Philippe Lemoine
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Technically a philosopher, still has a PhD to finish. I write about stuff. Directeur de la recherche à @Hexagone_org. "At least he's pretty smart." (@bechhof)
Joined April 2017
"Sir, the Americans don't know that Martinique and Guadeloupe are part of France, they have only slapped a 10% tariff on them."
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I'm hardly a starry-eyed supporter of the Trump administration, but I just finished watching Vance's speech in Munich and I'm not going to lie, watching him giving it to those self-righteous hypocrites for 20 minutes while they were standing there in disbelief was glorious.
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I fixed it.
why did so much of the best food in the world come from this circle
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It's worth noting that, in order to make it possible to rebuild the cathedral so quickly, the French parliament had to vote a special law that effectively exempted the project from most of the regulations that would have normally applied and slowed it down considerably.
France rebuilt fucking NOTRE DAME faster and cheaper than it takes San Francisco to add a rapid bus lane
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I don't think it's possible to give less of a fuck than this guy.
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I still can't believe that a French junior high school teacher was beheaded, his fucking head was separated clean from his shoulders, in the street because he'd shown caricatures of Muhammad during a lecture on freedom of speech. This is insane.
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I don't think Americans realize how absolutely insane the way in which they organize elections is to the rest of the world. Like if I stopped random French people in the street and explained to them the concept of a ballot drop box they would 100% think I'm fucking with them.
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(Surprisingly) unpopular opinion: Wikipedia is one the greatest achievements of the human race.
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It would be funny if Americans ended up destroying the European alliance, a huge power multiplier for the US, for the sake of defending the right of Israel, which has never brought the US anything but headaches, to commit war crimes.
Graham: So to any ally, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, if you try to help the ICC, we're going to sanction you.
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It's really something.
I've never really cared about fencing until they showed it in the Grand Palais. Wow
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Even the ballerinas from the Opéra de Paris are on strike, but instead of not working, they gave a free representation of Swan Lake in front of the opera house.
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We're at the point in France where, in most large cities, immigrants are responsible for between 1/3 and 1/2 of reported crime or even more than that, but there are people seriously explaining that Science has demonstrated immigration has no causal effect on crime because a paper.
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I feel like there hasn't been enough discussion of the fact that Musk fired most of Twitter's workforce 18 months ago and, despite apocalyptic predictions, it still runs fine. I suspect the same would happen at many other companies. What does this say about corporate governance?.
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A French journalist asked an IDF spokesman whether they still believed there was a Hamas command center under al-Shifa Hospital, pointing out that the evidence presented after the IDF seized it didn't match the original claims made by Israel. He replied that it was
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This will be bad for the US, but for some countries, it will be absolutely devastating. In particular, Vietnam's exports to the US are like 1/3 of their GDP, so I think he just nuked their economy. You can forget about bringing them on board against China now 🤷♂️.
Here's the list of Trump's new tariffs (and the completely made-up tariff rates in other countries)
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France organized an election involving 50 million voters on 5 continents in 3 weeks and we'll have the definitive results a few hours after polls close. Just a reminder that how things work, or rather do not work, in the US is not normal and that it shouldn't be a partisan issue.
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Criticizing Israel online is a wild experience because it can do the craziest shit, like air strikes against a consulate or shelling a hospital into oblivion, but people will still talk to you as if you were insane for even thinking there might be something wrong with that.
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White people are significantly more at risk of being victimized by black people than the other way around. This isn't because white people are the majority, it's because black people commit way more crimes and seem to have a preference for white victims 🧵
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Not only does it show no such thing, but it couldn't possibly show that, because that's obviously false. Immigration has a large impact on crime in Germany and this paper is just another example of politically-motivated academic malpractice. Let's take it apart 🧵.
German study finds that migration does not lead to an increased crime rate
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"The far-right blames the riots on immigration, but only 10% of those arrested are foreigners while the other 90% are children or grandchildren of immigrants and were born in France, so clearly this has nothing to do with immigration. Look at me and how smart I am."
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I'm sorry but this is objectively hilarious and nothing you say will convince me otherwise.
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I often see Americans deny that, keeping income constant, Europeans enjoy a higher quality of life and to be honest that's just baffling to me. Where exactly you draw the line between GDP per capita and quality of life is ultimately subjective, but if you don't think that being
It's not just the absence of cars, although that's actually really nice and not something I would downplay, but yeah European cities are in fact aesthetically much more pleasing than their American counterparts in general and it's not even close to be honest. It's not just true.
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Avec la bande son, les étrangers qui regardent ont une assez bonne idée de ce que ça fait d’être à une soirée avec des Français de plus de 30 ans quand le mec qui gère la musique est complètement torché, mais je ne me plains pas personnellement.
