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Rationalist. Camus fan. Former Hockey fan (won't watch another game until headshots are an automatic suspension). Not necessarily in that order.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan From ChatGPT - Looking back, many organizations—including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—have concluded that reopening decisions should involve much greater community engagement and transparent consideration of tradeoffs.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan The string is there please point to any statement I made that indicated it “should be debated on public opinion”. Apology accepted.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan Who said that it would be debated based on public opinion? But having a discussion with people about closing down schools and the reason for doing that is something that is not extraordinary but actually a fundamental part of participating in a democratic republic.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan Well it wasn’t health and pandemic experts who made the call. It was politicians - and without public discussion. And they weren’t guided by health and pandemic experts.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan The scary thing is I am never sure whether someone is far left or far right when they are demanding complete government control - totalitarian type decision making. They both favor it as long as they agree with the objectives. No principle - except do what I say.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan It is strange you wouldn’t want the public involved in something that is a PUBLIC policy decision. And experts weren’t involved either. There had been a discussion before about an influenza situation as to what should be done. Just use any AI tool to learn a little more.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan That’s very reductive. Who suggested they flipped a coin? But was there a public policy discussion among politicians and the public about choices? We knew the potential for spread to the US by January, so there was ample time for that discussion. It didn’t happen.

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@iinka @mehdirhasan Do you remember there being any debate about it? I don’t. Everyone was told that people would die but we know people will die if we let them drive faster than 17 mph and yet we make choices based on the greater harm as you say - and death isn’t always the greater harm.

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@mehdirhasan For consistency the same “scholars”, declared the Brits committed a genocide against Germans during WW2 as so many more German women and children were killed during a war.

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@gumamelasantan @Masshole1995 @mehdirhasan Nope. Like so many things 🤡

Let’s talk about the genocide the Brits committed against the Germans. Way more German women and children were killed by the Brits during WW2. We can’t blame the Nazis for that because we can’t blame Hamas for the dead Palestinian civilians.

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@Ozymandias312 @zenobia87130481 @realajedelman Yes, and we only stopped being that way because it resulted in the “Final Solution” being an acceptable outcome and there was a general agreement among sentient, caring and good people that we couldn’t let that happen again. Maybe we are no longer those three things.

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@Holton1011 @SsteinStuart @mehdirhasan What is the shared message? And instead of saying arrest BN, shouldn’t he instead say that he would like to see a lasting two state solution that would enable the Palestinian people to live in peace? Isn’t that a unifying message?

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@gumamelasantan @Masshole1995 @mehdirhasan Proving the point.

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@Holton1011 @SsteinStuart @mehdirhasan And he is saying that he will arrest him - which he has no power to do. That he knew he no authority to do? It’s called political posturing like DeSantis banning Sharia law in FL… and both situations foment hate against a particular group of people. We all know this.

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@Holton1011 @SsteinStuart @mehdirhasan Why doesn’t he talk about other int’l situations that are worse? If you are going to talk about issues that are unrelated to your job, why only focus on one that isn’t objectively one the too humanity crisis in the world? And why not attack Arab nations who have done nothing?

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@Holton1011 @SsteinStuart @mehdirhasan Because here is the thing … he is Mayor of NYC…. And what about that role suggests focusing on foreign policy? And if a mayor does that to consistently target Israel that suggests to any fair minded person animosity toward Israel for some reason. And what could that reason be?

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@Holton1011 @SsteinStuart @mehdirhasan The point is that constantly talking about Israel when there are (regardless of what your position is on Israel and its actions) numerous other countries that are engaging in actions that are objectively worse than anything Israel is doing makes him look like a Jew hater.

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@Holton1011 @SsteinStuart @mehdirhasan He's Mayor of New York and knows that he has ZERO authority to arrest any foreign leader period - let alone a warrant from an entity not recognized by the US - so to pretend that he does, is very odd and makes you wonder what his motivation could be. It's a reasonable inference.

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@Holton1011 @SsteinStuart @mehdirhasan It's odd that despite supporting terrorist organizations and sponsoring terrorism in ICC member states, the ICC never issued a warrant for the arrest of the leader of Iran. I guess we can keep pretending the ICC is some sort of non-partisan entity.