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4 months

2024 movie thread--because as much as I use this site to shout into the void about politics, I promise I'd much rather be talking film

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The only truly random number generator is the one in Bill Simmons’ head when he says, eg “he was one of the 12 to 13 best guys in the league in ‘88” or “he’s one of the best guys we’ve seen in what, the last six to seven years?”

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I think it's pretty obvious that this is because the online left is composed of people like me--yuppies--who lost their millennial lifestyle subsidy at about the same time they had to to start paying for the wage increases of service industry folks we rely on for everything

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6 months

Yes this is what’s so maddening: we are in the middle of a huge rise in wages of low-income people, a big reduction in income equality. But the online “left” is behaving exactly like upper-middle class consumers, complaining prices are too high, largely because labor costs more.

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1 year

Find me 30 seconds of better comedic voice acting than Dan Castellaneta here. You can't.

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1 year

"Homer? Who is Homer? My name is Guy Incognito."

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@zachsilberberg There will be a Pixar movie equivalent of The Avengers in our lifetime. All of them in one movie. I'd bet my life on it.

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4 months

@lxeagle17 It’s one of the most inefficient “charitable” uses of $1 billion imaginable. I think “repulsive” is unfair, but it’s definitely deeply, deeply misguided.

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4 months

I’ve been saying this for years

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4 months

When I see English people talking about "Sainsbury's" I can't help but feel it's a made up caricature of a super-English store. At a fundamental level I guess I just don't believe England is real. Yes, yes, of course, the Sainsbury's tea shortage is a very serious problem.

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3 years

@ScottMGreer I think the Confederacy was easily on par w/ Nazi Germany, that postwar reprisals should’ve been way more punitive, and that Lost Cause cultism continues to do material harm to the wellbeing of Americans. I can also point you to at least 3 ancestors of mine who fought for the CSA

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1 year

@doulbedoink Some of your absolute best work. Need some time and perspective to be sure (and of course we’ll see what the numbers tell us) but potential pantheon-level tweet.

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2 months

@BeijingPalmer Large group of journalists seem to believe “news” is when the President walks up to you and gives you a story

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6 months

This is where I push back on the @whstancil "it's all media" bit. I think that's a big part of it, but really, it's more that the online left's revealed preferences don't match their years of cheap talk. When the rubber hit the road, they weren't really lefty class traitors!

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@GarrettNeiss This is exactly it. Constantly. “One of the 4-7 best guys in the ‘78-‘83 period.”

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1 month

I truly cannot believe the onion got even less funny under new management but that appears to be where we stand

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6 months

Notably, of course, none of their consumption habits have actually changed (see: consumer spending still being very high) they're just shelling out a slightly higher % of their income for yuppie stuff

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@ben_rosen @realaxelfoley “We have nukes now?” “Um, YEAH, we DEFINITELY have nukes now”

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6 months

Combine this with the fact that so many yuppies work in tech and other white collar industries which rely on/service tech (law, consulting) and in those industries, things really are way worse than they were 3 years ago (remember, there was a giant tech bubble caused by Covid!)

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5 months

@poorly_hidden I think “he was sold a scam” is way too generous for Dean personally. He did this because he wanted to.

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6 months

@IbaraEleven @whstancil This president abides by the law. The other guy running for president is telling you he won’t.

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6 months

@whstancil Education polarization and left wing posturing by chattering class college grads have both turned out to be less powerful motivators than "yuppies gonna yuppie." And I think that's just brutal for the political coalition that was already struggling to keep its working class base.

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1 year

TNT airing constant, incredibly graphic “Dr. Pimple Popper” ads during prime time NBA playoff games is materially lowering my confidence in the quality of the society I live in

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6 months

@whstancil Twitter is a small part of the actual conversation on the economy, so I don't want to take this point too far. But I will say that the Powell-worshipping neoliberal shills (of which I am a card-carrying member) seem to care more about lower income folks than "the online left"!

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1 year

Substance aside, the NYT opinion section is just a constant object lesson in “you can’t just dabble in comedic writing.” Like, you can’t be the most sanctimonious, humorless person on earth one day and then try to write gags the next. And if you try, you will invariably fail.

