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And you only need one or two to go crazy in the "right" [destabilizing] direction.
These two guys had already started to completely poison Texas politics even before Trump
www.propublica.org/article/tim-...
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Police & prosecutors have to much more aggressively target people who do things like this or make death threats online; it's become so pervasive and seemingly consequence-free, it's absurd
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Solak take tomorrow
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Give CBK another extension!
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Only top ten LSU football's earning unfortunately
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The crazy thing was them scheduling the fake Houston trip before bothering to lock down the Rogan interview, when the trip only existed to do the interview in the first place!
So many of her staff were Obama holdovers who thought having stood near him as he won twice meant they were geniuses
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People thinking it would break down into clean regional blocs today fail to recognize that Kamala won more votes in Texas than New York and Trump nearly as many votes in California as Florida
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Examples:
-Legion of Death a la Space Marine 2
-Flight from a falling dwarf city a la Banner Saga
-Intrigue/thievery game in Val Royeaux a la Thief/Hitman or Shadowrun
-Sid Meier's Pirates w/ Isabella's forerunners
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They sold their soul when they spun up Heritage Action. Everything since then is just paying the bill
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And I wonder how much he realizes this vs how much is it just always choosing to do what is required to succeed in each job, having begun on this path before the change, as if he was his father doing it thirty years ago
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Reading this immediately invoked the Vince McMahon meme in my head when it hit kimchi, nduja & malbec
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The characters talked so frequently about "taking/missing their shot" that it made me wonder if Hamilton finally made it to Edmonton right when they started sketching out dialogue
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Wow. Hard to come up with a better contrast than local volunteers literally digging through the trash created at parties thrown for social media influencers
Bonus points to the Dems for their own version of the Brooks Brothers riot, too
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The "blind item-ification" of America
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Yeah Facebook was built for the web, its infrastructure preceded the advent of smart phones
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But those have a different utility than Facebook, which really exploded as you could share party pics and messages for Millennials, and then share family pics and stories for Boomers.
The visual content for snapchat and TikTok is not really durable in the same way
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A rationale for having kept Nate around is that, unlike Douthat, he would have challenged Marc to put some skin in the game on his "bet"
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Seeing a sort-of-moderate conservative public intellectual type approvingly qt Nate Hochman yesterday was a blackpill.
The GOP Establishment, having lost its ability to banish Hochman figures from their discourse, seems to just be capitulating now
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Local council and board meetings with public comment certainly provide plenty of material
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The three groups it sounds most like are both the biggest "live players," in a sense, and losers of the twentieth century: German, Japanese & Russian militarists/expansionists
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Vince Young's mantra for the Dems: "First half, chill the fuck out. Second half, go the fuck off, but maybe more like check out the vibes, just try some things, and book that rezzy at Cheesecake Factory for the post-game"
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Does he even believe it? He's from Minnesota and reminds me of Corey Stewart, also Minnesotan, who did a carpetbagging larp as a neo-Confederate to attract votes from the GOP base, in order to advance his political aspirations in Virginia
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Are we on the cusp of a substack-bro exodus, as female participation keeps increasing?