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I worry about this kind of humor because there's a 100% chance at least when conservative is going to read this and take it completely at face value and have their fiery hatred for the libs redoubled.
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If you have enough money that you could afford to move to Europe then America's pretty nice
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So they shot this guy, then searched his apartment, found two illegal guns, and arrested him for them? Should we be suspicious those guns were planted?
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Holding Hitler personally responsible for Nazism when his reign oversaw basically the entirely of Nazi Germany's defeat is… certainly a take.
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I think you have to engage with this being about your being from somewhere that's known for it's bland flavorless food as opposed to America being weird for having flavor. You're like someone who grew up on black and white movies saying the ones in color are too loud and garish
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Wow a lot of weird puritanism in this thread - who cares how many people someone has had sex with?
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You traveled and then came home and said "those foreigners put this bizarre 'flavor' stuff in their food, glad we don't truck with that nonsense here"
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Wow LBJ was good domestically but had that legacy marred by his role in expanding the Vietnam War!? We progressives are hearing this for the first time
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Democrats who have run and won statewide in conservative states tend to have an admirable understanding of the need to fight rather than appease the Republicans, even when they're relatively conservative themselves
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It's like saying water doesn't buy happiness - someone dying of thirst would be incredibly happy for a drink while someone with plenty of water would rightly say there's more to life than maximizing water intake
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I've never felt people's reactions to my presence more than when carrying flowers around the city. Everyone's thinking "Ooh, what's the story with these flowers? Got a girlfriend? Something special happening? Why don't I have flowers?"
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He has not housed a single person, he's bought the rights to collect the rents of housing that already existed
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50% of the problem with Democrats is just not wanting to win badly enough, and that's a problem Pelosi doesn't have
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Yeah to get a write-off you should have to do the exact opposite and put it into the public domain for free
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Usually people put pro-cop stickers on their cars to avoid getting pulled over but this seems like it should work at least as well
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Yeah it's almost exactly the reverse - Cash would have a tough time fitting in with the right-wingers who dominate country music currently
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Yeah it's up there with gas subsidies and "parking at work should always be free" in terms of being something people enjoy but which ultimately subsidizes bad behavior
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The problem with these isn't that they're apartments, it's that they're monotonous expanses of tower in the park developments rather than forming mixed use streetwalls. Might as well be suburbs without the yards
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So crazy that they're going after ebikes when they're hanging around blocking the path in a car
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Cubicles are definitely way better than open office, but still way below having your own office or working from home
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It's hard for me to imagine someone of good will and non-awful politics not being at least somewhat inspired by that movement. Do you have no soul?
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Just a little quick off the mark - once he's in office the media will repeat police claims that Johnson is responsible for any and all crime in the city as fact.
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What if all human art and culture that can be reduced to a digital file was available for on demand free download online?
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I'm a R'hllor denialist, those red priests don't have the favor of a real existing god, they just know how to do blood magic
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Not surprising, just from that video they released it was clear they were just trying to defend their buddy from a police beating.
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What they're all really experiencing is the weirdness of mainstream middle class anglo culture not being like that
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OP was not saying Elizabeth was powerless though, he was trying to give her credit for her own empire's defeat by the global anti-imperialist movement
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Damn, condolences for not getting fired and instead having to quit, that could have really juiced your substack subscriptions
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Hilarious - this is literally an example of how conservatives get kid glove treatment from the moderation team.
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As long as Biden is better on some issues and not worse on any there's a pretty strong case for voting for him. So to really break people you'd have to find a way for him to be clearly worse than Trump on an issue or two
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Wow how did that kid get an article published in the Atlantic? Knows someone with some pull I guess?
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SpaceX is sadly irreplaceable, got to find a way to separate Musk from the company, not just stop contracting with them
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Wow I was today years old when I learned "points" as in "ten point buck" just literally means the number of points on that deer's horns. I guess that was pretty obvious in retrospect...
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"I was in favor when it was just a way to dunk on Biden, but now it seems like there's a chance we'd actually be helping workers, and I cannot support any policy that does that"
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Shhhhhh we have to pretend to be owned by this development or the whole thing falls apart
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Really unfortunate this has to be done, Airbnb is a great service, but you just cannot justify letting apartments get turned hotels when there's this kind of housing shortage
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The funniest thing about Eastern Europe is how it always starts one country to the east of wherever you're standing
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Why did every institution in America give up on hiring people who come up through the ranks and switch to the same stock of non-specialist manager mediocrities?
