Ecclesiasticus44
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Expert in Distrusting Experts. The dealer wants you thinking that it’s either black or white. Thank god it’s not that simple.
Joined September 2019
Experts and professionals should be seen as craftsmen in the service of democracy. Liberals think the function of democracy should be for voters to rubber stamp the judgments of experts and professionals.
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If appeasement of Hitler was a cowardly catastrophe but containment of the USSR was shrewd pragmatism, you have to show Putin is more Hitler than Stalin, not just scream "Chamberlain Chamberlain Chamberlain" any time someone suggests it would be good if fewer people were dying
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If this is true, it’s true in the same way that if you asked OJ to narrate his life story it might be 95% true
My most liberal opinion is that the Russiagate stuff was 95% true
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@TheAgeofShoddy Wokeness got wrapped up with credentialism both because they thought it would shore up the non-professional class non-white part of the coalition, but also to bolster the legitimacy of those in power as being “on the right side of history”
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“It is absolutely unacceptable to lose this war (even though we have no prospect of winning it so people just have to keep dying)” is equally abhorrent whether it’s a bleeding heart thing or a tough guy thing
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Lukas Haas considering kicking Leo out of the Pussy Posse
I do not see how Trump can be allowed to come to the G7 in Canada in June. Never mind that we don't generally let convicted felons enter the country: how on earth do we "welcome" on our soil someone who is committed to wiping us off the map? I'm not sure there's much point in the G7 even meeting, frankly. Trump's America is no longer an ally of the democracies. That should now be clear. It may not even be a full-service democracy for long. The agenda for the other members — call them the G6 — should now be figuring out how to contain it.
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@Nemtastic1 I think even that’s giving too much credit. Didn’t the Biden campaign initiate the letter? That certainly is evidence that it was with the intent to help Joe Biden win even if you can’t show it had the effect of helping Joe Biden win
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What on earth
“WITHOUT EVIDENCE!!” The New York Times is still in denial about the Laptop From Hell. What an absolute joke.
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Liberals get so mad when Republicans do politics effectively. DOGE trumpets some incredibly unpopular bit of government spending and the response is “um that’s not news all you had to do was search the GPO database and read footnote 27 of Appendix CC to the 2022 quarterly report”
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@jessesingal I don’t call you spending every day of the Obama or Biden administration personally apologizing for all the suffering the American government either caused or failed to prevent, so the “How do Trump supporters defend…” routine wears thin pretty quickly
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” starring Kid Rock and Roseanne
🚨 President Donald J. Trump has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. Congratulations, Mr. President!
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@NationalPhilad2 Yeah, Eastman just has a gentle silliness. Plus it's so lazy to just make up creatures to fit the rhyme you need!
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@Ted__ted_ Yeah, but unless you’re married to a crazy narcissist like Mia you’re going to have to take matters into your own hands
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John Fetterman and Susan Collins are negative images of each other. Each is a rhetorical turncoat to their party but with a loyalist voting record.
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It's time to start enforcing strict rules about reality. If you have a penis you're a man, if you have a vagina you're a woman, and if you have r-c-e in the middle of your name you have to pronounce it that way.
Last night, Worcester, Massachusetts voted to become a “Sanctuary City for Transgender and Gender Diverse People” The City Council Meeting before the vote was... Interesting:
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