Noah Smith ๐๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ
@Noahpinion
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Writes about economics, posts about rabbits. For serious opinions/analysis, read my blog:
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Make-work is a form of "stasis subsidy" -- a promise that no matter how technology changes, you'll be doing the same increasingly useless things at work.
Stasis subsidies feel cheap in the short run, but they're insanely costly in the long term.
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People think cathedrals like this were built by some ancient long-lost civilization. Bruh this cathedral was finished in 1965.
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15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.
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The wildest thing about the India-China conflict is that by mutual agreement, both sides fight exclusively with melee weapons.
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He is Lisan al Gaib
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One thing Biden's withdrawal is revealing is that the Democrats actually have a much deeper bench of competent, appealing youngish leaders than the 2020 primary showed.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer sounding very Vice Presidential here
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When this person learns where the word Jedi comes from she's gonna have a stroke
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They just...slaughtered a music festival.
How did slaughtering a music festival help the cause of Palestinian liberation?
BREAKING:
Israel confirms that the bodies of 260 civilians were found at the site of the music festival near the Gaza border fence.
The authorities announce that search and rescue operation is over.
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A friend recently came back from China. He spoke in wondrous terms about how safe and clean it was, how easy it was to buy stuff and get it delivered. And he casually mentioned his friend rushing to dinner because her social credit score would get dinged if she was late.
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Russia: Losing a war to a country 1/4 its size
Iran: Massive protests
China: Increasing protests, sputtering economy
U.S.: Record low unemployment, election deniers lost midterms
Europe, Japan, Korea: Economically resilient, politically stable
Liberalism on its last legs, huh?
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We should permanently normalize wearing a mask when you have a cold or the flu, in order not to infect other people. Japanese people do it. Why not us?
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This is the guy the Palestine protesters are trying their best to elect:
BREAKING: TRUMP ON ISRAEL
โIf you hate Israel, we don't want you in our country. I will arrest and deport all Hamas and jihad supporters.โ
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We're still building this one *right now*!
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This headline should read: "Americans who dress up as clowns outnumber clowns who dress up as Americans"
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Sigh...FINE, fine, we'll do the joke.
Blows my mind how the modal Indian person is 20 while the modal Chinese person is 50
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Once again: Getting shot at by a random psycho is not something that makes you more qualified to lead a nation.
Trump has now given up all of his July 13 shooting gains.
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This about sums up the Republican party right now.
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Every time I see Ukrainians post photos of the unprovoked Russian shelling of their cities, I think "In 2003 that was how Iraqis felt about us."
About 7000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the first 2 months of our "Shock and Awe" bombing campaign.
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A decade ago I felt like I could find anything on the Web. Now I feel like I can barely find anything. People just don't put information on web pages anymore.
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I swear to God, the sight of people with deadly diseases crowdfunding their health care is the most dystopian thing about America right now.
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Most countries: The govt gives you health care.
America: You frantically call the govt to beg for the right to continue to buy health care.
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Yes, they commit crimes at a disproportionately LOW level.
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Holy shit Einstein was right
Ukrainian Mavic drone downs Russian Mavic using a stick.
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Happy 200th birthday, Karl Marx!
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Conservative friends keep telling me how lefty NPR is, and then once a year or so I listen to NPR and it just boggles my mind how much they bend over backwards to present conservative viewpoints.
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Basketball fans are being kicked out of games for pro-Hong Kong signs IN AMERICA.
these are the signs that led to two fans being kicked out of Tuesdayโs 76ers vs. Guangzhou Loong Lions game *in Philadelphia*
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Men have paid off a significant portion of their student loans since 2009. Women have not.
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IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT NOT ALL OF THE SLAUGHTERED BABIES WERE BEHEADED.
JOURNALISTIC ACCURACY, PLEASE!!!
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Yes. Biden was the first President of my lifetime to actually DO SOMETHING about manufacturing, instead of just running his mouth.
For my entire life, I've heard politicians talk about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America.
It is FINALLY happening.
