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@richard_normal Tbh, if you get through 4 hours of focused work in that time, that would be a decent day.

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@fasc1nate It may surprise you, but it was possible to be a proud and patriotic German, a fair competitor, and a decent human being.

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@alon_mizrahi People loathe Israel, Alon. Not Jews.

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@funkmasterMMA 2-2? Come on Aljo! That was 3-1 Islam at worst.

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@PriceAtkinson @orikron Yes, yes, let the impotent bitterness flow through you.

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@Glenn_Diesen Ouch. The truth hurts. So much for "Great" Britain.

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1 year

@DavidWolfe Good, nobody needs to see this. It's just gratuitous voyeurism. And no, whatever addled political point you want to make does not justify it.

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@cheer_wine Indeed, the Pope's personal view is consonant with an understing of the infinity grace and mercy of God.

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11 months

@boriquagato Blowhards like Galloway ask for forgiveness while showing no real contrition, and worse, having condemned and marginalized any dissenting opinion at the time. Their concessions are mealy-mouthed, grudging, and contemptible.

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@JackSlackMMA Trees don't hit back

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@eigenrobot What war was that? You mean the second world war where the Chinese kept the Japanese tied up and suffered more than 3 million military deaths? You people always overestimate your role in things - near complete freeloaders.

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1 year

@historyinmemes Wasn't a good part of this run completed by Seppala and that other great husky, Togo?

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1 year

@SullivanStar221 Just to let you know, this man took some time to adjust to puberty too. 3 years at least with a breaking voice, body hair, and suddenly feeling self-conscious around girls (to mention a few). Some of my male classmates took most of HS to adjust. It's not easy & never has been.

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9 months

@coldxman The lack of quotes I can let pass, but the lack of citation and for whole paragraphs of others' work is very bad. It's either cheating or shoddy scholarship. Either way, though, just very bad.

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@OlgaBazova Used to be that leading and serving your country was the highest political honour. Now, for many in Europe, it is a self-serving rung on the ladder to higher careerist positions in multi-national bureaucracies and quasi-governments like the European Commission.

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@martyrmade Russia seems to have been quite restrained so far & under some considerable provocation. But, part of that, I think is keeping one eye on a future war with NATO & not draining their manpower too much. Their officers have now gained considerable experience to prepare for that war.

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7 months

@okimstillhungry All you need to know is that it is the greatest game in the world. And nothing in all sport beats a great test match.

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11 months

@FischerKing64 To my lights the man appeared to be a gentleman, a soldier and a Southern patriot. A while ago it appeared people had the capability and generosity to respect that even if he was on the "other side". Less so, these days.

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@extradeadjcb Good God! The size of those mammaries!

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@MAstronomers Clearly a Borg Cube has arrived. The end times are upon us. And, given the state of the world, I can't say it's not too soon.

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1 year

@AndreasKoureas_ Thank you for this. I had always taken at face value the other - perhaps mainline - account. Appreciate your thread and the sources you cite in support of it.

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4 months

@ChampRDS The entertainment value of the man's talk outside the cage is inversely proportional to his performances in the cage.

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11 months

@mishtal Another hyperventilating shivering ninny.

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@Mericamemed @rshereme This is not true, some of them did but more fought in the Red Army. By the war's end about 7 million Ukrainians had fought in the Red Army and at all levels of the command structure. The German commander, General Paulus, surrendered at Stalingrad to Col Vinokur (Ukrainian & Jew).

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@boriquagato It was interesting, but also frightening, how quickly the moral landscape shifted. It makes you wonder how deeply moral behavior is internalised, and how much is just following along and fear of getting caught.

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@LaocoonofTroy Wow, and from the BBC too. I'm glad I wasn't planning on watching it. Seeing another towering giant of my boyhood, Luke Skywalker, reduced to a defeated confused caricature in TLJ was enough. I'll keep Indy as he was, riding into the setting sun at the end of the Last Crusade.

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1 year

@LibertyCappy Umm, 244 years? Maybe 78 years actually?

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7 months

@Kasparov63 @TuckerCarlson Garry, unfortunately, no-one cares what you think or say. Sit down.

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5 months

@BruceDGilley Ah yes, another western academic pontificating to a largely Muslim people about what it is really all about, and threatening them to stay in line. At least you were honest, for as long as it lasted.

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@LawrenceOVok @fasc1nate You have no idea of my background or life, mate. Seriously. But, I'd try to have a little humility. Noone knows how we'll be when tested. It is easy to pretend to heroics while tweeting. If, however, you are one of those rare heroes, fair play to you.