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1 year

For people who think the Family Circus is too sharp and incisive, there's always the opinion section of the New York Times

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3 years

@DukakisDude “America’s armed security forces should be subject to democratic, civilian control”

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8 months

@poorly_hidden basically, "if you manage to stay tethered to reality, you will become a normie liberal"

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2 years

@mattyglesias To be fair, I think "cops flouting rules" is one of those things that's like, horrible for social trust and people's perception of not just cops, but government. When the most visible agents of the state are constantly texting while driving or idling in bike lanes, people get mad

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@lxeagle17 @pandem1cleo But this isn’t going entirely or even mostly to “people who can’t afford to go to medical school” like it would if you endowed a scholarship fund. It’s going to “matriculants at one school.”

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2 years

@Neil_Irwin The point is well taken, but I think it's a lot less weird when you consider the fact that coverage of Mexican politics is overwhelmingly written in a language that the vast majority of American elites don't speak, and coverage of UK politics is overwhelmingly written in English

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@sbwnhtx @lymanstoneky Lol the ridiculously out-of-step-with-Americans social conservatism of the GOP is literally my only hope, man. By all means, I hope they double down on it.

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2 years

@mirandali @MeghanMcCain @_silversmith @SteveSchmidtSES @soledadobrien So you’re one of the 250 people who bought the book or what?

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1 year

@RottenInDenmark I think quite often about how EASY it would be in the right wing policy space to become a Chris Rufo. The only skills you need are a blind eye and unbridled shamelessness.

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4 years

@canderaid Easily my favorite brand of sour grapes Bernie post. “You had the ineffectual, the divorced from reality, the statistically unlikely to vote, the woefully politically naive and incompetent. And you could’ve released them to alienate actual voters. Alas.”

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2 months

@HughThunkIt @TheChefsGardens @whstancil point me to the crash, please

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10 months

@willystaley He is (actually) famously reputed within the legal community to be an incredible hang and wildly charismatic in person

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4 years

@docdhj @SidneyPowell1 @realDonaldTrump Do you really believe this? I'm a lawyer, and I can tell you with absolute certainty: this is among the shittiest complaints I've ever read--and I've read a LOT of really shitty complaints

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6 months

Hard to imagine celebrating NYE without listening to Paul Anka sing his famous song, “Imagine”

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@jaredlholt What if I don't think it's a fabrication of national news media, but I do believe that statistical evidence shows that Americans' purchasing power grew between 2019 and 2023 and is continuing to grow?

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4 years

There's a great column out today from @jbouie on the presidential election of 1800--for my money, the most important in our country's history--which I really recommend reading. There are two point's I'd add to the analysis, though:

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4 years

@Convolutedname It's fun to be at a point in American discourse where people announce ahead of time that they're going to have a temper tantrum

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9 months

The thing about Buttigieg is that he’s clearly just naturally smart and well-prepared for stuff and it stands out so much when he’s surrounded by… other American politicians

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9 months

Oh my god a GOP member of congress actually brought up the bogus “private flights” story to Buttigieg’s face. Immediate regret.

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7 years

@MZHemingway @BillKristol how humiliating would it be if your party was so fucking insane that it nominated Donald trump?

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4 years

@nominalthoughts @annehelen There's a whole mess of people out here loudly proclaiming "wow, Pete Buttigieg is way better than the not-at-all-connected-to-reality caricature that I formed of him in my head based on the shit 15 desperately bitter people in Brooklyn incessantly tweeted about him"

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@devahaz @lxeagle17 I don’t think it’s “terrible”! The problem is that this gift helps exclusively a pool of people who are very likely to end up upper middle class regardless of the cost of their tuition, and it will reach exactly no one who wouldn’t have gone to med school but for this gift.

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@whstancil Asking people “what percentage of wage earners earn the minimum wage?” is one of the most reliably informative thing you can do to gauge someone’s actual understanding of labor economics

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3 years

@LondonNewLibs Is this one of those things where in England, you spell “best,” the way we in America spell “worst”?

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4 years

@agraybee @Jezebel "Political advice from the most successful politician of the last 30 years? Um, no thanks."

