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    Comment #25903993

    This does not support your claim. It's pretty clear that you didn't have the evidence before you made the claim, and you don't have it now.

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    Comment #25903946

    It ascribes a characterisation to homeless people (that they would prefer to get drunk than have a home) that there is simply no evidence for. The comment blames homeless people fo…

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    Comment #25903879

    Thanks, but I didn't ask for evidence that "alcohol poisoning is 5x higher in the homeless population", I asked for evidence that "people are mainly homeless in Finland because the…

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    Comment #25903852

    Sure, fine. It's still a hateful, unevidenced comment about homeless people that can't be justified.

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    Comment #25903790

    I'll be happy to retract the "hateful" comment if anyone can provide evidence that "people are mainly homeless in Finland because they would prefer to get drunk".

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    Comment #25903650

    Without evidence, he stated that all homeless people in Finland are homeless because they would "prefer to get drunk". I don't think it's incorrect to describe this as hateful, bec…

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    Comment #25903578

    > Note that the "homeless" people in Finland are mainly people who refuse to accept support from the social welfare, this is because they prefer to get drunk instead of spending it…

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    Comment #25903440

    Completely false.

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    Comment #25897135

    What on Earth does that have to do with anything?

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    Comment #25892669

    But this is about profit . Profit is by definition money that wasn't required to create the vaccine.

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    Comment #25892642

    > Next it talks about how businesses profit from this. While true it's also totally misses the point. The economist wrote an article on how the world is vastly underspending on sol…

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    Comment #25887020

    Liberalism is centre-right. Please remember that Adam Curtis is British, the American political spectrum doesn't really apply here.

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    Comment #25882351

    > the assertion that alan greenspan and a few others were all in league together because they read Ayn Rand. That's a pretty facile reading of it. It might surprise you that Curtis…

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    Comment #25851899

    > Then it switched to being a Chromium based browser in 2013 so they could utilize the Chromium plug-in ecosystem. Opera switched to Chromium because they didn't consider it profit…

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    Comment #25850319

    I think what he's driving at is that your point relies on the assumption that neoliberalism is left wing, when this is not true.

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    Comment #25833783

    I've seen no reliable sources make the claim that Parler was built on WordPress. To the best of my knowledge this stems from a misunderstanding, and Parler had a WordPress blog whi…

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    Comment #25822270

    Self closing tags are perfectly valid in HTML 5 and there's nothing wrong with using them. Even if the parser ignores them, they're still useful for the reader. HTML 5 does not req…

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    Comment #25638671

    > Is the part we are disagreeing about what “not _yet_ showing any change” means? No, it's the meaning of the entire statement. Your translation means "coronavirus did not result i…

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    Comment #25638205

    > In [0] it states that 2020 is an average year in deaths It does not. > In [1] it shows averages for the previous years in numbers summing while years up. This still has no relati…

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    Comment #25638047

    The citations do not support what you say. Citation [0] says only that excess mortality in specifically the third quarter of 2020 was not higher than previous years. It says nothin…

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    Comment #25637777

    To put it simply, the UK government is continuing a decade of placing their and their friends' financial interests ahead of the interests of the country. Many own properties that a…