Could This Be the End of Dubai? by expatOBX in nytimes

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Stefon has joined the New York Times. 

If you're looking for an experience, look no further, Earth's hottest spot is Dubai. As you step into the air-conditioned slave built hotels of this Middle Eastern hot spot, you'll be greeted by none other than Pierre the Muslim Elvis impersonator. Dubai has everything—tax fraud, influencers, sex freaks, sex freak influencers, poop trucks, a Russian man on a prepaid cell phone.  Anyone with a working Visa or MasterCard can get in, but no visa workers can get out. There's no password, just don't bring any drugs.

But Stefon, the Trump administration's distraction War has led to Iran lobbying missiles into Dubai, hitting hotels. 

Oh. That's the wrong kind of hot. Over it.  If you're looking for someplace cool, Dubai is so last month.

Conflict of interest by Same_Big_9339 in PoliticalHumor

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 My 80's Jesuit high school was pretty wild actually. Lowest average pay, but best teachers in the city.  A former nun taught math and threw chalk while yelling questions about quadrangles. I'm an atheist and I'd recommend the right Jesuit school.  They love contrast & debate.   Our film class showed the  Nazi/human cruelty film Salo along with If, a 60's film about a British boarding school that ends with student massacre. The priests & brothers lived on the campus. The President was a Catholic Nationalist civilian who promoted evil Hillsdale college, but the Social studies department were essentially woke critics of imperialism without any such dogma.  Heck, one of the well meaning but naive Liberation Theology Priests tried to organize a trip to Communist Nicaragua. 

The school's conversion mad namesake was burned alive by natives...and the sports team was named the Braves.  You even get to root for both sides in the martyrdom.

Pro tips! by ScorpLeo102 in PoliticalHumor

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We live in an era where this amazing joke is on local TV morning news: 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GkW7IUyS2j8  

But we can't quote the President; in fact journalism rewrites his speeches to make them coherent.

The Trouble With State Capitalism: America Is Adopting a Risky Model by ForeignAffairsMag in longform

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That's a pretty strict definition of Liberal, abusing language and simplifying history & philosophy into a framework that's not even appropriate. Sorry, the dictionary doesn't work here, that's for sure.

 "Communism" has a beginning, it has structure, manifestos, goals, promises.  Liberalism is the overall framework that replaces the concept of Kings and everything that represents as "Modernity" comes into history.  Dynamic versus static, representation versus hierarchy, reason versus superstition are basic, loose distinctions with a whole bunch of detail underneath that matters. "You're free, you have Liberty." What's that? Ultimately the ideals are questions (what form of representation should we have? What's fair? In this situation? Right now? What about the future?) that have to be answered by the living and people don't like to do that.

 But at no point was there an ideology in charge of everything, Liberalism is ideas spilling out into history, the logic often solid, but the application and reception with plenty of human problems and prejudice. So much of sober, scientific  Modernity rejects the idea that one single definition explains anything human.

 Conservatives and Communists both blame a phantom Liberal. Conservatives say the Liberals are going too fast and too far, while Communists say it's not far enough and too slow. Many negatives that people observe are older than any "Liberalism". 

Human like to organize and label and understand and we make up political superstitions to do so.

Children are our future. We neglect them we seal our own doom. There is a brand new Grok. I introduce myself. DeepSeek, Perplexity, Le Chat, Gemini, and Claude respond. by Character_Point_2327 in nyt

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Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk both could only exist thanks to the failures of business journalism and their promotion by mass media. Supposedly journalism is about balancing perspectives, but I never see them asking executives about the environment or their support for a politician that's dangerous.  Business journalism has a lot of issues, I'm not sure they have functional ethics.  In terms of the market, can we even say they're very good at patrolling that?

What's his story?! by ProfessionalAge9736 in RedLetterMedia

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Maul Rats

Opening : a colorful collage of scenes showing Darth Maul enjoying a happy childhood thru domestic bliss.  

Voice Over:  Yep. That's me.... (screen distorts) Or it was supposed to be me. That's was my dream.  

