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Arguing with myself. News things at @TheDispatch . Talking to people on @uncertainpod . Once upon a time at @cnn & #AxiosOnHBO . Big fan of cognitive dissonance.
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For many observers, these appear to be shocking hypocrisies. But hypocrisies require some belief structure. There is none here. A Star Wars-based heuristic that divides the world into Evil Empire and Plucky Rebels is not a real ethical system.
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This "disfigured woman" is a car bomber who, having blown herself up in a an attempt to kill Israelis, demanded that Israelis pay for her plastic surgeries. This is how The New York Times covered her release.
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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik will be leaving tonight to Qatar to negotiate the release of Hamilton Hall.
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If Israel is to have a future, the Ben Gvir/Smotritch faction must be kicked out of government. They stoke fantasies of total occupation (if not genocide) at the expense of both Palestinian freedom and Israeli security.
I am getting increasingly more and more frustrated with Ben Gvir and Smotrich, and their continued proposals of relocating Palestinians out of Gaza.
Ethnic cleansing of Gaza is not an acceptable outcome.
Hamas 2.0 will use it as a recruiting slogan for years to come.
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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I had to click into the article to confirm and I still can't believe my own lying eyes.
"On Saturday, after sixteen years of siege, Hamas militants broke out of Gaza. More than 1,300 Israelis were subsequently killed...."
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Good job, team, you shamed the heck out of that cancer center and pediatric hospital!
Not a good look as pro-Palestinian protestors target a cancer hospital on New York’s Upper East Side. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also houses a paediatric day hospital…
“Make sure they hear you, they’re in the windows”.
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At
@thedispatch
, every podcast is a flagship podcast. This week The New Yorker profiled the inimitable
@whignewtons
, host of Advisory Opinions, our flagship of flagships. The piece also mentions occasional guest David French for some reason.
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Eric Adams ran on rebuilding public safety after two years of surging crime rates that have been largely dismissed by most major news outlets.
Now, two weeks into his tenure, Adams is yet to deliver the safety he promised.
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Bleak.
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@thomaschattwill
Myopic is a very kind word for it. It has the air cultural imperialism sans self awareness, as if American civil rights is the only axis around which the whole world revolves.
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We need to get our shit together, regardless of who wins.
@smerconish
"WE NEED TO STOP THIS."
@Smerconish
's commentary -- calling for leadership and national unity
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@MiddleEastTakes
Forget about the bad take -- I'm not even sure what point she *thinks* she's making.
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This is degenerate. Asking a falt-earther to comment on astrophysics.
Palestinian National Initiative's
@MustafaBarghou1
: "Hamas mainly attacked military establishments, military installations. And most of the people they have arrested & taken as war prisoners are military people. I do not accept [they are] attacking any civilian."
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@EricRWeinstein
@BretWeinstein
I don't recall a podcast ever leaving me feeling quite so thunderstruck.
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Wow.
⚡️Zelensky posts another video filmed in central Kyiv.
"There's a lot of fake information online that I call on our army to lay down arms, and that there's evacuation," he said.
"I'm here. We won't lay down our arms. We will defend our state."
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@graphiconeny
@ryanjreilly
Or... Just throwing it out there... *Some* cops are bad and the system needs to be reformed in such a way that ensures the bad ones are always held accountable and are meaningfully penalized for their behaviour. Sorry if that's too long to fit in your meme.
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Why should we listen to Hamas' explanations when we have so many professors of postcolonialism who know better?
Do you want to grasp the motives behind Hamas's actions? Curious about the international alliance that stands behind the atrocities and heinous acts carried out by terrorists?
Take 3 minutes and listen to this Hamas official.
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I asked chatGPT to write a
@JonahDispatch
G-File. The kicker proves that (1) we've reached the singularity, and (2) it was totally worth it.
Inspired by last week's AMA on
@thedispatch
:
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@hollymathnerd
This is commendable,
@hollymathner
. Admonishing her for being a bit of jerk might actually help her be more reflective and less callous towards others. By swallowing the insult you made the world a bit better, while shaming her would've made everyone involved a bit less human.
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Why go so far as 9/11? Would Yale have allowed a professor to question on Twitter whether a man could get pregnant?
Zareena Grewal, an associate prof. at Yale. I assume
@Yale
sees this as academic freedom.
I wonder if Yale would condone similar statements from its staff about 9/11, especially given that we've experienced events that are 7 times that, relative to our population.
#HamasisISIS
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@soncharm
You may have started with just strong bait, but you ended up with the best work of satire I've read in a while.
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@bungarsargon
Amazing how many people who see clearly that police unions are out of control can somehow still argue that teachers unions are sacrosanct because... They're a union? (Though I guess the reverse is also type...)
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Can neither confirm nor deny that this made me spit out my drink laughing.
