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Perfect timing: out now w/ @MorganWack & Victor Menaldo @ConversationUS: "Why Many Countries Have Prosecuted Former Leaders" -- including our own! @ForumUW #verdict theconversation.com/why-many-count…
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James D. Long
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James D. Long
@prof_jameslong
Professor of Political Science & Co-Founder of Political Economy Forum @ForumUw University of Washington; election integrity, democracy, corruption, development
Seattle, WA Katılım Mart 2013
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...and what's wrong with that, Margaret?
Margaret Brennan@margbrennan
The Secretary of Defense tells the American public to pray for our troops on bended knee and invoke Jesus' name....
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@uskglasses Rufo is the type of sociopath that CM writes about. It's like Cormac is tweeting from Rufo's account as some sort of performance art from beyond the grave. That said, I'm not sure any of CM's characters were ever as cartoonist, narcissistic, and unrealistic as Rufo. And yet...
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am i crazy or is The Road not about the hope and perseverance of the human spirit. everything is lost but a boy and his father carry on
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
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@christopherrufo "The characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy" is the dumbest thing to say about CM. But no! "almost no humanity breaking through." You don't realize you're the sociopath he warns of; why his books are ironic and terrifying to the rest of us and lost on you.
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I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
Kristen Rudd@kristenrudd
About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.
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@ChrisLowes83 @adrianmckinty I think it's Terrance Malick's best movie and different than, but much better than, Saving Private Ryan, also a great movie! but TTRL was in a different league.
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@adrianmckinty Wow what a cast! Is it really better than SPR?
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SPR wasn’t even the best war movie of 1998
Stephen Black@stephenRB4
Saving Private Ryan is the greatest war movie ever made, and I will die on this hill.
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@adrianmckinty And what's crazy is that Shakespeare in Love beat out TTRL, SPR, Elizabeth, and Life is Beautiful (all movies featuring wars!) for Best Picture.
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@plzcallmechrist And the only books that anyone on X *talks* about reading (when they really haven't) are Infinite Jest, the US constitution (more of a pamphlet), and the Bible.
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The only books that anyone on X has read is Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Dune and Lord of the Rings. And the latter three, people just watched the movies.
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Liel Leibovitz in the Free Press: "As a work of art, One Battle After Another is irredeemable. It feels like the sort of thing written by a committee of socialist college sophomores cracking each other up ...
"Paul Thomas Anderson seems interested more in purring for his fellow progressives than in making interesting movies ..."
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About to start Blood Meridian for the first time.
Give me all your best advice.
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@ICEgov Also, the Irish, famously known for a complete lack of shame.
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@ICEgov The Irish, famously known for welcoming repressive military paramilitary forces into their cities to occupy them and arbitrarily arrest and detain people.
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day from ICE!
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Tucker is beloved by Republican Voters.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson’s 2028 Presidential odds double, in the wake of rumors he may face criminal charges as a foreign intelligence asset.
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@atrupar Things you famously don't need an ID to have for 600, Alex.
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Erika Kirk: “Don’t let anyone disenfranchise you because you’re a young man—especially a young, white male man.”
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@Annpr @DJ_Ajaxx @bariweiss @weijia Amplifying the lie, I presume. because she thinks that is more important (profitable) than reporting the truth because she's not a real journalist, knows nothing about real journalism, and states out loud she doesn’t hold journalistic ethics. In that, she's not lying!
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CBS News is on quite a roll this week.
And it’s only Wednesday.
It started Monday with @weijia's conversation with President Trump. “I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” he told her. 🧵
cbsnews.com/news/trump-ira…
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@bariweiss @weijia Wait, it's Wednesday, and you're bragging about your inability to report correctly on Monday that the president was lying to your reporter?
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Att’n South Carolinians with doubts about the Iran war: your U.S. Senator says explicitly “I’m not with you, I’m with Israel.”
𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒@Antunes1
US Senator Lindsey Graham: “I’m not with you, I’m with Israel, until my dying day.”
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@ThirdWilli98237 @CollinRugg Syphilis has a cure though, he's herpes.
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JUST IN: Fox News' Laura Ingraham pressures Sen Ted Cruz to tell her why Sen Lindsey Graham is "coaching" Netanyahu "on how to lobby President Trump."
Ingraham: The WSJ says Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks... meeting with members of the country's intelligence agency, spoke with Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby President Trump for action...
Cruz: Lindsey is passionate about defending America...
Ingraham: This is something of a totally different level, is it not?
Cruz: No. Actually, when it comes to the threat Iran poses, Lindsey agrees they pose a major threat to America...
Ingraham: Our point is working with Netanyahu so closely to lobby President Trump, acting as an intermediary for a foreign country. Is that appropriate?
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