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Les Chinois vont nous piquer 10 ans d'innovation en études de genre, c'est un désastre sans précédent dans l'histoire de l'espionnage industriel.
🇫🇷🇨🇳 Sciences Po aurait été espionné pendant 10 ans, de 2011 à avril 2021, par le renseignement chinois ⤵️.
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So it turns out that the stabbing video girl didn't actually have a job at Deloitte but was only scheduled for a 2-week internship over there at the end of summer. Now she set up a GoFundMe and has already made $8,645 🙃
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I’m sorry but it’s objectively hilarious that people who spent years calling students snowflakes ended up deploying snipers against them because they were scared of slogans.
Sniper on the roof of the IMU. Absolutely unhinged response to a nonviolent encampment by a murderous and paranoid police state.
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I think Trump's greatest superpower might be his absolutely insane ability to make everyone he has a fight with lose their mind. The Colombian president was just the latest person to fall victim to that, but he wasn't the first and he won't be the last.
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Je plains les gens qui se moquent de l’hommage rendu à Johnny, sans comprendre que ce sont aussi ces émotions collectives qui font que nous sommes un peuple, plutôt qu’un simple agrégat d’individus.
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Anecdotally, zoomers seem to have a strong preference for video over text even when they're intellectually curious, which I think is really bad because text has much higher information density and as a result video is a very time-inefficient way to learn stuff.
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Americans *genuinely* believe they have better food than France. They really believe it. It’s truly extraordinary.
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Trump is a clown, but to be honest he's the only politician in my lifetime about whom I've felt that he was a world-historical figure, the kind of bigger than life figure you read about in history books. Hegel saw Napoleon after the Battle of Jena and saw in him the world-spirit.
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It's mind-blowing how rapidly population is going to crash in some places unless fertility recovers. For instance, in South Korea, the population is projected to halve by the end of the century. There is going to be ghost towns and abandoned buildings all over the place.
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So many Arabic speakers have reported that the translation was grossly inaccurate without anyone even trying to deny it that, at this point, I no longer have any doubt that it's true. You can learn a lot about people's intellectual honesty or lack thereof by looking at who.
“Here, these are the girls who can get pregnant.” . This is video footage depicting the horrific kidnapping of 5 female Israeli hostages: Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniela Gilboa and Naama Levy. They have been held hostage by Hamas terrorists for more than 230 days
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The Israel lobby influences policy in various ways, but while people focus on campaign contributions, I don't think it's the main mechanism. If you ask me, this video perfectly illustrates how it more often works, which is far more mundane. Basically, every time you say
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The man in the middle is Col. Arnaud Beltrame, who offered himself to be swapped for a woman kept as a hostage by a terrorist last week. While in military school, he finished at the top of his class, which earned him the honor of holding the flag. He will not be forgotten.
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Ok mais il faut aussi prendre en compte les aspects négatifs d’une victoire du RN.
"Si le RN est majoritaire, le lendemain, il n'y a plus de France-Inter".(Silence lourd des journalistes face à cette menace évoquée par Gabriel Attal)
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Think what you will of Bernie, I'm hardly a fan myself, but this ad is the bomb.
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People in the West see the fact that we sanctioned Russia into the ground as a moral triumph, but I suspect that in the rest of the world, many people see that the West can destroy the economy of any country it doesn't like whenever it feels like it and they are less excited.
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LMFAO.
Donald Trump Truth Social Post 08:50 PM EST 01/26/25
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Since the NYT doesn't seem to be very interested in the victim, here is a picture of him. His name was Samuel Paty, he was 47 years old and a father of one. He was killed for doing his job, something that isn't going to happen to anyone at the NYT anytime soon.
A high school teacher was decapitated for blasphemy in France—the most secular of nations—and the @nytimes frames it like this
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Honnêtement, quand on en arrive à envisager que l'essentiel de la population vive en logement social, c'est qu'il est temps de revoir complètement le système.
Cette proposition pour passer à 36 millions de logements potentiellement sociaux en France.
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It’s kind of funny that France basically started a civil war in Pakistan and 99% of people in France don’t even know about it.
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The next time you're inclined to say that something will *never* happen, think about what you would have said if someone had shown you this picture 10 years ago.
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When I was in undergrad, a girl taking the same class as me asked if we could meet outside class because she wanted to "talk about the course", so I had coffee with her and she listened to me talk about Aristotle for 2 hours. Absolutely incredible level of cluelessness.
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As Chomsky famously noted, when you read a piece in the New York Times, you should always start at the end.
The New York Times reports Israeli military is torturing people by impaling them with hot metal rods in their rectums and tying them to electric chairs. This information is buried at the end of a single article where these details are unmentioned in the headline or subheadline.
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The most remarkable thing about the invasion of Iraq in 2003 is not that it was criminal, it’s that it made absolutely no sense. People memed themselves into believing it was urgent to remove Saddam after 9/11 for absolutely no reason. It’s really amazing when you think about it.
