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toronto Katılım Ağustos 2011
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@AshleyRParker Braindead sycophancy. and lmao of course it’s an Atlantic staff writer
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Like anyone who’s spent any time around politics, I have many Lindsey Graham stories. This is perhaps my favorite…
I was covering Congress (Best! Beat! Ever!) for the NYT when the Mother Emanuel shooting happened in Charleston. It was summer, but I was wearing pants and a sweater that day because it was always SO freezing in the Capitol. Anyhow, news of the shooting came down, and the DC Bureau chief called me with an order: Get yourself to Charleston ASAP and glue yourself to Graham’s side. She wanted a piece on the senator grappling with the unimaginable. So I headed straight to the airport, arriving in Charleston with just my backpack and what I’d be wearing to work that day, and linked up with Graham.
He had me meet him at a restaurant, where I told him I needed to shadow him for the next 48 hours. And he looked at me, with amused distaste, and said: “You are sticky. And you are icky. If you want to shadow me, go buy some nice new clothes—maybe a dress—and take a shower, and then we’ll talk.” (He was not wrong; I was sweaty and gross).
So I drove to a local big box store, bought a dress (he seemed to have a strong preference for a dress), and spent the next few days with him, resulting in this piece (which, for reasons not worth getting into, ended up being fairly different than the original assignment): nytimes.com/2015/06/20/us/…
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@VeteransTerror @bossman2850 @Phasorade he said "palestinian state" not palestinians -- a significant hedge that implies he supports an iron dome for them in a future hypothetical scenario, not now. extremely weasely wording
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@bossman2850 @Phasorade It’s all so fucking disingenuous “no yeah I support Palestinians having an iron dome too”. So braindead
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@bossman2850 khanna runs to him whenever he needs to boost his lefty credentials and gets the kid-glove treatment from hasan every time. it's gross
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@YEasy3682 @rosendo_joe @blaberon @RedOrb4pal @Sharifator This is exactly it. It’s remarkable how white the Argentinian team continues to be tournament after tournament even as almost every European team becomes more diverse each cycle. That’s surely not by accident
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Please quit making excuses to support European teams in the World Cup. With rare exceptions professional athletes everywhere are politically reactionary (or cowardly).
Bayern & Germany@iMiaSanMia
Harry Kane confirms he played golf with Donald Trump: "We played about 18 months ago. He invited me to play when I was down in Palm Beach. It was a pretty surreal experience just to meet him and play golf with him"
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He got his lifelong wish to see war against Iran only to lose and get humiliated and die. Get fucked.
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).
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In the war between the Democratic Party and the people whose genius idea for reforming the Democratic Party was to run the rapist Blackwater guy, I support the war
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
The establishment is currently in the midst of a full scale war on the DSA and surrounding left infrastructure. If DSA members think they will survive that by joining in on the assault on Mamdani’s team, good luck I guess.
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Nothing to see here.
Just the England captain saying it’s a “surreal experience” meeting the US President that has spent months bombing countless countries and supplying the weapons for a genocide.
Bayern & Germany@iMiaSanMia
Harry Kane confirms he played golf with Donald Trump: "We played about 18 months ago. He invited me to play when I was down in Palm Beach. It was a pretty surreal experience just to meet him and play golf with him"
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@daviddoel not liking a rapist who enjoyed murdering brown people overseas for fun isn't wanting a "role model" you absolute dolt
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Following the leftwing reactions to Platner there's clearly two camps: One has a view that their politicians must also be role models. The other believes their politicians are just tools to cast a vote, character being immaterial as long as the advocacy and votes are there.
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@n1t3w0rk @FilmThePoliceLA apparently their viewership has declined in recent months. they blame it on the "algorithm," but it's clear people have been turned off by their constant glazing of platner. obv they're trying to get as much attn as possible with these garbage takes to attract a different crowd
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@FilmThePoliceLA emma usually has solid agreeable takes, but it blew my mind to hear her say something this ridiculous
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You really have to watch out for some of these White leftists.
Yemisi Egbewole@yemisi
Wow, so there will be no lessons learned from this. You have to maintain some standard for character or these same candidates will keep coming back again and again. Also, I’m starting a therapy group for any of Emma Vigeland’s Black friends (assuming there are any!) because good God.
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i honestly don't understand people who fork over their hard-earned money to a millionaire just to be yelled at and verbally abused by him. is this just essentially a fetish community lol
🍄 shroom socialist@shroomsocialist
A 44-month paid subscriber to Hasan told him "shut up you're just justifying rape now." Hasan melts down for 3 min & calls his fan "medically stupid." Hasan justified his Platner support because rape culture & imperialism are normalized, instead of trying to change the status quo
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Blaming some nebulous deep state entity trying to silence him when it was a direct accusation from a woman he dated right before dropping out is right on brand for this monster
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.
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@KweenInYellow @RubinsBlockList @BuckGenoIII @Shahryar @grahamformaine okay, then you're proving my point. the dem establishment didn't treat him substantially differently from any of the party's other candidates
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@bitaviani @RubinsBlockList @BuckGenoIII @Shahryar @grahamformaine Eh that's just something Senators tend to do. Like I could only find one example of a Senator endorsing a sitting colleague's primary challenger this century, Feingold vs Lieberman in 2006. Otherwise they all basically auto-endorse the second they become the party nominee.
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My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.
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@RubinsBlockList @KweenInYellow @BuckGenoIII @Shahryar @grahamformaine he was hard-selling an image. i think we all ought to be a lot more scrupulous when a politician's entire personality is "i'm hated by the powers that be"
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@RubinsBlockList @KweenInYellow @BuckGenoIII @Shahryar @grahamformaine schumer, gillibrand, etc. endorsed him. the establishment wasn't as antagonistic towards him as he -- and the leftish podcast sphere -- wanted to make people think
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@GentlenessLord @EmmaVigeland "get free healthcare from a reformed fascist." yall are so pathetic, looking for a white saviour to give you things when the only way you'll actually get anything is via mass mobilization
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@EmmaVigeland I’d rather everyone get free healthcare from a reformed ex fascist than have some vapid corporate Ken doll who says he’s civil deny me healthcare and affordable housing. I agree.
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It is an extreme example to say that it's childish to overemphasize politicians' individual character over their platform. I largely don't give a shit what's in a politician's heart - we'll never know. They're not auditioning to be our BFFs. This is about what they fight for.
ana@lawsbyana
@EmmaVigeland that’s cool, can you explain why you said you don’t care if someone is a secret Nazi?
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@EmmaVigeland you do realize there is no clean split between personal and political behaviour, right? you're doing the exact same thing as all the clinton cultists who defended that predatory creep because he was a "good president"
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@RubinsBlockList @KweenInYellow @BuckGenoIII @Shahryar @grahamformaine go watch his resignation video. by his own admission, he won't be able to continue his campaign without the party's material support. so maybe he's not as much of an independent maverick as he made himself out to be
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@bitaviani @KweenInYellow @BuckGenoIII @Shahryar @grahamformaine I see what you're saying but the two parties are very different. Platner used the low approval rating of the Democratic establishment to win the primary decisively. Republicans are bootlickers and do what they're told. I think Dems need to replace Platner but keep this in mind.
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