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8 months

"America is fighting so many wars right now" and "the American economy sucks right now" are two obviously incorrect statements that are widely believed and both can be attributed, in part, to absolutely god awful media coverage

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6 months

@allen_hunter it's a fair point, but if your retirement savings were invested for the last 15 years, you had the benefit of just about the hottest stock market ever and the current inflationary environment is--at least to some extent--a course correction from that aberrant period

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3 years

Kyrie Irving “wants to play professional basketball” in the same sense that Susan Collins “wants to protect abortion rights”

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Kyrie Irving is reportedly nowhere near getting the vaccine, and can’t play basketball unless he gets traded according to NY laws. (via @ShamsCharania )

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4 months

“A right wing op-ed from a year ago is proof the economy is bad for working people”

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“It’s actually a great economy for working people.”

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3 years

@JustinMcElroy It is suffocating, in particular, to know that’s only the second best line in the skit: “because their arms are made of metal. And robots are strong”

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2 months

@CartoonsHateHer Classic case of “otherwise normal thing to say which is poisoned by southerners/evangelicals for whom the implication is tied up with much more fucked up stuff”

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@UpzonedHimbo @StVincentGrad23 @whstancil I will literally pay you to move to China.

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4 months

@jdcmedlock For the first one: good relative to keeping the money; very bad relative to the universe of other possible charitable uses of the money

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6 months

“I have multiple stupid friends”

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@lxeagle17 @pandem1cleo Sure yeah it’s often simpler and more expedient to just throw money at one thing instead of setting up your own, new thing. But there are already scholarship funds that have the infrastructure to screen for this. Giving to one of those would’ve been way better!

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2 years

@ne0liberal Yeah. Let’s give Korea statehood.

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3 years

@MZHemingway @jonathanchait Oh man this is super dumb

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4 years

@JerryDunleavy If Jerry Dunleavy is not actually two credulous children in a trench coat, then he could, and should, say so. After multiple days & repeated inquiries, he has not disputed the veracity of this allegation.

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Yesterday, I thought Robert Hur abruptly resigning and hiring Trump flacks meant he intended to continue his political hit job. Today, I think Hur has no ammo to keep smearing the president and hired these goons to help him deflect his gross breaches of prosecutorial ethics.

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4 years

@cjane87 @jacobinmag believing there's a "material basis for antisemitism" is... kind of anti-semitic, no?

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2 years

@LemieuxLGM Tempted to see if they'd apply this to fire extinguisher requirements; I mean, fire's not an OCCUPATIONAL hazard of being a lawyer.

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@LondonNewLibs @ne0liberal Well, it’s not JUST racism. It’s also sexism.

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@dnnation @JoeBiden Send Nathan Robinson to one of those Biden re-education camps I keep hearing about on OAN, but make him pay his own way

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1 year

@BeijingPalmer I’d accept a rule whereby every article about Yale must have a corresponding article about UW Whitewater

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1 year

Robert Pattinson is such a killer character actor; good at the other stuff, too, but man, dude’s just great at being a weird historical kind of guy

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9 months

Almost impossible to overstate how cooked The Onion is. This is them wading into a tiny little corner of Twitter and somehow adding less than your average poster. Just depressing as hell.

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@notkavi The "inexpensive, unpretentious French bistro" used to be a lot more ubiquitous. The equivalent of the checkered tablecloth Italian joint.

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3 years

@willwilkinson The proof is that this makes no sense if the threat isn’t credible. And right now, the threat of court packing does not even approach credibility.

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2 years

@runclepennybags @Neil_Irwin I think American elites pay much closer attention to UK politics than they do to French politics, or German politics, or Italian politics

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@lxeagle17 The 2016 left’s current unhappiness with the state of policy and the Tea Party’s happiness with Trump—who ignored or failed to execute most of their policy goals—is actually proof to me that neither group was remotely as interested in policy as they were aesthetics

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@ok_post_guy One of the most confounding characters on late Twitter

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@intothecrevasse I’ve watched a lot of videos of beekeepers in North Africa this way

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@poorlyreasoned All the leftists are libertarians now so I think they’ll be fine with this

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@Noahpinion No, they care about posting. If they cared about power, they'd try doing things reasonably likely to result in accruing power.

