squirreljam.bsky.social
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*yes there are many that don’t have this blind spot.
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This has become a blind spot (*not for all) since “the left”, or dems, became urban/educated, what have you. For many of us, yeah, a bus pass pales into insignificance against daily life. But I would urge that we not forget that the role of what we believe is to make lives better using policy.
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Did you use use the words “two youtes?”
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Ralph’s like, please return her whence she came - stat
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Well, there’s that one case about prison guards on strike while in dorm housing. That should provide some guidance…
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ICE delenda est?
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Aa...
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Me too, Flower Fifth Ave, 1968.
Lexicon requires it to be said “lemmegetabecineggacheezonahadroll”
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Idk if I’ve read them all but it’s his history that awes me. He’s able to put centuries into a[n admittedly long] book - and it makes sense!
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Love Michener’s scope and breadth. Read them back as a precocious youth (have redone Chesapeake and Hawaii several times) so my memory may be off, but I do recall him going on at some length…😆. Not like Mailer tho🧐
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I’ll check those out. In terms of use of language, my two all time favorites are Bernard DeVoto (history of the American west) and Evelyn Waugh
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I mean, the Romans did have a crisis of the third century, which would comport with our own. Are you thinking there’s an Aurelian out there to help us?
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I mean, they could just send a guy out on the balcony and say “Habemus Corpum”?
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“Romanes eunt domus?”
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I will *never* not think of this when Pirro’s name comes up:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TEbt...
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True that, but the firing is more likely because he testified yesterday to congress that it’s not “in the best interests of the American people to eliminate” FEMA…
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I can’t hear or think about that song without the image of Michael Madsen dancing around with a razor in his hand
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Max has an inordinately large head, least 13/10 worth
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100% agree; I wish the house would wise up and revisit the vote that put Connolly in the chair of oversight instead of AOC.
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Well, it did teach them in ‘20. Apparently however American polity has a fuckin’ short memory and wanted to lick the ice-pole once more🤷♂️
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“Fudge, leave it. Fudge, drop the fucking stick” is kinda like a metaphor for our times
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Another one is putting on a pot of water when you walk in. By the time you’re changed, something comes to mind and the water will be helpful
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Does this include not having to store the odd/heavy ones in the oven? ‘Cause I’m down with not having to move the Dutch oven and griddle every time I want to use the oven…
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The peacemaker and the 1911 use different rounds (.45 long colt vs acp) and, at least to me, feel very different. The 1911 as a semi auto absorbs recoil and the handle angle is way easier on my wrist. There’s a reason the army used it for 75 years(!). Might be worth a(nother) try!
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As a giants fan, I am aware of this.
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Agreed, but there are plenty (see screenshot of just one I found on this thread). I find it along the lines of the purity test types, self defeating
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No I don’t there are many who think he did a good job. It’s pretty clear he was in the wrong place/wrong time and couldn’t rise to the occasion. He’s a jurist at heart, not a prosecutor, and that proved fatal.
That said, those saying he’s scum and a traitor are merely the other side of trump’s card