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#redguybad is a tag I like.
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Keep in mind, though, anything that went down would be out of Biden’s direct control. May not amount to much.
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I think Biden was putting something into motion. I don’t know what, and it may not have been anything with much punch, but he was up to something.
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Just a driveby, but I’m all about the cookbooks, so may I suggest: In Memory’s Kitchen, Cara de Silva
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“Abolition medicine” is a term combining two concepts that have no clear relation to one another. It’s like asking for a chicken and impact sandwich. Activists should probably not be using terminology that sounds like word salad to lay people.
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It is a something-neutral way to say “folks”. I have no idea what the issue that requires a neutral spelling is here.
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“Let ‘Em In” is 100% a troll song, just like “Silly Love Songs”. Although the latter is much more of a banger.
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Were we still doing microkernels?
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Literally the Magna Carta though. The circumstances don’t translate well.
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Nah, Putin is definitely worse. For example, Netanyahu plays into Putin’s hands on the regular.
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Egypt wanted Sinai back and got it. They didn’t want Gaza and Jordan didn’t want the West Bank. Israel has no reason to give back the Golan Heights because Syria can use it as a base of attack. Israel is pulling out of Lebanon right now.
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The left (for specific values of “left”) never regrets anything they do, no matter how counterproductive.
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Vorlon?
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I am firmly convinced that the only thing of value philosophy has left to offer as a field is ethics. The good stuff has been spun off as different fields and the bad is garbage like Derrida.
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There is nothing special or important about whiteness, which is a completely arbitrary category.
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Only if you’re very, very stupid.
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A secular Talmud course might actually be useful. Lots of people need to be broken of the idea of morality as “just following orders”.
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That’s not a real thing. It was a 19th century forgery.
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Free speech doesn’t mean anyone is required to listen to you, or to put up with you in any way.