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@toadmeister Given Warnies predelictions it was more likely all his many life choices.

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@BruceDGilley I'm just here for the well-deserved ratio.

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1 year

@GrantJupiter Thanks for this insightful comment. It's a reminder of something being lost, and that we took for granted growing up, the capacity and space to just play.

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@BoxingBusch Fatigue makes cowards of us all, except DDP.

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3 months

@Trystanto2 Mate, don't poke a dragon when your friends don't want to get burned.

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4 months

@ArmchairW Looking back, they seemed to think they could blitzkrieg over the Russians as in the textbooks. Instead, they walked into Kursk 2.0. Amazing disdain for traditional Russian military strength in artillery and combat engineering too. The flower of Ukraine's army paid the price.

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@ConceptualJames And yet, among the first thing Hitler did when coming to power in 33 - 34 was eliminating the Left faction in the Nazi party, and the Communist Party. You might want to do more reading, James.

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@LawrenceOVok @fasc1nate Hmm, I get that but we tend to forget that anti-semitism in different forms was a norm across all Western European countries for close to 2000 years. And even if you disagreed, it's another thing to go up against a whole system backed by the SS. That's a high bar for "decent".

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@JReinerMD Mate, the one thing Tegnell had that almost no other western senior PH official had was courage and moral integrity. To stick to the known, to pandemic plans, and the tried and true - to not follow China off a cliff. You fell far far short of that. You still do.

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11 months

@AGHamilton29 How much of this is real and how much overreaction on the altar of "safety"? As with so much else the last few years?

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7 months

@alon_mizrahi Ah, I understand you, now. I still think it will be OK. The history, inheritance and contribution of "Jew" is too long, rich and strong to be eradicated on the back of this and its antecedents, terrible as it all is.

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5 months

@mtracey If I recall right that was part of Stalin's horrendous post WW2 actions against Jews. What a foul person he was.

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Anthony H

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8 months

@freddiesayers Thanks for keeping these receipts, Freddie. So many ugly people got their kicks from the fame and power covid gave them. Heinous people of whom Sridhar is a particularly foul example.

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1 year

@tonyheyl I've seen some monumentally silly revisionist takes recently, and this one is up there. As for Monday morning quarterbacking... a fair few people at the time were speaking for sanity in a time of insanity. They were shouted down and shunned. Guess what, they were right.

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4 months

@HomericFuturist Industrial warfare, particularly since WW1, is a disaster for people and societies. Current drone warfare with constant ISR and no meaningful break in contact, terrifying. The old ways were better: march to a battlefield, fight facing your enemy, win or die, go home.

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4 months

@witte_sergei Yes. Anzac Day in Aus/NZ is the closest approximation I can think of. For Russia, 27 million military & civilian deaths. Everybody lost someone, directly or indirectly. The war on the Eastern Front was of a scale & ferocity never before seen & God willing never to be seen again.

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@legallymom2 Some were permanently broken. Others, it unearthed and legitimised deep laden phobias about "germs" and other people. And the rest, given what they accepted, did, and said over the last 3 years, they simply double down - it's easier that way.

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@SwannMarcus89 Russia gets invaded all the time, mate. Having the largest continuous land border in the world will do that to you. Few get very far, if anything because of the size of the place. But the strategic experience of Russians is invasion from west/south/east and lots of fighting.

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6 months

@I_Katchanovski What a disaster this godawful war has been.

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5 months

@martyrmade Disagree. Hill saw the fight was back on and touched gloves. After that it was all legit, Pereira had seen enough and just walked him down and ended it.

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3 months

@RLHeinrichs China's observed that a cautious approach (Russia's) does not work against a bellicose West. Secondly, there's increasing public statements about growing capability to limit China. Given that, it makes sense for China to get in front aggressively now to expose Western impotence.

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1 year

@KelleyKga @JeromeAdamsMD Also, genuine flu is quite a bit worse than covid.

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Anthony H

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7 months

@anneapplebaum Like it or not, Moscow is one of the great world cities. I'd note that Tucker also talked about Singapore, Tokyo and Abu-Dhabi. Are you saying anything against those places too?

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4 months

@jn9P2wNTDV75069 @ArmchairW Wow, that is an amazing conversation. The Western disdain for Russian military thinking and capability is amazing. Even the Germans in WW2 had more respect for the Red Army - and they were the best army in the world at that time.

