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Please remember to support my friend Nils, because US healthcare won't:
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I think it was Corey Robin who pointed out that a lot of conservatism is preserving private forms of unaccountable power. In this case, the arbitrary power of parents over children.
Now trans ideology picks on the parents
Please do read the actual bill. You will see it’s self ID by the back door & will stop loving parents parenting
thetimes.com/article/20cad62…
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The other aspect of this - which I actually wrote about a long time ago - is the claim to be defending one liberal principle (gay rights) by picking on another outgroup: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2…
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This is the second time in the last few days I've heard someone accused @NewYorker of homophobia. Benjamin Moser said Isaac Chotiner had made homophobic insinuations in this review of his "Antizionism: A Jewish History."
(1/2) Films are subjective so all opinions, both positive and negative, are valid.
But let’s not pretend that the gleeful “OMG Justin Chang, yes, please DO tear down this foreign language film from/about queer men that dared to emerge as an Oscar contender” bs is not fuelled by
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Our ancestors mostly emigrated before the Russian Revolution, so they sure as hell didn't flee "socialism." Or follow that line of thinking, given many later went on to vote for Roosevelt.
It’s Orwellian being a secular Jew right now. You have a lot of liberal friends, but you no longer fit the camp.
So you watch from afar as they celebrate the blue wave, convinced they just crushed tyranny and saved America.
And you’re thinking, shit… what they’re actually cheering is the election of a Senator and several Congresspeople whose agenda is to sever American ties with the only Jewish state, and whose ideology is the same socialism our grandparents fled a century ago. All from a party now vowing to “stop AI,”handing China the lead in the technology that will decide the next century.
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That is not why Britain entered World War I nor how those soldiers understood the Allied cause.
WW1 was such an unnecessary, disgusting mess. Scottish soldiers in kilts, in a trench that will be filled with mud, fixed bayonets as if they won’t be mowed down by artillery and machine guns before getting close to the Germans - and all to defend the neutrality of Belgium.
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In New Zealand's case, that might be because a general election campaign is underway, and the foreign minister is also a party leader.
World’s moved on but I haven’t. To underline my point CHOGM is broken Pakistan’s head of delegation was its High Commissioner to Canada, South Africa sent its High Commissioner to London and New Zealand sent its civil servant DG for legal and multilateral affairs in its foreign minister.
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If he'd been mayor, that whole mess in Sinners would never have happened.
If y'all see Cindy, tell her Mississippi has been looking for her for the past six years. #WheresCindy
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Oh, you think the drag queen isn't armed. Straight people *shakes head*
James Fishback says those concerned about America should buy an AR-15 so that "when James Talafreako is banging on your door with one of his favorite drag queens" to take your child away, "they stare at the end of a rifle barrel."
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That's not Turek. That's the gubernatorial candidate, Rob Sand.
Last night in Iowa, Josh Turek, a Democratic state representative, defeated the Republican congresswoman Ashley Hinson, a major upset in a state that Trump won by more than 13 points. A former professional wheelchair-basketball player, Turek becomes the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Iowa in more than a decade. Read more about how Iowa turned blue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ob…
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It was a real-time experiment to determine whether a progressive - hell, a DSA member (Nixon) - would do worse than a moderate, ex-Republican (jolly). And as it happens, Jolly was only 0.7% ahead of Nixon.
Florida is the absolute epicenter of MAGA and a democratic socialist nearly pulled off one of the biggest upsets in political history. What a tremendous campaign from Angie Nixon.
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