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It's impossible to watch. Bad enough if you don't know the history, and intolerable if you do.
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That way only Donald Trump can threaten it.
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What is it that you think you are accomplishing here?
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Even bigger.
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I would take 5 Manchins if they can win in R+35 places like he did. Got 1/3rd of Dem policy because of that. Having 5 would reduce the power of any one.
Sinema much more a barrier to Dem policy as the replacement for her is a better Dem and not a republican.
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It's incredibly stupid all around.
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Feels like people have confused ends and means with conservatives for a long time now. Small government was a means to an end, and oppressive government is a different mean to the same end.
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Low trust seems descriptively wong, as they display a lot of trust, just unwarranted trust. Gullible is better.
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Basically, if you have that much money and you aren't strapping on a bat suit to go fight crime every night, I'm not going to be able to do it.
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That's been my feeling about Succession, White Lotus, Billions, and so on. Just zero interest.
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This is one of my hotter takes. f you dropped the Army of the Potomac or Tennessee into Europe in the 1860’s, they’d run circles around any of their contemporaries and beat the brakes off them
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First two episodes are quite good! Battle of Winterfell was incredibly tense, but the military deployments/decisions were just too stupid to overlook. Everything Greyjoy is bad. Burning King's Landing is fine. Non-council stuff is fine. More mixed bag than catastrophe.
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I got you covered.
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I'm inclined to be deeply skeptical about the application of LLMs in education, but I want to remain open to changing my mind as the tech gets better, and I'm starting to see positions on this slip mindlessly into culture war, which is not great.
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Deeply unclear why anyone beyond his mother should care about this.
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Much like when Fox briefly stood up against election denial. The base wants what the base wants.
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It does remain a bit of a sore spot that voters specifically elected a bunch of people who said they were going to do all these things that those voters don't actually want them to do.
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I've grown to truly love them both.
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That said, the central issue at the heart of the validity of his theory is whether or not Russia should be considered a great power in 2025.
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Yeah, the proving himself right bit is the key, and it's been a central element of his drifting onto more and more disreputable platforms, as they have been the ones willing to promote his position.
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Uh oh.
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Except many of them are accepting quite a few indignities at the moment.
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Do you have to throw someone under the bus to get the votes of people who seems upset by seeing people they know get deported?
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The American university system, which I must note again and again, consists in the main of public state systems, not of the elite privates, is the envy of the world and one of the wonders of American 'civilization,' if you will permit the term.
Destroying it out of pique is insane.
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As soon as this go up in the house
You under a new regime
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With what?
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I mean, we could also just lose some more winnable elections. That's fine.
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That's fair, but as a matter of politics, I think it's better to allow people the framing and offer them an off-ramp. The alternative is likely that they decide to embrace the policy rather than accept responsibility for their role in it and then reject the policy.
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Great day to dust off "All your base are belong to us"
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Expertise in one area in no way translates into other areas.
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Considering the number of active ongoing wars, it's quite an achievement.
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It has a lot going for it, but I think Atonement actually captures the moment better.
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The only thing more consistently grotesque than fans are bettors.
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They denied us Anakin's Marc Antony speech.
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Also unloved losers.
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You could argue that they won until they threw away their advantage with the Barbarossa decision, but finding out that tactical mastery is irrelevant in the face of flawed and ideologically-driven strategic decisions doesn't get you to a better place.
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Pacers should be the favorites, but I would expect Game 6 to be close, and if they blow it, I would give them very little chance in Game 7.