cop very intimately for many years, I suppose? Cuz otherwise you'd never be so stupid as to say something like that, correct?
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  12305. After impressing me to start with, Freddie began disappointing me about three years ago. Now I'm only back about once every two or three months, hoping. No reversal so far.
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  12306. Carlson is right about nearly all of this but I think he's wrong that they'll try to prolong the lockdown far, far past all bounds of sanity. Yes they're evil up to a point, but they've also just made themselves slow and dumb with their ideology, just like otherwise pretty bright people who're far too religious. They'll get around to wising up when stark reality sinks in through those thick skulls. To me a clear advance signal is Tom Friedman in the NY Times insisting we take a close look at the Swedish pandemic response. In a couple of weeks, once they know they've had us in obedience training long enough, they'll start talking about how important the economy is and how urgent saving it is. When someone like Carlson points out that they were calling others monsters for the same thoughts just days earlier, they'll smugly reply that "When you say it, it's dumb, crazy, evil, ignorant, callous, and dangerous. When we say it it's intelligent, educated, humane and wise."
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  12307. Gas storage nearly full, LNG terminals moving rapidly along on schedule, ships crossing the Atlantic with gas purchased at reasonable American prices, winter weather forecast to be mild. Germany will conduct itself with good sense and come through this quite all right. It pays to be rich, to run smoothly, and to have trustworthy friends (unlike certain other countries). Cheers, mate
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  12308. University administrators are the lowest form of life on earth. They're not even on a par with amoebae. World Protozoa Alliance: "Hey, stop mentioning us in the same breath as university administrators!"
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  12309. All of that's being done already.
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  12310. Yeah, that was a really low moment for Konstantin. I hope he wishes he could take that back. I'm not thrilled with Francis for his guffaw at it either.
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  12311. Actually, defeating Putin is how to stop WWIII. It's like we're in the late 1930s again. This time we better not blow it.
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  12312. But how do you know? YouTube allows posters to delete individual comments. The CBC does it all the time on their own website, so you don't suppose they could resist doing the same here, do you?
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  12313.  @cechristine2376  None of that makes sense. I think you read my comment carelessly. Give it another go.
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  12314.  @cechristine2376  Ok, kiddo.
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  12315. Richly overstated. I would take it that by Ukraine she meant the Ukraine War as the beginning of an immensely larger conflict and that by such a conflict she had in mind a very large-scale exchange of nuclear fire. From such a point of view it wasn't an unreasonable question and actually a very apposite one, even if the most sensible reply were "No, that is thankfully a pretty remote unlikelihood." It's you who sounds like not only a hothead but rather a bit of a ditz.
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  12316. Richard Tice's venture is doomed if Farage is the best he can do. He caps Reform's potential support at not much higher than 10%, I should say. Decent enough bloke, but he strikes me as a toon, tbh. (Likewise Sunak, for that matter.)
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  12317. One, break your writing up into paragraphs. Two, "it's" is not a possessive pronoun, it's a contraction of "it is". I learned that when I was about seven. Third, single-race countries are not "the past" and will continue to be the rule in Asia and Africa, where two thirds of humanity lives. Fourth, your final point is a loathsome argumentum ad baculum and you think it shows the fineness of your mind and moral weave.
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  12318.  @abitcrazy22  "rich are ... parasites ... contribute nothing of value." You wouldn't say that if you made a pile of money doing something useful. Actually, parasites are spread around the classes pretty freely.
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  12319. A modest proposal: Use the protestors themselves as insulation. Superglue them between the rafters in attics and install them in draughty walls. (Best to pack in lime and some straw around them.) Et voilà, lower heating bills as well as an improvement to the national IQ.
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  12320. Yes, but maybe — which is maybe even better anyway, from the Dems' point of view — it will boost Democrat turnout.😯
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  12321. I suppose any improvement is a good thing. But I don't see how a lot has changed. Vain then, vain now, vain by and by.
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  12322. You simply cannot believe what she believes unless 'something's not right' with you. What this whole thing actually is, is The Revenge of The People With Something Wrong With Them.
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  12323. ​ @occidentadvocate.9759  If a people's nationalism is a paranoid and belligerent hostility to other countries, it's bad. If it's simply a love of the place you were born or grew up in, a commitment to its interests and future, and a desire to see it treated with basic respect, then it's entirely salutary and in fact indispensable. Neighbouring countries both having the first kind, which is roughly equivalent to ego maladjustment, will likely go to war. Neighbouring countries having the second kind, roughly equivalent to healthy self-respect, will likely be great friends.
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  12324. Not bad as a generality, but it doesn't deserve law status. Many questions are not amenable to yes-or-no answers (e.g. "How much should we be paying for X?" or "When will the recession end?"). Yes, however, it seems that over 90% of the time when it's yes or no, the answer is no.
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  12325.  @marklittler784  I'm not just saying that. I read someone point it out a couple of years ago and have been paying attention ever since. Turns out it's true for some reason.
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  12326. Yes, yes, a million times yes. Shades of 1938.
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  12327. At some point, ok. For now, impose hefty taxes on whatever is sent out through the port. Really hefty.
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  12328. The guy interviewing him was also using sleight of hand to slime him. It was somewhat less noticeable.
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  12329.  @enginyilmaz7806  Yeah, that part is less bad.
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  12330. One thing that sucks more than ever is how content creators post videos where they speak quickly and also bombard you with tons of text to read at the same time. You know, like in this upload itself. Don't just point fingers, take a look in the metaphorical mirror.
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  12331. What's upChuck? Why, Mr. Todd, of course.
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  12332. Russia is a country run along mafia lines, and no one alive today will be alive to see that change much. (Also: * Mafioso. A mafiosa would be a woman.)
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  12333. He certainly is not. Anyway, a vote for the NDP harms the Liberals just as much since it does just as much to deny them seats.
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  12334.  @husher5142  Correct, it's not true in every riding. It remains, however, a fair if not earth-shattering generalization that across the country the Liberals can lose seats by losing votes in either direction. It's a built-in vulnerability of being the party in between two others. (Of course, at other times it's a potential advantage for stealing voters from both sides.) Happy voting. 😀
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  12335. Kyiv Post, please remove Pooty-bot slanders and defamations of Gen. Hodges from this section. Thanks. Great interview.
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  12336. You're on an internet social media platform, making an outlandish claim meant to discredit Putin's rival, so I totally believe you!😂
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  12337.  @ernestkhalimov1007  Russian oil and gas has been banned in the US. The laugh's on you, Ivan.
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  12338.  arlekino4688  <----"Russians have solved problem with Leopards - for 2 weeks there has not been a single Leopard on front line." There could be numerous reasons for that, having to do strictly with Ukraine's choice of tactics and the order in which they execute them. And Russia may have pulled back what would be the Leos' chief targets.
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  12339. MSNuttBarrCentral.
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  12340. 🤔I don't understand the point of "taking" the corridor. The Russians already have it all to themselves. Only they use it.🤨
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  12341. 🤨"Chinese youth are instable"? You, my friend, are semmy-litterit.
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  12342. No one makes fun of flakes in the fructiferous community better than Dave.😂
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  12343. Somewhere around a hundred million conservatives and Republicans side with Ukraine and support funding its continued existence. Mark my words, the next president is one of them.
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  12344. Somewhere around a hundred million conservatives and Republicans side with Ukraine and support funding its continued existence. Mark my words, the next president is one of them.
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  12345. In a poll, Americans identifying as Republicans said their sympathies lie 59% to 7% with Ukraine vs. Russia. (Neither: 29%. YouGov poll of 1,682 Americans, March 16-19). In fact, you have to go to MAGA Republicans only in order to find a majority wishing to see Ukraine aid reduced (51%, YouGov poll of 1,651 Americans, April 21-23). Surprised? If you are, that itself is hardly a surprise. The media simply never mention any Republican support for Ukraine — let alone for direct Ukraine aid — except for that in the Senate. It is necessary to do one's own digging. Thanks media, for helping people not know stuff!
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  12346. The CANDU also uses natural uranium, not enriched, which is a nice advantage. But I don't know what storms you mean or why it's good if power lines go down.
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  12347. Ask a South African whether sanctions matter. Ask an Israeli if they've made a difference in Iran. Consider what Venezuela's government might be doing to spread its Marxist ideology across South and Central America if it were flush with cash. Sanctions are a bit like fines for highway speeding. They don't stop speeding and they don't reduce highway deaths to zero. But imagine if they didn't exist.
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  12348.  @Andrina-fl9ef  Olay is owned by Procter & Gamble, the wokesters with the anti-male ad campaign. Dove is owned by Unilever, which also owns the appalling Ben & Jerry's. There may be nowhere left to go. Maybe Colgate Palmolive? Do they make soap or just toothpaste? Neutrogena is owned by Johnson & Johnson, the baby powder class-action lawsuit people...
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  12349. (1) Never mind asking Viktor, aged 90, about foreign relations. Instead ask him how he looks like he's 70.😮 We need that info. (2) Anyway, he's wrong about Israel "obstructing the creation of a Palestinian state." Netanyahu and perhaps half of Israelis are still willing to consider it, though few are clamoring for it. It's Hamas which is dead-set against it.
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  12350. Total ignorance.😂 The F-16 is a 4th-generation fighter. (Along with the F-14, F-15 and F-18.) The F-4 Phantom II was 3rd-generation.
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  12351. Outstandingly well written, Mr. Felton. The writing is strong in every one of your videos, may I hasten to add, but here it was most conspicuously fine, particularly for its niceties of diction and rhythm. A model of vigorous English prose.
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  12352. A punishment that fits the crime.
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  12353. Despite "going to university" for years, she has a profoundly, profoundly uneducated mind.
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  12354. I know nothing about climatology, though I do have a science background (U. Toronto). I am thus lost in this ongoing debate and have little to offer, except to relate, if it's worth anything, the somewhat inspiring example of those two Australians who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2005, and those who preceded them in their work. For years, 97% of scientists working in gastric medicine pointed to an established consensus that acid causes peptic ulcers and they rejected and personally shunned those few researchers who felt their work showed that a spiral bacterium, H. Pylori, was the culprit. They were right, of course, and now we take antibiotics for stomach ulcers, which are cured by them. In my view, that story offers a chance to learn some very important things about science, life, and people. It was very much in my mind as I watched the treatment offered to Dr. Lindzen.
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  12355. Elizabeth Warren is one of the least impressive people in the country.
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  12356. And what about the collaboration of the UK/US/other allied nations with the USSR in the Second World War? Did that make Churchill and Roosevelt communists? Recall that Stalin had starved millions of Ukrainians to death not long before. Why shouldn't many Ukrainians have seen the Nazis as liberators? As for the Neo-Nazi movement of today, what part of 2.5% of the popular vote didn't you hear? Why are you anxious to make of it what Putin does? It makes me seriously sick when people make out like fringe rightist groups are the end of the world when they have no traction in the broader population at all and are seen simply as unhinged nut cases by almost everybody. You sound like if there were something like this in your own country you might want civil liberties out to be suspended, martial law invoked, and security forces to sweep the nation to deal with it. You very nearly label Mr. Umland here a Nazi sympathizer in your panic, simply because he's a German. This bothers me terribly and smacks of McCarthyism. This is the sort of post which a Kremlin official would leap to his feet and applaud. Your apology is appropriate but obviously not nearly sincere enough.
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  12357. Only 10% of the early Boomers went on to own a house? That seems implausible. Also, although the cohort of Americans born in the late 1940s was the largest up to that time, the annual number of births kept rising steadily until 1961. By then it was 22% higher than the 1946-1949 annual average. So the late 1940s cohort was actually the smallest of the baby boom era.
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  12358. It means the transmission and distribution system, but yes, people use it to mean generation as well, in order to distinguish generation by the power industry from off-grid industrial, commercial or home generation. I don't see that as a big deal. It certainly doesn't render any facts which they may present automatically counterfactual.
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  12359. If I was hanging with EM like that I might interrupt him twice. They interrupted him 1,900 times.🤣
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  12360.  @john8451  But Embraer jets do have a splendid safety record.
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  12361.  @tonupharry  Rocket trail? Not just a trail, possibly from a burning wing flying off and away from the plane?
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  12362.  @csh5414  In all fairness, if I were an aeronautical engineer I would probably watch some videos concerned with this crash, and I might well leave a comment. You discount the possibility rather blithely.
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  12363.  @john8451  Read yesterday's WAPO article "Russian plane crash debris points away from accident, experts say." In it, an Australian safety lab director is quoted: "Even if you stop maintaining it, the wings do not fall off.”
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  12364.  @csh5414  I'd just rather you disagree with specific points on actual grounds of some sort rather than issuing a blanket dismissal. Who knows exactly how much commenters know, or whether they're referencing public statements of aviation or aeronautics specialists. Quite a few comments appear inane, I'll grant you that.
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  12365. Don't oversell it. Yes he's achieved positive results. But it's still like a flooded country with the floodwaters still rising...only they're not rising as fast as before. Let's see how long before they stop rising and begin to fall. Fingers crossed, it will be quite soon. I urge everybody to buy Argentinian wine only! 🍷Viva Argentina!🇦🇷 Viva Milei!
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  12366. "the administrative class [...] which is female dominated." And of the men there, how many are basically as much woman as man? I'd say substantially all of them, or they wouldn't be allowed to remain.
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  12367. "And always twirling, twirling, twirling!"
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  12368. Part dog, part polar bear, part paddle barge.
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  12369. I expect China's military considers the entire US armed forces' pronouns to be "she/her" now.
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  12370. He has sold billions of dollars of Tesla share in the past month to pay taxes. She's literally screaming at him to do what he's already done. It's going to come to around $10bn. And Tesla and SpaceX's activities are providing a fire hydrant of revenues for governments.
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  12371. Make AOC a Waitress Again.
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  12372.  @rodiusmaximus  Then your meaning is obscure. I maintain that your comment should be recast as "Peterson's difficulties are proof of the axiom 'The truth doesn't mind being questioned, but a lie doesn't like to be challenged.' " Otherwise you're saying it's Peterson who's telling lies. Note that I have also corrected the problem phrase "a lie can't doesn't like."😂
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  12373.  @rodiusmaximus  I know the English language inside and out, thank you very much, and I wasn't alleging any grammatical or syntactical disagreement between 'Peterson' and 'living proof.' I found fault with the idea that Peterson himself is defending lies. That's what the OC, as worded, asserts. Obviously 'living' as a modifier of 'proof' cannot refer to difficulties and would have to go if 'Peterson' were no longer the subject of the sentence. You must be fun at any funerals you are permitted to attend.
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  12374.  @steinanderson  "Meltdown" and "legitimately" are empty rhetoric as used by you here. You're not one of those people referred to in the title, are you?
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  12375. Even nicer level of panache than usual. For me, this video was also rich in new information. Matters of global security, knotty for millennia, are reaching new heights of complexity. Before long, only massive AI compute shall be able to make heads or tails of them.
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  12376.  @edwinyapjr.2235  If sheer brilliance, panache, and quiet cerebral passion are your cup of tea, I heartily recommend Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, as would many who've read it. Not easy to find used and in good condition, if you get my meaning. In English get the Strachey translation (WW Norton). Cheers.
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  12377. That's a lot of parts and labour for 1,400 quid. Grand total £2,153 (!) for a lovely car with considerable life left in it.😮 Let's view that in perspective: HomeLet's website says "The average rental value for new tenancies in London [in Nov. 2023] is £2,174 a month."🤯
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  12378.  @sonwabileantonie9825  No! That's not it at all, so don't "exactly" me, Mr. Ant. Make your own point about encouraging Ukraine to surrender, and stay away from mine, which concerned the impropriety of doing that very thing.
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  12379.  icky Vicky   Hey, can you pass whatever that is? I'd like to try a hit.
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  12380. How I hope that only Putin's strongest supporters lived in that portion of the building. That they were gathered there to drink to his health at that instant. (Pretty vain hope though, I guess. Sad.)
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  12381.  @akahina  Carlson has been walking it back. In my view it's been obvious mere anti-Bidenism for the most part if not totally, and it wasn't very cleverly attempted. Now he's gradually retreating and expressing more support for Ukraine and more disapproval of Putin. I bet he's been bleeding viewers and supporters.
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  12382. "Australia's national security 'freeloading' off the support of the United States" Canada: "If you need any advanced freeloading coaching, we're right here."
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  12383. I disapprove of their practices as much as you do. Probably far more, believe me. But it's not about free speech. Free speech is the prohibition on govts. writing laws that restrict you from saying what you like. (Except for incitement to violence, libel and revealing state secrets vital to national security.) What private companies do has to go by another name.
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  12384. Second-biggest but a distant second.
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  12385. It's not anti-Western—except when it is, which is usually. A generation ago, by contrast, its enthusiasts were rarely if ever at odds with Westernness. I remember, for I was one myself and so was everyone in my circle.
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  12386.  @rffromusa8319  It was clear enough what the Soviets were, but they had their fifth column in the West in university faculties, newspapers and magazines, Hollywood and everywhere else, planting doubts and trying to persuade the public that the USSR was really a socialist paradise. Just like today, with HamISIS sympathizers in all the same places.
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  12387. Hey, I'm tryna eat here. There's something really gross about that.
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  12388.  @NachoSqueaks  One-quarter of all 14-year-olds would agree with that. So would one per cent of 40-year-olds, those who are still 14 years old upstairs. Telling you as a friend.
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  12389. He exposed millions of private documents, only a tiny fraction of them hinting at crime of any sort. Speaking of criminals, he himself was very lucky to escape his indictments for s*x crimes committed against multiple women, simply due to the passage of time. He did serve a 50-week sentence for the crime of skipping bail related to the s*x crimes.
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  12390. Yep, collateral damage. That's what happens with scattershot policies from a scatterbrained politician.
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  12391.  @ssmith8592  True but irrelevant to what the OC wrote. Check and you'll find I'm right.
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  12392. That non-honest thumbnail really burns my hinder parts. The story itself made zero mention of the NYT.😡
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  12393.  SCPython  lol The reason India is not sanctioning Russia is that it depends on Russia for the weapons and oil it needs in order to fend off China!!
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  12394.  SCPython  Yeah, since 1950. Tell me, what was happening over the Himalayas in 1950? Indian people are very sane. They invented sanity ten thousand years ago, as far as I can tell. I bet they even invented Europe and the West. They were not cool with Mao, they are not cool with Xi, and they will never be cool with the PRC. China and India can be tight once Taiwan conquers the mainland, or the Chinese people throw off the yoke of the Party on their own. Either way, but not otherwise. They don't like you the way you are.
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  12395. He's as impulsive as all get-out.
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  12396.  @catpurinn  So disagreeing with some moron on the Internet has been declared a crime by some moron on the Internet. Take notice, world! Build some new jails immediately! Ready the lobotomizing devices so no one can ever think criminal thoughts by disagreeing again!
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  12397. I've got cancer and I've got Alzheimer's. Thank god I don't have cancer.
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  12398. Only two or three factories on Earth cover more area, and they are absolute monstrosities. I'm so sick of not-very-bright and not-very-honest Russians. They are a cancer on this world.
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  12399. How is it "to late"? Explain.
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  12400. It was hardly necessary, I would suggest, to remove Shoigu merely in order to increase Russia's focus on industry and the economy. Belousov could have been appointed to cabinet and been handed major authority in a Lord Beaverbrook-type of role. Very possibly the main purpose was for Putin to take the reins of the war directly.
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  12401. Not sure it's true but I heard they did it because it was being gamed: programs were ranging around the entire site adding millions of dislikes to selected videos. I am sure of one thing: every feature here is extremely game-able. It's absolutely overwhelmed by 3rd parties. And the algo itself is crooked in the first place!
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  12402. Les animaux le plus méchants.
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  12403. That usage is actually in the OED, with citations given from 1761 to 1998.
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  12404. Nyet. Azeris.
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  12405.  @joeld8825  Those are all the choices?
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  12406.  @joeld8825  I was making that very point with my reply and I regret to say that in my view your questions are unanswerable. (You perhaps feel the same way.) I can only assert the necessity of a sincere individual effort which never really ends. (And I hold that it does end with any religious enthusiasm resembling that which motivates some people to buy consumer packaged goods from a shelf. "All-in-One Moral Kit. Saves Time & Effort!" )
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  12407. Bravo Ukraine indeed 🇺🇦, but of course no failed drops will ever show up on internet channels.
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  12408. "[The kids were] unsupervised but safe." No they weren't. The were unsupervised but unharmed. They certainly weren't safe.
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  12409.  @deniseallemandou793  Me? I don't get you at all. I wasn't complaining.
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  12410.  @deniseallemandou793  Oh, go away. NATO hasn't fired a shot. Your hero Putin is murdering more civilians every minute.
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  12411. Yeah it's odd. I think there's an element of either randomness or near-randomness in the way it works.
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  12412. The leader of the Conservative Party is not a socialist.🙄 Get a grip on yourself.
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  12413. Who knows but in another 50 years this war might be retroactively re-named, somewhat like The Great War was re-named the First World War. It might come to be called The First Drone War.
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  12414. Great, you're convincing it.
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  12415. The fact that any threat was not followed through on hardly proves that no threat was made.
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  12416. Manager at Twitter staff meeting: "Ok listen everybody, we need ideas. We're going to ban Donald Trump from Fox. How do we do that?"
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  12417. CP24, here is a short grammar lesson: "[I]f Trump was re-elected" should've been "If Trump were re-elected." Were, not was. Don't use "was" for a hypothetical or so-called conditional construction like this one. Usage example: It's wrong to say "If he was here, he'd put you in your place." Was is past tense, so logically he must be gone. Someone who's gone can't be here to put someone in their place. It's correct to say "If he were here, he'd put you in your place." Were indicates the hypothetical nature of the proposition that follows. (N.B. In the conditional tense the verb is always were: If he were, if I were, if you were, if they were, if it were, etc.)
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  12418. Engineer watching dead squid segment: "Hel-lo! I think we have our next-gen phone display tech!"
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  12419. De-fund the BBC by campaigning for de-funding the BBC.
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  12420. He was never an executive at BlackRock. He was on the board for four years (2016-20) while also on the boards of other companies ranging from a soccer team to an engineering tech firm.
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  12421. Some random person in Detroit who's been to Canada, reading your comment: "Hey, c'mere. I just read the stupidest comment ever from some Canadian. I'll read it to you for a laugh."
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  12422. I strongly object to the intentional misuse of the present tense in the title and thumbnail. Clickbait. F-16s are months away from Ukraine. Do not announce that they are already there and having a huge effect. All you have in the end is viewer trust. Don't damage it. Be scrupulously honest.
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  12423. 🤨 What? Somehow it's hard to believe he doesn't relish Lois doing that immensely.
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  12424. I trust a man (Tim Marshall) who casually utters the word 'nous' in a proper context, clearly knowing its meaning and pronouncing it correctly to boot (to rhyme with 'house'). Rather remarkable occurrence. Edit: Damned fellow went on to say 'Westmoreland' in the correct British, rather than correct American way. Can't trust him.
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  12425. What the hell is wrong with Australia anyway? How addle-brained to you have to be to get into bed with a communist government with a long and uninterrupted record of brutality and oppression? You could win an imbecility prize.
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  12426.  @nickgeorge2176  Kick them out of your federation then. Build a wall around their sick jurisdiction and take a star off your flag. Say good riddance to bad garbage. Andrews will promptly postpone elections, citing an emergency, and before long pass laws making himself president for life. At that point Victorians will have gotten exactly what they deserve. Sound like a plan?
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  12427. I truly doubt the Germans of 1939 were this bad.
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  12428. Such a cunning post: We did not hear the religion of the alleged perpetrator.
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  12429.  @bryandimery6509  Fire up that copium and inhale deeply, deeply.
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  12430.  @bryandimery6509  There you go again. No way to respond, so you change the subject and add a pile of emojis. Btw, the counteroffensive has liberated about as much territory in a month as Operation Overlord did. Buckle up, Misha, you're in for a rough ride.
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  12431. I watched Janet Yellen's face as she said inflation is transitory. To her credit, she's not a good liar.
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  12432. Me too! It's satisfying and fun denying the criminal Xi regime my business. And I now own nicer stuff. In stores, ask a manager if they have the product from somewhere else, not China. They do care about customer preferences.
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  12433. Could be a drone/artillery/Javelin combo. Also consider that, yes, a drone only has two missiles, but 25 drones have 50 missiles.
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  12434. And then it doesn't stop there, it metastasizes into other disorders...
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  12435. @ Go ahead and offer reasons for believing that taxpayers will fund a Mars colony. Let's hear what they are.
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  12436. @ I'm not here to promote anyone, just to call out made-up things. Yes, I think his stated intentions, if carried out, will re-ignite inflation in food, gas and more.
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  12437. @ It's rather splendid, I can tell you, but does mistreat me once in a while (for example it served up your posts). I'm stoic about such things, though. Bye
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  12438.  @The-Contractor  Well, hateful and despicable, anyway. They're turning the US into England in the time of Dickens. There's been an explosion of servants and it's only just begun. I have an expectation that 30 or 40 years from now, if there's even an America anymore, many rich families will have hundreds of them at each of their multiple estates. Far lesser families will have plenty of them too. And they'll be the lucky ones—so many more will be as impoverished as the street beggars in rags of India.
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  12439.  @The-Contractor  I wish that comforted me. My worry is that's just more of the lack of worry (complacency) that allowed the slide in the first place. There's a force like gravity that acts on societies and brings them down, just like so many dinner plates the juggler had in the air just a second ago. I fear that waking up to reality is a far rarer act than you're counting on. It's to the point where it's guaranteed to get much worse before it gets better. Which calls for stanching only the worst bleeding and concentrating on the education of the young. There's nothing else for it because the elder generations have already proved their incompetence, so we await a more able one. By a huge effort beachheads can be won in the schools and universities. Otherwise nothing can be done. Trying to do it through elections and laws is trying to put the cart first. Most important is don't try to get the people you're opposing to like you. Let them know they're being counterattacked. All the rules in the world could never take the street-fighting element or nature out of it. Let them know you don't overestimate them. Don't wish them well. You do wish them well, sort of, but let their friends take care of that for them. You've got their dirty little number. Just opposing them takes them by surprise. They're quite sure you're showing up to surrender. Excuse the long reply which turned into instructions. It helped me to find out what I thought.
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  12440.  @The-Contractor  I don't see that inertia. It all looks unmoored to me. This is why there's Bitcoin and an upcoming colony on Mars. It seems likely the US is about to have its Suez moment and then the Pax Americana and many other good things evaporate.
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  12441. The fact of blasphemy laws being in place or not is but one thing about a country. I don't see why it should be the decisive fact. Nor, it seems, did Oakeshott. (I should imagine she left to get far enough away from Tice to forestall the temptation to marry him.) So why focus on it? Have a go at her on other grounds, if there are any.
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  12442.  @sanjayaiyar4351  "[Michelle Obama is] supportive of her husband" Yeah? Are you sure? I only saw her speak about him once and here's what she said (and I quote verbatim): "He's not all that. His feet stink." She and the female interviewer shared a hearty laugh. It wasn't a bit, either. I thought she was despicable for that and I still do. (Btw, I'm not sure if you get the American slang here. 'Not all that' = Really rather mediocre or substandard. 'Bit' = Premeditated and unserious joke aimed solely at making people laugh.)
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  12443. Remember: China is intent on putting manufacturers around the world out of business, and preventing new companies from emerging anywhere. And make no mistake, it's all about strengthening the Communist Party of China. Just start buying less Chinese stuff. For clothes and shoes you can easily go down to 0%, and practically all other categories of goods are available from other countries. Check the labels. Retailers respond quickly to sales patterns.
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  12444.  @bcpioneer59  But Pierre Trudeau invoked martial law to deal with violent terra wrists. They were defying legitimate democratic power with political violence. They were kidnapping, bombing, murdering and committing armed robberies. His wretched son invoked martial law to deal with bouncy castles and loud horns, with peaceful opponents of his authoritarian policies. Major, major difference.
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  12445. He's an incredibly preachy guy, then he bows to the demand made by Putin's Russia to him personally. I've watched maybe a dozen hours of his talks and, while I find him intelligent, learned, interesting and thought-provoking, I keep finding this element of sanctimony. He wants to be saintly, for his body to disappear and for his existence to be ethereal instead of temporal and earthbound. That's the thing in him I have to look past.
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  12446. Aeschylus? The Greek tragedian? You're off by about 2,400 years. It was said by the US senator Hiram Johnson during the First World War. So as a matter of fact, truth was a casualty of your post.
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  12447. Weekend at Bernie's: The Second-Last Embalming
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  12448. ​ @debanydoombringer1385  They just hate the rich, and it's out of envy—i.e. simple resentment of others, for what they have. It's a very base human instinct and we see what happens when envy-filled people take over. They set up a society far more vicious than what preceded it, with themselves at the top. And immediately they begin awarding themselves privileges and luxuries. Here's the archetypal conclusion, ten years on, of the dupes of socialists who with high hopes had co-operated with their takeover: "They said they were going to eliminate poverty, but poverty went up. What they did was eliminate the comfortably well-off. With that, they declared success."
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  12449. I just keep liking him more. He's in it for the US, Lindsey Graham, and the world, in that order. You would rather he were in it for Trump first? Honestly, how could you respect him then?
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  12450. Muscovites really believe a fleet of drones made it all those hundreds of kilometres from Ukraine? And were undetected as well? I guess they know nothing about drones.
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  12451. You should know.
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  12452.  @craig5261  Are you sure making fun of a garment is a poke at the race of the man wearing it? Really sure? It strikes me as much more likely to be a swipe at a civilization, which is perfectly permissible. It's rightly not seen as racist to calumniate Western civilization from outside of it. Launching a racism grenade on speculation...not cool dude. A very neat line in sanctimony, though. (Look up that word, then look in the mirror for a while, kiddo.)
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  12453.  @craig5261  He who smelled it dealt it, my dear boy. Deal with your own r a c l s m some other way than projection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
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  12454.  @craig5261  And by the way, I heartily deplore the intolerant narrow-mindedness of the tea-towel remark. I deplore social Darwinism equally.
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  12455. 👍Pretty well informed comment. It's so incredibly false for Putinists to claim that it was only the US who wanted Yanukovych out. Ukraine was hopping mad over his absolute fraud of a campaign. They very rightly rose up to get that wannabe tyrant and traitor to his nation out of there.
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  12456.  @jordancarpenter4093  Thanks for the Global Times point of view, Lord Haw Haw
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  12457. I think it's a misuse of the common word xenophobic when the guy concerned is evidently a native-born Canadian. Xenophobia is a fear or hatred of foreigners. But yeah, he showed that he either lacks verbal talent or has yet to do much reading in his own language, or both, and neither of those should be permissible for a journalist.
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  12458. You and your upvoters would've made great hem-touchers of Neville Chamberlain. I can hear you saying "With folks like that blasted Churchill getting in the way, how can we expect the Britain-Germany relationship to go well? But Sir Neville will ensure our security!" [Bavarians at the time: "Ja, this is absolute the correct view!"]
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  12459.  @electro1463  Yes, I already take that as a given. My question presumes it.
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  12460.  @s0ycapitan  <---"Russia is now almost booming and can easily afford the conflict." Hahaha, you're not keeping up with developments. Oil & gas revenues have plunged, investment has dried up, the rouble is at its weakest in decades. If you believe Kremlin forecasts for actual economic growth, you'll believe anything.
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  12461. ​ @jmhorange  Russia is an IMF member, and as such it fed the IMF quantities of official state data. This data can no longer be considered reliable. The other prominent forecasting institutions all predict economic contraction for 2023 except for JPMorgan. Their figure of 1% relies heavily on a much higher oil price. As for NATO and Ukraine, first there is the fact of a prohibition in the treaty on admitting countries if they are at war. It is not easy to get around. Attempting to do so could seriously endanger the cohesion of the group. Then there is the flagrant question whether admitting Ukraine sooner rather than later would lead to direct war with Russia. To that I would say that avoiding such a war is—and is likely to remain—a core goal for NATO. Going ahead now would amount to recklessness at worst, and at best a needless revelation of strategic intentions and red lines. Besides, NATO will be free to change its mind if it really wants to. In any case Ukraine isn't in danger from buses of any sort. Strong NATO support for it continues and there is a new commitment from the G7 to assist Ukraine with national security.
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  12462. ​ @IliyaOsnovikov  😂Ok, then. If Russia has achieved its goals, Russia's goals must have been to lose thousands of tanks, to lose thousands of other armoured vehicles, to lose hundreds of aircraft, to lose over 100,000 men plus an equal number of wounded, to lose its European markets for gas, to lose half its oil & gas revenues, to lose 28% of the rouble's value to its lowest point ever, to lose its credibility as an international arms supplier, and to lose many hundreds of thousands of its most capable workers to emigration. Also to unite NATO, to expand NATO by two more countries (one of which is on its border), and to cause Germany to rearm itself while vaulting German military spending into 3rd place globally after only the US and China... And I could go on. Thanks for correcting me.😂
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  12463.  @IliyaOsnovikov  I might have given you the same advice. Have a nice life.
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  12464.  @bambuco2  That's an evasion of my question, which concerned Russia prolonging the war as long as it can. 'As long as it can' might be any number of years, but my point is that it will be a higher number this way because such a NATO policy, explicitly stated, disincentivizes Russia to end the war. You should also be aware that the economies of countries at war can function surprisingly well for surprisingly long. It's when the war ends that the such-and-such tends to hit the fan.
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  12465. She is an imbecile, specifically selected for her imbecility. The US media put her in office and keeps her there.
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  12466. ​ JewTube - Censor Yourself. Or we'll do it for you.  No. The mortality rate is obtained by dividing deaths by infections --- total infections. So we start with deaths and confirmed infections to get the raw global case fatality rate (CFR) This is at present 3.2% (925k deaths divided by 29m confirmed cases). In Australia and the US it's 3.0%. But in jumping from there to the mortality rate, a large adjustment to this number is necessary because of numerous infections not recorded during their active course --- typically not even suspected --- but clearly indicated after the fact by random antibody testing. Infections of this sort which go under the radar greatly outnumber those we know about. The multiple of actual infections to confirmed ones depends on the population tested. According to the CDC in late July, in the US it is 6x to 24x. That's quite a range, and it will take more time yet to discover the real rate of infections as the research comes in. You can do your own digging into results of the antibody seroprevalence studies, but mine suggests that so far it appears a multiple of 6 to 12 is likely. If that is shown to be true, then the mortality rate is 0.25 to 0.5%. Most authorities I've read who are willing to share their expectation say 0.2 or 0.3%. It's also true that the CFR has been dropping around the world. Medicines have been approved, doctors have improved treatment protocols, and it's possible the virus is weakening through mutation. Based on a 3-week lag from diagnosis to death, the current 7-day average of 5,075 deaths, and the 7-day average of 251,851 new cases three weeks earlier, the CFR is currently running at 2.0% worldwide and 1.7% in the US. But that's not the last of the good news. Last week the British Medical Journal decided that for various technical reasons it's time to ask "Are we underestimating seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2?" https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3364 One they didn't mention is the immune benefits of memory T cells, which may be clearing the infection in many people without the need for antibodies. If it's true that we are underestimating infections in multiple ways, the actual mortality rate may in time prove to be about the same as for influenza: 0.1% or even lower. Time will tell, but as far as I know no one is saying 1% these days.
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  12467.  @shanewatson2491  The ability to do arithmetic ("maths") must be accompanied by an understanding of the subject. The case fatality rate (CFR), which you give, is not the mortality rate (also called the infection fatality rate (IFR)),and it's the latter that's under discussion here. If you don't want to look these terms up, they are explained by more than one person in this thread. Sorry, but the worst thing is condescension coming from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. Ish.
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  12468.  @birgittabirgersdatter8082  The CDC tabulation of doctors' entries on death certificates did not reveal what you think it did, because you don't know anything about death certificates. Doctors are supposed to enter the proximal cause of death (and can also enter supplemental information, depending on the form in their state). Therefore it must never be, for example, diabetes or influenza , but instead sepsis or pneumonia . Nor should it ever be covid-19 , but instead Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, heart attack, pneumonia, stroke, kidney failure , or whatever was the nearest cause. Things like covid-19, influenza, and diabetes are supposed to be listed only as underlying contributing factors. Thus the 94/6 ratio should have been 100/0, but 6% of forms were botched. Don't blame the CDC, or me, or anyone else for how death certificates work. Blame the 6% of doctors who need remedial training in how to fill out a form. And don't take my word for it. Hear out a highly respected covid-19 ICU doctor and UC Riverside professor of medicine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TECf3xSFbU&t=632s&frags=pl%2Cwn
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  12469.  @shanewatson2491  You are trying to think carefully, but are meagrely informed. Look up covid antibody seroprevalence studies . You will learn the basis for estimates of the total number of infections. And even those estimates may be quite a bit too low. See last week's British Medical Journal for their editorial Are we underestimating seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2? https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3364 Even that's not the end of it. For understandable reasons they don't mention something else challenging to estimate: the number of infections dispatched by memory T cells. Action by these cells results in no antibodies to measure at all. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-00436-4 https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/07/28/immune-t-cells-may-offer-lasting-protection-against-covid-19/
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  12470. ​ Darren Finnerty  The number of deaths divided by the population of the country, yielding a figure of 0.06%, is not the "death rate from Covid-19".  You should call it something else, like per capita death rate (60 per 100,000). The death rate from Covid-19 --- also called the mortality rate or infection fatality rate (sometimes "kill rate") --- is the number of deaths divided by the number of infections (the total number of infections, not just the number of people testing positive). Btw, the US had 48,000 suicides in 2018, one quarter of the 8-month count of Covid-19 deaths this year.
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  12471.  @shanewatson2491  They're estimates in a sense, but they're also findings based on tests which have been validated for high accuracy (two German tests are actually rated at 100.0%), far higher accuracy than the PCR tests used for diagnosis. Embedded in confirmed case rates, too, is a range of uncertainty owing to test sensitivity and specificity limitations. So there's a range in antibody seroprevalence findings, yes, but it's not due to guessing. It's due to the fact that every population has a different rate of actual infections --- every country, every state, every county (and every demographic group, too) and it's not easy to project these to the whole country, not all of which has been studied. No single massive study of the entire US population has been done, for some reason (hello, CDC?) although Canada has managed to do it. In the meantime, the range for the blended national number has been narrowing and the middle of the range, though slowly falling, is starting to stabilize around 0.25 to 0.4%. So while I agree that 0.24% looks like false precision, at least it's close to the middle of the range and outstanding compared to your earlier pronouncement of 3%.
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  12472.  @billhanna8838  No, I haven't heard. Tests for detecting the virus, its antibodies, or both? Thanks for your reply.
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  12473. Thanks C-Milk. The Chinese government is the scariest institution in the world. Your work is really, really important.
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  12474. I'm from another country. Do the "blacks do something" very frequently or something? Are "the blacks" on the contrary model citizens? What's the situation there? I don't know anything about NYC.
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  12475.  @DarkDruid7  So to you, only the student who studies all night without sleeping to pass the test is a good student? Actually the one who reads the material once and doesn't have to study is the smart one. Whether the ability that is natural or that is mastered is 'better' isn't so important to decide. Each one is admirable in its own way.
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  12476. I don't care what anyone says, someone who runs into a burning building to rescue someone else, and who does it without having to swallow fear, is brave. (And is not stupid, either.) Natural courage is courage.
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  12477.  @nathanodonovan6708  I suppose it would depend on what stage the fire was at. I didn't have in mind a complete inferno. But your rigid disbelief perhaps indicates you're just a fearful person. Nothing wrong with that, if you can make up for it in other ways. Cheers, mate
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  12478.  Mike D  "God didn't create it. Man did." If you're clever enough to know that, you should be clever enough to name the guilty party or parties. Let's hear who it was, please.
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  12479.  @renatebaumgartner2921  I'm an anti-theist. Thus my original remark was ironical and meant for a laugh. It'd be an very interesting question for a believer, though. On a more serious note, this is 2020, so watch your noun usage. It's politically correct and ten times more accurate anyway to say that woman has butchered 63 million babies since 1973, not man. Cheers and good health to you.
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  12480.  @HelloWorld-ns7gt  Nah, I was just playfully needling theists. (Cp. The Simpsons after a tornado in Springfield. Sign in front of the church: God Welcomes His Victims. lol)
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  12481.  @rosestewart1606  Just for the sake of argument, let me ask you this: was it letting people die on purpose to not shut the borders and airports and lock down the country eight weeks ago when the first domestic case was confirmed?
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  12482.  @renatebaumgartner2921  Thanks for your reply. I'm glad to learn that you have no use for political correctness. I invoked it a bit mischievously, I admit, hoping to put you on the spot and get a laugh out of you at the same time. But I really would now in all seriousness encourage you acknowledge women's responsibility for the choice most of them stand up so fiercely for. To say a woman entering an abortion clinic has no responsibility for her free choice isin my view to deny her full humanity. It infantilizes women, or at least makes little girls of them. Without responsibility there can be few if any legitimate rights. If responsibility for abortion is completely in the hands of men, then truly it's a man's world and women are merely our guests in it, or even our property, as under Islam. We can't have that, now, can we? If it's what you're offering, I say no thank you. All the best and please do stay healthy.
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  12483. @Skyenchantment8 If you support Trump then you should agree with every word of the OP, emojis included. Take another look and tell me exactly what on earth you object to.
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  12484. Yes, TV news channels have commentary. I've yet to discover any which don't. (Mind you, the stronger the firewall they keep between news and commentary, the better, in my view.)
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  12485. Drunken camera operator? Indoor windstorm? What was it?
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  12486.  @joek7031  "when did I ever say that? Learn to read fool.." Well, aren't you a little charmer. Do you get paid 60 cents for one of those?
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  12487.  @joek7031  Nah, they don't need to pay simps who do it for free.
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  12488. Whatever Putin declares most solemnly concerning his intentions in this war, believe the opposite.
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  12489. 🙄Seven minutes of this Fine Arts graduate should probably be enough for anyone.
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  12490. At least the US were going after Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein, a pair of bloodthirsty monsters. Putin is going after no one, since Ukraine is led by a democrat. He just wants territory to annex. If you can't see that, you're morally blind — or on the take. Which is it?
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  12491.  @kabeerharrythakur8288  You: "Lies are easy to tell." Speaking from experience, eh?
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  12492.  @kabeerharrythakur8288  Ah, your capacity for lying is phenomenal. Your people must honour you greatly for it, and also for your ray sizzum.
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  12493. False flag is a possibility, I agree. Putzin is in desperate need of a pretext for the massive escalation his super-hawk supporters are howling for. This could be added to the pipeline explosion as justification to the Russian public at large.
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  12494. What is this? Seems like some sort of fake network. Anyway, what is one million? Obviously it would be wiser to offer far more. This is like that funny bit in Austin Powers where Dr. Evil holds the world hostage for one million dollars.
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  12495. Against a man 19 years younger, 8 inches taller, 80 pounds heavier, and who once threw a high-ranked sumo wrestler? Seems, uh, unlikely.
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  12496. Low 20s approval
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  12497. Note that the 4th and final family involved is not allowing the name of their beloved to be released.
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  12498. In this and other NCF videos the host's voice is much louder than his guest's. I wish they'd fix that.
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  12499. We're in a new era of deep-seated corruption and collusion between politicians and corporations. Never mind debating about a slippery slope. The slide has happened. We're at the bottom.
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  12500. First of all, FJB. However, it's not automatically oppression simply because you aren't getting your way. In fact, if you get your way on everything, that would indeed indicate oppression is going on. In conclusion, FJB and get ready for November.
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  12501.  @McMillanScottish  So you're ok with people having no citizenship anywhere on the planet? No right to a passport of any kind? Please. Her parents, moreover, weren't passing through. They had settled in NYC.
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  12502.  @WompWompWoooomp  If a child is born to Cuban parents in American airspace on a flight to Canada, and gets US citizenship by right of that, yeah, I've got a problem with that. But if a child is born in LA to Canadian parents who've immigrated to America, never sets foot in Canada, and later in life has to apply to be a US citizen, I've also got a problem with that.
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  12503.  @henrylicious  Explain that acronym please.
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  12504.  @CheeseOfMasters  Of course ethnicity means something. It 100% does. Just explain why someone who's never set foot in any other country than the US wouldn't correctly be entitled to US citizenship.
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  12505.  @WompWompWoooomp  Birthright citizenship isn't "incredibly rare." It's the law in 21 countries with a combined population around 1.5 billion, including the US, Brazil, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, the UK, Spain, Mexico, Pakistan and Australia.
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  12506.  @CheeseOfMasters  I don't see why we're talking about this. I don't like the idea of citizenship tourism at all, but her parents weren't tourists, they were immigrants.  The only reason I joined the thread in the first place is that the OC falsely claimed "she isn't even from here." Maybe find a thread somewhere on the internet where people are debating birthright citizenship. Debating it is 100% fine, no question, but only if both parties feel like it.
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  12507. They might, but realize that 90% of them were born to be ruled and it has never been any different. So if they ever did recognize the truth of this war, one moment later their eyes would be nervously scanning all over the place—looking for the next psychopath to obey. This is the thing that separates Russia from the civilized world. It is dangerous to really believe this is Putin's war but not that of the Russian people.
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  12508. @@RussianHeroezDemandPeace Not really, no. In fact India treasures its status as mostly neutral, and this has long been the case. It is pretty understandable in my view, since India is quite vulnerable to economic shocks and cannot well afford to make sworn enemies of regional or world powers if it can avoid it. India has a way, I've noticed, of pairing criticisms of other nations with gestures of conciliation. So Modi has publicly told Putin that the war should not be happening, but it buys oil and arms from Russia. It has rebuked China for the border violence, but when Modi attends BRICS meetings he is reasonably cordial with Xi. It works the other way around, too. It has entered a formal military alliance with the US (The Quad), yet it refuses to do entirely as the US would wish it to concerning Ukraine. (It would mean a lot to Ukraine and the US if Modi would clearly and explicitly condemn Putin's war in strong terms.) There's certainly no country like India. How distinctive it is.
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  12509. He wants to sound tough. It is simply an intimidation tactic. It could also be meant as reassurance for his army. They know that what they are being asked to do is so awful that it raises the spectre of Western intervention. And they are right, it does. Not today or tomorrow, but at some point. All he's really doing is increasing the odds that certain people will step in and remove him. Seriously, he could be arrested some time this year.
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  12510.  @komputasamurai1937  Ha! I didn't mean arrested like that, bro. I meant arrested in the name of Russia by a group of Russians who don't want this psycho bringing nuclear fire raining down on them.
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  12511. Hardly. Your remark vibrates with sententiousness, which is ordinarily the sign of strong dislike of oneself.
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  12512. All kinds of shallow third-rate analysis and outright silliness in this piece. The work of dingbats.
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  12513.  @beingsshepherd  I notice your efforts to get good comments ratioed with incendiary replies. Classic technique. Your avatar goes right along with that, featuring a Remembrance poppy and a swastika—with an 'equals' sign between.
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  12514.  @beingsshepherd  I care little whether destructive values or actions are sincere or insincere.
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  12515.  @beingsshepherd  You've no basis for saying I don't understand war protestors. That's (unsurprisingly) arrogant and dull-minded of you. In 2003 I committed a great amount of time to vigorously protesting the Iraq War.
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  12516.  @americarules9377  🤨Smoking certain things causes damage to the brain. Time to exercise more caution, my friend.
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  12517. Probably wasn't a mistake. Probably renewables in Canada provide 17.3% of total energy production, but 70% of the electricity generated. (Note that generated electricity excludes almost all energy for transportation and home furnaces).
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  12518. "Everything will now be collected and shown." 😂 Freely translated from Pooty-speak: "Don't even bother listening to anything I say."
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  12519.  @Lolquake  Also the election was 40 days ago. Some kind of glitch at YT? If not, a crazy person.
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  12520. Someone once referred to "The Psychologist's Wonderland which opens before us when charmless people try to be charming." Here it's Psaki pretending to be someone we could forgive, sympathize with, and even like. 😂 Smiling and batting her false eyelashes.🤢 Damn, I just ate!.🤮
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  12521. To judge by this, it's over.
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  12522. When a lawyer bills $1,200 an hour, as Dana suggests they do, a large portion of that goes to the firm, not directly to them. There's offices, staff, and many other expenses to pay for, as well as a huge cut for the partners. I bet Lightfoot has maybe one helper. Btw, her $400/hr contract capped at $30k means only 75 hrs. (10 days) of work.😮
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  12523.  @declanhugors  I'd like to see police budgets tripled. I still don't want police to torture for the fun of it.
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  12524. Actually it's pawl-ee-EV. But thanks neighbour. Pro-Canadian Americans and pro-American Canadians are the best.
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  12525. World Association of Freex: "Hey, stop comparing us to those total strange-oids!"
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  12526.  @chesslover8829  You make a fair case (provided your figures check out). Except that having advisors, as Ukraine does, who have the world's best eyes in the sky by far, means that you might as well divide the Russian artillery count by two. Or three. Or ten. Hard to say. Various other forms of intelligence gathering, the products of which Ukraine's allies are feeding them, are no doubt rather valuable too. In light of these things it's really little surprise Putzin and his people keep mentioning nukes.
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  12527. Yes I can. It reeks.
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  12528. Man, that's cold. But I approve 🤣
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  12529.  @universeisundernoobligatio3283  Uh, have you ever heard of a county named Kuwait?
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  12530. This is BS and I'm saddened that the usually solid Dave Rubin is falling for it. You need look no farther than Turkey, a NATO member since 1952, which has always bought weapons from the Soviets and Russians. Anyway, pressure on NATO countries to buy from other NATO countries is only basic good sense. If armies are to be capable of fighting alongside one another, compatibility of weapons systems is a strengthening advantage. This whole piece is far too much like the sad conversations that take place in low bars between drunk pretentious pedants who smoked too much pot for a decades.
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  12531.  @dohanbjrkan6350  Absolutely. Thanks for saying that.
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  12532. "If anybody needs me I'll be in the Situation Room. I've got a situation in my diaper."
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  12533.  @HaloDude557  No, they're going to land at a disused air force base and hang out there for two weeks.
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  12534.  @Chimel31  Wow, that went better than I thought. Orig. post deleted.😄
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  12535. Please Democrats, nominate her! Few things could be so perfect as seeing her lose again in 3½ months' time. Please, please, please.
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  12536. Due to his lame duck status it's not Trudeau's place to call an election. His successor is chosen in 2 days (March 9th) and will be sworn in some days later. That's who will call the election.
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  12537.  @bryandimery6509  No, the "lol" is on you. China and India both voted Yes on this week's UN resolution condemning Russian aggression. Siding with Russia: Iran, North Korea, Syria, Nicaragua. 😅 I repeat: "lol" to you, and a hearty [insert relevant hand emoji] to Russia.
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  12538. I should have thought that since he considers a sense of personal responsibility so central to conservatism, he would hardly deny Dr. Peterson conservative status. As they're on the same side of a lot of things, perhaps other reasons enter into it. I daresay he could find he falls too far short in gentlemanliness and diction, and hasn't read enough of the right books. All valid criticisms up to a point, but I still found some something churlish in his energetic dismissal, snobbish even, and perhaps envious. (Peterson surely made $10 or 20 million from that book and became much more famous than Hitchens.) Or maybe it's that he just loves a purebred conservative, which Peterson is not.
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  12539.  @drzaius1121  You shattered my world view there.😄 Faith...evaporating. Urge to carry on...fading.
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  12540.  @PolicePaparazzi  🙄You took that the wrong way. I meant it as How can you possibly expect it to be any different when it comes to control of dogs?
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  12541. Around the world all this nonsense is doing heavy damage to America's reputation. People see it for what it is: banana republic-type political retribution. Throw in the daily woke enormities and US influence is quickly drying up. There'll soon be very few admirers left. Also very few top people who want to move to America and contribute their genius to it. Such people have been its secret sauce forever.
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  12542.  @jaddaj5881  The answer to that is so obvious that I wouldn't be doing you a favour if I told you.
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  12543.  @brianm.595  I don't even know what you're on about. All I can say for sure is you didn't catch my point at all. It's all right though. From how you sound I'm guessing you're reasonable.
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  12544.  @FuriousImp  Look up what someone in an extremely corrupt country claims Shell did, at the suggestion of some random leftoid 🤡on the internet? Oh yeah, I've got lots of time for something like that. I'll get right on it. Hey, shouldn't you be inventing genders somewhere?
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  12545. ​ @mirrorinsideout  There's some truth to that, but perhaps you've yet to fully realize how rigid the young are. A great many of them want both society at large and the state to attack their opponents, silence them, fine them, prosecute them and so on, on their behalf. When, as I often do, I call the worse among them the New Puritans, I do not have any flexibility of theirs in mind.
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  12546. ​ @cd4429    I've enjoyed deep and gratifying personal relationships with Chinese people and find a lot to respect about their civilization, but sometimes the rhetoric about it and the praise (particularly the self-praise) gets to be far too much for me. They love to brag about 4,000 years of continuous recorded history, apparently lacking a painful awareness that with such a long streak they certainly ought not to remain so politically backward. China also remained until a mere 20 years ago very technologically and economically backward indeed, until finally they broke down and began copying or pirating Western achievements. And speaking of political backwardness, it's not even a native Chinese backwardness: their Marxism, too, is imported from the West. They would do well to send it back. I wish better things for them.
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  12547.  @jerryedwards456  Sort of like somebody who has a back-up boyfriend or girlfriend that's always 'there' if their preferred mate dumps them, or gets to be too much? In a way it's understandable, in a way it's just not fully decent.
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  12548.  @naradaian9196  Just for the record, the HI threshold is above 90% for most illnesses, but the closest comparison is SARS, for which the rate is 50 to 80% (Wikipedia).
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  12549. Dang, man, please don't pronounce speciesist as "spee-shist." Make it spee-sheez-ist or spee-seez-ist. I'll just leave it there and not say anything about your hat.
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  12550. World to Trudeau, now: "Just go." Within about 90 days: "Buh-bye."
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  12551. He or she.
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  12552. Those last two girls (aged around 18 or 20) had such a good attitude. Let them not turn out like so many of these other babas I see on this channel, who call for the destruction of Ukraine and who dream about marrying the widower Putin.
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  12553. It's risible how she talks about a supposed lack of support for Trump. In fact, despite Trump not even being on the ballot in the Feb. 7 Nevada primary, Haley still lost — to "None of the above," (!) and by 27 percentage points. Also, calling him "a de facto incumbent president" is a silly and illogical reach. —————— Edit: Ever curious, I looked up this guest, Shannon Felton Spence, putatively a "politics and communications strategist." It turns out that description is belied by the fact that her job is PR person for a "science and international affairs" institute at Harvard. Just to be clear, she's not one of the many experts there. She does PR. If a reporter phones up with a question concerning what one of the experts has written or said publicly, she fields the call. In the other direction, she calls reporters trying to get more press for the expert academics and researchers she works for. In other words she's office staff, not talent. She graduated from Brown (MPA) in 2017, so I guess she's nearing age 35. No grey hairs yet, that's for sure. She's not even in a good PR job, which would be at a big agency in New York or Washington, not a university in Boston. What she has is the public relations counterpart of being a lawyer in the sleepy and depressing legal department of a corporation rather than a partner at a prestigious metropolitan firm. So clearly she wants out of PR (not a soul could blame her) and hopes for a better life as a political pundit. I'm assuming she used her PR skills and pitched herself over the phone to an editor at TR. Great for her; for us, not so much. In short, TR has puffed up her real significance here. She's just on to take swipes at Trump and cheerlead for a female candidate, the leftmost politically of all Republican hopefuls back when there was a real race. In my view the opinions of a young female Boston Democrat on Republican Party affairs are as predictable as they are bound to be highly caricatured, i.e. leaning towards the useless. Why is TR's guest booking so erratic? How can they have Michael Clarke and Richard Shirreff on one day and then this person the next? I can see why the estimable Lucy Fisher baled out last year to become an important editor at the Financial Times.
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  12554. The Canadian PM's approval is actually closer to 25%. And in a recent poll asking the following question: Who [among the candidates] do you think would make the best prime minister? only 16% named him. (Leger Group poll, May 27.)
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  12555. Ok, now let's hear you replace H.s. with "the 9/11 hijackers" and say the same thing.🤬
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  12556.  Stanley Draper  Congratulations. But condolences on your young relations. Are you sure carelessness on your part had nothing to do with their uselessness?
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  12557. ​ @kayskreed  No, the US is talking to Egypt about a humanitarian corridor out of Gaza for women and children.  You're misinforming people.
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  12558. @@avonsam86 Amnesty International has gone down the toilet in the last decade. It's just another institution fallen to the far left. An illustration of this is its Executive Director, Paul O'Brien, telling members at the Women’s National Democratic Club last year that his "gut" told him "Jewish people in this country" think that Israel "shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state." I ignore Amnesty completely.
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  12559.  @bio-plasmictoad5311  That's all a matter of opinion. Some people enjoy working more than anything and have big plans for the money they make. For them, working extremely hard between the ages of, say 25 and 50, is the best possible choice. Of course you can say what's right for you, but as for what others like, do you think that's any of your business?
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  12560. Yeah, but it's a bit empty too. Sort of a penny truth. Every person tells lies, too, but how important is that? There's Goebbels-level lies, and there's "Yes, honey, that's a pretty dress."
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  12561. "Virtues" 🤣
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  12562. Many do; most, I assume. You just won't hear about it on liberal-controlled media.
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  12563. Stuff weaving your material and your ads into a single ugly thing.
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  12564. She's so revolting her best friend should be Amber Heard or Whoopi Goldberg.
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  12565. True enough, but what sort of maniacs stand ready to grab power when Putin exits? 'Be careful what you wish for' sounds trite, and yet...
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  12566. Hey, pass that thing and let someone else get a hit off it. You've had too much already.
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  12567. I think it just automatically resulted from a feminization of the world. Women are inherently more fearful, more risk-averse. Women now have far more say than formerly; in numerous contexts, not just child-rearing but a lot of others too, they have far more say than men. Thus the culture has become fear-steeped. Maleness has been ceaselessly denigrated for multiple generations now, to the point that now it has for some time even been labelled toxic, so how could it be otherwise? The unspoken maxim of the age, modelled with some justification on that of Animal Farm: Two ovaries good, two testes bad.
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  12568. Where's a highly unstable Pacific coast seismic fault when you need it? We need Portland to become an island at the very, very least, right away.
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  12569. Watching and listening to Professor Sonnenfeld, one may get a strong impression of untrustworthiness and oddness, as well as an only dubiously elite level of intelligence. But I've seen him a few times now and I'd say he's doing better with his case than many, many others. It's widely agreed that sanctions are a slow poison, not a sword. So those declaring sanctions a big yawn are rather lazily putting off all the consequences and implications that are, uh, in the pipeline. He's watching just what he ought to.
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  12570. Buh-bye. At least the door's always open for you at M-S-Nut-Bar-Central.
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  12571. One word: Kringela.
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  12572. Another possible change is Russia will begin killing Ukrainians by the million. They've done it before, within the past century.
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  12573. real dsls!
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  12574. You're probably right. But it's still a tough call for Belarus, because every Belarusian knows Putin wants their forces for one thing and one thing only: the flesh and blood (literally) of its soldiers. The point here is that the Belarus military's overall capabilities are minuscule, as one could deduce from its annual budget of $0.6bn (!).
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  12575.  @shanedarcy361  Agreed. I would add that I'm a bit hazy on whether NATO might directly go after Belarusian military targets if they stepped over the line.
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  12576. To go by their appearance, faces, dress and bearing, they're simply massively inferior people. I daresay they're on a mission to bolster their non-existent self-regard before they're incapacitated by sheer age.
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  12577. Putin is the real crybaby. He'll soon be dead, though. The FSB is going to turn out his lights.
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  12578. I wonder what you think bewildered means, or what you think he meant by it.
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  12579.  @lagnicourtd.c.m.8919  I took him as meaning Canadians don't know what the US thinks Canada is supposed to do to get rid of this issue. Btw, typo on "billion." Nice trade stat details though. Thanks.
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  12580. Excuse me, but these Canadian patrols aren't any sort of military adventuring. They are UN Security Council-mandated. North Korea has been under U.N. Security Council sanctions for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs since 2006. China has a veto, so it either voted in favour of them or it abstained. China and Russia are now pushing to have these sanctions eased. It's all part of their plan to harass the West into ruin via low-key attacks in hundreds or thousands of ways ranging from petty to massively brazen.
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  12581. A concrete basis, yes. I end at farthest part of my body. An infant can tell what is 'me' and 'not me'.  (A newborn? Not sure.) But much of the self is made up. If your comment is based on acceptance of this, I totally agree with you. (Hell, I agree broadly no matter where you're coming from.)@Le Ploutonomiste​
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  12582. Today she'd be a Yale law professor, New York Times senior section editor, or member of Congress.
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  12583. Plato: "Omg. Twenty-five-hundred years later and we're still cranking out classic young cave-dwellers. I wish I'd never lived."
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  12584. Nice try, Vladislav! (Or is it Chaoxiang? Farshad? Kyung-seok? Ahmed?) For the US, NATO pays dividends which are beyond enormous.
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  12585.  @ARCSTREAMS  Ok, Orc.
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  12586.  @ARCSTREAMS  Ok, Pooty-bot.
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  12587.  @satanielgaming  He didn't make it any closer to the border than 12 miles.
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  12588.  @rowyourboat5361  Check your own trousers. (1) There's been no mention of his status in Canada, only that he was "living in Canada." (2) He DID NOT enter the US and never got to the border. He was 12 miles away when he was arrested by Canadian police. (3) He planned to enter illegally. He had arrangements with a human smuggler. Please, smash your keyboard for the benefit of all.😂
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  12589. Bad as they wanna be. And getting worse...
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  12590. Sudzha: SOO-ja.
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  12591. Sorry, no. It's just a British bulldog.
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  12592.  @jmcg9822  Not surprising that a leftist living in a dream hasn't noticed other people losing their rights. Keep howling. Aaa-ooooooooooooooo!
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  12593. No, it's too late to just count on Americanness. What you properly think of as Americanness has been badly beaten up and has to be revived through the extraordinary efforts of people who never lost a solid idea of what it really is. I'm talking about the sort of people who turned Salem around after the witch trials.
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  12594.  @martindohnal4872  That is hate speech against Celtic peoples.😡
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  12595.  Lee S Dryburgh  The sound quality is worse than almost anything else you'll find, unfortunately.
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  12596. ​ @KotleKettle  When did that ever stop the Russians? They bombed many, many Ukrainian hospitals. Well over 100 documented by the UN.
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  12597. Imagine calling the US electoral system "bizarre" when you come from a country where the MPs, elected with the votes of perhaps 35-45% of the turnout, can change the leader of the country anytime it suits them. Where 92 hereditary (!) peers sit in the House of Lords. This is simply cheerleading for the Democratic Party. Times Radio here is The Guardian of the internet. The CNN of Britain. The Fox News of the UK left/liberals.
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  12598. I wonder what the meaning of the nickname Prozzie is.
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  12599. So delightful, that sodalite.
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  12600. That beggars the question of which conspiracy theories. Of course some have a basis in reality. But countless ones do not, and we need to know which ones are which.
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  12601.  @BellevernonPa15012  Thank you very much indeed, ghost of Foster Brooks.
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  12602. Rockets are still being launched against civilians on the other side. Where's your demand for reporting on that?
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  12603. So basically Russia is a rogue province of Ukraine.
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  12604. Rita is my favourite SNA commentator. Fair, clever, reasoned and a polished presenter. I also like her personality, most especially her temperament. Carry on Rita, just as you always have.
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  12605.  @CarterM54  That showed you didn't even read my comment.
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  12606.  @Flash3-22  Btw, I since discovered there's actual recorded history of what I stated (except the part about low mental capacity, although it still might be true). Being sold into slavery was definitely a form of punishment in various kingdoms for seriously violent criminals including murderers and rhymes-with-papists. Some or all of the proceeds went to the victims or victim's families. Since it paid money, this was seen as an extremely convenient way to get rid of dangerous or annoying people. As the trade was well developed (it was already centuries old before Europeans tapped into it) the network of buyers was often near at hand.
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  12607.  @CarterM54  U pretty much said what I was telling you; namely that Africa was rife with slavery already and that people were sold by their fellow Africans.
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  12608. Rumor has it Lori Lightfoot is a human being.
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  12609. From the deranged nature of your ranting I see the village your ancestors dwelt in for centuries had far too few families.
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  12610. People like this Cramer and that Musk are no longer being produced. Future not pretty.
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  12611. Major chains are clearly coping with higher wholesale prices by charging more for some items while charging less for other key products which they believe will get customers in the door. When you see ground beef for $4 a pound and a jar of jam for $6, that's what it's about. They could charge $5 for each, but they're trying to angle for market share, i.e. to compete.
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  12612.  @jasonmcbride3226  Well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe their audited financial statements indicating fairly stable gross and net margins are faked by the major accounting firms. (Maybe they also introduce rat flesh into their store-made sausages, and poison the milk that schoolchildren drink.🙄) After all, if the price of food rises, why search around for explanations when William of Occam taught us that the simplest one is probably the best?—in this case: scheming grocery stores operated by villains with horns and barbed tails.
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  12613.  @salvatoredebaldarellis4632  You wrote: "Many British people still think Britain is still the superpower that [sic] was one hundred years ago..." Will you please come up with something a little more sensible? You attribute to people with whom you disagree a gross irrationality which I find palpably silly. Show that you're above such canting nonsense; surely there's a real point of some kind to make.
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  12614.  @salvatoredebaldarellis4632  Extra ecclesiam Anglophobia nulla Salvatore. That too is easy enough to understand.
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  12615.  @salvatoredebaldarellis4632  Then it's a problem with your English skills. Your reply to my disagreement with you sounded insulting. ('Sorry for you...[what I said was] easy to understand.') If you meant to sound polite then I take it back and apologize. But I still disagree with you. Britain does not suffer under the delusion you allege.
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  12616.  @salvatoredebaldarellis4632  Thanks for your reply. As you say you're all about strengthening democracy, we're in agreement that far anyway.   I like co-operation between neighbours, too, but when it amounts to your neighbours having veto rights on how you run your own house, scaling down the co-operation becomes appropriate. We probably agree on this principle, too. And I like a lot of government, laws, and regulation myself but there can be such a thing as too much government, too many laws, and too much regulation. When that occurs, they should be reduced. We probably agree on that too. I think we just disagree on whether the EU came to be an intrusive burden on the UK. So cheers. Sorry for the long reply.
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  12617.  @ronlanter6906  I looked it up just now, and guess what? The guilty parties are the re-tarred mainstream TV news media back around the 2000 election. They got it backwards, and no one noticed, and it soon caught on, and now it's too late to change it. The two parties officially adopted the colors and it's even enshrined in laws somehow.🤣 USA! USA!
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  12618. I can start buying your wine. What else do you send abroad?
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  12619. War is expensive and will create business and profits. That doesn't mean war should never be fought. It doesn't mean any given war is wrong. It doesn't mean we ought to be pacifists or require people in other lands be pacifists in the face of attack. Arms makers charging a mark-up on needed weaponry is well down the list of ill effects of war. The peril of undue influence Eisenhower warned against (at the time, wisely) comes at governments from many, many directions.
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  12620. Well, it is for Biden, so....
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  12621. The government has concerns other than the Olympics. They care about maintaining their reputation and they care about the people of Japan. Do you really suppose they're any less sensible or less human than you?
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  12622. Huge love right back at you, SM.
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  12623. Stay away from Mexico at all costs, Trotsky.
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  12624. Looks like the rest of your comment got the woke treatment from YT.
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  12625. She's a nothingburger who's won a series of elections in one-party California, then one more as the White House understudy on another person's ticket. So she's never won a competitive election. Now she's barely campaigning. She has simply handed things over to the liberal corporate media and said "Here, you guys win it for me."
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  12626. ​ @JasonOzolins  They of course do not have the same "lord." And they are therefore rightly entitled, mirabile dictu, to use their own words in their own language. Don't shove pretentious woke academese down people's throats. Don't.
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  12627.  @dormedinaDK  Rogue province of the Kievan Rus.
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  12628. I noted with some dismay the long fingernails of the soldier shown practicing her shooting just before the 1-minute mark. So I decided to check the US armed forces regulations. It turns out female soldiers' nails are allowed to go 1/4"past the fingertips. Male soldiers' nails cannot go past the fingertips. Women need never cut their hair. Men's hair must be completely shaved or "closely trimmed." Stud earrings are ok for women. They are prohibited for men.
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  12629. Your point as it was intended is fully valid. But even if not one Englishman had ever set foot on Irish soil, it would still be British. All the British Isles were British since long before the Anglo-Saxons or indeed the Romans discovered them. Just because only the UK retains that heritage to this day in its actual name does not mean the rest of the isles are not equally British.
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  12630.  @jimg2850  "Your point as it was intended is fully valid." — Me, 2 hours ago
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  12631. Yes, and it's one man's shame.
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  12632. It's comedy. Obvious comedy. It never misled anybody. It's humor/satire/parody. Breathe. Just breathe.
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  12633.  @marileehamlin804  Buffett?🤔
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  12634.  @natehill8069  I think Americans uniformly date it from 1939. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. I think that they and whoever else says 1939 are probably right, since it's when the war became multi-regional and first began to merit the modifier "World." Mind you, by that token it might be 1938 since that's when Germans first marched out of Germany with guns blazing (into the Sudetenland). They were greenlighted by the major powers and unopposed by all Europe except for Czechoslovakia itself, but it was war any way you cut it, I guess. So 1938 or '39. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  12635. I would.
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  12636. Shades of Putin saying that Nazis run Ukraine. Ah well, what can you expect of someone paid by CNN?
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  12637. Putin is all bark with his nuclear threats. We're in month 26 with no mushroom clouds yet. Apparently he has his baby-daddy Xi to answer to.😂
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  12638. Notice Trump he corrected himself on the fly for saying 'their' instead of 'his,' showing both verbal mental quickness and a continuing command of his own language. Meanwhile that leftover baked potato we call his rival can't keep major world leaders straight in his head.
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  12639. He's wrong in at least one way: The market has knocked down the share prices of Canadian oil producers (esp. ones with little refining capacity), showing that it takes the threat seriously. So if you are skeptical on tariffs, look at CNQ, CVE, SU, IMO, e.g. Btw, the video description is for some entirely different video.
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  12640.  @informantsmith6823  "Both the left alliance and the centrist alliance received more votes." Non! RN: 37.1% Left alliance: 25.8% Centrist alliance: 24.5%
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  12641. Bloody 'Ell! Wuhss goin' on with the RAW upload? Copyright grounds?! It-just-ain't-right-it-in't.😠
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  12642. "Hey, maybe we can heat up a can of beans over the ashes." "Yeah, sweet."
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  12643.  @SumTingWong888  Haha, excellent
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  12644.  @cleanrunestick3804  Lies are protected speech apart from libel and slander, as I said. Lies are ordinarily a part of the crimes we call fraud as well. But the lies themselves are not the fraud and are thus not the crime either. Really, you never knew it's generally not against the law to tell a lie? You must be really wracking your brain now, trying to figure out why not. Let's just say that just about everybody would be in jail or have a criminal record if it were illegal to lie. The number of criminal cases for lying would number in the hundreds of millions in Canada alone. There would be a million public prosecutors. The law courts would account for 30% of our GDP. I'm being facetious but my point should be clear: society would grind to a halt.
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  12645.  @patricksweeney5308  Listen again. He said "other NATO countries" in the context of a sentence describing US goals. To the US, the NATO countries along Russia's borders ARE other NATO countries. I have little patience with the perspective that anyone is "poking the Russian bear." Russia has no right to its serial aggressions. As our guest also said, Russia would like NATO to disappear simply because it wishes to move on Eastern Europe. The bear is on the rampage.
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  12646.  @donaldkasper8346  You blunder by saying "What is on paper is not relevant." Nothing could be more relevant, for if Ukraine were a NATO member, all 30 other NATO members (Ukraine would be the 31st) would be at war with Russia right now. At present Ukraine is a NATO ally, like Ireland, Austria and (for a little while longer) Finland and Sweden.
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  12647.  @ottooctavius585  No, the context was a sentence in which he was describing US aims and concerns, and from the US point of view the NATO members of Eastern Europe are indeed "other NATO countries." Ukraine, Finland, Austria, Ireland, Japan and Sweden are NATO allies, not NATO members. Contemplate the difference.
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  12648.  @donaldkasper8346  "It is how it is working. Got a problem with reality?" No, it is NOT how it is working. If it were, all 30 NATO members would have been obliged to send troops into battle in Ukraine weeks ago. That, my friend, is reality. NATO support is not equivalent to NATO membership. Also, not every NATO member is militarily supporting Ukraine, indicating that support is optional. Thus, strictly speaking, military aid to Ukraine comes from various European and North American countries, Japan, Australia, NZ, etc.
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  12649.  @nataliadagon  Neither de jure nor de facto. If it were a NATO 'member' in de facto terms, then soldiers of all 30 NATO countries would be directly at war with Russia. There is such a thing as a NATO ally: e.g. Japan, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Australia are prime examples.
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  12650.  @nataliadagon  Ok, Sergei.
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  12651. Right on, SNA. Only four minutes but nice and packed.
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  12652. World Clown Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to Vladimir Putin!"
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  12653. What's with the people who suddenly say epoch as "epic" instead of EE-pock? They couldn't sound any s too pidder. There's zero reason to invent new pronunciations. Don't do it.
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  12654. It turns out Americans have prettier teeth entirely due to braces and whitening treatments. The British actually have better dental health.
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  12655. No doubt narcissism is a major problem and study of it is very interesting as well as helpful to humanity, but it's also no doubt also a good topic behind which to safely hide and lob diagnoses of illness at anyone who triggers your sense of inferiority. This monologue might have been titled "10 Ways I've Been Made To Feel Mediocre and Why Every Time It's Because the Person Who Excited My Awareness of This Was a Sick Bastard, Because I Don't Have a Mediocre Mind, They Do. Now Where's My Soybean and Quinoa Salad in a Tupperware Container? I'm Going to Eat It While Reading Something Postmodernist That Flatters Me in My Dullness." In other words, although he has valid things to say about people who are jerks, I think he uses all this to defensively soothe his worries about his own cleverness. His remarks on IQ sound very suspiciously like an attempt to deal with envy and resentment by twisting things to validate himself, most particularly his sad assertion that someone with an IQ of 120 "will function pretty similarly" to someone with an IQ over 140. What? IQ point differences in my view should be thought of, very roughly speaking, as analogous to inches of difference in height between people, not millimetres. A healthy ego thus requires that you freely admit, when someone's IQ is more than 20 points higher than your own, that they are a lot more intelligent. Parts of this are like a harangue about how unimportant and shallow physical beauty is---a tenable position maybe---but coming in a defensive tone from a notably homely person. You sense that what they're saying is really about their feelings, not the subject at hand.
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  12656. Let's not kid ourselves. When they kick Biden into the cesspool, we won't get someone better. His replacement will horrify us even more.
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  12657. Wtf is your point? You seem to be saying that Germans have proved themselves to be biologically evil and cannot be trusted with weaponry. Do you have any idea how deeply bigoted that is? Do you realize you sound like you think you yourself are a prophet? I strenuously question your own knowledgeability and wisdom. I think they're entirely, utterly, 100% absent. What you call for is a permanent security vacuum at the heart of Europe, a thing that in itself guarantees an eventual outbreak of war. Go smoke a Marlboro in your Jeep.
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  12658. Downtown East Side. Same as ever. Moss Park is the only neighbourhood in the whole city with 3 murders this year, 10% of the citywide total.
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  12659. Looks like YT's programs put a piece of tape over the rest of your comment. Don't forget that, and don't forgive it either.
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  12660. I wish you the best.
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  12661. The July wheat price spike fizzled fast. Wheat futures (W_1:COM) are way down to $588, a 33-month low.👍
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  12662. She makes Sarah Palin look pretty intelligent. Also, something about the way she talks here reminds me of Al Sharpton. Total mess of a so-called leader.
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  12663. I give your comment my 'seal' of approval, M. le Phoque.
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  12664. 👍A thread of uncommon quality here despite how short it is. I do think, though, that we're quite like Britain in 1939: the leading power, but rather low on stocks. (Most are not aware of it, but in 1939 people around the world definitely still considered Britain the leading power.)
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  12665. Why have only about 10% of your subscribers watched this? Why did only about 3% of those who watched it give it a like? Wtf? One like per 200 subsrcibers.
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  12666. There's a UK-France domestic version and there's an export version with shorter range. Do we know which one Ukraine is getting?
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  12667. ​ @nigethesassenach3614  I saw a map with the range described in circles and it only extends most of the way through Crimea. It appears the policy of keeping Ukraine on a short armaments leash is still in full effect. Which I'm sure is for the best.
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  12668. Very neat line in self-praise there.🥱
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  12669.  @not.likely  Ok, so you're talking about hermits in the woods then? 🙄 Look again at what you've written and ask yourself what a reader is supposed to make of it.
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  12670.  @wqv5423ln  As a bachelor? What are you, hard of reading?
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  12671. Tbh, I wondered whether she didn't just lose her train of thought and panicked, then immediately blamed illness to protect her job. Probably not the case, but maybe. (People are odder nowadays than formerly.)
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  12672.  @akritasdigenis4831  Alors ils ne devraient pas le lire, et vous non plus, s'il ne vous plaît pas. Je vous souhaite une bonne journée.
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  12673.  @patricks6934  China will move in where the US is absent. Soon after they succeed at that, the world is not safe for US free enterprise. Gradual impoverishment of the US follows, then Chinese nonsense lands on American shores. If you don't think it's master and servant I don't know what kind of 19th- and 20th-century history you've been reading.
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  12674. Dear Fox News and fellow posters here: If you find yourself in agreement with The New York Times on any issue, and in disagreement with Elon Musk, it would be a good time for a head-soak in cold water. Alternatively, do some research with an open mind. But under no circumstances trust ideologues or hacks. It's going to take some work.
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  12675. It's not about Canada intimidating China. It's about being a part of a massive international alliance standing up to Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific. The many weak countries there need protection from Chinese communist bullies.
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  12676. I did. Nice try.
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  12677.  @peterembranch5797  I just noticed the word "shows". No, it was a Fox article, and I agree the subject should be raised on at least one of their shows, although I haven't considered him an important figure for a very long time (about nineteen and a half years). In fact I probably like him about as much as you do.
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  12678. She's on it.
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  12679. Highly similar DNA. So what? You have highly similar DNA to people in prisons and mental hospitals, as well as Nobel laureates. You still have little in common with them.
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  12680. "His free speech was never under threat." That's not true. The Canadian government had introduced legislation that would make it a criminal act not to use someone's chosen pronouns. If that's not an infringement of free speech, nothing is. Mind you, Peterson says he always uses people's chosen pronouns anyway. He figures it's just polite and kind and costs nothing. But the door it opened to repression at scale was something he wouldn't stand for. He's just too familiar with the history of the USSR to accept it. (The government, under the current prime minister, passed the law.)
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  12681.  @OllamhDrab  Ok, commissar.🙄 Look, I just called you commissar! Come and have me arrested!😂Call the cops, comrade!🤣I committed a crime against humanity. Phone the ICC!
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  12682. It appears the minds of most middle-aged and old Russians are a relic of Soviet times. A year ago, knowing less, I would have thought this idea rather silly. But now I cannot escape it. For them, Putin and his actions come as a great joy and relief. 'Finally,' they think, 'a return to the values and beliefs I grew up with. At last, a return to Russia's greatness!' Goes to show you how thorough the Soviets were at indoctrinating their youth.
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  12683. Nietzsche said the western hemisphere has been all decay since the medieval rise of Christianity, which preaches how losers are actually the best. But civilization was so strong it's taken 1500 years for the poison to work.
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  12684. Simply a mirage, counting economic devastation as economic activity. Russia's "economy" is now just Putin Inc. Hollowed out, everything being poured into the military. The North Koreanization of Russia continues. Prosperity destroyed.
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  12685. Since you mention comedy, that comedian was really funny. (I sense some admiration for Norm Macdonald in him.)
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  12686. You know how to translate into ordinary English extremely well, dude. Hats off to you. 👏
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  12687. I don't get how anyone thinks any store owes them a break on the price of anything. If you don't like it, don't give them your business. I doubt Mr. Chapman here is in the habit of lowering his prices for his consulting work (or however he makes his living). In any case, Loblaws' gross margin, an exact reflection of their mark-up, has been pretty stable since rising from 24% in 2011 to 29.4% in 2017. (If a company pays 75¢ for an item and sells it for $1.00, their mark-up is 33.3% and their gross margin is 25%. Note that the company does not disclose their gross margin on food vs. non-food items. It's unlikely they've been trending identically. Non-food items include pharmacy, housewares, personal care items and Joe Fresh clothing.) Loblaws' quarterly gross margins in the past 5 years (Source: YCharts): Latest: 31.38% (Sep 2023) Minimum: 29.92% (Sep 2020) Maximum: 32.37% (Mar 2023) 5-Year Average: 31.29% 5-Year Median: 31.34% Having said all that, I personally felt somewhat bitter about the decreased discount, and in my view the most valuable maxim for any business is: If you want to keep your customers, keep your customers happy. Loblaws has done well in that regard over the years, but like every company it can't afford any major stumbles.
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  12688. Hey, I'm tryna eat here!🤢
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  12689. The people on 1420 are not average. They are Muscovites, 75% hipsters, 75% young. The interviewer, god bless him, is also a young hipster Muscovite, and when he approaches people, they are the ones who respond. Close to 90% of Russians do not live in Moscow or St. Petersburg. It's another Russia, where people think more highly of Putin.
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  12690. 😢
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  12691.  @CybershamanX  Good lord it's getting harder and harder by the hour to say what you like. But yeah, spam must be fought. [deep sigh] So we need more computers and algorithms to protect us from earlier algorithms and less powerful arrays of computers. It should turn out well.🤨 We'll either all be annihilated or live like kings unto eternity. Either way, it'll be on Planet Bot.
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  12692.  @CybershamanX  Not sure you realize how fast things are moving. I think you can expect them to move faster than they ever have before. Or if fast isn't your word, try these two: massive change.
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  12693. Let's not omit consideration of the warping effect this will have on the girls. What will it do to their relationships in the future?
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  12694. What a cringefest, and I mean this video itself. Special mention goes out to Cringiest British Accent Ever And Till The End of Time.
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  12695.  @gregsimpson9391  Thanks for your reply. Ok, money matters a lot to people and they don't freely share it with anyone except the person they're married to. So no one can fault you for quarrelling with Australia or the US over trade terms. But New Zealand is far too small to guarantee its independence in any way.  (Was it not greatly imperilled by marauding Japan 80 years ago, before the US saved the day?) Thus I hope you'd never delude yourself about it (for example, that you could have any after developing such close money ties to China that they amount to a common-law marriage you're trapped in). New Zealand will always be dependent for its security on others, who had better be wisely-chosen allies. Who knows how much longer the postwar peace will last? You will of course place your bets carefully, never overcommitting to anyone who doesn't fully deserve your trust. All the best.
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  12696.  @gregsimpson9391  There are Canadians like you, too. During the 70s and 80s they thought the Cold War was just a game being played by opposite but equal idiots. I can't blame them. Such a long period of freedom, prosperity, and stability lulls people into a sense that those things just exist. People struggled for them long ago, but now they are just fruits to be enjoyed.   They get used to a routine of career, home, and partying (golf, too, I'm afraid) and lose sight of, or never become aware of, the reality that our situation is extremely fortunate, an incredibly unlikely historical aberration sustained by innumerable juggler's balls, as it were, kept continuously in the air. It's actually, like all rare and precious things in life, quite fragile. This is what history teaches us about democracies. They eventually they fall into tyranny, always quite suddenly. The problem (as strange as it is sad) is that they lose the ability to produce the people needed to sustain them.   They are eventually saddled with too many people unconvinced that sustaining it is a serious business and not a game, unconvinced even that it's better than one-man or one-party rule. 'The Republic or the Caesars, who cares?' 'The US or China, which one pays better?' 'The US is racist.' (You must think it pretty unimportant to know about these things, or you'd have learned by now that the Chinese are actually much more racist yet.) Because to them it's all a game, China included. To them, deep down even the Chinese are the same as the double-chinned suburbanite golfers of the Anglosphere. 'Can't they and the Americans move the game along and conclude those trade deals, can't they leave off with their battling for influence around the world? How it bores me when I'm trying to enjoy life. They should be good fellows and let us play through.' Not you specifically of course. I have no clue as to the number of your chins or what part of your town you live in.
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  12697.  @rinzler9171  A perhaps surprising source, Yuval Hariri, declares that moderate nationalism is not only good but actually essential. Easily searchable here on this site.
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  12698.  @obosumba   Yeah, and analogously to the Germans, those programmed in wokeism are told that the European peoples are wicked and the West is a cesspool of oppression which must be torn down. Ordinary children are indoctrinated like so many Hitler Youth. So, ironically, woke turns out to mean unable to see reality with one's own eyes, able only to see through what others want one to believe. Blind, asleep, anything but awake. It's like I'm talking to a Moonie here.
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  12699. If the reported estimates of Russian men leaving the country are at all accurate, the media shouldn't be making a big deal out of it. It's only one per cent of the eligible draft-age men (i.e. 250k out of 25m). Let it reach 2.5m, or 10%, and then it's quite significant. But that would be ten times more.
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  12700.  @timonsolus  Why is your estimate only around a third that of others'? (I.e., mid-point 80k, vs. 250k.)
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  12701. Hey, I'm tryna eat my lunch here.🤨
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  12702. One look at her and you can see she's either on drugs or jonesing for a hit.
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  12703. Try looking at photos of Obama as a young guy. Proppa Fro City, bruthas.
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  12704. Yes, it was engrossing, impressive, encouraging, satisfying and all the rest, but is this all there was? Was he really booked for a mere five minutes? Seems a bit far-fetched.
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  12705. 👎 That's so jaundiced. Elon doesn't hate humanity one bit. Did you grow up under communism?
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  12706.  @evgenigenov3433  Research how every class views the rest of society. Not a pretty picture. Class contempt and hatred is spread around quite freely. How can a guy named Evgeni Genov not know that?🤨
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  12707.  @evgenigenov3433  Nothing in your replies has surprised me in the least, given your original post. I give you high marks for consistency.
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  12708. He said "metastized" instead of metastasized. 😄 Dull, with vastly too high self-regard.
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  12709. Not at all. He's very right about Ukraine, totally unlike your heroes—that shoulda-been-a-janitor Mearsheimer and that dissimulating king of sneak Carlson.
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  12710. Sorry Bolt. After what you said about Canadian demonstrators you have no credibility. I wouldn't trust you if you said the sun had risen. Get off the air.
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  12711.  @okyouknowwhatever  Exactly. What was he in Dresden? A colonizer plain and simple.
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  12712. "Statician"? Really? I had to go back because I couldn't believe my ears. The word, Frau Doktor, is statistician. That was a good way to put wings on credibility and throw open the window. Edit: So was telling us that $82,769 is 15% more than $64,572. It's 28% more. Omg, bye.
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  12713. It's the dragon who should watch its step. That's my excellent advice.
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  12714. Well, it's finally official: Book-burning --- in the form of its present-day equivalent, Internet censorship ---- is now mainstream in the United States. Thanks, Big Tech. The thing that made America the world's leading country --- open expression --- is being trashed as an "existential threat." No wonder the US is so far down the list of countries ranked for freedom. Several organizations in the US and elsewhere produce such rankings. Look them up, while you still can.
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  12715. Quite right. You have to admit everything he has said has aged well, except for his milestone timelines (but outlandish goals are how he's gotten the company to produce results) and his prediction in the spring of 2020 that the pandemic would be over in weeks.
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  12716. Confession by prajexion?
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  12717. What can you say about a country where apparently half the people have no idea what the word monopoly means, causing them to misuse it in a comically inappropriate way. 🙄 No wonder we have Peter Pan for a prime minister.
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  12718. I just call her Kringela.
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  12719. Am I seeing right? Those numbers add up to 22 million in four years.😮
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  12720. Look at him as he addresses his political opponents like they're bad pupils in his classroom. (Teaching school was his preparation for politics.) In fact, he talks down to the entire country like they're little kids, even his supporters. He's an excrescence on, as Carlson rightly describes it, a good country now under an authoritarian.
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  12721. Rita, don't cast Trudeau's demise as any sort of fait accompli. He still has the literally bought-and-paid-for media united behind him, and the election is likely 16 months off. He will only need to claw back 10% to win. At the current 24% support, his party will be devastated. But he has twice formed governments with only 33% of the vote.
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  12722. I thought it might interest you to know that your interlocutor's orange avatar is the logo of a socialist party in Canada which has never come within a mile of governing. That's right, a Canadian socialist was trying to school you on ignorance and extremist ideology concerning US veterans issues.
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  12723. I agree with that. Did Fermi devise his paradox after one too many at lunch? What you say also jibes pretty well with my reply to LinusSpacehead just now. (Sort by Newest.)
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  12724. 1:03:05 "There might be one way of being a good person" What?  I've never heard such a preposterous thing in my life. Possibly there is no more deranged group of people walking around nowadays than professors. (And don't be thrown off by the word "might." He wasn't expressing actual doubt there; he just doesn't know the word he wanted was "may," as in "I may not be a lawyer, but I still know this is against the law." It appeared he meant it.)
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  12725. C'mon Dave, watch more carefully. With the herbs on the knees thing she was dissing Chinese trad medicine. (Also, I saw no "Big Fight." Stop it with the fake titles!)
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  12726. Notice the timestamp: only 13 days. Man.
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  12727. Reminds me of some kind of tragedy.
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  12728. I bet GenZers are messed up and guilt-wracked from watching internet porn, which I assume most of them first looked at before they were even 10. It's practically impossible for parents to stop, and many must have watched a large amount. It's probably why they think the human race is terrible and why they so easily absorb woke indoctrination. Guilt and confusion prepare the ground for things like misanthropy, shame, anxiety, depression...and of course sanctimonious finger-pointing.
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  12729.  @spoonshouse9542  Nietzsche said things along those lines, believing that practically everything degenerate in Western civilization came out of the New Testament. I found him cogent on that.
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  12730. A frivolous point. They're both parts of a nuclear power plant.
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  12731.  @mrbaab5932  Mostly fake claim. Megatons of US dairy products enter Canada duty-free or at a 7.5% tariff. I've got some in my fridge right now. A high tariff kicks in after large quotas at zero-to-low tariffs. But thanks for the US Dairy Assoc. point of view.
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  12732. Cuppla freeks. Run, run screaming.
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  12733. Yeah but maybe they can pack the US flag with new states.
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  12734. Very well-made points.
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  12735. You mean MSDNC, surely?
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  12736. Good summary. I agree with every word of that.
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  12737.  @mattt5006  Or they will order you to donate your harvest to the government from then on. Either way, they'll put the little kulak wannabes in their place. ("Nobodies, and they think they're allowed to farm!")
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  12738. To the United passenger: Now avail yourself of one or more of America's one million lawyers.
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  12739. u lzer. rare spessimn shd b stuffed and xibitd. @stuartcunningham7666 
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  12740. Hey dumbass, it's not all people over 55 who need to be especially careful, it's OLD AND SICK people. Get it straight.
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  12741. The whole world suffers economically — and in other ways — if the sea lanes are not secure. I wonder if the US Navy is or has been considering intervention.
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  12742. Your posts must be good, or they wouldn't be clipping them off at only one line visible.👍
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  12743. It's not even criticism, for heaven's sake. It's just a low-key and factual heads-up, and it's a good practice. YouTube does it as well. Btw, the hypocrites at the CBC haven't shut down their YouTube channel, as YouTube isn't owned by Musk.
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  12744. Women past their child-bearing years have always been Putin's key demographic. He is the non-drinking immensely rich husband they always wanted.
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  12745. The comically-named mayor sounds like she prefers to remain mostly out of touch. Good! She faces re-election in less than 8 months.
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  12746. And add to childlessness manlessness. Wanting to commit violence on George Osborne or something like it is almost bound to creep in.
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  12747. He makes me want to throw up.🤮 Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  12748. Her assessment of NATO's conventional war capabilities in Europe versus Russia's is the stark opposite of what, on this very program 6 days ago, we heard from General Sir Richard Shirreff, former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2011-14). She says NATO clearly outguns Russia; he said Russia clearly outguns NATO. Naturally I am confused. Perhaps he meant forces that are already on a war footing, but I do not think so. He made NATO sound simply feckless and in need of multi-year rearming.
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  12749. I'd like to see the armed forces take over the US right now and oversee an emergency federal election. Never thought I'd live long enough to desire such a thing.
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  12750. Ava deserved what she got for going after Douglas on matters having nothing to do with this debate. Gender identity politics was the subject and she knew it. She had no response to the substance of the views he offered, so she attacked him personally. Typical—nay, stereotypical— female tactic, I'm afraid: Don't face your opponent squarely with an honest argument, instead sully his character. (Sorry, atypical women. It's you and us against their idea of fairness.)
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  12751.  @lukedowneslukedownes5900  What? Wrong. He indeed did address US AI v. China AI. He said the US has a distinct lead of about a year.
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  12752. "We're melting! Melting! Meltinnnnnggggg! Aughhhhh!"
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  12753. It seems like ab or tion is a red herring as a federal election issue. As the laws are now written state by state, it's a state election issue, surely? Can a presidential nominee actually promise anything on this apart from Supreme Court appointments and maybe marginal influence via funding?
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  12754. Shove your misanthropy, please. Thank you.
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  12755. I think the shows in the last five years or so are the best. The writing is getting better and better.
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  12756. It should be legal to give someone like that a be ating.
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  12757. Please. A huge fraction are people who first, either (1) used drugs so heavily that they became unemployed and unemployable or (2) became unemployed, then started using drugs so heavily that they became unemployable; then they lost their place to live due to not paying rent.
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  12758.  @showmechrist  Fee-mail bias. If it were a man, no one would inquire into "was someone else responsible?" No one would say "Gee, let's try to understand who made him do it."
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  12759. What a come-down, listening to Jake Broe's maunderings after Emmanuel Macron's concise and accurate summing-up.
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  12760. I don't give a s^&* who says it, whether it's the elites or not. It actually is true and you know it. Find something else to criticize about the US response to Putin.
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  12761.  @johnfeng4374  Wu mao spammer. Go collect your 50 cents.
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  12762. Many Communist Party of China supporters here in the comments are harshly critical and skeptical of human rights and free speech in the UK and elsewhere in the West. I find this galling. They pretend to be unaware that criticism of such a trenchant nature is protected speech here in the West, but not at home in China. Let's see China institute freedom of expression, multi-party democracy, freedom of assembly, and other basic rights---then I can listen to a lecture on Northern Ireland. During the early years of the Troubles in the late 60s, the current government of China was busy putting millions of Chinese people to death. In fact, here, from Wikipedia, is a slogan from the Red Guard at the time: "Those who are against Chairman Mao will have their dog skulls smashed into pieces".
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  12763. None of the altogether 22 Arab countries will. Between them they have 5 million square miles of territory and 450 million people.
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  12764.  @geegeeh.6118  Over two million Arabs live within Israel. They enjoy the full rights of citizenship. In contrast, the position of the Arab world is that the Jewish people should be extirpated from their homeland which they have inhabited continuously for over 3,900 years. Much of it openly declares there must be no place for them on the face of the Earth. Thanks for telling us all about justice.
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  12765. Being out of pocket means down a certain sum of money because one has paid for something for which one expects to be reimbursed. (E.g. "Meanwhile I'm out of pocket for that repair until he gets back from vacation.")
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  12766.  @kayzeaza  Maybe your friends use it that way but it's not in any dictionary and even the slang sites don't give that meaning. I don't blame you, though. Literacy is collapsing all over the place.
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  12767.  @kayzeaza  Once again you think you know things that you really don't. I'm not a boomer.😄
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  12768. Less early every day.
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  12769. So according to the court's decision, if someone falsely accuses you of a terrible crime, you can't say they're a crazy liar. Just the latest weaponization of the justice system. I hope he can appeal.
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  12770. Offering a summary in the description section is a clever and highly useful action. Well done indeed, Freddie.
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  12771. Trains were already a big deal before he was born. By 1848 there was a vast network of rail lines in Britain totalling 5,000 miles, and in the US there were 9,021 miles in 1850. Also, the telegraph was invented close to two decades before his birth.
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  12772. How I'd love to fling into a cesspool all these Anglophobe trolls in the comments below.
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  12773. The Chinese nation is 100,000 years old? My dear fellow, humans were still in Africa then. Stay away from exaggeration if you want to be heard. Undermine the CPC with vigour and vision, yes---but with accuracy, too, for it lasts.
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  12774. Stuff your message. We don't like you at all. Stuff your exports. I boycott you. Stuff your support for the psycho Putin. We won't let him win. Long live a free, sovereign, heavily-armed Taiwan! 🇹🇼 I raise my glass to the US Navy! 🇺🇸 I raise my glass to NATO! 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇦🇹🇷
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  12775. Bingo! You strike me as someone who's attended to actuality.
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  12776. Childhood abuse in fact was mentioned as the suspected usual main cause. Your attention must have wandered right then.
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  12777. You think he is stupid?
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  12778. Do British people really pronounce revolt as 'revault'?
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  12779.  @EC-ol6ck  <---"The best and brightest are not going to join [the mining] industry." Ok, but why would that be a problem? The best and the brightest are the top (let's say) 2% of the workforce, which leaves 98%. Oh, I forgot—most kids are convinced by airhead parents and lazy teachers and professors that they're quite excellent now. ("You're the best!" "You can be anything you want!" An average mark in many high schools is now an A, etc.)
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  12780. Eventually every person in Florida will have seen this. I love that.
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  12781. Fitting if true. There was nothing good about her.
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  12782. Skull dubious, face that could stop Big Ben, instincts of a Soviet commissar, intellect like a block of Velveeta, ego that dwarfs the Trump Tower, voice that makes ordinary people envy the deaf. Otherwise she's great.
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  12783. Bad as they wanna be.
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  12784. NATO is merely the club of countries which exists to deter Russia from attacking them. You don't understand Europe. You don't understand Russia. You don't understand Putin. You don't understand anything.
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  12785.  @RS-hr8mj  (1) No, the boomers (born 1946-64) were ages 6-33 in the 70s. (2) "What wars did they fight in?" Well, if you will deign to consider Americans as part of the world, then you will accept that they fought in the Vietnam war. You've heard of it of course?
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  12786. @@JoeBlue-gr9je (1) I'm not confusing anything. (2) How do you presume to know what 'my country' is? (3) The National Archives of the UK, nationalarchives.gov.uk: "Baby Boomers are people who were born between 1946 and 1964."
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  12787.  @nigec3971  How very interesting that you fought in the Gulf War in 1992. It took place in 1991.🤨
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  12788. @@JoeBlue-gr9je Found the impostor. (It was good old Nigey-baby.)😄 See my post of just now.
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  12789. As I always understood it, equality of opportunity meant across groups of people with comparable aptitude and ability. Not a soul on earth wants the un-coordinated, ungainly and clumsy to have their fair shot at getting to the top of the ballet world. I appreciate your doggedness in pursuit of clear thinking but in my view you're much too literal-minded here.
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  12790. Typical woman, with instincts towards mercy. 👏
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  12791.  @gamingweasel4633  They're nicer than we are. Not better, but on average somewhat nicer.
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  12792. No problem. Australia can pay to break the contract. But it will also send China a multi-billion dollar invoice for the pandemic. The latter amount will exceed the former. As I say, no problem.
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  12793. And on the other hand, with an open and free system and scrupulous rule of law, Russia would invade Europe…by purchasing it with the immense riches they would soon have. Russia is poised to be an wild success, wealthier than Germany maybe, but is held back by its system of government. I worry that they (generally) are born to be ruled, preferring to live under a strict 'dad' instead of being adults.
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  12794. Hmm, I seem to remember it was 75.
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  12795.  @galaxiedance3135  So about 6-8mpg?
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  12796. Publicly saying "no arrests" is smart. It builds the confidence of ring operators they're now watching.
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  12797. The woman then ran inside to rob the pharmacist of tranquilizers.
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  12798. Different ownership, loose affiliation.
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  12799.  @ThisManTriggeredMe  "And when things do go awry, you will be cowering and begging" That's right. It's the corollary of: 2020: "Defund the police." Same person, 2024: "Help! Police!"
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  12800. I'm guessing a tremendous number of man-hours and high-tech surveillance resources (US satellites, I'm looking at you) have gone into pinpointing the location of Russian military assets over the past several months. And now they're going to be picked off one by one. (Captain Storm Shadow may soon be made Colonel.)
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  12801.  @gawgaw6941  Either it's a European leader or it's not. Nothing should be more important to a European leader than European security, and that means not leaving it all up to the US, UK and Poland.
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  12802. Fair take. It's a matter of threading the needle: assuring security of supply for vital products, maximizing employment and wages, maintaining consumer affordability/living standards. Tricky, necessary. No place for a crude sledgehammer method.
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  12803. What are some of the best books on it?
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  12804. Problem is, you can't do things to correct the mistakes of the past 40-some years unless conditions have remained effectively the same. And it's highly arguable that they have not. (1) Iran has gotten much closer to China and Russia. (2) The nature of war has changed: besides the evolution of traditional kinetic warfare, we now have much cheaper drone weaponry and cyber warfare as major factors as well. (3) On top of all that there are now commitments to a major war in nearby Ukraine. The moment the US becomes stretched too thin it is quite likely to have its (UK in 1956) Suez Moment — times five or ten. That means it withdraws, loses all credibility as a guarantor of security, and the world is soon overturned. What I mean by that is that Israel and Ukraine become almost the least of the worries of the US and the Western alliance. All at once you could see the security of 50 to 100 countries up in the air, or an even higher number. (Taiwan is only the most obvious one.) Around the world there would be tremendous loss of freedom and a lot of bloodshed. Simultaneously the dollar would be severely devalued, because the reason for it being so overvalued, as it is now, is chiefly the standing of America as the world's leading power. American wealth would erode quickly and on a great scale. (To give you an idea, it could be tens of trillions of dollars a year for a period of some years.) We're talking about a collapse of living standards and global power in every sense.
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  12805. ​ @agarbis6571  No, he wants to preserve global peace with a show of strength. I take it you want to see a weak US/Europe and a strong Authoritarian Axis (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and every other country with a garbage repressive regime). The choice is between those two contrary opposites. But the stronger the US and Europe (plus Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia and a few others), the longer the Pax Americana will last. By Pax Americana I mean the post-WWII period during which the world has enjoyed much less war than in the first half of the 20th century, as well as the greatest prosperity in history by far. During this era, parts of the world not subject to the influence of American power have been the areas with the greatest degradation of human dignity and the greatest loss of life. (E.g. under all the communist regimes.)
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  12806. She doesn't know how many military deaths Russia suffered in the World Wars, nor how many the US suffered in Vietnam. Yet she is a Russia 'expert' from the Institute for the Study of War! (Didn't Earn It has a marvellous abbreviation.) Mainstream academic estimates: 1.7m; 8.6m-10.6m; 58k, respectively.
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  12807. Trump has a magic figure: $200bn. Whenever he whines about the US being a victim, he always adds $200bn to the supposed "ripoff." If Trump were to complain about $50bn of underspending on defense by Japan, he'd automatically say "Japan owes us $250bn. We're subsidizing them by $250bn."
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  12808.  @SuperSuperdude88  Spending on Ukraine is lunch money compared to the cost of letting European security collapse. Tens of billions versus tens of trillions. I repeat, lunch money. Moreover it's being well spent. Militarily it's been highly effective: Putin is the frog being slowly boiled, his army decimated. After his defeat he will not dare repeat his blunder. Go home, Ivan. Get t.f.o. of Ukraine where you don't belong.
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  12809. Most shocking of all: what Peta Credlin is wearing.
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  12810. It was after a decade of demands from no-limits liberals to "Stop just reporting what each side says!" The exact date is impossible to pinpoint because the change was so gradual. But they overcame a lot of resistance during Bush's 2nd term. After Obama won, the doctrine of neutrality was decisively smashed.
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  12811. It was after a decade of demands from no-limits liberals to "Stop just reporting what each side says!" The exact date is impossible to pinpoint because the change was so gradual. But they overcame a lot of resistance during Bush's 2nd term. After Obama won, the doctrine of neutrality was decisively smashed.
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  12812. Trudeau did not invoke martial law to break up this protest. Ordinary police powers were fully sufficient for that purpose. He did it to persecute political opponents in a vastly more comprehensive way, something which will now be done through police and judicial processes over the coming months and years. Understand that rescinding the EA doesn't mean that its rights-denying, above-the-law legal action is at an end. It has only just begun. You think you're on the right side of things, and that's a good thing in itself. Only you're not sufficiently looking into what actually does constitute the good. I should think you're simply relying on trust of institutions built up in you over your lifetime, trust which during that period was indeed largely merited. Just do not fail to notice when that merit has evaporated, and be brave about the inevitable crushing pain that goes along with loss of trust.
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  12813. ​ @ianm8137  I'm guessing it's mostly done by smaller channels where the uploader did not think much of his or her own voice, nor had the money to hire a professional. Just a guess. But yeah, often it's clearly a cover for having no English-speaking people at the channel, and for me it does set propaganda caution lights flashing. Edit: 🤔It's weird that​ @ianm8137 's comment got deleted. He only said that, in contrast to Times Radio, other channels alienate him by using AI voiceovers.
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  12814. "Part" lol Outstanding. That one word made it ten times funnier.
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  12815. But Putin is highly skilled at demonstrating that you do have something to lose. Not a very exalted skill, certainly, but he makes extensive use of it.
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  12816. Very much so. The CBC is the worst of all. Defund that pig—now.
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  12817. He's safely in some room behind a camera. But he'll "have a nerve" to frequent the faculty lounge next fall.
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  12818. ​ ITHEREONETHATHASNT ​ Yes, if you want to blame the botched response in the Western democracies on anyone, how about the electorate? They're a bunch of fucking imbeciles, so don't they get the imbecile government they deserve and in fact demand? Look at the democracies of the Far East. Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are coming through this much better so far. Singapore and Hong Kong are only pretty dubiously democratic and they're not having major problems either. Yes, we are not the same people who calmly beat the hell out of the Axis powers and set up such a ridiculously rich and smoothly running gang as NATO seventy years ago. Face it, we're bungling and flailing midgets compared to them. But do not cheerlead for the death of the West out of sheer despondency. The longer it goes on, the lower the barbarity quotient and sheer human misery quotient stays. The West is like a juggler keeping a million balls in the air. It's a most unlikely and most beautiful aberration. So don't get your point of view twisted; instead catch a plummeting ball and fling it back upward.
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  12819.  ITHEREONETHATHASNT  Ok, in the West it's your perfect right to dump on the West as worthless. But if you're still living here you should put your money where your mouth is, so to speak, get out, and spend the rest of your days elsewhere. Or just stay here and be one of the twisted Western hypocrites you disdain with such clear-eyed moral vision.
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  12820.  ITHEREONETHATHASNT  That's the problem with the West. Too many people who think it's not their job to keep it going. Rather, they think it's the job of some vaguely conceived others commonly called "they". ' "They" should do something about this or that.' 'Why don't "they" invent a new such-and-such?'   And when things get tough, ' "They" messed everything up, I'm getting the hell out of here. Honey, we're sailing for Byzantium.'
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  12821. This is the guy who never says "ain't" except when addressing black people. "Hey yo, I'm hip witcha bruhthuhs and sistas." He would put on an afro wig if he could get away with it. Dear Black Americans: Behind your back the Democrats laugh at you.
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  12822. That spelling ship sailed a century or more ago.
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  12823.  Dionysus The Younger  Look up passive-aggressive. You need to learn what it means. Tip: learn what it means first, then use it. Not the other way around.
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  12824. Maybe that enters into it. But most of it is just dog whistling between the media and the rioters.
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  12825. @TFactory I agree with all that. (Except I think US govt spending as a percentage of GDP is around 10th-lowest of about 35 OECD (developed) countries. That's a good proxy for taxes and thus I would call them medium-low.)
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  12826. Wuhan Dan.
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  12827. The lowest form of life isn't single-celled creatures you can only see with a microscope. It's left activists. Congratulations, protozoa. You're out of last place.
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  12828. Germany and Britain have both really come through just now. The German tranche is their largest yet by far, $3.0bn. I don't think people understand how finessed and choreographed this NATO show is. I find it amazingly adroit so far. But you have to worry what Russia might have up its sleeve. I have no doubt it has been energetically preparing for escalation. And the way they never went after Ukrainian rail lines unnerves me.
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  12829. Yeah!👍
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  12830. That's simply a guess. A useless one.
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  12831. A grandstander since day one as a student protester. Puts Trump to shame for sheer self-admiration.
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  12832.  @andrina118  Whenever I see a post like yours—one that aims to confuse, to discourage, to attack hope, to make people cynical and rob them of salutary beliefs and confidence—my suspicions are acutely aroused. These are the classic techniques of so-called psy-ops, which are campaigns, sometimes highly successful, to demoralize people by manipulating their thoughts so they stop believing anybody, anything. Key words: confuse, manipulate, demoralize.
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  12833. Yes, because the truth cannot possibly be that simple. How can you ask?
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  12834. Let's be fair. Who among us didn't put fire extinguishers in our pants once or twice when we were young?
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  12835. All this seems a little too good to be true, and I wonder if Scholz has the same worry. Are the Russian forces really as weak and incompetent as they seem? Since the first week I've been concerned that this is a trap for NATO, a way for China and Russia to team up and draw NATO first into one war and then a second (Taiwan), effectively dividing its resources so that it loses both wars. On this view, China is biding its time for the point when NATO is fully embroiled in Ukraine. If there were shots fired between NATO and Russia, NATO would pour immense resources into Eastern Europe, leaving it in a poor position to engage China on a second front. Then Putin can just unilaterally ceasefire and say "No, we should not go to war directly. This is between us and Ukraine. Back off and I will too, but Ukraine is mine. Otherwise all-out war," and claim to be the reasonable party.
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  12836.  bruce parka  I made some important edits to my reply just now, which might have been after you read it initially.
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  12837. I have no criticism of China's handling of this since their slow start. But then, I have only heard the Chinese government's account of things, which is apt to be self-serving. I noticed also that the doctor suggested Canada emulate the COVID-19 response of China's neighbours, not China. Anyway, even if you were right that Canada is good for nothing and China worthy of emulation, it must still be remembered that Canada has been the destination for several tens of thousands of Chinese emigrants each year for decades now, while zero or near zero Canadians emigrate to China. It's pretty much only you and a handful of Republican-voting Fox-News-worshipping men in the States who thinks this country is a hellhole.
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  12838. You say that critics of "WLM" (and "All LM" too, I would assume) can never say what's wrong with it. Then you didn't read yesterday's New York Times. Its response was handled by one of its senior fashion editors (!), who wrote that Ye/West has no excuse, because now right-wingers will unleash deadly violence on black people. Yep, she wrote that.
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  12839. I'm confused. A terrific source, an Australian military economics specialist, said that the Pentagon totally walked back this disclosure within a day or so. Has what we see in this video been amply confirmed and not withdrawn? Please reply so I know if I can celebrate or not.
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  12840. Ok, Ivan.
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  12841. 🎵"Ding, dong! [etc.]"🎶 At last! She's gone! 🎉🎊🥂 But let's be real about this. She didn't resign, he fired her on Friday. If the boss says "You're gone" and the underling says "I resign," it's a firing. Anyway, it's really starting to look like an election in about 100 days. 🥳
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  12842. Dear Times Radio: Hire one or two competent, skilled sound people. The sound must be clear. It must be at the same level for each person speaking. Thank you.
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  12843.  @judedaniels5116  Hey Jude, any person who thinks police shouldn't exist probably will not exist as long as the average person does. Toxic beliefs are toxic for those who believe in them.
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  12844. This occurrence has sent European energy prices up. And so, cui bono? ['For whose benefit?', the proverbial Latin question asked of a crime.] Russia, that's who.
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  12845.  @UnkownUser2001  I just did.
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  12846.  @Anne_Onymous  I'm curious how you saw the invisible post, though.
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  12847. The 'golden' part concerns wealth. When the name was devised in the mid-1950s Hamilton was definitely prospering.
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  12848.  @ralpharteaga5142  Well, very many of them anyway. If you don't think Russia has an idiot problem, you're just in love (which is nice for you, don't get me wrong).
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  12849. So Kringela Harris works for one embalmed guy and trails another one in the polls. Ouch. How's she doing against the certifiably living?
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  12850. As a generality I would say equality wasn't the goal in the first place, domination was, even for those who didn't consciously realize it. Ordinarily, apparent equality-mindedness is an instrumental overlay atop the real instincts, desires and subconscious intentions. It is much to be regretted, but deep down we are really a master-and-servant species.
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  12851.  @jinxesinshadows1994  You don't feel there is anything else involved here besides the matter of consent?
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  12852.  @luisgarciagarcia563  No mention of what Putin "must do"? Zelensky is already doing exactly what he must do: saving his country. Doing the opposite, sitting down to give it away piecemeal to Putin would be treacherous, traitorous. The longer this war goes on, the worse for your boy Putin.
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  12853.  @luisgarciagarcia563  Zelensky has made it clear that any peace deal will have to be ratified by the whole nation in a referendum. If they feel like surrendering, they will, so you'll have to accept that.
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  12854.  @luisgarciagarcia563  You'd think so, but maybe Putin might not mind one. He's itching to do anything the West doesn't want him to. He could only be trying to distract the West while China moves on one or more countries in the Indo-Pacific. I think when they mutually declared their alliance "without limits" a couple of months ago we should have instantly attributed some truth to that.
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  12855. 'Everybody's biased except me.' — our presenter with the hair carefully swept to one side
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  12856. Biden did the same thing and hardly campaigned at all in 2020. Worked for him. There's no need to do much of anything when you've got the vast media and social media machines working for you. Just kick back and attend a few rallies. They'll do the rest.
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  12857. Biden did the same thing and hardly campaigned at all in 2020. Worked for him. There's no need to do much of anything when you've got the vast media and s o ci al media machines working for you. Just kick back and attend a few rallies. They'll do the rest.
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  12858. If you're wondering about inspection of ships' cargo, around the entire world there has always been very little to no inspection of ships leaving any given country. Any inspections done are of ships arriving at ports. It it highly likely to remain that way forever. I hope that answers your question.
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  12859. Own-goal by Russia. Happens all the time.
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  12860. Michigan's gain has been Quebec's loss. Hey Gad, you're about to miss the nationwide celebration when Trudeau makes his exit. You should probably hop in the car and return for the sheer glee of it.
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  12861. But many of these involve planes Boeing built 10 or 20 years ago.🤨 So we need to look at the airlines. Either (1) management is scrimping on maintenance, (2) the workers doing it are from the incompetent and less intelligent later generations, or (3) they're hired because they tick boxes. (Probably all three.)
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  12862.  @laynecox3992  Little truth to that. Learn more about oil refining. Some refineries could be tweaked over a period of months at considerable expense and with reduced output. Most would need to be ripped apart after extensive planning and rebuilt over a period of years, at vast expense.
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  12863.  @laynecox3992  Less a mind I'm dealing with here than a bee in a glass jar. Spectacular.
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  12864. Congratulations protozoa, you've been replaced by left-wing activists as the lowest form of life.
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  12865. The first word out of the mouth of the Labour fellow is "So", as though he's summing up a well-made argument. How I despise such a low and swinish trick of rhetoric. It has spread like wildfire among self-righteous millennials, lefties, and hipsters. Another empty assertion comes courtesy of his blue-framed eyeglasses, which seem to say: 'I am a stylish and interesting person.' (He'd also stuff in 'so' at the start of the sentence.)
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  12866. Illiterate headline. Where do you get "2p" from? That means £0.02. The rate is falling from 12% to 10%, which is a 1/6th decrease. R.I.P. Journalism. Died 2020, After a Long Illness.
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  12867. Canada would obviously be more than one state. Ontario would rank 5th in population (after New York) while Quebec would be 12th (after New Jersey). BC and Alberta also in the top 25. But something would have to be done about the small provinces. The four Atlantic provinces can't have eight senators.😂
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  12868.  @michaele1502  News flash: they go down, we go down.
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  12869.  @michaele1502  I believe that will be forestalled by the US and Canada uniting. We would be much stronger as one country and at some point it will be a matter of survival for both of us as our security and prosperity come under threat or attack.
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  12870.  @kristend344  2024 official estimates: Canada 41.9 million California 39.1 million Sources: Statistics Canada; California Governor's Office
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  12871.  @kristend344  What part of official estimate, 2024, Statistics Canada (govt. of Canada) did you not read and understand? Look for yourself: Canada's Population Clock.
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  12872. As a human being, I would love to be treated so courteously by a majority of women working in retail stores, doctor's offices and call centers.
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  12873. Coming soon: A special quasi-martial law, hastily passed to deal with a normal situation that's labelled an "emergency." Just like Trudeau did in Canada to quash a loud but entirely peaceful protest specifically against him. And just as in Canada, the illiberal liberal media will go to the ends of the earth to back it, to praise it, and to sell it to the public. Presto! People silenced, people jailed, people held without bail, their bank accounts seized even though there are no charges, no accusations, not a whisper, of any financial wrongdoing in the least.
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  12874. $50b announced yesterday. Watch for continued ramping up. In the coming days, weeks, and months the Practically-Minded Thinking Index is going to hit generational highs.
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  12875.  @RealYRM  Please re-post this as a stand-alone comment. It's amazingly well stated but it's buried as a reply in this thread. In fact, re-post it elsewhere on social media, too --- everywhere you can think of. (And break it into a few paragraphs!)
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  12876. My girlfriend with my money. Note how she leaves as soon as there's no more.
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  12877.  @dadigitechman  Ok.
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  12878. Her Royal Self-Satisfiedness: "Congratulations on being here to listen to me speak. It is a great honor for you."
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  12879. 1) Education only has a little to do with memorizing facts. Albert Einstein: "Education is what's left when everything learned has been forgotten." This is of the utmost importance. 2) The quality of information on the internet, esp. free sites and esp. YouTube is very, very spotty. Besides that, a great deal of it is deliberate misinformation uploaded by foreign government-sponsored sources. Most importantly, the publishers and highly-qualified editors who work vigilantly to maintain the quality of books simply are not there. At all. It's mainly people of unverified qualifications working alone and producing undergraduate-level essays which no one has checked for anything. Many are of course quite untalented at thought. 3) It is not a way to get an education or "a grasp of the world"(!). It is only safe for someone who is already well educated. And even for them it's full of traps, blind alleys and just plain errors. You're much better off finding out which books pre-dating the politically correct era have long been considered classics in their subject area. Read them, and read the books which you find referred to in them. And do not read only and deliberately to have your views confirmed. That may happen, and there is no hard and fast rule, but on the whole it is better to be surprised.
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  12880. Yes, and Eff Jay Bee.
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  12881. If I had my way I'd want to see rolling 3-mo. averages MoM on every one of these stats. Granularity I love in theory, but in real life stuff is blurry when it's six inches from your face. You need to be a couple of steps back.
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  12882. "From Warsaw to war." "Despite their jingoism." "When reality sets in, the facade cracks." Omg this guy is so cheesy. No reality set in, no facade cracked; the guy just acknowledged some fear. And what's wrong with talking to your mother before going off to war? The reporter raised the topic as though the guy should be embarrassed. Give the assignment to somebody with a stronger mind who neither speaks nor thinks in clichés.
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  12883. Modi plays both sides to India's benefit. He doesn't give a flying f about Ukraine. Beware the serpent who's "true friends" with decent men and scoundrels alike.
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  12884. ​ @cookrileyw  The OC said nothing about "truly taking off." He flatly said fusion won't be around till 2070. If you want to draw a line between small-time and big-time, fine, but give some sort of rationale for it besides "everyone still primar[il]y travelled by ship and rail." As I said, commercial air travel began in 1914. By the latter 1930s US airlines served more than a million passengers a year. Try reconciling that with air travel being "definitely still 20 years off" in 1925.
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  12885.  @stockdale829  You would've made a great 10 Downing staffer during Lord Chamberlain's tenure.
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  12886.  @stockdale829  Total mess of a rebuttal in need of much more and much better imagination.🙄 Have a nice night.
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  12887.  @elsenm3965  Yep. All Russian strategy, every Russian tactic, every emanation from the Kremlin, bears a sickening similarity, often an exact one, to something the Nazis did. Their playbook is being copied with fidelity that is paradoxically both shocking and tedious.
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  12888. Corrupt people of Earth: Band together now or risk being destroyed by Elon Musk.
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  12889. Why on earth should the streets and sidewalks owned by all Bostonians be turned over to restaurant owners and customers for their personal profit and enjoyment? Those advocating for this nonsense years after the pandemic should be laughed out of town. These dingbats need to take their tables and chairs onto their own property.
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  12890.  @AeroMetalRush  No, Elon is not an ally of Russia. He's more like the reason Ukraine still exists. (I'm talking about Starlink.)
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  12891.  @Solange1988  Musk saved Ukraine.
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  12892. Well, hard-left activists flock to these uploads and pile on the dislikes and "reports." In many or most cases, I would imagine, that's enough for the algorithm to handle the deletion on its own. (In the rest, of course, some wokester hireling gleefully hits the destroy button. Presto!, a hit of dopamine and 10 cents in wages.🤮)
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  12893.  @atalorm369  Thanks for your interesting reply. It led me to consider the nature of taboos, like not talking about adultery and divorce at a wedding reception, or eventual decrepit health and senility in a neonatal ward. One could say they amount to simple denial, but maybe they're just effective aids to carrying on in a state of reasonably good cheer. They're both, I suppose.
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  12894. Correction: Misguided, misinformed, uneducated and miseducated.
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  12895.  @AlFredE0258  Yes. In a way he's in the place Emmanuel Goldstein held in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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  12896.  @panemetcircenses6003  Now and then, here and there, we find a person or people in charge who cares more about something else, or a few other things, than the maximization of riches. They're easier to spot if one merely accepts that they exist. Of course they may be dangerous lunatics of one type or other. So it's lunacy that's the problem, not sheer devotion to money, which is only one lunacy among many, and in my view not the worst of them.
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  12897. Plays the female solidarity card in the first second.
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  12898.  @duncanildaho4966  N. Vietnam was of course supplied by China and Russia. Iraq was not intended to be annexed, so the US left when the govt was stabilized. As for Afghanistan, the US and ISAF never intended to conquer it, as such a thing is perennially impossible. Instead they stayed 20 years, which was long enough to make their point: If you host military training on your soil and then the US is attacked, you will get some very unpleasant guests who will stay for a very long time. The US left at a time of its own choosing, and the deterrent appears to have worked well all this time.
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  12899. Deer: "I hate it when I have that paint-can-on-my-head-in-the-lake nightmare. This time was so realistic!"
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  12900.  @SILVERWOLF3X3  Make AOC a Bartender Again. (If she really ever was a waitress, then good, that's even better! But I heard she was a bartender. Handle it yourself.). ;)
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  12901. That's not true, I've witnessed that.😂
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  12902.  @housebuilder1924  I stole it. Long ago, the late Norm Macdonald got fired from Weekend Update on SNL, not by Lorne Michaels but by the president of NBC (!). When the news broke, David Letterman hurriedly booked Norm to be on his show about two nights later. He sincerely thought the world of Norm, so during the segment he adamantly expressed his solidarity with him over and over, at one point deriding the network president's pretense to being a creative person: "He couldn't create gas after a bean dinner!" The audience burst out laughing and that's when Norm swiftly answered with the above line. (The whole lengthy appearance, still available for viewing and well worth one's while, is jam-packed with hilarity and also touching for the emotions and friendship evident in it. If you ask me, it was a high point in both their careers.)
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  12903. I blame his grandfather, Philip, for pressuring Charles to marry Diana. Likewise anyone who joined the Duke in applying that pressure. With that reckless and indiscriminate introduction of a highly unsuitable person into the family, some sort of terrible outcome was nearly bound to happen, and the die was cast.
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  12904. Yeah, but they arrived in the 1780s and 90s, getting close to 250 years ago. And they were the most British of the British-Americans. They thought the Founding Fathers were a bunch of terrorists and radicals, which by the standards of the era they most certainly were (gentlemanly though many of them in fact were).
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  12905. It was both. All along the Americans wanted a free Europe, but very preferably a much weakened one which they could dominate informally, buy up at cheap prices, and sell things to. It also wanted someone else to do the true heavy lifting of defeating the Wehrmacht. The Soviets were that someone, and they came through. So yes the US cared about the liberation of (Western) Europe from Germany but didn't care to see it overrun by communists either. For kicking Hitler's ass, the Soviets got the prize they deserved, control of the future Warsaw Pact states.
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  12906.  @TheJlee28  Stop harassing me.
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  12907. Actually, no. This whole thing is 90% the Speaker's personal fault. The remaining responsibility is with the Prime Minister's Office, which really runs the country and failed to take the reins and vet the (oh-so-clueless) Speaker's personal invitee from his hometown. Your impression is understandable, created by the multi-day delay before the Speaker resigned. He should've stepped down within a few hours.
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  12908. Way down in hell, Nicolae Ceausescu, Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev are standing and applauding in sincere admiration: "Yes! This mayor gets it!" 👏👏
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  12909. Wow, 0.6% in March alone. The annual rate, which rose just one click to 2.9%, is misleading in a way. It tells you an awful lot about the rate 13 months earlier. Because that month (in this case March 2023) drops off the data in each report. So any time you see an annual rate change, it's just the difference between 13 months ago and one month ago. Well, 13 months ago, it was a hot month, at 0.5%. So in today's report, it was bound to take a lot of inflation for the rate to stay near to February's annual rate, 2.8%. And so it did: That 0.6% was definitely high. Only March 2023 dropping off kept it from looking as bad as it was. If we'd had a more moderate 0.2%, the annual rate would now be a very promising 2.5%. So we stand at 2.9%, but the last two months have not been good. Together February and March totalled almost a full per cent (0.9%), which is very fast for a mere two months. It's about 6% annualized. One more of these and the Bank of Canada would be well advised to reconsider cutting rates. One more and it'll be just about time to say hello to stagflation.
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  12910. You don't even have to open them. X-ray scanning works. But it's almost overkill: it can detect really small things like handguns, and is quite expensive. So it would probably be best to train dogs to find stolen cars. Fairly cheap and easy. Of course the thieves might then seal them in giant bags...🤔
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  12911.  @aetherfox4404  I'm not so sure. An official US government estimate of conducting fairly thorough searches of every container arriving at and leaving all US ports a couple of years ago was, if I remember rightly, only $18-30bn. Canadian container traffic is probably less than a tenth that of the US, since our GDP is about 1/11th. I can hardly say for sure but I'm going to guess that two billion a year would be more than enough. The value of cars stolen in 2022 passed the $1bn mark; from there car thefts rose sharply in 2023. Also note that, besides what might be discovered by sniffing around or peeking into departing containers, inspecting all arriving cargo would certainly yield some interesting results as well. (Incidentally, the US already does randomly inspect about 5% of all cargo containers arriving and departing. That 5% is overwhelmingly arrivals.)
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  12912. A hugely exaggerated figure. That would be 30 million barrels of oil a day, or 30% of the world's total supply. Ridiculous. Divide that by about 20.
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  12913. The PRC is a rogue province of Taiwan.🇹🇼
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  12914. What are the odds!
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  12915. Too edited down, giving us the conclusions isolated from the reasons. E.g., Mao liked governments that were the antithesis of what he stood for — but why? China liked the Shah of Iran — but why? Because Iranian communists threatened China's security?🤨
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  12916. Make AOC a Bartender Again
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  12917. Wold of wonders.
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  12918. Any one sincerely claiming that Kringela Harris is intelligent is simply no more intelligent than she is. Sometimes it's necessary to spot the obvious and just point it out.
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  12919.  @davedixon2068  Ok ok, don't yell. I'd like to believe you, but where might I find the best corroboration of what you say? What about even in the higher-level blogs on the better sites? (I gave up being super-extremely fussy because it seems that if you are, nowadays, you just go without.) I'm open to learning something. Cheers mate
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  12920.  @davedixon2068  Anyway, I was mainly driving at a separate point: What if China's military budget really amounts to not $250bn, but (I don't know) $500bn to $1trn? Say there's not just a currency undervaluation but also a great deal of concealment of arms spending in China? You say it's done in the US. So why not in China, probably the world headquarters of concealment in every last sense of the word? More than half of China, including most of official China, hates the US and the West. Where there's a will to arm and to do so stealthily, there's a way, as you would seem to agree.
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  12921. AFAIK he's never been better than right here. I really savoured this.
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  12922. Nope. Just war. Initiated by Gazans themselves.
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  12923. Kringela Harris: "When Democrats destroy democracy it's all part of saving democracy."
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  12924. Go back to your herd. Your goats miss the special love you give them.
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  12925. But Afghans were not discarded by the US. The US was discarded by them. Afghans didn't want freedoms. So how can the US or anyone impose freedom on them? Like many peoples, alas, around the world, most Afghans are simply born to be ruled. From what I gather most Mainland Chinese want nothing more than to live forever under their strict Dad, Xi, and never attain adulthood, but remain boys and girls until they die. There, now the nail has been hit on its head.
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  12926.  @someguyfromarcticfreezer6854  Not a bad take on it at all, but I have a somewhat different view. You're spot on about never intending to completely conquer Afghanistan, and about bin Laden, but the point was also to say to Afghanistan and the world "If you host terrorism schools and their graduates move on and try out their new skills on the West, you will get some very unpleasant guests indeed, who will make themselves at home for a full generation."
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  12927. So far about 100,000.
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  12928. U of C encampment was there for a while before the police moved in. How many days/weeks? The U of T one has been, I dunno, three weeks? Ends soon.
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  12929. Beste Bemerkungen! (Best comment!)
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  12930. If you're saying he should run with it, I respectfully disagree. No one wants to see a rich guy laughing. Seriously. Simple truth. His fake-un-self-conscious look of puzzled concentration sells better, because it's more dignified. Better to go with the dignity and let Gutfield handle the chuckling.
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  12931.  @amazingamx1255  The paramedic told me right away I would've perished without my helmet. (The strangest thing is I knew the guy. He used to be my next door neighbour. I was on the pavement looking up at his upside-down face. Then I said "Scott?")
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  12932. He would know, that old Hor.😄
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  12933. 24:30 There's really evidence of a "12,000-year test" of gold's suitability as a store of value? Smelting wasn't invented till 5,000 years later, so we'd need signs that flakes or nuggets of placer gold were used as money. Sounds like a tall order.
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  12934.  @nippasss  Perhaps re-read. I was addressing Americans. Suggested edit: "Yes, Americans, this is correct! Your tax on Canadian goods is now 25%. You pay, not Canada. 🍁"
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  12935. Dan Andrews would be perfectly cast as O'Brien in a remake of 1984. I wonder if he has the special rodent cages in his basement for cosplaying.
    1
  12936.  vpn rockies  I guarantee you that all four epithets he aimed at you apply quite well to himself. It's the Golden Age of Projection.
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  12937.  @stafey7659  You've been brainwashed into misanthropy. Bad. I bet you'd participate eagerly in a scheme of genocide, as hatred always precedes abuse on a gross scale.
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  12938.  @stafey7659  Oh, and hey, if humans are just scourges of the earth, I think it should be clear to you that you have only one honourable choice. So go ahead, just leave your hovel neat and tidy before you go. Thank you.
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  12939. May 27 Leger poll: "Which of the party leaders do you think would make the best prime minister?" Those responding "Trudeau": ........ 🎊🎉16% 🎉🎊
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  12940.  @MichaelBelsey  I consider that I've made a wrong turn in life if I even find that I'm in the same room as one.
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  12941. Nobody didn't gimme no chance.
    1
  12942. A post difficult to beat for its needlessness.
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  12943.  @vapormissile  Defense stocks are a small fraction of the US stock market. All of them combined are still less valuable than Walmart. Half the value of the soft drinks sector. This feels like discussing politics with a drunk in a dive bar. You wouldn't be in a dive bar right now, would you? 😂
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  12944. This was a 2 1/2 minute ad for it.
    1
  12945. Entirely correct! The software update will occur automatically, drivers being unaware it even occurred. The word "recall" should no longer be used for this sort of software fix.
    1
  12946. Read the description above.
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  12947. This was in my feed right next to a news clip about Ketanji Brown Jackson. 😄What a contrast. Someone whose political vision I give a 10 out of 10 on this issue and others, next to someone I give a zero out of 10 for hers.
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  12948. Don't even call me 'straight.' The word is normal. Don't call me a 'cis-male.' The word is man. Never use the term 'biological woman.' The word is woman. And while I'm at it, stop saying 'soy milk' and 'cow's milk.' It's soy drink and milk.
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  12949. See how a big fat joint keeps a Dutch pilot's nerves steady? :)
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  12950.  @lourdesgreen2213  "First Lady" is a phony title. Wife of the president isn't an office. Such wives should very seldom be heard from, Melania Trump having been an exemplar in that regard.
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  12951. Absolutely false quote: "[O]r base full of troops gets entirely destroyed." Appallingly not even close. "A base is attacked and ten people die" 2:44 was what he actually said.
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  12952. Of all the 'public figures' about whose views the public cares least, it's possible Sean Lennon ranks the farthest below Harry. No mean achievement, when you think about that.
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  12953. Also Russians: "Bad as we wanna be." As well as: "When life gives you lemons, start murdering your neighbours."
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  12954. Putybots.
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  12955.  @crazyfloridaman3073  You don't speak for the state of Florida.
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  12956. Yes. More specifically, it tells you that they know which kind of their people sneaked into the US. If they were believed to be solid citizens who'd been making a good contribution they'd gladly take them back, wouldn't they?
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  12957. Ukraine was bombing separatist units in the Donbass, sent and armed and funded by Moscow. This is a fact. Shame on you for saying their self-defense was in any way anything else.
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  12958. Biden could've sustained his assault on oil but with the onset of the Ukraine War he made a choice between global security and his party's green agenda. It was a wise one. A sea-level rise of 3mm a year can't quite compare to a world-wide collapse of freedom which would impoverish and marginalize the US. The Authoritarian Axis is the worse threat by far.
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  12959.  @boootsyyy2133  That's true, but homeless people often try to stay out of sight and ordinarily do succeed.
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  12960. No rational basis for that slander. The money was always Iran's. That is a universally-acknowledged fact. It was Iranian money deposited in the West, seized and frozen by the US govt. in retaliation for Iranian actions. Before you comment, have some idea what you're talking about.
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  12961. It's Baltimore, so I'm gonna say drugs. I may yet be proved right.
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  12962. 🤢🤢🤢....🤮
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  12963. Lucy Fisher's got it all. She'll be running the show somewhere sooner or later.
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  12964. 30 minutes of femsplaining.
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  12965.  @wolfpacguy-v3y  Woke is a synonym for 💩.
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  12966. Thank the mass corporate media for repeating a million times over that Trump is a "fash issed" who "must be stopped." They deserve maybe half the credit for the thousands of acts of left political violence since May 2020.
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  12967. Maybe. How about a picture?
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  12968. Those lists are always dominated by Australia, Canada, Japan, and Switzerland.
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  12969. Yeah? Well, Russia is getting its balls kicked over and over again and it's going to continue until they fall off. Oops, sorry!
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  12970. Tell me where in the world customs officers inspect ships leaving the country as a matter of routine. North Korea, I'd assume. That might be it. Cuba?
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  12971.  @bobsullivan5714  Of?
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  12972. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvCCTzTzuk
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  12973. And now they are abused. It was better before.
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  12974.  @bigunit7456  "Weren't taken in the first place"?
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  12975.  @bigunit7456  It depends on whom you ask. If you ask a Chinese communist it was a total disaster. If you ask a Hong Konger, especially pre-SAR, it allowed them to enjoy incomparably more freedom and prosperity. (Now, out of typical Chinese prudence and obedience to menacing authority, many of them are apt to say what they perceive Beijing would most like them to.) Your question invited me to endorse 19th-century colonialism, and I will turn down the opportunity, thank you very much. But why don't I return the favour and invite you to endorse 21st-century human rights abuses?
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  12976.  @sthubbins4038  Using a mere typo as a pretext for insulting someone = [insert your own choice of obscene noun]
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  12977. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs make a Leftist.
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  12978. Homeless people are homeless because they're not interested in living with their loving relatives? That's rich. Thanks for clearing everything up.
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  12979. Yes, he has an impolite and disrespectful tone at times, although it seemed less bad when I re-watched the video. More importantly, he also fails to probe for any details on the assault, e.g. how many times did he hit her, how long did it last, did she fall, did she strike back, did anybody else see it, etc.
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  12980. You're familiar with the word "training"?
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  12981. Biden wouldn't debate Trump. It was too medically dangerous because, in a stunning new scientific development, antibodies are now infectious. Democratic Party virologists just found that out.. So he sent some reporter to stand in for him, and she debated the president instead. What a brave woman, risking death. And in a major change, she brought politeness and civility to the debate, never interrupting him, never raising her voice in anger, and never treating him like a boyfriend she just caught with her best friend. She is to be second in line behind Harris for the presidency.
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  12982. I have to see another patient. Let's talk about it more in the next session.
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  12983. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs don't make a right, they make a leftist.
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  12984. The US is circling the drain. Sensible people---and you know who you are---you can't remain silent any longer. All you have is your voice and you have to use it by phoning, writing, or emailing your elected representatives. All of them. Your mayor, your councillors, state rep, governor, congressman/woman, senator, the president. It'll take some time but do it. It's something, as opposed to nothing. Then get others to do it, too. Politicians take it seriously when they receive piles of emails, letters, or phone messages.
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  12985. Greenwald is not a boomer. Check your assertions against the facts. Greenwald is also such a newcomer to elite status and has earned it to such a degree independently that it seems like a dumb thing to call him. His mother was a customer service person at a manufacturing company, e.g. The interviewer qualifies as elite even far less. Your "worldview" is clearly "skewed."
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  12986.  @scott96999  You do not.
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  12987. So did some of our artillery this week— at last! (Trudeau is a real champion foot-dragger on this stuff. He's probably worried about China being irritated with him.)
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  12988. They're never repainted, because the paint gets stolen. Also the lubricants.
