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This is rhetoric — the writer deciding to make their point about the ease of distraction through a cascading series of ever-escalating nested clauses to a buried crucial point. Just a masterclass in sentences that demonstrate their point not just through their information but their structure.

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devil guy ( i have forgotten how to draw good amour)

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The energy of this man I saw in an LA Times video

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Thinking a little more seriously about why I really like Nolan films, it is because it’s increasingly rare to see something that presents duty as something to be neither ran away from or embraced: it’s not The Call To Adventure, it’s something you do because someone has to, and today that’s you.

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“Ain’t that just the way.” Over The Garden Wall fanart. #art #BrArt #otgw #overthegardenwall

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Absolute Wonder

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"the praetorians are murdering politicians." what fucking year is this

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Seems like a good day for propaganda

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I'm going to talk about the Hutchinson Affair, because it's never taught anymore and I think it's instructive. Hutchinson was Royal Governor of Massachusetts. He wrote letters to London showing his general low opinion of Americans and his intent to curb their rights.

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[Exit King.]

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yes

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The universal truth of the modern US Army is you can be good at marching or you can train for the fight. The Army does not do both. Army leaders who emphasize drill and ceremony and pomp and circumstance are almost universally bad leaders in the field.

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see this is why dictators normally force people to be at their rallies. if no one shows up to your fascism parade you just look like a loser who couldn't even graduate from bozo college. authoritarianism 101 really

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This evening one of the very kind con organizers took us to the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, which is amazing and you should go and Gustav Vigeland was extraordinarily talented and probably does not deserve the narrative I constructed looking at his work. But Bluesky! You deserve EVERYTHING!

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Rewatched Night of the Hunter tonight. Harry Powell — the growling wolf in sheep’s clothing, the charlatan who slays women and threatens children, the fake pious man who wishes he could kill the whole world — has never felt more relevant.

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I have a joke about Icarus but it won’t fly

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Worldbuilding Tip 42: Provide a variety of locations that perform different tasks for adventure/story creators. Some of the places must be functional, like stores and farms. Some should be ornamental, to provide color and utility. Then you can have a few oddities, which contrast with the others.

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okay but the thing about the CIA is that the mythology of the agency belies the reality, which is that for much of its existence it was a rubber room for WASP failsons and their operations reflect this

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Lamplighter by Olli Hihnala www.artstation.com/a...

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Probably worth reminding everyone that the two most recent major flashpoints in the Middle East are the direct result of the foreign policy decisions of "Donald the Dove" during his first administration

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pizza, what a marvelous food

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From a friend in Torrence, California

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The sole criteria I will be voting on in the 2028 primary is which candidate credibly promises to put the largest number of Trump officials in prison. I do not care about any of their other policies.

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There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys was a genius musician. His gift for layering harmony was unsurpassed. He will be missed by us all.

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I’m not sure that a Birmingham newspaper was necessarily representative of “white America” but leaving that aside one reason the CRM protesters were trained and rigorously organized and disciplined was because a perception they were violent hooligans would be strategically bad for the movement

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the right won't tell you this because they want your money, but the best way to get a girlfriend as a young man is to be a straight guy who likes musical theater.

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it sort of gives away the game that one of the primary incel preoccupations is "men should only have hobbies that they will meet basically zero women in the course of pursuing"

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Miller wants blood and he's not going to be satisfied until he sees a LOT of it, which suggests to me that he's going to keep escalating until the regime's legitimacy breaks down. He wants to ethnically cleanse America, and the prospect of millions dying in the process excites him.

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The Irritating Gentleman, by Berthold Woltze (1874)

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heroes aren’t heroic because they’re flawless every one of us is problematic somehow, some way heroes are heroes because at the right time and place broken people had the courage to do what was right instead of easy beware of anyone criticizing bravery with someone’s flaws cynicism breeds loss

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Yeah I play AD&D Attention Deficit &hyperactivity Disorder

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Society is predicated on it. The alternative is fascism. The issue is that, unsurprisingly, fascists have no honor. It's why you cannot reason with fascists, cannot appeal to their better natures, cannot negotiate with them. If someone violates the honor system, the only alternative is force.

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'This Could Be the Day'

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"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

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I wouldn't read too much into members of the 82nd cheering for things tbh. They're just happy they got to stand in bleachers instead of spending all day looking for an m9 their PL lost during a jump.

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"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." William Lloyd Garrison

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Victory is possible. Dare to believe in it. None of us asked to be in this boat but in the boat we are and you will have to live with how you respond to this for the rest of your lives. Be brave, be faithful and be good to each other.

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the whole reason Hegseth is at DoD is to produce propaganda footage. how about we not freak when he does that

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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

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