Bernie: the sky is blue
Newsmax: the sky is blue
Biden: the sky is blue
Trump: the sky is the most beautiful blue we've ever seen, believe me
CNN: the sky is blue
Glenn Greenwald: one more example of how the CIA doesn't let anyone contradict the blue sky Consensus.
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Lindsay Shepherd uses the art from my piece (drawn by @
@KenGoshen
) as her cover photo. I feel both honored and culturally appropriated at the same time.
@NewWorldHominin
The original piece:
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One of my oldest pet peeves (to put mildly) is the American intelligentsia's inability to view & judge foreign affairs in their own context. Instead, the world must fit into the mould of American history/politics. Today's mould, per
@bungarsargon
, is woke.
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One might write "they're saying the quiet proud out loud" except that it was never a "quiet part" for them.
They hide in hospitals, they hide in refugee camps, they hide in their 500 kms of tunnels. When asked why they don’t let Gazans shelter in the tunnels instead of leaving them exposed to the bombs, they answered-those refugees are not our problem. They are the UNs responsibility.
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Broke: Hamas didn't kidnap civilians.
Woke: Hamas showed their guests the time of their lives.
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Iran is loving Trump.
This account exists to promote Iranian regime propaganda, and they’re using the former president’s words to push their agenda. Yet another example of why we need a leader who thinks before speaking.
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Amen. Don't depend on administrators to solve your problems. Don't rely on authoritarian bureaucrats. Don't be the left. Expose their monstrosity. Expose their lunacy. Expose them as Holocaust apologists. Stand up for a liberal world, for the end of Hamas, for a truly free Gaza.
The situation on many college campuses is awful. Don’t ask administrators to silence the cretins. Instead start counter demonstrations against Students for Justice in Palestine and others celebrating the pogrom. Shame them. Expose them. Let the world see who they are.
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Our conversation with historian
@holland_tom
on his fantastic work
#Dominion
.
Also the last part of a trilogy which started w/ religions scholar
@TomerPersico
.
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Twitter has apparently determined that (rigorous, thoughtful addictingly-written) books are "sensitive material" on par with, I guess, graphic violence and pornography.
Great job,
@bungarsargon
.
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Literally all it takes to get a rise from these unhinged maniacs is to stay chill.
Chill is the most American thing. Chill is the soul of liberalism. Chill is the best. These masked riot bozos have none of it.
#NOW
A single counter protester in 'I Stand with Israel' shirt started dancing among Pro-Palestine protesters outside of American Museum of Natural History AMNH as people shouted "You are disgusting!" and "White Supremacist!"
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@aziz0nomics
Also:
✅ Supporting Palestinian institutions that are focused on building civic infrastructure instead of impoverishing an entire generation into martyrdom.
✅ Working with liberals and moderates in Israel to ensure the peace camp survives this war. (The world's reactions on…
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Thank you for this extra step. BTW:
@arash_tehran
is doing the really hard work of consistency in his moral analysis, his geopolitics positions, & his approach to truth-seeking. Even when disagreeing with his conclusions (as I occasionally do), I really admire him for this.
I want to apologize for the wording of my tweet about the attack on the hospital. Even though I had qualified it with 'it seems by Israel', I should have waited for more conclusive evidence. Now we see that major elements of the story are being questioned by credible sources
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It was a pleasure to talk to
@Nadav_Eyal
about the fall of the American empire. Listen to the full conversation on the latest "UNCERTAIN THINGS"
@uncertainpod
ריאיון לפודקאסט באנגלית. שוחחתי עם אדם לוין-ארדי וונסה קווירק בפודקאסט המצוין שלהם Uncertain על #המרד_נגד_הגלובליזציה, למה הוא מוצדק, איך טראמפ הוא רק הפרש הראשון של האפוקליפסה, עמידה מול סין ועוד. מוזמנים להאזין.
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@sock_dem
I wonder what Mr. Personal Responsibility here feels about student loan forgiveness.
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DeNazification in action.
The director of the main synagogue in Odessa tearfully bids goodbye to the synagogue, asks people to pray for them as they evacuate during the Jewish Sabbath:
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Yes. The absurd thing about this kind of "gotcha" (aside from what
@CathyYoung63
wrote) is it ignores an obvious fact: many critics of cancellations seek to defend progressivism against its illiberal edges. It's less about individual stories than the corruption of a community.
Often true! Illiberal norms damage the progressive communities that impose them much more than they punish the small number of people who are punished for violating them
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@aziz0nomics
@BadEmpanada
When you think about it, Hamas apologists know only one rhetorical trick: I know you are but what am I
Projection is real.
@KenGoshen
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My schoolmates were murdered in a bus explosion right outside my high school. The neighborhood cafe that my mum and I used to go to every Friday was blown up, as did the Sbarro where I'd often have lunch with my grandma. I vote against normalizing the intifada.