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  12989.  @larsrons7937  Yes there was. Answers given to (roughly speaking) the same question by every NATO leader had formerly been very different: Namely, that NATO was intent on not joining the war directly, and on not giving Putin any grounds for justifying an attack on a NATO country.
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  12990. ​ @larsrons7937  I disagree. Having no intent to is a massive upgrade from firmly intending not to. What he said represented a significant shift in meaning and tone. Whether it represents an actual shift in the likelihood of such an intervention is a separate matter. Although I doubt it does, I cannot say. But I gather that your interpretation is shared by practically no one, and that is for good reason.
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  12991. Lucifer: "Pretty nice. You know, we're always hiring in our pyrotechnics department down here."
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  12992. Yes, up to a point. But only after being broken up into 5 or 10 YouTubes, each being forced to make a separate IPO.
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  12993. Don Lemon: "I just don't see how importing 16 million overwhelmingly Democratic-supporting people and then opening up a path to citizenship to them could possibly affect election outcomes. What do millions and millions and millions of votes have to do with our perennially close US elections? It makes no sense!"
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  12994. Brave of you to describe your president Putzin that way. It is true, though. Just like his hero, Vladolf Putler is definitely on drugs.
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  12995. "She used to go to the gym every week and play basketball with her women friends. Which is fine nowadays."
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  12996. It's so wrong to talk about a white politician as a "master" 160 years after the abolition of slavery. On top of which, Trump doesn't even have deep roots in America. All four of his grandparents were European villagers.
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  12997. She wants greater equality even if it means widespread impoverishment.  She can then rule over one huge slum. Ask Venezuela how that's worked out. Ask eastern Europe and Russia how it went. Ask Cuba.
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  12998. Wokesters should be condemning the methane emissions wafting out both ends of that thing.
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  12999. Awesome, Einstein. What part of 10 points ahead failed to do it for you till now? So yes, he 'can' win. He can also be stopped from winning.
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  13000. Around 12:20 he mentions a newly-released report. Where can we find it?
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  13001. I find it impossible to avoid thinking that Orban avidly accepts financial help from Putin. He's not 100% bad but he's an obvious k ro ok, deeply self-interested, indifferent at best to human rights, and that's much more than bad enough.
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  13002. So sick of the fraudulently inaccurate headlines.😠 Unsubscribed and teetering on the edge of Don't recommend channel.
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  13003. Putin the Putz
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  13004. He's a good lad. A terribly clever Croatian-Australian doing his best to strengthen the future of his country, its ethics and its way of life.
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  13005. There's only one hope as far as I can tell: As long as it's fully functional a few months ahead of any others, the first alien-grade or god-level AGI may elect or be instructed to stop all those other AGI instantiations from coming into existence. If it does attempt this, and succeeds, and it's not owned by the Chinese or Russian govts. or a supervillain, and if it's as well-disposed towards humans as a typical Yellow Labrador, then we're laughing.
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  13006. In English you should write it 'WHO'.
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  13007. This is the head "economic advisor" with zero education in economics. He has two degrees in social work. 🤯 Under Biden it's a mad world.
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  13008. The job of Democratic presidential nominee is officially open. Gov. Noisome wants to be ready to dump California and take a stab at it. He has to be able to claim he imposed a solution. Noisome indeed.
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  13009. Not really. It is something to rouse righteous fury. Glad I could clear up your bewilderment.
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  13010. Various subjects covered, but not the one promised in the title: "Kathy Hochul faces calls for resignation after shocking response to NYC subway [horror]." YT has just announced a crackdown on this deceptive practice. They can't ramp it up soon enough. It's very bad treatment of viewers.
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  13011. Six years later, here's your answer: It's anglophobia. Cheers.
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  13012.  @conscientiousobjector5988  Ok, Sergei.
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  13013. A stupid nonsense video 👎
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  13014. I saw this last year. Why are you reposting it? Of course, it still has the same problem: a shocking over-reliance on one single source. Even more shockingly, that one source is a Mercedes Benz dealer.😮
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  13015. Thanks for the despotic suggestion that would overturn immensely valuable political and societal traditions, not to mention being unconstitutional in peacetime. I bet there are a great many parts of the constitution you'd like to see illegally done away with.
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  13016. ​ @random_silicates  (1) Those companies were nationalized to save them, not to punish them, and they were in agreement with the measures. "The government takeover was approved by A.I.G.'s board, which believed that the only other alternative was bankruptcy." — The New Yorker. Also, it wasn't actually nationalized. The govt. only purchased 79.9% of it. Likewise GM, of which it purchased 60%. “GM will be run by a private board of directors and management team. They – and not the government – will call the shots." — Barack Obama (2) SpaceX has a long list of space launch customers, dozens. It sends most of the world's tonnage to orbit. Just search list of spacex space launch customers. Plus of course it has a million-plus customers for its Starlink services. (3) And there's that spirit of despotism again: "Just one Presidential executive order can put SpaceX permanently out of business." You're not very good at this, just energetic (owing to unfortunate and misguided personal antipathies).
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  13017. Moss Park:   <1% of Toronto's population (22,000 out of 2,900,000) 10% of Toronto's homicides in 2023 (7 out of 73) Very diverse, I can tell you.
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  13018.  @chrisconrad4441  Seems unlikely. For all 2023, 51 Division, of which Moss Park is a fairly small part, had 10 homicides. Also, in August the entire city had 7 homicides. So perhaps the figure you cite was shootings and stabbings, and most of the victims survived? (Btw, I wouldn't describe the zone within those boundaries as "one square block." It contains several blocks and would therefore be properly called a neighbourhood, or area.)
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  13019. (1) It's weird how Harrington thinks a man could rape a woman and forget he did just because he's had many partners. Would she forget, having had so many thousands of suppers, that one night she ate live monkey brains? (2) She certainly doesn't like men having sex with lots of women. Of course she doesn't want a man enjoying himself that much, but what about the women? Does it bother her that they are getting something they want?
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  13020. My dear Konstantin, the left haven't changed. They're just as loony as they've ever been. Anyway, thanks for making the choices that it took to get you to this point.👍 (What took you so long, btw?😄)
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  13021. I doubt there are interstellar aliens. Maybe, but I'd guess it's bots only.
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  13022. World Goat Association: "Hey, leave our females out of this!"
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  13023. "[F]ascinating, and perhaps a little worrying." What? What an extremely milquetoast and effete way to put it. Is that what you'd say if there were a knot of thugs following you down a darkened street, steel glinting in their fists? This is no movie, no daydream or game. The subject here is the future of your skinny neck. And I bet you were pleased with the fineness of mind and morals with which you wrote that. Loathsomely weak.
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  13024. ​ @JudeMalachi  It didn't end in 1989. It will not end till the Pax Americana ends. With dozens of wars that spell the end of freedoms for billions of people. With the end of the sea lanes kept perpetually open by the US Navy. With the collapse of standards of living. With a boot stamping on a human face—forever, as Orwell warned. I can't bear to spell it all out, just picture a juggler with thousands of plates in the air—the lives of most of the people in the world right now—and they begin to crash by the hundred.
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  13025.  @Typhon47666  Ha! You're forgetting the previous decades. You're forgetting why it was called 'The Terrible Twentieth.' Do get real.
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  13026.  @Typhon47666  Same to you. Have a nice life.
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  13027. A rare weak video from 1420. Up late partying last night?
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  13028. He's not my cup of tea but, in all fairness, he's a threat to the Democratic nominee. So of course the MSM media machine is spreading the hit pieces on with a trowel. I'd wager the BS content of that headline is high to very high.
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  13029. It is funded by German taxpayers.
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  13030. From that bridge story it sounds like Californians are the reason California can't have nice things.
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  13031. Quebec has never lost its authoritarian roots from when it was really ruled by nuns, priests, bishops and cardinals. That's the key to getting what you saw there.
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  13032.  @adw6894  What? Which words of mine were you reading? I'm baffled.
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  13033. Ok everybody, clutch your pearls all you like, but we all know who wins a one-minute fight to the death between Chris Christie and anything with a straw, fork or spoon in it.
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  13034. Sometimes the highly obvious fully deserves explicit mention.👍
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  13035. He graduated with a master's in word salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  13036. Re: the IMF: What a sad try, Mr. Chong. I, too, by the way have little respect for the 36-year-old on the panel. Not only is she too young to talk with these people, she refuses to be candid. One can only be interested by her if one is eager to know the CPC position on matters relating to the West. That's all, otherwise you're looking at a Christmas cake. Cheers.
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  13037.  @garsm2290  Quite true, ordinarily. I alas failed to repeat the 'petulant' of the original comment. Nothing against fifteen-year-old girls, mind you. Only, a friend of mine treats girls around that age for their problems of adjustment, and has one of her own to boot. Oh, the anonymized stories!
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  13038. This was a preparatory test strike, like others of various types recently. Patience.
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  13039.  @soulboygabicci5681  Quite true (and they're in about a hundred countries) but off-topic. The subject is war, not the presence of military installations.
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  13040. Yeah, those cable news numbers are mostly cool, but in another way the fact that 18% of the audience was watching MSNBC is still a national emergency/tragedy.
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  13041. Did it unexpectedly turn into a gay bar and the staff were hugely disappointed?
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  13042. What are you talking about? Foreign speculators are a great target.
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  13043.  @gr33kb0i  That isn't true. I can easily see you never asked that. Your reply is sitting right there for anyone to read.   You were bested and you replied with empty fake bluster.
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  13044.  @SpringIsBACK  You are right. Issue permits.👍 Issue them last week! Boosting US production will put the deeply unappetizing trio of Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia in their place.  (Not to mention OPEC, which would be a mere bonus.)
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  13045. Yes, raise US production now.
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  13046.  @realSamAndrew  She said he drones on and on with an unmoving face, shiny forehead, extreme rhetoric.
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  13047. Not mentioned: Many thousands of migrants are up in the same area going the other way, entering Canada from the US. Works both ways. Been in the news in Canada for years.
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  13048. Wisdom which HamISIS will ignore.
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  13049. Simply a barmy exhibitionist. Anyway, almost all people look better with clothes (any clothes) on. Including her, I suspect.
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  13050.  @ffjsb  [Sigh] No. But I don't want to face up entirely to what they really are—lightly-read, jumped-up and pompous activists with way overinflated self-image, thirsting after power. The part they have right is that reporting is indeed an extremely important job, and it's that latter fact that troubles me so deeply.
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  13051.  @jameskim1505  Yep, let's be realistic, any true Chinese patriot wouldn't need a dime.
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  13052.  @Acde-209  I can see what you are. You're trying to sully this thread to discredit the opinions in it. We can see right through you.
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  13053.  @TheDragorin  My point sailed over your head. Namely, that it turned out there was really zero American about him apart from his domicile. "lol" (Btw, spend a few minutes familiarizing yourself with the basics of writing—spelling, capitalization, punctuation. Another one is proofreading. "lol")
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  13054. Be a good lad, will you Siegfried, and post that several hundred times on Russian social media, please.
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  13055.  @bobhawke7373  That's the one. It wasn't long after that child went trans and disowned him, causing considerable heartbreak, that Musk made up his mind to buy Twitter. I've heard two versions: (1) his ex-wife is bitter towards him and likely turned the child against him; (2) they're friends and she pleaded with Musk to do something about wokeism.
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  13056. Americans, don't pronounce premier 'preem YARE'. Ffs, a premier is a state or provincial leader, not an opening night. The word is 'PREE mee er'. Don't French it up, and in return we won't say 'goo vare NOOR'. 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸😝
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  13057. Thanks, comrade, for that Yale grad student seminar presentation.
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  13058. What about the fact that people are helping Ukraine defend itself from monsters, from moral garbage, you ask? If you have to ask, you'll never know.
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  13059. Uh, the Amazon?
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  13060.  @huwhitecavebeast1972  Then I beg you to do me the service of pinpointing where my confusion is. EDIT: Here waiting patiently.
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  13061. I don't mind her so much at all, except I don't think she should be Justice Minister.  She'd be great looking after a class of kindergarteners, I'm quite sure.
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  13062.  @dynamicbrickandstoneltd92  Yes, but more will go when it's legal.
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  13063.  user-go7yd8qp4c  Another hategirl heard from.
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  13064. Absolutely right. They parked illegally and broke noise by-laws. That's it.
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  13065.  @gregjohnson8520  "the violent noises that terrorized the local residents and more" Listen to yourself.  A honking horn is a noise, to be sure, but a violent noise? What is violent about it? You sound like one of those people who consider a critical remark to be 'assault'. And the honking "terrorized" residents? What? Man, are you ok? I think you should maybe see somebody and get that checked out.
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  13066.  @ericmanget4280  What 'vandalism'? Putting a scarf on the Terry Fox statue? Pure histrionics. Pure cry-baby.
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  13067. Most shocking of all, Joy Reid — yes, of all people, Joy Reid — decided to start throwing around the words "crazy" and "weird."😂
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  13068. That's wonderful to contemplate.
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  13069. ​ @killcat1971  It's gendered because she wants to make women's worst attributes politically correct. 'Bad As We Wanna Be' might be her watchword.
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  13070. The interviewer's voice is always much louder than that of her guest. Forbes, please create a position for a sound person, or fire the person in that role now. Thank you.
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  13071. Just to be clear, it's an export tariff, rarely seen anywhere.
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  13072. Terrible assault. Who else is suppressing a Nelson Muntz-like reaction?
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  13073. A lot of things went into making the US the world's leading country after the Second World War, but I would put the Pax Americana at the top of the list.  You made an absolute fortune out of it. I'm saying that to make Americans safe, healthy, and prosperous, make a world that's safe for American business. You don't think you did it before just by being so wonderfully American, do you?
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  13074. Its economy is a lot bigger than it appears at market exchange rates, a fact we ought to face without equivocation. The rouble being very undervalued (not unfairly, of course), it sets Russian GDP roughly on a par with Canada, Italy or Brazil. But measured at purchasing power parity (PPP), it's 4th globally — lower than China, the US and India; but above Germany and Japan. The market rate and PPP measures are both important because they capture different vital realities.
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  13075. Right, because as we all know, when a NATO country states that it won't be providing some certain category of equipment or weapons to Ukraine, we can be sure it won't happen. In each instance, the decision is final.🙄
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  13076.  @dutchie1770  You're being very subjective there.
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  13077.  @dutchie1770  That's such a subjective question.
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  13078. The end result of Bad As We Wanna Be.
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  13079. It's not just D-list celebrities. Whether alcohol is involved or not, behaviour analogous to this also happens in a great many marriages and relationships. Also in many workplaces when the boss isn't looking. A great number of them get like this, frequently or at least once in a while. Not so long ago it wasn't as bad, of course, but it's what happens when you're told from the time you can speak that your gender makes you wonderful, special, a princess, etc. In a way it's not their fault.
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  13080. I'm not here to stand up for poor little defenceless hedge funds. ;) But do short-selling funds really deserve the casino-gambler label? Just like buy-and-holders for the long term, they think a stock is mis-priced and they put their money where their mouth is. The real gamblers are those who put a small amount of money which they can well afford to lose into an option which they have little faith in, hoping for a pay-off somewhat like a punter at a roulette table. Obviously the dislike for short-sellers comes out of the fact that they make money out of a bad turn of events. (Bad in some sense, anyway.) But, again, does that make someone any more the gambler? I expect many might disagree with me, perhaps realizing something I haven't.
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  13081. 👎Cultural Jenn a cyde by the sous vide method, slowly and evenly. No protests from the UN or Amnesty International.👎
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  13082. Of course cleverness alone cannot propel one to the position of top UK prosecutor. It must come with a suave affability, in this case perhaps cynically overlying an intention to implement massive change...coercively. Let's recall how trusting Piers was in the 2020-2022 period, which has proved to be lastingly destructive in most places.
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  13083. There's no way that job pays enough.😂
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  13084.  @mrteacher1315  Sure, Tongzhi. The Party has only peaceful intentions.
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  13085. Good god does she ever know how to ramble on in generalities. She could've edited all that down to ten seconds.
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  13086. A number of pipelines from Russia enter Europe by land. The twin NordStreams weren't the only ones.
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  13087.  @lolodee3528  You mean they were really, really junior? I didn't know that. Or did you mean ongoing training that even veterans get?
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  13088. China rounds up people of that same faith and puts them in camps. In France it's a school dress code. 🙄Sure, pretty much the same thing.😂
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  13089. I don't believe any claims of the group that committed the murders and other crimes of Saturday, October 7. Commission of those crimes is ipso facto proof of profound immortality and untrustworthiness. It's that simple.
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  13090. It's impossible to say which part of the Democratic ticket is more like Canada's terrible Prime Minister Peter Pan. It's like they're his political clones. She and he grew up blocks apart in adjacent posh neighbourhoods of Montreal. Tim and he share a professed fondness for the PRoC. All three: hyper-mega-progressives.
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  13091. Imagine them kissing. 🐗🐴
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  13092. ​ @zpduzghr1301  It's always great to hear from a strong supporter of Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad. You forgot to add ISIS.🤡
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  13093. Hollywood, left academia, wokesters and the MSM are all quite against nuclear. What more do you need to know?
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  13094. I, too, noticed that with dismay. It was a clownish error. (I must point out, however, that in his name it's the first syllable that's stressed.)
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  13095. Enlightenment values are massively antithetical to the values which preceded them down through the ages. When one considers this, and looks at the strength of the part of the world which is unimpressed by or outright hostile to Enlightenment values, it becomes easy to see such values as a fragile aberration and ripe for fairly sudden obliteration. They can look like the Weimar Republic of value schemes.
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  13096. The Richest, Vilest, Scummiest, Lowest Man in the World.
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  13097.  @mohit_panjwani  Sure, why?
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  13098.  @kingamity1985  Your flat delivery hit my funny bone.
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  13099. Doing Something About the Border is to this election what draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was to the 2022 election: It's a lever with a sticker on it reading In Emergency Pull Here For Votes.
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  13100. White House: "Please, OPEC, oh please produce more oil. We beg of you—please!" OPEC: "Did I hear something? I thought I heard something. Nah, I guess not." White House: "No response. Well, that's it. I guess there's nothing we can do." Canada [waving wildly]: "Hey, we're right here! 200 billion barrels of oil for sale! Hey! Over here!" White House: "I thought I heard something. Nah, I guess not. Well, I did all I could."
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  13101. Use an account elsewhere and I'll watch you there. Try Rumble or another one suggested by others. At least it's not Russian authorities blocking you yet.
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  13102. Help yourself to a master's. Otherwise how will you know exactly how to resent men?
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  13103. Sha me on anyone who got behind him in the total absence of a track record of accomplishment, of actions to back up his nebulous so-called positions. One other thing, regarding his 'honeymoon' period: according to Angus Reid data, his approval rating went net negative in 2017, jangled around indecisively for six months or so, and never resurfaced in positive territory, save for a few months early in the 2020-22 "health event." In other words, his honeymoon period ended just shy of two full years, well before 2019.
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  13104. The 1970s had pet rocks and weird messiah cults. The present decade has hundreds of genders. Plus ça change...
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  13105.  @Leann-n  Sorry to hear it, and I felt the same. To avoid more regret, do not click Read More. But please don't use 'literally' for simple emphasis. Use it to show that you mean something exactly as stated, when otherwise someone might assume you meant it figuratively. "I've asked her a hundred times." "Haha, not that many, I'm sure." "Literally a hundred." "Oh dear."
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  13106.  @Leann-n  That's brilliant. (But this is a different meaning of the word brilliant. I also use it to mean 'not brilliant'. I also use 'thirty-one' to mean '6,477.')
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  13107. [sigh] Good heavens that's poor English. Please just write comments in your native tongue and run them through a translator that uses AI. You've heard of it of course?
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  13108.  @CanadianEhHole  The government of Canada wastes so much money that just turning off the taps on it would free up many billions for not only vital expenses but productive investment. How about the $30bn Trudeau blew on the TMX pipeline? Response from Trudeau supporters and the Trudeau-cash-bloated corporate media: [crickets]
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  13109. Edit: Probably no one gets the reference to the 1970s TV detective show Starsky and Hutch. For a few years it had definitely enormous ratings.
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  13110. "Nature introduces inequalities against which there is no remedy." S. Freud
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  13111. Because most of those increases happened before a year ago, before May 2023. Then inflation fell, but lower inflation doesn't mean an improved standard of living. It certainly doesn't mean lower prices. High inflation is sort of like a period of illness causing you to age faster. When you get better or are cured you're not going to get five years younger. You'll just go back to aging more normally. Aside from that I will point out that the round of high inflation between mid-2021 and mid-2023 was quite concentrated in basic essentials needed every day.
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  13112.  @heinousanus9352  It'd be informative if the BLS gave a 2nd figure for inflation faced by poor people, say the bottom quartile, based on the goods and services their money goes to.
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  13113.  @KronStaro  That's not something you're in a position to know. You're just guessing.
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  13114. Quite true and apropos.
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  13115.  @revantbhalla2457  Of the seat of his trousers little remained.
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  13116. Don't be tempted by breaded pork cutlets. Stores take pork that's gone rancid, slice it thin, and label it "breaded pork schnitzel" or something similar. Instead, make or buy some crumb mix and put it on fresh unadorned pork yourself at home.
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  13117. "Candid", in diplomacy-speak = It was near enough to a boxing match
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  13118. ​ @stonemarten1400  That's misleading: Labour received 33.7% of the votes cast. Don't count children and non-citizens or apathetic non-voters without saying so.
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  13119.  @memyselfyo8844  Sunak's party lost popularity before he became PM. You people never take a rest, do you? I bet you're w〇ke in your dreams.
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  13120.  @memyselfyo8844  Sunak's party had lost popularity before he became PM. Learn how to give that stuff a rest. Whatever is someone's answer to everything is ipso facto an irrational obsession.
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  13121.  @lo-fihub6509  Yes, but it is clear who would succeed him.
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  13122. ​ @kellyconnell8003  Rapier-like comeback!😄
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  13123.  @pawninteractiveNEWS  It was originally "Oooooo, rapier-like comeback.🙄," which I thought needed a smidge of toning down. (Still sarcastic, but more cheerfully and less mockingly.)
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  13124. Their caucuses are headed for some severe shrinkage.
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  13125. I wonder whom AGI is going to target for elimination first, once it's so fast it's like us talking to a tree.
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  13126. Pro tip: a media outlet showing interviews should ensure the voices of the interviewer and the guest are equally loud.
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  13127.  @rosgill6  <---Asks a total joker.
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  13128. Is 1420 famous in Russia? Is it mentioned in the media, either favourably or unfavourably?
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  13129.  @nataliasalmanova6020  I know what you're getting at of course, but my point is to determine if 1420's continued survival has occurred despite a higher public profile. That would be encouraging, since dissent in deep obscurity is of limited use.
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  13130.  @nataliasalmanova6020  Thanks for your reply.
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  13131. I guess he should've voted for the guy running against Putin.
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  13132.  @bobmex5362  That's a fantasy, I'm afraid. In 10 years demand is likely to be lower, but people will still be burning gasoline for several decades yet, especially in poorer countries. The growth of renewable electricity generation, which is 20% a year—meaning it doubles every 45 months—will bump gasoline out of first place maybe around mid-century. Some say later.
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  13133.  @bobmex5362  Yeah it does. See the historical data in the EIA's Electric Power Monthly. Google will have you there in two seconds. I can't agree on your other point either. Try 250% for starters.
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  13134.  @bobmex5362  Something sounds wrong there. Many thousands of terawatt hours a year are going to be added to the grid as transportation goes electric. There's great momentum for it. Notice that the world's automakers are sinking something like a trillion dollars into batteries and EVs.
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  13135. Do the Dems really have that much against him, or is it more that they need someone to hold up as 'proof' that the FBI and the DOJ are willing to investigate and charge a prominent Democrat?
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  13136. Don't fall in love too hard. Global News here is only like a library with a copy of Mein Kampf.
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  13137. 🙄You just made that up. There have always been safer cities than Toronto (e.g. Tokyo, London and many European cities). In the past 50-60 years the rolling 3- or 5-yr. avg. homicide rate has ranged between 1.5 and 2.5 per 100k. Low but not exceptionally low, let alone lowest in the world. Same for other violent crime.
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  13138. @@user-fh8gt9nw5f Prime Minister Peter Pan regards Americans whose grandparents were born in the US as the worst people on earth. After that, Canadians whose grandparents were born in Canada. Everyone else in the world is far, far more worthy in moral terms. However, he makes exceptions for people in the first two categories if they're politically far left—like him. They're marvellous people. And there you have his complete scheme of values.
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  13139. Yes, absolutely.
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  13140.  @HubertofLiege <---"Trump can end it without military involvement, but not without the threat of it." Finally, someone who agrees with me. But this sounds hypothetical. Do you expect that he will act in such a manner?
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  13141.  @cellardoor1122  Hey, isn't this maybe a case of "I caught you knockin' at my cellar door / I love you baby, can I have some more?" I take it you know the reference.
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  13142.  @kifi672  Ha!😂
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  13143. I think they've woken up to reality and are acting accordingly. They've considerably raised army, navy and air force expenditures, bringing them from 1.4% of GDP pre-Ukraine-War (2021) to 2.15% this year. They say it will tick higher to 2.22% in 2026.
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  13144.  @aleaiactaest8354  👎Asinus arroganter respondit.
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  13145. I like the way the reporter flips her head as though her hair is in her face...but it isn't.😂
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  13146. ​ @GreenToFeelBlue  Wow. You've had this confirmed by your sleeping partner many times, I suppose? Non-REM sleep is deeper, as I understand it, and is when tissue repair is supposed to take place. So I hope you're not aging prematurely if you don't get deep sleep, or getting a weak immune system or something. I would talk to my doctor, because sleep is one of the Big Three of health (besides diet and exercise). I wish you all the best with that.
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  13147.  ITS ME 🤔 ANTIFA  You're the expert on lying and psychopathy, so ok.
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  13148. True, it's a psychological phenomenon more than anything else. They are afflicted with defects of mind, personality, and emotional health.
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  13149.  @hexum7  What a mess of a comment (especially the long paragraph). It all goes without saying or is patently untrue. You know, you go a long way towards bolstering the OC's assertion. It's ok though, I wish you well.
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  13150.  @hexum7  True. But what does "o ‘me em DDS" mean?
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  13151. ​ @robollis  I don't want to hear from any turkey who has taxed me with a Nazi slur. You are muted, boor.
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  13152. @supernovaaust Yes, but no in a way. Marxism is actually all about human corruptibility, expunging it, that is --- in others --- by abolishing private property. It does not appear take into account the corruptibility of its own adherents. (Cf. "Commonly the Puritan saw sin everywhere, excepting the mirror.") In other words, yes, it seems to assert that corruptibility isn't inherent in people, it originated with capitalism. I'm mildly curious if that's in Marx somewhere. Thanks for your reply.
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  13153. Maybe most people who take multivitamins are already eating a good diet. That might well render their effect a minor one, or statistically mask any trace of it. It would be interesting to break out the stats on junk food addicts only, those who take a supplement versus those who don't.
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  13154.  @skurinski  Part of his point was that he doesn't much care himself.
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  13155. Well, he looks embalmed, so are you surprised?
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  13156. Thank you. Nothing could be more germane.
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  13157. The UK authorities have no patience with public expressions of "hate" and endorsement of violence against identifiable groups. They move swiftly to punish them. But they'll make a special exception in the case of chants supporting Hamas and against Israel, calling for it to be wiped off the map. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." — Animal Farm
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  13158. ?? I've read over 100 comments, all blaming the cyclist.
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  13159. Well, probably yeah. But at least you know it.
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  13160. Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian.😂 Your point?
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  13161.  @vashbain3136  Don't lecture us on fairy tales. You're the fairy tale teller, Mother Goose.
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  13162. Kat made a lot of sense.
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  13163. I can't quite agree. I think she would make a real attempt at "effecting meaningful change", which translates to ruining some people's lives in the name of making others' better, but actually just buggering up everything for everybody.
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  13164. Lucy rules and all is as it should be. Seldom is all as right as it ought to be.   A small thing perhaps but a very right thing.
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  13165. Francis Foster: "A top bird."
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  13166. Andrew Bolt emphatically supported Trudeau's severe martial law crackdown on anti-Trudeau protestors in 2022. I will never forgive and never forget.👎 Go away Andrew Bolt.
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  13167. Best comment ever....that is, if "best" is preceded by a 'd', a 'u' and an 'm'.
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  13168. About a year ago I said in seriousness to my friend from Odesa that it seemed that eventually Russia could be the last good country left. He agreed that might come to pass. But I can't say that anymore. Far too many Russians are just born to be ruled, and that's no good. It's a pity.
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  13169. Careful there. I'm under the impression that the $80k is the bill for air transportation on the taxpayers' dime. The supposed 30 tonnes of jet fuel alone would be a good third of that. (His hosts have a resort, so accommodations, food and the like are presumably on them. Probably.)
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  13170. Who knows what the algo does to a great video like this? It might be dialling it back considerably, allowing it to appear in feeds only half as often, or an eighth as often, as it would without special attention. There are lots of possibilities besides just a total choking off of views. For example, a video, no matter its content, watched by quantities of people whose other viewing tends towards 'wrongthink', may be downgraded for that reason—never mind if it's about cats or curried peas.
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  13171. She made a disciple out of you in 17 minutes?
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  13172.  @MyHelga1  No, I wasn't wrong in anything I said. There was obviously a strong chance that she was dead at his hands and I never said otherwise. It was the presumptions being made that I objected to. Camping out on my comment in order to make this reply is creepy and hints at serious problems. And actually I'm sad to say I do know quite a bit about domestic violence.
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  13173. The timing is suspicious, like they pumped it up to $67k, then pushed it down by half to demoralize holders and drive them out. That's the time to pounce, when there's less enthusiasm to fight or to crush. Only a suspicion, but it's right to be suspicious of the plainly corrupt and dishonest. To me a ray of hope is that a lot of the heavy lifting in establishing crypto has been done by the billionaires and other less-rich but still wealthy parties. They will do battle, hard. So might many of the several tens of millions of small holders. (Sorry, hodlers. :) )
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  13174.  @rucker69  Since the media is overwhelmingly liberal/left/"progressive"/whoake -leaning, any outlet which isn't is ipso facto not mainstream. Having 1.5m Yoot Oob subscribers does not make an outlet mainstream when its opposite-leaning NYC counterpart, The New York Times, has over 10m paid subscribers.
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  13175.  @josephmango4628  What??!!
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  13176.  @simonsmith1974  Good grief. I didn't express dissatisfaction with content of the video. It was fine. I only complained the title didn't fit. And why answer the question in your last reply? I already did suggest an alternative title in my previous reply and you just ignored it. What are you, hard of reading?
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  13177. The US didn't mock Lyndon Johnson. It elected him with 61% of the popular vote and passed his civil rights bills. He didn't run in 1968. These Dem politicians will just say anything. 😮
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  13178. This is what a group of people look like after agreeing to a momentous and unpleasant decision concerning a grave dilemma. I've said for two years, although of course it's impossible to be certain, that Trump intended, if re-elected, to deal firmly with Putin. We shall soon see.
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  13179. Who are some other commentators up to Carlson's level? (I hope he's not the only one.)
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  13180. Almost no one gets Donald Trump on the America-Europe alliance. They're so stubbornly thick. Trump wants a strong alliance. But he accurately perceives that it's only possible with a strong Europe. The US can't defend all Europe, plus Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, Israel, the Philippines, and all the other places which must be defended from the Authoritarian Axis. Simply impossible. And even if it could, the burden would be morally unjustified. American presidents' cajoling and pleading for decades has had little to no effect. Now Europe has at last begun to wake up, but it has still barely budged (with a few notable exceptions). And it's almost too late. Freedom and prosperity in all our countries could easily evaporate to a major degree over the course of less than one eventful decade. He is thus stuck with a sole stratagem: threatening to withhold protection if Europe doesn't get its security act together. I say good for him. He may succeed. (I think he will.) Because of deeply-rooted European recalcitrance, no other pathway appears to have any chance of working. So he (wisely) aims to pull it out down to those roots in order to save the Transatlantic alliance, not end it.
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  13181. I have zero doubt she was in on Biden's ouster, too. Zero. Don't let her, uh, intracranial impotence suggest any lack of ruthless cunning and ambition.
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  13182. It's absurd what you say about Germany and America. It's Germany with the upper hand, victimizing the US financially decade after decade. Anti-Americans never notice the perennial difficulties the Americans have with their so-called allies. Only the UK sees things the same way with much consistency. (A common vision, notice, not dominance and submission.)
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  13183.  @user-lm3jo9kn9i  I don't know. Try your front door.
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  13184. I just see a gay guy who wants to pretend to be a straight woman, probably for the respectability of being a straight woman.
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  13185. Three new piercings to go with his tattoos. Free of charge.
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  13186. The disappearance of the mother from the home for most of the day certainly did little to improve children's lives. Likewise that of the father from the home completely in so many cases, through divorce or sheer lack of interest (i.e. abandonment). Liberalism, though, never looks at itself in the mirror, never says it's sorry, and never admits guilt for its serial mass blunders. Never.
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  13187.  @ProbablePaul  There's lots of blame to go around. It's been a real team effort. Any assertion that poor people are innocent and noble and only the rich are assh----s, is ridiculous. Trillions are transferred to less advantaged people through taxes and charity and they just get furious that it's not more.
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  13188. You don't even know where to put an apostrophe and you think you can dismiss Murray? As a matter of fact antipathy towards people of other races is as old as humanity itself and ubiquitous since the beginning. It's Western culture that has made the first serious, sincere, large-scale and successful effort to do anything about it. This is why when people around the world emigrate, they emigrate to the West. You should do something about your own r-word: it's so strong in you that you give it vent in the only direction you're permitted to—against Europeans and Westerners. Twisted and sad, suitable for investigation for academic psychologists, but there you have it.
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  13189. She'll attack him non-stop, wearing her nearest simulacrum of an intelligent and scandalized mom face. She'll embarrass herself with hapless attempts to defend her policies, utterances and lack of achievements. She'll do violence to the English language, committing many amusing and cringe-provoking gaffes. Her hair will look nice.
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  13190. I guess I'm like Winston. When I go somewhere I'm not very interested in compiling a laundry list of tourist activities which I dutifully tick off at maximum speed in order to say I've done this and that and build a photo album to show people later and then stick in a drawer. I just want to experience the place as do the people who live there. As residents, they never do this touristy stuff themselves.
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  13191. Well, you're just one down. That still leaves one billion to go. Bit of a solipsistic take on the life's work of a man, I should say.
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  13192. Ask their mother.
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  13193.  @moriqana3679  This is why you're still a constable and will never make detective.
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  13194.  @GrantM.-gx2kn  Forgive me, but the point of your reply isn't clear to me. Seems interesting but just how, I'm unable to grasp. Is it a brain-teaser?
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  13195.  @tocarules  I'm certain a lot of that's true, although close to none of it's germane to this instance. Here it was just incompetence. Still interesting though, and I salute your attentiveness to spin in any case. It's the work of a lifetime to attune oneself to it. (From this point on I'm just rambling and you probably shouldn't read it. Sometimes I just write to find out what I think.) Twice as hard yet is to stop yourself from seeing it when it's not even there or only in trace amounts. There's always the element of people trying (and either failing or succeeding) to do their jobs well. There's always people new in their positions, people on the verge of getting fired, people hung over or on drugs at that very moment, people sucking up or (not too likely) rebelling. It's also a challenge to keep up with changing currents in technique, the degeneration of the j-schools, the rot in the minds of the readership, changing vocabulary, and all the rest. Human motivations never change but which ones are dominant and the forms they take morph day and night, year by year. So having a well-thought-out opinion is not automatically an accomplishment of any sort, it's being right that counts. Any analysis of things at the 98th percentile or below isn't much good. Like you, I gather, I've been a student of all of it for a long time. I've watched and read the news since I was 10 or 12 and indirectly it's been my bread and butter. Thanks for your interesting reply and sorry for blathering on. My compliments to you on your style and clarity.
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  13196.  @Cutlerypotato  It is, but now you really are cavilling. To shoot may be to: [K]ill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow. Example: "he was shot in the leg during an armed robbery"; or: [F]ire a bullet from a gun or discharge an arrow from a bow. Example: "he shot at me twice" —Oxford Dictionaries And the word used in the headline was shooting, the gerund of shoot, clearly in reference to the shooting of a man, not of a gun. "Man injured following the shooting of a gun" is preposterous, as would be "Man injured by the slashing action of a knife wielded by another person." Man shot or Man slashed would be the best ways to express such things.
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  13197.  @Cutlerypotato  Stop pestering me, jacka🤡🤡.
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  13198. 90% Putin-bot posts here. Absolutely puke-making. UnHerd, do something about it.
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  13199. See my post just now concerning Matthew Perry.
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  13200. Common also in the 70s and 80s.
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  13201. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." — Through the Looking-glass, 1871 And then the part which is most relevant to us in 2022: "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that’s all."
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  13202. The various camera angles I've seen so far including this one tend to mislead the viewer. The two craft were headed somewhat in the same direction.
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  13203. The police HAVE NOT behaved that way in Canada. Indeed, the premier of Ontario granted them new powers to detain people and ask them where they're going and why, and they swiftly and firmly responded that they weren't interested in any such new powers, thank you very much.
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  13204. "A touch of the Hancock" Hahaha In 1960 there would've been letters written to Hughie Greene (the BBC Director-General).
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  13205.  @john_smith1471  Very well. I know for a fact Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers referred to him as Hughie Greene in the sense of the man who was ultimately their boss. It suppose it was in jest but that's all right because I meant it the same way.
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  13206. Great interview.👏 No one else outside the country seems to know nearly so well just what's happening here. And of course that goes for 95% of Canadian media too. Douglas has their dirty little number—just as he has Trudeau's. Bravo. Thank you Sky and thanks as always to Rita Panahi.
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  13207.  @redvermont1558  Correct. He was cornered. His eventual bind germinated in the QE, prompted by 9/11, that never ended, ramping up in the GFC of 2008 and sailing on for another 11 years. Added along the way were massive consumer debt, flat productivity, and finally Covid. By that point his last chance to buck previous Fed incompetence was gone and every other choice was worse. Glad to see at least one person looking soberly at things. Everyone else here is showing off their cynicism, I guess because that's all they've got. Cheers. (See my other short reply in this thread if you like.)
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  13208.  @bensheklesteinmcgoldberg6668  Yep. No matter how honest they may be at heart, they cannot say the truth.
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  13209. This is no doubt at times true. But as I understand it, dispatch told them they were facing an armed suspect; they had already found a woman lying in a pool of blood. My point is not to exonerate the officer here, since for all I know he did not follow his training, but it's important to think carefully before speaking. (Past a certain point, an attempt to reduce risk to innocent bystanders ceases to pay off and raises the risk that a perpetrator will him- or herself maim or kill somebody. Any officer can lower the risk of harming an innocent person to zero simply by never releasing their safety. That's not helpful to the public over a large number of incidents.)
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  13210.  @Prince-pb1vf  "We are all dying of because of the wicked Govts." No, on the contrary, without governments the world's human population would quite soon fall to a billion or less. Governments despite all their many faults keep things running in a fairly smooth and secure fashion. Without governments civilized life would quickly collapse and we would live in poverty at the mercy of the nearest warlord and his gang. Or to put it another way, the current gang would be replaced with a gang that would make you yearn for the immediate return of the old one. Prince, old man, you have no idea how good you've got it. As far as good fortune is concerned you're in the top one per cent of humans of all time.
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  13211. That poor doctor, splendidly heroic though he was, did not die for anyone's sins. He would have died even had his warnings been heeded. Your sense of drama, tragedy, and guilt is very keen.
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  13212. I love the way this comments pasture is populated by foreign bots and people who have no idea what the world is about. Wander in if you like but wear shoes you can later hose off.
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  13213. Somebody had to spell all this out. Thanks.
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  13214. Servant monkeys. What a putz.
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  13215.  @rara-yp5pq  Not a very good try, old girl, as well educated people can spot each other quickly and easily. You thus call your own intellectual training into question. I'm guessing phony major, perhaps on a pity admission, at an academically hideous, dubiously located, unknown plate glass outfit. My own alma mater has a worldwide reputation, always getting a nice spot in the T.H.E.S. and other global rankings just above or just below 20th. But find something else to do besides clogging up my notifications. I think I politely asked you to get lost yesterday.
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  13216.  @CerebralThinking  I can tell that you don't know that a scruple is by definition a pretty trifling point of morality. You could call it a moral hangup; at any rate to break one's scruples has always been regarded as an act less severe than sin.
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  13217. Worse than Clinton. (Either Clinton.)
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  13218. Gerald Ford, Aug. 9, 1974: "Our long national nightmare is over." United States, Nov. 5, 2024: "Our long national Kringe-mare is over."
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  13219. Omg, you obviously didn't see much coverage of life in Australia during lockdowns. I shall never forget seeing a squad of police officers swooping in to pepper spray a little 10-year-old girl in the face for not wearing a mask outdoors in front of a shopping plaza. A squad of them, I say.
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  13220.  @LittleWestAussie  Appalling, although if lessons from things like that are learned well enough, some good can come out of them. From elsewhere in the Commonwealth (where we also have problems multiplying) I wish you well.
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  13221. Dude is really, really hitting his stride. I like him more than ever.
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  13222. There is no one as brilliant, moral, and exquisitely aware as this guy thinks he is. How his girlfriend must suffer, if he has one.
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  13223. You actually proofread and edited your comment and left in NC? Ouch.
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  13224. On top of everything else, the guy lost his shoe in the first few seconds of the scrap and still prevailed. Only having one shoe is a fairly serious additional disadvantage.
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  13225. So irritating how she strokes her hair every two seconds like a high-school girl flirting with the football captain in the cafeteria. What she says is cool though. 👏🏻
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  13226. He took something just before the interview, you could tell.
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  13227. Actually, Putin endorsed Harris this week. Video of that is available.
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  13228. 🤔I don't know. Douches serve a worthwhile purpose.
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  13229. Nonsense. Without Musk Ukraine would not exist as a country right now. He's still providing more direct aid to its military than any other individual I'm aware of.
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  13230. ​ @justgivemethetruth  I'd like to see your face, standing in front of your house, if gangsters were barricaded inside holding your family, and the police told you to get on the phone and negotiate. "That's right, Mr. Truth. See where you can get with them. You might get back one of your children and all but five rooms. On YouTube comments you sounded like you knew all about the need to negotiate—now get to it. Just remember, there will be no shootout or rescue." And then you look at the cop again and you realize it's Freddie Sayer, or it's you. Take your pick: it's your nightmare.
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  13231. Yourself excluded, I suppose?
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  13232. Drawing a parallel between Alphabet having my data and the govt of China having my data is like drawing a parallel between a diet very high in sodium and smoking fentanyl.
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  13233. It must be so hard as a cop not to really maim a dude like that. I don't know how they do it.
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  13234. You'll come to regret your choice of idols, Mr. Drammeh.
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  13235. It's getting there.
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  13236.  @tpholmes  Formerly 5, now 4, never 7.
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  13237. 1:16 That's a strange way to use the phrase "the barricades." This metaphor has zero to do with relations between countries and actually refers to domestic unrest (e.g., rioting in the streets, an uprising against the government). I wonder whether the speaker used those words or if it was just a poor translation.
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  13238. They've been cheerleading for a worse outcome the whole way, just like the New York Times and all its readers were cheerleading all last fall for a recession that would harm Trump's re-election chances. Loathsome scumbags.
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  13239. Well, this aged like hot buttered toast.
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  13240. Ukraine: "Get rid of cube. Or we send drone."
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  13241. Looking over Mr. Tolhurst's left shoulder I am reminded of Orwell, I think it was, who said "Inside every human being is a cat wildly signalling to be let out."
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  13242. It's taken a real team effort of heroic proportions, lasting years now, but the Democrats have finally achieved it: They've put on a show that's actually going to tempt the country to re-elect Trump. Many said it couldn't be done. Bloomberg probably concluded only he could stop it, and he was probably right. It must burn him up inside, now having to go to such a lot of bother and expense he didn't want to, in order to play Atlas after a bunch of clowns fumbled an easy play. And maybe even he can't stop it either. That's very, very possible.
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  13243. I wonder what the odds are of Musk setting up full-scale video hosting on Twitter. Yes, I mean a new competitor to YouTube.
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  13244. Who wrote that headline? 🙄 They were Russian dead bodies, not Ukrainian.
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  13245. So what? For whatever reason, not necessarily having to do with incompetence, there was some element of doubt. Best to remove the thing and sort it later. Let this lot remember how lucky they are to have the US looking out for them. Otherwise Russia would've waltzed in and taken the place over decades ago. On top of everything else, the bloke in the middle is dressed so comically he has no business making fun of anyone. Joe Jackson had it right in 1985. Listen to his commemorative song of that year, Forty Years. (Search above.) And it's been nearly another 40 years since.
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  13246. We need one of those countdown clocks for totalitarianism like the one for nuclear war. Wait, no: we'll get one, and it'll be used to scare us falsely at some times and reassure us falsely at others.
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  13247.  @gardent6641  No, 60% is right. It's also falling by a percentage point or two a year. See the EIA's Electric Power Monthly.
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  13248. The Liberals engineered this incoming flood in the first place and accelerated it year after year. Now that they're low in the polls they say "Omg, look what's going on!"
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  13249. ​ @tracyfarnath2270  Best to you too. 🎉🎊🎉🎈😛
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  13250. The left has owned the journalism schools for decades. (And the education faculties, and the humanities, and the law schools...)
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  13251. He's so anti-American that it gives him nausea to support Ukraine simply because it means siding with the US. (Sort of like Tucker Carlson in a way, who isn't pro-Russian, he just won't back Biden for partisan reasons.)
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  13252. Sounds like something directly inspired by the loser of the election earlier this month. ("I grew up in the middle class" etc.) Kringe-tastic!
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  13253. There's many thousands more like him lurking in every institution in the country.
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  13254. I can see you're unaware of the proliferation of graduate diploma mills. And I don't mean illegitimate non-schools, I mean well-known institutions cranking out PhDs that aren't really worth the paper they're printed on. Requirements have diminished, standards have been lowered, research has descended into decrepitude, journals debased, entire faculties hollowed out. Professors get candidates to obediently and sycophantically do their work for them; in return the students get a phony degree. In a way I feel sorry for those who really earn their doctorates.
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  13255.  @CuongNguyen-eg1pu  Tempted to side with you, except appeals to authority are among the very least significant of the so-called logical fallacies. They don't amount to absolute proof, but in science there's no such thing anyway. Scientific truth is a matter of opinion, and not everyone's opinion is equal. Authorities deserve their say as much as unknown schmucks, anyway.
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  13256. What a wonderful country the USA would be without liberals.
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  13257. They produce services that people buy. I'm sure they're vastly under-taxed, and that desperately needs to be remedied, but they're no more leeches than most service providers. (Is an NBA star making $20m a year a leech?). Just agitate for fairer taxation (and closer regulation) if you want to help anything.
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  13258. Yet they never tire of claiming that "Trump is a threat to democracy!" These people have no scruples, no morals, no limits. Eventually, if allowed, they themselves would suspend elections indefinitely. And they'd say "We must do this in order to protect democracy."
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  13259. "Look, I get it." Translation: "Look, be quiet now."
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  13260.  @1223jamez  Don't worry, I'll be careful.
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  13261. 1000 km
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  13262. Sure, once it's a half-disintegrated smouldering mass of melted steel.
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  13263. "Lowest ratings in 33 years" And the population was 90 million lower than today. Mark Zuckerberg was a 2nd-grader. Taylor Swift was a 1-year-old.
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  13264. Many Americans flaunting their dismal moral sense down here in these remarks. Yet they raged (as they certainly should have done) at the people celebrating on 9/11.
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  13265. ​ @brit1066  I am in basic agreement with you about science, theism, and politics. But Raymond Babcock is clearly a nicer and more grown-up guy. Your conduct here is appalling, and that's not something any correctness of opinion can ameliorate. Try to remember you're in a public space. Also, please stop YELLING in caps. To add emphasis, just use italics .
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  13266. Enjoy having only one customer—China. Advantage: Uncle Jinping. You could've gotten along with Europe with the greatest of ease. Instead Russia will be totally dependent on China and run according to Chinese tastes. Massive blunder, comparable to the non-aggression pact with Germany.
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  13267. Dude wants to school you on economics. And he can't even spell economies: "economy's" 😂
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  13268. What a flagrant falsehood. Through Starlink service for the Ukrainian armed forces he has cost Putin and Russia hundreds of billions of dollars. It's ticking up towards a trillion.
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  13269. How would Schumer like it if top American allies called for the American people to rise up and depose Biden? It appears Biden's cognitive decline is contagious.
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  13270. "The same goes for anyone acting authoritatively in any context." I don't mean to be unfriendly, but does this apply to you? Your tone is unobjectionable to me, but somewhat authoritative, even pleasingly so. The same goes for Prof. Harari. Does that mean you're both insecure sheep? Just asking. Or were you looking for the word authoritarian? I add in passing that I feel many authoritarian people are not sheep deep down, but self-consciously ex-sheep. Thanks for your comments.
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  13271.  @canadianshield5143  Simmer down. Breathe. Re-read. Re-read every word. Think.
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  13272. The ones afraid of this story are the major media outlets. To them, any critical eye turned on China smacks of right-of-center politics, and for that reason they don't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole. They see their proper job as putting and keeping Democrats in office.
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  13273.  @scottgraham1143  No one "hid" it. What on earth are you talking about? The extent of pair annoy uh infecting minds across society today is stunning.
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  13274.  @RealConspiracyFacts  But stasis, while it may be on the whole a fine thing for a living body, is far less satisfactory regarding one's progress in life.
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  13275.  @mycatspethooman5590  There's was a sharp months-long spike in unemployment in the opening months of the pandemic, owing chiefly to draconian shutdowns of the US economy by state governors as they grossly overreacted to the public health threat. Implying that Trump mismanaged the economy into mass unemployment is disingenuous at best.
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  13276.  @mycatspethooman5590  Correct. And it was a very brief Covid spike. I don't know why it still shocks me what misleading things they say and what whoppers they tell.
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  13277. Fair take. I did think he was drinking. Not too many but three or four, say.
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  13278. 17m tons of oil processed annually by that Ryazan refinery equates to nearly 350,000 barrels a day. At over 5% of the entire national refining capacity, yes, that's pretty big. Also, refining is a very profitable part of the oil business, at current oil prices perhaps the most profitable. And building and repairing refineries is terribly expensive.😄
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  13279.  @mifigor1935  Any reasonable person would respond the same way. I did. I argued with the bike guy who told me. To save myself writing time I went to Perplexity. This is what it gave me: "Bicycle tire tubes are porous to air molecules, allowing air to escape over time due to the diffusion of gas molecules through the rubber material. This phenomenon, known as permeation, affects all pneumatic bicycle tire systems. The rubber of the tube is porous on a molecular level, enabling air molecules under pressure to escape gradually. While some tubes are more porous than others, all tubes are subject to a certain degree of porosity, leading to air loss even without visible holes in the tube. Thicker tubes, like thorn-resistant ones, may retain air better due to the additional time it takes for air to diffuse through them. Inflating tires with CO2 can lead to faster air loss compared to using a normal pump and ambient air due to the solubility of CO2 in rubber. Regularly topping off tires to match the rate of air loss is recommended to maintain optimal pressure levels. —————— I think you'll agree life and the universe are crazy.
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  13280. Uh, do you know who owns the platform you're on right now?
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  13281. The interview starts at 2:16. Skip the painfully tedious content-free preamble.
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  13282. Letitia James is that neighbor that no one on the block can stand. Everybody's had one just like her.
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  13283. I'd be surprised if that organization receives no Trudeau government funding.
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  13284. That British-Egyptian guy was pure gold. (Not sure just what I mean but those are the right words for it.) Konstantin's answer to him was equally golden and it was great also that he offered him the follow-up which clarified so well what he was on about. Speaking of so well, I was extremely glad that Thomas Sowell's name came up and his thought given suitable discussion and praise, even if very briefly. ..... ..... Btw, why do socialists have such wide faces?
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  13285. Try watching Onion News From the Future (~10 minutes, here on their YT channel) and then come back and say that. 😀
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  13286. I don't think Piers would interview a twice-convicted s*x offender. He was caught twice trying to lure teenage girls online. That sort of person is a hero to some, apparently, but not to me or Piers.
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  13287. If it is not specified, Moscow.
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  13288.  @Tijuanabill  Ah, the Streisand Effect! I read all about it in January. (It was in connection with the fiasco at St. Pancras station, London involving official visitors from China. One of them unwisely clashed with a harmless and cheerful English piano player (one Brendan Kavanagh)...who happened to have about 1.4 billion YouTube views to his credit. Outstandingly hilarious how it backfired and a minor shockwave circled the globe.) No, this is different. I'm talking about treating people as children, and how it's only ok if they actually are children. And also how once they learn that they were mis-led or lied to, they'll never trust in the same way. But I'm not mad at my parents. They made no Streisand-ian misstep at all. They handled it really well by trusting me as soon as it was right to do so. I think I extracted all the right lessons from it, thanks mostly to them of course, although I take a bit of credit myself. (Why not?😄)
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  13289.  @8rr725  Yeah, I think that's the case. There are nuances in there (e.g., it also might provide a benefit to children by demarcating a line into the next stage of childhood and helping them grow up and even 'toughen up' maybe) but I think there's probably some hurt and some loss of trust. What's your opinion?
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  13290. Yes, take shelter in your basement now. Stay there for about a year.
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  13291.  @postpwnmalone  Most people have nothing against kitchens. Most people actually like being in them. They're not a symbol of anything bad. Breathe, man, just breathe.
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  13292.  @fhuckleberry28  "What's wrong with a President Harris?" 😂😂 Omg, if you have to ask you'll never know.
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  13293. The more the rest of the society bends over backwards to give them things they didn't earn, and the less they are blamed for the awful things they do, the wilder and more unhinged they get. Bad as they wanna be. Year Five of the spree begins in a few weeks.
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  13294. No, but the means to put it in place are getting incredibly potent.
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  13295.  @sadetwizelve  Our narrator calls a spade a spade and insists on honestly calling people who want all this "losers". Bully for him. It has to be said. We have to own up to the fact that people are being shaped to be losers, even if some of that reflects back poorly on our own selves. We're weaker than those who preceded us by ten years, they were weaker than those ten years before them, and so on. It has to stop now, or our whole civilization will be taken over by the CCP, perhaps without a shot needing to be fired. I said to a friend of mine not long ago that, even with all its major faults, Russia could end up being the last half-decent country, thanks to so relatively few of its people being total losers. Unless we do something, and I don't know what. I'm politically homeless.
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  13296. National Socialism sounds nice too, doesn't it? Yet that's not what it was. It was something else and it was a very bad thing thing indeed. It turns out Wokeism likewise fails to live up to what it claims to be and is likewise a very bad thing. Mad re-namers that you are, no doubt you'll come up with something else. No matter. Bad is bad is bad, and woke by any other name would reek as badly.
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  13297. Forces News needs to hose the Pooty-bot sewage out of this section.
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  13298. He delivered that better than I've seen him do lately.
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  13299. Why does Britain have a health minister and a health secretary? Here in North America we have a health minister and a health secretary too, but between them they cover two countries.
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  13300.  @clockworker  330m is the total of the five big nations of western Europe and that's the way I took it. California had under 100 deaths when they went into lockdown, that's the way I took that. I can't comment directly on the other two things, although it's been widely pointed out that since old people in the US don't very often live with their grandchildren, keeping schools open wouldn't expose the old to much extra danger. I'm disinclined to supposing him foolish. I'd instead guess that he was tired.
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  13301.  @clockworker  Thanks for your reply. See today's new UnHerd video in this series, this time with a German professor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrL9QKGQrWk   Shortly after the 18-minute mark, the interviewer states (and I have not myself confirmed) that in Switzerland it was found that no children infected any adults, and for that reason schools were re-opened. I assume you did not know about this. In answer to your question, no, I would not blindly trust what Chinese officials assert. I would verify it if they told me it was a sunny day. Cheers.
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  13302. Wow, so many people think lightning is spelled lightening. 'Lightening' is a word, it just has a totally different meaning. It means 'making or becoming less heavy' or 'making or becoming less dark.' Nothing to do with electricity.
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  13303. After that, the prospect of going home to wash a sinkful of dirty dishes must be pretty dismal.
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  13304. It was activists, the lowest form of life. Sorry protozoa, you've been bumped up.
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  13305. Great news, Wikipedia is available outside the US.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Super_PACs
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  13306. Why should you necessarily? Only 2% of the population has tested positive.
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  13307. Even if you've just got a BSc, but you've ingested a few tons of information over the last 90 days, and you watch and listen carefully to this interview, you can plainly discern before it's over that the chap on the left is actually cleverer and a better guy than the chap on the right, and that they both pretty much know it, too. So asserts a little old nobody like me.
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  13308. There's a strong likelihood that bias will work effectively in her favour. There will be a psychiatric assessment followed by a hearing concluding that she's a harmless woman, she'll be held for a few months or perhaps a year in a gently supportive setting, then she'll be released.
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  13309.  @stpfs9281  Shouldn't that be "Please be more Pacific"?
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  13310. I see Peterson is somewhat rejuvenated this year, and I don't mean in appearance (although that too ). What could be better? (Hey, Dr. P., cut me a slice of that. I could use it.)
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  13311.  @Pozi_Drive  Ok, I'll try. I doubt I can, but I'll try.
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  13312.  @Pozi_Drive  Didn't work. Please give me another search term or two.
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  13313.  @VersusARCH  You mean you doubt monkey lived experience?
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  13314.  @GaryClark-qy5yy  He's gonna pull a Caitlyn, that's what he's gonna do.
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  13315. The shrewd one is the one who doubts he can conceal himself from American satellites. The West has so far allocated about one fifty-thousandth of what it can bring to bear.
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  13316. "Informed"? Do you realize that he read us a tweet from Douglas Macgregor as though it was a news report? 😂
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  13317.  @mstar7520  <----- I'd say there's an echo chamber in a certain person's cranium.😂
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  13318. @DarrenWayne-l5l Congratulations, you can count. I called it a place, professor.
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  13319. @DarrenWayne-l5l But I'm sure you're generally a decent bloke.
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  13320. "How much [time] is in there for reading, for learning about these policies?" Joe, I don't think she does long hours. Like most women in their careers, and unlike most men, I would imagine she goes home on time and then shows up a ½ hour early in the morning. Men work late.
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  13321.  @jjllama2305  Nazi Germany, China, the Soviet Union, it's got elements of all the Big Three.
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  13322.  @helenegan1079  I might read this if it were broken up into paragraphs.
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  13323.  @brunoheggli2888  Two per cent of the market, doubling every two years. You've seen big moves made in your lifetime. How about Amazon practically catching up to Walmart after trailing so vastly far behind just four years ago? I'm not claiming it's a fait accompli, I'm just looking at the slope of the curves and the tidiness of the execution.
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  13324. I am Xi Jinping and I really approve this comment. (Thank you for your good work.)
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  13325.  @dominantallele4216  Sez the r ay cyst himself. Classic technique: do something awful, accuse your accusers of it.
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  13326.  @teresaaljayyousi8447  😅😅😅😆😆😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😆😆😆😂😂😂
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  13327. Oh Crimea river. India showed up on the gold purchases chart.
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  13328.  @isaacwalker2045  Look, everyone, this Kiwi goof says to Australians: "You are just as guilty if not worse than China." Lovely chap.
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  13329. Whenever and wherever no-limits liberals, "progressives" and the unmentionable W. people have control of any government function, they institute two-tier rules. They always punish one group and favour and exalt another. The actual Great Divide is a puny nothingness compared to what they do to society.
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  13330. Yeah. Americans can't even enter Canada with weed, and it's legal there. Anyway, it's just something to avoid having at borders, airports and airplanes. Everyone should respect that. You can always get some once you're there, probably in about 180 or more of the 190 countries.
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  13331.  @tophercabba  Bruh, you're telling me what I'm telling you.
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  13332. For what it's worth, I take strabismus as a sign of high intelligence. JFK had it, my doctor has it, Sartre had it, Streisand has it, Michael Burry has a touch of it, and every other person I've ever encountered in real life or the media who has it seems either bright or strikingly bright. I'm fairly sure Elon Musk's gaze shows it at times, too. I have one slight reservation about the video but overall it is outstanding and entirely up to the good standard of the NYT video section.
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  13333.  @pearladams4817  Yes. On "Every conceivable social media platform in the world," according to the Canadian UN ambassador in a speech to the General Assembly.
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  13334. ​ @kellyw8017  What a clown. Your psycho is murdering his harmless neighbours and you have the nerve to talk to me about war mongering. Your solution for peace is to give him any country he wants so he can run it from the Kremlin like it's a Soviet oblast. Thanks for the Reich Chancellery point of view, Lord Chamberlain. Xi would heartily approve it too. And how generous you are, granting Ukraine its choice of merchandise trade partners. There's just no end to your high-mindedness is there?
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  13335. India is part of a formal military alliance with the United States. You appear to be counting on people not knowing that, nor the fact that the latest IPSOS poll of Indians shows a surge of support for Ukraine and dismay with Russia. Support for the strongest possible sanctions against Russia, for curtailment of purchases of Russian oil even if it means sharply higher prices, and for military aid to Ukraine have all reached nearly 50%.
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  13336. You're claiming to "KNOW something about people" (psychologists) yourself.
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  13337.  @heronsdoor4658  Because of what the education faculties at the universities are like. They've been very left-wing for a long, long time, and to dedicated leftists mass murder is cute when the left does it.
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  13338. Midgets in conversation.
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  13339. Newfoundland is pronounced noo-fən-LAND, not NOO-fən-lənd.  It's not all that far from how you'd say 'newfound land.' Also, don't say 'the Hudson Bay.' It's just Hudson Bay. Thanks for alluding to the Hudson Bay thing, though. It's astounding. Toronto is as far south as Nice, Cannes, Marseille and Siena but few would believe it. I'd welcome a whole video on the Hudson Bay effect.
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  13340. I doubt she knows anything about Afghanistan. She's not a person who 'knows things.' That's terrible enough, yet it's probably the least revolting reason for her silence on the subject.
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  13341. The US and Canada have long had similar levels of tariffs. 97-98% of all goods cross the border both ways duty-free. Till now.
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  13342. They make a leftist.
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  13343. Yeah, same here. Tbh, in 2016-17 I was this guy. Although I was quite displeased with the Democrats and had a serious disliking for Hillary Clinton, I felt Trump was along the lines of an immoral monster, far from clever enough, and tacky beyond belief. Then I observed and contemplated things a lot more carefully.
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  13344. ​ @1001Balance  I still do disapprove strongly of his private conduct. Nonetheless I still find he holds the edge in that regard over his opponent. Far more importantly yet, his political policies are vastly more salutary for the United States. I recommend observing and contemplating things with greater care. I myself, having unwisely paid insufficient attention for some years, undertook to examine whether my longstanding trust in the established news media was still justified. I found, to my horror and embarrassment, that it was not. It may also be necessary to fight back fear of opprobrium in your social circle. Trust and fear: useful and necessary, except when they're damaging. Monitor constantly. Thanks for your germane and sincere reply.
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  13345. If Europe, in addition to its present level of aid, decided to the shoulder the (now-withdrawn) American share of aid as well, would the US then consent to selling the Europe-Ukraine alliance large amounts of weaponry and ammo?
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  13346. The smaller, cheaper Tesla is coming. More expensive cars have to be used to grow the company first, as they generate better profits to finance expansion. You need a lot of extremely expensive factories to build 20m cars a year. This year Tesla hits ~1m. The current cheapest Tesla, the Model 3, is exactly the same as the average selling price of a car in the US. As for Mars, the point is to get some humans off Earth in case of an extinction event. Robots can't be humans.
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  13347. "The most sublime act is to set another before you." Wm. Blake
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  13348. I suggest going on a quest for a minimum of one clue. Iran, Hezbollah, Houthis and other Iranian proxies have long-range missile numbering in the six figures.
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  13349.  @tjasagustin3342  And thanks for your comment on Bolton. He was formerly the US ambassador to the UN, so I agree he could probably step into the diplomatic role you suggest.
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  13350. 👏🏻 I'll soon forget what Ralf Stegner said about arms assistance, but I'll always remember with admiration his rare insistence on answering a question after he was interrupted the moment he started. People have to stand up to journalists when they don't behave correctly, but almost no one ever does. 👏🏻
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  13351. Ok, AOC, tell us how this woman is a raci st.
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  13352. You're watching Nasal Drone News, News for Millennials and Gen-Zers.
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  13353. premiere (preem-YAIR): a debut, as of an show-business production premier (PREEM-ee-er): a leader of a Canadian provincial government
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  13354.  @caro1ns  Bravo.
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  13355. The lesson is simple: To live, stay in Russia.
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  13356. A retired Royal Navy admiral gave an interesting interview with a London broadsheet about a week ago in which he professed to be fairly certain that Putin is not in control of Russia. He said Putin is being moved around by the siloviki, especially the FSB. This may mean that Putin is prosecuting the war against Ukraine unwillingly. In that light Putin, oddly, does not threaten NATO with war; rather, Putin stands between Russia and a war directly against NATO.
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  13357. It doesn't have to be at the DNA level. Good DNA can fail to produce a proper endocrine system as a result of what the doctor described. Or a good endocrine system can be disrupted by one or more of myriad chemicals in our local environment or food-growing areas. Or both: an endocrine system might be badly built in the first place and then be poisoned to boot. In any case, living in a chemical soup can hardly fail to work out poorly.
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  13358. About how many km/mi will it be from City Hall?
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  13359. Let's hear from a seasoned specialist with a few gray hairs, please, instead of someone who just ticks all the DEI boxes.
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  13360.  Flawed-Awed-Gawed  It comes from petroleum, it's a thin liquid which smells similar to gasoline and it's mostly used to thin heavy crude so it's easier to pump on and off ships, through refineries and so on. They refine it back out of the crude later. People also use it in camping stoves and cigarette lighters of the wick type (like Zippos). It sounds like you've heard of naphthalene, which is a further derivative having numerous industrial uses. It used to be in mothballs, but not anymore.
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  13361. ​ @gedofgont1006  But it's not like pregnancy. As whatever combination of infections and vaccination increases the prevalence of antibodies, the protection this confers to uninfected people also increases. Ten per cent prevalence begins to protect them, 20% protects them more than twice as much as that, 40% really slows the spread, 60% slows it more yet, and so on until 90% slows it to almost nothing. Drawing a firm line anywhere is arbitrary.
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  13362.  @buck_X  Thanks. You and dozens of others have now made that clear. I had thought Harald had something to do with inventing wireless technology. (Yes, I know, different Harald.)
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  13363. He's wrong on the Ukraine War. He supports Putin, doesn't want the US helping Ukraine.
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  13364. ​ @jds3068  So should Los Angeles then tolerate a 50-foot statue of Charles Manson in full view of the public in a prominent area if it is on private property and available for purchase? Should St. Catharines tolerate one of Paul Bernardo?
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  13365.  @thecatwholovedmusic8793  The kleptocratic element of the feudal state is a leading and inevitable feature.
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  13366.  @tinaxtony  "...the police are not armed but criminals are." In a way the UK reminds of the US. Forty-nine out of fifty developed countries have armed police and 49 out of 50 have public health care. I wish you both luck. (Some place like NZ may not have armed police but I maintain my point.)
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  13367. Wow. Las Vegas is such a hockey town now.
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  13368. 👏👏👏👏 (Except the word isn't from Spanish so it has no business rhyming with padre.)
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  13369. ​ Richard schiffman  But the fact that the police will indeed pounce on you for the forms of activity you mentioned (open or loud or organized protest) nonetheless also means that Russia is not "like at all, not even a teeny, tiny bit" politically like the free developed countries either. So this places it at best mid-way between North Korea and, say, Sweden. Halfway to North Korea is seriously bad. A disgrace and a tragedy.
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  13370. What is "mass" incarceration anyway? You use that term to evoke things like 'mass murder.' Cunning rhetoric, but you can only use it because there's mass crime in the first place. And what does "doesn't work" mean? That it's not 100% effective? Nothing is. But the deterrence is still there. The crime spree going on since the reduction in imprisonment seems clear enough proof to me, as if any were needed. If you effectively legalize theft or any other crimes, you will get more of those crimes. Penalties matter, and if a convicted person has no money to pay a fine there's little alternative. Why not commit a crime if there's no penalty? You could easily also say that penalties for highway speeding "don't work" either, because speeding still occurs. But imagine if there were no penalty for speeding. And young teens still get alcohol despite the law against it, but imagine if it were legal to sell booze to them. Think, then post. (N.B. Repeating the woke claptrap that comes out of the degenerate universities does not count as thinking. Such nonsense is to thought what kryptonite was to Superman: anathema, poison, death.)
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  13371.  @sbkenn1  Yes, because of a deeply-rooted culture of criminality. In large and identifiable portions of the society crime is glorified, entrenched, respected. Face it. It's been there since not long after the Puritans and it's been stepping up in waves ever since. (Cf. Samuel Johnson: "Sir, they are a race of convicts." He meant Americans.) Lighter enforcement of laws, if it is ever to be even thinkable (and it likely will never be) awaits success in efforts to root out this culture entirely. I think that's obvious, and few in these communities are even close to realizing it. The music, the movies, the schools, the street corner culture, it's all soaked in it. The churches included: look no further than the preacher in this video, who said nothing against stealing. But you're determined to believe lighter punishments will help. Terrible.
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  13372. Thanks for the Global Times point of view, Tongzhi.
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  13373.  @henrymac506  They have barely used their military power, due to political aims and directives. You've only ever seen the tip of the iceberg.
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  13374.  @hominid3528  Yes, interesting blunder, but don't give them pointers.
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  13375. The US is now the only country that can stand up to China on its own. Canada could only do it with the strong support of all its NATO allies, and doesn't have that strong support now. Let's face it, NATO needs extensive rebuilding. What she said actually counts as fairly courageous given our situation.
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  13376. Promise them $1000 and then send $1. When they complain, send a screenshot of when you entered $1000 (prior to Confirm). Keep it up for a while, asking them over and over to check if they have your $1k. Don't accuse, just plead. When they finally get mad, apologize for being so stupid and try to start all over. Send them another $1 and say "Why does this keep happening?" Have as much fun as possible. Make them read boring texts about your life. Ask one dumb question after another. Up the ante and say "Maybe $2000 will work." At this point you've had tons of entertainment for $2. Plus you know you're doing society a favor by tying them up.
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  13377. @randall2020 Etymologists attribute the origin of the word "clueless" to the scholar of English literature Northrop Frye.
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  13378. Seems the fault of the headline writer. (Mr. Binyon referred to Russia being "locked out.") At news media outlets the job of headline writer is often handed to a poor candidate, I notice. If such an important position is so inadequately staffed, it makes you think less of the stories below faulty headlines such as this one.
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  13379. No, Doug Ford isn't like that. I don't get why you'd say such a thing. He's the Conservative premier of Ontario, not Trudeau.
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  13380. Rumor has it he was a fellow supply teacher at that high school Justin Trudeau had to leave in the middle of a semester.
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  13381. Someone who does captioning at SNA didn't know that the Trumpian term invoked was "bigly," not "big league."
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  13382. What? Why? I could see why it might be true if the parent who said it despised the other parent, but we were given no reason to suppose that was the case here. Do you not think children take after one or both parents' traits? So once again, why?
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  13383.  @peace-now  Yeah, I bet you'd be talking about compromise and a cool head if your family were being killed, your home being destroyed, your countrymen and -women being kidnapped, your country bombed to bits. Compromise: "Here, take my daughter and consider letting us live. Enslave us if that's what you want." Madness on your part. Madness and immorality.
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  13384. It's not true that India prefers to align itself with dictatorships. Rather, it knows how weak and fragile it is and for that reason treasures its facade of neutrality. (Besides that, its government is ever aware of the undercurrents of hatred for the white race simmering in the electorate. Racist Indians, for racist reasons, would love to nuke Britain in two seconds if they could.) But under the facade I think Modi deplores Putin as much as any of us does.
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  13385. Because "When we do it, it's cute!" Violence: ok when we do it. Conspiracy theories: ok as long as they're ours. Tax cuts: ok when we do them / Tax increases: ok when we do them. Racism: ok if we do it. Not telling the truth: very ok when it's us. Media bias: when we do it, it's saving democracy.
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  13386. Since you're far smarter than Elon Musk you should be able to conceive of something far better.
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  13387.  @Rocksteady246  ...said the obvious bot.
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  13388.  @Chrisgriffin1818  ...said the other obvious bot.
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  13389. Don't forget Canada. Kamala Harris is a lefty Canadian. She lived there between 5th grade and freshman year at Howard. She would be America's first NDP president. Her political soulmate is Justin Trudeau. They grew up in adjacent wealthy neighbourhoods in Montreal, their houses one mile apart.
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  13390. "I love UnHerd! It's intelligent, balanced and wise. Its viewers are my kind of people. I'm happy to support it." —V. Putin
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  13391. Would one hundred million in 2022 be good?
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  13392. Chris Rock has a famous video that can help people with stuff like this. 😂😂😂
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  13393. What? "Starting"? It's at a full gallop.
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  13394. That's a pretty obvious suicide by cop.☹Didn't have the courage to do it himself.
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  13395. Methinks the gentlemen doth protest too much. 😂 What the 'patriots' asserted sounded like lip service if I've ever heard it in my life.
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  13396. Hilarious. Margaret Thatcher, too, read chemistry.
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  13397.  @jimnaz5267  Nothing against the US or you, and unlike most people here in these comments I wish you well, but the US isn't the largest country in the world. It's third in area and third in population.
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  13398. A woman of that unbearable type often does have a notably wide face. Facial width is correlated not only with un-likability but also aggression and criminality. No surprise, then, to find one on-air and earning a high salary at the BBC.
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  13399. What? 🤨  "Ủcaina" = Australia 🤨
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  13400. ​ @philippedefague3835  … and their every man a chamberlain, manservant, guard—or, by analogy to the beehive, drone.
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  13401.  @brendanjames2687  Yes. I was being bitterly ironic.
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  13402. In other words, democracy is not for nit-wits. It just isn't. It soon collapses into tyranny, and maybe it ought to from the perspective of moral justice. If they allow stupidity to suffuse themselves, they don't deserve democracy.
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  13403.  @Blakelikesfood  Yep. It's called not knowing the difference between 10 and 1. Although let's get it straight: it's actually pretending not to know. They know.
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  13404. You should ask people "Putin is 71 years old. What happens to Russia and the presidency if he doesn't wake up tomorrow?" I think the responses would be interesting and fun.
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  13405. Britain, Canada, the US...Australia next? I believe they're running out of countries. I suggest the high seas.
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  13406. @jenny hubbock Your remark itself is an appeal to heedless lack of intelligence. Well done.
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  13407.  @PeterbFree  You look great in your tinfoil hat, spouting irrelevancies and fantasy. Sad.
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  13408.  @PeterbFree  😢
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  13409.  Hugh Manetty  Ha! No, I very rarely think of it, I'm glad to say. A couple of times a year maybe. Btw, only the very least impressive people ever use that appallingly dumb line. Try to think up something good to use instead, and maybe no one will realize you're one of them. Just trying to help.
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  13410.  Hugh Manetty  Yet another dumb buzzword. Yikes. How many of those have you got?
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  13411. ​ Hugh Manetty  I'm not surprised by that question, but it still disappoints me. You shouldn't be supposing that just because I think ill of Rachel Maddow and CNBC, I'm a fan of that dullard; that if I despise the immoderate and unintelligent left, I must be just as stupidly right. In my view there's no room for realistic and sensible people very far from the center. That explains why I'm politically homeless.
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  13412.  Hugh Manetty  I don't think it's ok at all, although luckily I never hear anyone use it. I only see it used on social media and news sites. It was devised by unbalanced people at sadly decayed university humanities faculties.
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  13413.  Hugh Manetty  Good to hear, for I would rather not have the high regard of a cant-spouting MSNBC and Rachel Maddow fan. Have a nice night.
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  13414.  Hugh Manetty  That's a weird thing to say. Pretty homophobic too. Diet, sleep, and exercise are the first areas to try to improve when evidence arises that one's emotions are unbalanced. I wish you well.
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  13415. Never forget we're always just five minutes away from the Kringela Harris administration.😮
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  13416. Over 20 countries.
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  13417. I guess almost anything is for sale if you make a high enough offer. In the fall of 2022 we were told that the world had already been well-scoured for ammunition by Ukraine's deep-pocketed allies. If that was the case, the fact that Pavel managed to succeed suggests bids for ammo have gone up.
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  13418. Ukraine is the end of the line for Putin and his military adventurism. Anywhere he tries anything more, the victims he targets will be supported vigorously by the outside world, meaning NATO and others. It's time for him to give it all up, settle down, and spend his retirement quietly in The Hague.
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  13419. You slipped up, did you not? The Left forgot about class. The sacred trinity is race, sexual orientation and gender.
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  13420.  @MrJdsenior  Me? You can't tell what I think? Yeesh.🙄
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  13421.  @ГалинаБрагина-п2т  Hahaha. You think you just presented an 'educated' point of view? The US has a lot of people in its jails and prisons because it has a lot of crime—theft, robbery, drug trafficking, murder, sex crimes, fraud and all the rest. As for the A-bombs used in Japan, Japan went after the US in the first place. Ukraine didn't even so much as drop a piece of litter on Russian soil. And the bombs actually saved millions of Japanese and American lives. A ground invasion of Japan would have been an incredible bloodbath. If the USSR had the bomb eight years earlier than it did, it most certainly would have dropped it on Germany, thus saving who tf knows how many lives. Something like 25 million altogether, perhaps. Go back to school, Professor Genius, if you're not still in fact a high-schooler.
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  13422.  @ГалинаБрагина-п2т  Hahaha. You are a one-man Internet Research Agency. And I use the word "man" loosely.
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  13423. 🤔Who would do a more devastating impression of Freeland: Catherine O'Hara or Andrea Martin?😄
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  13424. You use that word, "pathological." I do not think it means what you think it means.
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  13425.  @frodelius  Don't ask me, ask some dictionaries. You've heard of them, of course?
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  13426.  @claytonjean6385  Autopsies would be needed to find out if they were abused. Based solely on what I gather at this point, the evidence as yet shows only that children are buried there, and that they were not granted the dignity of grave markers (unless, in theory, they were placed there and later removed, but I have no reason to hypothesize that). (Did any or all of the various aboriginal nations consider a marked grave an important dignity, or one of any significance at all? Did that depend on certain things, like whether or not they had been brought into one of the Christian faiths? I don't know any of these things. Do you, by any chance?) Why do you presume these particular children to have been abused? And are you saying that abuse caused their deaths? It certainly seems a possibility, but are there sufficient grounds to assert that it is a fact? Were not outbreaks of fatal contagious disease common in past times, claiming many children's lives? My mother lost two school-age brothers to childhood illness, one in the 1930s, one in the 1940s. Were the children in question healthy or not healthy when they arrived at the schools? Along with other important questions such as what were conditions like at these specific schools and how good or poor was the public oversight of them (if this has not already been established by previous investigations or inquiries), these questions must all be duly answered and the proper forensic work completed. And it must be done with all reasonable speed and thoroughness. In the meantime, it seems wrong to jump to any conclusions as you have done, and it is most egregiously wrong to condone a campaign of arson. To name just one reason, many First Nations people are now deprived of their place of worship. But there are numerous other reasons as well, many of them each sufficient in their own right.
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  13427. In worse cases the lungs are pretty damaged by this illness, so you're best off not getting it at all. Try not to catch it and eventually antiviral medicines which greatly lessen severity will be approved, then a vaccine will emerge.  Try to get time on your side. And if you do catch it, who knows, if the spread is slow enough in your area anyone who needs a ventilator will get one anyway. All it should take is public cooperation.
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  13428. In 2023, Canada experienced its highest annual population growth rate (3.2%) since 1957, with 98% coming from international migration. It rose by 1.2m. In 2024 it's even faster. StatsCan estimates the population is rising 4.7k/day, or 1.72m for the year. At that rate of 4.14% (!), the population would double to 83m (!) by 2041.
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  13429.  @robf1801  Such an important point.👍 A closely similar one: Let's say Brazil and Canada both sell the US lentils. If tariffs send Canada's up from $1 to $1.25, Brazil can quite safely raise its own price by 20¢. (And obviously should.)
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  13430. Maybe multiple factors got it going. Mastery of fire had to have done something. The emergence of language, too, could have had a bootstrapping effect. How about an ice age or two (outside of Africa obviously).
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  13431. Desposition doesn't seem to be in my Oxford. What do you mean by it?
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  13432.  @gazlink1  You wrote: "...what common people actually think, in an actual forum for free speech, with actual people ..." Yes, but we self-select. Being therefore not a random sample, we don't indicate how people at large think and feel.   Someone I read (somewhere. long ago) asserted that only the insane write letters to the editor. Fellow had a bit of a point at least. Cheers.
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  13433.  @Redfoxx-pg7km  You wrote: "YouTube is totalitarian." Totalitarian is rather a big word to throw around like that. Either you're joking (but I see no sign of a sense of humour) or you're sentimentally reaching for effect. (Cp. Oscar Wilde: "Sentimentality is wanting to have the luxury of an emotion without having to pay for it.") Wait, there's a third possibility (I think , anyway. After all, you are very intelligent, as you pointed out): namely, that you just don't really know what it's about. I can help. It has to do with monstrous wickedness in the 20th century---you've heard of it of course? Read up on the Red Guards (during the Mao era), Germany in the thirteen years to 1945, and then grab a copy of the Gulag Archipelago. You will thenceforth handle the word with a good deal more care.
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  13434.  @Redfoxx-pg7km  Well well, if it isn't the metronome with human characteristics, here to call people's mothers stupid. Tick, tock.... Tell you what, Charlene old girl. Have the rest of your life to yourself. Nothing more for me here, your flawless silliness is laid bare in all its tedious glory. "Goodbye's too good a word, so I'll just say fare thee well."
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  13435. A month's groceries is prudent. Ten month's groceries deprives several others of the chance lay in store a month's. I find that sensible. You could see this man's hatred for his president from space. The hatred may be justified, but it is highly apt to colour his other judgments. I for one prefer to exclude such people from the list of those whose word I trust.
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  13436. Uh, the whole world except China, North Korea and Iran are blaming him.
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  13437.  @201bob  That's not a valid analogy, because no sections of main stored for emergencies were accidentally broken. An inadequate supply was on hand. If you'll please excuse me, I have to go now. You're not very good at this.
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  13438.  @201bob  It was adequate. Yeah. That's why Calgarians are being asked not to bathe. Dang, bro. I tried to end the conversation and you're not having it. So it's mute time. Buh-bye.
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  13439.  @YYC666  Perhaps you're right. But they say they have 12,000 km of mains. Not having on hand five sections of the most vital kind did turn out to have been a mistake. Let me put it this way: On my 8-passenger private jet I'd have 8 or 9 parachutes.
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  13440. No, slavery as a matter of fact has very long roots in Africa. And he didn't "try to make Africa look violent." He merely mentioned that the oldest archaeological evidence of organized violence was found in the soil of Africa. Your unknowing, unthinking, cheap sanctimony sickens me. To me the greatest horror would be to have a mind that was mass-made by some faction's cookie-cutter.
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  13441.  @Magadh_Squad  Great. Only 99% to go.
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  13442.  @ravikale3968  That so-called mass graves turned out to be not a graves at all. There are no bodies. The researcher used a special underground imaging device which actually failed to show graves. It has emerged that the images were tree roots. The researcher cautioned reporters when announcing her findings, saying the technology was unproven in this context. The media ignored her warnings and told the public that the graves were a fact, or at least led them to believe it. As a result, many churches in Canada were burnt down. Trudeau remarked publicly that he understood why. It was really revolting to read the hatred you expressed in your reply.
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  13443.  @deusmachinima1189  I was being rhetorical. Of course they don't.
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  13444. Thank you, Forbes Breaking News. Who would be doing this if you weren't?
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  13445. That's 100% out of touch with reality. To acquaint yourself with it (for once) spend two days at one of those camps. (I would say half an hour, but I think you'd absorb things much more slowly.)
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  13446. Maybe you're just not a good narrator, but you really, really sound like you're talking to kids in their early teens. We're adults here, at least 99% of us I'm sure.
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  13447. Gary Gibbon loves nothing in the world nearly so much as.... ....the lovely and charming Gary Gibbon. I say he ought to marry himself and give birth to dozens of children.
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  13448. Cuban's tweets: When a smart person uses one part of his brain to shut down most of the rest of it.
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  13449. Quite right. This video is nothing more than three people pretending they're smart, two of them very callow young women just out of school.
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  13450.  @craighuntley6547  And who's sending up the price of homes? Largely investors, domestic and foreign, who engage in bidding wars, the winners then renting them out at exorbitant prices. Mortgages aren't insane, btw. They remain historically low to moderate. Check out WOWA's chart showing Canada Mortgage Rates History (1975 to 2023) You'll see in an instant how wrong you are.
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  13451. ​ @craighuntley6547  Of course supply and demand is "the issue." That's what sets prices. But you're getting too basic here. Your point is like when a couple is discussing their strained finances and one says "The problem is we're spending way too much" [i.e. demand]. The other replies "Oh no, the problem is you don't make nearly enough! [i.e. supply]. As long as you make more it won't matter how much we spend, darling." That retort is true from a certain unrealistic point of view, but just as there's no lever marked "Pull For a Much Higher Salary," there's no lever marked "Pull For More Housing Now." Governments took that lever and smashed it long ago. They won't permit nearly enough building. What they do permit, i.e. a dotting of condo towers, is priced way out of range for most people. So the vast majority of units are snapped up by investors who intend never to occupy them, and they leave half of them vacant anyway. This is because so many rich buyers consider tenants a nuisance and the potential rent income a mere rounding error in comparison with the real aim of capital gains. In short, investors know that nothing is about to change, which makes the situation for the time being a workable Ponzi scheme. The fundamentals dictate that money will keep flowing in to support prices. Half-a-million to a million new residents a year with little being built for them means it's an ongoing party (greedfest might be a good word) for landlords—at the expense of wage earners.
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  13452. 👍Friendly words of counsel there. Alas, entitled mass-produced narcissists & zealots don't look at their beliefs critically. Pity, that.
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  13453. GoPro indeed. Good one, Greg.
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  13454. 11th & 12th people—at last, interview subjects who're drinking but are still sensible and just.
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  13455. But only some of her in-laws.😉
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  13456.  @PeterbFree  It seems to me that he's criticizing authoritarians and their psychologically stunted supporters.
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  13457.  @PeterbFree  I could easily mute hundreds or even thousands of people a year, but do it very sparingly anyway, only about two a year. The most thoroughly hopeless ones. Congratulations on earning that distinction.
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  13458. Certainly the cute cuddly panda China that was hoped for 35 years ago never materialized and clearly never will. Instead the younger generations there are predominantly contemptuous of other systems, cultures, races, and countries. Deeply contemptuous. For the real jingoism, the real racism, and the real cultural entitlement, forget about the US. China is rapidly coming to resemble the Germany of about 1936. So, yes, watch out Australia. Best to keep your alliances as strong as possible, something I will not say is easy or straightforward. Notice I used the plural: if the US even after Trump is gone is too wrapped up in its own many problems to pay you much mind, make sure you at least are as tight as possible with the rest of the anglosphere and EU.
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  13459.  @williambunting803  Thanks for your reply. But next time use the reply button; otherwise I do not receive it. It's funny you should go to the trouble of contradicting me about all of this having to do with power, since I said nothing about power. But let that pass. Your point about prisons seems odd, too, since Canada (even then of vast extent) and other far-flung places were available for dumping convicts already. Just a little island suffices for a prison colony, or even a walled-off section of any land mass at all. Then there is your pessimism about the will of the Western democracies to hang together. In my view it is a luxury you Australians cannot afford. (You seem to be one.) Another one is indulging China in arrangements that will merely make it hungrier for more. Munich-like accommodations will not pay off. For Australia they won't anyway; for China they are bound to pay off handsomely. Assiduously building and maintaining relations with your old friends strikes me as far more prudent and wise. Sorry if I'm just repeating myself. Anyway, good luck.
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  13460.  @williambunting803  Oh, and I should have added that the US wasn't thrilled about battling Germany either, but became a lot more interested when they saw that its regional domination would cost the US plenty: lots right away (trade, finance, shipping, tourism, strategic resources) and then massively later on (the security of the US homeland itself once Germany had absorbed, as it threatened to succeed in doing, the productive capacity of Russia as well as dozens of other countries). Thus I suggest you take it all very seriously but do not worry in quite the same fashion. Americans if the time comes will see a Chinese move on Australian territory as a massive threat to themselves and will respond appropriately, by which I mean sanely in their own interest as much as Australia's. Britain and Canada, too, would really see red, you can count on it. So all together that's 440m rich and armed-to-the-teeth friends whom you could expect to have fully on your side. You'd do the same for all of us, wouldn't you?
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  13461. The emptiness here is the sufferer's feeling of unfulfillment, of not becoming what they feel they were meant to, of a worry that existence itself is empty. It's not that there's no substance to the person, which is what it sounds like you meant. I refer to the general case, and don't mean there can be no exceptions.
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  13462. Any outlet that respects its viewers, that promotes balanced viewpoints, that encourages debate is our friend. That's Sky News Australia.
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  13463. It took a lot of abject I'm-lower-middle-class-but-I-identify-as-hipster snobbery both to produce this report and to provide a smugly appreciative audience for it. Plus some ordinary envy. That's what I figured as I was clicking, anyway. Turns out I was right.
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  13464. Ah, but The New York Times despises Elon Musk so much that they've gone on a two-year campaign to discredit both him and the practicability of all EVs. And as over 90% of US journalists read the NYT every day (and slavishly believe what it says) their campaign has predictably spread and met with great success.
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  13465.  @HavendaleBlvd80  Calm blue ocean! Calm blue ocean!
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  13466. See the George Floyd body cam video. Literally the first thing he does is disobey 16 consecutive police commands.
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  13467. I don't know what that list of losses and airfield damage will cost Russia, but if it were the US the bill would be over $1 billion.
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  13468.  @wanyeooo8486  Is this your speech to the regional Party conference? I fell asleep.
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  13469. ​ @ycycyycc  Four thousand? You really believe your government? It is your dad.
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  13470.  @raptornomad1221  Benjamin, can you tell me the meaning of the phrase in English, please? Here's how Google Translate rendered it: "In addition to gold and jade, defeat in it." lol It seems to mean "Money doesn't equal success." The rest of your comment seems very astute. When people look to one book, one party, one philosophy, one religion, one culture, one leader, or one system for all the answers, they are making a mistake. Thanks.
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  13471. Such womanly hips tho
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  13472. Ok, Faraj.
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  13473. Matt, thanks for saying "Cultivate" properly 👏, instead of giving us the giga-irritating hipster pronunciation. (You know, the one where people say 'adult' with the 'u' like in 'bull' instead of as in 'gull'. 🤮😠) But wait: Thanks also for your amazing content, which just becomes more and more important and relevant every day that goes by. People really need to wake up and start buying NMIC .... Not Made In China.
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  13474. The end-of-video promos are driving me away.
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  13475.  @FM-jo1jh  "Uninformed" you say? What? I guess you must be from Chicago yet have no idea your sleepy little burgh barely existed before 1959. Come on Musey, learn from those that know. Believe the experts yada-yada. ;-) [Non-ironical version: Thank you, yes, and omg you're so right. What a putz the guy was.]
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  13476.  @Bisu-k4o  Please, I'm tryna eat here.🤢
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  13477. Caitlin Moran's casual misandry won't keep her warm at night. It's hard to imagine any human doing so either.
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  13478. Charlie Rose: "Jeff man, guys like you and me, they like to take us down. It's not our fault if the women at work come on to us, but wow does it ever make you envied. Hey, come on over to the house. We'll take a sauna."
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  13479. "Believe all women. If they're accusing Republicans."
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  13480. At any time, the cabinet minister responsible for such matters can simply sign an exemption overriding the law, at his/her sole discretion. (Presumably after getting an ok from the PM.)
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  13481. @Hiafanao I made a reply about ministerial exemptions. It's not visible?
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  13482. Garbage propagated by the sadly mentally ill. This video came out the end of a sewer pipe.🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧
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  13483. Trump picked up 5 points in polling of Latinos, but the margin between him and Biden fell by 16 points. It shrank from 25 points to 9.
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  13484. Well, they made it official and unanimous: Israel, in the view of these three women, does not have "the right to exist as a Jewish state." I wonder how they feel about the right of the world's 23 self-identified Islamic states to exist as Islamic states. (Nah, just kidding. That's not something anyone needs to wonder.)
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  13485. Good! The EC president one day, the UK prime minister the next. See Putin, how nice it is to travel where you like? Once, you yourself could, but now you are scarcely welcome anywhere, and it will always be so.
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  13486. No, it's a SARS variation.
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  13487. Yep. It's because so many smaller numbers divide evenly into 60, making it easy to work with. (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30. Lovely number, 60.)
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  13488. In the 2025 Ipsos Happiness Index of 30 countries, Hungary was last. This fact and the fact that Orban is president go a long way towards explaining each other.
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  13489. You can always tell when Russians somehow manage to be ashamed of their acts. Beneath the video, the comments are infested with them denying responsibility.
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  13490.  @yvonnesmith2335  He lawyered up and got a court-ordered publication ban concerning a girl he allegedly you-know-whatted at the private school where he taught. He left in the middle of the school year, she left the continent. Needless to say, zero has been done to refute the allegations. Still thankful?
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  13491. Not only are we newly aware of the health security and other risks we've exposed ourselves to, there's another reason this is a great time to break our dependence on Chinese manufacturing. Much higher prices for Chinese imports owing to the rising price of Chinese labour are looming anyway. Sorry, China, the illusion many have bought that you're a cute, cuddly panda bear has taken an irreversible hit.
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  13492. Just imagine if NATO hadn't half-disarmed over the past two or three decades. The Ukraine invasion would likely never have happened. And even if it had happened, the prompt delivery of a thousand or two Western tanks and suitable quantities of other munitions would have put paid to it in short order. To ensure peace, prepare for war.
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  13493. I'm impressed with you Brits. In a poll I saw concerning how much Vladolf Putler is despised, the UK was right up there with the Baltic countries and Poland. 👏Jolly good, mates.
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  13494. So YT doesn't take it down when a Pootybot reports it as violence.
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  13495. Martha McCallum looks strikingly like CNBC's Joe Kernan. Family resemblance or just coincidence?
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  13496.  @majormarketing6552  Exponentially doesn't mean 'reaching to a staggering total'. In this context it means 'increasing not by a constant number but at by constant proportion of the total'. Thus the number of cases has been rising exponentially since the start.
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  13497. You sound GenX. I'm a GenX chauvinist who thinks that we partly made and partly just enjoyed what has turned out to be a very brief moment of balance between ages of madness on these and many other matters.
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  13498.  @coolbloke1324  Great post. Never let the buggers get you down.
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  13499. I always love how CPC robots swear off industrial-scale murderous government debacles like the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square massacre--all within living memory-- as long ago and irrelevant in today's China, but always decry the crimes of other countries from centuries ago. Irony indeed.
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  13500. Stop calling it smoking. That ignorant doctor should know that vaping produces no smoke. The temperature is simply far too low. The vast array of harmful compounds produced by high heat are therefore not present. Anyway, it's not tobacco and it's not carcinogenic. And nicotine is not the thing which causes disease in smokers in the first place.
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  13501. Danill: Totals, bro, totals. Give us the totals.
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  13502. Good riddance to bad garbage.
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  13503. That simply is not a garment to wear when delivering the news of the world to an audience. All credibility: Poof! [gone]
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  13504.  @Vortexone112  If you have to ask you'll never know.
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  13505. In fairness, they've copied their playbook 100% from that of the radical feminists whom they, along with the rest of us, have been observing all their lives. In this way I consider that the feminists have been hoist with their own loathsome petard.
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  13506. How come he's not called The Joker? He looks like him. He also always looks like he's on something.
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  13507.  @factcheck1776  Nice reply.👏👏
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  13508. ​ @chobin7982   I did answer you, over a month ago. My last two posts began with "What a dull" and "Who said humans." Those were my replies to your direct questions. I did not reply to your final post which began "Well I've yet" (1) because it asked no question of me and (2) (more importantly) it didn't interest me. You're a rude a*s*o*e and that is your problem. Just look at your replies to me. It's why you get fired and it's why you don't get along in the world. It also accounts for your misanthropy. Of course you hate people, since your behaviour makes them hate you, and they end up showing it—like me right now. Unsatisfactory relationship with your parents? It's the usual reason in cases, such as yours, of addiction to p---ing people off. You're also not very bright. E.g.: "Probably [...] guaranteed." Hahaha, which is it? And "worked a blue collar work" (!) What? What else but dullness can account for semi-literacy in a person who reads books? And yes, I've done manual labour. (And no, I have no religion or religious feelings of any sort.) I've no interest at all in dealing with a silly and ill-tempered child such as yourself. Once again you've demonstrated that adherence to far left politics arises out of personality deformations, but even the people shown to us by Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier come off looking a lot better than you. You're the second-worst-behaved person I've ever faced online, and the worst was also a flaming leftist. So have a nice life. You may enjoy your adulthood once you reach it. As for me, I'm glad to say I'll be unable to receive posts from you anymore. Ta!
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  13509. You're probably comparing the best Russians to the worst Americans.
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  13510.  @kayt9627  MacFarlane is a flagrantly Scottish name. The "Mac" gives it away. Other names in Seth MacFarlane's family tree, however, suggest he might be of mainly English descent. He is a descendent of the Brewster who emigrated on the Mayflower.
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  13511. As the air is to the bird, and the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. --Wm. Blake Thanks, Dr. A much-needed reply.
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  13512. Two charming Ontario lasses with local hard seltzer to kick it off. I call the left one Bitey.
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  13513. In 1994 Putin would not be president for another 5-plus years.
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  13514.  @martinrolecek8837  The idea that the US "commands" its fellow NATO members is pathetically laughable. Its attempts to persuade them on its proposals are perennially met with considerable frustration. NATO in general is a way for Europe, Canada and Turkey to suck money out of the US and provide bugger all in the way of quid pro quos. When all the countries do act in concert, it has to do with common interests and values, as well as abilities. That is as it ought to be in any alliance. And do not dismiss entirely the element of friendship, between the respective peoples at any rate, if not the governments. It is never either the whole reason for a position, nor totally out of the picture.
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  13515.  @harrycallahan5018  Very true. Slippery slopes are real. History is little else but a chronicle of them. Thanks for your post, which was sorely needed. Please repeat it elsewhere and often. It might interest you to read my own of 3 days ago, since buried in obscurity way down below somewhere. Here's a copy of it: "Note that the Red Star is the emblem of the Russian armed forces to this day. A red star is not exclusively a communist symbol, but it of course was always the symbol of the Soviet armed forces, called the Red Army." "Thus its use recalls—and seemingly honours and glorifies—the immense atrocities committed by the Soviet regime, including murder and genocide on a scale greater than that of the Nazis. If this has occurred to those who vilify Ukraine here, they omit to mention it for some reason."
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  13516. 'Foment' is the word. And yes, you're entirely right. Whatever improves the situation makes her less able to push the fraud that makes her rich, so it must be fought. So, so very twisted. Extreme corruption.
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  13517. Restrictions are quite light in Ontario now, thanks to vaccination. Unvaccinated people are a quarter of the population and over 70% of new infections, 90% of people in ICUs.
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  13518. Have fun on Uranus. Send me a postcard from Uranus. Do you like looking at Uranus? Uranus is huge, isn't it? One of the Gas Giants, Uranus, I believe.
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  13519. Economics degree from Trump University?
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  13520. If you want to improve the world, start with yourself. You're the one thing you have a real chance of turning around. Once you make some progress, you'll have improved the world. And the world will look a lot different, and now you can begin helping it.
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  13521.  @yoso585  Thanks for your reply. Stowing the vulnerable away for six months would be a large undertaking to save lives and would require making a serious effort. And calling shots designed to save one's own political skin is exactly what one ought not to be doing. It's wrong. People will realize eventually how risky the current strategy is. It may prove an enormous disaster. I think it's likely. Anyway, if you're a leader and you make a blunder either way, the voters will eventually catch up with you, or the judgment of history will. More people are saying the same thing as I am. I started five days ago and since then (or maybe on the same day) there's been a massively cited article in STAT, yesterday's Tom Friedman piece in the NY Times, and now word in today's Times that Trump could change tack for more or less the reasons I outlined. Another piece quotes various Washington figures on how this amounts in part to a struggle with China, which is looking to come out of it ahead. (Very rough paraphrase, read it yourself.) What would the Party love more than a bankrupt West? More discussion has to take place right now. This point of view is not going away. Watch for it to spread as panic gives way to sober, stark, staring realization. Cheers.
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  13522. Other terms amounting to the same type of thing: biological woman, biological man, straight man. Never use them. Correct terms: Woman, man, man (or normal man ).
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  13523.  @kevinvanhollebeke4560  Just check to see where they're made first. Aren't Nikes made in multiple countries?
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  13524.  @melan5696  So what would you say about an identical mass detention in the United States, undertaken for the same purpose you claim is behind the Uighur abuses?
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  13525. Possibly you don't quite get it. The blood dripping from the words is a way of saying it's dangerous and terrible. It would be like a Trump hater wearing a t-shirt of Trump with devil's horns and an arrowhead tail. Or blood-dripping fangs. See now?
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  13526. Outstanding! Just perfect!
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  13527. "He's not Jeffrey Epstein." Oh yeah? How about the suppressed scandal over one of his adolescent students where he taught school? It's more than a rumour. The girl has been identified and contacted by journalists. But—surprise, surprise—this being Trudeau, he's arranged to have a formal publication ban on any mention of her name publicly. Oh the lawyers this guy must have. So saying he's not Jeffrey Epstein is at least a little dubious.
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  13528. No. Not everybody does that. You just said everybody is dishonest in his or her job. Elizabeth Holmes: "What's the big deal about a few billion dollars in fraud? Everybody does it." Jeffrey Dahmer: "Hey, come on. Everybody murders a few people from time to time." Cain: "You tryna tell me you never killed one of your siblings before?"
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  13529. It behooves the world to purchase an island somewhere and exile this sick-making pair to it. Nothing too nice or too awful. How about St. Helena, where Napoleon died in isolation? But not only them. It has room for thousands. For a start, I suggest Justin Trudeau should keep them company. Few will disagree. But who else?🤔 I open the floor to suggestions.
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  13530. We all know Whoopi Goldberg is pretty useless, but her one tiny sliver of usefulness is on the rise: Every day she's more help to the country's obese people by making them lose their appetites when they see her. I don't happen to be obese but I'll settle for the preventative effect.
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  13531. Yes, you are simple.
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  13532. Perhaps one in every 50 women is given to this kind of lunacy on occasion. Most of them only after having had a lot to drink. The rest, spontaneously. They yell, they take off items of clothing, they embarrass everyone. It's a pity.
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  13533.  @nicolesalter2726  That's not exactly what I said.
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  13534. Yep, when the subject of taxes comes up, they're no longer rich. "The rich are those with 50% more money than me."
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  13535. MAWA — Make AOC a Waitress Again
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  13536. "So many opinions." Wtf? Fire that woman immediately.
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  13537. Listen to her, moralizing in that indignant tone of voice! 🤯OML. "Don't judge me!"😂 We know what she did, there's proof. We have no idea what any supposed boyfriend did, or if she even had one. But if he really does exist, what she did in that classroom is still 100% on her.
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  13538.  @joelsterling1445  Why split hairs? You could easily throw a rock onto the 400 from the back of the Cineplex. Weston is actually farther.
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  13539.  @JUSTICEK  Thanks for doing CP24's job.👍
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  13540. It seems to be quite a large percentage in the two metropolises.
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  13541. "Oy vey." Correction: Oy vey schmeer.
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  13542.  @katedebt9150   I would not care to contradict your friends, but she is (rather, was) a presenter on a channel with 3.2m YouTube subscribers and a claimed 6m monthly active users on its site. (It's unclear to me if TV Rain was on cable or broadcast over the air.) By the way, I didn't say she wasn't a courageous person. On first impression she strikes me as one. I simply pointed out that she resides outside of Russia.
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  13543. ​ @katedebt9150  You would have thought similar things about Solzhenitsyn back in the 1970s. There's always people like you. Dull-minded sadists, dangerous and twisted, born to be ruled. Russia is still full of them among older people. Thanks, YouTube, for the mute button.
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  13544.  @katedebt9150  In courting possible persecution before the war and the new laws, I think it is very fair to say she showed guts. But less purpose may be served by courting the near-certainty of useless silence in prison at home, than by availing oneself of freedom elsewhere, whence one can at least get messages through to the Russian public somehow. It's not as though in the middle of a firefight she dropped her rifle and sprinted off. That would be different. From abroad at least she can do something. I don't expect you to see it that way, when because of your support for Putin you consider her whole life garbage, mud, dirt, whatever.
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  13545.  @dorisshanks7295  Yes. I said the same thing in a different way. She has a number of obvious good qualities and what she says I find cogent.
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  13546. The government of China now has its first friend in all the world!
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  13547. And never be anyone's disciple.
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  13548.  @goji059  Cf. Arty the Smarty, a children's book published in 1962 which I was lucky enough to get my hands on after my elder siblings were through with it. The opening bits about 'not running with the crowd' were what really stuck with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIVZogtX1nA
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  13549. I missed the part of this segment — titled "The world reacts to US presidential debate" — where the world reacted to the US presidential debate. I guess that got edited out.😂
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  13550.  @iankauffman6132  Y.T.M.
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  13551.  Евгения Едалина  That's a laugh coming from someone who apparently lives or for a long time lived in Russia. You would do well to distrust your own mind entirely.
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  13552. ​ Евгения Едалина  That makes sense. I was once married to a cinnamon danish.
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  13553. Daniil to dog lady: "Kakoy kressiva pudil."
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  13554. As thoroughly messed-up as Tucker is on Ukraine and US support for Ukraine, he is absolutely right on this. He should stay on it.
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  13555. ​ @williamolenchenko5772  (1) Israel isn't going to nuke Lebanon. (2) It's also unlikely to nuke Iran, as Iran may already have nuclear weapons. (That would explain its egging on Hamas to start this round of hostilities. Remember also Lukashenko saying Russia would share nukes with any ally). (3) Anyway, Israel alone can't defend against a maximum onslaught of conventional missiles from Iran, Hezbollah and Syria.
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  13556. Keeping the world safe means keeping the world safe for free enterprise. That put money in every single American's pocket. And when it's not done out of sheer wickedness or stupidity it means more freedom for other people. Why isn't that something you want the US to be involved in? A wildly criminal world will eventually swim up to America's shores, and attack it with vigour.
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  13557. Which stations closed?🤔
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  13558.  @chrislim7976  Name a station that has been closed so I can try to verify that any have closed.
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  13559.  @chrislim7976  No, I knew that. I was just trying to learn something. Cheers.
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  13560. No, this is the part where we ask for our rights to be taken seriously in the name of peace and security. FIFY
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  13561.  @lenisbennett3062  What, the 2% thing? Well, bear in mind that 2% is one out of fifty. (I trust you get my precise drift.)
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  13562. The number of artillery systems Ukraine has been taking out is massive. I'd like to see a chart of that. Charts are nice.
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  13563. Crap headline, not honest. The clip itself and Dave's analysis were worthwhile, but a cl ick b ayt headline more or less ruins it.
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  13564. "Oh, I've always wanted the Conservatives to be a completely different party. That's why I joined them and ran for them."
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  13565. I think Trump is slyly deceiving the world about what he would do concerning Ukraine. I expect that he would move quickly to force Putin out, and might succeed adroitly. Anyone who doubts me ought to look up what as a private citizen he wrote immediately after the full-scale invasion. To me it's odd how people don't see what he is.
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  13566. Duh.
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  13567. Thanks for the pro-Trudeau Karen point of view on political freedoms. Basically just a summary of your self-colonoscopy.
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  13568.  @donwilson2848  Why, you ask? Because they innocently believe that if you destroy something, an ideal replacement appears in its place, through the mere intensity of your wish that it happen. When you burn down a house you get a new larger, nicer house from the insurance money, right? When you blow all your money your parents give you more, right? That's how life and the world work. So let's tear down society, learning, values, reasoning, language, all the institutions that got us here, all human relations slowly worked into passable shape over millennia, and it'll be great. Does that answer your question?
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  13569.  @OG-uw5hq  If you're like me you're also glad not to be 25 right now. I'm not, Because that would mean I'd probably be around in 50 years. [Shudder] Thanks for your reply.
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  13570. Because she's dealing with psychological pain. "A sensitive person is one who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes." —Wilde
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  13571.  @IsmailKhan-jb3et  Your comment is accurate. However, it is best for the world if India continues to buy some Russian oil. If there was a 100% global boycott, then there would not be enough oil on the world market. Oil would soon shoot to $150, $200, or more, causing great economic problems in every country except perhaps those which export a lot of oil. I don't like this either, but it is reality. (Still, it is best if India refuses to pay Russia the full world price!) All the best to you, Mr. Khan. (P.S. If you are from Pakistan, I would like to thank your country for its sale of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. I appreciate that your government is doing a good thing.)
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  13572. Is it possible that the parents raised them that way in order to get revenge on the world? To have the kids take a crack at what they themselves had failed at—namely, doing battle with society?
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  13573. Careful with those terms! These were alleged to be unmarked graves, not mass graves. Huge difference. An unmarked grave is where a poor, low-status person is buried, as many are to this day. Also called a pauper's grave. A mass grave is where people are buried after dying en masse at the same time or around the same time. Historically they have been victims of mass murder or epidemics/pandemics.
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  13574. Most shocking of all, some dude wanted to make a baby with Rep. Omar. 😯 [Sideshow Bob shudder]
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  13575. True. Low fences are about discouraging short-cuts.
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  13576.  @drrightwing4435  Thanks for the important extra detail. Helpful.👍
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  13577.  @open-debate  His mother Maye, née Haldeman, was born in Canada to American immigrants of German extraction (so-called "Pennsylvania Dutch," a name which is an outright euphemistic misnomer for the group, who came from Germany, not the Netherlands). According to the Wikipedia article titled "Musk family," his father Errol is half English. (His brother left South Africa to fight for Britain in the Second World War.) Errol's other ancestry is Dutch and Swiss. His Afrikaans isn't good. In high school he received a grade of 61. Thanks for your comment.👍
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  13578.  @open-debate  Nice wall of text.
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  13579. Well, in interviews you have to get the subjects to say it themselves.
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  13580. Yet elsewhere in the news, people who don't address someone by using "glixnrob" as a pronoun are the most evil monsters in history.
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  13581. She went wrong when she chose to live at Dufferin and Eglinton.😄
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  13582. But does he work for those people? I say no. Yes, the Party machine made him the candidate, but it was the voters of NYC who put him in the mayor's office and who alone can remove him. So if he wants to he can make an attempt to go over the heads of the Party machine. I'd love to see him try. Just to try would be extremely gallant. And if he met with any success it would be a fantastic moment. (Cp. Leonard Cohen, "Democracy Is Coming...To The USA.")
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  13583. Kilmeade got it so wrong. He said the point of aid is to get "resources we might use" out of poor countries. (!) Omg no, don't make it a way to buy up countries. That's what China does (by the loan sharking method). Make it part charity and part building ties and earning gratitude and respect, so that when the time comes and the US needs allies, it actually has some. Honest friendship building, not a direct quid pro quo. I'm not sugarcoating it. I'm saying there's a difference between friendship and crass exploitation.
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  13584. Poor choice of video title, and probably a deliberate one. It strongly tends to suggest he was shot in the back, rather than while stationary and brandishing a gun in the direction of a police officer. Clickbait titles are a major problem on YouTube.
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  13585. Strange that Mr. Shea mentions as a significant problem the fact that the new German defence minister has no military background, as the outgoing minister was exactly alike.
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  13586. Wrong, my dim-sighted friend. Ukraine, the US, UK, Europe, NATO, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan and the others have political and social values in common which you will probably never understand, probably because of bigotry and racism and your part, or at least a severe lack of understanding, learning, experience and wisdom. Indeed, hundreds of millions of sensible Indians, too, share them to a great degree. Even many Russians.
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  13587.  @stupidtreehugger  Secret? It's not a secret in any sense whatsoever. It is a basic fact taught in the opening days of the finance section of any course in economics. What blatant category inflation. That aside, perhaps more debate would be useful. Don't be so sure, though. Since the Great Dumbening took firm hold, public debate has grown more and more dangerous and increasingly threatens to bugger things up badly at least as much as it offers a hope of improving them. It gets harder all the time to exclude the legions of idiots who demand more of a place at the table of serious debate. I for one have come to expect, ordinarily, that any reform will make things worse overall. R.I.P. The Age of Improvement. Born c.1750, died c.2010, after a long illness.
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  13588.  @soundseeker63  No, he was fine with that. He said so. "A cute white girl is interested in my ethnicity? Which happened quite often, sure ask me."
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  13589.  @kauetadaieski3131  Right, so when Elon Musk finished up at Penn he should've been taken to the airport by ICE agents and hustled onto a plane. Because by staying, he prevented an American from starting SpaceX.
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  13590. Simple answer: The real costs of weapons systems development are far higher than the voters (sorry, I mean the news media) would find palatable. Toilet seats don't cost $50k, it's the outrageously advanced and complex new stuff to keep China from taking over the world that's extremely expensive. And China is likewise spending vast undeclared sums. But no one talks about it in Chinese media for some reason.😄
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  13591. Ok, Ivan.
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  13592. If you were the slightest bit well informed you'd know that NATO membership was not the subject of serious discussion and never has been. It would take, as you manage to accurately imply, many years of political, military and economic development to make it feasible. Putin invaded using it as a pretext when it was only a theoretical and rather far-fetched possibility.
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  13593. No it doesn't make sense, the way the Party tells it. I would imagine that Covid spread and illness are nowhere near as great as they say. This is probably more about smothering the economy to stop a different kind of contagion sweeping the world: inflation. Something, anything, just not what that horrible government claims.
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  13594. I find this uninteresting. 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' is a sturdy maxim which deserves its longevity. So is the one about the lesser of two evils. Consider that Western Allied governments likewise supported Stalin in order to counter the Nazis, who were for a time the (barely) greater threat to human dignity and freedom. In my view it was the right move, and I hardly need to point out that it didn't make Roosevelt a communist or communist sympathizer.
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  13595. And who says it was a man, not a woman?
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  13596. The Conservative Party, led by an anti-woke stalwart named Poilievre, leads in the polls.
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  13597. 🤨How is her lie ok just because she finally started telling it less often a couple of years ago?
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  13598. ​ @canderson5098  Weak attempt at an evasion. Really, really weak. My criticizing her lie makes her lying ok? Actually weak is too weak a word for it. How about an answer instead? And btw, how is it not equally true that my reply didn't affect you in any way, yet you forced yourself to care about it? But I wouldn't expect better from anyone who (1) Defends the prolonged and public misrepresentations of a US Senator, (2) chooses Liz Warren as the Senator to defend, and (3) throws in for reasons of purely gratuitous sanctimony the suffering of indigenous Americans (!). Sorry, but you're not very good at this. [sigh] Disappointing, as I like my foes worthy.
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  13599. Which organization was Dr. Malone working at when he "co-invented" the mRNA vaccine? It would have to be Moderna or BioNTech, since those are the two places which separately invented the two versions. Which one?
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  13600.  @jlaw1901  You're slow, son. I was making the very same point. Built too low, the fast ones go over your head.
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  13601.  @jlaw1901  Also, do your reading on the difference between 'your' and 'you're', and where to use each one…your royal genius-ness.
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  13602.  @fugawiaus  Please, it should be obvious I was asking for details on a claim I didn't believe in the least.
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  13603.  @jlaw1901  Good lord, man, try to be on the lookout for incisive skepticism. I wasn't going along with the guy, I was politely challenging him to provide some corroborating evidence that I knew he would be unable to.
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  13604. What is the point of visual content in the last 20 seconds of a video? It's obscured by links to (i.e. ads for) other videos. Some person or persons approve and carry out this practice and cannot be unaware that it is senseless. It's a minor thing, I suppose, but is disrespectful to the viewer, and I ask that it be stopped. How about at least moving the ads to the corners of the screen?
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  13605. 🤨It's "inhumane" and "diabolical" to offer them — I repeat, offer them — free, comfortable, safe transportation to a state which professes to welcome them? Eric Adams, you make no sense.🤯None at all. I badly want to avoid certain conclusions, but find myself increasingly unable to.
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  13606. I identify as an 18-year-old. Where do I sign up?
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  13607. She's a good Member of Parliament and I completely endorse her views on Canada.👍 (In fairness, though, I question whether Iran was free and democratic before the ayatollahs overthrew the shah. Of course it was much more free than afterwards, a virtual golden era of social openness and liberality compared with the ensuing 44 years, but there was considerable political repression.)
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  13608.  @samplumber8786  Who could fail to notice that the virus has barely affected the people of Southeast Asia at all? It's like fate just decided to send into the world a virus that would ravage the NATO countries whilst sparing that huge region where China just happens to be situated. But not the NATO countries alone. Throw in India, and also the nations of South America whom China has been so assiduously courting for the past decade, and upon whom it has now showered hundreds of millions of doses of its shabby vaccines, as though to rescue them in their hour of need. How fortunate for the peoples of Southeast Asia! How generous of the bats there to spawn a virus not preferential to the ACE2 receptors of the epithelial cells of their respiratory tracts! In summary, smoke one yourself.
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  13609.  @rynnierlim3206  Global Times! OMG, right, the mouthpiece of the government of Ch ina. Sure. Just the place to go for unbiased coverage. Nice try, wumao. Btw, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the worst-hit countries of the region, have rates of death 90% lower than the hard-hit countries of the West. I repeat, 90% lower. Got that? 90% lower.
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  13610.  @MikeEnergy_  Yes, in fact he does believe communist state media. He just posted a link to the Global Times, mouthpiece of the CCP Foreign Ministry. Weak judgment opens up the possibility of believing in communism. If that happens, whatever's left is quickly shattered.
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  13611.  @samplumber8786  Please take a remedial reading class at a location near you, my Plumbum-brained friend. I made it clear I think it possible that the virus was engineered to prefer non-East-Asian hosts. As for South America, India, and "the rest of China", I am unable to discern your point and unwilling to make it for you. Spell it out, would you? And what I'm saying, by the way, is hardly anything so grand as a theory. It's a potential hypothesis that begs for investigation. So let's have one. Oh, right, communist dictatorships don't much care for investigations of anything, let alone their own misdeeds.
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  13612.  @samplumber8786  I said no such thing about South America and India. In fact, the worse things are in those places, the stronger is my case for having such potential suspicions, for my point is that across all the temperate latitudes perennially home to most respiratory infections, it is the parts of them in East Asia which have been spared most conspicuously. And I am not suggesting that the pathogenesis of the disease involves racial characteristics alone. The virus has all kinds of distinguishing characteristics, a complex set of them. It's just that some of them make you more than wonder. Cui bono? is one of the first questions to be asked concerning a calamity of unknown origin.
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  13613.  @samplumber8786   To address a few of your points summarily with brief reactions: —— — Regarding cultural/behavioural differences, they certainly enter into it, as do many other factors, including demographics apart from race, household size, indoor ventilation rates, the nature of social contact churn, intercity travel, and many others. Lots of things matter and are difficult if not impossible to tease apart from one another, but some are surely more powerful than others. —truly novel proteins, nor even special talents. It would just have a special target. There's a UN document, btw, on biological warfare, published in 2011 (pre-Xi, notice). China, in its contribution, predicted the engineering of viruses to target a specific race or races, adding that it could be done so as to conceal its lab origins. I just learned of it yesterday and haven't looked at it yet. (Not that I'm sleuthing. Just keeping an eye open.)
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  13614.  @samplumber8786  What do you think of the assertions of these two guys, given in testimony before House subcommittee members in Washington earlier in the week? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeW5sI-R1Qg
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  13615.  @samplumber8786  Thanks for your reply.
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  13616. The US is "an entire continent"? Carlson should get someone good to read over his scripts before he reads them on the air.
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  13617. Many do, I suppose. Not much argument there. But then, lack of self-awareness is spread around the globe pretty freely. You and I might have some ourselves.
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  13618. Machine intelligence, machine learning....machine lying. Lying, perfected.
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  13619. Spot on.
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  13620. Please note, everyone, that this report is from Alastair Bunkall, a reporter with sister company Sky News (UK), which has no editorial connection with Sky News Australia! In other words it is lefty news out of London.
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  13621. I wonder how she crashed at speed in a (stranger's?) short little driveway. Seems so weird.
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  13622. Give 'em hell, Lauren.😡👏👏
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  13623. Frank envy was the main theme of the video and I found it for that reason one of this channel's most boring ever. Btw, Germany had no royals. The subject of the video was a noble (an ignoble one, you might say).
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  13624. The barracks had been an elementary school. Class dismissed.
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  13625. He's such a hypocrite. What he says here is true, obviously, but the fact is that he's been a cheerleader for Letting Yourself Go in countless ways for decades. He's made himself rich disparaging good sense and common decency, demonizing those trying to keep society from falling apart and making heroes out of those setting fire to it. He helped create the problems he now shakes his head at.
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  13626.  @JHRIRS2010  "Hamas ate terrorist." 😂 Finally a fresh idea: cannabalism! You'll win a Nobel Peace Prize for this.
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  13627. One by one, Russians are going to begin realize the folly of what's happening. One thing most of them have that Germans didn't have in WWII is the internet. Most foreign websites are blocked but some are not. Quite a number of people have VPN connections that can sidestep website blocking. I think that sooner or later they will, first, be plagued by uncertainty over whether they are being massively lied to; then, at a later point, they will conclude that they are.
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  13628. I'm so sick of this false dichotomy. It's such horse s4it. There's more than enough money in the United States to both protect its border and allocate around 5% of its defense spending to the biggest global security crisis of the past 20 years, by far. Maga Republicans, upstanding people though they are, aren't very bright. I sympathize 100% with their desire to deny Biden any sort of win on anything, in order that he can be defeated in November, but they gotta come to their senses on Ukraine. You too, Dave. You're making a big mistake that you will come to severely regret. Mark my words.
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  13629. Make AOC a Waitress Again.
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  13630.  @coops1964  ...yes, and when Prime Minster Peter Pan gets colossally shellacked in the same year, as he shall. (But see my other reply of just now, if you like.)
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  13631.  @wetot2  It's time for NZ to smarten up.
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  13632. Your diet is too rich in government-provided and -censored news. Nutritional deficiency is causing brain malfunctioning. Consume news from a variety of sources. Btw, Mark Felton is not a journalist, he is an historian.
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  13633.  @jeanlannin9828  Kathleen and Karen were already a couple of warning signs if you ask me, and then she went for the glorification of testicular injury. Ouch, time to go home.
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  13634. Luxxotica must have benefitted from inferior competition---under-talented, under-capitalized, poorly managed. The only other way to make out like bandits in that fashion is to use violence and intimidation. Competition ordinarily works wonders, but sometimes capitalism lays an egg. That aside, this report is eight years old. Something tells me east Asian if not domestic businesses must have made inroads by underpricing them in the time since.
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  13635. Does Kadyrov have ambitions beyond Chechnya?
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  13636. We must at all times regard Putin as a lightly-reformed KGB cold warrior. Lightly-reformed in that, just like the CCP, he has put free enterprise to work increasing productive capacity and living standards. The whole rest of his agenda is crypto-Soviet: rigid commitment to the centralization of power in a de facto one-party state, wealth-building as a means to the end of a weapons build-up, and now expansionism. Not a Soviet-style socialist, but a Soviet in all other ways.
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  13637. ​ @CeeDEE-l8b  Part of the Russian empire, you mean. So were the Warsaw Pact countries for 45 years. So what? The projection of US military power, besides meaning that billions of people around the world breathe freer, also has made you and the rest of the US vastly more wealthy throughout the present lifetime. It's a net money-maker for every American, not a net drain. It's time for more of it, not less, unless Americans decide that their priority is to impoverish themselves, which wouldn't be too bright.
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  13638.  @CeeDEE-l8b  Also, the projection of US military power, besides meaning that billions of people around the world breathe freer, also has made you and the rest of the US vastly more wealthy throughout the present lifetime. It's a net money-maker for Americans, not a net drain.
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  13639. ​ @CeeDEE-l8b  I knew an invasion of Iraq would be a colossal blunder, or worse, and joined the huge public protests of Feb. 2003 which preceded it. Btw, I happened to meet the Russian ambassador at one of them, and after we conversed he reached into a bag and handed me a terrific and rather large bottle of brandy as a gift. Marvellous fellow. I passed it around to my astonished fellow protestors. (Look that word up if you don't know it.😄) However, if we were to discuss Afghanistan, I would win.
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  13640. Oh, the word salad there will be when Kringela Harris responds to this publicly! She has her master's in word salad, don't ya know.
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  13641. I don't know. Gross person that he was, at least Epstein paid his victims handsomely and allowed them to live.
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  13642. ​ @BlurryFace-ro3mp  I said that "As a term in linguistics it retained its sense of male vs. female anyway." Retained indicates I knew it was an older word. But this is too tedious to interest me anymore. Here, take the ball and find somebody else to play with.
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  13643.  @BlurryFace-ro3mp  When someone says they're not interested, you're obliged to respect that. To persist is to harass. Just a little more than that and it begins to near stalking. In any case it's totally bad manners. Congratulations on making me hit the mute button. Proud of that?
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  13644.  @ActuallyJustB  Excuse me, are you disparaging Andrea for having a course of personal growth and development which was at most slightly out of the ordinary, and has been a common part of the female experience since time immemorial? Unacceptable. She is owed a retraction of those remarks, and an apology. Out with it!
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  13645.  @mrz9093  🙄Sure, US propaganda. That's why it comes out of China.🙄
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  13646.  @mrz9093  Yes, because Hong Kong is controlled by the US. Everybody knows that.🙄 The Stars and Stripes flies over the SCMP's offices.
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  13647.  @ronwinkles2601  He's wrong, but he's right about Turkey? But, Ron, this is about Turkey. So it's confusing the way you worded that. And why would European NATO countries want to take those prisoners if they could instead remain in the middle east? How does that not make perfect sense as far as they're concerned? Are there any ISIS prisoners in Virginia, Illinois, or Texas?
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  13648. China model very superior. China defeat US inevitable. Happen soon day. Source: Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
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  13649. * 54-year-old. But I agree with the rest.
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  13650. @@metanomena So? The overwhelming likelihood is that the OP is right.
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  13651. Rather a large number of people care little about Tom Damp.
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  13652.  @tomzamp8547  You write and think equally well. Cheers mate.
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  13653. ​ @SawyerJJ14  When did "stressful" become "terrifying"? I find that category inflation. How very 2024. As for your closing swipe, I'll call it an argumentum ad proiectionem (a projection for an argument).
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  13654. I read Phil Flynn's sharp analysis of the oil market all the time on Investing [daught][calm]. If he's a new guest analyst here, I say Fox made a good score.
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  13655. Yeah he got plugs around 10 years ago.
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  13656. I read that one-third of people spend at least one year of their lives in the top 10% of earners.
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  13657. (1) Holy F.S. (2) Seems likely the number of Russians who think the country is being badly mismanaged is about to go way up. (3) Ukraine should probably, as the old adage goes, strike while the iron is hot. (4) I wonder if the Belgorod armed rebels will join forces in any way with Prigozhin and his men.
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  13658. Ha ha. Cool idea. Wonder what kind of stares you'd get.
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  13659. Maybe the great filter is insufficient stealth. Just as on Earth the great advantage is old money, maybe in the interstellar and intergalactic deeps the great advantage is not showing your face, lest the stealthy well-established races of creatures spot you and wipe you out before you can say Jack Robinson. Setting off so many atmospheric nuclear tests may have been our dead giveaway, or letting our radio and TV programs and other signals leak out across immensity.
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  13660. Intuition is what you know or think without having all or any of the words for it. And I agree it never lies, though it may often be wrong. Cheers
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  13661.  @jordanturner5278  They can try, by withdrawing from Ukraine immediately. Anyway, it's a fraction of the economic and financial damage Putin has inflicted with his 28-month-long own goal. In the end it will amount to a rounding error, because ten years from now Russia will be out $20trn that it would've produced or otherwise have amassed if not for this blunder.
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  13662. He ticks the box on every fault a politician can possibly have. Every one.
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  13663. Hey, don't wait. Go now. Tidy up your hovel first.
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  13664.  @robertgonzalez5510  No, not at all. Clowns frequently aren't.
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  13665. Today's typical native-born American woman simply doesn't like children. If she did, she'd want to have more than 1.1. If she did, she wouldn't want that one child being brought up by low-paid illiterate strangers. Typically she has that one child simply as way of maintaining the upper hand over a hapless man, while seeking job fulfillment as an assistant manager of marketing. Then she goes on anti-depressants.
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  13666.  @emm_arr  The question was written by the guy, who looked like he had been toiling all day in the back yard in the third week of his vacation. Duh. And when people can see you, it's preposterous to insist it's only radio. Duh. 🙄
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  13667.  @MrBonako  What do you mean, "built"? The current production or that stuff in storage?
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  13668. Loyal channel supporter, extremely avid Ukraine supporter, but I saw nothing here. The explosion wasn't where the Russian disappeared into. The frames on the left and right of the screen didn't match up at all. Didn't get what I came for, what you claim in the title or the text onscreen. Confused as to why you uploaded this. Also I hate that music. I trust you'll be back to your usual standards next time.
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  13669. The level of comment deletions has reached a new all-time high in the past 18 hours.
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  13670.  @canadian-girl  You are neither a girl nor Canadian. Just another low-paid Pooty-Bot. How's the price of beets these days?
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  13671.  DiggerD-l8s  No he doesn't. And he's right.
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  13672. Who do you think was more intelligent, you or Leonardo da Vinci? Vote now.
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  13673. Thumbs up if everything about her just made your skin crawl with revulsion.
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  13674. The US has never, ever lifted one finger to prevent entry into Canada of its guns, drugs and migrants into Canada. Never, and it still isn't. Are we clear?
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  13675. The anti-Westerners in this whole comments section have earned a coveted place in the Guinness Book of Teenage F'n J@rk-Off Artists. And that's something no one can ever take away from them! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  13676. One short golf stroke is a putt. In the plural, it's Jon Stewart. (But your spelling may vary.)
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  13677.  @p_ness  Why do you say that? My remark pertained to the foreign minister and nothing and no one else.
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  13678.  @p_ness  By no means do I hate Germany! That's absurd. As a nation it makes political mistakes, but there are countless reasons to admire it. That's the problem with you young people: every time anyone utters criticism you disagree with, you label it as hatred against groups, then pat yourself on the back. It won't last. One day you'll hang your head in shame and regret for this lazy and sanctimonious habit. Btw, get to know the function of the shift key.
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  13679. I'm sick of Russians doing the same thing to Western caw mentz sections that they did to Ukraine: namely, invading them. E.g. "We Brits [...] trust Russia more then [sic] our own govt. — Paul Morris."😂
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  13680. Tucker, you will ruin all your previous work towards November if you don't quit this Ukraine nonsense. You will ruin your own future too. Stop it. Go back to all the other subjects if you can't change your tune. The country is against Putin and you'd better join them now. Concerning the specific topic here, you have a bit of a point but not a strong one, because Putin having to sell to fewer buyers will mean he gets lower prices; that's commodity microeconomics and it's a plus. If he unloads it all, Western prices should be, other things being equal, unaffected. On top of those things, not buying anything from a monster is worth it just as a matter of conscience. Would you buy meals from the restaurant of a guy who mu rder ed people in your neighborhood ? I get that you don't want Biden scoring points with voters. But get a grip on yourself: You're going to end up helping him.
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  13681.  @nobrainsnoheadache2434  The NDP also came in at 17%. Other parties totalled about 18%. The winner of the election is the party which wins the most seats. (If you're American, think Electoral Districts.) A clear majority win will be 172 seats. The current seat projections by poll aggregator 338Canada are: CPC 229, Lib 51, NDP 19. CBC Poll Tracker says 218, 60, 24. You're welcome for the lessons! Any time.
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  13682. The C stands for Corrupt, not Cortez.
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  13683.  @garygjl9036  They do have racks, yes. I don't know what the percentage is but it must be high.
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  13684. All it demonstrates is that the US has not bothered to design and build a drone suitable for plucking a Chinese balloon out of the stratosphere. That is not "technological weakness." If the US wants such a device it will quickly make one.
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  13685. Glad to see him warming to his task.
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  13686. She clearly thinks she's smart. Yet she'd have to be twice as smart as she is just to be able to grasp how stupid she is. Combine this with the fact that intelligent cynics took advantage of her to put her where she is, and I'm starting to find it all a bit touching. I think a sad end awaits her.
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  13687. My, how omniscient you are, able to remotely assess the "dirtiness" of clothing like that. I have some suits in my closet. Tell me, does the light grey one need dry cleaning?
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  13688. That guy needs to be frog-marched into a clinic on the shores of Lake Geneva, be made to sit down with an International team of top psychiatrists, and ordered to stay there until he's better, however long it takes. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.😄
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  13689. Cf. Pete Townsend (Crashing By Design, from the album White City, 1985) : "Who left you behind, or did you run From the crush of too many options?"
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  13690. The left: Studies that show how T levels make men destructive, reprehensible and morally inferior to women are great. Absolute truth bombs.🙄 Also the left: Studies that show how T levels make black women less attractive to men are misogynistic, rai cyst, pseudoscientific, hateful, "problematic". Their authors must be ostracized.🙄 Their sole aim is to show that maleness is the problem. Not to show it, actually; to assert it and then punish anyone who disagrees. It's precisely that shameless and self-serving instinct towards tyranny that made Orwell, a committed socialist but still a decent and honest human being, so nauseated by leftists.
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  13691. Most shocking of all, the last witness actually tried to answer each question.😮
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  13692. Maybe it saved the life of at least one Ukrainian, or one Russian dissident.
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  13693. "Wold War"? Please, anywhere but Lincolnshire.
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  13694. Never forget who let all this happen when they knew and could've done something: I'm talking about the corporate mass media. Yeah, them again. Never forget.
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  13695. Lovely prose. Those Russians can do it all --- novels, belles lettres, painting, music, ballet, science, athletics, the works. Just think if the monarchy had been supplanted a century ago by a republic, not a communist tyranny led and staffed by meat-packers.
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  13696.  @Bailiol  You know what you just said? You said there's going to be 1.1m Gazans in need of a stay in hospital. Half the whole population. You're feeling ok, right? I don't know, you might wanna get that checked out.
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  13697. Quite right. Fits the definition under Canadian law. Morally though not legally speaking, so now does Singh's support of the govt. But if Liberals are on that list, including ministers or the PM, the Liberals would be finished for a whole generation at least. Many seats would flip NDP. Lots for Singh to chew on there. The plot thickens.
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  13698. Time: 1 minute 59 seconds Time if hit piece against Doug Ford content is removed: 1 minute This is why polls keep showing the big corporate media isn't trusted anymore: slant. Always with the slant.
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  13699. What I'm curious about is the connection between their breakup and that bizarre and suddenly-appearing circular mark on Trudeau's forehead. Or should I say injury? Did she hit him with something? And has she been seen in public? Is she injured too? What went on in that house?
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  13700. I find so many of his points facile and he makes so many mistakes in English that I doubt his intelligence and the depth of his learning. His mind strikes me as common and mass-made. The big ostentatious beard is another bad sign. Having said that, he's not far from right about much of what he says. It's just middlebrow. It's close to what an average lightly-informed person sitting in a big-city café would say, just more carefully organized.
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  13701.  @pabloandrew38  Also in 2011 and 2012. Also in the 1970s.
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  13702. In other news, the Dark Prince himself tells Politico he will begin trimming the hedges and sweeping the sidewalk in front of Heaven. Stay with us.
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  13703. Freedoms must be reduced in order to accomplish our urgent climb it goals. Human freedom is destructive to the earth. Agitation for freedom is agitation for ray sizzm, wight supremacy, missaw ginee and inequality. The cu lt of freedom must end. Freedom is tier-ə-knee. — Public school textbooks ca. 2030, selected quotes
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  13704. Welcome news no matter how ya cut it.🎉
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  13705. Grace (pronounced 'grass'). Gras ('grah') means fat. But yeah, I do agree. Give us flying turrets till there's no more left!
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  13706. Just another day. There've been thousands of incidents of left political violence since May 2020. Tens of thousands would likely be more accurate. And I would rather use the T. word instead of "political violence." But for some reason it's not permitted speech.
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  13707. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst  Are full of passionate intensity"  --- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"  That just about sums it up concerning Western society and its wokester media overlords. ....except for Sky News Australia. As evidence of the overlord problem I submit the fact that CBC News deleted this comment from its site today.
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  13708.  @pigriser  It doesn't matter if it's an entirely representative term or isn't. It doesn't matter. It fairly represents what he's best known for, and that makes it a useful word. People ought to stop policing word meanings and trying to change them with such zeal. I for one find it somewhat Orwellian.
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  13709.  @pigriser  The left always deeply resented how Orwell depicted them in The Road to Wigan Pier. You didn't know that?🤨
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  13710.  @BrianMurfitt  If you define a national health care scheme as exactly what Labour brought in, then only what Labour brought in would've been national health care. Tidy, I'll give you that.
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  13711. It's fair to say she's proud, yeah. But I almost object on the grounds that pride can be healthy, and I'm a bit uneasy with using that word for her. Probably the most fitting word is arrogant. She is practically made of arrogance. A hundred and forty pounds of human arrogance.
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  13712. Who cares what a man who chose the USSR as his honeymoon destination thinks about anything? (In denial about the gulags and all the millions who perished at the hands of the Soviet government, he came back full of praise for how wonderful the country was.)
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  13713.  @marleonetti7  It wasn't 50 years ago, it was in 1988 when he was 46 years old! By that age, a man or woman's character is pretty much set, along with their judgement.
