@Jiduthie @nickforok @mattyglesias Seriously. The top 10 homebuilders combined only account for 44% of new home sales. On a national basis, at least, that is neither monopoly nor anything resembling oligopoly.
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Aaron Wrast
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@DastDn Bernie-fan darlings are generally cooked when it comes to foreign policy. The party as a whole very much isn't.
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1. Susan Collins is God's favorite and you will never convince me otherwise.
2. My God, Democrats are as cooked as the GOP. Not a single sane party. Fuck.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on US-China relations: “I think our position towards China should be one of cooperation instead of opposition.” “Politically for some people they want to see a continued multipolar world in which we have to always be in some aggressive, almost post war posture like we had against the Soviet Union.”
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@revishvilig He deserves a lot of criticism for how he handled the runup to the invasion (lack of preparation, overconfidence it was a bluff), and a mix of marks for the last few years, but he was the perfect man for the office in those crucial first weeks and months.
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There have been many defining moments in the course of the Russia–Ukraine war.
But I believe the true spark that ignited Ukraine’s heroic resistance was Zelenskyy’s decision not to flee Kyiv - to “ask for ammunition, not a ride,” to remain in the capital, and to speak directly to Ukrainians through daily video addresses that gave the nation hope.
Had he fled, the trajectory of the war would have been fundamentally different.
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@Aviation_Intel WarMonitors is also a generally unreliable account.
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Israel media thinks the attack has been coming on many nights for weeks. The chances continue to rise, but don't take this as a hard indicator in any way. Totally unreliable.
War Monitor@WarMonitors
⚡️#BREAKING Israeli Media: An attack on Iran is imminent and will happen soon
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@TyTyontwt @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun This was the UN's conclusion after an extensive investigation. People arrested and thrown into camps for no crime whatsoever other than being related to someone who, in the DPRK's eyes, had committed a crime.
Pretty awful stuff.
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@TyTyontwt @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun I can point to the UN Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
What "evidence" are you pointing to exactly that the commission is wrong?
ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/h…
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i once thought the dprk nuclear program was a waste and that kim jong un should've focused on development instead. i can now recognize that i was wrong.
South China Morning Post@SCMPNews
North Korea’s capital is in the midst of a massive construction boom building a new city district some have called “Pyonghattan”.
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@TyTyontwt @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun Consider, just for a moment, the possibility that you're wrong, and how much stronger the evidence is for that conclusion than for the idea that NK is just a misunderstood, fundamentally decent country victimized by a campaign of lies while refusing to let media in to check.
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@TyTyontwt @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun Like, I can point to Amnesty International's report with thorough interviews of 25 defectors as young as 16, I can point to a 3 year UN investigation... you can point to North Korea state media and your own doubts and skepticism.
nbcnews.com/news/asia/nort…
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@TyTyontwt @cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun Also, you know, if North Korea is getting a bad rap here, maybe they should invite the UN and foreign journalists in and show them everything is fine!
You and I both know they're not going to do that, though. And we both know why.
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@TyTyontwt @cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun youtube.com/watch?v=IXhKDT…
I realize it's hard for you to believe that a country that sentences kids to 12 years hard labor for watching K-dramas and passing them onto their friends might be a brutally repressive regime but maybe Occam's Razor should lead you in that direction...
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@TyTyontwt @cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun Cool, how about all the other North Koreans who've talked about the camps, either from first hand experience or common knowledge within NK? They liars too?
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@AaronWrast @cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun literally in his wiki page LMAO
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@TyTyontwt @cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun A lot of people seem to be under the impression that conditions in North Korea are bad in the camps, you know. And outside them, too.
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@TyTyontwt @cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun Share the credible source on that then, please!
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@TyTyontwt @cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a tankie to see the kingdom of heaven.
archive.ph/4HMQa
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@cubalibre235 @Mark48505475921 @JudahDirect @hasanthehun - Ignore facts
- tell the opps to go to north korea
- Somehow win argument
GIF
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@mtradpagan38952 @MultipolarA @tekkie1975 @RALee85 @MaxwellEngelman @grok I wasn't questioning the Zelensky citing a lowish KIA number for Ukraine part, I was questioning the "500,000 bodies" part.
Dude did not have a source because that part was total fabricated bullshit and he's a liar.
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@AaronWrast @MultipolarA @tekkie1975 @RALee85 @MaxwellEngelman @grok nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/…
It’s true.. he did claim that
Even if Ukraine has killed more Russians.. it’s not a 40 to ratio
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“President Vladimir V. Putin believes he is winning, military and intelligence officials from several Western countries said in recent days. And he is convinced that even if it takes 18 months to two years to complete his hold on the Donbas region, each day of fighting and each night of Russian missiles and drones raining down on energy infrastructure and apartment buildings secure him more leverage.”
@SangerNYT @antontroian
nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/…
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