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I'm going to be judging people based on their ability or inability to put aside their opinion about Trump and acknowledge that this picture goes extremely hard.
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Je suis à 2 doigts de fonder les Jeunesses Pernautiennes après ça.
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At the end of the 19th century, a Palestinian Arab notable published an ad in several Arab newspapers, asking for help to collect the works of a pre-Islamic poet. Not a single Arab scholar replied, but several European scholars of Arabic literature did.
The British learned more about India in 200 years than Indians had learned about India in 2000 years. The French deciphered ancient Egyptian in 100 years, something Egyptians themselves hadn't done in 1000 years. Post-enlightenment Europe was a man among boys.
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I'm also in Paris and nobody is lamenting that "America can no longer be seen as a beacon of democracy". Americans really need to understand that nobody in the world except them talks like that.
I am in Paris, I have not had one conversation where I am not asked what has happened to America. All lament that America can no longer be seen as a beacon of democracy. All in shock.
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My basic model of student protests is that in general students don't know shit about what they're protesting against, they do it because it's cool, makes them feel like they're part of something important and they want to be with their friends. In the vast majority of cases,.
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It's not just the absence of cars, although that's actually really nice and not something I would downplay, but yeah European cities are in fact aesthetically much more pleasing than their American counterparts in general and it's not even close to be honest. It's not just true.
There are plenty of places to drink beer outdoors with your friends in America. Is there really that much aesthetic value in doing so on a street with no cars?.
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I've already said that but one of my favorite things about Twitter is seeing a prominent academic engage in a very technical debate with someone who has an anime profile picture and get absolutely destroyed.
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This whole thing is like a Monty Python sketch.
A shooting was caught on camera at the George Floyd Autonomous Zone on the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death. The area has seen a spike in violent crimes, including one murder, since police were chased out.
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It's just baffling to me that people think this will hurt Trump. It's funny, make him look like a normal and nice guy and he'll get a ton of free media because of it.
Thank you to whoever on his team told him this was a good idea.
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This is your periodic reminder that colonization was a money pit for France and is obviously not what made it rich, but rather it's because it was rich that it was able to colonize Africa. Today French trade with Africa is tiny and we're a net exporter of food products to Africa.
France didn’t do anybody a favor by “letting” Algerians, Malians, Senegalese and others they robbed come live there and work like dogs. Africa does the favors. African gold, African labor. Africa feeds France. African soldiers shed blood for France in WWI and WWII, and the troops.
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Four *3-year old* children were stabbed with a knife by a maniac, and two of them are now in critical condition, but what the sophisticates are really concerned about right now is that the "far right" may exploit this incident 🙃.
"It seems to me the French police, not the anti terror unit have taken charge which tells me it's not a terrorism case but my fear is regardless of the outcome the fact that the suspect is a refugee will be used by the far right.". @FawazGerges on the attack in France. 📺Sky 501
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France: we’re capable of both the best and the worst, and we’re the best at both.
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Okay, very unpopular opinion here, but while the university presidents in question handled this very poorly from a public relations perspective there is nothing fundamentally wrong with their answers and Stefanik should be much more ashamed of herself than any of them. First,.
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?. The
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The problem with the right of asylum is that it was created with people who were specifically targeted by their government in mind and not for anyone who lives in a tyrannical government. The system just can't work like that, because if you follow that logic, it means that a.
Italian judges have ruled against Meloni's policy on repatriating illegal immigrants, particularly from countries deemed unsafe due to severe human rights violations. A notable case involved Egyptian immigrants, with the court determining that returning individuals to Egypt was
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Trump: "I’m assembling a team."
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Members of the CFA franc zone have to deposit 50% of their foreign reserves with the French Treasury, which in exchange guarantees the unlimited convertibility of the CFA franc to the euro at a fixed parity, but she thinks it means France gets 50% of their export revenues 😭.
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Comment faire son propre masque en 30 secondes avec un chiffon et 2 élastiques sans même avoir besoin de coudre.
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My hot take after listening to the Tape is that Trump is the most honest politician in recent history because it's clear that he 100% believes everything he says about electoral fraud and he is no different in private than in public.
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I'm sorry but the fact that Trump may not only win but that support from Hispanics, Blacks and Arabs may conceivably be what tips the balance in the end is objectively hilarious and nothing you can say to me will change my mind about this.
New poll: Trump is getting record levels of support among young Black and Latino men
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Trump's campaign stunt at the McDonald's must have been 100 times more cost-effective and that's probably conservative.
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It's really hilarious that those people don't understand that, when some groups are overrepresented in reported crime by a factor of e. g. 5, if a paper using sophisticated statistical jujutsu finds no effect the rational thing is not to believe the paper.
@phl43 Why look at simple crime statistics when much more convoluted methods are available?.
