Larry Seltzer
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@AndrewCMcCarthy Can Pope Leo remain a US citizen while (technically) head of a foreign state? (I don't care, it just struck me as an interesting question.)
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@BriannaWu You definitely did the right thing talking to the father, and that took courage. Talking to the hotel, I don't know. If this is what the father is like, the kid's not going to be any safer for being kept off of the exercise equipment.
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Just astonished by some of the apathy about children’s safety in these responses.
Maybe y’all can watch a seven year old randomly hit buttons on a treadmill until they are trying to run faster than many adults are capable of. I am not.
Call me a Karen, IDGAF.
If the dad was there watching the child, I would not have cared. He was on his back, tuned out, lifting weights while the kids treated the gym like a playground.
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Ethical question. I was in the hotel gym just now in a dad came in to do weights with two of his children. While he wasn’t paying attention to his son, who was about seven years old, climbed on the treadmill and kept hitting buttons until it was going at 8 miles an hour. Worried he was going to get killed. I warned him to turn it down. He then got back on it and did it again. I ended my workout early and talk to the dad saying I thought that was dangerous and I didn’t want someone a child to get hurt. He said it was fine and he did 8 miles an hour yesterday. At that point, I left and informed the front desk. I said it was their call, but it was my judgment a child could get seriously hurt. Was this the right thing to do?
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@oliviakatbi You have terrible political views, but you have discerned something your comrades do not: US aid to Israel helps Israel, but it also gives the US influence on Israel that it wouldn't have otherwise.
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I think people have this backwards. This isn’t “AOC effect”. I think J Street has been pushing this talking point of “Israel can buy its own iron dome” among Dems and it’s problematic bc it creates space for Israel to directly purchase US weapons with fewer restrictions
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@Mr_Andrew_Fox I've heard him called the most talented politician of his era, which is consistent with not buying a used car from him.
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I’ve met him. Most charismatic man I’ve ever met. Would not buy a used car from him.
Grandstar@GrandDaughterX
As a non-Israeli, what do you think of Benjamin Netanyahu?
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🚨 75 years ago today, Iraq froze the assets of Jews forced to renounce citizenship just to escape.
First they made them stateless.
Then they robbed them blind.
Israel did not create that refugee crisis.
Israel was the refuge.
Never forget.
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@EliLake @liberalpuppy Although you can expect US defense companies to beg the government to keep the aid going.
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“Don’t” would have provided more direct symmetry, but you make the best of what they give you.
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@SpencerGuard Of course, it went back to the Battle of Petersburg, near the end of the US Civil War. Great idea, badly led.
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Tunnel warfare in WWI. Good video highlighting the different sites, tactics, tools used across battle like the Battle of Messines, June 1917 when 19 of 21 tunnel mines (over 400 tons of explosives) ignited in an explosion heard in London 200 kilometers away, killing hundreds of soldiers. youtube.com/watch?v=o1yLEA…
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“Hello. I am President of the USA. 77 million people are stupid enough, retarded enough, or evil enough to think I was a suitable candidate.”
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@BriannaWu “It’s a death cult” - what’s a death cult? Palestinians? Iranians? All of them?
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The thing that Westerns don’t understand is Islamists do not think the way we do. It’s a death cult.
When I was taken to IDF base to see the secret October 7 footage, it opens with a father trying to save his two children from Hamas terrorists gleefully slaughtering civilians.
He takes his two children to hide in a shed. Moments later, an Islamist terrorist gleefully throws in a grenade. Later, a child comes out with his eye blown out by shrapnel, soaked in his father’s blood. Weeping, he manages to grab his brother’s hand and escape.
I sometimes have nightmares of that child, eye gouged out, hands slick with his father’s blood, escaping through the side yard. Later the Islamist notices he’s gone and smiles at the horror he’s inflicted.
It’s the most evil thing I’ve ever seen.
Westerners who have never scrambled to run in a bomb shelter from a missile think of Palestinianism like the 1964 civil rights movement. This is a false categorization.
The reality is, it’s a death cult that will sacrifice themselves and their children to hurt Jews. They are not rational actors.
Once you realize that, you can understand the lengths Israel has to go through just to survive. You can’t make peace with someone who is so obsessed with hurting you, they don’t care if they live or die.
