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David Smith
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Just another horror story from @Airbnb_uk for your records. Two weeks ago we arrived at our booked accommodation, accessed it using the security codes given, and when we entered, we found a very startled young female student, whose rented accommodation we’d just invaded. 1/2
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@larroumecj The Marshall Plan wasn't specifically designed to dominate Europe. In 1948 Europe was broke in almost every way. The Marshall Plan helped Europe pick itself back up and of course they bought American because their factories had collapsed.
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The level of cognitive dissonance among some Americans is staggering. They have no trouble understanding that when China extends loans to African countries in exchange for opening their markets, it is a strategy of domination and subjugation. Yet they are sincerely convinced that the Marshall Plan was some kind of entirely selfless philanthropic endeavor, and that the subsequent dominance of American corporations across European markets is purely coincidental, owed to nothing but the inherent superiority of their products. Incredible.
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@jamiesont She apparently wants to promote the notion that Europeans aren't really human, some subspecies like Palestinians who can be disposed of
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Never met a single person here in Europe that would have found that odd.
Karol Markowicz@karol
After 9/11 I had European friends confused that we would spend time, money and effort digging up the bodies at Ground Zero. What's the point, they said. But it's what Americans (and, ahem, Israelis) do. We love life, we care about our dead, and we don't leave anyone behind.
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@BikesSamurai @electo_mania Spain has the most corrupt government in history??? And Pedro is the devil, a time traveler, what? Break your bubble, baby, for your own sake, please...
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@electo_mania Que vergüenza de pais con el gobierno más corrupto de la historia y estamos así
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#ElectoPanel (5 abril): la bajada de Vox 📉🥦 impulsa la recuperación de la izquierda
💧 PP 30,8% (127)
🌹 PSOE 29,3% (119)
🥦 Vox 18,7% (62)
🌷 Sumar 5,6%(9)
🪻 Podemos 3,7% (5)
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electomania.es/electopanel-5-…
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@D4nciingQueen I think Russell means that we are better because we could bomb Portugal back to the Stone Age
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🇵🇹 Portugal has free healthcare, free education, and zero mass shootings. Oh, and we don’t elect corrupt pedos to represent us. So, no.
Russell@thebmwnut
@D4nciingQueen @NEWSMAX The United States of America is still and will always be better than your hole of a country Portugal.
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@Asakemijimi @AngieNixon I thought she was referring to Kristi Noem.
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I am so fucking devastated. Her parents. My god. Her parents.
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Stanford University, Rice University, and Vanderbilt University are named after Gilded Age captains of industry (I prefer that term over robber barons) who decided to do some good intellectual things with their wealth. Why haven’t today’s billionaires done much in that regard?
Charlotte Alter@CharlotteAlter
During the last Gilded Age, the robber barons saw a cultural value to founding universities, museums, concert halls, foundations. Many enduring institutions were founded by the ultra-rich of the 1890 who felt a sense of noblesse oblige that was also socially rewarded. Not anymore. These people see little social value to founding anything that doesn’t make a profit.
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@MilesPerHoward It looks very cold. Maybe that's why there are no clowns and jugglers running around
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I think the real problem with the new Copley Square in Boston isn’t the abundance of pavement but the lack of regular events and programs happening on the pavement. Like, that was a big part of the case for getting rid of the old fountains and other landscape features.
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@carolyn_from @RadioFreeTom @AntiToxicPeople I had the same question. So much on X is vague and unsourced.
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@RadioFreeTom @AntiToxicPeople Stay on what? What did I miss?
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Only Fox is staying on this. The other networks have peeled off, but they should’ve stayed with it because he is really having a weird day. Even by his standards.
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💥Viktor Orbán angrily responded to protesters who booed him at a rally in opposition-led Győr. He accused them of promoting Ukrainian interests and wanting to send “Hungarians’ money to Ukraine,” as his campaign follows a path-dependent strategy blaming everything on Ukraine.
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@jbarro You didn't mention the 3Hs, Heat, Humidity, Hurricanes
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Last time I went to Miami Beach, I had a lot of interactions with morons. I got multiple Uber drivers who spoke neither English nor Spanish. Food was disappointing. The lighting at Barry’s Bootcamp was too bright. Overall it was annoying and I get why people would move away.
Jed Kolko@JedKolko
Miami is the new San Francisco, with the highest out-migration rate of all large metros.
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@fawfulfan Land is fragile in both states. Neither are Tennessee.
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I've been saying for years, Florida was not going to keep up its population growth.
The reasons aren't exactly the same, but Florida is running into the same problem California has: it's just too expensive to live there.
James🗳@_fat_ugly_rat_
We knew that Florida as a whole took a nosedive in population growth last year but some of these county specific numbers are awful Orange: +7K (+0.5%) Hillsborough: +2.9K (+0.2%) Palm Beach: +1.5K (+0.1%) Broward: -372 (-0.02%) Miami-Dade: -10.1K (-0.4%) Pinellas: -11.8K (-1.2%)
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@JonahPlatt And every Jewish site was built on top of a Caananite one.
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You cannot colonize a place you are from.
There is no other land to which Jews as a collective are connected. Every Muslim site in the land is literally built on top of a Jewish one.
A state founded by an indigenous people, who either already lived there or were returning from exile, without a mother empire, mostly fleeing as refugees for survival, does not meet the definition of settler colonialism by any stretch of the imagination.
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The elitist truth is life IS complicated, and much of America IS too dumb to understand it.
Only 16% of Americans could find Ukraine on a map. Only 23% could find Iran.
And there's a lot more! Why should the Federal Reserve raise rates? What are the effects of quantitative easing? What zoning rules help growth? What is the history of Israeli-Palestinian conflict? What countries are hostile to Iran and why? What is the difference between marginal and effective tax rates? How does raising taxes actually affect income collected (given behavior changes)?
And when I say "too dumb," I include myself. Some of these I'm fine with (I can find stuff on a map!), but there's much about the world that I don't comprehend beyond the superficial.
Understanding stuff is hard, and even being a *well-read* college graduate is going to leave big gaps in what you know. And most Americans aren't that well-read! (I knew a guy who never read a book after he graduated from NYU.)
Dave Switzer@profswitzer
@HistoryBoomer @annbauerwriter No, he’s insulting most Americans, implying they’re too dumb to understand anything. He’s the elitist scum we all hate.
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How many kids of of Wall Street Journal reporters and editors do we think would be part of an invasion force?
Preston Stewart@prestonstew_
New WSJ article calls for US troops on the ground as the only way to achieve success in Iran. "President Trump must put boots on the ground to open the Strait of Hormuz and demonstrate the unquestionable supremacy of American power."
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@Alonso_GD I think most parents would go home a few times a year, with at least one being an extended break from university.
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This is such an unreasonable proposition. Nobody in their right mind would just spend a year away from their three kids and partner for a degree. Which is why people aren’t. They are going elsewhere and British universities are going bankrupt as a result
Suella Braverman@SuellaBraverman
You don’t need to bring your husband and three children to do a degree in Media Studies. Universities need to stop selling immigration instead of education.
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Trump seemingly just called for Venezuela to become the 51st state which would mean every Venezuelan becomes an American citizen.
Didn’t he call them “rapists and murderers” and want to deport them all?
I’m so confused.
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@RAllenser @ChrisMurphyCT Yeah, they all decided we weren't Israel's private security contractor.
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@ChrisMurphyCT Every past president since Bill Clinton, Republican and Democrat alike, has declared that Iran couldn’t be permitted to develop nuclear weapons. Not one acted to prevent it. Not one acted to stop it.
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It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
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