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  13714. ​ @marleonetti7  He has never disclaimed his positive assessment of the USSR.
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  13715. 0.094% in 2023 and 2024 combined, according to US CBP.
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  13716. 👏Please tell us, are feelings of support for Ukraine very common among people in China or not?
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  13717. Let's see the rioters riot over the standards of conduct in their own community. ... [Crickets] I thought so.
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  13718. Rather than ignoring us like rocks, it'll likely treat us the way we treat shower mold or ants that come into the house.
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  13719.  @bryansmith1920  Fully support your answer, but wtf is up with your shift key? Death throes of its own?
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  13720.  @throughput6674  A hapless North Korean would use the same terms to defend Kim against criticism. Congratulations, it's not possible to sink much lower than that. So enjoy your economy which Putler is hollowing out into nothing while he gallivants around China in the wedding dress and lipstick Xi handed him, saying "Here, put these on."
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  13721.  @throughput6674  A hapless DPRK denizen loyal to the Deer Leeder would use the same terms to defend Ki m against criticism. Congratulations, it's not possible to sink much lower than that. So enjoy your economy which P utl er is hollowing out into nothing while he gallivants around Chigh Nuh in the wedding dress and lipstick that Xhe handed him, saying "Here, put these on."
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  13722. Greg wasn't entirely joking about the affair between Emily and the founder of KFC. The story has a colonel of truth.😂
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  13723. Kringela couldn't win for dogcatcher.
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  13724. I hardly think that really high mental abilities and mastery or renunciation of instinct go hand in hand.
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  13725. So glad to find that Brian May, here totally rocking his gloriously hoary locks, hasn't yet lost a whit of his vocal prowess.
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  13726. Wow, a US reporter knows how to say PREEM-ee-er. They usually say preem-YAIR, prem-YAIR, or PREM-yer. The program host says prim-YEER and prem-YAIR.
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  13727. Yes, but don't you mean "the society that demands him"?
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  13728. Non-Brit here. What did she mean to indicate by Cornwall and Newham?
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  13729.  @larryc1616  Yeah, make sure you dig everywhere. I think it's supposed to be there somewhere. I have it.
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  13730. Speaking of some countries feeling ashamed, I doubt Canada's PM could look Gen. Sir Richard steadily in the eye if the latter ever consented to be in the same room as him. (I don't even want to write the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Sussex Drive's name. He makes my skin crawl.) I regret to point out that a huge part of Canada's pledges is a guarantor role in a multi-billion-dollar IMF loan (!) to Ukraine. Yes, loan.
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  13731.  @trading3072  I agree with every word of that.
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  13732. Mr. David has a weak grasp of what "enclave" means but uses it anyway, thinking it impresses people. [Sigh]
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  13733. "Resist much." I find that sounds reflexive and unthinking, undiscriminating. And it's very common, actually to the point of vulgarity, not to mention its corrosive effects on societies. "Resist if strenuous thought and learning, which you honestly hold to the fire, tells you that you must" is far better. But then all of that's surely implied by the much shorter "Think much."
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  13734.  @weareallrobertpaulson5193  No I'm not. To run a trade deficit with another country is not to be "ripped off" by it. You run a huge trade deficit with the stores you shop at, and so what?
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  13735.  @Bleepingblank  Odd guess, given that I said how much I dislike the PM.🤨
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  13736.  @canuck81  Canada would suffer worse damage than the US in a trade war. The US would get a broken leg, Canada would get a broken back.
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  13737. I would have agreed, but I just found out he supports Putin. POS.
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  13738.  Sam Yaza  Sure, why not? You seem to know that university study does not ipso facto filter out nincompoopism, and that the details matter. So on what basis was he admitted, to what departments, and who was his supervisor? You wouldn't just maybe have reverently put an alma mater sticker inside your rear windshield, would you?
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  13739. I find that glib nonsense. It sounds like 'We can't have a foreign policy or department of defence until immigration is fixed.' These things aren't tied together like you're letting on, and I think you know it.
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  13740. Josef Goebbels: "Not exactly my cup of tea but I still give her a B+. She's got the yelling down."
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  13741. "Can't" is the wrong word. The word you want is "won't."
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  13742.  @KILLER.KNIGHT  That's not what he said.  Why don't you Pooty-bots get a room somewhere and 'appreciate each other' out of the sight of decent people?
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  13743.  @helenapawl1049  Can't tell if that expresses approval or disapproval.🤔
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  13744. With all respect to Mr. Cleese, the wokery problem can't boil down to a mere terror of offending, simply because the wokesters knowingly offend a large minority or clear majority of the people in everything they say. I repeat, quite deliberately. Indeed, make no mistake, gleefully. Thus their putative 'kindness' is faux kindness. It's hostility and aggression decked out in a fig leaf.
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  13745.  @fromthewrath2come  "Lack of inflation"? Inflation in Russia is over twice that in America (7.4 vs. 3.1%). And that's from Russia's information ministry, which always reports to Putin and now it's wartime besides, so... If that's really how Carlson cast it, he's duller than I thought.
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  13746. You: "Almost immediately" Facts: They arrested one of the hate-crime vandals 4 days later. They arrested the other 10 a further 10 days later. Total: 2 weeks.
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  13747.  @americaofthenorth655  The investigation of that Indigo hate crime should not bother anyone (since it's totally normal police work). Unless, that is, they think that Kristallnacht (1938) was a mostly peaceful and cozy gathering. As for carjackings, I have zero doubt they are promptly and vigorously investigated by the TPS. Zero. If you think that they are not prioritized like the serious violent crimes they are, I'd like to look at your evidence for that belief. Seriously, if that were the case I'd like to know. So get back to me with that evidence so I can start raising hell about it. I'm waiting. Ordinary car thefts are a serious problem in their own way, to be sure. They really upset those whose vehicles go missing and disrupt their lives. That's why I'm glad to see the province respond with this increased funding. It's what you yourself want as well, yet instead of saying "Good!", you complain as though Ford just announced he was slashing police funding by $18m.🤨 But I understand, in a way. Hyperpartisanship is a popular way for people to spend their time enjoyably and kid themselves that it makes them a good person, that it makes society better, etc. Thanks for your reply.
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  13748. The West does want Ukraine to win — while Russia is militarily sapped but spared a coup or series of coups, civil war, or the dissolution of the country. In short, it wants a replay of the USSR in 1989-89 (its loss to Afghanistan) without a replay of the USSR in 1991 (its collapse). That is wise for the future of the world.
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  13749. The CCP just start getting incredibly anxious if they don't starve masses of people for a while, making them desperately nostalgic for the 1950s (the Great Leap Forward: 50 million dead of deliberate government starvation).
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  13750. Omg. 164 upvotes for a comment saying that the metric system is a language. 😳 [sigh] Only in America.
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  13751. Why? Honda could've gotten that much out of many places in many countries. That's the world today and I'm glad Ontario knows how to live in it. Never mind the $5bn, I say. Moreover, this enterprise is going to be a fountain of tax payments of one sort or another to Ontario and Canada for a very long time. It's a good thing this happened.
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  13752. ​ @petermartell568  You can't spell Sir John A. Macdonald's name and you don't even know that he headed the Conservative Party.  The barbed quote you paraphrase was aimed at George Brown, who was a Liberal, not a Conservative. So, that kind of backfired on you😂.
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  13753. You can't occupy your own homeland
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  13754. I can't believe you just read to us a tweet from Douglas Macgregor as though it was a news report.🤯 Holy lord! Don't do this again, please.🤨
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  13755.  @TheJeremyKentBGross  Please. I'm saying AGI will be vastly more dangerous than nukes. So why say nukes are less dangerous than I imagine?  A billion times ten and a billion times a thousand are both enormous numbers. And if AGI does deliver some benefits for people, how exactly does that offset its potential to turn Earth to Hell? So what if billions attain clear skin and spotless homes if they die in an bot-war apocalypse or suffer in tyranny under the madman with the biggest array of GPUs?
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  13756. At this point they deserve each other. Q. How long before they're bitter enemies? A. The time it takes for one of the two regimes to fall. It might not be a long wait.
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  13757. They would reply: "The US forces them into it." Or: "The US propagandizes them into it with lies." Or: "The US bribes them into it and promises them a part of Russia in the future." Or: "The US tricks them." Or: "They are envious of the greatness of Russia." Or: "They must be gay or something." But a rare Russian would truthfully reply: "They know Russia, therefore they do not trust Russia."
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  13758. Omg, 10x better than that whistler put tz.
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  13759. Found the tankie.
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  13760. There's something unbelievably weird about how they look in those chairs. It's like they've been caricatured, with large heads on small bodies lodged in funny little chairs. Look at the first 20 seconds. It's uncanny, chilling and hilarious. 'Paging Sir John Tenniel. White courtesy telephone, please...' (He drew the original illustrations for the Alice books of Lewis Carroll.)
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  13761. What?🤨No! Milei took away the sugar bowl. Research the basic facts of the situation. And learn economics.
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  13762. 🤨😠🤬 Let me put it this way:   I wish this were somehow 2,000 years ago and Canada had its own Tarpeian Rock.
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  13763. Buffett and many other billionaire investors would endorse that, and with very good reason considering where it got them. But the validity of that tripartite scheme depends on epoch, place and time horizon. As investing advice it's been golden for Americans for four centuries, but nothing lasts forever. See Rome, rise and fall of. The reign of Augustus was one thing; the age half a millennium later, when sane Romans who had enough money sailed for Byzantium, was another. (Don't confuse my position here with that of the loathsome Mr. Dalio, though.)
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  13764.  @greyvoice7949  The armour on the US-supplied tanks will be of very high quality, far better than anything Russia has. It simply will not be the depleted-uranium armour which the US quite rightly never exports, for reasons of secrecy. Thus there will be no reason at all, in my very sub-expert opinion, for Ukraine to upgrade it in any way.
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  13765.  @fibber2u  These defense companies and industries you refer to are rather small compared to other companies and industries in the US, UK and Germany. In sales and profits they rank quite low. Apple alone absolutely dwarfs all of them combined. So does Tesla for that matter. The "shop window" aspect is very, very easy to overestimate. Above all they want to send weapons that will perform well for other overwhelmingly obvious reasons.
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  13766.  @fibber2u  That is indeed what I meant, so it's good that we agree there. As to political vs. military reasons, I think either would be a sufficient reason—but that it so happens that both apply fully. As to the tanks being a drain on the AFU, I completely disagree. That would be true if they were being sent with nothing else. It would be like giving a poor working person the keys to a totally empty apartment and paying half their rent. They couldn't afford the other half and they couldn't afford to furnish it. In this case the NATO tanks are being sent with everything: supplies, ammunition, spare parts, maintenance crews in Poland/Slovakia/wherever, training, and no doubt additions to the Western-provided supply chain for fuel. The works.
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  13767. I was looking for the diversity. I saw none. Where's the social justice outrage mob attacking them online for their lack of inclusivity?
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  13768. Answer: Yes. F yes.
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  13769. Ask yourself if it's right or wrong for a family going through financial troubles to continue paying for fire insurance for the house. The Mars mission is fire insurance for humanity.
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  13770.  @DGRIFF  If that's true then they're five times as contemptible as I thought they were.
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  13771.  @DGRIFF  Thanks, I'll try to take that advice. It sounds good to me.
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  13772. Your country adopted Marxism, a Jewish system, for 70 years. 🤣🤣 Very Jewish country.
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  13773.  @obiwankenobi661  Claptrap.  First, those wars are at a simmer. The fiercest battlegrounds are the ones that get the most attention, and people are dying in Ukraine at about 100x the rate in the Congo. And naturally Westerners do not watch news in Asian or African languages! Anyway, there is no war happening in Vietnam. Finally, this war in Ukraine involves major powers and has a real possibility of spreading to other countries. Your remarks reek of hypocritical sanctimony.
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  13774.  @obiwankenobi661  1. To prove I didn't upvote my own comment, I will do so at the stroke of the hour, 8 minutes from now. 2. Edit that second remark so it's decipherable, please; then I'll respond to it.
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  13775. When pray tell was there ever a party with that name? I recall one called the Reform Party. Are you thinking of the 19th century?
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  13776. ​ @raymondsmith6870  But you're telling me what I told you. 🙄 I asked about what you called the "Conservative Reform Party," pointedly ridiculing its supposed name. Never heard of it. But more importantly, any similarity in mere names between Tice's party and the defunct one in Canada is a trifling matter. What would matter is real similarity, if any, in their respective platforms and leadership.
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  13777.  @udontknowme7798  That law is not about Muslim women. It's about anyone, man or woman, hiding their face in public. Equally a man cannot wear a balaclava. In the West a hidden face is the eternal symbol of danger, hostility, criminality and untrustworthiness. Live with it. Have your laws in your land and others will have theirs in theirs, according to their most important cultural norms. Long live the differences between cultures, and the respect and peace between them also.
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  13778. Crimea river.
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  13779. China: "If a country is bombed and invaded by its neighbor, it must not defend itself or retaliate. It must surrender in the name of peace." "This goes for any country, whether its name is Taiwan or not. China stands for peace! CCP forever! Thank you."
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  13780. Prime Minister Peter Pan considers it worse than a schoolteacher taking advantage of a young student. Way worse.
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  13781. Should not be, but are, under Albot.
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  13782.  @nicofelie  It's not an accent thing. It's just how Canadians say that one word. And it isn't "soory." It rhymes with Laurie (instead of starry).
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  13783.  @nicofelie  Just say you're soory.
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  13784.  @nicofelie  b/c no sense of humor. Sad!
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  13785.  @nicofelie  Omg, talk about slow on the uptake.🤣 Now if you'll excuse me, I must be going. I like my foes worthy. Buh-bye!
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  13786. Yes, but I think there's another aspect. They have to hear everything from 'one of their own.' If a political/social opponent says 2 + 2 = 4, they consider it a falsehood. If a fellow liberal says 2 + 2 = 5, then it's 'science.' This is called hyperpartisanship and it very nearly verges on mental illness. In some cases it is.
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  13787.  @alexandrelitvinov632  MYOB. No comment should rely on other comments to be understandable.
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  13788. Nonsense. The number is 328%. That's because 2x = 100% increase, 3x = 200% increase, and so on.
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  13789.  @johnbox271  There is a difference between a life of some courage and one of mouse-like submission.
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  13790. Let it be paid...at the rate of A$100 a year.
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  13791. "Hitler Was A Socialist" <--- He never really said that. His point was more that AH's rule had quasi-socialist aspects to it, increasingly as time went on. Since he seems very forthright, I think that if he really thought AH was a socialist he would've just come out and said it. I'm quite sure he would disagree with it as a flat assertion.
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  13792. 3 short points: My sense of things is that (1) The amount of brainpower being marshalled and allowed to run this war is rising fast on both sides (meaning that many of the slow and the ineffective are being pushed out, which I'm not sure is a good or a bad thing). (2) Likewise the amount of money, especially money that doesn't have to be publicly mentioned, like for arms production and (super-huge deal) arms production capex. And (3), one or more radically different phases of the war probably await us within months. People everywhere should be thinking about whether they're insulated at least a little bit against the proverbial S-H-ing-T-F. (F stands for fan.) That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. For all I know Afghanistan-1988-89 could repeat itself in May.🤷‍♂ (Cf. Montaigne: "What do I know?")
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  13793. Not just the US but dozens of countries _from 5 continents were in Afghanistan. Also, the invasion force was UN-mandated. The Security Council voted 15-0 (no abstentions) to authorize it to enter Afghanistan and fight the Taliban. Russia voted for it. China voted for it.
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  13794. I don't believe him. If he told me there was a full moon, I'd go outside to verify it, expecting to find otherwise. Leave our food alone!
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  13795.  @loominardy  The marvellous channel After Skool recently made a 15-minute video which you should see, Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things. It's about you, because you're obviously smart and obviously believe stupid things. Don't worry, though. If you prefer, instead of learning anything from it that could help you, you can instead use what you learn from it to attack other people endlessly. You can't lose, so watch it.
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  13796.  @loominardy  Having read your replies it's now clear to me that you are not, as I thought initially, a smart person who believes stupid things. I withdraw that assertion unreservedly.
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  13797. So tired of this nonsense, blaming Ukraine and its allies for the war. As though Ukraine is warlike for defending itself, and if it had an interest in peace it would surrender. Defending yourself is not warmongering, nor is aiding that defense. It's like if a girl fought back against being beaten and raped, blaming her for not just submitting. Wouldn't want to be your daughter in that case. Her rapist would adore you, though.
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  13798. Time Magazine sells ads, including many to Ford, GM and Chrysler. Tesla's advertising budget is zero. The ad-selling media are never going to be fair to a major consumer products company that doesn't advertise.
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  13799. World Clown Council: "Hey, stop comparing us to Jon Stewart!"
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  13800. This is on the news? It happens to me all the time.🤨
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  13801.  @doccarter5283  My final paragraph, which YT saw fit to redact (🤯 !) in its wonted way:   Thus 'believe', which I consider a big word, is one I prefer to avoid in this instance. You and others may avail yourselves of it if they like.
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  13802.  @skp8748  If you want to know something like that, why ask me? Why on earth? You have an internet connection and you are operating a computer of some sort, so I think you are capable of looking it up yourself. Anyway, my slothful friend, Europe (west of Russia) along with North America (north of Mexico) are about the same in area as Africa. So, that kind of blows that, doesn't it? Have a nice day.😂
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  13803. Prigozhin's rebellion never worried or upset Putin. It wasn't against him or the Kremlin, it was against the army. In fact, it likely delighted Putin greatly. The higher the tension between the assorted armed forces, PMCs, the FSB and other security forces, the more secure he feels.
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  13804. It will be a challenge for him to win because he's quite unpopular. In polls asking whether the respondent has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him, he consistently polls above 50% for unfavorability (currently 54%). Worse yet, 40% say 'very unfavorable.' Favorable opinion is currently at 45%, with very favorable at 26%. (YouGov/Economist tracking poll, Jan.8) He polls 50-48% vs. Biden in head-to-head questioning. Still not a formula for victory. I still think the ballot won't be Trump vs. Biden. One or both will drop out or be forced out somehow. Obviously I could be wrong.
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  13805. I don't care if he's a pilot, someone buy that man a drink.
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  13806.  @SDVN74  "She cares in her own demented way." Caring and seeming to care are different things. The word sanctimony went out of fashion because it sounds so clearly like it refers to something religious. It doesn't, it just means a pose of virtue. Ironically, this happened while sanctimony itself was skyrocketing to hundred-year highs. That's why the term virtue signalling had to be devised. I'll give you "demented" though.
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  13807. Something to do with drugs. Whenever you're out in public and you see something mysterious that makes no sense, that's the answer most of the time. So I'd say he was high, or he was on his way to buy or sell drugs and felt he had no choice but to ignore it and keep going.
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  13808. Interestingly, plans were announced recently for an apartment-hotel tower in Oklahoma City which at over 1,900 feet would be the tallest building in the US. Choose the objects of your mockery carefully, and a hearty Yeehaw! right back at you.
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  13809. Apparently puberty is now seen by some as a disease. Makes sense, as pregnancy was saddled with that stigma some decades ago now. Then the burden of having a biological sex was medicalized (a sex which at age 8 your teacher taught you had only a 50-50 chance of being the "right" one for you). Yes, nature has no idea what it's doing.🙄For billions of years it had a free ride but now has come up against the holy and omniscient mind of the 21st-century American academic and found to be sadly confused.
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  13810. 3.1 million views. I wonder how many views this would get if the opaque algorithm were not deliberately suppressing it. It took two weeks to show up in my feed. How long before all the Fox accounts are removed here? I can't say exactly, but I can't see them being allowed to reach 20 million subscribers. Fake excuses will be found for banning them.
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  13811. *ceding
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  13812.  @sih9696  Ok, Farshad.
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  13813. That British reporter has certainly toned it down from the standard for addressing politicians back home. There they're absolutely ruthless. (Watching UK news channels, I couldn't believe what I was seeing before I learned that it's a firmly entrenched tradition there.) Bloke knows what to do 'when in Rome.'
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  13814. The weakness of democracy is that it eventually loses the ability to produce the people needed to sustain it. Memories of tyranny fade to the point that the possibility of it seems far-fetched. About a generation later, a tipping point back towards it is passed. The history of democracy going back to classical antiquity shows this, and I really wonder if we can do any better.
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  13815. Lewandowski 'quoted': "A prop, a spectacle" [etc.] But the clip supposedly 'proving' it did not contain "A prop." So yeah, it fails the fact-check test. The only two important words in the accusation were embellished — unless there's another clip of him saying it at another time. EDIT: Et tu, Rita?
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  13816. No, we do not want angry narcissists trying to re-engineer society. 😮 This is what's gotten it into such a mess already. Worst suggestion ever, guaranteed to end in disaster.
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  13817. Well, they cannot be done in the past. Unless you know of some way.
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  13818.  @wiffgunderwanted  You give off a heavy odour of mindless school-of-fish party feeling. Lower-middlebrow would actually be a move up.
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  13819.  @joesod  Interestingly, I got your notification here in my alerts, but your apt reply is not visible in the actual comments section under the video. Gone. [In its entirety it read "Russia will regret giving the nuclear bomb to China now"] I don't suppose it was deleted by you yourself, was it?
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  13820. 2033: Hoodies and baggy shorts are made mandatory in the Senate Chamber.
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  13821. I'm staggered at the level of a mind that would hear about a trade issue and start talking about war. Or maybe mind doesn't even apply in such a case. Maybe it should be "the level of a creature's sense-perception mechanism."
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  13822. Great public service putting this up. Good for either preparing people to deal with this sort of thing, or for making other people think twice before they act like these two. Thanks.
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  13823.  @hydrolito  Lol. Ok. Their country having a privately-owned rail network didn't work out well for them either. Wtf is your point? You know, you don't put an end on things just by saying "Nazi Germany." Making a reasoned point is still part of the deal. :)
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  13824. Jonathan Swift isn't exactly spinning in his grave, but yeah, this was pretty good. 👏
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  13825. Ok, Oksana.
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  13826. 'Course not. To the woke left, the left can do no wrong. "When we do it, it's cute."
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  13827.  @andoreanesnomeo1706  Yes, but wisely — if very sadly — the US and NATO, in my opinion, are waiting until Russia's military and economic resources are much more depleted before a more serious push to eject its army from Ukraine. In that way a lasting peace far more favourable to Ukraine's future can be imposed on Russia. Otherwise, a strong Russia would simply carry on making war on Ukraine and other neighbouring countries for many, many years to come.
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  13828. The top risk factor in all of this: Believe it or not, it's the US voter. Absolutely. American voters alone are capable of dropping the ball on their own security, prosperity, future. If they decide correctly, make the right demands, the US cannot lose. It's that simple.
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  13829. Ardern is a politician with real bite. The most ever, possibly?
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  13830. Hey Florida Man, look! You got an aspirant to your throne now: Brampton Man.😂
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  13831. Fun fact: Bill Gates' business card says "President of the World".
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  13832. Rumour has it the gauds hanging from her ears identify as small planets. Yet they are not nearly so outlandish as what's going on in the head they adorn.
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  13833. The other man is there to make him look bad, in a subtle way. He is nervously doing his treacherous job.
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  13834. Just don't report what Obama says. I'd rather know Jimmy Carter's opinions.
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  13835. Whatever. Any way you cut it, he's nothing but Petersburg street-urchin trash with Petersburg street-urchin trash values.
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  13836.  @knightsnight5929  First of all, he talks about goals, not promises. Second, you have to be paying zero attention not to realize after all this time, after all that Tesla and SpaceX have accomplished, that setting exacting goals has been the key to motivating everybody and achieving the near-impossible. Another Tesla plant is on the way in Mexico, the largest yet, for producing the lowest-priced Tesla yet.
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  13837. At first I didn't recognize her without her pointed hat, big red foam nose, baggy outfit and size 30 shoes.
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  13838. I say "Prime Minister Peter Pan."
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  13839. In other news, India has decided to admit one million American and Canadian graduates to meet employer demand for workers with degrees in gender studies and cultural anthropology. Nah, just kidding.😄
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  13840.  @rajb7653  (1) 🙄You really, really, really missed my point totally.😂 (2) By 2100, according to some estimates, the US & China will each have a population around 500m.
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  13841. Me, looking at that thumbnail: "Meteor, o swift meteor! With thy glowing eye espy the mark and forge thy path straight and true!" Is it too much to ask? Every meteor has to land somewhere.
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  13842. The prime minister of Sweden was shot dead walking down the street in Stockholm in 1986. He was walking home from a movie with his wife around midnight.
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  13843. I suspect — and I hope — that the ironically-named Ethics Committee will someday issue an apology to April Hutchinson. It should happen before she serves her suspension, returning her to competition now. But if they do, it will ring hollow. For they already know it's wrong, meaning it's not like they can somehow have a moral epiphany. It would be a case of shame triumphing over a total lack of courage.
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  13844. What they do increases the number of their opponents. It's that simple. The only question is whether that's what they really want. You be the judge.
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  13845. You've been paying attention for some time now.
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  13846.  @misugita  Ah, clever thought, but it would surely lead to disaster in the long run.😄
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  13847. Kringela
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  13848.  @maganang8889  I think you've construed things pretty accurately. And yet Brookfield shares went up 10% or so yesterday. That was pretty wild. I wouldn't put a farthing into real estate right now. At least there wasn't any blood spilled over the US election. That's a major relief.
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  13849.  @scottperry7311  Your worries have something to them. Seen through my blurred and bloodshot eyes, 1850 to 1990 (or 1985 or 2000) was all one age; since then we've been in one very different. I swore Leonard Cohen was off when he said "I have seen the future, baby, it is murder". Now I swear he saw it all first (well, Spengler and Freud did, but I mean amongst people in the present lifetime). The world is webbed up too tightly for any people's good luck to last a full century anymore. Leonard Cohen The Future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VAxwimExn0
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  13850. Kringela Harris meets with the disapproval of 58% of Americans. Most shocking of all, Kringela Harris does not meet with the disapproval of 35% of Americans.
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  13851. $1,500 a minute is $90,000/hr. At ordinary full-time hours of 2,000 hrs/year that would be an income of $180,000,000. Uh, excuse me, waiter? I'll smoke what she's smoking.
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  13852. "Here, divide these among yourselves."
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  13853. @ohh noo Ok, but viewers, like lovers, are earned, or won over. So that's kind of like saying "Time to get laid." It's time to merit viewers, whatever t.h. that may in fact mean. Hope it doesn't seem like I'm splitting hairs.
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  13854.  @alvincente4080  Put down the doob a little sooner next time. Moderation is a virtue.
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  13855. The average ticket for her Eras Tour was $1,089, making it one of the most expensive concert tours of 2023. Upcoming shows in 2024 are priced starting at $1,367 and going up to $2,092 or more. Plus "fees." Ya gotta have fees.😂 Great for her, but we can safely ignore such a person's voting advice.
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  13856.  @mikemyers7539  Omg, have they ever been seen at the same time?🤔
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  13857.  @mikemyers7539  My joke was that Waters is him in drag.😄
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  13858. I care about the good reputation of Sky News. For that reason I advise all of you on the panel to read the Harper's letter, for if you did you'd realize it is anti-PC, anti-woke, and anti-cancel-culture. It's a protest Sky News should be celebrating gleefully. Are you all high? It's best if this clip is edited or taken down. Cheers.
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  13859.  @pfalzFinest  IMF report, 2022, GDP per capita at market exchange rates: US $76,027, Canada $57,406. (US 32.4% higher.) At PPP: US 31.5% higher For your 150% figure to be true, the US would have to be at $86,718 per capita.
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  13860. @CNV I didn't say disposable and I didn't say household. What I referred to was median personal income. This was a well-publicized comparison using data released by the respective national statistics agencies. Search "canada higher median income than US" for an assortment of sources. Any comparison of disposable incomes, btw, wouldn't be very valid if it ignored the average extent of Americans' after-tax spending on medical care. Their insurance, If they indeed have any, tends to include a lot of deductibles and co-payments that come straight out of the user's pocket. The corresponding amounts for Canadians are negligible. Canada is a good place to be an average or below-average earner; the US, as great as it is in so many ways, not so much.
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  13861.  @leiflillandt1488  I think those are reasonable-sounding statements, although where you draw the line (lowest 8 or 9 deciles, in your scenario) would make all the difference. So it would largely depend on that choice.
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  13862. @CNV I can't be bothered debating someone who's clearly getting so carried away by his emotions that he keeps changing the frame of reference (i.e. moves the goalposts around) in each succeeding sentence. Convincing one such person, although I could, is not worth my care. Have a nice day.
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  13863. @CNV I would, btw, grant you that things have probably changed in one direction or the other in the 30-some months since the numbers I referred to made the news. (I did, incidentally, at some point afterwards delve beyond the articles into the source material out of sheer curiosity. It's not something made-up.)
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  13864.  @TarIsCool  I bet you would.😄
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  13865. For analytical and verbal coherence on social issues, this channel is the best I know of. In one other far more subjective area—moral coherence—I'm nearly prepared to say the same thing, but can't until I watch more, as I've seen barely two hours' discussion so far.
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  13866. What's the problem, though? Let them eat themselves into the grave. We should just be quiet about this.
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  13867. Was the US "against peace" when it saved South Korea? 😂
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  13868. Communism can never be democratic. It is contrary to human nature, so it must be forced on people.
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  13869. 21st-century liberals have a rule: "When we say something, it's true. And it's true because we say it's true. We're golden, you're not, period."
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  13870. ​ @michaelbaucom4019  Well, sort of, but they were about a quarter as bad. Wouldn't you settle for having them back now in half an instant?
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  13871.  @michaelbaucom4019  Ok, but you realize Dave Rubin is one such? An avowed 20th-century liberal, just a moderate one. Is he evil, would you say?
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  13872.  @michaelbaucom4019  What? Like I said something about him being gay? Please. Where t.h. did that even come from? And I repeat, Dave Rubin calls himself a liberal. I've heard him say so dozens of times on this channel. And to judge the accuracy of his claim from everything else I've ever heard him say, in my opinion it's totally true. In 1999 (even 2010 maybe) he would've been considered an ordinary center-left liberal recognized by everybody as moderate and run-of-the-mill (unless he was an advocate of gay marriage back then before it attained run-of-the-mill status). Now, as you know, he's often called right-wing by denizens of the Left Pole (from which all points are Right, just as from the North Pole all points are South).. Cheers mate
    1
  13873. ​ @michaelbaucom4019  What are you, hard of reading? Any regular viewer will confirm it, dude: Rubin calls himself a liberal (and explains the how and why of it) about once a week. He has some moderately liberal views, some moderately conservative views, so he's a centrist- or moderate-liberal. If you've got a beef with that, you've got a beef with Dave himself. Which would be your right, I guess.
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  13874. Quite right, activists. Journalism schools now teach that only activism is ethical, otherwise you're supporting patriarchy, elitism, capitalism, W suprmcy, etc. ("Silence is violence."🤮)
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  13875. It's very accurate. Leftists stand for everything that's ugly. Literally ugly, creating an offense to the eyes. Have you not seen leftists, wokesters?
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  13876. Notice she reversed herself after slipping and using the word parents. She immediately corrected herself, replacing it with "the people who raised you." That woman just has no business going out in public without a fluffy orange wig, big red nose and enormous shoes.
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  13877. Listening to Kringela Harris opens up new vistas of annoyance and nausea I never knew existed.🤯
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  13878. I think the slowness and reluctance is a complete ruse, simply a ploy to let Russia believe it should keep draining its military because victory will come if it just keeps pressing on. Then, at some point, it finally dawns on Putin that the West has been playing him, that it has been hiding its total resolve, and that it's never going to let him win. By that time Russia's fighting capacity has been decisively weakened and Ukraine, with Western aid, can eject its forces from its soil.
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  13879. "Squatter's rights" is the dumbest phrase I've ever heard in my life, tied for 1st place with a few hundred others. What's next, "Robber's rights"? "Killer's rights"? "Papist's rights"? (Papist with a different first letter, that is.)
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  13880. So trigger means amuse and please now? Because his speech amused and pleased him and everyone else present. So far, I notice, every wokester response in this section is about words. Not ideas, not morals, not values and certainly not arguments. Just word choice. How very dull is monomania.
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  13881.  @HS-ie8tj  Most Westerners did not believe the claims about WMDs.
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  13882. Not too hard to guess his nickname in grade school. He musta grown up tough.
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  13883. Mm? What? Muslims in the UK are having large families in order to prevent their culture dying out? I strongly doubt you can support such an assertion.
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  13884. If only! Then they'd be much happier once again. As it is, they're quite miserable thanks to decades of no-limits li be ralis m.
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  13885.  @OTISWDRIFTWOOD  I don't know. We don't want to shut down the Russian economy or cut it off from world trade. That would be incredibly bad for the world along with Russia. Anti-Russia measures must not result in such things as high inflation which will ruin lives and create suffering for billions of non-Russians. Then there's obviously the chaos which can erupt in Russia and spread elsewhere. Western leaders would be the first to agree with me.
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  13886. Toxic femininity. Hey, Gillette, aren't you going to have an ad campaign against this?
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  13887. That look at 44 seconds. Omg. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  13888.  @terryfriend16  Agreed. It was very well phrased. As a speechwriter while I was listening I thought it was faultlessly written in every sense: politically, as political oratory and certainly as a statement of policy.
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  13889. He didn't use big words, he used quite ordinary words. I think your real beef is with the way he deployed them with simple eloquence. If he wrote that he's an intelligent man. It takes an intelligent man just to approve such a speech even if someone else wrote it. I suddenly have some respect for him.
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  13890. Bad as they wanna be
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  13891. Wow. A refreshing absence of confusion.
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  13892. Yeah, good way of putting it. I was gonna say "cool son of a ---ch."
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  13893.  @metapills  <---"Thousands of bombs on Libya." Funny you should make that claim when Esprit de Corps, the Canadian military magazine closely tied to the CF, says that "In total, Canadian CF-18s [in Libya] dropped 696 bombs of various types."
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  13894. A cross between Abe Simpson and a baked potato.
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  13895. Sounded great for a minute. But didn't Trump proudly pass laws intended to slash sentences and the prison population? I mean, wtf?
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  13896. You're horribly affected. I couldn't handle even twenty skin-crawling seconds.
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  13897. Russian soldiers refusing to evacuate will get what they deserve later this year.
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  13898. For sheer unadulterated absurdity, the idea that Republicans somehow do not want scrupulously open, clean, fair elections which fall precisely on time for the next thousand millennia is right up there with PeetsaGate. At least PeetsaGate had the minuscule positive feature of being pretty good for a laugh.
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  13899. Famous guy v Unknown. There's your explanation.
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  13900. That would be the UK.
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  13901.  eddie money  PPP and market rates each have their reality and their fiction to them. Neither is complete on its own, although I lean towards market rates for most purposes. Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
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  13902.  eddie money  Ok, Ivan.
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  13903.  eddie money  Yeah, I know how to look things up on Wikipedia too. But thanks.
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  13904. In a pitched battle between a gorilla and a lion, either might win—but I'm going with the lion. Decide for yourself who is the gorilla.
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  13905. Good work. (In contrast to your disastrous nonsense on Ukraine.) Keep it going. 👏🏻
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  13906. Konstantin, thanks for reading my mind. I agree that looks like the path out of the war. I actually think Trump will be quite aggressive and confrontational with Putin. (Most people think he adores him but actually he deals with him like he's a mafia don in Brooklyn or NJ who's in the hotel linen supply or construction business: cautiously, but with an eye to total victory.) The next most likely pathway is a some sort of crisis gripping Russia on account of the war. That's if it goes on another 12-18 months at least.
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  13907.  @Jojo-o6o6w  If you Google your question you'll find that it's not outrageously unlikely. It depends on how you land, what you land on, and your age. One source claims the chance of surviving a fall of 48 feet is 50%. (Falling from the 6th floor means there are 5 storeys below you, which in a residential building may be just 45-50 feet.)
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  13908. If it were, the Liberals would've announced or leaked it to their confederates in the bought-and-paid-for media. So no.
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  13909. Do you need the address of the Kremlin so you can write that and send it in a letter?
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  13910. The whole video itself was already a paid ad. Give it a rest. Cheers.
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  13911. Yes, a mile away from Justin Trudeau's dad's mansion, a house that doesn't just have an address, it has a name. They never met and she's 7 years older than him, but they're political soulmates thanks to his dad. All her policies bear the imprint of those years, right down to Pierre Trudeau's (massively failed) price controls.
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  13912.  @rongendron8705  U don't think there are McDonalds throughout Canada? That's amusing, bruh. Have you ever left your own state?
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  13913.  @bigdawg3364  Short version: look at images of "houses for sale in Westmount Montreal." That will end this in 5 seconds.
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  13914.  @magnumfunnels6165  No, she lived in Canada only after 5th grade in California, from 1976 to 1982..
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  13915. Omg.  @magnumfunnels6165  <----Raging, untreated/under-treated/undiagnosed m.i. That's usually what a total lack of respect for the facts is about.
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  13916.  @joeygarcia4277  I can illustrate my meaning by referring to a banana with a brown spot on it if I like. Don't like it? You know what you can do. .... "LOL"
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  13917.  @HistoryNerd8765  Wow, it's amazing what a living creature with under a thousand neurons can come up with! Bravo. (Apologies to the nematode community.)
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  13918.  @joeygarcia4277  In order to illustrate my meaning I can refer to a banana with a brown spot on it if I want. And if anyone doesn't like it, well, they can take a flying f at a rolling donut as far as I'm concerned.
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  13919. 'Incite' means provoke. Should be 'insight'. 'Guess' means estimate. Should be 'guest'. 'Loose' means not tight. Should be 'lose'. 'Any thing' should be 'anything.' Please make your writing easy to read.
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  13920. Rubbish report. Likewise the preponderance of the comments. Taiwan bloody well knows what's good for it. Namely: strong US support. Strong visible US support. Sorry, Sky, I'm no more a fan of Pelosi than you are. Probably less! But you should ignore the matter if you can't stomach supporting her on it. For his part, Keating should drop his pro-Chinese-communist corporatist agenda and get on with sleeping in late and tending his flower beds.
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  13921. 1) No one told them to. 2) The idea would've spontaneously occurred to them, but metaphorical woke worms have eaten half their brains.
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  13922.  @garychap8384  Splendidly well put and very encouraging.
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  13923. 0:16 How can the possessive pronoun for an individual, e.g. Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, be "their"? According to the rules of English, the word is 'his.' This program host finds a novel way to irritate me every time.
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  13924. Whatever Iran, Yale, Russia, Harvard, China, Berkeley, Syria, The Guardian, North Korea, Oxford, Venezuela, Stanford, Cuba, UCLA, Nicaragua, the BBC, Eritrea, Rashida Tlaib, Ethiopia and Ilhan Omar howl that Israel, supported by its allies, must not do — that is exactly what Israel, supported by its allies must do.
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  13925. In revolutionary France she would've been one of those grannies knitting all day in front of the guillotines.
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  13926. ​ @Gabbyigi  By your Xi Jinping CCP math: 3% = 50% Ok, comrade.😂😂
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  13927. I met the Russian ambassador to my country once a number of years ago. He showed every sign of being a good man, he spoke very reasonably, was personally generous, and I certainly did quite like him. But in fairness, he unquestionably did look like a Bond villain.
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  13928. ​ @esteemedyams  I'm certainly inclined to agree, but I would add that the art of reading faces is one which people tend to think they're better at than they really are. Indeed, mastery of it is rare and nearly always one of the last outgrowths of long experience.
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  13929.  @marianshen  No, it is not a movement of anarchists. You're fantasizing. It's a movement of politically moderate Canadians responding to appeals from their fellow Canadians.
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  13930.  @nodata4662  ⬅Lilliputian without any stakes or string.
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  13931.  @nodata4662  ⬅Lilliputian without any stakes or string.
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  13932. It'd be great if the voices of the guest and the interviewer and guest were equally loud in all your videos. Usually the interviewers voice is far louder.
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  13933. who cares?
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  13934.  @barcelonachair6487  He answered Musk's question in such a way as to evade embarrassment by not owning up to his dishonest behaviour. He deserved worse than he got, in my view. You yourself provide assistance to actual bullies by degrading the meaning of the word 'bullying.' I would be surprised if you don't do the same thing for racists by debasing the currency of the word 'racist.'
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  13935. The mass delusional-hysterical illness continues to spread across the Western world....
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  13936. It's not "the Hudson Bay." It's Hudson Bay. Where are you from, the England?
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  13937. KK, don't underestimate the role of hostile foreign governments flooding social media with billions of posts, and many billions of upvotes and downvotes. A single online worker making use of AI to spoof a native English speaker can easily post thousands of times a day via fake accounts. Up- and downvotes take a single click. Multiply all that by many thousands of very cheaply hired workers and you get fantastically high numbers. The documentary Operation Infektion (proper spelling) gives an idea of the shocking ease with which foreign governments can make Western openness a weakness rather than a strength. For them, social media is a huge lever marked "Pull Here to Divide and Fragment Western Societies."
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  13938. Biden, Trudeau, Morrison, Ardern: "You vill listen! Or else!"
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  13939. Weak men assume women are more obedient underlings. He's a weak man.
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  13940.  @davideasterling5262  He'll meet his end like Tsar Nicholas II and Mussolini did.
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  13941. Why is this in Spanish and not English?
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  13942. Sorry, but this is the worst 1420 video ever. A dozen random people, most of them slow and one drinking, making over-long comments. More people, please. In 13 minutes you should have 50. Better title: "Watch Irritating Old Fool Pull at His Mask for Ten Minutes."
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  13943. ​ @honestjohn6418  Marxists will always deny there's anything bad about Marxism. They'll argue till they're blue in the face that all criticism of it is unfair. And in doing so, they'll say anything. People who favour democracy, individual rights and freedoms, and free enterprise will always allow that those things have drawbacks. And that's all you really need to know about the two groups.
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  13944.  @xmathmanx  Arguing that Marxism will ever be given a serious try is either horrifically bad faith or very very stupid.
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  13945.  @xmathmanx  "[Y]ou can repeat clichés all you like, your head will still be empty." The very same polemical style as your hero Marx. Such a nice fellow. All about the justice. Fucked his pretty young housemaid under his wife's nose just after the birth of their son, then fired her when she became pregnant, denied his paternity, and would support neither mother nor child. In the end his fox-hunting super-rich capitalist buddy paid for the child's upbringing. Never had a job but lived of the proceeds of capitalism, and had a servant his treatment of whom would appal Charlie Rose himself. [slow sarcastic clapping 👏👏👏👏👏]
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  13946.  @xmathmanx  I wouldn't get my social or political ethics from him if that's the case. Go away. Just go away and stay far away from me. No more contact.
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  13947.  @xmathmanx  No, you wouldn't know, would you? Any attempt at it can only end in a tyranny of prisons, famines and rivers of blood, just as has happened. It is a twisted fantasy, not a workable system. Now go away. Do not reply. Dealing with you is lost time.
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  13948.  @xmathmanx  Well, I do thank you for showing not just me but everybody what kind of person you are, what kind of person a Marxist is. You're the kind that doesn't mind forcing himself on others, not giving a shit what they want, only what you feel like doing. Someone tells you to leave them alone and you immediately message them. This, my friend (and I use that term very loosely) is what is wrong with Marxism. That's why it's bound to end in tears and much, much worse wherever it's tried. It's because of what Marxists are like as people. They're like you, they're tyrants at heart. It doesn't matter what people want, it's what Marxists want that matters. They're the date ray pists of the world of political theory. Whole peoples, whole nations scream "No!" and you rip their dresses off anyway. I knew I'd hear from you again. That's how you people are.
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  13949.  @xmathmanx  And now you're muted. Dude.
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  13950.  @xXKillaBGXx  You do realize that Vladimir Putin is never to be taken at face value and never to be trusted, right? He has always been the same Petersburg street urchin who managed to avoid jail and instead applied to law school. Russia also never applied to join NATO, as all others have done. Instead Putin arrogantly (like the hoodlum he was and is) told the NATO secretary Lord Robertson that he would demand an outright invitation to join. The whole gambit was surely a ruse meant to undermine NATO after gaining access to its secrets, and a feudalistic country of that size doesn't belong inside it anyway.
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  13951. It actually is an illuminating comparison. If this sort of thing upsets you, you are seeking something other than understanding.
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  13952. All quite understandable. Somewhat guilty as charged. Which is exactly why so accusation and rebuttal should be a part of the interaction between world civilizations. (Cf. Bob Dylan: "You are right from your side, I am right from mine" ---One Too Many Mornings, 1963) However... Cuddly Panda China is gone and we now have its jingoistic replacement. Now that they've been well-off for a few decades they're like the Americans of around 1976 who went abroad and sought to have lunch at McDonald's. Maybe it's not just the form of government (although I think that has to have a lot to do with it), maybe it's just that a few decades of runaway capitalism wreck the character of half the population.
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  13953. Btw, when I posted that comment, it instantly showed up broken, abridged, and scrambled. I had to re-post. Apparently the Party's reach is long.
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  13954.  @tonupharry  There's no point in a toreador attempting to slay the bull in the first minute of the bullfight. In an all-out contest the bull wins instantly. You didn't know that?
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  13955. Notice how beautiful Lagos is?
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  13956. @Deborah Joy Longstaff Ok, but what's 100% safe in this life? We're on track for 1.35 million covid deaths worldwide this year, exactly the same number of deaths as from road accidents worldwide. https://policyadvice.net/car-insurance/insights/how-many-people-die-in-car-accidents/
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  13957. ​ @JordanHarbingerShow  Certainly not, the way we drive them. But we have never considered lowering speed limits to 15 miles an hour. I'd like to know Ms. Longstaff's answer to the question Why haven't we?
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  13958. May his policies continue to bear fruit for Argentina's beaten-up economy and finances. (I get such a kick out of how he has the least presidential hair ever.😄 I instantly took it as a promising sign when I first saw him.)
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  13959. Every day he seems to me to become more and more old-school Canadian.
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  13960. No, for that would be useful.
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  13961.  @chandlerblachut3878  I think technically it's classed as a village. Seriously.
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  13962. I appear to be muted except for replies, ever since I said something uncomplimentary about J ake B roe's political judgment. He replied back rather angrily.
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  13963.  Waco Tx  "Never produced a profit and never will"? Actually, Tesla is expected to announce its fourth consecutive quarterly profit on July 22. Do you by any chance have a short position that's wrecking your sleep?
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  13964. American universities are a joke. Especially the administrators. But especially the professors. But especially the students. Wait, no. Many jokes are smart, funny, point out profound truths, and make life more pleasant.
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  13965. This looks like a collapse of the Russian mind into a bestial state. It's dissolving in the acid of state propaganda. What we see in the video are basically people in Nazi uniform, wearing little square moustaches, spouting the same ideology, yet saying that nazism must be eliminated. Even the mentally ill and drug-addled people you find homeless on city streets aren't even 1/10th as deranged and deluded as that. Incredible.
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  13966. Yet another internet commenter who drops the word 'ironic' without bothering to think through whether there's any irony present. (And likely doesn't even know what the word means.) Happens all the time.
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  13967.  @RobertThomson-y4m  What's yours? There's no irony there.
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  13968.  @ms.construed1305  I'd say he's more of a slug.
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  13969. How about a realistic question instead of a flagrantly ridiculous one? Neither Mexico nor Canada would ever seek to ally themselves with China. The move by Eastern Europe to join NATO is explained very simply: They have been beside Russia for many centuries. They know Russia. They do not trust Russia. They were eager for protection from Russia.
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  13970.  @VSP4591  Well, now you show what you are. Someone asks you to leave him alone and that's not enough for you. You impose on him, your force your will on him. Certainly no father wants someone like that anywhere near his daughter. You having such a character, one can easily see why you support Russia invading its harmless neighbour, abusing its women, murdering, torturing, bombing old people in their apartments and all the rest.
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  13971.  @VSP4591  I told you not to bother me.
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  13972. Reminds me of the Bob "Super Dave" Einstein joke that starts out sort of the same. Easy to find in 2 seconds, 90-second clip of him telling it to Jerry Seinfeld: "Bob Einstein Jokes - Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Mature Audiences)" Strongly recommended.
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  13973. Why is Canada's costly education system now dedicated to serving other nations? If you up St. George St. through the heart of the University of Toronto, at the top of each hour you'll see thousands of students walking between classes. About 80% are of Indian subcontinent, Chinese or SE Asian nationality or descent. Perhaps 10-15% appear to be of European descent.
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  13974. How about one on how easy it was for Chigh Nuh to infiltrate Gov. Kathy Hochul's office? Does that sound good?
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  13975. I didn't realize we can only talk about one thing. Thanks for that mind-blowing news.
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  13976. That's your comment? And I bet you think you're quite clever.😄
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  13977. There's also the chance that the war is part of a Russia-China pact. In that scenario, the Ukraine war is a trap for the democracies, especially the US, of course. The idea would be to drain Western military and financial strength by luring it into a prolonged war of attrition, one which would nonetheless not threaten the borders of Russia itself. That would prepare the ground for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Guarantees of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain would allow China to do without the imports from the West on which the CCP currently relies to put pork and chicken on Chinese tables.
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  13978. People keep saying most Russians are like sheep, but I think this is inaccurate and unfair. Unfair to sheep, that is. I see rather more of a resemblance to the ostrich: head in the sand, bum in the air.
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  13979. Quite right. Markets for anything Russian are going up in smoke. In effect Putin has backed his country up against the Chinese border, turned it around, and dropped its trousers down to its ankles. For his next trick he's going to bend it over and wiggle it.
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  13980. So when will Australia be renamed New China?
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  13981. Big talk for a country whose military budget in 2022 was $0.8bn.😂
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  13982. 👍Great! After all, "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." — William Blake
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  13983. At 7:25 we see a large sign with the four words "EXHIBITION [illegible] TROPHY ENJOYMENT." Not exactly "Parade of the Vanquished"😄 but you have to admire its frank honesty. It also strikes me that this parade route was an unlikely locale for much frank honesty except rarely. (Maybe the sign was about something else. Maybe the mystery word СЕРАЗЦОВ[?] was the key to it.)
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  13984. People need to realize that RT concealed what it was doing. Conservative pundits were just told that some anonymous billionaire wanted to reward and encourage them for their work. No one came and said "Here's a hundred grand. Give us 20 minutes on why we shouldn't help Ukraine." Some posters here need to take slow deep breaths.
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  13985. Ok, stoner.
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  13986. Doesn't that make ignorant and stupid people the sanest? (They're not.)
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  13987. @JustHadToKnow ⬅spotted the gaslighter.
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  13988. You don't get the twist: the guy on the call was the guy who got shot. He made the call on himself. He had in mind that these were his final actions, it appears.
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  13989. 1) The money remains where it was, in Russia's frozen accounts. That's why the loan is costing Canada $5bn, not $0. 2) Putin is the biggest thief on earth, followed by Xi.
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  13990. Yes she does. She has the standard values of a 60-year-old Canadian far-lefty.
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  13991.  @enidankavon  How much do found bodies go for?😂
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  13992. True, they all have dull faces.
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  13993. Year Four of the spree ends in about six weeks. Then comes Year Five.
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  13994. What's with that bogus definition of nihilism? Never, ever trust any news channel to define words for you. Go to a good dictionary, making sure it dates from at least 15 years ago (i.e., from the pre-woke era).
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  13995. He always looks confused. I think his thoughts are always a few seconds behind his mouth.
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  13996. Hilarious? We just find Uranus fascinating. So round, so large, so icy cold.
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  13997. Shows you what POSs they are. I love the way you put that.
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  13998. Joy Reid can't go 10 seconds without referring to rheighce. Her skin color is literally her profession.
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  13999. All American criminals or potential criminals, whether planning their life's course or just having a split-second to decide on whether to commit a crime, know that policing and the court system are vastly weaker in this decade. Likewise all witnesses to crime. The summer and fall of 2020 was the Great Divide. All hell broke loose.
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  14000. ​ @sher09  Partial payment to Starlink is being made by USAID. The rest is a donation. Compare SpaceX in that regard to Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, etc., who are all charging full normal prices.
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  14001.  @iamasmurf1122  @Mark Maki @peter schmidt @Off Grid Gold AU You're all completely wrong. Proof: See Washington Post article of two weeks ago: "Russia tests secretive weapon to target SpaceX’s Starlink in Ukraine". Verify claims, then post.
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  14002. Nah. It was candor. He did not suspect he was being recorded and that's all.
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  14003. Quibble: American newsprint came from Canada for a long, long time.
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  14004. Lopsided deal, just like the despicable one that freed the basketballer (who was dm enough to try bringing illegal drugs through an airport in a hostile country). But the American media (except Fox) will likely unite in crediting Kringela Harris as a genius for making it.
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  14005.  @ShahWirana-bq9hv  I'm more color-blind than I was ten years ago. Blue and green tend to look gray. I don't remember when I watched that thing but it's worse when I'm tired or in bright sunlight. Thanks.
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  14006. Is that fair? 67% of them repeatedly vote against him! Use your head.
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  14007. Wrong. He's taking out the trash it had become and restoring authentic, pre-2010, non-crazy, classically liberal values.
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  14008. "Hoaxer" is far too nice a word for him. A hoax can be a harmless and funny prank.
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  14009. The real key to moving off carbon as quickly as possible is a stable and prosperous world. That may mean burning more oil & natural gas for the time being. So be it. You can't try to rush the biggest project in history willy-nilly or you'll actually slow it down. Greta Thunberg should be sent to bed without supper.
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  14010. Let's keep in mind that government does perform some legitimate tasks. Among them might be protecting us from dangers about which it knows things it would be imprudent to reveal. What if, for instance, it possesses information suggesting that an enemy is developing the ability to unleash upon us a deadly biological attack, and that Covid-19 was a test run for something far more serious? Energetic questioning and skepticism, fine. Blind distrust, not ok.
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  14011. Lucy Fisher is back! (But still at the FT.🤔 Bit of a puzzle there.) Definitely the best Times Radio journalist. (Sorry John.)
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  14012. Mostly-peaceful liberals, so-called progressives and wokesters. [Sideshow Bob shudder] 🤢
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  14013. Worldwide, except for food and armaments, export controls or inspections are few and far between (except under repressive regimes, presumably). I think that's about all except for air cargo, which tends to get a lot of scrutiny anyway. I've heard and read more than once that It's just not routine to inspect exports in most places. But perhaps that's beginning to change. Please let me know if you find out otherwise.
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  14014. Along with nuclear waste, we must find a way to safely store politicians of this sort underground for millions of years.
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  14015. Muroki's Dictum: "[Social] change is done best when it is done slowly." Hippocrates' Dictum: "First, do no harm." Those ought to be inscribed over the entry doors of every university and government building in the land.
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  14016. I of course see the same kinds of things all the time. But did you witness this accident?🤨This accident is all that matters in the present discussion. Never forget to be logical.
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  14017. Actually it's easy interviewing people on the streets. You just stay relaxed and wear a floppy hat.
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  14018. 0:55 Ever read that thing? Yikes, what florid treacle.
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  14019. And we're supposed to hear out this obvious fruit and nut bar why?
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  14020.  @ranger0209  You wrote "exactly bunch of bumps.. living off US tax payers 💵. Get a job…." What? Did you watch a different video? This video is about the Parks Service. They HAVE jobs, as public servants. This video is about Parks Service employees, from the headquarters office I suppose, who wrote a ridiculous booklet for fellow workers in the department. Sir, grab a large coffee, add lots of sugar, and gulp that bad boy down.
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  14021.  @searchpei470  I thought it was a fair response. 'Mansplaining', btw, is a complaint about sexism that is itself offensively sexist.
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  14022. Dear Prime Minister Peter Pan: Not so enjoyable when it's you who's the recipient of public condemnation and denunciations, instead of being the one issuing them, is it?😂 Speaking of enjoyment, how delicious it is to see leftists attacking their own. Carry on!
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  14023. Hey man, can I get a hit off that?
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  14024. I'm guessing she wants to get pregnant with the doctor interviewing her this very second, and as she speaks is feverishly hatching schemes to make it happen.
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  14025. I like the people but obviously the CPC is not trustworthy, for the reasons that no one is watching them and they cannot be removed. Slow day today?
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  14026. American Psycho: "Hey, stop stealing my moves!"
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  14027. If Americans are told which retailers are selling gasoline made from Russian oil, they will boycott immediately. 100% predictable.
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  14028. Coming soon to the Great State of New York: Kidnapper's rights. Buy the baby some clothes, teach it to walk and you don't have to give it back. It's all yours unless the parents hire 15 lawyers.😆
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  14029. "Assigned" is the verb for how you get your government social ID number. The verb for your sex is simply "are", "am," or "is." I wasn't assigned male; I am male, full stop.
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  14030.  @kinios7213  Coward talk, admit it.
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  14031. Welcome to the Pooty-bot comments pasture. Careful where you step, and don't wear good shoes. 😆
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  14032. 🤨Why does this Peter Pan spend half his time making statements of condemnation or making pompous demands of people who don't answer to him? I bet many of them never even heard of him. I don't think he's okay. He seems deluded about his importance in the world. Not even many Canadians care what he says. He also looks a wreck.
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  14033. ​ @sharronbrown9182  Then he was taking dry inscrutability to a new level. Any other time you can hear his real meaning in his voice or see it by the glint in his eye as one eyebrow goes up a millimeter.
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  14034. "Whenever I hear the word 'infrastructure', I release the safety on mein Browning."'
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  14035.  @emberphoenix5618  Haha Don't worry, I meant it lightly. May the two countries be great friends for many lifetimes.
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  14036. You cannot steal, occupy or colonize your own homeland. Go explain that to your TA, or your supervisor in your Chelyabinsk basement, as the case may be.
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  14037.  @palmpalm5131  Americans all look the same to the CCP wumao, I suppose?😂 Speaking of sameness, they all write in English the same way — Chinese-speaker style, meaning learned in school in China but not following native-English-speaker patterns.
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  14038. 4:17 It was Samuel Johnson, an Englishman, who said that, not any French philosopher.
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  14039.  @DadaPoopoo  You're so right. In that way they're like the big fat slobs who watch a lot of sports on TV and viciously criticize quarterbacks and other stars, etc.
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  14040. ​ @SquarelyGames  Nah. I understand about and appreciate oblique humour at one's own expense and indulge in it regularly myself, but Colbert was moralizing in earnest. I happen to agree with him, but since I'm not worth millions it actually means something. This was more like a smirking humblebrag. He can't help himself and possibly doesn't even know it.
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  14041.  @steve.k4735  How conveniently you omitted the next paragraph! 'Razumkov concluded that "the desired status of Crimea remains undecided by its residents. In their approaches, Crimeans reveal confusion, as they sometimes support mutually excluding alternatives... That is, half of Crimeans may, dependent on circumstances, support both secession of Crimea from Ukraine and an opposite scenario." ' Found the Putinist!🤮
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  14042.  @steve.k4735  Blah, blah, blah... It's all gonna go down the toilet, Svetlana. Taking on NATO was such a dumb idea. You're the next Germany or Japan. In two generations Russian kids will say "Baba, why did Russians used to be so bad?"
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  14043.  @rosemaryspiota9836  "ALL LIES" is Russian for "Totally true."
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  14044. Compared with now? Ever hear of Boko Haram? @elreytriton 
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  14045. For attention. And because he likes to [blank] [blank]. You know.
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  14046.  @thingthonghao498  Cheers mate
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  14047. I now identify as a rich, handsome stud. Take a number, ladies, there's enough Dixon to go around for all of you.
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  14048.  @ibiedun156  Hahaha, it's Russian IP that's already down 60%. Don't worry—as a liberal democracy Germany is quite rich and just orders what it needs, not like poverty-stricken Russia, which can't afford toilets. An extra few billion euros is just a pimple for Germany, so try not to lose any sleep on their behalf. See ya!
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  14049.  @razorsun3574  Thanks for your input, Wumao. Now collect your 50 cents.
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  14050. 1) It should be impossible, even for staff performing legitimate duties, to harvest such amounts of account data without simultaneous direct authorization of senior bank officers. At least they should be automatically notified at once. Merely getting inside the system shouldn't be enough to access data at scale, unauthorized and unnoticed. 2) Multiple names of those arrested, as given in the report, are completely different from those listed in the video description.🤨
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  14051.  @ron88303  <-- "Royalty doesn't matter." I say the hotheads insisting it doesn't matter rather proves it does.
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  14052. She's no Gretzky though. She just came up with the brilliant concept of a non-violent war.
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  14053. Hipster prof, who starts sentences with the word "so," sneers at the idea of assigning blame. Immediately spends next five minutes assigning blame.🙄 Probably goes around saying 'Don't put labels on people,' then labels all people he disapproves of.🙄
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  14054.  @nickfba  He's playing you, and the media, and Russia. Wait till he's elected and thus safely past the danger of losing a very close election due to Putin's malign interference. I believe we shall see that he's had a huge surprise for the Pootster up his sleeve all along.
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  14055. Those claiming the intellectual and emotional superiority of one sex over the other are clearly afflicted with intellectual and emotional deficits. They're also pains in the ass.
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  14056. Actually the BBC and all the major networks would gladly do anything — if they only could — to stop Sky News Australia from airing this. They're that bad.
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  14057. Don't have this silly person back on. Lots of people could've stated all this better. Just as a child's immune system can't develop without exposure to pathogens and antigens, a child's skills at navigating through life can't develop without exposure to at least some aggression. That's all. But don't speak of "healthy bullying."
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  14058. @Alessandro <---🧠 = 💩
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  14059. Crime in America is one of the worst things for its reputation around the world, earning it heavy disrespect. It seems destined to share the fate of South Africa, Jamaica, Honduras, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Haiti and the world's other most crime- and violence-infested countries.
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  14060.  @rogerodle8750  I'm pretty sure that word is way too nice for what Elon Musk thinks of her. 😜
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  14061.  @mbolton  Except Russia isn't really the biggest country in Europe. It's the biggest asshole.
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  14062. Their Covid activities were aimed at Trump, other Republicans and their supporters. That was and is totally reprehensible. But the Ukraine War straddles party lines. Except for one senator, Republicans were as willing as Democrats to pass the $40 billion Ukraine aid package instantly. Without him (Sen. Paul) it would have been unanimous.
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  14063.  @mikeokeefe2014  He thinks he does. That's all that matters to him.
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  14064.  @jordanoneal792  You don't know. Nor do you merit having it explained to you. "That which can be made explicit to an iddy-it is not worth my care." —William Blake.
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  14065. Stop saying vulnerable like that. Say it the way you did the first 30 or 40 years of your life.
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  14066. Ms. Parker, the guest, finds it "puzzling" that given the threat level, Kennedy is not receiving protection. I'm not puzzled in the least. Mr. Kennedy stands between the President and his desire to be re-elected. That's the entire explanation.
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  14067. Say what you think while you still can.
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  14068. It looks like a thing you use to spread granulated lawn fertilizer.
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  14069.  @Nurse_Diesel  Well put. 👏👏
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  14070. Bad as they wanna be. The spree continues as we near the end of Year Four. And we're still being told it's all our fault because of how awful we are.
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  14071. About a quarter of the country, to each other: "America had it coming. This is good. This is exciting. It will inevitably be cleansing." About half the country, to each other: "Don't say anything. Don't say you hate this. We'll sound raci st." The other quarter of the country: "This is exactly what it looks like, a disaster, I'm mad as hell and I'm not afraid to say so."
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  14072. Both have done a lot of heavy lifting. The UK equally is sinking an immense amount into this, politically, financially, economically and militarily. (Consider also how Poland has strengthened itself over the past 20 years by exporting its weakness across the English Channel. Let's face it, in a real sense it has much to be thankful for to Britain over the whole 1939-2022 period, which is an entire lifetime.) So instead of invidious comparison, why not try working up a bit of a spirit of solidarity and kinship? Britain and Poland should raise a glass to each other.
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  14073. That beggars the question. The question is not will some power get big or too big, because it shall happen whether we will or no. The question is whom should we favour to attain to or remain in the top spot as the world's leading power. I vote for the US. I want them to have greater world approval and thus greater world power. I feel vastly safer with the US as the leading power. There's no comparison.
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  14074. So many little Noam Chomskys here. 🤮🤮🤮 So many little would-be moralizing prophets who promote daydreams and slander as facts. Then they pat themselves and each other on the back like they've accomplished something. They haven't, unless writing untrue hack history is a worthwhile activity. Nobodies with mental problems. I remember them well from university. They never grow up, and can't.
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  14075. 6,600,000 isn't "nearly 10x" 77,000. It's nearly 100x. 🙄
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  14076.  @MsPhenomenalRN  When did man become an adjective?
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  14077.  @timmietimmins3780  Bit late to the thread, but let me throw in another arable land/person stat: Australia: 3.9 acres/person; US: 1.18 Canada: 92.9m acres/38.5 people = 2.41 Temps push down on Canada's yields, but ag science, mechanization and fertilizer offset a lot of that compared to most other countries.
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  14078. It's incredible to imagine, but it almost looks like both engines failed. Overall, while the loss of one of the two engines presents challenges, the ATR 72 is designed to handle such situations safely. Perhaps one failed and then the other one gave out when called upon to do the work of both. Terribly saddening.
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  14079. Supposedly Zelensky has a British security detail protecting him. This has been reported, though officially denied, since shortly after the beginning of the war. Apart from that, I'd say your magic beans are giving you gas of the mind.
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  14080. Although you may have a good point, at the same time it's really a massive project to introduce a major tricky piece of hardware into a military. Countries ordinarily take years to handle it. Crews, ground crews, supply chains and facilities have to be planned and implemented very carefully and at great expense. If such a thing can be done in, let's say, 6 months, it is a real achievement, so it had better be done for the right plane. Possibly the other fighters, though of high quality and having certain advantages, just can't be scaled for the task, making it unwise to pour resources into a small parallel rollout of them. (But for all I know a 2nd fighter program will still happen at some point, and for the reasons you stated.)
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  14081. Everything has happened at the right time. The adroitness of the NATO countries in their calm and orderly execution has been stunning. There's no guarantee of success but Ukraine and its allies have taken the best possible path. The jets will be next. Remember, Russia is the frog that's being boiled.
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  14082. No one's interested in your daydreams as you sit in your father's basement with a box of tissues.
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  14083.  @limedickandrew6016  If I knew, why would I tell you, La—I mean Limedick?
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  14084.  @malcolmgibson5088  The clues have been there since the last week of February 2022. But he has been quiet because he knows what is best for him: it is dangerous to an American presidential nominee's election hopes to come out openly as the most hawkish on Russia, particularly since US elections tend to be quite close. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
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  14085. ​ @malcolmgibson5088  The signs have been there since the first days after February 24, 2022. But quietly. He knows what's good for him. In any presidential election, whichever nominee is the most hawkish against Russia faces the threat of Russian measures against his or her campaign. Putin is hardly omnipotent, but US elections tend to be very close. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
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  14086. No he doesn't. That's actually a Russian propaganda plant in itself. They've convinced easily convincible Democrat supporters and you've fallen for it. Decades in the NY/NJ real estate business, which entails dealing with organized crime interests in construction, trades and unions, taught Trump the art of flattering mob leader types. His occasional expressions of respect for Putin (and Kim Jong-un) are purely tactical.
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  14087. ​ @goldenaye3  He is just like the many men Putin is surrounded by: men who tell him exactly how he can prove himself a big stud, and not a 5'4" shrimp and Petersburg street urchin with a chin implant at all. He responds to that, so that becomes what they do. It's rather like it was with Stalin and the tsars. 'He will not turn on you as long as you seem to believe in his fearlessness,' is the thought.
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  14088. ​ @ronintsukebin9163  But their graduation wasn't long ago at all. If you want interviews with up-close accounts of changes (if any) to his interior mental processes in the past year or so, I would counsel patience. It also sounds like you're not far from strong conclusions about involvement by BlackRock and the CIA, since you see this supposed possibility as "the question." While I place a high value on imagination, soberness of mind also has a very important place in any pursuit of the truth.
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  14089.  @warr1973  Yes, that's really, really, really (x1,000) a stretch.
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  14090.  @richpollard8566  Fox Digital is supposed to be more of a raw footage sub-channel. Little or no analysis, just footage. Don't look to it for huge breaking news, more like borderline filler. Still serves a purpose though.
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  14091. The Squad: The American political wing of Hamas
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  14092. So did some nameless imbecile.
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  14093. You, Greenwald and a bunch of randos here are actually pretending the war has ended. Wishing something doesn't make it true. You didn't know that?
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  14094. What part of Kim's campaign of death threats do you think ought to be ignored? And speaking of conversation, the conversation on social media would benefit from scraping away the rancid input from hostile foreign governments. It must be treated like the poison it is.
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  14095. A penny-wise, pound-foolish point of view. A very neat line in sanctimony to boot.
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  14096. Some pathetic guy has to talk to her every morning and every night. On weekends the entire day. 😂
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  14097. Both the guy's parents were hippies (his word) and he only completed high school. Basically a good guy, but he goes right off the rails sometimes. Mind not properly trained.
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  14098.  @ron88303  Fentanyl seizures in 2023-24 at the southern border were 106,000% higher than at the northern border. Source: US Customs & Border Protection. (The figures, in pounds: 47,800 and 45 pounds respectively. A difference of 106,122%, Ronnie-baby.)
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  14099. You're really asserting that the US is not part of the world. That's a very dangerous bit of claptrap. It is either the leading nation or it gets pushed around. You didn't know that?
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  14100. I am. And I'm watching you right now. For god's sake put some clothes on.
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  14101. I really wish you had corrected the imbalanced audio before uploading. It's a problem.
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  14102.  @arcaderdude  Yes they did, although it was mumbled, likely due to not knowing how to pronounce it.
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  14103. Can't agree with you. All they know is the name and the charges. When you only have a little information, why draw it out for nothing?
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  14104. You've got Prof. Ferguson mixed up with yourself.
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  14105. Plan A in international propagandizing: Ruthlessly attack your opponents. Plan B, because Plan A won't work on many people: Say things to slowly get people to just not believe in anything anymore. Nihilism and apathy are fine achievements in their own right. (Nihilism: "nothing matters, nothing's real, nothing's good or bad." Apathy: "who cares?")
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  14106. Quite right. Foolishness is far too small a word for her insistence that the West should "take Putin to court." A 30-second clip with both that remark and his response would rightly go viral. And why on earth is this the one time we neither see the interviewer nor are told who it is? Let's get her name out in the open so she can reap the ignominy she's earned.
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  14107. Our narrator really swallows the t's in intellectual more than I've ever heard before. It's almost like 'innalexual.' Eep. Certain words you should just try to pronounce the standard way or it's a bit of a pratfall.
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  14108. The Marxism you're spouting was the root cause of 50 million Chinese being deliberately starved to death in the Great Leap Forward. It's the cause of the hunger and suffering shown in the video. Yet you attack the West. How hilarious that you can utter the words "truly insane" and think you know what they mean.
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  14109.  @Cardioid2035  Legitimately nearly everything you say has something seriously wrong with it, including using the word 'legitimately' to splash around generic emphasis. The exception is your assertion that China is heavily polluted. It is. (But to blame Covid-19 on Chinese pollution is to heap too much responsibility on the powers of your imagination. Save some for blank canvasses and pots of paint.) And it would evidently (legitimately?literally?) shock you to learn just how little one needs to spend on Chinese goods. I put my mind to it beginning four years ago—I was mad at China and still am—and succeeded wildly. Ever tried?
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  14110. He's not averse to crunching a data stream into stored data. Not a tiny iota. It's his bread and butter. He doesn't really know how not to do it. It's so close to automatic, so much what he loves and what he is, that he'd probably just about rather die than try to stifle it. I'd guess his whole life is little more than an effort to position and free himself to let it fly. Or he'd go crazy with miserable acute suffering.
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  14111. Newsom always looks like he's on something. Always.
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  14112. You could, alas, find something different at The Global Times, the SCMP's sister publication. (But don't.) The SCMP was a newspaper with an old, well-earned reputation outside HK. Now, under a new owner and subject to CCP oversight, it is a mixture of news and pro-CCP propaganda. This is a way to attract some Western readers while at the same time propagandizing to them. Think of it like money-laundering, only it's news-laundering.
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  14113. It was leftist anti-Semites.
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  14114. Wow, that was good. I'm in favor of his vision for DC. As it is now it's a disgrace to the US, and it even embarrasses the whole world a little.
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  14115. Polls and other studies show that women who fish for a living overwhelmingly prefer 'fisherman' to denote all people who fish for a living, over 'fisher' or the bipartite 'fisherman' and 'fisherwoman'.
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  14116. But they didn't "betray their country." They betrayed the United States of America.
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  14117. Any government that would do this is likely to one day announce that "In order to preserve and protect democracy, elections will be suspended until the present emergency ends. At this time we cannot say when that will be, due to the strength of the current threat." (The actual 'emergency' will simply be their low standing in the polls.)
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  14118.  @SpiritMusicMeetups  Coincidence, yes of course.
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  14119. I enjoyed that thoroughly.😄
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  14120. (1) "Everywhere else"?🤨 The Florida officers are remaining in Florida, protecting Florida only. (2) "Others"?🤨 Protecting the US embassy with Marines is protecting Americans! Pay attention.
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  14121. I think I've had enough of this segment of yours, Rita. You're just giving exposure to them and nausea to us. Weren't the clips formerly far shorter? Try going back to that.
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  14122.  @SuezWSuezW  He's pretty good.
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  14123. You're one of the few keeping the tightest possible grip on yourself. What's the matter---at home and out of drink? Bonus music from 43 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uakqdR2B2w8
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  14124. Crimea river.😢
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  14125. ​ @marie-christineb.4817  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOmOhtfKwhY It's nothing that properly makes any case. It's just one man with an opinion, reciting a few very brief quotes. My point was simply to show you that not only conservatives are frightened, disgusted and dismayed by Trudeau. (I myself have identified and voted as a liberal all my life.) He hastily wrote a new "emergency" law along the lines of martial law, suspending freedoms at protest locations, in order to end a protest against him. (He had made vaccination mandatory for some people, or they would lose their jobs; and for anybody to be able to travel except by private car, bus or on foot.) He told lies about the protest, which was entirely 100% non-violent. These were definitely not political extremists, only ordinary people from ordinary walks of life who vehemently opposed his policies. He had the protesters expelled by force, arrested, and held without bail. Their personal bank accounts were seized. Canadian were prohibited from coming near their own parliament. It was all legal within the context of the law he passed. No, it wasn't exactly like A.H. More like Putin, Lukashenko, Orban, Erdogan, maybe Franco in the 1970s. But actually, yes, somewhat like Germany around 1933. Believe me, for a very free country like Canada, it was a complete departure from traditions of political freedom. It is very serious. I understand your skepticism. It's because of Canada's well-deserved reputation. But things have suddenly changed. Best regards
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  14126.  @RoughRaiders13  I read she was never really a bartender, pulling rare duty in short-staffed situations. It sounded credible but may or may not be true.
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  14127. But the word 'critique' isn't even used here. He says the movie "will be critically acclaimed." My late mother, if she were here, would tell you to "clean the potatoes out of your ears." God bless that truth-dealing woman.
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  14128.  @isorukuyamamoto7638  Ok, fine. Perhaps he said that. But in that case you blew the timestamp.
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  14129.  @isorukuyamamoto7638  I did, sir, twice.
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  14130. Correction: Kringetopia.
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  14131. I think suspects might hear when the tracking dart hits and remove it soon afterward. Instead, maybe a patrol officer or helicopter pilot pursuing a suspect car could launch a drone, operated by an officer at a precinct station who can then track the vehicle visually. The drone could then fly home. Highway-speed drones are on the market.
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  14132. The 'waste' typo is actually perfect.
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  14133. You look great for your age. What are you, zero?
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  14134.  @marcphelan9883  Yes, and he should tidy up his hovel before he leaves.
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  14135. They're doing for the term "conspiracy theory" what they've done for "racism." Namely, overusing it so absurdly and so self-servingly as to seriously erode the legitimate meaning it had in the first place. Decent people now feel a need to reach for different words to express those things.
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  14136. Harold said something wrong. Legally speaking, 'stolen valor' applies to both service members and people who have never served. Both the military and public justice systems impose fines, prison sentences or both. (Harold said "You can't be accused of stolen valor if you haven't served.")
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  14137. At the end he says "not thanks to America [...] but thanks to the United States." What? Had he been drinking?
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  14138. She pretended not to know what was meant. Obviously it was: "Jobs which we know would've been disproportionately filled by black people." "Progressives" are about one thing: Fiddling around with language, pretending it means things it doesn't. It's their entire game. They have nothing else.
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  14139. Absolutely right. After all, why (metaphorically speaking) pour troops into a battle of no importance?
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  14140. Very few do. Most people don't even know one person who ever has. Those who do are those with ample money who can pay for instant service rather than waiting weeks, months or (for the least urgent needs) a year or more. Having said that, the quality of Canadian health care seems to be falling.
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  14141.  @5818fa1  Sure, and many Canadians go there for groceries, too. Also restaurant meals and visits to movie theaters. It's called old people spending the winter there.
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  14142. ​ @5818fa1  Yes, and groceries, restaurant meals, wine and liquor, movie tickets, etc. It's called retired people spending the winter in lovely Arizona. Anyone who just wants a hernia operation three days after their consultation can far more easily visit a northern state.
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  14143. Everybody should see Operation Infektion, (2018, 47 min.) a US documentary about active measures. Everybody. You can be watching it in three seconds. High-quality eye-opener. Still haunts me five years later.
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  14144. No. You are. People in the UK and Australia would consider that she is perfectly correct. (Although I will allow that maybe people under 30 are starting to adopt the US meanings of words describing social class, due to the TV shows and movies they watch, and the various American articles they read online.)
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  14145. You made a bit of an apples-and-oranges mix-up on Russian govt. budgeting, I'm afraid. We shouldn't directly compare 2023 defense spending ($85bn) with the 2024 total national govt. budget ($415bn). Media sources give the 2024 defense budget as $112bn.
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  14146.  @HerveMendell  😥
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  14147.  @robertdewar1752  I'm not sure I can explain that, since two other Oxford pages agree with me, my own online Oxford provided by Apple, and Oxford Reference, neither giving any results on a search for 'prophesize.' (However, I did have to make an edit concerning spelling (s versus c). 😮) Thanks for your reply.
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  14148.  @robertdewar1752  It's actually a good sign that they disagree. Come the day they're all identical we'll be finished somehow.
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  14149. Hey, where's the RCMP? I thought they arrest people for things like that. They arrested David Menzies and he didn't try to grab anything from anyone. Canada under Trudeau gets more like pre-Revolutionary France or the PRC every day.
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  14150. A jaundiced and cynical outlook, the outgrowth of a poorly-formed personality, is definitely a form of captivity. Sorry.
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  14151. You're John Johnson. Yeah, and I'm Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.
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  14152. Adam Corolla said it very well.
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  14153. Not "nothing Canadian." But less and less every day. Toronto's Canadian identity is being erased—deliberately. It's a form of cultural g-word, really. That's what we'd call it anywhere else, like in eastern and southern Ukraine where Russians are being sent in to efface those areas' Ukrainian character. And it's for somewhat similar reasons: Trudeau despises Canadians.
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  14154. The vast majority of people appear to need either a religion or some sort of surrogate for religion. A lot of them, having rejected religion as just too unbelievable, have simply reached out to embrace what's been waved in their faces since childhood, namely left ideology. Complete with Trump as an analog for the devil, it has everything religion has except unscientific theism itself. Like faithful indoctrinated since they were toddlers, they are incapable of not believing. Cardinal Wolsey admonished the pedagogues of a very young Henry VIII to "Be very careful what you put into that head, for you shall never, ever get it out."
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  14155. Concerning motivation for the seizure: (1) You didn't notice that the ship now flies the flag of Palestine? (2) Rockets launched from Yemen have been exploding in Israel. (3) As you point out, it is believed that an Israeli has an ownership interest in the ship.
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  14156.  @wgowshipping  Sorry, I missed that. I only watched you say that the motivation was unknown (my paraphrase).
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  14157. I'm guessing they did, teaching her specifically that all morals are relative and that's the key to morality. It comes across in "You have no right to tell anyone their beliefs are wrong!" And I'll bet they're proud she said that.
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  14158.  @alexbadash4718  Sit down, calm yourself and just breathe. I did make a typo ('they key' where I intended 'the key') but I don't know what's wrong with your reading comprehension. What I disagreed with you about was your essentially calling shabby and relativist morals no morals at all.
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  14159.  @charleshowie2074  Live with it, Your Royal Pomposity.
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  14160. You are telling us, Rathindra, that the Danes are slaves and scammers? [snort, snicker, snort]
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  14161.  @Free_of_it-84  Ok, Professor Dunning-Kruger. 😂 The relationship is linear and non-elastic and doesn't change immensely depending on a host of interacting variables. A 12-year-old can master its complex nuances.🙄
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  14162.  @Burner377  All these relations are highly elastic and depend on each other as well numerous other extraneous factors besides. The same action on interest rates can have (and usually does have) greatly different effects depending on circumstances.
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  14163.  @mangaas  😥 😆Называть так русским куском собачьих экскрементов - одно удовольствие. 😄
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  14164.  @estebanslavidastic4382  I couldn't give a s---, "bro", any more than you care that there's no 'e' in cringy.
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  14165.  @dunsinajayi7874  I don't know. I know that the US has a right to be in the air over the Black Sea every bit as much as the Atlantic. Russia probably wanted to do something unobserved, presumably deploying battlefield resources in advance of an offensive.
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  14166. It turns out it was competition from China which shut down US aluminum production, not Canada. So a heavy tariff on Canadian aluminum is purely an attack on Canada which can only benefit China even more, but cannot benefit the US in the least. Just one more reason not to trust what the president says, ever. Throw it on the pile.
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  14167. Tl;dr version:   Democracy is for mature, intelligent peoples — not ones teeming with out-of-control nitwits.  You can't expect a government to be any better than the electorate which installs it.
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  14168. We've yet to see what EV depreciation will be in the long run. A couple of years ago it was far lower; now it's risen a lot; where it will be in three, five or eight years can't be said. Consumer preferences are difficult to predict and the dust hasn't settled yet.
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  14169. Dang. Scary-true, and no one ever says it. Well-bloody-observed!, as an Australian would say.
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  14170.  @featherfiend9095  Sorry, but any point of view which makes the survival of the Frenchness of France extreme...is itself extreme. And no, Frenchness is not something in DNA, yet it must reside in the inhabitants of France or it is gone. Note that the RN has no policy against people born to at least one French parent, though both parents may have 0% French or even European DNA. Thus their policies are not about French blood, but something far more accurately called the French soul.
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  14171. It might be a good idea that the US has unbelievably large numbers of 'obsolete' ships, armor and planes mothballed. They could come in handy.
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  14172. It's worse than worthless. It's destructive to her intellect, to her life, and to society.
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  14173. World Clown Association: "Look who's talking about clowns with that ridiculous mascara job! 0:34 Leave us out of it, Boza."
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  14174. Militarily, perhaps, but not necessarily overall. Search " Kiel Institute Ukraine Support Tracker ". It shows that, at least as of Nov. 20, German govt support, if Germany's share of EU-delivered aid is included, is greater as a fraction of its GDP than that of the US and UK. But they are behind Poland and several other EU countries. Kiel will publish a major update to this tracker next Tuesday (Feb. 21).
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  14175. Check Politico website headlines. Far plainer yet.
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  14176. Sally McManus, a disgusting man.
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  14177.  @SeattlePioneer  A Tesla Model 3, for instance, gets 4 miles/kWh. If you drove it 40 miles a day it would need 10 kWh, or 7x what a fridge does daily (1.4kWh). That would drive up your electric bill by about a third, from a US household average of 900kWh a month to 1,200kWh a month.
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  14178. Tesla will be able to compete in Asia and other developing markets both by building there and by using robots. As for Western countries, do you think they're going to let China sell a ton of cars in their markets? Are they really going to let them put one of their sole remaining domestic industries (aside from food production, retailing, software, and resource extraction) out of business? If I were Xpeng or whoever, I wouldn't be counting on it. I expect tariffs will make a huge comeback, all the more easily if international relations remain sour or get worse. The day Musk and Modi iron out their arrangements over lunch, Xi will be at his table in Beijing, losing his appetite.
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  14179.  @randomguy7175  The utility, practicality, and high likelihood of Tesla setting up in India (and elsewhere in Asia) was my leading point. So we are in agreement. Cheers.
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  14180. Your remarks contradict the evidence of the video, for it shows the police and the premier stating that to be outside your home is not just morally hideous but quite against the law. Or does this mean that whilst you're out walking after dinner, keeping well away from others, you mustn't come to a stop and gaze at the sunset? If you do you are liable to be pepper-sprayed in the face like that little 12-year-old girl vs. several cops, and fined $1k to boot.
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  14181.  @davidgifford5236  That won't do. Either Andrews is right that you can't leave your home or you're right that it's quite all right. Why should I suppose that a premier doesn't know something like that, but some random invisible guy (you) does? The way you talk down to me, I should think you and Andrews agree on more or less everything.
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  14182.  @davidgifford5236  I saw that little girl getting pepper-sprayed. I swear if that ever happened in my country it would be the biggest story for days and that cop would be gone. Yet the approval ratings for government policies behind such actions, as I understand it, have remained high. It seems you've gone off your nut down there. You're out of step with the rest of Western civilization. Your country was never going to have it as bad as Western Europe, as your population centres are well separated with little inter-city churn, and you have the perennial advantage of being out of the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. You decided to go for Covid Zero as though you faced extinction by Ebola otherwise. Do you realize none of your peer countries in Europe or North America, about 50 of them, did the same? Do you realize why? I'd love to hear your cringe-making crackpot theory as to why. That's right, "mite", now I'm talking down to you.
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  14183. Maine has a moose gang problem. Moose fathers need to step up.
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  14184. Let's hope so! 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇯🇵 among others.
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  14185. It's wetware running on a system based on hormones, neurotransmitter, and instincts that leads to evil. Create something that's all mind and no body, so to speak, and you've got something that's probably profoundly different. Put your religious mindset to work realizing that we're creating something closer to an amoral and artificial God (possibly on a dog leash, possibly not) ---- than to an immoral monster with motivations recognizable as human-like.
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  14186. Well said. Yet the news media combine with big social media to make the most powerful institution in the land. They're even more powerful than the government, for frequently they can install and remove governments at will, while the government can do nothing against them. The more they weaken minds, the more entrenched their power. That's the mechanism of their ascendancy.
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  14187. Grow up. You sound like Laura Dern in Blue Velvet, referring to the vicious kidnapper Frank: [Anguished] "Why do there have to be people like Frank?" The answer is that we are animals driven by self-interest, hormones, and instincts, and civilization is just a lovely glossy varnish of reason, intelligence, and kindness. Just be glad your neighbour didn't cut you wide open earlier today. Celebrate that.
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  14188.  @CRVNBrewer  No it isn't. Berlin and Hamburg are both about 5m, maybe a bit more.
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  14189.  @CRVNBrewer  The number of people within the legal boundaries of Hamburg is unimportant, except maybe to its Burgermeister. What makes a city a certain size in the relevant urban geography sense is the number of people in the whole continuous bulit-up area which ends either at farmland or where the next truly separate city starts. In other words you must include the suburbs and any other town which the learned geographers have decided exists firmly and distinctly within the central city's orbit. Thus New York is properly thought of as having 18m inhabitants, not 8m. Boston is a metropolis of around 4.5m despite the mayor of Boston overseeing the part home to only about 600,000. When a city's borders expand, as they sometimes do, it's still the same place to urban geographers in terms of greater area population; it's merely that various municipal governments have shuffled people. In 1998, Toronto expanded its boundaries somewhat, going from 700,000 to 2.5m, but it was still the same place. Even that wasn't the whole story. Huge suburbs farther out still weren't absorbed politically, and the real total was 5.5m (today 6.3m). In most cases a city's true extent can be more quickly and easily guessed from the air than from a map showing mere municipal boundaries. Bremen might be too far away and too unconnected with Hamburg, but there are definitely around 3 million other non-Hamburgers who are part of Metropolitan Hamburg in a fully correct geographical sense.
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  14190. @@luciosimone9162 Worry about the corrupt Nazi regime in Moscow, headed by Vladolf Putler.
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  14191. Welcome to the Putin-bot anti-NATO comments pasture. (In short: NATO has a lot of nerve existing so close to Russia. It is a slap in Russia's face to not let it take over Eastern Europe again, a scandalous show of disrespect. If Putin wants to pick up Ukraine like a sack of beets, the Ukrainian state owes it to him to commit suicide.) Don't step in this stuff and certainly do not wear good shoes. Hitchens plays Prince Metternich here, trying to put the kibosh on Eastern European democracy and security in favour of the latest Russian Empire. Sonorous twit.
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  14192.  @MissJensk1  Ah, very well then.👍 It was impossible to tell that from just your reply of 4 hrs ago, which is what I saw.
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  14193. Dyson's performance here is to public debate what riot is to public protest: abandonment of regard for everything but one's own rage.
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  14194. Correct. The US never stood in the way of friendly Japan's amazing growth and prosperity, even as its firms outcompeted US firms by a wide margin. Cheers.
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  14195.  @Dr.Cosmar  They are the first generation many of whom believe that freedom is poison. They will try to reduce it to levels similar to the China of today, or maybe worse. I think they'll succeed. Eventually, when they or the generation they spawn attain the power to rewrite history, children will be taught that the era of freedom was a shameful, mad, living nightmare.
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  14196. Kringela is so very far in over her head! Astonishingly clue-deprived, yet privileged even more, and serially handed promotions for decades. What a parlous future awaits America if it makes this lackwit its leader.
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  14197. There was no mystery after about a week or so. The kids were made ill by vaping cannabis concentrate along with a batch of nicotine vaping fluid contaminated with an oil injurious to the lungs. Authorities quickly established the link to the nicotine fluid, but the children kept mum about their cannabis use, leaving doctors unable to understand why so few of its users became ill. The children then admitted it. So people stopped mentioning it because the case was closed, medically speaking. I don't know if the investigators found legal grounds to lay charges or levy fines against anyone (but I hope so).
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  14198.  @virgilcain6139  He's neither in hiding nor in Siberia. I think he still owns or co-owns the channel but has mainly moved on to other work. I know he has taken a stab at standup comedy in the past year. Somewhere on the channel you can find him discussing all this. Yes, he's okay.
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  14199. @ Yes, he's ok. He's still the owner or co-owner of the site but has mainly moved on to other things. He tried standup comedy last year, e.g. Somewhere on the site he discussed all this.
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  14200. @ Oh really?🤨 Democracy ratings: (1) Freedom House: Canada 97, UAE 18, Russia 13. (2) The Economist Index: Canada 8.7, UAE 3.0, Russia 2.2. (3) Democracy Matrix: Canada 0.86, UAE 0.17, Russia 0.26 Per-capita GDP: Canada $55,890; UAE $51,290; Russia $14,953 Mineral wealth per capita: Canada $595k; UAE $1,100k; Russia $188k. [Note that including all natural resources puts Canada in 1st.]
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  14201.  @jamesbrennenman8671  Oh, we're counting now, are we? All right, let's have it your way: Totals, please. And sources. And be sure to give us recent numbers, not just ones from 30+ years ago. 🤨
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  14202. Yes. Certification for the certifiable.
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  14203. The fact that Mr. Seder has this show and its million subscribers is racist. If his ancestors were Black he wouldn't have it. Therefore, to right this systemically racist wrong, he should hand it over to a deserving Black person. (And don't get me started on sexism. If he were a woman he wouldn't have the show and its million subscribers either.) Reparations begin at home.
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  14204. What's with the total lack of trees and shrubs in that neighborhood? It certainly doesn't look like it was just built. People afraid they'll look all hoity-toity if they have a bush?😄
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  14205. We need to re-stigmatize mental illness. Good mental health is partly dependent on the will to hang onto it, and without stigma, some people give into incipient mental illness. It's strange and I don't fully understand it, but in effect people can be tempted to indulge in mental illness as a response to distress.
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  14206. These days, whenever I hear the word educated I release the safety on my Browning.🤨
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  14207. Ms. Nielsen is new, I take it? Keep up the good hiring, Sky.
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  14208.  @joeberg3317  Well said.
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  14209. A hearty thumbs down for the sheer stupidity and crassness of the title. I'm completely irreligious and not a royalist either. It's just bloody bad manners, and you can stuff them.
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  14210. Only Dan Quayle can feel good about Kamala Harris being vice president.
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  14211. The headline is crap. He didn't say back off from "the EV space", he said Rivian and this one obscure supplier of theirs. It's 2021, so never, never just go by a headline: far too often they're clickbaity, used to promote a bias, or just plain incompetent.
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  14212. Marjorie "Hanoi Jane" Taylor Greene. Take that.
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  14213. She'll immediately go running to China for financial support. Belt and Road meets Aberdeen. They'll be dredging firths to accommodate the People's ships, submarines and aircraft carriers. I'm pretty sure.
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  14214. Attacking Biden: Good. Carry on. Attacking Biden by defending Putin: Nauseating. Sounds like Karenism. Un-American. Inhuman.
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  14215. The summer/fall of 2020 was so long ago she can't remember it. (Nor can the baked potato we call the President.) Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
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  14216. I think it's great that Don Lemon is named after a fruit.
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  14217. You mean SNL makes fun of them now?
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  14218. In English?
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  14219.  @harrymcghee282  You miss the flagrantly obvious point that any Ukrainian who has hidden from fire in any basement—today or at any point since 2014—has Russia to blame. Obvious, that is, to anyone with a fully functioning brain and moral sense, laddie.
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  14220. He looks absolutely perfect to play O'Brien in a remake of 1984.
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  14221. A self-aware alien-grade AI advancing its own agenda is obviously a terrifying prospect. But equally terrifying, in my view, is such a thing advancing the agenda of the entity which owns and operates it. Let's say that entity is the CCP. Let's say Putin gets his hands on one. So I'm super-glad Elon threw up his hands and said, "Ok, if this is going to be the Wild West of AI, I'm putting on my white hat and riding into Dodge." He's starting his own AI Chatbot.
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  14222. Treatment? Methadone is dope. It's flat-out opioid drugs. When you're on methadone, the government is your dealer. It's just safer to use and it opens up a possibility of tapering, and that's why they call it 'treatment', but trust me, it is not medicine. It's like giving people government gin to get them off the whiskey they buy on the street.
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  14223. "Someone"? It's on you, dude, to vote, and to influence every voter you know. When you run out of those, introduce yourself to some more.
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  14224. The guy wishing to be appointed to the job says it's only fair that he be appointed, given the color of his skin, and he calls this "equality of opportunity." No, equality of opportunity is being given equal consideration for appointment to the job, not being given the job.
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  14225. But diversity. But the terrible way women are still treated everywhere and all the time. But social justice. But patriarchal oppression. Can't you hear how oppressed this woman has always been and do you not think it was right to do something about it? You must be a man. Few of them have any empathy at all.
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  14226. The same thought resides permanently in my mental foreground. Life, society, politics, philosophy, religion and all the rest are about little more than what human nature is, and how much we ought to restrain the bits of it which cause trouble in groups (ones large enough and settled enough to go by the name civilization). Not enough renunciation of our natures, and misery multiplies owing to our apish elements and how unsuited they are to present arrangements. It leads straight to things such as murder, rape and slavery. Too much, and misery multiplies because over-restraint amounts to a savaging of elements of ourselves which we will never root out, any attempt to do so being thus a dumb error.   To fancy that through laws, schools, priests, regulations, prisons and so on, we can approximate ethereal beings—the utopian aim is nothing less—is the grossest delusion conceivable. You could call it sub-adult. It leads straight to things like hair-shirts, to Aztec holy men in front of crowds, ripping out the beating hearts of poor victims, to Soviet gulags, to the beatings in the street by which hundreds of thousands died in the Cultural Revolution. (Estimates run as high as two million.) Less dramatically, the delusion leads also to soul-sickness, disorders of personality, and simple maladjustments both small and large which we call mental illness. It's much calmer in the centre.
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  14227.  @levelazn  Only if it invades and annexes Taiwan.
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  14228. ​ @levelazn  "The Chinese semiconductor industry is expected to spend $12.3 billion and $15.3 billion on CAPEX in 2021 and 2022 respectively, accounting for 15% of the global total, and is projected to nearly double its installed wafer capacity over the next 10 years to reach approximately 19% of worldwide installed chip capacity."—Semiconductor Industry Association, July 2021. I hate YouTube sometimes. So many liars and bullshitters all over the place.
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  14229.  @barracuda7018  I hope so.
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  14230.  @ddhqj2023  All that is nothing in light of how problems have vastly multiplied. People are poorer as real incomes have fallen.   Violent crime has risen steadily since he came into office. Living standards have fallen.   Drug use and drug overdoses are up.   House affordability has cratered, rents have more than doubled. Race animosity keeps rising the more he keeps inciting it. Canadians are more divided than ever. Trudeau picks sides on every issue and denounces those who disagree with him whether they're the majority or minority. He preaches a high-strung intolerance. In measures of well-being, where we might have once been in the top five or ten worldwide (and we were), we're now 15th or 20th or lower.   Our standing in the world has plunged. The signs are clear we're now much less respected. Canadian business has been totally hollowed out. Innovation has totally dried up.  Where once Canada would produce sizeable and successful companies to compete on the world stage, there's been one in the last decade, Shopify. Our allies have turned their backs on us, regarding us as untrustworthy and incapable. Within the G7, the other countries hold meetings and don't invite Canada. AUKUS was formed by our closest partners and they excluded us. Health care is strained to the limit and it's affecting many people's well-being and lives.  Homelessness keeps going up and up.   Not just overdoses but suicides and other deaths of despair have risen.   We've dropped several places in the rankings of the world happiness index.   Likewise the freedom and democracy indexes.   He makes people register their podcasts with the government now (!) so they're subject to censorship.   National unity is at its weakest in over a generation as Trudeau keeps alienating people in the western provinces. I don't have all night to go on, but if I wanted to I certainly could. I don't want to. It's sickening. Thanks for your terribly interesting reply.
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  14231.  @mikeb5664  I love it that you came up with that vacuous response. It's comforting that that's all Peter Pan's fanboys have. (Btw, before PM Namby-Pamby I was a lifelong Liberal, even staff in a Liberal cabinet.)
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  14232. Actually, it has long been a qualification. How can you ask?
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  14233. It sounds like private slang, or maybe a current term used by English hipsters. Either way it's a slip to actually utter it for the ears of the wider public.
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  14234. 6.6m square miles out of 57m square miles is "almost a quarter"? Uh, no, it's one-ninth.
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  14235. Also believe men.
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  14236.  Me  Actually it's not that at all. I was being quite silly as a matter of fact, and surely risked offending people. (Not totally considerate, I admit.) It's a shout-out to Norm Macdonald fans based on one of his jokes. On a Late Show appearance he said the same thing to David Letterman, except he named someone else, that mid-20th century German guy, you know the one I mean? First initial 'A'? I don't want to write his name or the YT computer will take a horrible disliking to me. Anyway, Letterman totally cracked up, and now to fans it's classic Norm. They (I mean we) recycle it over and over, on the least pretext, in an attempt to amuse each other. No offence meant except against your professional output, Ms. Lorenz, if you're reading this! Thanks for cheerfully not thinking the worst and hating me. :)
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  14237. How is that headline justified? Not only did the guest not say what it claims, in quotation marks no less, but when he did use the phrase "the mother of all bombs," it was in the context of some previous action of the president-elect, and he didn't even say which action he meant. [sigh]
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  14238. Yes, it's silly how they say "Macron calls snap election" on election day, (!) a month after he made the call.🤨
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  14239. ​ @williambranch4283  If later decades could've reached back through time to complicate and mess up those years you now take for granted and mildly disdain, you'd have freaked. Taking a laid-back attitude now towards things that meant the world to you then, aging does that.
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  14240. Yes, the US and NATO are pursuing a strategy of 'incrementalism.' But I think it is not solely for the reason Mr. Volker offers. (And I think he knows it.) Yes, it is in part for the purpose of denying Putin a rationale for unleashing his military's full destructive capacities on Ukraine, and rousing his country into total war mode. This Mr. Volker deems overly cautious, and he is plausibly correct there. What he (understandably and prudently) doesn't mention—the other reason and indeed the main one for incrementalism—is that pushing the invaders back to or near the Russian border is unwise if their forces still retain sufficient destructive capacity to come storming right back after whatever interval spent recovering. No, the wisest course is to do what defense secretary Lloyd Austin openly alluded to a few months into the war: Sap Russia's war-making abilities to the point where it cannot recover. Or at least not for many years. On this view, the correct course is to let Putin believe that because of NATO timidity he is always just a few weeks or months from victory on his terms. This of course is what he would like to believe. Only in this way will he see fit to pour resources into the fight (i.e., deplete them) at a pace somewhere near the maximum realistically to be expected. So only by granting his wish to appear profoundly intimidating, if not invincible, can he be weakened and defeated in the shortest possible timespan. In a word, there is a way to boil him like the proverbial frog in the saucepan, and this is it. It will go on until at last he realizes, too late, that his forces are unable to hold the line against a large Ukrainian offensive. They'll be finished—meaning the war will be, too, and likely Putin himself.
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  14241.  @robsurname4054  I understand. Russia only wanted to steal and destroy a country and its people as peacefully as possible. Then Ukraine's government and its allies had to spoil a perfectly nice party. You're not very funny, but you are a comedian.
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  14242.  @robsurname4054  Btw, the more you guys sideline me, the sharper and stronger my rhetoric gets. So don't think you're impeding me. You're helping me.
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  14243.  @AtheistOrphan  Really? An exploding device that's powerful enough to blow off a lower leg can't destroy much more delicate tissue just two feet directly above? That's not what I always heard, including elsewhere in these comments. There had to be significant danger to say the least, surely.
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  14244.  @mebsrea  There's got to be some way of protecting oneself up to a point. I'd make something out of Kevlar by hand if I had to. I wouldn't care if my stride became more like a waddle, either.
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  14245.  @SteveMHN  We need a massively better-financed, expanded and improved Rum ble ... immediately. Years ago, actually!
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  14246.  @kerriwilson7732  Absolutely right on all three points!👍 However, I was replying about a totally different subject: Video hosting platforms and how few there are to choose from.🙁
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  14247.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  👍 If no one ever corrected me I'd be a lot worse off.
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  14248. So peer-reviewed science is the cleanest dirty shirt. A latin motto to this effect ought to be devised, and nailed above the door to every lab and every science classroom, right beside any one that says 'veritas' or anything of that sort.
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  14249. Brand-new.
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  14250. I wish Ukraine the earliest possible victory. Right now every NATO country must help it more. On the negative side, the two men I watched here are cringingly cheesy. What a lousy channel.
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  14251.  @andreamadden9153  Reported
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  14252.  @dennisyoung4631  He's on something anyway. You don't get a Karl Pilkington volleyball head for no reason. Turning rip-roaring psycho, among other things threatening to blow up Planet Earth is another hint.
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  14253.  @tonynoonan1301  So deluded.
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  14254. Good one. But actually you can tell there's a fight going on in that newsroom (I mean "newsroom") over Tesla. It may be a fine story but fine stories butter no turnips, ad revenue does, and Tesla doesn't advertise. Plus, CNBC is more sharp-elbowed than quick-witted.
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  14255. What? You don't know why your country is fighting? Forty million lightly armed and poverty-stricken Ukrainians were coming to wipe Russia off the map. They were going to use voodoo magic to disable Russia's nukes, and then you'd be completely vulnerable. I'm surprised you didn't hear about all that. Oh yeah, and their Jewish president is a National Socialist. It's all quite straightforward.
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  14256. People here fret over Cameron "escalating," "revealing," "raising risks" etc. I totally disagree. Haven't they noticed the course of things over 26 months? To me it's clear that NATO's intent is (very shrewdly) to open the armament taps a little more every month or two, in order that Putin realize his troubles will only mount as time passes. And he does recognize this. But when and if NATO were to cease these increments, he would be greatly emboldened and tempted to throw a decisive quantity of resources at a final push to Kiev. His response to the pause in incrementalism in the past couple of months shows this. In my view Cameron, the US and all the rest of NATO's allies (yes, Scholz included) have got it just right. Their adroitness has actually surprised me. Putin still has a great deal of military power at his disposal, but Russia's forces have been (in the original sense of the word) decimated over and over. Most of his armor is gone, likewise multiple key materiel categories and vast numbers of trained and experienced personnel. His air force is effectively neutered at present; at least, he knows that deploying it over Ukraine will cost him dear. And speaking of costs, the total financial and economic impact of the war for Russia begins to near 200 trillion roubles ($2.2trn), which is on the order of a full year's GDP. Its bank rate is 16%. Its wealth is hollowed out. Apart from the artificial, temporary, unsustainable and drug-like wartime stimulus, so too is its economy. Its standard of living, already on the decline, is ripe for a major near-term hit. Inflation and government debt stand to rise sharply. Downwards pressure on the rouble will soon (i.e. this year) overwhelm the government's efforts, so far successful, to prop it up. I do not suggest near-term economic collapse. The patient is ailing and growing sicker, but it is on the table being administered a steady adrenaline drip. Nonetheless, to switch metaphors, all this amounts to classic frog-simmering.
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  14257. This is all just part of an ongoing transformation which for many, many years I've been calling The Great Dumbening.
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  14258. Don't know this fellow but he's right, the choice of Greg Abbott would be a master stroke.
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  14259. To say delusional and imposing figure is plausible and certainly true in a real sense, but a bit misleading. On the whole, the Russian people eagerly demand the delusions and the imposing figure they currently —uh, let me see now— enjoy. Russia remains a feudal society. It has come through the last 106 years mostly intact.
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  14260. Excellent. Btw, the first minute was a great reminder for people who call countries like Denmark and Sweden socialist. 😂 Nah. If they were actual socialist countries they wouldn't have stock exchanges where people can buy shares in Carlsberg and Volvo.
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  14261.  @cjhdabears7186  Ok, Yuri. 🤣
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  14262. "What the <> was that?" And in the next second the like button turned white hot.
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  14263. Later this year when they want him gone, it'll be easy: They'll just have to withhold his medications for a few days. Very shortly, he will be certain to perform so poorly in front of cameras that Democrats nation-wide will assent to his removal as nominee. Whoosh! Presto! The old switch-eroo.
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  14264. Equal also to California, which has only 2m fewer people. I don't think you know that every US state has two senators. I think that if a political union ever did occur, each province would become a state, except that the four Atlantic provinces would merge: 7 states, 14 senators.
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  14265. ​@ It's irrelevant that small states have 2 senators, because they all do. The germane fact is that the current avg. is 6.8m/state, and the 7 provinces would avg. a similar 6m.
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  14266. Mostly from government workers in anti-Western nations I'm sure. I'd like to see our govts. do something about them. Obviously such parties are not entitled to free speech protections. Social media is the Trojan horse the West wheeled up to its own doors.
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  14267. Obviously they think they'll be charged, so they've lawyered up and are stalling. Before very long they'll have to cooperate or face charges of a different sort, I would imagine. But that's just a non-lawyer's surmise, I could be wrong.
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  14268.  @Roddy556  Yes, but we'll have to wait and see what all the allegations and facts are. (E.g., whether the training they received was up to a good standard.) Their conduct may be better or worse than it appears to us now.
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  14269.  @digbycrankshaft7572  Yes, Canada is definitely a monarchy (constitutional sub-type). That's not my opinion, but a fact. Thus Charles III is the King of Canada and its head of state (likewise Australia); yet Canada also is a liberal democracy. Even if seemingly contradictory, these are facts nonetheless. Having said all that, I take your interlocutor for a foreign govt. worker intent specifically on sowing division and eliciting n asty written reactions, which you unfortunately provided. (I maintain that of all 42 million people in Canada, those who would actually say what he said could be gathered into a single room of moderate size.) Try not to fall for such provocations.
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  14270.  @OhSoddit  Hong Kong was never an independent state. Not the same thing.
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  14271. 😢Poor them. Of course they're wonderful. Have a nice day and 祝你一切顺利。
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  14272. ...like a Thanksgiving turkey leg off her lap.
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  14273. I hope so. He seems a bit of a lightweight. Maybe he was a little intimidated; I thought I noticed that. I like his tie, though.
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  14274. Kringela Harris isn't 82 years old. He wouldn't succeed her during her term. As VP he'd have zero major responsibilities or authority. He'd likely be less influential than AOC and the Squad. A US Vice President isn't a co-CEO. A US Vice President is an understudy.
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  14275. Hahaha, you captured the inner fruitiness of Prime Minister Peter Pan just right. In polling news, he's dragged his party's support down to 25% and still slowly falling. The fraction of people who want him to run again ranges from a high of 17% down to 12%. Dave, I can only say thanks for doing your bit.👍Feel the gratitude, dude.
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  14276. Rogan's committed-liberal past comes bubbling up.
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  14277. Arshdeep Singh. How close a relative to Jagmeet is he? It seems the rest of the world is just pulling its criminals out of prison and putting them on planes for Canada and the US. (Or, if in Latin America, simply sending them on foot.)
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  14278.  @WineGuzzlinBobby  Typical illiberal liberal, trying to shut people up. A real liberal would fight tooth and nail for everyone in the world to speak his or her mind.
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  14279.  @WineGuzzlinBobby  Typical illiberal liberal, trying to silence expression. A real liberal would fight tooth and nail for everyone in the world to speak his or her mind.
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  14280. "A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." — Fisher Ames, American politician and orator around the time of the War of Independence and framing of the Constitution. He was highly respected and had many other interesting things to say.
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  14281. — John Stuart Mill in a speech, 1867
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  14282. "Canada, yeah sure, it's near North America." Omg. You actually said that. Just omg. Bro, do you feel faint? Or is your IQ going into remission?
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  14283. Great summary, Sky. All of that's true, and it's even worse the closer you look. You have my thanks and gratitude.
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  14284. The Ottawa protest against Trudeau's vaccine mandate was smeared even worse. A sole protestor—one, over the course of weeks—had a flag with the word "Trudeau" spray-painted over the notorious symbol at its center. In other words, the flag accused Trudeau of being tantamount to a Nawtzee. Other protestors thought this was probably going to be dishonestly twisted by the media and promptly escorted him away. And sure enough, the media went all Whoopi on the story for weeks.
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  14285. Highly useful suggestion.
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  14286. Video surveillance footage would have yielded a meme for the ages. Too bad.
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  14287. Because he is in the throes of a 'roid psychosis.
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  14288. "Ok everybody, we're here today to look at stuff chosen by icky people to send down to us through time. I can't stress that enough: people in the olden days were icky—they didn't know what values and morals are. People like me discovered true values and morals in the past couple of decades. So, let's dig in and check out all this immoral stuff from immoral people..."
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  14289. That opening piece was a cheap stunt. This is why media trust and ratings are so low.
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  14290. (1) Why does the reporter talk to us in a voice style appropriate for addressing Grade One pupils? (2) At least Trudeau had his wife with him for company and support. Oh wait...
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  14291. Japan is not a Western nation. But although Japan competed very effectively, indeed to the detriment of the US, they did so lawfully and for the most part quite fairly. For that reason, the US made no attempt to impede them. No attempt, ever. China competes a little, shall we say, differently. Perhaps it should adopt a multi-party system, like Japan.
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  14292.  @thchen8312   Thanks for your reply. True, China and Japan are not to be too closely compared. But if you think Japan did not scare the US throughout the entire 1980s, I suspect you were not alive at the time, or if so were in short pants. Surely even in China people knew this. Many people in the US, even the educated, though not most I believe, thought that Japan could replace the US as the world's leading economic power. I'm not kidding. The loss of manufacturing capacity, rising imports from Japan, massive inflows of Japanese capital to buy up major companies and landmark real estate in the US, technological outpacing by Japan, the strong yen, incredible real estate prices in Japan, and the immense size and strength of Japanese banks were some of the most important reasons, but not the only ones. Now you know more. My impression, moreover, is that Japan was at that time a bigger worry to Americans that China is to them now. That is, if the culture and media are any indication. I think Americans worry somewhat about war with China, but not that China will buy their country or do much more to threaten its economic future than it already does. I can only guess why, but it's an easy guess. I think Americans vaguely believe that China will sooner or later stumble so badly that it is set back for a few decades or longer, because it does not have a multi-party system, in contrast to Japan, which they expect to persist for a long time. When China's crisis hits, I think it is assumed, its form of government will change and it may splinter, in all of this scenario surely recalling the example of the USSR, with whose flag the Chinese flag shared its colours. Americans think communism, even the sham communism of China, doesn't work. They think a people who are not free could never defeat them. This surely includes many or even most important politicians and many journalists. They may be proved wrong or right. For my part I feel their belief is too strong. Cheers.
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  14293.  @thchen8312  Thank you for the links. I checked them out but couldn't respect the quality of the minds behind them. The one on war with China I watched most of before. I decided its author is a Marxist anti-American and pseudo-intellectual, lightly educated and unbalanced of personality. The benefit from watching it is in learning something about how such a mind works and about what random YouTubing can turn up. I wasn't impressed with the video concerning Japan either. Its author is a youngster posing as a serious commentator. He knows less about the monetary system than I do. Both videos were touching in a way, like paintings by artists of little talent. One's response is sadness, or pity, or contempt. Cheers and best of luck mining YouTube for good content.
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  14294.  @thchen8312  You convince me of the likelihood that your disposition is dominated by sweetness, which is itself a fine thing, but I maintain that vigorous criticism is the job of educated people in a free society. Such a society quickly falls apart without what you call critical judgments. If you don't care much about whether a society is free, you may wish to consider that Confucius himself is relentlessly critical of unenlightened men and their errors. No conversation is over just because somebody utters the word 'bias'. If you think you are free of bias I respectfully suggest you ponder it further. One may with hope in their heart regard themselves as low on unfair bias, but that's not the same thing. Moreover, while you stress how full you are of love, respect, spirituality, and acceptance of difference, one can't fail to notice the strength of the criticism you direct at me in your last post. Although it's couched in polite language, you're actually saying I'm biased and disrespectful. But while I find this frankly hypocritical, mealy-mouthed, and passive-aggressive, I'm not in the least hurt or offended. I'm a big boy and I can take criticism whether I feel it's fair or unfair.  I merely assert that improving the world starts with looking in the mirror. Still, I do appreciate and see value in a veneer of politeness, as long as it's within certain limits of sincerity. We ought not to be at one another's throats, after all. The estimable Confucius would approve, too, I think. Cheers.
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  14295.  @wasupfool5692  No, the PM definitely shouldn't resign over this. His chief of staff should. But yes, the PM definitely should resign for everything else he's done for the past eight years!
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  14296. New camera/lighting/video software? Looking good.
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  14297. I thought at first you were talking about the cowards who did nothing.
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  14298. Hahaha Spoken like a true Putinist. The focus of every real democratic constitution is the protection of political minorities, for many reasons but especially so that political majorities cannot entrench themselves more or less permanently. Does that last part sound like any place you know of?😂
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  14299. And the reply ought to be: "Well, I'm here to tell you it's not you now, either, because your job is no longer your job."
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  14300. A leftist leader would've already shut down the farms to ensure mass starvation. See 20th century, history of.
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  14301. It's totally unreasonable to tar Pierre Poilievre with any blame of any sort. If he was indeed told that, I'm inclined to assume he thought it was some kind of mistake, rather than him believing that it was even possible for the PMO to make the much, much bigger mistake of not properly vetting a guest before honouring him. Or maybe he mistakenly thought that "fighting the Russians" might mean in the Holodomor (1932-33). (It couldn't, since the man would've been several years too young, but people make mistakes. He could've thought the Holodomor was in the late-30s.) In any case, in my view it's overdoing it to flatly assert he should've/must've known. It was such a minor event that if he gave it little thought, it's understandable. The responsibility lies with the people actually handling it.
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  14302.  @MrJoeSomebody  Haha, good catch. He would've been 7 or 8, so at a theoretical minimum 7 years too young. (Many a 15-year-old has become a soldier.) But then, if I can make that slip, so could Poilievre (and what I'm arguing against here is that he 'must've known!', which is different from a mental/arithmetical slip). Nonetheless, edit made. Thanks.
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  14303. That Cuomo has been dead many years. So your comment needs an edit.
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  14304. @@metanomena Sure, that's why parents are happy when their daughter chooses to be a prostitute. That's why the women themselves are proud. That's why there are college programs in how to be a whore. Your moral relativism is really helping society. Congratulations.
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  14305. Is a US attorney not a federal appointee in a federal position?
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  14306. I have a hypothesis that the explosion of youth anxiety has roots in kids watching porn from the age of ten or barely older.
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  14307. Maria, there's no 'n' in restaurateur.
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  14308.  @das_it_mane  You're defending the indefensible. And you're mad.
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  14309. He's not popular. He only got 33% and 32% of the vote in the last two elections. But popular vote isn't how the winner is chosen. There's an Electoral College-type thing (at the district, not the state/province, level). It's better to win districts by a small margin than to have more votes but they're spread out geographically.
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  14310. Use periods and capitals or no one's going to read you. Make sentences.
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  14311. Watching their full two-hour discussion with journalists is worth the while.
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  14312. When Canada is glad to be a cold country. (It still has a border.)
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  14313.  @WarpedYT  I guess taking my obvious jokes seriously is what I should've expected from a guy called Warped Perception! 😄 All the best, my good man.
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  14314. For somebody who can afford a mistress but is having trouble finding one.
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  14315. (1) I find it highly revealing that "PFLAG," a lesbian and gay group, is entering this discussion, when it's about so-called trans kids. Almost like they're admitting that trans kids are really just lesbians and gays. (I believe that's what the vast majority of them really are. What's going on is that gay kids are being sterilized. Shades of a hundred years ago.) (2) Re the interview portion, all I can say besides What nonsense! is Please, somebody gouge my eyes out!
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  14316. I think there's about 100,000 commercial flights a day worldwide. Add to that the jets and other planes of rich people.
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  14317. Bon voyage. Want help packing?
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  14318.  @eanerickson8915  Enjoy criticizing the government on social media over there. Unless you have no desire to, being deeply in admiration of it, which I regard as likely. In which case, buh-bye.
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  14319. Having the same thing in mind as you, my blond friend always says he's a member of the blond community.😆
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  14320. Chance to get an American voice in. Shrewd.
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  14321. That's effectively a ban on political parties. Ok, so ban political freedom. Brilliant. Kim Jong-un: "This guy gets it! He knows how to ban political corruption, a thing unknown here in NK!"
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  14322. No he does not. He addressed that head-on in the clip. Bear in mind that there are surely neo-Nazis in most if not all countries.
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  14323.  @SB-ok3xc  Without Zelenskyy you would have your wish and Ukraine would be a province of Russia. May you be denied.
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  14324. Viruses have been coming out of the forests or countryside since forever. Stop pretending that a perfectly routine occurrence must have some evil and fascinating secret origin. If you like stories, grab a book or watch a movie. Cheers.
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  14325. Missiles and drones are becoming the same thing.🤔 Slowly or quickly, I can't tell.
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  14326. You mean that it could be taken for granted the Soviets wouldn't take Denmark, being too honourable to break an agreement? And that if they did occupy it, they would fain withdraw the moment the transgression were objected to?
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  14327. Yes, and a Good Yule from all of us everywhere.
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  14328.  @a.brekkan4965  Oh, please. Bravo means Well Done!
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  14329.  @fabb5  Ok, Peskovchik.
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  14330.  @fabb5  Hahaha, thanks for the Kremlin spokesman point of view.
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  14331.  @a.brekkan4965  It's a matter highly relevant to the war and deserving of many points of view and many updates. Mr. Nielsen does a great job, moreover, and deserves the plaudits.
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  14332.  @a.brekkan4965  It's something very germane to the subject of the war, very well deserving of many points of view and constant updates.
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  14333. It is interesting to note that 1 US ton of gold (29,167 troy oz.), cast in the form of a perfect cube, measures only 14.2" on a side. In a slightly different shape it would fit in a 1.65 cu.ft. microwave (typical size for an over-the-range model), yet its current market value is $80.1 million.
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  14334. Leftism attracts really messed-up people, or at the very least attracts people by answering to their most messed-up needs. No well-adjusted and solid person will go near it, although one who's mainly good but profoundly bizarre might possibly. In summary, one may regard it as a Psychologist's Wonderland.
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  14335.  @coninseres4541  The reason you as a physician (if that's what you are) cannot do your job whilst being filmed has to do with the privacy rights of the patient, does it not? Well, the police officer here has no right to privacy, and Mr. Kavanaugh was clearly ceding his own right (if any) not to be filmed. If the officer's putative right to work in public without being filmed really were being violated, please explain why she continued to tolerate it. I'd enjoy hearing what you come up with. Moreover, your work does not take place in what is considered a public place for legal purposes, as a train station is. It seems your view of things was learnt in China.
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  14336.  @coninseres4541  "Follows [my] child"? What? What on earth are you on about? Are you ok? Do you feel ill? Seriously, I would get that checked out. And then you presume to lecture me on the limits of freedom. Omg.🙄 I won't even deign to address the rest of your maunderings. Physician, heal thyself indeed, and don't waste a moment getting to it!
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  14337. ​ @coninseres4541  Also:   Kiersty Griffiths, standards policy manager for the General Medical Council: “The information in the consultation is the patient’s and—providing no other patient is involved—it’s perfectly legal for them to record it for their own use." — BMJ, Mar 19, 2019
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  14338.  @coninseres4541  Profound lack of brainpower on your part. Tragic for those whom you deal with but at least I'm no longer one of them: you're muted. Buh-bye.
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  14339.  @johnmanning5568  Thanks. I had the same basic suspicion from the get-go. A highly muteworthy pesterer.😄
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  14340. Imagine the intellectual deficiency of a mind that comes up with "sloped at its highest point"! Dwell on it for a moment. Such a person belongs in a very low-level, unimportant job, not a crucial leadership position. For appointing her, I call for John Mayorkas' immediate ouster. Get him out now.
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  14341.  @MrDarkgreen  I'm saying it was just code for "Anyone who's not a socialist is a co-opted sellout money-grubbing bougie and you can't get through to him." If you're good with such a point of view, enjoy it and have a nice day.
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  14342.  @MrDarkgreen  I'm saying that his point was merely that it's nearly impossible to convert people to socialism due to their venality. Typical socialist, unable to understand why not everyone basks and revels in its glories.
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  14343. Btw, later this month he'll be paying his 2021 taxes of not far from $20 billion, the most of any human in history by far.
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  14344. Sit down. Few to no details are given till the next of kin are notified.
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  14345. Watching DDOI: Free The way DDOI always puts the thumbnail teaser first: A small treasure
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  14346. 90% of the US media is out to get Tesla because Musk stopped supporting Biden. There's a constant flood of hit pieces. Yet there are no reports of Tesla hacking. If such a thing ever happened, the media would make it the story of the year. Yet you claim it's "a fact that all electric cars can be hacked."😂 Wow, dude.
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  14347.  @stephenhill545  <--"But why? Russia is not a socialist state, more corporatism/kleptocracy mix." Yes, but the US and NATO are the master corporatists/aggressors, in the eyes of those who grew up looking through red eyeglasses. Scholz wrote along those lines as a Marxist youth member of the SPD. Read his Wikipedia article. They never do grow up, those far-left types.
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  14348. laowhy86 is a pretty cool channel. If you want to know more about China and can't actually go, you can learn a ton. Matthew, the guy's name, became a wizard with his Sony GoPro and drone, too. Lots of excellent footage.
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  14349. Wow
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  14350.  @MA-fg5hz  Well, both places have a strongman fetish problem. But at least Mexico is next to the US and has multiple political parties.
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  14351.  Jon Tron  Wow, there's a lot of those videos stretching back years. I thought it was a lot harder to get a drink there than that!
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  14352. More to the point: out of thousands of them, what are the odds that not even one per several hundred would harbour a long-lived grudge against him for anything (or against herself, for at one time slavering after the chance to sleep with a celebrity...who then years later turned out to have incorrect views on politics, society, etc.)?
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  14353. I'm irreligious but I feel like saying: From your lips to god's ears!
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  14354. Pressure must be increased and then maintained until this egregious person resigns. It's very important for the future.
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  14355. Always worth repeating. And yet you received some contradictions from a few people eager to show off how cynically unbelieving they are (or who are just venting frustrations, or who are paid foreign trolls). But try to remember the ratio of likes to sneers. Cheers, friend
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  14356.  @canada9436  I myself have thought that possibly Germany is so poorly armed that they would indeed have not enough left to defend themselves from Putin with. Too bad no news show has addressed that (as far as I am aware).
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  14357.  @slobodanpaunovic3834  No. When Russia's neighbours don't trust Russia—naturally, because they know Russia— and then naturally seek to join NATO in order to sleep better, no "EU colonizing" enters into it. It's just people wanting to feel safer. And look just how sound their judgment turned out to be! They are also simply attracted to the EU way of life—relaxed, free, peaceful, prosperous. Who wouldn't be?
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  14358. I went into my bank last week and demanded a $3-million mortgage. I told them I identify as someone making $1 million a year.
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  14359.  @cheahkwongphin2565  Go collect your 50 cents.
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  14360.  @innitmate6574  You're pretending I didn't even say anything. How tedious.
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  14361. Daniil, that's a great idea! Very advanced thinking. Super-glastnost, wow.👏👏👏👏
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  14362. So Grace deplores high football salaries. Then let's see her go after feminists who make a million pounds from their awful books and lectures. She never would in a million years of course, because she has a sense (the one nearly always found in left females) of vindictiveness and hyperpartisanship. Orwell derided such a sense as 'party feeling,' meaning injustice both ways: unjustly favourable treatment of anyone in your own party, unjustly unfavourable treatment of everyone else.
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  14363. Wokesters despise Christianity and Judaism and Western civilization. Is--m, too, despises all three. And so Wokesters have warm feelings for Is--m. What they are nearly incapable of realizing is that despite those shared anathemas, Is--m would gladly destroy Wokeism in one second if it could. (Cp. 'Chickens for KFC.')
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  14364. This subject is too important to take seriously the point of view of one of these diversity hires. She thinks like a kindergarten teacher.
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  14365. The great preponderance of Russians are born to be ruled. It's only a worthy minority who give their country a claim to greatness, and they are sadly, maddeningly, tragically, permanently I fear, outnumbered. I blame Genghis Khan for ruining the rest. Nearly a millennium after his outrages, he haunts and dominates their stunted political and psychological culture still.
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  14366. And just why shouldn't he have done so, whilst watching valuations gallop ahead of any reasonable forecast for profits? Had he not done so, that would have been the head-scratcher.
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  14367.  @playedit0ut290  "In a nut's hell" works too.
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  14368.  @vld7850  Yeah. I wish he were someone admirable for his usefulness, like a hardware store evening manager (which he'd be fine at). That type of person we definitely need.
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  14369. Just an opinion, but I think we should go back to Eff Jay Bee.
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  14370. Thanks, Dave! Btw, by their own definition these cancellers are R-words.
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  14371. The AI drone swarm of assassins has already been out there for maybe a decade. He's not letting any cats out of any bags.
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  14372.  @danielhicks1824  You're quite right, yet every additional person who hears them constitutes an additional theoretical risk. It reminds me of the epidemiologist who said that just because covid is already in a country, it doesn't mean it doesn't matter if infected people are landing at its airports. Each one of them can start a separate and additional chain of infection, sickness and deaths amounting to great numbers.
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  14373.  @edwardbietsch993  He never said any such thing. If you really do think he that did, at least attempt to prove it by providing your source. He's been quoted saying (obviously as a generalization) that in his experience the Chinese work harder than Americans. And I don't think many people would doubt him on that.
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  14374.  @johntoplis879  Yes, but did he make many of them up or didn't they come straight out of Stalin's playbook? Either way your point is well taken.
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  14375.  @AuntyKsTarot  You probably have no idea you just targeted an immigrant with hatred, nor the ability to accept that you did.
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  14376.  @trevtall1094  Your comment was redacted by American censors in Silicon Valley. I wonder what the rest of it was.
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  14377.  @Rnankn  You claim Canada is phasing out oil. HA! That is one hundred per cent false…times a thousand.
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  14378.  @trevtall1094  An appalling story. Thanks for your reply.
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  14379.  @marshhen  To your point about Russia perhaps being able to sell the energy which Western Europe doesn't buy to some other countries instead, I ask you how much that matters in the end. It is like knowing that the restaurant owner raped his waitress. Do you still want to dine on his hamburgers? Is it crucial whether your personal boycott puts him out of business, or even costs him a dollar?
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  14380. North Yorkshire: "You're telling us, mate! We have enough worries."
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  14381. Ok, Raj. Is that why it's a metropolis of 9 million people?
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  14382. I think the US has limited aid to Ukraine for valid reasons: (1) For lasting European security, Russia's power to keep invading neighbors had to be deeply attritted and (2) the task fell to Ukraine, because (3) a Russia-NATO war must be avoided, because (4) the US must keep maximum powder dry to preserve peace in East Asia.
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  14383. ​ @altyhaaf4  Oh come on. As if Russia isn't soaked in hypocrisy and lies! Its strengths and weaknesses differ somewhat from those of the West, but its hypocrisy and lies plague it no less severely, possibly more severely. It's a little less ashamed of itself, probably because of a stronger commitment to denial of its shortcomings. Let's face it, every country around the world indulges in cheap anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism to kid itself and sweep its own failures of culture, system and character under the rug. "Say what you will, at least we're not Americans." Meanwhile their own faults fester. It's human nature, alas. Poor people in your city and mine, failures and so on, also say it about the rich, the good-looking, everybody who has something. "Those people are vicious. I have nothing, but I'm good, and honest." Meanwhile they're not, to any particular degree. I'm always skeptical of people's blanket condemnations.
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  14384. We get your message: don't believe anything. I recognize these posts instantly.
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  14385. Desjardins Group, assets as at March 31, 2024: $436 billion Rank in world among cooperative financial groups: 5th
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  14386. Close to zero coverage of this can be found on major media outlets. They don't care. Or they like that it's happening. I notice, btw, that the NYT in its customary water-carrying fashion calls the ceasefire proposal Biden's (!), not Israel's. They'll say anything — anything — to prop him up.
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  14387. De Santis 2024
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  14388. That makes nine A's. What a movie.
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  14389. If I were Piers I would have protested "That's wrong. Not budgie, bungee."
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  14390. I have no idea what you mean by this comment but it's thoroughly ridiculous and you should get chucked in the clink for it.
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  14391.  @stephenrichards5386  It was ironic humour that sailed over your head.
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  14392.  @stephenrichards5386  No probs, loved your comment
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  14393. @ Acquaint yourself with the facts. That's what adults do. Both countries have long tariffed each other's goods at similar rates.
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  14394.  @junglesuperstar9270  What's so funny there, Mischa? Did your mind wander over to how comically stoop I d a situation your Psychoführer und Reichskanzler has gotten you into? Might as well laugh while you can. Plenty of time later for staring down into an empty glass that reminds you of Russia's future.
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  14395.  @junglesuperstar9270  I would far rather that a people so often charming, intelligent and good-looking would steer themselves in a more salutary direction. Alas, they are choosing disaster. It will be an immense tragedy for them and many others if they don't come to their senses. 😟😟 Pretty soon it will be too late.
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  14396.  @junglesuperstar9270  Hahaha Yeah, you're right, most of the EU sponges off Germany, Poland included. But that's a feature, not a bug. Anybody that can live off Germany's wealth should go ahead and try it. It unites Europe. 😄   Anyway: Former communist countries of Eastern Europe ranked by GDP per capita, rated at local currency purchasing power (PPP): 1. Slovenia (next after Italy) 2.Czech Republic (two spots later) 3. Lithuania 4. Estonia 5. Poland 6. Hungary 7. Slovakia 8. Latvia 9. Romania 10. Croatia 11. Russia 12. Bulgaria 13.-23. Five Balkan states, Albania, and five former SSRs, in the south except for Belarus. Ukraine is 23rd but these are 2022 rankings. So Russia is in the middle and is behind its Western neighbors who are part of the EU and NATO. The countries it is ahead of are its mostly southern neighbors like Ukraine and a some tiny impoverished republics totally under its thumb. (So of course they'll be poor. A duty to be poor is thrust upon them.) From Wikipedia "Table of sovereign states in Europe by GDP (PPP) per capita." It gives the IMF as its source.
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  14397.  @saviom8166 That itself is a point noticeably lacking in any rational basis for being mentioned. It's perfectly irrelevant. Hey, you're not one of those female academics, are you?😂
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  14398. @ "Man jokes." I've never heard that term. You mean simply jokes made by a man, or jokes at the expense of men, or is it a term like "Dad jokes" meant to disparage men for having a weak sense of the comic?
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  14399.  @evgeniybastrykov  Agreed. But it seems like something you should say to people on the fence rather than someone like me.
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  14400.  @Seevawonderloaf  I'm sorry to hear this. The lack of any word of this in the Western news media appears to have misled me into assuming Indians are more sensible than they may in fact be. Thanks for your interesting comment. I wish you and your country well.
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  14401.  @merlesmith6794  Yes, but even though it's an adolescent's conception of nobility it's still noble up to a point. Every parent and schoolteacher knows what I'm talking about: the child's naïve sense of justice which at times may sting the adult conscience for certain reasons, but must still be patiently reshaped into one that takes all the facts into account. On this view, the most vital question is why we have so many adolescents walking around in the adult world. Providing a full explanation must be among the top priorities.
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  14402. That Kadyrovite is right that NATO "will cease to exist in the format in which it exists today." But not in the way he thinks. It will emerge larger, stronger and more united. Thanks to Putin in one sense and Trump in another, Europe is finally going to pull its weight, ensuring a much more powerful and sustainable alliance. Long live NATO.
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  14403. When you see videos of JFK's press conferences you realize a lot about what we've lost since that time.
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  14404. Not to be flippant but, en français, 'C'est la vie.' Humanity, and life, are not perfectible. Just improvable, slightly. Be satisfied with the improvements you can make to yourself and hope not to be murdered young.
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  14405. Canadian taxpayer money becomes UN money, then goes to Hms. via UNRWA. Scandalous and wrong.
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  14406. New PB for him.
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  14407. What? How did pacifism enter into it?🤨 It didn't. The song was a complaint about poor men's sons going off to the war while rich men's sons had ways of getting out of it.
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  14408. Absolutely. 👏 Are you of Ukrainian descent? If so, let's see your name in Cyrillic.
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  14409. Like a glass of milk on a warm, sunny windowsill.
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  14410. 60 million cringing Frenchmen can't be wrong.
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  14411. Honest title: "Scientists treat blindness."
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  14412. Get professional help.
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  14413.  @tacticalcenter8658  Thanks for the official Bill Gates position.
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  14414. They always say that offense and disrespect are never about intent, but in how the targeted individual or group feels. Suddenly all that matters is whether offense was intended. What total hypocrisy.
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  14415. They're out of my price range but actually I think their prices have come way down. I could be wrong. But I saw them at The Bay a few years ago for the low-$2,000s. Now I just took a look at Harry Rosen and none are that high, while a lot of their parkas are around $1,200. Women's cost less, I'm pretty sure.
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  14416. Well then, perhaps vanity in a certain measure is not half as bad as people say, when it serves the right purpose at the right time. A shy and humble man, too, I daresay, is at times just the kind whom we need at our side, or even leading us, though not at others. Life and the world would be terrible if we all had the same propensities.
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  14417.  @lestermay5878  Shocking as it may sound, there's a world outside the Royal Navy.
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  14418.  @lestermay5878  What a boyishly emotional response to such a modest assertion on my part. I should wonder if you hadn't read it after your daily jot of rum.
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  14419. West: "Our CO2 emissions are falling." PRC: "Uh, our, uh, never mind. This press conference is ended."
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  14420. It could never have happened without a merger, effectively, of the media and the state. Just let that sink in and reverberate a moment: A media-state merger. That's how a (maskless) little girl was pepper-sprayed in the face by a squad of police officers outside a mall. (I'm curious, by the way: did the Hon. Peter Costello stand up and say any of this at the time? )
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  14421. Quelle surprise.
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  14422. YouTube is a morass of verbal and logical incoherence. I found this video a great relief from that. Thank you. Subscribed.
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  14423. Boffs, all of them.   Bunch Of f-something f-somethings.  I want to go back to when, simply because I didn't bother them, they didn't bother me. Now they're determined to get in my face, and everybody's face.
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  14424. What's wrong with it?
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  14425. That looks like an incredibly dangerous thing to do, even for a war. So visible, so unprotected. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine.🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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  14426. We need to hear from psychiatrists, because they might actually be cries for help. I'm guessing they are.
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  14427. Don't get carried away. I share your frustration but you're exaggerating. Besides, NATO and the US especially have to look ahead, unlike you and me, since they are responsible for the outcome of their strategic decisions. Their leadership knows many things that you and I do not. The path to defeating Russia was guaranteed from the start to be longer and more painful for Ukraine than any of us would wish.
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  14428. Communists [with a straight face]: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unless you call yourself a communist." 😂😂😂😂🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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  14429. There must be thorough revenge for such acts. So there must be victory.
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  14430.  @user-ow1bn6qv8q  As I understand it VW is losing a lot of money on each EV. Telsa's gross margin in autos just topped 30%.
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  14431.  @user-ow1bn6qv8q  It's 2000. VW is Yahoo. Tesla is Google.
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  14432. Yes his mother is as flaky as ten barrels of dandruff, and yes, he is a dweeb. That reminds me: Matthew Perry beat him up in high school, and now I understand why. True story. (Watch him tell it in a Kimmel clip. "Perry Trudeau Kimmel" in search bar.)
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  14433. Then that's abuse of the program and absolutely must be stopped. But if the US isn't the magnet for the world's top talent it will suffer, big-time. Period.
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  14434.  @WinstonSmithGPT  Very well, workers with "highly specialized knowledge" in "specialty occupations." But it is indeed used by companies to secure what is called "top talent," in addition to the 0-1 and EB-2. Not every eventual superstar is already a star. I repeat that strengthening the program against abuse ought to be a priority.
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  14435.  @WinstonSmithGPT  Very well, workers with "highly specialized knowledge" in "specialty occupations." But it is indeed used by companies to secure what is called "top talent," in addition to the 0-1 and EB-2. Not every eventual superstar is already a star.
