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Philosophy professor at UCR. Podcast at Slate. Associate director at Marc Sanders Foundation. hiphination.org
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There weren’t just one villain and his henchmen—there were four, leading to three simultaneous knife fights across three locations. And he had to include the line: “He did it. The son of a bitch did it,” from his biggest skeptic at the end. Help the man, Julia. (8/8)
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Tom couldn’t just hold his breath for an inordinately long time, which he already did in a previous MI. Now he had to drown and die, float to the surface, be preserved by icy water, and be revived inside a blow-up decompression chamber. (7/8)
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Tom needed not one but two submarines he had to hang onto in a scuba suit, both of which almost shred him. Then, aboard a third crashed submarine for the heist, it wasn’t enough that each chamber had traps and missiles—the whole sub had to rotate and tumble down a cliff while he was inside. (6/8)
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The parachute didn’t just fail—it had to blow up in a fiery inferno. The second parachute also failed to deploy, only to be saved by a third parachute we only learn about later when he emerged alive on the ground (5/8).
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He didn’t just hang off of one biplane, board it mid-air, and kill the pilot. He had to jump from that plane onto a second biplane mid-air, hang off it the same way, and kill that pilot the same way. (4/8)
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He needed to put a nuclear bomb under London that needed to be disarmed with 10 seconds left on the countdown—and then put another nuclear bomb in a cavern in South Africa, also to be disarmed with 10 seconds left. (3/8)
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Tom needed not one, or two, but three shots of him running fully erect at full sprint on a straightaway for about 400m. (2/8)
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It reminds me of when every last corporation decided to produce their own podcast. Every one sounded like an extended infomercial for their brand. No one listened, but PR teams counted it a win, because that was the audience.
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This whole "next Joe Rogan" thing is like when every last corporation decided to produce their own podcast. Every one sounded like an extended infomercial for their brand. No one listened, but PR teams counted it a win, because that was the audience.
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What?? That's such great news! I'll be visiting for a day in the fall, hope to see you!
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Thanks for being plain. Here’s my plain response. Ordinary citizens have clout when collective action overwhelms the ability of law enforcement to selectively coerce the vulnerable to control by fear. To foreclose the possibility of collective action out of individual self-interest is cowardly.
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I think taking the place of someone else who is much more vulnerable than you at the border matters, I think collective action that creates a disincentive for ICE to go after people without reasonable suspicion matters.
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White allies were beaten, shot, and lynched during the civil right movement, bc it wasn’t just a black fight. Sometimes it’s right to shift the risk burden from the highly vulnerable to the merely slightly vulnerable. Otherwise fear and intimidation win. Critical mass means it loses decisively.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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Strong disagree. Hasan Piker should organize citizens who are not afraid to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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Strong disagree on this one. We want citizens who have no risk of deportation to keep border patrol busy for hours. That means ten noncitizens they aren't harassing and who are in risk of being denied entry. Border patrol is not the cops.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to try and be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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If Hasan Piker's fans are like him and fearless, they should organize citizens to want to be detained. For every border officer they keep there for hours, ten noncitizens don't get harassed and in danger of being turned away.
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Every Hasan Piker who keeps them occupied for hours means 10 noncitizens Trump's border guard aren't harassing. I think Hasan should organize all his citizen fans to filibuster their way back into the country, use sludge to protect the rights of the less privileged.
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Every Hasan Piker who keeps them occupied for 4 hours means 10 noncitizens Trump's border guard aren't harassing. I think Hasan should organize all his citizen fans to filibuster their way back in, use sludge to protect the rights of the less privileged.
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Every Hasan Piker who keeps them occupied for 4 hours means 10 noncitizens Trump's border guard are not harassing. I think Hasan should organize all his citizen fans to filibuster their way back in, use sludge to protect the rights of the less privileged.
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This is good advice...cops, not Border, who have quotas of people to harass. Every Hasan Piker who keeps them occupied for 4 hours means 10 noncitizens they're not harassing. I think resistance to Border detainment is the opposite; citizens who have way more rights should keep talking for hours.
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This link is dead for me Tania.
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Graham Parsons teaches and researches the use of norms of masculinity in military recruitment, epic literature, the military as a men-only institution in world history, and how these norms relate to violence, all now prohibited at West Point because it is “gender ideology."
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Graham Parsons teaches and researches the use of norms of masculinity in military recruitment, epic literature, the military as a men-only institution in world history, and how these norms relate to violence, all now prohibited at West Point because it is “gender ideology."
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Graham Parsons teaches and researches the use of norms of masculinity in military recruitment, epic literature, the military as a men-only institution in world history, and how these norms relate to violence, all now prohibited at West Point because it is “gender ideology."
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Graham Parsons teaches and researches the use of norms of masculinity in military recruitment, epic literature, the military as a men-only institution in world history, and how these norms relate to violence, all now prohibited at West Point because it is “gender ideology."
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Graham Parsons teaches and researches the use of norms of masculinity in military recruitment, epic literature, the military as a men-only institution in world history, and how these norms relate to violence, all now prohibited at West Point because it is “gender ideology."
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He's on the board but he's not in charge.