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@squirrelpsps @VerminusM The laws of war allow for much more ambitious goals to destroy the enemy and individual actions in that war must be proportionate to the expected military objective. 2/2
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@squirrelpsps @VerminusM That's not what "proportional" means in the law of war. You seem to think that the appropriate response to Hamas would be to kill, rape, and take civilians hostage. 1/2
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I'm amused by the people pretending to be shocked by the destruction of Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. What did you think was going to happen after October 7? That you'd lose your cookie privileges? This isn't a motherfucking game. You wanted a real war, you got one.
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@Dumbass1979 @CBSSacramento I'm confused. Your graph shows oil production skyrocketing shortly after the first arrow. The fact is California's oil production was a drop in the bucket. Fuel is no cheaper for Californians if it's drilled in California.
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Supply economics: supply decreases, prices rise. CA is dependent on oil imports from foreign countries. Not only the price for that oil, but the transportation of that oil to California.
Thx to DEMs climate change policies, in 2008, America’s crude oil production hit a 59-Year Low if 5.0 Million BPD [Attached plot].
What Saved America’s economy was the development of the Tight Shale OIL Play, which began in 2008, & has increased U. S. crude oil production to the Record High 13.8 MBPD.
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For years, California leaders accused oil companies of price gouging at the pump, but a state investigation found no evidence of that. Instead, a CBS News California investigation found what's really driving the highest gas prices in the U.S. cbsloc.al/3PPOHwW
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@jpodhoretz He is helped by the competely bonkers and primitive form of government that Israel has, but them's the rules. Maybe he'd do as well relatively in any other form.
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there is one single explanation: simply as a practical matter, Bibi is the most skilled politician in the world and there is no second place.
Yaakov Katz@yaakovkatz
Back in October 2023, in the first days after Hamas’s surprise attack, it seemed almost impossible that Binyamin Netanyahu would still be Israel’s prime minister two and a half years later. As ministers gathered for an emergency security cabinet meeting on the afternoon of October 7, one of Netanyahu’s closest political allies, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, told him: “Within 48 hours they will ask us to resign — and they will be right to do so.” Israel had just experienced the worst disaster in its history, the government and the IDF had failed, and Netanyahu, who had spent more than a decade shaping the country’s policy on Hamas, bore the brunt of the responsibility. He appeared politically finished. But he wasn’t. Today, Netanyahu is not only still in office, he is the frontrunner in polls before the next election, while his main rival, former prime minister Naftali Bennett, trails behind. There is no single explanation for how Netanyahu has managed this remarkable political recovery. But taken together, several factors help explain how he went from the brink of political collapse to once again standing at the forefront of Israeli and, with the current war against Iran, global politics. My latest in @thetimes. thetimes.com/world/middle-e…
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Tell Benjamin of Tudela (1130-1175), who traveled across Europe, Asia and Africa and documented Jewish life around the world, that he was just meeting a bunch of random people.
susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى@susanabulhawa
Until Zionism, there has never been a singular, unified thing called “the Jewish people” There were Jews all over the world: Egyptian Jews, Iraqi, Jews, Moroccan, Jews, Yemen, Jews, German Jews, French Jews, and so on. Each one of these groups of Jews had their own distinct indigenous heritage in their respective countries. The overwhelming majority of current Israelis have zero relevance to Palestine. Literally zero. And they should go back to Europe or to hell. Their days are numbered in my homeland.
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@jpodhoretz How do you find the time to watch all the stuff you watch and still do your job and have any time for your family? I would need time travel to do it.
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To say Michelle Pfeiffer is giving a performance of genius on the otherwise very peculiar THE MADISON is to understate the case. Her work on the final episode is transcendent.
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@BriannaWu His family was obviously complicit and the main reason he stayed on. It was a rotten thing to do to a declining old man.
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Trump is in office because Democrats ran a corpse. I know a lot of Democrats don’t want to hear that, but it’s true.
Americans do not like Donald Trump, but they will choose someone alive over someone who is dead. I have nothing but righteous anger towards Joe Biden’s massive ego for running.
Jason Presti@presti71
@BriannaWu I agree, but Trump is in office, because the majority of reasonable, not living on social media people recognized the absolute Trainwreck Harris/Walz would have been. Everything that's come out since Election night has only reinforced this!
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