@SukritGanesh They should follow Norway's (and Alaska's) examples and set up a sovereign wealth fund.
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Sheesh Barak Obama
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Sheesh Barak Obama
@Sheesh_barak
Olive oil. Mint. Pomegranate. Pine nuts.
Katılım Temmuz 2023
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New Mexico is the American equivalent of a Norway-style petrostate. They're absolutely minting with oil and gas exports and putting the proceeds towards massively expanding social services. They instituted universal childcare and have now made college free.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 New Mexico has become the first state to make public universities tuition free for all. Nearly every state Republican tried to block this change.
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@xwanyex Your reply is completely nonsensical. After you buy the land, what makes it “yours” is the ability to exclude others from it, which is a service that the state provides to you in a variety of ways.
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People sort of act like they live in a fairytale in which there’s a group of privileged land owners and then on the other hand the peasants who have been locked out.
But in our country what happens is we buy land with money. You aren’t granted the privilege to use it. You buy it with money, like everything else. And the title transfers. You can save up some money and go buy some land yourself.
High housing prices, notwithstanding, very large shares of the country are still homeowners. It’s not like this is an extreme minority group.
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@ErlineP @adamjohnsonCHI 1. You are the one asserting personal facts about him which are easily disproven by his own statements. Do you actually know him, or are you just a weird American "stan" of centrist politicians?
2. I'm a native Arabic speaker who's watched him flail.
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This is something I can't stand about the far left. They push the idea that everyone from a certain background is the same in a negative way.
Zohran Mamdani's background wasn't that different from Pete Buttigieg's. Both had professor fathers. You think Zohran wasn't a "striver"?
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@ErlineP @adamjohnsonCHI Buttigieg does not speak Arabic.
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@adamjohnsonCHI Strivers are ambitious in multiple areas all their lives and often achieve things at unusually young ages because of it.
Pete wasn't an activist but I think that learning Spanish and Arabic shows he has an interest in those cultures.
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@allouush @najat_saliba Deeply shameful @najat_saliba! Your students and fellow citizens will not forget your cowardice during this war of extermination. You and others like yourself should be impeached.
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خطير جدّاً.. النائب @najat_saliba تتبنّي السردية الإسرائيلية وتحرّض الجيش الإسرائيلي على قصف الكنائس والمدارس.
'حزب الله عامل أنفاق تحت الكنائس والمدارس، وبياخد الناس دروع بشرية..'❕
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@SweatieAngle Lebanese men greet other men with three kisses on the cheek and send them off with a gorgeous embroidered number for the wife.
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So hard to imagine a designer who isn’t gay could lovingly adorn the female form in spangling this spectacular despite Hobeika being a father-son creative director house. Truly a testament to the spiritual Gay Excellence of the Lebanese people.
bri@bottegasveneta
these two dresses from georges hobeika ss26 haute couture are living in my mind rent free
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@_ericblanc @kayrosso1 What if he'd called you "ultra leftist"? Would that be better for your "broad movement"?
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@kayrosso1 Leaving aside whether it's useful to personally attack comrades (rather than their ideas), what evidence do you have that it's "non-controversial" today that the anti-war movement needs to be broad?
Seems like there's plenty data to suggest the contrary
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Eric Blanc has a gift for presenting the most non-controversial orientations (“an anti-war mvmnt needs to be broad and based in every day social relations”) in the most off-putting way so as to render them as just more fodder for ‘sectarianism’ he’s always railing against.
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@oelayat The classic joke:
How many Heritage think thanks does it take to enact deregulation?
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Weird thing about being half-Algerian, half-Iranian is seeing westernized Iranians use the same orientalist propaganda about Iran that the French did in colonial Algeria
Dima ديما صادق@DimaSadek
❤️🙌🏻
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@OneWordPowerful @Sturgeons_Law Crucially, the first act of the movie is set in the mid 2000's, not in the 70's. So, he's not even satirizing 70's leftist groups as much as he is anti-corporatist Adbusters types (see Howard Sommerville's monologue for eg).
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@Sturgeons_Law I think it also betrays a lack of knowledge about the 70s leftist groups that PTA was drawing from. There were some incredibly goofy and even actively malevolent characters in that milieu.
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Whatever one thinks of the dialogue, it's hard not to be reminded of some of the more silly things that happened in 2020 in the wake of Floyd's killing, for ex, when some eager groups got in way over their heads. I don't think the content was completely detached from reality.
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet
This scene/sequence is just so laughably bad.
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@sweatystartup @CryptoPhil007 You are under educated and under skilled.
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AP classes should be banned.
Instead of filling kids with useless knowledge we should let them date, play sports, work jobs, and learn about the real world.
The answers to life aren’t in textbooks!
Homework for 2 hours a day is a joke!
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@TrillTexan89 @RobbiJadeLew @yegwave Go to sleep, grandpa lol.
This is you following me to another comment.
I know friends who lost their baby in an American ER where they were neglected for 12hrs.
Lastly, data > anecdotes. Canadians & Americans have similar ER wait times. We just get the privilege of medical debt.
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@Sheesh_barak @RobbiJadeLew @yegwave No, I didn’t. You posted it twice lol
And no you don’t. And regardless, you have the exact same issues in Canadian arts as well. Let’s no act like arts are any different in that regard
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A 44-year-old Edmonton man has died, leaving behind his wife and three children, after reportedly waiting more than eight hours at the Grey Nuns Hospital while experiencing persistent chest pain.
While waiting, he allegedly reported blurred vision and had a blood pressure reading of 210, and was reportedly given only Tylenol.
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@ArtNGlez @Sheesh_barak @ethmaxi @yegwave You’re going to wait in the ER every single time, that goes without saying. Fact is, you get better quality healthcare in the states, regardless of price or wait times.
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@TrillTexan89 @RobbiJadeLew @yegwave You followed me into a different comments section.
I know people who have died after a 8 hour wait in American ER's.
Data trumps personal anecdotes: median wait times in US and Canadian ER's are comparable- in both countries, median patients are seen within 4-6 hrs.
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@Sheesh_barak @RobbiJadeLew @yegwave Yeah you already posted that. This isn’t a nurse giving a guy Tylenol when he’s dying. This is shitty staff kicking a guy who is in pain, out of the hospital for being too loud. But the guy wasn’t at risk of dying at all
Not even close to the same thing
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@Sheesh_barak @RobbiJadeLew @yegwave Yes, but how many times does stuff like that happen in American ERs?
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@ArtNGlez @Sheesh_barak @ethmaxi @yegwave This is a rare occurrence and negligence for forgetting about a patient. Not giving a dying man Tylenol for his high blood pressure. Canadian care is awful
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@yegwave free healthcare is not free.
canadians are overtaxed and undercared for.
biggest joke.
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@RobbiJadeLew @yegwave Do you know what ER wait times are like in America?
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@yegwave Is this what universal healthcare looks like? Her strength to stand up against this wrongdoing so shortly after his death is remarkable. I hope she receives the justice she and her family deserve.
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