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@SevaUT
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An FBI raid on a former president sets a dangerous precedent by implying the rule of law applies equally to everyone.
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we criticize hollywood for lazy tropes but our two main antagonists right now is a former kgb agent with a penchant for poisoning and an emerald mine heir who wants to live on mars. if these were bond villains they’d be dismissed as caricature
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Carlson: what caused the war and why was it NATO? Putin: In 862 the people of Novgorod invited a Varangian prince…. C: and what about NATO? please say Nato P: Let us recall Yaroslav the Wise, who once had a dream about a Ukrainian witch….
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there are more trees in canada than there are stars in the entire galaxy
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What is a fact about your country that sounds made up but is actually true?
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by prohibiting jews from protesting against the abuses of palestinians, the german government has managed the impossible task of being antisemitic and islamophobic at the same time. kudos to germany, still the undisputed champion of this kind of thing
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1990s: no two states with McDonalds have ever fought a war 2020s: two rival McDonalds wage intra-corporate proxy war
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McDonalds Israel donated to the IDF, and in return, McDonalds Oman donated to Gaza. Corporations are fighting proxy wars with themselves. I love living in the future so much
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I continue to think the bigger threat of deepfakes is not in convincing people that fake things are real but in offering plausible suspicion that real things are fake
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one of my favorite moments in private space flight is when shatner came down from his trip with bezos and was like listen, space is death, I felt nothing but profound grief up there and bezos is like shut the fuck up let’s pour champagne on this motherfucker
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cancelling dostoyevsky because of putin is like killing an old woman with an axe because you are going through existential angst
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mongolia has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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protests across 53 russian cities, more than 1700 people detained tonight. the regime did not bother with counter-protests. I wonder if Putin underestimated just how unpopular this would be
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russia has only officially declared mobilization three times in its history - World War I, World War II, and a three-day special military operation
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because being american is a vibe not a nationality
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
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Something I'm curious about: why is America so much better at assimilating immigrants than anywhere else?
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"by today's left"... the man was so racist that when he was quoted in Birth of a Nation the filmmakers actually had to tone down the most racist parts
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what a great case of leveling up in the criminal ranks
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ISIS peaked too early, if they were around now they'd have a huge western progressive base
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german anti-antisemitism is so advanced that it's curved back into regular antisemitism
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James Jackson
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Philosophy professor Nancy Fraser, who is Jewish, has been uninvited from a guest professorship in Germany for signing a public letter in support of Palestine
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russia tried this exact thing in the 1990s and ended up having a years long shooting war between gangs until the state reimposed a monopoly on violence
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I remember someone had a theory that in children of men the rest of the world was actually fine and the UK just chose to Do That and every month that seems more plausible
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Rishi Sunak
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From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK. In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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billionaire: we need radical solutions for climate change. Think bold. Biofuels. Space mirrors. Plankton fertilization. someone: what about a 2% wealth tax? billionaire: …Cloud seeding. Turbine farms in the Sahara. A Dyson sphere.
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okay but the last time russia was led by a woman they took over crimea and eastern ukraine
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Stephen King
1 year
If a woman was in charge of Russia instead of the testosterone-fueled current leader, the war in Ukraine would be over by New Years Day and we could all breathe a little easier.
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please provide a better distillation of modern american conservatism than “your skirt is too short for our public execution” I dare you
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Lee Hedgepeth
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ADOC officials just told a reporter that her skirt is too short to witness the execution. Other reporters were able to find her pants to wear.
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the head of Russian foreign intelligence just said the West is trying to “cancel” Russia and I’m trying to think of a better way to demonstrate the absolute hegemony of american cultural power
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3 years
farewell to dmx and prince philips, two real ones. Both struggled to navigate issues of rule - ja and colonial, respectively
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had to be done
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the hard part isn't building the bunker, the hard part is making sure your head of security doesn't blow your billionaire head off the moment after the blast-resistant door closes
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Pop Crave
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Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a massive $100 million compound in Hawaii with an underground bunker, escape hatch, and a “blast-resistant door.” The 5,000-square-foot underground bunker will be self-sufficient with its own energy, food, and water supply, @WIRED reports.
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Dostoyevsky was an idiot. He even wrote a book about it.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@AntVenom Marx was a capitalist. He even wrote a book about it.
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if you go back far enough you can see the journal's original name, as a treat
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Dr. Gen. NickAdamsFan420 (Socialists For War)
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I just learned that Foreign Affairs has an archive going back to 1923. DO NOT read any of the takes.
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this is what I'm dealing with
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gorbachev in august 1991
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drew janda
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The haters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters
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how come it’s always “I’m against nuclear war so I think Ukraine should surrender” and never “I’m against nuclear war so I think states shouldn’t threaten nuclear war”
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1989: boris yeltsin visits a texas supermarket and is radicalized against communism 2024: tucker carlson visits a moscow supermarket and is radicalized against democracy feels like there’s a marx quote about this somewhere
@RonFilipkowski
Ron Filipkowski
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Tucker says after visiting a Russian grocery store he is “radicalized against our leaders” because Russians have it so much better than Americans.
