Gary Alexander
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Recovering graduate student. M.A. in history. Another end of the world is possible.
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0% of students in my discussion sections had ever heard of Abu Ghraib, for those of you wondering about public memory of such things.
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Libertarian cynicism can give you an okay batting average on a lot of minor, everyday annoyances; but you will swing and miss very badly on anything important.
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Respect rejecting the apology, Barack is gonna tell you to go to the Bidens though. He's never met someone standing up for themselves that he hasn't told to knock it off.
Angel Reese rejects First Lady Jill Biden’s apology: ‘We’ll go to the Obamas’
(📹
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The right-wing pretend belief that ending friendships over politics is bad is so funny. It's 100% cope. Every one of those people has a red line, they just can't afford to imagine that their own politics could be considered evil to someone else.
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FDR was physically disabled, he didn't become a different person mentally after 4PM according to his own staff. It's kind of fucked up to compare them, man.
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first smart thing I can recall this guy saying in literal decades
James Carville to PBS on Harris: "i think she should announce when i'm president there's gonna be a justice dept task force to investigate price rigging and price gouging...now people are going to say 'ohh that's anti corporate that's anti wall st' well ok, go ahead, whine on."
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These accounts are all fascist. But this thread, about this style, is full of Hitler particles in a way that you gotta read books, that actually describe the art Nazis appreciated, to recognize.
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I expect him to cancel the debt. If the Supreme Court then wants to reinstate it, let them own that decision politically. We are talking about politics here, yes?
what do the "Biden lost my vote because he's resuming student loan payments" people expect him to do
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The Chapo Trap House (boo hiss, unserious!) official position that "these are the only two Presidential candidates that could lose to each other" seems airtight to me.
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The party of the guys who have been insisting for years that Ilhan Omar married her brother has some complaints to register.
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Biden half-assed a low-ball debt relief plan, building no robust constituency in favor of mobilizing to defend it, in order to placate a body that would predictably strike it down anyway. A masterclass in failure so complete that you might think it was never meant to succeed.
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@davidaxelrod
The only people there now who "aren't students" are those whose student status was invalided on a technicality by a suspension, they were all students as of last week.
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"Noah Smith reads one interview with a settler and invents BDS" is an extremely good bit.
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There doesn't need to be any pet theories. It's one of the most well-understood phenomena in history: Liberate women and they tend not to choose to start having multiple kids starting at age 16.
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A hypothetical left Trump assassin has the disadvantage (advantage?) of being the only sort who'd correctly game out what would happen if they tried.
we're going to see an assassination attempt from every part of the political spectrum except the left
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Yeah man imagine if Hitler was running for President against an extremely old guy who also sucked.
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I had an IQ test done once for not particularly compelling reasons, and to my surprise a lot of it was trivia. After I crushed what seemed to me like easy questions I asked the guy, is this shit serious? And he said "a lot of people don't know this stuff." It measures free time.
If this happened, every single person obsessed with IQ would become a serf for a Disney adult with an accounting job
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The problem with Joe Biden in 2020, and the problem with him in this very moment, is he is precisely the kind of politician who would not do any of this.
Biden should now go nuts with the Exec Orders since he's not running. Declare election day a holiday. Free healthcare for all, immediately. Do any and everything he ever dreamed of. If the Republicans want to fight him in court, let them.
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Revisionist Churchill which portrays him as an old racist fuck who feared a rearmed Germany because it threatened the British Empire and no other reason, and regularly undermined the serious efforts of the US and USSR to actually win the war once Britain was safe.
If you could have a film made about a historical person/era/event and it had an unlimited budget, who or what would you choose?
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Actually taught college: Wikipedia is fine especially if you are going in with no knowledge and want a broad overview. It's not a good source because it's tertiary and aims at consensus, not perspective. Going to the secondary citations isn't "using Wikipedia."
The worst Wikipedia defense has gotta be "it's ok for a starting point, just follow their citations!"
If you're following Wikipedia citations, you're still using Wikipedia!
It's like saying "I don't get all my information from Brad— I also consult books Brad tells me to read!"
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Glad the ad that explicitly calls to mass deport the unwanted foreign hordes isn't fascist anymore. Good work everyone.
NEW: We tracked down the source of the “unified Reich” phrase in the now deleted Trump video. All signs point to it's inclusion being an oversight, not a fascist dog whistle.
It comes from a 30 year-old Turkish graphic designer who in 2023 randomly copy and pasted it as
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@Thefarthests
A great example. Are activists *annoying*? Sure. Does that *matter*? Not even a little bit.
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Perfect movie that doesn't need a sequel. Hell, just keep re-releasing the old one with a different title until people get it.
WB bosses are hoping to get Tom Cruise to develop ‘EDGE OF TOMORROW 2’.
