Patrick L
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He’s a pre-Obama lib. Apathetic to gay marriage, probably has a couple black friends he played football with, is for food stamps if you have a job, and was a warmonger post 9/11 but not the women and children
Joe@JoePostingg
Everyone thinks Shane Gillis is right wing, but if you listen to him talk about politics it's really obvious he's a lib.
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@lukeisamazing Not the first time credulous morons were beguiled by a genocidal mass murderer, alas. Not sure the takeaway here is what you'd like it to be.
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the much funnier thing about Stalin is that almost every single one of his liberal biographers end up liking him a lot in spite of themselves and this has infuriated Stalin haters for years bc they can’t figure out why history and pop culture like him but hate Hitler
Pizza@number_pizza111
Stalin had this effect on people as well, interestingly enough. Diplomats generally loved the guy, and found his warm demeanor with them hard to square with contemporary reports of a paranoid tyrant who had slaughtered the heroes of the Russian Revolution.
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@emilykmay @ConserArmenians It's not a 24/7 job, and there are frequent breaks. Taking care of children is certainly a joint responsibility of parents, but not always equally so. The burden of child care should be commensurate with the relative share of financial responsibility that the spouse assumes
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@ConserArmenians taking care of children is the responsibility of parents, not women, and when they are young it's a 24/7 job with no breaks.
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this is exactly it.
women don't hate golf, they hate when their husband is gone for 7 hours on a saturday while they're trying to keep three kids entertained and haven't slept through the night in months.
Connor Tomlinson@Con_Tomlinson
When women say they don't like a male hobby, you must translate this to, "I feel anxious if I see my boyfriend/husband spending time on a surrogate activity rather than a tangible achievement, because I feel our resources are insecure, and like he isn't prioritising my needs." If a woman feels safe with you, and knows you have things taken care of, she won't care about you spending the occasional hour a week on Rome Total War.
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@ProFootballTalk What is it about Russini that triggers the tongue-chewing incel demographic so much?
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Hints emerge that Dianna Russini will eventually tell her story. Whether she talks, when she talks, and what she says could create a new wave of issues for Mike Vrabel and the Patriots. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…
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@yosoymichael A good benchmark in life is to disregard anyone who unironically uses the terms "problematic" or "unproblematic." They are the jargon of imbeciles.
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lol James Baldwin (an author I love) was famously NOT unproblematic.
James F. Thomas (of IDLEWILD)@james_f_thomas
everyone is engaging with this as you'd expect, but I can't help taking it as a fun challenge to come up with a truly unproblematic author. maybe James Baldwin?
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@DerrickLinvill5 @SenseReceptor That’s because you dine on glue
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@SenseReceptor I’d rather have Trump in there than any other president in my lifetime
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🔥TIM DILLON slams Trump's Iran War leadership:
"He's not a fighter"
"He's a shit-talker. He's a casino kingpin... a reality TV star"
"He was really pushed into this"
"You can feel that Trump wants out of it"
"He's very comfortable in that game. Late night, firing off tweets at Elizabeth Warren. That's his game"
"This is not where he shines. And he feels uncomfortable. You can tell, he's not happy about this"
"There's no way he wanted to do this because this is not where he lives. This is not what he's good at"
"Trump's the guy who... walked around... an army hospital and he was basically like, 'Why do they do this?' 'Cause he doesn't get it. He's like, 'Why would you go and sacrifice for the country?'"
"He doesn't get it"
"[But] he's the master of creating a reality that's true enough. That's what reality TV does"
"He's a master at creating a reality that has elements of truth, but the things that are glaringly untrue, you don't care because it's entertaining"
"[But Iran] is not a good show"
@TimJDillon
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@DannyDrinksWine Oh please, UNSETTLED, lol. That script confirmed every anti-capitalist, anti-American & anti-Christian prejudice Lewis & his boomer generation hold. Day gives a 1-dimensional, impenetrable performance, lacking the depth a great-souled performer like Welles would have brought.
