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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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it really speaks to how trump does not see himself as a steward of the white house or the presidency but as its owner. he will do with it as he pleases.

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Trampoline

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Skeleton Warrior by John Tedrick www.artstation.com/a...

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they’re not, they just aren’t, full stop. much smaller countries with much larger federal police forces / paramilitaries buckle under this kind of strain. you cannot just redeploy the US military domestically on a whim and doing so is a monumental risk to your own regime.

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the american voter approves of the idea of giving everyone a pony, but if will go psychotic if ever have to deal with horse shit on the street, and don't vote for pro pony candidate because they'd actually only give ponies to black people

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These charts in the post together with The Chart® tell the entire story of the election and most of the discourse and punditry about it is just completely unnecessary.

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the empirical evidence is pretty conclusive that the 2020 protests contributed to trump’s defeat. why did it take four years for the “calamitous imagery” of those protests to have a decisive electoral impact in trump’s favor, & what caused the political valence of that imagery to reverse entirely?

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Yes, and it makes them not realize that the point wasn't to win then and there, that day, but to horrify bystanders. Showing everyone that Jim Crow was nothing but a playground for the most vicious thugs who happened to be White--that was powerful.

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the pay is shit, everyone — even other law enforcement agencies — hates you and thinks you're stupid brutes, your coworkers are on the news ziptying grandfathers and kindergarteners every day, your quotas are laughably unrealistic and your bosses spend all day going on tv, what's not to love

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He's so chill

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The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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We need a bigger boat

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We are at war.

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Research shows that outreach to members of the military and security services is one of the single most effective activities civil resistance movements can engage in! Military forces are much less likely to shoot protesters if they think their friend or cousin could be in the crowd.

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Stunts! The Best Stunts of All Time www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-s...

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