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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis

Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis

@Ami61495883

Live not by lies but also don’t be a schmuck / ok I’m taking counsel of my fears now

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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
Comedian after comedian who has made me laugh keep going on Rogan and revealing themselves as someone who will not get up and leave when calumnies against the Jews are leveled. OTC, they puff their cigars and embellish as if it’s just another display of their ‘transgressive’ bona fides. (I still like Nick Bargetzi and pray he doesn’t go on that show again)
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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
Profound populist skepticism open to everything and divorced from the tools necessary to sort between the valid and falsifiable lead to 'a different nightmare' even more difficult to awaken from than the abuse of the elites that provoked them. At least there were once think tanks and journals that arose to marshal counter attacks some leading to the current conservative SCOTUS but now only two massive armies have the field- the revanchist left briefly on its back foot and the rising mobs of yokels. (They meet in Platner)
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Abe Greenwald
Abe Greenwald@AbeGreenwald·
He didn't join them. He paved the way for them. I wrote this more than a year ago. commentary.activehosted.com/index.php?acti…
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Ally@AllyJKiss

Joe Rogan seemingly joins the Woke Reich podcaster antisemites— bashing Jewish people, and of course, Israel, in his latest interview with comedian Shane Gillis. Rogan: “Israel’s like the number one place where sex offenders go from America. Especially Jewish people…kind of proves Kanye’s point a little bit… It’s amazing how many high-profile Jewish people … they have an opinion about everything but when it gets to this (Iran) they just avoid that or come up with some random way to justify annihilating an entire city.”

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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
Perhaps the most obvious lesson of 10/7 was that Israel would have to create new and enhanced buffer zones. Even now they are being surprised by the sophistication and extent of Hezbollah infrastructure and even after nearly 4 years of bombing and controlled demolitions, hundreds of miles of tunnels still exist in Gaza. All of this most buried beneath villages must be uprooted and then a DMZ instituted. Israel makes every effort to move civ populations out of harms way beforehand but these photos vitiate all of that effort.
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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
Can you 'devastate' buildings and tunnels? Infrastructure? I guess. But the Times is clearly trying to portray these as strikes on civilians. This is as misleading as the notorious 'famine' photos. Increasingly it is the paper not of record but recipes and anti-Israel propoganda.
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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
@ClarkeMicah @VioletEBott Again with the false consciousness. Cars undercut prudential shopping decisions by encouraging the purchase of things one dosent need foisted upon you by Mad Ave and the car corporations. We need less freedom now to return to a more Spartan and virtuous lifestyle.
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·
.@violetebott The supposed but fictional need for a huge 'weekly shop' has been created by cars. It isn't a need, and generally leads to overbuying unnecessary stuff. But if you must prepare for a siege, I believe the shops now deliver. Even up steep hills.
Violet E Batt@VioletEBott1

@IndieChris71 @ClarkeMicah @182_DuncH Try walking or cycling with a weekly shop or 3 kids or up a very steep hill

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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
To Tucker, 10/7 was used by (and probably deliberately incited and made worse) by Bibi in order to pressure America into joining Israel’s plans to attack Iran. For him the proof was in June when Bibi persuaded Trump to join them in bombing though it probably predates that to encompass our defense of Israel from Iranian missiles. Fuentes appeared in October.
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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
@SteveKrak Whatever talents Carlson had have been deformed by a pre-existing flaw in his character once concealed but now on florid display for all to see except the most deluded or motivated
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Steve Krakauer
Steve Krakauer@SteveKrak·
It's hard to know how many people on here are trying to manufacture a false narrative about Tucker Carlson's New York Times interview vs. simply suffer from a form of Tucker Derangement Syndrome. Either way there seems to be an effort to avoid - and encourage others to avoid - the whole 90 minute interview in favor of random out-of-context clips... a willful ignorance machine. But it's part of the X bubble. Tucker is brilliant, compelling, and one of the most influential forces in media. You don't have to agree with all - or even most - of what he says to see that clearly: youtube.com/watch?v=2tpMkU…
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Helen Andrews
Helen Andrews@herandrews·
One possible answer is that they’ll come from giving a modest book grant to me for the year 2026-27, inquire within.
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Helen Andrews
Helen Andrews@herandrews·
“‘Leftists were always right in the past, but are wrong now’ is a hard thing to believe.” This is the central problem. We need new books that totally reframe our history. Academia today is structured to prevent such books from ever being written. So where will they come from?
arctotherium@arctotherium42

The natural result of paying attention in school is to be an insane leftist. I had scrupulously politically neutral (and sometimes personally conservative) history/civics teachers, but "leftists were always right in the past, but are wrong now" is a hard thing to believe.