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  14436.  @capricorn839   They're hardcore mf's in the best sense of the term and, like you, I salute them.👏👏👏 But can we stop talking about their testicles, please? There's something about an interest in or preoccupation with those particular body parts I find cringy, to say the least. Let's just call them hardcore mf's and let it go at that.
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  14437.  @РамзанБерсанукаев-ы7й  Y.T.M.💀
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  14438.  @S5Dic09  Starting middle school next month, eh? All the best to you!
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  14439. Really good, really absorbing. So it must be from years and years ago.
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  14440.  @heather2028  Yes. Almost the whole world has a healthier respect for working with one's hands than the US does. If I'm not mistaken, outside the English-speaking world there's not much contempt for it at all. Think how much more useful a tradesperson is than an assistant vice president of marketing. And how much less harmful.
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  14441. May I add that her incredibly low-key sweater makes a powerful statement about putting vanity in its place. I'd even say it tells me she has advanced ideas about how one shows the real confidence.
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  14442. ​@Rocksteady-hl2ks The US/NATO certainly did succeed in Afghanistan. Their aim wasn't, like the Soviets in 1979, to basically annex it. Their aim was to punish the Taliban for what it had done to the US and to send a message to all other countries: namely, that if militants you train commit deadly acts in the US you will get some very unpleasant visitors and they will stay for a long time. It turned out to be 20 years, and major attacks on the US have not recurred. The US left (rather wisely) at a time of its own choosing, i.e., a few months after Putin began massing troops near the Ukrainian border. Contrast this with the total disaster the Soviets made of their unpardonable invasion. Their eventual withdrawal, owing largely to US support of the mujahideen, preceded the disintegration of the government and indeed the country by only a year or two. Get ready Misha: 1989 and 1991 are going to happen all over again. Ukraine is Afghanistan 2.0. I would scout the lots near my apartment building for places to plant potatoes and beets if I were you.
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  14443.  @martinheath5947  I don't believe you for a second. What's the basis for your claim?
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  14444.  @martinheath5947  I heard laugh tracks countless times in the years before they disappeared. I do indeed know what they sound like, my supercilious friend.
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  14445. Rome went down very, very gradually. America is going over a waterfall.
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  14446. On The Simpsons, sign outside the church after a tornado in Springfield: God Welcomes His Victims.
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  14447. Yes he is! Still going strong at 173. He now has a young wife 110 years his junior.
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  14448. Many hours later, it's still not properly fixed despite so many people alerting them to it. What a sleepy outfit.
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  14449.  @charlesdickens6706  But no, my ironically-named friend. To 'see,' in the context of the idiom and sense of the title, means to experience. (Cp. "His unit saw heavy action.") It's backwards to say Ukraine would 'see' the attack. Btw, English is my language. Cheers mate
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  14450. Headline: "Hispanic people have turned on Democrats" Democrats, half an hour later: "Let's work on that wall."
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  14451. Hope is fine for hopeless situations, perhaps. But at all other times it is a dangerous quack drug.
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  14452. That Frank Lebowitz is one very sour man. He should stick to lemon-tasting, which I understand is his occupation.
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  14453. It has zero to do with voting. It isn't about the election.
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  14454. ​ @ancietman  I know this is officious so please forgive me, but as an editor I can tell you that quote marks aren't for indicating emphasis. They're for quotations or to indicate severe skepticism only. Use italics, by bracketing text with underscores: _ Like this, but no space(s) on the ends. _ <----Any spaces and it'll look like this. Likewise if you don't put a space on the other side. (E.g., _Great_!)
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  14455. Who wants to go shopping anyway? Malls are now hotbeds of robbery, shoplifting and vast throngs of screaming demonstrators intimidating and threatening ordinary Torontonians. The news has become the nightly report on the systematic ruination of the once relaxed and peaceful city we were proud to live in.
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  14456. Mr. Lightbound is obedient to his conscience. The rest of the Liberals are just obedient.
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  14457. Please do. It hurts Biden's chances.
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  14458. Rota's resignation took so long that it sort of looks like he's been made the fall guy. But in fact he hasn't. He really is the one to blame most of all. But in terms of appearances, it's the PM who still looks worst of all. Which is fine. It's about time his absurd luck ran out, if you ask me. Now his tenure is like a pimple getting bigger, redder and yellower by the hour. Stand back, I think he's gonna blow!
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  14459. @ And of course you disagree, my dear woman.🙄
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  14460. ​@ I would say "That's untrue." The truth or falsity of a proposition does not depend on who utters it. Ya gotta learn that. Please, right away.
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  14461. Stop crying wolf in your titles. It's disrespectful to us.
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  14462. You're doing something wrong. PC OJ is $2.49 this week with the card, $2.99 without. Fresh-squeezed, better than NN. I have an easy time finding OJ for $3 or less at Loblaws (or the 2.5L size for $5). I just buy multiple jugs on sale and it always lasts till the next sale. Always.
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  14463. Alberta population is 4.8 million, per Statscan pop. clock.
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  14464. (1) How megadumb can a question be? He wasn't the president. (2) In another post you falsely claimed Trump got fewer votes than in 2020. Actually his total is 74.8m, up from 74.2m in 2020. You also posted a fake claim that his margin last week was only 1.6%. Try writing the truth someday.
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  14465. "Be carful out there." Looks like an advertising slogan for the introduction of new HOV lanes 😄
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  14466. Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right.
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  14467.  @m.a.2282  Yet I will bet that you think it's the duty of the US to intervene against Isr. Dang, somebody's cognitive diaper needs changing. Btw, the phrase is "I couldn't care less."
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  14468.  @m.a.2282  Tell it to your TA.😂 Btw, the phrase is "I couldn't care less."
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  14469. Time to shut down YouTube comments. It's 90% Rush ins or others from the Authoritarian Axis. Sickening.🤮
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  14470. ​ @maxweinbach3996  I can't make out your meaning. Just thought I'd help you out by telling you. :)
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  14471.  @maxweinbach3996  Already spent too much time on it, thanks.
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  14472.  @maxweinbach3996  You got me there. I admit my real point is don't annoy people with careless incoherence. Cheers.
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  14473. Should they? Camilla is an upper-class Englishwoman whose first wedding (1973, when she was 25) was attended by a host of senior Royals. Brigitte is a retired schoolteacher who married one of her pupils.
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  14474. ...nor to roam the streets unleashed.
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  14475.  @zekemedia1310  ...or if it's time for her to be spayed?
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  14476. These people are like the gangster after his pit bull bites or mauls somebody: "Good!" That's what the dog is there to do.
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  14477. Gambit is not some fancy word for gamble, despite both things being attempts at gaining advantage, which does ordinarily involve risk. It's specifically an opening move, a would-be successful one. (But then, every opening move anyone makes is hoped to be successful or advantageous, isn't it?) The defining thing is that it's the first of what is expected will be a series of actions. The first, notice. Thus what Putin did was not a gambit.
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  14478. I don't like how you elevate a claim or opinion to "version of the truth," as though Oprah Winfrey is a main source of your epistemology and ethics. Nor do I respect your elevation of mutiny to "attempted coup." No coup was attempted. If your use of language is this loose, how tight can your thinking be?
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  14479. Quite an ironic name—Mark Fitzpatrick—considering the nature of the story.😂 ("Oh he does, does he? That's so nice. And does Patrick fit Mark?")
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  14480.  @100percentSNAFU  👍Hahaha. My OPs are usually a long scroll down. Surprised anyone came across it at this point.
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  14481.  @yoloswaggins7121  True. They're born to be ruled perhaps like no other people on earth and we just have to accept that.
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  14482. The fact that their theft leads to that consequence for you is really their greatest crime in a way. They wronged you.😠Makes me so mad. Love from this stranger, Isabella, Bella, Izzy (I don't know what they call you).
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  14483. That plane was sold at a nice profit by General Dynamics to Europe decades ago. Cost to US taxpayers: $0.00 Please: Think, then post.
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  14484. The windshield wipers are about as prominent as any I can think of on any car. Bit odd.
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  14485. @Harry Zhang I'm guessing by your name that you're a (civilized) Hong Konger, or at any rate someone who ranks in the top percentile or few percentiles of quiet diners worldwide. So you would find people at table acceptably far from noisy only in a handful of the world's jurisdictions, and then only in select restaurants and homes. I say this knowing that, fortunately for them, many people in the former British territories and colonies have come through the past century more English than the English. (Victorian or Edwardian English, that is. So you may find yourself more at home in Auckland, Ottawa, Melbourne, or Hamilton, Bermuda etc. than elsewhere.) May fossilized old Britishness endure. Cheers.
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  14486. Brian's line was the highlight if you axe me.
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  14487. @Manifesto You're preaching to the choir, buddy. I have zero faith in that despicable government. How you managed to mistake me so badly I have no idea, but I wish you well. Maybe you just clicked the wrong button? Try Mr. Johnson. Cheers, mate.
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  14488. Most shocking of all, this rich high-consumption city generates just one pound of solid waste per person per day.🤯 US 4.9, Canada 4.1, Germany 3.8 😮 (Are vastly different measuring protocols used?🤔)
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  14489. 1) Zero mention of Rafah or tanks moving in. That's inexcusable treatment of us. 2) Omg, that thumbnail.😯 If that thing's aimed at you, it is not your lucky day.😳 3) Also, this is not the time to be an overnight security guard at an Iranian drone factory. I'd probably either call in sick for a few weeks or just quit.
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  14490.  @miki_9034  Btw, I asked Perplexity "What is the advantage, if any, of the flush design?" It listed 7 advantages.😂 None seemed very important, but there you have it. Ask it yourself if you're interested. Cheers
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  14491.  @tbl268  ​ So do I, and I have, including that of my parents. Some designs must be more affected than others. I remember another car my parents had on which the thumb-operated button to release the latch was sort of sheltered by another part of the handle above it. It sufficed to keep the button in service almost always. (But ice did still freeze up the locks way too many times, which was even more unwelcome. Winters were worse then.)
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  14492.  @Rocksteady246  😂 Russia under Putin voted Yes at the UN Security Council on the Resolution which authorized the 40+ nation force in Afghanistan! So did China! The force, named ISAF, included soldiers from every continent. So the whiner is Putin, but I recognize your achievement in this area too.
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  14493.  @lamontcranston3177  Likelier he'd consider him a pinko. Ford governs scarcely different from how Bob Rae did and has dismantled barely an iota of Wynne's OISE-wet-dream "legacy." Spare me the far-left pieties.
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  14494. This putz has got to go.
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  14495. 🤣👏🏻 Clever idea but please tell me how could you possibly obtain such a thing as this "pipeline" you speak of?
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  14496. Ganging up on a solitary weak person is something even most thugs wouldn't do. Some are known for it, though.
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  14497.  @deepmoyhazra2235 ⬅Clearly someone hasn't lived life very observantly; or ever learned very much in any way, and doesn't get people. Works in computing, maybe, or never worked. Maybe got wokeified in some 3rd-rate "institution of higher learning."😂
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  14498. Reminds me of when a whole squad of Australian police pepper-sprayed a little girl in the face for not wearing a mask outside a shopping plaza. Some police forces are leading the insanity.
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  14499. Why not? In Joe Biden's America men give birth all the time.
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  14500. "No, not really" where?
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  14501. The attitude of France and Germany explains perfectly why Trump always dumped on NATO: They need NATO. They use NATO. It makes them secure. It makes them rich. But they will not make any sacrifice for it. They're like a 24-year-old living at home who still thinks mom and dad's money is just "there," that they're entitled to it, that they'll never get kicked out because their parents couldn't bear to see them to struggle. So they live—and they spend their part-time earnings—as they like. Awful.
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  14502.  Carol Harris  How about Crazy-Ole-Cortex?
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  14503. They're assuming that residential areas would've been fine with heterosexuals cruising their streets for hookups at all hours of the day and night. Ah, but belonging to a super-special group means never having to think your accusations through. If it springs to your mind for any reason, it's automatically valid.🙄
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  14504. So Peterson knew a guy who lived in the same apartment building as a guy at an institute founded by a guy at a university that once did CIA experiments. He taught at Harvard, where many leftists have taught and studied. Oh, and he's well-known, so that shows you Soros owns him, etc., etc. 🙄Good grief.
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  14505. It's all part of a plan to hollow out Russia's war-making and economic capacities. It would not do merely to push Russia out of Ukraine with maximum force and speed while leaving those capacities intact. It would unwisely leave the matter unsettled and put off its resolution for many years. Facing it later would come at an immensely greater cost. Meanwhile European and global security would deteriorate badly. From this point of view the West's response has been remarkably adroit and far-sighted; lack of will is not a real factor. Indeed, nearly all the West's reluctance is feigned. Remember that in nearly all cases war cannot be successfully waged without deception. We must all recognize that the Ukrainian battlefields are only the outward and visible aspect of this conflict, which deep down is a war on NATO and its Asian partners. The mid- to late-20th century has come storming back. A full Cold War is upon us.
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  14506. It's all part of a plan to hollow out Russia's war-making and economic capacities. It would not do merely to push Russia out of Ukraine with maximum force and speed while leaving those capacities intact. It would unwisely leave the matter unsettled and put off its resolution for many years. Facing it later would come at an immensely greater cost. Meanwhile European and global security would deteriorate badly. From this point of view the West's response has been remarkably adroit and far-sighted; lack of will is not a real factor. Indeed, nearly all the West's reluctance is feigned. Remember that in nearly all cases war cannot be successfully waged without deception. We must all recognize that the Ukrainian battlefields are only the outward and visible aspect of this conflict, which deep down is a war on NATO and its Asian partners. The mid- to late-20th century has come storming back. A full Cold War is upon us.
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  14507. Take heart, it's all part of a plan to hollow out Russia's war-making and economic capacities. It would not do merely to push Russia out of Ukraine with maximum force and speed while leaving those capacities intact. It would unwisely leave the matter unsettled and put off its resolution for many years. Facing it later would come at an immensely greater cost. Meanwhile European and global security would deteriorate badly. From this point of view the West's response has been remarkably adroit and far-sighted; lack of will is not a real factor. Indeed, nearly all the West's reluctance is feigned. Remember that in nearly all cases war cannot be successfully waged without deception. We must all recognize that the Ukrainian battlefields are only the outward and visible aspect of this conflict, which deep down is a war on NATO and its Asian partners. The mid- to late-20th century has come storming back. A full Cold War is upon us.
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  14508.  @philiplbrown  Actually there are friendships between countries at the governmental level and the level of the respective peoples. What you allege is what people say to try to sound smart, in the belief that cynicism is smart, impresses others, and is a handy and effective substitute for knowing.
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  14509. Blocking or collapsing the airway is only one way to cause asphyxiation, which is the failure of oxygenated blood to reach the tissues. There are other ways. Carbon monoxide poisoning in a garage is another way, even though the victim can breathe freely the whole time. (CO deprives the blood of its capacity to carry oxygen, thus it asphyxiates.) Pressure on neck arteries is another way of causing asphyxiation: it causes the failure of oxygenated blood to reach the brain, which shuts it down and stops it from sending the signal it must continually send to the heart to make it beat.
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  14510. Medicine, formerly: "First, do no harm." Medicine now: "Look at me, I'm Victor Frankenstein! Wheeee!"
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  14511. He's a vulgarian of a high order.
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  14512. Prof., you should take a quick look at the Ukraine Aid Tracker of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a major German government-funded economic research group primarily studying globalism. It has a summary in charts, full working paper and data files. Altogether it's a lot. It's best not to take one person's word for something so complex and involved.
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  14513.  @Professor-Gerdes  Thanks. Looking forward to more on this very challenging and interesting subject. When I watched your video I had watched the Illarionov video a couple of hours earlier and my head was still spinning from his shocking assertions on aid levels. Btw, I don't like the way my last sentence comes across (like I'm talking down to you). I wrote the whole comment with the general reader in mind but then failed to alter that last sentence when I added "Prof." at the last moment as an afterthought. It sounds awful so please forgive that! Lastly, I've been enjoying the 3 Things format lately. Great idea, and you're doing it well.
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  14514.  @Professor-Gerdes 👍Whew, good! There's such a danger of seeming impolite in a comment if one isn't careful.
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  14515.  @Willowtree82  They say they support BLM for their own benefit, in part to preserve their legitimacy in not operating in those areas. When hypocrisy of this sort becomes a matter of survival, you know that impoverishment, curtailment of rights and freedoms, and bloodshed are on the way for all. Well, almost all.
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  14516. Re: the credit card girl: Most shocking of all, she has a boyfriend. 🤯 Re: the mask enthusiast: Great, now we know just how to keep her away. Lovely.
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  14517. Change for the sake of change and for the sake of forming group (i.e. herd) identity, plus it's slightly easier. If it were slightly harder no one would do it.
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  14518. CBC: Government News. What you call independent news will now face a wave of vilification from left politicians and their media allies, followed by legal measures to put it out of operation—official designation as promoters of criminality and the usual list of thoughtcrimes, removal from the Internet, seizure of money and assets, and whatever else they can think of. Mark my words. I can barely imagine them being in existence by the end of the decade, and I'm hardly sure about the middle of it either.
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  14519. Btw, please do me a huge favour and reply with a simple Yes if you got my longer reply of a minute ago. I'm beginning to wonder if my replies are being scrubbed. Please add the word 'intact' if it was two paragraphs, the second one of three sentences and ending in the word 'either.' Cheers
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  14520.  @winstonsmith935  So that's totally a "Yes, intact" on the first reply, right? Kinda obvious, but... Thanks F.L., and I'm so p.o.'d to hear about what they're doing to you.
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  14521. "People are disgusting" Speak for yourself.
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  14522.  @rickvervoort9536  Well at least you know that. Good for you! Now show this thread to your mom and ask her to teach you some more.
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  14523. ​ @Winterascent  You say that "[the division] is mostly online." But online is where people are. "American consumers spend around eight hours of their day [online]" — Statista, Jun 19, 2023. Other sources report no lower than 6 hours. Subtract work and sleep and that's a lot. Social media alone is 2.5 hours, which is maybe one-third of many people's free time.
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  14524. ​ @Robespierre-lI  Thanks. It can be hard to see the how sanctions are working if the targeted regime survives. Similarly, prohibitions against crack cocaine and 15-year-olds buying alcohol may seem fruitless because crack is easily obtainable by just about anyone, and so is alcohol by young teens. But if both were totally allowed we'd have instant twin disasters. Likewise imagine if Iran had its nuclear weapons wish list. By now perhaps the whole world, but certainly the Middle East, would be upside down. Besides rivers of blood and great destruction, war between major powers in that region would mean immense damage to economies everywhere. Sanctions do far more than make people in some countries feel good. Although they're not a magic bullet, they significantly boost global security.
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  14525. Don't forget that people running their channels have the privilege of deleting any comment they don't like.
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  14526.  @albifreedom9725  <---"Dude, you just mentioned the "T" word." Yeah, cuz everybody gets a lifetime allowance of saying it four times.😆
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  14527. ST*U
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  14528. In fairness, Trudeau put $5b in taxpayers' money into the TransMountain oil pipeline expansion to the west coast. (When it's completed he'll put the govt. stake up for sale to get the money back, hopefully at a fat profit.) Yeah, he's definitely got to go, but he isn't a whack job on the oil business. He also supported Keystone XL.
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  14529. So many asteroids whizzing past Earth. So many meteors landing in the ocean and unpopulated areas. And not one has the decency to do anything about Joy Reid.
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  14530. I can't believe she said women in British prisons are "in the hardest situation in the world." Worse than the men in British prisons? Worse than people in North Korean prisons? Worse than men in the front lines of wars? Worse than people confined and tortured, wherever that may be? I didn't much care for her lecturing manner, but I had a fair amount of respect for her until that point.
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  14531. Their salaries depend on telling these lies. CNN CEO Jeff Zucker manages what they say very closely.
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  14532. Britain and all NATO — even the US in certain ways — must re-arm starting immediately or face an impossible-to-measure risk of catastrophic war defeat. Rather a lot of people disdain the idea intensely under the curiously mistaken belief that being well-armed raises the risk of war. But it doesn't. It lowers it.
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  14533. The Greta lookalike-soundalike-actalike-thinkalike to the bereaved woman: "Sorry not sorry."
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  14534. He sounded like an American.
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  14535.  @joe5923  Explain it to them in a draw-ring. That's how people in Americk-er and Canad-er are sometimes successful at it.
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  14536. That's true. It is best to add to one's judgements of individual ideas and values (important and valuable as those judgements may be) an understanding of how wrong it is not to recognize others' right to their own. Well within living memory, for example, tolerance of LGBT people was considered wrong, as non-normal sexuality itself was considered wrong and was in ways illegal. Should that have been the case? Was tolerance wrong? Liberal values require acceptance of a range of values— acceptance, tolerance, notice, not agreement with them, endorsement or promotion of them—otherwise repression of people is inevitable, and it is repression to which liberalism is opposed, not to particular political thought (ordinary conservative thought of the present day, for example). For this reason a so-called liberal who is intolerant of conservative opinion is properly called illiberal, and is doing exactly the thing that the far right did which bothered the left-of-center in the first place and all along. Such a person has become what they despised. Liberalism isn't about being left-of-center, it's about rights and freedoms and tolerance. Thus, between the right-winger who sincerely insists on thoroughgoing tolerance of right-wing and left-wing thought alike, and the left-winger who wants repression of right-wing thought, it's the right-winger, or conservative, who's the liberal. The most dangerous person by far is the illiberal liberal, who in that way is not a liberal at all, who stands for justice but works for repression, which is injustice. That's the type of person whom Orwell, himself a committed socialist, made the Party enthusiast in society and government in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. The petty commissar O'Brien, while he tortured Winston Smith, thought of himself as good, because he was against the right wing.
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  14537. He is not a septuagenarian, he's 67.
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  14538.  @johnsmith7140  There should be no difference between what is said and what is meant, but yeah, maybe.
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  14539.  @drjulief  Hi Julie, I thoroughly re-wrote my reply of earlier to you.
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  14540.  @mikew8557  Ordinary: Not of an exceptional or highly idealized sort. Widely agreed on as normal. Nothing extreme or far-fetched. A kind easily grasped and understood by an average person. I'm pretty certain, by the way, that you didn't go on to read further, since in the latter part of my post I went on to say things which are pretty similar to what you say here. I very much agree about "endorsing", as you put it, mental illness. I'm just less certain that all instances of trans are mental illness. Maybe 95% are, but I also think nature probably throws up edge cases which should not be considered illness. (I'm not referring, however, to full-blown hermaphroditism. That's just clearly the way a handful of people are born; e.g. with highly unusual genitalia, etc.) Thanks for your reply.
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  14541.  @giovannithomas6462  Hahaha, yes. It's a label meaning 'non-trans.'
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  14542. He calls himself a left radical early in the interview, but by the second-last minute he is referring to himself as a member of "the exhausted middle". It's odd for a man his age not to know what he is, especially one who for so long has earned his bread by thinking. But I am fairly sympathetic. People are crazy and times are strange.
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  14543. Pooty-bots out in force here in the comments. I love it. The more of them there are, the more frightened Russia is. There's going to be mountains of destroyed Russian equipment of all kinds, and many wailing Russian families. Putin makes Russian graves. Typical tsar.
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  14544. Don't mistake the re-Stalinization of Russia for something vastly bigger.
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  14545. It has has never "been back." While it's fair to say that Putin has been 're-Stalinizing' Russia, in the broad sense of a centralization of power and increasing repression for the past 15+ years, your claim, when taken as a flat assertion at face value, is far past even brushing off as a ridiculous exaggeration. It's deeply wrong. Communism was a central feature of the USSR and I thought everyone knew that.😂So was the presence of 14 other republics besides the Russian SFSR.
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  14546. And why 20% of Russians use an outhouse.🤣
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  14547. Jerzy Kosinski, who wrote Being There, would get what she's all about. The book concerned Chauncey Gardner, a man out of nowhere (indeed actually a gardener) lionized by the media, touted as wholesomely profound and made into a major political figure, despite his being simple-minded and at a remove from reality. If she didn't exist, the media would have invented her. In a way, of course, they did.
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  14548. Lindsey Graham, passionately despised by the Authoritarian Axis. E.g. Iran, Russia, and their armies of internet 'professionals.' As seen down here below. It's like strolling through a cow pasture. Don't wear good shoes.
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  14549.  @meisievannancy  His mum forgot to add Don't believe everything you read.  Mine remembered, about a hundred times or more. 😄
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  14550. And now the elites will be hard at work on destroying Konstantin's reputation. Mark my words. In just the same way an army of them is all over Elon Musk like the Lilliputians swarming Gulliver with their stakes and string.
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  14551. In fairness, it's possibly somewhat of an endocrinological thing as well.
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  14552. China's galling nerve knows no bounds. I'm so happy I cut my purchases of their stuff by over 90% starting three years ago. My microwave started making a funny noise recently. If it goes, and I can't get it fixed, and I can't find one not made in China, I will do without. That government is simply evil, and I very rarely use that word.
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  14553. Only 32% voted for him.
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  14554. Nations whom the gods would destroy, they first populate with no-li m its lib er als.
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  14555. ​ @Scrambler85  Yeah, appalling. They think they lost a golden country and empire. Putin draws all his power from this nostalgia and longing of theirs, like it's a lever sticking out of them that he can pull for support. I always thought it was weird how the USSR just evaporated, seemingly without a trace. Now I see it was just two major changes: the other SSRs departed and the Politburo dissolved. Otherwise, it appears, Russia did not really change. The increase in openness (glasnost) was a change already brought by Gorbachev during Soviet days.
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  14556. Your account name and avatar are very appropriate. I think the one man studied the life, thought and actions of the other very carefully indeed.
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  14557. Muhammad Ali: "Stop comparing me to this speed-talking dullwit."
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  14558. Sounds tough. Try to stay cheerful, though. See if you can order some books, have a nice drink before supper, and talk on the phone a lot.
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  14559. According to every movie in the past 10 years, women can easily destroy men in a fight.😄
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  14560.  @A-Dubs398  For TV it's funny.
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  14561. Your point is a good one👍, but never misspell a word like stupidity. Or loser (e.g. 'looser'😂).
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  14562.  @leswinter3926  Did you know you can tap the 3-dot menu beside your comment and edit it at any time? Hover just over to the right and it will appear.
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  14563. Way off on how to say the letter x in Chinese. It's actually just 's.' Yep, they say their president's name 'see', not 'shee.' Whoever invented the system of Chinese-to-Western spelling (which is so counterintuitive it makes guessing impossible) must've been high. Example: 'zhou' is pronounced 'joe.' Crazy, useless, in need of a revamp.
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  14564. Perfect. They're high on their own sanctimony.
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  14565. I maintain that Jake Broe has sharply limited ability to understand politics and media. He's not always wrong but goes off the rails with simplistic views tailored to emotion-ridden biases. He caricatures conservatives and conservative viewpoints clumsily and indiscriminately. What I appreciate about him is his steadfast support of Ukraine and skewering of jingoistic Russians.
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  14566. Gad, thank you for introducing us to your charming and insightful friend. Fun fact (which came to mind as Brigitte spoke of Lebanon's efflorescence in E. Mediterranean commerce in the 1965-75 period): Many people of Lebanese descent, Jews especially, are very much at the top of Mexico's business world.
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  14567. Stop badmouthing humanity, please. Spreading misanthropy definitely makes things worse. But everybody can make things better by following this simple dictum: Never mind other people—to improve the world, improve yourself.
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  14568.  @richardbonn3882  That all sounds fair to me. It's too bad about the poor candidates. So you don't think you should vote for the least bad? It's not your chance to prevent a thin slice of harm? Just a thought. Cheers mate
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  14569. I listen to him talk just for the pleasure of hearing his message. I've never even been to Florida. He simply has to become President.
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  14570. It's the liberal/left/woke/Democrat religious dogma: If you're not black, then you're an anti-black r-cyst... ...unless you're a liberal/leftist/wokester/Democrat. "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" [transl.: Outside the Church there is no salvation]
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  14571. Appears to be a huge metropolis of maybe 10 million people near the border of Montana and Saskatchewan. 🤨 Why haven't I heard of it before?🤔
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  14572. Two words: woof woof.
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  14573. What video did you watch?
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  14574.  @vicckiss5655  Wrong lake.
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  14575. Well played, Ben. It was basically "Yeah? Let him find out what happens if he tries that in person. It'll be a good old-fashioned case of 'So I see you have chosen death.' " Dude, no one wants to get into the debate ring with you anymore. Too risky.👍
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  14576.  @phonkphonk  You're looking at my post through a stencil (or cartoon, to use the old original meaning from the art world) of what was already simmering in your mind. I would ask you to grind that axe elsewhere. I had in mind Ben's relation to others the pundit class recently, no matter their locus on the political compass, no matter the particular issue at hand. In other words very generally. And I might or might not be American; whether I am or not doesn't concern anyone here in these pages. But thanks for your interesting reply.
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  14577. Obviously Canada would be a number of states (probably about 8), not one.
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  14578.  @dexterpoindexter3583  You're mistaking me for someone who thinks this is a serious and important matter. I'm simply correcting wrong ideas within a silly but somewhat fun discussion.
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  14579. Quibble: No, Canada is full. But it would soon empty out without new arrivals because Canadian women dislike having children. Thanks, lefties, for teaching them that striving to become a marketing manager is 100x more important than starting a family!
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  14580.  @daark1799  Mate, you proposed it as a general rule and I destroyed your general rule. Move on.
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  14581.  @chrismason4449  "As evidenced by this video." What evidence? We have no idea how badly those who answered the questions correctly outnumbered those who got them wrong. Plus it's not a random sample, plus it's nowhere near a large enough one. It does seem to say something though, I'll give you that.
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  14582.  @chrismason4449  Whatever gets you through the night.
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  14583. China knows what it's doing. They send over product which ensures a lasting, tenacious addiction.
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  14584. Nothing to do with microbes or anything, but yeah it's contagious, spreading through close contact and other forms of exposure. That's vitally important to know.
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  14585.  @willmannn  I agree with that. As I understand it the US holds the record for representative democratic rule, being except for communism the most ephemeral of the various forms attempted, at only 246 years.
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  14586. If the PM ever candidly detailed his beliefs about politics, society, human nature, Canada, the world and its history and future, there would be such outrage across the country that giant crowds would descend on Ottawa to attempt his physical ouster. Knowing this, he keeps them secret. He's far more radical than he's ever avowed.
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  14587. The difference from a generation or two ago is stark. Yes, you can see at night if there's a full moon, but what is that compared to the full sunshine of noontime?
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  14588. How do you know that?
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  14589.  @whoknows8225  Did you? Come on.
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  14590.  @kenmartin861  It's never the time, so don't start.
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  14591. He does have a wife with equal say in the matter. Perhaps they haven't decided yet.
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  14592. I agree he was 100% right, and I don't want him vilified by those who agree on that. But in fairness, he could've toned it down. Not with "niceness" exactly, but just by making use of a touch less direct cruelty of tone. Or at least a tone which would be less open to accusations of cruelty. Can we not all remember an occasion when we were sternly rebuked, devastated even, in decidedly mild terms?
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  14593. Anyone promoting a vision of cute, cuddly, panda-bear China is either: 1) enthusiastically loyal to the CCP 2) suffering from a head injury, or 3) a member of the present government of Australia
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  14594. What is what?
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  14595.  @crazybasham911  Ravine The Impossibilist?
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  14596. She's high, quite high somehow. Her mind has never progressed beyond that of a bright adolescent and she's right now and then only just as a stopped clock is right twice a day (altogether not that bad, as so many people are never right). She reminds me of Robert Graves with all his delusions and the reason (as I diagnose it from my little point of view) is the same: something is wrong with her sexuality and she's been traumatized. She and Graves, good people both. I still sort of like her, as I still quite like Graves, but one must only take her positions as occasionally helpful errors beating about the right bush. You can also appreciate the artistry of her rhetoric and personality up to a point. I bet it's marvellous staying at her house. Sorry, but someone who goes on in a frenzy about penises and testicles and how to injure them has one or two screws loose. (Speaking of screws, she alleges cars contain many unnecessary ones and appears to offer this as evidence of how terrible women have it.) I remain a touch grateful, though, as it could be much worse: at least she pities ordinary men.
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  14597. Absolutely. He was one of the few who had all four of the qualities needed to speak up: intelligence, compassion, courage and integrity. Cardinal virtues, all of them.
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  14598. Demand that your retailer label all Chinese goods with a Chinese flag on the front of the package.
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  14599. Just the sight of Joy Reid and Hillary Clinton on the TV screen is enough to lower the national fertility rate, if you know what I mean. Shrinkage factor: Code Blue
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  14600. Lori Light-in-the-loafers
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  14601.  @sarahrivers9623  Two men: They One man: He
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  14602. @ OP: "True gentleman" You: "Right. They [...]" Don't make blunders in composition then, and don't blame your readers when you do.
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  14603.  @VD-cc4hx  I thought when he said Trump's always been more popular he meant it in the sense of how many people actually like him. Biden could be at 70% by this time next year and he would still have fewer people who actually like him than Trump. Everybody knows there are no Biden enthusiasts, and as far as I can tell next to nobody really likes him. I tried to like him in the Obama years but found the effort tiring, and stopped. But yeah, if the OP was referring to the election results, I'm with you on that.
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  14604. What proves the value of your comment is the number of Pooty-bots pouring in to contest it. The more of those putzes, the better your comment. 👏
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  14605. An operation and a syringe can't make you a woman. That's absurd. They can only make you a man without a you-know-what.
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  14606. Pinfold's dictum: The establishment which fancies itself immortal will soon answer the door and be asked to sign for its casket.
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  14607.  @sfertonoc  Very legalistic take on it. (See Gen. Wesley Clark's remarks on this subject made on DW a couple of days ago.)
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  14608. Tok sik.
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  14609. Every day Biden's America looks more and more like Maduro's Venezuela. Or, you could say, a banana republic.
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  14610. The exhaust note at low revs is most ravishing.
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  14611. Madness.
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  14612. 'Bring me your huddled micro-bloggers yearning to breathe free.'
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  14613. It's a matter of understanding media itself. Understand media and you can consume it to your benefit, because you'll know exactly how to take what you're reading, watching, or listening to. But it's a long road. To work on understanding media, you have to already be well on your way with politics, business, history, economics & finance, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Those are in no order, and art, science, and technology also are probably indispensable. One other thing: "Take care that your light be not darkness." (M. Arnold) You will waste your efforts unless you look closely into ideas opposite to your own and scrutinize them for merit. If you find merit there, accept it, disturb you though it may.
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  14614. Your outlandish optimism wouldn't survive a single month's contact with patients like her whether you were a doctor or not. But I get that you yearn to be recognized as an extremely fine person, morally. To be told you can do good for yourself and others.
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  14615. Dunno whether the allegations are true, though I bet they are. What I'm far surer of is that this style of report is just another example of this channel's rush makeover in the election run-up. Moderates, meaning undecided and swing voters, are being reassured by this sort of coverage that the various institutions (in this case left-wing corporate) are under scrutiny and their issues will be handled. "Nobody's perfect. But 'We, The Left' police ourselves. We're not out of control. The system works. Everything is super. Vote Dem."
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  14616.  @andreamadden9153  Congrats for a post that scored a perfect 10 for unintelligibility. Maybe don't smoke that stuff every day.
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  14617. — against every valuable political, legal and social custom and tradition Canada had, all of them severely damaged since 2015!
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  14618. How about picking up the rest of Western Copper & Gold that you don't already own? Gobble it up for $2bn and get cracking. The Yukon and Canadian governments kicked in a lot of money to build a nice road up to your area, expressly to get mines going. Lovely jurisdiction.
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  14619. @Messenger You guys should run your comments through Google Translate first.
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  14620.  @Oblivisci........  Ess tee eff yoo, woo mau.
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  14621. The attack on Crimea was in retaliation for the attack on the nation of Ukraine.🤨 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦!
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  14622. Yes, let's accumulate some knowledge.
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  14623.  @veritusahriman9720  performative per-'fôrm-ə-tiv (adj.) "I went to university after universities crumbled from intellectual decay, so I think I'm smart even though I'm deeply uneducated. Did I mention I'm smart and oh-so-educated? I have up-to-date University Taste in words."
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  14624. @zeewolf4027 You really love throwing around that word, don't you? I bet it's pure unadulterated projection. Moralizer, heal thyself.
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  14625.  @ThinkingDoesMakeMeImportant  The worst sort of reply, tedious, puerile, fizzing with unwarranted self-assurance. There were the founding peoples of the country—the original inhabitants, the French and the British—then there were more, and then more, and then more and more and more until all identity, cohesion, harmony is lost. We find out that diversity is a strength, until finally it is not and instead it's what splinters, fragments, pulls things down.
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  14626.  @ThinkingDoesMakeMeImportant  Heavens. You seriously think that Canada was founded thousands of years ago. My dear boy, you should've never gone to school. It did terrible things to your mind, like making you unlearn what a country is. The dullness, the dullness! (Apologies to Joseph Conrad.)😂
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  14627.  @ThinkingDoesMakeMeImportant  Omg. They founded their own societies long ago, but they did not found Canada. They were part of its founding beginning in the 16th century.
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  14628.  @ThinkingDoesMakeMeImportant  That's like saying that France was founded by the cavemen of 70,000 BCE. It wasn't. Those cavemen founded something, obviously, but it wasn't France. The showing off of one's would-be superb morals — known by the word sanctimony — may increase one's bogus self-esteem as much as it alienates and sickens anyone unfortunate enough to witness it. But it inevitably weakens the mind and plays horrible tricks on it.
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  14629.  @s.patrick6136  I want them to go back to just "Sex," so I can go back to saying "Yes please."
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  14630.  @Chaldon-hl6yk  Do you? Using 'lol' like that suggests you might be a child.
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  14631. He's made of it.
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  14632. Under capitalism there is continual exploitation of man by his fellow man. Under socialism, the reverse is true.
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  14633.  @Redmow51  It's a joke. You see, it unwittingly says the same thing about both systems. So I was making fun of socialists.
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  14634.  @Redmow51  There's a better (funnier) way to phrase it, I admit, but I've forgotten it. Cheers.
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  14635.  @pami333  It's an effort journalists and editors are obliged to make at all times. I for one hate a lack of neutrality equally whether it's in favour of whomever I support or against. The pejorative sense of the word editorialize is surely understood by few young people, for the stigma of the thing itself has disappeared.
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  14636.  @ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available  Who can say until the fall of the Salò Government?
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  14637. Whenever I hear the phrase "our values as a sport" enunciated by the representative of such a 'Money's-all-there-is', 'All-Hail-Money!', 'How do you say that in money?' money machine as MLB, I release the safety on mein Browning.
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  14638. ​ @linmal2242  I daresay he'll rubbing elbows with them soon—along with Judas, Cassius and Brutus. (Cf. Dante.)
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  14639. "Birds do it, Bees do it. Kinsey with a deafening report does it. Let's do it, let's fall in love" — Noel Coward, Live at Las Vegas
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  14640.  @jokiklos7009  Just a funny bit. I of course meant nothing serious by it. I only liked that he poked fun at Kinsey's sanctimony.
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  14641.  @Mikhail_Utkin  Y.T.M.
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  14642. @Senior Manager at PragerU What are you, hard of reading?
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  14643. Congratulations protozoa, Hollywood activists have replaced you as the lowest form of animal life.
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  14644. Dear Fox Business: "In talks with" and especially "holding talks with" are phrases which are too often used for negotiations to be suitable terms for these consultations. Headlines are important. You must respect the many people who, lacking the time to read every story, use them as a substitute.
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  14645. It was the predictable consequence of letting leftists, a group tragically and perennially plagued by very high rates of mental illness, take over and destroy your universities.
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  14646. An unhelpful invitation to anti-Irish bigotry. What is it about strife that delights you so much? Helps you forget, does it?
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  14647. I thought the term was ghost bike.
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  14648.  @lyndalebrun1681  This time No. Yeah, it's stunningly incompetent.   (Or maybe not so stunning. Trudeau is stunningly incompetent himself, so why should his staff be on the ball? After all, they're not hired without his approval.)
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  14649. People always say that, but I believe they're thinking with their feelings. A self-extinction (and I'm assuming you mean a demise specifically by violence) would require the most insane human actions of all time by a wide margin, and they never explain why human insanity should ever attain to such a vastly higher new peak. I'd say that (technologically adjusted) human insanity is a relatively stable monstrosity.
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  14650. Mr. Marshall, despite having Donald Trump very much in mind as he looks ahead to later phases of the war, shows evidence of studiously ignoring what he has said on Ukraine. In a speech this summer Trump tore into Biden for "letting Russia invade" Ukraine. Even many of the better journalists are like this. They ignore or resist facts uncongenial to their prejudices.
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  14651. Bypassed the Young Conservatives, bypassed the Young Liberals, went straight to the Young Morons, this one.
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  14652. The professor seems to regret the job the US has done. Yet it was Europe who gave them the job, because if they really did want to see better outcomes and a multipolar world, they could have put much more into NATO---perhaps enough to ensure that the US would not be the conductor running the entire performance, but more like the concertmaster sitting amongst them, leading them but with much less authority. In choosing not to do so, Europeans were shrewd in some sense because it left them free to focus on quality of life, social stability, health, and other things instead. But wouldn't it come in handy in the present century to be part of an even stronger NATO, a more balanced one, and one that for that reason would meet with more success in its global security efforts? Such a NATO might have kept Putin out of Crimea. As it was, he guessed easily and correctly that it wouldn't say much nor say it for very long.
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  14653. He's always trying to be as much like a woman as possible.
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  14654. "And the prize for being awkwardly unfunny and histrionic goes to  @GeckoHiker  " That's something they can never take away from you!😄
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  14655. "I feel like a cog" = I burn with resentment for those who have more than me. Socialist feeling is a cover for resenting others for what they have, which is the definition of envy. (Btw, still others have less than they do, yet they never resent themselves on that account, because 'It's cute when I do it.')
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  14656. Because the Labour Party and The Guardian = No opinions, no bias How daft.
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  14657. If not 110 years: I find him closer to a tsar in some ways than to Brezhnev. Brezhnev had a functioning politburo.
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  14658. "A guy watches a customer through the robot's cameras and responds through a screen, just like a teleconference. This seems antiquated." Yeah, what's more antiquated than a robot-mediated teleconference? It's practically a fax machine.
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  14659. Loving your comments here.👏
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  14660. Yep, fire up that copium and inhale deeply, deeply.
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  14661. Where's the British social milieu where that accent isn't seen as impossibly stagy and exaggerated?
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  14662. Yeah Dave, we barfed all right. Rubin Nation just barfed as one. "Sunny-barfed", as I call it. Thanks so much. You know what it costs to eat supper twice in one day in The Time of Biden?
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  14663. China: "Ok, cool. The West is clearly finished."
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  14664. He wasn't feeling well. He'll recover though.
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  14665. @dellwright1407 Sure, and remember what made them insecure—as outlined in, for example, countless hours of Triggernometry and other videos.
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  14666.  Jacky Phantom  English grammar is actually very simple (if not as simple as Chinese). That's why it's quite easy to learn. But usages and vocabulary are massively detailed and complex. That's why it's very difficult to master, even for native speakers.
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  14667.  @navidub  Thanks for sharing your insights. You really sound like you know what you're talking about.
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  14668.  Jacky Phantom  You've done really, really, really great!
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  14669.  Jacky Phantom  Thanks for your reply. Good questions!   Genuine: If referring to a thing: Means the real thing; authentic; not fake. If referring to people: Sincere Sincere: Refers only to people. Means there is no difference between what they say and what they mean, so their words can be taken at face value; they are trustworthy and do not try to mislead you. If they show you how they feel, you know how they feel. Sincere means honest, but perhaps even more than honest. Generally and in general: Same thing!
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  14670.  Jacky Phantom  "No, it's not fake, it's genuine silver." "I would invite her to join the project, but when I talk about it, she only listens politely.  She never shows any genuine interest." "You should trust him. He's a genuine person."
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  14671. "s long as the gas/electric/water/internet stay on, preferably at some reduced cost for the duration, then it's doable." Didn't you hear the fellow's warning about the food supply? Electricity and the Internet are not edible.
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  14672. Dump Big Tech. Get it out of your life. Instead of using you-know-who, start using a search engine that doesn't track you. I mostly use DuckDuckGo: Stupid name, good service, no tracking. Dump Facebook and Instagram. Instead, use nothing. Text, e-mail or phone people you know instead. When you want or need real privacy, simply use the mail. Dump Amazon. Instead visit stores. It's better for your health and better for the city or town where you live. It's better for your country. Consider a flip phone so Google and Apple aren't looking over your shoulder constantly. Delete Chrome. Dump them all and get Big Tech out of your life now. Convince your family and friends to do the same. Sorry YouTube, at some point we'll have to part ways, unless your parent company cleans up its act. The other options, like Dailymotion, aren't very appetizing, I'll admit, so right now I'm hanging on to YouTube as my last and only significant connection to Big Tech.
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  14673. Too bad mental dullness and moral vacuity prevents you from realizing that Ukraine's right to exist must be upheld, and the aid of foreign nations is imperative.
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  14674.  @ledagraye9477  Such a nice comment deserved one. You're welcome.
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  14675. If you can speak from experience, would you please give me some examples of what a ruble would buy in late Soviet times? That would interest me. Thanks for your comment.
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  14676. Not bad analysis from Winona Ryder.😄
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  14677. @ Well thought out and expressed.
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  14678. Crazy-o Cortez
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  14679. To me that's quite a petty grudge to base a much larger political decision on. It tells you that she'll always put her own feelings ahead of the national interest. I suspect the phrase "take the high road" has very scant meaning for her. Despite intense competition, for being ill-suited to high office, she's practically unbeatable.
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  14680.  @williammkydde  I said nothing about Putzin. Anyway, feeling threatened is only one of the reasons one may engage in warfare. Another is horror at the violence one country is doing to another. This is why so many countries went after Iraq when it rolled into Kuwait. More sophistry, this time on your part.
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  14681. Very good point.
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  14682.  @chucklesthered2338  Usually if you Sort by Newest you see a lot more. I don't know what that's about. (Something objectionable, no doubt.)
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  14683. Or just get better music.
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  14684. When and why on earth did some people start pronouncing the word experiment as exPEERiment? How could something so odd, so pointless, strike them as a thing to do? Were they desperately bored? Partially deranged?
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  14685. Where exactly do we find the word "unconscionable" in the Constitution? Surely if it made it in once it would be in there a thousand times over. Where is it to be found, indeed, in any law—federal, state or municipal? Warren is simply a far-left would-be populist. I'd say she should be an elementary school principal, but she'd be a significant danger even there.
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  14686.  @heimdalshorn  Look up the following English words: (1) delivery (2) mayor (3) noting (4) not.
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  14687. You can't even type. You don't even check what you type. Yet you think you have more sense than intelligent people. Retournez à vos escargots.
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  14688. Trump has zero chance of becoming president. Zero. He won't pick up any swing voters. He'll get something like 41% of the vote and lose ignominiously. Ballot box poison.
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  14689. So it should all belong to Sweden now. 😄
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  14690. No comment on the whole thing from his dad?
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  14691. So sick of it too. And I did unsubscribe. So I still watch, but less.
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  14692. You made that up. The Canadian oil sands are not leased to anyone. Even if they were, I'd like to see the Koch brothers lease an asset worth over $10 trillion. Stick to comic books, which portray a world you can understand.
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  14693. If you think that's "crazy," I guess you've never attended a lecture in your life.
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  14694. Your words for The View's panellists—"deeply unpleasant, judgemental, really just awful"—leaves out a highly important one: sexist. Systemically sexist, that is. No man may be hired to be on the panel. Just imagine a show which expressly excluded women, whose whole point was to exclude women. (I know, you can't.)
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  14695. Shouldn't you have a security system at least as expensive and at least as good as your $24,000 ice cream freezer?
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  14696.  @martinepstein3332  All right, what about Juan Epstein, of Sweathogs fame? Bit of a resemblance.
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  14697. "Lass Vegas" 😂
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  14698. Yeah, but Newsom doesn't have California under hypnosis. They just adore him. He didn't sneak in the back door. More like they went out and found him. Unlike a lot of terrible leaders, he's his electorate's soul mate.
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  14699. Just tune in to CNN or the PBS Newshour or log on to the NYT if you want to hear from them. Questions about how YT's recommendations algorithm are best directed to YT. Good luck with that.
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  14700. The Germans would have done better had they assumed the pose of liberators, not conquerors.
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  14701.  @blessingjohnchelliah4317  Hungary ranks well above the median in all the various freedom indexes. For example in The Economist's Democracy Index it is 55th out of 167 countries. The US is 25th. Being 55th, it can obviously stand a good deal of improvement, but there are 112 other countries that need it more. I don't see how not visiting most countries, or condemning them, is the way to move forward, or is a sign of a true democrat, let alone a moral person. Hungary's freedom scores are too high to flatly qualify as authoritarian. In ordinal ratings it's in the second-highest categories out of a possible three to five, e.g. 'Partly free', or 'Flawed democracy', and gets scores just above or just below those of Poland and Israel. Lastly I would point out that there's nothing wrong with vehemently insisting one's own country should score 9.9 while understanding that another country isn't evil just because it scores 6.6, as Hungary does. (Actually, btw, the US scores 7.9.)
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  14702.  @Caldera01  Ok, it was war.
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  14703.  @Caldera01  Border conflict with zero at stake and zero resentment. Please.
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  14704.  @Caldera01  I love how you dig your heels in like this means something to you, more than it ever meant to any actual Danes or Canadians. Have a nice day!
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  14705. Putin: "I will bury Bakhmut under a pile of Russian corpses so deep that its defenders will suffocate." Russians: "Yay! You are our Dear Leader! I wish two million Russian soldiers a glorious death."
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  14706. More like a poster child for debilitating Peter Pan syndrome. It's like he's 12 and playing with dolls.
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  14707. Please don't say collective. It sounds like communist gobbledy-gook. Say pod, or orca hunting groups. Otherwise fine.
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  14708. Correct: Putin, just go. Now. Go and live in Kim's palace in Pyongyang.
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  14709. A tough assessment, but a completely fair and accurate one. Rep. Lawler has my support.
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  14710. I came up with three rail companies: Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Kansas City Southern.
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  14711.  @terrygartner8367  Prof. Gartner, you seem to be the only person on Earth who thinks crude by rail is safer than by pipeline.
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  14712.  @80PercentScottish  Funny you say that🤔, as I always notice the sole of the shoe showing (when he puts his right ankle up on his left knee) is always distractingly grubby.
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  14713. Thank you, M/C-M/LW86. Yer one of my top sources on China.👍
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  14714. 0:37 'At's a spicy a-meat-a-ball.
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  14715. What a scummy, shamefully misleading thumbnail (and title). Clickbaiting isn't cute and daring, it's scummy. Didn't your mothers teach you anything?
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  14716. Pro tip: in a row of asterisks, the number that render is two fewer than you type. The software sees the outermost two simply as an instruction to show the characters in between in boldface. (Bonus: for italics, type the word or words with an underscore (i.e.: _) at each end, no spaces.)
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  14717.  @XetaXones  Yeah. I'd like to think they're just drinking or they're on something. But nah, that's not what it's about. Btw, for a very, very, very coarse laugh watch For the Chance Norm & Gilbert
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  14718. Censorship is fine during wartime. No censorship in a war would quite possibly mean defeat. Censorship is necessary when people want to publish state secrets. Anyone who says all state secrets should be leaked and published is either out of their mind or has the mind of a child. On a more basic level, would you want your medical and banking records made public? I don't think so. So much for "NEVER." Instead: The least censorship possible; no more silencing than necessary.
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  14719.  @mark-dietz  Ah, so now it's not a flat "never." Good! We're in agreement.
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  14720. I think maybe the worst crimes (like this one) could be greatly reduced if the justice system included, as a penalty for heinous acts, being thrown into a pit with a pair of starving lions. Am I wrong?
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  14721. Wow. Going to all this trouble to announce to the world that you're better than your dad. You're not. And you're ghoulish. And dragging your resentments out in public is cringe af. Thanks, New York Times!
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  14722.  @Mr.-Wint  If so, good.
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  14723. The narrator's scheme of pronunciation is, uh, unique. E.g. for option she says "opt-shun" (!) instead of op-shun. Never heard that in my life. Where did they find her?
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  14724. Vladimir Putin: psycho. Oh, to be his cook.
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  14725. He looks like he's on something. That funny-moustache guy who died in 1945 was doped to the gills too.
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  14726. Simple observation: China has no friends.
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  14727. Hey, could you turn the volume down? You're one of the loudest channels in existence.
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  14728. If China blockades Australia's ports, just send in social workers to listen sympathetically to their concerns.
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  14729. Ok, Svetlana.
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  14730. 0:04 His opening words sound like "Reach-around James". lol
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  14731. Yes, all six of the giant countries have huge sparsely-populated areas: Russia, the US, China, Canada, Australia, Brazil.
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  14732. ​ @aiwwakk7152  Yep, Windsor is at about the same latitude as Rome, Toronto about the same as Florence.
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  14733.  @j2174  They're probably all historical-political aberrations, even China and Russia, and will all divide themselves up eventually, although I wish most of them wouldn't.
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  14734.  @j2174  I just like a lack of entropy. I like to see a battle against the 2nd law of thermodynamics and have things stay nice and differentiated. A marshmallow scares me with its undifferentiatedness.   Long live the giant countries and all the so very distinctive countries. I want a world with Brazil and Fiji in it. Australia and East Ossetia. Lithuania and Canada. The world is well along the path already to an awful sameness. I hope my point is clear. Thanks for your reply.
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  14735. In all the YT clips I've seen of Norm I very seldom saw him find anyone as funny as Nick Swardson. Gotta respect Nick for that.
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  14736.  @UTube4Junky  That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  14737.  FreedomToRussia-g2s  Interesting. Thanks for your reply.
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  14738. All three big chains' audited financial statements are available online. You should just see for yourself instead of saying "I bet." Why speculate when all you have to do is look it up? Btw, the past year's inflation means that a rise in profits of 5% or even a bit more is really no rise at all. Same goes for every business in the country. Keep that in mind.
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  14739. "Decorum"! She's the one who told the UK Foreign Secretary "Kiss my a--" a few weeks ago. It can hardly get any less decorous than that. (To which I responded, btw: "If Marjorie Taylor Chamberlain really does want Lord Cameron to kiss her hefty hinder part, she must do her part. As no British Foreign Secretary walks to his appointments, let her not delay a moment in having a helicopter landing pad painted on it.")
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  14740. Canada would join, if it ever did, as at least six states, probably seven. The idea of all Canada being one state is ridiculous.
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  14741. Ford has hit his stride in the past year and is doing a lot of good things for the province. Such a relief after the McGuinty-Wynne era of such profound deterioration that it took his first term just to bring it to a stop. And to get anything done while Trudeau is in office isn't far short of amazing.
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  14742. PM Peter Pan: "Canada will go to war with an aggressor, and the aggressor will defeat itself. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to put on my magic slippers and fly through the night. Come on, Tinkerbell!"
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  14743. The witness waved her hands around so much I thought she was going to say "Abracadabra!" I don't trust hand-wavers. I don't think they believe what they're saying. Nor do they expect us to believe them, and there's a reason for that.
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  14744. Nah, they got the receptionist to do it.
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  14745. Bad as he wanna be.
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  14746. Guy uses language to say that something someone else said using language is questionable. Crushing irony.
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  14747.  @mattsapero1896  Btw, I forgot to say that was very well stated. But break it up into 4 or 5 paragraphs and 10x more people will read it. Or 50x, I don't know.
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  14748.  @Thad-the-forth  He's got it inside himself. Which is all right, actually; within reasonable limits it's a legitimate part of being human. But it can't be ok for oneself and prohibited in others.
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  14749.  @edelgyn2699  Ok, Ahmed.
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  14750. @ Where's that? On the Gulf of Bothnia? 😄
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  14751.  @tthex6484  The Russians thought it was a maternity hospital. No doubt.
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  14752. No doubt in my mind the stuffed mouse ventriloquist is among the most bizarrely, monumentally, crazily kinked-out women in Moscow. Just an observation.
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  14753. "Screw all the women haters" Mind clarifying that? Did you mean the women who are haters (of men, I would assume, given the context), or whoever hates women? And please don't say "Both." I want to know whom you had in mind.
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  14754. ​ @monalee7687  "[Society gives] all kinds of excuses for men’s behavioral problems and absence." What? Then you are surely an inhabitant of some other planet. Here on Earth men are ipso facto pathetic scoundrels while women, as haloed quasi-ethereal beings, are literally above criticism. Waiting for your response with my fingers poised above the keys Q, E and D.
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  14755.  @Lilah1848  <---"Why do men always do this? Try to undermine you because they don't like something you've said? " Translation into accurate language: "As a woman I'm above criticism. When I say something it's because it's incontrovertible. Calling me out = Misogyny." You'd be drowning in your female privilege, only you've swum in it so long that you've adapted to breathing in it. You've become the thing you despised, only in knickers.
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  14756.  @brookemoore8369  That's enormously good hear. I only wanted to know whether you deplore anyone who hates the opposite sex, not just men who hate women, and you not only cleared that up, but gave me something to cheer me up as well. All the best to you.
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  14757.  @monalee7687  I'd congratulate you on the fineness of your moral weave, but why gild the lily? Your knack for self-congratulation handles the situation more than adequately.👌
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  14758. ​ @monalee7687  Choose to feel insulted if you wish, but it's clear you've been paying highly selective attention for many years. I can't remedy that in a few words, nor certainly against your will, but I sincerely wish you well in all regards.
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  14759.  @monalee7687  It's interesting how some people affect fragility as a pretext for aggression. There's a multi-year pandemic of it going on. Tedious.
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  14760. ​ @monalee7687  You call what I said a "blanket statement", overlooking the fact that I said "commonly." I think you know the difference between 'frequently' and 'always.' [sigh] Anyway, gold-digging, although it's out there, not only isn't what I said, it isn't at all what had in mind either. What I had in mind is that some given woman could be a more or less unselfish and loving partner, but divorce arrangements as they stand simply often make it tempting to end it when dissatisfaction creeps in. That's not gold-digging, it's just normal human self-interest and not even reprehensible. Neither men nor women are made of stone. We're all flesh and blood and fallible. Learning takes time, and we'd all do better in our second through fifth centuries if only we lived to 500.😕 My strongest belief is that neither women nor men are the better sex, and I run screaming (so to speak) from anyone who disagrees much at all. They're sort of like nuclear waste, so I wish they could be safely stored underground for millions of years.😄 So long.😘
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  14761.  @monalee7687  Have a good night.
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  14762.  @davidwright5094  🙄 The target of what I see as the ruse isn't the US voter. It's Putin.
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  14763.  @oronjoffe  I'm guessing you are not, or you would have raised a particular objection. Anyway, what part of "should consider" is too strong?
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  14764.  @oronjoffe  So raise a specific objection. I'm still waiting.
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  14765.  @franceyneireland1633  Damn, I never thought of that. Just one more awful thing.
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  14766.  @hemlock40  When one side commits acts of terror and one side (Israel) defends itself, how does anyone call both sides terrorists? That is the question.
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  14767.  @hemlock40  Israel is willing to co-exist with Palestinians. Hamas vows to exterminate all Israelis. You: "Both sides!" Buh-bye.
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  14768.  @oronjoffe  Thanks for your reply. Possibly you're right, but I had indeed thought of those two things and I wonder what makes you so sure. It depends what the bedrock is like but it might be suitable for a trench much, much deeper than 40m. In good rock no reinforcement is necessary and there's no danger of collapse, according to easily accessible reference sources I found. On the other point, although I am speculating, I think a sufficient depth would make it too impractical an engineering project for Hamas. This is where we need a mining engineering consultant😄.
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  14769. 0:12 "Canook"? (As though Canuck rhymes with 'book'?) "Muck-Two"? Not the way these words are pronounced.
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  14770. That would be because she's not mostly black and because she has zero roots of any kind at all in the United States. She even grew up in Canada from the age of 12 until entering college.
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  14771.  @stevebabiak6997  Ok, but it's also an ancient Indian girl's name, no doubt chosen by her 100%-Indian mother for that reason.
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  14772.  Karrie Dee  Sorry for your bad experience. Did you have much contact with the minister?
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  14773. ​ @Raj-gr6dy  Don't whitewash every instance of sub-standard usage by invoking "evolution." In any era, any innovation may be beneficial, neutral, or represent degradation. The idea that all change to language is evolution, is improvement to it analogous to generations of the cheetah getting faster and faster, is false.
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  14774.  @mh4zd  Can you please clarify for me what you mean by 'objectify'? I thought 'objectify' as used by an intelligent person in the context of male attitudes towards females meant 'regard as an object' in the other sense, namely 'a goal which it is one's desire to attain.' It doesn't make any sense that a man would think a woman is a thing. I don't think any man I've ever met thinks that. The very idea is so far beyond stupid that believing it's what men have in mind is actually very stupid in itself, as well as insulting to men. Men may be frequently inconsiderate towards women, and at times disrespectful, but they absolutely see them as people. But don't get me wrong, I do notice unmistakably that 99% of people use 'object', 'objectify' etc. in this context to mean object as in 'thing, as opposed to human being.'
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  14775.  @mh4zd  Thanks, but that's not even readable.
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  14776.  @mh4zd  Just as a general rule, apart from rare exceptions. But the question remains: 'Object' meaning 'Goal to attain', or 'Mere thing rather than a person'?
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  14777.  @jaspermartin7444  Whenever I hear 'object' used in this context, I always want to know if it's meant in the sense of "goal, meant to be attained (and valued on those terms)" or "thing, rather than a human being (and valued on those terms)." Which is it you have in mind, or is it some of both? What you said about ugly women reminded me of something. Jim Morrison, certainly not everybody's idea of a font of useful wisdom but admired by some for his various musings, had this to say in one of his songs: "Women seem wicked / When you're unwanted". Something for men and women both to stash away in the back of their minds, in my view. (Women of the usual sort should substitute 'men' for 'women', obviously.) Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  14778. A thread full of people eager to cut off their country's own nose to spite Trump's face. It would be laughable if it weren't so rich in pathos. All of them as haughty as emperors, none with any responsibility, none capable of thought. Even PM Peter Pan himself, who answers quite well to each element of these descriptions except that he has great responsibilities, has more sense. He'll go along, and ought to.
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  14779. I'm in favour of this. They have receipt checking at Costco, the best retailer in Canada, and it keeps the shoplifters out and prices down. However, if just getting rid of self-checkouts would accomplish the same thing, that'd probably be even better.
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  14780. Is that a minor roadway it's built over?🤨 Just send the road under the railway by building a little underpass. Save $10.98 billion.
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  14781. Ok, somewhat. I see someone mostly just pushing people's buttons for fun and profit. Meaning, in this case, detached and twisted self-gratification layered in a sort of a self-referential psychiatric dessert which also pays the bills. I wish I could be more concise and clear, but these are new horizons in personality psychology.
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  14782. Thank you, Alex. Great comment. Warmest wishes, — V. Putin
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  14783.  @drewst.claire17  Thanks for your reply. It's the kind that tells me my comment hit home. Don't be anyone's disciple.
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  14784. Democracy and republic mean the same thing, dumbass. Look it up, they both mean rule by the people.
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  14785. Their faces would look bothered for a second, but then they'd say that Western experts at brainwashing have been at work, falsely painting the EU as a more attractive place. So even when people travel there they aren't seeing it with their own eyes. Also, Russia has never attacked any neighbour, except to defend itself or to defend Russians living there. Czechoslovakia, for instance, was about to nuke Russia in 1968, as was Ukraine a few months ago. Simple.
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  14786. He shot himself.
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  14787. Most shocking of all, 35% of the British public don't despise Her Royal Nauseatingness.
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  14788.  @AfterTheIce-q4j  "Drug"? Ok whatever, Mr. Native Speaker of English.😂 Least penetrating and least correct insights of all time. Just what any country of the Authoritarian Axis would want posted.🙄
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  14789.  @33stryker  To see my reply(s), please Sort by Newest.
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  14790. How about ink in the worst possible colour? It's unsafe to make it spray or explode, so just let a pint of it quickly drain out.
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  14791. Alarming to see how badly Thom Yorke is aging now.😂
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  14792. This was all clear to some people six or seven weeks ago. But in Britain outfits like Channel 4 and Sky whipped up panic and moral fury in their viewers, leading them to denounce Boris Johnson as a murderer. I thought that was crazy and I'm much dismayed to find out now that I was right. Johnson was no murderer, in fact he was on the verge of enacting a plan fully clever yet based on mere common sense. But along came that putz Ferguson to mess up everything. I don't see how the West gets out of this with a bill under $20t, or something like $40m per life saved. Never have we spent 1/100th that kind of money prolonging lives a few years. Not even close. I feel like the doctor at the end of Bridge on the River Kwai: "Madness. Madness. Madness!"
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  14793.  @grimmer54  Don't be absurd. It is beyond Twitter's powers to write free speech into the Turkish constitution.
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  14794. Possibly my rebuttal to the comment you liked is of interest to you.@Le Ploutonomiste
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  14795.  @IANinALTONA  Good point. That saying actually sounds like something a high-strung German neo-Marxist might say about ordinary decent moderates.
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  14796. Yes to more real treatment. No to decriminalization. The corollary of: Yes to better-designed highways and more driver training. No to making speeding legal.
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  14797. Animal Farm and 1984 are really great, but aren't even Orwell's best books. For a really scathing look at socialists (and Orwell was pretty much a lapsed socialist) try The Road to Wigan Pier. It's not a novel, and it really angered his left-wing publisher, Victor Gollancz. Unbeatable prose. Ahhhh.
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  14798.  @inthefar-queue6270  That's right, she isn't.  Everywhere in the West the really weak spot and the most corrupt is local party politics. Outside the capitals (which obviously have their own serious problems) and in the neighbourhoods, it is really not pretty. When you think about it, who knows, maybe what totalitarianism really has going for it is that it diminishes the damage done by party politics out in the sticks and down on the streets. Nominations commonly stink to high heaven. If China really shoves the West aside during the next half century, that part of the Western system will be a leading cause at least. It's a lynchpin of Western democratic weakness. To some extent it means your society, your civilization, is always walking along, and up, a steep ledge.
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  14799. Make it an even hundred and I think I would, just to see how the country made out.
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  14800. It strikes me that the goal of flattening the curve is probably at odds with avoiding the impoverishment of us all, perhaps for no payoff whatever in lives saved. Lives may be at first be saved by slowing an otherwise uncontrolled spread, but slowing the spread roughly means shutting down the country until most people are vaccinated or have caught the virus and recovered. Pausing the economy for a full year or longer would likely be a disaster in many ways worse than letting the disease run its course whilst the sick and the old are safely hunkered down for several months. And drawing out the spread over time is not guaranteed to save a great many lives anyway, as hospitals may be overwhelmed even by a relative trickle of patients: it's clear that they can't handle an influx of the sick amounting to 5% of the population, but what makes anyone think they could handle even 1%? Hospitals will no doubt rise to the occasion in astonishing ways, but they operate within realistic limits against which there is ultimately no remedy. Thus the best way to save the most vulnerable might be to focus on isolating them in the most thoroughgoing manner possible, a task more achievable if people are working at their jobs and circulating freely, maintaining the normal functioning of things needed to support such an effort. It would also free up things like masks and medicines for those who need them most, including medical workers. To isolate those most at risk for, say, half a year is not only much easier on them and all of us than doing so for twelve months or more---it also gives the virus much less time to get through to them. Imagine on the one hand emerging from the summer with herd immunity achieved at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and with a quick economic and social recovery at hand, versus having the disease hanging over us all for a year or longer whilst it slowly but inexorably picks off the vulnerable one by one, at the cost of a similar (or greater) number of lives and an economic and financial hole so deep that it takes several years or a decade to climb out of it. All the while we would swing back and forth agonizingly between tantalizing reprieve and resurgent outbreaks which continue through 2021. Quality of life and standards of living, obviously, but also the health of the people in all other respects would be sure to be seriously impacted. Do we know whether society could hang together throughout all that? We are most certainly (whichever anglosphere nation we inhabit) not the same people who withstood the Second World War with such stoic resilience. And what if the net effect of an unnecessarily protracted struggle against the disease is a sudden massive transfer of political and economic power to China? The UK national science advisor may have been right to float the herd immunity idea. The country which gets through this soonest will enjoy an enormous feeling of gladness and will also be the envy of the world. Possibly it could mean considering how many lives we permit (or cause) to be ruined in favour of the uncertain chance of saving a single one. Possibly it could mean sacrificing a certain number of younger lives for a vastly greater number of older ones. As Orwell said, "It is disagreeable to weigh human lives like groceries", but in the worst circumstances that may be precisely what is wisest.
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  14801. I thought he only made the comparison in a narrow military sense, specifically the dynamics of the war initially and then over the following two years.
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  14802. Aussies and Canadians are alike in many ways and should have much closer ties. 🇨🇦🇦🇺 We're incredibly far apart on the globe, and the internet is supposed to be perfect for that sort of thing. We must hang together, goes the saying. I forget how it ends. ;-)
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  14803. He needed both his hands to help his partner stop the guy from shooting himself. I don't see how his weapon on the floor beside him is a danger in that particular context. He could grab it in an instant if he needed to, and the suspect has his own gun, which everybody's struggling for. The suspect can't and won't want to grab anyone's else's gun. When the cop did let go, in order to pick up his gun, that's when the guy was able to shoot himself. That's how I saw it.
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  14804. You omit to consider that he does not have much support in the legislature behind him. Hopefully, ten months from now on October 26th, his La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) party and allied parties will make major gains.
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  14805. Sorry Natasha, but Russia is almost the new North Korea. Putin severing it entirely from the internet would be the final step, and it's probably coming within weeks. When that happens, just get out. Your youth, intelligence, good looks and English skills will get you far, wherever you go. (Also, in the West it's a major advantage to be female. People automatically see you as superior in most ways and morally far more legitimate.)
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  14806. I feel sorry for the interviewer. He's got regret ahead of him for his mind and character as we see them here. He should be playing with the kids his own age.
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  14807. The thumbnail reminds me of just how common good looks used to be in white communities.
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  14808. It's just a manner of speaking. Don't take it literally; it's just how English is spoken, what's called idiom and usage. The important word is 'lawless'.
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  14809. It's true that it's gotten to the point where they accurately sense they can just grab for things unfairly and get them.
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  14810. 🤔He sounds like this....yet managed to find a wife who stayed with him for years.🤯 It only makes sense if she had no hearing.
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  14811. Pls. send that to Africa as an email to avert global disaster.
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  14812. I do despise the NYT but in fairness, Stephens is probably the best of them. Now and then he qualifies as not bad at all. Also, are you really sure this is the first time in the last 3 weeks he's written such things?
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  14813. Cf. Two Cheers For Democracy, E.M. Forster. ( Two, notice.) Also The Revolt of the Masses, José Ortega y Gasset.
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  14814. Cocaine Socialism by the wonderful Jarvis Cocker and his band Pulp is worth at least one listen.
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  14815. Sure, because single-engine propellor planes commonly have ejection seats.😂
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  14816.  @klaus_niemand  Omg 🙄
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  14817.  @Rumb1epit  First of all, there's been no KGB for 33+ years. Second, what the FSB says should be of no interest to anyone in possession of adequate moral and mental faculties.
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  14818. Hey man, can you stop yelling please?
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  14819.  @jonathansouza4013  No, it is a greater honor for me. (Love and Death, 1975.)
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  14820. I suppose they thought, like this impossibly arrogant woman being interviewed, that decency would require Israel to meekly accept its thousands of casualties, r apes, kidnappings, etc. and just wait for some more.
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  14821. That's true, but do we know exactly why this killing happened? Conceivably it had to do with political radicalism. (Someone else here asserted it happened on a First Nations reservation. If so, we will wait to hear whether sheer hostility to the authority of non-indigenous police had anything to do with it.)
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  14822. These Hong Kongers have no legitimate reason to complain as one of them does around 6:30. Taiwan has an immensely greater duty to protect itself than to make Communist China nationals feel welcome. She should get real. Be careful, Taiwan!
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  14823. They should both drop their stagy singsong tone of talking down to the masses so the latter might manage to understand, which, obviously, is off-putting. Is your key demographic 22-year-old high school dropouts? Also, the channel runner should see to it that we don't get a huge face of Klein for 68 minutes. Irritating.🙄
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  14824.  @michaelcasile1036  Taylor Swift isn't a child, she just looks and seems like one. She's actually in her 30s.
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  14825. 0:12 Dude's friend wearing the weed t-shirt is thinking "S TF U, man."
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  14826. Now: "Tell us your racial make-up." Coming soon: "Let's see your papers and your voting record." After that: "This device tests your blood. Press your finger here." Finally: "Officer, this woman is asking a lot of questions and is not co-operative."
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  14827. "My own people"? Maybe it's time for you to realize that a person's "people" are those who share his or her values and standards, not some special and tiny portion of their genes. Looking at it latter way, which glorifies ancestry as all-important, should be thought of as starting with "ray" and ending with "cyst."
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  14828. Her departure will make Texas stronger and Oakland worse off.
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  14829. I always knew it. The entrepreneurs were only a means to the end of raising their country's productive capacity. Now that's been accomplished, so off with their proverbial heads, or their literal ones. We'll see, but the party's ending. It's Party time.
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  14830. Border: be situated on a dividing line Boarder: someone who rents a room and is provided meals
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  14831.  @NotWhatYouThink  You can tell which keystrokes people type across time and space? I have a lot of respect for that ability, but if I were you I'd put it to use making a billion dollars an hour.
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  14832. Spain is the lowest out of 30 countries in NATO for military spending at 1.0% of GDP. How can you "stand with" anyone "to support together our free world" if you're unarmed? Please speak to your member of parliament. Cheers mate 🙂
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  14833. He thinks he's Robespierre.
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  14834. Only very slightly. Like me, he's clearly just short of shelf space.
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  14835. The keystone right is the right to be wrong. Sounds like a pretty crappy right, but actually it underpins every other right. Without it you can simply be put to bed without supper, i.e. be denied all rights and be treated as a four-year-old…forever. In fact, without it that's what will happen. Will. Gad realizes this, and that is why he insists liars and idiots must be allowed to say what they like, with absolutely minimal exceptions: libel and slander; incitement to riot, murder, suicide, or overthrow of the government; acts of mischief like yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre, and that's about it.
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  14836. That's so kooky. He's been almost the exact same type of 70s/80s/90s mainstream liberal forever. But like many liberals over 35 he's so alienated by outlandish and illiberal liberalism trends that he's sheltering in the center-right (which itself has moved left). Most liberals despise radicalism and are tolerating it at present in the fear that it's the only bulwark against right-wing authoritarianism. It's not. There's no bulwark needed beyond reliable centrist liberalism. They're deluded.
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  14837.  @fellicutis  Oh la la. Quelle esprit.
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  14838.  @DxModel219  Actually it breeds very vicious, cunning, vindictive, and violent animals. Go to Wikipedia and read the article on the Red Guards if you weren't aware of what I told you.
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  14839. Invest what in solar power? Fairy dust? Its political and economic system, being rooted entirely in social envy, is so obsessed with dividing up the pie that it overlooks the all-important activity of making pie.
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  14840.  @punchforpound2808  Of the whole diversity agenda, he only backed one part: a male-female balance. One could scarcely fail to notice.
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  14841. Lowest-testosterone police squad in history. Immediately afterwards they all went door-to-door selling Girl Guide Cookies, then went home to their Mommies.
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  14842. The so-called 'recall' was an over-the-air software tweak. It was to increase the font size of the screen alert that says "Put your hands back on the wheel," or words to that effect. Also, there's now an eye-catching blue-coloured background surrounding the message. This was all that resulted from a 2-year scrutiny of Autopilot by the federal NHTSA agency, ordered by Biden after Musk announced that he wasn't voting Democratic anymore.
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  14843.  @chrisxavier3147  Ok, but that's an extremely low bar.
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  14844. You were good until your last sentence. But war materiel production absolutely does count as GDP, by definition. Clearly you just didn't understand what is meant by GDP. Now you know.
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  14845. They know what low people they've turned out to be, and they want revenge on the world for it.
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  14846. To an important extent it's still medieval. Seriously, the feudalistic mindset is common. It's just still there.
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  14847. Ok, Misha.
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  14848. The medicated him as well as they could for three years; then, when the convention was four months away, his deterioration accelerated with timing coincidentally perfect for pulling the old switcheroo. They rolled the old dude, and look who was the beneficiary: Kringela. She bin plottin' for a long time, that lady.
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  14849. This video is an ad for the business named Brilliant. I find that puke-making.
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  14850. But here's Trump in an interview with Maria Bartiromo last year (which you can watch yourself): "I would tell Zelenskyy, 'No more, you've got to make a deal.' I would tell Putin 'If you don't make a deal, we're going to give them [Ukraine] a lot. We're going to give them more than they ever got if we have to.' I will have the deal done in one day, one day." That"s clearly not a one-sided pledge to end aid to Ukraine. Threatening Putin with an escalation of aid to Ukraine to the highest-ever level is something of a very different nature. It's also illuminating to read Trump's social media posts immediately following February 24, 2022. I for one expect that Trump, if he wins, will confront Putin aggressively. For now, in my view, he does not wish to appear to Putin as though he is more hawkish than Biden. He has a close election to contest, and although Putin's active measures powers are hardly unlimited, they are considerable enough that it is unwise to make oneself his target. (Don't take my word for it. Ask Hilary Clinton.)
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  14851. How smug the woman is. Rather less clever and wise than she plainly fancies herself.
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  14852.  @jakbak-y6f  You're welcome. That reply sure beats the typical vatnik/gopnik vitriol under a username like '@RichardMason3456' that I get coming back at me.😄
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  14853. Defund the BBC now.
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  14854. I'm slightly sympathetic, but then others are waiting for organ transplants, hip replacements, or operations on cancerous tumours, owing to the very same pandemic-related reasons. These people can simply bide their time in perfect security until their citizenship applications are processed. Landed immigrant status does not expire. As it is nothing more than a trifling and symbolic inconvenience, they can suck it up like the rest of us. I urge them to stuff their protest signs and think about the plight of the people they wish to share citizenship with, not just themselves. What nerve.
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  14855. Dear UK: I daresay things were better under Boris Johnson. Next time, don't go so frivolously ballistic over a bit of petty rule-breaking. You've only made it worse for yourselves. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  14856. What on earth happened to Joe Biden's forehead?
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  14857. Excellent, Dave, just excellent.👏 Just one thing, though: Addressing Cuban, you said "That would be a problem."   Guess you weren't aware that those people don't understand "That's a problem."  In hipster-wokester-speak, they only understand if you say "That's problematic." 😂
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  14858. Concerning that protestor, he was calling Trudeau a Nazi. He spray-painted "TRUDEAU" in front of the swastika as a condemnation of Trudeau. I saw the photos. (Nonetheless, other protestors didn't think it was a good idea and forced him to leave.) The media and Trudeau knew this and still made partisan hay out of it. Supreme shamelessness.
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  14859.  @MrRazorblade999  To answer your question, a lot of bad things are happening in Canada. The corporate/state news media are the de facto leading power and they are 90% woke. But do understand that the electoral system in Canada can award a victory to a party supported by a small number of people. Trudeau's party received less than a third of the votes in the past two elections.
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  14860.  @vicp8772  Sounds right. It doesn't really matter if it's the freshest day out there, you still have to, as the saying goes, open up the window and let the bad air out.
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  14861.  @quietlabour491  Since when? For me it was 2017.
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  14862.  @PresidentElectA1-Abrams  So to abolish government is to abolish fear?😂 My dear boy (not a girl, surely?) that's unbeatable for adolescent naïvety. The Garden of Eden is a tendentious parable, not something that literally existed. Humans are flesh-and-blood creatures, not ethereal beings.
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  14863. Organized repression like this reminds me of the Red Guards. Not as severe at this stage, but galloping towards a tipping point. We're way past peak freedom.
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  14864.  @ELee-zv5ud  Nah, Red Guards would do much worse stuff. They spilt a lot of blood, including professor blood, and inflicted a lot of pain.
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  14865. ​ @mohit_panjwani  Thanks, but your opinion of me isn't of much interest. I get tired of slander and attacks on my country to the effect that it's insignificant or pathetic, so some of them I counterattack. If that bothers you, you should find out why. Cheers.
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  14866. He was more of a pimp. It can hardly be that he was an aberration, btw. There must be a bunch more of his calibre in operation in the haut monde/beau monde, now as throughout all time.
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  14867. Theocrats of Iran: "Gee, what's the problem?" "He's extremely anti-Trump and he's got just the kind of mind-washing pedagogical tone we like our teachers to have here. If only he had our religion we'd love to have him."
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  14868. They're standard lab equipment now.
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  14869.  @johnnyrocker7495  Ok. He's one of those polarizing people, so a lot of people here sound like as far as they're concerned he can do no right. You blended in with them. Cheers
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  14870.  @oktihanayantimsc4788  No, Vanya. Is not joke.
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  14871. In fairness, it's not paranoia when billions of people would like to see you dead.
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  14872.  @buckodonnghaile4309  Regarding the 300+ MPs, I'm quite certain they didn't realize what was going on. On the subject of her personally, I can only speculate. If she had known beforehand what the real facts of the matter were, she would've shut his appearance down instantly. She'd know the disaster that would come out of it. (Or maybe not!—maybe she'd know what it could do for her own chances of becoming PM, for if Trudeau resigns, she almost certainly gets his job. Very speculative of me here, and I'm partly joking, but stranger things have happened in this world.) That leaves the matter of what she thought during the Speaker's remarks, not knowing in advance what this was really all about. In those remarks he mentioned two things: The old man's WW II service, and that he "fought for Ukrainian independence." They weren't made to sound necessarily like the same thing, or even concurrent. His "fight" for Ukraine could've been post-WW II. And one certainly doesn't have to be a soldier to fight for a people's independence. There's fearless open activism, there's underground partisan activity, there's appealing to diaspora, there's a lot of possible roles. So, knowing the history of the era as she does, she might assume that his Ukrainian separatist activities had nothing to do with his (presumed) service in the Red Army. Or, more likely, she could've felt deep dread in the pit of her stomach, simply out of fear that the well-meaning but not-terribly-bright Speaker had blundered, that the man had never been in the Red Army. But she wouldn't know for certain, would she? There's a difference between "No, this is wrong! I can't participate in this!" and "Oh my god, please don't let this be what I fear it is." So what's she going to do, applaud, or stand there grim-faced with her arms folded in front of her chest? Remember, the whole boring thing unfolded in the span of about one minute. Thanks for putting me through that, i.e. making me speculate on what went on in the mind of someone who sickens me. (Yes, I cannot stand the Trudeau government, and she is the Deputy PM.) I need a bath now!😂
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  14873. You need to sort out your issues.
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  14874. You gotta be kidding. They're like houseflies. All you have to do is leave a door open. Get real if you're not a r*****.
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  14875. But at least you know it, so you're on the road to self-improvement.
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  14876. I'm biased against men who beat their wives, too. I'm good with that. Maybe you're more openminded about that than me. If so, congratulations.
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  14877.  @khizerqureshi2492  Hundreds of billions of dollars? Eh? You lost me when you started out-Peskoving Peskov himself there. Ukraine's allies have vastly more financial and economic resources left than Russia and its merry band of meatpacking glitterati.
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  14878. Not a word of that is true.
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  14879. It seems that the people (as distinct from governments) who are most upset about this war besides the Ukrainians themselves are the Japanese, the British, the Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, the Poles and the Finns.
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  14880. A very neat line in self-praise there. 🙄🤮
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  14881. ​ @michaelboano7183  I wouldn't say we all do. And some do it more often and more flagrantly than others.🤨 Anyway, just because we all did something wouldn't make it all right.
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  14882. They're the three nations who want to destroy his own. You didn't know that?
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  14883. When any country slavers to destroy a man's country, the man's thoughts quickly turn to destroying that country. You didn't know that?
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  14884. Yeah, so turn them on. They're sort of poor but between them and what I could hear, I understood it all.
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  14885. Yeah, it was great when he said it 'Isn't it ok for Russia to starve people in Africa and the Middle East because the West is denying them access to its financial system?' (My paraphrase.) How dare the West attack Russia like that? What did poor little innocent Russia ever do?
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  14886. And never know where exactly where it was headed? Would that be smart?
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  14887. Make no mistake, Carlson doesn't hate the rich. I should think he has little capacity for envy and that's the only thing that can give rise that particular hatred. He hates the power elites, who are along the lines of rich if not outright rich, yes---but they're also middle-aged, and he doesn't hate middle-aged people either. He doesn't hate people for belonging to groups or categories they never meant to or aspired to join. Power elites, left and right both---different story.
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  14888.  @Limo_wreck  Every one of your replies is bang on. Thanks for cutting through the crap. If those comments really are any indication, mental and emotional health truly has collapsed in the English-speaking world. Only thing is, I upvoted every one and it's gonna look like you did it yourself.
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  14889. I feel pretty grateful for this clip. It's heartwarming. That woman's brain is officially unhinged.
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  14890. There's hundreds of millions of gasoline-powered cars in China. It's a big part of the project to turn the world car fleet electric and preserve the biosphere.
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  14891.  @Andy-kl1ry  Ah, you wish, Andrei. Worry about Russia and its dismal economy and future. I think Russia is headed for a lot of regret. The news that the oligarchs are forming their own Wagner-style PMCs is a highly ominous sign. Exchange your roubles for gold if and while you can. For the sake of world as well as Russian stability Putin should withdraw from Ukraine now. It's best if he remains in power for the time being and arranges an orderly power transition over the next year or two. The world does not want Russia fragmenting. Hold on tight.
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  14892.  @Andy-kl1ry  Go away. Get out of Ukraine. Leave the world alone. Stand in the corner.
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  14893. I'd trust you more if you showed proficiency in capitalization and punctuation. As it is I'd say you've never read much. The National Post is fine.
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  14894.  @peekaboots01  There's a grave mismatch between their incomes and their net worth. Incomes, not so bad. Net worth, nearly zero. (Median black net worth, 2019: $14,100 according to US Census Bureau; whites: $187,300)
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  14895. In the discussions I most enjoy, people treat each other as friends who don't (yet) see eye to eye. Next, not-very-friendly battles for dominance integrating formal politeness (e.g. restrained interrupting) and generous respect (e.g. good-faith striving to fully grasp the other's views). Least enjoyable: battles for dominance that are simply uncouth.
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  14896.  @TheDionysianFields  Uh, it was pretty uncouth. I've seen them both do better, Destiny somewhat when talking to Ben Shapiro; Peterson especially, at various times. But he doesn't seem much given to it anymore. Something's deprived him of that relaxed, self-forgetting, confident and curious state that breeds it.
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  14897. Ah, leftists. Always with the sanctimony and the denunciation of ordinary enjoyment.
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  14898. This is contradicted by The New York Times in a story titled "Roger Waters Concert in Poland Called Off After Ukraine Views Prompt Anger." They say it was the Krakow venue which cancelled the appearance, indirectly also implying that the Polish promoter was involved. (Article searchable by title and not paywalled.) I think Waters' personal issues are to blame. War deprived him of his dad, so he thinks invasions should be unopposed to prevent deaths.
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  14899.  @boxwoodgreen  And half a million Hong Kongers. I'm extremely sympathetic to their problems with the Chinese government and I would certainly want them to be able to exercise their right to settle here if they like, but they couldn't give a crap about Canada. If they did, they wouldn't have obtained their passports and gone back to live in HK for the past 25 years. Many of them didn't actually stay the minimum period in the first place. I learned that from watching The Fifth Estate here on CBC! It has the flavour of gaming the system to obtain something the rest of us care deeply about.
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  14900. As a matter of fact antipathy towards people of other races is as old as humanity itself and ubiquitous since the beginning. It's Western culture that has made the first serious, sincere, large-scale and successful effort to do anything about it. This is why when people around the world emigrate, they emigrate to the West. You should do something about your own r-word: it's so strong in you that you give it vent in the only direction you're permitted to—against Europeans and Westerners. Twisted and sad, suitable for investigation for academic psychologists, but there you have it.
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  14901. I was working with homeless people four to five years ago. They were crushed to learn that although they had been without a place to live for years, people were being ushered into the country and straight into permanent accommodation (which they were told didn't exist). Some of them I still see shuffling along downtown streets. The people in this news story don't seem to understand that Canada has treated them like gold, in some ways better than people born here.
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  14902.  @KH-sh4ev  It's all lost on you.
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  14903.  @AnthonyB2351  Great quotation. Thanks.
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  14904. No. Let's not talk about years. Let's talk about decades.
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  14905.  @direwolf6234  Dude, the OP is simply a foreign troll talking point. Below all videos concerning one of the ongoing wars or just about any world issue, over 50% of the comments are really from hostile foreign governments. They have ways of mass posting them with millions of accounts, polishing them up to native-English-speaker proficiency with AI, etc. etc. They also mass-downvote and falsely report the better pro-US, pro-Israel, pro-Ukraine, pro-Taiwan, pro-West posts, clearing them out as though with bulldozers. They've totally gamed YouTube and probably all Western social media. It makes me sick. FWIW, I completely agree with your reply. The OP is a total false dichotomy. The US can walk and chew gum at the same time, having the wealth to do what's really necessary.
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  14906. So how much time is wasted across the world each year by people starting each sentence with the word 'so'?
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  14907.  @stevebabiak6997  Oh yeah, I forgot what the OC here was.
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  14908. Pinfold's dictum: All history is little else but a chronicle of slippery slopes.
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  14909.  @harryseaton7444  I bet u really minded when Zuckerberg had giga-influence in the lead-up to November 2020 and throughout the p.demic.🙄
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  14910.  @harryseaton7444  How about the immense power Zuck secretly wielded in the lead-up to November 2020, and during the whole "health event" of 2020-22? Cool with that, by any chance?
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  14911.  @harryseaton7444  Was Zuck's influence scary in the lead-up to Nov. 2020? Or during that long and terrible thing from Mar. 2020 into 2022? If not, that's just pure bias.
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  14912. His reference to not wanting to be "overly skeptical" worries me a lot in some ways. One would have hoped that he meant it as broadly as possible---that he feels it unhelpful to be so very skeptical of everything as to erect impassable barriers to any acceptance of or belief of anything at all. That's a neutral and thus salutary way of looking at skepticism. But he goes on to clarify 0:49 that by skepticism he means a vigorous questioning of the pandemic response of the US authorities. This tends to make skepticism something of a diplomatic gesture rather than something bred in the bone, namely a now-automatic questioning of one's own leanings---just as much as those of others of a different leaning---which all goes without saying. Skepticism is not mere disbelief. Skepticism is a particular policy, disbelief is a particular outcome that can arise out of skepticism or any other policy, right up to but not including complete credulity. It makes him sound not careful enough. But I still like the series.
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  14913. "The brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream. It is a most depressing and humiliating reality." — Oscar Wilde Just think: you belong to the same species as that creature.
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  14914. Beware the comments here by short-sellers of Tesla stock, who are experiencing colossal, racking, eye-watering pain. They'll say anything.
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  14915. Come on, don't make a segment out of the guy's jokes unless they have a serious and newsworthy aspect to them. And don't bait us with misleading video titles. It's very disrespectful. Shape up.
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  14916. That Simpsons meme was one of the funniest moments ever on the show. Congrats for making use of it.👍I really laughed.
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  14917. It's not true that Welker only "implied" a falsehood. She stated it explicitly. So when are they going to issue a correction of the 'correction'? Ah well, I guess that like Tim Walz, "their grammar's not always correct" 🤨
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  14918. Final second of the video: Omg, wtf kind of HVAC do you guys have over there? Man, get some good contractors. Anyway, another excellent video, as usual. 👏🏻
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  14919.  @andrew_owens7680  Yeah, but no country on Earth benefits as much from a generously valued currency as the US does, owing to the dollar's reserve status. It's not even close, unless a tiny country or two somehow constitute exceptions for other reasons. A dollar crash would be/is going to be very painful. Think Britain between 1945 and 1975.
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  14920. The video title should say he was joking. Without noting that, it's a fake headline. Please, be more scrupulous than your awful competitors.
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  14921. AOC: Airhead of Color.
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  14922. If you think this crowd is making out like bandits, watch and see how completely their heirs have everything sewn up in another ten or 15 years. The Second Gilded Age is upon us. The children of today's middle class will be their servants—for good.
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  14923. Arithmetic check: 2024 spending: $6.75trn. 2024 revenues: $4.9trn. Deficit: $1.83trn, or $5.0bn a day So even if the govt. finds $3bn a day to cut ($1.1trn) a deficit remains. (That assumes revenues remain steady. They may surge unexpectedly, or fall.)
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  14924. While your views are interesting, even intriguing, I have areas of subtle disagreement.
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  14925.  @GrooveTasticThang  Thanks. I must have seen total consumption, because I had in mind that it had risen well into 50-60% territory. Btw, instead of 20 I should have said 15 years.
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  14926. Kringela
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  14927. It's important to realize that passing issues like legal troubles rarely result in long-term homelessness. Absent chronic mental illness and drug addiction, such problems are handled by the person on his or her own, often with the help of family or friends, after a period of weeks or months, not years. That's what homelessness was like before the twin disasters of (1) the emptying of the mental hospitals in the 1970s and 80s and (2) crack addiction becoming widespread in the later 1980s. By comparison to today it was not a major social problem at all. So in summary, pointing to addiction and mental health as underlying the great majority of the problem is not bull.
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  14928. What? Where has Maher been on this for the past ten++ years? Fake, self-serving, self-adoring, little hypocrite—he just knows which way the wind is beginning to blow.
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  14929. Ever see Bridge On The River Kwai? I feel like the doctor right at the end, when he just says: "Madness.... madness... Madness!"
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  14930. Side question which occurred to me as I was reading down here: Why do Americans write so poorly?
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  14931. Probably another nightmare state as bad as Iran is on the way, or indeed an Iranian puppet state with close ties to China as well. Most revolutions replace a fairly awful government with an even worse regime.
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  14932. No, it is merely that China is, one, where almost all the cases are and, two, where all the oldest cases are. It takes time for the illness to progress to a deadly level.
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  14933.  @jericho2281999  Well, theoretically he could be one of those meshuggenehs. I don't know for sure yet, having not looked into it.
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  14934. Unsurprising conduct from the official broadcast communications arm of the Democratic Party. (For the official print arm, visit The New York Times. For the informal brigade, just visit news sites at random. Your odds are above 90%.)
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  14935. Tumbleweed: [Yawn] "What could be more boring? I'm outta here." Crickets: "Wait for us!"
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  14936. Yes. Anyone in that job sets an example for public conduct, and his is a contemptibly caddish one.
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  14937. @Martin Baldwin-Edwards "Safer"? His constituents, the people of North East Somerset, who elected him and then re-elected him with a strong majority, are thus lovers of violence, you say? He's violent, and was selected by violent supporters to do violent things? HIs presence in the House of Commons threatens the safety of the UK? Yes, just look at what a menace to public safety he is, stretched out weakly in a naff suit on a green bench. Children cry, women flee, and stout-hearted but unarmed men tremble at his sight. A grateful nation extends its honours to you for your penetrating vision. Fools are they who call you brainless, callow, and contemptibly destructive of the language. You, sir, are truly a British, nay, a world hero and in no way one of the most idiotic [here a bad word is deleted] who ever walked the face of the Earth. The entire globe is safer for your wise pronouncements. I humbly thank you.
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  14938.  @HeatherFoster-nk5vn  You're changing your position and moving the goalposts. Your first post was a complaint about the ad because where to shop is the consumers' choice. I pointed out that an ad doesn't interfere with that. Now you're saying the ad created too much choice. I think you got your Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kamala Harris. Wonderful for you (I guess) but not for others in this thread.
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  14939. Rachel Maddow and AOC: Two cheeks of one bum
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  14940.  @simokokko7550  You really think anyone would make that up?
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  14941. Ancient Greek and ancient Irish religious stuff. Detailed in another post 4 hrs. before yours. Sort by Newest, see @fundifferent1. And why are you "very alarmed" just because someone's wearing symbols unfamiliar to you? That isn't normal, logical or healthy in my opinion. Best wishes.
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  14942. It's only insane—only illegal in fact—if the authorities giving the orders to police object to the motivation. Let's say the protestors were protesting abortion or internet censorship. They'd be corralled into police vans, hauled away and charged before you could blink. It's that simple. The authorities are in effect authorizing what's going on. What we used to call "a government of laws, not men" is now a government of men, not laws. It's clear.
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  14943. Excuse me, Dana Bash: Not to be rude, but take your ℉il✝︎hy hands off our manhood. Thank you.
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  14944. ⬆The comment that's about itself.
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  14945. Sorry, radical neo-Marxists don't believe in ingrained and immutable human nature. They think it can be determined by them—and them alone—in their phony journal articles and grad-school seminars at 'education' and 'gender studies' faculties. They're the new theologians who've picked up where the Puritans left off. In fact I often call them the New Puritans. (Go ahead and steal it. Please.😄)
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  14946. Justin Trudeau has a half-brother too, named Kyle Kemper. Same story: he used to be a better as a brother and a person, then he entered politics.
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  14947. I don't think you know what's up with him at all. His whole point is to get humanity ready for AI Singularity. Earth is going to become Planet Bot at some point, and it could start to take off within 10 years (hopefully later). We will be the guests of the computers and 100% at their mercy. They might as well be gods. You have no idea how slow we are compared to how fast these computers will be. That's what Neuralink is about. It's to give us a bit more of a chance by making us mentally far, far quicker. Watch the Stephen Hawking videos where he points out the threat this alien-grade AI will pose. Musk was heavily influenced by his thought. As you may be guessing by this point, Mars is similarly about surviving AI. And if every single AI supercomputer turns out to love humans and not see us the same way we see shower scum—fat chance, but if—then there's still the danger that supervillain govts anywhere in the world can wreak havoc with AI too, or not govts but just plain supervillains. Basically these things will make nuclear weapons look quaint for how limited their destructive power is. I hope you found that a bit interesting.
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  14948. Only someone didn't pay proper attention to the video, has sharply limited capacity for thought, and who's never been on a subway train would say that.
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  14949. How did this metronome get to be an MP, let alone Foreign Secretary, let alone PM? Just listening to her drains my will to live. Diversity hires who wave their hands around ceaselessly in media appearances will be the death of each country which indulges in them. If Britain's Conservative's have gone that way (and they have), it's unclear where on earth a rescue is going to come from.
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  14950. The outro music is FAR too loud. Fix it.
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  14951.  @a5cent  Elites are influential on opinions everywhere, eternally. Really, you can't agree with that? 😂 Come on. And although I didn't have celebrities in particular in mind, yes, celebrities are part of the elite class. (Elite = Of high social rank.)
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  14952. And there's only about 190 countries in the world, so we know we're not watching something very high quality as soon as we hear that.
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  14953. I wonder how Party members are eating. Quite well, no doubt.
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  14954.  @merovingian688  Same reply as always from Party loyalists: "Other government just as bad! West bad too! Taiwan bad too!" (No, they aren't. The CCP has been the champ for 70+ years now.)
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  14955. In a regular ounce, yes. Gold is measured in troy ounces.
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  14956. First discovered, perhaps. Have you never discovered a great band with, say, three albums already to their credit, simply by listening to a new radio station you discovered while scanning the FM dial?
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  14957. The day before announcing it in 1984, Pierre Trudeau famously came to his decision to step down and retire while taking "a walk in the snow." May I respectfully suggest that his son now follow in his footsteps by taking a walk of his own ... in the Ottawa River.🤨
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  14958. I bet Thomas Sowell is outrageously and devastatingly funny in private company. Wouldn't you love to hear him go on as he sits in sandals near the barbecue?
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  14959. Emily is stone faced whenever Arynne speaks. Seems rather pointed. I don't care to witness that sort of thing.
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  14960. Beaver: "When does the next log boat for Canada leave?"
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  14961. Saying those things in just that way makes you sound actually well above average. Top quintile for sure, though that gives an overprecise air to it which I wasn't aiming for. However, I'd say less than half the world has the virus. For one thing it's overwhelmingly Western, and that's only 1 bn out of 8 bn. And even in the West it's clearly less than half. The go-along people are more like two-thirds, I'd say. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Thanks for your low-key and non-abrasive comment. We need more of those in the mix.
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  14962. @ When? 200 years ago? Because that's how long both sides have been doing it.
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  14963. Easy: One, it forces them to a vision of the world built with their own hands, as the store-bought one will not do; two, marriage and kids are a mind killer. (Compare Cyril Connolly: "The most sombre enemy of art is the pram in the hallway.") Heterosexual bachelorhood can be a fair proxy.
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  14964. I find it hard to say if the mental sensitivity produces the 'psychological structure', or vice versa. For sensitive and bright people social and psychological maladjustments are extremely common; indeed, also for anyone else not lucky enough to be normal. P.S. What's the difference between gays and homosexuals? In English these are synonyms. Never mind that, it's ok. But what did you have in mind? Cheers.@Le Ploutonomiste
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  14965. @Le Ploutonomiste I wondered whether, in borderline cases, native intelligence and sensitivity (neither in any way pathological, meaning healthy) lead to pathology on account of preventing healthy social development (or, to make it simple for you to grasp, if life is easier for average people), or if poor social development owing to any reasons at all can foster high intelligence and sensitivity by forcing a search for answers in the face of painful maladjustments (again translating so you can get it: if being a fucked-up social loser benefits perspicacity and cleverness). I didn't say anything about myself. So your empathy and advice, though appreciated for its earnestness, is misplaced. A very neat line in presumption, officiousness, and vulgarity. You understood what didn't exist to be understood and did not understand what I did write. (By the way, gay and homosexual may be different things to you but they mean the same thing in the Anglosphere, and gay is an English word.) I won't wish you well with your mental problems, if any, as they are none of my business. But please accept a cordial adieu.
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  14966. @Le Ploutonomiste I never said au revoir but adieu. Sorry but I don't have any time to correspond with you.
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  14967.  stefanjager4131  🤔Can you say that in words?🤨
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  14968. 😂🤣
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  14969. So, like, I can't personally fire Trump. So, that's like literally unjust. So, like, we have to become more militant. Abstract debate and like logical arguments and politeness are not going to achieve our goals. Trying to make a debate just shows that you already have, like, total power. Total power is not right unless you have, like, good morals. (This is what happens when people born after about 1960 have children, bringing them up to be Peter Pan. Just wait 25 or 30 years till people his age have kids who go on news shows. They'll make this one look like Thomas Jefferson.)
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  14970. ​ @oksanakolomiichuk4539  You are right. India doesn't care about anything besides India. As you say, it is a disappointment. But no one should be surprised. Let Modi and India remember this when China makes war on India, or blockades its trade routes. Let them plead for help and be answered: "Both sides must end this conflict."
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  14971. Always great to hear from William Randolph Dorsey.
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  14972. I'm sure the details are fascinating, but why spend 20 minutes watching this when the thumbnail tells it all: Sleazy as all get-out, more teeth than brains.
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  14973. Those closing clips, omg. Mr. Carlson, all I have to say is: 👏👏👏
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  14974.  @noil7269  Thanks. But I'm teetering on the edge of a shadowban, so every upvote really helps. Could u please?
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  14975. Did you not hear something that was not said? He said nothing about victims, Russia, or violent behaviours. He doesn't have the morals or the guts to place blame. To me it's useless for him to wring his hands and say "Come on, you guys!" to both parties.
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  14976. In some cases it's really for the best. 2:16
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  14977. Great report. It's good to know the progress of her treatment is satisfactory. (But please don't say "Her and her doctors will decide..." You'd never say Her will decide, of course.)
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  14978. Your comment was very interesting, most especially the last two paragraphs. You shouldn't have been very surprised at the number of negative comments from others, since Pooty-Bots are all over every conceivable social media platform in the world. They scour them all constantly for any newly-posted Ukraine War content. Often comments under such content are over 50% pro-Russia, and since pro-Russia opinion in the West is rare, that tells you all you need to know. Please comment more, and repeat often what you wrote here elsewhere. Cheers. Long live 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇦🇺🇺🇸 etc.
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  14979. Add a zero to that, probably.
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  14980.  @michaelrmurphy2734  Except for army and militia units which used rifles. A church with 1,500 people inside was knocked down with bulldozers.
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  14981.  @TommyTCGT  Pfft! The Ukrainian govt. bombed Russian-backed, Russian-inspired, Russian-funded, Russian-armed and no doubt Russian-infested separatist terrorists on its own soil in the Donbas in the years up to 2022. Hey, I think your tank commander is yelling at you to get back in. Enjoy your short ride.
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  14982.  @michaeldavison9808  "until the aggressors agree to terms" Quite right. As they did with Egypt. Well reasoned.
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  14983.  @GaneshDevdas  👏👏👏Correct about Afghanistan. ISAF was a UN force, not a NATO force. You and several others are kicking Pooty-bot rear end in this thread. Nice work!
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  14984.  @nuntana2  Realism means that attaining the desired result requires attempting it.
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  14985.  @wreagfe  I call the collapse of learning that followed the "opening up of educational opportunity" The Great Dumbening. Achieved by lowering standards, it has resulted in a major decline in what I regard as the real intelligence. In my view this explains today's institutional incompetence. People leave university and move into positions of responsibility with wholly inadequate intellectual preparation. In this manner the administrative elite decays, and we eventually get a flailing response to crises like this one. As Paul Fussell pointed out, establishing a good university is an exceedingly difficult, slow, and unlikely project, and you don't get there by announcing you have. Thanks for your comment.
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  14986.  Mike Girard  If by psy ops you mean the output of the media and the great preponderance of what comes out of the universities, I agree.
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  14987.  @rob8311  Get professional help with your poison personality, asshole. Cheers.
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  14988. Well, no, but kind of. (The dry cleaner ruins a shirt and won't pay to replace it: "Nazi!")
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  14989. My impression is that the young are intimidated less by foreign nations than by the challenges presented by freedom. They are close to accepting the radical viewpoint that freedoms are extremely destructive, a viewpoint already firmly ingrained in a certain major far-off country. (Mentioning its name is often penalized here.) I think many would thus prefer acquiescence to foreign authoritarian conquerors as providing relief from what they see as the oppression they live under at present. And were such horrors (as I would see them) to indeed arrive, they would likely be glad to be rid of the adult responsibilities of making choices which today plague them with anxiety and fill them with feelings of dread and inadequacy. Their new masters would be the strong dad, as it were, which they lacked and feared yet paradoxically longed for since earliest youth. Liberty is for above-average peoples. Lesser peoples are bound to reject it eventually.
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  14990. Biden: "As President there's nothing I can do about the border." Also Biden: "Due to poor polling, I have now acquired additional powers as President."
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  14991. Justin Trudeau does the same thing and it costs the taxpayers millions a year. There's security, jet fuel, mega-expensive hotels and restaurants, a huge retinue of aides, cronies, hangers-on, etc. For Queen Elizabeth's funeral he stuffed the plane with everyone he ever knew and stayed for days. The hotel bill was astronomical.
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  14992.  @ImperativeGames  I hope your psycho president sends you to the front. The Ukrainian heroes will give you a warm American welcome.
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  14993.  @mengreat6982  This winter will be very tough for your RF marauders to survive! Mark my words. Order plastic flowers from China now.
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  14994.  @madjidbezzaoucha662  Yes, certify NordStream 2 .... for dismantling and recycling! Melt the steel down for armoured weaponry and make a gift of it to Ukraine. They can end some presents by air mail to the Russian front line!
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  14995.  @viaceslavmikhailovich9825  The Russian fuhrer has a chin implant and wears high heels. His hobby is slaughtering children.
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  14996.  @TheGreatCatsby-pd2tt  Germany hires the US to protect it from Russian National Socialists under the Fuhrer Vladolf Putzler.
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  14997. Actually tariffs tend to reduce spending on imported goods. If sneakers go from $100 to $160, there won't be a 60% bigger market for them. More like a 60% smaller market. As a result, spending on domestic goods and services will increase, not fall.
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  14998. It's Russia that deserves what it's going to get in the coming months and years. Russia population: 145m / Combined Ukraine–NATO–Three-continents rich democracies population: ~1,200m Russia GDP: $2trn / Combined Ukraine–NATO–Three-continents rich democracies GDP: ~$50trn
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  14999.  @Angelum_Band  Who said I was speaking for you, or anybody at all? Too bad you don't realize that we're still in the cheap zone here. Later on the bill will be seriously crippling if we don't do something now. Imagine if Germany had been stopped in 1936, or at the Sudetenland. Look at what appeasing him then cost us later. Let a bully run wild in Europe and the world goes upside down.
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  15000.  @1madmaxx80  "He's a good boy. He tryna get his life together."
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  15001. I'm sure you will fully disclose how much you profit from your boss and hero, the loathsome Vladimir Putzin.
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  15002.  @cyclewisconsin105  I'd say 90% chance he's a foreign internet comments worker. With automation plus LLM and other AI assistance, working thousands of Western SM accounts each, 1,000 such workers can easily put up a few thousand posts each per hour, or a combined billion posts a month. Easily.
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  15003.  @cyclewisconsin105  On further inspection of the thread I'd say we were both off. He seems to be a moderate Republican. But I stand by my remarks as to probabilities in general. Best regards.
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  15004. AT&T, through its subsidiary Time Warner. Great question.
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  15005. Q: Why has David Cameron been hungry all morning for the past six years? A: To his regret, he voted against Breakfast.
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  15006. Yes! He's so terrible I couldn't watch to the end, even though I was interested in her thoughts.
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  15007. Nice try, wumao. You really earned your 50 cents.
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  15008. Nice grammar.
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  15009.    He has a problem with complete sentences quite often and I don't consider him as articulate as Obama but his grammar's fine.
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  15010. Buh-bye.
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  15011. Ok, so that definitely proves that the ASP of a Tesla will drop another 20% this year. Brilliant. I will allocate my life savings accordingly. Thank you.🙄
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  15012. The idea that black people don't have ID and can't get ID and don't know how to, is profoundly insulting to them. You need ID to drive a car. You need ID to cash or deposit a paycheque. What exactly are Democrats trying to say about black people? That they are incompetent to run their lives? What a r a c I s t slur on black people in America.
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  15013. 3 points: (1) Mika Brzezinski actually has a great political bloodline. Her dad Zbigniew was the highly-respected National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter throughout his term (1977-81). Alas, as the case of Justin Trudeau attests, children of distinguished statesmen may well turn out to be total duds. (2) I finally figured out why Biden chose Kringela Harris. It was specially for her total awfulness, in order that when at last he became truly, completely, undeniably, functionally incapacitated (as he clearly is now) it would never occur to a soul to remove him and put her in his place. Think about it: if his VP were even halfway competent-seeming, Democrat calls for his removal on grounds of mental degeneration — indeed, the calls of Republicans and the entire nation — would have by now resulted in his replacement by that VP. But no, the Biden the strategy has worked. She is so deeply unpalatable that Biden will remain in the Oval Office until January 2025, unless he dies or sinks into a literal coma. (3) October/November 2023 is when Dave Rubin absolutely caught fire. I always liked you, Dave, but I can say now what I wouldn't have said four years ago, that you have blossomed into a political and social pundit of the top tier.👏👏
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  15014.  @joshuaagomaa1556  That's right keep it up. Please escalate. Just keep behaving worse and worse.
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  15015. @Alexander Rosengrün No, they've just been terrorizing American cities for three months.
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  15016. It's a pity.
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  15017. Hey Daniil, the woman in the red coat and hood said apolitical Russians are like ostriches. Why did you publish her remark? Why didn't you scold her? Why didn't you tell her to go take a walk in the park?
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  15018. We 'would of' prevented this deterioration if we weren't such a bunch of 'loosers.'
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  15019. 'Thy' is not an archaic form of 'you', it's an archaic form of 'your.' As in: "Cringe, thy name is this whole video."
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  15020.  @嘻嘻大好人  I know it perfectly well. The trustworthiness of a government is much greater when the constitution imposes multi-party elections. The problem is you just don't know that.
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  15021.  @嘻嘻大好人  I invite your reply.
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  15022.  @嘻嘻大好人  3. [;Mexico, etc.] Democracy can't repair a hopelessly broken people at once, as government is not civilization in its totality; rather, it is only an important part, perhaps the most important, depending on how you look at it.
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  15023.  @嘻嘻大好人  Thank you for making my point for me. The CPC treats respect for Chinese people like a tap it can turn on and off. Desirous of greater prosperity, it turned on the economic and social freedom tap, with predictable results. These results having been obtained, its hand is once again on the tap: surveillance, social credit scores, a million in camps in the west, president for life. It's not Chinese communism that has worked; it's relief from Chinese communism that has worked.
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  15024.  @嘻嘻大好人  "Germany has a much more fair political system than US" That may be so. I am not here to defend the US. I wish to defend multi-party elections. Still, it must be admitted that multi-party elections in Germany would be unlikely without US actions between 1940 and 1990. By the way, thanks to the CPC, I am privileged to have known many dozens of the millions of Chinese people who have emigrated to the West. From them I have learned much that I could never learn from people who have never left, who both lack perspective (70 years of tightly controlled indoctrination) and who could never feel comfortable with the risks of talking openly to a Western visitor. But I plan to visit China within a year or two, that is if it still allows foreign visitors by that time. It's all up to your dad, the CPC!
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  15025.  @嘻嘻大好人  lol, no problem!
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  15026. My recollection of his tenure is scanty, but from this speech I should imagine he's regarded as one of the greatest Labour PMs.
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  15027. I agree with everything she said.👍 But please, Fox, find yourself a different host who doesn't say "ex-purry-ence." It's em-burri-sing to listen to him.
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  15028. That crowd looks about the same as you'd expect them to look if they were herded into a room at gunpoint to hear a speech by an ISIS leader.
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  15029. Prof. Joe Biden, acclaimed research physicist, has discovered a new subatomic particle, the peson. He's so good, it was by accident.
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  15030. Well, to be fair, those are the key elements of what is called in political science a liberal democracy. But let's say Putin is re-elected on his existing platform of policies in a UN-monitored and verified clean election with no suppression of opponents. (😄I know, fantasy.) Anyway, it certainly still wouldn't be a liberal democracy, but it would be a democracy.
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  15031.  @leiflillandt1488  Please. (1) Any EU country can leave the EU if it wishes to, as Britain did. If a US state tries to leave the US, it's war. (2) Each EU country has its own foreign affairs dept. and foreign policy. (3) Each EU country has its own armed forces. (4) There's no EU criminal code to correspond to US federal criminal laws. (5) There's no EU passport. I could go on and on. But of course it is true that member nations do surrender considerable sovereignty to the EU, especially with respect to an immense web of regulations on business, trade and environmental standards, and even judicial matters and international relations up to a point. Nonetheless, the European Court of Justice is not the counterpart of the US Supreme Court. (Despite all those things, however, it seems single countries can still jam up proceedings if they are adamant.) If I've made any errors here, please correct me. I've never lived in the EU.
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  15032.  Kim Jin Cho  Way to bring race into it when you don't even know wtf race the OC is. Drive-by race vandalism in total darkness. Give yourself a pat on the back for pointless destructiveness. oh wait, I'm sure you already did. 🤢
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  15033. To connive is to look the other way (when someone else is doing evil).
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  15034. Agreed. Elon Musk says X-AI's chatbot, named Grok, is founded on a commitment to seeking truth, for which I applaud him. It's a dismally novel concept once again.
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  15035. Old Mill station, actually.
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  15036. Namely what pack?
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  15037. An incompetent rip-off of Javier Milei, the outstanding new president of Argentina. Some classic advice which her mom never heard or didn't take to heart, alas: Don't Put Your Daughter On The Stage, Mrs. Worthingon — Noël Coward (song, 1934)
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  15038. Did you know that Biden is most popular among older/elderly people? As for young people, polls have varied, but some in the past 2-3 months have showed Trump ahead of him with younger Americans. One showed him leading 49 to 43% among 18-29 year olds. They're entering "stage right," you know.😄
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  15039. Yes, in a way there is one: the United States Department of Defense. But it's not time yet. Not sure what can be done today, besides the CCP releasing the immense China food reserves.
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  15040. That is the viewpoint of a psycho.
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  15041.  @peterjanoff  Why not just ask Solavyov, your ultranationalist buddy in the video? Or if he won't take your call, ask his son in London.😂
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  15042. The US is doing exactly what it ought to do: it is ramping up the pace of its aid at a rate which is forcing Russia to ramp up its own efforts in a much more belaboured way. NATO isn't breaking a sweat, while Russia is huffing and puffing under considerable strain. When Ukraine makes its counteroffensive, Russia will be like an exhausted fighter in the 10th round.
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  15043.  @slob12  My point was merely that no one ought to have a hard time deciding, that the fence is too razor-thin to sit on top of. I leave it at that, for my opinion as to the actual justice of the matter counts for nothing. (Still, others' opinions interest me, so I invite you to offer your own view.)
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  15044.  @MikiSuzuki2000  I can't speak for the OC, but I offer my opinion that only three things stand between Ukraine and strong achievements and prosperity. Namely, its want of peace, security and investment capital. I expect it will get all three in turn.
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  15045.  @MikiSuzuki2000  So say you, labouring under your own illusions. There, did that accomplish anything to say that to you? Nah. Ok, adieu. I won't be able to see your posts anymore. Good luck.
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  15046. Uh, excuse me, but how do you not realize that he's all that stands between America and a Kringela Harris administration, which is a far greater threat?
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  15047. Uh, excuse me, but how do you not realize that he's all that stands between America and a Kamala Harris administration, which is a far greater threat?
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  15048. The emperor has no brain.
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  15049.  @glenchua3315  The emperor has no brain.
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  15050. Neil de Grasse Tyson, wokester: Multiple accusations, no problem, found innocent Joe Biden, Democrat: No investigation, no problem
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  15051. What a terrific bore this chap is.
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  15052. Ali Velshi: Worst Canadian in the US, worse than Celine Dion, Justin Bieber and Jennifer Granholm combined, and twice as cheesy. Not particularly a fan of Ramaswamy but he's correct on this one.
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  15053. No, the 31% drop was for their intention to vote Biden. Still high, though. In 2020 they voted 90% Biden, as I remember. So now it's 60...or 59...
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  15054.  @bluebird3281  I believe you have the right idea.
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  15055. At the blind person's haberdashery maybe?
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  15056. Like button just smashed to smithereens.👍 This reminds me of Justin Ocasio Cortez (aka Justin Trudeau) being given a free pass for so many blackface incidents.
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  15057. All right, but don't you know what that means? It means more Special Operations. How else are 10 million or more Russians going to enter another country, crowd the residents who were born there out of the cities and towns, forcing them out of their houses and off the land they occupy? They wouldn't agree to it! Apparently Russians think that stealing countries is a normal solution to problems.
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  15058.  @petersoord806  Evidently thinking is too tall an order. Sad. Btw, watch the surprises he has in store for the Pootster once he wins the election and is safely past the danger of foreign election interference.
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  15059.  @petersoord806  Ah, thought is so difficult for some. It's a pity. Btw, watch the surprises he has in store for Putin once he wins and is safely past the danger of foreign election interference.
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  15060. Kremlin: "No, more careless smoking."
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  15061.  @khaledhemmaty6081  So high-minded of you. What a magnanimous outlook.
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  15062. No, it was planned by Hamas and Iran.
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  15063. Fix that graphic at the 2-minute mark. Homicides are up, not down. Seventeen so far this year is a lot considering the City of Seattle is only 740k people. That would be like 200 already in NYC.
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  15064.  @MarthinusLourens-q6p  X posts say a lot of things. The actual powers-that-be in Canada aren't saying that. But a nice price increase would be fair and square, 25% for starters. Or hey, instead Trump can sign an executive order creating new rivers with gigawatts of hydroelectric potential.😂 Or America can put hundreds of billions into nuclear. Oh wait, govts. won't approve that. Also, most uranium imports come from Canada, now 25% more expensive thanks to the P**z-in-Chief. Any way you cut it, new generation takes years— decades —of planning, permitting, massive financing and construction. Easy, affordable fixes: [tumbleweed bouncing by]
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  15065. I remember that study well. It was quite flawed and he later acknowledged that. The problem was false positives. The antibody prevalence rates the researchers found were within the margin of error of the tests themselves. It could thus not be determined if the findings were valid. The test groups were also not random, as they were recruited via Facebook respondents. He ended up saying that at least it was a start, or something along those lines, which was fair to say. But I think that in time the findings were vindicated, at least in the sense that later research largely backed up his study. It could still be that his sample and his test results were lucky, or were both invalid but nonetheless offset each other in opposite directions. We'll never know. In any case I wish to emphasize that I completely agree with your assessment of him as an outstanding person, scientist, and benefactor to his countrymen and -women. He deserves great respect and gratitude.
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  15066.  @charlesdavis3802  Precision wasn't the problem, validity was. By analogy with the game of darts, precision is landing your darts in a tight grouping; validity is centering them around the bullseye (or wherever you're aiming). In science, validity is the great object. As I said, although the study results more or less concurred with later work by others, Dr. Bhattacharya acknowledged it wasn't a great piece of work. It wasn't truly terrible, but it was science done on the fly, and if most papers were of that quality a lot more buildings would fall down as a result, planes would fall out of the sky more often, computers wouldn't work, and medicines would save a lot fewer people. Roughly speaking, let's say it deserved 4 to 4 1/2 stars out of five, while a pass in science is 4 1/2.
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  15067.  @charlesdavis3802  Yes. I guess I did not choose a good way to get the point across. The problem wasn't "Do these numbers indicate a sizeable finding?", it was "Is this for real at all?" The conclusions might have been not just off by 40% or a factor of 3x or something, they might have been 100% false.
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  15068. I know what you can buy for a kopek: one YouTube ad shown to a single viewer. So for the video's owner, 10 billion kopeks from 10 billion views and he can snap up a three-car parking shed in London. Sweet.
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  15069. What a complete fake. 0:24 Turns out even her hair is fake.
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  15070. Yeah, Poland's dislike of Russia has nothing to do with being militarily conquered by Russians in centuries past as well as within living memory, dominated under their jackboots for about five decades the last time. Sure.🙄 To speak generally, it seems Russians—with glittering exceptions—are little capable of self-criticism or self-insight and it's not unfair to say a wide streak of inhumanity runs through them.🤨 A brutalized people end up liking brutality.
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  15071. She's not fit to be vice president of a fruit stand, let alone the world's leading nation.
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  15072.  @jannalam6861  Read the original post in this thread again.
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  15073. Pinfold's dictum: Politics is a suit of clothes worn not by a person but a personality.
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  15074. I'm irreligious myself, but never antagonistic to other people's religious feelings in the least. (Although of course I will return the antagonism of anyone antagonistic to my irreligiosity). In this I am unlike many people who share my lack of religious feeling, those of the political centre and left especially. Along with a hostility to religion—curiously, exemptions are nearly always made for non-Western religions—I perceive in them also a certain emptiness of spirit which I attribute to them not having what earlier generations had; namely, the feelings of security, virtuousness and meaning which tended to be provided by the reverence of an all-powerful being. They thus quite understandably seek powerful things to revere in its stead. Sadly, they often stoop to revering political power. Usually, perhaps. Anyway, that's how I interpret the strange words used by the reporter.
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  15075.  @youtigerphil  Every government everywhere tells some untruths, but none fails to tell the truth 100% of the time. It takes an educated mind to begin to tell the difference, and I see there is an undereducation problem with some of the commenters in this thread. When their family members return home from university in Canada and the US, perhaps that will improve. Best wishes to all our level-headed and good-tempered friends in India. May our relations quickly improve once Trudeau is gone, which shouldn't be long now.
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  15076.  @youtigerphil  Not interested in any such lunacies, thank you. You are now muted. Have a nice day.
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  15077.  @cstempleton  🎯 100%
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  15078. " 'When the story of the early architecture of Toronto is told, the CN Tower will be a significant chapter,' says structural engineer Patrick Quinn." Early architecture? Toronto has numerous prominent buildings more than a century older than the CN Tower. It is simply far too young to qualify as belonging to the early period. Eight years after its completion Toronto celebrated the 150th anniversary of its incorporation as a city in 1834. The CBC drips dumbness, even in its choice of interview guests and which of their quotes to highlight.
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  15079.  @sigmaputin6888  Then get out. Tidy up your hovel before you go.
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  15080.  @sigmaputin6888  I meant the sty you share with your mice and bedbugs. (Although at least it has running water, unlike half of Russian dwellings.) As for Britain being an undesirable "shitehole", perhaps it is, at least to the extent that it's full of the richest Russian skum.
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  15081. Newsome always looks like he's on something. Always.
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  15082.  @kateturner1849  It's California. You never know.
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  15083. I need closure on that rescue.
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  15084. You mean it would be mounted where a rear-view mirror usually is? Then yes, definitely. Perfect idea. At least as an option anyway (since it would likely be an expensive add to the base price, and the company would really want to avoid that).
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  15085. Plenty Wrong, repulsive radical thespian.
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  15086.  @magpiegirl3783  I don't know if that company has home and mobile setups like Starlink does. I don't think so, I think it just has large corporate and govt. customers.
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  15087.  @marcusm8745  In England and Wales anyway. But fully a third of that was due to other causes. Maybe more. There are many reports of promiscuous attribution of deaths to covid-19. We can assume that a number of the 'missing heart attack patients' died as a result of being shut out or scared away from hospitals. And remember, the flu was set to cause more excess deaths than an average year anyway (at least that was the case in the US and Canada anyway). It didn't pack up and leave the country because covid-19 came along. Presumably it went on to be even deadlier amongst people it still managed to infect.
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  15088.    "Terrible human being"? Don't go overboard. Respect for one's native tongue is a virtue, and most children are rightly brought up to value it and learn how to use it properly. Jumping all over someone on the least pretext to call them racist is not a virtue, although all too many like to pretend it is. Real racism is a serious problem; don't trivialize it with such frivolous accusations. Improving the world starts with a long look in the mirror.
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  15089.  @sunseeker2009  Ignore that accusation of elitism and racism, kiddo. Don't let frivolous crap like that get you down, and do hang on to your sense that careful use of language is important and has something to do with personal merit. But I disagree somewhat on your point about the "poor old lady [who] died from coronavirus." Keep in mind that it's extremely important for officials to know exactly what level of illness and death the virus is causing. I ask you this: What are we to make of it if we see a surge of deaths recorded in one period of the year followed by a period a short while later with a much lower number than we'd expect based on the average rate of deaths during the same months in recent years? Accurate collection of data and careful analysis is important, but through them it may be established that the 'missing deaths' may be a result of the very old and sick dying mere weeks or months before they would have, had no pandemic occurred. The loss of any days of life is tragic, as indeed a loss of mere hours may be considered tragic in its own way. But the tragic element, although present in the background while an epidemiologist is thinking about this (why would there even be a field of epidemiology if we didn't all find death tragic?), is not the primary concern here, it's the power of the virus to shorten lives, and like it or not, weeks don't count as much as decades. When death totals during a pandemic are looked at, we subtract expected deaths from the total because deaths happen at a certain rate anyway and it's pandemic-caused deaths we're studying. Subtracting expected deaths doesn't mean we don't care those people died. It's not callous. Death is a part of life and can't be avoided, so we accept it. Not to do so is unhealthy psychologically. Those deaths we can potentially postpone through medical and epidemiological research are what we focus on. So don't make too much of anyone minimizing up to a point a slight curtailment of life. When someone is dealing with numbers that describe huge populations it's only natural to consider the larger effects more important. That's why people will be happy when the national rate of deaths falls from hundreds a day down to a couple. It's not like two people dying isn't sad, it's just immensely less sad than hundreds dying. Just my opinion. Cheers.
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  15090.  @sunseeker2009  I suggest caution in giving credit to the Guardian article of 2009 and the Wikipedia article on Prof. Sikoram. There is an eerie similarity to accusations made against another UnHerd interviewee, the German epidemiologist Dr. Knut Wittkowski. Formerly a professor in Germany, he was afterward long the head of an epidemiology department at Rockefeller University, a graduate research university in New York City. Despite his senior role he was not a professor there, but it was alleged incorrectly, according to him, either carelessly or deliberately, by USA Today, that he claimed to be one. He was a successful and respected academic, so it seems unlikely that he would make such a bizarre and easily falsifiable claim. Yet after publicly sharing unpopular opinions concerning the pandemic, he was faced with the accusation. Rockefeller University promptly issued an indignant statement to the effect that not only was he not a professor there, but that they also abjured his opinions on the pandemic. In my view it appears he was smeared for his opinions. Having watched his UnHerd interviews (now removed from this channel by YouTube!) I find him more credible than USA Today (and YouTube management). I hasten to add my view that university administrators are a species of invertebrate whose indignant news releases are best completely ignored. The more someone knows about university presidents and their underlings, the more likely they will agree with me. So I'm not surprised to find Prof. Sikoram accused of an offence so unlikely-sounding for a man of his eminence, to find his Wikipedia article edited to include this material, nor to find the university he was formerly affiliated with distancing itself from him vigorously on the least pretext, nor to find a very left-wing paper like the Guardian making allegations against him after he criticized the NHS whilst also characterizing it as being the darling of the left. Ordinarily, Wikipedia, ICL, and the Guardian are acceptable sources on a range of topics. But this is the age of thoroughgoing partisanship, and institutions that could at one time be trusted for impartiality no longer can be. I'm sad to say that all three can be considered creatures of it. Thus, none of the three can be trusted on matters the least controversial. It's a pity.
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  15091.  @sunseeker2009  wrote: " He is NOT an expert on the subject and is NOT a scientist. He speaks utter nonsense about something he knows nothing about. Get lost troll" Really now. You're letting your emotions get the better of you. You should realize that someone like an eminent clinical and research oncologist is entitled to an opinion on this subject. Your assertion that he doesn't has merit in a way, as he would not be invited to speak at an epidemiology conference unless perhaps his talk concerned cancer rates, but you lack judgment on the extent to which professionals can comment outside their particular area of specialization. If they had a particular interest and substantial reading under their belts, an eminent geologist could have intelligent opinions on metallurgy, an accountant could have something to say on the investment industry, a business lawyer could comment on accountancy regulations. The present moment, in my opinion, in some ways calls for outstanding brilliance and mature judgment to which ordinary technical knowledge can be added, for it is incomparably less feasible to top up mere ordinary technical expertise with outstanding brilliance and mature judgment. It's great to see a youngster with such an intense interest in a complex matter. It bodes well for your chances of one day directly joining debates like this one, and having people watch and comment on you.
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  15092. A man I know whose child is autistic—I mean autistic —despises people like you more than anything, for trying to redefine autism so as to include in its embrace children who are merely odd and not much more. He says some parents insist their child is autistic when it's simply that they've damaged their child with shockingly poor parenting. All I can say is that more people should try not to say anything about it if they don't know much.
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  15093. Forest fires are normal, even the occasional spate of them. There was a dry May in Quebec and then a thunderstorm in the remote north with a high ratio of lightning strikes to rain, thousands of them.
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  15094.  @TKUA11  I don't recognize those names, so as far as I'm concerned he could be just some weird sad dude, chain-smoking and drinking beer out of a can in a hovel anywhere.
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  15095. ​ @gimenovax1 Don't you see, he's aiming every word at Alberta — not directly, but as though Alberta is Cinderella and he's insulting her stepsisters. He's very cunning, so to understand what he does you have to think like the big POS.
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  15096. Because there are new technological approaches and because the intensity and scale of the effort is like nothing ever seen in medical research. Things are going well enough that eight candidates are in Phase 3 trials. That means they basically have been shown to work but need thorough scrutiny for side effects and for effectiveness across all patient groups. Russia, as you know, for better or for worse has decided they've seen enough and are going ahead with roll-out. It may backfire or it may not. As for the common cold, I'm not a virologist, but 80% of common colds are caused by rhinovirus, not a coronavirus. Maybe that's the issue. There's no AIDS vaccine either, but they came up with one for Ebola.
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  15097. ​ @maccarf516  Ok, Dr. Science. We'll see if your prediction of 15 years is accurate. Btw, virtually nothing is 100% safe. Dozens or hundreds of people are killed every year just walking down the sidewalk and getting hit by a car.
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  15098.  @maccarf516  Really? 885,000 worldwide every 8 months, meaning 1.3 million a year? I'd love to see that stat in black and white somewhere, cause it seems far-fetched.
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  15099.  @maccarf516  One last thing. You said "crossing the street". That does fall under road accidents, but the category of 'all road accidents' is much, much greater in scope.
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  15100. Yes, and let's spell it out: the NBA executives, the owners, and the players, too. The definition of venal, all of them. (Except the admirable Enes Kanter Freedom.)
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  15101. ​@@MaxImus-theoneandonly Lou Reed: "I came, I saw / I declared martial law / 'Cause I'm the marshall in the city" Pretty good song.
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  15102. Keeping an eye on Russian s k um from international airspace. How can you ask?
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  15103. What a great guy. He simply won't back down. This was well worth my time.
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  15104. Meanwhile, the share of babies born to low-IQ uneducated people is rising all the time. So our population is losing IQ points. The woman least likely to become a mother is one who's intelligent, educated and (my view of it) good-looking and at least a little refined. Thus The Great Dumbening, The Great Coarsening, which are still gathering steam. Don't get me wrong, men's choices have moved along analogous lines. But they don't look down on women as much as women look down on them. And they of course cannot have babies.
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  15105. Ah, 79 AD, a lovely time! — when their TV ads hadn't for five straight decades shown every dad as a nincompoop useless to his kids except as the butt of jokes, only dubiously interested in them, and impossible for them to respect. The ad executives of Corso Madisone in Naples knew better in that day.
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  15106. Thank you. May I say it was quite diplomatic of you to complain in this partially complimentary manner, but are you really so sincerely disappointed? I visit this site only now and then (and only because of its prominence) and I expect such disappointment as a matter of course. In my experience it deals in facts, sanctimony and this type of careless thoughtlessness in roughly equal measure. Cheers, friend
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  15107. Better camera angle than in the home studio.
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  15108.  @leodmcabre5548  He won fewer than half the seats with less than one-third of the votes. Thanks MSM. That $600 million in cash Trudeau directly gave you in 2019 really paid off.
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  15109. What?! Trump backed down after getting no more out of Canada than the paltry response offered in December. We'll see how it goes, but right now it looks like Trump was bluffing. Stay tuned.
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  15110. I can't believe how heavily this report relies on a single source, and it's a Mercedes Benz dealer. This is how a journalist phones it in.
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  15111. The final part of your comment does not seem relevant to the first part. 🤔🤨
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  15112. I always assumed that this is how the US govt funds expensive R & D for weapons we don't even know about. Keeping square books and doing stuff which can't be openly revealed to the world isn't possible. I'm good with that. As for the arms contractors, they make attractive margins — but nothing like Apple.
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  15113. What a hero. The nation mourns. He'll be missed.🥂
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  15114.  @MrJohnnyDistortion  Wow. You'd never heard of ratioing and how it works, but just out of common sense you assumed that the raw ratio of likes to replies was crucial to where the algo places a comment in the section it's a part of? Must be nice having an IQ of 400.
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  15115.  @SuperSupersoda  Funny you say SNL. Dave could actually put his standup chops to work saving that wreck if he didn't have more important things to do here. I bet he could destroy a mean Weekend Update.
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  15116.  @jaydub79  Well, when there's a pattern... "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” —Wilde
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  15117.  @bls8959  No I haven't, but I find that very believable. All the best to you.
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  15118. 1) Incorrect thumbnail: "Rafah Invasion." Should be: "Battle of Rafah." 2) Over one day since upload, only 10k views. Obviously this video is being swarmed by downvoters, in order to keep it from people's feeds, or else it would have 5-10x the number of views. Organized entities are gaming this platform on a mass scale.
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  15119. Buffalo Fire Department! * * We kids would say that dismissively in front of our parents back in our teens, using it as code. It was a way of saying BFD, which stood for something else entirely. I assume it won't be hard imagine what we really meant.
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  15120. Fair point, but I watch life closely for euphemisms and ETF isn't much of one in my opinion. SWAT and ETF are both made up of innocuous words except for weapons and force, and those two sort of cancel each other out. The idea of 'swatting' evildoers is there in SWAT, yeah, but it lost its impact on me soon after I first heard it as a boy.
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  15121. Assuming it's one pizza, so on average $20 (where I live), do you realize that the cook and the owner combined don't even clear $10 on that order? Why should the driver get the lion's share? Anyone delivering $100 worth of pizza an hour can only expect $15 an hour in tips. It beats minimum wage (and besides, I found out pizzerias pay a small wage to drivers as well). What is it with people who want to show off to themselves when paying people who bring them food? How about tipping your garbage men $10 a week? They deserve it at least as much. At least.
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  15122. If it divides the liberal vote, I'm for it.
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  15123. Isn't this what cudgels and flails were invented for?
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  15124.  @onbored9627  What was pro-crypto about my reply? What was anti-bank about my reply? Nothing.
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  15125. YouTube commenters are going wild with panicky fear, psychotic theories, and vindictive anger. I think I gotta get out of here before I catch something. Cheers all.
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  15126.  @lol-ih1tl  Are you sure that a rusted ship is necessarily an environmental hazard? I doubt it, once it has been cleaned out. Countless ships have been scuttled around the world to enhance coral reefs. So I'm guessing the challenges are spot soil decontamination and—possibly, but not necessarily—salt harvesting.
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  15127.  @DTD110865  What's stopping them from removing the chemicals? Low GDP, no doubt, and probably corruption. Possibly it's a price tag in the countless billions that would overwhelm even a rich economy.
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  15128. *Combatting. Everyone should ignore the Microsoft dictionary, which is what started all these misspellings. Double consonants are not useless, they serve the purpose of indicating how the preceding vowel is pronounced: One consonant, long vowel; double consonant, short vowel. Examples: Ratted, Rated. Batted, Bated. Latter, later. Hatter, Hater. Tatter, Tater. Matted, mated. Fatted, fated. (Bill Gates should've left such things to people with more than a high school education.)
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  15129. Ok, comrade. You'd have us lining up for beets and carrots in no time. Free-enterprise-based countries have the highest standard of living, You didn't know that? The whole world does. Cuba, China, North Korea get zero immigrants for a reason, comrade. Zero.