(Source: )
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Penn Jillette renouncing libertarianism and Scott Adams diving even further into misogynist madness has me updating my Babylon 5 embarrassing cameo rankings.
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No state has ever had or will ever have "a right to exist."
Let's try to apply antisemitic standards to another nation: Turkey has no right to exist. It's an illegitimate occupying state. It's not Turkey, it's Byzantium. Turkey is a terrorist settler colony on Greek land. Greeks have the right to resist Turkish occupation by all means.
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One of two things must be true. Either the IDF are bombing indiscriminately, which they deny, or their precision targeting involves using white phosphorous on children's hospitals.
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The most insane thing about this to me is are all the British people in the QTs accusing Americans generally and this article specifically of "true crime brain." My brother in Christ the position of this article is that there were no crimes, and you've got Daily Mail headlines.
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Sure, if you're just some dude who thinks Kinkade is charming and want to put a print up in your bathroom, that doesn't make you a fascist. But if you promote the "nostalgic values" expressed in the art while discrediting critics who call it kitsch, with a "classical" avatar?
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even zionist liberals in this country hate that guy, what the fuck are you idiots even doing
NEWS: Schumer is set to join Johnson in inviting Netanyahu to address Congress
Johnson told
@thehill
he sent Schumer a draft invite but Schumer ignored
Now, Schumer spox says he'll sign
"He intends to join the invitation, the timing is being worked out"
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@MilesMoeller
Buddy the term "South Park Republican" was extremely well known when this show was at the peak of its popularity. They cover topical political issues all the time. They made a movie about the war on terror.
Grow up.
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It's one of those things that is obvious and uncontroversial to people who have done the reading, but sounds absurd to most people. Which is how these accounts operate.
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It explains a lot about ~book discourse~ that this is the range of options being argued about ad infinitum on here.
“adults shouldn’t read ya” i don’t wanna read the smut filled het romance books that isn’t ya you know ??? sometimes i just want a cute little book about love that doesn’t include the characters fucking on every surface every second page
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The opportunities are there to force the Republicans to materially own a growing list of unpopular policies, but the Democratic party's fetish for bipartisanship and proceduralism means they never take advantage.
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The first season was the most reactionary kids media I've ever seen.
you The Legend of Korra haters are simply wrong
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Fun exercise is trying to apply this heuristic to the past. Lyndon Johnson was getting intelligence briefings, and the Vietnam War protesters weren't! Guess they were commie plants and wrong about the moral question of the age.
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The United States has exactly one conventional war on its resume in the same period, and it was rolling over the Iraqi military in some of the most favorable terrain for US doctrine in the world.
The actual military is likely much less sanguine about the prospect than this.
If China touches Taiwan (or, god forbid, our boats), they'll have to end up dealing with the consequences of not having fought a real war since the 1950s.
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If I were in the middle of a coup with an uncertain outcome I would do my best to seem fine with the nearest armed faction.
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The left, existing as we do in a world largely run by people who think our beliefs are evil and historically have been jailed or killed for having them, cannot reasonably entertain such comforting illusions.
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Whether they "care" or not is irrelevant. Hamas (and PFLP and PIJ) can't disarm because Israel certainly won't, and no other parties will defend them from Israel. It would be irresponsible and foolish.
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"Wouldn't accomplish much except make the lives of everyone I do or could care about measurably worse for the rest of what would have been my life, had the Secret Service not killed me at the scene."
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Incredible grift here. They can do the usual bulk buys to juice sales thing that they do with conservative books, but then sell that to the chuds as a conspiracy.
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@conor64
@mikeknerr67
Sure, the available evidence - the numerous deals Israel has rejected *since October* to get the hostages back - demonstrates that killing the Palestinians is the point and the hostages are a pretext.
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I mean this latest interview suggests he'd prefer people know his name so he can get a job.
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They've edited this post to remove the videos, which show the rockets being fired at approximately 17:00 GMT, yet Al-Jazeera had already reported the hospital bombing at 16:49 GMT:
Breaking: IDF Spokesperson
From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit.
According to intelligence information, from several sources we have,
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@peterbakernyt
@Peggynoonannyc
A real journalist would report that they have spokespeople assigned to explain the cause to the press.
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@conor64
@mikeknerr67
My telling lines up with the available facts: That they could have gotten the hostages back at a cost of 0 more lives on either side, many times, and rejected all of them.
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Neither the state nor the discourse has much planned for the other ideologies, but it can flip a very old switch to turn on a ruthless and efficient "crush the left" machine.
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It's pretty low stakes but if you're an educator at any level, some Lionsgate marketing dipshit just gave you an example of how ChatGPT can fuck you that students will comprehend.