"We're not going back!" has been
@KamalaHarris
's rallying cry. But those jobs & industries of the future now hang in the balance this
#election
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In the medieval period alone, Muslims invented geared mills, windmills, algebra, ammonium chloride synthesis, control valves, cryptanalysis, the kerosene lamp, double-entry bookkeeping, the magnifying glass, hyperbolic geometry, the syringe, the scientific method, and more!
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I still kind of can't believe Russia sent in their tanks to conquer a neighboring country, then screamed that anyone who resisted them was against "peace", and some people with an IQ greater than a radish actually bought that.
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It wasn't until I moved to San Francisco that I realized that the reason rich people live on hills is only slightly about the views, and mostly about the fact that thieves don't like to walk uphill.
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Yet another quiet victory that Biden will never claim or receive credit for
NPR: "U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives." Strategy by
@POTUS
to counter fentanyl a key piece of this.
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HOLY SHIT there are a lot of American companies doing pro-China censorship!!!
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This is just an incredible graph. India is making absolutely amazing strides against poverty.
(ht
@scienceisstrat1
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Right-wingers have absolutely beclowned themselves by turning on Zelensky, who has embodied their supposed ideal of brave virtuous manliness in defense of his people and country, as well as kicking the ass of America's most dangerous enemy.
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Just in case anyone forgot...
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The cool thing about cyberpunk coming true is that we got ALL the cyberpunk futures.
China: universal surveillance and social control
America: cool gadgets and staggering inequality
Russia: shadowy plots, covert ops, and assasins
Japan: Japan
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"Wow, Japan is so orderly and safe, it must be because of their homogenous population"
Well...maybe there's something else going on there
Psychiatric beds per 100,000 residents, worldwide comparison. America is..a little behind
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Watching MAGA people pivot from "Trump is inevitably going to win the election" to "The election is inevitably going to be stolen from Trump" is the clearest sign that the vibes have shifted.
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I would just like to point out that a Boeing plane just got hit by turbulence strong enough to literally kill someone inside the plane, and yet landed just fine.
JUST IN: Boeing offers condolences after a passenger was killed on a Boeing 777 plane, says their โthoughtsโ are with the passengers and crew.
In total 30 people were injured and a 73-year-old British man was killed.
The incident happened after the plane fell a whopping
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I basically missed this whole news cycle.
Are you telling me that the front page of the New York Times reported that Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 kids, and it turned out that what actually happened was that an Islamic Jihad rocket fell on a parking lot???
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The median number of lifetime sexual partners for America women aged 25-49 is FOUR.
Get a grip.
Gen Z guys will have to make a choice:
End up alone.
End up with somebody who has been with everybody.
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It is just bizarre that instead of forcing Jordan Neely to stay at the facility to get treatment, we relied on the threat of prison to try to encourage him to stay there. If they had kept him there so he could get the treatment he needed, heโd still be alive today
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Today in "pictures that look fake but aren't"
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The GOP just collapsed as a party and was taken over by a gang of random weirdos backed by Russia
NEW: More than 200 Bush, McCain, and Romney Alumni endorse Vice President Harris
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Trump is just not a good person
the fact that a dude took a bullet for Trump and Biden called his family while Trump has yet to do soโฆman
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Nobody rioted over this one, but it was one of the worst.
Mesa, Arizona will pay $8 million to the widow of Daniel Shaver, who was unarmed when he was shot while crawling toward police:
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Protester: *punches baby in the head*
Normal person: Hey, you can't just punch babies in the head
Protester: OK I think we can all agree that what's happening in Palestine right now is a LOT MORE IMPORTANT than this ONE BABY getting punched in the head
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I think France is the wisest country. They really have it figured out, man. They just eat good food, ride the train, have sex and riot
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Stop trying to make America into a blood-and-soil Old World nation.
It never has been, it never will be.
Q: Trump wants to take away birthright citizenship. Do you agree with him on that?
JD Vance: I really do
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What's weird and creepy about the "drunk sex is rape" discourse is that if both people are drunk, the man is concluded to have raped the woman, rather than the other way around.