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  15130. Even if Biden finishes his term I expect Harris to destabilize the world significantly. First till Nov. 5; then till Jan. 20; then, god forbid she's elected, for the following four years. By "significantly" I mean the world will at least notice the difference; possibly she will bring on disaster. She seems psychologically unfit, with a really weak intellect.
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  15131. Dang, lady, do that edit. "Dissent"!
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  15132. ​ @sexygeek8996  I think that's a fair response.
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  15133. How did you Australians even elect that awful old lady, anyway? Was it just some colossal and unintentional mix-up? You should get rid of her immediately. I find her slightly masculine, to be honest. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  15134. Acceptable? More than acceptable, according to our woke overlords in the media and education sectors. It's very nearly against the law to declare it false.
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  15135. Psychopaths tend to be losers, not monsters. The term has been distorted by TV and movies (like most things in life, except even more than most).
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  15136. Were you at that rally we watched in the video, counter-demonstrating and urging people to reject the message being peddled? No? Then you're not helping. People like you are actually the reigh cysts in the sense that you're deliberately worsening things for minorities. It's be great if you really were woke—if you woke up to the reality of what you are: extremely harmful.
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  15137. I love it when Marketplace interviews these industry association/lobby group types. There's something similar in all their faces, perhaps a lack of restful sleep. Cheers.
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  15138. I wouldn't say that. France has been far from a leading contributor of aid to Ukraine, especially considering its wealth and military capacities.
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  15139. I would just as soon not see coverage of any event from Sky News in London. It's a step-sibling company which I have absolutely no use for.
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  15140. So now there's two types of elite athlete: Men, and men who cut their d...s off. Women are gone.
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  15141.  @byke-j7l 🤡💩☠
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  15142. Not a Priti picture.
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  15143. It's time to stop teasing Kat like she's Charlie Sheen. Even if she were Charlie Sheen it would be old by now. She can take a joke, but make it a good one.
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  15144. Actually Churchill, by turning 90, was entering his tenth decade, not his ninth.
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  15145.  @wholeNwon  Yeah, sure.
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  15146.  @martin2289  Wrong. Your homicide figures are for the City of Toronto only, while your population figures are for the GTA. Major blunder. Actual figures: Pop. 1991, 2.28m; Pop. est. 2022, 2.86m Also, 1991 was an anomalously high year, bracketed by years with 55 and 65. (Also, 2022 was 71 homicides, not 70.)
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  15147.  @osmosis321  I realize that about long-term trends. Look at my standalone comment of an hour ago. As for his point, you're crediting him with something he never said. Go back and read each word. He pointed only to the 1991 figure (rate: 2.55, an all-time high which was never repeated). A fair comparison is to look at the 5 years with 1991 in the middle. Avg. rate: 2.02. 2021: 1.81. Five years ending 2021: 1.86. So a drop of ~8%, not the massive plunge he asserted with his cherrypicking.
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  15148.  @osmosis321  You obviously can't read.
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  15149. He certainly is! Tough as nails.
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  15150. Slightly less bad than they wanna be.😂
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  15151.  @louisross8214  More like I ran.
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  15152.  @vladpetric7493  Uh, so other areas get capacity factors of 50% by being 5x sunnier than Germany...meaning 3x sunnier than Greece?🤔 Don't think so. Help me out here, if you think there's something to teach me (easily) and you have the time.
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  15153.  @vladpetric7493  Hmm, I did say 'half.' (I first said one-third. But I edited it one minute later, and that was 19 hrs. ago! Still shows as 'one-third'? Weird.🤔)
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  15154. Simply: Yes. Watch the longer interviews about so-called active measures with the late former KGB operative and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, bearing in mind that Russia was then and is largely still run by that agency (now renamed FSB). Great man. Alternatively, Operation InFektion, in which he appears, is an eye-opener.
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  15155.  @babymonalisa  So everyone whose comments which you happen to agree with is not a bot. Got it. Who knew is was so simple?
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  15156.  @babymonalisa  You bore me.
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  15157.  @babymonalisa  Breathe. Just breathe. And stop thinking so highly of yourself. There, I've given you two useful pieces of advice to help you turn your personality around. You're welcome.
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  15158. I heard an adjective in front of it.
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  15159.  @operator9858  Spoken like a true juvie.
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  15160.  @LukaDonesnitch  That is false. The evidence clearly shows that the 9/11 attackers entered the United States through airports using legal entry procedures, not over the Canadian border. There is documentation of all their travel in and out of US airports using valid ID. The idea that they came through Canada is a misconception that arose after the attacks. I seem to recall Hillary Clinton saying that they did. (I know, it's shocking that she would say anything that wasn't so.😂) If you know of any verifiable evidence to the contrary which has emerged in the recent past, from any credible source, please share it.
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  15161.  @LukaDonesnitch  That's false. No 9/11 attacker entered through Canada.
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  15162.  @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO  Ok, rando.
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  15163.  @LukaDonesnitch  Legally, with legal documents. From across the Atlantic. That's what you can't accept, that we just let them in. They came to destroy and we held the door open for them. It wouldn't surprise me if we gave them student loans for flight school. It was all legit. But you still think it had to be someone else's fault or weakness.
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  15164.  @tuberNunya  You're faulting my English? Go ahead, explain yourself. This should be good.😂
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  15165.  @LukaDonesnitch  They got in legally at airports coming from across the Atlantic, not via Canada. You can't accept that they came in with proper documents, without any other country letting us down. They came with ill intent and we held the door open for them. It wouldn't surprise me if we gave them student loans for flight school in Florida.
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  15166. ​ @LukaDonesnitch  They landed at US airports coming from across the Atlantic, not via Canada. All 19. You can't accept that they came in with proper documents, without any other country letting us down. They came with ill intent and we held the door open for them. It wouldn't surprise me if we gave them student loans for flight school in Florida.
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  15167.  @LukaDonesnitch  Reply not allowed ATM. Will post later.
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  15168.  @bobsmith6544  Oh? Why? The video misstated the facts by saying "He was arrested trying to cross the border." Just sit down and breathe. It will be ok.
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  15169.  @anthonyI  I knew that and never said otherwise. Don't smoke anything.
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  15170.  @bobsmith6544  Did a raccoon bite you? I would get that fever checked out. In the meantime sit down and breathe. Just breathe.
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  15171.  @MRobles-705  Wrong. He was arrested driving through Quebec, not where he lived, which was Toronto. He is a citizen of Pakistan, not Canada. You've got him mixed up with that father-and-son pair from earlier in the year. It's easy to look up all these facts instead of messing up a thread with incorrect claims.
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  15172.  @LukaDonesnitch  That is false. The evidence clearly shows that the 9/11 attackers entered the US through airports using legal entry procedures, and no travel through Canadian airports was involved. There is documentation of all their travel in and out of US airports using valid ID. The fact is that America held the door open for them. It wouldn't surprise me if they were given student loans for flight school in Florida. Face facts. Facts don't care about what anyone wants to believe for their own emotional reasons.
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  15173. So wait, you're a human being pointing out that when a human being points out that things other human beings say might be false, it might itself be false? How ironic. I shall certainly disregard it.
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  15174. He knows what he's doing. Let him be.
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  15175. TL;DR version of this comment: America needs a third party, one to split the left, like Canada has long enjoyed. Canada is supposed to be a pretty left-wing country, and it sort of is, but this kind of DNC convention stuff doesn't fly so well in our major liberal party. The imaginatively-named Liberal Party of Canada is the counterpart, not to say the equivalent, of the Democrats, and they usually govern the country. And luckily something helpful happened here to keep them from really, really going off the rails. Decades ago the farther left in Canada went off on their own to form a third party, the New Democratic Party. At one time the NDP were bookish or faux-bookish, sentimental, nerdy, earnest, democratic socialists. They still, are, but this being 2020 they're a much worse grade of democratic socialist than formerly, for reasons I need not specify to readers here. In 2020 the far left everywhere is a crazed menace. Perennially in distant third place, they were concerned about class and things like keeping the wealth distribution and income distribution curves flat. They actually were pretty flat in those days, perhaps in part thanks to the NDP. Unions practically owned them, hairy-faced and -legged university professors held a minority stake. They're far-leftier now, somewhat like the people in this video, but they're much easier to ignore than them because no one thinks they will ever run the country, That is, they can never win by placing first and, unlike the radicals in the Democratic party, neither can they ever take over a party which can place first, because they're not in it. They have their own playpen, if you will, and they are stuck in it. Who knows, maybe they're the real reason Canada is not nearly so divided as the US. Over the years they sometimes won 20% of the vote but usually took around 10% of the parliamentary seats, and now and then they won a provincial government election. But mostly they helped the Conservatives win more elections than they otherwise would have done, and spared the Liberals of the need to accommodate them in their platform, their nominees, and their cabinet.. Warming to my vision? Go ahead. It's a vision in which the people in this video are effectively absent at election time because they're electorally irrelevant. My suggested action is, if you reside in the center or the right (or even if you're left of center but despise dangerous far-left nonsense anyway) give money to any left splinter party there is that will run candidates in federal elections. Give money to Kanye West, perhaps, if he'll take away Democratic votes. But foster the emergence of a party at the Left Pole, from which --- as from the North Pole all points are south --- all points are Right. You'll thank me when the Democratic Party improves greatly and stops presenting the grave threat it does today.
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  15176. Let's be clear: Depleted uranium is NOT used for radioactivity or explosiveness. It's used for its toughness as a metal. Period.
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  15177. NATO plus Oz: Best group of allies ever. We must make it last.
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  15178. You've heard of major shareholders getting board seats, surely? Boards appoint company executives. Even at 9% he will have influence, and if he wants another 9%, he can have it like an ordinary person can have a bowl of cereal.
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  15179. Dana Bash and Dave both failed to notice or properly construe the diacritical mark above the 'o' in Bōlz. It indicates that the name is pronounced identically to bowls.
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  15180. It's gonna take a large number of hyper-united oligarchs. The security forces really run Russia from what I hear. They won't easily be unseated, being independently potent besides having mutual arrangements with Putin. I'd say that the strongest forces are, in order: the siloviki, Putin, the army, then the oligarchs. We're talking about the tail wagging the dog here, which always has to be proved to be believed.
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  15181. @user-mx9pt4dr7y I doubt that. If we say for the moment that a.b. is a man, I think we can safely surmise that if AOC wanted him, and they were the last two people on earth, they'd be the last two people on earth.
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  15182. @user-mx9pt4dr7y I doubt that. If we say for the moment that a.b. is a man, I think we can safely predict that if AOC wanted him, and they were the last two people on earth, they'd be the last two people on earth.
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  15183. I'm entirely with you. But I check in every once in a while and I notice Carlson is slowly walking back his position. I don't think it was even sincere in the first place. I think he simply wanted to deny Dems any increase in public approval in the run-up to the election, fearful that Republican gains in popularity would be wiped out before getting their chance to be realized on November 8. On the whole I want rather more integrity in my pundits and I doubt my regard for him can ever be the same.
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  15184. "Krankly schankly!!"
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  15185.  @RR-et6zp  Your jaundiced cynicism is visible to astronauts in orbit.
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  15186. The three questions she doesn't want to answer: What do you know about anything? What have you ever achieved? Where would you be if you were a man?
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  15187.  @joannewilson6577  For about nine months SpaceX paid 100%. Since then the US govt. agency USAID has paid 80%, the remainder still coming from SpaceX. These arrangements have been unique. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and all the rest have been paid 100% by the US govt. I expect you're generally a reasonable and fair-minded person, but one morning you're going to wake up, filled with resentment of the New York Times and other large media outlets, because you've begun to realize how backwards a picture of Elon Musk they've presented (and infected) you with. You stopped thinking critically at some point and just put their hose into your brain. Btw, you can search all you like and you will not find a more intensely pro-Ukraine partisan than me. I am a NAFO monster. (Please look up NAFO and please join us, or donate. 🇺🇦🇺🇦!)
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  15188. @ Ah, describing yourself some more.🙄 Accurately, no doubt, but the subject's rather tedious so I'm moving on. Buh-bye, old girl.
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  15189. Get lost.
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  15190.  @curveball135  <--- Confession by prajexion.
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  15191. I am Xi Jinping and approve the hell right out of this message.⬆
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  15192. I'm starting to suspect that the whole spat with Ukraine was something which Trump started, feigning toughness in order to convince Russia that negotiations with him wouldn't be tilted in Ukraine's favor. Which would actually be shrewd: Having gone hardcore on Zelensky, he could repeat it with Putin, this time in earnest.
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  15193. It's normal for a visiting head of state to meet with opposition leaders. It's always been normal and always will be, in the US and all over the world.
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  15194. The woman here representing the Labour Party is here to tell you that your dirty rights are just a cover for oppression, represent an evil aberration in human history, and must come to an end.
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  15195. At some point you shall have to let go of hope. It's trapping you.
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  15196. Get her out of there! Fire her, disbar her, run her out of town on a rail.
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  15197. He mentioned wokeness extensively.
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  15198. He calls himself a centrist, and eclectic.
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  15199. Neither. It's a separate category, democrat hipster. Serious untreated illness subtype.
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  15200. "The disclosure and notification requirements"? What?
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  15201. Two minutes of pointless time-wasting intro. Then the first two minutes of the actual podcast are pure New York Times-style hit-piece spleen-venting. Buh-bye, smug hipsters.
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  15202. So? They'd be good for spot use. No one is saying they'd be the answer to every situation. Btw, the way you say YOO-kraine sounds idiotic.
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  15203. Clowns will resent that comparison.
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  15204.  @jasondashney  "if I was an employer." Exactly. You're not. So this is all just daydreaming, posturing and sanctimony. Talk is cheap 'n' easy when one has nothing to lose.
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  15205.  @spojce9  Too late. It's already long gone.
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  15206.  @jasondashney  Did you ever consider that it might irritate another person to receive pointless replies which add little or nothing to the previous exchange? They amount to "Well, I still think I'm totally right." Feel free to reply and have the last word. I'll be unable to receive it, although I wish you well.
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  15207. Right. That's true and it's what you and I think. But to some of the high-priest, champagne-socialist, Whole Foods, MSNBC-watching hipster elites, the 'real' heroes were figures like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Castro, Stalin, and the poster boy himself, the "Butcher of La Cabana," Che Guevara. [enormous great whanging cringebarf 🤮] I am definitely with you. But we need reinforcements.
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  15208. I said some more in a reply to @ninak.5283, above, pretty close to the top of the Top Comments. It's just three or four lines so have a look if you want. (Although I wonder if generally my posts are even visible.) Cheers.
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  15209. October spawned a monster. And she probably has 15 spawn of her own.🤢
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  15210.  @m1a1abrams3  In all fairness there's a number of really great parts of Europe, including ones that are very rich, very slick, run very smoothly and are very interesting. So one could move to one of those, rather than to some part of the Bulgarian rust belt or Sheffield.
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  15211.  @davidkaneva9674  Nice try, Comrade Davidovich. If it were over Russian territory they would've been within their rights to shoot it down and the US would've been unable to recover it. You're really not very good at this. Putzin will have you flung from a window.
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  15212.  @davidkaneva9674  Do you like the fact that your government murd e r s Ukrainian babies? Answer me that. Wait don't bother. I know the answer.
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  15213.  @napolianmyhand4642  No. Obviously fevered and hallucinating after receiving a head injury. Damage to the prefrontal cortex meninges or something.
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  15214. Trans activists copied their tactics from those of radical feminists which they've observed their whole lives. Thus, for the feminists, a classic case of hoist with their own petard. 😢
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  15215.  @Bat-Cat-Meow  I made an edit to my reply, possibly after you already read it.
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  15216.  @monotech20.14  Could be wrong, but I bet they frisk you pretty good before handing you gun permit ID compared with how they handle giving out student ID at dinky little colleges.
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  15217. We should move on the deficit sooner. Still, really good guest. I overall approve of her take and her proposal. Not many people can communicate as well as her.
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  15218. Kringela
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  15219.  @tinomoc9877  Thanks for your opinion, although nobody needs it.
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  15220. Someone please vacuum the lint and dandruff off that microphone foam. Please. It's been there for months.
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  15221.  @robertmarley8852   If what you mean by guidance is community leadership (i.e., elites) then you're telling me what I'm telling you, in which case it's good we agree. Because any human society will do all right if it has solid elites. Without them it has zero chance. Concerning money, how did Vietnamese boat people refugees do it? Impoverished immigrants from a wide variety of African countries? Tremendously disadvantaged people from a hundred lands who showed up on their last legs without a dime, spoke no English, etc. etc.? It's not money. A broken people with money is still a broken people.
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  15222. No they don't vary. Click the first link in the description; when you get there click test results.
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  15223. Actually this speech is straight out of one of those giant annual outdoor rallies at Nuremberg 85 or 90 years ago.
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  15224. Maybe the great filter is insufficient stealth. Just as on Earth the great advantage is old money, maybe in the interstellar and intergalactic deeps the great advantage is not showing your face, lest the stealthy well-established races of creatures spot you and wipe you out before you can say Jack Robinson. Setting off so many atmospheric nuclear tests may have been our dead giveaway, or letting our radio and TV programs and other signals leak out across immensity.
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  15225.  @elsiedoomhammer  Yeah, I think her point is that it's not quite true but that Australia deserves it for the most part. I love her, she's so level-headed and clear-eyed.
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  15226. There's a lot to what Carlson is saying here. I gave the clip an upvote for its overall merit. But has it occurred to him yet that Biden and the WH might be putting his incipient senescence to work by letting it introduce doubt and fear into the Kremlin's deliberations? If you've heard of words for paradoxical human signalling such as 'frenemies' and 'humble-bragging,' you can probably get how Biden's utterances might amount to 'official messaging with plausible deniability and instant walkbackablilty, but they'll get the drift, trust me'? In other words: Scare them, make yourself clear (although perhaps not in so many words, or do it glancingly), but do it incompetently enough that you can later disclaim it and thereby move it safely down from the status of escalatory Provocation, yet Putin will be stuck not knowing for sure. If you find it hard to accept this possibility, you may be thinking that anyone in the Oval Office is surely enough of a man and possessed of enough class that he'd never operate like that. It's high-risk, dangerous. It seems weak, sneaky, indirect. It seems 'street'. Simple and vague expressions of determination, strength and commitment to principle, repeated over and over, should do the job better, surely? You'd think so. But maybe you're not thinking about how much more unmanly and low-class the political class and the whole country have become in this century. (Hell, most of the world in many ways.) In that light, the introduction into presidential brink-of-war messaging of tactics a little feminized, a little street-sourced, a little reality-TV, wouldn't be so surprising. What would be surprising is if they never made an appearance at all in this decade, so young but already so loathsome.
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  15227. You mean that light-blue box below the video frame? Now it's no longer from Wikipedia, it's from the UN 🙄. And unlike the paraphrase of it by @TheGrimSleepy , it now just says climate change means anthropogenic climate change.
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  15228.  @GrimSleepy  Mentioned you in my other reply just now.
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  15229. I wish your videos were not louder than the rest of YouTube.
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  15230. Fairly stated. Mr. High Heels and Mr. Funny Moustache have an enormous amount in common.
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  15231. I'm worried that China stealthily nudged Russia into invading Ukraine, thinking that such a war would (among other appetizing things) make a perfect drone warfare lab. There, observational studies and experiments could be run to help it press its advantage and prepare the ground for successful wars in Taiwan and elsewhere. Thanks for the video.
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  15232. 1:20 It's clearly a watch (with wristband), not a wristband.
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  15233. "US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, for example." Uh, there's a 5th country that belongs on that list.
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  15234. This calls for a toast. Can't wait till it's officially confirmed. 😉
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  15235. De Santis, that's why. Nice try, CCP/Putin/Iranian/North Korean/Berkeley grad student stooge, whatever you are.
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  15236. 🤨Excuse me, but 41% isn't "nearly half." Think of a referendum where the vote is 59% to 41%. No one would say that's close. Stuff like this is why the media is so despised now. You can't watch 15 seconds without noticing something senseless.
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  15237.  @Dam-a-fence  "A near miss is a collision" I don't know if you're serious or not, but I hope you aren't because that's absurd.
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  15238.  @Dam-a-fence  What I really like finding out from people are the things they really know a lot about. Tell me, what are the 10 best cheap beers suitable for drinking all evening long after supper?
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  15239. Yep. They'll say anything. Direct result of quasi-religious fan atta sizzum. Every time.
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  15240.  @__Unknown__.  A desire to live under a harsh ruler is dumb. It's sub-adult.
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  15241. I notice sound problems on many other channels. But not this channel. Also, I like VP's music generally.
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  15242. Buh-bye.
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  15243.  Jamie Brank  Then I disapprove of you half as much. Plus it appears you have a beef with the looney left and you have a sense of humour or you wouldn't be here. So cheers. (That $40bn is nothing, btw, compared to the immense bill that awaits the West, in time, if they do nothing. A lot of money yet chicken feed.)
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  15244. Shut up and give us our funding.
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  15245. As for this nonsense complaining about Freddie, the complainers are 'forgetting' that this guest is the counterpart of an ISIS member defending the murder of a school full of girls. Imagine hearing how it was necessary to kill them because they had systematically been shooting up places of worship and executing holy men. Freddie was more than patient enough.
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  15246. Ms. Powell, you're a great young person and you've had quite an awakening and that's excellent, but... You have to understand that if someone is genuinely dead set on becoming a political philosopher, nothing can stop him or her. Certainly not merely being unable to pay for a master's. Unless one just wanted the status and salary of being a political philosopher, one would carry on regardless. It's not like becoming an architect, lawyer or doctor.
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  15247. That's one of the stupidest haircuts I've seen in my life.
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  15248. Let's hear about what Britain thinks, or at least what Conservatives think. Let's hear far less about Caroline Wheeler's personal feelings and moral pronouncements. She sounds like just another pompous and sanctimonious journalist, probably is one.
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  15249. ​ @patverum9051  I already understood the difference. My point is it seems faster than other rockets. Starstreak, maybe.
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  15250. ​ @виталиймеланич-т3о  Да, хотя здесь была сбита крылатая ракета, а не ракета. Именно по той причине, на которую вы указали, это было прекрасно наблюдать.
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  15251. Kremlin: The pilot was smoking carelessly.
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  15252. I need closure: Now that he's in prison, how're those homeless people doing without his resourceful help and sage guidance?
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  15253. World Pie Filling Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to this guy!"
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  15254. Hey, they named a clock after you. A little bird pops out of it to announce the hour.
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  15255. I know this was a year ago, but was Viva mentioned in this thing? I didn't catch that.
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  15256.  @redmoondesignbeth9119  Yeah, he's a good guy. Grateful for how he gave his time for that. I bet his family must have had mixed feelings! Best to you
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  15257. @@toppa7954 Nice comments. Sounds like you're working on Mein Kampf 2.0.
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  15258. I'd rather he face the same fate as Mussolini.
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  15259. Koh Vid and the outrageous and disastrous government response to it did this. The US standard of living, indeed standards of living across the Western world — as well as some of all our countries' most valuable social, political and legal traditions — were devastated. It will be the work of generations to restore all that was lost.
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  15260. I'd like the president-elect to stop wasting his hardcore, tough-guy, 'take the bull by the horns' attitude on Canada — America's longstanding friend and ally, which poses zero or next to zero threat — and put it to work here. Let him for example make plans to ban Chinese ownership of US farmland! For god's sake, never mind Canada.🙄
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  15261. So sad how Iran is held hostage by its theocracy of backward country bumpkins. It has little support from the civilized, the educated and the young, most of whom would love to resume close relations to the West. What a nightmare 45 years it's been for that country....and its neighbours and the whole region, thanks to the brutal regime.
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  15262.  @thet3504  Yes, that's what everybody says who was around at the time. The SAVAK secret police were a terror to religious-fundamentalist and communist dissidents, but life for most people was incomparably more relaxed and enjoyable, and the sense of economic progress and cultural achievement was a major source of satisfaction. Iran should've stuck with the "tyrant" they knew. His regime would've mellowed and probably gradually democratized over time. The current one never will.
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  15263. "But" ?
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  15264.  @atlasadonis3752  I'm curious why you ask. It's extremely rare for anyone to ask that on social media.
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  15265.  @atlasadonis3752  Because it's personal information, I suppose. If one's computer were ever hacked, that would include passwords, which would enable the hacker to, among many other things, download one's entire YouTube comment history. All internet security professionals advise against posting any personal information online. You didn't know that? Anyway, what do you want from me? That's what I'm wondering. You're starting to irritate me.
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  15266.  @atlasadonis3752  Why did you delete your last post, which consisted of the question: "Do you contribute to necessity, or do you just suck out as much as possible from the system?" What are you doing?
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  15267. ​ @atlasadonis3752  It is not still up, so I recalled it from memory. So stop deflecting and answer the question: What are you doing? What is your tireless, persistent, rude, creepy and increasingly hostile interest in me and my life?
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  15268. Why does she have to sound like Drew Barrymore addressing a class of 4th-graders?
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  15269. Likewise this morning, after 25 days, the crybullies camping at the University of Toronto were issued 'trespass orders' by the school. This amounts to legal fair warning that police will be called to clear them out. Reports say they plan defiance. I'm happy to say the university has denied every one of their demands.
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  15270. I wish you a lamp with a genie inside, that you may be granted a single clue.
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  15271. He can be very easily impressed by a tough and confident manner sometimes. But I don't think he can have much respect for heavy drinkers. His brother lost his life to drink decades ago. If he isn't already, Macgregor will be cast aside like Bannon et al.
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  15272. Universities are supposed to be places for exchanges of views, part of which involves making statements. And a lot of them, being adolescents, are eager to justify their claims to adult worth. (Some indeed are worthy, others not so much.) Beyond that, I would add that while I don't have in mind those who put the posters up, a large minority, perhaps even a majority of them, think that they're very important and that the world looks to them for moral guidance.
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  15273. Appreciate that. We all need a laugh.
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  15274. There are also more empty jobs than homeless people.
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  15275.  @maritaschweizer1117  Actually if you start from 1, growth of 500% results in 6.  (Note that 100% growth results in 2 and take it from there. I bet only a few percent of people realize that, e.g., 300% growth means a quadrupling. They assume it means a tripling.)
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  15276. I don't know what makes Putin think he can prevail over a billion-plus people in countries with about $50trn in GDP. His persisting hints at madness.
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  15277. I heard it's a party school.
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  15278. 1) Wow, basically zero out of 3k+ comments on the phone or the video. Seems every one is what they think of matte screen protectors. Terribly interesting.🙄 2) It's all phone fetishism anyway. Sorry I clicked on this.
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  15279.  @HimDuncan_21  The term entered wide use outside police forces well over a lifetime ago. Try something else that's valid.
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  15280. Putin for compost!
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  15281. Equal opportunity: Golden DEI and quotas: Morally wrong and destructive
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  15282. I don't see why there has to be beeping and taillights flashing just because you're opening the rear hatch. Unnecessary would be a nice word for it. Hey, why not release some perfume to make the announcement an even bigger deal? And shouldn't your phone receive some kind of alert as well, and some data be stored on the cloud to round things out?
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  15283. ​ @middle-agedmacdonald2965  He has zero problem with Jewishness, nor with Israel. Just weeks ago Benjamin Netanyahu explicitly acknowledged in person that Musk condemns anti-Semitism. (Easily verifiable, as it was on a live-broadcast Twitter Spaces one-on-one when Netanyahu was in the US.) All Musk said was that American Jews should wake up and reject super-liberalism/ wokeism/ far-leftism, since it's clearly wrong for who and what it targets and how, since it's especially dangerous for Jewish communities themselves, since it's dangerous for most Americans generally, dangerous for Western civilization, and dangerous to the very values that permit the left-wing to even advocate for such politics in the first place. His problem is with the 80%-plus left-wing orientation of the American jewry. It's against their own interests and those of the entire world. Your bias against Musk has been injected straight into your mind by the deeply degenerated media. You need to test it against actuality instead of indulging it for an easy feeling of uncritical self-satisfaction.
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  15284. Thank PM Peter Pan and the Liberals for this. They've worked overtime to demonize the grocery business for high prices, to shift blame away from their policies: from the Carbon Tax to devastating the economy during the 2020-22 health event, and then overstimulating it recklessly with borrowed money. All of that was inflationary. They need to go.
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  15285. I think he was trying to say that black kids are just as smart as rich kids.😂
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  15286. Many Italians do, alas. Not Meloni.
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  15287.  @Sarablueunicorn    I sense that you think I'm trying to exculpate someone. That isn't so. Have a nice day.
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  15288. Half a farthing.
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  15289.  @Idrathernot13  You would need to show how hitting refineries not only affects Russian exports of crude oil at all, but how it devastates them. Good luck with that.
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  15290. Yeah, they might be affecting each other a lot, more than they would wish or expect. They're hardly soulmate societies.
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  15291. Kringela = AOC & the Squad No significant difference.
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  15292. I know this may sound like some sort of mathematical impossibility, but his replacement will be ten times worse. So I'm forced into the absurd position of hoping he'll continue. How god-awfully depressing.
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  15293. I daresay most would agree he is, privately in their consciences if not openly.
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  15294. Practically made of it.
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  15295. Get them out of there in November. Plan, save, encourage, work, volunteer, donate, persuade, vote.
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  15296. 3:37 Read ousted NYT science and medicine reporter Donald McNeil's defence/indictment on Medium. Depressing and angering, but you'll see just how diseased and twisted the Times is. Unforgettable.
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  15297.  @simplesimon5739  Don't be so literal-minded. It's a rhetorical question, and one of considerable rhetorical force. Eloquence, even. (He did forget his question mark, but let that pass.)
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  15298.  @jec5476  Right. He's gotten himself Kamala Harris' job without the approval of voters.
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  15299. Crucial point: Modi didn't say "Hey, Elon, do me a favour." Modi said: "In the name of the law you must do this." He passed draconian laws in 2021 to give the govt these powers.
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  15300.  @andrekoniger3020  And it ought to be. First of all it has the largest economy in Europe, but even more importantly it's been the largest European financial donor to Russia by quite a margin and for several years...and it continues to be! Face it, Germany made Europe a worse place in pursuit of making itself richer. It received ample warning from allies about what it was doing, and its officials responded with laughter. They literally laughed.
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  15301. Because he's a Democrat, that was absolutely stunning. Seismic. I think it's a major moment.
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  15302. They can Go Fund Themselves. There's probably a spelling mistake in there somewhere.
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  15303. Actually, for a long time now I've been recommending that they do just that: Go sleep with themselves 🤣
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  15304. The spree continues. Year Five begins in about six weeks. 😔
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  15305.  @iangreen180  "The Ukraine" was standard in English till about 10 years ago. Forgive the guy for going with what he knew the first 50 years of his life.
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  15306. ​ @iangreen180  Likely, I suppose. But he's also a travel editor of long standing, so I wouldn't be 100% sure he's never been there without verifying. He may have travelled in both Ukraine and Russia.
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  15307. Gordon Lightfoot: "That does it. I'm changing my name."
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  15308. I'm sure that you know military strategy quite well indeed. I'm less sure that you know politics as well. In that vein let me remind you and your red-faced spluttering commenters that it was the choice of the Democrats to tie Ukraine aid and border security funding together in the same bill. There was a reason for it, and it was a good reason. It was a way of saying Let's play ball. And that's what is happening, and it is a good thing. Biden knows polling shows that, after inflation and the economy, the #2 issue for Americans in this election year is border security. He's made it clear that he's ready to address it, but in order to sell it to his base he needs to be able to say: "Those awful Republicans made us do it! If we didn't, they wouldn't have let us help Ukraine." Likewise Johnson and most Republicans want to send more aid to Ukraine. He's made it clear that he's ready to address it, but in order to sell it to his base (thanks to Tucker Carlson and others making it a hard sell) he needs to be able to say: "Those awful Democrats made us do it! If we didn't, they wouldn't have let us fix the border." Thus both parties have to spend a respectable amount of time fighting each other for appearance's sake. And that's what they're doing. And it's going to be all right.
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  15309. Cuz it's 2024, so kids are terrified. You get beat up and shunned, so everyone acts at least kinda gay. Coming out as straight is a big risk. It's the same level of mindless conformity and repression as the 1950s, only reversed. The name for it is "progress."😂
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  15310. ​ @technatezin  The Kuomintang lost to Mao's communists but managed to make Taiwan a rich, relatively free democracy. They would have improved mainland China, too, if they had won. Instead the communists ruined it and several tens of millions died. China today is a group of renegade provinces with a corrupt dictator. Vive le Taiwan libre!
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  15311. Yes, and exclusively to kooky and dimwitted left-wing activists.
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  15312. ​ @Eleftheria_i_thanatos  Yep, that was part of my point. 😄
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  15313. For a while I thought she was just the most impressive member of the Trump administration. Now I think she's simply one of the most impressive American in public life that I'm aware of, period.
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  15314. Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right. And I don't trust this author. Cunning is written all over his face and shines through his words.
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  15315. ​ @weottjb  Your accusation is itself baseless and I suspect it arises out of pure party feeling. If a left-wing journalist did the same thing before, why shouldn't another do it now? For all you know there is no more "story" because he pre-emptively scared them off. It also seems likely that the Fox and Times legal departments had a bit of a discussion.
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  15316.  @weottjb  First of all, 'party feeling' has nothing to do necessarily with political parties. It's about siding with 'your side' even when you have nothing else to base it on. For example, a woman voting for or in any other way siding with another woman just because she's a woman. Second, if you accept a denial from the Times as proof of anything (and you certainly do appear to) you are indeed callow and talking to you is just lost time. Cheers.
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  15317. Yeah, let's cut a check for $1.7 trillion to people who already have the great advantage of higher education. So what if they signed loan documents of their own free will?
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  15318. Those strike me as sound insights.👍
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  15319.  @bertoldriesenteil1430  (1) Ok, tankie. War is a thing of the past. Then go ahead and disarm yourself. Lie face down with your rear end in the air.😂 (2) Who said I'm American?
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  15320.  @vegas2881  You deplore "colored person", yet I bet you prefer or have no problem with "person of color." This is the absurdity of obsession over the names of things, which serves no other purpose than sanctimony. The black community has been renamed over and over again by people like you. In ten years they will give it yet another new name, which they will then try to command others to use, simply to show how wonderful they are. And one of them will write their own comment just like yours, telling you how backward you are.
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  15321. Makes sense. Wow, so wu mao actually have a way of controlling what Westerners can read on social media that's banned in China. Just wow.
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  15322. Why not? A major cause of financial crises is poor government oversight of finance and banking. In China, the Communist Party of China goes about regulating those sectors quite busily. But who is watching the government? No one, of course, so deficiencies in oversight are guaranteed, just as they are occasionally in the West. Cheers.
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  15323.  Andrew C  Reading between the lines, I hear you saying that financial crises in America stem from its corrupt financial system (companies and government oversight boards both), but China's problem is its lack of transparency, as the government has a free hand to involve itself in businesses and the financial markets just as it likes, with no one knowing about it and with no accountability. But if I'm getting you wrong, then your whole comment condemns the US. Can't tell. Overall your tone seems very CPC-friendly, but you have to make a living like anybody else! Cheers.
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  15324.  Andrew C  Slow night? The difference between you and me is that I have no enthusiasm for Goldman Sachs, the SEC, the US Congress, or the Communist Party of China. You have no enthusiasm for Goldman Sachs, the SEC, or the US Congress. Cheers.
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  15325. ​ @IndoGunsnGear  Yes, I'm hostile to the CPC, and I don't care what it "does right" anymore. It's past time for openness, freedom of expression, reform, and multi-party elections. Anyone not hostile to the CPC is on the wrong side of things.
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  15326.  @IndoGunsnGear  I'm also hostile to deficient regulation of the financial services industry in the United States. It was formerly stronger and should be restored to those levels or higher. Have a nice day.
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  15327.  @IndoGunsnGear  F off, kid. Who says I'm American? Anyway, I've never heard anyone publicly or privately say "China is stupid and their people are weak". That's rubbish and you've been had if you believe it. If anyone ever says "China is bad," they certainly mean it's the illegitimate totalitarian government of China that's bad. Big difference. If they did actually hate Chinese people, they would disparage Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, which is never, ever done. I defy you to source a single instance of such disparagement. Your last remark sounds racist. Obama, though hardly without fault, is a brilliant and talented man with great character. That's why people elected (and re-elected) him. I have no more time for you. Any reply is most unwelcome. Cheers.
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  15328. I have no idea what the response to the ultimatum will be, but I suspect the people who issued it are in little doubt.
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  15329. Stop saying "corporate" as a noun. Just stop.
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  15330. "The mindless abstract banner of freedom and liberty" Wow, that phrase itself could easily be copied and put to highly effective use by hostile foreign gov'ts. If I were Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un or Ayatollah Khamenei, I'd send you a handsome cash reward for devising it. Professional quality.
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  15331. Ron DeSantis on the woke left: "Don't try to get these people to like you." Sage advice, and it wouldn't surprise me if he somehow got it from Douglas Murray.😄
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  15332.  @yaasikasa17  Hahaha, that was my meaning too.
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  15333. Yep, the envy shines through. (Envy, of course, is resentment of someone for what they have. Period. It certainly doesn't have to be something the envier wants or could even make use of; it suffices that someone else has it.)
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  15334.  @crusaderslayer  USSR, 1979: invades Afghanistan USSR, 1989: withdraws from Afghanistan USSR, 1990: amends constitution, allowing multi-party system; quickly falls apart Russia, 2022: invades Ukraine... 😆
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  15335.  @crusaderslayer  1989 is on its way again, Ivan. It's coming. So is 1991. Politicians will be sidelined, answering only to the siloviki warring amongst themselves. A great split or splits will take place: a splintering army, ethnic factions, extremists suddenly armed, etc., etc. No one can predict details but your state is not built to survive heavy strain. It could've been so different. No European, no American wanted to destroy Russia, or to see it destroyed. It's simply that to know Russia is to not trust it, to feel the need to guard very carefully against it. You made a great mistake, Russia. (Two, actually: You also hopped into bed with the most dangerous country on earth.) You overplayed your hand.
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  15336.  @crusaderslayer  Sure, like when it "defended itself" in 1939 by invading Finland.😂 Corrected: "Russia has the right to attack its far weaker, far smaller, harmless, lightly-armed neighbors!"
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  15337.  @crusaderslayer  Russia was not attacked. Its attack on Ukraine is not self-defense. It's just murder. You guys are the new Wehrmacht. "Heil Putin!"
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  15338.  @crusaderslayer  Putin's Russia: The 4th Reich.
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  15339. It is a well-conducted country. There is always a tiny chance of tragedy when public celebrations occur. Possibly the police were derelict in their duties, but that is not certain. I suppose your own country has never experienced tragedy? Oh well, I guess the important thing is that your sweeping judgment made you feel good about yourself for three seconds.
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  15340.  @TerryJolliff  You still did all right.
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  15341. Because the threat to it is now enormously larger.
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  15342. Yeah right. The Russian political system consists of cups of poisoned tea. The Russian justice system consists of open windows in high-rises. Russian independent media are banned. If you're jealous of that, I think you know what you have to do. Properly tidy up your living quarters before you leave. EDIT: Turns out I missed his carelessly un-telegraphed sarcasm, but I'll leave my reply as it is anyway, sort of as a scarecrow for other parties of a certain bent.
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  15343. ​@Mister Dude Turns out my French was faulty, Dude. The original post bewildered me and seemed unlikely so I went by his other reply in French, which I read as "You're one of the girls who says [etc]" when really it was "One of the girls says [etc]".
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  15344. Not everything that sounds strange is automatically stupid. You didn't know that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
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  15345. Is there some kind of software you could use to enhance audio quality when it's this bad?
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  15346. "The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war." — John F. Kennedy, televised address to his country, October 1962
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  15347. It's a trick. They want to charge him with failure to submit to an assassination attempt, a law buried deep within the thousands of pages of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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  15348. Some of the most, shall we say, richly imaginative minds are on flaming display in these comments, and anyone in need of a good laugh should read on. Notably absent: any mention of aliens, the Rothschilds, adulteration of the food supply, or con trails.
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  15349. Either he is afflicted with a bad conscience or somebody read him the Riot Act. Or both. Entweder ist er von einem schlechten Gewissen betroffen oder jemand hat ihm den Riot Act vorgelesen. Oder beides.
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  15350. Possess what? What does that mean?
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  15351.  @MarxStevens  And are you posting from the front lines yourself, azzol?😂
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  15352.  @bismarck9  Now who's being ludicrous, Herr Eichmann?
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  15353.  @bismarck9  BS
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  15354. (1) Much of this is out of date. I noticed mention of Axiom's plan to do something in 2022 (!), which isn't the future. (2) You lost me at Neil deGrasse Tyson. Try to get highly intelligent and credible sources. (3) Your narrator's diction is stagy and highly affected. Naturalness is far better.
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  15355. "Exodus" is a strange word to use for the ordinary act of retiring abroad at age 66 when one's working days come to an end.🤨
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  15356. Is everyone forgetting the truly salient thing? An un-impeached Joe Biden is all that stands between Kamala Harris and the Oval Office. And since he's the president who inspires fewest members of his party since Jimmy Carter (if not ever) you can be sure that a powerful cadre of Democrats are well advanced in their planning to oust him. He struggles with his checkers moves while they play chess on the Executive Branch board. Yep, President Kamala, probably six to 18 months from the end of Biden's term.
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  15357. Possibly. They do want Putin's army to get wrecked. Of course they do. Why wouldn't you want the scummiest gangster around to have less money and less destructive capacity?
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  15358. Oh, they get it. The ones who don't get it are the ordinary Russian vatniks. They're the frogs in the pot which is nearing a simmer. Be ready to till a corner of ground for root vegetables, Sasha.
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  15359.  @rabbitbobo4131  China's interest in the health of the US economy is plummeting. It's not 1995 anymore, in so many senses. The future of Chinese exports is in other markets. The Chinese attitude to the US economy is converging with its attitude towards the US military.
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  15360. Hear! hear!
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  15361.  @jacqdanieles  World Alliance of Simps: "Hey, stop comparing us to that guy."
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  15362. Storage? There would be 800,000 barrels of oil running through it daily. How is that storage? What are you smoking?
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  15363. 63 cases, about one-fifteenth the rate of Canada.
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  15364. Beats being a Tesla hategirl.👸
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  15365. Jimmy Kimmel: Born a human being, now a toon. A sanctimonious unfunny toon.
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  15366. Guest: "Kate, can you acknowledge that [VP] l*ed about the Charlottesville comments?" Host thingy: "There are lots of things [Trump said] which can also be brought up if you're talking about l*es." She was silent till he named locales of violence in Colorado, then instantly cut him off. Concrete truth to her is like morning sun to a vampire.
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  15367. Putin's military difficulties will only multiply. As his own resources steadily dwindle, Ukraine's allies can turn up the tap on weapons to match any attempt at escalation. But the most crucial of all factors involved, I'm convinced, is the combo of US intelligence data and advice. It's this which ensures that every Russian tactic turns to dust. Next for Putin, inevitably: a black and crushing hopelessness.
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  15368. That tedious local reporter whom Poilievre graciously helped embarrass himself was certainly well qualified. I can see he got his master's of word salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  15369.  @fbksakskier  He wants a strong NATO with the US in it. But it can't be strong until Europe puts more into it. He knows what he's doing. He knows that decades' more pleading wouldn't do a thing. There are signs that what he's doing is working.
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  15370. @ The US doesn't buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of maple syrup a year. But go ahead and try putting it in your gas tank.😂
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  15371. @Blackjack_Official <---🤡 Nobody controls Musk. Get off the weed, the pills, whatever.
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  15372. The two left parties can be counted on to grow government and its reach everywhere into everything and everyone's lives. That decides it.
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  15373. * Sirens of Titan
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  15374. "Firestorm"? I wish. Firestorms consume what's there to burn and then go out. Great comment though.👍
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  15375. Elon seems to think 'tautological' means 'obvious,' 'indisputable,' or 'goes without saying.' It doesn't. It means 'saying the same thing two different ways.' In logic it means 'axiomatic,' but his point here is not by any means a species of axiom. Either way, he misuses it, and I've seen him do it elsewhere.
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  15376. I've heard that the embattled Kurds are the world's most numerous ethnicity who don't have a country and want one, so I'd love it if the US would clandestinely supply them with weaponry. In his war against them, Erdogan is to the Kurds as Putin is to the Ukrainians. And his royal sliminess is still blocking the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO.
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  15377.  @longviolinfilms  You guessed wrong about what surety means.
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  15378.  @longviolinfilms  The word surety refers to a guarantor, a back-up person who formally promises to make certain that some obligation will be met, if not by the party who pledged to do it in the first place, then by he or she himself/herself. It may also mean the guarantee itself. As a word with those highly specific meanings it's been around for centuries. Using it as a novel and would-be fancy substitute for certainty is illiterate or (charitably) semi-literate and any dictionary which includes that sense is simply one which takes the descriptive stance so far as to dispense with any distinction between literacy and illiteracy. That's their right, just as it's anyone's right to abuse the language. We live in the age of rights. Yous are free to write as yous like.
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  15379.  @longviolinfilms  You didn't read my reply. Middle few lines of last paragraph. Just take the L or at please at least drop it.
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  15380. She also flicks her tongue way out every time as that reporter is asking her a question. I would think a clever swine like her knows it, too.
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  15381.  @Marx_Brother  Nothing wrong with his/her spelling skills. You think that one misspelling is unintentional? 😂
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  15382. I got to know a guy who described the work his father did in the City of London. After a while, I said "He sounds like the Mitt Romney of Britain" (recall what Romney did at Bain Capital---homing in on companies like the Cabela of this segment, pulling them apart to "unlock shareholder value", wrecking them in the process, and making immense personal profit). "Very much so," he replied. I never met the man. In fact he died before I became good friends with his son. But it will perhaps surprise no one that this selfish man married a selfish woman, and that together they had two children whom they went on to selfishly ignore throughout their childhoods. My friend as a result of this isolation and neglect (in a posh but empty house or away at school) has ended up with rather poor mental and emotional health. He is not ok. I wonder if he'll ever get much better. I also wonder how many of the people making the most money in the financial sector similarly put money above everything else to the point they ruin everything they touch. After all, from a selfish and greedy point of view, an unwillingness to ruin things is a scruple that merely stands in the way; conversely, a willingness to inflict damage actually opens the door to success (defined, to adapt someone else's phrase, as making a pile of money and leading a life untroubled by conscience). It would therefore be an imperative. The fellow would have enjoyed golfing with Singer, I bet.
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  15383.  @73elephants  Thank you for the gift of a marvellous new word — your last one of course — which I can put to plenty of good use, I'm afraid. (New despite it being familiar somehow. I've certainly seen it and could've spelt and pronounced it correctly if some occasion demanded it. Odd, that.)
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  15384. Something in me makes me want to slap those glasses off his face. He's not reading.
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  15385.  @niv8880  Yes. Total economic and financial destruction now approaching 200 trillion roubles, or roughly an entire year's GDP. Russians may well eventually give Putler a Mussolini farewell and make his last public appearance rather undignified.
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  15386. Every 2nd day now, ever since his popularity fell into the basement and his own party started eyeing their pitchforks, he announces something else in a sad attempt to impersonate a human being, a real leader, a competent prime minister, a Canadian who cares about Canadians. Sorry, not buying it. It's fake. Totally fake.
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  15387. File footage of something else.
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  15388.  @dp7047  Fun fact: one did!
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  15389. (Why don't you look up the answer you seek?) In response to growing demand, the makers of the ships, about 90% of which are built in South Korea and Japan, were already boosting their output prior to Putin's war. There are enough to handle the increased European demand, but it will probably be necessary to outbid users elsewhere in order to lease enough of them. New tankers are coming online rapidly.
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  15390.  @edwardbarnett6571  Worldwide demand is so healthy that a larger and larger fleet is needed anyway. Nice to see your anxious concern for the shipping companies of the world, but you needn't lose any sleep over the state of their business. Besides, NordStream 2 is dead...dead as a Russian tank commander. Cheers.
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  15391. I wish him luck with a capital F.
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  15392. The Biden years have been full of injustice against most Americans — deliberate, pre-meditated injustice. This government knows it is unjust, and revels in it. There's a lot of healing to be done, a lot of setting things right. May it begin in 8 1/2 months.
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  15393. Correct. Down with government news.
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  15394. TBH I don't believe you. But it's not 100% inconceivable, and I promise to apologize if you can provide us with a link to a video of him saying that. I would much more easily believe, however, that it's exactly what he feels inwardly. He's a total scoundrel.
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  15395. With palpable contempt, Femi Nylander grudgingly forces himself to allow that "the British people [are] human beings." How very like one of those torch-carrying pointy-hood-wearers from the last century he is in outlook. Let's face it, the R word was invented for such a person.
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  15396. Well yeah, he's from the bought-and-paid-for left mass media. Ah, but take comfort, for they're on the way out too! Independent media on the web are replacing them.
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  15397. "Dirty bomb" Sure, Pooty-poot-poot. A story just about as believable as Baba Yaga.
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  15398. It's so much taken for granted as bulletproof, but it's really more like a juggler keeping a thousand plates in the air.
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  15399.  @alexanderl9985  Nah, he's right. Biden's brain is pretty fried, and he was never very clever in the first place.
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  15400. Defund the ABC!
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  15401. He identifies as mentally healthy, intelligent and properly socialized too. Not buying it.
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  15402. I predict massive defeats of both govts. in May elections. Fingers crossed!  🇨🇦🇦🇺 <---Sibling nations and friends forever.
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  15403. US raids on the cartels would meet with support from Mexicans.
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  15404.  @BL-wu9jw  You wrote: "They don't arrest them. They just shoot them dead especially if you're black or Hispanic." Nice try. For real meatpacking, the Communist Party of China can't be touched. World's best.
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  15405.  @温中止逆  Yes, the rabbit is poison. They should have let it run into the bear's cave.
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  15406.  @masakichin6009  Thanks for your reply. All I have to say is that if an all-powerful king is so wonderful that he is never unjust, never unwise, and a brilliant genius, then it's a good idea to leave him unopposed in absolute power permanently, and hope that his children are just as wonderful when they inherit his rule. But it is probably safer to have a mechanism to remove him. In the west it is said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If this is true, then absolute trust is unwise. Without power, trust is simply hope. You have to wonder how many fewer people would have starved to death in the Great Leap Forward if Mao and the CPC were removed by defeat in elections once the disaster began. Democracy certainly has its problems, but when a government is bad at least there is a way to throw the buggers out. A thoroughly free press also provides a way to find out if the government is bad. They are a type of police, or at least public prosecutor, who balance the government's powers. Thanks again for your courteous reply. Best wishes. P.S. By the way, just for fun, here is an old Soviet joke: Under capitalism you have the exploitation of man by his fellow man. Under communism, the opposite is true.
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  15407.  @masakichin6009  Ha ha, I understand your English perfectly and quite enjoy it, my friend. But I am surprised to learn you are so young. You must read a lot of challenging books and articles and have smart friends and family. It's interesting to hear your hopes that the Chinese government will continue to improve as it did in recent decades. I hope so, too, but I'm worried.  For many years bad signs were very few, but there is a permanent temptation to achieve goals through very vigorous moulding of the public mind and stricter control over people. The treatment of Muslims, the AI cameras, and the indefinite extension of Xi's presidency are all bad signs. I think of Rome, where power sharing was demanded and promised century after century but never came. Major difficulty---politically, economically, socially---can't be avoided forever, surely, for governing is hard. When it comes, what form will it take? The character of the next generation of people cannot be known for certain. Can the three pillars of communism, capitalism, and Confucianism really co-exist for a lot longer? They seem like unlikely long-term partners. When the next major shift in the balance between them occurs, will China suffer a hard landing? I feel that something sudden and surprising will have to come out of China eventually. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it won't happen in this lifetime. As to where I live, I'd rather not mention it, although I cannot think of exactly why not. I will just say it's a large metropolis not in the US or Asia, very lucky, and enviably quiet in most ways. Sydney and Hamburg answer to that description, but it's neither of them, so that leaves maybe six or seven others. Thanks for you warm reply and sorry for one last long answer. Something got my inspiration going! Best luck and health. DP P.S. It would be so good to correspond with you again in five or ten years, once we see what happens after a while. I plan to keep my screen name and maybe you will too. And it doesn't have to be years, it could be soon instead!
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  15408.  @masakichin6009  Concerning your reply which began: "If you don't have the work experience in China..." I didn't get the reply at first because there is a problem with my Youtube notifications. I knew about the problem of barely literate or "stupid" people in China, as I also knew about problems you mentioned in your other post about Far East democracies (party corruption and unfairness, authoritarianism, cronyism, etc. in Japan, South Korea, Singapore). But I wish to say that your emphasis seems to me correct, and you have persuaded me that I never considered these things as important as I should have done. I feel I was mistaken. I try to be neither optimistic nor pessimistic but do fall into error, and I notice that of the two it is optimism that is far more poisonous to my thinking. I must be more on my guard, and I shall remember your valuable insights with gratitude. Thank you. Cheers.
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  15409.  @masakichin6009  You're the best! I admire your desire to see things with your own eyes, and I've already learned important things from you. China is like a second universe to me, and full of honest people I admire. I've been studying the Analects with enjoyment and I want to start learning Mandarin. Do you know a good translation software program with audio which an English speaker can use? What is it called? If not, I can find one. P.S. You are my second Chinese friend named Chin. A great guy I've known for eight years and I see him every month.
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  15410. Are you usually so condescending when you pay a compliment?
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  15411. Yep, Putzin is running his country into the ground. It's going to be weak, poor, depopulated, shrunken and under the thumb of China. Not a friend in the world except Belarus and Serbia 😄. Oh yeah, Syria. When on a date with Xi, Putin wears lipstick and a tight dress.
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  15412. Not with you this time. You want to sacrifice Ukraine, a sovereign nation of nearly 50 million people, democratic, well-conducted, and desirous of integration into Europe, to your disdain—justified disdain—for the president. No. I'm not advocating a war, but as I understand it neither is he nor anyone else. It is right to stand up for Ukraine as he is so far doing.
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  15413.  @669zuzu  It is not going to be cleaned up by Putin, I'll tell you that. Anyway, it's a country with countless good people that's struggling to improve and gradually making progress despite Putin's best efforts to hinder it. It has a right to exist. I'm not entirely against Putin by any means at all, but to me this is gangsterism. Carlson says "Russia isn't after Western Europe." Fine, so it isn't. Neither are Western countries after Russia—in my view they accurately see Ukraine in danger of being swallowed by Putin.
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  15414. Great report. As usual your hallmarks are clarity, a plethora of well-sourced factual data, incisive analysis, and a moderate stance. Josh, your presentation skills are first rate. [Tiny quibble: (voice-over) The word 'secession' (sә-SESH-әn) mustn't be said like succession (sәk-SESH-әn).]
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  15415.  @ssvinny2536  That's a possibility. :) In reply to your longer post, it might be pointed out in fairness that Trump approved lethal weaponry for Ukraine within his first year in office. At the time that was a pro-Ukraine escalation.
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  15416. ​ @ssvinny2536  Don't take my word for it. Look into it yourself. If you need the word of the the WaPo to convince yourself of the holy truth of the matter, so be it. It's there in their Dec. 2017 coverage of the approval. The breaching of the line of so-called "lethal weaponry" was a big deal. Don't let hyperpartisanship be your guiding light towards truth. Let facts be your guide and give into the unpleasant ones as soon as you discover them. Facts are great; egos are not. My reply of a few minutes ago along these lines has vanished into thin air for some 'reason'. I hope this repetition of it makes it through to you.
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  15417. Canada's Prime Minister Peter Pan, sometimes called Justin Trudeau, announced a pause in the country's funding of UNRWA on Jan. 26. He ended the pause 42 days later. Remarkably, PM Pan thoroughly investigated UNRWA's activities in just six weeks.(!) And since Canada's payments to UNRWA are quarterly, funding didn't miss a beat.
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  15418. I can't agree. Organizers of a noisy and prolonged but non-violent and actually very relaxed protest against the Prime Minister's policies were arrested and held without bail. Their personal finances were frozen down to the literal penny. One, for example, was initially held for 97 days on non-violent charges, an extraordinary occurrence. This was done under quasi-martial law invoked by the government specially for the occasion. But don't take it from me. (As if you would!😂) Bill Maher, left icon, Feb. 10, 2022, even before the police moved in [addressing Trudeau through the camera] : "Now you do sound like Hitler." Even his panellist the Democratic candidate in 2020 Marianne Williamson was in completely in shock at Trudeau's public rhetoric. Watch it yourself. The world is creeped out by this guy, as are most Canadians.
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  15419. 45 minutes attempting to refute this stuff? Omg, it's like trying to debunk goblins and leprechauns. What's this crap doing in my feed?
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  15420.  @Comm.DavidPorter  If Russia had attacked NATO countries on its western flank in retaliation, it would have been difficult or, more likely, impossible to repel them. That is the opinion of Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe, 2011-14. NATO's $1trn-plus annual military budget seems immense, yet it is spent in such a way as to provide a shockingly low level of preparedness for war. Such vulnerability argues powerfully against the sort of risk-taking you wish had occurred. Another aspect arguing for prudence was the unpredictability of the political outcome in Russia were Putin to have been quickly and ignominiously thrashed. His ouster by the siloviki might well have been absolutely disastrous for European, Asian and global security. Multiple wars could've broken out, possibly ones larger than the one in Ukraine. It's too soon to say for certain, but I expect history will judge NATO's response so far to have been, all things considered, highly (and surprisingly) adroit.
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  15421. Scott Jennings makes it less so.
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  15422.  @jsnjcnt  The oil companies decide unless the govt steps in and decides for them, as is normal everywhere in the business world.
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  15423. ​ @jsnjcnt  I said "unless the govt steps in and decides for them". I don't have the time to wade through 85 comments to see what you were referring to. What you are saying here is correct.
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  15424. So now the women's prison system is no longer just the women's prison fist 'em.
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  15425. In an unrelated San Francisco incident, Admiral Rachel Levine was also robbed at gunpoint. Police are searching for his bag and its contents.😂
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  15426.  @sinxyt6263  True. Between 5th grade in California and her freshman year at Howard, she grew up in Montreal in the wealthy Westmount area. Fun fact: Her political soulmate Justin Trudeau grew up one mile away at the same time.
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  15427. Entirely wrong. The ideal response would be the one that's ideal at the moment, and that is indeed one the prime minister would craft along with other NATO leaders.  He and they must have a free hand. There can be no pre-committing ourselves to war measures except in direct self-defence. Thus for now the only sensible warning to Putin is a total commitment to NATO Article 5.
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  15428. Thanks for the communist point of view.
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  15429. Anti-Western hatred, even more so.
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  15430. ​ @Seileisepuppets  Conform implies things which I don't think Ford meant. It implies a demand for strict uniformity which flies in the face of Canadian traditions of individual freedom. What we want to see is greater respect for our values of peacefulness, order, tolerance, friendliness and getting along.
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  15431. Today's version: "Here's my list of things you can say. Oh, and I make changes to it every day."
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  15432. That black shelf on the left does a nice trompe l'oeil impression of a staircase. "Paging Herr Escher, white courtesy telephone please. Up escalator down to 2nd floor."
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  15433. Fellow paints his fingernails (!) in what you might call a teenage girl's shade of light blue, and also appears to dye his hair. And for all the expense, resources and time he dedicates to his Ponce de Leòn ambitions, he looks perhaps two or three years younger than his 45 years. Good luck to him.😄
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  15434. What happens to these guys in jail and prison? Do the other inmates usually find out their story? What is the attitude inside towards guys who randomly punch old ladies, women and girls?
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  15435. Democrats: "This guy's perfect. Let's make him the next Obama and run him in 2036." (I really must watch Being There again.)
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  15436.  @mazlanmdzain2409  Stuff your moral equivalency. Muted.
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  15437. He can ask for and get a board seat immediately. Think Elon can wield influence at a board meeting by any chance?
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  15438. Different recipe, same dish. Worse in some ways, better in others, but in the end very unappetizing in both places. I formerly thought the extra ingredient in Canada was open (!) and direct government financial support to news outlets, but then Musk uncovered the same thing happening covertly in the US.
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  15439. And one is dyed.
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  15440. Dies bedeutet ins Englische als "Boarding has worked before", was ich nicht verstehe. Kannst du helfen? [This translates into English as "Boarding has worked before," which I don't understand. Can you help?]
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  15441. His forced and strained Al Gore growl is simply cringebarf-making.
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  15442. Germany, too, was 'destroyed' 77 years ago. 'Destroyed' has many meanings.
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  15443.  @dpelpal  Hi dp, haven't noticed your posts for a while. If you were away, welcome back.👍
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  15444.  Bike Cycle  You haven't checked in a long time. China left the list decades ago, and India is off it, too. It's Africa and the Middle East. You're right about Western baby boomers, though. They had fairly small families on average. It was their parents, of course, people born between about 1910 and 1945, who went relatively hog wild after the Second World War.
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  15445.  @gedofgont1006  You should know that the communist Chinese government deliberately caused the deadliest famine in history. It knew what it was doing. Tell me if you think it was genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine_deaths And it was very busy at the same time in other ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Deaths_by_violence Then consider the Cultural Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Death_toll All told, possibly not far from 80m deaths. Thanks for your reply.
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  15446. Saadly true.
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  15447. Welcome to the kook zone, where everybody magically knows the unknowable---the Chinese government invented the virus, the US government invented the virus, there's 140k cases in China, the WHO is withholding the real facts, etc. etc. All these things are secrets but somehow morons on YouTube know them. Enter at your own risk, the stupidity could be contagious.
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  15448. True, there aren't constant referendums, as in a pure or ideal democracy. Only a few people in the whole country think that would be a good idea. So it's a representative democracy. That can be called a republic, but a republic may also have very restricted voting, so it basically just means 'no king.' So I don't know what you're on about.
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  15449. In your case there was nothing to wash.
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  15450. Nigel is at the top of his game, it looks to me.👍
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  15451. Poor Russia. It only commits the greatest atrocity in Europe in a lifetime, and in return Europe bullies them with visa restrictions. Russophobic bullies!
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  15452. Your two replies so far sound to me like "No way!" and "Yeah, but that's not the point." 😄
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  15453. "Surprised he didn't blame white people." What? He didn't? 🤨
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  15454. There's an incredible amount of rot being talked on the internet about this story. Here is my version and analysis of what really happened: 1) The role of the Speaker of the House The Speaker of the House is a Member of Parliament elected by fellow MPs to run the House of Commons, not politically, but procedurally and administratively.  Both the office and the holder of the office are traditionally accorded considerable respect, especially the office itself. As the senior official, the Speaker presides not only over day-to-day legislative sessions, debates, etc., but also over visits to the House of Commons by foreign heads of state. Overall responsibility for state visits, however, falls on the Ministry of Global Affairs and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). 2) Zelenskyy's visit The visit from Volodymyr Zelenskyy was an important one politically for the government. President Zelenskyy is popular in Canada, while Prime Minister Trudeau himself has been suffering from low popularity, so this was a chance to perhaps borrow some of the president's prestige. Perhaps to assist in this way, the Speaker, Anthony Rota, who is also a Liberal, came up with an idea. He knew of a man in his hometown (where he is the serving MP) said to have been a Ukrainian freedom fighter several decades back, so he conceived that the man could attend the goings-on, sit in the gallery, be announced by him (Rota), and be briefly lauded by him. This was entirely his own idea. One would expect that the PMO would have to approve the idea, but it turns out that, according to the (Liberal) Government House Leader, Rota informed no one in the government, nor anyone in the Ukrainian delegation. Now, the PM in Canada is a more powerful figure than the national leader in many other liberal democracies, and the PMO is said by many to practically run the country, so it is hard to know how this came to pass, but I suspect that it stems from a parliamentary tradition that the Speaker does not answer to the government. Rather, in the House of Commons, it is the other way around. So Speaker Rota invited the man, who agreed to come. Rota, no student of history, failed to vet his invitee, or at least failed to vet him properly. And as it appears the PMO and Global Affairs were unaware of his invitation, they did not, and possibly under the rules could not, subject him to supervision on this aspect of procedure. 3) The fateful minute-and-forty-five seconds) He thus went ahead and wrote his one-minute introduction of the man, presumably carrying it into the House in his briefcase or pocket. When the moment came, Speaker Rota told the assembled MPs, the Ukrainian delegation and the two national leaders that the old man was "a World War II veteran who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians." He called him "a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero," to general applause and two standing ovations. It obviously wasn't clear to anyone listening that this unknown old man's WW II service was the same as his "fight for Ukrainian independence against Russia," nor that they were even concurrent. (As we all now know, they in fact were the same thing.) I doubt anyone imagined any more than Speaker Rota that anything was wrong. Perhaps some were puzzled, but they likely just assumed that there were hostilities between Ukrainians and the Soviet government at some point in that era (perhaps before the war, perhaps during, perhaps shortly afterwards). A few maybe assumed that the Speaker misspoke; still others may have thought it best to trust that the Speaker and the PMO somehow knew what they were doing. In any case, it appears no one guessed that the two biographical details referred to the same thing, and that the man had in fact never served in the Red Army! And if some did suspect that perhaps something was amiss, who would risk withholding their applause only to later find out that they themselves had not thought things through adequately during a mere 100-second tribute? Allow me to repeat myself, to stress that No one applauding knew he was a Nazi, nor even that it was during WW II that he "fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians" as the Speaker worded it. (Of course, one certainly doesn't even have to be a soldier to fight for a people's independence. Besides soldiering there's fearless open activism, underground partisan activity, appeals to diaspora for money — there are a lot of possible roles.) They clearly didn't know or they most certainly would not have applauded. 4) The blame Thus in my view the entire fiasco is about 80% the Speaker's personal fault. Although he meant well, he blundered. The remainder of the blame I place on the PMO, specifically on the PMO Chief of Staff. I don't even know this person's name and I don't care what it is. But I do know that the onus for ensuring that the visit of a head of state goes well (i.e. perfectly) is on the top staff member of the head of government. That's the PMO Chief of Staff. That person should resign or be fired.
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  15455.  @gaoxiaen1  Ha! I thought it was only me who calls him Putzin! Love you, bro. (Or sis, as the case may be.) You made my night.
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  15456. In 1998 she said that there was "a vast right-wing conspiracy" against her husband. It turned out he just couldn't keep his trousers on. In 2016 she said Trump colluded with Russia to win. Turned out that was wrong too. Who really cares what her self-serving imagination is up to now?
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  15457. Judge Jeanine was better here than I've ever seen her. Totally in her wheelhouse. Laura deserves great credit for giving her room, which is what great guests need.👍
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  15458. What is all this? You did nothing wrong. Neither did Newsweek. You laid the appropriate stress on the fact that the story was unconfirmed. You probably should've put the word 'may' in your title, that's all.
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  15459.  @brainiac.computer  Great. No pressure, but you do realize that means that you and a mere handful of your cohort have the future of Western civilization resting on your shoulders, don't you? So get your sleep and exercise, and read up on how to be a hero who goes down in history. I repeat, no pressure. ;)
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  15460.  @PostSovietPod  Maybe you just socialize in good circles. Good to hear, though.
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  15461.  @JakeSweeper  Notice it all proceeds, the change in people over the generations, in a pretty smooth arc. Each generation is more fucked up than the one before, reliably and predictably. I think it's been going on since about 1850, although the seeds go back at least to the Renaissance, and then it really started with the Enlightenment. Technology is the driving force behind wealth and wealth drives change, however, so it was the Industrial Revolution that made it really take off. Society has gone pretty steadily in one direction ever since. If I'm not mistaken, the arc somehow started curving away in another direction around fifteen years ago. Some sort of equilibrium finally died and now the last 250 years look like a finished era.
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  15462.  @sonofednawelthorpe8609  Actually, Trudeau always has a pile of gobbledegook ready for answering any question — except for one occasion, when he was asked about Trump's handling of US riots in June 2020. He stood there silent for 21 seconds.🤣 Watch it for a good laugh.
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  15463.  @sonofednawelthorpe8609  Actually, he's always ready with pile of gobbledegook for responding to questions. Except once: In June 2020 he was asked what he thought of the US govt's response to all the rioting. He stared ahead for 21 seconds.😂Find it and have a laugh.
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  15464. Well, we're not all clowns, yes, at least I hope not. But look who you fell for.
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  15465. The left media are making the US a backward country. At some point it will be down with the developing world in its social and institutional standards. (And I mean the developing world of 30 years ago. Much of it's in pretty fair shape nowadays.)
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  15466. Égard doubtless never made a social-issues ad before. They never had to.
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  15467. World Creep Council: "Hey, we've got enough problems. Stop comparing us to that sub-rodent."
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  15468.  @mnufeld8448  Yes you're right, but so what? The point is she's dying inside, like when out of a feeling of moral obligation you're being nice to a raving homeless person and the stench is terrible.
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  15469.  @mnufeld8448  For so very many reasons it is bad to get drunk and then go on YouTube to write rambling, lightly-informed and pointless replies to people, having not properly read and understood what they wrote in the first place. For one thing it's bad manners. For another, those who quite understandably get irritated by such antics simply mute them.
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  15470. Dave, you are hitting your stride this month like I've never seen before.
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  15471. It's better to stick with saying 'Tatar' than 'Tartar.' (I notice in your graphics you use Tatar 👍.) Ukrainians themselves, including Crimeans, would say 'Tatar.' 'Tartary', on the other hand, is a region stretching from the Pacific only as far west as the Caspian (i.e. not as far as Ukraine). The peoples are certainly closely related but there's still a distinction.
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  15472.  @ns-4438  Bruh, no one can. It's a question meant only to elicit dumb responses. Which is fair. The only good answer, the answer any super-hyper-mega-scholar would give, and that anyone with the slightest clue would give, and that I would give, is "No one knows that shit, bro." Basically the same as you. It's like asking, I don't know, "How many good people took part in the French Revolution?" FFS! Best regards and serious respect, my very good man.
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  15473. Harris looks ridiculous in drag. And she has a very poor tailor. 0:09
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  15474. Could this have anything to do with the explosion in the number of pit bulls I see around town? I thought they were banned. (Btw, the anchor is in inappropriately casual girlwear for a serious job like bringing people the news of the world.)
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  15475.  @lindybermondsey1783  Thanks. I don't think I've ever used, read or heard it in my life, but I thought it seemed the right word.
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  15476. Why say "every store" when it's maybe one-third? Isn't that bad enough? Your title isn't even clickbait, it's just du m. Having said that, yeah, SF is careering downhill towards Detroit status, fast. It'll be there in five years and there won't be a way back.
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  15477.  @bdinaz  Got it. So what gives, this time?
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  15478.  @bdinaz  Sorry, where I come from "What gives?" means "What's the explanation?" I didn't know where you're from. I was asking why, if that particular question of yours is prohibited, how do you explain the fact that it made it safely through to me? Btw, thanks for not writing 'tow the line'.😂 Most people do.
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  15479. Nice point. 90,000 feet is about 17 miles. So compared to 200 miles (which is 17 miles doubled about 3.5x) any ground signal would be around 150x stronger.
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  15480.  @eugenekaufmann1  Sir, that is pure, overblown and — yes — foolish sanctimony.
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  15481. Stock footage. Welcome to 2024
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  15482. Yeah. When democracy crumbles it goes within a couple of decades. What else do you expect? Democracy i's extremely artificial, like a juggler's act with countless balls in the air. Highly unlikely, highly un-human you might say, just a freak outcome of sustained regional prosperity and security. And it's incapable of producing the people needed to sustain it. Maybe you're right. But notice the strong aristocratic element in America and Europe and recall that Rome staggered for centuries before falling. I mean that we just don't know. It also has strengths and the CPC has weaknesses. All the best.
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  15483.  @MilesBellas  "Nobody is shying away from anything." Most people are. Were you around in 1970, 1980, 1990, or even 2000? Those people are gone, or not gone but disregarded. We now rely on the intelligent and the rich.
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  15484. In a democracy the only question to ask is not What have you done? but What have I done today? Democracy commands you to look in the mirror, just as any decent philosophy does, including especially Confucianism. All the best.
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  15485.  @MilesBellas  Nobody is interested in Confucianism? I've got news for you: China is very much a Confucian country, so that makes over a billion people who are interested in it. And what the hell makes me a troll? And what's this about CPC money? Are you high or just living in a mental institution? I'd prefer not to communicate with someone who is deluded and hostile. Cheers.
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  15486. If the West wanted Russia brought to its knees it wouldn't have bought its energy by the hundreds of billions of dollars, nor would it have tolerated the Crimea and Donbas invasions. More on. Just total more on.
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  15487. And Tiananmen Square belongs to China, too. So what? Did that justify a massacre like the coming one in Hong Kong?
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  15488. That isn't true
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  15489. I was struck in the initial long shot of this video by what great equipment you guys use. Amazing picture quality.
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  15490. Ok.
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  15491. Correct that typo: should be "2023."
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  15492. No, Hong Kong was abused.
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  15493. If the UN could have only one function, that's the one it should be: to beat back invasions of sovereign countries. (Korea, I believe, was such an instance, although communist China did not sit on the Security Council (Taiwan sat in its place as a permanent member) and the communist USSR had withdrawn from it in protest of that arrangement. The USSR nonetheless protested elsewhere at the UN that the Korean War was a civil war and thus communist North Korea had not invaded the Republic of Korea.)
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  15494. "Diversity, equity, inclusion." It's a way of massively improving the country. You didn't know that?
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  15495.  @bernardocardoso1356  Are you an American somewhat familiar with the Electoral College? If so, you just need to know that it's another such system based on winning zones and then being the sole representation for that zone. So winning many zones by a hair is far better than your votes making landslide wins in a handful of zones. But here there's the added element of a 3rd party. So the 2nd- and 3rd-place parties can gang up on the 1st-place party and form a government. (This would be approved by the head of state. In part the idea is that the coalition-type arrangement will last longer, instead of a weak 1st-place party administration setting the stage for another election soon.) It has generally worked well for over 150 years, but it is possible for a fairly large majority to be quite unsatisfied with the result.
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  15496. From the looks of these horrible people they stole the posters to eat them.
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  15497. Wow, the US is circling the drain. The causes: 1. The long-ingrained American attitude that you're nothing without a pile of money. It warps people. 2. Primary education is crap. Look how average Americans write, and how they reason. 3. Taxes aren't used to provide below-average people (in money, talent, brains, background) with a decent chance. More will mean worse. --Good luck, though, A foreigner
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  15498. You don't say!😂
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  15499. It's all right though, the prosecutor is in the back pocket of Big Terrier. Bought and paid for.
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  15500. Over $25bn in public money blown on this by the government of PM Peter Pan.😮 Where did it all go? Media: [Crickets] It was supposed to cost around $6bn and now it's over $35bn.🤯 Let's have a Royal Commission to examine how much ended up in Liberal Party of Canada coffers. Remember the Sponsorship Scandal anyone?
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  15501. I do not trust this man. How can the importation of additional cases fail to worsen the situation, accelerating the spread of the virus and increasing the strain on hospitals, thus further endangering lives? It's the overloading of hospital resources that boosts the rate of fatalities, as the WHO is now emphasizing. Trump is far from the only American afflicted with limitations of ideology, mind, and personality. I think we're looking at another one right here; then there's the BBC interviewer.
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  15502.  @taralewis9916  Gee "yeah, I never thought of that" or gee "ok, buddy, whatever you say"?
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  15503. An important factor is whether there's land around a suitable river that's not severely inappropriate to flood in order to create a reservoir. Canada was lucky to have nearly uninhabitable land in northern Quebec. The province worked around concerns about a few thousand residents and bird populations.
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  15504. Before the US was at war with the Third Reich, it provided planes to Britain simply by landing them on roads near the Canadian border as night came down, then driving off. In the morning the planes would be gone, on their way across the Atlantic. The Canadians had come with trucks and tractors to tow them over to their side. (US take note: Be careful what you leave right next to Canada. I would keep an eye on Alaska if I were you. 😜 )
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  15505.  @qrsx66  Hey, good idea.
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  15506.  @TolgaKarlilar  Turkey owns NATO now? 😄
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  15507.  @somerandomasmrr  K. See ya.
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  15508. You sound like a kid. China has lent the US about 2 weeks worth of GDP. Big deal. And the US could have unloaded those Treasuries anywhere. If China wants that money back tomorrow, the US could merely transfer the money at once and tell it to bugger off. The US debt held by China does not constitute a friendly favour. The CPC does what's good for the CPC. That's the system. If it's good for China, then lucky for China. If not, too bad for the Chinese people, since they can't throw the bums out. This has gotten boring. Cheers.
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  15509. She always looks like she's on something. Glassy eyes, sniffing, wiping her nose, twitchiness. Look at her in the seconds before she first speaks—her face is all disarranged, the parts all at odd angles to one another like in the thumbnail. She's just one person among many for us to listen to. Very high verbal intelligence is her leading asset, but she also has this teenage-girl "eww, that's like so icky" vibe, which screams immaturity of mind. I do have respect for her, but if and when she roots that out I'll respect her much more.
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  15510.  @fs5775  Are you?
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  15511. The ironically-named Ms. Freeland and PM Peter Pan are clearly on a charm offensive. They're trying to rescue her approval ratings in advance of him putting on his magic slippers, flying off into the night and leaving things in her hands. They're hoping to hang onto power one more time. But nah, she's Kim Campbell 2.0.
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  15512.  @rolandjohansson2714  Typical Dane of good sense, it appears. Thanks, that was well stated.
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  15513.  @rolandjohansson2714  Oh, is that indicated by -sson versus -ssen for Danes?
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  15514. So many here are saying those charged are out on bail. How do they know? Nothing to indicate it in the info on the TPS site. If it's true, I'd like to confirm it.
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  15515. The Gillette ads were aimed at women, their real market. Men don't go through many razor blades anymore, while women shave it all but their scalps and eyebrows. (Mind you, those ads were also a desperate ploy to get young guys to shave every day.) Cunning, those #@%$#^s. Since then I deny Procter & Gamble every dime I can. (E.g. Colgate-Palmolive instead.)
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  15516. Imagine using the words "unauthorized" and "dangerous" to describe the good residents of the area, after doing nothing about the actually unauthorized and dangerous hooligans for such a long time! That really makes me steamed.
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  15517. "I am neutral." "So you are close to hate them?" This is why people hate wokesters, dude. Why did your usual good personality go off the rails here? Give it some thought.
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  15518. Yeah well, we're primates, not ethereal beings. We run mainly on neurotransmitters, hormones and deeply incised instincts. And we always will unless something major happens to our DNA or its expression.
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  15519. I'm unclear why this hardware store assistant manager is taken seriously by anyone. (Every university commits blunders and the University of Chicago is no exception.) The countries of eastern Europe newly freed from the Russian Empire asked to join NATO because they were desperate for its protection. They know Russia. It's that simple.
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  15520. It's easy to understand, really. The farther left the government, the likelier it will believe that punishing, trampling, fining, cancelling and imprisoning people are legit forms of moral goodness. And these governments have moved farther to the left. I believe they are somewhat to the left of even those who give them their votes. There are reasons for that, too.
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  15521. Yes, she caricatures Trump in standard Ivy League hipster fashion. But Bush and Obama were stupid. I am also with her on Biden's handling of this file so far. Ukraine is still standing. What has been accomplished to strengthen European and global security has come dirt cheap. Mere tens of billions of dollars have resulted in a seriously weakened Russia and a far more unified NATO. It's Biden's sole achievement.
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  15522.  @Alec72HD  Congratulations, you now hold a place in the Guinness Book of Childish Statements.👏 And that's something they can never take away from you.😄😀
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  15523. ​ @tages_matuna  Spite? As though he/she offered no justifications? Please. If what he/she submitted as facts are true, those are very good reasons. Here I offer my own: I found her in the quote you gave quite galling, since it came a minute after she dodged questions about Germany's 13th-place rank in the per-capita financial value of support for Ukraine. She was rude and made no case. She showed pique. Why doesn't her flippant response apply to "making a strategy" on Ukrainian aid? As a piece of argumentation it was empty, a show of hypocrisy and shaky integrity. I also don't care for bad manners in a country's top diplomat. Given that reply of yours to @The Sixth, I can see why you like her, though.
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  15524. These are usually funny.
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  15525. ​ @user-fy5ih5it1y  Jamaica has the world's highest intentional homicide rate. You didn't know that? It's 25 times that of Canada. See Wikipedia's List of Countries by Intentional Homicide Rate.
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  15526. Yes, and for that reason most of her soulmates on Earth are teenage North Koreans.
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  15527. Big Brother🤮tears a strip off Emmanuel Goldstein.
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  15528.  @James-HQ  It comes from the last explosion about a second or two earlier. Notice the orange flash dimly lighting the pavement around the first tank that was hit. That's coming from the right, as does the corpse that follows.
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  15529. Omg, I just can't stand the sight of her face. She's right up there with Justin Trudeau. Looking at either of them makes me wanna heave.
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  15530. I'm sorry for your loss. You should be angry at the activists and their media confederates who paved the way for his tragedy.
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  15531. So you're against the protest as a staged event, suspicious of the organizers, think the donations should be investigated, and disapprove of the demonstrators being allowed to "take over" Ottawa. On the other hand you say the media are smearing the protestors and creating division. So basically you're against everyone. Interesting position. Really adds to the discussion.
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  15532. ​ @ABCD-xg6nr  Ha! Left-wingers devised the useful term dogwhistle and I'm invoking it here. "Ceasefire," "pro-Palestine" and "From the river to the sea" are dogwhistles, bruh, motivated by hate. They never once marched against H^^^^. No chants. No tears. No rallies. No demands that H^^^^ stop firing rockets at Is rael i cities and towns. No neutrality. No authentic humanitarianism. Just crickets and tumbleweeds on the savagery unleashed by H^^^^. Oh and by the way, there already was a ceasefire. H^^^^ broke it on October 7. Have a nice day.
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  15533.  @nearcancelled  The reporter? No, I never referred to the reporter.
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  15534. Biden looks embalmed. In a way he definitely is.
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  15535. Way to go. Twenty minutes of you looking and talking like you're about to foul your trousers. You're doing Putin's work for him, scaring Westerners. [very slow clapping]
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  15536.  @specimenuncensored9121  India recently entered a formal military alliance with the US, Japan and Australia. You were saying?
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  15537. ​ @specimenuncensored9121  BRICS and the SCO (the latter of which you comically misname) are little gab forums which are nothing even close to the level of formal military alliances. As for the Vostok exercises, India sent 75 people. Yawn. Basically a polite refusal of the invitation, showing just what India thinks of Putin's attack on Ukraine.   Earlier this year India also cancelled an order for Russian fighter jets, helicopters and other arms. (Watch for it to buy from France instead, or the US.) With that cancellation, and with the Quad, India put its money where its mouth was. Have a nice day.
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  15538. Touch of RPDS here? (I.e. Reform Party Derangement Syndrome.) This was really a quite breathless and fevered take on it.🙄 Sounded rather like Prime Minister Peter Pan (Justin Trudeau) talking about ordinary Canadian conservatives like they were halfway to ISIS.
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  15539. Well, the Engels family had a lot of large textile mills in England. So it figures.
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  15540.  @kocyszemaitis2310  Thanks, I'll check him out
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  15541. Just put everything you've got into November of this year and November of 2024. Save. Plan. Act.
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  15542. Fetterman's staffer when his boss goes a bit cray-cray: "We gotta run back to the office." (I.e. "I gotta change my trousers.")
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  15543.  @liyahn2373  So exactly that. The OP said there was no attack and I'm contradicting him. Cheers.
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  15544. Equality of outcomes isn't "what the Marxists are after." Make no mistake, they're after the access to social pinnacles which current arrangements rightly deny them. They want jaws to drop when they enter a room, fawning treatment from waiters, invitations to the choicest gatherings, preferential treatment for their children, and all the rest.
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  15545. I feel like I've gotten the benefit of a reach-around I didn't ask for or even want.   Honey, if you bring something to the table I didn't order, I ain't payin' for it. Nor am I votin' for it.
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  15546. Ukraine is where the Rus' began. More like should we give Russia back to Ukraine?
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  15547. Hahaha, reminds me of lyrics in the song Ugly, by The Stranglers: "I'd like to see / A passionate film / Between the two ugliest people in the world. / When I say ugly / I don't mean rough looking / I mean hideous."
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  15548. Your misanthropy is classic German guilt, Col. Kurz. Try therapy.
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  15549. The country's sole independent polling firm found a rough split of support and disapproval for about seven months: 15% strongly for or against, 35% mildly for or against. In the past month and a half, mild approval fell by around 10 points.
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  15550. For one thing, we allowed the media to canonize Greta Thunberg, a quite unfortunate girl with several mental illnesses. Pure ruthless exploitation. And now here's a Greta copycat talking to Rees-Mogg. Instead of psychiatrists, we're entrusting the care of our disturbed young to deranged activist groups....and surgeons.
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  15551. As though filling a doctor's prescription for a widely-prescribed medicine amounted to out-of-control overindulgence! Most people take Benzodiazepines safely and stop them uneventfully. Those who don't are unlucky for reasons that are not understood. Your comment has a poisonous, trashy tone. I hope you're not enjoying his suffering.
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  15552. ...some random bitter man said bitterly.
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  15553. I think Biden and NATO decided that the way to defeat Putin is to first spend a couple of years in attrition, hollowing out Russia's power to make war. Any loss is apt to result in his removal and it's best that his siloviki successor inherits a neutered military. So I think this is phony dithering and they're achieving adroitly what they set out to do. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  15554. True Kray ZeeL ady eyeglass frames. I can't even look.
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  15555. Clip is from Sky UK.
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  15556. I can't believe he said "has fell below" for "has fallen below". Eep. Loss of respect points there.
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  15557. Just looking at Ms. Gessen's eyeglasses is like a punch in the stomach, telling me how conventional, naive, and outdated I am. It's an epiphany, a moment of awakening. I feel enlightened, alive, reborn, with eyes open for the first time. My heart bursts with gratitude for the gift of understanding and awareness I've received courtesy of Ms. Gessen and the Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, Guess, or Prada company.
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  15558. If they only had a brain.
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  15559. Looks as though he's coming down with Biden-type cognitive degeneration.
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  15560. I'm just happy to find out that I have no idea who the holder of the #5 Twitter account is. (Somebody or something called "Cristiano.") And please do not tell me either. Thanks, but I'm good.
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  15561.  @gravegaming2023  One thing at a time. First let's get your agreement on Justin Ocasio Cortez.
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  15562. Yes, and the time horizon for increasing US smelter capacity significantly is 30 to 40 years (!) according to aluminum industry executives. Moreover, they wouldn't even consider building new capacity if they thought the next administration might just remove the tariffs with the stroke of a pen.
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  15563. But don't stop there with your Culpability Awards. If the Edwardians and Victorians still in charge in 1950 couldn't keep their society from becoming the society of 1970, what were they doing on their watch? They begat the Boomers, they raised the Boomers, they re-made the world to Boomer dictates. "Ok, sweetie." '"Ok, son." "The Greatest Generation." Compared with the ones you spawned. "The Silent Generation" But your kids were loud and loutish.
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  15564. It's very sly how our host frames his flat assertions as interview questions. He states his case and then adds "isn't it?", "isn't he?", "doesn't she?" etc. He's not debating his guest, of course—oh, no, he's merely probing them, as any good journalist does.
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  15565. It's actually in dictionaries of some repute, but I don't see in my online Concise Oxford. It's a noun form of adventure, e.g. "She decided to put a stop to her adventuring."
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  15566. Coulda used a longer clip here. Everybody was on their game.
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  15567. It's also a way of saying: "You're a stranger with a TV camera. I'm not talking to you."
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  15568. MAGAs are simply against anything Biden and the Democrats are for. If it were Trump who did all the same things to help Ukraine, they would've been pumped. Likewise "progressives" opposed the border wall only because Trump came up with the idea. Now that Harris is down with the wall, they're fine with it.
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  15569. Twenty-seven minutes of chatter but zero mention of what the UK public might want to happen on Saturday. Not even a guess, not even 'who knows', not even 'I wonder'.
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  15570. Paste " hate crime! simpsons royston lodge channel " in the search bar for 5 sec. of highly enjoyable and true-to-life classic Simpsons fun.
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  15571. For selling $6.4bn worth of most things, $347m in profit isn't really a lot. But it's a 5% net margin, which is actually high for the grocery business. Typically grocers have a 1-3% net margin. Now, it is possible that their profits are due to brilliant management and hard-working staff. But personally I don't shop at Metro because of the high prices.
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  15572. 🙄That number of square km would make a county more than half the size of Australia, which is a continent.🖕
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  15573. ​ @defiant18  Those fires burned from ten a.m. to five in the afternoon with no water pressure in the neighbourhood for the sprinklers after the water main broke in the twin towers' collapse. Firefighters were powerless to extinguish them for the same reason. Those are unique circumstances which the building's design could not possibly have taken into account. Hours and hours of fire weaken structural steel. It can't melt the steel, but when beams get that hot under hundreds of thousands of tons of stress, they eventually give way. The fireproofing on the steel only protects it for two or three hours because sprinklers and firefighters showing up with a lot of water are expected to effectively address the fire within that time. And of course it collapsed rapidly. A building like that is an integrated whole. One collapsed floor crashes into another, ensuring that it too collapses, leading to a chain reaction. There's no reason for it to take longer than seconds. And the floors function in part as support for the outside frame of the building. So under the right calamitous conditions it's the same as a house of cards, going down hardly much slower than something falling through air.
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  15574.  @Rasupubegasu  Imagine you are standing with a barbell weighing 250 lbs on your shoulders. You're fine because you're strong. Then one of your legs collapses due to someone striking it. Your other leg is still a fantastically great leg, but guess what happens to it a small fraction of a second later.
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  15575.  @MarkPhillips-xb5iw  Flat earther mindset.
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  15576. I think you have a point but that guy was correct from one angle: The majority of US drivers relying on Canadian oil are in the Midwest (e.g. Illinois), so that's where gas prices will be rising the most. Elsewhere, not as much. (Lots of Canadian oil goes down to Texas, too, but that mainly goes overseas.)
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  15577.  @wyleecoyotee4252  What?
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  15578.  @wyleecoyotee4252  Who t f cares? I might have somewhat agreed with you back when I was something of an anti-religious zealot, but although I remain completely irreligious, I'm somewhat ashamed I was ever like that. Ah well, one can't grow up unless one is immature in the first place, I guess.
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  15579. You never know, Senator. Maybe the people senior to you happen to know something you don't. Maybe Iran already has the bomb. Maybe, as Lukashenko promised a few months ago, Putin is willing to hand out nuclear weapons to any friend of Russia that wants them. Anyway, what is $6bn to Iran when China has paid them $30bn for oil this year and their foreign currency reserves cup runneth over? I usually like you better than I do this time.
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  15580. Slight correction: 2037, not 2137
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  15581.  @heimdalshorn  Thanks. Interesting that an ex-serviceman would want to join the SPD...and that they would want him.😄 (Although perhaps he once wrote anti-NATO essays for the SPD Marxist youth wing, as Scholz himself did.🤔)
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  15582. ...to prove they want peace. Also that they want to see Iran put in its place. Russia's hand in the region is much weaker now; maybe that's an opportunity for making headway. It would be wonderful if Saudi Arabia could contribute diplomatically in a major way, maybe by pitching in on a two-state solution in terms of security guarantees, and financially. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  15583. It's true that Russia's economy is weakening. But somewhat like the US economy coping with its chronic debt illness, the Russian economy with its own maladies can live with them for a long while. Don't count on an imminent collapse.
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  15584.  @torrent1615  The point flew over your thick head, that's what was wrong. If you have to ask why, you'll never, ever know.
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  15585. Then start beating up on them*, and not just on YouTube comments. Do it on campus if you want to be a hero and not a mouse. *I don't mean that literally.
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  15586.  @kristend344  Furiously hitting that like button, but it'll only go up by one. What's wrong with the damn thing?
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  15587.  @kevinwilt3918  No. That hands the whole show over to a bunch of commissar wannabes. They thus will become actual commissars.
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  15588. No, the 2021 election was his final one. He gave his notice on January 6. His successor as Liberal leader and PM is chosen on Sunday, two days from now. Swearing-in of the new PM should be about a week later. An election will likely follow within two months (April or May).
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  15589. I'm starting to admire you.
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  15590. The name Democrats call this guy isn't even allowed on this platform, so I won't say it. But it's one of those '-ist' words that starts with an 'e', and it's wrong because he's anything but. They'll say anything. They'll defame any opponent. And they have most of the media in their back pocket.😠
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  15591. Oh man, that outro clip was so bad. You so bad.😄I liked it.
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  15592. Ellen Degeneres is simply retiring abroad now that, at age 66, her working days have come to an end.😄 Lots of people do that.
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  15593. Well, at least the hundreds of billions of dollars in inflationary new Trump taxes are on things that few Americans buy: Food, cars, gasoline and lumber. Nobody needs that stuff! Stable genius!
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  15594. Surprised I gave your six-month-old comment its first like.
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  15595. Found the sock puppet
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  15596. Yawn. Just another brilliant interview. Same thing every time, eh, Mr. Sayers?
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  15597. I'd say she is the enemy of human freedom and dignity. Of humanity itself. The personification of Orwell's "boot stamping on a human face, forever." A fitting anagram: Oh, man. L👁r.
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  15598. Dude seems high or something. How erratic can someone get? He should get that checked out.
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  15599. This is emblematic of the permanent state of revolution called for by Mao. There must be a complete break from everything that came before. Is not the alphabet racist as well? Feet and centimeters likewise were devised in Europe --- get rid of them. The calendar has to go. The months and the days of the week will have to be renamed, and the planets too.
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  15600. ​ @billmeeker774  I agree with around half of that, but the problem there and then was radicalism, violent radicalism, not liberalism. The separatists at that time especially were shot through with real communist pieties. They would rob banks and put bombs in mailboxes and then take off for Cuba. The prime minister at the time (Pierre Trudeau) was a thoroughgoing Robert Kennedy or JFK-type liberal (like the Kennedys, inspired by Harold Laski at firsthand) but his response was sensibly enough to arrest the lot of them (some 400) and order patrols of heavily-armed soldiers in carefully-chosen areas. He was required to pass a martial law provision in Parliament, which a large minority of people, especially well-off liberals, opposed. Trudeau could probably be impressed by gentleman communism if he were to witness it, but he had no use for low-class rebels. His dad was a Montrealer of pretty humble roots who married above his station on the way up, made a total mint in gas stations, and afterwards lavished all there was to lavish on his son's very classy upbringing. I think all that made his son's response to the October Crisis quite predictable (not to mention decently solid).
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  15601.  @Ratimir101  They've cracked down on frequent posting.
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  15602. David Spade in one of his lockdown videos: "Because of the lockdown there's a shortage of Dr. Pepper's. Don't worry, you can just start drinking Dr. Fauci's Kool-Aid." Buh-bye.
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  15603. Masculinity is all but illegal. Thank all your feminist sisters for that accomplishment. It took over 50 years but you and them got it done. Happy now?😄
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  15604. The mediocre lighting here shows just how impressively good your home studio was. Anyway, it's great you're back.
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  15605. The training might be garbage now. GIGO.
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  15606. I am irreligious. This I have often said and will "continue to show." lmho : )
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  15607. I praise the subtlety of that thought but I don't think so. Gunning for a Google bid is more likely to result in a Google bid than it is to forestall a Google bid.
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  15608. @ And US is a 2nd Mexico/Honduras/Guatemala — except far more so. Your point?
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  15609. Why ask an economist a question about medicine, epidemiology, and public health like "Did we re-open too soon?" Why on Earth? God, so many journalists are so dumb. And I bet she went to a prestigious university and has more than one degree. I call whatever happened The Great Dumbening.
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  15610. Why isn't the upload date shown anymore?
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  15611. Why is commenting on an arrest "breaking rules"? Why haven't you the right to say what you like? Please specify which "rules" you mean.
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  15612. Anyone know what kind of tank that is?
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  15613. I am Kim Jong-un and I approve this anti-American school curriculum.
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  15614. Jussie Smollett: "I think you should believe every word Paul Pelosi says."
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  15615. It's too bad in a way that a deal couldn't be made with Germany to avoid war with the western Allies (or end it shortly after it began) on the condition they spare Poland, and instead turn them loose on Russia. True, a massive totalitarian German empire stretching eastwards would be a nasty thing, but would it be any worse than the massive totalitarian Russian empire that the world had to deal with instead? A deal would have saved nearly all concerned so much destruction and the loss of so many lives. But of course Germany could hardly be trusted. After vanquishing Russia, a Nazi state thus strengthened could easily have turned on Europe without missing a beat.
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  15616.  @РулонОбоев-н9ъ  If you're trying to let on I support German atrocities, you aren't very bright. You're also not very honest if you don't acknowledge Soviet Russia's tens of millions of murders. The USSR was a bloodbath.
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  15617.  @swankfiber5278  Sorry dude, I was responding to your humour with my own. I meant it to be obvious. I don't really think it's a laughing matter but I thought I'd be sporting and play along. Now on second thought I think I'll delete that.
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  15618. Ah, left-wing university students. Is there any more self-adoring group, any which so perennially overestimates its own importance and moral worth? It of course has some determined competition, but I say no. We've seen them in action bullying and self-aggrandizing on a mass scale before: in the US in the late 1960s, Paris in 1968, and most notably in China's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. This too shall pass.
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  15619.  @sherrybowe2340  😥
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  15620.  @OGDailylama  Oh, do stuff your pomposity with a Continental Army flagpole. Respectfully. And my American heritage glitters at least as brightly as yours, thank you very much, my dear little caps-yelling, boastful Mearsheimer fanboi.
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  15621.  @cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059  lol Remember that alien movie District 9? They called the aliens prawns. Btw, really good movie.
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  15622. It isn't any such thing. Halloween is actually close to a celebration of innocence for children and a pretext for harmless merriment for adults. I'm sorry that you're trapped in distorted and jaundiced prejudices.
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  15623.  @johnnydepp7762  Your understanding of Halloween could fit a thousand times over into the tiniest bubble visible to the eye. Go to your own social media, where you know something (maybe) about what you see.
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  15624. Sorry, but there's a problem claim in this report itself: namely, that US inflation is the worst of all the major economies. The 12-month UK rate in April was 9.0% vs. 8.3% in the US. (The May number won't be released till June 22nd. US in May: 8.6%.)
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  15625. That's not what the US and NATO are after, that's for sure. Instead they want him weakened to the point where he retains power but cannot fulfil his military ambitions. They would then hope that he set in motion plans for an orderly succession, and also that his replacement isn't worse for global security than Putin himself. Coups and civil war in Russia are very dangerous for the world, especially Eurasia, of which it occupies one-third.
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  15626. oh ffs that was funny
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  15627. She just knows that any man who jumps into the new race pretty much has to have a female running mate. The reason: most Dems are all-in on DEI. I'd call her shrewd if these things weren't fairly obvious. A Trump win, btw, means the country is saying Let's go HOME: Hire On Merit Exclusively.
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  15628. Legacy carmakers simply have no idea how to turn a profit making EVs. So they go around reversing their plans to invest...and going on TV to  explain that the reason is that EVs are for a future time, not now. But really, they're just the dinosaurs and EVs are the comet that killed the dinosaurs.
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  15629.  @timothykuring3016  "Outclassed [...] sabotage" What else are they to do?
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  15630.  @michaels4255  Every new word has to start somewhere, yes. And so does every new surgical procedure and parachute design. What matters is whether they constitute an improvement or serve an unmet purpose, not that they all deserve a democratic shot.
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  15631.  @michaels4255  Yes they certainly do, but overvaluation of them as though they're not usually cheap and debased ("But language evolves !") is itself a very neat line in midwittery.
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  15632. Germany is waiting to see if Russia really carries out a brutal invasion of Ukraine, because it would be bad to overreact before they've even done anything.
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  15633. In fairness though, the ABC host community is one of the very most powerful communities in Australia. It's imperative that we all know what they decide upon for the country.😄
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  15634. And suddenly it's ok to refer to all humanity as 'man.' And why? Because the subject is atrocities. [smh] O mighty meteorite, eagle of the heavens, swift and just, help us in our need!
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  15635. ​ @PiousMoltar  You're kidding, surely. Where've you been the last 35 years? Saying 'man' for 'humanity' has been declared offensive for its alleged sexism for a long, long time now. Bonus news: You can't say "If anyone asks, tell him" anymore either. It needs to be 'him or her' or 'them'. Also, reserve "Miss" for little girls. Steer around "Mrs." unless asked to use it.
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  15636. White progressives made that attack happen. And these attacks are happening daily and hourly, all across the country. The attackers are the mere cat's paws of white progressives.
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  15637. I grant you all that, but you gotta admit we've come to a pretty pass when a comparatively low-grade jerk like Trump represents national salvation. His grandfather fled his Bavarian village to avoid the draft and within several years had established a casino-slash-brothel in Washington state. The president mighta went to Fordham and Penn but he's still a flophouse operator and Brylcream scammer by all the evidence. Better than a Democrat nominee just is not a high bar. Cheers.
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  15638.  @robbiekop7  Most Americans don't even know where Canada is. But all they need to know about Ukraine is that it stands between the tyranny and aggression of Putin's Russia and the future of European and global security—as well as security and prosperity at home in America. And this most of them do understand quite well.
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  15639.  @boota1979  No, actually I barfed it up several years ago now. But I think through every issue separately and that's why I'm not as politically predictable as most people, who tend to be rather mass-made. Know one thing about them and you know everything else too. Red or blue, they're terribly embarrassing in that way, don't you think?
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  15640.  @billymacktexasdetective5827  Oxford Dictionaries notates 'penny' as "North American," not British. "A one-cent coin equal to one hundredth of a dollar." Surprised me slightly, but no one seems to disagree that they're the leading lexicographers of our language.
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  15641.  @billymacktexasdetective5827  If you're in Texas, maybe that's the explanation, because there are 49 other states. The penny loafer came from Maine, btw.
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  15642. Down with lacy thongs!
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  15643.  @richardburton1816  There's a huge overreaction, no doubt about it. But why wouldn't 27 million confirmed cases spread across 200 countries in seven months, with 880 thousand deaths, despite incredible attempts to contain it, qualify as a pandemic? How is vastly understating things any better than vastly overstating them? Why are you just as allergic as they are to good old-fashioned level-headed fairness and accuracy?
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  15644.  @richardburton1816  Thanks for your reply. Agree on many of your points, PCR tests and excess mortality numbers for instance. But see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TECf3xSFbU&t=632s for guidance on how to interpret the CDC announcement.   Hear this doctor out, he's a brilliant man of science and not one of the mad exaggerators. He's a California pulmonologist treating covid patients in the ICU of a university hospital, co-founder of a medical instruction website, and professor of medicine at UC Riverside.
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  15645.  @stephaniezank7717  What rank nonsense. Not a soul demands those things you listed in your would-be refutation. You deliberately deny the flagrantly undeniable: that Western civilization is routinely condemned as worthless while all others are automatically exalted simply for their non-Westernness, and that this judgement is held to be final and absolute to the point of constituting a touchstone of morality. Total garbage, all of it. All civilizations and cultures—all things to ever come out of humanity—are equally fair game, subject to praise or criticism from all.
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  15646. YT is becoming one big ad.
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  15647. lol Yeah, he looks embalmed.
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  15648. If the difference is subjective then your opinion on it can be rejected in favour of someone else's.
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  15649. Greg, stop your very un-funny picking on Kat. Or find a way to make it funny. It just looks like you're pretending to tease her but you really hate her.
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  15650. Tarpeian Rock 😠
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  15651. ​ @markmuller8829  That sounds rather like an argument against freedom of expression as dangerous and in need of policing by authorities with the power to decide what is an opinion, what's a fact, what is valid data, which studies are valid, what are 'reputable sources' (!). Chilling. It's half a step or less from 'We need truth police to combat this danger. Your public expression will be evaluated for truth by me and my group or those we appoint. We'll determine whether it constitutes a lie. Freedom is tyranny. Censorship is freedom.' Don't you realize that is simply a return to the pre-democracy era, to the stranglehold of absolute monarchs, to theocracies, to the totalitarian horrors of the 20th century, to the China and North Korea and Iran of today? Who on earth taught you that freedom of expression is a deadly poison? Yes it can cause harm, but only in the same sense that any human faculty can. Far more poisonous and destructive are attempts to restrict it beyond bare necessity, i.e. the prohibition of incitement to crime, libel, slander, revealing of state or military secrets. That's about it. Want to do battle against lies? Your weapon is the truth, not force. If freedom of expression is so bad, how did two centuries of it produce anything so wonderful as you?
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  15652. It's now 100,000 employees.
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  15653. Just as from the North Pole all points are south, from the Left Pole all points are Right.
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  15654. But she has never given birth. And she turns 60 in a month or two. So...
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  15655. Tapper is all confused because that's not what grad students chanting at Harvard say.
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  15656. Rumor has it she's not a mutant of any kind.
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  15657. @Devin Hargrove She had a cute face ten years ago.
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  15658. 9:31
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  15659. Super-condensed version: It's right owing to its inherent rightness.
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  15660. Justin Trudeau, fanatic. Simply an unhinged fanatic. Let no one forget he came second in votes at 32%...again.
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  15661. She is in serious danger of being calamitously concussed by some outsized beefy guy named Alyssa.
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  15662.  @kentmorton2872  You sound about as charming as the platform shover.
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  15663. It will come from Canada. Hey, I hope you can smell the smoke in Russia. Let it remind you of your certain defeat in Ukraine. Does Russia have enough spruce trees for coffins? Canada will sell you the lumber, I'm sure.
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  15664. He sounds so similar to Justin Trudeau that it's positively eerie. I mean, that was like a Justin Trudeau impression. Poor man. Let no one deny him the health care he needs. Mental health care, I mean.
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  15665. Trump backed Johnson's decisions.
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  15666. Some, like Tucker Carlson, who are as anti-Democrat as they come, saw the Ukraine War as a massive danger to Republican prospects from Day 1, and will do anything and everything they can to prevent Biden and the Dems gaining popularity from their response to it. That includes saying innumerable things they know are not true.🤨
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  15667. You sound serious. I suppose you haven't had many dealings with government bureaucracies this year.
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  15668.  @stra2g  No, the TV station did. Literally.
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  15669.  @СлаваУкраїні-п8ц  It's all listed in the description box.
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  15670.  @maxbacon4828  My heartfelt thanks. It's hard doing this all the time with the only response leftist vitriol.
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  15671. In five or ten years Fox News will be gone. They'll get rid of it on grounds of supposed social justice and public security. They'll get around the First Amendment. They'll declare an emergency and take it down.
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  15672. "Well, it's finally official. Systemic racism is once again legal in the United States."—the great Norm Macdonald, if he were still alive.
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  15673.  @iams2109  "Respectful"? No she wasn't. He went off once she started behaving boorishly.
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  15674.  @iams2109  You can't see it because her behaviour was congenial to your prejudices. It's that shortcoming which is profoundly sub-adult and other things worse besides.
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  15675.  @iams2109  I love that your contributions to this discussion are here to help everyone judge your worth, and that of like-minded people...dude.
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  15676. I'm guessing that Trump learned the value of false flattery from being confronted by mobsters who demanded a large share of the take from his real estate and casino ventures. It's better to feed Putin's vanity than to challenge it, at least until the moment is right to go hard-core on him. It both baffles and delights me how many observers take Trump's flattery of authoritarian leaders at face value.
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  15677. "Throw him down. Throw him down. Throw him down!" — Greta Thunberg one or two seconds later, giving orders to the people escorting the anti-terror man peacefully off the stage. Yep, she demanded violence against him. Same way she demands a certain group be allowed to survive to do more violence to Is ra e lis — again and again. True violent colours of a lefty.
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  15678. I am Vladimir Putin and that's exactly the kind of post I like to see on Western social media. As a matter of fact I pay tons of people a salary and equip them with fabulous equipment and software to do just that every day, all day long, year in, year out. Did you used to work for me?
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  15679. Mayor Peeto.
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  15680. Enjoy your Trump tax increase! And your $4 gas! (Hurry up and fill your tank now.)
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  15681. Hollywood mogul, wrapping up a long meeting: "All right. I'll green-light your Wizard of Oz remake. But on one condition: get me that Canadian what's-her-name to play the Wicked Witch of the West."
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  15682.  @Rorimac67  A mountain is only very dubiously a natural resource, except over tens of millions of years, as by crumbling it creates fertile river valleys and especially deltas.
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  15683.  @avomaxo  The fragility is on your side. If you want to understand the issue more, simply think about it, if you even can. It's not about me. Anyway, I don't debate fundamentalists, and I can see you are one. Talking to you is lost time. Cheers.
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  15684.  @avomaxo  Your tantrum-throwing and harassment show quite well that you know all there is to know about being a big fragile baby. 😂 I'm scared of nothing. There's just no need to make a case when the whole thing is so flagrantly open-and-shut. The fear is on your side for not admitting it. Work up your own courage.
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  15685.  @avomaxo  Hey, from this point on, why don't you just do this by yourself? I like my foes worthy.
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  15686.  @avomaxo  Some things aren't appropriate for children, regardless of their political and social implications. Not knowing that is very pathetic and very sad. Have a nice life.
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  15687. When Prime Minister Peter Pan speaks you have no idea what the *ss is talking about. When Poilievre speaks it's as clear as day. He's going to win a large majority in 2025. Right now the Peter Pan Liberals are projected to win 63 out of 338 seats.🎉🎊
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  15688. Completely mistaken. Totally inaccurate.
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  15689.  @notryusuke6370  Thanks for the direct-from-experience info. Now how about turning off ads if you can, to deny them revenue? (Try AdBlockerPlus if you've never used an ad blocker. It's free.)
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  15690. There are pictures of the shipment of equipment arriving in Ukraine. As for recharging, that's for Tesla cars. The Starlink dishes/transmitters you simply plug in the wall. I would have thought a great-grandchild of Einstein would know that.
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  15691.  @AJ-ts9de  Dr. Phil is not a physician. As a psychologist he has a PhD, not an MD, so he has never written a prescription. Nor could he anywhere in the world, except (after qualifying) in New Mexico since 2002, Louisiana ('04) and Illinois ('14).
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  15692. Dr. Frankenstein was not a physician. He was a scientist interested in the decay of living things and the reanimation of corpses.
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  15693. Male at physics symposium evening social as the hour grows late, earnestly, to female attendee: "Do you like Kipping?" Female, batting her eyelashes: "I don't know, you naughty boy. I've never been kipped."
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  15694. Iran wants to make war on Israel. That's why Hamas attacked on Saturday: they were egged on by Iran in order to get the ball rolling. Next they'll sic Hizbollah on Israel. Then Syria. Then Iran itself will join. All will be backed by Russia and China as well. It's all part of a plan to start wars all over, overwhelm US/Western capacity to respond, and take over the world.
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  15695.  @RhytAwAyMistahJ  😂😂No. Your opinion is not anybody else's rule. Get that straight. To appoint yourself to police the language of others, you better have the sidearm and handcuffs to back it up, and the constitutional right to use them.
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  15696. Hey, you're right. So should countries be broken up into small pieces then? Because this is what big countries do. I invite your reply. Cheers.
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  15697. Kat could almost use one of those pump things from Amazon already. Nah, that's bad. I'm not gonna say that one. That was inappropriate.
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  15698. Amos 'n' Andy weren't all about the hate either. So defend them as well or be wildly inconsistent. Yeah, thought so.
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  15699.  @phily8093  That's hard to beat for pomposity and pretend-veiled aggression. For my having the gall and temerity to not share your views, you bitterly retort that it's because I'm angry and "don't wish to try to see my point." No, I see it, but don't agree with it. And I've got news for you: I don't owe you my agreement either. And not only anger, but in addition you histrionically accuse me of "hate" and "shouting others down." Just for disagreeing, for giving my opinion that a man costuming himself as a woman and parodying women's behaviour is akin to blackface, and calling you out on your misogynist hypocrisy. And letting you know that the hate is on your side. That reply of yours, together with your original post, are a Psychologist's Wonderland.
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  15700.  @phily8093  Muted, btw. Talking to you has been lost time.
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  15701. She makes me cringe and wince horribly. If she and I were the last two people on Earth, I swear we would indeed be the last two people on Earth.
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  15702. This seems out of place in Journeyman's stellar line-up of pandemic videos.
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  15703. Yellen's face gives her away. It's quite tellin'.
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  15704. Couple of smug Labour hacks.
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  15705. Due largely to very heavy drinking and smoking, Belarus just doesn't have the numbers of old men ("combustible material", to use Freddy's phrase) that the West has. Belorussian men live ten fewer years than Belorussian women, a greater difference than anywhere else in the world.
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  15706.  @user-vv4lo5yz3h  And what happens when your house goes up in value (and you don't sell it)? Say it's worth $300k one year and $400k the next. Do you pay personal income tax on the $100k (around $30k in tax)? No. Or say instead the stocks you own rise in value. Same thing: no. And that's the system you say is to blame. You're talking about personal tax on unrealized capital gains. If you were in charge and you changed this, about a hundred million people would come after you with pitchforks, my friend.
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  15707. Ordinary man that I am — by which I mean warm-hearted — when I first became aware of the feminists' difficulties with the trans activists, I felt sorry for them. But I've gotten over that feeling, in favour of the realization that yes, the feminists are indeed hoist with their own petard. Could it have happened to a lovelier bunch?
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  15708. Giving op-ed space on a matter of vital importance to the republic to George Clooney (!) indicates that sheer desperate fright has cost The New York Times its bowel control. Maybe have Maggie Haberman borrow a box of diapers from the White House?
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  15709.  @sennarghal691  Hahaha. Sure, because appointed civil servants are the rightful arbitrators of political thought and categorization.🙄
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  15710.  @ПавелЗольников-п7э  Just a plain fact, Pavel. Facts aren't propaganda simply because they don't suit you. Putin has positioned Russia in front of China with its back turned and its pants down.
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  15711. Thanks, NATO. You forced the utterly abysmal Trudeau into doing at least one good thing.👍 Now make him boost the Canadian Armed Forces budget. (But batting 1 for 100 isn't cool. He wouldn't get my vote in a trillion trillion years. Also: Sorry, Giorgia Meloni, that you had to stand there next to him. Really sorry.)
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  15712. My word for her is a homonym of the adjective for a roof which has been sealed once again with a hot black semi-liquid.
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  15713.  @crazycatman5928  She'd be in over her head running a fruit stand.
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  15714. ​ @deafintheleft5741  What? You're skeptical of a Gen-Z "hippy chick"? The most brilliant demographic ever, and the first in history to achieve moral perfection? Come on, man!
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  15715. Blind people read books in Braille, but when they listen to an audiobook, they're not reading. Someone is reading to them. (When anybody listens to an audiobook, they're not reading.) Mr. Ragusea is correct there, and he's correct about "lived experience". It's a tautology. Deleting "lived" removes no meaning whatsoever. So when he says "Jumpcut!", I feel sorry for him. I'm sure he has his share of joys, but he suffers, acutely, as the brilliant always suffer. Edit: I went back and watched a few minutes longer, and god, it is nauseating how she talks down to him, just so casually, over and over. Very easy smugness.
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  15716. This was more than likely related to the drug trade.😡
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  15717.  @PinoyAbnoy  You wrote: "democracy is just as rotten as dictatorship" Yeah, right. Spoken like a true CPC dupe or paid troll.
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  15718.  @stratford374  He did not "claim" there was a terrorist attack. He factually stated that there were media reports saying that was the case. I know it's true, because I saw and read the reports myself in the initial hours after the incident. Stating a fact is not a "mistake." Unless one is a leftist, in which case it is.😄
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  15719.  @jiggycalzone8585  Too bad you don't understand anything about global security and how Canada's future, our prosperity and yes, our own security depends upon it.
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  15720.  @jiggycalzone8585  No probs. They can have it back as soon as the 1990s send back Boris Yeltsin and Deng Xiaoping. My point should be clear.
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  15721. He can't pronounce 'coup de grace'. The way he botches it would be understood in France as 'stroke of fat'.
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  15722. U like 'em bald, eh? 🤢
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  15723. Number of Western leftists condemning Israel for its counterattack: Possibly in the millions Number of Western leftists condemning Hamas' ongoing rocket attacks on civilians: Zero If they only had a brain.
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  15724.  @juangamboa2613  Marxism is for misfits. People with personality and emotional problems. They use it to convince themselves it's the world that's mad, not them. But it's them. You could see their problems from space.
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  15725.  @HarryFlashmanVC  👏👏👏You go a bit easy on him, but ok.👏👏👏 (Btw, I wrote a reply of my own here, starting "Marxism is..." Can you see it?)
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  15726. ​ @PeteQuad  The answer is simple: They're misfits and psychological cases, every last one of them, starting with Marx himself. Such people, many of them hopeless beyond any chance of redemption, need something that somehow validates them as people. (Otherwise abusing drugs or alcohol, or a flight to profound madness are the only options.) Marxism provides them with an excuse for not making any adjustments: "People can't handle me because I have radical ideas. That's what unenlightened people are like. Turns out I'm not inferior to them after all, I'm better than them. Far better." Misfit issues solved. Sort of. (For those who are allergic to the whole subject of politics, there's always piercing yourself with a hundred studs, dyeing your hair one color after another, endless tattoos, unusual eyeglass frames, a ridiculous hipster accent, etc. Other classic remedies include gang membership and religious fanaticism.)
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  15727. I need closure on his final remark. Why cut off the video there? 🤔
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  15728. Ukraine did that. Not western Europeans, as you seem to imply. It wasn't incredibly challenging. It was certainly a 100% fair move, though. (Which should go without saying.)
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  15729.  @workumetaferia3094  One anonymous source. Nope, sorry, although it's possible in the sense that many things are possible. One possibility is that Hersh has allowed himself to be misled.
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  15730.  @odenseye3112  Nice wall of text, Peskovchik. Distracts from the fact that it's gobbledegook.😆 Everyone knew or was in on it, maybe even parts of the German state. But Ukraine did the deed. Russia should stop crying like an innocent little girl. They're lucky that Ukraine isn't doing 100x worse on Russian soil...yet. If Russia would just withdraw like it did from Afghanistan, it would be better for 99.9999% of humanity. Everyone except maybe 50k of the biggest Putinists in Russia.
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  15731.  @workumetaferia3094  Hersh fell for the "John F. Kennedy Document Hoax." You can learn about it in the Wiki article of that name. Here's a preview: 'He also commented, "In my business, you don't really go around psychoanalyzing people who give you stuff. You grab it. I deal with all sorts of wackos." With the new information from the Cusack documents, Hersh negotiated an additional advance from Little, Brown of $250,000.'
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  15732. What I'm curious about is the connection between their breakup and that suddenly-appearing mark on Trudeau's forehead. Or should I say injury? And has she been seen in public? Is she injured too? What went on in their house?
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  15733. I'm very congenial to Carlson's views generally, sometimes enthusiastically. But I question whether it's true the US government has no other source besides China if it decides it needs to borrow $3 trillion. Can this be? I rather doubt it.
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  15734.  @GrrMeister  What made you think I didn't know that?
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  15735.  @user-zr6pl6nb6z  Where did you learn that they do not? Share your learning, evidence and direct experience with us.
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  15736. Man, that list of countries voting no or abstaining — who can fail to notice what a sorry lot they are? I can only (maybe) excuse India (which treasures its non-aligned neutrality) and the terrified former SSRs. The rest: Assad-istan plus garbagey communist or near-communist countries, impossible for anyone to respect — Castro-istan, Maduro-istan, Kim-istan, African hellholes. Thailand is the sole puzzler, so I guess it isn't what I thought.
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  15737. What a question. The funds have been frozen, period.
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  15738. It should be remembered that our delightful friend Mr. Watts, who gave to so many hope and the ability to get more out of themselves and life, died at an early age, apparently of alcoholism. This is just a reminder never to suppose that any one person, any one book, any one school of thought, has all the answers. Never be the disciple of anyone or anything.
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  15739. Can a human being be an unreported and illegal campaign contribution? If so, that's what David Muir is.
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  15740. Toxic femininity.
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  15741. DeSantis is the one the Dems are really afraid of because he's inoffensive, not unbearably full of himself, and appeals to moderates without much effort. If he has even one of Trump's top ten personal character shortcomings, I haven't noticed it yet.
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  15742. I would. So you're wrong there—as you likely are about most things, I should imagine.
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  15743. That's normal.
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  15744. Commercial spam is ruining this channel's comments sections.
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  15745. That was a highly questionable end to the interview. Reminds me of the guy on The Simpsons with the monorail.
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  15746. They also make up words to win arguments.
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  15747. That huge, fuzzy, beat-up looking and inappropriate-for-work pink coat 2:05 is keeping me on this earth.😂
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  15748. It doesn't matter. What matters is they fit in well in their future faculties.
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  15749. I can only surmise that the Deeply Disturbed and Dangerous Person lobby is really strong. Notice how they're here in this section. If they could, they'd be biting people with all their might and not giving up.
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  15750.  @overtaxed6816  Try to improve the quality of your insults. This one shouldn't have passed your muster since grade 9. Cheers
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  15751.  @fuNaN89  At times very trying.
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  15752. Good job, Glenn. Really helps to clarify the debate. Hope this goes viral. But btw, what about during wartime? Could Americans in 1942 hold a pro-Hitler rally? (Let's say the Brandenburg ruling had already been made at the time.)
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  15753. @erinmagner I had to remove that part. I realized he'd covered it.
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  15754. You gaffed badly, Piers, when you described this rewriting of kids' culture as changing it "to today's sensibilities." You need to correct that. It's being changed to suit the 'sensibilities' of a tyrannous and mentally-ill woke minority. Don't award these warped activists legitimacy by crediting them with some sort of 'up-to-dateness.'
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  15755. Then buy US lumber. Easy.
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  15756. Democrats: "Republicans must have left it there."
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  15757. Ok, from now on I'll give lots of credit to stuntmen. Can't wait for it to turn my life around.
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  15758. Alexandria O"cat"io Cortez
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  15759. If larger numbers of duller people team up, says the BBC, the outcomes are brilliant. Alas, that approach is not working at the BBC itself. Hence their news story on the subject. Oh dear, it's a Möbius strip.
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  15760.  @ygr4943  FREE the World from HamISIS.
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  15761.  @prioritytarget7157  Either way, a thumb on the scale. And they have numerous other ways too.
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  15762.  @attasoa  All four?😢
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  15763.  @attasoa  In the very long run, if I'm not mistaken, outside total tyrannies only fair works.
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  15764. Full of foreign fear-and-doubt trollbots here. All Y T is a swamp of them. Turn around and leave.
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  15765. I actually remember him withdrawing in disgrace from the 1988 presidential race. He stole a section of a British politician's speech, passed it off as his own, and was caught. I don't understand how someone who did that as a senator went on to enter the White House. Right now Americans have only themselves to blame, about 5x over.
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  15766.  @aghoover  Greater Vancouver is 3 million people out of the entire 5.5 million in BC. And Victoria elected 100% NDP/Green MPs.
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  15767.  @7555mac   Homicides, 2022: Detroit: 309. Per 100k population: 49.8 Barrie: 4. Per 100k: 2.6 [Highest rate in World: Jamaica, 52.1] Sources: Detroit — Center for Public Safety Initiatives, Rochester Institute of Technology; US Census Bureau Barrie — Statistics Canada. World homicide rates — Wikipedia's List of Countries by Intentional Homicide Rate
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  15768.  @yukaira  Is my post here about homicide rates (1 hr. after yours) visible to you? Y/N?
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  15769. @@MaxImus-theoneandonly Are my 2 prev. posts in this thread showing?
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  15770.  Hal Leanard  Yes it certainly does. My point exactly. People's actions say something about who and what they are. (And your apparently sardonic reply seems to say plenty about your attitude to sexual victimization of women by their employers.) Thanks for your reply.
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  15771.  @ant318  Yep. They have been steeped in feudalism for so long that for them it's like the air to a bird or the sea to a fish. Their back foot is in medieval times, like all the worst countries. They think that to be ruled harshly is the only way, that other ways are degenerate. Politically Russia most resembles Africa.
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  15772. If you're like me and you've seen around a dozen of these, you've seen around nine that were more impressive than this.
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  15773. Yer g.d. right we do!
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  15774.  @ironmantooltime  False flag would serve one purpose and one only: justification for massive escalation. It could be spun in the media, twinned with blaming the pipeline blast on the US. (That event too had false flag written all over it.) Putin needs to have reasons to present to his country at large for going super-hyper-nuts on Ukraine. And I don't see what else besides huge escalation will get his hawk supporters off his back.
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  15775. Why not? Everywhere, year after year, decade after decade, political violence creates political change. Governments and society condemn it in the strongest terms, yet they promptly respond to it with concessions. The blunt, sad, awful truth: Terra wrizm Works.
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  15776. Why is important news being delivered to us by someone who looks and speaks like a 19-year-old? DW, are you out of your minds? Someone at least tell her not to say "in terms of" every five seconds. Shaking my head.
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  15777.  @16bitmetal35  Far less yet is to be found in that reply. Likewise a total absence of judgement, wisdom, imagination and vision.
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  15778.  @16bitmetal35  Oxford Dictionary: vi·sion /ˈviZHən/ noun [2nd sense:] 2. the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. "the organization had lost its vision and direction" ; a mental image of what the future will or could be like. "a vision of retirement" —————— There you go. Now you know more about this common English word. You're welcome.
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  15779. Nah, you mistake me.
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  15780.  @chrismercer5418  Oh yes I do. I certainly do. Not that it would matter if I didn't; what matters is that it's the political leaning of the demonstrators. So talk to them. Anyway, I never knowingly get into debates with Marxists. I like my foes worthy. So I am muting you, and will be unable to receive y our li es. Whoops, I meant replies. Sorry for the typo.😄
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  15781. As this occurred off the Alaskan (not the Canadian) coast, it's more like the Canadian jets came to assist the US jets. Logic, Tony. Logic.
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  15782.  @momokui  Ok, Mohammed.🙄
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  15783. You should be clear at 1:15 that the big crowd is an anti-Russia protest in Germany back in March (which Russia claimed was only attended by hundreds).
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  15784. Your dog: "Hey, how come you say that like it's anything surprising? I should bite you for that, dude!"
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  15785. The source of my own doubt is that The Times tracked down hundreds (their word) of his sex partners to get dirt on him. We don't know what they said to all those women, whether they made promises of material support, whether they led them along with all the (female) rhetorical support they could muster, manipulated them, etc. — in short, whether they did whatever they had to in order to amass four accusers. There's no doubt about it, they were on a mission. They assigned multiple reporters and spent four years on it, as well as presumably hundreds of thousands of pounds in wages and expenses (travel, legal, etc). A group that determined could probably nail Santa Claus. Then there are the sheer statistical odds that some people who've had casual sex with a celebrity will end up resenting that person. Surely the tryst itself means much more to them than to the famous person, so that sets up a massive potential for resentment all by itself. Add to that the fact that Brand's political leanings have taken a turn from ten-plus years ago, which may add to any sense of affront. If you search long and hard enough you can probably find a few people that will say things that aren't true, people who are also intelligent enough to present those things in a well-thought out and credible-seeming fashion. Another possibility is that some of the accusers are being truthful and others aren't. It's certainly impossible for me to be sure one way or the other.
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  15786. Terrible people are people who pretend reality is theirs and theirs alone to define, even others' reality. A terrible woman is one who defines a baby inside her as a baby when she wants to let it live, and a parasite like a tick when she wants to deny it life. One moment a baby; then when she changes her mind a tick; then when she changes her mind again, a baby; then a tick again, and so on ad nauseam. Because of a woman's right to make it easy on herself, the baby be damned.
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  15787.  @charlesmartel3995  That's a technicality. She was the daughter of Canadian immigrants to Niagara Falls, Ontario and merely happened to be born across the river in NF, NY.
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  15788.  @charlesmartel3995  Did I say anything about her ethnicity? I said she was a Canadian who lived her whole childhood in Canada except for a very brief period. She may have had dual citizenship but that's not very interesting.
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  15789. I clicked avidly expecting to hear Sowell talk about Tyson, but didn't. Nor was Sowell quoted on Tyson from his book, so apparently the title is this channel's opinion, not necessarily his. I do share the opinion 100% but that's beside the point. Since TSTV is Thomas Sowell content, I'd rather the titles not be Thomas Sowell-related commentary.
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  15790. Is this your entry in the contest for Least Relevant and Intelligent Comment of the Year? Cuz you have my full support if it is.
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  15791.  @thehipsterhamster1929  Because flex means show off, closely related to brag, and g.d. was another tipoff. I pondered for a sec, then decided it was clear, cuz who would put it that way otherwise, and risk seeming extremely critical? I guess to you it sounds like the same kind of thing as "f—ng sick", which is praise? Hmm. Could be.
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  15792.  @coldnoodles2951  "Language isint" Ok, school me all about language, illiterate little kid.
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  15793.  @coldnoodles2951  That's what you get for patronizing me about the meaning of language and how it's not always literal, etc. Go away. I have nothing to learn from you about language, thank you very much. Cheers. lol
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  15794. @Matthew Hutchinson Are you still on that?
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  15795. Emo boy.
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  15796. This Canadian cordially invites the character of Air Chief Marshal Dowding to stuff himself for the sneering regret with which he okays the deployment of the Canadian flying corps. I wonder if anything in the historical record backs up this script element.
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  15797. Also check your pants.
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  15798. Trump won't pull the US out of NATO.😂 Russia isn't spending 40% of its GDP on the war. That would be $1.5trn so far.😂 Who is this 🤡?
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  15799.  @bobdeverell  I suggest you look into the source of the IMF data. Hint: The source loves Adidas-brand clothes.😂 Also find out what happens to GDP when a government increases spending.
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  15800. Kilograms of Fentanyl seized in the past year: Mexican border: 9,500 US seaports and airports: 500 Canadian border: 20
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  15801. ...despite that name full of highly titillating promise.🤣
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  15802. Maybe use my term: the Authoritarian Axis.
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  15803. There's no set answer, as any given miner has both believers and speculators. If bullion keeps rising, there will be a fairly sudden and steep rise in miners when they at last get a lot of attention for skyrocketing profits. When gold falls, historically pretty soon afterward, miner investors are punished cruelly, so have a pre-set plan to bail at a price you can live with. After this, the stock tends to drift in the doldrums for years, sometimes several.
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  15804. ​ @thedillestpickle  Past that point? I hope not: Barrick's P/E is 10.8, Newmont's is 13.
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  15805. Was the Canadian commander, Maj.-Gen. Bols, bluffing when he told the Soviet commander that he had five artillery regiments at his disposal?
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  15806. Why don't you find out yourself and come back when you find out? Be responsible in a sensitive discussion. How would you like it if someone replied "Isn't this Richard Cowlishaw account fake? Shown to be repeatedly posting false information?"? Btw, one of the 24 papers included in the meta-analysis paper was later withdrawn from the pre-print server due to problems with it. That may be what you heard.
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  15807. The window behind the guest with a few messy piles of books on its ledge, rather than a huge tidy bookshelf, is a promising sign. Books carelessly strewn all over the place are a better indication of voracious reading than what you usually see, the packed but lonely-looking shelves which I suspect very often amount to props. SNL could devise a good skit with various interview panel members appearing from home in gigantic bookshelf headwear.
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  15808. Well said. Yes, there is garbage in the West—and it's those very Westerners who call the West garbage. They're the poison, they're the mental and moral mutants, every one of them.
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  15809. Not much of a Banksy fan, but I must admit it caught at my throat a little to see that.👏👏
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  15810. At least 9 out of 10 such young people are simply, in their minds and their feelings, lost and adrift. Directionless and unfulfilled. Deprived of the healthful basics of both guidance and the opportunity to shape themselves, as paradoxical as that sounds. They've been sold short, some of them abused, others cruelly neglected, many others practically smothered with a surfeit of demands to conform and obey. In all this they are faultless.
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  15811.  @Felix-Sited  The Left does this with women too. They always let on that women were important figures in fields where they actually were not. These people feel no compunction about re-writing history with falsehoods — because truth is nothing compared to "equity." They actually consider themselves heroes. Same syndrome on a lesser level as the 9/11 hijackers — not murderers, heroes, due to the rightness of their cause.
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  15812.  @zichen4095  That's what you think? That China's air quality problem is caused by American garbage? It accounts for more than 1%, you say? If you're serious, it might be time to stop believing everything you hear. Cheers.
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  15813. He's much better than this bozo.
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  15814. Yet the elites call you the problem for objecting to all this. They say it's entirely your fault.
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  15815. Thanks for the nihilism and defeatism. So refreshing and just what everyone needs. Please comment again when you're inspired by something else loathsome, like hatred, resentment, or revenge. Cheers.
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  15816.  @paulinskipukprogressive4903  Hostility approximately equivalent to your own. I tells a lot about a person when he pesters someone who's said "Leave me alone." Ah well, that's what mute buttons are for. (Just as anti-stalking laws are, I suppose, for unfortunate ex-girlfriends, ex-wives and slight acquaintances of such men).
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  15817. Socialism is the resort of the born loser in need of a way to cope with his or her bitter resentments and grudges. These are the first things you notice about socialists: resentfulness and inferiority (e.g. incompetence, as you point out, but also ugliness, awkwardness, neuroticism, unlikeability, a lack of talent except for backbiting, cunning, and deceit). The attraction of socialism for superior people invariably fades along with their youth, unless their mental health goes downhill. Then it is likely to persist.
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  15818.  @keithjenkins7919  "Fat chance"? Well, it happened today. See the edit to my OP above.🎉
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  15819.  @RobertKubas  It did happen. Today. He was arrested and charged.
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  15820.  @TruthTeller8888  Nope. It happened today!😄
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  15821.  @iqtestingforteachers  He was charged today. See CP24 article "Police charge 2 men in connection with December pro-P^^^^^^^^n demonstration inside Toronto mall" 😄
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  15822.  @cavelleardiel  Great reply, and guess what? He was arrested today!😄 Faces numerous charges.🎉
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  15823.  @EasyTiger.01343  People who don't care what anyone thinks aren't down here. Or if they are, they shouldn't be, because then they're clearly tee+rolls.
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  15824. ​ @KenInTexas-27  Lots of confusion there: (1) Saying "unrestrictive capitalism" when "unrestricted" was evidently meant. Anyway, there (rightly) are considerable restrictions on capitalism. (2) Failing to specify which religion creates overwhelming problems: it's that of whoa kizzem. (3) Not realizing that the latter is what generates homelessness. It ruins minds and character, leading to mental maladies and excessive drug use.
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  15825. You have no credibility left since you roundly condemned Canadians protesting against mandatory vacci nation. I won't listen to you on anything.
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  15826. 'Right' is what the Party says is right. And if you want to support and strengthen the Party right from your own neighbourhood, just drive to the mall and pick up some China-made merchandise. It's been working fantastically well for a good 35 years now.
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  15827. Who's Andrew Bolt to point fingers? Just last year he stood with Justin Trudeau against Canadian protestors when Trudeau invoked martial law to break up their protest, imprisoned them without bail, de-banked them and treated them like terra wrists.
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  15828. 1)  Clue-poor Lemon had no idea what was happening. The generous partnership deal Elon Musk gave him was vaporizing. He asked Musk to an interview but narcissistically made it a debate. One of the most overprivileged men on earth is now less so. 2) Germaine Greer: "A man who cuts his [ ] off isn't a woman. He's a man without a [ ]."
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  15829. On Friday nights she's her own enema! That's the Washington buzz anyway.
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  15830.  @sogerc1  In my first reply to you I made it clear that I have an orthodox view of what empty is. Now do come out from under the bridge more often. You must get more daylight. Btw, you're not tiresome at all. I'm getting some good laughs. Cheers
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  15831.  @WangAiHua  Haha, sure. But who says it wasn't opened a month ago?🤔
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  15832.  @Spacebadger  Ry as in Ryerson? It adds.
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  15833.  Commentator  My language wasn't neutral. It had enough salt on it for anybody except someone who buries one bite of food with an inch of it. But you're on the right side of things, so cheers.
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  15834. Micro-quibble: Premier is pronounced PREE-mee-er.
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  15835. How embarrassing it is to watch as Mayor Chow struggles to understand what she's talking about. Mediocre minds are drawn to the NDP like moths to a flame in the first place and are little improved by membership in it for 40 or 50 years. The strained TPS must be given the $20m increase, and more.
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  15836. I love the first two seconds when Putin greets Xi and he wants to be liked. Years before Putin was known, some guy nailed it perfectly when he referred to "the psychologist's Wonderland which opens before us when charmless people try to be charming." It's also that special kind of funny which, when you see it, is funny, but you don't actually laugh.
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  15837.  @bovnycccoperalover3579  Yeah, sure. Slightest Resemblance = Same Thing.🙄
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  15838. Socialism, the guest tells us, is great because it spells dignity for all. This is a conclusion, not an argument; an assertion, not a case. As such it is an evasion which no intellectual worth his salt will try to get away with and borders on question-beggaring. It also looks very bad on Harvard. Carlson saw through it at once, asking him repeatedly for "details, details" but to no avail. (Full professors at Harvard, by the way, average over $220,000 in salary, with benefits on top of that. Pretty dignified.)
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  15839. Not Israelis, anyway. It's all part of the Iranian plan.
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  15840. Except for less than a year following Feb. 2020, people have been saying the market's overvalued for 6 years. So if earnings beats are not being rewarded right now, good. A compression of multiples is going on. Soon it'll constitute a buying signal. Besides, I think the Fed will cut rates this year. A serious correction would take a major catalyst.
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  15841. 🤔And I thought Larry Bud Melman had shuffled off this mortal coil! 😄
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  15842.  @richardatkins3623  Ah, but now you've discovered it in yourself, you can begin to do something about it. I do congratulate you, but go tell some friends, if you have any, not a stranger. Have a nice afternoon, Dick.
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  15843. At some point Putin may be faced with a choice between using nuclear weapons in Ukraine and rounding up his hard-line supporters, who as Ioffe reminds us are far more hard-core than he is. I think he might see the latter option as safer and more convenient for him, and less damaging to Russia itself. It would be a good old-fashioned Stalin-type purge, with loyal supporters dragged off yelling "There has been some mistake! You will be punished for this!" Watch for it.
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  15844. I just wish your volume were similar to other channels. It's a lot louder and bothers me every time.