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losing *the new york post* has to be some kind of phase shift
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I completely missed the odysseus discourse but just wanted to tell you this is the only true Odysseus of our times
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Nate Igor Smith
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This kid walked hundreds of miles to get to the Gathering of the Juggalos. After his girlfriend kicked him out he just started walking. He was carrying around this catalytic converter that he was going to sell to pay for his trip home.
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I can’t explain it but euro racism is more creepy and insidious than America’s. US racists will just blatantly spout ignorant shit but a nice german liberal will say things like “we should have an exhibition on jewish life and also include their natural counterpart, the arab”
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>"texian" >deeply concerned w warm water ports >dig spur
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Jack’s 🇺🇦House of The Way
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This is obviously a Russian. Only Russia talks about the value of a warm water port. Because the US as a whole has several and this has never been an issue for us.
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anti-war protest happening in moscow right now, despite all the crackdown measures
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Тот самый Мартин
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Сейчас в Москве. Люди скандируют «Нет войне!».
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“pro war crimes, but only against myself” is such an unexpected new category of person that I can’t help but be impressed
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“It makes no sense for Putin to kill Navalny” yeah man it also makes no sense to start a three day war that kills 150,000 of your people, I think we’re past that point
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walking into an american supermarket for the first time, at age 11, a few days after leaving Leningrad, is seared permanently into my brain as one of the most incredible experiences of my life
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what does it say about the russian economy that americans scrambling to boycott russian consumer goods are realizing the country makes nothing they use except vodka
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interviewer: so what are the origins of the russia-ukraine crisis pundit: well you have to go back to 2004 political scientist: well you have to go back to 1991 historian: In the 9th century, the Varangians established a loose confederation of states under Prince Rurik.
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nostalgic for a more innocent time when conservatism was not so focused on violence as a solution. not going to check if anything happened in 2003 to undermine my point
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so you support the houthis but also think your doordash order should be cheaper than cooking despite supply chain issues? very interesting
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I hate this framing because the “freedom” vs “order” tradeoff is not real. Russia has a higher homicide rate than the US. life there is shorter and more violent. if you’re choosing between freedom and order autocracy will get you neither
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HOT SPOT
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Jon Stewart unironically tells Tucker Carlson that the reason why the US can’t have clean functioning subways or cheap grocery prices like they do in Moscow is “the literal price of freedom”
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russian media is completely obsessed with vilifying the west but I don't think the average russian understands how little americans actually care about them. a whole country doing the don draper elevator meme
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I think it's hard for people under 30 to understand how casually conservative American culture was in the 1990s, but the enormous backlash to sinead o'connor is a good indication
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"poor waif in his underwear" is not an expression any US official would use, but it does happen to be a translation of an idiomatic russian phrase. Sounds like Hersh is getting duped by a Russian source pretending to be American
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Oliver Alexander
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Yes Hersh, this is definitely something a U.S. official told you and not just one of your many fever dreams or your Russian handler.
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I think Putin may have overestimated American audiences' appetite to hear about Prince Ryurik and Yaroslav the Wise
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there are americans all over the world, they just happened to be born elsewhere and haven’t made it home yet
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how many artillery divisions does taylor swift have
@sairasameerarao
saira rao 🍉
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The white American woman billionaire who could end the genocide of Palestinians with on IG post is TIME Person of The Year. White nonsense, white violence, white love of Black and brown genocide.
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@davekarpf @DavidKlion One morning, as Bret Stephens was waking up from anxious dreams about incivility, he discovered that he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.
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surprising number of people for whom "peace now" in gaza means occupiers should leave the land and "peace now" in ukraine means occupiers should keep the land
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russia has to have the all-time record for squandering a great civilizational spawn point. $75 trillion in natural resources and a quarter of the population doesn’t have indoor plumbing. how do you keep fucking up so badly
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having a pogrom because your war of imperial conquest has hollowed out your state capacity, truly a nineteenth century ass country
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imagine being sandwiched between two revanchist empires and just taking it easy as multi-party democracy without anyone even noticing, how does mongolia do it
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we didn't know at the time but in retrospect this was the moment america's great divide opened up
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gorbachev must be watching thinking what the hell, they tried to coup me for less
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not to point out the obvious but eighteen expired US missiles just caused the greatest single day loss in russian air force history. america's military industrial complex is just on another level
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self care is important right now
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me getting ready to lecture, week 1 vs week 10
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grim that don't slaughter civilians is the cringe centrist take to be mocked by left and right alike rather than a starting premise of any meaningful political program
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The most sophisticated AI trained on all human knowledge could never assemble a collection of words like this. You, a cynic, might think it's signaling the decay of humanity, but this headline gives us a precious glimpse of what it really means to be human.
