@RorateCaeli Maybe by the time I'm dead and my kids are grown, there will be private TLMs held on an experimental basis in my hometown too.
Exciting!
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Sage McLaughlin
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What if I told you there’s never going to be a city-run grocery store and Mamdani made the whole thing up to prey on suckers?
There’s a reason he set the timeline to build at a ridiculous three years.
Amanda Macias@amanda_m_macias
Mayor Mamdani's plan to open a city-run grocery store is facing pushback from East Harlem grocers, who say the area is already saturated. About 45 grocery stores are within a 35-minute walk of the proposed site.
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I don’t want my streets to be “vibrant” and I don’t want my local “food scene” to be “authentic”. I want my city to be quiet and clean and orderly. I want to go to the diner and get American food. I want my waitress to speak English. The rest of the world sucks.
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Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:
John Cochrane@JohnHCochrane
Far more poverty has been alleviated by growth than by any RCT type aid or poverty alleviation program. Like orders of magnitude. Compare China to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Who are the most educated while at the same time most charitable representatives for the “trad” and “conservative” positions within Catholicism? Tag them for me below
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Hmm, so if the SSPX starts threatening to kill lots of people, they'll finally get legitimacy--and not just legitimacy, but effusive praise, as the CCP does--in Rome.
Damian Thompson@holysmoke
@ErikBootsma That’s a misleading comparison. Having signed the diabolical deal, the Vatican knows that Beijing might kill people if it excommunicates stooge bishops.
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It's all spelled out exhaustively by Randy Shilts in the And the Band Played On.
There was a roughly nine-month period after it became clear that AIDS was sexually transmitted and raging out of control among a category of super-spreaders in which the disease could have been prevented from becoming a global pandemic through ordinary public health measures that included shutting down the bathhouses, which were the main vector of the contagion.
The response of San Francisco's well-organized gay community was to 1.) remain in denial that the disease was sexually transmitted 2.) insist that shutting down the bathhouses would be forcing people back into the closet, 3.) smear and shame members of their own gay leadership who tried to protect them from an ensuing holocaust that would go on to become endemic around the world.
The brief window in which the pandemic could have been nipped in the bud closed -- the ensuing gay holocaust and the spread of HIV to devastate a continent was by then unavoidable.
Anna Khachiyan@annakhachiyan
When I was coming of age as a junior f@g hag in suburban New Jersey I was obsessed with AIDS and consumed every piece of media I could get my hands on about it. At the time — and probably still to this day — the common refrain was that Reagan was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of gay men by refusing to do anything about the epidemic. One of my most “mind blown” moments was learning about author and playwright turned activist Larry Kramer and how he was pilloried by his own community when he said wait a minute boys maybe pump the breaks on the gay sex until we can get to the bottom of what’s going on. Larry, who ended up getting HIV himself, was the pinnacle of the loud annoying gay Jewish liberal activist with a messiah complex type but I’ve always had such a soft spot for him.
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People seem to think that the white Spanish showed up and singlehandedly slaughtered the natives.
Do you know how many Aztecs there were? Do you know how many Spanish there were? Do you think a thousand guys with single-shot black-powder rifles can take on 100,000 jaguar warriors with bows and spears?
Your woke history class left some stuff out.
When Hernan Cortes took Tenochtitlan, he was leading an army of fewer than 1500 Spaniards backed by between 100,000 and 200,000 native fighters who had allied with him because they all hated the Aztecs. The conquistadors destroyed the mesoamerican empires by organizing and uniting all the smaller tribes the empires had been oppressing.
The arrival of the Spanish at the end of “Apocalypto” is God’s judgment being delivered upon the wicked. It takes some really twisted logic to try to argue that the people who built palaces out of human skulls were somehow the good guys in the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs or that their culture needed to be preserved.
tom bombadil@Authw8
i feel like nobody knows how to read this movie. the basic idea is we spend the whole movie getting madder and madder at the maya for what they did to this guy and his family. then suddenly at the end the spanish show up and we realize they're about to do the same exact shit on a much greater scale. it's an anti-colonialism movie from a very non-woke perspective, which people think is a contradiction for some reason
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Nothing has sabotaged JD Vance more than Tucker Carlson turning himself into a retarded Noam Chomsky
AF Post@AFpost
Tucker Carlson says people around Marco Rubio and in the ‘Neocon’ faction of the GOP are actively sabotaging JD Vance. Follow: @AFpost
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Unpopular opinion:
I hated The Passion of the Christ and am appalled at the tribal, reflexive way it is regarded in Christian (esp Catholic) circles as more or less *sacred*, because of 1) the subject matter, and 2) feelings of negative partisanship against left-wing critics.
Fr. Paul@BackwardsFeet
I don't think Christians should see a movie about Christ that the director is calling "an acid trip"
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@bonchieredstate @davereaboi @MaxNordau Saying "These aren't my ideas, these are just claims I'm making to chum the water for answers," is a dishonest tack so transparent that it insults the intelligence of everyone listening. Some people do not mind, or notice, the insult, because they WANT to believe crazy things.
