Adversus Nihilismus
@AdversusN
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My Ozempic take is that I shouldn't judge people for wanting to use it as a shortcut. We're all built differently. Some people put on weight very easily and don't take it off very easily. Some, like myself, were so favored as so have the opposite. So who am I to judge!.
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Watching Arabs in Dearborn slowly awaken to the reality that Trump played them for absolute fools is quite satisfying.
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Gen X white males are the most MAGA demographic by far. The question is: why?.
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It's curious to me that James Comey saw fit to announce that Hillary Clinton was under investigation 10 days before the 2016 election, but he did not think it was appropriate to mention that Trump was also under investigation at the same time.
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This Starbucks association with Israel is the most bizarre Mandela effect I've ever heard of. To this day, 8 months later, despite repeated inquiries, I have still not been able to ascertain how exactly Starbucks is supporting Israel's effort in Gaza.
I have not gotten Starbucks since 10/7 and I will not do for the foreseeable future. Not because I care about them investing in Israel, because Dunkin is better.
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@neeratanden Neera, I've had Democrats taunt me that my birthright citizenship will be taken away and I'll be sent away to smelly India because not enough of our community voted for the Democrats. With all due respect, this is not a problem with simply one party.
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@BrightAnimal @bigkittenqueen And he was continuing to drink alcohol during the "experiment"!.
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Just voted for Biden in the Michigan primary. Hell yeah!.
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"Why can't Harris make 48 = 50." is how the left sounds right now.
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My favorite Harry Reid story is when he worked on the Nevada Gaming Commission in the 1970s, and a mobster tried to bribe him. Reid went to the FBI and set up a sting, but when the time came, Reid went off-script and choked the guy! "You son of a bitch, you tried to bribe me!".
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"Biden made us vote for Trump" is the most pathetic excuse I've ever heard. What else did Biden make you do? Beat your wife?.
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Hmmmmm.
Earlier today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was a "surprise guest" at the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan. "You are an enabler President Biden.". "But we aren't going to forget in November are we?"
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@agraybee This is one of those things that sounds really badass in your mind, but then when you actually say it, you realize your folly immediately.
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@neeratanden Yes that's why I'm a Democrat. But let's not pretend that one party has a monopoly on anti-Indian sentiment.
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It kinda bothers me that Bernie never caught more heat for faking all those endorsements. He literally lied and said Barack Obama endorsed him when we all know that Obama would do no such thing.
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@Angry_Staffer It's over now, right? The half-brother and conspirators are in Jordanian custody?. One of the conspirators was an American, it seems, which rather complicates things.
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@tdauj This would at least be logically consistent and not require them to be the stupidest voters in the country.
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@NickyFrank30 We were unable to respond to the "trans surgeries for prisoners" ad because if we came out and said that we weren't for that and we won't do it, the trans activists would start screaming about how Kamala wants to genocide all trans people. Maybe we should stop crying genocide!.
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@tify330 Yeah this is all about major donors wanting to subvert the primary and install their favorite over the will of the Democratic electorate. If they do this, the progressives will be right about the Democratic Party and I'll be PISSED.
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@MattGertz Hitler was such a strategic genius that in 12 years he convinced the entire rest of the world to declare war on Germany, killed millions of his own citizens, saw his cities reduced to rubble, his country divided into occupation zones, and wound up eating a bullet. What a genius!.
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@igorbobic More diversity is good. But I dislike this erasure of Harris's South Asian descent. Duckworth said she felt "insulted" when that was pointed out to her. Well I feel insulted by this. I am tired of the erasure of South Asians and our contributions. I'm upset with Duckworth.
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Still waiting on the breathless profiles of Biden voters. What makes them tick?!.
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@agraybee I always like to bring up Breaking Bad in this context. The premise makes no sense post-ACA because Walt would not have been kicked off his insurance to begin with.
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@FacepalmEpitome @ed_solomon There's no way that really happened, lol. People don't actually talk like that. It's like a parody.
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My offbeat theory is that this disloyalty on the part of some Dems and, in particular, major donors, will give Biden some 'outsider' credibility and a subsequent boost. He can say, credibly, that "the elites want to keep me out because I'm working for you, not them.".