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Why don't we allow carmakers to sell cars directly to customers? Seems like a no-brainer.
Mark my words: sometime in the next decade, Democrats are going to kick the tires on lifting the ban on direct-from-manufacturers sale of automobiles. It is going to create one of the bloodiest political fights in a long time
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"Let's help poor Black kids by just not teaching anyone math" is the most fucking boneheaded idea I've ever heard. Those kids are behind in math because they get less parental help. And now you're going to give them less help at school, too? Fucking brain-dead!!!
Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect.
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Hamas rapes and murders hundreds of Israeli civilians --> Right-wingers issue strong condemnations and thunder for blood
Russia rapes and murders tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians --> Right-wingers make excuses for Russia and try to cut off aid to Ukraine
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It really shouldn't be possible to steal someone's house.
Thriving how-to squatter internet forums reveal home takeover secrets: โYou canโt stop it!โ
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The U.S. can't build housing. Or transit. Or solar power. Or transmission lines. Or semiconductor fabs.
We are the Build-Nothing Country.
And this needs to change, and it needs to change fast.
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I don't think I've ever seen a meme that represents our current political era as well as this one does.
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Biden actually did the stuff that Trump promised to do but didn't do
Has America ever had a manufacturing investment boom as big as the one that started a couple of years ago?
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Biden has passed so many laws, funded so many things, and forgiven so much debt, and these people have no idea because they never read the news and they don't actually know anything
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It's difficult to overstate just how deeply much of the Western Left has morally disgraced themselves.
โAnd as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipstersโ Speeches held at the โAll Out For Palestineโ protest outside the Israeli
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Absolutely unbelievable.
Today was the day that David Austin Walsh, one of Twitter's premier leftists, complained that he can't get a job because he's discriminated against for being a white man.
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Trump is older now than Biden was in 2020.
He's old.
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Basically, not being fat is a cheat code for all kinds of other health stuff
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A picture of downtown Houston in the 1970s.
It looks like it was hit with a nuclear bomb, but no, it just really really loved parking lots.
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Economic growth: China vs. Poland
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Remember, all the Palestine protesters are doing their best to help this guy get elected:
"Israel looks โtinyโ on the map compared to other countries in the Middle East. Is there a way to get more? Itโs so tiny."
- Trump
This was always the plan. They've talked about it openly for years. Oct 7th was a false flag and pretext to their next war. America will help, and
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One of the greatest and most important memes ever created.
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"AI isn't intelligent, it just regurgitates bullshit that it read somewhere" bro have you met human beings
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Biden is actually acting to revive American manufacturing. Trump will probably cancel this program.
NEW: 11 shuttered auto plants will become EV factories thanks to $1.7 billion Biden program
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Holy shit this is awesome ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ
HAPPENING NOW: Arizona Republicans endorse Vice President Harris and slam Trump for his attacks on democracy. GOP leaders will form a new advisory committee to help the Harris for Arizona campaign reach Republicans who will reject MAGA from now until November ๐ณ๏ธ
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I don't want four more years of this fucking guy
Even Faulkner seems stunned as she says โoh my goodnessโ after Trump continues to attack Rachel Scott
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Democrats are quietly purging their extremists.
The GOP can't exactly follow suit, because its main extremist is the guy in charge of the party.
๐จBREAKING
"Squad" member Rep. Cori Bush has just lost her primary in Missouriโs 1st Congressional District to St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, a moderate Democrat.
#MO01
Good.
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You read about the Trail of Tears, the Japanese internment, etc. in your history classes.
You read about all the countries where the government threw people into camps en masse, and you wondered, "How could it happen? How could people allow that to happen?"
Well, now you know.
They're calling them "tent cities" but yes, they are camps. They're going to construct camps for children.
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This is a hostile takeover of the Republican Party
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Holy shit, Republicans.
Someone needs to go to jail for this.
