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Interesting thread up an down, but here's the key pull quote. This or that German Chancellor can say Zeitenwende until they've built a rhetorical roundabout, but until the eurozone's largest economy actually nuts up, "European independence" from America is a chimera

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Music to listen to while reading this thread: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9kT9...

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Lol Brady talking about Rodgers in the past tense

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Putting Twitter on a "having that juice" downgrade watch. The most muted big live event timeline I've experienced in forever

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An arch-irony of history is that Calhoun was schooled in nullification at Yale

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Type of Guy who, until two weeks ago, couldn't go two sentences without mentioning "The Deep State:"

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Lot of things going on rn, but ngl this is the most important analysis you'll read all day

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Wonder if the integralists had "your chosen candidate pushes through the Blaine Amendment" on their bingo card?

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Never go on tiktok, so ht to the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out for putting me onto The Bottom 2's acoustic cover m.youtube.com/watch?v=lDZV...

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A reason I have been reluctant to fully commit to the migration is that ~70% of accounts here have the worst instincts possible, when faced with a non-political tragedy Had I posted this last night, it would have been much less even-tempered, which is why I exercised restraint, contra the norm here

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This is far from the most important takeaway from this story, but still: we need to commit to whatever reforms are required to shorten the timeline of court cases www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Saw BW is apparently cutting support for Veilguard & got me thinking about its way forward The worldbuilding is strong enough that I think it could still support more games, but I think it'd be best to treat it as an IP & license it to other studios to make stuff in other genres, set pre-Origins...

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Update: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck

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Man, weird exp catching one of the various new Trump WH photos & recognizing a friend of a friend in it Check his CV, & it's many of the trad stops you'd expect from an ivy grad political track, except in the context of the last ten years, that translates to subversion rather than establishment

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Ok I put “Freebird” over the airboat in the snow.

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Me, snowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

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Four years ago, Mitch McConnell didn't want to pay a short-term political price (and personally take the heat for it) His cowardice has ensured that all of America will be paying a much higher tab for a long time

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The best way to stifle Trump is to let him host multiple daily/weekly tv & radio programs. That's literally all he really wants to do-- ramble on about whatever is in his head and hear from guests how great he is-- aside from going on fancy trips where he's treated royally by foreign potentates.

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In one sense, this sentiment is dumb; just as there is a real difference bt a common criminal and organized crime, there is a difference bt organized crime and a hostile nation state Otoh, the govt has to get serious about protecting our data/combating related crime, esp modernizing SSNs

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Idea for a cursed video game: Toxic Forum Manager 202X It's a live service, so the flame wars you see are combinations of topical and classic Also, your supervisor takes a broad view on permissible conduct, so >50% of your actions are reversed; the involved accounts immediately DM you to gloat

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Trump is clearly going to save TikTok; Yass bought out the HFC anti-Chinese (in the racist sense) types & Trumpworld likes that it was used to help beat Harris Only question is whether its mentally-cooked US users, who all decided they loved Xi Jinping Thought yesterday, will go MAGA in response

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Not a big Lego covering my shelves Guy, but as a Guy who thinks about Rome at least every week, this Lego Ideas submission is really impressive Link to support if you're similarly awed: ideas.lego.com/projects/cbc...

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Was going to say: Trump might be the only term-limited president to avoid being treated like a lame duck after the midterms, bc everyone is afraid he'll manage to run again somehow But that also raised the question of whether "lame duck"even has the same power it was supposed to have in prev eras

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Checking back in to see if they ever were able to arrest Yoon, & TIL their presidential salary is just $180k For a role that also features post-tenure prison as almost a tradition at this point, there seems to be a huge mismatch between powers granted to it & its desirability to homo economicus

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Random musing: memes are a dominant shared referent on social media, which shapes/drives our political & cultural discourse Contra axiom, internet is ephemeral Memes are hard to use in more durable media (books, tv, music) In the future, meme recovery/analysis will be an interdisciplinary subfield

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