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@bonchieredstate @davereaboi @MaxNordau The thing is, if you want to "ask questions," especially about a topic that has been written about so extensively, it's possible to do that without entertaining every nutty idea about it live on the air. If you want to get at the truth, *just go read about it and get back to us*.
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In my book, I’m writing about this—the collapse of the conspiracy media ecosystem into the right-wing politics ecosystem happened in earnest in 2024.
📟 רחמים@rahamimX
Infowars existed for 27 years. I’m from Texas so I remember when they were on the radio. They were always blatant bullshit artists and kooks. The fact that they became taken seriously over the past decade is a testament to how dumb people have gotten.
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@A_DungeonDelver @_middleEarth Rant, King.
I have been making the same point for years regarding supposed runtime issues, when all these useless digressions were shoved into the story.
And don't forget the insane chick lit subplot where Frodo just...sends Sam away, to a certain death in the wastes of Mordor.
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Oh and that ... bizarre fan-fiction part about the journey from Meduseld to Helm's Deep with a refugee column, "wargs" (those...pig...dog things???) and Aragorn almost falling off a cliff...oh God I'd forgotten about those awful parts.
But all of those combined - Nebbish Faramir, the weird side trip to Osgiliath, the "warg" nonsense...all of that was added in and then Jackson shrugged his shoulders about chopping out Bombadil and the Barrow Wights and the Scouring of the Shire and then telling us "Ooh yeah no sorry didn't have time for those parts!"
Well maybe if he hadn't been making up that shlock we could've gotten the things that, you know, Tolkien actually wrote.
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When comparing the movies and the books, what is the change you dislike the most?
#lordoftherings
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@JackBMontgomery There's something creepy and Orwellian about the whole thing. He produces propagandistic slop, and is an obvious creature of the state, but people pretend not to know it because fealty to the unofficial ideology of the state requires that they pretend.
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"Banksy" has always struck me as a scam. A supposedly anonymous artist doodles graffiti around the world and the media always knows right away that it's him and runs stories about it? And now he's installing statues on plinths in the middle of London and no one notices? Get real.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
How did Banksy put up a statue in central London? bbc.in/4tDGACG
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@havivrettiggur The problem is that the Met rank and file are increasingly staffed by Muslims. They are basically unwilling to do the job, but leadership is unwilling to admit as much. So you get bizarre proposals like this.
Im sure competing sectarian police forces couldn't end badly though.
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Speaking from complete ignorance here, but this seems like a terrible idea. As though British police are admitting they don't know how to protect their society because they are unable to negotiate its social divides and tensions.
It seems to this foreigner -- this is a question, because I really don't know what's actually happening on the ground -- that they shouldn't be building protective walls around the Jews, but rather going to the source of the problem and rooting it out.
If some radicalized Islamists are the cause of the huge spike in attacks on Jews, then you go to where the radicalized Islamists are. Because they will eventually be a threat to everyone else, too. There's no place on Earth in which radical Islamist ideology has taken root where it hasn't turned its bloody attention to controlling and tormenting local Muslim populations. Aren't they worthy of police protection from the violent ideologues?
You protect the Jews the same way you protect everyone: by tackling the bad guys. Not by building up defenses around the Jews.
What am I missing? Does this idea actually make sense?
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Met Police commissioner Mark Rowley has called for a special police force to protect Jews
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@politicalmath That was one of the most delusional takes I've ever read on the difference between left and right.
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Sage McLaughlin@SagaciousMick
Pretty much the opposite of the truth. This failure to accept the frictions & difficulties of first-hand reality is in fact a defining characteristic of *liberals*. Nobody ever talks about conservatives being "mugged by reality." Crime. Overregulation. Illegal immigration. Etc.
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It's very funny to hear a liberal say that conservatives have no empathy for the outgroup but their example is an in-group "conservative" whose entire shtick is shitting on conservatives in a way that makes liberals feel smug and self satisfied
Chris Alvino@ChrisAlvino
This is my issue with conservatives explained in a single video: They are COMPLETELY unable to practice any kind of empathy (neither cognitive nor emotional) with any out-group. Until they have first-hand experience with an issue, they cannot fathom that it even exists
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The media just isn’t a reliable source for accurate information and full context. The AP is the largest news wire service in the world.
The AP’s article on Spirit omits the Biden admin’s effort to block the merger with JetBlue.
Their article on the FIFA incident has a false headline, omits that the Israeli participant was an Arab, and omits that the Palestinian rep was a convicted terrorist who threw a grenade.
So how can anyone rely on such an organization for accurate information?
They can’t.
So they seek out other sources. Many of those sources are even worse, but the media’s constant omissions and misinformation caused this environment.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad Because Edward Said was probably the most influential academic of his generation.
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I never understood why "oriental" was considered a bad word. Its a cool sounding word and "the Orient" sounds exotic and mysterious, which are always desirable traits.
Kangmin Lee | 이강민@kangminlee
As an Asian, I believe we should revive the usage of the term "Oriental" to distinguish East Asians from South Asians, Arabs, and other races in Asia Everyone knows we're extremely different, yet we're lumped together simply because we share the same continent
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