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Sarah Isgur
Sarah Isgur@whignewtons·
Note: The original 1965 VRA wasnt applied to redistricting. Post 1990 census was the first use. Republicans begged conservative lawyers not to bring these cases bc packing Dem voters into majority minority districts helped the GOP.
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Sarah Isgur
Sarah Isgur@whignewtons·
Fine, let’s do VRA? Court said you can’t put a voter in a district based on the color of their skin. If you use race, you break the law. It won’t hurt Dems but it will gut black representation in Congress.
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Sarah Isgur
Sarah Isgur@whignewtons·
And while I’m at it, Citizens United prevents the government from banning movies, books, and pamphlets that criticize (or support) a candidate for federal office. So all yall wanting to “overturn CU” either don’t know what the case was about or scare the hell out it me.
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Paprika Girl
Paprika Girl@PaprikaGirl_JP·
Visiting the in-laws, whose besso is on the skirt of Mt. Fuji. Admittedly even after nearly 30 years, I am still always in awe of this mountain when we made the two-hour drive here.
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Bishop Talbert Swan
Bishop Talbert Swan@TalbertSwan·
White people are out here white peopleing. The ink isn’t even dry on the Supreme Court’s decision, and their response is exactly what history warned us about. The moment protections were weakened, the rush to redraw maps and dilute Black voting power exposed the truth, these laws were never “outdated,” they were inconvenient to those who have always feared the Black vote. This is not new behavior, it’s a continuation. The same impulse that needed to be restrained in 1965 is alive and active in 2026, just dressed in legal language instead of white hoods. Every attempt to undermine our vote proves why the Voting Rights Act was necessary in the first place, and why the fight to protect it is far from over.
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Dan Baltic
Dan Baltic@baltic_dan·
The scene where Adriana got whacked was very emotional. Imagine being Silvio, sitting right there next to her knowing she’s about to totally foid out. She’s sorta crying and you’re like “oh here we go, thanks Tony”
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Isaac
Isaac@isaacrrr7·
Cuando un actor de la talla de Michael Douglas habla, todo el panorama mediático se estremece. No es el tipo de actor que publica una noticia y la borra una hora después. No escribe tuits ambiguos que se prestan a múltiples interpretaciones. Michael Douglas se plantó ante las cámaras y declaró sin rodeos: el mundo ha perdido por completo su brújula moral. Israel, afirmó, está en la primera línea de la lucha. No una lucha por el territorio. No una lucha por el poder. Una lucha por los valores de todo el mundo occidental: democracia, libertad, derechos humanos. Todas esas cosas de las que la gente habla mucho en Twitter, pero por las que no está dispuesta a luchar. Rechazó de plano, sin dudarlo, cualquier intento de comparar a las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel con organizaciones terroristas extremistas. Tal comparación, dijo, es un insulto a la realidad. Un bando lanza cohetes contra civiles y se esconde tras niños. El otro bando llama a los civiles antes de un ataque y les ordena que se retiren. Comparar ambos no es una crítica, es ceguera moral. Y entonces pronunció la frase que lo resumía todo: una democracia debe defenderse con fuerza. No con publicaciones. No con declaraciones. Con fuerza. Michael Douglas no es solo un actor. Es un judío orgulloso que no se avergüenza, no se disculpa y no se rinde. Mientras todo Hollywood guarda silencio por miedo, él se mantiene firme.
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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
Obama was not a centrist. The ACA does not represent a consensus but hard-ball politics cramming something unwanted by most Americans down their throats Likewise the JPCOA was not a treaty but a diktat imposed without congressional buy in Finally, race relations worsened and his legacy is Mamdani and Platner who he endorses through omission or (joyful) commission
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Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Chatterton Williams@thomaschattwill·
This makes no sense. Bill Clinton won twice running as a centrist in 1992 and 1996 Barack Obama won twice as a centrist in 2008 and 2012 Joe Biden won—again, running if not governing—as a centrist in 2020. How is centrism the problem?
@adammanross.bsky.social@adammanross

Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist. John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist. Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist. Kamala lost 2024 as a centrist. If we’re going to win the 2026 midterms, we must abandon centrism all together. If the Democratic Party is to survive we must go left

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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
@ClarkeMicah I didn’t say nobody ever left my point is the personal automobile made traveling and relocation exponentially easier. There were other social impacts of cars as well that -ahem- had nothing to do with transportation but I will not indulge here.
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Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883·
@Jasonohoe @ClarkeMicah Whatever their original purpose they made individual mobility exponentially easier- people who might have 'stayed on the farm' were freer to tool around the country looking for a better fit with their talents and desires.
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Jasonoho1913
Jasonoho1913@Jasonohoe·
@ClarkeMicah @Ami61495883 Those interstates where built mostly for truck freight. Door to Door logistics is how we outproduced the USSR per unit of labor.. Its also why China is so furiously building freeways now..
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah·
Well, I disagree.@ami61495883 Eisenhower fell into the arms of the car lobby and imposed huge costs on US federal taxpayers to create a nationalised highway network. I think people could get off their farms before Henry Ford bult his first jalopy.
Vestigaliberal aka Joe Davis@Ami61495883

@ClarkeMicah Well this is a fallacious argument and unresponsive. I didn’t say cars created our freedoms but that they augment it as demonstrated by the millions it provided a way off the farms and access to this continental country and the incredible dynamism it unleashed

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