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@ProgDirectorate Apparently there was a mayday warning which allowed them to stop traffic but the construction crew was caught there
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@JillFilipovic Glory to our martyrs has a specific cultural meaning for Palestinians. You have deliberately chosen to misinterpret it to support your own sense of grievance, and because in your eyes the most important advocacy you can offer is campus tone policing. Absurd moral focus
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@big_business_ Kanye did this to himself. He can blame his mom dying, his ex wife leaving him, or whoever else but he’s a grown *** man. Conservatives who preach personal responsibility but don’t live by it <<<
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@ettingermentum The funny thing is that the Republican alternative absolutely wouldn’t be any better on this metric but because no one takes him seriously least of all himself he doesn’t pay any price. Biden was supposed to be quiet competence
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@brianros1 Eliminating her from the party is worth the risk. Allowing her noxious brand of Republican donor fuelled reactionary centrism to tarnish brand identity is one of the most dangerous threats to democratic electoral performance never mind policymaking. Cannot allow them an inch
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@NickTagliaferro It’s beautiful to watch and it’s incredible (but unsurprising) to see the msm entitledly whine that they should be served up quotes from college students to dissect and fillet out of context rather than show any self awareness
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@BCNOgi Imagine if prime Messi had this kind of support from his national team 😢
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@thrasherxy Making deepfake porn of teens is actually a grave offense with serious psychological harms for victims. It’s not a moral panic like consensual adult entertainers?? This all then devolves to anarchist arguments against any laws being illegitmate in a carceral state…which no
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@NBAPaint1 It’s 2024
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@RyB_311 It’s so sad. Players just aren’t the same after an Achilles injury
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@gilsrma @rmawrld Haven’t heard any more about the child porn distribution charges at La Fabrica 🤔. If that happened at my club I wouldn’t be talking smack about any other development academy for decades
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@drvolts A temporary four day ceasefire after a minimum of 20k dead is not, in fact, the same as an indefinite one and conditioning military aid on following human rights law (like not bombing schools, hospitals and refugee camps, and holding WB settlers accountable)
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@MattZeitlin @HarryTHop How can you use a text based medium like twitter if you can’t read? And haven’t you heard that zoomers prefer watching films with subtitles? I’m skeptical
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@notlarrysabato Beltway talking heads: Here’s why this is a win for Glenn youngkin
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@benryanwriter @Esqueer_ This is a good thing. Maybe try writing about something of service to the public rather than creating a moral outrage about fabricated cherry-picked anecdotes from theocratic activists posing as concerned parents
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@Chris_Broussard Some notable American cities, in no particular order: San Francisco 6.1% Phoenix 7.1% Los Angeles 8.1% Say you don’t know your country without saying you don’t know your country
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@kingtisemedia Jordan was the one guy who’s numbers hold up best despite playing in a different era. Imagine if he had modern shot diet /coaching with his mentality. It would be unfair
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@raiawrites @lisa_iannattone I would argue that people could very well have adapted to a safer and shared equilibrium if society had offered a realistic vision for them. This was engineered by reactionary contrarians and business interests, not a demand side inevitability!
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@kingtisemedia For anyone under 22 he’s your favorite hooper’s favorite hooper
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@thisisinsider Ron desantis must answer for his pedocon parent’s rights platform
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@DerekDeters @MollySm62661288 The entire time I was a nets fan ….chef’s kiss
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@no_earthquake @EmissaryOfNight Yup. I understand that sometimes people benefit from sublimating their feelings temporarily and engaging in a mindless activity to take their mind off trauma but in this case the friend did not offer to listen to a deeper conversation first before leaping to providing distraction
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@brianros1 @yeselson It’s amazing that you think that Israel is anyone other than Germany in a World War Two analogy
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@Redistrict Repeat after me. Abortion will lead to a durable shift against republicans until the policy on the ground actually shifts. It’s not a one off change people will just get used to. Every centrist and gop operative was in denial about this
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@LittleMammith @HarryTHop It’s bad politics to prioritize moral backslapping over taking a persuasion win but make no mistake the murder of seven western aid workers mattering more politically than tens of thousands of children is damning of the Washington establishment which absolutely knew better
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@Bd_irB_ll Olympic medals aren’t special anymore?
