Left Defense
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Left Defense
@LeftDefense
I started this account to follow Soccer. Oops.
All over เข้าร่วม Nisan 2011
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@FischerKing64 Don’t be such a downer, most of the fraud is paid for by devaluing your future earnings.
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Finally did my taxes, wondering the entire time how much of what I'm paying is burned up in fraud.
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@JesseKellyDC Be curious to see if self-deportations increased or decreased as emphasis seems to have shifted from visible deportations to removing benefits from illegals to make staying less desirable.
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There’s a lot I can tolerate if I’m getting mass deportations. I’ll laugh off dumb AI boomer Jesus photos. I’ll even grit my teeth on dumb foreign adventures that are going to cost us dearly.
If we’re backing off deportations cause the communists ran an op in Minnesota, I’m out.
CBS News@CBSNews
ICE detained fewer non-criminals after its Minnesota crackdown, driving a detention population decline, data shows. cbsn.ws/4cGL996
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@millerman Indeed. Slumming about with Sneako is consistent with his 2nd profession as Russian Imperial partisan churning up the left and right extremes of the West to keep it off balance.
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Dugin could do interviews with the trashiest losers alive and it would not change the fact that he has written some deeply insightful books from which we can continue to learn under all circumstances.
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I don't really think sex is the divider here - 53% of Black men and ~50% of Hispanic men also think this, and I'd guarantee the figure is over 40% for white libs.
Astonishingly prevalent, completely lunatic belief.
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
Most Asian, Black, and Hispanic women think Whites invented slavery. Huge failure of the education system that they are so misinformed.
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@MattBraynard True, but there are certain times when it is applicable given that the 10% were “reduced” by the 90% beating them to death.
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Pet peeve: to "decimate" means to reduce by 10%, so stop using it like it's a synonym for "destroy." Just say "destroy."
You don't sound smarter, you sound stupid.
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Moved to a new parish last summer. New pastor got in about the same time, he and another priest in residence are Gen X, The parochial vicar is Gen Z. We’ve added the penitential act and more and more Latin. We’ve recently had visits from two Cardinals and an Auxiliary Bishop. All that vanished during those Masses.
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Emily is right here - I suspect Pope Leo knows (as an Augustinian) that the liberal flank that thought Francis 'their pope' is exhausted but the sheer boomer demographic hegemony in the Church makes reversion to orthodoxy harder.. thankfully the 'spirit of Vatican II' was barren
Emily Zanotti 🦝@emzanotti
Three ancient, out-of-touch Cardinal relics of the “Spirit of Vatican II” going on a basic cable news program no one watches to talk about how they’ve captured the pulse of the church’s future is almost perfect.
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Ben-Hur is the greatest Easter movie of all time
Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec
We all know the Die Hard/Christmas discussion but I have a question. Which movies are Easter movies?
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@elonmusk That stupid movie “The Woman King,” where she’s fighting against European “oppressors.” The real woman king of Dahomey was fighting for the “right” to slavery and engage in the slave trade.
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@JackPosobiec No need for a plenipotentiary when you have real time comms with the sovereign.
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Idiotic. The idea that President Trump would be completely cut off from negotiations with Iran is ridiculous. That isn’t how this ever works. It's the same on the Iranian side
Ehsan Taghadosi@demokracy
It seems that Vance arrived in Islamabad without the full authority to reach an agreement with Iran, unlike Ghalibaf. According to his own account, he called Trump more than 12 times during 21 hours of negotiations to discuss the issues. And according to Araghchi, he spoke with Netanyahu at least once during the Islamabad talks. The US needs a negotiator who can reach an agreement on the spot, not someone who keeps a phone in hand and, like a child, has to check everything with daddy or uncle.
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@wil_da_beast630 Everyone buys oil from us. Iran loses virtually all revenue.
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@GrayConnolly @ArthurLHerman Read it at your recommendation. Have just come across a discarded copy of his air commander’s memoir. Will be an interesting read I think.
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Noting the anniversary, everyone here should have @ArthurLHerman 's book
Gray Connolly@GrayConnolly
Strongly recommend @ArthurLHerman 's excellent recent biography of MacArthur. It is very detailed and yet briskly written for the interested lay reader. What MacArthur warned in 1950-1951 of what China would do, based on its historic ambitions & needs, has proved prophetic.
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@FischerKing64 Those houses are 40-50 miles away, but yes, there are closer ones that would have a rough day.
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Technically Mt. Rainier is an active volcano. One day all those lovely homes crawling up the hill will be smashed to pieces. This is what Mt. Saint Helens looked like in the 1970s - before it blew apart in 1980. A beautiful, almost perfectly symmetrical mountain.
AirWaterLand Photography@airwaterlandcom
Happy Friday from Steilacoom Wa!
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Not a standard primary in California. All parties are in the same primary. Top 2 go on to the general. Usually the top 2 are both Ds. This year, D vote is diluted-6 or so candidates-while there are only 2 Rs. Kneecapping Swallwell consolidates the D vote enough to get Porter (or Steyer) into the general.
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@LeftDefense Those R votes won't transfer to the primary winner? It's hard for me to believe two Rs are even leading the polls, but...
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I mean, giving timing and Roger Stone, almost certainly.
But, why are the Dems plotting vs him?
New York Post@nypost
Eric Swalwell alleges Dem plot behind sexual misconduct claims trib.al/vILZIXv
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@rruetigger Because a sizeable portion of Swallwell’s votes would end up going to her, pushing her into the top 2. Then she probably wins the general easily.
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@LeftDefense @wil_da_beast630 Why would she likely win in a run off if two Rs lead polls? I don't doubt you, just trying to understand.
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@wil_da_beast630 @chadfelixg It’s tactical.
What my friend does or wants to do: Euphemism. (Equity, democratize)
What my enemy does or wants to do: Dysphemism (extract, genocide)
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Almost literally every important left wing take - "Gaza genocide," "the war crime of killing enemies," "trans women," "systemic white supremacy," "heterosexual sex is rape," "asylum seekers," "undocumented migrants," "the modern Patriarchy," "my breeding kink as a female bottom" - is just based on twisting words into meaninglessness.
This^ is a common right wing point, but it is 120% accurate and always worth remembering. The great weakness of the post-modernist is that wordplay does NOT actually change reality. You can call a wolf or a pitbull ex- fighting dog a "lab mix" all you want; it will still eat your kid.
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@Cernovich And the other side thinks they’re stopping Hitler. Not a good dynamic.
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Yes. I’m watching people fail an IQ test. Losing these voters doesn’t mean they flip Democrat. It means they stay home. Disastrous. But you have to earn every vote.
Brian Piccolo@TheBrianPiccolo
@Cernovich Yes issues like Epstein, Iran & amnesty STILL probably aren’t enough to make the a lot of the fringe Trump coalition vote for Democrats but it sure is plenty enough to make them stay home !
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@omriceren @KurtSchlichter The DC reporters’ think tankers’ objective is not to be clear or correct, but to push an agenda. Their tactics are simple:
Something my friend does: Euphemism.
Something my enemy does: Dysphemism.
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One problem we're having in our foreign policy discourse is that DC reporters and think tankers have no idea what they're talking about and just write random words.
Here's the Pentagon's Law of War Manual: "Electric power stations are generally recognized to be of sufficient importance to a State's capacity to meet its wartime needs of communication, transport, and industry so as usually to qualify as military objectives during armed conflicts."
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