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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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There are few endorsements of one's arguments more convincing than your opponent's running away and shielding themselves from the supporting facts without confronting a single one of them. Unless the opponent has no credibility in the first place, in which case engaging them is a waste of time.
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2/ And since the ICC claims that Gaza and the West Bank are within its jurisdiction, to my understanding, those leaders could very well have been tried in The Hague.
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Anyone who doesn’t understand Marxism as a substantive and in some ways spot on (eg military industrial complex) critique of capitalism doesn’t read. But I fear it’s also true that anyone who believes that Marxism has offered the world a viable alternative to capitalism hasn’t read Marxism.
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What am I missing with Jesse Singal? Never read him. This list may actually be a decent proxy for good people to follow
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Well, this doesn't inspire confidence. And is to the surprise of no one paying attention.
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Wow.
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This offers some perspective on dhimmi for those open to learning forward.com/opinion/6635....
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Convincing.
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The pager attack was perhaps the most targeted and precise attack and intelligence operation on a terrorist group in the history of all warfare. A terrorist group that was launching missiles at civilian Israeli homes in that same moment and for the entire year prior, beginning on October 8.
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Most played in *2024*
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Medicaid is an easier target than SS and Medicare in most ways. But the pressure that cuts would place on state treasuries (red, purple and blue), which pay roughly 50% of their citizens’ Medicaid costs, is a political obstacle that the other programs don’t face.
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Podcasts are the closest thing to TV news that I’ve gone near since the election, but my consumption of even podcasts has gone down significantly.
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2/ Is the prospect of having to fund your parents' retirement, or the shame of having to ask your kids or the state to fund your own, enough to break the MAGA-cult spell? What about having to negotiate your parent's medical costs with private insurers in a post-Medicare world? Where's rock bottom.