Larry LeClair
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Kubrick’s movies—except The Killing and Strangelove—are rigid, emotionally vacant, and over-controlled.
They’re stunning, But they’re for people who like to argue about movies—endlessly—more than for people who like to experience movies, and feel something new because of them.
PoIiMath@politicalmath
All of Stanley Kubrick's movies are better than the books they came from
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Have we obliterated Iran and won the war again today?
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@mattyglesias Your attack raised the price of oil; now you're lifting sanctions ie paying the Iranians, and somehow that's how you're beating Iran? lmfao you're a moron
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The Iranians think they can beat us by raising the global price of energy, but Trump is way too smart for that and he’s fighting back by lifting sanctions on Iranian oil exports to ease the supply crunch.
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@RichardHaass And has a negligible impact on global oil price.
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The decision to allow Iran to sell oil already on tankers is misguided. sanctions easing should be tied to changed iranian behavior. this move signals desperation & rewards aggression. open.substack.com/pub/richardhaa…
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@CNN Experts claim this will have an extremely minimal effect on global price, while the signal it sends is of an administration in chaos.
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The US removes sanctions on Iranian oil that has been sitting on tankers as the Trump administration looks for any leverage to keep oil prices in check. cnn.it/4t46Jdo
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Only Trump would lift sanctions against a country AFTER starting a war with them. Art of the deal.
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Trump considers ‘winding down’ US military operations against Iran ft.trib.al/nP1h3A3
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@garymasonglobe This has all the hallmarks of a "calm the markets" Friday afternoon post he simply sent out too late.
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What a complete and utter asshole he is. Worst President in American history and it’s not even close.
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery
Jesus wept. Started a crazy war. Watched it unravel. Now signals a retreat and insists that other countries - who rightly wanted no part of it in the first place - go in and clear up the mess he created. What an appalling president. What a shameful episode.
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@NickKristof This has all the hallmarks of a "calm the markets" Friday afternoon post that he simply sent out too late.
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President Trump proposes declaring victory and retreating. That's better than seizing islands, but it has to be accompanied by negotiations with Iran and some new deal to open up the Strait of Hormuz. Otherwise, Trump will simply have stirred a hornet's nest, enriched Russia, hurt Europe and Asia -- and then moved on.
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@TVietor08 It was hardly fair to fill Putin's war chest without having a little something for Iran.
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Lifting sanctions on the country you're bombing -- the sign of a coherent, well thought through plan
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar
BREAKING The Trump administration has granted a temporary sanctions waiver allowing the Islamic Republic of Iran to sell oil. The authorization applies to shipments that were already loaded onto tankers before March 20, 2026, and gives a deadline of April 19 to complete them. The regime may not sell oil to North Korea, Cuba, or any part of Ukraine under Russian control.
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@RpsAgainstTrump Well, it was hardly fair to fill Putin's war chest without having a little something for Iran.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration lifts oil sanctions on Iran, including permitting the sale of Iranian crude and refined products into the United States.
WTF
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@alaynatreene The US doesn't use the Strait of Hormuz. Let the Middle East nations solve this prpblem.
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NEW: US officials are furiously trying to avert a potential months-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz, privately acknowledging that reopening the key waterway is a problem without a clear solution and dependent at least in part on what lengths Trump is willing to go to force the Iranian regime’s hand, multiple administration and intelligence officials tell @CNN
cnn.com/2026/03/20/pol…
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Unreal. The Trump administration is putting money directly in the hands of the regime currently shooting at American soldiers.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on Iran, including permiting the sale of Iranian crude and refined products into the United States. Scott Bessent calls it a "narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea."
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Donald Trump Today:
5:30AM ET: Considering invading Kharg Island
2:30PM: More detailed plans to invade Iran. More troops and ships on way.
3:43 PM ET: "I don't want to do a ceasefire with Iran."
5:13 PM ET: US is "considering winding down" the war with Iran.
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Translation: Trump is about to bail out of his Great Iran Debacle and let everyone else pick up the pieces of the chaos he left behind.
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Colin Powell famously* warned George W Bush that if he broke Iraq he would be responsible for fixing it, which became known as the Pottery Barn Rule. Trump, in contrast, is like a guy who comes into your crockery shop, breaks pots and leaves without paying.
Josh Wingrove@josh_wingrove
Trump says the U.S. is “very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East” but that it’ll be up to other countries to deal with the Strait.
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Trump: “We can have dialogue, but I don't want to do a ceasefire. You don't do a ceasefire when you are literally obliterating the other side.”
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