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the less fatal strains were much deadlier in the end.
And Jon's demand MSNBC came up with a unified ideological mission?
That's exactly what MAGA wants - back to the 19th century, where not reason and human rights were the guiding light but personal politics.
Journ. aren't meant to be your allies.
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This episode illustrated some of Jon's misguided biases.
Joe Rogan, e.g., is by all measures socially conservative - and by extension if you qualify or even approve of far-right politics, then that's your stance. Besides, you don't win over new people with relentless. Think of COVID, ...
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Another understated thing is that most of those grants were ongoing, so the outlays range between 10% and 65% just for the bunch I've looked at.
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That's probably because you didn't read the article?
I read the first post, then the article, then the rest of the thread - I didn't need to
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There's one big problem with US progressives, incl. Jon's view. There're always calls for cuts of the mil. budget, but no comment at whose expense. Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, Japan, Europe, South America, etc.?
The budget should be challenged but you'd be no diff from Trump if you just promise cuts.
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I first thought that's a cat in a suit
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If you target the drivers, you need to spread out and steadily hold the signs facing the cars. Otherwise you're wasting most of your time.
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This thread actually proves that such tricks work quite well. A lot of people immediately accepted the capital b as fact.
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Yeah, OP definitely made a Freudian slip there. Incel vibes be like
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The only way I can interpret that photo choice is that Slate doesn't like you
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The abbreviation must be a recent addition anyway. Just boycott the monument for now and fix it in the future.
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What miscalculations? No matter how much McConnel pretends, he's quite content with the outcome. He may not like the MAGA cult but it's driving the country in the direction he, too, dreamt of.
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Uh, Occupy turned more and more populist. Half of them found it knew better than Sanders himself what he stood for so he quickly distanced himself from them, while the other half joined maga.
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Casar's beard barely manages to hide his grin
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... according to one's own political doctrine. That is, there is no such right to fulfill one's own policy. The judgment and legislation of the other two branches is what defines president's role and powers.
And the veto is the leverage for negotiations over legislation, so you use that.
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And you display the picture of the prop in full view
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So Democrats need to stop talking about the villains or the villany even, treat what's going on as what people voted for, and shift focus toward their own two-part story: one of the resistance and one of the specific (!) steps they willing to take in order to address what people demand.
#USpol
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Moreover, most people respond to a message of action that leads to specific, desired, and better results, not reaction.
Complains, hysteria, outrage, hate are all reactions and even if justified, the shift to the far-right has obviously successfully continued.
#USpol
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Implicitly what Dworkin's argument means is that right-wing women aren't actually right-wing, they're just survivors who project their hate of the patriarchy onto out-groups.
That disregards what an ideology is and what women statistically as well as anecdotally actually experience.
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You can die by giving up, letting go, suicide. That's where the emphasis lies when you only say "death before..." and hence the argument against it that you quoted above.
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Death before ... and die fighting before are two different conditions
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It`s a fascist salute exactly because he has evidently turned far-right. It's visual evidence for the masses. It underscores what's going on.
It also answers your question. People have voted in a fascist administration, so why wouldn't they invite an industrialist tycoon. Fascists always loved them.
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Don't forget what he said afterwards. Clearly inspired by the 14 words.
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As for why it is enough?
Everyone's rather resorting to hypocrisy or whataboutism than, say, demand for legislation that regulates the social media oligopoly in the US as well.
Clearly no one cares about improving things, only their personal advatages and comfort - left and right.
#USpol #Tiktok
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I mean, it was already clear in 2016 the possession of content itself is extremely valuable, even more so now with LLMs helping out; not to mention the sheer amount of live meta data & the enormous leverage over any nation as we're witnessing rn.
So it's an antitrust issue, too, not just natsec.
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That's still by all measures ageism.
That's like saying, it's poc who primarily commit crimes or are illegal where I am, so it's fine to refer to people who commit crimes or illegals as a black, a brown, etc.
Just 'cause your stereotype is more common doesn't make it any less absurd or disparaging
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Woke is pejorative slang only among conservatives, so why is she recognizing that interpretation at all?
After all, otherwise a woke hire is basically a short form of a hire accounting for societal imbalances and necessary represantation as long as appropriate talent is available.
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Sure, it is, but that doesn't justify hypocrisy or lowering of one's morals. It's enough and bad enough if the nation has no pity for the victim. No need to approve of murder or glorify murderers.
Not to mention that Mangione isn't even someone who qualifies for a pardon - figuratively & literally
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You do realize all that sign tells the court is that you recognize Mangione murdered a person?
Of course, if that was a protest demanding legislation for greater consumer rights and stricter oversight rather than against the prosecution of a murderer, then it makes sense.
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Did you mistakenly reply to my comment instead of your own?
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Human rights are more fundamental. Even the broader right to physical or mental activity should be inferred rather than postulated.
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The article got one thing right: although ultimately we're dealing w/ fascism, what we need to focus on is populism. But that's a political style, not an ideology.
Besides, ppl elect populists because they promise action & change. They don't care about rights or values they can't utilize.
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Hm, weak evidence, it seems, unfortunately. The entire definition of genocade is based on the intent and the possible reasons why Israel cut off the water supply is not limited to the worst case scenario, though it was centainly a war crime.
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It isn't man of the year but a person, group, idea, or object that for better or for worse has done the most to influence the events of the year.
So it woild be hypocritical to pretend the US paid tkat much attention to the invasion in Ukraine this year.
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Dot density maps representing each vote in a county offer a better visualization of the distribution, but I don't think anyone has made a good one for the last election, yet.
There's an acceptable one from The Economist but it's unclear what the dots represent.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Probably; that is, if you can endure the fact that the man is confusing the green of nature which is no different from the blue with the parts cleaned up and isolated by tha human civilization.