Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "VICE News" channel.

@bobrakow3067 You’re “allowed” to have any feelings about anything you want, but you are NOT allowed to use your feelings to control someone else’s life. Period. As OP said, it’s none of your business.
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@Christo John Saaiman What baby? It’s a fetus until it’s born.
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Absolutely. And they will and do choose dangerous options that not only can, but do endanger her life. Before Roe, women were dying on a horrific scale because of self-induced or botched abortions done by people who had no knowledge of how to do them. The hospitals some of these women were actually able to get to were overflowing with women bleeding to death, many of whom could not be saved.
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@Daniel-oj5jf What child? It’s not a child if it hasn’t been born.
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@Daniel-oj5jf Depends on when you believe life begins. Unfortunately, when you believe life begins depends on your religion, and many religions view that subject differently. Not to mention that our country is not run according to anyone’s religion, but on scientific facts. Then again, doctors haven’t even decided on when life begins, but they do know when a fetus is viable (able to live) outside the womb. Further, I’m assuming you’re Christian because of your comment, and your own Bible has a couple of different viewpoints about that, but my favorite, coming from the FIRST book of the Bible (that’s Genesis, by the way) which essentially states that life only begins when the first breath is taken. So, until the decision on when life begins becomes a scientific fact, (and if it’s decided that life begins any time before birth) a woman has the right do do anything she wants to do with her own body.
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@DTreatz Do you realize you’re making that comment to a nun?
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@ewrock7635 You never explained why you think you’re right. No matter, because you’re not. And abortion WAS a right in this country for 50 years, but that right was taken away, which means it is not venerated as a sacrament. But, I guarantee it would be if men could become pregnant.
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@plantinghope5193 Yes, it is a personal choice, and it doesn’t matter what the reason is.
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@Sorcerers_Apprentice And that’s exactly why he wants to run again in 2024. He would know that he could get away with absolutely anything, including making himself the “Supreme Leader”, a dictator, which is exactly what he wants. That’s why he MUST go to prison, not only to show that our democracy counts more than one person, but also because he could never run for President again if he had a criminal record. His Congressional cronies should also join him there so they can’t run either.
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@GuruCube Or her. Who knows?
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@oldsalt8011 Back in the 70s they did wear bikinis to the beach and wore mini skirts to school. All Western clothes. I’m sue they’d be happy to go back to those days.
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@ewrock7635 Why do you think you have that right? BTW, you don’t. It doesn’t work that way.
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@DaveSCameron Are you aware that if someone dies and they do not have an ID that says they are willing to be a donor, a doctor CANNOT legally take an organ from them to give to someone who needs it, even if that person will die without it? So, that means that the LAW gives a corpse more rights than a woman.
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Well done documentary. Kudos. We are living in scary and dangerous times on so many levels and in many varied areas. It has got to end; the DOJ has to step up and arrest the folks making the threats, or more good people will be fearful and quit their election/poll worker jobs, which will leave openings for the Republican cultists to swoop in and change everything. I wonder how they would feel getting threatening phone messages with pictures of their homes and their children. I can’t imagine how long this will continue.
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From America I say: Women Life Freedom! I would say it in your language, but I don’t know it. I support all the young women in Iran who don’t want to wear hijab, and want to get an education at university. Education is usually a ticket to at least some kind of freedom, in any country. And I hope you all have peace and safety. From an American sister to my Iranian sisters. ❤
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@CatholicsForTrump It is NOT a child until it is born. Read Genesis (2:7?). It pretty much states that life doesn’t begin until the first breath is drawn. Therefore, the woman’s feelings about her own life are the ONLY thing that matters. So, nope, not a hypocrite. You’re the hypocrite for trying to force other people to live their lives by only YOUR religious beliefs. The laws of this country are not based on religious beliefs. If they were, which religious beliefs would they be based on? Only yours, right? So, in your opinion, screw those Muslims,the Hindus, the Buddhists, or any other religious group, right? That’s not how our country works. All you need to do is to look at Afghanistan and Iran to see what happens to a country when it is ruled by one religion. Trust me, it ain’t a pretty sight. They’re killing their own people, believers, young women and girls as well as young men, everyday. That’s not right to life ideals.
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@Daniel-oj5jf Yes, and so can men. We kill or allow to be killed animals for our dinner every day (unless you’re a vegetarian). Those animals were alive before being sacrificed - butchered- so that we could eat. Do you care so much about THEIR lives? I’ve also pulled up weeds. We’re they not alive before I did that? So what is your definition of “lives”? Do only humans count? If your “pro-life”, then NO animal or vegetable should be killed, right?
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@Christisking22 I would think so, considering Bolsonaro. Are you going to do something about him? I would be very happy to see you folks get someone who would actually helps the citizens…and the planet. No insult intended here; just hoping for better for you.
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@nathanlevesque7812 Especially ones with lots of gas to steal.