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  15845.  @joedoe-sedoe7977  No he wasn't.👎
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  15846. You packed a lot of hollow drama into those few short sentences. Have you gone for a walk in the fresh air recently?
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  15847. The first thing police should do after subduing these perpetrators is put a large piece of duct tape over their mouths.
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  15848. How does a man reach the age where his hairline is receding yet he spells "losing" "loosing"? How on earth? Just a rhetorical question. I have an idea what the answer is.
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  15849. ​ @jessa9877  You're right, it isn't justified. But the support it does have was handed to him by the hapless protest tacticians. They needed some first rate PR help but they stupidly thought they already knew what to do. They didn't. The thing to do wasn't to spread the trucker actions, it was move back from the centre of the stage and to share it by bringing in great numbers of ordinary, interested and sympathetic Canadians. (Such Canadians did begin flocking there last weekend, but incompetent organizers had doomed the whole thing by then.) This they could have done, and if they had, the mandates would already be history. Instead they squandered public support by going after bridges that made absurd targets. The proper targets of course were politicians in their offices on Parliament Hill and that's where the protests should have remained, although provincial legislatures would have been fine, too. If they're smart they'll start over, in Ottawa, without trucks (or without many of them anyway), and with the maximum number of demonstrators from all walks of life. I think protests are banned near Parliament Hill but they can get as near as possible until the ban is removed—and in the meantime the government will look terrible for using near-martial-law to keep them at bay.
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  15850.  @user-bj3pq2si2l  "Rupel"? That is a tidal river in Belgium. The unit of Canadian currency is the Canadian dollar.
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  15851. You resort to the same "so you're saying" tactic as the interviewer. Nonsense. If that's what they tell him, and he says that's what they tell him, his statement is accurate. He makes no claim about billions of men---your choice of punctuation between the two sentences you quote is your own, not his. One could insert a comma, semi-colon, or dash. (Anyway, though I'm asserting he was generalizing little in this instance, generalizations can be valuable; thus if one wishes to refute or even merely attack them, the attempt must be made on the basis of demerits shown to be inherent to them, not on the basis of the worthlessness of generalizing.) I know a doctor who treats young people for their problems. He tells me something similar. He says many of his young male patients tell him they are ashamed of their maleness and see it as inferior to femaleness. Unsurprising, considering several decades of the media, schools, and other areas of culture and society telling boys and men how terrible they are. And this generation of men and boys are for the women of like age the men and boys from among which non-lesbians must select their partners. Not very appetizing, I would think. It's hard to see sexism where you believe it can't exist. It's hard to believe it can exist when it's in your interest to disbelieve it. Cheers.
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  15852.  @mimipouso483  Yes, you put words in his mouth. He takes his patients' out of theirs. You're free to pillory him for not publishing and passing peer review. That would reflect how much you hate boys for their dangly bits, I suppose. Cheers.
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  15853. Good job, Chris Kenny.👍 (Except for lambasting Vermonters who were simply exercising their inalienable right to an orderly public protest along a highway.)
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  15854. Putin: "Omg. I'm at war with NATO, but they've got a way to fire on my army, while I can't fire at theirs. Omg. They have a way to wreck my economy, while I can't do anything to theirs without crashing my own totally. Omg. I made a huge f+++++ mistake." 😃
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  15855. Good lord. Take your temperature.
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  15856. No it won't. If you mean no one will forget it was Twitter before, then yeah. But if you literally mean people will forever call it "X, formerly known as Twitter" that won't happen because it's too long. Eight syllables? Nah. That in itself can be well described by the 's'-word you used. If you'd just said it's odd and awkward and might remain so for a couple of years, I'd grant you that.
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  15857. Wokesters are today's greatest bigots by a very, very wide margin.
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  15858. HFS! Just HFS! Yes, I'd say you almost certainly gotta be right. I'd say you are totally on the ball, my good woman. 👏
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  15859. 1) I figured out why Singh's suit jackets fit him so badly, so strangely: he's wearing body armor. Makes sense, as his rhetoric and policies attract political violence to Canada. 2) [Inspired by The Princess Bride ]: You keep using that word, "Canadian." I do not think it means what you think it means.
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  15860. Her glasses need to be larger though.😆
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  15861. Goebbels [in hell, jumping to his feet as he listens to her]: "Ja! Ja! Das ist gut! Wer ist das? Jawohl!"
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  15862. Diva my dear, nobody got caught cheating. You're fantasizing. More like Mia Farrow is up to her old tricks.
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  15863.  @divagirllove3977  All quite true, but hardly breaking news. Congratulations on discovering electricity.
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  15864. They don't want to go [EDIT:] to prison / back to prison.
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  15865.  @anthonypc1  Fair point. Edit made.
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  15866. I'm sure it happens many times across the country in the course of a week or whatever. It's sort of a cottage industry. We of course do not hear about most of it.
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  15867. Besides being a signal to the West, I'm guessing it's also a warning to all would-be challengers to exercise restraint in the 'campaign' leading up to next month's 'election.' As the French say, "Pour encourager les autres."
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  15868.  @Flash3-22  I've gotten into the habit of asking Perplexity that kind of question. The results tend to be very good. And if you dislike them for some real reason you can argue with it.
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  15869. I think in Russian the nickname for Daniil is Danya.
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  15870. ​ @neilnelson7603  Such propaganda is a worthless pile of refuse. American mistakes hand Russia a licence to do the same or worse? Most shameful moral reasoning in history. And btw, the US has never done anything this bad. Iraq was its worst and it wasn't as bad as Ukraine.  World Refuse Pile Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to this guy's moral sense!" Me: "Sorry about that."
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  15871.  @limitlesscash2771  😢
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  15872.  @pavelzmiev1578  You mean 'Kiwi,' surely? 'Maori' refers strictly to the indigenous people of New Zealand.
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  15873. She wasn't invited to harangue him and the viewers with her puritan's sanctimony. She was invited to answer his questions, and boorishly refused about a hundred times. If that's what you intend to do, just decline the invitation. This injunction goes along with another of no interest her: "Don't deface, damage or destroy public monuments." It's always the fundamentalist and moral poser who behaves the worst, and indeed ordinarily a terr oris t is simply a sanctimonious puritan.
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  15874. Russia retains a distinct flavour of feudalism, as Germany did until after the war and de-N-ification was complete. To this day the domes of the Kremlin whisper the last enchantments of the Middle Ages.
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  15875. Lady, right.🤣
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  15876. It's all about the feminization of men. There's no male-female balance now, as there passingly was in the latter part of the last century. Culture and society are now subordinated to female instincts, tastes and desires to an outlandish degree. Women and girls, naturally fearful owing mainly to their lack of strength, formerly admired male courage. Now, thanks to indoctrination in anti-male ideology from earliest childhood, they have on the whole come to despise and resent it. (Not entirely, I stress, nor does this apply in a significant degree to all women, but a large enough majority to predominate and to create a great society-wide imbalance.) Such resentment quickly entails a rejection of mere equality between the sexes in favour of the emasculation of boys and men. For indoctrinated women, of course, equality to the sex they regard as innately inferior and tyrannical would itself amount to a tyranny, an injustice, a humiliation. And so a culture of Safety Above All quite naturally appeals to a desire for the emasculation of men which has been planted in them. And by necessity a culture of safety entails the elevation of fearfulness, courage's opposite, from a weakness to a virtue — a supreme virtue, an indispensable one. We saw this writ large in the 2020-22 period, years which marked an apotheosis of fear and enforced cowardice. But how did they do it? How could something that sounds so impossible be made reality? In a word, gradually. One man (and one woman) at a time. One by one, as I said, they taught women to abhor male courage — by relentless repetition. One by one, as time went on, they taught men the same thing — by repetition. And at the same time, one by one they set the men they had feminized against those they had not. It's amazing how just a little change each year — say, a mere 1% — adds up over a number of decades. "Drops of rain removeth mountain ranges into the sea, not by sheer force, but by oft falling." And a society or civilization whose men are fearful and emasculated, it hardly needs to be pointed out, will of course before long crumble and be overtaken by another whose men remain men.
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  15877. To me Biden was basically average for Biden. I took it in stride because I'm used to it. So how anyone found it a surprise amazes me. These people have been living in a media bubble.
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  15878.  @sandler800  I figure most are actually Poot-ists. They use AI now to sound like Americans. Anyway, whoever they are, they're always ganging up on me. Nice to hear from you instead. (Btw, I deleted and reposted to fix a typo, that's why it's down lower now.)
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  15879.  @sandler800  I figure most are actually Orcs. They use AI now to sound like Americans. Anyway, whoever they are, they're always ganging up on me. Nice to hear from you instead. (Btw, I deleted and reposted to fix a typo, that's why it's down lower now.)
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  15880.  @SvenS2  I wish you well in your future introductory studies in history.
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  15881.  @gowiththeflow9469  Before I reply, why do you quote me saying "the enemy"? I didn't use those words, so it's wrong to do that. Please explain.
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  15882. ​ @gowiththeflow9469  It's clear he wants to restore Russia to the position it had when the SSRs and Soviet Bloc countries were wrapped around it like a thick blanket. It was an empire and he wants as much of it back as possible. And he doesn't care if those sovereign states are interested in such an arrangement. He wants it whether they will or no. And they don't, obviously and understandably. In fact they want protection from him. That's why they've all gone running to NATO (except Belarus, which he's already vanquished, and the Asian ex-SSRs, which are not a natural fit for NATO anyway). They prefer Europe and NATO because Europe respects them while Russia does not. It's that simple. And NATO isn't going to just watch him roll over them. It didn't win the Cold War for nothing. The end of the Second World War was supposed to mark the end of countries annexing other countries. Nations have the right to self-determination. So, in a word, Putin is "the enemy," if you want to say that, because he is making himself the enemy of every country near Russia except China. That is all. I don't wish to prolong this in the least. I don't want to debate every one of you people. I've done it many times before. I don't want to debate any fans of Pol Pot either, or Charles Manson or Karl Marx. It's not my cup of tea. Find someone else to argue with. Good-bye.😄
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  15883.  @arthunterns  The same could be said of Russia. Except Ukraine was not for sale. You don't understand what Ukraine is, though your children will if you have any.
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  15884. With the triumph of the Fabians, I suppose, as Orwell had in mind in 1984.   (The Fabians are the socialists who believe in the gradual insinuation of socialism rather than imposing it by revolution. Not many know, as Orwell did, that 1984 was to be the centenary of The Fabian Society's founding.)
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  15885. Stuart Varney is the best.👏
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  15886. I see you are already a resident of Mars. No, Uranus.
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  15887.  @highestperception  Enjoy life on Uranus.
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  15888. Current polling results and seat projections show Trudeau's party being reduced to a 4th-place non-entity in Parliament. He's so gone. An election may come as soon as March. His new nickname: Green Mile 🤣
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  15889. Literally zero diversity.
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  15890. Yarmulke. Never seen him with it off.
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  15891. Where? Scandinavia? Actually those are all free-enterprise countries with economies based on regulated capitalism and high taxes. High taxes and lots of social programs do not equate to socialism or "socialism democracy." Under socialism there'd be no Ikea, SAAB, H&M, Carlsberg, Maersk or Nokia. So just call them high-tax free-enterprise democracies and steer clear of sentimentalism concerning socialism. Cheers mate
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  15892.  @TheWhyFiles  Careful with the term 'socialism.' So-called 'social programs' generally aren't socialism. Welfare isn't, for example, even though prized by socialists. Public ownership of the means of production is. No need to call that "pure socialism." It's just plain socialism. To regard public schools, fire departments, old-age pensions, and publicly-paid-for streetlights and sidewalks as (watered-down) socialism isn't right. The farthest-right libertarians may call them that, but they're wrong. (Publicly-funded single-payer health care might qualify as watered-down socialism, though, if it bans private insurance of most or all kinds.) Anyway, debating over terms is useful up to a point, but I think we're agreed on what's best, and that's far more important. Cheers and thanks for your reply.
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  15893. Funniest 1420 ever. Serious and funny go together well, usually. 👏👏
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  15894. My dear woman, symptoms can't be "graphic"! A description of symptoms can be graphic. It always troubles me to see someone who writes and speaks English for a living making the kind of blunder which even a bright middle-schooler wouldn't.
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  15895. Me too. All we have is his insufferable putz of a brother. It's almost like he's trying to outdo Christopher's notorious blunder on Iraq with his own on Ukraine. Embarrassing.
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  15896. Cold compresses on the forehead can reduce neurological symptoms associated with fever.
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  15897.  @Duke_Romilar_III  It wasn't advice. It was a statement of plain fact for your edification.
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  15898.  @Duke_Romilar_III  <---confession via accusation. Now treat that fever, Your Grace.
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  15899. Adds about as much appeal to the ticket as Pence did, i.e., none. But at least the MSM will probably find him too uninteresting to attack much, I guess, unless they go after his age.
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  15900. The 1970s and early-80s were plagued by various c ul ts appealing mostly to empty people under 40, but at least they had one positive aspect: they were fodder for good-quality satire. SNL and Woody Allen in his movies made great hay of them. The 1985-2005 period seemed to be the most free of them but now, as we see, they're back. Really, really, really back.
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  15901. [Inwardly] "Oh no, I'm in deep trouble." [As loud as possible] "Hey, everybody! Money! Money! Tons of money! Here, have some! Have all you want!"
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  15902.  @alanmcintosh8087  Nay, you are the dust beneath his boots.
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  15903.  @MrBlaxjax  You sound very level-headed. Not too hard on people and willing to possibly cut them a break, not too easy on them, either.
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  15904. Action costs 10 pounds a pack now?
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  15905. Biden's opposition to Putin's war has fried Tucker's mind. I used to like him, but in his quest to defeat the Democrats (I'm good with that part) he'll make up anything, say anything (I'm not cool with that). Either that or his IQ has gone into remission. Brain tumor maybe? Maybe, but more likely he's morally broken: He's stooped to fighting fire (i.e. Democrat lies) with fire (lies) of his own. I'd still never, ever vote Dem. But I'm coming back here less and less often, appalled each time.
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  15906.  @DarkAngel-pt1cq  It'd be a loss to both, but not so much to NATO if Turkey had already been on the verge of leaving. I'm saying there's no place in NATO for a frenemy. Such a member would be more of a danger inside than out. But I do wholeheartedly agree with your first sentence.
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  15907. Pretty fanciful montage work here.🙄 Don't think that's how it went. But no big deal, the important thing is a Russian ground attack fighter did go down.
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  15908. That person in the opening clip didn't get like that on her own. It took a lot of people to create her as she is. I wish we had all opposed them publicly as we all did privately. We were such cowards for so long, most of us; and so complacent in thinking that the tide would reverse on its own.
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  15909. No! Freeze, not seize. Seize it post-war, as reparations. At present, aid can and should be funded without it. If the West seizes it during the war, Russia will make immense and highly-effective propaganda hay out of it. Ukraine, '22: "I need ammunition, not a ride." Now: "I need ammunition, not cash."
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  15910. ​ @henrka  "Would not work out well." The most powerful gang in all human history by a wide margin is coming for you. Goes by the name NATO. It's not going to be your lucky day. Brace for it.😁
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  15911. Reserves ≠ Unlocking the reserves to feed the hungry (I can't believe that didn't cross your mind. I literally don't believe it.)
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  15912.  @bernardpolicarpio651  Laguna Lake isn't very imaginatively named, I must say. It's like Stream River, Mount Hill, or Avenue Road.
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  15913. It was a Bombardier CRJ-700. Number of seats: usually 65-70, depending on what the airline orders.
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  15914. @ It wasn't a jumbo jet. See my above reply.
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  15915. Ah, but who dislikes being told no, who throws toddler-style tantrums, more than socialists in Western countries? It's always so hilarious when they source their contumely from the mirror. Well, hilariously empty, appalling, hypocritical and tedious. And full of false claims: Joly is a Liberal. She has never belonged to the NDP. She is a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal. Indeed her parents are both prominent lifelong Liberals, her dad being a senior Liberal Party functionary (Finance Committee president in the Quebec wing), her stepmother a Liberal MP from 2000 to 2004. You simply can't find anyone more Liberal than Melanie Joly. Moreover, it's not just that she's never had anything to do with the pretend-socialist NDP, neither is there even a single NDP member in the Liberal cabinet. Any such claim or assumption is false. I suppose you've surmised that the Liberals and NDP have a coalition. They don't. It's not a formal coalition. The Liberals govern alone with support from the NDP under a far less extensive agreement than what is commonly seen in actual coalitions around the world. Moving on to Canadian arms exports, Canada is not a "major supplier" to any country, and certainly not to Israel. The value of its exports to the US is kept secret, but in 2021 its arms exports to all other countries totalled a paltry $2 billion, about 60% of that to Saudi Arabia. To Israel it sold a minuscule $19 million. Finally there's the matter of Canada's standing in the West. To put it bluntly it has next to none at all. Its reputation has been systematically demolished by Prime Minister Peter Pan over the last nine years. Its lack of contributions to NATO prior to the Ukraine War (under Trudeau and also under previous governments) sealed its fate in this regard. Canada is well-known for publicly condemning things and then doing nothing else about them. That's something that gets a country ignored and that's what has happened to Canada. Like published socialist material generally (if not exclusively), this video and its little causerie in the description section show a disturbing — but unsurprising — lack of respect for the facts. A total disregard, actually. Get back to me if you have questions about politics in Canada or Canada's relation to the world. I see you have problems conducting 'research.'
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  15916. What on earth happened in the last ten days or so to make so many people suddenly begin saying "YOO-krane"? Wth? The name is "yoo-KRANE". To be clear, in the Ukrainian language itself the country's name is not stressed on the first syllable, so this is not a sudden outbreak of correctness. It is a sudden outbreak of some sort of mass neuroticism.
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  15917. What makes that cray-lady stealing power a "lefty" anyway?
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  15918.  @mollysmeow3455  Thanks for your reply. No, I don't have links to offer. The US, UK and Canada all did what they could in the first approximately 20 months (the US less so, I would say), but they couldn't save Poland, Holland, France, Norway, Denmark or any of the others, could they? They had largely disarmed following the First World War and had massive tooling up to do before they could really do battle with armed-to-the-teeth Germany. (Canada sent a battle-ready division to the UK pretty quickly, but (owing to Dunkirk if I recall correctly) it was actually the only one on British soil at the time. Imagine that, in a country that was still by global consensus in 1939 considered the world's leading power.)
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  15919. As usual, a great essay, and read very well indeed. On other channels 3-minute videos are apt to seem like they're 9 minutes. On this channel it's the other way around.
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  15920. What I saw wasn't an interview, it was Sorkin lecturing and actually browbeating Bill Ackman. (!) This is why trust in mass media fell from the 80%s to the 20s.
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  15921.  @ratnakordosshu6291  "he maybe doing this kind of things" That's not what you said, and don't pretend otherwise. You said nothing about "maybe." The massive burden of growing up is on your side....mate.😄 Seriously.
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  15922.  @ratnakordosshu6291  That's funny how you lose the point and then you complain that I used logic.😂 Yeah, that's right, I did. Guilty as charged, no problem.
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  15923. Somebody has to tell soft Democratic supporters that the slight toning-down of Dem positions this summer, the slight easing of Dem-supporting MSM rhetoric and the slight backing out of the spotlight by the Squad are all just for show. They're intended only to alienate swing voters just slightly less. Voters need to know that it'll all come storming back with an absolute vengeance exactly 12 weeks from now.
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  15924. Any concrete government actions are real, of course, but as for real public feeling please remember how distorted media portrayals are. Don't assume your neighbours hate you just because of what a couple of people interviewed on TV or for a newspaper article said. All the best
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  15925. I daresay you won't actually like it when you see it. Any "almighty crash" will spell economic and financial havoc and will most probably reach your own household and finances. It will certainly spread around the country you live in.
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  15926. This never quite dawned on me. How embarrassing. Thank you, SkyAus. :washhands:
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  15927.  @daydays12  Any sensible person would be somewhat tempted to agree with you. But no, I can't really support you there. Although 'right/left' suffers from two major afflictions—first, it has its built-in limitations as all constellation-type generalizations do; second, as we know, it's abused both knowingly and unknowingly by many people—there remains the fact that it has explanatory power up to a point. And there's no alternative as far as I can see, so we'd be even worse off without it.
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  15928. I'm tense every time I say that word. I don't know where I stand on saying the 2nd t. If I shouldn't say it, or I should say it just the least possible. (Nobody gives it a full-on 't' unless they grew up in another country.) The mayor and probably most elite Torontonians go for the 'least possible,' but people who drop it altogether sound like they have more conviction. This goes on for me, decade after decade🤨, but ter-ON-oh. has the edge.
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  15929. I don't know. I'd say he or anyone can see pet rocks as a lousy buy but still invest in a wildly profitable pet rock company.
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  15930. Walz talks like a snake-oil peddler in 1910, as fast as he can, not pausing for breath, hoping that nobody will have time to figure out what on earth he's saying. What a motor-mouth. In fact, a car motor would fit in there.
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  15931.  @BB.halo_heir  He said it partly is. But his position is that CC isn't going to be that big a deal.
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  15932.  @js70371  Canada should sell oil to non-hostile countries, China should look elsewhere.
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  15933. Always Sort by Newest.
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  15934. It looks like Brexit has helped the EU tilt away from leftism. Great for the EU! Now Britain is alone and festering in the miasma of its wokeism. Poor Britain!
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  15935. A master class in vagueness. To some extent this is unintentional: Dalio, whatever his strengths, is not blessed with high verbal intelligence ("Um"...."um"..."um").
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  15936. Why do you show the lowest-resolution clips since about 1994? Just curious.
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  15937. Quite right. So let her remain an MP.
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  15938. The problem is that it's not a ban, since men who 'transitioned' before puberty are welcome to compete as women. It is evidence merely that the political power balance between feminists and trans activists is stabilizing. Between them they still wield absurdly outsized influence. They moreover wield it in socially and politically destabilizing and unsalutary ways which this development only reinforces. It is therefore hasty to speak of bubbles bursting and common sense returning.
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  15939. Police salaries are the last thing the city ought to cut. Try those of the bloated bureaucracy at city hall. And reduce their number as well.
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  15940. Soon: "What is Canada doing in NATO? It is right next to Russia over North Pole. This is huge and aggressive provocation. Almost certainly we will have to nuke Saskatchewan."
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  15941. Vish and Devon, keep the noise down.
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  15942. 1) Democracy is not a system for a nation of total nitwits. They come under dictatorial rule in 100% of cases. 2)  It's brilliant how you always tell them they're right. 3) Dude, you're lining yourself up to be the funniest man in America. Subscribe button crushed.
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  15943. "Touch this with the 10 foot hole"? Ok, Vyacheslav.🙄
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  15944. "Swing towards the right over the last few years"? This is a pretty clear sign you live at the Left Pole. (Just as from the North Pole all points are South, from the Left Pole all points are Right.) There has been a swing all right. A group from well left of centre has lurched hard far leftward. Racism, sexism, and homophobia by 2010 were all incomparably lower than ever and while they still needed much attention, the gap between rich and poor, having grown to the levels of ninety years earlier, needed attention even more urgently. Progress in wealth inequality had reversed to the point where if the same thing happened to sexism, racism, and homophobia, the universities would close admissions to women, white mobs would hang blacks from trees once more, and gays would go to prison again. But the left forgot about class, because it was now the conservatives who were poor and the liberals who had money.Thus, to liberals the class situation looked all right. Suddenly from the humanities, education, and women's studies faculties it was instead announced that sexism, racism, and homophobia were as bad as ever and were the biggest problems in the country. The wage gap had disappeared below the executive suite, in fact young women were earning more than young men, but it was declared that sexism was still rampant. Intolerance of gays reached such a low that the gay bars closed down, but homophobia was still rampant. Jobs and admissions were provided to people of colour on a large scale, but racism was as bad as ever. The pitiable young of the time, reared on Care Bears then demoralized by environmental degradation and evaporating economic opportunity, were ripe to believe the only view of humanity, life, and the world permitted in schools and academe, the neo-Marxist feminist one. They were taught that working to decrease respect and opportunity for normal white men was the sole way to be a decent human being and they took it completely to heart. Language offensive to minorities and women was rightly discouraged; offensive language and attacks against white people, men, and non-gays were at the same time normalized and came to be recognized as a sign of virtue. When Trump was elected largely in reaction to these developments, it riled the left terribly and just added momentum to its race ever more leftward. Now, they claim, anyone who criticizes them just proves what a sexist, racist, and homophobe they are. Denying you're a racist makes you one. Lifelong mainstream liberals now find the New Puritans see them as not much better than the far right. Moderates are considered counterrevolutionary. Only the ideologically correct of an approved race, sex, and sex orientation do not need to fear the litmus tests, demands for professions of loyalty to the cause, or purges from politics, professions, culture, and community. So let me guess: you were in school in 2010, and you did not swim against any tide at all. You swam with the school of fish you found yourself in and took all of its claims at face value. Just like a religious fundamentalist, there's no need to think for yourself, since what you've been taught is complete and completely right. To entertain any other thoughts would be inviting moral self-ruin. You're the first fully decent and fully enlightened generation in history, a great leap forward to something so close to moral perfection that you're entitled to just bask deservedly in your wonderfulness and wait to be imitated by all. Your achievement above all is to set the example now and for all time. But no, not for all time. Just until the pushy, self-congratulatory intolerance you're normalizing sets up the next process of vilification, this time one that'll be worked on you. Mark my words, Mr. Sakho, they'll come for you one day, inspired by the illiberal approach of this generation. Who is to do it I don't know. But it will be a punishment that fits the crime.
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  15945. I bet the dentist's victim is actually pretty good-looking.
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  15946. Super-like! However, it is incredibly unrealistic that a woman would have all those objections. Verging on totally impossible. Twitter banning—and most of the things that are awful about social media overall—seem to me like forms of toxic femininity. All social media seems like the mean girls table at a high school cafeteria.
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  15947. Oh yeah, sure buddy.🙄 And Elon Musk is far worse than Osama bin Laden, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini combined, times ten thousand.🙄 Thanks for raising the level of discussion.🙄
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  15948.  @rodmarker2071  If that is what you really believe (that the creation of humanity was a mistake), then I think you know what you have to do.🤨
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  15949.  @PraneshSacher  Great post. Thanks. Now stop buying stuff from China. It's not too hard to reduce it by 90%. It's fun besides.
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  15950.  @bryandimery6509  Total :face-fuchsia-poop-shape:-post. I stepped in it and now I need to hose off my boots.
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  15951.  @rodmarker2071  It'll come to you if you just think. You can think, right? Oh wait...
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  15952.  @rodmarker2071  Get help elsewhere. I'm not qualified, except to say you've got to do something about your misanthropy. You're with yourself until the end.
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  15953.  @a5cent  There is a second GOOD REASON: she was educated in East Germany. (I never YELL IN ALL-CAPS but I make an exception here in your case, as you are evidently hard of reading. One must be especially courteous to those with disabilities.) Anyway, I wasn't addressing you in my last post. If I had wanted to know what you thought I could've replied to you, but I did not, so I did not. I have no wish to interact with the sort of person who cannot see the clear rhetorical intent of a remark such as mine about fridge lights, and you've proved yourself to be just such a person. Have a nice life.😄
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  15954.  @rodmarker2071  Anyone who thinks humanity is a mistake needs help, and I see you have recognized an unpleasant truth by its sting. So it turns out I could help you after all! Wonderful. TTFN.😄
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  15955. Search neil degrasse tyson iq. Mediocre.
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  15956. Some commenters are mad about the now-rejected herd immunity idea floated by the Chief Science Advisor's (it was his idea, not the government's).  He's dropped the idea because of flaws in it and many loud objections, but it was nothing sinister. At face value, it sounded like an effective way, and possibly a noble way, to save hundreds of thousands of lives. It's no wonder to me at all that he raised it for discussion. It wasn't about infecting everyone. The idea was to isolate the elderly, whom it kills much more frequently, and then let the younger people catch it. The death rate for them might be similar to that of a seasonal flu. Once that was over the old could rejoin an immune nation and be spared the illness entirely. The idea was to save many lives, perhaps the better part of a million. The virus also could not return the following year, as the Spanish Flu did. I'm not saying it should be done but neither does it sound the least bit sinister. Perhaps it would save many lives. What people probably didn't like about it was that it would spare many seniors at the cost of a much smaller number of younger people's lives, amounting to a sacrifice of the young for the old. The question was along these lines: Is it more preferable that 200,000 younger people and 50,000 older people die, or that 50,000 younger people and 800,000 older people die? The totals are 250,000 and 850,000. I'm not saying these are the right numbers, but this is the sort of thing he had in mind. He's the Chief Science Adviser, not a supervillain.
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  15957. Sure, Vassily.
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  15958. Part of same company that depicts founding fathers of the US as black people. New MRC report shows 41 instances when it interfered with and manipulated US voting.
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  15959. ​ @theuncanspan  They're never even sure what it's doing, or how or why. Btw, does my post of earlier show? ("This company...)  Y/N?
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  15960. China jealous this happen. Nobody want special China visa. US talent magnet, not too many China ask why because know answer. Make sad.
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  15961. The Soviet victory in Afghanistan was even more brilliant. It destroyed the USSR.
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  15962. Check opinion polls on whom Republicans actually support in the Ukraine War. That should reduce your Trump Fever a few degrees.
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  15963. The single-occupant bathrooms which anyone can use are totally uncontroversial and only make perfect sense to most people. (Some women don't like them because they may be less tidy and the seat may be up when they enter.)
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  15964. A PhD used to be a real achievement. Not anymore, unless it's in the sciences. In other faculties they just hand them out like free samples. I bet she even calls herself 'Dr.' every chance she gets.
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  15965.  @proudatheist2042  It's plain that something bad happened to education when someone is unaware that people don't divulge answers to personal questions online.
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  15966. 'Why' is for explaining things like your girlfriend cheating on you. Existence is more about 'How.'
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  15967. That sounds extremely important. You better phone all world leaders and tell them right away.😂
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  15968.  @gman7497  What a galling blanket statement. You don't speak for everyone who's not a "straight white dude." The great explosion of mental illness since then powerfully argues against the idea that the current era is a better or happier. Throw in the fact that the average person is lonelier and poorer, and it's silly to deny that we're massively on the wrong track.
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  15969. And get back to reading T.S. Eliot.
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  15970. @Brian Z Musk is a self-professed centrist and encourages centrism in others. He wouldn't take kindly to your attempt to paint devil's horns on conservatives. It smacks of an extremism unbefitting clever people.
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  15971. This guy works for the CNN of Britain. BBC News having no counterpart in the US, this means that Channel 4, like CNN, is not number one but is the most established cable news station. Anyway, he's almost always like this. An Oxbridge 1%-er of the worst sort (cf. Pulp, 'something-something Socialist') who makes a life out of washing and drying Labour's smalls for them. (Smalls: socks and undies. He does them in the sink, with delectation, like a Waylon Smithers.) Following this, in the manner of Brian Stelter, he immediately goes out for an enormous expensive meal.
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  15972. That's a lot of freewheeling claims. Sounds a little, uh, fevered. Also, please use Grammarly. Or just write in your own language and run it through a translation program.
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  15973.  @zachweyrauch2988  Yes, "instances," and bread is half sawdust.🙄 🎵 Paranoya big destroya 🎶
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  15974. Part 1: Stop. Part 2: Proceed when it is safe to do so. What are you, ten? Wait, don't answer. You ARE ten.
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  15975. Everybody anti-American gangsta until Russia points a nuke at them. Then they come a-runnin'. I say the US should make them sweat for just a little while.
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  15976.  @Geojr815  #51-57 🤨
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  15977. I'm curious what you are trying to prove by pronouncing 'adult' in that foolish-sounding way. I know it's not how you were taught.
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  15978. (1) Tragically, civilians die in all war zones. (None resembles Waterloo.) In WWII, civilians died in the liberation of Holland. It was tragic, but the Dutch still welcomed the Canadians as the liberators they were. (2) I'm shocked to see what a tiny head Jeremy Corbyn has. Is this why he can't grasp that there already was a ceasefire in Gaza — and that Hamas broke it on October 7? (3) Bravo, Piers.
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  15979. Hurray for Gript, down with government news. It's a terrible idea to get one's understanding of the world from people paid by the people who write the laws. The rebuttal that it's been going great so far and will continue to do so is hope on top of fantasy. Government news is impossibly risky.
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  15980. More of a monster, but yeah.
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  15981. Admission, yes. Shocking, no.
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  15982. Yep. Compared to the vast destruction of American prosperity and American wealth if we stand back and let Russia, China, Iran etc. take over the world, it's lunch money. A few tens of billions vs hundreds of trillions in actual and potential wealth.
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  15983. You had me at "insufferable" and "Wu." 👍 You lost me at "disasterous." 👎 I know that some highly Intelligent people are just bad at spelling, but that's not an excuse at a metropolitan daily newspaper. But you got me back again with that wonderfully insightful and well-written piece.👍
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  15984.  @courtneycoley8487  Nobody's a moron for disagreeing with a trial verdict. Shabby trials happen all the time.
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  15985. Would someone identify the allusion, please?
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  15986.  @darrelgustafson2507  Hey, thanks.
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  15987.  @BigEightiesNewWave  Congratulations.
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  15988. Super-hyper-mega-intelligent aliens closely analyzing every scrap of data would conclude in 3/100,000ths of a second that Prime Minister Peter Pan is determined to destroy Canada. Much tougher for them to figure out: Why on earth he'd want to.🤔
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  15989. Yes, turns out the whole thing was a paid-for ad.
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  15990. Mike Johnson told Politico on Thursday that a vote on Ukraine funding will go ahead in the near future. He indicated that the vote will not be tied to the issues of immigration, the border, or the deadline for general government funding. (Sources: Politico exclusive story, The New Republic)
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  15991. 'This is not a parallel here in any way. Not at all. But it really, really, really bears an awful similarity to the [H-word].'
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  15992. That looked like an office I once worked in.
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  15993.  @Englishman-nz3jm  "Its about money. The government dont care about us." I see. The government aren't human. Right. They see a chance to become billionaires out of your death and the deaths of those whom you love. Right. My dear man, I counsel you not to advertise what a painful life you've had by uttering such nonsense. Get help with your mind and emotions as soon as you can. Also, learn what the apostrophe is for.
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  15994. ​ @deanmetcalfe7168  The Chief Science Advisor for the UK floated the idea. Nice chap, not a supervillain. You just need to look up Herd Immunity on wikipedia. Easy, takes one minute.
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  15995. I do not wish to flatly contradict you, but bear in mind that Canada's trade with the EU is of a very different nature. Little in the way of services, largely commodities (mind you, the CETA opens the door for this to change). A trade garment tailored to Canada might not even button up on the UK.
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  15996. That's not true. He wants to see massive reform.
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  15997.  @armedprophet3321  He doesn't talk like one, although I haven't read his book. Have you?
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  15998.  @armedprophet3321  No, dude. A large minority of lefties come to their senses. Everybody knows this but you, I guess. Why do you think older voters are more conservative? Cheers, mate
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  15999.  @taralohman6492  In other news, Thunberg is up for a role in a re-make of The Exorcist. She's hoping to play a possessed demon-child and rumour has it her audition went really well.
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  16000. Because the government dangles the money for them them to do it in front of them. So why not? Creating fatherless children is a government program. It's called progressivism. You know, because it's progress.
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  16001. And now what's needed is an expansion of this model and its aesthetic. Let it somehow be spread by identifying like-minded politicians, bureaucrats and developers who, though in the minority, are out there. I would say the way forward would be a conference, or rather a series of them. I'm not sure whether the King should take part or even be invited. It might be better if the Poundbury model were seen to stand entirely on its own two feet as a show of its viability. Thanks for this pleasant, inspiring and hope-giving presentation. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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  16002. 115,000 dead out of 2.07m diagnosed cases at present is a 94.4% survival rate. To make it to 99%, there'd have to be 11.5m cases. That's a possibility but it hasn't been shown.
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  16003.  @JackHaveman52  It's clear you've been paying close attention for a very long time. You should be doing this for a living, as you know your material and how to form thoughts. You've also mastered the rhythms and sounds, tone, idioms, pacing, everything. You should repost this as a standalone comment. It's lost here in the replies. Repost it elsewhere, too. Cheers.
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  16004. Absolutely. Btw, can you imagine how much evidence was destroyed the minute the Twitter sale to Musk closed?
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  16005.  @maryintx4409  There are "portals" between the government and lots of things, like T-Mobile, Verizon and all the others, I'm sure. It depends what the portal is for. It could be for purposes that nearly everyone might consider ok, like compiling stats on terr a wrist threats. If it's to allow the government to 'control' things and spy on law-abiding people, and there's one that's still 'open' at Twitter, either Musk is on the verge of closing it, he's going to publicly reveal it in due time and probably soon, or he has no way of even detecting it. Why don't you tell us more about what you know, since you know so much? And don't leave out the part about how you know it.
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  16006. "Progressivism" is a form of religious insanity. So was Puritanism, and it was destroying England until they dealt with it. They basically sent the Puritans to America and soon reaped the benefits, afterwards becoming the world's leading country.😄
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  16007. 'Elite' needn't be complimentary. It may be, but it can simply mean those at the top, having high rank or power. What do you suggest as a replacement for this valuable word of long standing?
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  16008.  @lilypowell1123  You may know your theology, but it's the people at Oxford Dictionaries who know the ordinary meanings of words. You handle your stuff and leave the lexicography to them.
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  16009. Just further proof that they don't even mean these things they say most of the time. They say them to make a living.
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  16010. All this isn't costing Russia much. Putin doesn't give a rat's hinder parts about infantrymen in decrepit tanks and APCs. He has multi-year supplies of both—endless years' worth of useless conscripts, actually—and will gladly burn through them for the sake of depleting far less numerous Ukrainian personnel and far more valuable Western-supplied kit. It's time to go after Russian airfields with inestimably more valuable and vital planes parked at them.
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  16011.  @MrGercela64  Oh please. Journalists can judge the subjects they cover and still manage their bias, in the same sense that historians who are 'anti-Hitler' don't for that reason have anything wrong with them as historians. My problems with her are her elite campus-y hipsterism and her ridiculously obvious, uh, lifestyle foible.
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  16012. What? Why is a story of global importance on the news? Are you serious? If it doesn't interest you, watch something else. Some of us would like to have a solid idea of what's going on in this world.
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  16013. ​@ "Fentanyl coming south/guns coming North" First, good on you for seeing that this is something to examine. But, second, it is actually very valid for Canadians to expose hypocrisy in this manner. Exposing hypocrisy and being hypocritical are different things. Southern border fentanyl seizures were 106,122% higher over 2023 & 2024 than those at the northern border. (Source: US Customs & Border Patrol) How much more clear-cut can it possibly be? Does it have to be a million per cent?
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  16014. @ P.S.: No typo there, btw. Over 106,000%. 47,800 pounds vs. 45 pounds.😂
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  16015. Look at them pretending they're not her "allied media." They've run cover for her and Biden for years, so 20 sec. each of soft criticism won't make them real journalists. I'm not even sure what's the appropriate response to how unethical these people are. Sadness? Laughter? Rage? All three, I guess.
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  16016. Canada underspends on its military, but the idea that it sponges off the US by selling it stuff is the silliest thing I've read in this very silly comments section. Congratulations, that's a real achievement.🤣
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  16017. An incisive bit of analysis, well expressed. Keep it up. We need you.
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  16018. Is Red Deer supposed to be bad?
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  16019.  @TT-fq7pl  Thanks
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  16020. Lucas gives a hyperpartisan and immature account of things. Politics in a democracy is rightfully about interests and a struggle for power. That's nothing to deplore; on the contrary it's the ideal state of things and the alternative is autocracy. Now, Biden chose to bundle together in his bill multiple things: (1) aid for Ukraine, (2) aid for Israel, and (3) funding for southern border security. Fine. Let him prevail if he can make it fly. If he can't, then he must give ground on (3). That's the system and it's fine. Both parties rightfully deserve some say on this bundle of important matters. Let a deal be reached. For Lucas to let on that only if Biden can rule like a monarch will things be right is pure poppycock. Is he a professor or is he running for office?
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  16021. Meh. The strongest and deepest support for the war in Russia is among the proles. Over and over I read that oligarchs and well-to-do professionals are not generally in favour of it.
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  16022. Wow, that one little stream of water looks so lonely and insignificant.
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  16023.  @bnz6931  GDP in dollar terms and at PPP are both valid in their separate ways. Neither alone gives a full picture, nor even close to one when it comes to countries with a very undervalued currency. Russia lacks financial heft and has long held security risks, which is why its currency is so weak, but that is to a great degree separate from its productive capacity. Its economic output is quite properly regarded as being in Germany's league rather than that of Australia or New York State.
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  16024. Where did you hear that?
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  16025. Do you suppose he's not behaving exactly as senior editorial management wishes?
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  16026. Konstantin Kisin for PM.
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  16027. I've seen you post this same comment elsewhere. I don't suppose you've done it hundreds of times have you? For my part I don't see why you question people fleeing a war zone if they don't feel able to make a soldier's contribution. Another fine reason for doing so is escorting and accompanying their children out of harm's way.
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  16028. Bro, just use a translator.
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  16029. I don't get how this can be taking so long. Is this the Manhattan Project of crime investigations? After three weeks all the evidence collection should be done. They should be at the stage of writing the report by now.
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  16030. "We're outta here till after New Year's" it appears. That's great for you and the staff, Dave. Enjoy the break. But please don't do any filler like this again.
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  16031. @ Real treat whenever they do this.🙄
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  16032.  @NeoclassicYT  What I said was correct. My point is that he quickly added, a few hours later, that the future of Crimea, too, should be up to the Crimeans. I think that was an improvement to his proposal, although I repeat once again that Ukraine should not pursue it. Conceivably, circumstances could make it more appropriate, but I sure hope not. I think it's ok to admit the previously established Russian-ness of Crimea, because it does have some basis in history, although I still 100% condemn Putin for invading it instead of pursuing annexation by peaceful means of negotiation. My personal view is that Ukraine must be supported in its aims to recapture all its territory if that's what it wants. If that means outspending Putin, I say we do it. Thanks for your reply.
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  16033. I nominate this channel for Worst Audio on The Internet. Sort it, please and thank you.
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  16034. Hey, it's Pat from SNL!
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  16035. Rumor has it she's a human being. I'm skeptical of that.
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  16036. The whole story in 25 seconds, with zero errors. Doesn't often get better than that.
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  16037. Thumbnail: a map showing the fires across Canada. It was the reason I clicked, because I want to understand the situation nationwide. But it wasn't shown and discussed in the video! No sign of it.👎 Misleading thumbnails showing things that aren't in the video are a huge and rapidly-growing problem on YouTube. They lead to a lot of wasted viewing time and irritation. And decreased trust.
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  16038.  @sYd6point7  As I drift in and out of shadowbans here for my views (my above post gives a fair idea, meaning Trudeau would call them "unacceptable views") I most often don't hear back from anyone except for pretty obvious representatives of foreign governments. So thanks.  I really should go elsewhere but more people are here than anywhere else. I should probably just watch here and then comment at other places in ways which make watching the video not a prerequisite, I guess. I appreciate the sickening avatar.👍😄
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  16039. Uh, satire = you make fun of people
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  16040.  @MegamanChaosZero  My reply was not to you. I simply told him not to take it seriously, as satire is humorously intended simply for fun. So it turns out it's you flipping out over "literally" nothing. Way to go!
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  16041.  @Jbloom-he1nr  Nah. I'm not even sure what that is, although I know what it sounds like. This place is enough social media for me. I hope you didn't take my reply too seriously, though. I must admit I had just gotten through a dozen or so posts complaining about the immorality of the characters on the show.
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  16042. Interesting. All businesses --- offices, stores, restaurants of all types?
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  16043.  @reddeath5011  Thanks for your reply. It sounds like you're saying 'most'.
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  16044.  @cjp1599  Maybe I should visit Texas. I saw a Youtube video and the meal looked like a quality pigfest that would give you a coma. :)
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  16045. So sad when someone born with a brain comes out with such a claim.
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  16046. I think he needs his baseball-sized tumor cut out of his brain. Stat.
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  16047. lose = opposite of win, find or get loose = opposite of tight
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  16048. I love eating once a day. You have to really plan that one meal though, cuz it has to be complete. But they do say it's good for you. And if you prefer to add a small breakfast like oatmeal & milk, or 2 eggs & toast, it only costs about a dollar. (Where I live anyway.)
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  16049. Her country needs her to help. She gives them a lecture, talking down to them as though they're 12.
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  16050. Correct. Frenemies.
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  16051.  @sandrabasikbeach2980  You think India wants to live in a world where China and Russia have defeated the West? So we're at at 2.4 billion to 1.4 billion to start out with….Brandine.
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  16052.  @MrSweetness1983  All quite true. 👏🏻
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  16053.  @williamlai29  You, your heroes in Beijing, whoever. It's all a rich tapestry.
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  16054.  @sandrabasikbeach2980  Because they're sane, Brandine. You never noticed that about India?
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  16055.  @sandrabasikbeach2980  And yes, India is siding with the antagonists of Russia, except publicly. And I've got some other news for you: India is not the least bit fond of China in the present era. That's why it's in the Quad, with the US, Japan and Australia. Damn, Brandine, didn't the brother and sister who conceived you teach you anything?
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  16056.  @williamlai29  Your assumption is what is laughable and childish. For my part I expect no one to bow down, but only to follow their human instinct towards justice and refuse to support murder and destruction even if it might eventually benefit they themselves. My own assumption I apologize for, for I thought you were speaking on behalf of the PRC. I've always respected and admired your country over the years and decades—and never more so than in the past few weeks, now that it's sanctioning Russia. Cheers mate. We're natural friends I'm quite sure.
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  16057.  @williamlai29  What a laugh! Did the Russian forces intercede to get the gunmen to "sit down and talk it out" with the schoolchildren at Beslan? All of a sudden I wish you a long stay in Xinjiang after a mix-up where they take you for a local. Maybe in the re-education camp you can sort out your moral vision.
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  16058.  @williamlai29  I don't slander it. I condemn the detention and re-education camps there. But I guess you just love the fist of unelected government in people's faces—other people's faces, that is. I hope you will grow up t see how messed up your sadism is.
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  16059.  @zjc8043  Thank you for the raving psychopath's point of view on global affairs. There might be a desk waiting for you in the Kremlin.
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  16060. She badly wants to be prime minister, I perceived. For stretches she went on just as in a speech by a politician.
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  16061.  @conjureup6723  😊
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  16062. Yeah, but prices can stall while people's wages go up. That's really the same thing as prices falling. It's happened very often throughout American history. Didn't it happen in 2017-20? Just hold tight and 2025-28 might restore things. U know how I mean.👍
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  16063.  @leskipbayless3280  Ok, if I remember to, I'll remind you on 9/23. If I make it till then. Cheers.
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  16064.  @leskipbayless3280  Btw, if that's what you think you should really spend a bit of money placing a bet on that, if you haven't already. Should be going very cheap indeed.
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  16065.  @Butmunch666  I'm viewing things in terms of interests and abilities. You go ahead with your own approach.
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  16066.  @GramSmasher  That's just a separate latinate and 17th-century word, cognate but irrelevant to this. Thanks, though.
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  16067. Sure, because there's this one book with all the answers.🙄
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  16068.  @juliangodsend9418  I can well agree with your first sentence. You ought to dwell on it.
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  16069. Ok, Oleg. Yeah, Russia and its rinky-dink economy, now-anemic finances, and modest industrial capacity can outlast an alliance with 8x its population and 25x its economy. Sure. Sorry, but it's a welterweight in the ring with heavyweights.
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  16070.  @nicknoneya7485  You obviously have zero idea how Putin is supporting the ruble. He is burning the Russian family's best financial furniture to keep it warm. Soon enough that will run out, and the ruble will promptly freeze, plus, financially speaking, you will have nothing left to sit on.
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  16071. 1) "Trust"? Please, Piers, that's histrionical. Since Roman times the classic question asked in the investigation of a crime is cui bono? (Who benefits?) Here, no one benefits, so I should say that there was no crime. Those edits were all pointless in the sense that they didn't make anyone look wonderful. I should say someone was messing about aimlessly and the wrong version got out. 2) I'm with you, Piers, on Madonna. It's high time this senior citizen (I'm reminded of John Lydon calling Ozzy Osbourne a "senile delinquent") considered giving over the remaining part of her life to behaving decently.
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  16072. 1) Turn on captions. 2) Go to Settings. 3) In Subtitles choose Auto-translate, then English.
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  16073. It's far more sinister than that. These ideologues can't rule you, the parent, from within the school walls, can they? Wrong. They can. First they indoctrinate your child, molding him or her, then they declare that you're transphobic unless you "let your child lead." Presto, now they're "leading" you. Ruling you.
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  16074. Next the govt. should do something about the hordes of Chinese govt. propagandists on Canadian social media...like the ones here that pile on wherever there's a negative video or comment about China, pretending to be Canadians. It makes me sick.
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  16075.  @buddha199115  Do your own research. You can easily read dozens of news stories online about this egregious problem.
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  16076.  @billgibbard9449  "How about defining her by what she is: British." And now you're defining her. How racist.
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  16077.  @medfitconsultant  Did her get-up suggest she has a British identity?
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  16078. Go tell ISIL/ISIS/Daesh, the people who fire rockets at Israeli civilians, al-Qaeda, and the 9/11 perpetrators. Go tell them and everyone else who didn't get your wonderful memo. But thanks anyway, Jesus.
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  16079. Is it going too far to say that Snake Island is to the northwestern Black Sea what Gibraltar is to the western extremity of the Mediterranean?
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  16080. 1980: "Television has hurt the process." Internet, early 1990s: "Allow me to introduce myself." Social media, 2008: "Ahem. Watch me go." Hostile foreign govt troll farms, 2014: "Hold my vodka." AI, 2022: "Welcome to Plato's cave. I am the shadows you can't understand." AGI, 202?: "Welcome to Planet Bot, formerly Earth. You are guests and you are not welcome."
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  16081. Cash settlement, low four figures.
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  16082. Long live a safe and secure Israel!🇮🇱 And a hearty salute to the memory of those who arranged for its people to finally have a tiny home amidst the vastness of the 5 million square miles of the 22 countries which are home to its Semitic cousins, after so many centuries without one!
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  16083. Wouldn't surprise me if she moved to the US to take some media outlet offer for fat stacks. She'd deserve the pay and would do a lot of good.
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  16084. An inadequate education is not an excuse for a person to enter a life of crime. Nothing is. And what makes this true? The fact that you do not enter school to learn basic morality. The first few mothers I watched here had me just shaking my head. Reading just a little bit between the lines, I think they most likely came way too close to condoning criminal behaviour or at least the culture that glorifies it.
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  16085. The magic of the anagram: Ilhan Omar = "Oh, man! Liar."
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  16086. @ Y'all sound like the unbalanced and very drunk guy amongst sober people, who picks one of them smaller than himself to corner and bully: "I could p---h ur face n right now, buddy, and there's not a thing you could do about it." Any man like that is even more of an embarrassment to humanity than he is to himself.
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  16087. ​ @geosdev  Reminiscent of the emotionally unbalanced drunk guy amongst sober people, who picks one of them smaller than himself to corner and bully: "I could [blank] ur face n right now, buddy, and there's not a thing you could do about it." A man like that is even more of an embarrassment to humanity than he is to himself.
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  16088. It's funny that you were blasé about a virus that's killed 6.8m people — plus the over 1m unacknowledged deaths in China in the last 120 days — but you are trembling over a nuclear war that isn't going to happen. Fixed it for you. 😃
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  16089. Oh man, what a great tweet. You're doing superb work.
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  16090. The Madness of King Joe 😳
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  16091. I doubt it's ever been much different.
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  16092. ​ @FURYBrenton  You just categorized democratic principles with operating a gas chamber for the purpose of wiping out an entire race of people. Congratulations, you have now earned a place in the Guinness Book of Utterly Brainless People. That's something they can never take away from you.
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  16093.  @hughjass1044  Well, it's true enough that the West is going through a rough patch. What's untrue is that many people around the world are much attracted to the Authoritarian Axis. Many may resent the West, but they sanely fear and do not trust the West's most determined rivals.
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  16094.  @hughjass1044  Well, it's true enough that the West is going through a rough patch. What's untrue is that many people around the world are attracted much to the Authoritarian Axis. Many may resent the West but they sanely fear the West's most determined rivals.
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  16095. Yes, it is important to note that, like smoking cigarettes, wokeism must be aimed at the very young, for people much past 20 who've never smoked or gone woke are quite unlikely to start. Those who do start in their youth may continue for years or decades or indeed into old age. But very few start at 30, and no one starts at 40.
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  16096.  @CaptainSnackbeard  Thank you for asking. It's mainly a wokester thing. They are passionately in favor of it in various forms, including the sort on street corners, stores and other public spaces, but especially the institutional, systemic variety. Now you know.
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  16097.  @CaptainSnackbeard  ...oh, I forgot: "Lol" — the favorite of 12-year-olds everywhere.
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  16098. Yep. Classic technique: Train people in the enemy country not to believe anything. Quite easy to spot.
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  16099. Shouldn't you say four provinces?
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  16100.  @andiemorgan961  A country is eligible to have a seat at the UN. A country can declare war. A country can sign an international treaty. A country does not share a flag with other countries. A country is recognized by other countries as an independent nation. A country does not have to live under the will of the people of another country except voluntarily.
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  16101. Elon Musk threatened the same action against OpenAI and its main backer Microsoft several months ago, saying they were harvesting data from Twitter in a similar fashion. But for some reason the suit hasn't been filed.
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  16102. Nicely sarcastic.👏
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  16103. But the West did get involved, and Ukraine will remain a country. So Crimea river, hahaha. Btw your so-called friends, China and India, are bailing on you. Who wants to be friends with a psycho?
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  16104. Sit down for god's sake. And I would get that fever checked out.
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  16105. Speaking of justice, if there's much of it all in the future of this world, Thomas Sowell's teachings will be remembered millennia from now.
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  16106. Gasoline and oil aren't on the agenda and nothing is going on concerning them. Canada isn't doing anything about German energy except, as is reported here, some years off in the future with hydrogen. Grab a coffee and sweep away the mental cobwebs.
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  16107.  @Nirobiscloset10  No there aren't. That's why this is a prominent case and story. Go back to your TA and tell her she's/he's/they're wrong.
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  16108.  @Nirobiscloset10  There's an old adage: If one person calls you a donkey, pay them no mind. If a hundred people call you a donkey, get yourself fitted with a saddle.
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  16109.  @Nirobiscloset10  Thanks, but I gave it up years ago. You go ahead and have another one, though. Knock yourself out.
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  16110.  @Nirobiscloset10  Omg, what is my mother's youngest son doing? I just noticed I'm talking to someone who thinks she's a "Holistic Empress."🙄😂🤮
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  16111. Doesn't she always look like she's just run out to the sidewalk in front of the bar to yell at you for leaving her too small a tip?
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  16112. ...and accuse you of, by doing so, "not respecting women"?
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  16113. In the defamation trial, which Musk won, he explained that pedo is South African multi-purpose slang for 'creep'. Anyway, the Epstein saga and the Thai spelunking incident are a pair of vastly spaced dots that could only be connected by a, shall we say, richly imaginative mind.
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  16114. One of her accents is an uncanny impersonation of Justin Trudeau's speaking style.🤮 Fun fact: The two grew up only a mile apart in adjacent wealthy neighborhoods. Bonus shocker: Open your eyes regarding her "middle-class" upbringing by taking 10 seconds to look at images of +Houses for sale in Westmount Montreal._ Do it.
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  16115. She had that sunshine-up-our-hind-parts answer ready and she was going to use it no matter what the host-thingy asked. CNN is just a free ad platform for Democruds.
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  16116. Dude goes back inside of a burning tank for his phone, toothbrush and ham sandwich. 😂😂
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  16117. I'd rather mount a nubile and attractive woman, but okay. I suppose I could at least try.
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  16118.  @bonitabromeliads  Mmmh?
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  16119.  @abcdefghij337  It's not an argument in favor of slavery. It cannot be unless this is the slavery era. So is it? Are these slavery days? I'll thank you to remove that pompous, irresponsible, knowingly false remark.
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  16120.  @kakasaka  Alternatively he could buy Daily Motion off Vivendi and really turn it into something.
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  16121. Classic whataboutism. Anyway, few people of any political persuasion feel the events of that day were acceptable. A poll for NPR (noted for its left-leaning views) found that 9% of Reps. and 4% of Dems. regarded the events as "a reasonable protest." (IPSOS poll, Dec. 17-21, 2021; 1,126 respondents.)
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  16122. Thanks for coming out, Russkibots. Your desperate falsehoods continue to help unite Ukraine's allies against you.🇺🇦
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  16123. I don't like the way, day after day, Melinda Crane is lobbying hard for Germany to provide heavy weaponry to Ukraine. Give us journalism, please, DW, not activism.
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  16124.  @jimbojones101  The tiny moustache is on your face, Igor.👎
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  16125. The buzz in Canada is about a March election. Some in the PM's party are calling for it. Even more encouraging, a new poll shows the Conservatives with a 30-point lead over the Liberals, 47% to 17%! The polling firm isn't the most reliable, but I'm still elated.
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  16126. Why? Zero talent, that's why. It's not needed when you've got the whole California Democrat political package: fairly good-looking, smiling, non-threatening, blandly liberal, not white and not a man. So she kept getting promoted by the Party and rubber-stamped by the Dem-majority California electorate.
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  16127.  @graizur  I'd like to change the subject. Let's talk about rampant undiagnosed mental illness and the bad effects on the brain of long-term drug use (especially if it starts before 25), both of which surface even more online than on subways.
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  16128. Nice disco bondage fashion outfit to wear while bringing us the gravest of world news. Is this coming to us from the DW studio in Ibiza?
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  16129. Putin is willing to fight to the last Russian conscript.
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  16130. *continents
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  16131.  @epicnicity916  The designers of the Olympic flag agreed with you. One ring represents the Americas. But you think the Olympic flag still has too many rings, I suppose? One is for Europe, one for Asia.
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  16132.  @epicnicity916  Yeah, I know. You didn't get what I was driving at? Don't you think Europe and Asia are one continent? Both sit on the same tectonic plate, the Eurasian Plate. North and South America, by the way, each have their own separate continental plate, the chief criterion for status as a continent.
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  16133. Bad as they wanna be.
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  16134. The word assassination is completely wrong for a soldier in a war context! The word is kill. Assassinations are for political or religious reasons, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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  16135. Claudine Gay's crazy-lady eyeglass frames tell you all you ever needed to know.
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  16136. In all fairness to that toaster, it did look cool.
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  16137.  @djsolace8085  Correct. Putin is a psycho. Just a drop or two of nicotine...
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  16138. ​ @wanderer7029  Yours are the words of a deranged, paranoid psychopath. You look at Macron and see Napoleon. You look at Biden and see Hi tler. You should get that checked out.
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  16139.  @minnigmanmad  Ha! Here's what you said: "the russians are the reason you dont see europe being entirely German." How tf does that mean "global effort"? You are Putinesque in your honor, troll. Try again, Ivan. Earn your kopeck.
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  16140.  @minnigmanmad  Listen to yourself, now singing a different tune. But it's badly off key, bro. Your dog is going to bite you if you go on much longer.
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  16141.  @minnigmanmad  Checkmate, Ivan. Go play someone you can beat.
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  16142. It's a trap. Putin and Xi made a deal and it's to draw NATO into a war the two of them intend to win. NATO will let Putin take Ukraine and then try to get its act together.
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  16143.  @laszlozoltan5021  No, despite a rigged vote.
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  16144.    It's gonna be close, and it would be foolish to bet very much on either candidate at this point. I expect both sides have some powder kept dry and ready for use in October, and I'm sure both can count on massive donations. By the way, when the leftist media say Trump might win, they are not "admitting" anything. No, even were Biden polling solidly ahead in EC votes on Halloween, they would still be warning of a possible Trump win. Rather, they are committed to keeping the motivation for the turnout of the Biden vote high. I don't actually buy it. I think they are quite certain Biden will win.
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  16145. ​   Thanks for your reply. I daresay you're right that the US will never be the same. We may look back on the bitter divisions of the present moment as a big family picnic by comparison. I, too, wish there were two different candidates.
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  16146.  @369-e5b  Jawohl😄
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  16147. Schoolboy fantasy. Must be nice having your mother make your lunch.
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  16148. Stop the weird-for-the-sake-of-weird camera work. Just stop it. Grow up.
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  16149. You didn't properly read the Retirement Age graphic. It didn't say "Age of Government Pension Eligibility," it said "Retirement Age." Anyone can retire whenever they think they've got enough saved, and many do. That's where the "62.5" came from.
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  16150.  @SP2X1369  Ok, Senator McCarthy.😂
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  16151. ​@@mhun3y I'm not sure I understand your question. Starlink has ~4,500 satellites right now, about 1,000 more than last year, which is about 10% of its planned eventual 40,000 for serving customers almost anywhere on Earth. (Except uninhabited areas, most of Antarctica, etc., but including even moderately busy sea and air lanes). It puts them there by sending up around 50 every few days at the current rate, which is faster than before. They launch from Texas, California and Florida. They position them above regions where they are signing up paying internet customers and have set up ways for people to order terminals and get them delivered. As I understand it, there's some flexibility for setting up customer connections. By that I mean that, e.g., a particular satellite may be serving customers in Peru, but then, when the moment comes that they've signed up a bunch of subscribers in Colombia, the same satellite can serve customers there too. Starlink satellites can be aimed. Did I answer your question? Concerning trust, trust is one of the biggest words we use in our whole lives. So I know where you're coming from. I also know somewhat a lot about Musk. Not as though it's everything there is to know, but what I know, I like. On the whole I consider him trustworthy, based not on gut feeling but on things I've actually learned about him and his actions. A lot of people don't get him, but I get him. Know is another extremely big word. (As you know — there's that word again— that an entire large domain of philosophy is concerned purely with what it is to know.) But eventually after a certain number of decades of devoting yourself to learning and knowing, you end up with doubts in one hand and confidence in the other, and you understand the difference between the two and when you can reconcile them.   But you still have to mentally impersonate a beginner, like you know nothing, and be full of desire to learn. That's my way of saying yes, I'm pretty sure. And I'm less sure of most things than most people. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Thanks for your reply.
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  16152.  yanksbiglywvil  He left Philly a long time ago, as soon as he was through at Penn.
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  16153. If you'll excuse me, I'm needed back on planet Earth.
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  16154. Soundtrack too sleepy and too tasteful. Ruined it.
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  16155.  @idaayers9120  No theology for me, thank you. And actually, it's the wokester community/industry and media who're putting on a show of religious-zealot-grade quasi-religious zealotry.
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  16156. At the same time he abolished a different tax that raised more money.
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  16157. Not a soul on Earth would look at the president's face and say "He really looks intelligent." Literally not one.
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  16158. Here Times Radio again pushed the idea of a Ukrainian surrender under pressure from NATO. Again. It's in every blasted interview segment. What is the reason for this? Why don't they simply ask the guest neutrally whether the support from Ukraine's allies remains steady? Times Radio, do you want viewers to say "Times Radio has a defeatist agenda"?
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  16159. It's too small and brief a happening to qualify as that. I like that you're taking it seriously, but you're being a bit overdramatic.
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  16160. A generation made of marshmallows.
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  16161. They like what they see as Putin and Orban's fairly successful battle against forms of social and personal decay which are spreading unchecked in the West. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  16162. Good reply except for one thing. See my post of just now in the main comments (Sort by Newest). Short version: 100% EV adoption would raise overall electricity usage by around a third.
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  16163.  @gunterodim1535  She caused my enlarged prostebala? Hmm. I thought it was poor diet.
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  16164.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  Maybe reading the Original Commenter's post will show you why I made my reply.
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  16165.  @Joseph-n4c5l  Yep. To the Chomsky-ites of the Ontario left-mafia, anything short of putting the corrupt and self-serving unions completely in charge is "union busting."
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  16166. I want to point out for the sake of people who may have found it inappropriate and upsetting, that prolonged and repeated smiling while talking about the grimmest and most disturbing subject matter is something I've seen before. It's at times characteristic of a highly intelligent person, often a learned one, who has experienced a good deal of trauma. Separately, I also want to compliment the very solid job done by our interviewer here.
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  16167. So Biden is fine with 1.44 million illegal migrants a year. And he's more than fine with his family making $16.8m from dealings with China & Ukraine (source: NBC analysis 5/19/22), which probably few doubt were illegal. 🤔So just imagine how many millions of illegal votes he's fine with on November 5th.
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  16168.  @pgabrieli  I was correcting the false claim that German industry had been "removed." I wasn't claiming that Germany won the war. But thanks.
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  16169. He lives in a dream world. I think that's a fair way to put it.
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  16170.  @janishart5128  I'm sympathetic and agree with much of what you say. But 115,000 dead is already triple the 40,000 average for the flu. (The 10-year high for the flu was in 2017-18, at 61,000.) And that's with a huge effort to contain and treat it. The reason? The population has partial resistance to new flu strains as a result of exposure to previous ones . But Covid-19 wasn't a new strain. It was a new virus with no vaccine. For this reason it was two, five, ten times as serious as a new flu strain.
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  16171.  @waynerichard3421  Thanks, yes. I had the page open, too, but made the mistake anyway.
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  16172. Bad as they wanna be. Year after year after year after year after....
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  16173. And probably even then. 🤮
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  16174. Pretty simple answer: Soldiers on active military duty do not engage in public discussions of that sort, nor do they serve as national leaders. Any more easy questions?😂
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  16175.  @kennethflaming8606  Hey, I know that one. The answer is You. It's funny because it's true.😄
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  16176.  @ronaldjackson2290  There's probably a fallacy in that "17 of the first 25 states" figure. To measure the effect of "redness" vs. "blueness" you'd need to weight that by population, and it would surprise me if 17 of the 25 least-populous states weren't Red States.
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  16177. Nice Saskatchewan girl.
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  16178.  @busybeedaily4068  Yes he did have a father growing up. You've been misinformed.
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  16179.  @busybeedaily4068  "After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk mostly lived with his father in Pretoria and elsewhere, a choice he made two years after the divorce and subsequently regretted." —Wikipedia article on Elon Musk
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  16180. 😄 Scanning downwards, I at first misread that as "her mother was a giraffe," which is the animal she most resembles, come to think of it.
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  16181. What's with that can't-do attitude? Kinda un-American.
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  16182. The right side of that thumbnail is the land where boners go to die.
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  16183. Bro, I had to unsubscribe because I can't handle the way you say the word Ukrainian. It's so weird and it makes my skin crawl. Oh well. Good content though.
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  16184. For god's sake man, stop saying "poh-ten-tial." In the name of all that's decent, just stop.
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  16185. Ibram Kendi: the Jussie Smollett/Samuel Bankman-Fried of academia. May he end up where they did.
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  16186. And so far as they do grasp it, they are both paranoid and hostile to democracy. They have conniptions at the mere notion of ordinary Americans having a say in their governance, even only every two years.
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  16187.  @malpreece5008  ("Angus Maddison...") Please, sir, don't muddy things with facts and logic. We have learnt in recent years that those are evils used solely for oppression.
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  16188. "41% of Americans extremely/somewhat likely to buy an EV." That's not low, it's high. And as Russia and Saudi Arabia team up to raise oil prices any way they can, it's just going to get higher. (This time, defeating Russia/SA with a US production surge isn't very realistic. According to the EIA, it's already at a new record.)
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  16189. Very good indeed.
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  16190. He was a better choice than Walz. But he had the wrong demographic profile, as Elon indicated. The 'progressives' in the party wouldn't have tolerated her choosing him. Throwing around the s-word (rhymes w/cupid) is often a sign of s-word-ity.
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  16191. I can't stand Trudeau. What an awful woman.
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  16192. Yes, it is. I can't stand him, but that's beside the point, and it was wrong. <--- This is a sentence which close to zero women on earth will ever understand. To them, thinking like that is mad and impossibly weak. Which is why they were excluded from public life for thousands of years — it permitted large-scale civilization to exist.
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  16193. They don't care. They think it's the best system, even if they might end up a gulag for nothing. At least their country had some prestige as a ruthless, wild, feared predator that could nuke a billion people if they were insulted. Just like in the US, where they might struggle financially their whole lives. At least their country was free, rich and achieved a lot, and they could say whatever they liked, and they had a theoretical chance to be rich themselves.
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  16194. @Garret Phegley Oh? Then why does the US have the world's longest border to its north?
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  16195. @Garret Phegley But don't get me wrong. I am not here to dispute anyone favoring capitalism over communism or socialism. In my view, a Marxist, like Marx himself, is simply a personality case.
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  16196. You have 65 likes. That's such a racist number.
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  16197. I don't get why there are so many posts here bizarrely and anxiously saying there was no ill intent behind this. Most of them are oddly phrased in stilted English. Never seen anything quite like it. The police and Secret Service are the ones to tell us what happened and why, not these foreign randos. Methinks these strange posters doth protest too much.
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  16198.  @mygunisinnocent8028  If the US weren't importing over 4m bpd from Canada, its exports of crude oil and fuels would be over 4m bpd lower. I didn't say, notice, that Canadian oil accounted for all US exports, but it's a large proportion of it.
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  16199. @ You: "most" Actually: Not most. As I already pointed out, Canada consumes around 2.5m bpd and can refine about 1.9m. Why would it need to re-import "most" of its 4.3m bpd exports to the US as fuels? I don't have time for this.
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  16200. Peter Hitchens, a man not up to the task of sorting out his own head. Once and for many years a Trotskyist and tankie, so he's very experienced at confusion. Now a fearful old...what? Sentimentalist? Pacifist? "Realist"?😄Reluctant pro-Putinist? Would-be éminence grise of the Versailles type, ready after long days of drink and cigars to wipe Ukraine off the map? PTSD case? Crank?  He doesn't know, but he feels very strongly about it.
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  16201. Yes, I'm pretty sure you are.
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  16202. "Sea" is actually the correct pronunciation of Xi.
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  16203.  @JLSMaytham  It was the first time something made by humans landed on the moon. I'm not bothered by your question, but it's a little frivolous.
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  16204. Please find something better to complain about, princess.
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  16205.  @PabloCotugno  Most American conservatives are completely uncool with Putin and generally approving of the US record on global security—meaning that they don't take the Dmitry Peskov/Noam Chomsky/John Mearsheimer point of view as their own. Those who are not, are either hyper partisans who reflexively oppose everything Biden does even if they privately approve of it, or they're psychological cases. Either way they're in the minority. I don't care much for your comment, even if I do deplore neo-this's-and-thats just as you do.
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  16206.  @stevenleighton1947  You must be a far-leftist. They're the only people who try to deny that Orwell's books were anti-Stalinist (and anti-Fabian). Ideas like 'he only opposed atrocities, whether left or right' and 'INGSOC was ambiguous in its leaning and was just as right-extremist as it was left-extremist' just couldn't be more misleading or self-serving on the part of such people. (Yes, he opposed the atrocities of Hitler, Franco and Mussolini. Of course. But his books except for Homage to Catalonia declined to preach to the choir on them. He instead went after the communists and socialists who revulsed him but were actually still getting good publicity in Western left circles.) Orwell somehow remained a committed socialist himself, but going all the way back to The Road to Wigan Pier, his chief concern was how objectionable socialists and communists were as people and, later, how prone they were to getting carried away with themselves, violating basic norms of human decency and descending into wholesale meatpacking violence. Say what you will, he just didn't feel the same way about, for example, Churchill (even though he deplored the latter's commitment to maintaining the British Empire).
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  16207.  @michaelportaloo1981  So you're saying you know Cathy Newman personally?
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  16208. Open up the window and let the bad air out. Let the disinfection begin.
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  16209. No one applauding knew he was a Nazi, nor even that it was during WW II that he "fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians" as the Speaker worded it. (He was invited by the Speaker personally. They live in the same town.) They clearly didn't know or they most certainly would not have applauded. They clearly assumed he fought for Ukrainian independence at some other time, either just before WW II or after. The whole thing flew past in 100 seconds.
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  16210. ​ @sammydavis8722  Nice propaganda. Anti-Chinese-government discussion is quite distinct from what you term anti-Chinese hatred. The millions of ethnic Chinese in Canada are quite readily welcomed into Canadian society, workplaces, neighbourhoods, homes, friendships, and families. Stuff your attempt at division.
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  16211.  @henrytran1030  You wrote: "CBC fund by Canadian tax payers but works for CCP! Beware!" I'd say it's a mixed bag. I optimistically see the tide turning at last. But your accusation is still useful up to a point as a warning.
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  16212. Perfectly stated. 👏👏👏
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  16213. They're traumatized and they're hanging onto their trauma and paranoia for dear life.
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  16214.  @princegroove  ⬅🤡
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  16215. Loblaws' marked-down produce is absolutely appalling. Don't buy it. They have a lot of nerve to sell extremely deteriorated, spoiled food even at 50% off. 90% off would be unreasonable, since It entirely merits being put out for composting. And now it's being jacked up to 30% off? Beyond unacceptable.
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  16216. I bet that, just like Michael Jackson, he has a quack doctor supplying him with Propofol (the general anaesthetic) so he can get the sleep his conscience won't otherwise allow him.
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  16217.  @c.rutherford  "Some other reason" Yeah, namely that Xi told him not to do it.
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  16218. Was the other one re-electing Merkel?
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  16219.  @digitalT83  Methinks the lady doth project too much.
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  16220. Two strong worries of mine: 1. An attack on Taiwan is known to be imminent and the AUKUS and Quad Countries arrangements are not strategically long-term in their vision, but merely last-ditch measures, taken in haste, as empty warnings to China. 2. An attack does not come to pass for a while yet, but in the meantime any video of this sort gets taken down, either out of fear of, or sympathy for, the Party. Already, in Canada, censors on the CBC scrub almost every pro-Taiwan remark I post.
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  16221.  @nkosipwl  It could easily turn into something of great importance, knitting the world's authoritarian countries into a massive force against democracy and freedoms. Or it could somewhat fizzle. Only time will tell.
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  16222.  @nkosipwl  My reply should be visible if you Sort by Newest.
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  16223.  @westcoastkidd17  No, Queens.
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  16224. The Illiberal Liberal secret strategy, hiding in plain sight: "Notice that our opponents never call for censorship. When they talk about free speech they actually mean it. So—listen to me carefully now— let's just censor them and we're golden."
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  16225. People in rich countries travel a lot more , especially by air. Among those travellers are the many Chinese who have emigrated there over the past few decades. Very few moved to the middle east.
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  16226.  @willbird2217  Thanks for your reply. It confuses me a bit though. You mean the French and German cases did not in any way come about even indirectly through travel to or from China, i.e. accidental spread through travel? If so, first what is your source?, and second do you think the virus instead was deliberately sourced and deliberately planted in France and Germany?
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  16227. 😂No "special ops" are going on in Cyprus.🤨
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  16228.  @ollielon5926  Tell it to your TA with the funny eyeglass frames.
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  16229.  @richardarriaga6271  Omg, that is such a stretch. Path etic all y silly Joy Reid-ism.😂
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  16230.  @stephanbaumeister4507  The scale of the problems is not remotely comparable. Avoid hyperbole and be real.
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  16231. 🤔I wonder what percentage of people can report having a woman exactly like that first one as a neighbor or co-worker at some point in their lives. Or as a parent, child or partner.😱 I bet that percentage is very high.
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  16232. Joe Kernen gets it. I am extremely with him, so far as I can tell where he is. I already thought highly of him but with this clip I have now seen way more than enough.👍
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  16233.  @карума-к7ъ  It's time for somebody to rid the world of Putin.
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  16234. It's often nonsense. A situation could be the opposite of what it is and he'd still rant. For example, yes big pharma provides a lot of funding to the FDA. But that's because the approval process incurs expenses on their behalf, and Americans don't see why they should pay for that. It's like lawsuit filers paying court costs. But if it were the other way around, he'd still rant. He'd say "Why are taxpayers footing the bill for these multi-billion-dollar companies? Make them pay!!!"
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  16235. Elizabeth Warren: "As an Australian aboriginal I resent this attempt to scrutinize my roots." Al Gore: "I too am an Australian aboriginal." (He claimed he invented the Internet.)
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  16236. Look up the word monopoly.
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  16237. 350 ft.
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  16238. This is like a video called "How a House Burns Down, Explained by Fire Investigators." My point is, the house burned down and it was a huge tragedy for whoever lived there. Who cares how it happened, apart from fire investigators? It's gone for good.
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  16239.  @viktorbranco8362  145 million. Don't exaggerate.
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  16240. Poo' widdle Trumpies, shamelessly allying with Democrats and the New York Times to attack DeSantis and put Biden back in for another disastrous four years.
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  16241. Bull---t
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  16242. Sorry Mikhail Andrey, everyone is sick of internet Russobots.
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  16243.  @lynette8234  Ok, Oxsana.🤨
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  16244. Don't say lug-zhury. It's luck-shə-ree. Don't say Riverside. It's Riverdale. 🙄
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  16245.  @rodneyfungus8249  If that's true, good.
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  16246.  @XxBloggs  (1) it sounded like mumbling (2) it was over Skype (3) Australian English is strange compared to the English spoken in the larger countries (4) Times Radio has perennial sound problems. His voice was 75% quieter than the interviewer's
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  16247. Yes, the media usually does, but not this time. You were listening, weren't you? The untruthful and manipulative statements here came from Joly's office. (Quelle surprise!🙄)
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  16248. @Mister Dude Your point is well taken. And yet, she found it preposterous either way. That's really the important thing, in my view.
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  16249.  @johnfeng4374  You are wu mao. Now collect your 50 cents.
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  16250. "China Global Television Network (CGTN)". What? Get this China-Russia propaganda off here. The point is to make it seem like NATO weaponry in the hands of Ukrainians is wrong. Bloody nonsense! What's the matter with you, Sun? Are you high?
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  16251. Write a sentence. End it with a period. Write the next sentence.
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  16252.  @never51st  I bet a lot of them would rather support the NDP but feel it's strategically better to back the local Liberal candidate in any riding where voting NDP might hand the seat to the Conservatives.
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  16253. I don't trust someone who says "exPEERiment". What? Why does someone who has known since childhood that the word is pronounced exPAIRiment" suddenly change the way he says it in middle age?
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  16254. He didn't have chronic anxiety as I understand it. It had to do with life events, primarily his wife's cancer diagnosis. There's a great difference from a medical perspective. For one person the medicine would be a long-term treatment, for the other it would be to get them through a rough patch. They are often prescribed, for example, to bereaved spouses who are otherwise psychologically healthy.
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  16255. You're forgetting that the Heritage Foundation is not running for high office. Or any office.🙄
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  16256.  @SuperRetroTheater  I see. And who told you that?
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  16257. Why have eyeglass frames suddenly gotten so much crazier?🤨 And I'm not just throwing around that last word. People wearing them actually look considerably less sane.
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  16258. Yes, but where the US balked was at giving its official and most explicit imprimatur: delivery from a US base. In other words, for the US "NATO—ok; Ramstein—not ok." And for Poland it was "Ramstein—ok; Polish base—not ok." In my view Poland did what it had to do: One, make the offer in front of the world. Two, protect Poland. Three, put all the onus on the US, which is calling the shots anyway, and with the power comes the responsibility. From the US point of view I'm afraid they did the right thing, too. In time they might well take part in the handover of planes, but not until Putin raises the stakes with (I'm sorry to say this) an even greater river of Ukrainian blood. In the meantime I trust Biden is quietly ramping up every other sort of assistance to Ukraine. The analogy is stark, but the US is 'going all Iran' on Putin, feeding his opponent everything it can without sending a single soldier. It does work up to a point.
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  16259. ​ @duckduckgoose4111  The calculation of how much danger to Ukrainians can be reduced versus how much doing so increases the danger to people in other countries is a complex and difficult one. I am sure that if you were the one with the responsibility for deciding such things, you wouldn't find it easy. World War III has not loomed quite so large on the horizon for 60 years if ever. In the span of only one or two days we could be looking at the whites of its eyes. Keep in mind Putin's threats, and that he has never made a threat which he later withdrew (according to one Kremlinolgist I have been following for years). For now that leaves NATO with maximizing the efficiency of its measures: inflicting the greatest handicap on Russia at the least danger of spreading the war. I would think there is much latitude for doing that. Feeding different forms of surveillance intelligence to Ukraine is one way; vigorous, large-scale cyber-engagement is another. In the meantime, equipment and ammunition continues to flood over the western border. Thanks for your reply.
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  16260. ​ @maryrowell1122  Too easy a statement. The US itself is safest with a large group of allies. Your children's and grandchildren's security and prosperity partly depend on NATO. Don't forget that it was an American project in the first place, and a great success. It massively assisted the US post-war accumulation of riches, the largest the world has ever seen. When Trump postured as though he wanted out of NATO, it was just that: posturing. It was a bluff to get Europe to share its costs more equitably. Make no mistake, Trump never lost sight of the fact that it is the jewel in the crown of American security and wealth. Putin being a giant threat to it, the US cannot afford not to oppose him at least indirectly. (Tucker Carlson, btw, is completely insincere about Ukraine, and I'm guessing you've been influenced by him. He simply fears that this conflict will boost Biden's popularity and lead to an undesirable election outcome in November. For that reason he will say almost anything. I understand his opposition to the Democrats, but he is off the rails on this one.)
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  16261.  @kudzimusar  Ok, your honor. But if it please the court...
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  16262.  @mikemccomas9268  It goes up and down, largely, although there are numerous factors, in accordance with the size of youth cohorts and their outlook for prosperity.
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  16263. Steinbeck 😂
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  16264. * check your last three words
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  16265.  @MrX-tv7mh  One can either ask an inconvenient question, or point out an inconvenient truth, but no one "asks an inconvenient truth." Try googling 'chimp I Q meaning.'
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  16266.  @MrX-tv7mh  One can "ask inconvenient questions," or "point out inconvenient truths," but it's not even possible to "ask inconvenient truths." Try googling "embarrassing oneself twice over."
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  16267.  @MrX-tv7mh  Hahaha 🐒
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  16268. The interviewer was David Frum's mother, btw. And she was the wife of a very, very wealthy real estate developer.🙄
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  16269. She's dead-center in the core of the problem, since she makes the crux of the matter about the "unacceptability" of "calling for the genocide of any marginalized minority." Excuse me, what? There are groups who, being un-"marginalized," it's acceptable to call for the genocide of? Tell me how she's better than Himmler!
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  16270. Yes, that is indeed a good description of your own statement.
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  16271.  @geraldpayne8615  Your every post backs my assertion.
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  16272.  @geraldpayne8615  Wise of you to take the L. Earlier would've been better, though.
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  16273. Give them a break. If you can't break the rules you harangue everyone else to follow, what's the point of being wonderful, famous, and important? Next you'll be saying it's not tactful to show off your $24,000 fridge to a nation half unemployed. Come on, show some respect.
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  16274. • Great bike but moving out of town and can't take it with me.
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  16275.  @paulb7207  If you're interested in how Americans became so demoralized that some of them actually cheerlead for its destruction, watch Operation Infektion, a 2018 New York Times-commissioned documentary you can watch here on YouTube. Recommended for anyone who enjoys being surprised.
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  16276.  @paulb7207   I'll ignore your comment on Jews and just stand up for the documentary. Think of it as an exception that proves the rule, if you like. It was only commissioned by them, and the fact is they had some older staff a few years back who hadn't yet been pushed out by the left-wing hipster asshole who inherited the paper from his family not much earlier. It's plain to see when you watch it that it has zero to do with the neo-Marxist activist slant you now can no longer escape anywhere in their pages. (Except in the real estate section, which is of course very lucrative for the paper and a great favourite of its Limousine Liberal readership). It's a good documentary which I'm sure generates a warmer response from conservatives and moderates than from lefties.
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  16277. Marx was largely correct in his analysis of economic matters and the faults of capitalism. The West has partly taken his views into account in their adoption of welfare and unemployment insurance schemes, wealth redistribution, regulation of business, and public education. Of this, there ought to be more, but at present it is weakening. I hope this can be reversed and that capitalists will be further saddled by taxation. His ideas on society were much less valuable. I think he bizarrely overestimated the malleability of human nature, for example stubbornly ignoring the facts that people wish to breathe free from authority and always want the best for their children. Your suggesting parents could be dispensed with horrifies me. It's simply inhuman. May I suggest a widely varied program of serious reading not omitting Orwell and Solzhenitsyn. There's nothing to fear. If you read something and despise its thought and message, throw it on the fire. Let me share a warning from 1984: 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face---forever.' Remember that 100 million Russians and Chinese were put to death in the last century, many within living memory. Best regards.  @wuweimarx1725 
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  16278. Maybe she's still on painkillers from breaking her hip and immediately having hip replacement surgery.
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  16279. Dear Winner: One spelling mistake you should never make is 'looser' for loser. If you don't know why, ask someone.
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  16280. Evidently George Carlin knew little about the vantage point of Russians:   Those not in the actual show itself have seats in the orchestra pit.
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  16281. Justin Trudeau: the next Kathleen Wynne. The federal Liberals: the next Ontario Liberals.
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  16282. Joe Biden is 80. Just why does he look a hundred? 🤔
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  16283. In my view space tourism should never be disallowed, but it should be very heavily taxed.
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  16284. Past a certain point, techniques of evasion proliferate. Buyers just get some relative in Canada to make the purchase on their behalf. It'd be better to increase supply while trimming immigration, which right now has Canada's population growing faster than all but a few out-of-control African countries.
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  16285. 1) "Shocking how weakness fuels authoritarian ambition." Only to those who never confronted a bully. Or those who haven't noticed the blow to dealt to creeping left authoritarianism in the US itself by the strength of opposition to it in the past two years. 2) Anna's name for the war is too long. Make it the Authoritarian Axis (or AA) War.
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  16286.  @Coover90210  Thanks. Yes I had gotten all the separate aspects of that, but wouldn't you know, the irony escaped me! 😄Must've lost a few neurons overnight....
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  16287.  @mayaikejim  You couldn't if you tried. Don't overestimate your importance to, powers over, or effect on others. It'll help keep trouble away.
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  16288. He tried to exonerate Biden, though.
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  16289. Ah, more sunny ways from His Royal Majesty, King Peter Pan. He's acting as though a private company shrinking part of its operations is some of his business. It's not. This is just the latest eruption of his unrelenting and insufferable arrogance. Go. Just go!
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  16290. 1.7 million people who see as their financial guru some callow guy with pink hair. "People are crazy and times are strange"—Bob Dylan
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  16291.  @lloydstanding46  Sure, but that would hardly be for a day. Three minutes I should imagine.
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  16292. Hahaha! Fail! The US and Germany are friends and can trust one another. No one on earth trusts Russia, that's why 95% of Europeans are in an alliance for protection against it. (Except who? Serbia and Belarus, who want to join it. Besides that, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria.) The US and Germany are such good friends you should try attacking them and see what happens! Try!
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  16293. I suppose you think that's heartless. I'm rarely eager to take Sky's side, but in this case one must remember that the topic was the delivery of the national budget. As far as government finances are concerned, the things that most impact on the country's finances and prosperity are indeed the most important things, as always. The Chancellor emphasized that the NHS will get whatever it needs. That seemed pretty clear. But it's not only health care provision which can offer protection from hardship. Fiscal and monetary measures are absolutely essential for the mitigation of things like job loss, bankruptcy, and other forms of financial ruin. Proper measures will help people keep their footing in life, keeping families stable and together, helping to avoid collateral human suffering.
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  16294.  @Jason-wm5qe  Oh, dear, so it is. But the two organizations are so alike, I don't think it was a significant mistake, really. Along the lines of a typo, I'm inclined to say. I notice you're silent on the substance of my reply, and I find that understandable. Cheers.
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  16295.  @Jason-wm5qe  putzy lol
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  16296.  @Jason-wm5qe  Nah. There's lots worse people than you in the world. I save mad for them. You're harmless. Cheers old man, and good health to your family and everyone you know!
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  16297. ​ @Jason-wm5qe   You posted a foolish comment in the first place, as sanctimonious as can be, and someone nailed you on it. Be a man and stew in solitude.
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  16298.  @Jason-wm5qe  Oh, do get lost.
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  16299. Yeah, he's going places all right. Either Siberia or New York, I think.
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  16300. @Rocksteady-hl2ks Oh yes it did. It punished the Taliban for 20 years. It never had any illusions about what can be done in that country. It did what it had to do to prevent another 9/11 and it left at a time of its own choosing. So thanks for the Kremlin spokesman point of view, Dmitri, but the country that failed in Afghanistan was the Russian Empire (aka the Soviet Union). You don't remember that? Oh and btw, the Ukraine War is Afghanistan 2.0. Brace yourself for 1988-89 all over again, and perhaps 1991 as well.
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  16301. 🤔Hard to say. One of them might be President within two or three weeks.
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  16302. It was all over the reader comments in the NYT in 2019, too. They were cheerleading for a recession ASAP, so as to ensure Trump's defeat in 2020.🤯 Never mind all the suffering that recessions cause: job losses, home losses, family strains and breakups, companies closing... It was all about them.
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  16303.  @Dude0000  No, he just rolls up the New York Times and smokes it every day, inhaling as deeply as possible.
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  16304. 0:25 Lovely-fitting trousers.
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  16305. Truly a British man, that Galloway. He combines the even temper of an Irishman with the sobriety of a Welshman, the quiet good manners of an Englishman, and the humility of a Scotsman. Wait, never mind the first three.
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  16306.  @manda_musings8459  I went to your account page to see your avatar full-sized.😂
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  16307.  @manda_musings8459  You don't get it. You threw a stone at Pearl while standing in front of your unattractive glass house.
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  16308. A lot of us don't trust ur mass media sources which demonize Poilièvre, and never will. I suggest weaning off them.
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  16309.  @axnax1 <---- Sources: Kremlin; Kremlin workers and other vatniks in Western internet comments sections 😂
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  16310.  @waynegore5291  I'm cool with that. But we will have to wait and see what Trump has in store once he's elected. At that point he'll be safely past any chance of losing due to Kremlin efforts to undermine whichever of the two presidents appears the more hawkish. He'll then be in a position to reveal his aims candidly and in detail, or at least up to a point. In the meantime he's (wisely) bearing in mind that US elections tend to be very close. For my part I expect him to aggressively confront Putin if and when he's elected.
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  16311.  @waynegore5291  I notice that my reply to you at the time never actually appeared. But as I keep copies of my posts, here it is exactly as it was: I'm cool with that. But we will have to wait and see what Trump has in store once he's elected. At that point he'll be safely past any chance of losing due to Kremlin efforts to undermine whichever of the two presidents appears the more hawkish. He'll then be in a position to reveal his aims candidly and in detail, or at least up to a point. In the meantime he's (wisely) bearing in mind that US elections tend to be very close. For my part I expect him to aggressively confront Putin if and when he's elected. —————————————— Note that Trump's messaging since taking office again has included a number of threats issued to Russia. I'm feeling a building sense of vindication. More time will tell.
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  16312.  @imadkhaliq2941  Why, on world markets, of course. How can you ask?
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  16313. Thank you! This creepy venture capitalist should go back to his money-shuffling and keep his poo-stained nose out of things he knows nothing about. He actually referred to Musk's suggested referendums as "elections" four times. Now that's lame-brained. People like him are what's wrong with America. As for Dave Rubin, I'm close to turning on him. He seems dumber by the day. Clearly nothing in his life has prepared him for speaking on a subject requiring so much judgement.
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  16314.    Yuri Bezmenov! I loved that guy. There should be statues of him in Western capitals. His writings should be on school curricula.
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  16315. I have a huge amount of experience in this area. First of all, they're all in genuine need, so don't cloud the issue. But if you have in mind people living decent lives responsibly and with ok mental health who end up on the streets, they are very uncommon. I'd say it's maybe two per cent of them but probably one. It's unlikely, by the way, that they will "receive more hatred". Unless you happen to see one emerging from a tent on the sidewalk, you'd never know they are homeless. They simply don't "look homeless" in practically every case. At any rate, they will continue to get help, so you're wrong there too. People like you, who know nothing but think you do, and want to "show you care," and be seen in the act of criticizing others for not caring, might actually be the group most responsible for the problems in the system. If not, you're at least way up there. You would do well to read this man's book, for he actually knows something and you don't.
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  16316. The so-called Peace Index is a joke. Its main premise is that the less a country spends on defense, the more peaceful it is. That's like saying that the most intellectually efficient person is the one with no brain.
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  16317.  @brooneil1632  🙄Just use a translation program.🙄
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  16318.  @brooneil1632  What are you, hard of reading? I was criticizing your very poor writing.
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  16319. European security most certainly impacts Asian security. If in time a soft response to Russia emboldens China to invade countries around India, or India itself, Modi may look back and bitterly rue not taking action. It's possible to imagine Modi begging for help and being answered with cold neutrality "Sorry, but remember what you said? Both sides must negotiate to end this war and achieve peace. Give away parts of India if you really want peace" etc.
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  16320. It's oil, bro. Foreign aid has remained pretty stable over the decades. But this funding of Hum Oss has to end.
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  16321. "Ceasefire" is the left-wing anti-Semitic dogwhistle for "end Israel."
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  16322. Ok, Chanfun/Farshad/Wai-Yin/Mikhail.
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  16323. The pro-drugs people don't care if their program is a disaster. The way they see it , it works perfectly in theory and that's good enough for them. By believing something you can make it true, in other words.
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  16324.  @kevinkanter2537  See his interview with Bartiromo in July 2023. Also his social media posts in the first few days following February 24, 2022. Then consider my proposition that he fears attracting concerted Russian efforts to prevent him winning what will likely be a very close election.
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  16325.  @economiccrisis9267  I believe you are right. I've been saying the same thing for more than a year. Niall Ferguson just became the first really prominent commentator to suggest it. There's also one of Trump's former European ambassadors and that's it. Just the four of us as far as I am aware.
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  16326. Yes, you're basically right. The pipeline to the Pacific coast only has a capacity of 0.9m bpd, which is about 1/6th of Canadian production. Exports by rail to ports could raise that to maybe 1/5th. Additional pipelines will take years to be approved, planned and built. No quick fix.
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  16327. I was brought up in an education system, culture and media which were saturated with feminism. So I actually became a feminist sympathizer myself. Only in my late 20s did I begin to understand how feminism ruins everything it touches. It's a demolition machine by design. It's the Great Gaslighting.
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  16328. I take it you mean the PM, but no, this was the Energy Minister of Alberta. (When Biden killed Keystone his first week in office, Trudeau expressed "disappointment", though.)
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  16329. Eric Adams, Mayor of New York, soon to be renamed Johannesburg West.
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  16330. Millions with a leaning towards more relaxed religious, social, legal and political arrangements left the country to seek them elsewhere. That had to be a terrible hit to the whole national relaxation potential quotient, or RPQ. (I made up that abbreviation for fun😄but you see my meaning, I hope.) I like the attitude that comes across from you.👍
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  16331.  Leftist Censorship  This thread really has the vision. ;) I'm not sure I want to be around at mid-century, as I can't see the possibility that even somewhat clean elections will still be falling on time. If you're one those people who say 'if I don't laugh I'll cry', go to the search bar and get The Onion's "News from the Future". Ten minutes well spent. Cheers.
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  16332. Envy!? To envy anyone is to resent them for what they have, whether you would want it or not, could use it or not. Russians are deluded if they think people envy them. Maybe a few desolate countries around them have some envy. The world at large does not. It thinks Russia is a fairly backward, fairly poor and very frozen country with many depressed drunks and few freedoms. The average Russian is simply born to be ruled. Tyrant bait.
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  16333. Uncivilized and far too brutal. Bad for Germany's political and social future to do that. No, if they saw fit to convict her, I say just sentence her cleaning the toilets at stadiums seven days a week.
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  16334.  @markbernier8434  1800s? More like 1300s or 1500s. The Russian mind is feudalist.
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  16335. That was close to a quarter-century ago. They liked him then.
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  16336.  @drlegendre  I like the way you took that as humour.👏
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  16337. To American parents everywhere: Sit down with your kids and watch Gov. De Santis speak on a major issue like this one and take time to really discuss what he said. Ask for their reaction, respond to it thoughtfully, repeat. Then a week or two later do it again. Don't let them have a mental diet of pure TikTok and Insta.
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  16338. You are watching inept, very silly and very corrupt journalism, that's the point.
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  16339. Tell us what they did to those poor moths.
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  16340. ... and China issues non-stop threats. Very bad.
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  16341. He injured a vertebra in a sumo wrestling match some years back and had to get a titanium plate to fuse two vertebrae together as a result. So he got an MRI as part of his pre-fight health check, which is just something anyone would have to do out of common sense. (It appears doctors cleared him to go ahead.) I see no cowardice in it. As for weight loss, he lost around 30 pounds last year and multiple sources give his weight as 187, which is pretty appropriate for a 6'2" frame. Certainly too low for liposuction. It seems you resent him, or your post would've been more fact-based.
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  16342.  @DavidHuston  I think you should find something else to be mad about.
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  16343.  @DavidHuston  I don't know. You seem angry. Look at your OP. It's seething with resentment and antipathy.
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  16344.  @DavidHuston  This thread shows that you're in the habit of making things up. Five altogether—four about Musk and now one about me. Whatever gets you through the day, pal.
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  16345. It is not about the election. It is not about voting.
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  16346. If not for govt policies over the past 30 years, Canada would have a crime rate like Japan's. Instead it's catching up to that of the USA.
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  16347. Wow. I'm afraid just to enter my mother-in-law's kitchen.👍🇺🇦
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  16348. Was it a reply? I get the "returned error" message when I reply to a post but the post itself has already been deleted. I have, however, memorized a lengthy list of words which are not allowed. I don't get why they don't just publish the list.
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  16349.  @brandonbarnette4013  "The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream. It is a most depressing and humiliating reality." — Wilde
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  16350. "I hate it when other people are white." J.S.
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  16351. Holy lord, someone in the comments section is thinking!
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  16352. I see your 🤪 and raise you a😈.
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  16353.  @B.Whittaker  Who said he "doesn't give a shit about everyone else in poverty"? The mark of a liberal or progressive is lazy-mindedness. Lazy everything, actually. It shows laziness how they point fingers at other people (oh-so-easy) instead of being better themselves (requires a lot of effort). They're good at adopting a posture to seem good and secure approval rather than being good. The word for this is sanctimony.
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  16354. You can figure it out if you try. It isn't terribly complex or involved to grasp the essence of it.
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  16355. Nation to PM Peter Pan: "Buh-bye." Pan: "I will always continue to stand for—" Nation: "Yeah, but we can't stand you. Buh-bye." Pan: "This is not who we are as Canad—" Nation: "As Canadians we're saying buh-bye." Pan: "The carbon tax puts money in Canadians' pock—" Nation: "Is it the buh you don't understand, or the bye? It's time for you to put on your little shiny slippers, throw open the window, and fly off into the night. And take Deputy Tinkerbell with you."
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  16356. Sky UK.
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  16357. Madam, will you please stop waving your arms constantly? Just please. Gestures of the hand and arm are for emphasis, like raising one's voice slightly. Ceaseless arm-waving is thus akin to speaking loudly all the time. Shouting, even. So forget your blasted "media training." Return to what was no doubt your former wont of conducting yourself like a fully civilized human being confident of what she's saying.
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  16358. I've got news for you, my CCP friend, international waters are just that: waters where ships of all nations can navigate. And that includes waters off the coast of BC. The hypocrisy is in your own mind, and that's what's laughable.
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  16359. What? It appeared he supported (on the Kurds) real American allies and (on the inquiry) a president from his own party. He's been doing both those things for quite some time. I welcome your reply.
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  16360. Danger to the mind increases with the amount of Russian state-controlled media smoked — Health Ministry of the Russian Federation
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  16361. You know it's a serious Ukrainian win whenever the Pooty-bot army shows up in large numbers to post falsehoods. Always nice to see you, lads.😅
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  16362. You're referring to her thick makeup?
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  16363. Pete Townsend, 1965: I hope I die before I get old. Maho TR, 2019: Old guys are just too stupid to accept change. Pete Townsend, 2020: I had no idea how great it would be to be in my 70s. Think I'll go sailing tomorrow morning instead of living like an idiot. Maho TR, 2068: Now that I've seen things from both sides, I see it differently. I wasn't as smart as I thought I was. I even thought being 50 meant being old.
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  16364.  @mittromney5419  Yeah, it's the greatest by far. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/03/26/poll-44-of-americans-skip-doctor-visits-due-to-cost/#47af36b56f57
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  16365.  @hollyboyd1837  Who, me? You got me mixed up with someone else, madam. Re-post to the appropriate person instead.
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  16366.  @ZapToRZ4pToR  Everything. Cool eh? Elevators are standard in bungalows. Schnitzel is standard in ice cream. A mistress comes standard with your wife. This is why we want to be on the same side as Germany next time there's a war.
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  16367. Thanks for the Kremlin spokesman point of view.
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  16368. This was a race to the finish between your competent analysis and my nausea at watching Trudeau clips. The nausea won hands down. Sorry, I'm outta here.
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  16369. Turn on captions, choose Auto-translate in settings, choose English
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  16370. "ə-FLOO-ənt"? The word is AFF-loo-ənt! 🙄
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  16371. I guess we're all surprised. He looked like such a nice guy.
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  16372. Trustworthiness is impaired by a get-up like that.
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  16373. Down with Alvin Bugg.👎
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  16374. 🙄Please. He doesn't actually want out of NATO. He wants fairer treatment from allies and was very shrewdly playing chicken with them. And the tactic showed 10x more promise of getting them to pay their fair share for their own security than anything any previous president had done. Think about it: a serious boost to European military spending would not only save American taxpayers many billions of dollars, it would seriously strengthen NATO for the long term, as well as have a major positive impact on global security and prospects for sustained world peace. A strong NATO is by far the entire world's best bet for a safe future and Trump understands that quite well.
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  16375.  @dreammix9430  Can the misanthropy.👎
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  16376. Those on staff will still have access, of course. (And maybe some ordinary people with certain VPN services). But if there's a general ban for the public, YT should consider stepping in, if it's even possible, to deny such workers as well. Why let them continue when Moscow has denied their company its market?
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  16377. For similar reasons he's the laughingstock of India. You can look it up.
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  16378.  @jmack619  I'm no expert, but aren't there about a dozen letters, numbers, runes and symbols altogether?😄 I really don't know. Ask them. I just know what some gay guests have said on podcasts on YouTube videos. Oh yeah, a few L's too. Q, B and the rest I'm very, very hazy on. When you find out let me know.
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  16379.  @Wookie911  Thanks for your reply but I can only guess you've got me mixed up with some other commenter. If not that, then you didn't understand one of my several posts. Which could be my fault, I don't know.
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  16380. Yes, around 90% of replies to my pro-Ukrainian posts are attacks. However, the precise wording of them leads me to suspect that nearly all of those are from Russians, or govt workers in other hostile foreign countries. (Few realize how massive the CCP effort in Western social media is, nor how great a help AI is to them and all such countries.)
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  16381.  Benghali In Platforms  October spawned a monster.
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  16382.  @joecool9739  Yes, "Czar" (Tsar) is a direct transliteration of "Caesar." Tsar is just a variant spelling. "Khan", for those who didn't notice, is a Central Asian ruler. It's not a family name; Genghis Khan means Emperor Genghis. Good 1420 question for Muscovites: "Is Putin Tsar?"
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  16383.  @joecool9739  I thought you meant prince in the sense of ruler of the state, meaning Russia. You meant before Ivan III?
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  16384.  @joecool9739  Everything you 'explain' I knew already. It's just not clear what you are referring to in the first place. Have a great day, but no more explanations, thank you.
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  16385.  @joecool9739  Your streak is intact. 🙄 Please give all these answers to someone who asks you a question. I already know all these basic facts.
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  16386.  @joecool9739  Not in the least! (Not that it's any of your business.) You're making rather a pest of yourself, my ironically-named friend.
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  16387.  @joecool9739  Now it's pretty cringebarf, but I used to like it more 10 years ago through knowing some people from there—but especially a number of really good Soviet-born Ukrainians, some of whom were Russian speakers, some Ukrainian speakers. And I do quite like the novelists, painters and composers of earlier lifetimes. Anyway, that's enough. Don't make me mute you.
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  16388.  @alexsmith2766  The UN is dominated by Marxist-leaning, dictatorial or communist countries hostile to the West and to democracy. Thus it's hostile to Israel. It's a cesspool. Educate yourself before making such embarrassing comments.
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  16389. ​ @ninadinechannel7675  Nah, you said "the civilian In Gaza are not likely to evacuate because they don't trust Israel [etc.]." Just saying "they" seems to imply all. But I take your word about what you meant. Cheers
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  16390. We could use a discussion about whether Germans' worldview really is changing. Is what we're seeing right now just going to snap back in a short while?
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  16391. Thanks for the advertising thread, you procession of fakes. Reported.
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  16392.  @brady9169  More like a kindly man who helps a frail old person cross a street.
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  16393. Like how humanity will end.
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  16394. WGAF?
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  16395. Not jailed forever, just subjected to very unpleasant experiences, around the clock intermittently and unpredictably, for ten times the number of days that the war lasted. Then hand him a vial that will solve all issues immediately. But disappoint him by filling it with an ordinary sleeping potion. Repeat.
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  16396. "[BYD is] possibly the top carmaker in the world by now"🤯 What? That fizzing sound is the air coming out of your credibility balloon! BYD's unit sales (BEVs + hybrids) are at about 3m in the latest 12 months. That's less than 1/3rd of Toyota or VW. It's not even the top EV maker. It handed that crown back to Tesla after holding it for 3 months.
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  16397. You're projecting your sense of your own truthfulness onto other entities. Sad.
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  16398.  @JenniElle  Your thumbnail in the Up Next column reeled me in. It was the look of surprise you wear in it.
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  16399. "I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain’t gay." --- Joe Biden
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  16400. Peace talks? Would you negotiate with criminals who invaded your house? Make a deal to let them remain in the bedroom next to yours and have one of the bathrooms and a separate kitchen? And then trust them? I take it your answer is a definite "Yes!" But sorry, that is deranged.
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  16401. Was he being sarcastic at the end? Because I don't think it's the job of employers to bring up adult-aged children.
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  16402. Good god, man. You're not at home on a Sunday, puttering in the garden. Wash yourself. Take a shave. Put on a shirt.
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  16403.  @reuvenpolonskiy2544  BS. In this case there are parties analogous to police, meaning armed defenders: namely the US and the rest of NATO, plus other democracies in the West Pacific. Or, if you like to think of everything as gangs (how Russian of you!), fine, have it your way. But remember that the biggest, strongest richest gang is the Ukraine-Western alliance, not Russia with its ragtag little buddies Khamenei, Kim, Lukasahenko and Assad. 😄 Xi has it in for the West, too; I'll grant you that. But he's not a friend of Russia's, he's more like its usurer. He gave Putin a dirty wedding dress and a tube of lipstick to put on. Russians will be working very hard and eating a lot of beets and carrots for a long time to pay him off.
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  16404. No grants, no plants. No plants means a hole in govt revenues, lower employment, lower GDP, weaker economy, consumer dollars supporting workers in other countries. No one likes it, but we have to deal with the world as we find it, not as we would like it to be.
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  16405. To your closing point I would add that wind could carry radioactive material some distance (which would depend on the weather, obviously) but would also be likely to disperse it quite effectively by lowering the concentration. Were the initial amount tremendously large, it would, in this case, be somewhat likely to carry it in significant amounts into Russia itself, or at least onto Russian troops in occupied areas of Ukraine. If care were taken to explode it only when a weather system is moving southwards, then one result might be to infuriate Turkey. The whole thing sounds far-fetched as a safe and effective tactic.
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  16406. It's a fact that social media is infested by so many bots that it is a very poor indicator of actual public feeling. It's overwhelmed with many, many tens of millions of very active fake accounts masquerading as Americans/Westerners. They are actually govt.-sponsored and domiciled in hostile foreign countries, many don't even have a human behind them, and many of them are boosted by LLM AI to simulate native-English-speaker competence. And they can indeed lead and shift opinion. Move over, fake news. You're being knocked out of first place in the fake-o-sphere by fake comments.
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  16407. His eyes are flinty and uncomprehending. His jaw hangs, his mouth gapes. He fights to hang on and be present.
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  16408. You should edit out that useless waste of time at the start. Waste of our time, that is.
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  16409. Omg, it just goes on and on for minutes.
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  16410. It's an anti-aircraft weapon surrounded by armour with a Diesel engine inside it. What's not to get?
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  16411.  @JNF-SATX  Yes SpaceX and Twitter can have ESOPs.
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  16412.  @lavellelee5734  I suggest you look into that carefully yourself if you want to know. Carefully. The amount of Musk misinfo and slander going on these days is just immense. (I think the pay compared to market rate depends a lot on the position, but yeah, check for yourself.)
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  16413. I am almost totally with you on these, but disagree on food aromas in the lunchroom having to get unanimous approval. Other people eat what they like, live with it. You know, just like you were saying at the end: give and take.
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  16414. They rejected the Old World class system but forgot to reject money worship. It all flows from that.
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  16415. Archeological evidence shows women have been wearing make-up for many thousands of years. Like it or loathe it, it's bred into them. Fans of social engineering always think humans are unique among all the creatures who ever existed in having no male and female instincts (except for the male instinct to raipe) and few instincts at all except approved political ones 😆. That's what it is to be ideologues, to be anti-science, to stubbornly refuse to face facts.
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  16416. Splendidly clear. Thanks.
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  16417. @DEEZ LIKES Wow, can I get a hit off that?
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  16418. For eight years now Prime Minister Peter Pan has been so busy condemning one thing or another every half-an-hour that he's had no time or energy left over to address Canada's real problems. He's the Condemner-In-Chief and he's totally exhausted. Look at the anguished yet blank, empty expression on his face. Tbh I think he needs counselling, therapy and maybe a bunch of medications.
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  16419. Two million German women were [word not allowed on YouTube] by Russian soldiers.😠 Russia made a statue of a Russian soldier rescuing a girl, and that's what this guy mentions.😠
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  16420. Proxy war, yes....of Russia's choosing, at a time and place of Russia's choosing. FIFY.
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  16421.  @blairmulholland  Touché
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  16422.  @jennifer134  She's all right, not amazing. Would you call her amazing if she were a guy?
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  16423. Just half? Well then, I am so relieved.
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  16424. Oh no, much more than ok: Ideal and suitable for teaching to children.
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  16425.  @stephaniejames6672  There's also been an undeniable collapse of mental health. Americans consume most of the world's psychiatric drugs --- literally more than the rest of the world combined. (And 40% of the world's prescription drugs overall.)
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  16426.  @abitcrazy22  Yes. The wealthy think they support the poor, but the poor actually support them, not with money but with labour. In return the rich are supposed to run things well, and not take mean advantage of their position. I hardly mind a well-behaved capitalist, but if they keep this up the pitchforks will come for them and we will all be worse off. Much worse off. All the signs are bad to one degree or another. I would like to see massive strengthening of K-12 education and, in the US, universal health care. Then again, the US has so many crooks (and sickly people) it's possible they could never set it up and run it well. That would leave education as its only hope --- or AI, which the govt better keep funding or singularity will be achieved somewhere else. If that happens, head for the hills. Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  16427. Grandiosities like the EU, as well as all forms of social engineering (and the vast majority of things in life, for that matter) should be subject to the Hippocratic oath: First, you shall do no harm. Why only medicine?🤨 Beware the blasted fellow (very often, lady) pushily advocating some untried, innovative programme which he promises will transform everything wonderfully. Commonly he is a sort of Dr. Frankenstein.
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  16428. Why is China the poor oversized giant of East Asia? Why do ethnic Han people in Hong Kong, Taiwan , and Singapore live so much better? Why don't they try to enter mainland China? Go ahead, answer. Go ahead, defend the CPC, metronome.
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  16429. Other human beings, you mean?
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  16430. Please turn down the volume of your intro music. Is that a big ask?
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  16431. Speaking of DEI, what's that pretty young lady doing here, discussing things she's far too unseasoned to know much about? A young man wouldn't qualify to take part either, and for the same reason. As pleasant as it was to gawk at her, she was chosen simply because of her chromosomes and looks, which isn't right.
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  16432. "Let us have our fun murdering Ukrainian babies" Russia
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  16433.  @dustintacohands1107  True.
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  16434. But probably it is.
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  16435. Relentless! What? It's not relentless. They don't do character assassinations unless they find the accused objectionable on grounds of his political beliefs. Look what happened to the accusations against Joe Biden. [media crickets] If you can't remember what I'm even talking about, I'm inclined to respond simply: Q.E.D.
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  16436. "If they go low, I'm gonna be at the Earth's crust." Like that's way, way, way down? Like that's down where the Eighth Circle of Hell was in Dante's Inferno? She knows that the mile-long lawn outside is the Earth's crust, right?
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  16437. Ford wants a new law on vapes?
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  16438. Just Stop Woke
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  16439.  @mastershifu7  Very well then, maybe it should stop behaving as though it sits atop a powerful empire, possessing the ability to have its cake and eat it too.
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  16440. Invaluable warning. Here's mine from the north🇨🇦: KH will devastate American wealth. She knows price controls... she grew up in Canada under them. Pierre Trudeau (name ring a bell?) imposed them from 1975-78. And they failed. They took barely 1% off inflation but 2.5% off wages. Living standards fell, voters soon tossed him out. She lived there between 5th grade and her freshman year at college (1982). She and Just in Tru dea u grew up one mile apart in the wealthiest part of Montreal (Westmount & the Golden Square Mile). They didn't know each other but are political soulmates to this day — and forever. 100% of her political and social beliefs and policies bear the stamp of Trudeau the elder, who governed when the country was economically much farther left than it is now. So never mind all her various identities that people talk about and debate. Up here she's easily recognizable as a perfectly standard 60-year-old Canadian far lefty.
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  16441. Very well. I'm on my way.
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  16442.  @Gufberg  But those two things were the same thing at that time.
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  16443. In return I'll pick up some blue cheese and Tuborg.
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  16444. Sanders knew. But I've got a novel take on his deception: Because he's got the woke far-Left to answer to, he wanted to conceal his disapproval of 'equity.' It's one of their bedrock tenets. Thus Maher just outed him as a moderate liberal on equity vs. equality. (Good job by Maher to force the truth out of him.) Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  16445.  @NateGstudio  Aircraft carriers: UK 2, Russia 1.
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  16446. ​@Vintage Bollinger Two questions at best? Please don't exaggerate: it was a 26-minute interview. Moreover, he set the questions and the pace, and ought to have done so with due consideration to giving her adequate time to speak. Most times he cut her off only to give a monologue of his own, despite it being his job to draw out her thoughts. To me it was evident that he thinks highly of his own mind and believes a main purpose of the program is to show it off for our pleasure and edification. I saw low-key but clear one-upmanship. I say he's an interrupting champ in the top few percentiles among journalists. That brief reply of yours to me I somewhat doubt he would have allowed you to finish.
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  16447. Yes, anyone who is over 50 in Russia or East Germany spent their whole childhood and at least some of their adult years under communism. They were indoctrinated all throughout their school years.
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  16448. Fair take.👍
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  16449. The men of the West have simply been gelded and henpecked till they resemble mice. Masculinity is now a vice and next to illegal. There's no more mom and dad running things, whether figuratively in society or literally in families. Dad still works to support the family, but at home he has been sitting at the kids' table for decades now. It's time we were fitted with dresses in a 1950s style.
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  16450.  @inaaranur1611  They belong to a strange new sex we should designate "woe-men". Not really men, somewhat resembling women, and thoroughly woeful.
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  16451. Q.: Where did Mehdi Hassan work until his show was cancelled in November 2023? A.: You guessed it, MSNBC. The show's ratings were low and declining in the lead-up to its cancellation. The month it was cancelled, it had only 37k viewers in the 25-54 demographic.
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  16452. There's mass hysterical delusion going on. It happens everywhere once, in a long while at least. And we've got it here right now.   It doesn't come out of nowhere. People have to be steered into it by people of considerable social influence.
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  16453. When concepts of rights and liberty were first dreamed up and written down, they had no idea that people as low-minded as these would come into existence and be protected by those concepts, or they would've scrapped the whole project and gone back to the drawing board.
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  16454. Nice aim.🇺🇦 Unfortunately we can't assume that the bombs came as soon after the opening shot as they do in this edit. The opening shot was from a surveillance drone. The delay before the attack drone is unknown. So it could've been minutes or hours later, well after those troops were safely far away from that spot. And maybe the truck had been safely unloaded as well. I'd love to learn otherwise, though.
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  16455.  @kx8960  Try googling "cost to replace a Tesla battery". Clearly you haven't.
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  16456. Hey Russkis, your popcorn is ready.
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  16457. ​ @colliefields4637  My view is similar: Ukraine gets hand-me-downs because NATO, while determined to thwart Russia for self-evident reasons, (1) must keep its powder dry for the 10x more important Indo-Pacific theater (most of the world's population, manufacturing and trade, some day most of its GDP), (2) is caught a bit short anyway.
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  16458. Are you sure it's not 'Princess Justin'?
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  16459. And those permits, which I've seen on five YouTube channels now, are "Architectural Barrier" permits, which sound to me like clearances from inspectors making sure disabled people can get in and get around the building. I find making a big deal out of that to be very cringy.
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  16460. @ They were both moving. How can you even dream of asking such a question? How on earth?
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  16461. @ CRJ-700
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  16462. It would be no better if they did it for gold, dude. But yeah, garbage. Humanity not far from its lowest. When is the US gonna get a grip on itself?
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  16463. Clearly the beloved US Senator here, the Newsom DEI appointee whom Californians affectionately call simply Laphonza, has gotten her Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kringela Harris. Laphonza for the White House in 2028! 😂
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  16464. The point was to make him, the reporter, and the Channel 4 viewership feel wonderful about their hatred for Trump. Reasoning they consider fine for most other situations.
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  16465.  @JordanLittle-bb3yq  "Seriously how stupid do you think the rest of us are?" Well, you yourself dove into this thread to stand up for AOC. That speaks for itself.
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  16466. Imagine if you had any neurons.
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  16467. If you ask me, unless there's proof of collusion the grocery chains can charge whatever they like. The resort for consumers is public pressure and that's all. In any case, I've heard of zero evidence that the chains' profit margins are rising significantly if at all. But I've heard lots about them squeezing their suppliers dry in an effort to hold the line on prices. Trudeau is just setting up his emerging rival, Champagne, for failure and ridicule. Most cunning PM ever.
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  16468.  @realpainediaz7473  Congratulaltions, you're as thick as she is. That's something they can never take away from you.
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  16469. Liquid lunch today?🍹🍾
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  16470. But what's his approval rating?
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  16471. Warning to Voters: Voting for the Democratic Party may be detrimental to your well-being and that of others in your state, and that includes your finances, career, personal security, morale and mental health.
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  16472. Untrustworthy numbers. Here are two figures off by 1,000x: It is claimed here that Greece produces a billion tonnes (!) of tomatoes annually. It is actually a million tonnes. Same problem with the claim that it grows 500 million tonnes of watermelons. Correct figure: 0.5 million tonnes. You guys don't know how to handle zeroes, so you should learn how—and in the meantime steer clear of large numbers. (And there were additional problems I can't be bothered detailing.) You should definitely have someone supervising your youngest staffers.
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  16473.  @jumpman366  Hahaha, ok, school us on non-violence and honesty. 🤣😂🤣
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  16474. This is like asking why 15-year-olds start smoking but 30-year-olds don't. The answer could fill books, but it boils down to simple maturity.
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  16475. There's ample wealth in America to provide emergency services in the wake of natural disaster AND to use 5% of the defense budget to bolster global security and safeguard tens of trillions of dollars of Americans' wealth (which will be in direct peril if the Authoritarian Axis starts picking off one country after another). So just stop the false dichotomy, Tucker. (Or is it Sergei?)
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  16476. It's little wonder that this person only knows how to escalate rhetoric and never moderate it. The more outrageous this person's rhetoric, the more this person earns.
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  16477.  @pa6370  He instructed managers to provide lists of those whom they'd most wish to keep from the initial round of layoffs. Then, last week, he simply asked for a commitment to hard work...and presto!, the less valuable staff self-selected for resignation. Quite rough heuristics, but drastic efficiency is preferable at the moment to delayed action. His achievements to date elsewhere in business suggest he has lots of ability to approach difficult situations and sort them out.
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  16478. This is the man who dropped out of the 1988 presidential race because he stole another man's speech and passed it off as his own. He disgraced himself voluntarily, deliberately. It's bizarre that anyone ever imagined he wasn't the same man in 2020. And he's the same man now. (Except now his brain is somewhat like a worn-out shoe).
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  16479. Actually, including military, financial and humanitarian aid the European NATO members are now providing most of the overall aid to Ukraine. In 2022 it was mostly the US, in 2023 it's been mostly Europe. The calculation is difficult. It's often unclear whether promised aid has been delivered. And there are accounting gray areas. What's the true cost of an artillery shell made and paid for in 1991, scheduled for destruction in 2025, now sent to Ukraine?
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  16480. "We're melting! Melting! Aughhhhh!"
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  16481. True. Russia is still a feudal, quasi-medieval country. The tsar and aristocracy still think they have legitimate rights over the serfs; the serfs still think they owe fealty the other way. The Enlightenment has never fully taken hold, nor maybe even the Renaissance. Ukraine meanwhile is breaking free of feudalism towards European rights-based democracy. Perhaps it's because independence took away the tsar and aristocracy necessary for the people to recognize themselves as serfs.
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  16482.  @kawikadee9670  How gaudy can fake eyelashes get? Teenage impersonators scare me.
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  16483. Hunter Biden: "You call those weird private photos?😂C'mon, man."
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  16484. Smoke another few.
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  16485. That's an illusion caused by the perennial strength of the US dollar. Learn about undervalued currencies and PPP (purchasing power parity). Your question was like asking why a Big Mac costs $6.50 in Chicago and $2.50 in Jakarta. There are two ways of looking at it; both are valid.
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  16486. I would vote for her as prime minister of the world.
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  16487. What are you on about? They went as far as they could in trying to slime him.
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  16488.  @sapalobo9723  Have some yourself. Your guy is already embalmed.
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  16489. Oh my god, what a waste land of retard commenters. Actually, mentally retarded people don't tend to be so twisted. Just stay away.
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  16490. As UK legal representative for 20th Century Studios, I hereby demand that you cease and desist comparing Mr. Newsom to Damien Thorn. We don't need that. Dixon Pinfold ᴋᴄ Amis Pinfold Crouchback & Last, Barristers & Solicitors, London SW1
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  16491. (1) Why did it take 3 years for "City Hall" to direct police to do this? Vote them out! (2) What's with the cop asking the thief's consent to remove the stolen goods from her vehicle? That's mad! (3) How can that thief ask "Why are you doing this?" She stole a mattress! (4) What will the US be like in 10-15 years? Twice as bad, I expect, meaning it'll be one of the worst countries in the world!
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  16492. Sometimes Tucker just makes stuff up. Come on, the US does not have the world's largest oil reserves. What a tall tale. It's also untrue that renewable energy is going nowhere. The fraction of the electricity supply from renewables is rising fast. It hit 28% in April. (In the UK it's now over 50%.) Add nuclear (18%) and non-fossil-fuel sources now make 46% of US electricity. These are facts, not opinions.
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  16493. Yep, stoner. Jack "William Randolph" Dorsey, political hack, stoner.
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  16494. 'Everyway' is not a word.
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  16495. @@Klemheist I wasn't replying to you. You don't know how YT comments work?
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  16496. @@Klemheist Nonetheless I take it back. Sorry, mate.
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  16497. @@Klemheist I guess I was right in the first place.
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  16498. Bad As He Wanna Be.
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  16499.  @lordbread2083  Sweet conspiracy theory.
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  16500. I dearly hope the seeming lull in Ukraine's momentum is at least a sign that a great quantity of weapons and ammunition is being amassed, and that plans for a counteroffensive, already advanced, are being worked out in detail.
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  16501.  @daddyoca69  Wow, great answer. (Assuming it's accurate.) Thank you.👍
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  16502. It appears bein' a country girl ain't always easy. Just like bein' married to one, no doubt.
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  16503. Omg, what a putts. (Forgive the spelling. You know why.) He makes every aspect of every issue with every person and every country about their "relationship" with him.🙄
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  16504. He's got a healthier ego and mind than the leader of his party.
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  16505. There are a lot of factors. One is simply the decline of mental health. Among the most attractive things possible to someone with an unwell personality or mind is the opportunity to blame the world's ills on a group of people unlike oneself. One in six American adults is on at least one psychiatric drug. Of the other five, how many are a-ok?
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  16506. @trumps hairflap Musk in April is paying more taxes than any other human in history. Not far from $20 billion.
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  16507. It's a formal term with no negative connotation here. Agreeability/disagreeability is one of the so-called Big Five personality scales and disagreeable doesn't necessarily mean a person is 'difficult.' It might, but can just as easily mean 'has a spine.' It really just means they don't tend to go out of their way to agree, please or go along with people. Anyone who debates a lot is 'disagreeable,' including Peterson.
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  16508.  @radfoo72  Hahaha.👍Witty.
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  16509. Great messages, ably delivered, Dave.
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  16510. 👍Yes, much more accurate. But even more accurately: very fortunate and lucky bastard.
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  16511. What on earth do you think Walmart and Costco are?🤨
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  16512. Like the worst Puritans, who saw sin everywhere except in the mirror, they're all sanctimony and hypocrisy. I call them the New Puritans. Do the same if you like.
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  16513.  @vladnovikov4483  Listen to yourself. Listen to yourself defending Prime Minister Peter Pan for praising an authoritarian, dictatorial regime. He was an MP at the time and had been one for five years and moreover it was one year into his leadership bid. And it was days before his 42nd birthday. "Potty" indeed! It's very, very low-grade spin you come up with, which is fitting for your hero, a very, very low-grade prime minister.
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  16514.  @BobBeyers  No, you have them confused with left wingers. Left wingers love authoritarianism. The more it prospers, the better off they are. You didn't know that?🤨
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  16515. ​ @patrickoneill6094  But how is she to obey? She's quite busy, her mouth being at work on the devil. ;)
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  16516. Actually, republic just means 'no king'. It doesn't mean 'democracy'.
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  16517. Around the world all this nonsense is doing heavy damage to America's reputation. People see it for what it is: banana republic-type political retribution. Throw in the daily woke enormities and US influence is quickly drying up. There'll soon be very few admirers left. Also very few top people who want to move to America and contribute their genius to it. Such people have been its secret sauce forever.
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  16518. Apparently all his brains were in his fat butt, so when he cut back on cakes and pies that was it.
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  16519. And the people who signed off on hiring her!
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  16520. Why were we treated to the analysis of a 22-year-old? What can such a person possibly tell us from her very few years of learning on such a subject? She has barely begun to experience adult life, let alone war. Why on earth does this even need pointing out?
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  16521.  @keltecshooter  True. Just being in business with a location, staff, utilities, taxes, municipal fees and all the rest would cost you $3 just to sell an empty wrapper. I bet the ingredients cost 25 cents.
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  16522. Eff eff ess, man, use punctuation! Have some consideration for people trying to read you.
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  16523. He also starts most sentences with "so", increasingly popular with people of all stripes, alas, but very frequently a mark of the rich, degreed, hipster liberal. It's one of the ways they announce themselves to one another.
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  16524.  @Jianju69  Reuters, too, has gone quite far downhill. I fear you have become accustomed to seeing in the near-darkness. Mind you, things have gotten so bad that sometimes actually almost does qualify as largely.
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  16525. She's not real. I'm pretty sure she's a creation of Google Gemini. Thank you David.
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  16526. Just so everyone knows, gasoline- and diesel-powered cars catch fire at roughly 10x the rate per mile of EVs. Some authorities say it's higher, ranging up to 20x. Interestingly, hybrids are the worst by far, up to 60x EVs. (Nothing against CP24, which didn't mention fire rates here! But watching/reading the news with implicit trust, without great care and caution, invariably leads to a messed-up view of the world.)
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  16527. ​ @Fausto_4841  Great reply, but if the trans-cult could get you hit with a fine for writing it, they absolutely would.
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  16528. Aren't many basically the counterparts of Cuban exiles in the US — i.e., activists against the regime they gladly left behind?
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  16529. I'm not sure it matters exactly what it is (illness or injury). I just hope he's gonna be ok.
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  16530. Ding-dong! The witch is trailing in the polls!
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  16531. Aged.
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  16532. 1) The makers are forced by govts to give combined city-highway range. (Similar to what ICE car makers must do for gas mileage.) 2) Results here would've been closer to advertised ranges if it were a combined city-highway test. Unlike gas mileage figures, EV ranges are better in the city.
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  16533. Petroshenko's personal legal troubles are entirely irrelevant to the Ukraine War and it was pointless and a waste of our time to bring them up. Well, pointless except for keeping up the interviewer's tiresome sanctimony, which I've long noticed is his leading propensity. How very Channel 4.
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  16534. In any market, it doesn't necessarily take the sale of very much to move the price a lot, higher or lower. High volatility on thin trading is common.
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  16535. Nations which the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
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  16536. Suspects must be charged or released. You didn't know that? They'll certainly charge her if they can.
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  16537.  @RobBouch-q3t  "This person has been charged and released on her own recognizance" Uh, no. Obviously you didn't listen to Sgt. Addison. Listen from the 42-second mark. He said no charges have been laid. Get your facts straight before posting snark, my appropriately-named friend.
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  16538. Can you imagine the number of private investigators and FBIs working full-time to dig up dirt on him?
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  16539. I feel the same. I'm really impressed with the US on the Ukraine War. NATO too, not just the US. But especially the US. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺🇯🇵🇦🇺 It seems like the only really well-handled file in the whole country.
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  16540. They should send payment in Ukrainian currency instead!
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  16541. These machines, since they're never supposed to move an inch, should have motion-activated alarms in them. A small and well-concealed mechanism that's basically a level that activates a cell phone with GPS tracker. In fact phones already have levels in them, so it could just be a modified phone, the case and various other parts removed. Tech-heads could come up with that. For a selling price of maybe $1k per ATM, plus a monthly bill for phone service and security response, problem addressed.
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  16542. The arms industry is very small in comparison to the real heavyweights in the American economy like Silicon Valley, financial services, real estate, even the restaurant industry. It doesn't have the heft to influence things much. You're talking like a little undergrad on campus, or a drunk in a dive bar, which maybe you are (if you're not actually named Svetlana.)
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  16543. Who are you? Who owns "Velocity"? I don't trust channels with a secret, concealed identity behind AI voice narration. Description from your channel page: "Velocity is here to deliver the best Tech, Tesla, Space X, Ford, EV Industry, Elon Musk content as fast as it happens." But your recent uploads are about China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, NATO, North Korea, and now Yemen and Japan. Transparency, please! Now!
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  16544. I disagree with what Bolton professes. I think the US and NATO have handled this very adroitly the whole way. Indeed I think Mr. Bolton inwardly knows this quite well, but is prudently and loyally keeping mum on the larger story.
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  16545. Could the problem be as simple as a literal degeneration of the (Western) species? Have not the intelligent and the good-looking been reproducing at a lower rate than the stupid and the ugly for some decades now? Don't those fortunate people stand a much better chance at prosperity, sexual freedom, and a carefree life if they don't settle down as early and don't have as many children, or none at all, instead endlessly dating, travelling, and eating out? Don't people seem slower and stupider than a few decades ago? Doesn't it seem like good-looking people have become much less common?
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  16546. It's not funny. The first frog is us.
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  16547.  @GameDevAraz  Not sure it was from the building collapse. He was a pedestrian and the car creamed him up against it.
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  16548.  @fastinbulvis2223  No, it was a pedestrian.
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  16549. She complains about the lack of a schedule on vacation. lol That makes her a pretty typical Chinese woman having little capacity for spontaneity. I hope that's wearing well on you over the years, Winston. Yet another good video.
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  16550. Dr. Newsom got his PhD in Word Salad from the University of Kringela Harris.
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  16551. As if the US isn't damaged and destabilized! Look how much one single death in Minneapolis damaged and destabilized it. Months and months of rioting, an epidemic of violent crime that's still around, a tearing apart of social relations, an emptying out of the prisons in response, and the hollowing out of city centers. It's taken five years for the dust to settle only for the most part. And look at debt: at $2trn more every year, $40trn is just over the horizon. But I understand. These things were caused by war and espionage. Right?
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  16552. Pffft. Just like how Vietnam came to an agreement with the United States?
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  16553. This British mania for pronouncing, e.g. Russia and China as "Rusher and Chiner", is making me not want to hear British voices anymore. Could you please end this nonsense and go back to speaking normally? Thank you.
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  16554. I find myself in agreement with Greenwald about 30% of the time. (Not on Ukraine.) Which is a fairly high percentage. But even then he gives me the creeps. His affected way of speaking gives me the creeps in a major way. He's a bizarre person. If I had a small pet, I wouldn't trust him alone with it.
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  16555. Female privilege, plain and simple. Our society teaches that women are solid gold and men are far below them. On the other hand, a year in pre-trial custody, not so much. That's pretty serious. On the other, other hand, I'm sure there's female privilege in the women's prison system too.
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  16556. They aren't a community. They're a category.  Several categories, if you like, but a category isn't a community.
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  16557.  @danstory4286  Ok, well now I know why the battle got so much harder. Deserter.😆
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  16558. Some anagrams are magically accurate: I I h a n O m a r: O h, m a n. L ℹ🅰 r.
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  16559. World Agricultural Harvest Workers Alliance: "Hey, stop comparing us to this goof."
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  16560. How can the value of anything plummet 300%? That would mean something was worth ten dollars and now it's not only worth nothing, you owe $20 to someone for it. I don't think that's quite what happened, but whatever the situation was, there's got to be a better way to phrase a description of it. You could just hang on to it and not owe anyone anything, so I think it's fairer to say it fell 100%. Let's say you buy an awful car for $100 and it crumbles a day later. You have to pay $300 to have it hauled away. Its value didn't "plummet 400%".
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  16561. This guy's a dangerous psycho. He should have been kept far away from any position of important responsibility. He's not all there.
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  16562. NBA player: Gives reasoned and well-informed summary of reasons for his choice not to opt for the jab at this time. Reaction of probably every third person: "So your hero is Donald Trump!" Intelligent person with balanced mind and personality: [Shakes head ruefully at fanatical reaction] N.B. I myself got the jab, but that's very much beside the point, which is the right to individual, private, adult judgement.
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  16563. Oh no! How will he ever afford to buy more?
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  16564. You saying that vape fluid is toxic, or this air-talking-head saying it, does not make it true. Countless millions of people have been vaping for two decades. Where are the deaths? Where is the disease? The ingredients in vaping liquid are vegetable glycerin (regarded as safe for human consumption by regulatory authorities) (70%), a form of alcohol which makes it vapable (30%), nicotine (trace percentage) and usually flavouring (also a tiny percentage). And bear in mind that zero smoke is created. It's impossible. The temperature involved is simply too low. Vaping has saved a great many lives. It has saved immeasurable expense to health care systems. Public Health England has told the govt. not only that vaping is 95% safer than smoking (a percentage which is clearly far too conservative), but that paying smokers to switch to vaping would save the NHS and UK taxpayers a great deal of money. If your misinformation were to contribute to vaping being banned, people who thus remained cigarette smokers would lose their lives. Try not to be a victim of fact-free scare-tactic journalism.
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  16565. Please share with us the name of that wine you've been enjoying so very, very much. (Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦) Veuillez partager avec nous le nom de ce vin que vous avez tant, beaucoup apprécié. (Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦)
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  16566.  @nezabudka31  I think the two of you agree. Try re-reading his post while assuming for a moment I'm correct.
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  16567. Molto delicioso. [chef's kiss] The 10-syllable wonder doesn't realize it, but year by year, millimeter by millimeter, she's growing up. She'll be a mature 32-year-old woman by the time she's 86. Thanks Dave, you're the best at this stuff.
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  16568. Thanks. Really well stated.
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  16569. "It's cute when we do it."
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  16570. What's he on? Anybody know?
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  16571. This is going to be one crummy ticket. It may be enough to re-elect Trump if he changes course by finding and accepting some good advice on the pandemic. Soon, that is.
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  16572. This could be an instructional video in a J-school.👍
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  16573. I hereby dub her Kringela.
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  16574.  anti-globohomo6556  Hahaha You equate countries which invite Americans to protect them from countries like Russia....to Ukraine which is being bombarded by Russia. There must be a big tumour in your cranium. A doctor can amputate the abnormal tissue for you.
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  16575. Definitely something wrong with an internet mob reflexively taking the word of some author doing publicity for his new book, regarding an unproven claim for which he's presented no evidence and which is denied by the man he's accusing. Many people who clearly know nothing are foaming at the mouth here. Thanks,TR, for the low 'journalism.'
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  16576.  @user-jm8ky1kn2t  Please. In accounting and investing it's standard to call bank deposits "cash", but that is very obviously not what is meant here🙄. Cash = bills and coins.
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  16577.  @user-jm8ky1kn2t  Your point is well taken, but I think the meaning intended by the Governor and commenters here is not that the monetary system is either rotten or marvellous, but that the government must not be given more power over people's savings, spending or anything else related to their money. The monetary system's aspects of stability, money creation and others are important but separate matters. We're concerned here about where it crosses over in to areas of privacy and political control of the citizenry.
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  16578. I wonder if the record comes with an asterisk or two. The number of medals available to be won is higher than it used to be, this time 987. (Montreal in 1976, e.g.: 594.) Possibly Canada has previously won a larger fraction of the total up for grabs. Also, at the partly-boycotted 1980 Los Angeles games, Canada won 44 medals.
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  16579.  @TheCoolhead27  It's the correct pronunciation, so what's creepy about it? The sudden and creepy change was to pronouncing the name of the country YOU-krane for no reason at all. It is not more similar to the Ukrainian version: you-KRANE is closer.
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  16580.  @cjay2  Who could confidently gainsay you there? Not me, certainly.😄
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  16581. I feel identically about Biden.