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@GodFavoriteSin @big_business_ He literally went unmasked and unvaxed to his own family’s native reserve, disregarding centuries of history of germ warfare and their starkly higher death rates to make a mockery of bodily autonomy at the same time women had theirs stripped away
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@revhowardarson How much do you want to bet that the real story is she reminded him of his unresolved survivor guilt so he fired her to repress the memory
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@ImNotOwned Nate blocked him after Nate started the fight. That’s the ultimate dub on this app
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@csilverandgold Blue maga is real, man. Which isn’t to say that these people won’t quickly pivot to Harris (or whoever) to stop Trump but they’re exceptionally risk averse in their perception of how to win to the point of missing the forest through the trees
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@GregTSargent The smugness is the overwhelming confidence that any competent politician has a much higher chance of winning than he does based on Biden’s accelerating limitations and the state of the race. His only strategy so far has been strongarming electeds not voters
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@KenHeLive Bron stans want the undying loyalty of fanbases even after he left them. That’s the trade off of leaving. Cleveland fans went so overboard in their racism that they tried to pretend fans should just be thankful that their ex met someone younger and hotter
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@SwipaCam This is such an agenda. If not for the dray suspension steph knee injury and bogut injury we could have won in 2016. When the exact same kind of collapse happened in 2013 the spurs came back and beat him the next year. We didn’t need a kd level difference maker to improve
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@whstancil This is such a strawman. Universal health insurance, if properly resourced, can more efficiently allocate resources, reduce rationing by socioeconomic status and improve health outcomes. The same $ goes further because of bargaining power. No one smart says it ends these things
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@NekiasNBA Tfw you’re deeply concerned about your favorite sports team’s moral compass
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@anthonyVslater That sounds like he’s making a medically dubious decision to save a season that is lost anyways?
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@PJ11819211 It’s about performative solidarity with the victims of British imperialism, actually
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@Hezbolsonaro Yes former president fox kept calling her a foreigner implying she didn’t deserve to run for president. Said the conservative opponent was the only Mexican in the race
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@RyB_311 @EthicalHoopz Grizzlies rockets and spurs all will be better next year. My warriors better be tanking for flagg
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@bangsponso76765 @ChadNotChud @BuckFanshauw Oh my god you’re one of those clowns who think we live in a meritocracy where opportunity comes from intelligence- not even soft skills never mind social network and access to education but pure iq - in order to justify not redistributing your wealth
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@JHWeissmann If people cared about social lives they would improve work life balance and third spaces instead of forcing workers into long commutes that use up all their leisure hours and then demand 24-7 email response times. It’s all about capital seeking ROI on commercial RE. You’re a mark
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@foresteagle45 I don’t care if you’re indigenous or not - that doesn’t mean you retain on the basis of a 2000 year old the right to evict the populace living there and bar them from self determination for decades while undergoing systematic torture and murder. Just barbaric mindset
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@DragonflyJonez Why does Giannis get a pass despite a disappointing exit but steph not even though steph more recently won a title ?
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@adamjohnsonNYC Fair enough but in this case she was neither making a political point nor a person of public interest and thus her life history should not have been put under investigation to find a “valid” reason to scorn her. People are driven to hate on each other to boost their own morality
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@tressiemcphd They find titillation in racism as transgression, presumably, because they don’t have true empathy merely social shame, which they are now trying to eliminate from mainstream society
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@nasboat Turns out you can just not take yourself too seriously and become a reactionary maniac if you become the main character for the day. Like yeah, it sucks, but nine times out of ten it will blow over with no lasting consequences
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@steinkobbe @JO_clever_KE People feel most betrayed by people who are nominally part of their tribe. Yggy definitely fits into elon’s smarmy narcissist who thinks he’s smarter than he is ingroup
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@tysonbrody Ah yes, famously, McConnell would never be duplicitous about the timing of judicial replacements in an election year
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@NekiasNBA This is why it bothered me so much when people were praising this signing with the grizz as a character guy. In what world?