So Lionsgate had to pull an entire trailer that used fake critic quotes and it sure looks like they got them from ChatGPT. But I guess it was all worth it to save the time and money of hiring an actual human.
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Worth stressing once again that if the Biden administration had used any leverage at all to stop Israel, EVEN IF IT DIDN’T WORK, none of this would be happening.
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One wonders if the people in the replies baffled and angry that a cop could claim to feel endangered here will learn to apply that skepticism more broadly.
Distressing video shows Missouri cop gun down lost 13-pound deaf and blind dog: ‘What am I supposed to do?’
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A minority view among 19th century Jews when Zionism was first presented to them, actually. Guess they were all antisemitic idiots.
Jews are indigenous to Israel. Anyone who calls them "settlers" is an antisemite or an idiot (or both).
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@Mikeggibbs
If that's true why did a relatively miniscule number do this while many millions served in the Red Army, and even more did neither?
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I have never encountered a single person espousing this view in my entire life.
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"Racism was over in the 1980s" is a core conservative 40-something belief. It simply has to be the case for them, because they want to believe that any and all anti-racist politics and activism during their entire lives has been illegitimate overreach.
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And to think we simply avoided inconveniencing journalists and merely at the cost of a million dead.
"My experience returning to zero-COVID China shows what happens when an unfettered state is allowed free rein, unchecked by law or civil society." —
@MichaelSchuman
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I honestly can't recall a time I had what I'd characterize as bad service, some combination of it being rare or so trivial that it made no lasting impact.
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The story is: there's a nascent bourgeois revolution against Benders who are an aristocratic warrior elite who hold every position of authority, which our heroes root out and crush. The final episode then reveals the rebel leader as a cynical hypocrite. It's that bad!
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Well, that and all the people in their caucus who agree with those unpopular policies and benefit from the party's general if tepid opposition to them as cover. The Democratic party is a big tent coalition of both the unable and the unwilling.
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@conor64
@mikeknerr67
There are protests in Israel, by Israelis, which have been making this point for months now, Conor.
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Either "some Southerners" had ancestors who were ontologically evil (slavers, enthusiastic white supremacists, or both) or have voluntarily chosen to identify with them - for no external reason - despite other options. So yeah, it is.
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we're about to see
@allahliker
bits the likes of which we can only imagine
Lead is sequestered in the bones like calcium in childhood and is released as bone density drops with age. Hang on to your butts, GenX is about to wild the fuck out.
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Turns out I have lots of points in the thing that measures how much I play map video games and browse Wikipedia.
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The source for this complaint is Richard Garriot, president of the Explorers Club and also FUCKING "LORD BRITISH," CREATOR OF THE ULTIMA VIDEO GAME FRANCHISE.
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On the contrary: It exposes that the intent of this or that free speech law or norm does not matter at all when people with power decide that the content of speech isn't acceptable.
No laws or norms of any sort will protect the left against institutionally powerful rich people.
The crackdown on dissent against Israel at American colleges illustrates the danger of expansive conceptions of "harmful" speech.
In its wake, progressives should embrace the ideal of free and open debate
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Perfect movie ending
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@JonahDispatch
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Yeah I definitely trust the Liberal Fascism guy to evaluate what percentage of something is Nazi.
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@MisterMeteorMan
I identified a specific kind of art and listed specific reasons. Not "any kind for any reason."
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@JonahDispatch
@patriottakes
Author of "Liberal Fascism" is concerned about strawmen being propped up by haters.
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@Seamus_Malek
They all say this then never specify what capabilities the IDF is holding back, because apart from nukes there aren't any.
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This is malpractice. The dude is high on his own supply.
Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.
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@shashj
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The burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that each and every attack that kills dozens of civilians isn't deliberate, because it's the more extraordinary claim, particularly given how domestic Israeli politics and media is crowing over how many "terrorists" they're killing.
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By not taking proactive measures and waiting for the election, Democrats are essentially offering people a referendum on abortion. When they lose for structural and other reasons, they'll interpret it as a mandate to give up on it. Just wait.
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Behold, Biden's "red line."
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"How do you explain all these mysterious deaths" they're not mysterious! the guys in charge of the hospital mystified them to avoid confronting their own institutional failures!
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Epilogue: British public throws him out of office and Labour creates the NHS.
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I dont know how anyone believes 39% of those killed have been militants. That's an insane and unprovable claim from the Israeli side. Particularly given that we know they'll target refugee camps because they believe they can get a single Hamas commander.
New: Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from Israeli airstrikes.
“The ratio is significantly higher than the average civilian toll in all the conflicts around the world during the 20th century.”
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Charisma classes are four of the top five and the words Charisma, Face, Talking, Dialog... none appear. Come on guys it couldn't be more obvious why players are choosing these most .
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People who were mad the show had girls kissing or whatever were definitely mad about the wrong thing.
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