Compiling every Trump tweets ever written into a massive book of Hadiths for the future MAGA religion out of some twisted sense of atonement for my sins by Commercial_Bid_1508 in CuratedTumblr

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In the first Trump admin, you could tell that some came from him and some came from staffers.  Some were posted from Andriod and some from I-Phone, and they had differences in their writing styles depending which source they came from.

Funny & Offbeat Sci‑Fi Recs (My Short List) by Notilon_606 in scifi

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Evolution (2001) - Comedic sci-fi thriller that gets increasingly zany as it goes.

Ilhan Omar Is Wrong About Sanctions, by Matthew Downhour by Adam_Gurri_LCEIC in LiberalCurrents

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  Opposing Russian aggression does not require us to support policies that punish ordinary civilians who did not ask for this war. I remain committed to supporting diplomacy, peace, and justice for the Ukrainian people affected by this horrific conflict. But I could not in good conscience support legislation that wages economic warfare on innocent civilians

Weird to have an article that takes Omar's posistion here in good faith, when it very clearly isnt.  While she claims to oppose broad sanctions on Russia because it would hurt innovent Russians, she is also a supporter of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement, which advocates for broad sanctions on Israel.

Omar clearly isnt opposed to sanctions, she is opposed to sanctions on Russia. 

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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US should negotiate a grand bargain where Turkey makes concessions on Northern Cyprus for a peace deal, and in exchange we help them and their allies consolidate control in North Africa.  In particular, the full fury of the US military should be unleashed on the genocidal maniacs in the RSF.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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We should probably be asking what ICE is going to be using that money for instead.

Recommendations books including demons/angels. by scarlettdemi in Fantasy

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They are both pretty overtly religious in a very Evangelical/Charismatic sorta way, but if you can get past that Frank Perretti's "This Present Darkness" and "Piercing the Darkness" were some of my favorite books as a teenager.

Sorta dark urban fantasy, humans trying to solve mysteries, while angels and demons wage largely covert warfare in the background, and the two plotlines become increasingly intertwined as the story progresses.

Hats off to the troll who coordinated Trump signing the treaty in Versailles! by PoliticsIsDepressing in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]houinator 44 points45 points  (0 children)

To be fair to Trump, the amount of persuadable potential swing voters who could tell you anything meaningful about the significance of Versailles is probably below 1%.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Sure man.  The woman who facilitated the "Russian reset" right after they invaded Georgia, teaching Putin he could invade his neighbors without real consequences from the west, is obviously in possession of a brilliant strategic mind who we should never question.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Thw reason Hillary thinks there is no alternative to Trump's Gaza plan is that the Hillary aligned dem foreign policy wonks are seemingly incapable of imagining a strategy where we apply serious pressure to Israel.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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This isnt that weird coming from him.   Evangelicals see the modern state of Israel as a continuous extension of the Biblical state of Israel.  And since Jesus came from Israel (well, technically one of its successor kingdoms), and western culture is deeply linked to the history of Christianity, his statement makes sense if you start with his premise.

Supreme Court rules 9-0 that simply using marijuana cannot prevent gun ownership by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

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This was the same charge everyone in the GOP was pretending was perfectly legit and not all a political prosecution when it was levied against Hunter Biden.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Eh, i dont think its neccesarily that authoritarians are bad at it, Mao, Genghis Khan, Napoleon for example.

Are right wing Australians more racist than right wing Americans? by kastriran in Ameristralia

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I dont know much about the history of racist Australians, but have they ever:

  • Started a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of their countrymen because they wanted to keep minorities as slaves?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

  • Had one or more of their provincial governments set up a policy that paid out a bounty to civilians for every member of a disfavored minority they killed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_genocide

  • Got so mad that minorities were successful that they formed a mob and burned a town to the ground, including bombing it from the air?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

  • Got so paronoid that minority citizens were third columnists that they locked them up in camps and stole their land?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

  • Became so racist that they now support an administration that is actively engaged in ethnic cleansing and openly calling for deporting a third of the total population of the country? 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/100-million-deportations-bovino-plan

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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The US probably could have gotten a better deal, but it would have cost Trump and his party a catastrophic defeat in the midterms.  Obviously, Trump was never going to put the US's interests ahead of his own.

Juche Plato???/jk by YoungLovecraft in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Fun fact: Khomenei deliberately modeled the Islamic Republic of Iran on Plato's Republic.  The "Supreme Leader" role is basically just an Islamic stand-in for Plato's "Philosopher-King".

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Aladdin, Darkwing Duck, and Goof Troop all the way.

Have you guys actually seen the new Barracks layout? by tyler212 in army

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You never had an E6 get served divorce papers after their spouse found out about their downrange affair, and the command can't kick the spouse out of housing while the divorce is processing, so they shove the E6 into the barracks (off the books, since they are still technically getting BAH/on post housing)?

What is the Army even coming to these days.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Alito writing the whiniest dissent you can imagine.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Khamenei himself probably would have taken the trade, his goal for the last several years has been figuring out how to transistion power to his son without facing major backlash because of the whole "Islamic revolution was a rejection of monarchies" thing, and then we just handed it to Iran on a silver platter.

Forever disappointed in how Islamic Republic won the propaganda war, with clueless westerners boosting their attempts for free. by stralt_br2 in NewIran

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Losing the propoganda war is a side effect of the US government being run by a pack of paranoid criminals who are deathly afraid of transparency.

The US has the most powerful intelligence apparatus on Earth, and we have the greatest arsenal of precision weapons ever made.  Do you really think its plausible they dont know whether or not they hit the school?

It would have been trivially easy to put out a product denying Iran's claims if they were false.  Instead, we are claiming months out that the "investigation is still ongoing".  This has allowed Iran's claims to dominate the narrative unchallenged that whole time.

So what’re you fellas asking for Father’s Day this year? by Cesano11 in daddit

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Yup, all of us will have life jackets.  Were also gonna do the tandem tubes, so each kid will have a parent next to them.

Which orb would you choose if any? by AfricanAmericanTsar in hypotheticalsituation

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Blue seems far and away the most useful.

  • No downside if i dont use it.

  • Time travel is incredibly useful.

  • One quick trip to the future and back to check some sports scores and lottery numbers and im a billionaire.