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@Sinvx Yep. All the defense contractors are raking it in. I just heard that something like 70% of the U.S. Military budget goes into these companies that make weapons of war. Why would they ever want to end war when they’re making vast riches this way? We’ve developed a hideous war-based economy all over the world, and we’ll all pay for it in one way or another.
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@danielnaberhaus5337 The big problem with that is that most insurance companies won’t pay for it and treatments (the ones around where I live, anyway) cost about $500 - $600 PER treatment, and they recommend 8 treatments. I would love to do it but there’s no way I could afford that. And I’m more than a little reluctant to try to find it from someone I don’t know in a bad neighborhood, and, as I’m not young anymore, I don’t personally know anyone who deals it. I admit that when I was in my 20s I did acid a few times, and I can definitely attest to the psychological therapeutic benefits of it, but, of course, that was before I lived most of my biggest traumatizing events, so it would be great to use something like that for those events. The most hopeful news is that my psych doctor has added me to a list “just in case” my insurance company approves starting trials. But, of course, most of the insurance companies are extremely conservative with “unknown” therapies like that, and probably would not be moved by anecdotal personal stories from former hippies like myself. Plus, it could take years before they decide to do trials, and then more years deciding if they’ll actually commit to having a regular cost-covered program. Oh well, I will keep asking around in areas where I feel safe, but with the understanding that I couldn’t be really absolutely sure I was getting the thing I asked for. But I’m holding out hope that one these days serendipity will hit and all the stars will line up and I’ll come across the right stuff and it will work beautifully. Someone also mentioned doing EMDR treatments, and it works extremely well, and you can do it in your own home. But to me, it feels a little weird in that, while you can be very happy with the outcome, there’s no real joy or ‘jumping up in excitement’ shouting “it works”. I find it a bit strangely dry in that you watch the lights go back and forth while you recount the trauma-inducing experience, then afterward, when you talk about it it’s like, “OK, that doesn’t bother me anymore”, which, of course is wonderful, but I would like to have the deep feeling of joy when I’m testing it out and finding myself healed of something awful. I don’t know if that makes sense. I guess I just feel the need to go out and celebrate such a wonderful recovery from something as awful as PTSD.
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@jenniferj9025 Thanks. I do live in CA, and there are several clinics near me, but they’re way too expensive for me, and my health company doesn’t cover it at this time. I asked my doctor and she said they’re “considering it”, and with my particular company that means they’ll spend the next five to ten years going over the cost-effectiveness of it, then spend the next five years after that deciding on the most profitable way of launching the program. I seriously doubt I have that many years left.
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Just because something is difficult or out of the norm, or is something we consider a “bother”, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. These people are human beings with just as many rights, and needs for dignity as any other person. If you had a person in your family, in your home, you would make all sorts of accommodations for them there, but the problem is that airlines don’t seem to see them as fully human. To them, they’re nothing but a bother that cuts into profits and requires thoughtful and considerate attention by staff, which takes a few minutes more time, which equates to more loss of profit. The airline industry has been treated with golden gloves by governments, and it’s time they treated their passengers, ALL their passengers, which means PAYING passengers, with the same golden glove treatment.
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Yes, it was, but you have to be a senior now to remember those days. It was actually quite enjoyable. Check in was much faster, and we didn’t have to be at the airport a minimum of two hours before your flight, and security…well there wasn’t much security other than them visually checking your ticket before you got on. All that extra stuff began after 9/11. Everything about flying became harder, much harder, after that, including the attitudes of the airline employees, and even the passengers, because we didn’t all hate each other before that, believe it or not. But, we had wider, very comfortable seats with plenty of leg room, we got hot meals, and even real silverware. Because it wasn’t an everyday thing most people were doing, it was even a little bit of an “event”. People were a bit excited to fly to another city, and, because people hadn’t yet completely lost trust in each other or have TV and movies aboard or electronic devices to entertain us and lose ourselves in, we talked to each other. Imagine that! We chatted with our seat mates most of the way, perfect strangers! I know it sounds hideous to us today, but it was usually pretty nice. As an example, here’s an unforgettable experience I once had. It was actually my first flight ever (very early 1970s), and I was flying to Dallas to take the test to become a stewardess (there were no male flight attendants at that time, so…). I spoke to a stewardess about it, and she moved me up to sit next to a pilot who was changing cities in case he could give me some information about the job. He called over a stewardess who was stationed in Dallas to chat with me about the job. She didn’t have time to chat, so she actually invited me to stay at her apartment that night so we’d have more time to talk (can you even imagine that happening now?!). When we got to her place, her boyfriend called her and wanted to go out, so, since I was there, he said he’d take us both out, and he gave me a tour of the whole city! It was a blast! Sadly, I didn’t get the job because the airline was Braniff, and they went out of business about a week later.😢 But that should give you an idea of how much things have changed. That would never happen now.
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@robertjensen1048 Well, I’m not a Catholic, and the Pope does not rule the U.S., and he certainly doesn’t rule my private life. And he is very wrong about the science of fetal development.
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