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Do you remember that time Hillary said that if Trump was elected it would be the end of Roe v. Wade, and you said that was wrong because Republicans said they wouldn't do that? And then they did?. Maybe stop taking them at face value, Jonathan!.
Consensus from reporters who have replied is that Clinton is likely wrong: Republicans say they would observe precedent and allow replacement on committee
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For the record, Ilhan Omar is on record being against both arming the Ukrainians to fight off the Russian invaders *and* sanctioning the Russians so they stop invading. I'm beginning to think she really hates Ukraine!.
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@TimRyan @TheDemCoalition Tim Ryan is the only Democrat who can win this seat. Everyone loves him!. Tim, if you're reading, I want to thank you for the work you did informing the public in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection. Those zoom updates were the only official info we got at the time.
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@EiratheIntern @Whatapityonyou It's almost a ritual at this point for an incoming executive to sign a bunch of executive orders undoing the previous executives orders.
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Did you help her? I have the feeling you didn't. I have the feeling you helped Trump.
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@agraybee Yeah maybe it's my history is a bit foggy, but I seem to remember it was Stalin who made a deal with Hitler while Churchill vowed to fight on even if alone. It was only after Hitler double-crossed him did Stalin have issue with his method. Did I have that right?.
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@mkraju Why is it insulting to say that Harris is a South Asian?. We don't count or something? Is that it? This is outrageous. Senator Duckworth what are you thinking.
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Honestly, I don't find Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett to be that unreasonable. I mean, they're conservative - they certainly aren't making the decisions I would make - but they aren't insane. Thomas and Alito, on the other hand, are insane.
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@Acosta I wanna know more about these reconnaissance tours. did members of Congress have foreknowledge of the attack? Did they assist the attackers the day before in plotting their route?.
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Amid the fascinating and well-intentioned discussion, there are a lot of hit dogs hollering in these replies.
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@brikeilarcnn If this family is consuming a gallon of milk per person per day, at what point does this become a rate of consumption issue? I mean, do they expect free unlimited milk or something? Like in Canaan? We're a long way off from there, haha.
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@fawfulfan The prequels have a lot of flaws, but at least they were trying to tell an original story and had a common theme. Whereas the sequels are just nonsense. And they were clearly making it up as they went along.
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@juliaioffe Weren't you around for the Syrian civil war? They were all Assad apologists! It was like 10 years ago though.
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@PartyWurmple Literally NO ONE thanked Biden for ending America's commitment to Afghanistan. In fact, August 2021 was even his approvals sank and never recovered. Future Presidents, take note!.
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@fawfulfan Americans will max out their 401k and Roth IRA and contribute 40% of what's left into a brokerage account and then tell pollsters with a straight face that they're living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by.
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@marcushjohnson Biden paid the least amount of attention to Twitter, and these blue checks never forgave him for it.
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If people were intellectually honest, they'd reflect on why they were so ready to believe that Israel blew up a hospital and killed 500+ just because Hamas said so. It's like they wanted it to be true. And meanwhile, they demand to personally inspect each severed Israeli head.
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@agraybee It was unbelievable to see people celebrating while the reported death toll was still climbing. Like Saturday morning. Insane.
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@magi_jay @mattyglesias This is the most confusing thing to me. The Sheriff is the one who acted inappropriately. How is this Aaron's fault.
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You can't call yourself "the base" of the party and then in the next breath threaten to withhold your vote if you don't get exactly what you wan't. That's not what "base" means!!!.
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@williamadler78 @cliffschecter @SharylAttkisson @MEPFuller Yeah I don't think this person understands that as the overall proportion of vaccinated people approaches 1, the rate of breakthrough cases will increase. This is expected, and what's also expected is that severe illness, hospitalizations and deaths will stay down, which they are.
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@kaitlancollins Would have been nice to have asked him about this yesterday. It was certainly on my mind. This is good news.
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Very very predictable how every 2024 postmortem has the single biggest reason Harris lost is that she didn't pander specifically to the speaker's personal desires.
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@tify330 Yeah if more people have acted like Schumer, this would have gone a lot nicer. Say it to his face one-on-one and then keep quiet. That's the classy way.