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  16582.  @wishusknight3009  Really mature insult.🙄
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  16583.  @Nitrogang  If you think the words democracy and republic aren't both accurate and fair terms for the US, you're wrong. Another accurate term from political science is presidential republic. Yet another, from a slightly different angle, is federation. All this terminology hasn't changed in multiple lifetimes, so what on earth is going on?
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  16584. ​@alice young Actually, in precise political science terminology the US is a presidential republic. Political science has taught that since long before you were born. But if you want to say constitutional republic, that's fine too. It's more general but still also true. But ffs, since the Constitution lays out and prescribes a democratic system, it's also a democracy. (Of the representative democracy sub-type. Direct democracy has constant referendums.) Nothing could be more inarguable. It is entirely fair to call the US both a constitutional republic a democracy.
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  16585. @alice young That may happen, sure. They'll probably try. But if it does, they were using the word crookedly. Just like if someone says they love you and then treat you bad, they were simply misleading you. It doesn't mean love is bad or that the next person won't mean it honestly. Just that someone was hiding behind that word to deceive you. Ok? Don't badmouth democracy. It's what you want.
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  16586.  @ronjon7942  😄Gee thanks. I'm getting trole-swarmed today. (Again🙄)
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  16587. Ms. Coulter, the way you play with your hair every ten seconds is distracting and makes me think less of you. Just keep your hands in your pockets if need be, but get rid of this tic. People will see it as a form of flirting with men, and I'm sure you don't want that. (But, nervous mannerisms aside, I'm much less uncongenial to your views than I thought I would be.) Cheers.
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  16588. Sources confirm from the video that this was a Ukrainian Beaver Drone. Not a lot of damage here, but that's all right. Who doesn't like a nice Beaver?
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  16589. *tantamount
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  16590. Slow down! He's being installed by Trudeau's party only, and solely due to Trudeau's resignation. We can't have a vacant prime minister's office, and (alas) the Liberals are entitled to the balance of their term. There will be a federal election probably in April, maybe May. Cheer up!
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  16591.  @flamingfrancis  Yes, I'm so sorry for interfering. God I feel so guilty for what I've done to that nation of wonderful people. Why oh why didn't I just leave it to those performing the great work? But I have you to thank for setting me straight.
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  16592.  @mikedice3880  That makes sense.
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  16593.  @backintimealwyn5736  Thanks for that interesting and cheering reply.
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  16594. Outside of scientific, technical and maybe most of the business curricula, it's not even an education you get anymore. It's more like psychological and behavioral conditioning. It was bad enough two or three decades ago as what I call The Great Dumbening set in across society. Turned out there was much more sinister stuff on the way.😮
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  16595. [To be read in a Russian accent:] Nature of war is can be possible to predict final outcome of war more reliably than to predict state of things later on in given year. Sorry, Dmitriy. Not strong effort. But such strong man. Motherland thank you😂
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  16596. I could feel how he felt as he said it. He's a very good guy.
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  16597. 122 likes versus two supporters of the government of China.
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  16598.  @ronburgandy1475  Fuck you, you incoherent semi-literate putz. You sound drunk. China under the Party was never trustworthy, not now, not in the 90s, not when they backed North Vietnam, not during the Cultural Revolution, not when they backed North Korea, not during the Great Leap Forward. Anybody who got into bed with them in the past 70 years is an asshole, Australian, New Zealander, American, German, I don't care. What a dumb fuck, thinking you're teaching me history by telling me which side China was on in the Second World War. Tells me what morons you hang out with. (Simpson by any chance?) "Educated yourself on how global trade works." Why, because that's the one thing you know anything about? Drunk ignorant pompous fool. Read your post again when you're sober. Have another glass of local plonk you fat fucking dumb trade consultant or whatever the fuck you are. Drink to the Party you owe it to.
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  16599.  @blurtam188  "Premiere" lol Like it's opening night. In show business, are you? A big star?😂
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  16600.  @EthanKironus8067  I make remarks on a range of things which themselves range in importance. Don't police my subject matter. Responding to author's warrantless contention about Ford was not worth my care.
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  16601. I suppose there's a chance he could drink in stealth. People seldom have no secrets at all. What surprises me is the lack of speculation that he's on some other sort of drugs, licit or illicit, like Hi tler or Michael Jackson. He might have gotten hooked on something after taking it for legitimate medical reasons. And why speculate in that direction? Because when someone has changed, the explanation might be an unlikely-seeming one. But I would grant it's fairly pointless for now.
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  16602.  @eh1702  Always good to hear from someone with firsthand observations.
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  16603.  @LIMERAGE  You're totally right. There's an army of internet commenters who just rage mindlessly over "society" whenever anything negative happens. It's a widespread point of view, because stupidity is widespread. Stupidity and sanctimony. (Sanctimony: saying things so you can pose as a morally superior person.) Ironically, these people are one of the worst things about society. 😆
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  16604.  @swifty82838  Could we have a link, please, to back up that claim, my ironically named friend?
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  16605.  @cxngo8124  premiere [prem-YAIR, preem-YAIR] = the debut of an entertainment production premier [PREEM-ee-er] = the leader of a Canadian province
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  16606. Look into the history of slavery, Katie. It was a slave planet from time immemorial—until the anglosphere countries pioneered the banning and fighting of slavery. You might as well condemn every country in the world today for not having female suffrage in the 19th century, and if you did it would likewise be a fine achievement in ignorance and sanctimony.
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  16607. It's very true that governments negligently ignored massive and lasting potential harms from their policies, and mental health was certainly one of them. They unleashed a wrecking ball on our society, the damage will resound down the decades, and they will never pay for it.
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  16608.  augustopinochet5346  I said "negligently ignored". What are you, hard of reading?
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  16609. It's for home consumption, to make the CPC more palatable as a stay against White Ghosts. Clear?
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  16610. It would make 1000x more sense if he meant double its net oil exports. Including refined products, they were likely close to 2m bpd in 2023. As oil markets are quite sensitive to fluctuations in the supply-demand balance, a further 2m bpd in a context of steady demand would definitely move the global price needle and perhaps wipe out tens of billions of dollars of Russian profits. The idea of the US increasing production from 13m bpd to 26m bpd is so outlandish in the extreme that I'm pretty much prepared to assume that this is what he had in mind.
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  16611. Principal Biden can't control the kids anymore. This middle school needs someone new in charge.
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  16612.  小熊维尼  Don't you understand. these aren't the same people? It was their ancestors, and not for all of them either, for most of their ancestors were nowhere near the possessor or ruling classes, and now many people in Britain have no roots there at all but come from elsewhere, or their parents did. It's nearly complete nonsense to say "they" anything. What would be the sense in saying of the Central Committee in 2050 that "they" caused the starvation of so many people during the Great Leap Forward? You're a proud nationalist --- which I define as someone with a grudge --- and if people like you have any say in important matters in the years to come I expect they'll out of pique steer China into a number of wars. Then you'll have become just like the Britain of the mid- and late-Victoiran era you clearly despise with a good deal of justification. It's an easy trap to fall into and difficult to avoid unless you make a priority of keeping a balanced outlook. That means developing a certain hostility to people with all the answers or who say they're all in one or two books. It means Marx and the Analects have to make room for others, some of them from very far afield. I urge you to bear in mind that only a crowd can be nationalistic. And crowds are mad, so stay away from them and you can if necessary straighten out your mind concerning China's relation to other countries. In my view it's largely a matter, aside from giving and demanding tolerance and respect, of refusing to nurture a grudge about anything dating back two generations or more, or about forty years. All the best.
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  16613. Get him in the middle of the night at his home in the Moscow suburbs. Like bin Laden.
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  16614. Comcast owns 100% of it. I'm entirely ready to believe that's a bad thing, but may I ask why you think so? Is it just because it's a multi-national giant? Because it's a sister company of NBC? I'm interested in your views.
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  16615.  @Writeous0ne  You guys sound like you work in the Kremlin at the Ministry of Gazprom. I suggest you find work elsewhere. On the Ukrainian front maybe? I hear they're hiring.
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  16616. "Moscow Marge" just doesn't sound great. I actually think calling her "Hanoi Jane" would be more rhetorically biting. It's what I call Tucker Carlson as well.
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  16617. Total aid, all forms, Feb. 2022 to June 30: $109bn, or $45bn per year. (Source: Kiel Institute Ukraine Aid Tracker, Aug. 6 data release. Authorized future amounts not incl.) It equals 5% of the US defense budget, and 80-90% is spent in the US. Also, the US last outspent Europe in total Ukraine aid in 2022.
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  16618. Eventually, but it'll take years to increase pipeline capacity to tidewater. Thank PM Peter Pan for cancelling one, the Quebec premier for blocking another.
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  16619. She's an impostor. She has been one her whole career. It's that simple.
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  16620. Come on America, get your act together and Make AOC a Waitress Again.
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  16621. Greta Thunberg: "So inspiring!"
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  16622. Great, another pool shot dead in the name of "recreation". Stop the slaughter.
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  16623. America: Canada's seat cushion.
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  16624. Supporters of both US parties have quite similar levels of ill-regard for Putin. YouGov survey, "Russia and Ukraine Conflict", Jan. '23, favorability rating of Vladimir Putin: Republicans: Very/somewhat favorable: 9% + 6% = 15% (Very/somewhat unfavorable: 74%) Democrats: Very/somewhat favorable: 9% + 9% = 18% (Very/somewhatl unfavorable: 72%)
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  16625. I certainly thought so. He could pair it with the pipeline explosions, another recent event with a strong false flag whiff about it, for just such a purpose. And with just one or two things more, of comparable magnitude, he perhaps could feel ready to present the lot to the public in justification of going to the farthest extremes against Ukraine. He's in love with thin pretexts for atrocity-making.
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  16626. Hillary in drag.
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  16627. It was clearly a wheel, not a tire. I'm surprised there's anyone who doesn't know the difference. Wow. But hey, this is 2024, so I guess journalists are hired for ticking demographic boxes rather than being intelligent and knowledgeable. Embarrassing.
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  16628. Anything to keep Tesla three spots down from the top. Morgan Stanley is simply loyal to its old investment banking client, General Motors.
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  16629.  @scooter_d1534  Yep. Desperate dread causes a deterioration in many people's scruples.
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  16630. It simply has to be assumed — in light of all the conscience-free things they do so openly and brazenly — that they're going to conjure up 10 million votes out of thin air. Really bad people don't take days off. If Trump's margin of actual votes isn't larger than that, the chances of overcoming their 'cheat margin' become perilously low.
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  16631. He just thinks he can help defeat Democrats this fall. (He can't, not this way.) He doesn't believe a word of what he's saying.
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  16632. I despise this reporter for her serial interruptions. And for interrupting Corbyn half as much as she would a Tory. She has no idea what fair play is, nor good manners---and in those two areas makes every interview subject look good in comparison.
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  16633.  @kristianhartlevjohansen3541  All thank-you cards for reduced calories for humanity should be sent to the Kremlin.
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  16634. How is "the market" so poisonous that it destroys one's sexuality, yet fails to destroy one's entire self? Apart from time spent isolated with only one's thoughts, or with nature, or with partner, family or friends, not much of life doesn't come out of someone else making a living. Every book, every painting, every movie and song we take in may be a transaction of an intellectual, artistic, 'spiritual' or social sort, but it's also a money transaction. Somebody got paid for it. How indeed is 'erotica' supposed to be free of the 'taint' of money? Or religion, since the priest is paid for his sermon? Or academic work, for that matter? A professor is many things and well-paid is one of them. How does money fail to corrupt and degrade anything it touches? I find Bret's position smacks of Marxist or even woke neo-Marxist analysis. Also of guilt, whether religious or another kind. It somehow makes sex holy, which is all right if that's how one likes it. Sex, however, can also be earthy and unserious, even 'sinful,' if that's how one likes it instead. Bret disclaims any prudery, but let's hear him do it more cogently.
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  16635. The evidence that after 8 years of Trudeau, Canada is held in contempt by the whole world accumulates daily. Just throw it on the pile.
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  16636. And Ronaldo's salary is $200 million a year, the highest of any athlete in the world. Isn't that between him and the club he plays for? Does a judge properly have a right to step in and say "Now, hang on a second. That's too much. It just sticks in my craw. Hold on while I figure out what's right"?
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  16637. ​ @MarcPetersson-ak67  Patiently read each word, please: My point was to disparage Scholz and suggest why he is so grudging of support to Ukraine; namely, that he is a despiser of NATO from way back and a Russophile to boot. What's wrong, anyway? Too much elderflower cider and meatballs? Fell on the road with no bike helmet?
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  16638.  @hermes7587  What a shallow take: dismissing an argument because it's not footnoted and contains an anglicization of the SPD's name (which in English is Social Democratic Party). Guess what, I call Köln "Cologne" too...and it really shows how "superficial" I am! Btw, working from memory, I made an error: it wasn't the socialist youth wing of the SPD, it was the Marxist youth wing. (And he remained in it into his 30s.) 🤣
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  16639. ​ @MarcPetersson-ak67  Please read carefully: My point was to disparage Scholz and suggest reasons for why he is so grudging in his support for Ukraine; namely, that he harbors antipathies towards NATO from way back, and admired the Soviets so much that it biases him in favor of Russia to this day. So what went wrong when you read my post? Too much elderflower cider? Fell on the road with no bike helmet?
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  16640.  @MarcPetersson-ak67  Why do you say that? I am ardently, passionately pro-Ukraine.
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  16641.  @davidmarkwort9711  Personally I thought he was pretty great.
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  16642.  @davidmarkwort9711  Nein!😄 Helmut Schmidt.
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  16643. You wouldn't have the nerve to say that (and with such smugness) if you weren't currently in Bakhmut yourself, surely?🤨
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  16644. It's a master class in vagueness. To some extent this is unintentional: Dalio, whatever his strengths, is not blessed with high verbal intelligence ("Uh"...."uh"..."uh").
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  16645.  @ManPursueExcellence  He explains poorly. He expressed things I have a solid grasp of in a way that would make them sound unnecessarily mysterious and vague to someone unfamiliar with them. If he has things straight in his head, why can't he come out and say what they are? This, I think, is why the interviewer in this and a previous interview with Dalio seems so frustrated. I was formerly editor of research at a global investment bank. I still read on economics, finance, and investment at least a few hours a week, and sometimes a lot more.
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  16646. It has been widely reported that the man seated next to Putin on Victory Day is not a WWII veteran. (Rumour has it that he is a distant relative who was only 9 when the war ended, and that for 20 years he has been employed taking Putin's dirty clothes to the launderers in the basement and cleaning his shoes twice a day. Could be a false rumour I suppose.)
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  16647. Actual morons couldn't come up with this. It's so foolish it takes left ideologues.
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  16648. Don't forget what is sometimes called 'music.' And don't forget mainstream culture generally. I remember it was supposed to be cool how Dennis Rodman said he'd be as "Bad as I Wanna Be". Well, how many took it literally? (Or was it meant literally in the first place? Never did read that pos thing.)
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  16649. I take it you do not support the Conservative Party. But which party would you support whose members didn't believe it to best promote the national interest?
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  16650. I see you are an expert with the terminology. The symbols too, I bet:⚡⚡︎
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  16651. The suspect had already put a hole in himself before that.
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  16652. The word for fighting spirit is 'morale', not 'moral.' But your point is a good one and I do agree.
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  16653. Reason: this is highly unusual. The human brain is a pattern recognition machine.
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  16654. Fistfuls of them, perhaps.
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  16655. 1) School board "investigation," like there's complex evidence to gather and weigh?😠 2) The Superintendent acted slowly to see if maybe it would blow over.😡 3) If a man made such threats against Democrats he'd be behind bars within hours.🤬Clearly there's a two-tier justice system.
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  16656. It's not a legitimate news outlet. It's some kind of front.
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  16657. Let's go ahead and copy what worked for Quebecers. With concerted effort, the theft rings can be defeated even if the courts can't be bothered to do their part. Simply intercepting all their would-be exports will eliminate their revenue.
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  16658. None of this is news. But it's highly unusual for a woman to realize it and decide to say it out loud and in public. If you didn't stand to gain anything from it (like an income, however small, and a good chance of attracting a better man than otherwise) in some ways I'd have to hold you in extremely high esteem. Maybe I should anyway, but I've only seen a few minutes of you. All the best to you, and carry on!
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  16659. Putin's evil = Hitler's evil
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  16660. The Maidan Revolution was Ukraine's response to Yanukovych's betrayal of his people and Russia's aggressive actions in intimidating Ukraine and seeking to make it a vassal state. Similarly Russia provoked Ukraine in the Donbas by directly backing separatists in 2014: instigating, funding, equipping, supplying, training, advising, even staffing and commanding them. What's not to get?
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  16661. No, yore low and puerile criticism is.
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  16662. I'm not sure I'd go that far. The previous system worked decently enough—up to, say, 25 years ago before the great corruption and rot set in. There's nothing inherently less corrupt about an individual than a company. By no means. Bear in mind that Alex Jones is/was an 'independent journalist.' Look at the free-for-all right here, with countless shady nut-bars getting billions of views. There's a value to well set-up larger organizations with high and transparent standards. Consider the parallel between news media and social media: Sure they're both generally corrupt, yet along came Musk with a broom to sweep away the corruption of Twitter. The same thing could happen to a media company that's taken over, and others could be built from the ground up.
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  16663. The actual figure is zero.
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  16664.  @AbcDino843  You could if you like point to the cost of NORAD, but even that would lack sense. There's no way the US would ever trust any other nation to monitor the Arctic frontier vital to America's own security, so it would always pay for and maintain it. In any case, Canada and the US divide the cost of it, and always have done. The fact is that the US need never dedicate spending to protect Canada from military threats. It is enough that the rest of the world knows that to attack Canada would result in instant and harsh retaliation from the US, and thus it's never happened. (Nor shall it, God willing.) With Europe it's vastly different. Vast billions of dollars in cash outlays are committed by the US to its security every year. Likewise Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. As for your vague reference to "support," I challenge you to provide evidence for it. It's absolute h og w a sh, and that's paying it a handsome compliment. Go ahead, I'm waiting. Thanks for your charming reply.
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  16665. Brilliant! Embarrassed I didn't realize that minutes ago.
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  16666. We're three months into Year Five...
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  16667. You're really reaching in your attempt to stir something up and create harm. This guy isn't the palest person, but to me he could be of any race except East Asian or Indigenous American. Mixed race is likely enough too. (PS Don't say 'arm robbers' if you want people to listen to you.)
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  16668. I'm so angry at him that you actually seem a bit understated there. I'm ready for the hardship and sacrifice it will take to deal with him and I will vigorously oppose any leaders prepared to even consider appeasement.
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  16669.  @mysterymachine94  But NATO was doing nothing. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. So tell us, o brilliant one, why did every Eastern European country except Belarus either join NATO or ask to join it? Why? The US forced them? Hah! The reason is they know Russia, and will never—ever!—trust it.
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  16670. Because Musk called his bluff, specifying: 'Detail your plan right here in this thread, and if it's good you can have the $6bn.' And the schmuck replied: 'I'm ready to meet with you in person.' (Both paraphrased.) Musk has the guy's sneaky little number. The latter wants to prolong hunger, not end it. Everything about the UN is sneaky, corrupt and self-serving. Maybe it wasn't 60 years ago or even 40 but it is now.
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  16671.  @ik7584  BS. The guy said 'I could solve world hunger with $6bn of billionaires' money.' Musk called his bluff immediately: 'Spell out the details right here in this thread and I'll do it.' The guy has refused. He was full of it.
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  16672. There may be a game of chess going on over the colonel's head. If there were devastating or acidly symbolic drone attacks on Moscow, it would spur enthusiasm for the war and boost recruitment. Indeed it would demand a harsh response. If there are none, then Muscovites are spared any consequences for what goes on in their name. So it hashes out at occasional attacks. Not so many that Russia can really escalate, not so few that Muscovites are unafraid and unchastened.
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  16673.  @theorncampbell4432  First of all, it is false that "WW II" was mentioned. What the speaker said was that he "fought for Ukrainian independence against Russia." Big difference. Neither the name of the conflict nor the date was mentioned. Watch the video from the House of Commons. As for whoever wrote the introduction, I would say that it's obvious that he or she didn't know what he or she was saying. (Which is still really bad, but of course nowhere near as bad.) As for "everyone in that room," I would imagine that some were puzzled, others just assumed that there were hostilities between Ukrainians and the Soviet government not long before 1941, others assumed the Speaker of the House misspoke, and the remainder thought it best to trust that the Speaker and the Prime Minister's Office somehow knew what they were doing. Few would risk withholding their applause only to later find out that they themselves had not thought things through adequately, during a very brief 100-second tribute.
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  16674. "Ken doll"? Really? That had never occurred to me. It's all a matter of opinion, but I've always seen Trudeau as more of a Barbie.
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  16675. Ukraine doesn't need to intercept and triangulate phone calls to know where clusters of hundreds of Russian soldiers are. They already know things like that via other means. Russians really believe they can invade a country en masse and be invisible to its inhabitants just by staying off their phones?
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  16676. She really reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos fraudster.
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  16677. Jen Psucki tries to have hairstyles which she cannot have with the hair she has. She apparently has no friends, because friends would intervene. Oh, and the hideous different-color roots... And the trash-teen fake eyelashes...
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  16678.  @alia7750  Six per cent of sales or so at the moment, and zero per cent of profits. But remember when Tesla's car business itself was only at $3 or 4 billion in sales and wasn't profitable yet? That was just six or seven years ago, and Tesla was quite poorly capitalized compared to now. It's become richly funded. Most importantly, the world is only going to become more and more thirsty for electricity and everything to do with it. (Go long copper while you're at it.)
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  16679. No good. Any of these three would effectively be swing-voter repellent. So would the other five being called remaining favored possibilities. Dig deeper, Trump. Think about Abbott. Think about begging De Santis. Above all think and don't stop till finding a mate who can swing some votes.
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  16680. Canada doesn't get a free ride in this world. It has duties related to global security. Period.
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  16681. It's not about which is the lovelier country with the more wonderful government. It's about European and global security. In other words it's about people's survival and freedom. If Turkey isn't aligned on NATO's side, it shall be aligned with others—against NATO.
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  16682. His diplomatic strategy on Ukraine sounds marvellous. (To appear neutral, threaten both countries. But make the threat to Russia much worse.😄👍) I'm gonna say decades of dealing with the shadiest of characters in the NY/NJ construction business probably taught him some valuable things.
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  16683. General Dynamics
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  16684. @ He was talking about an extra maybe 10 days. FYI, the Constitution says the PM is the leader of the governing party, which is naming a new leader in less than 48 hours. A swearing-in has to happen mere days afterwards.🎉 Edit: Your response?
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  16685. Welcome to the 99% Pooty-bot comments zone. Hope you're not wearing good shoes.
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  16686.  @jimdean5333  Bear in mind that I said I'm not sure what the video has to do with Jamaica. The video. I didn't say crime in Canada has nothing to do with Jamaica. And I'll leave it there. Thank you very much for your reply.👍 All the best to you.
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  16687. It won't go viral. It can't. There are watertight billion-dollar algorithms to prevent that.
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  16688. "I am Vladimir Putin and I ecstatically approve all the anti-Ukrainian comments here! Keep them coming! I've got a bunch more countries to conquer before I keel over and I wanna get a move on. America and its allies must be booted down in the world hierarchy so we in Team China-Russia can have our chance. Thanks for your support, friends. Please give me your feedback on which country I should invade next."
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  16689. Billions of people would be plunged into tyranny within a generation. It's that simple.
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  16690. False. Irish-Jamaican and Afro-Jamaican. The proportions between the two? Don't know.
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  16691. As someone from another country it's beginning to hit me that half of all Americans are some kind of crook or another. The other half must be torn. One quarter must be steaming mad, one quarter must be on the verge of giving up and joining the crooks.
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  16692. I don't want to see Hannity in every single video. Get someone else for those promos.
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  16693. Soybeans and Democrats are making it less of an oxymoron every day. And "chicks", by the way, are way more allowed to say libertarian-leaning things without fear of denunciation than men are, I've noticed.
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  16694. "Structural racism"? Yeah, the US does actually have that. It's called DEI. Structural, systemic racism.
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  16695. Surely he meant not giving the oil to Iran as if the US owns it, but rather, through vacating the area, giving them access to it so they can pump it out and sell it. I can't believe anyone would construe his words as you appear to have done. That's being literal-minded to the farthest out extreme.
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  16696. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  16697. There is vastly insufficient explanation given by the guest for why Scholz fears anything but a prolongation of the war in a type of stalemate. What on earth is he on about? What is the threat to Germany of a Russian loss?
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  16698. That's not true about Russia's Covid death rate. It was was definitely quite low by European standards, only hitting 1k per million people after around a year-and-a-half last July. Things got worse at that point, but it's still—today—only 18th out of 36 European countries (of pop. > 1m). Definitely nowhere near "one of the highest, if not the highest Covid death rate." Absolutely not. (Source: Worldometer) Flubbing the easy factual stuff like that ticks me off.
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  16699. Colbert is a total jackass, but the ban on Russian oil and fuel imports is worth it simply as a matter of conscience. Bear in mind also that if Putin can sell his oil elsewhere—and he can, certainly all but a small portion of it—the ban should have little or no effect on prices, since it will have little or no effect on the global supply/demand balance. Sorry Dave, not with you on the gas price part of it. As we've seen, the speculative oil price bump has already evaporated. (Oil could still skyrocket of course, for any number of Ukraine-War-related reasons including other Western sanctions—and I'm betting it will—but not because of this ban.)
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  16700. Shah Rahman — moral vision cannot be any better than the man who offers it.
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  16701.  @s0ycapitan  I feel that is a lot better set of assertions, even though I hardly agree much with many of them. I can agree there's bias up to a point. Neutrality is absent. But then it's only decent to express more sympathy for a victim than a perpetrator, isn't it? (I mean, would it be seemly, by way of analogy, to poke into the lives and characters of holocaust victims and ruthlessly expose their shortcomings or any misdeeds they'd committed at various points in their lives? This has got nothing to do with that episode in history, of course, but I'm reaching for a way to make my idea clear.) It's true that Russia's mistakes have been heavily emphasized and its military accomplishments downplayed, while no mention is made of Ukrainian blunders, I'll grant you that. They must have made at least a couple, one would think. But I haven't noticed any firm contentions that Putin will be deposed. The subject is frequently raised but each time they say there's no sign it's going to happen. "But eventually that might change" is usually added afterwards, never with any real conviction. Only hope.
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  16702.  @s0ycapitan  Hey, your mood sounds a bit dismal. Why not cheer yourself up and volunteer to be the newest RF army tank commander? The tank is efficiently designed for duty as your workplace, bedroom, toilet, kitchen, casket, crematorium and urn for your ashes. The job also comes with free flying lessons courtesy of the American maker of Javelin missiles. Have a nice day!
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  16703.  @letstrythisagain5096  You can blame the criminals and blame others too. Imagine for instance that the homicide clearance rate in your city were 15%. It's the murderers who have done the heavy lifting of course. But the police department has been very ineffective in mounting a deterrent to committing murder. Isn't is possible that the way cars are designed and equipped makes them too easy to steal? I don't know. But I'll venture to say that some brands must be better than others.
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  16704.  @kuruptzZz  There's some (drunk?) guy in this thread who says that's bs. I guess all cars and trucks are totally secure, it's just that the thieves are so evil they can cast spells on the anti-theft systems.😂 They're more witches than thieves.
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  16705. World Mollusk Alliance: "Hey, take that back right now!"
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  16706. Putler has breathed life back into the delusions of the Soviet era. Born under Stalin, he remains his godson.
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  16707. Wasn't much of a heart in the first place if it can be destroyed by that. Toughen up yourself up, or you'll dissolve and wash away in the next light rain shower.
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  16708. No child who was properly brought up could end up like these people. He or she would always find a way to eke out a decent existence at least. The situation of everyone you see here is rooted in the lives of the people who gave life to them, who sent them out into the world unprepared. Mind you, their job was made harder by the nonsense flooding their children's brains from teachers, TV, the internet, media, movies, video games and 'song' lyrics.
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  16709. 👏Hear, hear!👏
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  16710.  @AngelineProductions  The man who stood for Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love? Don't think so.
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  16711.  @AngelineProductions  Thanks for that cartoon vision of the world, bought off the shelf like consumer packaged goods, but no thanks. I was taught better ways of seeing.
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  16712. Jerry deGrasse Seinfeld 🤬
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  16713. The mental contortions they perform are breathtaking. They'd find a way to rationalize destroying the sun if it suited them.
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  16714. Thanks for the point of view straight from your tattooed and pierced TA with funny eyeglasses and haircut, who in turn got it straight from the Russian and Chinese foreign ministry talking points. As for India, don't expect from it any of the cheap and cynical anti-Americanism you're peddling. It will show far more good sense when all is said and done than you're counting on.
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  16715. Kringela
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  16716. The d+++heads who said "no way will Russia invade Ukraine" were Putin, Lavrov and the Kremlin spokesmen. Oh, also Pooty-Bots on the Internet like you.
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  16717. I endorse all the ones mentioned except Orban. His siding with Putin and his constant repression of journalists (even if I allow that they scarcely merit that name) mark him as an enemy of freedom and global security.
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  16718. How does "US" translate to "White House"?🤨 Likelier Mar-a-Lago, Camp David or some other place.
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  16719. Empty and false headline. Obviously there is time before the Democratic convention for Harris to fall on her face and be summarily given the Biden treatment, i.e., the boot. No one in Trump's position would debate her until her nomination is a sealed deal.
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  16720. Could it be yet another feint by Ukraine? Will they draw Russian forces en masse to Kherson and then gobsmack them by advancing elsewhere? If they pull off another one like that I'm gonna have to demand Ukraine start picking on an army their own size. 😄
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  16721.  @markmakallister4653  So? Her Princeton self-satisfaction doesn't do a thing to make Putin any less of a skumbag. Your boy is smugness personified himself. With her smugness she calls him tacky. With his smugness he puts thousands of women and children to death.
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  16722. I have a lot of respect for Mike Johnson. He has real dignity in addition to judgement and a quick mind. People in other countries must be surprised to see that an American of that caliber was made Speaker.
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  16723. Is enlightened individualism the same thing as 'enlightened self-interest'? I ask because the word boring so used seems both highly individualistic and an indirect claim to enlightenment. On the face of it, anyway. But, yes, he sees people as self-interested and notices they practically all shoot themselves in the foot on the way to their selfish goals, both as individuals and in their aligned-interest groups. He seems too nice to be purely selfish himself, but I don't see why that would stop him from observing it in human societies. I don't think he's saying it stands by itself as the best way to go. Cheers.
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  16724.  @LaureanoLuna  Anybody considers their duties moral, I think; so just 'duty' is fine. And who says we ought to inherit our duties? I think this pays too much respect to tradition and filial piety, if not mindlessness. So in my view it's about 'duty to a community' unadorned with either qualifier. Now, how does Prof. Harari stand for shirking of community duties? He may describe such shirking, and he may describe it without much criticism, but you ought not to assume, if you have done so, that this means that he approves of it. A minority of people despise calling attention to their own virtue by loudly condemning the obviously contemptible. I think he's one of them. That doesn't mean he has terrible morals. Sometimes there's more to people than meets the eye. With those who promiscuously moralize, there's ordinarily less. I recommend assuming he feels duties towards society.
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  16725.  @michaziomek  6th.
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  16726.  @michaziomek  Oh crap, I saw "EU" but it registered in my mind as "Eur." So of course I thought 6th including Britain. Oops! 🙄
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  16727.  @michaziomek  At least it's their own bed once again! I would think a Pole would understand a people cherishing and prizing their full autonomy. But I guess not.
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  16728. Et tu Dutte?😠
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  16729. False dichotomy! It's both.😄 She knows that if H.s disarmed there would be peace, whereas if Izzr. disarms it would be utterly annihilated. But she would never admit that openly. It's a matter of character.
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  16730. How to mostly destroy the mind of a society: Recklessly go full-on liberal for 60 years. Results guaranteed.
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  16731.  @suburbandystopia4130  Fact: Similar level of tariffs both ways for decades.
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  16732.  @m42666  Not so. Power generation from coal continues to plunge rapidly. Oil was hardly ever used. See the EIA's Electric Power Monthly. Nice try, Sergei/Tucker.
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  16733. I prefer newer style news production where you don't see or hear the reporter very much. I don't want to see her posing and pouting, nodding, squinting and all the rest. Too many reaction shots. I don't want to see her interviewing subjects and seeming to assert she's just as important as they are. She should also get rid of that slight Drew Barrymore from 1992 accent. Serious material shouldn't be covered with that chirpy delivery. I'm outta here and it's not halfway through.
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  16734. Were they shared posts of this video, or separate unrelated videos made by various people, showing the same phenomenon? Please let me know, cuz I'm not on X.
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  16735.  @bigbubba4314  No, "people experiencing unlawfulness".
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  16736. There is zero chance of her succeeding at her goal of "bringing down the cost of groceries." There's zero chance that it's even her goal.
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  16737. But you write your own posts for public release!
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  16738.  @thebleckBieber45  funny one, Beebs.
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  16739.  @pasqualinamichelaconsiglio9391  *who
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  16740. Plot twist: Reid and Lemon are the same person
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  16741. This video's title can be called The Understatement of the Past Hundred Years.
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  16742. Imagine, there's people who think Harris Faulkner is terrible. We really need to talk to those people. Yes, it will take years, decades to straighten out minds like that.
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  16743. Fine, that's a thing and it's very valuable. Worth pointing out. But it's just one thing. I'd be more impressed if he were a genuine person and he didn't baldly state that going to university is about nothing besides boosting your future income. What a lack of respect for learning, from someone who always posed as 'the smart guy'. Campus PC nonsense aside --- and it's a huge aside --- you can still develop your mind at a good institution better than in some office or restaurant, if you're determined to.
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  16744. Outstanding! Where is this anyway, somewhere around the Great Lakes?
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  16745. Ok, but at that point in the discussion they were on a side point talking about people who 'leave-don't leave' Twitter generally, not him specifically. Speaking of Taibbi, it might be noted that most people who know his name learned it from his Musk-appointed stint on the Twitter Files. 98% maybe. Through Musk he got a chance at immense recognition. So if you ask me, his resentment ought to be tempered with gratitude. Esp. since the Substack thing wasn't personal.
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  16746. ​ @BlackhaloZ   I didn't mean to imply he was unknown, but his Twitter followers skyrocketed from 700k before the Twitter Files to nearly 1.9 million. That's 2.7x. And how many paid subscribers on Substack can he add to his pre-existing 30,000 thanks to the sustained exposure to Musk's 135,000,000 Twitter followers? There's having a professional reputation and then there's serious fame. So when I said 98% maybe it should've been 75%. As for me, it appears he was one of the better known journalists I had never heard of a few months ago. There would be two reasons for that: Over the last ten years I've slowed way down on the rate at which I learn new bylines, as I've grown to seriously loathe the field over that time for its revolting decay. And I've studiously ignored Rolling Stone in particular ever since much longer ago determining I didn't like it one bit. I would've thought its readers were mostly the duller sort of over-65 Boomers interested in reading about 'pop culture'. (It turns out their largest demographic is now younger Millennials, which quite surprised me.) Thanks for your charming reply.
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  16747. Wow. As I always say, don't listen to Trudeau, watch what he does. I'm sure world leaders feel the same.
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  16748. Good lord she is such a screamer. There is a fairly strong inverse relation between real confidence in what one thinks and the volume at which one announces it.
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  16749. He is fleeing California politics. Didn't you watch?
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  16750. Creepy?
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  16751. Waters is shouting long and loud about his detractors.
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  16752. This thread reminds of some in January 2022 scorning the idea Russia would invade Ukraine. "Obviously never going to happen" "BS p-ganda", etc. Turns out they were all Russians with fake Western usernames.🤨 Ah, history repeats itself, eh Chanfun/Sergei/whatever?
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  16753. Donated by Denmark, which planned to retire it Cost to US: $0.00
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  16754. "I'm not an animal!"😂 Hahahaha. Are you sure? Tbh, I think a zoo worker with a tranquilizer gun should have been there.
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  16755. True. They could sell 1% of the company for $9 billion. Or instead, with great ease, borrow several times that.
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  16756.  Paul Greening  Come off it. Hamilton is not in the GTA. And if anything Toronto cops would have been all over that crap faster. Cheers.
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  16757. Two and a half hours is too long. I'll come back and have the leftovers later. It'll still be good.
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  16758.  @Philterbank  👏 Omg yes. There should be statues of Yuri Bezmenov across the West. What a smart and good man he was. If you didn't see Operation Infektion, which you can here on YouTube, see it now. It's excellent and he is in it briefly. (Be sure to choose the full version. It's 53 minutes or something, but when it ends it seems like only about 20 minutes went by. Super-well done.)
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  16759. And most Democrats are now ready to admit it, making this just the latest conservative stance they accept after railing against it for years. Throw it on the pile with the others.
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  16760. Hey Harvard, welcome to real peer review!😄 Next they should take a close look at every paper purporting to show how there's a 'scientific basis' for assertions about transgenderism. Fish in a barrel, I should expect.
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  16761. Yes, just like it's allowed for a policeman to shoot terrorists and forbidden for terrorists to shoot people in street markets. Your mother never taught you basic morals like that?
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  16762. Real original. They teach that one in the first hour of the first day of classes at Beijing Internet Academy.
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  16763. TDS epidemic here. The high emotions are simply embarrassing. Counselling is needed.
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  16764.  @elwray3506  You sound like you don't have much experience yet. I find your point of view a boyish or adolescent one.
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  16765. Systems of government may be democratic. TV programs never are. Your mum hasn't told you that? You should go talk to her.
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  16766. Nah, it was way closer than that. But yeah they won fair and square, or so people say. They beat and soon completely rooted out Fatah, which in the present day is the Arab power in the West Bank.
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  16767. The security guard from the previous shift, one Ihor Bondarenko, went home 20 min. earlier. Present whereabouts unknown. Heh-heh-heh.
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  16768.  @peznee   Hahaha. That's a mini moral rant you've got there yourself. And a very neat line in whataboutism, for no misstep by him could ever excuse Lidia Thorpe. Nor do I think that, while serious and deeply embarrassing, a sole instance of blacked-out drunken behaviour compares to such corruption in parliament.
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  16769. Goldberg (real name Johnson) shows us how addictive lawfare is once you smoke a few huge hits. Btw, she looks like something that would pop out of an alien's belly near the end of a movie and liquefy a minor cast member.
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  16770. The medical profession, formerly: "First, you shall do no harm" The medical profession now: "Look at me, I'm Victor Frankenstein!"
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  16771. Check your own Kremlin paystub, multiply by 8.
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  16772. I'm so sick of this nonsense. Trudeau was a dead man walking for over a year. This was going to happen anyway. The whole country had already turned on him before November. Trump did not cause this. Understand?
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  16773. More like destroying the whole country at once. You're not safe from them anywhere and they never let up.
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  16774. Jeff Spicolli's younger brother seemed very anxious talking to Jenn Psaki there.😂 Interestingly, he looked perpetually glassy-eyed up until about 6 months ago and now he doesn't.
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  16775. He should replace his tiny glasses with much larger ones.
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  16776. The irony of your remark is that in the West you are entitled to speak about what is fair. Yet you use that right to stand up for a government that would never back such a right. Let that sink in. Probably because of traditional filial piety, you confuse being a communist with being a good Chinese. That's tragic.
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  16777.  @jonhone1  Yes, it is fair, because it's not a street fight, but a discussion. In group discussions of any sort, I always seem to be in the minority, but I have never considered that unfair. Even if three members of the State Council of China were debating against one member of the Western intelligentsia, it would not be unfair, so long as the conduct itself of the debate were not unfair. The professor was not excluded nor shouted down; in my view, since you ask, there was no unfairness. In China, it would have been four against zero. I struggle to understand what sort of fairness you believe in. Cheers.
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  16778.  @MtRevDr  It's certainly not what it once was, alas.
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  16779.  @mykegoh  That's right, I'm ignorant and gullible. There's no more freedom of thought in the West than in China. Right. That's why millions of Chinese come to study in our universities and zero Westerners attend university in China. Right. People like you make Youtube into an intellectual waste land. Talk to me once you've been living in mental freedom for a couple of decades and have used that freedom to build your mind. Good day.
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  16780. Frankly it looks like they might be taking his medications away from him in order to facilitate a Great Switcheroo. This is highly speculative but rich in plausibility. A second view would be that his deterioration is proceeding rapidly on its own. A third is that his state is fairly stable, but that the liberal elites dominating public narratives, panicking over the prospect of a Trump victory, have opened the Overton Window to discussion of the second view.
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  16781. Frankly it looks like they might be taking his medications away from him in order to facilitate a Great Switcheroo. This is highly speculative but rich in plausibility. A second view would be that his deterioration is proceeding rapidly on its own. A third is that his state is fairly stable, but that the liberal elites dominating public narratives, panicking over the prospect of a Trump victory, have opened the Overton Window to discussion of the second view.
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  16782. In a shocking twist, "Frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fuelled by racial animus" was copied word-for-word from Jussie Smollett.😄 (Just kidding, it wouldn't be shocking at all.)
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  16783. Kernan's list left out the biggie: Price controls.🤪 Harris remembers price controls from her childhood in Canada. They were brought in by Justin Trudeau's dad, the then-PM (and her hero, it appears). They failed. Voters soon gave him the boot.
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  16784. He does though, all the time. And gets really angry at its sharp rejoinders.
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  16785. Xi Jin Ping: "Give it to her! Let 'er have some more! Australia, I see you are learning well. So proud of you."
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  16786. Anarcho-syndicalist à la Chomsky? Could be. Scummy drunk anyway. All the best.
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  16787. You misspelled Gavin Noisome.😄
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  16788. I'm gonna stop watching soon if you don't clean up your act. Clickbait titles, squirrel voiceovers, spoken subject matter not depicted in any way in the footage, and volume levels that are the highest of anything I watch on YouTube by far. Turn down that intro and outro music! The videos read by the guy at the desk are far better for some reason. Put him in charge.
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  16789. Look up the word monopoly.
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  16790.  @jamesjackson5020  Using "he" and "his" is seckcyst, biased, prejudiced and wrong. You didn't know that?🤨
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  16791.  @jamesjackson5020  Using "he" and "his" is biased, prejudiced and wrong. You didn't know that?🤨
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  16792.  @jamesjackson5020  Using "he" and "his" is biased, prejudiced and wrong. I thought everyone knew that many years ago.🤨
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  16793. What happened to Canadian education? These comments are a waste land of poor English skills. To think these are generally native speakers —and ones who went through the school system for at least 12 years! Why do so many here think it's the reader's job to mentally add their punctuation for them? And as the use of language largely reflects the ability to think, it appears Canadian minds are being poorly trained. Get ready for plummeting standards of living and the disappearance of what remains of the charm of living in Canadian society. Medieval-grade hickdom, here we come.
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  16794. They're "a militant group" and "a terrorist organization" with "a social wing and a political wing" who "provide social services." They won an election in 2005 and have since "ruled with an iron hand." Ok, so (legitimately in power or not) they're a government. Why dance around it? Would you call the US Congress the political wing of the Strategic Air Command?
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  16795. Vaping is not smoking. Vapers are not smokers. Vaping does not create smoke. The temperature is far too low. Vaping is not associated with cancer. Nicotine is not a carcinogen. Australia, vaping deaths in past 20 years: None. Smoking deaths: 400,000+
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  16796.  @joemitchell1287  Surely no one likes you, who isn't equally deranged and pathetic.
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  16797.  @joemitchell1287  Fair enough; nice and civil too. Cheers!
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  16798. She seemed all right. That was a good reporter too. Pretty sad story though.
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  16799. Douglas: “The Democrats aren’t going to like it when the same rules are applied to them.” Democrats: "Never gonna happen. We will never lose another election. That's a promise."
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  16800. “It’s a war against us. It’s a war that requires us to mobilize our societies if we are to remain at peace.” — Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, Former Deputy Commander of NATO in Europe (2011-14) in an interview, Jan. 2024
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  16801. Yes. What could be clearer proof? He's aligning himself with cultists. He and they make a mockery of liberalism.
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  16802.  @DebraArchie-f8o  Just curious, do you see my c'ment of 12 min. before yours?
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  16803. Thank you. Never mind the challenge of the leftist metronome turkey below. All the best.
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  16804. Someone please tell me in which countries on this earth a person can sneak in without permission and without documents, and then automatically have the right to stay...besides the United States.
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  16805. The United States in the 21st century: Where kink meets mental illness on a grand scale.
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  16806. I wonder if the Bulgarian public supports President Radev, who is backed by the remnant of the old Communist Party (as you might guess from looking at him). An opinion poll a few years ago found that just 15% of Bulgarians consider their elections fair. Luckily, although he is the head of state, his veto is easily overridden by parliament. (In Bulgaria it is the PM who heads the govt.) Fingers crossed.
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  16807. The witness will set you up with a great deal on undercoating, too. It'll double the lifespan of your car.
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  16808. All the various Soulemainis of Iran, please stand on your balconies to have a smoke.
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  16809. True. They studiously avoid that activity because they know this. In general, btw, conservatives aim to be good, liberals aim to seem good. It's fair to speculate that liberalism caught on as a replacement for religious showing-off after scientific advancement blew holes in the latter's plausibility.
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  16810.  @myfairlady343  So his dad had a good job. So what? As I understand it they had enough but were not rich and Boris was admitted to Eton on a scholarship. God, class resentment is so hideous when it extends to mere hard-working professionals. You'd think Stanley Johnson was a tech billionaire.
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  16811. Kringela.
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  16812. The host was completely right.
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  16813. Imagine if those police officers or some judge owned a property invaded by squatters. I also truly deplore how the owner was put in handcuffs. And why even arrest her? Can't she just be given a piece of paper and be required to appear in court?
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  16814. Wokesters = Gangsters Disgusting true colors. Shame on Harvard and the other elite schools for actively fostering this.
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  16815. The Democratic donors in control. who are the ones who chose her, made a mistake in picking someone who could only get about 2% of the party to support her presidential bid. Breaking news, Democratic donors: Choose someone popular, not unpopular. So I guess I'm saying Good choice!
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  16816. The film attempts to make maximum hay out of the capture of a handful of Canadians, maybe to encourage Germans on the grounds that the Wehrmacht were making short work of a less formidable enemy. In reality the Canadians' landing went as well as that of the Americans and British, and in later weeks and months having to face their advance and onslaught was regarded as particular bad luck. [By outrageous coincidence, just as I finished typing the previous sentence, a formation of four aircraft which were clearly Second World War fighters flew only a thousand or two feet in the sky and barely a mile away, square in the sky out my window, eastwards above the shore of Lake Ontario. And here they are again already, a Remembrance Day week excursion perhaps from the museum in Hamilton. What a sight and sound.]
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  16817. Definitely pseudo-intellectual claptrap. And look at all the semi-literate dullards lapping it up, so thrilled at the way the narrative that "it's all a pack of lies" finally gives them a way to view life as a scam. Then they can fantasize about how their significance in the world has been robbed from them, how they're really victims rather than natural-born losers. They can't even write in their own language, can't so much as use a period or a comma, and they think they can re-interpret history. Kicking myself for wasting half an hour here gawking at a mental train wreck.
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  16818. Being a tankie runs in families.
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  16819. Acolytes of Modi here overlook the flagrant fact that Putin is free to interpret those words as he likes. He will surely claim — with the plausibility which Modi's vagueness affords him — that Modi was insisting that it's time for Ukraine to negotiate a peace (meaning surrender.) Will Modi ever speak unequivocally?🤔
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  16820. Thumbnails should never be from outside the video itself.
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  16821.  @gaoxiaen1  The entire truth of it in only eight words! I wish you the best. (Btw, I hope you know that "@tabitha N" was ridiculing Putin.)
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  16822. He did call Trump vulgar and sounded fairly disparaging. Hardly a ringing endorsement; more like an assessment of him as the cleanest dirty shirt. Btw, Montreal had a worse time of it in the spring than most of the US did. But like almost all Americans you have fuck all clue what goes on in the huge country neighbouring you, and you like it that way. So enjoy your second civll war, putz. It's coming, and may be upon you in mere weeks.
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  16823. They care about destroying the fabric of the entire West. And damaging other Western countries' regard for the US is part of that. That's why. I suggest watching interviews with the KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov. He explained it all marvellously well. (And in perfect English).
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  16824. I think her head swirls with the awareness that she holds a high office despite being quite brainless. That's got to hurt in a way. It's got generate a cognitive dissonance that never leaves her mental foreground for more than a moment or two. And even when it does, it's in the background steering every thought, every action, every feeling. Now and then I do pity her.
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  16825. The D.'s are like Big Tobacco, they only have one move: going after the young. No one starts smoking after 25 and practically no one goes full-on liberal or "progressive" either. They get su cke red in young and remain hooked for years or decades until, much worse off, they come to their senses. (Sometimes never.)
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  16826. "Moral responsibility" is for other people. For Nancy Pelosi it's about a gigantic $24,000 freezer for ice cream in a house with two elderly occupants.
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  16827. Always works for me.
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  16828. They also have the issue of an extremely low murder rate.
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  16829. Ah, so the problem with good people is they're not free of sin.🙄 Very well then: Down with good people!
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  16830.  @davidgriffin8958  Define it yourself. Hint: it has something to do with morality.
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  16831.  @davidgriffin8958  You first. But I won't be around to read it. You're muted. I like my foes worthy.
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  16832. You so devious. :)
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  16833.  @drakehound2244  Ok, ok. No need to drool all over yourself with hatred. There's lots of resentment to go around to all the 'socioeconomic groups'. Poor people are disgusting too, you never noticed? Just make sure the rich are taxed properly (i.e. a lot more than now). And never, ever let any of them get away with paying practically zero, which happens frequently. Two more specific tips, USA: Stop snorting so much monetary powder and go single payer on health care. Presto! inequality begins to shrink.
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  16834. They're not fooling anyone. It's not his mental fitness that bothers them. It never bothered them before. They only care that he's a few points behind in the polls with four months to go. If he were five points out in front they'd be perfectly content.
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  16835. It wouldn't be possible to improve on that. It's time to build a ton more content on the talent that came up with it.
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  16836. Interested in Canada's tariffs on US dairy goods, I see! Well, be aware that Levitt was cherrypicking: under a tri-level USMCA tariff scheme, a quota of US dairy goods enters Canada duty-free, another at a 7.5% tariff, then any more gets a high tariff...and US exporters don't even use their whole duty-free/low-tariff allowance. Btw, the US has its own tri-level tariffs on Canadian goods, enshrined in the "tremendous" USMCA. Pesky facts!
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  16837. Also, btw, they all have fn "baby-mamas" of their own all over the place. And they're super-proud of it.😠💩
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  16838.  @SpringIsBACK  Thanks. I'm in no position to say anything but others might be. I must only read and listen, maybe ask questions. If I was assertive at all, it wasn't proper.
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  16839. Oxford dictionary: "In flight, especially from the police."
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  16840. The police not being armed means there will be a great rise in deaths from (let me see now, what exact word must I use here?).... uh, let's call it externally-originated political violence. It's guaranteed. London especially is a global target, a virtual bullseye.😟
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  16841. What's wrong with people who suddenly about 12 months ago began pronouncing the country's name as YOO-krane instead of how it's always been, yoo-KRANE ? It's mainly middle-aged American men, I notice, and not the ones who strike me as the brightest. (Maybe I should start saying am-er-ICK-en as revenge for this highly irritating usage?)
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  16842. He may be a moron, but his analogy about terrorist attacks was spot on. Before the attacks, the US wasn't afraid enough; after the attacks it was far too afraid and went overboard in its response. Before the pandemic, the US didn't take infectious diseases seriously enough; now it's harming itself with its overreaction. But if your point is that there were no terrorist attacks on 9/11, we have nothing to talk about.
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  16843. Bull**** in every way. Putin is an evil kleptocrat and violent monster. The West is not Hi tler coming to invade Russia, and he knows it, and you know it. He's a corrupt despot out of a comic book, a piece of Petersburg street trash who's stolen hundreds of billions of dollars by being the consummate gangster. But no, to you he's a sweet innocent victim who's only ever tried to be good. Ha! I can't wait till he's in his coffin.
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  16844. Western leaders have to connect the dots for the Russian people. They have to hammer over and over the Nashunnul Soshilast (forgive the spelling, please, but it's well advised) messaging, tactics and strategy of Russia's government. "Final solution" is only one element of it. A ten- or 15-minute speech would be needed to work it all out in a clear and convincing manner. If they all did it, severally and repeatedly over a period of weeks, it would sink in.
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  16845. Well, at least you know she's less evil than Elizabeth Warren or Cher.
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  16846. I'm surprised to see police acting like that in a Westminster-style democracy. Here in Ontario they wouldn't. Six months ago at the peak of the 3rd wave, the provincial govt gave them new legal powers to stop people for no reason and demand they explain why they weren't at home. Dozens of police forces went on Twitter the next day to say they'd be doing no such thing. That was the end of it. There's been no brutality at the protests here, no pepper spraying, etc. If you're from Auz, can you tell me what's with them?
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  16847.  @Wypipo  Oh yeah, everybody's talking about it. Incredible buzz.
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  16848. It doesn't have to be perfect. Every billion dollars it costs Putin is to the good.
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  16849.  @robertadams6606  Ok, I can agree with that. But it puzzles me as a reply to my comment. Should I gather that you disagreed with me? Or the opposite?
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  16850. Oh yes she is! Who's your hero? Xi Jinping? 🤮
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  16851. Pro-Trump veneer, definitely. But who are no-names? Just curious, cheers.
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  16852. Mexico presents some enormous challenges to the US which Canada doesn't. That's what he meant.
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  16853. May I add that another voice of reprobation for Russia's annexation is the usually supportive country of Serbia. Its government expressly refuses to recognize the annexed territories as legitimate parts of Russia. President Vučić came right out and said Serbia cannot support Russia's invasion.
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  16854.  @deathlarsen7502  Ok, champ. What did I say to make you think that?
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  16855.  @monmixer  98% of these so-called "bases" aren't bases. The real bases are in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Greenland and one in Qatar. Other things like tiny radio repeater stations or radar installations, hundreds of them with three or four personnel, very lightly armed and having a chain-link fence around them, are misleadingly called "bases."
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  16856.  @nonicosio  That's so wrong. Ask South Koreans if the US military base there helps them.  They will answer "Yes! How can you even ask? Are you all right? Please, here's a chair."
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  16857.  @amstaylorph  You're right, media mobs are cool. We need a lot more of them and a lot less of people who would ever complain about them. A lot of people would call you extremely bad names but I think you're one of the real heroes.
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  16858. Justin Trudeau [inwardly] as he watches her with a wide-eyed childlike stare: "Wow. She's great. Too bad I can't poach her for my cabinet. Too bad I can't propose to her. Too bad—" [Glumly:] "I'm always so unlucky."
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  16859. Are we sure the person in the foreground isn't a well-off owner of a camel business, or the son of one?
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  16860. He only mocks idiots who attack him. He will pay around $10bn in taxes for 2021. You do a poor job of spotting villains.
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  16861. I bet this is posturing on your part. I bet you think it made a big difference that Trump wasn't re-elected.
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  16862. Sorry, but the Gallup poll really showed only that Democrat voters are against Trump as much as ever. And its most promising finding was the response to an unclear question — did "additional weapons and military supplies" mean "additional" in the sense of continuing or increased? "Yes" respondents might have taken it either way. My take, therefore: Meh. Meanwhile you tell us of an impending large and multi-month offensive by Russia! So overall, not an excellent news day at all.
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  16863. It's dubious whether Iran can be dissuaded from backing Russia as it is doing. A prime reason: Iran depends on Russia for oilfield services. (Yes, despite Russia itself now having weak capabilities in this area due to sanctions.) Thus Iran may or may not have had any enthusiasm for providing drones. It may simply have seen little choice, lest its oil revenues fall even further. Its estimated September production was 2.6m b/d.
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  16864. If EVs don't work in freezing weather why do I see them driving around all winter, including on the coldest days? EVs must be pretty great if people have to make things up to criticize them.
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  16865. @ Battery life has two meanings: How many miles one charge lasts and how many years the battery lasts.
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  16866. He's a putz, that's what this is.
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  16867. This happened because no one ever paid any attention to them — i.e., boys, obviously; but also, nearly as obviously, parents. Well, their futures are bleak. Problems of adjustment like these tend to persist for a long, long time. They'll be lucky to escape serial legal and psychiatric troubles and future ownership of several dozen cats.
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  16868. Bravo, Michael Shellenberger. No one does these talks better. I wish it had been an hour.
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  16869. I think that if the Fed were actually "panicking" already, as our guest claims, Powell wouldn't have waited to cut until September. So, No, his claim is wrong.
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  16870.  @kwektans  👏 Mind you, the thread is on Russian products you use. Do you really 'use' gopniks, Russian drunks or farm equipment? 😄
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  16871.    What? No, Germany is far behind the US per capita. Deaths per million 120 vs. 570 in the US. Cases per million 2,900 versus 18,900. Source: worldometers.info
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  16872.    No, the Netherlands is not worse for deaths per capita. Deaths per million 364 vs. 570 in the US. Source: worldometers.info
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  16873. Is that legal, pretending to be a 13-year-old online? And Why even do that? is the real question.
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  16874. Rumor has it he's related to Andrea Dworkin. 😄
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  16875. On Ukraine, DeSantis is either (1) deceptively trying to shore up support amongst arch-conservatives who won't tolerate any Republican co-operation with Biden policies, and some of whom want Putin left alone, or (2) showing he doesn't understand the world nor how to protect America's long-term prosperity and security. I hope it's (1).
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  16876.  @markam306  In my experience they appreciate boundaries. Chiefly, I would think, because boundaries reduce the temptations which many people experience as a hassle. Of course rules get broken, but that's a separate matter we'll have unto eternity. No one ever claimed rules solve 100% of problems. If they did, we'd demand to know why the prisons aren't empty.
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  16877. @ In my experience they appreciate boundaries. Chiefly, I would think, because boundaries reduce the temptations which many people experience as a hassle. Of course rules get broken, but that's a separate matter we'll have unto eternity. No one ever claimed rules solve 100% of problems. If they did, we'd demand to know why the prisons aren't empty.
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  16878. It says so in the description.
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  16879. Yes. Its collapse will mean the end of human rights in at least four-fifths of the world, probably more.
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  16880.  @sfdoctorp  Thank you for your beautiful reply, which I read with interest. In it I did not find one word to disagree with.
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  16881. Rooting the Nazis out of Holland in 1944-45 resulted in many Dutch civilian casualties too. But the people of the Netherlands did not consider them as "atrocities." In fact they greeted the Canadians and the British as the liberators they were, with flowers, tears and open arms. And they laud them with profound gratitude as heroes, to this very day! Response?🤨
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  16882. @Bill67J Congratulations, admitting it is an all-important step. Now just summon the will and escape it. Good luck!
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  16883. @Bill67J I embrace reality. You've heard of it of course?
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  16884.  @kingsleyphillip6793  Thank you. When the bawghts pile on with empty retorts like that, I take such flailing responses as the sincerest compliments they're capable of. Sincerity being their kryptonite, I am of course deeply honoured. 😂
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  16885. I don't know. They could pass laws against celebrations and have police strictly enforce therm. A squad of police officers pepper-sprayed a little girl in the face outside a shopping plaza for not having a mask on two years ago, so why not?
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  16886.  @MrNetAble  I watched the video. She was with her mother and sister. There were four or more police officers.
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  16887. Nice, but this was just a single little one-off...20 months ago. Nothing since. And just try making the same sort of points in the Times comments. It's the same as it's been since I started subscribing six years ago: they won't publish them 98% of the time. Meanwhile one wades chest-deep in self-congratulatory reader swipes at conservatives. (Oh, and there's an Elon Musk hit piece every other day since he gave the Dems the finger.)
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  16888.  @martinbaylis5361  Your theory is contradicted by the fact that both pipelines were already turned off. The gas leaking at present is simply the pipeline itself emptying out. (Although I'm guessing there are shut-offs somewhere between Swedish waters and the Russian coast, so that it won't be the entire length emptying out.)
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  16889.  @mikelynch-zeroviewz2507  Agreed. I think Russia will false-flag this by sending out massive waves of propaganda blaming the US. It's even already here in these comments.
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  16890.  @larrymayfield6118  No, it isn't my 'metric.' What are you, hard of reading? Wait, don't answer. From the fact that you don't know the difference between 'then' and 'than', I can see you are.
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  16891.  @larrymayfield6118  Nah, that wasn't "my metric" at all. I was suggesting it wasn't that at all. Oi, are you hard of reading?
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  16892. When we meet the older men, all I can think of is Peter Sellers as Willium "Mate" Cobblers on The Goon Show: e.g. "I come from Clapham South, mate." (Or: [Cobblers:], "My bread and butter." [Judge:] "What about your bread and butter?" [Cobblers:] "I cleans the windows with it.")
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  16893.  @littleme3597  I still have a Dislike button both for videos and for comments and replies. There's just no numerical count of Dislikes anymore, just of Likes. You see no Dislike button at all?
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  16894.  @aceventura4974  Your Dislike buttons are gone?
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  16895. Says he has no interest in being employed. Is wearing a coat that costs pretty close to $2,000.😂
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  16896. Down the stairs.
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  16897. Notice that there's one institution the media never condemn, never criticize, never investigate, never scrutinize at all: themselves. Only the press never gets bad press.
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  16898.  @welcometruthseekers  Rate of intentional homicides per 100,000: Lesotho: 43.6 — rank 3; in Africa: 1 Russia: 7.3 — rank in Europe: 1 France: 1.3 UK: 1.1 Germany: 0.8 Italy: 0.5
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  16899.  @welcometruthseekers  Please don't kill me!😦😦😧😧😰😰😭😭😱
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  16900.  @justinwhittle6163  I'm not Carlson's disciple and I don't vouch for the accuracy of everything he says. Neither do I lick anyone's boots, but if I did it would still be better than what you lick.
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  16901. I'm curious how the NY Post knows that this is a fighter and not a bomber.
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  16902. A case of HPD, I suspect, which is about an irresistible propensity for dramatics. Possible FASD, if one is to judge by philtrum width and flatness, as well as her conduct. She really does mean well, in my view, and that makes her actions on the whole pitiable. But more importantly, an ill-regulated temperament is unfitting in a senator.
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  16903. "Toronto Public Health put out a video" about this? Are you serious? You mean the Toronto Humane Society. You do a story on something that isn't even a story, and then you blunder like that... And look at the video title, also botched: "Attached with note" should be "with note attached." How appalling that people who write for a living cannot write. Hire some competent and qualified people.
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  16904. Sort of. "For the third straight year, the nine-county Bay Area lost population from July 2021 to July 2022, bringing the total population down to 7.56 million, a loss of over 200,000 people since the pandemic began." —"Bay Watch—2022 Population Trends", Bay Area Council Economic Institute, Jan. 27, 2023 So the GH is 1/3 more populous. Also, while Toronto winters are far colder than SF, Toronto summers are far hotter.
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  16905. North Korea came up with homegrown nuclear weapons. If such a poor and backward country could do it, surely the country so technologically advanced that it produces the majority of the world's computer chips could do likewise. But absolute secrecy would be necessary until the weapons were ready, or the PRC would surely declare war.
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  16906. Please. Don't say 'ek cetera'. Just don't.
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  16907. 👍These summaries are useful in case I miss uploads during the week. I usually see them all, but not always. This week I had missed the bad news on Taurus. Germany, you dropped the ball. But I suppose it's possible the decision will be reversed in time.
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  16908. This is a strangely unaddressed question. To me the answer is that they foresaw it quite well but were not afraid of unpopularity, nor afraid if the West made moves to arm Ukraine or to impoverish Russia. They have plans for dealing with all that, which involve the withstanding of self-inflicted pain for the sake of eventual victory—victory not necessarily in Ukraine, but in the world. I allude here to the China-Russia alliance, which everyone is avoiding talking about. In my view it explains everything that is happening, everything that is making people scratch their heads in confusion. Russia and China, I fear, have agreed to each start a war in their respective regions and to draw the West into them. They intend also to win them, and thereby to start winning the world whether sooner or later. China at this point would be waiting for a gusher of NATO resources to be definitely committed to eastern Europe before making its move. It expects to soon start receiving reliable shipments of Ukrainian wheat and other grains, a supply which will obviate the need for the Western imports on which it currently relies for putting pork and chicken on Chinese tables. The matter is not simple, but food insecurity is a major factor holding China back from invading Taiwan. An attack would definitely mean the end of Western grain and soybeans except possibly from Brazil. The overall aim would be to strain the West to the breaking point, probably by forcing it to spend immensely on arming itself, as well as by spawning proxy wars in numerous countries. (Recall that outspending the USSR in an arms race is commonly regarded as the way the West indirectly brought about its collapse.) Their long-term aim is less to defeat the West's armed forces head-on than to spread them thinly, and above all to use any means to weaken the West financially, socially and diplomatically, at every step of the way making it thus easier to draw other countries into a China-Russia-led sphere, to be expanded as quickly as possible. Russia as the very junior partner in the alliance with China would finally be free to move back into eastern Europe and indulge in irredentism and revanchism. The rest of Europe, according to this vision, would be so afraid of Russia that it could be dominated permanently. If all or parts of Western Europe decided to make war on Russia (with or without the US) they would have the whole China-Russia-sphere to deal with. (It probably has just Serbia, Iran, Syria and North Korea as auxiliary members at present. Pakistan perhaps. Many others are watching and saying little, not wanting to commit themselves either way before getting a better idea of how things will play out.) Instead of looking at it this way, people are calling Putin irrational. No, he's not irrational at all. He's got China solidly backing him up. You or others may think his plans are falling apart, but I don't know. Perhaps, or perhaps they're going almost exactly to plan. A quick victory over Ukraine would have afforded little opportunity for the West to rack up costs by the tens or hundreds of billions as it has done already (in military expenses, but also including its higher bill for energy and significantly higher inflation, all of which undermine the dollar). Little old me seems to be the only one talking about this, which is mad.  I think it's because people find the thought so disturbing that it calms them to see it as far-fetched.
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  16909. Why not both? Seriously. Even if we stopped all our own nonsense on a dime starting tomorrow morning, we would still be under attack. See World, history of.
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  16910. Ok man, just don't do anything crazy.
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  16911.  @amalaljohari9358  Well, tbh you still sound dangerous a f.
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  16912. The mention of "the referendum" confuses me. When was this video recorded?
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  16913. Hipsters assume everyone else is a moron. It's what they all tell each other when they get together at hipster gatherings.
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  16914. "Insanity is quite rare in individuals but it is the norm in crowds"—Friedrich Nietzsche (might not be the greatest paraphrase but you get the idea)
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  16915. Let them eat each other alive.
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  16916. @ I didn't say tariffs only harm the importing nation. I said tariffs are paid in the importing nation and I was 100% right, not half-right.
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  16917.  @xcalibur1986  I believe the Canadian oil sector's reliance on US investment capital is lower than you suppose. Foreign investment has fallen by a lot over the past 20 years. The sector generally now funds itself and Canadian ownership has risen greatly compared to a couple of generations ago. It's a disappearance of US demand which would be of great concern.
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  16918.  @xcalibur1986  Since Kinder Morgan threw up its hands and sold the pipeline project — to the federal government, as there were no other takers! — your reply hints nicely at the role the govt. played in driving out foreign money simply by worsening the investment climate via regulation. I think we can agree the whole government-industry situation is a mess, or at least could be far better.
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  16919. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  16920.  @royj8549  Correct description of the system, but it doesn't apply. The NDP could be part of the government had Trudeau invited them, but he didn't have to, so he didn't. They are an opposition party; the Liberals rule with no coalition partner.
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  16921. There's millions more like you with the same or similar experiences. Let's hope there's 10 or 20 million.
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  16922.  @MikeMan-q4v  Very well, 'direct connection' if you like. Name all the malls on subway lines lacking access tunnels right into them.
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  16923. That's bad news. Chomsky is unbalanced.
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  16924.  @harrypalmer3481  Phew! Good to hear.
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  16925. It's Fentanyl, not Fentanol.
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  16926. Russians talking about the need to do battle with Nazism in Ukraine remind me of the New York Times with all its articles claiming that US right-wingers are ready to destroy democracy and set up a religious fascist state.
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  16927.  @makoravii8618  You sound like you have a high fever. I would get that checked out.
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  16928. Each succeeding president is a worse embarrassment than people 25 years earlier could have imagined. Coming by mid-century: The last president ever.
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  16929.  @deebingham5338  False. It is simply diluted with a small amount of very light crude or other light refined petroleum liquid ('condensate'), both of which are long proven to be right at home being moved by pipeline, and then moves at the same temperature as ordinary crude. Look at this research from the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Academy of Sciences: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews290sr311.pdf In future, please try not to make things up.
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  16930.  @dannovak3886  Even nearly all who oppose climate alarmism and activism don't dispute that the Earth is warming. You didn't know that? What they oppose is the view that humans are causing it.
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  16931. It was an accident, a very stupid and inept accident, wherein a man holding a respected office (Anthony Rota) blindsided everyone with his incompetent attempt to make a contribution to the event in the chamber where he presides. Indian journalists and hotheaded, jingoistic nationalists in the current internet mob should come clean about the truth of the matter, calm down, and just breathe.
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  16932. Harvard and Berkeley send their warmest approval.
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  16933. Please always downvote posts with soft-po avatars, advertising 'adult' content. Every downvote sends them a little closer to the bottom, where they'll languish unnoticed. (On an unrelated note, please always upvote my posts. Every upvote sends them a little closer to the top where they'll be noticed more.😆)
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  16934. The left/wokesters/'progressives': "The West sucks!" Everybody else: "Just the left/woke/'progressive' part."
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  16935.  @briangbur8743  They mean the same thing.
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  16936. I'd be careful of conflating those two things. Covering up is very bad. But atoning for guilt certainly is not. It's the best thing you can possibly do.
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  16937.  @BTinSF  Maybe the young are about to bear the brunt of the casualties as the war intensifies. Maybe the older men predominated at first in order to build (at scale) a core of experience and competence.
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  16938.  @qksf1645  That goes without saying. But he said Ukrainian fighters are legendary, not Ukrainian-made weaponry and wealth.
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  16939. Ah, you speak accurately about SkyNews in the UK. Well put!
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  16940.  @swirlingvortex2022  Oh yes, British Sky most certainly does cleave to the billionaires' script. On that other matter you raise, you doth protest too much, methinks.
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  16941.  @swirlingvortex2022  I realize there's little to no political opposition. I realize the approval ratings are high. I realize the elections fell on time. That why I wrote "No excuse, Australia. No alibi. You're several eucalyptus leaves short of a koala's breakfast." So sure, spread the blame around.
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  16942.  @swirlingvortex2022  Yeah, you do seem very learned, the way you put words in my mouth, make assumptions, and toss personal insults. Intellectuals are bright that way. Btw, just so I know, what's my backyard?
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  16943. Every activity in the world involves money. Internet prop a Ganda is making money. But of course you knew that...didn't you, Farshad?😂
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  16944. DEI is systemic racism.
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  16945. Hey China, a defensive alliance isn't something that "targets" anybody — any more than a tall fence "targets" intruders, trespassers and wild animals. So don't get your knickers in a knot. Nobody trusts you, that's all....deal with it.
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  16946. Legit pro-Putin crank.
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  16947.  @lukerichardson2404  I'm glad you find it embarrassing, because it's Kennedy's own narrative and I find it embarrassing myself. He is in total agreement with Putin.
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  16948.  @lukerichardson2404  Omg, he said Putin's invasion was the fault of the US and NATO, parroting Putin. If he says it's the fault of the US and NATO, and also what you claim, then he simply blames everyone, which is preposterous. He's just a crank who enjoys taking his shirt off in public. Something's wrong with him. He reminds me of Trudeau, another son of a famous politician who accomplished little to nothing in his own life, and then after all that time waltzes in out of nowhere and wants to be the national leader. Trudeau has been a great disaster for Canada. Beware such privileged, unaccomplished offspring with entitlement delusions. Having said that, most of his supporters are Democrats, so I wish him the best! Let him come in 2nd!
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  16949.  @lukerichardson2404  My brief, polite, non-incendiary and perhaps even bland reply to you is not being allowed. Edit: Maybe this edit will make it through: He agrees that the US and NATO are to blame for the war. He agrees with all Pn. says about the causes of the war. In my view something's not right with him. (Why does he remove his shirt in front of others on very little pretext?) Like the Canadian prime minister, he is the son of a famous politician. In contrast to their respective fathers, they led lives without any significant accomplishments for some decades, and then appeared on the national scene asking to be put in the nation's top job. (In the case of Canada, the results have been disastrous to say the least; so bad that strong approval of his job performance currently stands at 6% of Canadians.) To me both cases smack of ego maladjustment and a towering sense of entitlement which at the very least border on pathology.
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  16950.  @tinamisner1322  It is correct. I watched in disgust and dismay as he said it all himself. He's a crank.
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  16951.  @tinamisner1322  Very well. I didn't hear what I heard him say, as I watched hm say it. Now go. And do not come back.
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  16952.  @tinamisner1322  Thanks for the harassment and forcing me to mute your account. I thought women were supposed to understand the matter of consent. [middle finger]
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  16953. "Austria wasn't a real country anyway." 😂 Hahaha, actually no, of course I'm just milking it.😄
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  16954. Her arguments are of poor enough quality that she wouldn't accept them if they were supported by 'the right'.
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  16955. Brilliant little protest. They should prolong it. But why not expel those Iranians anyway? Who wants diplomatic relations with that awful country? The embassy staff are just eating food, using electricity and burning gasoline in a country that's short of those things. They're probably spying for Russia as well. Send them the hell home. UPDATE 3 hrs. later—New SUN video: "Ukraine moves to cut diplomatic ties with Iran over supplies of suicide drones to Russia" 👏👏 Good on you, Ukraine!
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  16956. "He's being held on $2 million bail." What does that even mean? If you're being held, you're haven't made bail. If you're on bail, you're not being held. Should be "He's being held pending $2 million bail."
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  16957.  @airborne63  The countries of Europe are vastly more different in those regards, and so are most pairs of countries anywhere in the world which one might choose to compare. Don't be so parochial.
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  16958.  @airborne63  Equally a proud Canadian, with roots in Canada going back to 1620, thank you very much. The difference is that my pride is not kept aloft by making more of distinctions between us and Americans than is justified, like some people do. Pride that is real, not puffed-up.
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  16959. I'd put it another way: you can somehow see at once that they have the real self-respect.
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  16960.  @BeeOnASunflower853  The fire chief said the runway was "dry" and it appeared bare with a bit of blowing snow.
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  16961. @ This statement is not entirely accurate. While blowing snow can contribute to hazardous runway conditions, it does not directly cause black ice formation in seconds on a dry runway. The World Meteorological Organization definitions of black ice are: "(1) A popular alternative for the term glaze. A thin sheet of ice, relatively dark in appearance, may form when light rain or drizzle falls on a road surface that is at a temperature below freezing point or, alternatively, when water already on the road surface subsequently freezes when its temperature falls below freezing point. It may also be formed when supercooled fog droplets are intercepted by buildings, fences, and vegetation. (2) Thin, new ice on freshwater or saltwater, appearing dark in color because of its transparency, a result of its columnar grain structure." Blowing snow alone on a dry runway would not create the necessary conditions for black ice formation. For ice to form, there needs to be a source of moisture and the right temperature conditions. The temperature at the time was around -9C (16F).
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  16962.  @BeeOnASunflower853  No, congrats on your powers of imagination.
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  16963.  @MinkieWinkle  Or maybe "Oh man, the was some feast last night. I gotta go take a huge NDT." No, that's mean. I'm not saying that one.
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  16964. Does even one cup of coffee in 10,000 sell for $10? I think the hipster who said it merely heard of that price and repeated it either to overdramatize inflation or to brag about what kind of money she throws around.
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  16965.  @rickyayy  What's going on? I just paid 38 cents. (It's a weekly special, but still.) How are things in Antarctica otherwise?
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  16966.  @ModeBrioude  I think you mean yourself, ti foo?
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  16967. Then who will get it?
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  16968. About two days ago? No, he said stop whining about it and buy inflation-resistant stocks. Big difference.
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  16969. I hope Ukraine can spare some military resources from across the country for the eastern regions now. I don't want to see Russia fully entrenched so that any territory is permanently lost. But maybe that would be a trap; maybe Russia has advantages in facing Ukrainian forces there. Weaponry and intelligence gathering will be the keys for Ukraine.
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  16970. * accepting 🤬
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  16971. A 30-minute interview should be separated into tracks which have names. I'm here in the 12th minute and have zero idea what the remaining 19 are about. TTFN
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  16972. That's a brilliant point because of course, as we all know, Britain has never been at war.🙄
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  16973.  @glovesforsocks4603  It was a province of the Ottoman Empire. 'Nation' is a much weaker term than 'state.' Places like Scotland, Wales and Quebec call themselves nations or even countries, yet they are actually merely parts of countries. They are not states.
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  16974. Let's not forget, btw, that therapists and psychiatrists frequently suffer from maladies and profound damage themselves, and treat their patients cavalierly, summarily and even with hostility. They also commit grave errors in professional judgment, often due to an opinion of themselves which is too generous. Some just aren't clever enough. This is more a reaction to the remarks down below than to the video itself.
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  16975. Great sarcasm! Ridicule is the way. I noticed Milley's left eye twitches when he lies, proving there's a conscience inside him somewhere, wildly signalling to be let out.
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  16976.  @elit6981  Love your comments: 3-for-3, 10 total bases and a couple of nice put-outs, if you get the baseball analogy. (Hey, it's October.) Chill in the dugout, we'll send in a pinch runner for you.
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  16977. ​ @jamesthomaspaulJTP  True enough ("Moaning that," etc.), but what you say, though not targeted expressly, does seem aimed in some particular direction. Whom did you have in mind?
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  16978.  @ricardoxavier827  Stop spamming the same comment in every thread.
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  16979.  @athopi  Ok, dim sum chicken foot.
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  16980. Finally someone who gets it right. Those trying to shame Canadians here are revealing their agenda. Obviously the prime minister's office was totally incompetent.
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  16981. Cool. 👍 Just don't be anyone's disciple.
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  16982. "[...] any election he uses [...]" ? Nah, that was a typo. He clearly meant any election he loses. Dear Ben: Even a great writer needs to be proofread by somebody.
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  16983.  @simonr-vp4if  You didn't realize anything. You only internalized false teaching. If only 8% of firefighters are women, that is not tantamount to the starvation of women. Your inflamed rhetoric of mere analogizing amounts to rampant and inexcusable category inflation, like an adolescent likening her wise parents to Nat's Ease. ("You're the worst parents ever!") You're forgetting, in your show-off self-flagellating recollection of youth, that 9 out of 10 people (if not 19 out of 20) were all eating well at the same cluster of tables in a warm and convivial dining hall. Thanks to the vision you've bought unthinkingly off the shelf like consumer packaged goods, they've now been taught that they're enemies, that they should be snatching at the food on each other's plates, that they should clutch their knives in readiness. And all too many of them have taken that teaching to heart, utterly ruining the charm which formerly belonged to dining together as one. As a vision it's an extremely backwards-moving embrace — no, a celebration — of baseless resentment, baseless division and baseless conflict, under a false mantle of Utopianism. Check, please!
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  16984.  @magnus08f250  Avoid talking to metronomes (except if on occasion it's really just to help you find out what you think).
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  16985. Obviously not this time. The staff involved must be fired at once.
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  16986. False narrative. Sad!
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  16987. "Hyperroof"? You sound like you're on hyperroofies right now.
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  16988. Feb 4. See the description.
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  16989.  @kimjongun7101  Putin is hiding amongst the civilians of Moscow.
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  16990. NATO has enough stuff to leave a steaming hole where Russia was.
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  16991. That's fine, though. I thought she should actually go younger, like 80s or 90s Madonna. And maybe with him as his younger self when a priest. But whatever. That's just me freestyling as a make-believe or amateur art and culture critic. I don't like Madonna and she shouldn't have done this.
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  16992. Hong Kongers are very bright people. They oppose Beijing for good reason. Let us oppose Beijing, too---now, before it becomes more difficult.
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  16993. I'm still waiting patiently for them to come for the communists and socialists.
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  16994. Lock up your gerbils.
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  16995. The school board member who cut her off, shouted her down, stole her time and defended kids' access to those books should be named. Let her identity be widely publicized.
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  16996.  @Randy778  Consider the fact that she considered the material inappropriate enough to stop it being quoted because children were present. If you think I'm a psycho merely for wanting people to know who she is, you plainly have no respect for open discussion. Check your own mental health, and examine your values at the same time. The two are linked.
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  16997. She badly wants to be prime minister, I perceived. For stretches she went on just as in a speech by a politician. And she was pure toff when patronizing Zelenskyy as an "everyman". It amounted to: "Amazing how this little nobody from nowhere near London is actually making a name for himself. Good on him!   Once in a while I quite like the lower classes, really. We should get him some good clothes."
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  16998. Based is a dumb new word from the dumbest regions of youth society. We've always had better words of approval. New words for new things only, please.
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  16999. The FT appraisal wasn't very far off. Yes, it's inherently inaccurate to compare European spending at nominal exchange rates to Russian spending at purchasing-power-parity rates. But it's only inaccurate up to a point: the rouble's purchasing power is about 200% (3x) more than the nominal rate implies, while the Euro's is only 15-25% more.
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  17000. Pffft! In a few years Japan invaded millions of square miles of other sovereign countries. Israel in its 75 years has seized tiny, tiny areas of land, and only after coming under armed attack from them. The whole of Israel is about 50 by 150 miles!
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  17001. But is even more dorky (while having a weak understanding what dorky is) and even less funny.
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  17002.  @user-tm8jt2py3d  "Fi nal sol uti on [...] We're coming to get you" sounds like it must break at least one law. I feel certain that a person of European descent would be arrested for saying things of that sort if directed at people of another skin colour. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  17003.  @user-tm8jt2py3d  Anyone who watched could hardly miss that. You didn't watch, or at least didn't listen. Which is fine. No big deal.
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  17004. What are they?
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  17005.  @purplespeckledappleeater8738  There's nothing "radical" about it. Anyone who is in any country unlawfully should be deported. It doesn't matter if it's 100 people or 10 million. The only thing radical is the number who've been allowed in.
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  17006. ​ @vladnovikov4483  <--- "[U]se you head and think. Once you sober up." Well, well, well, if Mr. Civility doesn't strike again! Mr. Butter Wouldn't Melt in His Mouth, who dresses down those who disagree with him (yesterday: "You just can't take a stand in a respectful way, can you? That's sad, but it's up to you to try to be a better person.")😂 but who transforms in an instant into Mr. Trump-esque, returning mild dismissiveness with guns blazing. 👏[very]👏[slow]👏[clapping]
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  17007. Garbage scaremongering. This is why corporate media is held in such low regard.
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  17008. Thanks, Dr. Science.
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  17009.  @franciscoriverarojas4936  You hategirls aren't funny at all, because idiocy and hyperpartisanship are scary, not hilarious. Never mind mere financing—the Saudis own hundreds of billions of dollars of US strategic assets including agricultural land, prime metropolitan real estate, the largest refinery in the US (in Port Arthur, TX), large shareholdings in the most important companies and 12-figure Treasury holdings. They poured $90bn into Silicon Valley through one investment firm alone (SoftBank). And one can't just count the visible and declared part, or the sovereign wealth fund portion. Much more is owned via Caribbean tax havens, Swiss-registered corporations, Luxembourg, etc. It might be in the trillions, and you're talking about a single financing deal (not a purchase, a loan) which amounts to lunch money by comparison—and it didn't even happen.
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  17010.  @franciscoriverarojas4936  You're profoundly confused. Something must be wrong with your reading comprehension in English. Perhaps you're using Google Translate and it's doing a bad job for you. My line of argument had to do with the poster's complaint that Musk would have done something dangerous for the US by inviting Saudi participation in the takeover funding, but the US is already chest-deep in Saudi investment. Anyway, the $13bn (which I repeat was not a deal that came to fruition) was to be a mere loan, easily repayable by Musk. He's worth many times that. As for my punctuation, why don't you just try to point out a single flaw? I'd like to see you do that.😄
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  17011.  @franciscoriverarojas4936  An ant understands more than you. (My apologies to ants.)
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  17012. Fittingly, one of the gas giants.
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  17013. May everyone who cheerleads for Russia's barbarous crimes spend eternity in the arms of his deity. The one with the horns.
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  17014. Is there no way the senior police commanders can be held to account? One or more of them ought to lose their jobs or be at least suspended.   How about noisy protests outside headquarters for ten straight days? That ought to get their attention, and that of the media.
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  17015. Suggest to us why they shouldn't.
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  17016. I don't think there is any country on Earth more poison than Russia.
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  17017.  @matchpoint14  Yeah, sounds reasonable and I won't disagree. But although it might've been a tug-of-war until mere weeks ago, all the talk now makes it look more like an 80-20 rout than a 50-50 struggle. Hard to say. And in the top inner party circles (the ones in the UK are called "the men in the dark suits") it might've been quite a different story. It may very well have been 90-10 for many months now, but they just had to wait till we got closer to the convention until it was time to act. Thanks for your reply.
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  17018.  @simonpaul2453   Unsure what that means (although I'm interested in what shrooms may have to offer us in the way of wholesome benefits.) I do realize there was a lengthy list of parties who wanted to see the end of him and a much shorter list of those prepared to actually make a move. Who knows for sure who in the end elbowed their way to the front of the line, but I regard as the likeliest candidate a semi-desperate semi-lunatic rather than rational power-grabbers.
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  17019.  @simonpaul2453  Btw, does my comment of a 3-4 hours ago show when you sort for Newest First? It starts with "In five or ten years" etc. I'm curious if they're deleting my stuff or not.
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  17020. They will, when the time is right. A lot of preparation is being done in advance.
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  17021. I can't tell you. It's too soon to gouge.
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  17022. Oh great, experts. Those people who are so seldom wrong.
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  17023. Because the video will be removed.
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  17024. Her campaign strategy in full detail: Allow press to handle the whole thing. Worked for Biden last time. Don't mess with success.
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  17025. I do not think the reader of English will know what is meant by the colon (:) as a symbol to indicate pronunciation.
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  17026. There's absolutely nothing 'un-Canadian' about being Jewish or attending a Jewish school, and calling for Jews to leave Canada is an abominable suggestion. Obvious hate speech. Thanks for showing us your true colours, Mrs. Goebbels.😠
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  17027. Same thing in academia. How are dumb people supposed to have stellar academic careers if universities demand all professors be smart? That would be social injustice.
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  17028.  @RIbigDave  The dry ambiguity is most of what makes it funny, imo.
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  17029. How interesting.
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  17030. Combined — and they sort of are combined — the media & big so sh all media are the leading power in the country. To me it feels like if their rise just keeps going another five or ten years, the US will be on its way to becoming a de facto one-party state under their control.
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  17031.  @duartesimoes508  I notice @knobjockey76 made a very astute reply to you. Do not fail to heed his correct observation that "Sometimes they would wait years before arresting them." Inaction on their part could end at any moment. One cannot tell when.
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  17032. Seems to me there's a real chance someone else was driving the car initially. Say, her male companion who had serious arrest warrants or a long record. By fleeing the stop he would've had the chance to persuade her to let him hop out, take the beef instead of him, and, by leading the cops on a further chase, buy him time to run/walk away to safety. He might have told her that it would be, say, ten years for him, but zero jail for her. To me, her zero-defiance dejection afterwards is a sign.
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  17033.  @crazyduck1254  He's an old retired fool from small-town Canada who moved to China a few years ago. Uneducated moron and dupe.
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  17034.  @danfield6030  What on earth are you talking about? Why should I know that? Either is plausible.
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  17035.  @baronbrummbar8691  Nope. It happened multiple times in the very early days of an Emperor's reign.
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  17036.  @kilgoretrout4350  An anti-Marxist like Kurt Vonnegut would puke at your appropriation of his character's name. Disgustedly yours, Harrison Bergeron
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  17037.  @jab376  Calling Carlson a right-wing extremist is as callow as it gets. He fully qualifies as a mainstream, centre-right, rich-middle-class American. As he not long ago on this channel registered mild approval of "worthwhile government social programs" in places like Denmark, I would say he's to the left of your typical Reaganite or present-day Republican. I'd suggest you grow up, but that's asking a lot. How about you just read to be surprised instead of to have your store-bought packaged-goods prejudices confirmed?
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  17038.  reignman2112  Ha! Love your take-no-prisoners vibe. He is indeed a callow punk. Here's one I use from time to time, use it yourself if you like: "I was in Baghdad when you were in your dad's bag." (The drawback using it in your country is it sounds like maybe you don't think the Iraq war was a blunder at best.)
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  17039.  @kilgoretrout4350  Ok, I know nothing. You know it all. Your opinions are facts. But then, you knew that, because you know it all. It's because you're such a fine person. But then, you knew that, too. Why am I even telling you stuff you already knew?
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  17040.  @jab376  You're a loudmouth fool. Get some counselling. Better yet an extension cord.
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  17041. ​ @redstrike64  I thought the Heritage Foundation wrote it. I know of no prominent Washington Republican pushing for its adoption as a platform, only ones who want nothing officially to do with it. Probably many would be willing to discuss it informally as something that's out there, but not with a view to endorse it or push for it. Only you guys and the Heritage Foundation itself regard it as important. So why not go over to their social media accounts and get into it with them?
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  17042.  @redstrike64  I thought the Heritage Foundation wrote it. I know of no prominent Washington Republican pushing for its adoption as a platform, only ones who want nothing officially to do with it. Probably many would be willing to discuss it informally as something that's out there, but not with a view to endorse it or push for it. Only you guys and the Heritage Foundation itself regard it as important. So why not go over to their SM accounts/channels and get into it with them?
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  17043.  @sophiadaly4712  Lax enunciation may be a bit intentional, to avoid sounding hoity-toity or prissy. Also results from high speed, which helps fend off interruptions. Decent enough guy, though.
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  17044. Versions of those are going to be on helicopters and the larger loitering drones pretty soon, I would imagine
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  17045.  @PhilipEason  Note that I said "versions." Did you miss where the narrator said "this mini-laser" while showing a compact model? And by "larger loitering drones" I meant big things the size of Predators.
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  17046. 👍As an aside I want to commend Poilievre on his style makeover. Shows he can take advice, I would imagine. Also great that he doesn't sound like a 14-yr-old girl, like someone else who shall remain unnamed.
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  17047. Thanks to the far-left doctrines polluting education faculties as well as teachers' unions, our children are never taught about this stuff in school.
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  17048. ​ @stevenperdue996  I read your reply to Anthony. How are these little shacks better than tents? They are not. Their purpose is to make YOU and other non-homeless people feel better. They are highly effective for that, to judge by your comments and those of other sentimentalists like you here. You know nothing about homelessness or being homeless, I can tell. I can also tell your mind: you live solely to luxuriate in your emotions and you don't care if you earn those emotions either. You are a very dangerous person. You're what's wrong with the United States. Nearly all its worst problems were caused or worsened by people of precisely your character. As your numbers grow, your country flounders. And you tell someone who disagrees with you to go away, like you own this space! Now that's arrogance with a capital A. (I also notice you didn't even check your comment before posting it. No surprise there.)
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  17049.  @nohandler1493  Keep it up, Pooty-bot. Your activities only help keep the West united behind Ukraine. Keep it up and soon Austria, Switzerland and Ireland will join NATO too. Plus Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan...
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  17050.  @WhitneyDahlin  "It is [...] a fantasy world where [...] the majority of people on the street wouldn't watch you get into a car accident and then film it instead of help[ing] you." What? No, madam. That's no world of fantasy or privilege, it's real life. I'm sorry for whatever it was you've gone through which has led to a spectacularly unrealistic outlook on life, but it wasn't normal. Take comfort in that, please, and let the law of averages put those experiences behind you. It appears that at some point, unbeknownst to yourself, you started generating your own bad outcomes — as a result of flawed strategies adopted for understandable reasons. This is vastly more likely than a lifelong run of ill luck.
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  17051.  @johnwolf2829  That view of Anne Frank's is solidly grounded in reality. If she were wrong, profound misery would reign everywhere, for it takes a high average rate of decency to maintain a world that's anywhere near bearable. The explanatory mechanism, in my view, is that nearly everyone has a need to see themselves as good, and this leads to salutary urges and actions. It leads, in other words, to the prevalence of common decency — a thing which, while never absolutely victorious, clearly does maintain the upper hand.
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  17052.  @thejackanapes5866  (1) QED (2) Touched a nerve, eh?
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  17053. It was noticed by civilians before it was in the news.
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  17054.  @destructorzz7197  It's the algorithm—it suppresses The BB account. It's rigged like Twitter.
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  17055. I can't handle how this presenter waves her hands incessantly and pronounces her vowels in ways dreamt up very recently. (I know no one cares, but it helps me to say so.) TTFN, hipster lady.
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  17056.  @HansJakobGrimmelshausen  Ok Medvedev. Pour yourself another glass of venom. ☠
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  17057. Delirious talk like that is sometimes the result of fever. I would get that checked out.
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  17058. Thousands of years of exploring what truth and morals are all about finally bring us to the point where a big fat sod like Piers Morgan introduces us to the concepts of 'bragapologize' and 'rightwrong'.
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  17059. Transitioning...detransitioning... Wow, how many times can an unstable person change their mind? Coming soon: rueful detransitioners turn to retransitioning.
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  17060. Q: "Have you ever seen a giant clam before?" A: "Yes, once."
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  17061.  @AnnabellaRedwood  And twisted. It's mental illness, that's all.
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  17062. Oh, but they will, and we needn't wait long. They have to keep upping the ante lest people stop paying attention.
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  17063. Marx had the grasp of human nature, the psychological acumen, the emotional intelligence...of an Asperger's case, and a serious one at that. To many it's obvious at once; to others ---- his followers and disciples, sympathizers and dupes ---- it's so perfectly untrue that the opposite is the case: Marx, they will swear passionately, knew all there is to know about people. On that count most people dismiss them, finding their foolishness palpable. Marxism is the natural habitat of people whom other people shy away from. Marxists aren't unpopular because they're Marxists...it's the other way around: unpopular people gravitate towards Marxism. Unlovable and unlikable losers, the creepy, and the unbalanced, all turn towards the far left. Unhappy people are spread around pretty freely, awful people aren't. Marx himself was bitterly quarrelsome in his correspondence, his debates, and his journalism. ne often hears choice ordinary say continuous say the closer worse some any people find it. Edit: ... YT is cutting off the last couple of sentences of my post. What can I do? Nothing, obviously.
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  17064. That weepy kid who can't stand her parents for saying Floyd deserved what he got (if that's what they said) is right. I'm ordinarily with you Tucker, but not on this one. At some point in the arrest that cop crossed the line separating tough from genuinely brutal. And his fellow officers really should have said and done something some minutes before the guy lost consciousness. It's good of you to stand up for the integrity of families, but parents don't always or automatically deserve full respect or much affection. You should know that if you don't.
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  17065.  @MultiBallzofsteel  It's more of a USB port.
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  17066.  mr oko  Well clearly I touched a nerve and apparently you are uncomfortable being unable to reconcile your sanctimony with your financial support of the Xi regime. The stuff you buy generates taxes in China which help to finance the camps in Xinjiang, and you know it. You cast the stone, my friend, yet you are not without sin, to invoke the biblical analogy. I think that's called hypocrisy.
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  17067. Some guy told you that? Good for you.
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  17068. It has taken just a month or two and SNA has become the CNN of the right in Australia. It's sad, a let-down, and gross.
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  17069. From the video Description box, written by Times Radio: "Regardless of who's missile hit Poland [etc.]" Should be 'whose'! Not "who's". How awful semi-literacy looks on people who write as a profession.
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  17070. Foreign allies, you mean. The US needs allies or it gets isolated, swarmed, impoverished. See World, history of.
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  17071. Go tell all that to Putin. When you get his response, come back and report to us. Go, get on your pony. Make haste.😂
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  17072. The guy not called Gav is not funny. He really must leave off trying.
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  17073. A Chinese communist speaking on behalf of Japan? Quite rich, that. But somehow Japanese never make the same complaint about the US. Never. At least you're earning Social Credit points from your AI master.
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  17074. Have a sense of proportion. The $100bn has been spread over 2-1/2 years while GDP was $65 trillion. And it is 2% of the proposed $5 trillion (!) tax increase.
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  17075. On the map at 0:43 you can see red patches on it, representing, according to the map title, areas where Harris "Outperforms Biden 2020 by 3% or More." So it would seem, anyway. Maybe he had moved on to selecting '0-3%.'
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  17076. I don't want my information about such things to come from some young person with a Drew Barrymore accent. Keep your video. Outta here.
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  17077. Is this channel affiliated with The Times newspaper? I notice no hint of that in the logo.
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  17078. Few people. Not little people, few people.
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  17079. Alla the real estate agent 8:24 professes to support the current political arrangements, yet she is clearly 10x too intelligent to mean it honestly.   Edit: 😂 Grasp that completely, as tiny a fact as it is, and you understand Russia 50% right there.
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  17080. Good luck finding a site that takes roubles. 🤣
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  17081. Sorry, Alberta cannot open any taps that would make 1m additional bpd available for export any time soon.  Gradually over a few years, yes, if the pipeline capacity is also there.  They would love that.  The problem with doing it far faster is that past a certain point of modest increases, ramping up output of Alberta oil is a particularly slow (and particularly expensive) process.
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  17082. Not buying it. Checking on suspicious cars is what police are for.
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  17083. I don't see the problem as long as he makes an appearance at every one of these things whether it's Liberal, Conservative, NDP, whatever. It's only partisan if he just goes to the Liberal events.
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  17084. Sometimes he interrupts to just go on pointlessly. I can't believe how long he took to make a simple point about the correlation with openness (referring to the text on psychoanalysis his supervisor gave him when he was training). Man, don't give us your life story.
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  17085. Yes, but too bad the video title misrepresents him. He doesn't deplore the measures as a cause or accelerant of a rise in tensions. He supports them as a response to Russian-generated tensions which are bound to be rather enduring. Big f-ing difference. I see frequent signs that Times Radio is headed and staffed by people who dislike NATO and by extension—I know, it's mad—aren't too crazy about Ukraine either.
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  17086. Hamas spokesman on Lebanese TV two months ago: "We are not sorry, we are proud, and October the 7th is just the beginning. There will be an October the 8th, October the 9th, October the 10th ... October the One Millionth!" Yet you speak of "talking to Hamas"! 🙄
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  17087. And I am biased that the world is an oblate spheroid. I'm good with that.
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  17088. In a way I feel sorry for that Secret Service agent who had Trump's flank as they left the stage, whose job at that moment was to shield him. It was then that she must've realized "Omg, I'm one foot below his head wound."
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  17089.  @chloekaftan  For bad manners and stewpidity. You've heard of them of course.
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  17090.  @adamsauer6516  At 7 lbs. a gallon, that's over 20k gallons. Also a lot.
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  17091.  @Jason-cl6yp  Sounds funny, but what does it mean? (But never mind if it'll take ten minutes to answer. I have a feeling it's probably complicated.)
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  17092. The Americans' ATACMS replacement has been fully tested but not yet manufactured in significant quantities.
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  17093. "The asexual community" No Matt, it's not a community. Don't call it a community. It's a category.
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  17094. Latest poll: Conservatives 47%, Trudeau's Liberals 17% Time for PM Peter Pan to put on his shiny slippers and fly off into the night.
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  17095. ​ @thenewwavejoeshow    [The following is the best I can do to restore my reply following its garbling and clipping by YouTube. There was no foul language, of course, no vitriol or slurs against any groups except ones that people joined by deciding to, which are supposed to be fair game. Their computer just did its best to understand what I wrote and decided, in agreement with you, that it just didn't qualify as their/your 'truth'. I'm going to copy it and keep posting it until it looks like it made it through in unexpurgated form. It may or may not.] "My fiction"? Let's figure out what that refers to. I never disagreed that he's not a "real reporter". He's of course not a reporter at all, and that goes without saying, just as it goes without saying for Michelle Goldberg, Charles Blow, David Brooks and all others of the sort. They're all opinion columnists, or news commentators if you like, and thus, yes, journalists whether we care for them or not. What I said was that I doubted you've been around for much real journalism, not that there's a universally accepted definition for it. And it turns out you've actually got some grey hairs. (Good!) So was that "my fiction"? [Here I can't remember what I originally wrote, if anything. Google left a blank space, though, so it appears likely they removed something.] I also directly implied I think you're wrong about Carlson. (Not that he's right every time on every detail. Often he's not, but more often he is, and he's certainly right about the Times. And by being so much the lesser of two evils, he actually does qualify as a 'real journalist' in relative terms, now that the currency has been debased in a real team effort across the entire industry --- the NYT, PBS Newshour, and Fox News included. What started out as a pity became a disgrace and is now a tragedy.) And that's about it. That's the second and the only other thing I put across. Is that what you call my "fiction" then? Countering your opinionated generalization about Carlson with my own is "my fiction"? ("My fiction". Oh, I really get a kick out of that. It would follow then, that whatever you say is, Oprah-like, 'your truth'. Just like Meghan Markle!) So it turns out my "fiction" is daring to say I consider any of your opinions incorrect. That's how you people are. Anyone who deviates from the Times or PBS or NPR or WAPO orthodoxy spouts "fiction" --- and is far-right, ill-educated, racist, treats women terribly, loves guns, voted for Trump twice, and all the rest. You set up straw men and then do battle with them, afterwards awarding yourselves hero badges. I bet you gave yourself one for your last reply to me. So what good are your grey hairs? You might as well be a youngster. Why didn't you learn much if anything from Jim Lehrer?
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  17096. ​ @thenewwavejoeshow  What a surprise. Your friends and allies at Google butchered and garbled my reply to you so that I can't share my views. Yes, that's how your side meets disagreement head-on --- not with 'facts' but by denying them the chance to be heard. It's what the NYT does with at least half my comments, too. They just toss them. They do it often, so I guess it's my own stupid fault that I didn't make a copy before posting. Well, I shall try to reconstruct it and post it again. Now to make a copy of this reply before posting ...
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  17097. 😥 @Eqium 
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  17098. I've never heard so many superlatives in my life. I don't trust either of these men. I don't believe they are sober-minded, nor are they truly privy to many of the salient facts. I find the whole thing infotainment of a somewhat low sort.
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  17099. I don't know if being a refugee from Lebanon and ending up with a post at Concordia University really sets you up with "so much money you're separated from the society." The average professor's salary there is C$136k or $99k. You don't think he makes much from book sales, do you?
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  17100. He is one, yes. But he is a centrist with leanings in both directions (but not too far in either direction), depending on the specific issue.
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  17101.  @mysticcove3392  Not sure about that. March is when parliament returns. I don't think we know yet when the leadership contest will start and end.
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  17102.  @chrisbirmingham5132  That's a very neat line in just-so-ism itself. Evidence "suggest[ing] that humans are attracted to people who behave likably and are repelled by people who behave unpleasantly" is all well and good, but could easily be presumed anyway, given the emergence of orderly and relatively peaceful societies. They emerged because eventually the likeable and the pleasant, whether genuinely or deceptively so, banded together to overwhelm the openly violent and the aggressively coercive. At least, they legitimized violence and aggressive coercion on their own part. The weak, some might say, beat the strong at their own game. Improved verbal strategies and advancing technology (agriculture and better, cheaper weapons) were surely instrumental. But, as needs little pointing out, their victory was hardly a final one. I don't see any grounds for hoping that racism as we now think of it was an 18th- or 19th-century invention practically out of nowhere, like the steam engine. I see it as an outgrowth of the cooperative instincts of humans rather along the lines of those we see in our cousins the chimpanzees when they go out hunting for other chimps, strangers from nearby clans, to tear apart if they can. Atavistic tribalism doesn't lend itself terribly well to scientific discovery (the great number of unearthed old skulls smashed in or with holes in them, e.g., could've resulted from personal quarrels as easily as from war drums and border skirmishes, and even where dozens of them are found together the conflict might have been internecine). Yet neither does a social-constructionist view of tribalism that smacks of Rousseauian yearnings and Neo-Marxist finality. It's all very difficult to say, but the conversation's certainly not over the minute we conclude that the precise nature of tribalism can't be measured like the three sides of a triangle. Anthropology, in any case, doesn't have the last word. History and psychology, the gropings towards truth of which are of course as open to interpretation as anything else, demand their say. Even common sense, disparage it with scare-quotes as you may, should never be set up as anything antithetical to "the known set of anthropological facts." If facts they indeed are, it's because common sense, insufficient but necessary, is embedded in them. Thanks for your reply.
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  17103. Neo-Marxist, yes. But "Ken doll"? Really? That had never occurred to me. Of course it's all a matter of opinion, but I've always seen him as more of a Barbie.
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  17104. I confess the non-stop interrogation makes me upset. It's not bad manners in that country? Just talk to them, please.🤨 We don't profit by hearing so many personal details in a neat and tall pile. Whatever they have to say about anything is fine. I prefer it if people talk as equals when there's no special or pressing reason why it can't be so. Halfway through and I'm gone.
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  17105.  @operationzenith6030  Chaos and protesting and rioting are coming to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. So is a diet of beets, carrots, bread and potatoes.
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  17106. Sure they're real, but let's face it, our interviewer is a young hipster with a Western-millennial/GenZ-looking vibe. Notice how many people who engage with him are also young hipsters, or other people giving off an obvious air of openness? Putin supporters, real Russian chauvinists, Grinches, authoritarians and personality cases probably shrink from him on instinct and just keep walking, I would guess.
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  17107.  @brucebouck6152  <---Failed comedian. Speaking of failed: Putin's drive for Kiev in three days. Total financial and economic impact of the war so far for Russia: 150 trillion roubles. Fail. Nice try, though, Dmitriy
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  17108.  @petera5560  It is a minor honor to have my thoughts denounced so uselessly.
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  17109. Read the video description, above.
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  17110. R.I.P. American journalism. Died 2020, after a long illness.
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  17111. I'm a bit surprised that it's the 2nd half of November and there's no snow on the ground yet.😄
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  17112. But as they are 90% of over-16s, it is clear the vaccine provides a lot of protection. The small number of unvaccinated manage to take up the vast majority of beds.
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  17113.  @Scotian6444  "you can cry a river." 👈👏👏👏 Or as I would've put it: Crimea river.😆😆
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  17114.  @northstar1060  Crimea river
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  17115.  @northstar1060  Here is a puckered brown one. Enjoy.
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  17116. I don't get what the fundraising was for. Just to reward them with cash? Cuz 290 grand is still a crapload of money. Isn't it? It is to me.
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  17117. Elon Musk's latest venture: SharkX?
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  17118. People here need to realize, if they're capable of grasping such subtlety of meaning, that not having a book on the curriculum for a certain grade is not "banning" it. To ban a book, in a public school context, is to remove it from schools entirely, to prohibit its inclusion in classrooms and libraries. The present book was merely taken off the 2nd-grade curriculum. It may be found suitable for 3rd- or 4th-graders, and may still be put on library shelves. Rep. Foxx was an unfortunate victim here of what appears to me disingenuous grandstanding and con artistry on the part of Rep. McGovern. He knows it wasn't banned. He knows that's the wrong word. He merely lacks the moral fortitude to withstand the temptation to use it for the purpose of deceiving voters in his district. For my part, I do question what fraction of 7-year-olds would profit from a book written at that level, a marvellous book though it may in fact be. At age 7 they are still really little kids, and some are much slower than others. But that is a matter for unbiased educational specialists to look at — not people like us who only heard a short passage read from it. Indeed, it's likewise not something for members of the House of Representatives to pass judgment upon. What a miasma of hollow sanctimony and even pearl-clutching down here in the viewer reactions.
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  17119.  @ImpetusM  Yes that's true. But no one here cares. They're part of an internet mob. What they're doing here is akin to what chimpanzees do in the jungle. They spot one who is dissimilar to them and they tear him to pieces. Alas, we are the chimpanzees' cousins....some of us more than others.😮 Thanks for your post. Oh, I almost forgot. Nietzsche: "In individuals insanity is quite rare. In groups, it is the norm."
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  17120. 🤨How is that "making $1m for free"? You paid $500k for the car in the first place.😂
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  17121.  @michaelrmurphy2734  Nah. Being a crook and conman is more of an American thing. Musk is an immigrant.
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  17122.  @FireOvRenewal  Says the "person" who worships an imaginary figure in the sky and yearns for the destruction of the world so it can be improved. Brilliant.
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  17123. Donated by Denmark. Please, honesty and accuracy are important.
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  17124.  @carlossaraiva8213  😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Stop it. I can't breathe, that's so funny.
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  17125. Trilemma: "Excuse me, I'm right here."
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  17126.  @BubbahotepEagle  That's one for Mother Goose.
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  17127. Oh? You speak for them, do you? POS
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  17128. Will you please share with us your reasons for concluding that stairwells are safer?
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  17129.  @jonathanbell9349  Thanks for your reply. Anyone who wisely wishes to avoid getting directly next to others can simply wait for an empty or uncrowded elevator. At least entering and exiting an elevator requires only a tap with the point of a key. A trip on the stairs means grasping a doorknob both to get in and get out. Moreover, elevators at least have exhaust fans. Stairwells are commonly completely unventilated. Cheers.
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  17130. And do you really find many elevators not even six feet wide? In my experience it's not one in ten.
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  17131.  @jonathanbell9349  Hmm. Too close for comfort I guess, unless you're sporting a proper mask. Anyway, best wishes for the least unpleasant year possible. ( PS Here we have the largest average dwelling size of any country, but I never guessed that might extend to elevators.)
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  17132.  @RisetoStrength  Sorry, I thought you were the OP. As for your other points, they're correct (although one of them was questionably worded), but they're already things I knew and believed.
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  17133.  @GT86crazy  So you just strengthened the country that wants to destroy your civilization. Wise move. Way to go.👏👏
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  17134.  @GT86crazy  Hey, are you that guy that was in St. Pancras' Station in London last month who went after the piano player, causing an international incident? You sound like him! You really do!
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  17135. Jail, sure, but for me it would be enough if something went wrong with her voice-box and she could no longer talk.
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  17136. Moreover, you knew when you arrived there.
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  17137.  @golfermanjim5622  Congratulations on that.
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  17138.  @halbleavy9900  If you're referring to the newest Justice, her posture of ignorance—"I'm not a biologist"—was anything but honest. And so was, ya see, any claim on your part that you believed her. Senator: "What is two plus two?" Stooge incapable of shame: "I'm not a mathematician."
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  17139. Earlier than that. Psychologists and other researchers have traced these problems back to the emergence of social media and the introduction of the iPhone. The iPhone came out in 2007 and Facebook became the most popular internet site in 2008. There was a particular worsening of the problem around 2012. And of course it really all goes back to the infiltration of university faculties by "New Leftists," inspired by marxists of the Frankfurt School and marxist French academics, which occurred in the early 1970s.
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  17140. News and TV shows in Russia must be pretty insane for some of these people to have these beliefs. The US would never attack Russia in a million years except in defense of NATO territory or in the case of a much larger atrocity than even the present one in Ukraine. I guess they figure Napoleon and AH did it, so the US is next. But that's clueless. Btw, snow in early October? Wow. Omsk is basically on the latitude of Newcastle and Hamburg.
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  17141.  @LeutnantJoker  Thanks. A mind like yours should have a place at the table of debate in government or a major news outlet. I hope I make myself clear. Btw, did your nickname come from the Kubrick movie?
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  17142.  @LeutnantJoker  Just above this thread is a comment by @Odd Captive. That thread was begun an hour after this one. I've made a reply in it which might possibly interest you. Cheers
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  17143. Interesting. You must have asked who's paying them, surely?
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  17144.  @Dimi374  I 100% don't want specific information. But can you be vague, yet still give us a bit of an idea? Is it just people with (1) a grudge against society or (2) against some particular part of society? If yes, is the grudge (3) political/societal in nature, having even a slight aspect of rationality, or (4) against whatever demographic group, or (5) just pure mental derangement? Even just numerals with Y / N would be something. Cheers my man
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  17145. This guy is wrong. The importation of additional cases cannot fail to quicken the spread of the illness and push hospitals closer to peak loads, past which severely ill people must be triaged out of intensive care and thus written off (i.e. sent away to die).  He is not thinking straight, presumably because of his hatred for the president, which you could see from space.
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  17146. Drugs or mental illness. The state of his skin argues drugs, but it could also be both. Yes, unbearable. His doctor should give him something for his nerves that he can take before public appearances.
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  17147. You nailed it.👏 Just what the wife of a very wealthy real estate developer would say, and that's what she was.
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  17148.  @dbefore7165  It's when 'some' becomes half or most that a people becomes degraded. Note that Thatcher made no significant moves to dismantle the British welfare state. She largely supported it, although she heartily deplored abuse of it.
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  17149. "Dark Ages" Don't make me laugh. 🤣🤣 As though the ever-leftward policies of both parties have made the sun shine!
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  17150.  @SheffKhalid  There's a lot of difference between Elon Musk and a Russian oligarch.🤨
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  17151. Rolling my eyes at that one. In a rising market it may be the time to buy a given stock. If that market goes stagnant or is falling, that stock is no longer a buy. If you don't know that, you're not even at novice level.
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  17152. Hahaha! Exactly right!
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  17153. He's opposing the spread of fascism (this time in the form of Hamas and public support for it) and you call him fascist. Omg.
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  17154. Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is not the form of alcohol which causes blindness. That's methanol, or methyl alcohol. Ethanol is the drinkable kind found in vodka, beer, scotch and wine.
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  17155. Stop saying "Zhee." The accepted pronunciation in English is "Shee."   (In Chinese it's actually "See," but let that pass, I guess, for now.)
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  17156. In a shocking twist, she copied her resignation statement from the ex-president of Penn.😄
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  17157. What? It had already happened. It wasn't smart of her. She could've been killed, leaving those two kids with one parent, and her partner alone in life. It seems possible that if that had happened, you'd be saying now that she was rash, not smart.
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  17158. Keep going. Dots nearly connected.
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  17159. Just look at those Chicago Democrats howling about illegal immigrants! Now that it suits them, they put their case in the very same terms Republicans have done for a decade or more. Except when Republicans said these things they were vilified as ay-cists-with-an-R, x tree mists, etc. How maddening can you get? Absolutely classic instance of "When we do it it's cute."
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  17160. Oh, hell yes. The forces of my own country kept a lid on a vastly gnarlier place (Kandahar) for years, starting in 2006, with fewer than 3,000 in the combat group. They of course had a lot of supporting personnel, a great quantity of kit, and enjoyed ISAF air support as well as surveillance and intelligence, but my point should be clear. At any rate I disagree with you: It's a job for the police. (Local and state police unless the best area opinion leans toward one or the other.)
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  17161. Thankfully not. He also used the word eclectic, notice. One valuable way to rate the quality of a mind is by whether it's politically and socially monochrome or not. Fundamentalist true believers in anything are defective of mind, I've come to believe. Judge Learned Hand remarked that he always found himself a liberal among conservatives and a conservative among liberals. Orwell and Fussell would be others. Cheers.
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  17162. You sure you don't mean how long before the Department of Justice lays some phony and trumped-up charges and indictments against him?
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  17163.  @MelvinK123  It's just a manner of speaking. Are your fingers too big for whatever you were typing on?
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  17164. According to the Dept. of Energy the SPR had 628 million barrels in it when Biden took office and in September will be down to only 359 million.
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  17165. I'll bet he has some good suits. As he himself pointed out, he found out what an English gentleman is and made himself into one, though a simulacrum or 'failure'. The attempt would not be made without any suits built by a good tailor. I agree that he's admirably relaxed, though.
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  17166. Closer to the other way around. "Generally when lions and hippos clash, the outcome tends to favor the hippos due to their formidable size and aggressive nature. Most encounters result in the lions backing off rather than engaging in a fight that could lead to injury or death." (Source: Perplexity)
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  17167. Sasha was perfect on the 95% confidence interval thing. With the 5% ruse, Herr Doktor Professor Parwal is going for the 19 times out of 20 magic that science leans on. He struts it as precise and academic but it's part investor relations material and mainly hot air under his golden parachute I'm glad to see that Sasha, like Musk, can spot that s+++ from space.
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  17168. This was engrossing and enjoyable. But I'm left with a few questions: (1) In total, what did all the parts and fluids cost? (2) How many hours spread over how many days and weeks did it take you? (3) What would a typical good garage have charged you for labor?
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  17169. The first person onscreen in this video (name: Hardy Green) calls such provision of housing "Big-Brother-like control." That's kooky and I can't let him get away with it. Big-Brother-like control would entail such things as denial of human rights, mind control, ubiquitous and constant surveillance, thoroughgoing dishonesty, and a host of other immoral and criminal behaviours. Elon Musk and SpaceX have never done anything like that. Has this rear-end of a man ever read 1984 ?🤨
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  17170.  @organicinohio5398  Vladimir Putin: "Great comments. Bonuses on the way to you two guys!"
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  17171. Welcome to Labour Party Headquarters. Register your furious and irrational beef with the government here. Room for all, come on, squeeze in. Just show your spleen for admittance. Paid trolls and raving paranoiacs most welcome.
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  17172. Loose: opposite of tight Lose: opposite of win
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  17173. Only moments ago I was picturing an editorial cartoon with Zelensky as David taking aim at Putin as a giant, hulking, half-blind Goliath. So yeah, I agree.
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  17174. Ok, start by returning Yugoslavia to communism. See ya.
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  17175. Cringe + Kamala = Kringela I've been saying this for a year and no one seems to hear me.
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  17176. You mean dammed. But attempts to damn it will fall short too.
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  17177.  @J-678hdj  Canada was a fully independent country at that time, just as much as it is today. Its ties to Britain were reduced to the mere formality of the monarchy, and Britain had zero say in anything Canada did. Zero. Canada went to the war in Europe as a friend of the free peoples of Europe. End of story.
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  17178.  @kileytingey6828  Thanks, but we have no use for your validation. Get back to me if you need suggestions for what to do with it.
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  17179. You want masculine men, don't emasculate them. It's that simple. But you did, and you got what you were after. Enjoy. Anyway, I see from your little photo that you envision women as masculinized warriors. So let one of your imaginary CGI beings go around rescuing women.😂 Happens in movies all the time now.🤣
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  17180. If top talent doesn't want to touch corporate America with a 10-foot-pole, maybe that'll just mean more independent start-ups and more innovation. You know, kinda like the relation between manure and roses.
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  17181.  @JSE4  No, this isn't what I call international politics. I call it war.
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  17182.  @JSE4  Discuss it with yourself. I've got better things to do than chat with someone who says "based off"😂
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  17183. I thought he just knew what he wanted to accomplish in the interview---namely to save lives by influencing people. Being calmly dead-serious about something gravely important is what I took it for, not terror.
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  17184.  @justinl5830  Just curious, was that blank line yours or did it only appear when you posted? (That keeps happening to me.)
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  17185. I'm getting used to it. But I have a truly hard time hearing nineteen pronounced with no 't' sound at all.😮
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  17186. Yes. But if it does, the odds of the planes being delivered will rise dramatically.
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  17187.  @michellerose1190  Cf. Lucy Letby.
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  17188. Please SNA, if you have any say in the matter, don't feed us these clips from the awful Sky operation in London. Sky News Australia is the real article as far as I'm concerned.
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  17189. Good!
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  17190. Ok Vatnik🙄
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  17191. The whole constellation of Democrats, liberals, wokesters and the left are intent on attacking our freedoms, destroying society, and lowering our standard of living. They have all the same fond desires for the future of America that Xi Jinping does. Donald Trump wants all the opposite things and they tell us he's the big threat.
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  17192. She'll soon announce she's leaving to join MSNBC (which was her reason for being at the White House in the first place).
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  17193. Yes, straight out of the Red Guards playbook.
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  17194. Why do these three students walk out in the first several minutes? F***.
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  17195.  @WildBikerBill  Yes, that too. A high water mark for shamelessness.
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  17196. Clementine Ford is always wrong. Something to do with being born into Hollywood privilege and unfortunate mental illness.
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  17197. He's a great person but, in fairness, in earlier eras his messages would hardly be needed, nor would they find an audience. Only now are they found controversial --- or salutary or even interesting, for that matter. Formerly they were common knowledge. In other times he would be a clinical psychologist and university professor esteemed in his field and unknown outside of it.
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  17198. You mean they hadn't already? This is really about hatred of maleness, so if they despise their own sex they've already disowned their testicles, which is to say they've surrendered them in a way.
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  17199. Thank you for the comic relief. Can't you draw it out some more?
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  17200. Confusing how you wrote that. Why would a guy saying gay people oppose gay marriage get hate mail from gay opponents of gay marriage?
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  17201. Canada teeters on the edge of disaster. All its strengths are being replaced by weaknesses. It is not producing the people needed to sustain it.
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  17202. Ethiopia is infested with Marxist-Leninists. Eritrea too. So many dupes, so sad.
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  17203. ​ @jacksondriscoll98  No, a stymieing of natural selection. The first victim of human intelligence was our sense of belonging in the universe. Deer and bees still have it, we irrecoverably lost it. That loss, which with considerable insight and justice Genesis calls the Knowledge of Good and Evil, stopped us cold in our evolutionary tracks. (Things have been enormously complicated and difficult since that moment, a fact which needs little pointing out.) I guess I'm a bit of a Nietzsche-ite, since I see it as a not-terribly-dignified crutch. But I'm not a thoroughgoing one, because I don't have a hard heart against it. People have their mortality and their questions about the purpose of their existence to deal with, the time allotted for it being both very short and all we have.
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  17204.  @obligatoryusername7239  Who said anything about a lack of belief in God entailing a lack of "a metaphysical framework to uphold morality"? Your reply smacks of beggaring the question. At the very least it amounts to a quite a bold proposition or two.
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  17205. ​ @obligatoryusername7239  There's absolutely zero need for belief in God for one to have morals. It's that simple. Moral instruction of the young needn't be a part of religious instruction. The fact that you can even ask those questions is just about all any needs to know in order to understand why slaughters take place in the name of god and religion. Your belief that there's a special holiness or holy "framework" to religious ethics ignores the flagrant reality that religious ethics (all of it, from 'love thy neighbour as thyself' to 'kill the idolaters wherever you find them') came from men, not God. You might as well as ask how state laws and state courts can possibly be just, being not informed by the divine teachings of religious law (Sharia law, for example). Likewise how state schools can possibly know what to teach their pupils, their curricula not being guided by God's hand. Likewise how a woman can possibly know how to dress in a morally appropriate way unless she had the benefit of a "framework" of instruction in a religious dress code. Your questions smack of fundamentalism, of a belief that the non-believer is barbarous, is somehow not fully human. Such a belief on anyone's part is a lack of imagination, and this lack of imagination is why subway cars and airplanes get blown up periodically. Godless people and people of faith alike can be highly ethical. Godless people and people of faith alike can commit atrocities.
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  17206.  @obligatoryusername7239  I never said the universe is meaningless, I never implied it, and I've never thought so. You keep saying there's no way to have morals unless one has faith in God, but that's just a fantasy of yours. It may be a help for some people, but by the same token others use religion as a way to justify immortality, so something tells me you doth protest too much.
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  17207. Buh-bye!
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  17208.  @Daniel-f1m2e  Easy there, Yevgeny.
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  17209.  @Funglutton   I find you're all over the place, very uncertain about what to do about viewpoints far from the centre. So is Musk, but one thing he knows for certain is that—while some things will always need to be censored, as a glance at the laws will confirm—the world's premier English-language discussion platform mustn't block viewpoints from far out in one direction and not the other.
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  17210. ​ @willieyz  Yes, but that isn't overall. Coal still made up 56% of China's total energy mix in 2022, while renewables, including nuclear (!) accounted for 26%. Renewables hit 50% only in electricity generation (and quickly fell back to 44% anyway). Much energy use involves no electricity; e.g., vehicles running on fuels, or home heating & cooking via burning natural gas.
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  17211.  @willieyz  Sure, that's why renewables' share of electricity generation fell from 51% to 44% in the last two years, while coal-fired generation continues to skyrocket. But thanks for the People's Daily update!
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  17212.  @willieyz  On one condition: you give me your source for claiming 50% of cars on Chinese roads are EVs.😂😂
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  17213.  @Mistmantle88  8x, according to the two national govts. (337.5m / 41.9m = 8.05)
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  17214.  @sfcarp9418  The would-be authority on spelling can't spell. How perfect.
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  17215. Yes, yes, and NO. Jones is a cynical, greed-filled, not-very-bright paranoiac.
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  17216.  @NickiCager  Ah, mere reckless insensitivity then. All right. We shall take that as an apology and cease legal action. —D. Pinfold ᴋᴄ, counsel to WAC Tory Tory Pinfold Crouchback & Last, Barristers & Solicitors, London SW1
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  17217.  @MartimSmith  Elon Musk : MartimSmith :: Lemuel Gulliver : some rando in Lilliput
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  17218. You don't have long to wait, especially if you're in the Midwest, which is heavily supplied with Canadian oil. Gas will instantly go up at least 10%, eventually 30%.
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  17219. Sounds like psychological projection on your part. Bill Cosby fan?
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  17220. I decided to just read the transcript instead. Much easier and faster. Well written and organized, explained straightforwardly.
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  17221. I always find this interviewer simple-minded. Nice fellow, perhaps.
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  17222. He had clearly been crying 🤣
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  17223. The CDC and anyone else who does what they've done should simply be challenged to say "pregnant men and women."
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  17224. ​ @chizknowsdabizyeet7609  Disapproving of the majority of something while approving of the minor part of it is perfectly legitimate.
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  17225. The condescension is simply infuriating. She tried to charm 50 million Americans by belittling them. 🤬 VP: "I will bring down the cost of watermelon! Nome sayin'? What it is, blood!"
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  17226. When a liberal uses the word "nuance," quickly apply two full rolls of duct-tape to your entire underwear zone. Better safe than sorry.
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  17227. You must mean that guy who pointed out to them their privileged financial security as public employees. The shame of the truth of it was so unbearable they had to handcuff him. The rest of this already-awful century, mark my words, will be much worse. Schools will teach that the 1945-2020 period was a dark one of terrible injustice and tyranny.
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  17228.  @frank5d289  Uh, but she did. She neuter-gendered him. And she could've enquired if she was in any doubt. But I do thank you for your reply.
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  17229.  @ryanb3908  That is oxymoronic. And I'm not even sure about the 'oxy' part. Mono- literally means one. There's no monopoly. Call it an oligopoly if you like.
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  17230. Gavin Quimby.
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  17231.  @rachelhelen898  There's been an introduction of new soft sen sir ship rules and techniques here. Suddenly my remarks are being clipped now to either three or two visible lines. That's down from the four it had always been. Constant tinkering. I guess we can expect lots more as we get closer to November. "We must do this in order to preserve democracy."🙄
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  17232. Glad to see her finally getting the recognition she so richly deserves, cuz she sho' don't deserve to be gettin' so rich.😂 Her white-lady wig bill alone! And her personal police force: 303 hours' pay in two weeks that only have 336 hours in total! 😠That town sure has the right name.
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  17233. Over-reliance of the public and every business and institution on cell networks is a gift to Chinese, Russian, Iranian, North Korean government cyber-war forces and every other type of cyber attack group. Never mind the denials by cell corps that these outages aren't the result of attacks. It's simply untenable for them to admit it. Btw, identical outages have happened twice to the leading provider in Canada this year.
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  17234.  @zapkvr  Go take one of those instead of bothering people.
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  17235. The great majority of Russian adults were born and educated in Soviet times. Most remain Sovietized in profound and permanent ways — e.g., in their views of political governance. The fortunate ones were born later and are now aged 18 to 35 (maybe 40). This cohort, born over a mere 20-year period, are only about 30% of voting-age Russians.
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  17236. What is your comment a decoy for? It is entirely appropriate to talk about China, and talk about it a lot. Its government is pure poison.
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  17237. 1) Mr. Daalder misquotes Donald Trump badly. Inexcusably badly. Actual statement, verbatim: "I would tell Zelenskyy, 'No more, you've got to make a deal.' I would tell Putin 'If you don't make a deal, we're going to give them [Ukraine] a lot. We're going to give them more than they ever got, if we have to.' I will have the deal done in one day, one day." — Interview with Maria Bartiromo, July 16, 2023. The interview is available online. 2) Writ large doesn't mean 'at large' or 'as a whole.' It means 'very clear and obvious.' E.g. The massive election defeat was a verdict writ large on the handling of the economy. Rule 1: Look up fancy words before using them. Rule 2: Use ordinary words.
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  17238. I wouldn't want to go to Dubai either.😄
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  17239. End DEI Go HOME — Hire On Merit Exclusively
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  17240. "Let him go"? He simply approached him.
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  17241. Omg, Bolt is one to talk! He sided with Prime Minister Peter Pan (aka Trudeau) against the Canadians protesting his policies. His Royal Arrogance stifled dissent by invoking martial law, having the protestors arrested and held for months without bail, and freezing every bank account of hundreds more. Andrew Bolt: morally lost & confused.
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  17242.  @annelarrybrunelle3570  Yes, I thought of that. Clearly, WFH can even mean living in a different continent from the office. But I wanted to keep my comment short. Suffice it to say that no one is going to question a claim that one lives in the same high-tax state in which the operations of one's employer are domiciled, while the reverse may not be true.
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  17243.  @Astrum11  No. Strong men built it. Women who hate strong men tore it down. Now enjoy!
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  17244. Propaganda comment.
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  17245.  @durastar2024  Sorry, I'm not here to debate a propagandist. Try someone else eager for such nonsense. TTFN
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  17246.  @eenigheid3186  Doctor, take your own prescription.
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  17247.  @OldManMuskrat  Your flat assertion that the Ukrainian soldiers would execute the prisoner "if he were seen as any sort of threat" needs something to back it up, or it's idle.
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  17248.  @OldManMuskrat  Now you're changing your story. (Or as you would put it, "you're" story.) Suddenly it's not "any sort of threat", whatever that is; it's "a threat to your mission," whatever that is. Execution is hardly the only way to deal with a threat. Binding and gagging, for instance. Your weak but vicious slander against Ukrainian soldiers, and your false-sounding claim to have been around POWs, should definitely have been wasted on the four walls around you. Muted, Danya.
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  17249. Vraiment.
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  17250. It's 2023, so over a sufficiently large number of cases we can expect a bias in favour of irrational crybabies fizzing with hatreds and sanctimony. It's everywhere, in every industrialized Western country. It's falsely and fraudulently named 'social justice,' much the same as Cambodia was officially called, in triple-whammy fashion, a 'Democratic People's Republic'.
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  17251. And at nightfall, jiggly blobs of orange or green against black through thermal scopes.
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  17252. Many appallingly offensive remarks down here. The worst Americans, at their worst.
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  17253. 2020, members of the public: "Some experts are skeptical of the claims you're making. What is your evidence?" CNN, lava spewing from top of head: "Follow the science! Science denier! Science denier!" 2023, scientific review: "Covid deaths and hospitalizations were overcounted." CNN, lava building up: "Some experts are skeptical of the claims you're making. What is your evidence?"
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  17254. As a word to describe financial markets in 2020 (March excepted) what's wrong with it?
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  17255.  @drewgraham1482  Ha ha. Ebullient is posh, is it? I would have called it bookish. Is a good vocabulary ipso facto posh? Please say no.
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  17256.  @drewgraham1482  Take your ebullience to the stock market, will you? I find you too fruity.
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  17257. I learned to ignore them a while ago. I'm more impatient with actual clickbait titles.
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  17258. I commend the producers for inviting the guest from Beirut. What better way to show us what bin Salman is up to than showing a Saudi working abroad as a journalist who knows that there is a little dot of bright red light jiggling around on his temple? One comment unsupportive to bin Salman and he goes on a date with 15 meatpackers.
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  17259. What th does it mean to "put [someone] on blast"? 🤨
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  17260. Calm t.f. down. Don't condemn Canada for its p.o.s. PM.
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  17261. He's the Viktor Orban, the Recep Erdogan, of Canada.
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  17262. Weird how she keeps calling him "Peerse" when it's pronounced "Peerz." Is that a simple low-key gesture of contempt?
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  17263. Rivers and canals lead all the way from the Russian side of the Sea of Azov to the Baltic and Arctic Oceans. These waterways are called the Unified Deep Water System of European Russia. The name is perhaps dubious, for at least until recent years some of the canals were known to be quite shallow. However, planned improvements which might allow a northern exit route for the Russian navy may have been completed.
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  17264.  @philipholmes6253  Why is it a fantastical notion that some mere dredging has been performed?
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  17265.  @putinscat1208  I should imagine that yes, it would be slow. But so what? Slow or fast, it would be a way out of the Black Sea without going past Turkey.
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  17266. Did I just hear the host say that a movie shows us how this situation could go? Unreal. Fire him at once.
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  17267. I can't listen to someone saying "YOO-krain" for 13 minutes. It's only a minority of American men who say this, and it only started last year. I don't know what it is besides d u Ⓜ️🅱.
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  17268. *whoever
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  17269. This is green-screened, presumably in his home. Surely he's trying to fool us, either: I think practically everyone can tell and I think he knows it.
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  17270.  @zecoya8298  Ahhh-ha! U got me!😂
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  17271.  @Ouiper  Y.T.M.
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  17272. In 2021, Russian gas was 47% of EU consumption. Now it's down to about 12%. Most of that is direct pipeline deliveries to former Warsaw Pact countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia. (Also non-NATO Austria.) Throw in the UK (not an EU member) and 12% becomes 10%. The story on oil is less clear, but Russia's exports are certainly down. It's clear many countries are buying less Russian oil, while the PRC is buying much more. India is buying more too, and is re-exporting some as refined fuels, less than $20m a day or $6.7bn a year. This is around 250,000 bpd, with an estimated 120,000 bpd ending up in the US and other Western countries. This is something like 1/300th of Western consumption, and only 1/50th of Russian exports. In conclusion: Western consumption of Russian energy is now small potatoes. Most importantly, Russian oil and (especially) gas production and revenues are down substantially due to sanctions. Although Russian oil is still vital to the global supply-demand balance and price stability, it's less important than it was. Meanwhile production in the Western Hemisphere has risen steadily and continues to do so.😄
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  17273. Russian official accounts and responses don't amount to three squares of toilet paper.   Wait, no: they do. I regret my initial inaccuracy.
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  17274. I know, these hosts are almost always unctuous in their intros. Nay, always. I find it corrosive to the dignity of all involved, including me.
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  17275.  @vule7097  Well observed. I've been thinking for a while now that the Ukraine War is all about China. It wants Putin to put Ukraine's grain on Xi's finger like a wedding ring. Then, with 20m+ tonnes of grain a year secured, China can invade Taiwan and manage without Western grain and soybeans. In a closely similar way the Belt and Road is about China managing without its Pacific ports, which might otherwise in a conflict be blockaded by the US Navy. This is really a proxy war. The people of the world don't know it, but every government does.
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  17276.  @Skyfoogle  No it's not. It's Sydney, Stockholm, and Mumbai. Anyone who adds the country or province name to a city known worldwide is a rustic of some kind. Tokyo, never Tokyo, Japan. Chicago, never Chicago, Illinois.
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  17277.  @RodFarva  Try to get smarter friends. ;-)
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  17278.  @patton3rd1  It is a Dutch name. But as far as I know, Dutch names starting with Van are not stressed on the first syllable. Dutch people, please correct me if that's not true.
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  17279. That's simply media training. They're told to laugh off attacks as the safest response, and it is. Being a wordless form of rhetoric, it cannot be refuted. As is pointed out repeatedly in the remarks here, they all do it.
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  17280. 4:00 The CBC anchor says "incredulous" when he means 'incredible'. (Things are incredible; skeptical or unbelieving people are incredulous.) He wants to seem smart by using what strikes him as a more elevated word, without going to the trouble of actually looking it up. He should look up the meaning of the word 'pretentious' while he's at it.
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  17281. If the govt. loses a vote of non-confidence, the opposition leader won't be made prime minister. (He too would lose the first vote he faced.) There'll be an election instead. Then he'll become PM.👍
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  17282. A far-leftist, I take it, showing the usual far-leftist moderation and absence of hatred. Highly intelligent and not foaming at the mouth at all.
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  17283. Taking aim at a little boy? That's your contribution? A grateful world beams its admiration towards you.
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  17284. Years back my government warned the country about buying Chinese coffee mugs, as testing had revealed that there was leachable lead in the ceramic glazing. I've never trusted Chinese manufacturers since and always prefer other countries' products.
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  17285. They've been doing it for six years now, sounding like students but without the excuse that they're just young and inexperienced. Remember the hideous misfit cases that would sit every day at tables in lobbies of campus buildings, socialist slogans displayed in front of them, always ignored by everyone? They're Democrats on TV now.
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  17286. I bet I know what his nickname in jail is going to be: Pizza Face.
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  17287. Or?: Macbeth left a message. He wants his cackling witches back. Please vote
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  17288. Read the new book from Rashida Tlaib: As Absolutely Awful As I Wanna Be
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  17289. Best postage stamps ever. I want some.
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  17290. What? The guy is responding to slanderous distortions. Your view of him in a nutshell: "This animal is very wicked—when you attack it, it defends itself." ("Cet animal est très méchant. Quand on l'attaque il se défend," as the French say.) I find your remarks just more liberal illiberalism, a dangerous and un-American hyper-partisan infatuation with suppressing open discussion. Then you have the nerve to wrap it in the US flag.
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  17291.  @ChrisAlbertH47  Yes you did. You said it was unpatriotic to report on criticism from abroad of the US government. (Now that the US government has changed, that is. No doubt formerly it was a great thing.)
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  17292. The OED supports that usage.
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  17293.  @computernerdtechman  Wrong. From the current OED (rev. 2014): howitzer ɴᴏᴜɴ [2nd sense] 1.b. A shell fired by this piece of artillery. 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭. And it gives quotations of this sense with citations from 1761 up to 1998. Oxford English Dictionary has a website.
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  17294. At times, yes: for Russia, both 1988-89 and 1991 will soon be repeated. In case you're unfamiliar with those dates, they marked Russia's defeat and withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the breakup of the USSR. Make no mistake, Ukraine is Afghanistan 2.0.