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Hmm seems to me it's more that the West wants to treat Eastern European countries as normal countries while Russia sees them as questionably legitimate
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Really anyone whose worldview is more about harming their enemies than accomplishing something positive is not to be trusted
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Literally anyone who considers it for a second thinks that. Trump is weird even for a billionaire tv star politician
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What's really maddening is that any variety of Keynesianism works but it seems almost impossible to get governments to commit to versions where the big state spending that drives growth is non-military
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Given that "bi" accounts for the large majority of the increase it seems like this phenomenon is mostly about people with mild same-sex attraction today identifying as "bi" while in the past they repressed it and said they were straight
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Wow I don't usually like to hate read because I think it curdles the soul and creates bad incentives... but this is just an incredible work of art in terms of how crazily bad faith and outright evil it is, highly recommend
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The fact that they're now trying to muddy the waters over what the Republican abortion position is shows they realize it's a good issue for Dems
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I think there's a comfortable middle ground of tolerating religion and the religious but not actively promoting it or inviting it into our spaces
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Clearly it's doing something right by just showing a commonplace scene at an NYC playground and having it create this kind of reaction
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It's amazing how fascists expect the rest of us to think that hanging around with anti-fascists is a problem rather than a positive reference
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No this before that train situation, he's referring to the fake Ra's who died in that monastery Bruce was training at and then blew up before even becoming Batman
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My dad was talking about "bluehairs" as in old ladies the other day and I had to explain that blue hair is now associated with being young and woke
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The issue is that people who misinterpreted the situation by believing the evidence provided by Israel should rethink their biases and find better ways to engage with the confusing reports coming out of the region
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No it was a broadly anti-flavor take. It's just a few replies up actually:
Americans specifically seem to make their food taste of “flavor”. Not any specific flavour, just “flavor”. You can taste it in almost every savoury dish there, unless it’s faithfully made as authentic from elsewhere. No other country I’ve been to does this.
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So crazy, cracking down on farebeaters doesn't even raise as much money as the crackdown costs, much less enough to fund other projects
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Also weird complaint since we are way passed peak movie sex scene. They used to be a draw since that was a rare opportunity to see that sort of thing, now you can just watch porn and filmmakers don't bother as often
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6-10 books a year? What is she writing, Animorphs? At least Applegate was a job creator for her ghost writers
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That was such an own goal. I get the idea of "look, even these Republicans say Trump is bad!" but doing that with very unpopular Republicans like the Cheneys is obviously counterproductive
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Your initial post was that it was NOT a specific flavor but just "tasting of flavor" generally that you were objecting to. If you're now instead saying there's some specific US flavor in all American dishes that's a different (also inaccurate) claim
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Idk if they agree that the solution is to go left, but a lack of power hunger on behalf of the party is a common major flaw in Dem politicians - see refusal to effectively prosecute Trump, disinterest in gerrymandering, everything the NY party does, etc
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This is an outrageous false equivalence between a democratically elected leader and the coup regime that replaced him
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How are people still claiming Biden promised a one term presidency? That story originated in anonymous speculation in a politico article, Biden never even implied he wouldn't seek a second term
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Every 80s satire of American problems is aspirational to these guys, from Full Metal Jacket to Taxi Driver
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Reminds me of the conversation about obesity where people who want to be mean to fat people get mad at those scolding them for being pro-obesity. Nobody's anti-marriage, we just don't want to persecute single mothers
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For many people in that category "only job available" is synonymous with "highest paid job I could find"
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Cuomo flipping and becoming a Republican would not be that shocking of a plot twist all things considered
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Wait what? Mexico was more developed than China, then it embarked on a major liberalizing reform with NAFTA, and now statist China has surpassed them... therefore AMLO's emulation of Chinese economic policies is bad and Mexico instead needs to liberalize more?
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What??? The seriousness of the moment makes them *less* concerned about getting a Dem elected?
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Having to follow the whims of Soviet foreign policy really fucked up a lot of national communist party lines
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