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Let’s have a thought for that French guy who bet $30 million on Trump based on a hunch and who must be swimming in champagne right now.
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Let me summarize how Israel's war is going: it's way behind on schedule in taking control of the Strip; Arab normalization has been stopped in its tracks and is now made conditional on progress on a two-state solution that Israel categorically rejects; it's running out of both.
Egypt: The currency is in free-fall . Black market rate: 1 dollar = 70 pounds.Official rate: 1 dollar = 30.9 pounds. The pounds has weakened by nearly 24% in the market in 2024.
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In case you have forgotten, let me remind you what the IDF originally claimed was under al-Shifa Hospital.
The Shifa Hospital is not only the largest hospital in Gaza but it also acts as the main headquarters for Hamas’ terrorist activity. Terrorism does not belong in a hospital and the IDF will operate to uncover any terrorist infrastructure.
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It's extraordinary that in the space of 30 years we went from homosexuality being treated as a perversion to having blasphemy laws protecting gay symbols. A remarkable case of something happening "gradually, then suddenly" that would warrant more reflection in my opinion.
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It's wild how Americans just think it's perfectly normal to impose sanctions on China to slow down technological and economic development. They don't even feel the need to argue that it's morally and politically justified, it's just taken for granted and treated as obvious.
Huawei's new AI server is insanely good.People need to reset their priors .This is why banning H20 without banning tools and sub components is idiotic because Huawei is not far behind H20. The admin needs to act fast to slow down Huawei's ramp or the H20 ban will be useless.
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Once again, I totally understand opposing Trump politically, but if you can't acknowledge the obvious fact that he is hilarious I will judge you.
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I'm doing my best to ignore them, because I don't trust myself to remain civil if I don't, but when I read some of the takes about Notre Dame I have to say that some people have absolutely no fucking shame. They are literally enemies of civilization.
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Macron is not doing anything when Algeria, a country with a GDP per capita of $5,000, refuses to take back criminals who are staying in France illegally because he's shitting his pants at the idea that the Algerian diaspora in France, whose presence we are constantly told is the.
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In this post, I make the case for optimism about the pandemic by arguing that, although SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, you shouldn't worry about it. I make 3 main points in the post that I summarize below, but you should read the whole thing 🧵
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Voici le vitrail, dessiné sur un iPad, installé l'année dernière dans l'Abbaye de Westminster pour célébrer le règne d'Elizabeth II. Après on s'étonnera qu'on se méfie quand des mecs nous expliquent qu'il faut profiter de la reconstruction pour moderniser Notre Dame.
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If you had told me a year ago that I would live to see the ICC issue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, I wouldn't have believed you. It's hard to understate what a reputational and strategic disaster this war is for Israel.
#ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️.
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I keep reading people who explain that tonight's results show that Macron's decision to call snap elections actually was a genius move after all and I can't stress enough how disconnected from reality that is. Literally not a single person who knows anything about French politics.
The paradox of tonight's results is that Macronist deputies actually did pretty well, at least compared to the disaster they were looking at just one week ago, but Macron himself is in a world of trouble because it will be very hard to form a government and people will blame him.
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The US really looks like a huge, open-air insane asylum right now.
In an incredibly powerful moment, Police Chief Michael Shaw, urged by chanting, joins the crowd laying face down on the pavement @telegramdotcom
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Remember how we used to make fun of Europeans for cheering the start of WW1 in 1914?.
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Why do I have the distinct impression that most of what therapists do is tell their patients that their insane worldview is not in fact insane?
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I know they're heavily selected on education, but it's still hilarious how Asians in the US couldn't commit a violent crime even if their life depended on it.
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@woke8yearold I'm picturing in my head a redneck from Pennsylvania opening his door to find an Indian lady telling him to vote for Harris in a British accent because Trump is homophobic or whatever and somehow I find that very funny.
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The ongoing meltdown at the Washington Post illustrates something important about this website, which is that once you start following journalists and academics on Twitter, it becomes much harder to take them seriously.
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I don't think people abroad can even imagine what drama is unfolding in France right now as a result of Macron's decision to call snap elections. I don't even know where to begin in order to explain it.
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Once again, the real problem is not so much that antisemites are employed by elite universities, it's that as a result of the confusion between scholarship and activism elite universities employ a lot of morons.
Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford speaking about Hamas terrorist attacks. Shameful @Cornell.
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I was aware of developments in AI, but until recently I had not looked into them closely, partly because I was busy with other things and figured that I would do that later and partly because I had not realized how fast the field was moving. Now that I have started to do it, I'm.
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My hot take is that perhaps the main reason why the traditional elites hate Trump so much is not because he is corrupt, but because he is corrupt in a totally obvious way, whereas their corruption is more subtle and typically consists in bending the rules or exploiting their.
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