@JonahDispatch Ripley hates our white squirrel with an intensity that's quite something to behold.
Seems to me white and black squirrels are becoming more common. Awaiting a Remnant episode with a squirrel expert to discuss.
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Michael L Krogh
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“Good morning. It’s Friday. We went out for a walk in this new park. A blue bird attacked me! I did not like that. I think I’m going to stay in bed with the special lady for a while until they figure out how to stop that from happening again. We lived near all sorts of wild stuff for years, and a blue bird never attacked me. I just don’t get it.
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@dccommonsense But surely you're aware the vast majority of those calling themselves independent vote consistently on a party line. They just don't want to overtly associate with a party to avoid fundraising harassment, or even contentious discourse.
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It's funny..."Independents" in America decide elections. There's damn near as many of them as there are Republicans. Yet no one is apparently willing to believe they actually exist. The number of times I am told I'm a Democrat (with Dem presidents you can reverse this) is crazy.
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This happens to me regularly because people on this app like me so much. Stop it, y'all. You're going to make me blush.
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@JohnDalyBooks Sadly, neither side is free of the antisemitism. More on the left after 10-7, more on the right recently. If left/right designations even mean anything on that front any more (as well as quite a few others--Which side controls the means of production again?)
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If the existence of bigots and bigotry blinds these people to the legitimacy of any and all criticism of Obama (to the point that they believe anyone who criticizes him must be a bigot themself), I find that warped. And I'm going to say so.
Personally, I have been highly disturbed by the level of antisemitism I've seen on the Left since October 7. Yet, I'm able to easily distinguish between those people and fair-minded lefties.
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I've said this before, but those who dismiss criticism of Obama with "tan suit" sound like those who dismiss criticism of Trump with "mean tweets." It doesn't make you sound smart. It just makes you sound lame.
Democracy Fan Boy@GorallNathan
@JohnDalyBooks Agreed! The fact Fox News made it a national crisis when he wore a tan suit, put mustard on his hot dog or let his wife plant vegetables - all justifiable criticisms of his presidency, regardless of race!
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@JohnDalyBooks All I've seen says you're an honest broker and I hoped for this response from you.
Obama lectured and berated instead of working with opponents. That should be acknowledged. He was opposed by a lot of racism. Also should be acknowledged.
But not all opponents were/are racist
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@JohnDalyBooks Right. I'm not excusing what many on the left refuse to see. I am saying that part of what blinds them is what many on the right refuse to see, (which you just acknowledged for the first time that I've seen in this back and forth you're having.)
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@ScottGreenfield Two words I never want to see together again are the last two words of your tweet.
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Is it appropriate for 6 conservative Supreme Court justices to attend a state dinner where the other 3 were not invited?
Should it be all or none to avoid political taint?
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@nwilliams030 @asymmetricinfo @LeahLibresco We don't have a name for it but when we talk about it we lead in with "Kids these days..." as the olds have for millennia.
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@LeahLibresco Has anyone come up with a name for the phenomenon, heavily exaggerated by the internet, where everyone is constantly exposed to the best of the best version of something and uniformly expects that quality of experience, regardless of their own life station / resources / etc ?
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Interesting comment by @darbysaxbe on the rising floor for marriage:
"Now, we expect not just romance and skillful negotiation of household logistics but friendship, fulfillment, and magic. As a result of our heightened expectations...
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@mikenelson586 @JohnDalyBooks It's called "She Solves Sea Shells."
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HBO should roll out a limited series about the world's best forensic seashell expert, living a life of peaceful retirement, haunted by the seashell cases of the past, called back to the Bureau for one last case
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@JonahDispatch @whignewtons @KevinCStx If someone wants to rise above niche podcast they gotta start copying the best, I guess.
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Interesting argument that the American Revolution succeeded bc they debated the Constitution behind closed doors and the French Revolution failed bc they did everything in public. Transparency isn’t a virtue in all times and places! See, Congress.
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@DavidAFrench If you're going with global best the top two are interchangeable and after that there's another handful or so to argue about for 3-5. If you consider within the context of their era, few players affected the game more than Mikan and deserves to be in the discussion.
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Top 5 should be:
1. LeBron
2. Michael
3. Kareem
4. Kobe
5. Steph
Legion Hoops@LegionHoops
USA Today’s top 25 greatest basketball players of all-time: 1) Michael Jordan 2) LeBron James 3) Kobe Bryant 4) Stephen Curry 5) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 6) Magic Johnson 7) Larry Bird 8) Bill Russell 9) Wilt Chamberlain 10) Shaquille O’Neal 11) Tim Duncan 12) Kevin Durant 13) Allen Iverson 14) Oscar Robertson 15) Elgin Baylor 16) Jerry West 17) Julius Erving 18) Moses Malone 19) Kevin Garnett 20) Charles Barkley 21) Karl Malone 22) David Robinson 23) Isiah Thomas 24) John Havlicek 25) George Mikan
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@JohnDalyBooks It may have delayed things, but all the factors remained. The cravenness of the GOP Congress shows the ground was prepared for something (and the weakness of the Ds shows they wouldn't have been any better.)
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@JohnDalyBooks I reject the counterfactual--we just don't know. It's a "I wouldn't have got cancer if I hadn't smoked that last pack" argument. An Obama loss would have accelerated Dem nuttiness. Romney would have been too compromising for a festering maga base that as already there, waiting.
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1. You can reject it, but there's plenty of video & posts of them doing it (including Obama at their debate).
2. Romney got a higher % of GOP voters than Trump did (also higher than the % of Dems Obama got).
3. The country would've have been much better off had Romney won.
Rebecca Hoover@Rebeccaroo29
@JohnDalyBooks I reject this whole framing of Democrats laughing at Romney. As a democrat, I never had a huge problem with Romney, but clearly, I wasn’t going to vote for him over Obama. Like, come on. Romney lost because he lost Republicans, and he lost the middle.
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@Noahpinion 100 videos taken in the last 4 weeks because it moves that fast
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Noah's Rule of Drone Discourse: Anyone who has not watched 100 or more drone strike videos from the Ukraine War does not know anything about drones
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Talked to some Ukrainians. They confirmed a shotgun is the best man-portable drone defense. But what that means is that it takes 2 drones to kill a man instead of 1. They told me about one Russian soldier who shot down 7 drones before they got him. They nicknamed him "Rambo".
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@JonahDispatch "What we have here is a failure to understand just war doctrine."
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“A man sits alone in a seat but he's part of a team. He gets nowhere unless the team arrives at the destination.”
cassie 🇻🇦@CatholicCassie
First Pope in history to hold a baseball bat inside an airplane
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@JonahDispatch "The lady said 'upright and locked.' Do you not know what this means? My friend from Louisville here would like to explain it to you."
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