@MattZeitlin Greatest moment this millennium in American politics was when it came out W. Had a dui, then Cheney came out and said he had two. Always thought that's what put Florida in play for them.
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Jack
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The three teetotaler presidents elected this century have either served one term, lost reeelction, or had sub 30 approval ratings
Axios@axios
Gallego's past drinking comes under new scrutiny trib.al/7eYtYV9
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@avrilbradley23 Did these lawmakers reintroduce the bill or something? Why is it now getting attention, it was thankfully was DOA when introduced.
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@JohnLis19387145 @xanon597443 @wastelandJD I think if American Beauty were set in NYC it would have largely worked the same, it was in the suburbs to be All-American. Also while the characters ae weird I think it treats most of them a lot more loving than remembered. Overall message I get is stop to smell the roses.
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@xanon597443 @wastelandJD American Beauty is another one of those "the suburbs are a dangerous place and normal people are scary" movies. It depends on a familiarity with that America so it can be subverted. A modern audience wouldn't get the subtext.
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Another thing about works from the mid to late 20th century is how you can trace decline as it happens through the ever-changing morals.
What do you expect a Zoomer to get out of American Beauty, Forrest Gump, or Pleasantville, for instance? Their tricks no longer impress.
Isaac Young@HariSel57511397
Underrated reason why Gen Z doesn't watch old media is because it will make you existentially depressed at what America has become. I was watching X Files and was tweaking that I missed the golden age by only a few decades.
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@sarotten10 @DrewSav I mean I don't think she was as liberal either. Like Dana didn't speak at conferences where a whole hosts of illegal drugs would be openly sold. On a lot of third rail issues she had politician answers that Eli doesn't.
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Republicans have also insisted for the last eight years that Dana Nessel is too liberal to win in Michigan. She won two terms as Attorney General.
Craig Mauger@CraigDMauger
Lots of Michigan Republicans celebrating in messages right now.
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@victim_burn77 It's so cool to look back on Kid Rock calling Bill Clinton a pimp in Woodstock 99. Meanwhile Eminem's lyrics from that era have jokes about killing Hillary Clinton.
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@BKPiece_333 @Escobluv @HashtagGriswold Pill mills are the most basic thing about the opioid epidemic, there is even a whole Wikipedia page on them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill_mill
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@Ace0072g @Escobluv @HashtagGriswold also im calling bs on this. wikipedia(not the most trustworthy source i know) points to health insurance preferring opioids over other therapies. which would put more blame on them than doctors.
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This is a stealth midwit test and 21,000 people have failed it x.com/vivek_1052/sta…
V.I.V.E.K@vivek_1052
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@BKPiece_333 @Escobluv @HashtagGriswold They were running cash only clinics where the more cash you gave them the juicer your opioid prescription was. Crackdowns on opioids the past 15ish has made this set up impossible now.
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@Ace0072g @Escobluv @HashtagGriswold do doctors get paid commission for drugs? other than maybe a private clinic i don't see why they would make exorbitant amounts of money from giving addictive meds. Additionally, these payments could be regulated and stopped?
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@BKPiece_333 @Escobluv @HashtagGriswold Reason it blew up was because plenty of Docs saw they could make more money than God being state sanctioned drug dealers. I don't get how anyone could see that and not see immediately how this idea would just be filled with fraud.
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@Escobluv @HashtagGriswold I concur with your point that doctors arent infallible however the cause of the opioid epidemic is not because a bunch of evil corrupt doctors decided to get people addicted. It was a systemic failure caused by several issues.
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@TSBurkhardt One of the DEA publications that mentioned GHB had a list of the common precursors. I was about to die of laughibg reading it before it gave a better how to on making it then I have ever saw on erowid.
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"hurry up and buy this legal grey market stimulant before we ban it alert" lol
fantastic marketing
DEA HQ@DEAHQ
🚨 #AnalysisAlert: DEA Labs recently identified a new, unscheduled synthetic cathinone analogue: sec-Butyl Butylone. Analysis Alerts are intended for labs, partners & first responders. More information can be found here: nflis.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/nflisdata/docs… @TheJusticeDept
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@avrilbradley23 Any idea why though Park Chung Hee cared about Israel closing its South Korean embassy a few years later?
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Due to the oil embargo, Park Chung Hee took a pro-Arab stance diplomatically during the 1970s leading to the closure of the Israeli embassy in South Korea. This policy was maintained in the 80s by his successors and also involved limiting Korean-Israeli trade.
Wookウギョン🍉@wookyeonghan
@mofa_kr 박정희 정부가 했던 것 처럼 그냥 이스라엘 대사관 대한민국에서 내쫓아버리시죠
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@mapeslover69 Yeah, even ones I really like, it's scary tbh. Had a great uncle who was a physician and I think his peers innumerate caused him strokes.
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Are all physicians just bad at math
Joseph Younis, MD@YounisJoseph
Ok, looks like some non doctors got triggered. Let’s try this another way? Neurosurgeon: $251 an hour Master Electrician: $170-300 an hour Senior software: $150-300 an hour Consultants: $200-2000 an hour Attorney: $400-2000 an hour Master plumber: $250-300 an hour Better?