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Daniel Day-Lewis on how he selects his movie roles:
"I was deeply unsettled by the script of "There Will Be Blood" (2007), for me, that is a sure sign. If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you’ve already taken a step toward it. When I’m drawn to something, I take a resolute step backward, and I ask myself if I can really serve this story as well as it needs to be served.
If I don’t think I can do that, no matter how appealing, I will decline. What finally takes over, what took over with this movie, is an illusion of inevitability. I think: Can this really be true? Is this happening to me again? Is there no way to avoid this?"
("The New Frontier’s Man", Lynn Hirschberg, The New York Times, 2007)
P.S: Happy 69th birthday, Daniel Day-Lewis!
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@finalio @inconspicuousLE @SensibleFascist @TakeYourPhysic You incels are just such absolute fucking pussies
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@inconspicuousLE @SensibleFascist @TakeYourPhysic It isn't an emotional response. This woman is marching to the podium like it's the most important moment of her life, just so she can fulfill a menial purpose then walk away.
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I can’t get over this video. A fat torta power walking up to the podium like she has something important to say… only to stand at the podium silently for a few seconds, catch her breath from the walk over there, then walk back out.
A perfect representation of modern HR culture.
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@JohnSmi88078679 @peezus00 @bonchieredstate @kenklippenstein Trump incinerated 175 Iranian schoolchildren in one fell swoop just the other month, yet the left is violent
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@peezus00 @bonchieredstate @kenklippenstein No, that makes him a typical leftist- I,e., someone who is either violent themselves or excuses left wind violence (like you), or funds it (like SPLC)
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Ridiculous hack. We have his manifesto. It’s not ambiguous.
And Ken Klippenstein tried this crap with Kirk’s assassin too.
Jeet Heer@HeerJeet
@redsteeze Looks like guy was a Christian who was offended by Trump's blasphemy. kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-was…
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@Mouse_McCoy @neerajadeshp No, he nails Oyler’s mannered writing pretty well. Hers is what passes for literary style these days, which is a pretty damning indictment of the culture
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@neerajadeshp Those screenshots hurt to read.
It's like Freddie is mentally masturbating himself while doing the literary equivalent of trying to perform cunnilingus on Jia Tolentino through denim jeans.
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I am a bigger fan of Freddie DeBoer’s takedown of Lauren Oyler’s takedown of Jia Tolentino’s book (which includes a takedown of Jia Tolentino’s book):
T. Greer@Scholars_Stage
As Jia Tolentino is in the news, I implore everyone to reread Lauren Oyler’s 2020 take down of her oeuvre, which is fantastic:
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@Shackleford412 @Timodc All those ventures have been formed since Trump was reelected. They serve no purpose other than to enrich Trump, his dufus sons, and Witkoff’s dipshit son by trading presidential favors in return for
money. It dwarves Hunter’s corruption, or that of any other president
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@Patrick35681187 @Timodc Yeah now Justin Sun is suing them. At least they were all in business their whole lives regardless of how shady they are. Hunters only asset was being the son of a career politician and randomly ended up on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. That is way more corrupt.
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I would argue that a fundamentally bad person who tried to overthrow our democratic system and is running the biggest corruption racket in the history of the presidency should be opposed on all counts not just “when appropriate.” So call me a Nicene Creed Never Trumper i guess.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
@charlescwcooke The difference between the Bulwark and the Dispatch I think is this: The Dispatch treats Trump as a bad president who should be opposed when appropriate. The Bulwark treats him as the Satan of a Catholic Baptism, where you're morally bound to reject all his works and promises.
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@Shackleford412 @Timodc lol just Google “World Liberty Financial,” “$TRUMP,” and/or the pardon of the Binance founder and tell me if that’s really just the Trump family “continuing to make money.” Makes Hunter Biden look like small potatoes
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@Timodc Yeah so a businessman becomes president, he and his family continue to make money, and somehow that’s “corruption” that inexplicably justifies expanding the Supreme Court? Luckily for you there’s a deranged outfit that would hire an idiot who worked for Jeb!