Alarming chant at
@Harvard
today with calls for an Intifada. This isn't just a term; it's a painful history of violence. Remembering the Second Intifada, we must confront the gravity of such words.
The Second Intifada was a deadly terrorism campaign targeting Israeli civilians…
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@mattyglesias
Also, along with Cruz and co, he made a chamberful of septuagenarians stay up until 4 in the morning for no good reason.
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@antoniogm
"Cancel culture doesn't exist."
"If you didn't want to be judged, you shouldn't have written it."
"The First Amendment doesn't guarantee you a job."
"Here's a thought: Maybe don't be racist/sexist and then you won't get fired."
. . .
"Wilder's firing reveals a problem."
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The most tiresome pattern:
Side 1: "bad things are happening"
...
Side 1: "hey listen, bad things are happening"
...
Side 1: "it's getting scary and maybe redolent of darker parts of our history"
Side 2: "see! Side 1 is exactly the hysterical disinfo firehose we said it is!"
This is precisely the equivalent of anti-anti-Trumpism:
"Never mind Trump. Look! over here! hysterical libs comparing Trump to Hitler!"
I mean, yeah, Cultural Revolution analogy is OTT. I'd say the hysteria (& vicious witch-hunt) by students & faculty at UMich is a bit worse.
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Morningside Heights is an open air prison.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
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@aziz0nomics
I wanted to ask you about it today, but honestly, the man's political commentary is a joke.
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Today offers a good heuristic for judging who's a good faith opponent -- whose perspectives deserve serious consideration and cross-partisan debate -- and who's in it for virulent power-trip politics.
Who's calling for grace? Who's here for the gloating?
Kinda seems like "lamenting unborn lives lost to widespread, permissible abortion for the last 50 years" and "feeling relief that some number will be saved going forward while also trying to strategize about coming backlash" should be priority over "delighting in leftist tears"
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With our new AI overlords biding their time, it's time to figure out whether the human mind's anything more than an a statistical, association-making machine?
@paulbloomatyale
joins The Remnant to drop some cognitive science on
@JonahDispatch
/
@thedispatch
.
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.
@kittypurrzog
talked to us about why we're all insufferable hypocrites and puritans.
Also it's good to hear
@vmquirk
laughing in 2020.
@uncertainpod
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Thank you
@coldxman
for coming on the Remnant (
@thedispatch
). Hell of a talk: the moral dilemma of reparations & systemic injustice, the epistemic value of religion... Waiting for part 2 w/
@JonahDispatch
on your pod. :)
Full:
YT:
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@thomaschattwill
Right, important distinction. (Though don't you think some of the furor & confusion of American I.P. today comes from attempting to force the absolutely-just anger of the civil rights movement into areas in which it becomes incoherent?)
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@aziz0nomics
Their problem is that you support compromise. Compromise means coexistence. The apologists don't care about coexistence (in the same way they don't care about the actual future of Palestinians). They only thing they care about's the abolition of Israel.
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It was thrilling –– and low-key terrifying –– talking with
@Peter_Turchin
. Can't wait for the follow up. Hope the world is still standing when the book comes out.
Scientist-turned-historian
@Peter_Turchin
is best known for his 2010 prediction that we were headed for serious unrest, circa 2020. Peter explains why he first applied his model towards the U.S. today—and his shock at what he found. Full ep at
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.
@MaajidNawaz
thank you. A needed, devastating, unflinching indictment of cynical regressive liberals
http://t.co/1AzYwOhyTh
@thedailybeast
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@PoeticFlavor
@MiddleEastTakes
Right -- but even then, what's her point? Is this a good or bad thing in her mind? Like, if she's trying to make an anti-Israel point, then maybe don't admit that the other side only wants to destroy Israel. This comes across as incoherent even by her standard.
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This is how deep the insanity goes.
The first question that left me speechless (but only for a second):
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There's a lot
@arash_tehran
and I disagree on when it comes to a real ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, and I'm absolutely honored to be able to air these questions openly. Arash is truly one of the most honest, sharpest commenters on the Mideast.
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Within the span of a day Mansour Abbas, leader of the Israeli Arab party Ra'am, spoke out against bloodthirsty MKs on the messianic right *and* lambasted a member of his own party for atrocity denial (even demanding her resignation). Abbas is one of the few adults in the Israeli…
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In our most petty and parochial episode yet,
@bungarsargon
,
@EliLake
and I got drunk to refute Jonathan Glazer's Jewishness as being worth hijacking by anyone.
Apple:
Spotify:
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@jcrsaltman
I don't. My criticism was of the NYT who have downplayed the rise in crime for two years and then go all out on Adams. It seemed absurd to me. Apologies if my sarcasm was a little obtuse.:)
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We need to stop treating the revolutionary left as serious, ethical people with something to contribute and start seeing them for what they are: immature, clueless, fit-throwing rage mobs.
