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constans
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hard scrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam. “pedantic plonker”. GenX hegemonist [email protected] if you need to find me elsewhere
New York, NY 参加日 Mayıs 2008
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You killed the moderate (Kantian Philosopher) now you get the radical (PhD in Supply Chain Logistics)
Javed Hassan@javedhassan
Ali Larijani’s successor, Hossein Dehghan, holds a PhD in Management. He was one of the students who occupied the US embassy in Tehran. He also commanded the IRGC forces in Lebanon and was among the orchestrators of the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. The look on his face says it all.
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@MattBDeano @FeserEdward @SohrabAhmari @unherd You can be an agent of change in your workplace by taking a shit on the conference table during a meeting with the CEO. But that’s not what the people hiring you wanted
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@FeserEdward @SohrabAhmari @unherd One might say this about Teddy Roosevelt as well. Change argents are rarely what we think they might be ..... We didn't elect Jesus
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From @SohrabAhmari: “Trump…has now fully given way to his liberal caricature: venal, erratic, childish, a chaos agent…The scale of [his] failures...return[s us] to the character problem that first gave rise to the Never Trump movement” unherd.com/2026/03/trump-… via @UnHerd
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@FeserEdward @SohrabAhmari @unherd So Sohrab Ahmari has just figured out what suburban liberal wine moms figured out a decade ago. Golf clap.
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We amend the constitution via SCOTUS appointments.
That is a really stupid but it is our system and both parties now carefully vet candidates to ensure they amend the constitution in the direction favored by their parties.
constans@constans
Roberts was groomed in the 80s to provide legal foundations to get rid of the Voting Rights Act and appointed by W because he had an expansive view of executive authority, necessary to justify Guantanamo detentions, AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT ROBERTS DELIVERED ON AS CHIEF JUSTICE
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Roberts was groomed in the 80s to provide legal foundations to get rid of the Voting Rights Act and appointed by W because he had an expansive view of executive authority, necessary to justify Guantanamo detentions, AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT ROBERTS DELIVERED ON AS CHIEF JUSTICE
Craig Caplan@CraigCaplan
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in Houston today: "The notion that we carry forward the views of the people that appointed us is absurd. President George W. Bush appointed me 20 years ago. The idea that I'm carrying out his agenda somehow is absurd...And history is full of examples of Presidents appointing people and being really surprised how they turned out going both ways."
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@constans Bush signed and a supermajority of Republicans voted for the reauthorization of Section 5 that Roberts held was unconstitutional
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Every single last bit of this was obvious in 2022, and 2020, and 2018, and 2016. Armari endorsed Trump after January 6. A couple of months ago, he weighed in on ICE murdering two protesters -- on the side of ICE. Spare the latest monthly flip-flop.
Edward Feser@FeserEdward
From @SohrabAhmari: “Trump…has now fully given way to his liberal caricature: venal, erratic, childish, a chaos agent…The scale of [his] failures...return[s us] to the character problem that first gave rise to the Never Trump movement” unherd.com/2026/03/trump-… via @UnHerd
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It's becoming very clear that a transit agency that is run and operated by politicians who are playing double duty as politicians scared to piss off NIMBYs and as transit planners is a very VERY flawed system
lej@_lej44
“The critics mainly consisted of Lafayette Square residents who oppose Metro tunneling underneath their Mid-City historic district” Utter insanity that ~30-50ppl can delay a regional mass transit line for something objectively false. Tunneling 80-120ft below em’ does NOTHING.
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There never was any "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
It's called "We were right about everything"
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The USD is what's rising right now, not Gold.
USD is the actual hedge for geopolitical instability.
It even goes up when the USA *causes* the instability.
"In times of panic, all flee towards the almighty dollar."
Just a Dude Who Invests@DudeWhoInvests
Makes LITERALLY ZERO sense. GOLD the hedge for geopolitical instability is crashing in the face of geopolitical instability. Can’t make this up.
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maga soft launching "iran was israel's idea and it going sideways is their fault"and ngl i kinda thought dolchstosslegende of american fascism would be blaming deracinated global capitalists for a recession and not literally "it's the jews' fault we're losing the war"
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This is exactly why Paul writes that the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men.