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1 year

@historyinmemes Oh. So tough. But, if I absolutely had to choose: "Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats HOOO!" The intro still gives me chills, all these years later.

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1 year

@humble_fool_0 @AndreasKoureas_ Oh, shut up.

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4 months

@ElbridgeColby Methinks you doth protest too much, sir. You dress up your thirst for continued primacy as balance, when your notion of balance is that heavily weighted in your country's favour and interests. This is fine, btw. Just be upfront about it. One gets so tired of American lies.

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1 year

@DrJBhattacharya It's clear that in their own particular twisted way, PH officials are rabid monotheists. Let there be no false gods before the holy trinity of mask, model and fear of the Other.

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1 year

@dwallacewells Good god, man. In aggregate, outcomes appear to have arrived at roughly the same place for most similar nations, irrespective of intervention. Therefore, lighter interventions were better. Both ethically & for trade-offs. Take the L, learn from it, stop posting cope & move on.

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@DrRadchenko @Andreas_Hopf Good for you. and respect for your honesty and transparent rigorous scholarship. It follows an old deep tradition of history and journalism, and is much needed these days in the noise of "this way or that way".

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6 months

@MattPolProf @_CLancellotti Jews were the internal enemy and Communists/Socialists the external enemy. In practice these could be conflated.

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4 months

@johnkonrad This is the most obtuse post I have seen in recent times. For instance, the uncritical assertion of 79 years of peace! Or, that this "peace" is a result of a "rules based order" where the relation is simply asserted. It reeks of liberal pretension and sanctimonious hypocrisy.

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Anthony H

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11 months

@FlaGator1998 @Sachinettiyil It's reverence and adoration for the Mother of God. Not worship. Mary is also a powerful symbol to Catholics and, of course, we pray to her to intercede for us with her son, Jesus.

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10 months

@SaturdayRNZ @huihoppa That, precisely, is the point. Such principles should be driven by the legislature, not the judiciary (or the bureaucracy). This has mainly been the fault of the legislature - now to be clarified, for good or ill, through debate and parliamentary process.

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4 months

@John_Hudson I think I just threw up a little.

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1 year

@disclosetv Good God! This was known in the before times. Infection from one coronavirus created broad based immunity against other coronaviruses. It's like the wheel being rediscovered all over again.

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6 months

@ClarkeMicah Pompey famously said, "don't quote laws to men who have swords" but even he was only half right. As covid re-affirmed, the law itself can be weaponised to harness the state's monopoly on legitimate violence (physical, emotional, administrative) against its own people.

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@zachsilberberg Good. SW was always better as a low-magic world. With tremendous feats reserved for rare occasions, usually by masters, and with significant costs or trade-offs.

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@Locati0ns It was short-lived and not as relevant as the Roman Empire. IIRC the Islamic i.e., Umayyad-Abbasid Empire was even larger and lasted a long time and was as relevant as the Roman to world history. People should definitely learn more about that empire.

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10 months

@caitoz This is a narrow and rather silly take. The real reason Israel are so bad at it is that they are full of the sense of their own exceptionalism. They've never had to seriously justify their vile conduct and simply lack the practice. You have to respect their crude honesty.

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@ShoahUkraine Hmm, don't think they'd have been just fine. It would have made something very hard even harder. The communications & transportation was the most crucial aid as it helped enable offensives 43-44. However, the defense of Moscow, Leningrad & Stalingrad 41-42 was almost all Soviet.

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1 year

@MikkoSulamaa @HMBohemond I was always more partial to Dwarven clerics. Frontline tanks with a mace, warhammer, or battleaxe! Come at me bros!

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8 months

@TheDrJon You are a liar and a fraud. A friend of mine was barred from seeing his dying father in hospital because of the draconian visiting rules. After pleading, he was finally allowed but his father was too far gone and was not able to recognise and speak with his son before dying.

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@prwhittle Wow. The Police Commissioner understands that policing, in the proper sense, can only happen with the consent of the policed.

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1 year

@danthehangman Great fight, Dan. Loved it when you bit down and went forward after the second half of round 2. Kia kaha, Captain New Zealand!

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1 year

@HMBohemond You forgot Paladin.

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Anthony H

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6 months

@BeijingDai South Asian countries are more likely to go with China than India. There's centuries of heavy handedness to deal with, and the arrogance of the Indian political class gets up peoples' noses.

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@ArmchairW Ha! It's an old tradition that the Russians have rather enthusiastically adopted. Also, that clip with Putin et al in a mosaic of the Cathedral of the Armed Forces is not accurate. Putin et al were taken out of the final version of the mosaic. That place gives me W40K vibes!