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@owillis Only white rich men’s lives matter - David French, citing Wilhoit’s law
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@KT_So_It_Goes Didn’t he just provide blue subscribers the ability to hide their subscription? But now only they will be able to be featured in the for you…meaning they will be unmasked….hood off 😭
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@whstancil Again even if this person’s a bad faith provocateur, the argument that even if you gave me a tax cut I won’t compromise on civil rights is one you’d praise in a rich businessman who still votes dem but you don’t value Palestinian lives enough to see the analogy
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@drvolts Biden is asking for ten billion dollars to fight Hamas and lying about the death tolls he’s inflicting - even after Palestinian authorities have published individual names - to replicate the mistake he should have seen coming after handing over Kabul to Taliban two decades later
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@bendreyfuss Did you post sympathy for the ships of migrants deliberately allowed to sink because centrists deployed racist panics against immigrants to lower your taxes or do you only care about the lives of rich people who forgot that safety deregulation was only supposed to apply to poors
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@BetterCallAlba Because unlike Southgate nagelsmann understands profiling and not merely stuffing the most talented attacking players in one lineup
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@chiddyafc Spain could have 3/4 sides in cl semis and will not have a chance to qualify thanks to past mediocrity
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@corvusglaive19 @JJMaples55_MST I’m completely down on bigs who are not good passers out of double teams as franchise players. Ad is a great defensive player and play finisher but hat is not a top ten skill. Closer to a super bam than a giannis
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@lefttwick He got booed for bragging about his own vaccine. There’s clearly limits even he must play by
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@watcherofbball @Bodiedisback @RyB_311 @EthicalHoopz Less than ever. Just look at okc building two elite rosters in two decades. Big market superteams been mostly failing of late
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@saywhatagain Funniest outcome is we find out in twenty years that they fled modern life to camp out in a commune in some tropical island and this was all staged to leave their obligations behind
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@steinkobbe I don’t understand why he hasn’t come up with the buy a blue check to own your enemy bit
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@shadihamid When the stated goal of said affinity groups was to use their privilege to offer empathetic solidarity to margninalized communities or the exact opposite of the dominant wilhoit’s law approach, but of course this comment was never made in good faith
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@ettingermentum I think there’s a big difference between politicians like aoc who truly would want to write the bill if they had congressional majorities and those who don’t and leftists who pretend not to understand the difference are merely red browning cynicism of government into helping gop
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@ettingermentum They didn’t tabulate the ceasefire votes 💀
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@been_herde @aryh21 People have lost comfort doing this, starting with cellphones, but accelerating with the pandemic and are now trying to change social norms to eliminate pleasantries between strangers to accommodate their loss of social skills when at the same time people are growing in isolation
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@whstancil Ultra wealthy have been exploiting electorate’s bigotry to siphon wealth to their preferred interests and propagandize their worldview through media platforms for multiple generations. To believe otherwise is being too naive about how democratic institutions truly are
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@kingtisemedia People really refuse to accept that a player under 6’5 who doesn’t play above the rim can be among very best to do it. It’s all aesthetics The whole concept of unparalleled gravity of shooting range/volume and offball cutting is used as a punchline rather than an explanation
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@Econ_Marshall Claiming it’s a conspiracy theory to believe that he didn’t soften his criticism of Biden’s declining electoral viability out of negative polarization (or careerism)
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@SwipaCam Lebron chased kawhi after recruiting ad in 2019. He cut a wwe promo announcing his intent to break basketball in 2010 and yet never achieve the level of dominance the 2017 warriors reached. Last fanbase who can complain about lack of parity
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@SwipaCam Has to do with people diminishing Steph’s legacy for wanting to team up with kd. Every other great Kareem, Shaq, Kobe, Bron did the same thing and yet it’s kd and steph specifically who are hated on because of how it hurt Bron’s quest to match Kobe and Mike’s ring count
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@_glorianas @golikehellmachi If he’d founded twitter, a larger percentage of its users would be stans but he’s essentially running a hostile takeover against both the users and the employees and despite being the one with the money at stake thinking the users are the more desperate ones
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@nikicaga Using a female-coded adjective makes insecure homophobic men feel like they were called a slur
