angenne.bsky.social
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Guy's worth a trillion dollars and doing the most basic midlife crisis shit
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Agreed. Though I can't say that I'm Kubrick's biggest fan in general. I like The Killing. The rest are ok.
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You mean to tell me this isn’t Michael Culver?
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I haven't watched this movie but listened to the recap by Ben and Ronnie from Watch What Crappens, and it looks exactly as I had imagined.
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This clown is still running his mouth? Dude the protests have long been silenced, get a life.
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Just finished your episode on Nudge & really enjoyed it. This was a throwaway comment, but because you mentioned the self exclusion program for gamblers: Organized Money has a really good episode on online betting and how the states aren't incentivized to honor self exclusion anymore.
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Racism aside, this is such a weird conclusion to draw from what that student supposedly said. If I caught someone cheating and they told me, "oh, no one teaches us morals back home", I'd be inclined to think they were bullshitting me to excuse their behavior rather than, you know, believing them.
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If only tashdid was recognized in English transliterations
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Isn’t that the epitome of boomer posting?
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That’s the big binky.
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Not that it should matter to you, but I’ll say it because mistakes should be acknowledged. I stopped following you on Twitter a few years ago because for some reason I had you down as an IDF apologist and a bit of a shitlib. I don’t know what gave me that impression, but I was wrong and I apologize.
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I continue to believe that left is indeed best, but I wish it could be better.
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You more than anyone should recognize how unhelpful this reductiveness is. I truly hope the American left gets to a point where extending solidarity to women in other countries isn't contingent on the relationship between the US government and their respective heads of state.
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And this hurt to hear, because it seemed that a movement that was triggered by the brutal murder of a young woman for exercising her right over her body was being reduced to a purely economic struggle.
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Unsurprisingly Parsi spent the majority of the interview analyzing the impact of US sanctions on Iran's economic collapse and blaming the US administration for the eruption of protests.
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but I couldn't help wondering why you had chosen to platform a policy analyst, and not, say, a women's rights activist or human rights lawyer. I distinctly remember thinking, "couldn't they at least have a woman on?"
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I was especially taken aback when I (by that point an avid listener to your podcast) tuned in one day during the #WomenLifeFreedom protests and found Trita Parsi to be your guest. I didn't expect you to know everything that Parsi and his associates had done to discredit Iranian women's struggle,
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and have tried to stay connected to activist communities since immigrating to the US. So it has been especially disheartening to see the American left abandon Iranian women and their struggle for equal rights over the past ten or so years.
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But this reminded me of something that I feel compelled to share, even if it comes across as an unhinged rant from a rando on the internet. I was born and raised in Iran to a working class family. I've always had an affinity to left-leaning groups
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Emma, I listened to your post-election show and got choked up with you when you were lamenting how insignificant women's rights had seemed to large swaths of the electorate, and how much economic concerns had eclipsed Trump's horrendous record on women's rights and immigration.