Sometimes I try to imagine how fatal a mistake it would have been if God had given Israel the warrior-king messiah they desperately wanted. That would have been the most amateur move in history. Jesus would have been one of many strong men, and strong men are the most perishable thing on earth.
Strength intrinsically depreciates. Every generation redefines it upward. Improved technology means faster and cheaper ways to kill more people, and there will always be someone more powerful coming behind you. The power model has a ceiling. It always has.
God chose differently. Jesus did not conquer by force. He was executed by the people with the force. And 2000 years later he is still being followed. His teachings still shape ethics, civilization, and the moral imagination of billions of us. He stands in a class of his own not in spite of the non-violence but precisely cos of it.
Juxtapose him against the most vicious warlord in recorded history and he stands out. Juxtapose him against the most peaceful statesman alive today and he still stands out. Nothing touches him on either end of the spectrum.
Durant who Bibi quotes was describing history, not eternity.
Jesus said the meek shall inherit the earth and in doing so he was revealing a logic that runs deeper than any military strategy. The cross looked like defeat and foolishness to everyone watching. But in reality it was the most decisive victory ever recorded. God is amazing in his wisdom!
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Netanyahu: "Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good."
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Everything people said made you “hysterical” for claiming has actually happened
Aleph@woke8yearold
A month ago most plan trusters would have called you “hysterical” if you told them the Iran war would lead to thousands of marine boots on the ground to take Iranian territory and a 200 billion dollar supplemental. Now of course they pretend like it was totally expected
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You also don’t walk out of college or university expecting to buy a new 4 bedroom house, two cars, boats, skidoos, etc. The reason you struggle is because you aren’t willing to wait and make do like we did. Your entitlement is causing you to struggle.
Bitcoin Teddy@Bitcoin_Teddy
Older generations say “we all struggled in our 20s.” No, you didn’t. You didn’t pay $3200 for rent and $10 for eggs. You didn’t graduate into $50K student debt and $0 job security. Gen Z isn’t dramatic. They’re drowning.
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This explains the mod revival fashions in that era. It was a good time
Christopher@molochofficial
"tumblr anglophilia" was just one of a hundred manifestations of the broad pushback in the late oughts against the "vulgar" pop culture of the Bush years (playboy-bunny reality tv bimbo aesthetic, 50 Cent, Ed Hardy, post-9/11 patriotism, Fergie, Los Angeles in general, etc)
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EXCLUSIVE: Groypers are NOT welcome, California GOP says. The party is instituting a "vetting process" on candidates to block the influence of far-right streamer Nick Fuentes within the party. New in @TheFP ⬇️
The nation's largest Republican party is the first to formally condemn Nick Fuentes and ensure candidates don’t follow his far-right ideology. A memo sent to local party leaders instructs them to “refrain from recruiting, supporting, or endorsing candidates” who “espouse,” “promote,” or “campaign” on Fuentes’s ideas. They said there was an "organized effort" from Groypers to infiltrate the party and take over from within.
“The ideology is characterized as White Nationalist; hostile to constitutional, limited-government conservatism; highly critical of MAGA and President Trump; and opposing of the civil rights of women, gays, and racial minorities,” state party leaders wrote.
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@liberationastro Yes, that was also salacious and trashy and dramatic which is why I read the whole thing
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@constans there's nothing inherently trashy, dramatic, or salacious about polyamory tho? i mean the cut publishes a ton of articles about monogamous relationships that are just as, if not more, trashy, etc. the elizabeth gilbert "i tried to kill my drug addicted partner" as one example
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I thought — and mostly still think— that articles on polyamory exist to satisfy our desire to read about trashy, dramatic, and salacious things we’d never do ourselves. BUT I’m starting to wonder if these articles aren’t part of someone’s desire to “normalize” these relationships
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We’re going to force you to convert to Islam and become transgender. You can’t stop what’s coming.
AppPatriotgirl 🇺🇸@goneers
Dear @_NCGovernor We will NEVER observe any Muslim holiday. Islam is not compatible with the constitution of the United States or of North Carolina. You must rescind this proclamation immediately. You are a traitor.
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