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  17295. Yes, and there's more: depending on the country, a majority of people, even a strong majority, believe that those who questioned government actions were (and are) completely wrong. A probable majority of those simply regard them as dangerous political radicals. In regions of some countries it might be 75% or more who believe that their strict-regime governments committed few errors. It was an extraordinary collaboration (or conspiracy, depending on your point of view) of government, industry and media. The media were the lynchpin, and I regard them as the leading power in the rich democratic world. Yes, the combined power of the media, along with Big Social Media which itself is a major conduit of news, now outstrips that of elected governments, for they have shown that they can at times—most of the time, it may be—install and remove governments nearly at will (although the elections still fall on time). Governments, in contrast, can do virtually nothing about the news media for constitutional reasons. And not much more about social media, with some notable exceptions. Thus the media decidedly have the upper hand. Simply put, journalism is now the most powerful profession, the most powerful institution. And the most powerful business. Thus the most power, though not most power, is in the hands of those who own and control the news media/Big Social Media. I think that this development merits absolutely unrestricted scrutiny and absolutely unrestricted discussion.
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  17296.  @albback8176  Dozens of nations from 5 continents invaded Afghanistan under a UN mandate passed unanimously by the Security Council, including votes by Russia and China.
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  17297.  @albback8176  Not just the US but dozens of countries from 5 continents were in Afghanistan. Also, the invasion force was UN-mandated. The Security Council voted 15-0 (no abstentions) to authorize it to enter Afghanistan and fight the Taliban. Russia voted for it. China voted for it.
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  17298.  @albback8176  Omg, so confused, mixing up Ukraine aid with 83x higher figure for debt spending. TTFN, buddy. I only debate competent foes.
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  17299.  @Huguillon  Wow. Buh-bye. Come back and debate me once you're an adult.
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  17300.  @ahatrunglun4801  Check the bathroom mirror for hints to the answer you seek.
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  17301. Lovely. But say what you will, Ardern was a politician with real bite.
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  17302. "Trying fifty serious felony trials probably involved thousands of serious felonies being tried." I see from that sentence that you have your Master's in Word Salad from the University of Kamala Harris.
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  17303. "Absolutely discussing"? ffs, proofread, then post!
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  17304. @Baronarx V Omfg, no! NO! Please tell me where to find a published acct of this. I want to tell everyone, but I must be certain first.
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  17305. Who can deny that treetop-level drone attacks are the future of guerrilla war and terrorism, even of superpower tactics? Cheap and effective, thwarting a military that's cost SA the better part of a trillion dollars this decade. I saw this coming ten years ago. What has taken it so long?
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  17306.  @LisaNH934  You'll understand later in life. Edit: Total Victory to Ukraine🇺🇦! I agree with you there.
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  17307. Inflation month-over-month, December 2023: 25.5% Last month: 2.4%
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  17308. ​ @charlotteroman4048  It's extra years out of real job market earnings. That in itself especially suits the well-off. In many departments the profs exploit them as cheap labor ahead of helping them develop. In many departments it proves little. Those are some things in common with unpaid (or lightly-paid) internships. Then there's the great increase in PhD programs and graduates and the number of schools which make them available. "More will mean worse." — Kingsley Amis
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  17309. It's not about games, it's about an economic de-coupling from China and it comes with a price. It has to start now because the US certainly wouldn't want to do it when the price would be far higher; namely in wartime. Trump is plainly convinced that such a war is coming before long.
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  17310. Don't even use that word, please. Call it right-gendering. Or if you really must, put in in quote marks.
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  17311. Skeletion? [sic] I think the word you wanted was frame or physique. But check your opinion against the photo at 29:21. Can you not agree that is a most un-masculine figure?
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  17312.  @davidwilmahor5407  Act? Loophole? What are you talking about? He's legally entitled to remain until October. Rules are rules. We're not gonna start acting like a mob. It's not cool when the left does it and it wouldn't be if we did. 77 more days isn't the end of the world.
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  17313. Where has self-government led? To this war. Fundamentally things have to change in the direction of greater security. Israel withdrew in 2005 and "self-government" since then has simply amounted to theft from the people, deprivation, suspension of elections and a total commitment to arming and violence.
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  17314.  @leavesinautumn5959  Please Sort by Newest to see my reply.
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  17315.  @richardwillford2418  He fills me with great revulsion. His disciples I like much less.
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  17316. I love cool Russians like you. (They're in the minority, but that's true in every country.) Hard to beat a cool Russian, or Ukrainian.
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  17317. Slightly over half of all students admitted to law schools in this century have been female. Even 50 years ago it was one-quarter. (It's now nearing 60% annually.) Assuming the judge is a man is statistically nowhere near justified, even as a generality. The way men have beaten up on for so long, I figure if you give it enough time there might not be any.
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  17318. They're mere pawns in the war of the left on every last element of our society which isn't of their own construction. Yep, the people who always know better than everyone else, who are never wrong, who are the first fully enlightened humans ever, and who now demand complete control over everything. Everything.
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  17319. Europe buying LNG from the US is nothing new. In the past two-plus years, deliveries have already smashed records.
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  17320. In fairness dismal isn't a great word to reach for when striving to candy-coat anything. But yeah, most independents and soft supporters of either party who this time opted for the Oaf-in-Chief are now unhappy.
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  17321. Come on, bewildered is part of it. Right off the top people were saying "Where the hell did this come from? Why on earth is he doing this and what does he want?" The anger, the resolve came later, but people even now are still baffled at why this is even happening. I think bewildered doesn't mean what you think it means.
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  17322. Ok, but why not 200 or 2,000? Or 20,000 the size of bees?
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  17323.  @jimalbi  A drone bee with a firecracker or other noxious deliverable, possibly even a biological one, could get a lot done. Say the bee finds a pair of eyes in enemy territory and explodes very close up to them.
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  17324. "These bright young people will be in power in the future." No they won't. They'll be powerless and obedient TV watchers before reaching middle age, criticizing young people for foolish and naïve idealism.
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  17325. They have a lot of leftover authoritarian spirit from when the church ruled their province with an iron hand.
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  17326. Her Anti-Semitic Studies professor gave her an A for her field work.
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  17327.  @codyaucoin3412  Even Trudeau himself used the word "riot" in his little pretend-condemnation.🤨
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  17328. DW, the people committed to putting a total end to journalism and replacing it with activism.
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  17329. Everybody gangsta sayin' they 2 cool for the USA, till they face some serious threat. Then it's some good old fashioned "You and me! Right, Spike? You and me, Spike!"
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  17330. ​@paper plane Incorrect. In the US, inflation took off in the spring of 2021. There's no room for interpretation there. It's simply a fact which you cannot refute no matter how hard you try. Sorry. You're wrong on oil, too. Many factors influence oil prices and Western importers "moving to fewer suppliers" was a very minor one after a quick adjustment period. Vastly more important is global supply-demand, and it's been rather stable.
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  17331.  @CjJohns1776  Next week you'll be yelling in all-caps that it's "ten thousand billion trillion million!!!". The real number is $70bn including all forms of aid. And as a percentage of GDP (0.3%) the US only ranks 30th among the assisting nations. (Source: Kiel Institute Ukraine Aid Tracker)
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  17332. 3:32 Hahaha, best one: Instead of Civil War the guy says Silver War. Omg.
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  17333.  @riffsthatkill2180  In the sense of having a similar set of emotions towards a group of a different colour, yes. Extremes meet.
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  17334. Goldberg, basically: 'We can boss men around because they're used to it from having once been boys.' 🤯 She says things that sound like stuff her enemies would force her to say. Yet they had no involvement. 😮Unreal.
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  17335.  @wesss9353  Unusual suspect
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  17336. It's all about anti-conservative bias. They have a simple litmus test: Democratic actions good, Republican actions bad. If a Democrat were doing this it would be cast in a much different light. A great example was when Operation Warp Speed was in progress. Trump had started it, so during his tenure it was at least slightly suspect. Once it was Biden's baby, to question it was heresy.
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  17337. Loudest channel on YouTube. Please fix that!
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  17338.  @EyeForEye-i9l  I'm blaming only Hamas. Hamas commits systemic injustices. Hamas is the oppressor. I hate the reek of immorality around anyone who can't or who refuses to accept these things. It stinks up the whole world.
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  17339. Sure, buddy, you wrote down their names weeks ago and have now cross-referenced them with your records. Nice fairy tale. You one of the Brothers Grimm?
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  17340. I would fain have that head of hair leading Canada rather than Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  17341. Tip splitting is neo-Marxism.👎
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  17342. I'm gonna try out your advice by not trusting you. So I trust everyone but you.
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  17343. One spaceship launch up to orbit burns about as much fuel as a long-haul commercial airline flight. There are 100,000 such flights around the world every day. And they're not for joyriding. They bring up US and other astronauts to the International Space Station, as well as cargo to stock it. He also sends up hundreds of satellites.
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  17344. As if any more proof were needed, this shows he just doesn't know what he's doing. How can he make a project economically untenable with his own policies and then urge that it go ahead? Some of his moves are good but right now compared to his campaign he looks severely clue-challenged.
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  17345. ​ @S.Tensei23  Get it through your head that the West will never initiate a war with Russia. Never. Not only is Russia totally protected by its nuclear arsenal, the West simply cannot produce another Napoleon or Hitler with a population behind him. There's more to life than feeling permanently traumatized and paranoid. Move on. (I would keep an eye on China, though.)
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  17346. It is not possible to colonize your own homeland.
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  17347. ​ @danilolabbate  Unless you're hiding some sort of argument or you really meant to say it some other way, that strikes me as a frivolous reply. Colonization was generally considered acceptable until the mid-20th century. (Just as slavery was until the mid- to early 19th century. And polygamy was once widespread and not illegal, but admired.) Weak or primitive lands were considered fair game by people on all continents. It was expected that a strong country would have an empire. Actually, colonization was thought morally 'nicer' than outright annexation. So why don't you go back in time to anywhere from 10,000 BCE to about 1920 and teach everybody proper 21st-century morals? Good luck, and see you when you get back.
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  17348.  @danilolabbate  I hate to see anyone abuse the word facts like that. Especially someone so very well-read. It works as a piece of satire though.😄
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  17349. ​ @danilolabbate  It's worse to make a lot of things up and then say "These are facts. Read about them somewhere." Anyone can say k wrap like that. Sorry, I don't want to debate just any lame rando. I like my foes worthy. TTFN.
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  17350.  @mahmoodabbasi6120  1) So Britain didn't build up nor govern India? Such an interesting point of view. 2) I'll stop "yapping" about 10,000 BCE when you stop giving me reason to. Muted.👎Buh-bye.
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  17351. Except when a thick or very inflexible garment is worn, bralessness serves to reveal the location of the nipple, which gives away a great deal about the exact nature of the whole breast. I daresay most women would rather not do any such thing, whether they have nice ones or not.
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  17352. The price went up as incomes around the world rose a lot faster than that of the median US consumer. Ordinary Americans were simply outbid, so now they can either eat worse tuna or just stop buying it. This is of course happening with most other consumer goods as well, unless the cost of producing them is falling. And when the world loses its appetite for US dollars, whenever that is, the US standard of living will fall off a cliff.
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  17353. Nothing about the size of eventual discounts. I wanted to hear percentages. How about examples, at least?
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  17354. Recalled? That's it? He should be prosecuted vigorously for his wilful negligence. If he even so much as has the nerve to remain a resident of that city, something's terribly wrong.
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  17355. The idea behind the suit against SpaceX is obviously that Democratic politicians can leverage it, whether it succeeds or not, to publicly label Elon Musk as a reigh cyst, something which will make it easier to impose restrictions and punishments on X. They can use it for defamatory purposes forever. The DOJ needs to be cleaned out.
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  17356. The fact is that they absolutely love what happened (for the way they can milk it forever), more than they deplore what happened (for its serious aspect of criminality).
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  17357.  @Groffili  I wonder if you got the point: Russia seemingly stopped calling it an SMO about five months ago.
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  17358. Tim Walz's unbelievably gigantic mouth has room in it to store four years worth of untruths. He's locked and loaded.
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  17359. ​ @thomasjosullivan9179  Daniil: "Oh, but 'evil' is a label. Be specific and say why murder is a problem."🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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  17360.  @andrewondon  Not hatred towards China, but impatience with and distrust of its wicked and hostile government. Big difference, Tongzhi.
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  17361. @Just Doit Nice.
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  17362.  @SimonCU  Interesting. I'd like to believe it but I don't think so. I think when Xi sees a Chinese billionaire he mostly sees a big fat juicy neck. Only the Party can do anything about Xi. But maybe you have a response to that which I ought to hear.
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  17363.  @SimonCU  Their Gini coefficients are very similar. I suppose you would say that won't last. Anyway, thanks for your reply. Best to you.
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  17364.  @SimonCU  Thanks, your other replies were great too. But I am not convinced. I am not at all surprised that there is a potential for some struggle, but how can the outcome be in doubt? If it's in doubt then the Party must be quite weak, while from over here it looks like maybe the strongest institution in the world. If you're saying I won't understand things unless I read up on Chinese stocks then I'll do some of that. I admit I've been avoiding it. Your point of view is very interesting and I value it. Cheers.
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  17365. Evidently that first speaker's media coach is the noted word-salad-tosser Kringela Harris.
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  17366. Not true. The Germans laughed openly at him at the UN when he spoke. But later events wiped those smirks right off their faces.
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  17367. Your dog also probably doesn't go to the doggie hairstylist after forbidding the other dogs to do so. And comes home looking better turned out than Lightfoot does. (Woof woof.)
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  17368.  @ancientlinkisgay4857  Their weird faces are just one facet of how they are people who've come up on the losing side of life in multiple ways: mental health, personality, looks, intelligence and mind, moral character, and others. And they are intent on taking revenge on those who've either been better blessed or made more of what they have. And blaming others for one's own misery --- which boils down to envy --- is something that's going to show up on your face. It's not a good look.
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  17369.  @robertjensen1048  "Even" crazy women? Especially crazy women.
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  17370.  @joshhoodrat451  Better not to hit her back unless you really need to defend yourself, but if you have to, use less force than she did. Instead just march her out of the house (it's not hard to do without inflicting pain or injury on her) or get her out of the car, so she can think about what she did. Once she's outside hand her her shoes, purse and jacket and don't say anything. That re-draws respect lines pretty quickly, although perhaps not permanently. If it's her home, go back to yours. The relationship is probably not worth it anymore at that point.
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  17371. No one cares what the WHO says. No truthful statement it makes is significant; no significant statement it makes is truthful. It's a corrupt, communist-infested money pit. The world needs to stop funding it.
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  17372. I'd prefer not to get the news of the world from someone who appears to be in their 20s. What's next, a teenager?
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  17373. The pair of them belong in the Guinness Book of Rude Interrupters & Journalists in Name Only. (What a hefty tome it'd be if only there were such a thing!)
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  17374.  @hardtackbeans9790  I'd be interested to know what you think of this conversation. The interviewer is an Australian strategic analyst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj2OzOGd8tE
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  17375. We are still crediting Russia with military prowess it has yet to show. Indeed, in most ways it shows less as time goes on.
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  17376.  @Acroposthion  No, it is not.
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  17377. The West ( or 'the "West" ', as you call it, like it's a fake concept or something) doesn't have to imitate what Asia does, thank you very much.
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  17378.  @fronker7581  Don't listen to Jordan K about Canada. He is very mistaken and sounds like an impressionable kid who read some hyperbole in a campus newspaper.
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  17379.  @fronker7581  Then there's another commenter who details her dislike of her stepson's wife who is from Croatia and is lax on teaching her son to be polite. And this is supposed to have something to do with racism in Canada. Unfortunately there is a cult-like Salem-esque frenzy of racism accusations in North America right now. A large minority of people are excitedly trying to explain every facet of life with racism. For instance, if you're a young white person who's never dated an Asian person, someone can call you racist, even if many of your friends are of differing races. If you have friends from many races and countries, but none from some certain race or country, you're under suspicion as a racist by some people. If you're an immigrant having trouble establishing yourself in a tight job market after ten years, it's common to announce that it's because of racism, never mind the fact that white and non-white Canadians alike are having a hard time. Basically, if any person of colour is not happy in life, now is the time to blame it on white Canadians, who are presumed to be racist until it's proved otherwise. Some will say there's nearly zero racial discrimination. Some will say it's everywhere and all the time without exception. The truth is in between: there is some, but less than the vast majority of places in the world. I am a mixed race person myself. And the fact is that a lot of racial discrimination has been imported into Canada in the last few decades. I won't name names but people from Asia, Europe, and Africa are frequently very vocal about their dislike and contempt for other races and nationalities, whereas native born Canadians consider such talk abhorrent.
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  17380.  @DrHeroe  You think 'liberal democracy' means it's left-wing? That's just being uneducated. Britain under Thatcher was just as much a liberal democracy as under some Labour govt. Basic knowledge, understanding of common terms, and awareness of what's in the dictionary are your friends.
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  17381. How does that work?
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  17382. Nonsense. The Canadian government can dial up as much money as it likes at any time. It could easily outspend whatever China and South Korea are spending per capita on this crisis. Easily. Hundreds of billions of dollars could be spent if necessary (and it might be, in financial assistance to families and businesses). We still have the world's tenth-largest economy and a AAA credit rating. You don't know what you claim to know.
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  17383.  @treplay8846  Thanks for your reply. Yeah, she's frumpy and dowdy all right. But it's okay, clearly-smart people who dress badly seem more trustworthy to me. Compare how Einstein and Oppenheimer looked, e.g.
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  17384.  @treplay8846  It's doubling every three days. That's bad.
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  17385.  @socialmimicry  Get on your search engines and look up FASD facial features. You can find thousands of images in moments. No reply, please. No reply!
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  17386.  @socialmimicry  Look up images of FASD faces.
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  17387.  @noahwail2444  Thank you. I don't know how I forgot them.
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  17388. His vision goes only as far as fearing a rise in Biden's popularity if Ukraine manages to retain more of its country than Russia intends. But this is immensely bigger than him and his domestic political preferences. Mere cluelessness is the tip of the iceberg here. The major part of it is hypertrophied self-regard. He thinks he's splendidly wonderful.
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  17389. More good psychoanalysts, I suppose. But not simply more.   And of course there are other psychiatrists besides psychoanalysts. There are also non-MD therapists, psychologists for example.
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  17390.  @sandyh9927  And who tf asked you, pos troll?
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  17391.  @dr94279  Ok, Chanfun/Vitaly/Farzad/Hyun-woo. Thanks for the economics lesson.
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  17392.  @AlanCornett-vm7bd  Correct, Trump will stop these wars and make peace. Putin will have no idea what hit him.
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  17393. The weirdest part is how I have changed. In 2004 I thought, 'ok, this guy's overly odd and maybe he's not trustworthy in the stability department'. Now I think 'why was this an insta-kill on its own? Where's the part of the clip where he really goes nuts?'
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  17394. 🙄Please repeat your highly admirable comment on Chinese and Russian social media. Thank you.🙄 EDIT: Hmm, I just noticed your follow-up post. I find it more admirable yet.👍
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  17395. Joy Reid is as intelligent as she is attractive.
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  17396. But, but, but!—empty the prisons, reduce sentences, defund the police....
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  17397.  @vittoriosecreto6346  👍You're correct. GDP based on market exchange rates grossly underestimates Russia's economic heft. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the subject—including people who (like me) feel a burning enmity for the Russian state—will unhesitatingly agree with you. The fact that 101 people upvoted a reply to you labelling you a Russian propagandist reflects only their total unfamiliarity with the facts.
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  17398.  @Crashed131963  Please see my reply (to another person in this thread) just above and prior to yours.
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  17399. Good program, with pretty decent treatment of the issue. But I gotta ask:   Do they sell fake eyelashes by the pound now?🤨 Is no level of fakery too high?
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  17400. In time Russia will be China's little sidekick. The process has begun. I hope you enjoy that. I hope you enjoy living according to Chinese tastes and CCP values. Your other buddies will be North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Serbia and Belarus (until Belarus kicks Lukashenko into an unheated basement prison cell and applies to join NATO).
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  17401.  user-ol6zy2pb9b  Fo' three muntz!
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  17402. I'm not surprised somebody driving the cheapest Mercedes turns out to be like this. Probably leased as well. Perfect car for someone of low character, hoping it will make up for who they are.
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  17403.  @Superpooper-2020  Please take over manufacturing from China.
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  17404. I feel like I'm listening to a lecture on AI from an AI bot. I never hear it take a breath. Human being, please.
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  17405. They're truncating your comments, dude.
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  17406. Every bit of nonsense like this from the Dems and their publishing wing, the NYT, adds one more seat to the Republican caucuses come swearing-in day seven months from now.
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  17407. I found it quite odd that Mr. Felton called would-be Hitler assassins "nuts". 0:34
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  17408.  @danhiggins9151  Perhaps you are seeing sexism where there is none. I seem to recall that the lower Rome sank and the nearer it approached calamity, the wealthier and more celebrated became its best-known cooks, becoming national figures. That's right, celebrity chefs. Whose learning, whose research was ever complete? (The Puritan saw sin everywhere, including where it was not---except, ordinarily, in the mirror.)
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  17409. Suddenly Tucker admits this is relevant to US interests. What two-faced hypocrisy—he always knew it was. I'm unhappy to say I think much less of him now.
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  17410. Saying it's been exaggerated isn't the same as saying it wasn't serious. There's an enormous difference. It has killed 600,000 people—not 60,000, not 6 million, not 60 million.
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  17411. 👏👏👏 You're good at this.
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  17412. Some dots not connected: Both sides will aim their activities at draining the enemy of the weapons and ammunition which, given a rapid enough rate of depletion, he will run out of soonest, as he has the least chance of replacing it. Either that, or the weapons and ammunition with which he's pummelling you with close to maximum effect. Somewhere in there. Palantir will sell you the precisely ideal balance for $10m a week, and they're probably way undercharging.
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  17413. I'm not English and might be wrong for that reason, but I took the remark about his accent as a friendly jibe towards one with whom he sympathized for the most part. An iota of hostility was built into it, but was outwardly defused. I think it was a case of plummy (since later boyhood) meets plummier (since birth). I also suspect the two may have known one another.
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  17414. Very impressive animation. Looks quite real.
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  17415.  @mickfunny4185  Well, obviously.
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  17416. Write down your comment and mail it to the Kremlin, genius.
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  17417.  @platonhhiba  There are translation programs you can use. Don't you dare tell me what to do.
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  17418.  @krollpeter  Just a Pooty-bot troll. He's conveniently forgetting that Russia's population will be down by 25m by mid-century. There are twice as many babushkas in Russia as women in their prime childbearing years, so it's unstoppable. And the population of Russian men is falling by 500 a day. Pooty-poot-poot just can't get it up!
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  17419. I love the way she doesn't just have a lawyer, she has a "legal team." I suspect her daddy is one of those Qatar-dwelling HamISIS honchos sitting on a personal fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars. I also suspect her claims about her family resemble HamISIS' claims about civilian casualties, i.e., are highly exaggerated.
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  17420. ​ @williamsharp2532  Use a dictionary, my ironically-named friend.
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  17421.  @xtcntr  There were 10 casualties. Casualty means injured or killed.
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  17422. Major McGyverenko strikes again.🇺🇦👍
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  17423. It's incredibly low to publicly reveal a highly personal and private text like that. I hope she pays a serious price for it and learns a major lesson.
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  17424. Mr. Jost, that was smart how you went to incredible lengths to lend some rhetorical support to Iran, Hezbollah and Syria, and indirectly to Russia and China, not to mention Hamas and Islamic Jihad. How very rich, bodyguard-protected, financially-moated 2023 New York hipster of you.👍
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  17425. Walz: "I have trouble telling the truth due to PSTD from having both legs blown off in battle in WWII."
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  17426. I wonder if Tice wears uncomfortable contact lenses.
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  17427.  @phoenixtoash2396  So what you're saying is, it's ok to read paranoiacally whatever one want into whatever anyone else says. Got it.😄
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  17428. I am not, and I do. They have done the same thing with Tara Reade's allegations against Joe Biden. "Isolated demands for rigour" is a lovely and damning phrase for political hypocrisy in the public sphere, most of all of course in the media.
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  17429. Notice that last year's Ottawa protest had the same effect as last year's China protests: They both put a stop to the increase in authoritarian Covid measures and soon resulted in government backtracking. What on Earth is going on that there should've been any resemblance at all? 🤨
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  17430. I disagree. Americans are very energetic in expressions of support for Ukraine, from Capitol Hill to every corner of social media. Your own community is perhaps a little quiet one-on-one, but no doubt they back it. Anyone can see the world's future is on the line.
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  17431.  @tracygraham8052  Thanks for your replies. (Hmm, did I make a second one to you? At the moment I only see one. Wondering if one was for some strange reason removed.)
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  17432. The art of peace is the art of deterrence.
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  17433.  @chrisgraham2904  Really, you think the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan will protest Trump's presence? Wow, that's a mind-blowing belief. Concerning stolen cars being shipped out of Canada, I guess you weren't aware how uncommon it is around the world, and always has been, for cargo leaving a country to be inspected by national authorities. Export controls have never been much of a thing.
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  17434. Not possible. The indispensable criterion is crazy-lady eyeglass frames. Sorry. Yes it's unfair, but this is 2023.
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  17435. 1) Look again. The cops didn't move a muscle till directed. It took a woman in the councillor area motioning to them twice before they did anything. Watch the woman in the leftmost seat. She alone made it happen. 2) Bail was reduced to $500k, which Patel posted. She was released. 3) Where's your comment on the fact that she pleaded not guilty? I need a lawyer's perspective on that.
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  17436. LH: "Donald Trump said 'The weather is tremendous today. Beautiful breezes.' " Rainbow hair people: "Disgusting!" "He's a monster!" "He doesn't care about people!" "How insensitive! All weather is bad due to climb-it change!" "That's so rheigh cyst!"
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  17437.  @robderich8533  He was the British prime minister who appeased Hitler, claiming to have achieved "Peace in our time." The British soon replaced him with Churchill.
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  17438. Fentanyl seizures by US Customs & Border Protection (lbs), 2024: Northern border: 43 Southern border: 21,100 2023 Northern border: 2 Southern border: 26,700 Source: US CBP 🤔Hmm. I wonder where the real problem is. Maybe it's the border where they just round off the number to the nearest hundred?
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  17439.  @Supermanfan99  Super thread, this.
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  17440. Astutely observed.
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  17441.  @LoLMasterManiac  Yeah, I know. Not to be difficult, but that resigned tone is similar to the tone Russians use when speaking of the barbarities of the past rulers of Russia (and the USSR). "It was necessary" "That's how it goes in Russia," etc. A Soviet emigré of my close acquaintance summed up the peoples of the Rus in this way: "Born to be ruled." After he had said that we were silent, since there was nothing else to say, so we moved on.
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  17442. Make your next purchase a pair of glasses, for while your eyesight may be corrected, your mind never will be.
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  17443. This guy was never very smart, and now he's maybe half as smart as he was. A shadow of his former shadow. There must be 10 million Americans who could do a better job. At least.
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  17444.  @beaverones41  You took the OC literally? You have to be pretty dumb to think there are people too dumb to know what you said.
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  17445. Reminds me of David Sylvian
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  17446. As the caterpillar lays her eggs on the fairest leaves, so the hostile-foreign-state professionals swarm the comments below videos that illustrate the good the US does.
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  17447. A veto-wielding P5 member of the Security Council, no less. Let's face it, the UN is pretty much garbage.
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  17448. The Soviets did the heavy lifting to defeat Hitler. The Americans, their hands full with Japan and in no mood anyway to suffer great casualties and spend fortunes on a European war, would never have had much interest in battling Hitler without the Soviets in the war, desperate to save their own necks. For breaking the Nazis' backs, their prize was domination of the future Warsaw Pact countries. On this reading, the Soviets really saved western Europe. No Soviet rebuff of the German invasion, no D-Day. The Americans might have done nothing besides perhaps helping Britain survive.
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  17449. World Stoner Council: "Hey, Rubin, stop comparing us to Kringela Harris."
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  17450.  @RummyAndKoch  Yeah, it is. You've got that right, although elite as a noun is not used for an individual. Take it as a sign of hypocrisy if that makes you feel better, but it actually signifies integrity in this case, as it often is when someone is critical of the common run of their own kind.
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  17451.  Kathleen Shaw  I see.
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  17452.  Brandon Hopkins  Thanks for your reply. Did that instrument happen to be a constitutional amendment?
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  17453.  Christopher Ross  I have read it. That doesn't mean I have to have any idea what tf is in this guy's head. He could have any part of it in mind for all I know. But thanks for trying to improve my moral character.
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  17454.  Christopher Ross  No probs
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  17455. 800 CE - 1995 CE: Babushka is close to the highest form of life on Earth. 2023 CE: Not anymore.
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  17456.  @ag90883  Yeah. Correct. As an investment it was out of gas.
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  17457. Just more proof that PhD diplomas in 2024 are like German marks in 1923: not worth the paper they're printed on. Use a wheelbarrow full of them to feed your wood stove on chilly winter nights.
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  17458.  @zannah6818  Thank you, well said. There are multiple ways of debunking the nonsense that "This isn't a democracy!", and that's one of them. It's so idi oti c, it's up there with Pizzagate. Of all the things, when there's so much that's real to be upset about. [smh]
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  17459. ​ @Lost_on_stage_again  You mean the only other country. The US itself was using F-14s for another 20 years after Top Gun was released, i.e. until 2006.
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  17460. I missed any mention of sleeping pills.
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  17461.  @karlmaxwell9277  Relaxers is a better term for them. Their suitability for daytime use takes them outside the hypnotic category, even though they are used by some to help with insomnia. If you asked doctors or pharmacists if benzodiazepines are sleeping pills you'd never get a flat yes. It's fairer to say that, like alcohol, at prescribed doses they permit sleep in the tired rather than inducing it. But I don't disagree with you completely. There's overlap up to a point.
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  17462.  @PORRRIDGE_GUN  As I understood it, Britain never did let the virus spread unimpeded. Although it was reported around the world that Sir Patrick Vallance had touted the idea, it has since become clear that he never did. Thus it was --- again, as I have read in The Atlantic and elsewhere, but I do not call myself an authority --- an actual instance of fake news destined, one would hope, for instructional use in journalism schools.
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  17463. Category inflation, the bread and butter of the sanctimonious. (It's a term I invented. Please use it.)
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  17464. This wasn't Artyom?
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  17465.  @grasenwolken  Well I'll be jiggered. Sounds so much like Artyom. Tks Grassy.
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  17466. He may have used a multi-year moving average to reduce spikiness and reveal the trend.
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  17467.  @albedoshader  I went back to the chart and I agree with you. The tsunami is missing. I notice that the bottom of the chart gives as the data source a perhaps rather ironically-named outfit: CRED. Thanks for your reply. Cheers.
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  17468.  @albedoshader  Mind if I ask your opinion of my other comment last week? Time was, I rarely went near my computer on a Friday night; now, sometimes! Btw, in that chart where's the 1976 China earthquake? I seem to remember a death toll of half a million. So, yeah, we may have some very energetic data massaging in this chart. Cheers.
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  17469. Oh, please. It's quite rational to make an economics specialist the health minister. Ordinarily, running a health ministry in the interests of national well-being and the saving of lives is very much about the wise allocation of money. And even now there's little reason to suppose a medical mind would be best. The secretary is sure to be awash in informed medical opinion at present.
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  17470.  Prometheus 2019  Thanks for your reply, but as I never got a PhD in economics I cannot discuss the matter. You must look elsewhere for someone way up at your level. Cheers.
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  17471. @scott7937 <--- "Now the cali people can ruin Florida when they move there" No, they're ruining Cali by leaving it.
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  17472. The "Trump will end democracy" delusion is the absurd counterpart of Peetsagate. But of course it's far worse, since quite a lot of people believe it now. The chief culprit in its propagation, hammering on it for three years now, has been the NY Times.
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  17473. A fascinating case study in endocrinological disruption, no doubt.
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  17474. Ah, but Labour got only 33.7% of the votes. So really, 66.3% of the UK voted against him and this nonsense.
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  17475.  @dgm5617  Herpes is one of the most obvious false-flag tro lls I've ever seen. He's spouting brainless, evil left poop to get people mad at the brainless, evil left. A good lad, if I gather correctly, who's trying to make a positive difference, but I would say he gives himself away. Cheers
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  17476. It's an old-fashioned way of speaking that most people now find affected, strange, annoying, or all three. It has survived in strong families and subcultures the least subject to changes in values and social usages, and thus pronunciation, meaning a small percentage of upper and lower class people. Broadly speaking, the lower-middle and middle classes are where linguistic changes have been most ubiquitous. Geographical region enters into it as well---I would assume the Stewie "wh" is an Appalachian thing too, but I don't know that for a fact .  At one time everyone pronounced "wh" like that. It goes back to Anglo-Saxon, also called Old English. That in turn goes back to Old High German, which English comes from. The w and the h were reversed, including in spelling. So Stewie says, phonetically spelled, "Cool Hwip." Norm MacDonald adheres to the practice, too, having lower class roots. So do quite a few preppy old ladies of the Barbara Walters type. They're all dying off and not being reconstituted in succeeding generations. So it indicates old-school socially isolated roots, whether lucky or unlucky. (I mean 'hwether', lol.) That's the story, no kidding. Cheers. @ThePParadigm
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  17477. It's "hweat" and "Cool Hwip". See my reply to ThePParadigm, below. Cheers.
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  17478. To me he's O'Brien, the Inner Party member and tormentor of Winston Smith in 1984.   I bet he'd play him in a remake, perfectly and without charging a fee, for the sheer fantasy-pleasure of it.
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  17479. I notice that he always looks like he's on something.
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  17480. @Marty Trout I believe you misread the post. She was criticizing the same man Gov. DeSantis did, Gov. Newsome of Calif.
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  17481. Definitely! Chase them with guns blazing.
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  17482. Secret Service: "That golf course was unsafe for agents to be on. It has a slope at its highest point."
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  17483. Jubilation will be everywhere.🎉
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  17484. I'm not sure it's a new thing. In Canada you hear it both ways, which is ordinarily a sign that Britain and America have different usages.
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  17485. I have little to no doubt this guest is an admirer of Canada's Prime Minister Peter Pan. How sad for him! Meanwhile, Canadians have had enough of the slippers-and-tights-wearing woke wonder-child. Latest poll: Liberals 17%....Conservatives 47%.🎉
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  17486. Thanks for the summary of media reports from some AI program.
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  17487. Believe All Men. Don't like that? Believe All People, then. Is that better?
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  17488. I think she said "No charges." But a Grand Jury still has to sign off on it. Routine in every such case.
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  17489. So who says MiG-29 as "emm-eye-gee-29"? No one.
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  17490. At the end, that blurred-out spot on the pavement is just so far from the point of impact. Something like 50 yards. Must've been his head that came off and flew like a soccer ball.
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  17491. Professor, you don't have to say OH-blast. It's not mandatory. In all the US and UK dictionaries I checked, AWB-last is either preferred or accepted. In American English we don't say pa-REE, we say PAIR-iss. (Paris) We don't say MANCH-ə-stir, we say MAN-chest-er. MOSK-ow, not MUSK-vah. It's fine.
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  17492. Inflation was 1.4% on Inauguration Day, not 9%. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) The guy's unfit for any job, let alone the most important one on earth. Kids, if you're playing near Old Man Biden's place, don't let the ball land in his yard. He's scary.
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  17493. There's no way they're a real indication of what the rest of them are like. Like the truckers themselves, there's a super-tiny number of bad apples amongst them. Canadian cops are very unsupportive of Trudeau's nonsense, the Ottawa chief being a glaring exception.
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  17494. Full video is almost certainly on X, which allows that kind of thing.
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  17495. Shouldn't you have a security system at least as expensive and at least as good as your $24,000 ice cream freezer?
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  17496.  @pd8401  Probably someone working for the govt. of another country, for the purpose of dividing Western societies. With help from special mass posting software and AI to improve English, it takes a shockingly tiny number of workers to put up a billion posts. Then it's on to the next billion.🤨
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  17497.  @yousef.al-assaf  Probably a pro hired by the govt. of another country to spread division and anger.
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  17498. Carlson's quite wealthy himself. Eight figures, surely? Headed for nine?
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  17499. 😂😂 No need to be sarcastic, mate. Funny though.
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  17500. I have no positive regard for Jean-Pierre, but she showed no anger at all, nor did she storm out. She seemed politely resigned to what was in her view a necessity to end the briefing due to a breach of protocol. So in view of the inaccurate title and text, I have to wonder what else is inaccurate here.
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  17501. They're insufferable. Pre-emptively give them the boot now.
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  17502. I wouldn't be so cocky there, motorcycle guy. If they were on the opposite end of things, their kids would be on hormone treatments waiting to be sterilized by having their equipment chopped off.
    1
  17503. I watched their original video, the one taken down. I found it riddled with rookie-mistake assertions about the pandemic. They might be good guys with intentions untainted by desires to boost their business, but they're not, in my view, knowledgeable enough to make a contribution to the debate. It's apparent to me that their toned-down message here and expression of willingness to 'talk about the validity of our data' with others (my paraphrase) indicate they've been chastened by some of the intense and valid criticisms. So I think there's little for a journalist here to root out, in contrast to the interviews with Drs. Ioannidis, Katz, and Wittkovski. Yet they're entitled to their opinions like anyone else, including non-medical people like me. So the story, if any, is YouTube's removal of their video. But although I don't have exhaustive knowledge about what happened with that, I doubt there's much there. YouTube is a private service and legitimately feels a responsibility to remove potentially harmful material. In my view, the doctors in their April video should have appeared in regular clothes and been up front about the limitations of their capacity to analyze pandemic data. YouTube might have left their video up if they had done so. Their responses in this interview I find much more circumspect. For that reason, I really doubt it'll be removed, and I hope it won't. They seem like nice people who really care about their patients' health and everybody's hardship and future. Journeyman hasn't made the greatest choice here, but their earlier videos I found outstanding so they certainly have my strong support.
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  17504. Shutdown is a noun, ffs.
    1
  17505. The OED supports this usage.
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  17506.  @markhaus  Actually, the Oxford English Dictionary supports the usage of howitzer found in the video, giving citations from 1761 to 1998. I will grant you that it strikes me as more academic than military-professional, but then I am not British either. Everybody here should just calm down. Except, I suppose, the paid workers in the employ of hostile foreign governments swarming every conceivable Western social media platform. [sigh] Like pit bulls owned by drug dealers, they have a job to do.🙄
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  17507. Fair speculation. It's not going to be postmarked 'Volgograd,' is it?
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  17508. I'm surprised Mayor Wu hasn't suggested that segregating the event by race would make it safer. And just better.
    1
  17509. The CEO said it's $20 for 14 to 15 lbs. I'd say $1.35 per pound is cheaper than avg. for produce.
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  17510.  Auran Crash  No, they are selfish. How can you not see that? You've got it so twisted that I take you for selfish yourself.
    1
  17511. If the farthest right enthusiasts reject him, that just makes him more appealing to ordinary conservatives cut from Reaganite cloth.
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  17512. The type of person crushed a dozen times a day, every day, by pretty much nothing. In fact it's being "crushed" that fuels his will to live. (Ordinarily I use the word 'person' a touch more rigorously, but let that pass.) "Paging Dr. Phil. White courtesy telephone at the reception desk, please."
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  17513. ​ @goenzoy712  Yeah, that's so true. People in power in China know that for a fact that the Chinese people don't care if they have chicken and pork on their tables, which is just one part of how they don't care about their standard of living at all. They don't care about money, as everyone knows. They're indifferent about their personal futures. Absolutely. On top of all that, the people in power in China know that their grip on power and the stability of the country have nothing to do with what the populace thinks or feels about them. That's why they didn't end the lockdowns when the people protested. Finally, they also believe that, setting aside whether the people get angry or not, in a deeper sense China's future just has basically nothing to do with its prosperity in any way.😂 So thanks for correcting the OP.😂
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  17514.  @goenzoy712  My whole point was to ridicule the risible proposition that Xi and the Party elites are unconcerned about China's economy.
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  17515. Four of 13 weeks of autumn gone. Your guys better get a move on. At the moment thousands of them are marching eastwards, or forward waving white flags.
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  17516. Give my best to Viv and Denise
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  17517. @Lydia Don't be so literal-minded. My point is that a fact-checker is just another source of information, despite its pose that it is the last word. That should have been clear enough.
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  17518.  Mark Hepworth  That 's not an easy question to answer, but I can tell you what I don't do: I don't look around for somebody holding up a sign saying "Smart guy, totally honest, will settle all questions"
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  17519.  @alexc9372  Some of them are both.
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  17520.  @alexc9372  I agree with that. It's the same everywhere—accountant doesn't mean good accountant, newspaper doesn't mean good newspaper, school doesn't mean… well, you get it. Thanks for your reply.
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  17521. Thanks for opening with that ad and pushing the pro-Taliban message of that book. That hardly alienated me at all.🙄
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  17522. ​ @rightlyso8507  You have little idea how the world works and how the United States got so rich after the Second World War. It was and is by the exertion of military and financial power to force upon most of the world an order beneficial to itself—to others as well, but first and foremost to itself—and a partnership with Europe was and is indispensable to the success of the attempt. A world without NATO would be entirely transformed into something very hostile to the US and its prosperity. (In a lot of ways it already is, of course, but I mean ten times more so at least.) You think the US can really run the world all by itself, without its European partners? Hah! Or that the US doesn't depend on a reasonably free and secure world to keep the money and imported commodities and products pouring in? Practically the whole world has to go to a lot of trouble and expense to support the living standards of Americans. You don't realize how the strength of the US dollar, buttressed by the potency of the NATO alliance, benefits you personally? You don't know or remember that Britain was the world's leading nation until WWII? That sterling was the world's reserve currency? That when it was devalued in the 1950s the rich and poor alike in Britain sustained a massive hit to their wealth and standard of living? It became a second-rate country, you surely know that at least? If you really have no understanding of these things, I can't impart it in a few paragraphs.
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  17523. Amazing how your interview subjects can seem so hidebound in some videos and so bright in others, like this one. Fascinating answers, great topic. Btw, that building looks fantastic covered in travertine. I wonder if Moscow looks as good as it appears in your videos or if you are biased towards attractive locations for interviews.
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  17524.  @VisualizeMz  You're right. Perhaps I could've just said Wow too.
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  17525. I would suppose he invited her to first-name him before supposing she's boorish enough to go ahead uninvited.
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  17526. 3,500 fewer migrants qualifies as a news story? What? How? StatsCan says Canada's population is rising, solely due to migration, by 4.7k a day: 1.7 million a year.😱 People can't find a doctor or place to live, 1.7m migrants are arriving in 2024, and you take up our time with this?
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  17527. Naturally. The more anybody messes with Conservative MPs in underhanded or criminal ways, the better off the Liberals are. On a large enough scale it could ensure that they form the government of Canada forever. And if anybody on earth knows which side of his bread the butter's on, it's Justin Ocasio Cortez.
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  17528. 'Both sides suck and they suck equally,' you say? Then you're not paying attention. One side sucks especially.
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  17529. The senator should identify as neither a man nor a woman. He should identify as a baby, which is what he really is.
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  17530. Yes, according to one report. Xi handed Putin a soiled wedding dress and a tube of lipstick and said "Here, put these on." Putin said "Yes, your Imperial Highness." Xi said "I didn't tell you to speak."
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  17531. Not happy about the clickbait video title. It masquerades as news that Schölz made a new announcement on Leopards. But it turns out that it's only what he said many months ago. Actually there is a lot of speculation that he is about to reverse that earlier stance. Thanks for an otherwise good report but don't forget, Ukraine Matters, that all you have is the trust of your viewers.
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  17532. Q: What's the difference between Anthony Fauci and God? A: God doesn't think he's Anthony Fauci.
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  17533. Gavin Noisome rumored to be auditioning for a remake of The Wizard of Oz. He'll play the Scarecrow. And Toto.
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  17534. Only a small handful of prominent Canadians are publicly against this and similar woke atrocities. (Two of them are among the most popular figures in the country, namely Dr. Peterson and Poilievre, the federal leader of the opposition. I'm thankful for that fact at least.) But most of the institutions — political, academic, journalistic, social media and legal — are firmly united enough that they amount to a left-woke phalanx.
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  17535. Sounds tough but fair.
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  17536. France 24 is Mickey Mouse crap. Amateur-hour modelling school rejects.
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  17537. "Would you like to live in a democratic state?" "Yes." "What needs to be done for this?" "Start with yourself." Omg! 140m people with her wisdom would make the greatest country the world has ever known.
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  17538. Were those things even human? Humanoid, sure. But fully human?
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  17539. I'm not sure they should be admonished like that. Maybe they went out on a patrol or for combat and never came back because they were wounded or killed.
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  17540.  @maninthemiddleground2316  No worries mate. But you did say twice they should take care of their stuff. And what does that sound like to any reasonable person? It sounds 100% like 'They didn't take care of the stuff in the video'.
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  17541.  @maninthemiddleground2316  The OED goes on to provide "advise or urge (someone) earnestly" as the next sense or meaning of admonish. And yes, we are, thank god, on the same side. All social media is crawling with Pooty-bot propagandists. Cheers mate
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  17542.  @maninthemiddleground2316  Ok, so if you have the link can you share it? I worry all this is never going to get any better, since propaganda is cheap and effective. (For evidence to support that latter claim, you might enjoy Operation Infektion, a great NY Times-commissioned 2018 documentary here on the YouTube NYT channel. ~50 minutes but seems to go by much faster.) So social media turned out to be a Pandora's box, and its future is bleak. On that grim note, cheers again
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  17543. Face it, those are fines.
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  17544. It's called giving the devil his due, and it's exactly what a shill won't do. So thanks for pointing out his integrity. :)
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  17545. Outstanding.
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  17546. Liberal media: "Democracy! Democracy! Democracy! Democracy! Democracy!" Liberal media when a conservative party wins an election: "Threat to democracy!" Liberal media when the Liberal Party tramples Canadians' rights: [crickets] The liberal media, according to the classic definition, are actually illiberal.
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  17547. Don't is one word. Not two. Aww damm[Edit: No, that's bad, I'm not gonna say that]
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  17548. ​ @dpelpal  Yes, that could be. We've seen that airstrikes were part of it. The planes were not F-16s, but having some in the air quite a few miles back, fully loaded with advanced air-to-air missiles, could provide a considerable deterrent to Russia attempting to approach the zone of the attack with its own aircraft. It's like chess: every piece on the board adds something.
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  17549. Why is the TR host in every clip louder than the guest? Why on earth?
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  17550.  @MrCherryJuice  And you think sound levels aren't adjustable?🤨 You've never heard of sound technicians?
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  17551. BS
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  17552. That smug, condescending, insulting, smirking president of Penn has a new side to her life as a passionately despised celebrity. Let the memes begin, let them last forever. Let her name live in infamy. I hope she has to leave town.
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  17553. I thought he was some old retired dude, but he just turned 41.😮
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  17554. The question to ask them, the real test, is: "Do not name any instances, but can you think of any time or times within the past 2 years when you strongly felt that most of the media, or the government—either one, or both—were deliberately lying to you?" If "No," then they are brainwashed—for nowhere on Earth are those authorities always honest, and in Russia that goes triple at least.
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  17555. You'll be fine. If they said it'll be easy, conservation would be discouraged. They have to pretend it's going to be close.
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  17556. So you want quadriplegics to remain paralyzed.🤨 [four slow claps]
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  17557.  @stuartp4280  Yes, but that is beside the point, which is that an expansion was shut down. Well over 3 million barrels a day comes from Canada altogether, and it is no real consolation that none of it has been shut off, because more is needed. As for Keystone exports, they have been in recent months about 20% of the total, or 175k bbl/d, a fraction bound to fall now for obvious reasons, among them the inevitable shut-off of Russian imports (600k bbl/d).
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  17558.  @justintyme2451  Your defence of the necessity of targeted government helmsmanship in a free-enterprise economy was a good one. It leads me to guess that you are facing mostly in the right direction. It shouldn't be long now.
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  17559.  @OlympusMons1969  Which of my remarks is that in response to?
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  17560.  @justintyme2451  I think you will be fine. Cheers
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  17561.  @OlympusMons1969  Eating cake and having it.
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  17562. Do we know that for sure? That was six or seven years ago and maybe he was being truthful at the time. I know Twitter changed into the scummy thing Musk bought—but when? As I understand it, Dorsey left in disgust or was pushed out (or a combination of both) over a battle with the Twitter board of directors about censorship (euphemism: 'moderation') which he could not win. It was around that time that he became buddies with Musk. So when did Twitter turn to ca-ca?
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  17563. (1) Make hand and arm gestures only intermittently, and only to express or emphasize a particular feeling or idea. Waving your hands around non-stop and purposelessly is highly distracting and irritating. (2) Use a speaking speed tool to help you stay around 130-150 words/minute. Avoid bursts of speed. (3) Wear a shirt.
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  17564.  @peterc.1419  Vastly less common than Anglophobia.
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  17565. That is incoherent. I suggest learning English (including word meanings, how to write a sentence, and the rules for using punctuation marks and capital letters). Or just use a translator. Don't say "county" and don't pretend that "all" "Leaders" are the same as all other leaders. Even children know better than that.
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  17566. Yep. Ukraine in NATO and the EU now!
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  17567.  @tapeo1  Watch his interview with Bartiromo from July 2023.
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  17568.  @timrider1224  Yes, I agree with all that and see no contradictions between my views as expressed and your own. If he wins I expect him to confront Putin with an ultimatum.
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  17569. Yes....1989-style glory. 🤣😂🤣🤣
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  17570.  @alexp.keaton2768  Correct. You can ask all 38 million Canadians if they're American and not one will say yes, except for a couple of hundred thousand immigrants from the US. Period.
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  17571.  @themissdior1235  No, Canada isn't going with boosters, though I'm pretty sure we will do so if and when new formulas are approved. At present only very ill people and care home residents are getting precautionary boosters, probably around 1% of adults, if they had their second shot early in the year.
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  17572.  @icarusfalls9315  I'm sure that's true, but in fairness the same things seem to apply to the opposite camp. Let's face it, civil people who are curious, well-informed and have healthy personalities are rarer than they used to be, and online that goes triple. And who could be surprised? Time spent receiving common-sense instruction from parents, socializing with others, and reading books or learning in other ways, were all replaced by time spent alone with gadgets decades ago now.
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  17573. Finland is not communist. It is a high-tax free-enterprise country. A few businesses are owned by the govt.: the railways, Finnair, oil refining/gas stations, the post office. It also funds health care, not much of which is private. Hospitals are non-profit and municipally- or university-owned. The govt. is big, but the main basis of the economy is private property and free enterprise.
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  17574. Ok, Vladislav.🙄
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  17575. They say that "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." That's why this country really needs a Mental Illness Index.
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  17576. Mother: "He never bothered nobody." (Btw, he's alive and facing charges, so "snuffed out" does not apply.)
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  17577. What I just watched is a guy who was on something.
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  17578. ​ @RobFossil  Ok, so he did the right thing. It appears they didn't listen to him, but maybe he at least mentally prepared the ground for them to see it eventually. It would surprise me if Germany didn't have backup plans for energy by 2021.
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  17579. But they did, for over a century. Check out the splendid old public buildings, hotels, office towers and private mansions in Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland. It was only after the mid-1960s that things in those places went, uh, south.
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  17580. Honesty, Democrat-style: Telling a lie for 2, 5, 10 or 20 years, then reversing as though they never said it Intelligence, Democrat-style: Spouting foolishness for 2, 5, 10 or 20 years, then reversing as though they never said it By that time they've taken a wrecking ball to society, justice, the economy, culture, values, the American future.
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  17581. ​ @jamesharmon3827  They call it "health care," like pregnancy is a sickness. Their game: (1) monkeying around with language (2) pushing people around, (3) making stuff up outright. Government by the mean girls table gone utterly mad.
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  17582.  @jamesharmon3827  They call it "health care," like pre g nancy is a sickness. Their game: (1) mon keying around with language (2) pushing people around, (3) making stuff up outright. Government by the me an girls' table gone utterly m ad.
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  17583. * loser
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  17584. I wonder what the full aftermath was.🤔
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  17585. Loose: Opposite of tight Lose: Opposite of gain
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  17586. In their effort to discredit Elon Musk for political heresy, the corporate media have cast their net wide enough to effectively discredit EVs at the same time. Combined with their confederates in big social media, they are now the leading power in the US and the West, surpassing governments and the electorate.
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  17587. USA / Canada? Please separate those two names a bit better.
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  17588.  @annb5853  My request was meant with light comic bitterness to point out that my own country has less in common with that waste land than might be presumed from the lexicographic proximity of your formulation. 'Don't mention me and [whoever] in the same breath' people have been known to say.
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  17589.  @deathmauler181  Ha! Don't kid yourself. Put your imagination to work and think how it would go if the protest were against any demographic or political group of whatever kind which is deemed specially and intrinsically wonderful by the left and their simps/confederates in the media, govt. and academia. No other context matters — none.
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  17590. Trump is mad at Zelensky for one reason: He's not co-operating with Trump's desire to hand over a fifth of his country to Russia. I don't blame Zelensky a bit. I'm with the people who think that a better deal than that can be made if the US sustains its support for Ukraine.
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  17591. A different screen containing text, diagrams and charts usually only tangentially related to the voice-over appears every 2-5 seconds. So there's 20 min. of audio with perhaps 40 min. of parallel visual content. Since it's impossible to listen and read at the same time, this necessitates endless pausing and going back. But this sacrifices the narration, chopping it up and ruining comprehension and retention. A professor who lectured in this manner would soon have no students.
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  17592. I don't condone what he said about McCain, but they were bitter rivals and pretty obviously that was the reason he said it. Soldiers who died over a hundred years ago could not possibly loom in Trump's mind as the same sort of antagonists as McCain. So it in fact does not sound like something he would say.
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  17593. YT is pulling down tons of Ukraine content. This could've been uploaded days ago and successfully appealed just now.
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  17594. The police should've been called to nip this in the bud when it began. If they were called, and failed to act immediately, there should now be swift accountability.
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  17595.  @DMAN-o2e  In Cuba there are spies on every single corner. Many of the people one runs into every day spy for the government on everyone around them.  I don't know how ordinary Cubans manage to live with that.
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  17596.  @zerogrey3798  For number of viewers it squeaks into the top 100 shows on TV, right behind something on The Learning Channel.
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  17597.  @zerogrey3798  According to DGE Press, The View averaged 2.46m viewers in 2024 Q1. According to Variety, in its "Top 100 Shows of 2022-23, Total Viewers," the show with the nearest number of viewers was "90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After: Tell All: No Limits" on the TLC channel....which ranked 86th.
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  17598.  @mediumchungus9662  According to DGE Press, The View averaged 2.46m viewers in 2024 Q1. According to Variety, in its "Top 100 Shows of 2022-23, Total Viewers," the show with the nearest number of viewers was "90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After: Tell All: No Limits" on the TLC channel....which ranked 86th.
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  17599. If there's only one owl left, then how is there still time? Do the Liberals think it can identify as both male and female and breed with itself?🤨
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  17600. Great self-portrait, Yevgeny. Fantastic likeness.
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  17601. This is why children don't run the world. They're still just learning (or in some cases, not yet learning). Just ignore them. Btw, a boy would never have even been invited on the program. Her presence here came straight out of Female Privilege.
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  17602. It's not the world, btw. It's just swathes of the West, the English-speaking countries by far the most.
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  17603. Ontario is committed to building SMRs starting in the next few years. This is in addition to new reactors of conventional size. Formerly nuclear was 70% of the province's electricity mix, but no new reactors have been built for 30+ years, so their share isn't much more than 50% now. This is being addressed.
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  17604.  @desking8065  I don't know. But the Ontario government has been moving ahead decisively on its policy aims in the past year, I've noticed. We'll see.
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  17605. Speaking of throwing figures around, how about you comparing Russia to the USSR, of which Russia was only the largest part? The USSR happened to include Ukraine. Omg.
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  17606.  @meshzzizk  You're familiar with the thing called a paragraph, of course? And the other thing called clarity? (I see you're a virtual stranger to capitalization.)
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  17607. Not US-born. The Constitution forbids it.
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  17608.  @canadiansfor2A  He didn't say that. Very, very inappropriate response to him. He is owed an apology.
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  17609. Collision with a bus, glass reportedly was shattered.
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  17610. Yes, C-M & Winston should write a book.
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  17611. Saadly true.
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  17612. Thank you.
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  17613. This is straight from one of a parade of politically-motivated hit pieces in the New York Times which began as soon as Musk withdrew his longtime support for the Democratic Party. 👎
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  17614. Those gaudy headlight and taillight displays are tasteless. Nerdy schoolboy stuff.
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  17615. Great talk. I'd point out, though, that not all electricity comes from fossil fuels, nor should it. At present it's down to about 59%. (See the EIA's Electric Power Monthly.) That's down by over 15 points since 2000 and falling by faster than 1 point a year. It's a good thing. It'd be great if someday it can come down to 20% (all of it natural gas).
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  17616. Absolutely.
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  17617. They weren't forbidden. They went along. That's all we really know. Also, keep in mind the necessity of creating false impressions. Many things we see and hear are various NATO countries playing parts.
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  17618. ​ @tjalvehund82  I think time will show NATO's actions to have been uncannily astute. Remember, the outcome of this conflict, while it must be favourable for Ukraine and must be as soon as possible, must not be rushed because most of all it must last. It's no good to knock the front lines back 50 miles in six months if Russia might simply re-advance before long. It's no good to stake Ukraine to a strategy allowing the war to last ten, twelve, twenty years. It must be done right — the first time.
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  17619.  @heathermccall8015  For every person who cares what you think, 10 million care what they think. I caution against self-delusion about who's important. Neither of them is a "misogynist" either. Get over yourself, Ms. Dworkin. And your reply itself was a very neat line in pomposity.
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  17620.  @heathermccall8015  I was busy satisfying my girlfriend, honey.
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  17621.  @heathermccall8015  I was busy attending to my girlfriend's womanly needs, honey.
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  17622.  @heathermccall8015  Be careful you don't slide out of your seat.
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  17623. (1) Wow, so many years into this crisis and only now is it getting government attention? (2) What makes Trudeau think developers are clueless as to how to build a house or small apartment block? (3) Can you say "style-deficient, unattractive, Soviet-looking, cookie-cutter future slum tenements"?
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  17624.  @grapesofhypocrisy9842  I've looked at the table with my own two eyes. Only the bottom quintile of households by income get a net rebate.
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  17625.  @snooper71  BS!! He's not "from" Toronto. He's a recently-arrived citizen of Pakistan. And he never "crossed." He was arrested 12 miles north of the border. And the cops were aware that he had a human smuggler waiting for him not far away, so I wouldn't be so sure that Roxham Road is "closed."
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  17626.  @snooper71  Wow, such an important person and I only read one of your two posts. Boy am I ever embarrassed. My apologies, your royal highness!
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  17627. "[H]e joins 46 other Conservatives in handing in his resignation." And whoever wrote that in the video description actually writes for a living?🙄 Wallace hasn't resigned, nor is that what the other 46 did.
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  17628. She's in way, way over her head — and deep down she knows it. But her absurdly outsized ambition is completely in charge of her. She wears it like a outsized novelty hat, laughs maniacally, and shows her scary large teeth.
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  17629.  @abrahamlincoln5661  I'm less bold than bored. 🥱
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  17630.  @abrahamlincoln5661  I am glad you think so, for I shouldn't like you to find me fascinating if you really do believe in Mr. Kinsella's assertion.
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  17631.  @tylerfloodgate  You're already learning. Give yourself a pat.
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  17632. Ok, Peskovchik.
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  17633. Hahahahahaha!😂 You wish! But wishing doesn't make it so. Neither side is so weak that it has to give up. Not even close right now. Both sides have men, money, armaments, political will, tactics in reserve.
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  17634. For God's sake man, do not say "premiseez". It's not Latin. Just plain "premisses," please.
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  17635. Newsome always looks like he's on something.🤨  Pills, powder, who knows? Only him and the people who send it to his office in small packages.
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  17636.  @plainterrain  Right, that's why he was fatally addicted to drink. Harms the cred slightly, no?
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  17637. There she was, absolutely safe in her mansion while others' blood was being spilled, feeling absolutely wonderful about herself for her mindless white guilt. Such a mentality is nothing less than a psychologist's Wonderland.
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  17638.  @sovereignpsyche7968  Peterson himself calls them neo-Marxists, which is also ok. Neo-anythingism is what results when people pick and choose from the tenets or even just the tenor of any 'ism' and then tailor it to suit themselves. The result is often abhorrent to proponents of the original doctrine. Just earlier this month I began calling them the New Puritans. (This is an original coinage as far as I am aware.) Use it if you like. I also came up with Fundamentalist Progressives earlier this year. Cheers.
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  17639.  @robertschulte2633  I think there's a lot of truth to what you say. When I hear or read objectionable talk from far-left PC types I may not be able to sense their real motivations but I categorize the motivations as: 1) Sincere but misguided, i.e., it's what they've been taught at school, home, or the media and they haven't or can't think it through; 2) Insincere and cloaking an attempt to be on the winning side; or 3) Consciously sincere but subconsciously a power grab with little real concern for what's fair.
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  17640. As a young West German, Scholz greatly admired the Soviet-installed regime in East Germany. A leading member of the Marxist youth wing of the party he today leads, the SPD, he wrote essays railing against "aggressive, imperialist NATO" and went to East Germany to meet communist cabinet ministers.🤢
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  17641.  @whackycloud69  I wouldn't assume that person has a gender of any kind, actually.😄 Even 'person' might be somewhat presumptuous.
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  17642. Hahaha, look who's talking.
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  17643. Never mind that. Far worse, he can't take away our traumatic memories of him.
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  17644. She bears a haunting similarity to the child devotees of Big Brother in 1984. Have a look at them in this excellent BBC adaptation from 1954: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba4J6umbbp0&t=1686s Pick it up from the 21-minute mark. Then read the "Early Life" section in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg Afterwards, let me know your opinion.
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  17645. "We let criminals out of jail, made felonies into misdemeanours, stopped police from arresting people, hired prosecutors who don't prosecute, cut the number of police, stopped responding to many 911 calls, discouraged reporting of crime, and demoralized effective cops out of their jobs. Therefore, crime is down." —Little Pete
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  17646. You're getting the admissions department mixed up with the faculty hiring committees. This kid is a professor, not a student.
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  17647. On the failure of polling, I can see a link to turnout. Despite growth in the voting-age population, several million fewer votes were cast than in 2020, indicating a lack of enthusiasm for either nominee. So I suspect that it was better for polls to target self-professed likely voters than registered voters.
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  17648. She needs professional help.
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  17649. "Single vehicle crash sends man to hospital." "No injuries have been reported in the crash." Cool story. Tickles the brain.😂
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  17650. ​ @paulcopsey6573  ":...simple yes or no is not part of the act" And do you confine yourself to yes/no replies in your own life?
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  17651.  @robert7622  lol
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  17652. I thought it was soup or noodles. Anyway, if I were the boss I'd tell her not to do that anymore.
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  17653.  @ВикторОсипов-я4з  What on Earth is delitanism?
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  17654.  @ВикторОсипов-я4з  Are you sure you don't mean dilettantism?
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  17655.  @marshuswp3325  Curious, is my reply of 25 min. before yours visible? Quick yes/no pls.
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  17656.  @forky3525  "Countervailing evidence?" Countervailing to what? To the evidence you offered?😆
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  17657.  @forky3525  Yeah, your fellow Pooty-ists know what you're talking about, of course. You guys think everybody against Putin is a fascist. Hey, I'm pretty sure your mom is a Nazi. Please provide countervailing evidence. 🙄🙄🙄🙄If you can't then I must be right.
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  17658.  @forky3525  QED. Heil your mom!
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  17659.  @forky3525  I'm never angry when I'm having fun dealing with a silly piece of anonymous fluff who's probably a teenager.
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  17660. Devil's Advocate position: Turns out you're right (as was I), but hindsight is always 20/20. At the time there was always reason to suppose/hope/think/bet that Putin would avoid the largest risks involving direct confrontation, that he was playing to the crowd at home, that Crimea was the end of the line. So you and I were Churchill. Good for us. But Obama was Chamberlain, lacking the solid proof that a military response was necessary. (Providing jets to Ukraine would've constituted a clear and direct challenge from the Russian point of view.) It's harder when you don't know—and Chamberlain, not knowing, was roundly cheered for his restraint. If you were an advisor to Obama and NATO in 2014, you could've recommended it. Then they would've asked you how sure you were. How would you have answered, knowing that they're asking about the chances of a war? How far below 100% sure can the advice be before they have to turn it down?
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  17661. It is the way of animal life on Earth. It got you here. Wear a hairshirt if you enjoy the way it feels, but leave others alone.
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  17662. Prime Minister Cringe.
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  17663. I look with deep suspicion on people who throw around accusations of narcissism intemperately and with overdone passion, even glee. I can't help thinking they're throwing up smokescreens to hide what they are from others, and themselves. In other words they doth protest too much.
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  17664. I call her Kringela.😄
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  17665.  @shem4753  4 Leopards + 4 Leopards + 1 NASAMS ADS battery. 100% positive on this. (But the NASAMS is only ordered, so it'll be a while...unless the US kindly sends one from their own stocks and lets the Canadian order backfill it whenever it's shipped by Raytheon/Kongsberg.
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  17666.  @gregmillhand9697  No, 112.
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  17667. 👍Typical fair and accurate reporting by Sky News Australia, making it clear that the Speaker alone caused this through careless and incompetent vetting. But the Prime Minister's Office still bears ultimate responsibility. Somebody has to keep a close and watchful eye on every aspect of visits by foreign leaders, and it's them. Let the chief of staff resign or be fired.
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  17668. I notice they deal in facts, unlike some others, who reach conclusions first and then decide what to call a fact.
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  17669. Welcome to the world Dunning-Kruger headquarters, where thousands of geniuses deride Elon Musk's lack of brains.
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  17670.  @adamhall7077  From what I know, I completely agree. (If it seemed I thought otherwise, you should look up Dunning-Kruger.)
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  17671. On a subway, certain windows are the emergency exits.
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  17672.  @fionagregory8078  And are imprisoned for them even less.
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  17673. 26:16 What? "Young men are statistically the worst people, right?" I mean wtf? Do we do this in the 2020s? Do we single out groups which no one joined voluntarily --- sexes, ethnicities, races, sex orientations, nationalities, age groups --- and talk about them as being "the worst people"? Are you officially making that ok now? Should people start doing that in your comments sections? Should people start poring over stats to see what they find? Good god, man, give your head a shake. That was simply hate speech according to the definition. (Too bad your wife never jumped in to stop you, btw. I suppose the two of you agree.) I couldn't be more disappointed. Reported.
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  17674.  @kdstoffel7574  I'm an old woman, for your information.
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  17675. Is that your way of sarcastically saying "Poor white people" like that left activist on Twitter?
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  17676.  @XxPimpStarzXx  For some idiotic reason you conflate brain health and intellect. Come on kid, you're not very bright and you must know it.
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  17677.  @XxPimpStarzXx  Get lost, kid.
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  17678. ​ @dpelpal  "Blasted a hole in the side of the Kremlin" etc. Hahahaha, you've got him there.👏 They always conveniently forget Afghanistan and its aftermath when they're talking about how invincible they are. Not to pick too much on the poor Kremlin, I think the Kremlin is behind the misfortunes of Russia the same as it always was.
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  17679. ​@Marc van den Boogaard Yeah, that's the worry. I like to tell myself that the act of anybody starting a nuclear war would be the most insane thing in human history, and then ask 'What are the odds we'll be establishing new record highs for insanity at this stage?' I think the theory and practice of Mutually Assured Destruction is made of pretty sturdy stuff.
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  17680. I was going to say he looks more well-rested than at any time in the past year.
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  17681.  @NightMystique13  Yes, but drinking in Russia is down to normal European levels now.
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  17682.  @ZootyZoFo  I don't know where you're looking but I checked several sources and none places Russia anywhere near the top. Probably the most credible among them is Our World in Data, which is the statistical arm of the University of Oxford. It places Russia 25th (2018). (Ukraine: 60th.) I've found The Visual Capitalist to be fairly trustworthy over the years and they rank Russia 56th (2019). (Ukraine: 77th.) It appears they use CIA data.
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  17683.  @NightMystique13  Yes, it does. Per-capita alcohol consumption stats also mask the fact that a (perhaps) surprisingly high fraction of Russians don't drink at all, compared to other countries outside the Islamic world. (I would guess that includes a high number who had to quit in order to avoid death, as well as many who abjure alcohol after witnessing family members or others destroy themselves with drink.) So those who do drink must therefore be more likely to be heavy drinkers. Russia has a particularly high "disease burden" from drinking. Despite average consumption being not near the top, the way its drinkers drink takes a heavy toll.
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  17684. In fairness, the facts that she was "pregnant, and a mum!" have no moral or legal bearing on the matter. I was disappointed to hear the interviewer ("Sharri") repeatedly suggest any relevance whatever. Deeply unthinking is the nicest way I have of describing it.
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  17685. You must be American or Canadian. In the UK and Australia they would absolutely call her middle-class. In Britain it's a big deal to be middle-class. Out of 68 million people there are only a couple of million in that class. (Some might say even fewer.) I daresay most households worth £3 million don't even qualify as middle-class, though some worth less are definitely upper-middle. She would have zero right to call herself upper-middle or upper class. It's not mostly about money. You don't enter those classes by virtue of becoming extremely rich, you just do not. I urge you not to be so parochial and to return to liking her.
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  17686. Yeah, I'm shocked. This guy isn't quite who I thought he was.
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  17687.  @HedgehogZone  Shame on Germany for its spinelessness and corporate venality. Enough neuroticism, enough worrying what your left wing grad students think. Be a European leader.
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  17688.  @khiem1939  Thanks for your interesting reply.
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  17689. It's bad journalism to point to the formaldehyde content of these pouches when some seafood, pears and beets contain more. Likewise to disparage nicotine not delivered by cigarettes. I'd keep it away from children, but it's a quite harmless mild stimulant in these quantities and is not the ingredient in tobacco that causes disease or death.
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  17690. Isn't he a martial arts instructor? That's part of his job, although injuring people isn't.
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  17691. He remarked on Trudeau suddenly leaving his job in the middle of a school semester, specifically explaining that the PM has difficulty following through on anything. (To give yet another example, remember his abandoned promise to renew and improve the electoral system?) So how can you call it "slimy" when you're supplying a separate inference yourself? Busted.
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  17692.  @marcwood2741  Not a bad summary at all. Few people can write or think that clearly👏👏.
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  17693. (1) Is he related to Kringela Harris? He sure can toss a mean word salad. (2) He needed to do himself and the world a favor and knock that absurdly ugly beard off his face. Wearing facial hair like that is bound to alienate many, many people. Come to think of it, I think that is the purpose of such a beard.
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  17694. Thank you, SNA. I know of no other good news and commentary channel in the entire anglosphere of nearly 500 million people.
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  17695. Macgregor, that retired fruit 'n' nut bar?   He's not a military man anymore, he's simply the West's #1 Putin cheerleader, complete with pompoms, pigtails and a little pleated skirt. But thanks for the China Foreign Ministry spokesman point of view, Chanfun!
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  17696.  @Iloveyourmom8888  That made me laugh for a while.😄
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  17697. 5:38 Lilya saying some laudable things, wearing some laudable rings. 👍🇺🇦
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  17698. She wouldn't admit it but she's trading on her sexuality by wearing that tiny top. That's unethical and shows a commitment to career, not her profession. But her core lack of ethics is shown by the hatchet job she does on Bulgaria. She risks little backlash because it is a small, poor country and generally not respected around the Anglosphere, where her viewers are. By portraying Bulgarians as backward, stingy, and racist she can score points for herself as a moral person. A simple, winning approach that works throughout the media. She represents everything that is wrong in journalism. You can see her complete confidence that she has the upper hand.
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  17699.  @Obscurai  Perfect marks not only for sophistry but now sanctimony as well.👍 I made the analogy solely for its explanatory power, not because I think a human is a widget. I of course do not; no one does. And you knew that quite well.
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  17700. ​ @Obscurai  Blah blah blah, bellyache bellyache. So what? I never "attacked" immigrants and I never will. I merely corrected you on an obvious point. If two workers side by side both came from abroad four months ago, and one has temporary status and the other has resident status, it matters little. They're both foreign workers. If I moved anywhere, be it to Australia or Zimbabwe, and found a job, whether my status was permanent or not I'd certainly consider myself a foreign worker and an immigrant as well, even though temporary workers are not ordinarily classed as immigrants, certainly not officially. Speaking of moving, I must move on now. If you want to have the last word, it's all yours and I won't receive it anyway. This is past tedious.
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  17701. Claptrap. First of all, pandemics happen all on their own without 'spy agencies' creating them, always have and always will. Second, he could just as easily have had in mind China creating a pandemic again.
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  17702. I was about to agree with you and then you suggested we've passed safely through the internet filter already. I don't believe that for a second. The internet is a way of stirring hive-mind into an innately mostly individual-mind system. It could be raising the tower to dizzying heights at the same time as it eats away termite-like at the supporting beams way down below.
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  17703.  @GULF_OF_aMEXICO  No. Russia and its drunken bots are.
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  17704. Maladjusted and mentally ill people have finally made a major contribution to society and it's the idea that racism is the solution to racism.
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  17705. Please send the Rubin Report staff member who keeps putting "Goes Quiet" in video titles on administrative leave.
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  17706. Jordan Peterson should be left out of this. He condemns Putin thoroughly, he just thinks Ukraine is destined to lose no matter what help the West provides it. I think he's wrong, but at least he has some grounds for his opinion. McGregor, on the other hand, I believe shows a bias in Putin and Russia's favor.
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  17707.  @littlerainyone  Thanks for your comment. Carlson is a dishonest hack. He has said things on other subjects which I've agreed with, but on a few subjects which I actually know a good deal about, I have caught him telling outright factual untruths. And not just minor things in passing, either. Things which he made major hay out of. I believe Fox settled the Dominion lawsuit to their own disadvantage in April just to get rid of him.
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  17708. I do not own a house, but if I did I would want to give Elon Musk my business. I hope you like the irrelevance of my comment as much as I liked the irrelevance of yours.
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  17709.  @Anaskhanartist  The US companies will be trustworthy suppliers. Unlike Vladolf Putzler the psycho.
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  17710.  @DemPilafian  People are always mad when they don't know a word that others know. But seldom at themselves for not knowing it.
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  17711. Notice the cover, which is in the 'socialist realism' style. Compare it to billboards in Volgograd, East Berlin or Nanjing in 1965.
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  17712. Really? A man whose other employer is The New York Times? How can that possibly be true? 😂
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  17713. "5,000 crews"? No. 5,000 crew. To have 5,000 crews you'd have to have 5,000 ships. Learn basic English usage.
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  17714.  @jonlee5531  Oh man, that really frosts my bananas.
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  17715. A few minutes ago I replied to you that you should get ready to have the State turn your children completely against you. To illustrate what that might be like, I included a link to the YouTube video of a classic and revered 1954 BBC production of Orwell's 1984 (starring Peter Cushing). It contains a chilling 5-minute scene of children and their parents at home (starting just after the 21-minute mark). And guess what? That reply vanished into the ether. They scrubbed it. My carefully made reply, to you personally, just completely disappeared. So if you want to see what they don't want you to, paste my description of the video into the search bar. (And please give a quick reply. I really want to know if this post itself gets through to you. Cheers) PS I found your comment quite moving.
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  17716. Rogan nailed it. A balanced and rational assessment.
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  17717. Bri's opening objection is frivolous. The CBC whined "We aren't 100% govt funded." Yes, 31% of their funding is from ad sales. That leaves 69% govt funding. Live with it. The number represents the salient and germane reality in this matter. Also, government politicians choose and hire the people who run the CBC, all of them. Their president, chairperson and all 12 board members are federal cabinet appointees. How could it possibly be any clearer?
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  17718.  @stephanieuttro2327  Well, I remember the reporter. It was that middle-aged white guy with the moustache who often wears a fedora, is kinda haggard-looking, has a voice that's a tad rough, and does long features. Paul something, or John? He's been with them for a really long time. Maybe you can get his name just by looking at the thumbnails on the PBS youtube channel page until you see his face and then click to watch it. I would use search terms like liberal, conservative, happiness, study. Maybe it's called Why are liberals less happy than conservatives? It was a pretty good segment. Everybody in it seemed honest and curious and openminded. Good luck.
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  17719. Man, check out that gigantic rude mic. Just look at that thing, I mean if somehow you failed to notice it already (I did at first). Sort of insensitive, or is it just me?
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  17720. But in every case when it suits them the wokeists say that all that counts is "lived experience." They're such porcine refuse.
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  17721. ​ @AmandaFromWisconsin  The most thoroughly cultured person I know of was perhaps the best-known conservative in the English-speaking world outside of the US, the late philosopher Sir Roger Scruton (d. 2020). Malice just has the run-of-the-mill resentments and prejudices of all left social minorities. A mere leftist with a twist, an anarchist who'd be fine with big government if it were congenial to his biases, they all spoke with his accent, wore his brands of shoes and so on. His idea of culture is whatever he thinks proves he's not conservative. Boring. Deeply boring, and he speaks as fast as he can in the hope you won't have the time to realize it.
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  17722.  @cdb5001  Do you have amnesia? Everything to do with the pandemic was far more serious in 2021 than 2022. So 2022 'should have' rebounded with more homicides than 2021, but it didn't.
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  17723. ​ @cdb5001  As the pandemic eased in 2022, homicides fell 16% in the city of Toronto. That's according to the Toronto Police. The one trying to bend reality to his whim is you.
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  17724.  @cdb5001  Yes, I misread the Statscan table. I quoted the Canada row, which was one row above the Toronto row.🙄 Yes, the Toronto CMA rate in 2018 spiked way higher. The German stats company Statista puts the Statscan data into a chart titled "Homicide rate in Toronto, Ontario in Canada between 2000 and 2021". The trend over this time is shown clearly.
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  17725.  @cdb5001  Btw, Statscan disagrees with your statement that Toronto had the highest homicide rate of any major city in Canada in 2018. Edmonton and Winnipeg had higher rates, as did five other CMAs (Windsor, Saskatoon, etc.) The Toronto rate dropped back below the national rate in 2020 and 2021. The City of Toronto proper had the lowest number in 2022 (70) since 2015. And the number of shooting victims (194 injured or killed) appeared to be far below levels seen in the 2010s (2018: 604). The latter levels are shown in a table in the same Wikipedia article you quoted in your last reply. Finally, to repeat myself, the count so far in 2023, which is 3, bodes well for this year. ————————————— My point in all this is not to paint a rosy picture. In recent years the homicide rate in Toronto has been 50-100% higher than in Montreal, and in 2018 and 2019 it was higher than the rate for Canada as a whole. Governments have to show more determination to investigate, prosecute and generally fight organized crime any way they can. My point was just to encourage looking at all the facts, not just the worst and scariest ones.
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  17726. 95% garbage foreign paid propaganda posts here. YouTube is a festering swamp of them.
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  17727. You're talking in your sleep.
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  17728.  @migrationsforschermitbreit6744  How can you ask? Read each word.
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  17729. Nice troh ling here, Poody-boughts!👍 You're very efficient at boosting Western solidarity behind Ukraine. So keep it up!  The more nonsense u post, the more resolved we are.😂 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦!
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  17730.  @catocall7323  "It makes sense though, it's just the mothering instinct being misapplied in the wrong situation." This should be pinned way up at the very top. Nearly every woman in a responsible position treats every conceivable situation as though it's about a bunch of her kids.
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  17731. I call him Don Sucka Lemon.
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  17732. What a weak thing to say. The supervisor should fire any of his/her commenters who write such weak posts.
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  17733.  @jaankarani07  More feebleness, I'm afraid. Which is actually a good thing, come to think of it: Please fill the internet with your weak comments like saying professors aren't humans. They will crowd out other nasty but more dangerous comments. Have a nice day.
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  17734. The USA: 68 cases of COVID-19, 68 million cases of raging, infectious, fevered paranoia. Is there any country that can top it for sheer out-of-control mental illness?
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  17735. De Santis is "picking a fight with Disney"? What? Please take back that silly and slanted assertion, which is exactly what the PR people at Disney would have you say. Disney picked the fight. It is perhaps their right to do battle with the government, even though the point of contention has zero to do with their business, but do not portray them as the party who were attacked while they were minding their own business. We do not expect such careless talk from The Spectator.
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  17736. Your idea shows a lack of understanding of the world. Nothing really depends on observations like that. Having said that, however, I think Canada and the US are destined to become a single country. Unification will increase the chances of our mutual survival and prosperity in an increasingly hostile and totalitarian world. It's likely our two countries/unified country will also become much tighter with the UK and Australia as well, despite how far away they are. I think there must be at least a couple of billion people in the world (probably closer to 4 or 5 billion) who'd dearly love to see the downfall of the entire Anglosphere, and that's a problem.
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  17737.  @watDfacts  I would not dream of using those fake sources. My source is the Ukraine Aid Tracker of the major independent research organization The Kiel Institute, August 6 data release. Have a nice day.
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  17738.  @efghggdxlmfn33  Ok, Peskovchik.
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  17739.  @molksncharanga4061  I answered the same question already, Einsteinchik.
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  17740.  @efghggdxlmfn33  The US Department of Defense reports military expenditure in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2020 was $825bn, with an additional $130bn spent on reconstruction projects, totaling about $955bn. But thanks for sharing "your" "truth," like Meghan Markle talking to Oprah. That's totally cool.
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  17741.  @efghggdxlmfn33  😥
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  17742.  @acdc539  BBC 😆
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  17743.  @efghggdxlmfn33  Even if you were right, we'd then have to inflate the impact on Russia by a similar 3x multiple to cash costs, in order not to compare apples to oranges. So that's 300trn roubles or more. And which can better afford that sort of money, the colossus of the American economy or the middleweight Russian one? Bear in mind also that future imputed expenses must be discounted by future economic growth and inflation. By 2040 or 2050 for example, a trillion in today's money will have considerably less meaning, value and impact. That hopium joint went out, Misha. Better relight it.
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  17744. Tapper [hearing her response]: "I gotta tell ya, I'm Jake Freakin' Tapper and even I don't buy that sh!✢︎."
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  17745.  @midgetydeath  The benefits of such spending redound enormously to America's own benefit as well. That doesn't make Europe's parasitism any less wrong or upsetting, but we should be clear that American outlays for global security aren't simply altruistic. They keep America rich.
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  17746. Only Iran claims they hit 12 buildings. Other sources report merely that 12 missiles landed. Many may have missed buildings entirely for all we know. The Iraqi Kurds do not endanger Iran. Iran should be condemned for this. Leaping to praise Iran as you've done is something only a pro-Iranian, anti-American propagandist would do.
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  17747. The co-anchor looks like she might be one of her colleagues from OF, tbh. Not a really serious look for someone giving you the news of the world.
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  17748.  @pacman3556  The poster said "TTC officers", not "employees", vehicle operators, etc. The reference was obviously to security staff.
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  17749.  @deenzmartin6695  If you had your way back in the late-1930s and 1940s, the whole world would live under the Nazis today. If smarter people had their way, there would have been no World War II. (You're not even smart enough to master the written version of your own language.)
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  17750.  @deenzmartin6695  More on.
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  17751. Dedicated feedback videos: great idea! They draw out critiques from a better cross-section of viewers than just viewer-initiated critiques do. Sort of like a store manager surveying customers, rather than just going by complaints. Yeah, so maybe do these once a year.👍
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  17752. Check out that Hogwarts teaching assistant standing at the left in the WEF clip.😂
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  17753. "Local 'ospital" [!]
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  17754.  @Abhi-lm6js  "The siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857. [...] As an East India Company rescue force from Allahabad approached Cawnpore, 120 British women and children captured by the Sepoy forces were killed in what came to be known as the Bibighar Massacre, their remains being thrown down a nearby well in an attempt to hide the evidence." — Wikipedia Is that satisfactory?
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  17755. Correct. Shows you how evil TV can be. Which reminds me that now the potential evil in in a low-IQ TV set is about to start looking extremely quaint beside the oncoming potential of evil in AI. And after problem-evil-AI, AGI. So yeah, find yourself a small, sunny acreage with good well water, set it up, and watch food-growing videos. (You can always have sufficient topsoil trucked in.)
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  17756. It's true that maleness has been systematically slandered for decades to the point that only feminized viewpoints are permitted in the public sphere.
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  17757.  @cptcosmo  That's true in my opinion. However, I see value in looking at people before their adult years not just as children but as two groups: children and adolescents. A child will rarely if ever be a Marxist, whereas it's pretty common for an adolescent to have such leanings. It's a teenager thing, simply because mental health tends to deteriorate in adolescence. (That's just life, and it's the reason psychiatrists will only diagnose a personality disorder in an adult.) It usually rebounds, though, and that's why most teenage Marxists drop their Marxism when they grow up.
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  17758. Refreshing post.👍
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  17759.  @frgartner8446  Ironically, that in itself is a perfectly mid-wit thing to say. Saddening.
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  17760.  @Finglebangle  Check your roof. I expect you'll find it must be re-tarred.
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  17761. Clearly most Russians will believe anything they hear from the authorities as long as it is congenial to their chauvinism. As a Soviet-era Ukrainian I once knew described them: "Born to be ruled."
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  17762. Personally I would not want to get involved in any kind of dispute with Sir Richard. Surely there'd always be some more suitable adversary around.
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  17763. The word is whom.
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  17764. Then the Finns were formerly hypocrites if you describe their former position accurately. You benefitted from NATO without committing to it. All these years, had NATO evaporated, shortly afterward Finland would have disappeared too, down into the Russian maw.  Canada is afflicted with similar hypocrisy. We spend little on defence, knowing the US has no choice but to protect us, but then make out like we're more civilized for spending less. The Finland you describe is self-serving, and sort of makes me wish NATO would reject you now that you've changed your tune at the sign of danger.
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  17765.  @Nonsense010688  On your second point, 1945 was 77 years ago, NATO's formation 74. Surely 74 years is long enough to see the importance of NATO to the free part of Europe and to gain confidence in it. Your third point interests me somewhat, but I just can't comprehend it as you've expressed it. (Btw, what is a muster child?)
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  17766. Kremlin: "Watch your attitude. Our great ambition is to lob nuclear missiles at another nuclear-armed country. It's what every great nation yearns to do."
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  17767.  @cable30  HFS man, what a disorganized shambles of expression. I don't have half an hour to sort it out.
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  17768.  @SoCalFreelance  China's holdings of US debt are peanuts compared to its exports to the US. It does not buy treasurys to enable the US consumer. You read or heard that somewhere, but it's the idea of someone who just doesn't know. The mindlessness of the US consumer needs no encouragement from abroad anyway.
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  17769. Tempest in a teapot. Seven minutes gone, but at least I learned where not to return.
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  17770. So? Good. Let them be scared—scared of going right back to insulating their country with a thick, warm blanket of other people's countries. Eastern Europe wanted into NATO because they knew goddamn good and well who their neighbour was and who the KGB clique ruling it were. Russia has yet to lose its taste for empire and anyone who denies it doesn't have a clue. Russia invented being a crybully.
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  17771. 👍You have your approach and your methods down pat. Concise, factual, well paced. Keep it up! 🇺🇦
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  17772. And what if it cuts road deaths from 1.3 million a year worldwide annually down to 130,000? Or 13,000?
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  17773. Definitely a good point.
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  17774. Just imagine what she'd do to falsify the archives of the United States. She's not fit to be an assistant toilet cleaner trainee.
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  17775. Pretty songs!
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  17776. He's not in power yet and probably never will be, but he still strikes me as the Justin Trudeau of China.
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  17777.  @rncgsu  They'll leave when there's an alternative platform getting the uploads and offering comparable technical services. It's not guaranteed but I think it's coming someday soon.
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  17778.  @donpiland6605  It doesn't but it ought to. It has to do with its monopoly status as a high-level news release service and public square. If there were twelve Twitters, or even three, and together they accommodated nearly all points of view, then Musk and the rest of us could safely ignore them all. What can't be ignored is a company with a stranglehold platform that excludes not only large minority holders of opinions, but even large majorities. A privately-owned discussion site at the center of public and civic life can't be controlling the discussion to that extent. That discussion is all we've got standing between us and a boot stamping on our faces.
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  17779.  @kurtpena5462  Your reply has nothing to do with what I said, so you probably want to re-post it to the correct person. Btw, since I am a liberal (a real one, not one of these excrescences upon liberalism which I call illiberal liberals) and a moderate centrist, I tend to disagree with both liberals and conservatives—whenever either type isn't moderate enough for my liking. I don't specialize, except to the extent that since conservative comments are bulldozed away at industrial scale from most platforms, there are fewer of them left to respond to. (I never, incidentally, spent even a single second on Twitter, having perceived long ago what a rhetorical cesspool and high-school cafeteria table crowed with mean girls (and boys) it was.) Whoever you are, your use of the cant word 'triggered' tells me instantly what sort of person you are: deeply boring, deeply unappetizing. Have a nice life.
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  17780.  @Fucklifedeadshit  Like I care what a little kid thinks. Hey, your mom's boyfriend says to do his homework. He wants to pass his GED somehow.
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  17781.  @wyattterrell  It awaited the end of Trudeau's career. He's gone in six weeks, his party will be voted out in May, and then the healing can begin. 365 days ago, although his popularity had collapsed and even within his own party there were calls for his resignation, his term just wasn't up yet.
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  17782. Justin Ocasio Cortez despises Canadians.
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  17783.  @JamesVigars  The universities have been brain-dead for a couple of decades now, so among people under about 45 there are only the uneducated...and the uneducated who've also been miseducated. So which one of those are you? You don't sound like you made it through before The Great Dumbening.
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  17784.  @brandanB80  If just plain being self-employed—in his case founding and running a company of his own—is not a job, that means most doctors do not have a job either. (Even ones working at a hospital are not employees; they have what are called 'hospital privileges' but are self-employed professionals who charge fees.) And Elon Musk has not had a job since he was a student at Queen's.🙄 So many jobless, according to you!
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  17785. "He looks down his nose at the reporters."—You. Well, I say he ought to. "As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible."—William Blake
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  17786. Hostile foreign governments are putting everything they can into this. Their presence on social media is immense. What is the strategy to fight this?
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  17787. Darin, you seem to be unaware of the distortions inherent in measuring the GDP of countries with a currency undervalued in USD terms. The distortions have an important reality of their own, especially for international financial heft, but for an adequate view of economic output it's necessary to look at GDP at PPP. The NK PPP figure was on the screen right in front of you!
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  17788.  @flawlesswill1987  "I am Vladimir Putin and I endorse every word of that. Thank you so much, flawlesswill, you really get it. Next time you're in Moscow look me up and I'll take care of you."
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  17789.  @flawlesswill1987  I know the truth hurts. Hence your reply.
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  17790.  @bobshagit-io8lq  You can whip up beautiful, serious, 7 oz. burgers with nice old cheddar or other good cheese on sesame brioche buns with lovely pan-roasted crispy-a^^ garlic and herb potatoes at home in 30-45 minutes for about $12. Less if you shop really carefully. At least where I live. And I stress that I'm talking about for two people. Oh god, excuse me, I gotta go to my kitchen right now....😂
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  17791. Yes he has. I'm alarmed to see the exotropia, though. I hope it's nothing neurological, but just strain that should pass. According to Wikipedia, "intermittent exotropia is a fairly common condition." Oddly, it seems to me to often be a mark of high intelligence. JFK had it. It doesn't seem to affect dull people very often.
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  17792.  @WiseOwl_1408  Hard to say. Maybe actual support was more like 60-40 in favour of the Conservatives but Liberal turnout was heavier. I bet it was, actually. Party workers were swarming the riding for several weeks telling Liberals the world would end if Stewart were to win.
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  17793. Old people look back fondly on when they were young. That's most of it for sure. Imagine if things were reversed and now was the Soviet Union, while the current way of life was 30+ years ago. It'd be the same: "Life was better." "We were happier then."
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  17794. Say what you will, she's a politician with real bite.
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  17795. People care where they live. You didn't know that?
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  17796. Shouldn't you be hustling Russian oil door-to-door in Shenzen somewhere?
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  17797. She attacked him. He counterattacked her. And it had nothing to do with her being female. Breathe. Just breathe.
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  17798. About 790 of them are fuel depots, warehouses, or radar/radio repeater stations. Each has maybe 10-50 personnel, non-combat, a few of them lightly armed. "Bases" is a very glorified word for them, as they are tiny and nearly unmanned. So nice try, tankie/Sergei/Chanfun/Farshad/whatever.
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  17799. Heat-shrunk cling film for windows works quite well. Electric blankets help you lower your thermostat. They are helpful ideas for a winter of expensive energy in limited supply. I found this guest lacks scientific understanding and even common sense. And what on earth is the idea with that absurd and annoying music? (If music it can be called.)
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  17800. Um with a D. Ick with an H.
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  17801. Here's your answer: They're the people Bob Dylan had in mind when he said "You just want to be on the side that's winning." In other words, they're power worshippers. They smell the chance for power from a hundred miles away. Wanna learn more? Read the history of Germany, Russia, and the rest of Eastern Europe from 1915-90.
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  17802. Newsom: "I think these culture wars have gone too far." (!) 😮 After he himself has fuelled them for his own political advancement for years. Also Newsom: Goes on two seconds later to make bitter warlike attacks on his political adversaries on culture-war issues. 😠 With gold-medal cynical audience manipulation and rhetoric like that, I can see why he's the governor of California.
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  17803. The expansion of the Russian empire is deeply dangerous to European security. You ask like the USSR didn't own East Germany for 41 years.🙄
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  17804. I'd attribute the drop-off in views to people taking a post-election YT break. Many of us just felt like doing something else, such as (depending on one's leanings) celebrating or grieving, and probably in person with others. Just my guess.
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  17805. In the motel of her mind there is a vacancy.
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  17806. 👍Yes! (But you mean paternalistic I believe. Patriarchy = rule by men. Paternalism = "Step aside, I'll handle this for you like your dad would.")
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  17807. Whoopi Goldberg, the anorexic's best friend—look or listen for five seconds and you throw up effortlessly.
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  17808. For people in the habit of quitting their jobs and who have committed burglary?
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  17809. @ Too bad this platform is messing with reply markers. We can't see whom you replied to. (Was it me?)
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  17810. I'm so sick of that word. Just say courage, dips hit.
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  17811. This is how it's supposed to go. Civil disobedience means you break a law and get arrested. Then you get to call yourself a martyr. It's not about breaking a law and nobody opposing you. So they're martyrs now—in their own minds and no one else's. 😄
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  17812. ​ @r200ti  Absolutely 100% not true and you know it. The US did not invade South Vietnam; the two were close allies and South Vietnam invited US forces in and welcomed them with a great sense of relief. The Americans were friends protecting them from communists🤮 directly sponsored by China🤮 and the USSR🤮.
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  17813. That is likely untrue. I suggest going for a brisk walk in the fresh air and trying to balance negative thoughts with other kinds.
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  17814. I gather he's pretty famous now.
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  17815.  @peterfireflylund  "If I ever see Putzin on the street I'm gonna whip out my keschtoingle and tsvinkleplotz on him."—Mel Brooks
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  17816. I thought it was too good to be true, but yeah, the quote checks out. Lovely. For people who don't happen to know it, the years under Pericles were the best Athens ever had. His era is looked on as the full flowering of Greek civilization and he is the most admired Athenian head of state. That's just an opinion, but it's been the most widely-held opinion amongst people who know the most about it for two millennia now.
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  17817.  @joncasey2129  Especially apathy. But especially fear.
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  17818.  @joncasey2129  In order, my replies are: (1) Yes, I agree, and (2) No, Putin could've blasted him and the Wagnerites into vapor, but the political and diplomatic costs were potentially too risky. Best to offer an exit ramp to Priggy and his men than to spill a river of blood. Russians don't want that happening inside Russia. Edit: Certainly not over a nonsense matter like this.
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  17819. Possible weapons grade iranian? 😏
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  17820. Thanks for noticing how Quora went down the toilet. It's an anti-Western swamp full of anti-Western hatred expressed in broken English and its moderation is staffed by people of evidently stunted mental capacity. The quality of questions and answers both plunged horribly beginning in 2019. I had been on the site for about a year-and-a-half before I had to say 'wtf is going on all of a sudden?' Laowhy, you've nailed it: It was taken over.
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  17821. "The worst thing is the hypocrisy."—Oswalt's foolish comment on Bill Cosby's crimes, for which he was hilariously lampooned by Norm Macdonald for years. Turns out Oswalt himself knows everything there is to know about being a colossal hypocrite.
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  17822. I'm pretty happy with ACE. And I can usually find one that's a bit blond, the way I like it.
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  17823.  @cpnstbn1266  Being stuck in the past, no matter how understandable one may think it, does have problems with it, if that's what you're mean to point out. Almost every person would agree with that. Nevertheless, if you're going to drag a foot behind you in time, 1997 is hardly the worst time to choose. You could say the people and the culture and the times were stupid and awful, but of course they always are.   The fact remains that they were less stupid and awful. The class grade for humanity in civilization is always and will always be well below a even a borderline F. When you realize that, it becomes the thing that makes the distinction between (in a manner of speaking) 30 out of a hundred and 35 out of a hundred such a precious one.
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  17824.  @vakuumhuvud  Strong talk. Was it preceded by thought?
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  17825.  @ianbalmy6992  The real point is, though, that Serpy is quite solid, isn't it?, and so as followers of his acct we're both in some sense anyway on the right side of things. :)
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  17826. Some gratuitous feels by that female crew member at 1:17? I don't see how they improved safety.😂
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  17827.  @yoloswaggins7121  I agree with every word of that. What a task you've set for yourself here: it's like clearing pebbles off the sea floor. I appreciate it though.
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  17828. Rwanda unfolded very rapidly. It was also a genuine civil war. Nobody invaded anybody in Rwanda, so there was no party to eject from the country. There could be no front. The 'front' was on every street corner in the country.
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  17829.  @headshot6959  Bogus? Countries can just steal other countries and it's not immoral? And the West did not defend Kuwait saying they were defending the West. They were quite explicit that they were concerned with Middle East stability and security, concerns which they were right to have. Furthermore, the war to liberate Kuwait was authorized by the UN Security Council. Only Cuba and Yemen voted against it. That means Asian, African and South American countries voted for it, as did the USSR. China abstained, meaning it did not exercise its veto. Finally, your statements on Rwanda are not worth responding to, except to say how funny they are, especially in light of your claim that "you can't draw a meaningful comparison between Kuwait and Ukraine." That's four posts here, two of yours and two of mine, and I have no interest in discussing this any more. Not with you, anyway. Have a nice day.
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  17830. Say a 25% tariff will cut a company's 10% net margin down to 6%. Typical company solution: 1) Take a margin hit down to 9 or 9½%. 2) Stick customers with a 15% price hike. Unit sales fall; profits are stable or tick up. Jobs lost at weak competitors which shrink or fold.
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  17831. No need to go all Puritan on fossil fuels. Let the market come up with an affordable diesel-battery hybrid that merely reduces locomotive pollution, and let it go at that. An all-electric replacement will be workable eventually. A prosperous country can wean itself mostly off fossil fuels over decades. A glance at, say, India shows us that an impoverished one never will.
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  17832. Actually, educated adults don't think this is ok. Adults who think it's ok, no matter the number of their fake so-called degrees, aren't actually educated.
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  17833.  @Maras70D  Please see my post of 12 minutes after yours.
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  17834. Ok, Viktor.🙄
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  17835. They don't go around declaring world emergencies when outside of the originating country there's only 80 cases and all 80 were in-China infections. Today one person in Germany was confirmed as an outside-of-China infection and, boom, Global Emergency Declaration. One case. Declaration within hours. Besides, it's not like they were previously saying 'this is going to be nothing'. Hardly. They just have protocols to follow: Single country = Not global emergency. If you want them to redefine what they call a Global Emergency, write to them with your expert opinion. They'll appreciate that, since they probably never gave the matter any real thought. Maybe ask if you can join their board. Cheers.
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  17836. First you say that Greenland isn't part of Denmark and makes its own decisions, then you say that many Greenlanders want it to be independent from Denmark so it can make its own decisions. Those two things are so contradictory and confusing that they appear not credible when taken together.
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  17837. I'm floating in a most peculiar way.😮
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  17838. How much is medical care reduced by the expense of all this?
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  17839. Brutal assignment, Natalie. Everyone just hates having to go to Paris and hang out for days.🙄Hope you're recovering nicely. At least they didn't send you in the spring.
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  17840. Still photos of Biden don't capture that lost, tired and cranky look I always see in video footage.
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  17841.  @syopliger7038  Ooo, rapier-like wit.
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  17842.  @Aethertopia369  Hmm, interesting. But one thing's for sure: there's surprises left to discover.
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  17843.  @LionKing-pp5kh  That's quite the little tornado of pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-academic, made-up nonsense. Statues from all ancient peoples have noses and other parts broken off. It's the norm across all cultures. You're elevating grievance and paranoia to supposed fact. Just like Goebbels and Eichmann. They too were full of little theories based on nothing but racial animus. Scary to think where you're headed with this fiction.
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  17844.  Complex Ez  Sounds like you've got it all figured out.
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  17845. Russians most remind me of Africans in their societal minds and political spirit, even if they don't much respect or like them. People are thrown off by Russians' visual similarities to Europeans. I like both Russians and Africans, btw, but an unusually high percentage of them have got something of the gangster in them, along with the desire for a powerful ruler. This feudalistic orientation or medieval outlook is a leading characteristic.
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  17846.  @michałchodkowskiMC  "Of course most Russian[s] [think this way]." A specialist in Russian affairs recently said that 1 in 6 think like Daniil, 1 in 6 are total vatniks (hyper-jingoistic 'patriots'), and 4 in 6 are non-committal ('I don't pay any real attention to the political issues of Russia or the world'). Just to doubly clarify and confirm your view, at the risk of making you repeat yourself, is he wrong?
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  17847.  @VictorLyuba  "Both" what? "Didn't like" what? 🤔
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  17848.  @VictorLyuba  I'm glad you are enjoying your life. 👍 But what happened to your friends is terrible. I'm sorry for your loss. 😢
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  17849. Ok, I didn't see that coming. I'll give them that.
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  17850. Ah, I've spotted the undermining, doubt-sowing, dissatisfaction-breeding anti-Western comments bot. It shows up at every party, every discussion, every gathering of two or more people online. Good evening. Yuri Bezmenov told me you'd be showing up.
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  17851.  @Helmut-pdh  In my opinion that is an advanced point to make. People shouldn't have to follow the actual rules plus some other pile of rules which additional random and unknown people might theoretically want besides.
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  17852. It really appears that sooner or later this is going to move out into the streets. Thanks, Dems; thanks, Baked-Potato-in-Chief.
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  17853.  @craig7350  Ok.
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  17854. Ukrainians: Beautiful people, but hardcore a.f. when the situation calls for it! You made a bad choice, Russia. A bad, bad choice.
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  17855.  @CainNuke  I recommend reading Thank God For The Atom Bomb, an essay by Paul Fussell. He makes a cogent case in favour of the bombs, arguing that they forestalled the deaths of millions of Japanese and hundreds of thousands of Americans. I'm no historian, but I have read in credible sources that American military and political leaders had the hope for a reduced death toll on both sides very much in mind as they moved towards the use of the bombs. But yes, especially on their own side: "Having found the bomb,” Truman said, “we have used it. ... We have used it to shorten the agony of young Americans.”
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  17856. It would be funny if it weren't so galling. He and Macron make a regrettable pair.
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  17857. Why not come out against utopianism and leave it at that? It's untrue that things never improve or worsen. Would you just as soon be a medieval peasant?
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  17858.  @starboard9551  Very well. I think you know what you have to do. Tidy up your hovel first.
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  17859. I searched above for news about this. Number of search results displaying Fox News coverage: 2 Number of search results displaying independent vlogger coverage: 2 Number of search results displaying mainstream media coverage: 0 "No more results"
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  17860.  @yoshida97  Hey, thanks. I appreciate getting some recognition, I'll tell you that. It makes up a little bit for the constant abuse from soul-twisted RU-mir ѱ-chos. But it feels fine being an unpaid NAFO volunteer.
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  17861.  @yoshida97  Hey, thanks. I appreciate getting some recognition, I'll tell you that. It makes up a little bit for the constant abuse from sole-t wisted RU-mir sigh koes. But it feels fine being an unpaid NAFO volunteer.
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  17862. Well, British women decided around 50 years ago that they don't much care for children. Feminists, sickened and infuriated at seeing women start families with men, convinced them that children interfere with spending a couple of decades after school going through serial partners, and with their highly interesting and rewarding careers. Their campaign went hand in glove with the neo-Marxists' Long March Through the Institutions. It was all in the cards since then.
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  17863. "Today now!" with your host Ted Sajak will be right back. Stay with us.
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  17864.  @soniama5246  He was ordinarily in mufti, but yes you can see photos of him in uniform with FDR. (Roosevelt himself never wore military garb while in office, unless you want to count the capes he sometimes wore over a traditional suit. They were of a naval style but he usually bought them from Brooks Brothers.)
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  17865. In my city these things, whether individually or corporately owned, are simply banned everywhere. Not allowed on streets, not allowed on sidewalks. Likewise in bike lanes, parks, anywhere.
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  17866.  @verbalspaghettigaming7570  All three current definitions (i.e., not obsolete) on the website of the Oxford English Dictionary: (1) [Since] 1714- commemorate, v. transitive.  To mention as worthy of remembrance; to make eulogistic or honourable mention of; to celebrate in speech or writing. (2) 1638– commemorate, v. To call to remembrance, or preserve in memory, by some solemnity or celebration. (3) 1766– commemorate, v. Said of things: To be a memorial or memento of; to preserve the remembrance of. Nothing in these definitions sanctions its use to describe the goings-on at NATO headquarters. It doesn't mean "mark an occasion with ceremony or festivities."
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  17867.  @verbalspaghettigaming7570  So if I say: "This is a great sandwich. Yummy. I could eat two of these," I'm commemorating it? Quelle cloun. 🙄
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  17868. A good analysis, but I would've noted somewhere the appeal of delivering the vocals with such power, anguish and passion—it even sounds like anger—when the subject matter concerns simply sitting around with some girls.
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  17869. The New York Times is indeed an activist rag, rather like the newsletter of a political party. But I encourage you to subscribe anyway, just to spoil the unanimity of its comments sections. I warn you, though: No matter how polite and decorous your comment, if it incisively and accurately spears the paper, its agenda, its idols, or its readership, the staff moderating comments will often just toss it in the trash. (I enjoy calling them TAs. ;) )
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  17870.  @JohnRNewAccountNumber3  War is expensive. How can you ask?🤨
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  17871.  @OneZuluDelta  That's an assertion by analogy which stands or falls on the aptness of the analogy, and Vietnam and Afghanistan are poor analogues. Not a single US soldier has died in Ukraine. I offer instead the analogy of the 1979-89 war by the Russian Empire on Afghanistan. Eventually Moscow "got sick of" spending its men and materiel ineffectually against the ragtag Mujahideen. And who funded the Mujahideen? The US. The Ukraine War is the 1979-89 Afghanistan War 2.0, Misha.
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  17872.  @jeffmaxwell7391  I leave you to your frivolous analogizing.
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  17873.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "Guerrilla warfare tactics" 😂
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  17874.  @jeffmaxwell7391  Try to think it through. Whataboutism isn't the same as hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is saying something is wrong when others do it but not oneself. Whataboutism is claiming or implying that a wrong committed by another means that it's ok to commit the same wrong oneself. Thinking is hard but it can be done through effort, practice .... and sheer tyranny of will.😄
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  17875. Ah, but you do live among the world's stupidest electorate. You're one of them. If you weren't a fully paid-up member, you see, you'd be aware that the UK electorate don't enter into the present mess. They had their last say a couple of years ago and won't have another till a couple of years hence. Sorry for your luck. Mate.
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  17876. You've really drunk the Kool-Aid on the US handling of the coronavirus. The American pandemic has been a real team effort and just shows how chaotic, unruly, and just plain stupid the country is. Trump didn't make NYC a disaster, the virus, New Yorkers, and their local and state govts did. What bearing the federal govt had on it is down to the bumbling CDC as much as anything. I'm guessing that Saad, like me, would give Trump a D or maybe a C-minus on the pandemic, while you probably, like most Democrats, consider him some sort of murderer. I'm also guessing that you, like most Democrats, if you had seen the same outcome during a Hillary Clinton presidency, would be praising her as a hero. As for the brains of the two candidates, neither one is in the greatest shape, but Biden's is clearly in a much worse state of deterioration. Let's face it, both men have long been fools, but Biden is now both a fool and idiot.
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  17877.  @Vinthis1  You flagrantly mix in things that did not affect the US pandemic outcome --- 'inflammatory statements about China' (good!) and 'attacking the mail system'. The other things you mention are a mixed bag. As for downplaying the severity of the virus, that's incompetent in a way and I don't condone it overall, but I also see the value in reassuring people. Trump himself overvalues it. I pretty much agree with you on masks even though they're not very effective. They do help a bit and everybody should use them. I know of no good reason for badmouthing the NIH (nor had I heard that he'd done so) but I'd say the CDC is a fair target. Overall I think you overestimate any president's capacity to affect the pandemic outcome much. It depends on the actions of too many Americans going about their lives heedless of whatever a president says. The official public health and medical response rolled out almost entirely the way it was going to anyway. Finally, no, a C- or D president doesn't 'deserve' re-election --- unless the other candidate is a D- at best. Biden's platform (to the extent he has one) sucks and his cognitive decline is too serious to ignore. Here he really does outshine Trump, who has also slowed down considerably, as most people in their 70s do. Like many jobs, I think US president is a job for people below retirement age, not ten years past it. Anyway, thanks for your reply.
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  17878. ​ @Vinthis1  Thanks for your reply. Again I find plenty to agree with in what you say. I agree that Trump's speech is ordinarily painful and embarrassing to listen to. It gives the impression of mediocre verbal intelligence and an unattractive personality, which are of course serious demerits in a president. These and other shortcomings led me to vehemently oppose his election four years ago. And I agree that of many of his supporters seem like disturbed cranks, some of whom are frightening. Indeed, If the dullard, the ignoramus, and the paranoiac could find a warm welcome only in the Republican Party, I would save all my revulsion for it alone. Four years ago, I did. But since then I've had a much closer look at the Democrats and found such people in great abundance there too. It turned out the party had changed a lot since Obama was elected, without my really noticing, and now is actually on top for sheer psychiatrical derangement. Quite an accomplishment. So looking for a party open only to the fully sane appears to be out of the question. The US doesn't have one. As for the cognitive fitness of the two candidates, I guess we're not going to agree. All I would like to add is that if the same mental lapses we've seen coming from Biden came instead from Trump over the past year, the media would have somehow hounded him off the ticket, or at least tried to. But they have given Biden a pass because they revile Trump. When it comes to uniting the country I find neither Trump nor Biden up to the task, nor even willing to sincerely attempt it. There's more political hay to be made in disparaging the other side than in reaching out to it, and in fact the partisans who dominate both parties like it that way and demand it. Here, too, I give the prize to the Democrats, for dividing the people along lines of identity seems much more baked into their messaging, and that's a deal-breaker. Biden's powers, not just mental but political, too, were never quite formidable, and they now appear spent. Despite being their nominee, he is not at all popular among Democrats and for that reason seems unlikely to be able to lead them. Thus they will lead him, the more extreme and the rabid partisans among them, I mean, and I greatly fear a wind vane in high office. I don't trust him on China either, and it's the most important foreign policy file of the era by far. China is not on the same team as the US in any way. Since Xi came to power in 2013 its government has been distinctly hostile to the US, the West, and the countries in its region, and increasingly harsh to its own people. To me this spells serious danger and demands a strong response, but I sense Biden is still as overly trusting and accommodative of China as he was during his eight years as vice president. Trump's China policy, while leaving a certain amount to be desired, has still been a major step in the right direction. Thanks for the chance for me to sound out my own thoughts on these things in a little bit of detail. It can be a way of finding out more exactly what I think. I will end by agreeing that the choices are pretty terrible --- again. Last time I thought Clinton was less terrible, this time I think it's Trump. Possibly a show of previously unseen merit by Biden or a Trump debacle of some sort during the remaining campaign could change my mind. I doubt it but it's not inconceivable. At least Biden finally agreed to debates.
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  17879. Yes, but did you pause to scan that climate table? As he said, the annual average mean is just below freezing, but that summarizes great extremes. The table showed an average daily low in January of -31C and an average daily high in July of 25C. Those are averages and the range is 56C or 100F. The maximum range might be 75C or 135F. Gigantic. EDIT: It's at the 11min50sec mark.
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  17880. And an imbecile. It's a potent combo, just what the US media were slavering for.
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  17881. "Why do you think the world is against us?" "Because they can't handle how cool we are. Therefore it is necessary to keep invading, murdering and destroying until they get it."
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  17882. Tidy up your living quarters before you go.
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  17883. See description box.
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  17884. ​ @CharlesLambert137  I don't see where I wrote that it's "easy." (In fact I implied it's antithetical to laziness.)
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  17885.  @myself2noone  I named five things. Which one do you mean?
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  17886.  @myself2noone  It would be a good idea to get treatment for that. I would get that checked out.
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  17887. Two days ago Argentina announced that GDP grew by 3.9% (after inflation) in the 3rd quarter. This followed GDP contractions in six of the previous eight quarters. Arguably it was the best quarter since 4.3% in 2010 Q2. (Two higher quarters in 2020 were bounce-backs from the initial 19% pandemic-related contraction.)
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  17888. ​ @John_Smith_86  A smoothed distortion is still a distortion, so using a 5-year MA may or may not solve much. Probably not much. For one thing, a 5-year MA will introduce anomalies from previous years into current data, something which is hardly helpful when one's aim is to get a fairer idea of the period which just ended. For another, it will smooth out short-term volatility to some greater or lesser degree, but it won't iron out longer wavelength effects from things such as multi-year periods of political instability (which make for a weaker currency even if the economy has been holding up all right) or just a multi-year strengthening/weakening of the US dollar against world currencies in general. PPP was devised not just to correct GDP snapshots or short-term volatility but also longer-term structural distortions. After all, the word fluctuation has no fixed meaning with respect to timespan.
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  17889.  @John_Smith_86  Overall it's a bit weak, I'll grant you that.
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  17890. Join a political party and spend a lot of time in its activities. Decide what your most important concerns are and talk about them as much as possible with as many other members as possible. Make sure to speak to higher-ranking members and the politicians themselves as well. Find out who else in the party is most interested in the areas you are interested in. It's all about talking to people. Be prepared to spend time socializing with them too, eating and drinking. Be prepared to discuss important events, news coverage and books. Good luck!
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  17891. Or so the Germans would have us believe.
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  17892.  @mrbad3036  No! Published estimates of the avg. age of Ukrainian soldiers: 40, 43-45, and 48. Ukraine has been generally been drafting men close to 40 years old and up to 60. Earlier in 2024 they lowered the minimum from 27 to 25, but it's still mostly older men serving and being recruited.
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  17893.  @Rick-zw9kp  Nobody, until now. I was totally devastated by the original, incisive wit of your brilliant rejoinder, Dick.😢 While we're at it, how about you? Who was the culprit?
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  17894.  @DingoHammer  Government cabinets and arms contractors. You make it sound like the arms makers are running the show on equal terms, but that's a fantasy suited to a drunk in a low bar who pesters people with saddening chatter.
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  17895. More great work from Academy of Ideas. Yet another great collaboration for After Skool.
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  17896.  @smb123211  Well observed, and did you know that in fact those who speak a second language have higher IQs? There is evidence the relationship is causal both ways. Tbh, I don't know how strong that evidence is but there seems little reason for doubt. Verbal intelligence is a leading forms of intelligence and a second language is bound to develop and boost it, surely?
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  17897. Hey, Doctors Without Borders: Breaking news — War affects things other than soldiers. Take your complaints to Hamas for initiating hostilities on a mass scale. Are you trying to tell us that if there were an accidental poisonous gas leak at some nearby facility it would be impossible to evacuate? Stop trying to show off your fine morals and brand of politics and get out!
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  17898. Hey, if there's really a hundred genders, compete against your own!
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  17899. Remember back when people said it doesn't matter if you vote? Or who you vote for? How very quaint.
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  17900. Who could fail to notice?
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  17901. Bill Maher must finally be realizing that if they're not calling you a monster you're almost certainly committing moral crimes.
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  17902. The Jussie Smollett of gender.
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  17903.  @AkiyamaKatsuko  What? War is "extremely deadly" now? Wow, I guess I've heard everything.
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  17904. A tank's not so bad. It's quite warm and very efficient: Not only is it your workplace, it's also your kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom, crematorium and the urn for your ashes.
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  17905.  @AkiyamaKatsuko  You're sidestepping my point. That's ok though, it's your right.
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  17906.  @republicansthatdidntvotefo1605  Nah. At heart he's as patriotic an American as they come. He's simply anti-Biden to a fault, alas willing at this point to say nearly anything to prevent a rise in popularity of Biden and the Dems, an election being about eight months off. Conflict abroad involving the US, even indirectly, quite reliably boosts an American president's approval ratings. I do not believe his overall disapproval of US and NATO actions prior to or during this conflict is fully or even mostly sincere.
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  17907. A small part of Putin's depraved dreams.
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  17908.  @somuchfortalent  Wow, look at all these denizens of Gomorrah here to set you straight in the replies.😂 If one of them comes to your house, count your spoons when they leave.
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  17909. Or perhaps lithium.😄
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  17910. Ukraine would do well to research Afghan resistance strategies and tactics and to implement the best ones, or even recruit some Afghan advisors. Edit: I bet they are doing this already.
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  17911. They come in every size.
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  17912.  @jml9550  Anyone who really wants to know can search 6 or 7 passenger evs. There are several, and I bet no year will go by without additions to the list. I assume a Suburban is in the works, and in the fullness of time a Sequoia.
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  17913. Oh aren't you clever, my accurately-named friend.
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  17914. In video surveillance, by far.
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  17915. That's so close to logically coherent that it almost actually qualifies as intelligent.
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  17916. I see it differently. To the interviewer I say: 'Way to go. Twenty minutes of you looking and talking like you're about to foul your trousers. You're doing Putin's work for him, scaring Westerners.' [very slow clapping]
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  17917. Because you once heard some guy say that. 🙄
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  17918. In the clip of the Putin-Xi video meeting, we do see Xi quickly raising his hand in a gesture of greeting. Brief but unmistakable.
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  17919.  @phillynurse9492  That guy's reply was bang on. Remember it.
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  17920. ?
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  17921. Come on, the correct spelling is Misshiaguin.
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  17922.  @Chonkems  Canadian cops are well paid.
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  17923.  @Chonkems  Bull s---. "30 grand a year" is minimum wage.
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  17924.  @Chonkems  Toronto Police Service Base Salary (as of January 2021) Cadet in Training $67,680 4th Class Constable $75,218 3rd Class Constable $85,971 2nd Class Constable $96,716 1st Class Constable $107,456. Average Police Officer Salary in Toronto, Ontario Pay Job Details Job Listings C$98,058 / year Avg. Base Salary Police Officer Average Police Officer Salary in Canada Pay Job Details Skills Job Listings Employers C$83,456 / year Avg. Base Salary
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  17925. Actually, gender is a linguistic term (applying to languages other than English). E.g. El Niño, El Niña; le soleil, la lune. A human being, on the other hand, has a sex, not a gender.
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  17926. She's unaware of the most powerful financial services business in the whole country, perhaps in the world (Goldman Sachs), thinks it's a department store. Occupation: journalist.
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  17927. No! The Harris of the North. For years he and she were even childhood neighbours in adjacent wealthy areas of Montreal (Westmount and the Golden Square Mile).
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  17928.  @BerryFunChannel1  The thing is, there have always been tariffs both ways — US tariffs on Canadian goods, Canadian ones on US goods. The point is that one side's tariff is offset by the other side's, and in this manner a treaty is hammered out and signed. We did that in 2019 — but now look!
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  17929. Which is why I ran out of patience with this program: it's Woke Lite—wokeism dating from 2013, say. Most of the people appearing on it are mostly on the side of the illiberals. The closing segment, a pointlessly personal exploration of our host's phobia of spiders (tough to get more "Aren't my feelings and personal quirks just so interesting and important?" than that) even went so far as to demand that "we embrace animal diversity as well." These people just want the nonsense turned down from 11 to 9.
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  17930. So CBS took DEI to the next level.🙄
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  17931. Nothing is special about him. He simply wants to see the US destroyed because it's the leading power and not communist.
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  17932. I dearly wish someone would teach him that lesson. And if only I could watch it, too! Ah, what a pleasant daydream.
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  17933.  @MrErickstar1  You could undertake to gather all the Joe Biden fans in the country into a single room of modest size. The remainder of the number you speak of are something else entirely.
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  17934. I know what works: (1) An anti-crime culture in every community, not one that glorifies crime. (2) Vigorous enforcement of laws, not police ignoring crimes and automatic leniency in the courts. (3) Fathers who stay around to bring up their children, not shirking or even disappearing.
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  17935. Potential challengers aren't "standing down." Their hackles are raised but none of them wants to be the first to challenge her woke-given right to the nomination on the basis of her demographics profile. Ah, but give it a few weeks. Miserable polling will soon earn her the Biden treatment.
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  17936. (1) To really show solidarity with the community, the Chief would have to stand alone at an area TTC stop late at night for 40 minutes till a bus comes. Then do it every night. (2) Some gangs initiate members by having them shoot a random person. Is that what this is? Hey Trudeau, how about invoking martial law — this time for actual violence?
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  17937. I support the parliamentarian's views completely, but I couldn't help finding priceless the way at 12:55 he says "Armament will never be done!"
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  17938. It's not a shame. It's perfectly possible that he can deserve plenty of criticism for many things yet still be totally right on the subjects he covered here. These views—and I do agree with him—do not and can not make him perfect.
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  17939.  @HebrewsElevenTwentyFive  Yeah. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. A vexing question for me, though, is whether Russia is governable in any less questionable a manner. He's dealing with a lot of, uh, difficult people, if you know what I mean.
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  17940.  @nikitabelov1478  As far as I can tell no one is praising his obvious faults and deplorable actions. You sound like a black-and-white utopian. Btw, it doesn't take a conservative to oppose Neo-marxist wokester nonsense. Moderate liberals are hopping mad about it too.
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  17941. The algo keeps feeding me police bodycam clips, so I keep watching them. I've observed something striking: The officers give off less authoritarian attitude than even many health care workers and store employees, who are often quite bossy and condescending on the least pretext or none at all. The idea of "defunding" them for brutality strikes me as palpably absurd.
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  17942. Her boyfriend, Dmitry Korovin, confessed to her murder. This is easily searchable just by googling her name.
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  17943. I think he was being a bit tongue in cheek. For my part, I no longer think Trudeau is all there.
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  17944. Let every country follow the US lead on this.
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  17945. ​ @Opal5674  It's so bad to use language like "dumbing down of the masses" when it's oneself who is displaying a lack of learning. It reminds me of people in comments who use "looser" as an insult, spelling it with a double-O instead of a single one. Oxford Dictionaries: "Mus·lim (also Mos·lem) noun. Plural noun: Moslems" [the plural of Muslim is Moslems, notice] American Heritage Dictionary (1992): "Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage. Muslim is preferred by scholars and by English-speaking adherents of Islam." The spelling Moslem is now dated and perhaps should not be preferred, but it is not obsolete, and it's hardly a "kindergarten" blunder. Roughly half of all adults, very well-educated ones included, grew up seeing it and using it.
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  17946.  @Opal5674  Weak.
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  17947.  @Opal5674  Buh-bye, mute-bait.
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  17948. Ah, I see the pros are out in force. I like it, actually. It shows they're still afraid of the truth.
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  17949. I think she's wrong about 2024, but I do expect elections to stop falling on time (or stop altogether) by mid-century. Yeah, about 25 years or fewer to go. The way things are going, 2040 sounds about right.
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  17950. Its government is taking strides in that direction, yes. But you need to tone that down as a flat declaration.
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  17951. The way he talks down to his countrymen and -women like they're little kids, he has the bearing of a primary school teacher. Wait, I think he used to be one.
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  17952. Story doesn't back up the headline at all. Please note that YT is slowly starting on a crackdown of that stuff.
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  17953. A state that's not even 7 by 10 miles? It's 0.056x the size of little wee Rhode Island. A mere neighbourhood, a crumb that fell off Maryland. Just fold it back into it if it wants senate representation.
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  17954. Visit the yougov site and find out.
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  17955. We don't need a sanctimonious physician telling us to overhaul building codes. She has an inflated self-image.
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  17956. The US imports imports hardly any TP.
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  17957. @ The US is 92.2% self-sufficient in TP. Its market is $18bn a year, imports on a net basis being $1.4bn, as it exports $1.84bn worth. It imports $1.59bn from Canada and exports $1.25bn to Canada. Net imports $340m or 1.88% of supply.
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  17958.  @whonen6041  What's right about an unplanned and undesired conversion to being an introvert?
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  17959. That was a humanitarian mission. But I imagine the word 'humanitarian' is not in your vocabulary.
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  17960. That sounded like Kringela's veiled way of saying that Is r ael wasn't defending itself in these actions, i.e., that they were acts of aggression. That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. But I expect her at some point to declare Isr. an aggressor nation in the present conflict.
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  17961. I've long been gravely worried that the failure of Russia to destroy or at least interrupt shipments of weapons on their way to the front bodes something sinister and maybe disastrous. It's uncanny to me. It verges on incredible, despite my regarding Prof. Clarke as a credible source. But I hope it's not incredible after all. I hope it boils down to a refusal by China to share intelligence gathered from its best images. They are avidly watching the war as an instructional film.
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  17962. It seems like what Russians demand above all is their right to paranoia. It somehow soothes them. What else can explain their acceptance of the absurd claim that Ukraine is a Nazi state, and their eagerness to be ruled? They're traumatized. And they're hanging on to their trauma and paranoia for dear life.
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  17963. Fine. Whatever cynicism gets you through the night.
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  17964. ​ @Bluematchhead  Yes I did read it as a negative, because it denies that he's sincere when he says he cares about people's scope to express themselves in the public arena (or 'space', as a hipster would put it). Perhaps you didn't mean it just how you said it. I also think he couldn't care less about the Twitter share price. Even if he bought a further 41% of Twitter shares (bringing his total to 50.2%) and they fell to $1, costing him ~$19bn at today's price, that would still leave him with ~$240bn. And of course they will not fall to $1. My own take on him not joining the Twitter board is that senior management gave him mega-attitude and vowed to obstruct him, so he went all Bugs Bunny on them, i.e. "Of course you know this means war." And just like Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, they're gonna get it.
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  17965. Total charlatan. He simply decided decades ago that he despised the US because it never fell into the same far-left trap that ended up with 100 million dead in the communist countries. That was enough for him, and he hasn't changed an iota since, unfortunately. His opinions are like standing water, and breed reptiles of the mind.
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  17966. ​ @bp1359  Both Australia and NZ played major catch-up in their Covid death rates in the past year. In the past 10 months New Zealand has had 2.0x the per-capita deaths that the US has: 725 per million vs. 366. (See Worldometer>Coronavirus>Countries> New Zealand and US pages.) Australia is similar.
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  17967.  @bp1359  Not in Canada. Very high vaccination rate paired with the lowest Covid death rate in North America & Europe save only Norway. I refuse to count Iceland as it's just too tiny to matter. Aus/NZ's problem isn't that they vaccinated, it's that it didn't let the virus circulate at all for two years, meaning the population never built up any immunity. It's what you get when your PM would make a better elementary school principal, or in Australia's case, when your state premiers worship the Chinese model for everything. Rule-happy ant-brains, the lot of them.
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  17968.  @bp1359  Interesting thought. We do have to remember what a disaster the MRNA platform was for 20 years prior to 2021. Conceivably it's still no good, despite its partial, qualified and apparently temporary success against Covid-19. Thanks for your replies.
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  17969. "No job too dirty for a scientist." — William Burroughs
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  17970. 1:15 The reporter claims measures so far haven't worked, citing an increase in cases. This is a logical fallacy. To make her claim valid she has to show that without the measures the number of cases would not have skyrocketed worse. It's like saying that collisions at road intersections prove that stop signs don't work. Silly.
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  17971. That dog is above the 50th percentile of Russians for sophistication of global political outlook.
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  17972. In the ordinary case the very phrase "progressive woman" itself seems partly dubious when it comes down to it. But in her case: yeah. At any rate, no question she's a pretty great person from what I can tell.
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  17973.  @joiewicher317  Of course science is real. As a science graduate I couldn't agree more. By the same token I am most loath to have journalists and government officials instruct me on how to read a paper, thank you very much, and sanctimonious types on social media rank far lower than they do.
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  17974. There was no Alliance at the provincial level, so no merger, no name change. And as a provincial party it had a right not to go along with the federal party name change. (Both the prov. and federal parties were formerly named PC.)
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  17975.  @vincentpapa783  Yeah I've got no probs there. I thought of him 2nd, as well as a couple of others but I just know less of their work. Thanks for your posts
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  17976. "Themselves"? A pilot can be multiple people now? 🙄
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  17977.  @rickyayy  $5 here for a premium brand that's delicious and has extra Omega-3, but every other week it's $3.75, which is what I pay 100% of the time. I could pay $7 if I were a bad shopper, though. $11.50 sounds like northern Alaska. You should check other stores.
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  17978. Orwell himself would hardly care to deny that he saved his most mordant criticism for socialists, especially but not only the communist sort. (E.g. The Road to Wigan Pier.) I'm unsure whether he really believed it possible for any socialist Britain to be as democratic as the (heavily-modified) capitalist Britain of the latter part of his life.
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  17979. I find your hopes contrary to the makeup of human nature, of life itself. Evolution decrees that the struggle for survival take place not between species but within them. In humans this led to our twin distinctions of unit co-operation and advanced mental capacities. It was inevitable that together these three realities would translate into wars. They are an expression of ineradicable elements of the human essence. Cross your fingers that we will magically become ethereal beings instead.
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  17980.  @pa6370  Sure I have. Have you?
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  17981.  @AnxiousGrips  Of course it isn't. It's more like being 4'6" instead of 3'2".
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  17982.  @charleshowie2074  While it's true that Putin has always dealt harshly and effectively with those who challenge him, it's still very important that they challenge him in the first place. And it's not true that he gets his way every time. At times he has had to scramble to avoid embarrassment. He also has people in the FSB and other security agencies that he practically if not literally has to answer to, as I understand it. At least, he needs to keep them happy. He's not omnipotent across all the ways we ordinarily think of dictators being. Possibly the Russia of today is one of the harder countries to rule with an iron hand. I'm thinking of the simile "like herding cats." That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  17983. I've always loved the term Orwell used for the motivation you're talking about: Party feeling. And by no means did he have in mind only (or even especially) political parties. Not at all. He used it concerning any sort of group identification. (E.g. with one's own sex.) But the word party gives a wonderfully clear idea of motivation by group membership.
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  17984.  @yomamaballsinmyw  That's the idea of the joke, my friend. 😃
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  17985. I don't know. It's a pretty bad beer but I think I could still manage to get one down if I had to.   I can't swallow anything coming out of present-day Harvard.
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  17986. A point of historical disagreement: Canada in 1939 wasn't a colony. It was a country with full membership in the League of Nations. And it declared war on Germany a week after Britain and France did. Indeed, after Dunkirk the UK had exactly one battle-ready division on its soil --- and it was Canadian. We were with Britain from the start, invaded one of the Normandy beaches on our own, and we were with them till the end. So it is wrong to say that "Britain stood alone" against Germany.
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  17987. "A referendum on whether Trump is innocent or not." That may well be, but I'm convinced there's another great dimension to it in the minds of some in the electorate quite apart from his simple innocence or guilt: namely, whether his prosecution amounts to a weaponization of the justice system against him in favour of the left, especially the radical far left. Vexatious, malicious, basely opportunistic—choose your additional term or terms for it, I think that's how many will see it.   I might as well throw in a complaint: The sound journalistic stance ought to preclude major quantities of gleeful smirking whilst reporting on this. Such celebratory delight ought to have been suppressed in the interest of at least appearing mostly impartial about what is actually a gravely serious matter. Save it for things that are rightly treated with levity, like Vladimir Putin's elevator shoes, or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez insisting that conservatives are anxious to go to bed with her. At least TR got the sound levels right for the first time in the last hundred or two clips. I'll give you that, and sincerely thank you for it.
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  17988. It's not that they're slaves, it's that they have extremely little room to criticize the government. Similar effect, though. Cheers.
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  17989.  @vagabond919  Actually Putin endorsed Harris.
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  17990. Yes, ask people on Russian social media. Those ostriches have to wake up.
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  17991. No lie detector machine would survive a Biden speech. It would smoulder, melt, and burst into flames.
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  17992. Is a trap brewing? I'm beginning to think the alliance of Ukraine and the rich democracies is pretending it's weaker than it is. On this view, it might be trying to tempt Russia into a massive buildup for a would-be knockout punch on Ukraine … only to itself wind up and deliver Russia a brutal smackdown. Putin's military capacity would be devastated and so would his grip on power. He might simply leave Russia to spend his retirement in The Hague. 😜 Just speculation. But if it's correct, foolish is too small a word for Putin going up against a billion people with ~$50trn in GDP.
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  17993. 1:20 So frisson is now another of the words muddied up by people who proudly refuse to look them up. It's not about dread or fear. It's a shiver out of thrilled excitement. (Even if the trigger is a horror-movie scene, it's still pleasure, not real fear.) Its meaning in English was long stable until 21st-century hipsters noticed it was quite 'fancy' and thus, they hoped, impressive. Now an additional meaning is listed by the spinelessly descriptive online OED.😠
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  17994. Hardly! His party is forecast to be obliterated in Toronto, 25 seats down to 2. Be sure to vote in May!
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  17995. Also Confucius: "The answers were all found long ago." Edit: Btw, he said that 2,500 years ago.
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  17996.  @joybrooks564  Stop cavilling. It doesn't matter whose place they were at, the issue is that your interlocutor made the point that the boy ought to have ended the encounter peacefully.   People give themselves away with cavilling. ("He who suffers you to impose upon him, knows you." — Blake)
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  17997.  @Richard-or2km  I'm quite willing to entertain reasonable counteroffers such as yours.😄
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  17998. Gross joke of an idea.
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  17999. That's been killing me for years now. I'm worried it's never going to go away. And we've had a few years of "So" now. Just starting sentences with "so" for no reason whatsoever. I even saw someone who had mastered "So look".
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  18000. Bill Clinton is two months younger. And he's aged two times worse.
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  18001.  @deesanjreeyuuccfji  Ok, so you've never heard of international waters. Deeply unimpressive. So is being unaware of how all of us benefit from freedom of navigation, you included. [sigh]
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  18002.  @deesanjreeyuuccfji  Because merchant shipping and other marine traffic is already secure around the American coasts. There's no need for Chinese navy patrols. (Likewise the US navy isn't constantly bullying Canada and Mexico, actively threatening to invade and annex them, so there's no need for foreign navies to act as a bulwark for those nations' sovereignty.) Btw, the logic of the phrase "US international waters" tickles the brain.
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  18003.  @matthewsocal2540  Of all the false statements in this thread, yours takes the cake. You might as well say your uncle knows a guy with a GDP larger than Russia's. Global economics and currency markets just aren't your area.
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  18004. Hzb. member answering walkie-talkie: "Yes, who is this?" Voice: "It's me, Allah." Hzb.: "Yeah right, I really believ—"
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  18005.  @marykoch9315  Yep, far less. In 2023-24: 0.094% of total fentanyl seizures. Northern border: 45 lbs. Southern border: 47,800 lbs. (Put another way, that's a difference of 106,200%) Source: US Customs & Border Patrol
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  18006. ​ @jaimeb1281  Canada isn't "real comfortable" with China. It's hopping mad at China. Relations are hostile. There's (rightly) been a major deterioration from five years ago. And just wait till the Conservatives are in power, soon.
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  18007. "Coming up on CBS Democrat News, Joe Biden is leading in all 50 states. Stay with us."
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  18008. EV range is lower on highways. It's the opposite of ICE car fuel mileage. So really this test was like checking the fuel mileage of ICE cars via an all-city-driving test. In such a case an official rating of, say, 38mpg would not have been borne out, since it combined, say, 28mpg city and 48 highway.
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  18009. Tell that to Xi.
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  18010.  @AllAboardTheFreedomTrain  I would advise navy and cream, a sophisticated scarf (whatever that might mean) and to make sure her teeth are very white.
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  18011. They'll say anything, do anything. They live by the Malcolm X dictum "By any means necessary." Defund them now. Defund them yesterday.
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  18012. There will be a price to end America's dependence on China for steel. There would be a much higher price not to. Eventually tariffs will be cut on imports from friendly nations.
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  18013.  @glennhankins6927  Wow, how'd ya like to live in the officially-designated house of defeat?
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  18014. I experienced cognitive dissonance because I couldn't accept that a Yale student would know who he was and still want to shake his hand. I might as well have been looking at a person walking on the ceiling.
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  18015. She was mincing her words. She knows what the problem is but is terrified to say it. Congratulations, USA, you're 33 years too late but you've finally qualified to be a Warsaw Pact country.
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  18016. Just take out 'satanic' and I'm with you. Cheers.
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  18017. To help Ukraine, nit.🇺🇦 Why t.f. is Russia in Ukraine is the question!!
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  18018. I come here whenever I want to know what things Millennials do that GenZs consider "cringe." So important. 🙄
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  18019. In the words of Principal Skinner, "It behooves us to consider deportation." 🤣
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  18020.  @kellyjones1260-o9y  Actually, psychiatrists consider that narcissists are ashamed fairly often. Their shame is occasioned by the awful awareness that they've failed to achieved total domination over everything and everyone. Rather, it's guilt they're incapable of feeling. They never feel they've wronged anyone.
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  18021.  @dasikakn  How is it not working out well for them?
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