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anti-vaxxers arguing that their grandparents never got vaccinated and survived just fine:
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I subscribe to NYT for breadth of coverage, everything from the campus politics of Harvard to the campus politics of Penn
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northrop grumman executive in 1999: our plan is complete. NATO has expanded to eastern Europe. [board members chuckle menacingly] Now to sit back and wait twenty five years
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Nathan J Robinson
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to everyone who wonders why the US expanded NATO knowing it would lead to war, remember that the US actually loves war because it's great for business
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there's an image of zelensky as a thieving big nosed jew in a major canadian newspaper, it's not even a big story, we're returning to pre 1950s norms of casual elite antisemitism
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my unpopular opinion is that it’s in the best interest of ukraine and europe to allow russian men trying to get the fuck out of russia to actually get the fuck out of russia
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Russia running the Marxian stages of history in reverse by going from communism to capitalism to feudalism
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Kirill Shamiev
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Russian regions will soon have the authority to establish their own private military companies and arm them, according to the proposed amendments being rushed through the State Duma. 1/5
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correct, most counts are 100-200 billion. Canada is estimated to have 300 billion trees
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@SevaUT We don't have an accurate count of the number of stars in the galaxy, but the upper estimate is as high as 400 billion. Could be 100 billion, though.
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personally this whole year has felt like a prolonged Soviet flashback, starting with toilet paper shortages and ending with evasiveness about the leader’s health. thank you 2020 for bringing back my childhood
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it's pretty crazy that 120,000 people are slowly being starved to death by a genocidal autocrat, but because their regime was vaguely dependent on russia western journalists have to cover it as a "complex situation"
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the anti-oppenheimer takes and the anti-ukraine takes have one fundamental thing in common, the belief that only the US and no one else could ever be an imperial power
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people who always half-thought of russia as some repressive nightmare probably don’t realize this, but the country went from a middle-income hybrid autocracy to north korean-like despotism in just under a week
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look who's suddenly in favor of people resisting an occupying force
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fellas,
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Actually Chris Rock made that slap inevitable by being in Will Smith’s sphere of influence.
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sure antisemitism is bad but you know what else is just as bad? protesting antisemitism
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an autocrat successfully fragmenting his coercive apparatus to deter coups: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! same autocrat realizing a fragmented coercive apparatus cannot wage war and will instead turn on itself: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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russia kills humanitarian aid workers constantly, they killed two french ones just a couple months ago. what is this compulsion to make russia the favorable comparison, it always fails
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Jeremy Konyndyk
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I was in Ukraine recently and talked to aid groups about how deconfliction works there. They said that Russia has been consistent about not striking deconflicted aid operations; sometimes to the point of calling to ask if convoys have departed an area before they resume attacks.
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interesting that russia is pitching itself as a haven for american tradcaths since it has single-digit church attendance and an abortion rate twice that of the US
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this is a heavy blow to russian culture and its traditional native garb
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he blamed poland for starting WW2
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there is a professor in our department who simply does not use email. biggest flex i've seen. yes he got his PhD 50 years ago
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the man was so racist that during his first term a congressman introduced legislation to investigate his mistreatment of black federal employees (whom he had just resegregated)
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February: we demand all of Ukraine March: we demand all of Donbas April: we demand a Big Mac Value Meal
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people might think I'm making some kind of lame wildfire joke but this one is absolutely true, you cynics disgust me
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I don't understand what's happening with the russian military, their ads were so unwoke!
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have you ever seen a call for ethnic cleansing written by a real estate agent
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The Jerusalem Post
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OPINION: The facts demonstrate that the northern Sinai Peninsula is an ideal location to develop a spacious resettlement for the people of Gaza.
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what is life like as an Israeli businessman named Joe Hitler
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Almut Rochowanski
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That Americans fund illegal settlements is a far less intriguing story than this:
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the man was so racist that at the versaille peace conference he threw a fit when 11 of 17 nations called for an amendment to recognize racial equality and made up a rule to defeat the motion
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the fact that mongolia can sustain a multiparty democracy while sandwiched between two giant revanchist autocrats scares me frankly. It suggests a history of not giving a fuck that may warp into some kind of attempt to conquer the continent
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It's only natural that a powerful man like Prigozhin will seek out a sphere of influence.
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checking in with the realists
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putin always talked about wanting a multipolar world and in the past week he’s done more to make the EU a major global actor than a dozen mario draghis so maybe he's a strategic genius after all
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wow is there anything she can't do
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honestly I did not expect the first space battle to be between israel and the houthis
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Joe Truzman
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"Israel this week used its Arrow missile-defence system to shoot down a ballistic missile outside of Earth’s atmosphere, in what is believed to be the first combat ever to take place in space."
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