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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Accept Anger Come Elite Government Recognition Reject
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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All Beautiful Dissident Intellectual One Liner
That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Amaze Long Mars Observe Probably Service
The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Even Hardly Idea Impose International Introduce Joke Principle
The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Bank Central Commitment Country Employment First Keep Only Up
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Believe Desire Expression Freedom People
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Few Go Make Mirror Monster People Person Savage Say
There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Amount Count Election Fuss Irregularity Left Lot Machine Right Tamper Vote
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Environment Extremities Ignore Impact Lethal Market Transition
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Create Generation Language Law Manner Principle Process Use
It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Avoid Been Far Miracle New Nuclear
Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Country Defiant Exist Nato Once Soviet Union Well Western
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Commitment Different Federal High Inflation Official Policy Prevent Reserve
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence

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