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So here is a fun fact: Israel imports ~100% of its crude oil needs. Over two-thirds of it comes from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan through Turkey.
What do you think happens when that source is cut off?
The Jerusalem Post@Jerusalem_Post
Opinion: Continuing to label Turkey as a reliable NATO ally is dangerous, as Ankara’s ambitions erode the very alliance structures that have long sustained Western security. jpost.com/opinion/articl…
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@nothiinqq @diverging_paths @atlanticesque DEA estimated it went from around 12,000 in 2015 to about 1800 in 2024. I think the DEA are just trying to get it as low as posssible and docs will just prescribe other stimulants so they don't have Feds breathing on their neck.
deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_chem_info….
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@BigDog22500 @diverging_paths @atlanticesque The numbers fluctuate especially in the last few years due to shortages but the amount individuals who have a prescription throughout a year is probably like 5-10k
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It's not meth though it's amphetamine (not like there's a massive difference at those doses) but please stop using the buzzwords.
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
Sneaking “adhd meds” in there like yea meth does make that lifestyle easier I agree
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@diverging_paths @nothiinqq @atlanticesque Unless you're the President you're not going to be able to get a script. The past few years the number of prescriptions in all the US hovers around 1000.
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@SwannMarcus89 Late 20th century blue dogs are so cool because you will wonder how a democrat crushed it in South Carolina. Then see they voted with republicans about 70% of the time.
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I don’t understand how Democrats had massive majorities in 2008 and we didn’t get Communism
Have you bothered to check how many of those 2008 Democratic congressmen thought life begins at conception? The Democrats are hurting because none of those blue dogs vote for us now
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@BigDog22500 No worries, but you shouldn't have deleted your questions, I don't think they were stupid and other people might have been wondering about the same thing.
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Unfortunately, in his otherwise very interesting book on Israel's economic history, Joseph Zeira implicitly endorses this idea.
He correctly points out that one of the keys to Israel's rapid growth during the early period was access to foreign financing for investment, which most developing countries lack, but claims that the US played no role in that respect until after the Six-Day War and that before that it was only German reparations that helped Israel to finance a high level of investment without reducing consumption too much.
However, if you actually look at the data, US aid was about as important as German reparations during that period. It mostly took the form of loans rather than grants, so it was less advantageous, but it still provided financing for investment and was very important especially in the early 1950s when Israel's population rapidly increased and large investments were necessary to provide new immigrants with housing and jobs.
As I noted before, economic assistance wasn't the only thing the US did for Israel during that period, it also provided significant diplomatic cover. It's true that US aid to Israel massively increased after 1967 and that the relationship between Israel and that more generally the US became much closer, but the idea that it wasn't already very friendly to Israel in the pre-1967 period or even that it was hostile to it during the Eisenhower presidency is completely disconnected from reality.
What is true is that, when Eisenhower was elected president, Dulles intended to subordinate the relationship with Israel to US interests, but like everyone before and after him, he completely failed to do so.
Philippe Lemoine@phl43
Once again, the idea that Israel didn't receive any aid from the US during that period is a myth, it was the fourth recipient of US assistance per capita in the world during that period. It was just economic aid at the time, but it was significant and helped Israel a lot in the 1950s. It also received massive diplomatic support from the US since even before the creation of the state. All that is well-documented in multiple books, such as The Making of an Alliance by David Tal or Advocating for Israel by Natan Aridan (on the lobbying it took to get that support), but people keep repeating this canard. The same is true for the notion that Eisenhower was hostile to Israel and didn't support it, on which in addition to Tal's book I recommend "Dwight D. Eisenhower and Israel: A New Look" by Ian Bickerton.
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That's because the figures you are using for the denominator are in constant 2017 dollars, whereas the figures for the numerator are in current dollars. Because of inflation, 2017 dollars have much less purchasing power than dollars in the past, so if you expressed the denominator in current dollars it would be much smaller, hence the ratio would be much higher.
For instance, in 1952, US aid was about $86 million in current dollars. If you divided that by Israel's GDP for that year in 2017 dollars, which is about $9.5 billion, it's going to be very small. But $9.5 billion in 2017 dollars was much smaller in 1952 dollars, so if you calculated the ratio by using the GDP in 1952 dollars in the denominator, it would be much larger.
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I don’t know how true this was generally but in my little corner of Gen X Last American Virgin was hugely influential.
The term “friendzone” didn’t exist so we warned each other against the risk of becoming a “nice guy Gary”.
Also, if you wanna laugh…at the time, this movie was considered the smarter, upscale version of what Fast Times at Ridgemont High was trying to be.
LowRes Wünderbred@LowresWB
Just watched The Last American Virgin. I was genuinely awestruck by how cruel of a film this is. Impressive in showcasing the pathetic faults of young men and women so acutely for 1982. Ultimate red pill movie.
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Ever since the courts forced McSorley’s to start serving women in 1970, straight men have been trying to figure out how to build a bar no woman will ever set foot inside. And now it exists.
Polymarket@Polymarket
We're excited to announce 'The Situation Room' by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C. The world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. 🧵
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