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  1. He actually handled the accusation of anti-semitism based on those grounds quite deftly in the video from the Oxford Students Union. He said he wouldn't debate South Africans on the issue of apartheid and for the same reason he wouldn't debate Israelis about their treatment of Palestinians.
  2. He's certainly a terrific speaker but I do have questions about his alleged efforts in South Africa. I looked to find independent evidence that Galloway had ever done there what he claimed. I couldn't find any. I'm not asserting it doesn't exist, but it's odd that, at best, it's hard to find.
  3. Someone else who apparently doesn't understand the concept of rates.
  4. Tuition fees are what tuition is composed off. But if you can find anything in the article or elsewhere that shows otherwise, please share it with the rest of us.
  5. Your comment was so foolish that I couldn't take it seriously. It's the same kind of reasoning that says if eating one piece of fruit per day is good for your health, then eating 100 is even better. Or if one ibuprofen can cure a headache then a hundred will cure someone of headaches forever. Do you really need more examples of why your claim was so foolish? Does it really need to be spelled out any further?
  6. Yes, definitely. I'm guessing you're about to invoke some critique based on the observation that no cause in the world can be characterized as 100% certain. If that were a meaningful comment, then all science and technology would be built on a heap of sand. In the real world, science and technology work, even nuclear physics are ultimately based on statistics.
  7. Really? It's false that scientists don't understand what "primary driver signifies? other Pavlovian comment from you.
  8. The proof that what you're denying about aerosols is nonsense is very clear. Occasionally, when there's a truly catastrophic eruption of a volcano that sends huge quantities of aerosols into the atmosphere, what invariably follows is global cooling. Effect of volcanic eruptions significantly underestimated in climate projections Where and when a volcano erupts is not something that humans can control, but volcanoes do play an important role in the global climate system. When volcanoes erupt, they can spew sulphur gases into the upper atmosphere, which forms tiny particles called aerosols that reflect sunlight back into space. For very large eruptions, such as Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the volume of volcanic aerosols is so large that it single-handedly causes global temperatures to drop. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/effect-of-volcanic-eruptions-significantly-underestimated-in-climate-projections
  9. Sure you just asked questions based on a ridiculous assumption because....? No way it was a rhetorical question? Which is "a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer." Disingenuous much? You're not fooling anybody. So how do you plan to get these alleged native born workers to do these jobs? And what happens to those industries while they're waiting for that to happen? More Pavlovian right wing nonsense from you.
  10. Always impressive when someone declares themself to be the victor.
  11. It's overwhelmingly Republicans who consistently oppose minimum wage increases and unionization.
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
  13. a sound clip that lasts a few seconds is your idea of good evidence. It is to laugh. As for the rest, neither Clinton or Abrams claimed actual conspiratorial election fraud.
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
  15. Clearly, your comments betray no understanding of the the economic laws of supply and demand.
  16. Well, while it's touching in a way for you to confess to your own mental incapacity, I don't know why you're sharing it with us here. Are you looking for some kind of remediation?
  17. Maybe in an alternative universe Hillary claimed that she actually won the electoral vote and that a conspiracy by government officials denied her her rightful victory. Not so much in this one. You've got nothing.
  18. You mean pointing out its emptiness means it's not empty? You got any actual reasoning to back that assertion up?
  19. One explanation from that article: "The simplest case against sensationalism comes from understanding the sample sizes of many of these polls. Jackson and Cox are quick to point out that many of the headlines hyping up the discontent of young voters are reporting on numbers in the crosstabs of polls, which usually represent a smaller number of respondents with larger room for error. The USA Today/Suffolk poll, for example, was of 1,000 registered voters; the conclusion about Trump leading Biden was drawn from the responses of 238 people under the age of 35." https://www.vox.com/politics/24034416/young-voters-biden-trump-gen-z-polling-israel-gaza-economy-2024-election
  20. Just out of curiosity, do you think that the 2020 election was stolen too? Or is this your only venture into batsh*t conspiracy theorizing?
  21. First off, you're denying what you claimed earlier which was this: "if all these illegal immigrants are so industrious and hardworking, why are their own original countries so economically deprived? Why are such valuable assets able to leave their home countries so easily in the first place ?" So trying owning up to your falsehood instead of denying it. You may not see much value in what fast food delivery men offer society, but what about the people who plant and harvest America's produce, tend America's dairies, and staff its meat processing plants. And as for fast food delivery, delivery service has become crucial to large segments of the American restaurant industry which contributes close to 1 trillion dollars to American GDP. As for drug dealers, given the demand and economic opportunity, basic laws of supply and demand tell us there will no shortage of salespeople whether native or foreign born. Right. All those people working in jobs native born Americans won't do, are in the US to try and get on welfare.
  22. Here's a link to another article. He doesn't feature in it at all but other climatologists do. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/north-atlantic-el-nino-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration-scientists-university-of-sussex-b2356711.html Here's a link to another https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/north-atlantic-temperature-anomaly-sparks-concern-among-climate-scientists/ and another https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/02/01/ocean-temperatures-reach-impressive-and-worrying-record-levels_6485327_114.html
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