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What about a massive air campaign
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I definitely lost track of him after French Dispatch. Everything afterwards felt like self parody to me
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The message that was drilled in my head from high school to university was that any position was valid as long as it was argued well. This turned out to be more useful to the ‘abortion is bad and race science is real’ people than the ‘Shakespeare was black’ people.
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The message that was drilled in my head from high school to university was that any position was valid as long as it was argued well. This turned out to be more useful to the ‘abortion is bad and race science is real’ people than the ‘Shakespeare was black’ people.
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This set the stage for the subversion of the liberal media by reactionaries who figured out an easy way to format their ideas in the right language.
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I think the main negative impact of the Takes industry was less the liberal scolding and more the creation of a literate class that valued novelty above all else.
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I just heard this at a workshop like 2 weeks ago so it’s still rattling around in the system!
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Most notable prestigious political commentators are increasingly in dialogue with a politics that exists only in their own heads
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I feel like it’s worth noting that he explicitly promised to invade Mexico
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Half these people should be legally prevented from ever calling themselves journalists or reporters, it a blatant lie
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Would it make sense to revive the Canadian Development Corporation?
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SpaceXplode
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of course the fun thing about being a conservative intellectual is no one expects you to know anything or engage in the most basic forms of analytical reasoning
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What interests me is that they were still getting missiles through even as their salvos rapidly depleted in size. Israel was, proportionately, far more successful at intercepting the first waves than the last.
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I think these types may have genuine compunctions about overseas wars, but mostly because they want to do those wars on the North American continent
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Anyway, Dr. Farley is right because as we have previously noted, anti-GWOT Republicans don’t hate war, they hate limitations on how wars are fought. These are the people who got Gallagher pardoned because they think murdering children is based.
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They’re a lot better at isolating public opinion from policymaking than they used to be
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We’re gonna have to pick which of the two we care about more at a certain point
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I agree this is a problem but I think that horse bolted decades ago and we’ve been (not) dealing with the repercussions ever since
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It is kind of surreal that the GOP has absorbed all of the “big businesses trying to profit off poisoning your kids rhetoric!” while also strongly supporting every business whose model is “we have to poison the kids.”
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You mean in Mesopotamia/Asoristan or the empire as a whole?
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I have rich lore and backstory while you just wandered in off the street? People have written award winning fiction due to the extent to which they crave me carnally? I have a place in society and a surplus income, while you must rely on my charity to scrounge a few coppers? That kind of NPC?
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"you have npc energy" oh you mean I'm well written? Fully voiced by a professional actor, while you express yourself entirely through grunts and mouse clicks? That's what I thought.
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Is it
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they want everyone but straight cis people back in the closet or ideally dead bsky.app/profile/magg...