Christian JB
@christianjbdev
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Humanist & secular-liberal. Zionist. Fan of narrow-mouthed whorl snail and the kākāpō (fat NZ parrot). Slava Ukraini.
Dublin, Ireland
Joined March 2013
President: What I do now, I do for the sake of the people of Earth. But there is one man on this planet who will NEVER kneel before you. General Zod: Who is this imbecile? Where is he? President: I wish I knew. [kneels]
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Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
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Seeing a lot of Hollywood calls for the FTC to block the Warners sale, and I get the emotions behind them, but guys, there is no regulatory magic which can save the feature film. It is going to die, because the technological conditions that created it have changed.
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Everything Carol does is 100% justified. She's trying to save humanity.
God I really hate people like Pluribus’ Carol in real life. She’s mean and condescending and anti-social to everyone but then gets upset when they don’t want to hang out with her. If you keep rejecting someone you have no right to be mad at the from ceasing to invite you!
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Come Up and See me | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Simple but effective chord progression. It’s in the key of C, but it neither starts nor rests on the C chord. Makes the whole song feel restless. Also love how the chorus starts with the ii chord.
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4th Time Around | Bob Dylan. Dylan’s Norwegian Wood rip-off. I always found this one of his harder ones to play.
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You could say much the same with his 'Like a Rolling Stone', which has truly unpleasant lyrics, if you take the time to read them. Perhaps one of the nastiest songs out there.
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Reading the Wik page on Dylan's 4th Time Around, in which he rips off (or parodies) Lennon's Norwegian Wood. Interesting how it is regarded as a particularly nasty & vitriolic song. Cruel in its treatment of women & takes a swipe at Lennon. I love it. https://t.co/nhqh4nlIhQ
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"We take for granted the degree of peace we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think that’s the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945. I don’t think people are ready for the world we’re now moving into." https://t.co/r4yeehcHj2
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America helped keep the (relative) peace for 80 years. Not anymore.
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Sit down. I have something to tell you and it's going to make you sad.
The cops didn’t read Luigi Mangione his Miranda rights until after illegally searching & detaining him. This means evidence collected at the Pennsylvania McDonald’s is inadmissible in court and should be thrown out. The cops careless and arrogant behavior is going to FREE LUIGI!
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More Irish people want to join Nato than oppose joining, according to the latest Red C poll.
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TIL, when the song Ebeneezer Goode about the joys of taking ecstasy was performed on Top of The Pops, a lyric was changed to ‘Has anyone got any underlay’, so the singer could claim it was about rugs, and not drugs. https://t.co/St4ap5HncH
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Girlfriend called me in a panic. She had called the police who had swarmed our son's preschool because he was missing, nobody could find him. Cops had a helicopter out, dogs everywhere, and everything. Turned out I dropped him off at the wrong preschool that morning.
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Can't think of another example of a global power so demonstratively burning its assets and destroying its influence, in a single document
1/ The new US National Security Strategy blames 'undemocratic' European governments for failing to make peace with Russia, takes a pro-Russian position on NATO, reflects white nationalist views on European demographics, and pledges overt support for far-right parties. ⬇️
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Naturalized American voters shifted toward Trump in 2024, delivering his victory in the popular vote. How has he repaid them? By threatening to strip their citizenship. If they punish him, the 2025 elections suggest they could knock the GOP out of power.
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He couldn’t have won in 2024 without naturalized Americans—yet now he’s threatening their citizenship status.
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MORE: ISW continues to assess that Putin, in part, launched his full-scale invasion in order to destroy NATO and seize control of all of Ukraine, and Putin’s original war demands notably include not only demands of Ukraine but of NATO and the West as well. Putin is attempting to
NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated his commitment to his original war aims from 2021 and 2022 and unwillingness to compromise during an interview with Indian media – likely as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to shape the international information space during the
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Poor Olivia Nuzzi. Even the anti-vaxx nuts don't like her.
@christianjbdev @Timodc What?? Nuzzi a total embarrassment to professional women!! Nuzzi
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37% of Republican voters believe "the Holocaust of Jews in Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe". That's compared to 19% US voters overall. Among a sub-sample of Hispanic GOP/Trump voters, that goes up to 78%(!)
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