@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok In other words, do you have principles or are you in a cult of personality?
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PDG887
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok This didn’t answer my question. Trump promised mass pardons and restitution. He’s now done that. You claim to be against that. When you heard him promise those things, did you then decide not to vote for him? Or did you vote for him?
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Two years ago, a group of pro-Palestinian protestors blocked Golden Gate bridge for four hours to bring attention to the genocide going on in Gaza. Protesters have blocked Golden Gate bridge for decades -- famously, AIDS activists did so in 1989 to bring attention to the mass die off that was happening then.
What's different this time is the draconian charges that have been brought down on the protesters. Seven of those activists are currently standing trial and facing up to 15 years in prison. They are being charged with "false imprisonment," which is a first for this kind of action.
At a time that Trump is cracking down on free speech and political protest, it makes no sense for San Francisco, the home of protests like this, to be cracking down at home. The DA should drop these charges.
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@dieworkwear What else is in the pantheon of great menswear movies? The long goodbye, arguably…
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a tremendous film for menswear. up there with the greats, such as talented mr ripley, but does not get the recognition it deserves from menswear enthusiasts.
DepressedBergman@DannyDrinksWine
Wim Wenders explains why "The American Friend" (1977) is political, even though it is an entertainment movie: "Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: 'entertainment' movies. They are the most political films there are because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine the way it is. They are a continual advertisement for things as they are. I think 'The American Friend' (1977) is different. Yes, it's 'entertainment' and it's exciting. But it doesn't affirm the status quo. On the contrary: everything is fluid, open, under threat. The film has no explicit political content. But it doesn't talk down to you. It doesn't treat its characters like marionettes - nor its audience either. A lot of 'political' films, unfortunately, do." ("The Logic of Images", Wim Wenders, Translated by Michael Hofmann, 1991) P.S: On this day, 49 years ago, "The American Friend" (1977) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok I cited an actual fact - that only one self-identified Antifa person has committed homicide in decades (of a neo Nazi). To compare this to the brownshirts is insane. Part of you knows that.
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok Equating Antifa to the brownshirts is a sign of a simple mind (and arguably holocaust minimization). There is absolutely no comparison in terms of organization, leadership, state-backed imprimatur, and, least of all, actual harms committed. “Antifa” is a slogan, it’s not an org.
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok If you actually think “Antifa” is a genuine threat, you’re a scared gullible moron who unthinkingly guzzles propaganda like a babe with a bottle. If you care more about antifa than you do about this administration’s abuses, you’re a bootlicking sheep. Sorry, facts are facts.
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok ONE self-identified antifascist has been charged with homicide in the last 26 years. He killed a neo nazi. Meanwhile ICE alone has killed dozens in the last two years (and Trump has slaughtered thousands). Facts don’t care about your feelings.
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok Also, lol, if you believe in antifa you’re a useful idiot of authoritarian propaganda
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok So you must think it’s crazy to have pardoned the January 6 rioters, and since Trump had promised to do that when running you didn’t vote for him, right? Any tweets to prove that consistency?
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@DeliciousDarth @SR_eth @saikatc You guys don’t get to talk about deterrence and hurting people at protests after Trump parrdoned cop beaters who went on to molest children
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@PDG887 @SR_eth @saikatc Meh, start with 15, then plead down to around 18 months. They do some time, and have a life working meaningless jobs to look forward to.
How do you know blocking ambulances for 4 hours hurt noone? How do you know it won't the next time? Deterrence is part of law enforcement.
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok I bet you support the January 6 rioters and think Ashli Babbitt was a hero.
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@PDG887 @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok I'm married bro. And that wasn't even directed at you, but the room temp IQ person trying to justify kidnapping innocent Americans by saying Israel does bad things 8,000 miles away.
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@DeliciousDarth @SR_eth @saikatc Yeah I’m saying that’s insane. 15 years for a protest that injured no one? Calling blocking a bridge “kidnapping”? Sheer stupidity. What do these people deserve then, life? What about Jan 6 rioters? aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/…
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@DeliciousDarth @KweenInYellow @SR_eth @saikatc @grok Wow, a gif. The internet has poisoned your brain. Log off, maybe you’ll talk to women in real life if you do.
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@KweenInYellow @PDG887 @SR_eth @saikatc @grok Yeah. Thought so. Your argument just collapsed.
Have an L.
GIF
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@DeliciousDarth @SR_eth @saikatc Okay man. You’re all over the place. You started this by saying that hypothetically we’d want to throw pro Israel protesters in jail for 15 years for the same protest. We said no, we have broadly-applicable principles. Now you’re saying you disagree and would want to?
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@DeliciousDarth @SR_eth @saikatc You’re outraged at making people wait in their cars for a few hours (not good, very far from “evil”) yet think Israel slaughtering tens of thousands of children and leaving tens of thousands more as amputees is fine. You are a person of low morals.
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@DeliciousDarth @SR_eth @saikatc I agree. I have principles - killing and kidnapping people is wrong. That’s why I think both Hamas AND Israel are bad. And it’s why I think Israel is far, far more evil than Hamas, because it has killed and kidnapped far, far more people. It’s called principles.
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@saikatc The only reason you care is you support arab nationalists. If they were pro-israel and did this, you'd want the book thrown at them.
Tiresome commie nonsense
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@SaadInCyber So you can’t object to or criticize any means of resistance? “Any means necessary” and yet it was an abject failure at every level. How were the means necessary when the means utterly failed?
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Correct. You believe Palestinians are oppressed but don't believe in their right to resist by any means necessary, then you are a bigot who supports that oppression.
Zac B 🇺🇦🇵🇸@ZacB_MN
@sonsofthesoil90 Not supporting Hamas is bigoted now?
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@etubruton @alz_zyd_ 1) still not a phrase, 2) doesn’t make sense in this context, 3) you will absolutely have a cap on your intellect if you don’t read, but it doesn’t matter bc smart people WANT to read - it’s an imperative, not an effort.
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There is nothing magical or special about books. you can get arbitrarily smart without ever finishing a book
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An Oxford academic has warned that students using AI can obtain a degree without reading any books Katherine Rundell warns that reliance on AI is creating a ‘vast counterfeiting of knowledge’ in universities 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…
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@etubruton @alz_zyd_ Why did you show a Wikipedia page for a different phrase? “Arbitrarily smart” isn’t an actual phrase, and isn’t a correct usage of “arbitrarily.”
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