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Gun violence doesn't exist only stuff like gang violence since a gun is an inanimate object and can't move on its own. For example when someone runs someone else with a car on purpose we don't call that car violence we just call that murder.
So he gets to denigrate people like Murray Rothbard because "he's not a trained historian" and also Adam Smith on economic questions? I especally liked how he uses an ad hominem against Smith, saying that because Smith had an interest in making money from the sales of his books that he wasn't truthful. Doesn't this guy have a book out? I guess he's also a "serious thinker" like Hume, which puts him above wanting to make money from the sales of his books. What puerile nonsense. This presentation is so replete with fallacies that I find it hard to believe he even has a BA in philosophy. Oh, you've heard of Smith but not Hume so much, right? Aha! See, Smith is a charlatan. Wow. This is beyond stupid. I hear that in his next book he's going to expose Einstein for the fool he was. You've all of heard of Einstein, right? Well, there you go.
Benny Morris is biased and does not tell the truth, the full truth. He ignores the role of the British colonials In oppressing every Palestinian attempt to organise. The European Zionist came to Palestine with the objective of building a state helped by the British colonial government with a Zionist British high commissioner. That is why they have organised structures and helped by the British. Any Palestinian who was able to organise was either expelled from Palestine or killed. Benny Morris ignores all these facts. Does not even mention British role in giving the Zionists the freedom of building an Army and well organised military and civil structures.
If you talk to Libertarians, the golden era of rights was in the pre civil war era. Which happened to be a period of institutionalized slavery. This apparent contradiction is why the politics of Liberal rights are met with skepticism. (In the pre civil war era, rights were only guaranteed by the Federal government. Other levels of government did not respect rights, nor were they required to.) We have rights, you've just been misinformed by Liberals and Libertarians about how they've been using them. (Not just the bill of rights, we have civil rights, and some semblance of labor rights remain. Rights Libertarians are especially prone to overlooking.) Also, your notion of any kind of *permanent* privileges is an attempted to overthrow all future democracies. That leaves replacing the ruling group as the solution. Because that's the actual solution. It happens periodically.
such a biased story, this guy kidnapped someone's fiance and then says she was a slave girl who went to a British guy's home by her own choice in afghans writing it says she was kidnapped and R.. says thousands of camp followers worked for the army then says there were kids in those camp followers. were those kids for pleasure or work? then he says women went to Britain at night and came back richer, there is no brothel in Afghanistan now or at that time so where did the British find these women? Or they were local women who were kidnapped and R.
Any threat to the Racial Caste Hierarchy creates a severe reaction against it. Examples: - Abolition >> Civil War - Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts >> Republican Southern Strategy - Obama election >> Trump Fascism
These two - who’s it for? The sensible pmc academic/third sector wet blankets who took 4+ covid shots and were *absolutely all in* on the Ukraine grift too. No credibility
@@landontesar3070 …that’s what you think, haha. I am hearing it in most of his related comments lately. Either that or a strong self-protection against not (re-)underestimating the US far right in future.
How stupid of Carrie-- the trial (definitely theoretically) is not meant to "change [voters] minds," it's to hold someone accountable for his actions. I really wonder how she got employed by Brown.... I really do.
I don't know what's more amazing. That she points out that since 1969 (55 years) the Republicans have appointed 16 justices while the Democrats have only appointed 5. *OR* That she fails to point out the insane BIAS towards Ivy League graduates and in particular Harvard and Yale. Right now the court has 4 Harvard and 4 Yale educated justices. Prior to that there was at one time 8 Harvard educated justices on the court. When Ketanji Brown Smith was appoint 5 of the 7 people under consideration were Harvard or Yale educated. I have also heard reports that there is not SCOTUS 1 clerk from outside the Ivy League. So NOT only is SCOTUS got an extremely biased POLITICAL stance but it also has an insanely narrow EDUCATION.
More cause than cure, and typical reverse-inverted judgment absolutely not of, by, for their peers. If this presented range is so obviously the opposite of a democracy built up from a thoroughly rigorous reading of actual Precedent in evidence.., because not only is the past a foreign country, at best it's only a record of carefully judged behaviour organized for defining the Common Good by appropriate lawfulness.. There's no going back!, to a better, perfectly informed event, in eternal metastable uncertainty.
Those who listen to this talk … Should first listen to the prior two lectures as well as the Q&A…. All brilliant and much needed to absorb in summer of 2024…!! Ignorance is not an excuse to continue the same old same old…!!
If we had listened to Chas then we would never have been in the pickle we find ourselves in today. He is a patriot and one of the most courageous intellectuals in my country, it’s sad that his wisdom falls on blocked ears and cannot be heard. We are headed for a rude awakening now, rendered blind and deaf by our hubris.
A family member was a student at Am U of Beirut in 2006. When Israel bombed the Beirut Airport, as her family, we requested she evacuate LB. Along with other AUB students she successfully evacuated upon a barge, to Cyprus. She eventually returned to Beirut later that summer and has continued to return every year. Our entire family has been changed politically by the 2006 War. I continue to educate myself and am very grateful for this interview, your work and dedication.T Y
1:11:05 this statement is clearly racist. Or or or, Benny knows the Zionist were in the wrong, had been subjugated, mistreating and planning to ethnically cleans the land for decades before 48, and he knows that anyone in the oppressed side will lash out at their oppressors. So pick your poison Benny, you’re a racist or an Israeli apologist. I guess the later.
One thing that strikes me about the way Benny Morris talks is his gentleness and, I would say, kind-heartedness. This is in stark contrast to the seething resentment and anger that exudes from N. Finkelstein’s every word.
58:48 so the Zionist were only trying to ethnically cleans a little and they kinda slipped and fell into 730k natives and the natives kinda teleported into refugee camps. But but they couldn’t come back because because you see they couldn’t hear because eeeem they eeem didn’t have telephones in the refugee camps 🤷🏻♂️ to here this man speak about Pappe and Khlidi is eeeem quite laughable. I truly think he’s afraid of the wrath of the Zionist and doesn’t want to be persecuted.
Hey this gambler we liked gambling with for 4 decades gambles? Oh it's a problem when running for president suddenly? Now you know why Trump Derangement Syndrome makes you look a fool. Fake outrage & virtue signaling against Trump makes him more appealing. Got it?
Do "they" know the Hamptons isn't a defensible position?😂 If "they" think Jan 6th was awful wait till the smart people get pissed enough. It won't look like that clusterfuck and it will be very bad for some people. Im betting not the 55k and under. The Russian government is the Republican wet dream an authoritarian oligarchy.
Biden's head is stuck in the middle of the 20th century. He doesn't seem to understand that the world has moved on. That's not what you want in a candidate to run the most powerful country on the planet. But then neither is a demented despot.
Good job sherali however we now dont care about what religious scholars think or say. They should live within the boundaries of temples and mosques. Sovereign democratic nation states work on democracy and rule of law. There sharjeel imam should be given appropriate justice acc. To rule of law rather than thinking about what were the maulanas debating 100 or that matter thousand years ago without any consideration.
Apparently, Using money to pay off someone to keep quiet during an election campaign... and then falsifying the accounts involved in this "hush money" deal to ensure it stays all quiet. Highly illegal. However, he'll get off anyway. He should've been jailed indefinitely for Jan6 years ago... if they didn't get him for that, this is small fry...