#NC09
GOP candidate
@MarkHarrisNC9
โs campaign appears to have sent people door to door in rural Robeson & Bladen Counties to steal absentee ballots from elderly black voters and complete them for Harris. There were 1300+ such ballots in those counties in a race Harris won by 905.
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I have lots of negative things to say about the Maduro regime but the fact that they just tossed Jackson Hinkle in jail for funsies is a mark in their favor
Reports that the Venezuelan regime has taken Jackson Hinkle into custody. His best mate Haz claims it was ''for his own protection'' LMAO
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Refugees are legal immigrants, and yet all the anti-immigration people get just as freaked out about refugees as they do about illegal immigration.
It was never about the legality.
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One reason cats and rabbits tend to get along is that for cats, grooming others is a sign of high status, but for rabbits, being groomed is a sign of high status.
Thus, each of these cuties is thinking "I'm the boss":
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Satya Nadella, best turnaround CEO of the modern age
BREAKING: Microsoft has overtaken Apple as the world's most valuable company
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Biden cracked down on the border and no one noticed
Meanwhile, illegal border crossings are plummeting.
Preliminary data for June show they're lower than they were same time of year in 2019, Trump's last prepandemic year.
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Look, I hate to tell you this, because it's a little depressing, but the reason you can't seem to find a good man/good woman is because you're not horny. When you were 23 you were like "OMG, SEX is amahhhzing!!", and then you stuck with that person for the sex and eventually both
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I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it's fascist to throw a man in prison for 20 years for giving people food, water, and a place to sleep.
Scott Warren, a 36-year-old academic, faces 20 years in prison if convicted and sentenced to consecutive terms for providing food, water, and a place to sleep to two undocumented men over three days last January.
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We often forget how stark the moral differences are between free countries and totalitarian ones
JUST IN - North Korea has publicly executed 22-year-old man for listening to K-pop
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- Every high-level military man who worked for Trump now denounces him
- Russians turned out to be paying much of the right-wing media
- Tucker Carlson is promoting Hitler supporters
It's almost as if electing Trump wouldn't actually be good for America.
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Republicans defecting from the Trump Cult are the bravest people in American politics. ๐ซก๐บ๐ธ
Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona: I am a lifelong Republican. I do not recognize my own party. The Republican Party has been taken over by extremists. I have something to say to those of us who are in the middle. You donโt owe a damn thing to that party. You donโt owe anything
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"Canadian woman is diagnosed with cancer, told she has 2 years to live at most, that she is not a candidate for surgery but would she like medical help committing suicide? She declines, comes to the US, spends a lot of money, and is treated within weeks."
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If this isn't a sign of capitalism's total victory, I don't know what is.
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This should be obvious, but the reason people jumped on the "Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 people" story was because the demand for one big splashy headline Israeli atrocity to balance out the Hamas baby-slaughter is outstripping the supply of same.
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It's difficult to overstate what absolute utter charlatans these people are.
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This is the dumbest, most ignorant thing I've heard from a public figure in quite a while
โWe spent $16 trillion on the lockdowns. We got nothing for it. $8 trillion on the Ukraine war. Thatโs $24 trillion that they had to print to pay for nothing. That money, the way theyโre paying it back, itโs a hidden tax called inflation, and it hits the poor and the middle
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Japanese poor people do everything right - they get a job, avoid violence, don't do drugs, and don't have kids out of wedlock - and yet they're still poor.
This suggests that poverty is NOT mainly caused by bad behavior.
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This is a chart that big-city progressives really need to grapple with.
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Every anti-Ukraine tweet is basically just this.
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Every leftist argument about the Ukraine War is just literally this meme.
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Oh yeah the Canadian mass grave thing turned out to be false.
The
@nytimes
has been remiss in its reporting on a Canadian moral panic: the idea that children were hastily buried in mass graves at Indigenous residential schools. Years after this scandal broke, not one body has been found.
@jonkay
for
@Quillette
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Farewell, President Biden. You did a great job.
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This is a professor at Yale.
Vile.
Settlers are not civilians. This is not hard.
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