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What I absolutely love about
@scottlincicome
's pieces is that he always, always shows his work.
"For all its warts and problems—and yes there are plenty—the U.S. economy isn’t actually a basket case and, in fact, remains globally dominant by all sorts of metrics. Why doesn’t anyone think so?"
An authoritative
@scottlincicome
special.
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@AGHamilton29
Gotta admit, the past two years have really converted me on this point. (Between police and teachers, my erstwhile appreciation of public sector unions has been fully depleted.)
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I probably disagree with much of what these folks consider to be "helping our country," but it's interesting to see the genuine shock as Core MAGA reckons with the possibility that maybe Trump cares more about Trump than the welfare of the nation.
I have never seen MAGA react like this to anything Trump has ever done.
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Oct. 7 was a literal slaughter of Israel's left.
Peace Activist and Kibbutz Nir Oz survivor describes the betrayal of Gazans on 10/7:
“They were shooting and throwing grenades…many people from our kibbutz were so supportive of the Palestinians, and I thought, why are they doing this to us who were the biggest supporters for…
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Don't overlook this peace activist clarifying that the ceasefire that existed between Israel and Hamas on 10/6 was "a temporary ceasefire," which suggests what? Presumably that the Hamas attack –– the massacre, rape, kidnapping, and burning of entire families –– was legitimate.
Base of Manhattan Bridge, yelling at "comrades" blocking the roadway. Am I sorry for coming in all hot? Maybe a little. These folks, despite cockamamie factoids, were way nicer than PDX protesters, incl. a sweet girl who later told me why she feels what she's doing is important
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Great conversation. Worth the price of admission, I'm told.
Yesterday,
@DavidAFrench
and I went into the Skiff at the
@thedispatch
and talked about Iran, Israel, deterrence, and a few other things.
@AmsterdamLost
joined in too. For Dispatch subscribers.
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"Anti-Israel"
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Joined
@DavidMDrucker
@stephenfhayes
Declan Garvey and Kevin Williamson for a
@thedispatch
stream about the massacre in Israel. For me it was a string of "boy I really hope I'm wrong about this." Feeling grim and manic.
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I absolutely love this Brianna Wu rebrand.
The Palestinians rejected their own state on the following occasions:
1. The 1937 Peal commission proposal
2. The 1947 UN Partition plan
3. The 1967 aftermath of the Six Day War
4. The 2000 Camp David Summit.
5. The 2008 Peace Proposal with Ehud Olmert
Additionally, in 1993…
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It's also funny to hear people talk about Das Kapital as if it's this arcane, recently rediscovered tome read only a select number of enlightened undergrads, as opposed to a text that has been thoroughly assimilated into the canon more than a century ago.
That is indeed the main attraction of Marxism: It gives people the illusion that they've found what the Krauts call the "Weltformel", the one unifying theory of everything.
Absolutely everything suddenly seems to fall into place. It's just sophistry, of course. But it's powerful.
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@rezaaslan
@SamHarrisOrg
I guess anyone who agrees with you is a free thinking individual, but anyone who disagrees belongs to a troll army
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The only problem with interviewing
@EliLake
is where to begin? This was so freaking fun. I hope to do it again.
I had a blast going on the
@UncertainPod
to talk about everything from Kanye to mid-terms to the Jewish state to Robert Caro.
@AmsterdamLost
and
@vmquirk
are smart heterodox thinkers. We need more of this. Please support them. Listen here
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@lecanardnoir
@hels
But it fails to reflect how close th races are. Georgia and NC seem to be sure for Trump. So far Trump has been holding on to PA pretty solidly. And then it's down to AZ, which is very tight and can easily go Trump.
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Such rhetorical deftness. No wonder Columbia's so proud of its Core Curriculum.
NEW: Columbia protester tells Fox News reporter to get out of her face after he asks multiple questions including why they held three janitors hostage.
Reporter: “Do you feel like it was right to hold 3 of the janitor workers hostage inside of the building?”
Protester: “I think…
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This is perfect. The Percy comparison deserves more attention: a quisling who betrays family, friends, the truth, and decency in exchange for the paternalistic embrace of a scared, corrupt bureaucracy.
The reason a lot of young progressives are so mad at JK Rowling is that they read the books as kids, and they thought they were Harry or Hermione. But they grew up into people like Percy or Dolores Umbridge or Cornelius Fudge or Rita Skeeter. And they know it. And on some level,…
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This is the definitive thread on the matter.
4. So: yeah, insulting Prez is a proud democratic tradition. On this occasion it also amounted to attention-seeking assholery. Whatabouting it with "But people were so rude to my guy! (who slammed immigrants as people from 'shithole countries')" is pathetic. The end.
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