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@whstancil It’s a sweet message and if you’re not able to handle for a rejection after one date then you need to work on yourself. People who respond angrily and entitledly to a normal message like this just make it easier for ghosting to be the norm which further hurts people
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@KenHeLive @LobosTequila Kareem called for a ceasefire and a return to peace process, two things that would protect Palestinian lives while bron was posting in defense of Israel while they’re about to raze Gaza to rubble. Indefensible man
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@thrasherxy @AntiNateSilver It’s all about the Benjamins
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@nikicaga They’re resentful that women currently have the power to reject them and that they’ll never be chosen
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@MMiraculorum Normies hate chaos and this situation is nothing if not chaotic. No one likes having their rights up for contest every election. This equilibrium is going to affect every future election despite it being broadly unpopular even in swing states. Curious what their next plan is
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@GregTSargent I don’t think you’re comfortable with thinking probabilistically. I view Biden as having a very low ceiling and would require an unbelievable combination of polling error and late double haters given media climate. If Biden’s odds are that low it makes sense to take on more risk
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@samesfandiari Biggest free throw disparity too
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@RyB_311 @EthicalHoopz And this vicious cycle is why the west is so much better than the east. Bad teams have time to stack prospects and build a core unless they completely screw up their rebuilds. East teams need to go to bone to compete and then can’t build back up with no structure like pistons
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@ErikLoomis Vibes matter. The youth, the ones who make the memes and have uplifted the campaign around Harris care deeply about Palestine. Shapiro deeply offended supporters of that cause with his remarks about KKK and calling in swat on protesters. Underestimate at your own peril
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@johnrivers131 Yeah it’ll be pretty embarrassing for the Americans as steph/kd/bron age out. Wouldn’t want to make this even more obvious
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@ijbailey @SIfill_ The median age in the senate is 65. The median age of likely presidential nominees will be over 80. This is the sign of an unhealthy political culture where politicians consider it their birthright to hold office until death. People are unwilling to accept their own mortality
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@ChronoMapping06 @lilbabygandhi Yes every villain in history uses ideology to justify their actions - that’s why they use manifestos like mein Kampf - you’re being disingenuous if you don’t understand that they support the actions they take. Many revel in the cruelty others bury head in sand for taxes etc
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@rasalistair @LoganReeceB @evemmore Seinfeld (the actor) dated a teenager as a mid 30s celebrity. Pretty sure that didn’t age well. Even the voters of Alabama rejected that behavior a few years back
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@phillvmikan Competed in a dunk contest? Some shade to pops
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@AJentleson That’s why sinema is the senior senator from Arizona - oh wait no she’s not. Trolling your own party is not an effective campaign strategy nor is being a genocidal provocateur
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@BillSimmons Every nets highlight:
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@Atrios When the revolution starts eating its own (true believers) you know things are on the right track
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@janecoaston Prosperity gospel erased the teachings of christ in favor of mindless consumerism in service of capital many such cases
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@HappyShiiba The entire logic of western capitalism is to get people to think as consumers first and workers second. If you’re arguing workers should be paid less and given less protections and that will lift more people out of poverty than unionization and solidarity with workers…
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@big_business_ Perfect name to prevent lezionist’s quest for number 5
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@janufooty You’re getting Mbappe and Davies and you can’t handle nagelsmann? Come on bro
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@SuiAmazing @FCB_Xabhi @BarcaYamal The principle of wishing well to holidays of other religious groups is to celebrate the right to openly practice multiple religions in the same country, with no religious group forbidden or diminished by law or custom. This has centuries of history causing deaths of millions
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@samesfandiari He might also try to injure a warrior…wouldn’t be the first time
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@NBAPaint1 In retrospect ad and bron both deserved all nba but first impressions matter
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@yumcoconutmilk Diaspora having an emotional connection to an ancestral homeland is okay actually! For ashkenazim whose relatives have been displaced by the holocaust to transfer their identity to Israel makes sense after a fashion. Zionism is morally wrong but you too stand on stolen land
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@ArmandDoma You should privately expect to be arrested but strategically still complain about it publicly is a reasonable take
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@opinonhaver Birds of a feather
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