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cool, whoever that was I blocked them already
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My neighbor was the actual person who went to tell Colin Powell that the State Department Intelligence Bureau did not have any evidence for Iraq’s possession of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and did not believe they had them. He’s long retired now. Perhaps you can imagine what he’s feeling today.
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I’m sad to hear this. I’ve worn out a couple copies of his early Vox Schubert Impromptus over the years. Such glorious playing.
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Emma Peel, of course.
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From my perspective it’s a question of taste, which still matters to some degree. It’s not a moral or ethical question at all, but all those repeatedly-scalpeled Republican women have amazingly bad taste, like gold-toilet-level bad taste, and it’s quite all right to ridicule it.
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yeah, I had “contradiction in terms, I know” in there but it wouldn’t fit the character limit
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JFC the replies to Walz’s post are depressing. Too many people have no sense at all of the complexity of leadership.
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I sure hope so. I felt an awful cringe coming on, moments after posting something about being surprised to find myself applauding Newsom.
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at last, a perfect application for “artificial intelligence.”
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Scratch a Republican never-trumper and you’ll always find the authoritarian just below the surface. They just want a different führer, better at pretending to hold democratic ideals.
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No idea but I’m still laughing
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extreme left: can we obey the constitution please?
extreme right: no.
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The thing that cracks me up is: that being’s hat is, very clearly, a funnel.
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63. Jelly Roll
(this isn't a dressage foal, it's a Shire foal, but I love him)
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as if he could point to any moment in history when a tax cut for wealthy people produced economic growth
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Massachusetts drivers. Ridiculous housing costs.
Aside from that, I think your beef is perhaps with New England in general this year, where we’re running the boiler on the first of June.
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he just hung out with wealthy assholes is all
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too damn many “thinks” in there
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“what the fuck man are you twelve” —
I think he was 16 when he hit it big, and hitting it big at a young age tends to arrest social/emotional development, I think.
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(similar, but box wine) “Hell, I remember when *I* used to think I was smart.”
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Really, my 12YO grandchild gently correcting me* when I use the wrong pronoun for them = The Language Police?
This is incredibly stupid.
*give me a small break, I’m 78 and old habits are hard to change
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I got all ten right; a couple took some careful looking (Hong Kong, without background knowledge of what the city looks like), but some of the fakes just looked “fake” to me at a quick glance, before even consciously looking for clues.
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My wife is a TBI survivor (she has “brain damage”). There are things she has difficulty with, but not this. I think this is more like mental illness, but then having experienced that myself, I don’t want to impugn those who suffer from it. But this hyper-gendered worldview is detached from reality.
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Pretty standard 13YO behavior.
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It all comes down to “who should decide.” Of course, I think *I* should.
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Every outrage they pass is more proof that they don’t think a majority of their constituents will be allowed to replace them.