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4 months

@lin_linvy To be fair, Tsarist Russia was modernizing before the Communist Revolution. But, Tsar Nicholas was a weak and ineffectual ruler, true.

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@IIMehmet @ArmchairW I sometimes forget that, in its own way, Russia is a garrison state that values its war-making ability. And, has generally been this way for about 3 centuries at least.

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@ArmchairW It takes giant slavic-tatar-mongol brass balls to do that, though. Absolute chads, the infantrymen who charge into battle that way. A bit like the cossacks of old.

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1 year

@rickthedad1980 @ConceptualJames No, not really. But, that's a different discussion. Addressing James' claim, the Nazis allied with business and army and eliminated their Left faction i.e. Strasser's group, Left political opponents, and trade unions. A very right-wing Fascist thing to do.

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Anthony H

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@ArtaMoeini Interesting read. The project of an European super-state, if you are right, is a quixotic one and doomed to fail. That part of the world is far too fractious with countries' centuries' old sense of self not easily welded into a technocratic whole.

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3 months

@arealmofwonder I enjoy your posts, mate. Whether they are poems or words. Take a break, if you need to though. We'll be waiting.

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1 year

@jordanbpeterson Jordan, I like you and respect you. But, you do tend to sound off on things you know little about. You might actually want to read Marx - the man was no hero, but his critique of capitalism and the relations it engenders is instructive. Maybe start with Harvey's free lectures.

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@witte_sergei I avoid the gore as much as I can, from both sides. I have no wish to see brave dead/wounded Russian or Ukrainian soldiers. As wars go this has been one of the sillier ones.

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7 months

@lionel_trolling Another reminder that proponents of the working class know little about them or their lives or how and why the revolution happened.

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1 year

@DrJBhattacharya Covid's been over since Omicron. As to having fun, I don't know, Doc. That is a little tougher. Things are rough out there. But, we'll all be alright.

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Anthony H

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6 months

@john_ennis_btc @JoshuaSteinman Astute comment. The epochal war we keep reaching back to over and over was won on the blood, guts and backs of the Red Army and Soviet People. You rarely hear it acknowledged, though, from the West. But then, no man is a hero to his debtor.

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Anthony H

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8 months

@L0m3z He's also a hard working nerd family man. And dies a hero.

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3 months

@alexharmstrong @Nigel_Farage I can't say I particularly like Farage, but he is spot on about this and, like few others, was both clear-sighted and courageous enough to call it out in 2014; and, again in 2024. Respect.

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@t0nyyates I see Paul's tweets from time to time. Don't think I've ever seen one that counts as bilge and hate, and even if it did - so what? Does "hate" discommode you so much? My, you must be a delicate little petal.

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1 year

@LawrenceOVok @fasc1nate That's fair. As a mental test, would I have been brave and resisted? I like to think so. But, what if I had a wife and children? Honestly, I don't know. I do draw a difference here though between say those actively involved in the camps and those who were not. Cheers.

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Anthony H

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11 months

@BoxingKingdom14 @francis_ngannou He'll land zero of those against Fury.

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Anthony H

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4 months

@RWApodcast Shouldn't underplay Khabib as a Russian citizen. He trolled the audience hard after beating Johnson and making fun of Conor. IIRC, he said "I want to stay humble, but you guys talk too much... this is not trash talking. Irish only 6 million, Russia 150 million... alhamdulillah"

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Anthony H

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9 months

@VPrasadMDMPH I'm not so sure. As I understand it, she didn't quote a source but did cite it, on the page and in the bibliography. It's not technically perfect but is acceptable, imo.

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Anthony H

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11 months

@conan_esq Yes, I was critical when the movies came out. Watched them again not long ago and enjoyed and appreciated them much more. Not just in themselves, but also with the lens of the last 10 - 15 years. If LOTR were made now, it would be unwatchable.

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1 year

@JeremyTate41 The problem is that authentic wonder can't be taught and cultivated, only shared. Unfortunately, many teachers can't share what they don't have.

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11 months

@Volincelibate @extradeadjcb My morale is already on the up.

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1 year

@auseronearth @TheChurchInAsia Wirh respect, this is too narrow a view. The seed grows wherever the soil is good irrespective of borders. For a Catholic, Jesus is the Word made flesh and so the specific skin in which he was incarnated is immaterial. He is God as Man, skin colour doesn't matter.

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