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I've always wondered why freedom fries took hold in the popular memory while freedom toast, which to me sounds even stupider and also happened, didn't. Much to consider.
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Some GOP members of Congress signaled their disapproval of European skepticism of the warmongering by changing the names of food items in the Capitol Cafeteria. So French fries/ French toast became freedom fries/freedom toast
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Dick Cheney leaked fake information about WMDs to the NYT and then went on TV and said "The NYT is reporting [claim about WMD] so we have to start a war about it. Hey, it's not me saying it, it's the New York Times so it must be true." The mainstream press fell for this trick.
It was very stupid.
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Perfect placement
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Another banger
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For a while the advice was if you saw a cop, hang all your steroids and treats in a tree in a nylon sack but they’ve started to learn and shoot the sacks down.
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that's the thing about good cops, police culture ensures they either stop being good or stop being cops
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Get some inevitable "that isn’t surprising!" replies but I do think most people think these are largely ideological/policy conflicts. They are that, too, but even a lot of what seems like ideological disagreements are just in-group signaling, which team are you on type stuff.
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If a "rahm emanuel" proposed "free buses" they'd hail it as genius. Reactionary centrists do have ideological leanings but being one of the lads is extremely important
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The big 1 on the back is to try and keep T-Mobile from successfully suing them out of existence, right?
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It's easier to understand when you remember that to these guys "book" means "120 page airport self help book that has three ideas and is half graphs and Jordan Peterson visualizations that probably could be condensed into a few minutes of information and has no redeeming artistic merit"
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I don't actually think having a nuke would give pause since Israel's leadership operates on a death-drive impulse. In an open war without WWII-in-Europe-level US backing Iran doesn't "win" per se but Israel literally doesn't exist afterwards.
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Not sure I find that compelling since it has worked for decades despite the US and Israel trying to start a region-consuming war for a quarter century.
When I say this POV has been floating around western IR/Foreign service/anti-proliferation circles I mean since 9/11.
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When I was at bible camp they made us play game where we ran form government agents who were hunting Christians and tried to follow an Underground Railroad to a secret church. This has always been their biggest delusion.
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I'll bet you can read books that are longer than 40 pages too.
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This also works
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Well Iran is in a bad situation no matter what so it's really only bad options. And it's worked fairly well so far, so it's hard to say they'd be better off doing something else, esp. given how open much of the US and Israeli political class has been about wanting to start a full blown war.
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The suspicion I've heard from some who work in this area is that Iran wanted to have the known capacity to make a nuke but not actually have a no-doubt nuke because the latter would be used by Israel as a pretext for escalation whereas the former is more of a deterrent.
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You said the Whitmer kidnappers were from the area but the FBI has never had any problem with going after/ entrapping isolated freaks before. Why start now?
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The former is a mix of 90s style groups and people you could go after as "Lone wolves" if you were inclined to do so but afraid of blowback.
Even going after people like the Bundys would be a big improvement.
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That depends on whether we're talking about a focus on militias and small-groups that self-organize online/get entrapped by the FBI or talking about acknowledging that US policing and the GOP have been inherently fascistic for a while.
The latter I was presuming were beyond the scope of this tweet.
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Well if your goal is a pretext for imperialism you can't really catch the guy everyone in America is livid with in a week, after all.
See also: Iran offering to help in Afghanistan
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I'm alarmed that everyone except me seems to know how this is pronounced. At this point I'm afraid I've been micro-dosed with Phorm without my knowledge and I've lost the ability to read
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And the Taliban offered to hand Bin Laden over to the US before the invasion but the SecDef at the time turned them down. lol.
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Sure thing! In an image like this someone sympathetic to the fash might take the picture and use it to their purposes or to advertise their group name but this makes it harder
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Traditional antifascist symbol. Keeps anyone with bad intent from re-appropriating the images.
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Most people in 2009 were not aware of the scale of right wing extremist danger so finding out about it would come as a *surprise* but the FBI report attesting to exactly that danger was several years old by that point so the Feds were certainly aware
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I get why it seems obvious that the reactions *would* be wildly different but the places where militia groups have any significant power and the places where average Americans live in large numbers aren't really the same places so I'm not sure that's a given.