missingjigsaw.bsky.social
Must be the big star about to fall
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Am I misremembering or does he come to the realization he hates living in Israel every four months or so and then expels it from his mental chateau until the next shoe drops? I have a recollection of him realizing how homophobic Israel actually is and freaking out a few months back.
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I'm sure she'll issue a statement urging the protestors to remain peaceful and we'll be forced to dwell a bit longer in the ambiguity.
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I don't know Idaho too well but nearly everybody I met and worked with when I worked there (mostly in the Frank Church Wilderness along the Salmon River) was extremely liberal, if sometimes in denial about it.
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Gotta put all that extremely late Bloomberg money to use.
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I watched the KR0 video, I hope that was acceptable. Happy birthday.
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What were you right about?
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He forgot to post 'Will be wild!' on X, the everything app.
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Compassion and empathy are certainly not what she makes her big performance out of; that much is true.
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Damn I'm not far from Lancaster. I protested in the wrong county!
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I kinda wonder if the speed of culture has just increased a lot since you and I have been adults. I think I'm a decade younger than you but Futurama, Mad, and Animal House were all part to my childhood; 40 year old Looney Tunes still aired regularly! There were decades of that anachronistic soup.
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Only yours though.
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States should look into the camera, say they're the same kind of Communist as I am, and institute that form of government into perpetuity.
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Ah, I hadn't read the specifics, just the 'unmarked police car' line that's made it into the headlines.
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Just converging on cosplay tacticool, everybody trying to look like Jeffrey Donovan, impossible to distinguish between police and anybody else with a gun. In a just world we might ask our police to try to distinguish themselves by their actions but of course nobody expects that.
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Not enough Ks.
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Kinda amusing how much effort MattY is putting into enforcing discipline on this issue, refusing to accept anything Mamdani says.
Unrelatedly his major complaint about Sunrise Movement is that they refuse to accept pro-climate policies from politicians they don't like and remain critical of them.
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Thanks, that's very helpful.
I had assumed the disparity is that Ghana is brave enough to call its jollof 'jollof' but Senegal insists it's 'thieboudienne' but now I'm not so sure.
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We think we know what we mean by 'collapse under the weight of its contradictions' but the world always finds a way to surprise us.
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Could you say a little more about what you think were the explanations for Ghana's success and how they also apply to Senegal?
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'Relax/study' will have been forbidden, along with 'relax' and 'study.'
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By the time they're old enough to understand the concept, the practice of relax/study will have been forbidden.
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Are you suggesting there's something faulty with my premise 'non-Irish people infrequently attempt Irish accents'?
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Which one is Jake and which one is Elwood?
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In that case it appears that the original cartoon may have made some inaccurate assumptions.
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Hmm I dunno. I doubt the Irish encounter people doing fake Irish accents with a high enough frequency to default to suspicion when they hear a dodgy one. It's just so much less likely that somebody who isn't Irish would be doing an accent than that it's a regional accent you hadn't heard before.
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I can't believe they would open hostilities against you unprovoked like this. My prayers are with you tonight.
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This is why conservatives have the 'more diverse views' in that recent study, I think. They all have one thing that's really important to them and believe that the rest is just talk. Liberals aren't deeply in denial about their own politics so they kinda sort their issues together.
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He is until he isn't, or, conversely, he isn't until he is.
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It sounds like they're hunting for softer and softer targets in order to avoid being stopped by protests but obviously these soft targets are so much more sympathetic it's bound to blow up in their faces. Lazy and evil, the world spirit.
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Like, our negotiations matter to them a lot, because it offers them opportunities they couldn't generate on their own. That they are also derailed as a result is a bonus.
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The fact that the people in charge of Hezbollah and Iran will treat US involvement in negotiations as a reason to let their guard down and restrain in the short term from extreme countermeasures is just about the most valuable thing we offer Israel. Our negotiations are, to them, free action points.
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Song and Bonello agree: the jump scare smash cut to Dasha after a lingering master is the *only* way to introduce her.
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Gotta remind people that big dummies can make masterpieces. It's what the whole concept of 'genius' is there to describe.
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It may be better you didn't: who would believe the story if you had?
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It did require somebody as talented as Zohran to make it happen though.
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It's hard to remember now but the original attack on 'Abundance' from the left was that it cherry picked leftist ideas, including proposals from Bernie 2016, shifted the emphasis towards the center, and was being used as an anti-left cudgel. Everybody lost the plot, but this is more of a homecoming.
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Kinda shocking to see Iran get the police exonerative tense.
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Just saw Materialists, and can I say: it's very strange that Dasha was introduced in the same cinematic language as in The Beast: cut to a very wide shot of the protagonist speaking with her closest friend that runs for a full 30 sec or more before cutting in close enough to reveal that it's Dasha.
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Nah that's pure uncut Chuck.
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I may be misremembering but wasn't a young Andrew specifically responsible for that slogan?
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Yesterday was the best day of Chuck Schumer's life.
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Damn I didn't even think of this, I'm a bad ally.
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Ah yes, The Raven, what an unambiguously positive poem about the author's simple and straightforward love of a singular bird.
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Turns out contradictions aren't actually structural flaws and may in fact be load-bearing.
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We're gonna keep trying JFK until we get him right.
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Unless the argument is explicitly that all the cuts that don't make sense are worth it for the one that does I literally can't imagine what the point of arguing this would be.
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I lived in Harlem for over a decade and let me tell you, there's nothing that neighborhood hates more than omnidirectional misanthropy.
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That's a fair assessment. One thing you're more likely to know than I: do we know that Israel received a green light from the US or is that a (highly likely) assumption? The US chain of command has never been more unclear, and Netanyahu has every reason to expect brinkmanship to be rewarded.
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Not defending Drop Site - your assessment there is correct - but given Trump posted this not long before the attack and WSJ reports that Trump told Netanyahu not to attack Iran during negotiations, it's at least as reasonable to assume he's lying to appear strong as that he's being honest.
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Seems to me that Iran, like Hezbollah, assumed that engaging in negotiations with the US would open up space the maneuver because the US would rein in its client, which it is either incapable of or uninterested in doing. Both were especially unprepared due to this assumption.