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For the mainstream right in this country, that remains heavily anti-Trump, pro-Ukraine. If you don't get that, you are thinking in stereotypes rather than evidence. And that will blind you on other issues too.
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Why would you want a mayor with his hands in your pockets when you could have one who puts his hand in your pants
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Schoolyard bully will always be happy to take your lunch money, enjoy your grovelling, and - in the end - give you nothing.
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"To counter a strategic threat like China, India needs US support, which is no longer assured under Trump. His admiration for Xi Jinping and desire for a deal with Beijing should give India nightmares."
Why New Delhi should care for Trump's tamasha in DC yesterday.
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There's even a direct comparison: bsky.app/profile/omai...
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everything I have read and seen about his parenting style suggests he's a man who has sired a dozen kids and fathered exactly 0 of them
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PS You can be in favour of the sovereignty of BOTH the Ukranians and the Palestinians.
Those who suggest you have to choose are basing their judgement on prejudice, not principle.
You can even be in favour of Russian and Israeli rights.
Human rights apply to everybody. It's that simple.
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Yes, the Clinton administration was smoother, that doesn't make it "better", just a different flavour of arseholes.
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To be fair, probably helps to be a lawyer and/or Global South.
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Of course the electron and positron in positronium will still annihilate in fairly short order but in the meantime you can do fun things like measure their spectra (they can have electron transitions just like hydrogen but at different frequencies!) and even make little yolo molecules with them!
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Yeah, ideally, the world would support Ukrainians against Russian aggression, but the world has had lots of experience ignoring Palestinian rights, Kashmiri rights, Kurdish rights, yada yada yada
Invading Afghanistan broke the Soviets when the Afghans resisted. Do you think Ukranians won't resist?
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Would argue it's a "those that authorities don't trouble" vs "those the authorities define as trouble" thing.
In the US, most African-Americans would say law is only a piece of paper.
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Unhappy to be proved right, on Trump winning, on his actions on Ukraine, what that would do to NATO, and what it means for the wider world.
But also gobsmacked that much of this seemed fairly obvious and most people just kind of... ignored it.
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None of this lessens the present harm, or the grotesque and specific animus the right has against trans people, aided in no small part by dupes and monsters in more ostensibly mainstream circles. Just want to emphasize that a decade ago mid-tier officers knew they were behind the times. Now, moreso.