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@redrummarts The "meme" is broadly inaccurate in both instances, yet as to Cuba it's the most popular (and laziest) trope among online edgelords that you can find on the internet
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You're thinking of Cuba. The meme you're referencing is Cuba. Chile is a different country. People who fled Pinochet fled for different reasons than the people who fled Castro
Rock Solid@ShitpostRock2
Don't ask Pedro Pascal why his dad had to flee from Chile in such a rush
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@Boratwallahi @raysofl1 @JamesTate121 If you didnt know oil was a short...you are probably too stupid to be in the markets.
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A Trump insider opened a $51,000,000 oil short position — hours before Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. This guy is now 16 for 16. $170 million in profit. A perfect streak.
This is not a talented trader.
"We placed the bet." "The ceasefire dropped." "We cashed out." Sixteen times in a row.
That is not skill. That is not instinct. That is not research.
That is someone who knows what is coming before it comes.
Think about what that actually means. A private individual is placing a $51 million bet that oil prices are about to collapse — hours before a sitting president announces a ceasefire that collapses oil prices. Not once. Sixteen times. Zero losses.
There are only two explanations and both should terrify you.
Either someone inside the White House — or with direct access to it — is leaking ceasefire negotiations to traders before diplomats, before the press, before the American people hear a single word. That is insider trading. That is corruption. That is a federal crime.
Or the timing of the announcement itself is being shaped around the trade. Which is worse.
This is not a genius investor who reads the news faster than you do. The news hadn't happened yet. He wasn't reading the news. He was getting a phone call.
While Americans were watching the ceasefire announcement and feeling relieved — somebody already knew. Somebody had already bet $51 million on it. And somebody was already counting their winnings.
You are not watching a free market. You are watching a White House with a side hustle. Via~ Really American
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His review of Motorcycle Diaries was liberal nonsense whining about Che being a murderer and so the movie was bad
dk!!@dkdolphino
@homerjahsimpson endlessly vindicated
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@pappsworthy @SamAdlerBell The Chinese system marries a single party political dictatorship with a capitalist economy. It’s not remotely communist, or even socialist.
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@SamAdlerBell "We need more free market! I'm super confident in the ability of the free market to fix these things, that's why I'm deathly afraid of the inefficient Chinese system (which will collapse any day now) selling us ev's. Get rid of the government! Get the market in charge!"
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A lot of epic leftist dunks being generated by this woman’s reasonable argument for pricing environmental externalities
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy
“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.” This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.
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@JakeLandauTO Just popping in to say that you are a moron. Have a good day.
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It's very weird when people insist on calling Iran a theocracy, but refuse to do the same for the United Kingdom, where the King is the head of the state religion, and where the state religion is granted voting seats in the House of Lords. By definition it is literally theocracy.
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@ZacharyLipez He's extraordinarily stupid and incurious and can barely regurgitate the formulaic edgelord bullshit that's fed to him. Not sure what you're talking about
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The “cruel” stuff is incorrect, but I can see where it comes from. Piker is human, can be unkind + has a temper. But it’s the “himbo” aspect which seems to most bother these boy-provocateur types, and ascribing it to a man who is *clearly* not dumb kind of gives the game away.
Jesse Singal@jessesingal
I just think he's like... a bad guy? It doesn't surprise me that he's popular but he comes across as cruel, vindictive, himbo idiot who would have trouble carrying on a remotely complex conversation. So he's basically a perfect c2026 "political" "commentator."
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@BworsethanT @NewLeftEViews You’ll overlook this irony, but that’s the identical argument Zionists use against the genocide of Gaza
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@Patrick35681187 @NewLeftEViews Except those are imaginary numbers pulled out your gullible propagandized dumbazz. Population of USSR *increased* more than 20% under Stalin despite losing *26 million* to the Germans.
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One of the most vile and absurd things that has ever occurred in human history. You would have thought that the cost (literally millions of corpses) and the outcome (a resounding US defeat) would have reduction ad absurdum’ed wars form the sky but no.
abolish the nonprofit imperialist complex@p_pod_
map of US carpet bombing of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, 1965-1975
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