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@mattyglesias I condemn BOTH Fremen attacks on spice mining AND the Harkonnen government. This isn’t hard.

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@BeijingPalmer Also worth nothing that Palestine’s communist party (a real political party that competes in elections, albeit for a tiny sliver of the electorate) supports a two-state solution

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@mattwblakely "Democrats are out of touch with the working class so I will be voting for this guy"

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@conorsen I think it's pretty much 100% because they're women. Nobody gets surprised/offended when bros post shit about being "digital nomads" or whatver.

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This is a facially absurd claim that I think shows a really, really scary misunderstanding of what we’re up against

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Kissinger did far more damage to American democracy than Trump, it's not even close. Keep that in mind as you read the respectful tributes from the establishment he expertly flattered.

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What she's talking about here is Biden's decision to pause $300k in aid to Gaza. That $300k follows on from $121 million from his administration that has been delivered. I am no fan of Biden's policy toward Israel or Gaza. But this amounts to a willful distortion of the truth.

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@ryanlcooper @RealLouisQuinze That cat won the Iowa cat caucus and nothing you can say will convince me otherwise

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@dylanmatt I didn't think Todd Field was one of these guys; you must've had a different read on TAR than I did

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1 year

My girlfriend and I just spent 5 minutes debating whether or not our TV was advertising fake movies before finally looking them up. They are all real and KHUMHA leads the pack w/ a 44% RT score. A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN—a film that seems like it exists in another film—lands at 4%

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@TrekRanked @IbaraEleven @whstancil There’s going to be an election. Voters don’t like it when the president violates the law and or constitution. And it’s bad in its own right. So no, I don’t think he should.

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@DukakisDude That their bloc has no visible collective culture war valence doesn’t mean individual members are neutral though, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if there were swingers and nudists at the Capitol on Jan 6 and at pro-life marches in the wake of the Roe overturning leak

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My jaw is on the floor having just watched SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS @FilmForumNYC . What an absolutely perfect movie.

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@philippilk Phil, did you write your own Wikipedia page?

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@noobasuar @whstancil

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@revhowardarson Ah but you see, it was the political middle who refused to go to them, and thus their fault entirely

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@Noahpinion Forget the fact that this is typically bad “great man” history. Even if you do credit individuals for big historical achievements, the vast majority of people who’ve had outsized impacts on world history were utterly “normal” and that’s in no way an insult or denigration of them!

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This is a good summary of just how callous and morally gross Kissinger was. I guess it’s ***mostly*** just because he was still alive, but like, we all do get that ultimately “Republican presidents” were the ones who actually pulled the trigger on this litany of horrors, right?

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Regarding Henry

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@ryenarussillo Yeah I mean, criminal defense lawyer here: guilty people actually do send texts like this... all the time. Not remotely unusual or suspicious.

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@shipwreckedcrew This is so wrong as to call into question whether you, in fact, hold a law degree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it calls into question your ability to google answers to simple questions about how the American legal system works.

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@colinmort The most mortifying part of the left critique of this issue is the fact that packing people into planes like sardines is a really, really good way to cut carbon emissions

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@ditzkoff Excuse me but THIS is the Gone With the Wind reference we need to ensure that future generations can appreciate

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6 months

We must upend the “poster-to-academic” pipeline that has come to dominate late Twitter

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“30 Rock” provides a fascinating window into changes in progressivism over the last decade. When the series ended in 2013, Ta-Nehesi Coates observed, “One thing that I don't think 30 Rock gets enough credit for is how it handles race.” He said no show had “handled race better” 1/

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@hunncut My favorite example

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@agraybee I trust, however, that this guy’s friends/community will either a) hold him accountable and educate him about throwing around weird accusations against victims like this or b) drown him

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@MenshevikM Maybe this reflects poor managerial/personell-selection skills, too! Like the kind you’d use in running the executive branch. Just a thought. I like the guy a lot, and am closer on policy to him than Joe, but have always struggled to get past his obviously terrible judgment

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@ChrisVernonShow I prefer to frame this as “Memphis has their three best players totally healthy and got crushed by the Lakers, whose third best player is… Austin Reaves?”

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