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@DavidCornDC @KingJames LeBron helped people vote. The other guy tried to violently annul those votes.
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The Corn Pop saga provides an interesting lesson in humility. All of the (self-proclaimed) smartest people on this website couldn't contain their spiteful glee when that speech first surfaced. Then it turned out to be real and. silence.
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@agraybee Honestly, they need jobs. I've been to towns in rural Missouri where there is literally zero economic activity going on. The only income the town gets is from the federal government in the form of SSI, etc, or retirement money. It's an economic wasteland.
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@agraybee The thing is that Biden isn't going to aggressively insist it never happened and dare people to bring it up. He'll just be like, "Stairs, am I right?".
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@regwag2003 @Kristin4Harlem I just moved to NYC and THIS is my council representative. Good heavens. .
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@BourbonDienasty @agraybee I honestly think we'll look back at the legalization of sports betting as a serious mistake.
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@agraybee Biden may be accused of many things, but apathy and political nihilism are not among them. It's funny - those are characteristics that would better describe the writers of The Onion than Biden.
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This is a good place to remind people that Epstein did, in fact, kill himself, and in doing so, the coward robbed his victims and their families of the final measure of justice.
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@nikicaga I had a Romanian friend explain to me that Ceaucescu was actually not a terrible ruler (not great, mind you) until he visited Maoist China whereupon he returned to Romania with some "funny ideas" as my Romanian friend put it.
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@AngryBlackLady Matt Yglesias has been writing undergraduate-level commentary for over 15 years now. I mean it was fine in 2004 or whatever. But it's like . that's your thing now?. Some of his posts would get rejected from a university student newspaper's oped section.
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@ZacAKAMadu Dude side note, with the rise of fent, I'd be pretty leery of snorting ANY powders. It's like literal Russian Roulette.
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@agraybee "If only those western imperialists hadn't raided him, he would not have been induced to self-detonate and kill those children. Therefore, America bad.".
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@Ziggys_Duck It's interesting. This episode was made in the aftermath of several high-profile FBI scandals, including John Connelly, who was a mole for the Bulger gang, and Robert Hannsen, who spied for Russia. The idea of a corrupt FBI agent tipping off organized crime was not so far-fetched.
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@MattNegrin @chucktodd @chucktodd and the rest of these people want us to forget because Jan. 6 was THEIR failure. They really thought it was all fun and games. They refused to condemn these lies and those who spread them. They are no friends to Democracy.
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Lmao Biden ain't got no time for these petty tyrants. Dude owns 39 restaurants, thinks he's a prince!.
Joe Biden tells a small business owner that his industry is "really going to be in a bind for a little while," and goes on to say that if he wants to hire workers, he'll just have to pay a $15/hr minimum wage:
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@agraybee The connection is kinda tenuous. Yes, processed food given as aid led to health problems in many communities, including, notably Hawaii and American Samoa via Spam. But the point here is "don't use doordash." Frozen food is only brought up b/c we know they're too lazy to cook.
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@agraybee If I were worried about the civilian casualties, I would simply not place my military headquarters underneath a hospital.
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@agraybee Yeah I was just at the rally in Detroit. He sounded great! Top form. I really think the debate was a one off.
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@agraybee Maybe this person is too young to have followed politics in 2017 or even know who John McCain was?.
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@fedtanyl My favorite is "There can be no climate justice without a free Palestine from the river to the sea.". It's like. what?.
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@agraybee Also, the specific problem that he had regarding pre-existing conditions was outlawed by the ACA. In that regard, Breaking Bad is very much a pre-Obama production. By the time the show ended, Season 1 Walter would never have had to resort to such methods.
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@agraybee People in Europe can be phenomenally racist, and its expression can be shocking to Americans whose ears are more attuned to softer dog whistles. Go to a Parisian cafe, get to know someone, and ask if they think France has a "Muslim problem.".
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@magi_jay Oh man I'll never forget that. "I didn't have time.". What, was a nuclear bomb gonna go off if he didn't get this story out right that moment? What exactly was so important that he didn't have time to do like basic follow-up to see if anyone could corroborate what she was saying.
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Wow, I can't believe they offered me a job! I'm moving to the Big Apple!!.
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