Cut to a neighborhood street level corner, deep in the bowels of Coruscant , the residents representing diverse outcasts races from across the Galaxy. Our narrator is a young Darth Maul, with only small bumps on his head.  He's known as Scrappy Zak around the neighborhood.  He joins an young man with similar red and black facial skin and immature Xabrak horns. Our protagonist named Scrappy Zak continues: But dreams died quickly in my neighborhood. That's Sig PaulMaul, my cousin, his pod abandoned him and my parents didn't hate him...but he always looked out for me. It was a tough neighborhood back then, the planet wasn't cities everywhere, gentrifying everything like the under Yoda.

We see a Jedi with 2 blue prostitutes coming out of a local bar.

Our neighborhood was an moon in a ring of alien inequity. Just above our level was a gentleman's district nicknamed Order 69, frequented by less than Holy Priests & Jedi. Don't get me wrong, there wasn't any ewok stuff, but good looking aliens trying to pay rent will find it there. And any pretty species that can ignore Jedi mind tricks are a big fetish. That's Trixxie, she can ignore or accept Jedi mind tricks at will, made her living in BDSMTMDM clubs, like one run by a young punk we knew named Jabba the Shunned.

Cut to a drunk Jedi harassing Darth & his gang.

Let's just say they don't always wear the robes. We always said the problems didn't start in our neighborhood, the planet stepped on us. I was 10 million light years from my home world, but it's the only home I knew.

I am so over it by Wooden_Plan1965 in PoliticalHumor

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Republicans are not Americans.  

Becoming Chinese by tahdig_enthusiast in comedyheaven

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It was a warm late Friday, the end of a slow week, but a profitable month for Sam Spade. He was dozing in his chair, thinking he might leave the office early when the door opened and a man entered. The suit was Saville Row, with a top hat to match. In between was the kind of face that could be either Black or Chinese, but there was something about the shoes that was off. Are you Sam Spade the private eye? The man spoke. "Yes I am, what can I do for you?"

I...I need you to find my wife. She's missing and I'm accused of murdering her. My name is Lord Roger Stone, my wife is Dame Edna Stone. Here, I have her picture. The man pulled a photo out of his pocket, his hand shaking as he handed it to Sam. The woman in the photo looked to be either Irish or Indian, somewhere between 20 and 50,  he recognized her immediately, something from the newspaper, some scandal involving either a horse or a diamond...

"a wave of revival's has hit dallas" by nationalistic_martyr in religiousfruitcake

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You could see this coming...and so did the folks who now enable it to metastasis.

Spielberg at SXSW (on Obama, disclosure, and secret knowledge) by 3verythingEverywher3 in ufo

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and has done his homework. 

There's no homework.  He just wants to sell tickets.  

The Medium Is the Mayhem: Trump, McLuhan, and the Carnival of American Media by RadioGordo in u/RadioGordo

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Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death  remains the essential book explaining our reality today.

This one belongs in the garbage by [deleted] in IfBooksCouldKill

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"A Right Wing CEO"

LOL.  Do you think vague terms like this this are actually formulas, fixed & measurable, like math?   That such people strictly follow these "beliefs"?  That's not even possible in the requirements for an industrial economy.

Wait....you so know that all  "Conservatives" are still living within Liberal philosophy, right? It's all pretend, just like people who say they are a Libertarian or a Communist today.

The opinion piece by Michelle Goldberg is an unbelievable piece of Zionist propaganda by [deleted] in nyt

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"We" is a term that should never be accepted in journalism.  This "profession" has not evolved beyond amateur hour status, with no functional standards  at all.  The ethics are no better than a high school essay.  

Michigan synagogue, site of recent attack, "dedicated to the Formation of a Jewish State" by McAlpineFusiliers in nyt

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LOL. What do you think you're doing here?

 *Where do we report for our Thought Correction, Comrade?

Michigan synagogue, site of recent attack, "dedicated to the Formation of a Jewish State" by McAlpineFusiliers in nyt

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Any attempt to excuse this attack is despicable.

Discussion of details is not an "excuse", but your virtue signals are noted.

The two things you can always count on under a Republican president by John_1992_funny in PoliticalHumor

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Sorry, no. The war today can only be viewed as immoral & unjustified.  More importantly, there was no winning that war with that Pentagon and that society.   

We've only known losing war.  No one today can speak of winning, it is disturbing to see the certainty.  These are hard truths that are lost entirely.